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( THE MORNING NEWS, I
< EsTADUSHKD 1850. IXCORPOKATXD 188£h v
( J. H. ESTILL, President. |
BURNED AT HER WHARF.
THE OLD COLONY LINE BOAT BRIS
TOL A BLACKENED HULL.
Sleeping: Passengers Forced to Flee
for Their Lives In Their Night Clothes
—The Big Steamer Pilgrim and
Another Boat in Imminent Danger,
but Both Saved.
Newport, R. 1., Dec. 30.—The steamer
Bristol, of the Old Colony line, was burned
at her dock here this morning and is a total
loss. She arrived from New York about
2:30 o’clock this morning, landed all her
freight and her Fall River and Boston
passengers, and they departed at the usual
time for their destination. There was left
on board the steamer only a few Newport
passengers and their personal baggage.
DISCOVERY OF THE FLAMES.
At 6:20 o’clock, just as the last passenger
train was drawing out of the depot, Ore
was discovered on the steamer and an
alarm was at once given from the com
pany’s signal on the premises. The fire
started near the kitchen, and spread with
great rapidity, rendering futile all the
efforts to slop its progress. Three alarms
■were sounded in rapid succession, calling
the entire lire department and jiolice force
to the scene. Thousands of citizens were at
tracted to the spot by the great illumina
tion. volumes of fire and clouds of smoke
which arose from the burning steamer. It
was feared by the crowd that the boat on
fire was the Pilgrim, she being in an adja
cent slip, undergoing winter repairs.
FIGHTING THE FLAMES.
The fire apparatus on the steamer was
brought into use as soon as the flames were
discovered, and the crew worked with great
vigor to save the boat, but the joiner work
of the stateroom, saloon and stairways was
as dry as tinder, and draughts through the
stea or caused a fearfully rapid spread of
the flames, so that before the city Are de
partment arrived there was a mass of fire
sweeping her almost from stem to stern.
ESCAPE OF THE PASSENGERS.
Rome of the passengers still on b< >ard did
not understand the meaning of the first
alarm and were only aroused by the crack
ling of the flames near by. All succeeded
in escaping, but some with only a portion
of their clothes, and others crawling over the
railing near to tho burning timbers.
One man with fWo little children, a boy
ami a girl, who occupied a stateroom, was
awakened bv the sound of the crackling
flames near by and barely escaped with his
little ones undressed, but with their clothing
in their hands.
HAD TO BORROW CLOTHES.
Another young man had to borrow cloth
ing in w hich to go to his home in this city.
All the persona! baggago of the passen
gers was saved.
When the department arrived, the upper
deck of the steamer was a mass of flames,
which gave out such intense heat that it
could be scarcely borne at a distance of sev
eral hundred feet. This greatly impeded
the work of the firemen.
HARD TO HOLD IN CHECK.
The flames had gained such headway that
they could only be fought from the wharf
side, while the great heat and flying
sparks endangered the buildings on
the docks and tho steamers lying
on either side of the wharf, and
constant effort was required on tho part of
the firemen to prevent thorn from ignitiug.
A dozen streams were soon pouring into tho
flames with little apparent effect for over
an hour, while others were employed in
drenching Jhe dock and building*.
SAVING THE PILGRIM.
A gang of employes of the company was
at once put upon the steamer Pilgrim,
w hich was in the greatest danger, as she
lay in a slip to tho south of the burning
steamer with her bow very near, the Bris
tol’s. She was speedily warped over to the
other side of the slip, and several streams
from her own apparatus kept her constantly
dreuched. A southerly w'ind also aided to
this ond, and, indeed, if the wind had been
from the north it is extremely doubtful if
she could have been moved in time to save
her from groat damage.
ANOTHER VESSEL’S DANGER.
In the slip on tho north side lay the
freight steamer City of New i edford, which
also had to be constantly kept drenched,
and which did take fire about noon, but the
blaze was soon extinguished.
