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< ESTABLISHED 1880. | \ J. H. ESTILL, Editor and Proprietor, f IRISH POLICE USE CLUBS. many people hurt in a crowd AT LIMERICK. They Were Holding a Demonstration in Honor of the Manchester Martyrs —A Statue Was to Have Been Un veiled—Gladstone Indorses Wilfrid Blunt’s Course. Limerick, Nov. 27.—An attempt made in this city to-day to hold a demonstration in honor of the Manchester martyrs, Allen, Larkin and O’Brien, was suppressed by the police. The unveiling of a statue to com memorate the hanging of the men was set down as a portion of the programme. Fear ing interference with the statue guards sur rounded it during the night. Mr. Mclnerney, of New York, who had been chosen to preside at the demonstration, was on the ground and addressed the people. The police then drew their batons, and made an onslaught upon the crowd. This was answered by stone throwing. The crowd was dispersed. Sub sequently, wherever groups were found as sembling the police charged upon them and seized their flags. In the encounters a num ber of people were hurt. Troops now oc cupy the thoroughfares. The Mayor and other municipal officers are actively engaged in quieting the people. A ROW AT NIGHT. A serious disturbance occurred to-night. A crowd stoned and hooted the police who tried to clear the streets with batons and bayonets, but met with great resistance. Many civilians and constables were injured. The wounded men were conveyed to the hospital. The police acted in a reckless manner. The windows of the hotels on the streets where the trouble occurred were filled with on-lookers. Many of these per sons taunted the police, who replied by throwing stalls and stones, breaking a large number of windows. Thirty persons had their wounds dressed at the hospital. At 11 o'clock to-night the town was quiet. A MEETING AT QUEENSTOWN. Dublin, Nov. 27.—The largest National ist meeting ever held in Queenstown took place to day. Many English and Irish mem bers of Parliament were present. Mr. Lone, member of Parliament for Cork, in a speech said that under no circumstances would they advise the non-payment of rent, and that any men giving such advice was no Iriends of Ireland. Resolutions protesting against the treatment of Mr. O’Brien were adopted. Two news venders of Killarney have been summoned to answer for selling United Ireland, Mr. O’Brien's paper. The meeting announced to take place at Macroom to-day to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of the execution of the Man chester martyrs was proclaimed by the government, but the people assembled at Kilmurry, five miles distant, and carried out their intention. A collision with the police resulted, and many persons were clubbed. GLADSTONE INDORSES BLUNT. London, Nov. 27.—Mr. Gladstone, re plying to an invitation to preside at a ban quet to be given to Wilfrid Blunt by the London members of the Irish National League, says that he is under strict orders from his medical advisor not to attend any meetings unless there is special necessity for doing so. He says that he highly ap preciates Mr. Blunt’s public spirit and can not see how his conduct in Ireland placed him in conflict with the law. Charles Carmichael Laeaita, member of of Parliament for Dundee, Liberal and Home Ruler, lias resigned. He says he wishes to retire from Parliament because he cannot steadily support Mr. Gladstone, who, he said, by his immoderate attitude hin ders the granting of home rule to Ireland. THE IRISH NATIONAL LEAGUE OF AMERICA. St. Louis, Nov. 27.—The National Ex ecutive Committee of the laish National league of America held a meeting yester day, and the question of the next national convention was put into the hands of acom mitteeot'seven, with President Fitzgeraldjas chairman. Resolutions were adopted which appeal to the liberty-loving people of En gland, Scotland and Wales, and also to the people of Irish birth and extraction in America, for moral and material aid in tie lialf of Ireland in her struggle for homo rule. They tender sympathy to all now suffering in prison for their devotion to the cause of Irish liberty: denounce the coercive meas ures of the British government; thank the people for their support, and eulogize Mr. ! Gladstone. GREVY’S RESIGNATION. His Message Will be Sent to the Chambers Thursday. Paris, Nov. 27. —M. Grevy to-day for mally informed M. Rouvier of his resolu tion to resign the Presidency, and said he would send a message to the Senate and Chamber of Deputies on Thursday next. M. Rouvier proceeded at once to the residence of M. Floquet to announce the resignation of the President. Motions to adjourn until Thursday will be made in both houses to morrow. M. Rouvier visited President Grevy again this evening, and at 10 o'clock to-night bad a conference with the other members of the Cabinet. Anatole de la Forge has formally refused to be a candidate for the Prasideucy. He advocates a revision of the eonstitution and the abolition of the Senate und Presidency. The Revolutionists held meetings today, and speeches were made denouncing President Grevy and the sup porters of M. Ferry. Col. Webb, an American resident of Paris, has refused, in consequence of the re cent scandals, to accept the Cross of the Bpanish Order of Isabella the Catholic, for which he had promised to pay S7OO. A man who obtained the decoration thereupon sued the Colonel for the amount named. The case came up for trial yesterday, and was promptly dismissed, the court holdirmthat the contract was an immoral one. M. Clemenceau and Gen. Boulanger have become reconciled. They breakfasted to gether to-day. M. Lorontz exhibited himself in a cafe in Rue Gay Lussac, to-day. Mme. Limouzin gave a reception to the students. They listened to her for some time, and then, be coming disgusted at her adverse remarks on Gen. Boulanger, they preceded to smash glasses, tables, windows, etc. The women of the cafe were rescued by the police and put into a cab, in which they wore driven away. A mob of students followed and smashed the cab, and ill treated Mine. Li mousin. GREVY DESTROYED TWO LETTERS. LondoNj Nov. 27.—The Post's correspond ent at Paris asserts that the following is the true Rtory of the forged Wilson letters: “All the documents seized in Mme. Limousin's bouse were shown to President Grevy, who destroyed the two words ‘Grevy et inoi.’ When the Parquet discovered the abstrac tion a scene occurred nt the Elysees palace, and two letters were written to remedy the mischief.” It is announced that Baron Bellicre is Koing to Paris to testify against M. Wilson. {She fiofittttij jtetog>, GERMANY’S EMPEROR. A Speech to the President and Vice Presidents of the Reichstag. Berlin, Nov. 27. —Emperor William to day received the President and Vice Presi dents of the Reichstag, who came to express the sympathy of that body with the Crown Prince. The Emperor, replying to their address, said the ailment of the Crown Prince was a severe visitation, especially in view of his high position and his great abili ties for continuing and directing the policy of Austria and Germany in a manner which would have enabled the Emperor ta close his eyes in peace. What Providence might further decree, none could tell, but it was the duty of all to bow to God's in scrutable will. The universal sympathy which had been shown in such a remarka ble degree, was a great consolation. He regretted that he was unable to open the Reichstag in person. He would have liked himself to have told the world he desired peace, although Germany was perfectly pre pared to meet attacks. He next alluded to tho satisfactory state of the country’s finan ces, which, he said, was also manifest in the individual Slates of the Empire. In tho course of a few words on the general polit ical situation, he expressed regret at the proposed resignation of M. Grevy. Referring to the previous Reichstag’s re jection of till military bill, the Emperor said that the condition of Europe was such that he had only asged an indispensable in crease of tho army. The uncertain state of affairs in France now especially excited ap prehension. M. Grevy had shown great activity and in the truest sense had displayed conservatism in support of the republic. FERDINAND’S MOTHER. Sofia Gives Her and the Prince a Warm Welcome. Sofia, Nov. 27.—Princess Clementine, accompanied by her son, Prince Ferdinand, arrived here to-day. On their entrance into the city they were welcomed by the municipal authorities. Troops lined tho route to the palace and flags were displayed on buildings on the various streets. Arriv ing at the palace they were received by the Cabinet Ministers and members of the Sobranje. Prince Ferdinand subsequently appeared on the balcony and thanked the people for the warm reception accorded to Princess Clementine and himself. Tippoo Tib’s Failure. London, Nov. 27. —The last mail advices received from the Upper Congo says that Tippoo Tibb had not yet sent the promised carriers to Stanley’s rearguard at Yambuya to convey stores to Emin Bey, and that Stanley had proceeded without them. Many men had died of starvation. Maj. Bartlett, in a letter“dated Aug. 17, gives reassurances that Stanley and Si the members of his party wore well up to July 8. The Major's camp was revictualed anil he was on good terms with the natives. A party of marauding Arabs had arrived in the vicinity. He was not certain whether or not they were the carriers whom Tippoo Tib had promised to send. He was ready to fol low Stanley as soon as the carriers arrived. China Negotiates a Loan. Shanghai, Nov. 27.—1 tis stated that the Chinese government has arranged for a loan of 6,000,000 taels at 5% per cent, for twenty years with' the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank. It is probable that Nankin will be opened as a treaty port. All Quiet at London. London, Nov, 27.—London was quiet to day. There was no attempt to hold any meetings at Trafalgar square. A small number of persons assembled in Hyde park, but good order was. preserved. WHOLESALE BLOODSHED. Three Lives Lost in an Attempt to Ar rest a Horse Thief. Fort Smith, Ark., Nov. 27.—Another bloody tragedy occurred in the Indian Ter ritory to-day. Deputy Marshal Frank Dalton and J. R. Cole passed the river into the Cherokee Nation, and taking positions on two sides of the tent of a horse thief and whisky peddler named Smith, called to him to come out. He rushed out with a revolver and shot Dalton, whose pistol enught at the half cock. Cole then shot Smith dead but tripped and fell when be was in turn shot through the breast by a man named Dixon, who with his wife and child had come out of the tent. Cole returned the fire, shooting Dixon in the shoulder, and then sought shelter. In the fight that then ensued Dixonls wife was accidentally killed. Cole escaped. Dalton, who was too disabled to move, was killed in spite of his piteous appeals by one Lowry. Dixon was cap tured and is in jail. Lowry is still at large. A HALL BLOWN DOWN. Five Colored People Killed Outright and Twenty Injured. Galveston, Nov. 27.—A special from Mineola, Tex., says: “Late last night a heavy windstorm visited this town, blowing down a hall during the progress of a dance held by colored people. Five persons were killed, and about twenty injured. The building, a large two story frame is a total wreck. About seventy persons were in tho hall when it collapsed. Six of the injured have arms or logs broken. The killed are Thomas Harde man, Jack Wilson, Reuben Garrett, Fannie Benson and Rose Benson. The store rooms below the dance hall were occupied by R. P. Glenn & Cos., L. A. Denson and N. S. Kodak son, Whose aggregate loss on groceries and general merchandise exceeds $10,000.” Levelled by the Flames. Grand Rapids, Mich., Nov. 27.—The main building of Nelson, Matten & Co.’s furniture factory was burned this morning. Thu loss is $200,000. The insurance is $l5O, ■ 000. Five hundred men are thrown out of employment. A TANNERY BURNED. Pittsburg, Pa., Nov. 27. —A large three story brick tannery at Acmetoua, Pa., was destroyed by fire tiiis morning. The loss is $75,000, and the insurance $50,000. One hundred men are thrown out of employ ment. Given a Fight On a Foul. Philadelphia, Pa., Nov. 87.