It was ail hour and a half after the de
partment arrived before then* efforts made
any appreciable difference in the volume of
the fire.
FIREMEN RISK THEIR LIVES.
Shortly before 8 o’clock, however, the
flames were down so far as to permit a few
firemen to board the steamer and w ork
from the outside guards of the lower and
Reoond decks, although ut constant and
imminent peril from falling timber and
machinery. The men worked bravely and
well, takiug many risks, and laboring con
stantly at the peril of their lives. The
hawsers from the steamer to the dock wero
burned off several limes and wero refast
ened.
BOUND BY CHAINS.
I'lFinally she was bound to the wharf by
chains to prevent her drifting out beyond
the reach of the lire men, who were almost
miraculously successful in keeping the dock
and buildings from catching tire from tho
intense heat. Her boilers had been emptied
of steam before the fire broke out, so that
there was no danger of an explosion. Two
tugs from the torpedo station did efficient
work in lending hose from the Pilgrim near
enough to the fire to put the stream into it.
FALL OF TIIE HOG FRAME.
At 8:15 o’clock the port hog frame went
in with a crash, a number of firemen bareiy
escaping with their lives. Relieved of this
weight, she leaned over heavily toward tho
wharf. Boon after the port smoko stack
fell. The hog frame and smoke stack on
the starboard side stood well and did not
fall until about noon, the smoko stack going
first, followed by the hog frame in sections,
greatly imperiling the firemeu.
DOWN WENT THE WALKING BlAfil
Tho walking beam also dropped from it*
support about 12 feet but remained upright.
One fireman was injured by being struck
by a falling mast on the head, but not seri
ously. Another fell overlioard but was
quickly rescued. All this time the steamer
■was sett ling badly and straining her hawser*
so heavily that at 10:80 o’clock they were cut,
and a tug endeavored to pull her out into
the stream but without success, as she was
then found to bo solid on the ground, it
was hopHi early in the morning to save the
hull, but this was now out of the nuestion
as it was completely gutted and the coal
wo* on flro. The firemen and lolico were
kept hard at work with only slight inter
mission until night.
The insurance is $300,000, which cover*
the loss.
A Princess Goes Mad in a Theater.
Berlin, Dec. 80. —During a performance
of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” at the
opera bouse last evening, Princess Adalbert
of Bavaria was seized with a violent attack
of hysteria, and had to be removed. She
baa since lecouie worse. It is believed that
sho i iusano. After the priuceas had bean
tqjtru from the theater, tho pUy was ro-
The Morning News.
HIGH MASS AT ST. PETER’S.
Tho Pope and Fifty Thousand Specta
tore in Attendance.
Rome, Dec. 30.—The Te Dcum was sung
at St. Peter’s to-day. Twenty thousand
tickets had been issued and 50,000 pe**sons
were present. The weat her was perfect and
great enthusiasm prevailed. The Pop© at
tended the service.
Opening with the words “Exeunte jam
nnno,” the papal encyclical thanks God for
the consolations which the jubilee rejoic
ings have brought to the pope, and his
holiness thanks the Catholic world for its
tokens of affection and devotion. Turning
to religious matters, the encyclical com
plains that tho tendency of the age is
tow'ard material interests and that the ten
dency is strengthened by worldly pride, an
evil press and drama, demoralization of the
arts and changed education in the schools,
materialistic and atheistic teachings ob
scuring the true notions of right. Social
ism, nihilism and communism, it says, are
also outcomes of this addiction to material
things.
COMMUNISM AS A CURE. •
Four French Deputies form a Revolu
tionary Group.
Paris, Dec. 30.—Deputies Cluseret, Fer
roul Pyat and Piauteau have formod a
revolutionary group, dubbing themselves
the commune. They have issued a bombastic
manifesto declaring that tho commune of
18v80 will save tho nation and republic by
revolution, and that its principal task is to
overthrow Boulanger. The manifesto is
generally ridiculed, but adds to the govern
ment’s ciefflculty. It j* reported that M.
Floquet is willing to contest the vacant
Paris seat against Gen. Boulanger, but M.
Clemenceau opposes the proposal.
Handoub Arabs May Surrender.
Suakim, Dec. 30.—1 tis reported here that
the rebel tribes at Handoub contemplate
surrendering to the British.
An escaped Soudanese has offered to bring
Gen. Gordon’s clothes, sword and papers,
which are said to bo hidden near Berber.
Germany’s Artillery.
Berlin, Dec. 30.—1 tis stated that the
government has changed its intention re
garding the proposed i u rease of the artil
lery strength of tho army, and that no
credit will bo asked for that purpose during
the present session of parliament.
A Rebellion in Burmah.
London, Dec. 30.—Rebellion has broken
out in Wau county, in upper Burmah.
The prisoners in the Shwebo jail in
Burmah recently male an attempt to es
cape. Seven were killed and three were
wounded.
Tomporal Power for the Pope.
Brussells, Dec. 30. —At a large meeting
at Liege to-day, at which Bishop Doulreloux
presided, a resolution was adopted in favor
of the restoration of the temporal rights of
the pope.
Communism as a Cure.
Paris, Dec. 30.— The manifesto issued by
the new revolutionary group declare:* that
the commune is the sole remedy for Boulan
gerism and radicalism.
DOMINIES AND THE BALL.
Secretary Halford Apt to Take Part In
the Talk.
Indianapolis, Dec. 30.—The Methodist
ministers of the city, some fifteen in num
ber, hold a weekly meeting to consult and
outline their week’s work. They will meet
to-morrow as usual. Considerable interest
attaches to the meeting, as it is expected
the reverend gentlemen will discuss the
grave question of the inaugural ball
at Washington. The crusade against
the sinful ball seems to be confined to the
Methodist denomination and, unless all
signs fail, discussion of this subiect to-mor
row will prove a warm one. Private Sec
retary Halford will probably attend tho
meeting as he is a zealous Methodist, and
sometimes occupied a pulpit for
absent ministers. He is not op
posed to the inaugural ball, howover,
as he expects to look in on the pageant him
self, and he will likely express his setiments
to the assembled reverends. It is thought
that the ministers will agree upon some
concerted line of action in the matter,
either to drop the question altogether, or tu
“carry tho war into Africa.”
MRS. HARRISON’S N -W YEAR’S.
She Will Receive Callers from 2
O'clock Until 11 O'clock.
Indianapolis, Dec. 30.—New Year’s day
Mrs. Harrison will receive at home from
2 o’clock to 8 o’clock, assisted by her
daughter, Mrs. McKee, and one or two lady
friends. Gen. Harrison will be present and
receive with the ladies. At 8 o’clock the
ladies will go down to the new Denison aud
receive for an hour or two
with the ladies of the hotel, twelve in
number, including Mrs. Judgo Mart indale,
Mrs. Harvey Bales, Mrs. George O. Taylor
and others. Each of the twelve ladies have
invited five friends to receive with them, so
that if all are present there will be a grand
reception by seventy-two of the leading so
ciety ladies of the city. It is not known
whether Gen. Harrison will attend, but it
is considered probable that he will drop in
and pay his respects to the ladies. The
hours for tho reception are from Bto 11
o’clock.
SEVEN DIE BY DROWNING.
Passing Steamers Capsized Their
Small Row Boat.
Cincinnati, Doc. 30.—The Commercial
Gazette special from Ripley (O.) says: “This
morning, after midnight, a short distance
above here. Mrs. Lurner and her little
daughter, also a daughter of George Cloyd,
three Brooks brothers, and a man whose
name is unknown, all colored, attempted to
cross the river from Kentucky to Ohio
in a small flat-bottomed boat. A
short distanco from shore waves from
two pasting steamers capsized their little
craft, and the seven occupants were
drowned. Their cries fur help were heard
by persons on the steamer*, but darkness
prevented the rendering of any assistance.