—Willie Clark and Charlie McCarthy, pugilists, who recently defeated Jim Conners of New York, fought sixteen rounds with skin gloves in a club house on the Delaware last night Clark was given the fight on a foul in the sixteenth round. Suicide at Jacksonville. Jacksonville, Fla., Nov. 27.—A. H. Peck. 25 years old, an operator in the Florida Railway and Navigation Company’s office, died in this city to-day from taking mor phine and laudanum, lb is conceded to lie a case of self-destruction. No reason is assigned for the rash act. A Negro Bhoots Hie Wife. Boston, Ga., Nov. 27.—Daniel Hagan, a negro, living near here, shot and seriously wounded his wife last night on account, cif domestic troubles. He is at large. SAVANNAH, GA., MONDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1887. THIRSTING IN A CAVERN. DAVID’S RETREAT TO THE CAVE OP ADULLAM. Dash of Three Brave Officers to the Well by the Gate of Bethlehem—Rev. Talmage Draws Water from the Spiritual Well to Slake the Thirst of His Hearers. Brooklyn', Nov. 27. —This morning at tho Tabernacle, after explaining appropri ate passages of Scripture, the Rev. T. De Witt Talmage, D. D., gave out the follow ing hymn, that was sung by the congrega tion. with great heartiness: “Buried in sorrow and in sin At hell’s dark door we lay; But we arise by grace Divine, To see a glorious day." The subject of tho sermon was “Thirst in a Cavern,” ami tho text: “Oh that one would give me drink of tho water of the well of Bethlehem, which is by tho gate!” 11. Samuel xxiii, 15. War, always distressing, is especially ruin ous in harvest time. When the crops are all ready for the sickle, to have them trod den down by cavalry horses and heavy sup ply trains gullying the fields, is enough to make any man’s heartsick. When the last great war broke out in Europe, and France and Germany were coming into horrid col lision, I rode across their golden harvests, and saw the tents pitched, and the trenches dug in the very midst of the ripe fields, the long scythe of battle sharpening to mow down harvests of men in great winrows of the dead. It was at this season of harvest that the Philistines came down upon Beth lehem. Hark to the clamor of their voices, tho neighing of their chargers, the blare of their trumpets, and the clash of their shields! Let David and men fall back ! The Lord’s host sometimes loses the day. But David knew where to hide. Ho had been brought up in that country. Boys are inquisitive, and they know all about the region where they were born and brought up. If you should go back to the old homestead you could, with your eyes shut, find your way to the meadow, or the orchard, or the hill back of the house, with which you were familiar thirty or forty years ago. So David knew the cave of Adullam. Pernaps in his boyhood days he had played “hide-and-seek” with his com rades ail a! kiut the old cave, and though others might not have known it, David did. Travelers sav there is only one way of get ting into that cave, and that is by a very narrow path; but David was stout and steady-headed and steady-nerved, and so, with his three brave staff-officers, he goes along that path, finds his way into the cave, sits down, looks around at the roof and the dark passages of the mountain, feels very weary with the forced march; and water he must have, or die. Ido not know but there may have been drops trickling down the side of the cavern, or that there may have been some water in the goat-skin slung to his girdle; but that was not what he wanted. He wanted a deep, full, cold drink, such as a man gets only out of an old well with moss-covered bucket. David remembered that very near that cave of Adullam there was such a well as that, a well to which he used to go in boyhood—the well of Bethle hem; and he almost imagines that he can hear the liquid plash of that well, and his parched tongue moves through his hot lips as he says: “Oh, that one would give me drink of the water of the well of Bethle hem, which is by the gate!” It was no sooner said than done: The three brave staff officers lxmnd to their feet and start. Brave soldiers will take even a hint from their commander. But between them and the well lay the host of the Phil istines; and what could three men do with a great army? Yet, where there is a will there is a way, and with their swords slash ing this way and that, they make their path to the well. While the Philistines are amazed at the seeming foolhardiness of these three men, and cannot make up their minds exactly what it moans, the three men have come to the well. They drop the bucket. They bring up the water. They pour it in the pail, and then start for the cave. “Stop them!” cry tho Philistines. “Clip them witn your swords! Stab them with your spears! Stop those three men!” Too late! They have got around the hill. The hot rocks are splashed with the overflowing water from the vessel ns it is carried up the cliffs. The throe me 1 go a long the dangerous path, and with cheeks flushed with the ex citement, and all out of breath in their haste, they fling their swords red with the skirmish, to the side of the cave, and cry out to David, “There, captain of the host, is what you wanted, a drink of the well of Bethlehem which is by the gate.” A text is of no use to me unless I can find Christ in it, and unless I can bring a gospel out of. these words that will arouse and comfort and bless, I shall wish I had never seen them; for your time would lie wasted, and against my soul the dark record would be made that this day I stood before a great audience of sinning, suffering and flying men and told them of no rescue. By tho cross of the Hon of God, by the throne of tho eternal judgment, that shall not be! May the Lord Jesus help mo to tell you the truth to-fiay! You know the carrier pigeons have some times letters tied under the wing, and they fly hundreds of miles —one hundred miles in an hour—carrying a message. Ho I have thought I would like to