All of those who perished lived in Ken
tucky. Not oue of the Leslies has yet been
leco vered.”
POWDER ENLIVENS A FIRE.
Several People Injured at Sumter By
an Explosion.
Charleston, 8. C., Dec. 30.—Fire at
Sumter yesterday burned several small
buildings and their contents. The loss is
about $7,000. Several persons were severely
injured by the explosion of a keg of pow
der in the buruiug store.
NORFOLK HAH A ROAHT.
Norfolk, Va., Dec. 30.—Fire broke out
this morning in a building corner of Main
street and Market square, occupied by
Charles J. Holland, a dealer iu tobacco and
cigars, and W. L. Hhumudme'* saloon. The
loss on the building and its contents is esti
mated at SO,OIXI. The lu*i it covered by in
surance.
SAVANNAH, GA., MONDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1888.
BARNLIKE BIRTHPLACES.
TALMAGE PREACHES ON THE
BIRTH OF THE BAVIOUR.
The Midnight Chant from One of the
Galleries of the Sky—Encouragement
for All the Poorly Started Born in
the Manger—Most of the World’s
Deliverers Had Barnlike Birthplaces.
Brooklyn, Dec. 30. —1n addition to
congregational singing at the Tabernacle
to-day, Mrs. Florence Rice-Knox sang two
appropriate solos. The Rev. T. DeWitt
Talmage, D. D., preached, taking for his
subject: “Barnlike Birthplaces.” His text
was: “Ye shall find the babe wrapped in
swaddling clothes, lying in a manger. And
suddenly there was w ith the angel a multi
tude of the heavenly host.” —Luke ii. 13,13.
At midnight from one of the galleries of
the sky a chant broke. To au ordinary
observer there was no reason for such a
celestial demonstration. A poor man and
wife—travelers, Joseph ami Mary by name
—had lodged in an outhouse of an unim
portant village. The supreme hour of
.solemnity had passed, and upon the pallid
forehead aud cheek of Mary God had set
tho dignity, the grandeur, the tenderness,
tno everlasting and diviue significance of
motherhood.
But such scenes had often occurred in
Bethlehem, yet never before had a star
bee i unfixed, or had a baton of light mar
shaled over the bills winged orchestra. If
there had been such brilliant aud mighty
recognition at au advent in the house of
Phai ash, or at an advent in the house of
Caesar, or the house of Hapsburg, or the
house of Stuart, we would not so muen
have wondered; but a l*rn seems too poor
a center for such delicate and arehangedc
The stago seems too small
for so great an act, the music ton grand for
such unappreciative auditors, the window
of the stable too rude to be serenaded by
other worlds.
No, sir. No, madam. It is my joy this
morning to tell you what was born that
night in the villago barn; and as I want to
make my discourse accumulative and
climacteric, I begin, in the first place, by
telling you that that night in the Bethlehem
manger was bom (I.) encouragement for all
the poorly started. He had only two friends
—they his parents. No satin-lined cradle,
no delicate attentions, but straw, aid the
cattle, and the coarse joke aud banter of the
camel drivers. No wo.uier the mediaeval
painters represent the oxen as kneeling be
fore the infant Jesus, for there were no
men there at that time to worship. From
the depths of what poverty ho rose until
to-day ho is honored in all Christendom,
and sits on the imperial throne in heaven.
What name is mightiest to-day in Chris
tendom? Jesus. Who has more friends on
earth than any other being* Ju&is. Be
fore whom do the most thousands kneel in
chapel ad church and cathedral this hour?
Jesus. For whom could one hundred mil
lion souls be maishaled, ready to fight or
die* Jesus. From what depths of poverty
to w hat height of renown! And so let all
those who are poorly started remember
that they cannot be more poorly born, or
more disadvantageous!}', than this Christ.
Let them look up to his example while they
have time and eternity to imitate it.