have it now. Oh, Heavenly Dove! bring under thy wing to day to my soul, and to the souls of this peo ple, some messago of light, and love, and peace! It is not an unusual thing to see people gather around a well in summer time. The husbandman puts down his cradle at the well curb. The builder puts down his trowel. The traveler puts down his pack. Then one draws the water for all the rest, himself taking the very last. The cup is passed around, and the fires of thirst are put out; the traveler starts on his journey, and the workman takes up his burden. My friends, we come to-day around the fospol well. We put down our pack of unions and our implements of toll. Ono man must draw the water for those who have gathered around the well. I will try and draw the water to-day; and if, after! have poured out from this living fountain for your soul, I just taste of it myself, you will not begrudge me a “drink from the water of the well of Bethlehem, which is by the gate.” This gospel well, like the well spoken of in the text, is a well of Bethlehem. David had known hundreds of wells of water, but ho wanted to drink from that particular one, and he thought nothing could slake his thirst like that. And unless your soul and mine can get access to the fountain open for sin and uncloanncss, we must die. That fountain is the well of Bethlehem. It was dug in the night. It was dug by the light of a lantern—the star that hung down over the manger. It was dug not at the gate of Catsar’s palaces, not in the park of a Jerusalem bargain maker. It wits dug in a barn. The cam els lifted their weary heads to listen as the work went on. The shepherds, unable to sleep, because the heavens were filled with bands of music, came down to see the open ing of the well. The angels of (Jo(l, at the first gush of the living water, dipped their chaJices of joy into it. and drank to the health of earth and heaven, os they cried, “Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace.” Sometimes in our modern barns the water is brought through the pipes of the city to the very nostrils of the horses or cattle; but this well in the Bethlehem barn was not so much for the beasts that perish ns for our race thirst-smitten, desert-trav eled and siuioon-struck. Oh, my soul, weary with sin, stoop and drink to-day out of that Bethlehem well! “As the heart panteth after the water brook, so my soul panteth after Thee, O God.” You would get a better understand ing of this amidst the Adlrondaeks in sum mer-time. Here comes a swift-footed fleer. The hounds are close on the track; it has leaped chasms and sealed cliffs; ii is fagged out; its eve* are rollbig in death; its tongue is lolling from its foaming mouth. Faster the deer, faster the dogs, until it plunges into Sohroon lako and the hounds can follow it no farther, and it puts down its head and mouth until the nostril is clean submerged in the cool wave, and I understand it: “As the heart panteth for the water-brook, so panteth my soul after Thee, O God.” Oh, bring me water from that well! Little child, who has learned of Jesus in the Sab bath school, bring me some of the living water. Old man, who fifty years ago didst fi id the well, bring me some of that water. Stranger in a strange land, who used to hoar sung amidst the highlands of Scotland, to the tune of “Bonnie Doon,” “The Star, the Star of Bethlehem,” bring me some of that, water. Whosoever drinketb of that water shall never thiist. “Oh, that one would give me drink of the water of the well of Bethlehem, which is by the gate.” Again, this gospel well, like the one spoken of in the text, is a captured well. David remembered the time when that good' water of Bethlehem was in the possession of his ancestors. His father drank there. His mother drank there. He remembered how the water tasted when he was a boy, and came up there from play. We never forgot the old well we used to drink out of when we were boys or girls. There was some thing in it that blessed the lip, and refresh ed the brow better than any thing we have fonnd since, As we think of that dear old well, the memories of the past flow into each other like crys talline drops, sun-glinted, and all the more as we remember that the hands that used to lay bold the rope, and the hearts that beat against the well curb are still now. Wo never get over these remin iseenses. George P. Morris, the great song writer of this country, once said to me that his song, “Woodman Spare that Tree,” was sung in a great concert hall, and the memories of early life were so wrought upon the audience by that song that, after the singing was done, an aged man aroso in the itudieuce, overwhelmed with emotion, and said, “Sir, will you please to tell me whether the woodman really spared the tree?” Wo never forget the tree under which we played. We never forget the fountain at which we drank. Alas for the man who has no early memories. David thought of that well, thnt boyhood well, and he wanted a drink of it, but he remembered that the Philistines bad cap tured it. When those three men trio<l to come up to the well in behalf of David, they saw swords gloaming around about it. And this is true of this gospel well. The Philistines have at times captured it. When we come to take a full, old-fashioned drink of pardon and comfort, do not their swords of indignation and sarcasm flash? Why, tho skeptics tell us that we cannot come to that fountain 1 They say the water is not fit to drink anyhow. “If you are really thirsty now there is the well of philosophy, there is the well of art. there is the well of science.” They try to substitute, instead of our boyhood faith, a modern mixture. They say a great many beautiful things about the soul, and they try to feed our immoral hunger on rose leaves, and mix a mint-julep of worldly stimulants, when nothing will satisfy us but “a drink of the water of the well of Bethlehem, which is at the gate.” They try to starve us on husks, when the Father’s banquet is ready, anti the best ring is taken from tho casket, and the sweetest harp is struck for tho music, and the swiftest foot is already lifted for the dance. They patronize heaven and abolish hell, and try to measure eternity with their hour-glass, and the throne of the great God with their yard-stick! I abhor it. I tell vou tho old Gospel well is a captured well. I pray God that there may bo somewhere in the elect host three anointed men, with courage enough to go forth in the strength of the omnipotent God, with the glittering swords of truth, to hew the way back again to that old well. I think the tide is turn ing, and that the old Gospel is to take its place again in the family, and in the uni versity, and in the legislative hall. Mon have tried worldly philosophies, and have found out that they do not give any com fort, and that they drop an arctic midnight unon the death-pillow. They fail when there Is a dead chill in the house; and when the soul cumes to leap into the fathomless ocean of eternity, they give to the man not so much as a broken spar to cling to. De pend upon it, that well will come into our possession again, though it has been captured. If there be not three anointed men in the Lord’s host with enough consecration to do the work, then the swords will leap from Jeho vah’s buckler, and the eternal Three will de scend —God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Ghost —conquering for our dying race the way hack again to “tho water of the well of Bethlehem, which is by the gate.” “If God be for us, who can be against us?” “If God spared not His own Son, but freely gave Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give usall tilings?” “For I am'persauded that neither height nor depth, nor angels, nor principali ties, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,” shall take from us, into final captivity, the Gospel of my blessed Ixird Jesus Christ. Again, the gospel well, like the one spoken of in my text, is a well at the gate. The traveler stops the camel to-day, and gets down and dins out of the valley of the East, some very beautiful, clear, bright water, and that is out of the very well that David longed for. Do you know that that well was at the gate, so that nobody could go into Bethlehem without going right past it ? And so it is with this gospel well—it is at the gate. It is, in the first place, at the gate of purification. We cannot wash away our sins unless with that water. I take the re sponsibility of saying that there is no man, woman, or child in this house to-day that has escaped sinful defilement. Do you say it is outrageous and ungallant for me to make such a charge ? Do you say. “I have never stolen —I have never blasphemed—l have never coirimittid unchastity—l have never lieen guilty of murder J” I reply, you have committed a sin worse than blas phemy, worse than unchastity, worse than theft, worse than mur der. We have all committed it. We have by cur sin re crucified the Lord, and that is deicide. Anil if there bo any who dare to plead “not guilty” to the indictment, then the hosts of heaven will be impaneled as a jury to render a unanimous verdict against us; guilty one, guilty all. With w hat a slashing stroke that one passage cuts us away from all pretensions: “There is none that doeth good—uo, not one.” “Oh,” says someone, “all we want, all the race wants, is development." Now I want to tell you that the race develops without the Gos- El into a Sodom, a Five Points, a Great It Lake City. It always develops down ward. and never upward, except as tho grace of God lays hold of it. What, then, is to become of our soul without Christ? Banishment. Disaster. But I bless my Lord Jesus Christ, that there is a well at the gate of purification. For great sin, great, pardon. -For eighty years of transgression, an eternity of forgiveness. For crime deep as hell, an atonement high as heaven; that where sin abounded, so grace may much more abound; that as sin reigned unto deuth, even so may grace reign through righteousness nuto eternal life by .Tosus Christ our tord. Angel of the Covenant, dip thy wing in this living fountain to-day, and wave it over this solemn assemblage, that our souls may be washed in “the water of the well of Bethlehem, w hich is by the gate.” Further, I remark that this well of the Gospel is at the gate of comfort. Do you know where David was when ho uttered the words of the text? He was irt fho cave of Adullam. That is where some of you are now. Has the world always gone smoothly with you? Has it never pursued you with slander? Is your health always good? Have your fortunes never perished? Are your children ail alive ana well? Is there one dead lamb in the fold? Are you ignorant of the way to the cemetery? Have you ever heard the bell toll when it seemed as if ev ory stroke of the iron clapper beat your heart? Are the skies as bright when you look into them as they used to be when other eyes, now closed, used to look into them? Is there some trunk or drawer in your house that you go to only on anni versary days, when there comes beat ing against your soul the surf of a great ocean of agony? It is the cave of Adullam! The cave of Adullam 1 Is there some David here whose fatherly heart way ward Absalom has broken? Is there some Abraham bore who is lonely because Sarah is dead in the family-plot of Machpelah* After thirty or forty years of companion ship, how hni-d it was for them to part? Why not have two seats in the Lord’s chariot, so that both the old folks might have gone up at once? My aged mother, in her last moment, said to my father, “Father, wouldn’t it lie nice if wo could both go together?" No, no, no. We must part. And there are wounded hearts here to-day. The world cannot comfort you. What can it bring you? Nothing. Noth ing. The salvo they try to put on your wounds will not stick. They cannot, with their bungling surgery, mend the broken bones. Zoppar the Naamathite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Eliphuz the Tonmuite, come in, and talk, and talk, ami talk, but miserable comforters are they all. They cannot pour light into the cave of Adullam. They can not bring a single