Do you know that the vast majority of
the world’s deliverers had barnlike birth
places? Luther, the emancipator of re
ligion, born among the mines. Shake
speare, the emancipator of literature, born
in au humble home at Strattord-on-Avon.
Columbus, tho discoverer of a world, born
in poverty at Genoa Hogarth, the discov
erer of bow to make drL accumulative and
administrative of virtue, born in a humble
home at Westmoreland. Kit) to and Prideaux,
whose keys u docked new apartments in tho
holy scriptures which had never been ou
tered, born in w ant. Yea, I have to tell you
that nino out of ten of the world’s discover
ers, nine out of ten of the world’s mes
siahs—the messlabs of science, the messiahs
of law, tho messiahs of medicine, the mes
sittlis of poverty, the messiahs of grand be
nevolence—were born iu want.
I suppose that when Herschel, the great
astronomer, was born iu tho h >me of a
poor musician, not only one s;nr, but all
the stars be at ter ward discovered, pointed
down to hi-; mango:-. I suppose when
Haydn, the German composer, was boru iu
the humble Lome of a poor wheelwright,
(hat all the angels of mus.e chanted over
the manger. Oh, what encouragement for
those who are poorly started! Ye who
thiuk yourselves far down aspire to go high
up!
1 stir your holy ambitions to-day, and I
want to tell you, although the whole world
may be opposed to you, aud inside md out
side of your occupations or professions
there may be those who would hinder your
ascent, ou your side and enlisted in your be
half are tho sympathetic heart and the
almighty arm of one who one Christmas
night, about eighteen hundred and eighty
eight years ago. was wrapped iu swaddling
clot es and laid in a manger. Oh, what
magnificent encouragement for the poorly
started!
2. Again, I have to tell you that in that
village barn that night was born good will
to men, whether you call it kinduess, or
forbearance, or forgiveness, or geniality, or
affection, or love. U wai no sport of high
heaven to send its favorite to that humilia
tion. It was sacrifice for a rebellious
world. After the calamity in Paradise, not
only did the ox begiu to gore, and the
adder to sting, and tho elephant to smite
with his tusk, and the lion to put to bad
use tooth and paw, but under the very tree
from which tho forbidden fruit was plucked
were hatched out war and revenge and
mid envy and jealousy, and the
whole brood of cockatrices.
Bui against that scene I set the Bethlehem
manger, which says: “Bless rather than
curs**, endure rather than assault.” and that
Christmas night puts out vindictiveness.
It says: “Sheathe your sword, dismount
your guns, dLinantlo your batteries, turn
the war ship Constellation, t tat carried
shot and shell, into a gram ship to take food
to famishing Ireland, hook your cavalry
hordes to the plow, u e your deadly gun
powder in blasting rocks and in patriotic
celebration, stop your lawsuits, quit writ
ing uuonyinous letters, extract tho sting
from your sircasm, let your wit coruscate
but never burn, drop all the harsh words
out of your vocabulary— I ’good will to
men.’”
“Oh!” you say. “I can’t exercise it; I
won’t exercise it until they apologize; I
won’t forgive them until they ask me to for
give them.” You are no Christian then—l
>ay you are no Christian, or you are a very
inconsistent Christian. If you forgive not
men their tre posses, how can you ex pect
your Heavenly Father to forgive you?
Forgive them if they ask your forgiveness,
and forgive them anyhow. Shake hauds
all around. “Good will to men.”
Ob, my Lord Jesus, drop that spirit into
our hearts thin Cnrristuias hour. It- II you
what the world wants more than anything
else -more helping hands, more sympa
thetic hearts, more kind words that never
die, more disposition to give other people a
ride, and to carry the heavy end of the load
and give other people the light end, and to
ascribe good motives instead of bad, and to
find our happiness in making others happy.
< Mt of that Bettiiehem crib let u
and the lion *at straw like au ox. “Good
*.ll to men.'’ That principle will yet set
tle all controversies, aud under it the world
will keap on improving until there will be
only two antagonist® tu all the earth, and
they will side by side take the jubilant
sloigh-ndo intimated by the prophet when
he said: “Holiness shall be ou the bells of
the horses.”
3. Again, I remark that horn that Christ
mas night iu tho village barn wh< sympa
thetic union with other worlds. Tho only
skepticism I have over had about Christian
ity was an astronomical skepticism winch
said: “Why would God out of the heavens
and amid the Jupiter* and Saturns of the
universe have chosen our little bit of a
world for the achievements of his only be
gotten son wheu, he might have had a
vaster scale aud vaster worlds?” But my
skepticism is all gone as I come to the
manger and watch its surroundings. Now
I see ail. the worlds are sisters, and that
when one weeps they all wee)), aud wheu
one slugs they all sing.
From that supernatural grouping in the
cloud-banks over Bethlehem, and from the
especial train* th* trail down to the scene, I
find that our world is beautifully and glo
riously and maguiflcently surrounded. The
meteors aro with us, for oue of them
ran to point down to the birthplace.
The heavens are with us, because at
the thought of our redemption they
roll hosannas out of the midnight sky.
Oh! yes; I do not know but our world
may be better surrounded than we have
so uetiines imagined, and when a child is
born angels foten it, and when it dies angels
take it, and when an old man Ixnds under
the weight of years angels upnold him, and
when a heart breaks augels soothe it.
Angels in the hospital to take care of tho
sick. Angels in the cemetery to watch our
dead. Angels in church ready to fly Heaven
ward with the news of repentant souls.
Angels above the world. Angel 9 under the
world. Angels all around the world.
Rub the dust of buni&u iinperfaction out
of our eyes, and look into tho heavens and
see angels of pity, angels of mercy, angels
of pardon, angels of help, angels crowned,
angels charioted. The world defended by
angels, girdled by angels, cohorted by
angels—clouds of angels. Hear David cry
out: “The chariots of God are twenty thou
sand, even thousands of angels.” But the
mightiest angel stood not that night iu the
clouds over Bethlehem; the mi ;htiost angel
that night lay among the cattle—the augel
of the new covenant.
As the clean white linen sent in by some
motherly villager was being wrapped
around the little form of that child em
peror, not a cherub, not a seraph, not an
angel, not a world but wept on i thrilled
anil shouted. Oh! yes, our world has plenty
of sympathizers. Our world Ls only a silver
rung of a great ladder at the top of which
is our father’s house. No more steller soli
tariness for our world, not a friendless
planet spun out into space to freeze, but n
world in the bosom of divino maternity. A
star to a manger.
4. Again, I remark that that night born
in that village barn was the offender’s hope.
Some sermonizers may say I ought to have
projected this thought at tho beginning of
the sermon. Oh! no. I wanted you to rise
toward it. I wonted you to examine the
cornelians and the jaspers and the emeralds
and the chrysalis before I showed you the
Kohinoor—the crown jewel of the ages.
Ou! that jewel had a very poor setting.
The cub of bear is born amid the grand old
pillars of the forest, the whelp of the lion
takes its first step from the jungle of lux
uriant leaf and wild flower, the kid of goat
is born in cavern ebandeliered with stalac
tite and pillared with stalagmite. Christ
was born in a bare barn. Yet that nativ
ity was the offender’s hope. Over the door
of heaven areerritten these words; “None
but the siule*B may enter here.”
“Oh, horror,” yon say, “that shuts us all
out.” No. Christ came to the world in
one door, and ho departed through another
door. He came through the door of the
manger, ar.d he departed through tho door
of the sepulcher, and his ono business was
so to wash away our sin that one second
after wo are dead thero will be no more sin
about us t han about the eternal God.
1 know that is putting it strongly, but
that is what I understand by full remission.
All erased, all washed away, all scoured
Ovrf, all gone. That and over
arching and irradiating ond lrnpai adising
possibility for you, and for me, and for the
wi.ole race was given ou that Christmas
night.