draught of water from “the well of Bethlehem, which is by the gate.” But glory be to Jesus Christ, there is comfort at the’gate! There is life in the well at the gate. If you give me time I will draw up a promise for every man, woman and cliild in this houso. Ay, I will do it in two minutes. I will lay hold the rope of the old well. What is your trouble? “Oh,” you say, “lainsosiok.so weary of life —ailments after ailments.” I will draw ud a promise: “The inhabitants shall never say ‘I am sick.’” What is your trouble? “Oh, it is loss of friends—bereavement,” you say. I will draw you up a promise, fresh and cool, out of the well: “I am the resurrection and the life; he that believeth In me, though he were dead, yet shad he live.” What is your trouble? You say it is the infirmities of old ago. I will draw you up a promise: “Down to old age I am with then; to hoary hairs will I carry thee.” What is your trouble? “Oh,” you say, “I have a widowed soul, and my children cry for bread.” I bring up this promisor “Leave thy fatherless children. I will preserve them alive, and let thy widows trust in Me.” I break through the armed ranks of your sorrows to-day and bring to your parched lips “a drink of the water of the well of Bethlehem, which is by the gate.” Again, the Gospel well is at the gate of heaven. I have not heal'd yet one single in telligent account of the future world from any body who does not believe in the Bible. They throw such a fog about the subject that Ido not want to go to the skeptic’s heaven, to the transcendentalist’s heaven, to the worldly philosopher’s heaven. I would not exchange the jioorest room in your house for the finest heaven tiiat Hux ley, .Stuart Mill, or Darwin, ever dreamed of. Their heaven has no Christ in it; and a heaven without Christ, though you could sweep the whole universe into it, would be a hell! Oh, they tell us there are no songs there; there are no coronations in heaven— that is all imagination. They tell us we will do there a I .out what wo do here, only on a larger scale—geometrizo with clearer intellect, and with alpenstock go clamber ing up over the icebergs in an eternal vaca tion. Rather than that. I turn to my Bible, and I find John’s picture of that good land —that heaven which was vour lullaby in infancy —that heaven which our children in the Sabbath-school will sing about this n£ ternoon —that heaven which lias a “well at the gate.” After you have been on a long journey, and you come in, all bedusted and tired, to your" home, the first thing you want is re freshing ablution; and lam glad to know that after we get through tho pilgrimage of this world—the hard, dusty pilgrimage—wo will find a well at the gate. In that one wash away will go our sins and sorrows. I do not care whether cherub or seraph, or my own departed friends in that blessed land place to my lips the cup, the touch of that cup will to life, will to heaven I 1 was read ing of how the ancients sought for the foun tain of perpetual youth. They thought if they could only find and drink out of that well, the old would become young again, the sick would to cured, and everybody would have eternal juveneseence. Of course they could not find it. Kureka! I have found it! “the water of the well of Bethle hem, which is by the gate.” I think we ha 1 better make a bargain with those who leave us, going out of this world from time to time, as to where we will meet them. Travelers parting appoint a place of meeting. They say: “Wo will meet at Rome, or we will meet at Stock holm, or Vienna, or Jerusalem, or Bethle hem.” Now, when wo come to stand by the death-pillow of those who are leaving us lor tlio far land, do not lot us weep as though we would never see them again, but let us, there standing, appoints place where we will meet. Where shall it to? Shall it to on the banks of the river? No. The banks are too long. Khali it to in the tem ple? No; no. There is such!a host there— ten thousand times ten thousand. Where shall we in<t our loved ones’ tot us make an apisiintment to meet at the well oy the gate. Oh heaven! Sweet heaven! Dear heaven! Heaven, where our good friends are! Heaven, where Jesus isl Heaven! Heaven! But while I stand here there comes a re vulsion of feeling when I look into your eyes and know there are souls here dying of thirst, notwithstanding the well at the gate. Between them and the well of heaven there is a great army of sin; and though Christ is ready to clear'a way to that well for them, they will not have his love or intercession. But lam glad to know that you may come yet. -The well is here—the well of heaven. Come; Ido not care how feeble you are. tot me take hold of your arm, and steady you up to the well-curb. “Ho, every one that thirstetb, come.” I would rather win one soul to Christ this morning than wear the crown of the world’s do ndnion. Do not let any man go away ami eay I did not Invite him. Oh, if you could only just look at my Lord once; if you | could just see him full in the face: ay, if you could only do as that woman did whom I rend about at the beginning of the ser vices—just come up to hind Him and touch his feet —metninks you would live. In Northern New Jersey, one winter, three little children wandered off from home in a snow storm. Night came on. Father and mother said, “Where arc the children?” They could not. to found. They started out in haste, and the news ran to the neighbors, and before morning it was said that there were hundreds of men hunting the moun tains for those three children, but found them not. After a while a man imagined there was a place that had not been looked at, and lie wont and saw the three children. He examined their bodies. He found that the older boy hail taken off his coat and wrapped it nround the younger one, tile baby, and then taken off his vest and put it around tho other one: and there they all died, he probably the first, for ho had no coat or vest. Oh, it was a touching sceno when that was brought to light! I was on the ground a little while after, and it brought the whole scene to my mind; and