Do you wonder we bring flowers fco-dav
to celebrate such an event? Do you won
der that we take organ and cornet and
youthful voice and queenly soloist to cele
brate it? Do you wonder that Raphael and
IlutKms ami Titian and Giotto and Ghirlan
dajo, and all the old Italian and German
pa.nters gave the mightiest stroke of the
Kencd to nketch the Madonna, Mary and
er boy.
On! now I see what the manger wa.
Not so high tho gilded and jeweled and em
broidored cradle of tho Henry* <f Kuglarid,
or the lyiuises of France, or’the Frederick®
of Prussia. Now I find out of that Bethle
hem crib fed not so much the oxen of the
stall as the white horse* of Apocalyptic
vision. Now I flip} the swaddling clothes
enlarging aud emblazoniug into au im
perial robe for a conqueror. Now I find
that the star of that C u istmas night was
only the diamond sandal of him who hath
the moon under his feet. Now I come to
understand that the music of thut night
was not a complete song, but only the
stringing of the instruments for a great
chorus of two worlds, the bass to be carried
by earthly nations saved, aud the soprano
by kingdoms of glory won.
Ob! heaven, heaven, heaven! I shall
meet you there. After all our imperfec
tions aro gone I shall meet you there. I
1< ok out to-day, through the mist of years,
through the fog that rises from the cold
Jordan, through the wide-open door of solid
pearl, to that reunion. I expect to see you
thoro as certainly as I see you here. Wi at
a time we shall have in high converse, talk
ing over sins pardoned and sorrows com
forted and battles triumphant!
lam going in. lam going to take nil
my family wi’li m\ lam going to take
all my church with me. lam going to
take all my friend* an 1 neighbors with me.
f have so much faith in manger and cross I
feel sure of it. I arn going to coax you in.
lam going to push you in. By holy stiat
age nJ am going to surprise you lu. Yea,
with all tho concentrated energy of my na
ture-'—physical, meutal, spiritual and im
mortal—l am going to compel you to go in.
I like you so well I want tospeud etomity
with you.
Home of your children bavo already gone.
Home limn ago I buried one of them, and
though people passing along the street and
seeing white crape ou the doorbell may
have said, “it is only a child,” yet wheu the
broken-hearted father came to solicit my
service he said: “Como around and com
fort us, for though she was only 15
moot *■’old wo loved her so much.” Ah I
it does not long fora child to get its
arms around tho parent’s whole nature.
What a Christmas morning it will make
w en those with whom you used to keep
the holiday* are all around you i • heaven I
Silver-haired old father young again, and
mother, who had so many aches und pal us
and fit- Weil an ! all your
brother* and sisters ana the little ones.
How glad they will be to aee you!
They bare been waiting- Tie* last time
they saw y ur fac it wa* covered with
tear* and distress, an I pallid from long
watching, and ona of them I ran imagine
Umlay, with one hand holding fast the shin
ing gate, an l toe other hand swung out
toward you. saving:
“Steer this way. father, steer straight for me;
Hero safe in heaven 1 aiu waiting for thee.”
Oh! those Bethlehem angels, when they
went back after the concert that night over
secret is out. No more use of trying to hide
the hills, forgot to shut the door. All the
from us the glories to come. It i* too late
to shut the g to. It is blocked w ide open
with hosannas man hing this way, aud hal
lelujahs marching that way.
What almost unmans me is the thought
that it is provided for such sinners as you
and l have been. If it had been provided
only lor those who had always thought
right, and spoken right, aud acted right,
you and I would have had no interest
m it, had no share in it; you and I would
have stuck to the rafi mid ocean, and let
the ship sail by, carrying perfect p issengoi s
from a perfect life on oarth to a perfect life
in heaven.
Oh! I have heard tho commander of that
ship is the same great aud glorious aud
sympathetic one who hushed tho tempest
around tho boat on Galilee, and I have
heard that all t.ho passougorsen the ship are
sinners saved by grace. And so we hail
the ship, and it bears down this way, und
we come by the side of it and ask tho cap
tain two questions: “Who art thou, and
whence?” aud he says: “I am captain of
salvution, and I am from the lua gor.”