I thought to myself of a more molting scone than that: it is that Jesus, our elder brother, took off the robe of His royalty, and laid aside the last garment of earthly comfort, that He might wrap our poor souls from tho blast. Oh, the height, and the depth, anil tho length, and the breadth of the lovo of Christ 1 CHARLESTON ITEM3. The Interest in Local Politics—The Bcheme for a Soldiers’ Home. Charleston, Nov. 37. —Public interest here is divided between the coming munici pal election, the illness of Gen. W. N. Taft, vt ho is about the solo surviving Republican carpet-bagger left in tho State, and the work of the Legislature, which met in Columbia on Tuesday last. There has been no change in the political situation during the week. TALK Or AN INDEPENDENT TICKET. There has boon some talk of running an Independent ticket by dissatisfied Demo crats, with ex-Alderman E. F. Sweegan at its head, uiul the newspapers have been in dustriously engaged in running Mr. Kwee gnn to earth. Mr. Sweegan, however, is an astute politician, having, according to his own statement, held public office of sonic kind or other for thirty years or more, and Mr. Sweegan declines to say whether he will outer the field as an Independent or not. Mr. Sweegan is rather of tho hull-dog spe cies, and lie has been considerably “nagged" of late. Mr. Sweegan has too great a regard for public office to commit political liari kari, but if the newspaper reporters keep on “nagging” him it is just possible that there will to an Independent ticket. The illness of ex-Postmastor Taft has rather demoralized the g. o. p. Taft is one of the very few carpet-baggers left here who came in with reconstruction. Most of tho big guns have gone away or gone to the dogs, and male ducks and drakes of their riches. Taft remains, and until his illness, prospered in spite of the loss of his office. He was a sharp, shrewd Rhode Islander, without education. In the twenty odd years of his residence here, however, ho picked up considerable education. He was temperate in his habits, and was, in fact, one of the last persons one would suppose would to subject to insanity. Koine years ago ho was shot at by a man in the Charleston Hotel lobby, a man with whose wife he was accused of hav ing been too intimate. The toll inode a scalp wound very slight, and caused no in convenience at the time. Taft’s friends think it possible that this might have caused a de pression of the skull by means of a tumor, and that this might be the cause of his in sanity. He has been taken to the asylum at Columbia. A good deal of sympathy is felt for his wife and family. Ho married a daughter of ex-Gov. F. I. Moses of this Slate. Rhe was at, the time of her mai.-iage to him the widow of ex-Kheriff C. C. Bowen, a man who at one time was the most power ful Radical politician in South Carolina. Taft had a great many friends even among his political opponents, and during bis ad ministration or tho affairs of the jsjst office was very popular with the business portion of tho community because of his admirable management of its affairs. THE LEGISLATURE. The General Assembly has done nothing as yet of a revolutionary character. The cal endars are flooded with bills and it is prob able that the statute books will, by Christ mas, have about two hundred more laws ir_- gcrilxsl upon them. Among other subjects that will be of interest is a proposition to provide a support for disabled Con federate soldiers and seamen. Several bills have already been introduced, one of winch was reported unfavorably yes terday. This was a bill to provide for a soldiers’ home, at a cost of $25,000 per an num, the building and grounds to be fur nished by the town or county in which the home is to to located. The scheme is vision ary and impracticable, and will not to adopted. It is probable, though, that soma provision in the nature of a pension will be made. ATLANTA’S ELECTION. Thera is Not Much Probability of a Contest. Atlanta, Ga., Nov. 27.— There is little probability of a contest over the election. A few talk of it, but the body of the Pro hibitionists are disposed to accept and abide by the result. The Ordinary will foot up tho total vote from tho official returns at 12 o'clock to-rnorrow, and unless notice of a contest is given, will officially declare (to results. The Ordinary informed the News correspondent that, according to his inter pretation of the law, tho declaration will at once obliterate prohibition, Saloons will open ns soon as the City Council fixes the license. There is already talk of a high license. It is proposed to call a public meeting of conservative citizens of both sides and discuss tho license and restrictions on tho traffic with a view of making recommendations to the Council which will Insure the proper control of the wbiskv question. The wholesale trade will probably begin business at once, as it is only necessary to get a county license, which can to had without delay. ROUGH ON LIBERIA. Minister Taylor Says the Civilized Ne groes Are Worse Than Savages. Washington, Nov. 27.—Charles H. J. Taylor, Minister of the United States to Liberia, has tendered his resignation, to take effect in January next. He is now in this city on a leave of absence. One reason for bis resignation, he said, was tho tlanger ously unhealthy climate. He hud also been disappointed in the character of the civilized negroes sent over there. He said: “Instead of a majority of the civilized negroes being honest, sober, industrious and self-reliant, I found a condition of things that diplomatic reserve will not allow me to describe. The native Africans are superior in every way to the civilized negroes there and are susceptible of the verv highest civilization.” “The country,” he further said, "is a rich one, abounding in grain, timber and minerals, but the condition of things is such that no wide awake man would care to live tin.re longer than two weeks.” JPBICESIO 4 YEAH. I i maxm Atun. f GOVERNMENTALREPORTS FACTS ABOUT POST OFFICEB AND POSTMASTERS. 3,043 Now Offices Established During the Past Year and 1,500 Discon tinued 13,078 Postmasters Ap pointed During the Twelve Month*— Pennsylvania the Most Numerously Supplied State. Washington, Nov. 27.— The annual re port of First Assistant Postmaster Gen eral Stevenson shows that the number of post offices established during the past fiscal year was 3,043, a decrease of 430 os compared with the previous year, and that the number discontinued was 1,500, au in crease of 380 over tho year ended June 80, 1886. The whole number of post offices in operation June 30. 1887 was 55,157. Appointments of postmasters were made during the year as follows: On resignations and commissions expired, 6,863; on removals and suspensions, 2,584; on deaths of post masters, 580; on tlio establishment of new offices, 3,043. The total number of appoint ments made during the year was 13,078, a net decrease of 9,670 as compared with last year. Tho largest increase in the number of offices in any of the H ates and Territories during tho year was as follows: Pennsvlva nia 118, Georgia 93, Texas 77 and Vir ginia 74. There were seven States which, on June 30, contained more than 2,000 offices each, as follows: Pennsylvania 4,119, New York 3,248. Ohio 3,834, Virginia 2,355, Illinois 2,226, Missouri 2,117, and North Carolina 2,110, making altogether more thau one third of the whole number of offices in the U nited States. The number of money order offices in operation J une .80, was 7,745, an increase of 481 over the previous year. GOLD AND SILVER. The Annual Report of the Director of the Mint. Washington, Nov. 27.— The Director of the Mint has submitted to the Secretary of the Treasury his annual report for 1887. The value of the gold and silver received at the mints and assay offices during the year was greater than in any previous year sinc e 1881. The value of tho gold deposited was $68,223,072. In addition there were re-de posits of the value of $15,193,706, making tho total value of the gold deposited $83,416,770, against $49,606,534 in 1886. The value of the silver deposited and pur chased was $47,756,918. In addition tWe were re-deposits of silver amounting to $402,113, maging the total, calculated at the coining rate, $48,219,031 against $37,917,026 in the preceding year. Of the gold deposited $32,973,027 was of domestic production, $22,571,326 of foreign gold bullion, $9,896,512 of foreign gold coin. $514,984 of United States gold coin, and $2,265,219 of old material. Tho Director estimates the stock of gold and silver coin in the United States Nov. 1, 1887, to have been: Gold, $574,927,873: sil ver dollars, 277,110,157; subsidiary silver, $75,758,186; total coin, $927,796,216. SOUTH CAROLINA TAXES. A Bill to Abolish Them on Real and Personal Property. Charleston, Not. 27.—A bill will be In troduced in the Legislature to-morrow to abolish all taxes on real and personal property. The proposition is for the State to repeal all privileges to dredge phosphate rocks in navigable waters for which miners now pay a royalty of (1 per ton and to undertake the work of mining of phosphates and manufacture of fertilizers through a commission ap pointed for the purpose. The expenses of the State government amount to about $1,000,000 annually, which amount is raised by taxation. The phosphate royalty yields about $200,000. The promoters of the move ment claim that more than $1,000,000 can lie raised by the State taking charge of the phosphate Industry. The scheme looks wild but it has its supporters. CEDAR KEYS CHIPS. How Thanksgiving' Was Observed- Prosperity of the Town. Cedar Keys, Fla., Nov. 27 —Thanks giving day is post, and. upon the whole, has been well spent. Clerks and employes gen erally had an enjoyable holiday. Some went out Wednesday night on camp bunts and other parties followed in the morning. The weather was delightful and not at all cold. The Cun Club shot two match scores, Mr. Dozier’s party gaining one and Mr. Morris’ party the other. Ce<lar Keys has much to be thankful for. Her schools are prospering, the trustees of School No. 8 find it necessary to enlarge the rooms, and add another teacher. A com munication to the Morning News some months since stating that this school needed a first-class teacher, wus replied to by Prof. Carr, of Calvert, Tex., who was accepted by the trustees, and is now in charge and doing splendid work. The new Methodist church rapidly ap proaches completion and it is hoped will be ready by Christmas. The Morgan line steamers reach this port weekly from New Orleans on Friday, and from Havana Saturday. The steamer Gov, Halford is on her usual run to Tarpon and Manatee, leaving every Monday and Thurs day. The nevr ice factory is arriving and will lie erected at once. Tourists and visitors arrive by every train. The movement of fruit is quite heavy, and the freight business taxes the railroad’s capacity. The fish and oyster business is also greater than ever before. The cwlar pencil factories are constantly increasing their output, and have no time to spare, the pressure at the Engle factory being too great to stop, even for the obaerv ance of the national holiday. The health of the city is better than ever before, very few cases of illness having oc curred during the year. Cedar Keys does not want a boom, but unless all signs fail, she will be in the midst of one before the present winter is over. The government contractors, R. Moore & Cos., of Mobile, have completed the work of dredging a cut through the middle ground, and the dredge has been towed to Galveston. There is now fourteen feet of water on the bar at high tide. The old reliable Morning News, the pa per that has never learned to sling mud, is nighly appreciated by the people here, and is growing in favor and in worth. Brunswick’s Journal. Brunswick, Ga., Nov. 27.—Henry Moore, of Augusta, has taken editorial managementof the Daily Journal. The Journal will now be runjaa a strictly Demo cratic paper, and will advocate tariff re - form. A handsome new building, corner of F and Newcastle streets, has been rented, and the Journal will move into its new quarters Dec. L