Oh! bright Christmas morning of my soul’s
delight. Chime all tho bells. Wreathe all
the garlands. House all the anthems.
Shake hands in nil the congratulations.
Merry Christmas! Merry with the
thought of sins forgiven, merry with the
idea of sorrows comforted, merry with tho
raptures to come. Oh! lilt that Christ from
the manger and lay him down in all our
hearts. We may not bnug to him as costly
a present as the Magi brought, but we
bring to his feet and to the niauger to-day
the frankincense of our joy, tho pearl® of
our tears, the kiss of our love, the prostra
tion of our worship.
Down at his feet, all churches, all ages,
all earth, all heaven. Down at his feet the
four-and-tweuiy elders on their faces.
Down the “great multitude that no man
can number.” Down Michael, the arch
angel! Down all world* at his feet and
worship.” “Glory to God in the highest,
and on earth peace, good will to men!”
CONGRESSIONAL CONTESTS.
Notice in Only One Case Filed as Yet
with the Clerk of the Louse.
Washington, Dec. 30. Secretary Mc-
Pherson, of the republican congressional
campaign committee, statod some timo ago
that there would be ut least twenty-five
contests by republicans against democrats
for seats in the next House. As thero seems
to be no disposition on the part of tho re
publicans to give democrats a fair chance
in election coniests until the republicau ma
jority is placed beyond the peradveuturu of
a doubt, it is probable that few democrats
will press contests with republicans. IJp
to this timo only ono notice of contest ha*
been filed in the office of the clerk of the
House.
TWENTY-ONE COUNTS.
This is the case of Hartsuff against Whit
ing, the latter !>eing the sitting democratic
member of tho Seventh Michigan district
There are twenty-one counts in hi* iud.ct
rueut, aud he charges that votes were cast
at wrong places, that aliens voted without
restraint, that fraudulent naturalization
papers were issue* 1, that illegal registration
was common, and that persons were com
pelled to vote the democratic ticket under
threats of personal injury. Mr. Hartuuff
lavs particular stress upon what he calls
“Tho Corruption Fund.” This includes a
contribution of S2,.XX) from the national
democratic committee, SI,OOO given by Mr.
Whiting personally, and between $2,800
and $3,000 assessed on tho federal employe*.
The latter, Mr. Hartsuff claims, were par
ticularly pernicious in tjioir efforts in Mr.
Wniting’s behalf.
OTHER CONTESTS.
It is known informally that tho seats of
Mr. Candler of Georgia, Mr. Compton of
Maryland, Mr. Elliott of South Carolina,
Mr. Forman of Illinois, George D. Wise of
Virginia, Mr. Cluuio cf California, Mr.
Parrott and Mr. Shively of Indiana and
Mr. Phelan of Tennessee will ail be con
tested by republicans, and Mr. Seymour,
dem.. will contest Mr. Millers’, rep., in the
Fourth Connecticut district. All the West
Virginia districts will probably be con
tested. Either Mr. Rowell of Illinois or
Mr. Lodge of Massachusetts is likely to be
chairman of tho committee ou elections in
the next House, and. of course, to have
general direction of the contests.
SPOONER FOR THE CABINET.
His Chance as Good as That of Any
Other Wisconsin Man.
Washington, Doc. 30.—There is at least
one republican senator who would not bo
surprised to see Senator John C. Spooner in
President Harrison’s cabinet. Senator
Spooner’s uncle, formerly United Htate*
marshal of Indiana, was u grout friend of
Gen. Harrison, and the latter has conse
quently followed young Spooner’s bi illiant
career with great interest. It is reported
that when Senator Spooner was urging
Mr. Payne or Gov. Husk as Wisconsin’*
representative in the cabinet la-t week that
Gen. HarrPon said to him substantially,
“Why don’t you speak for yourself, John?”
If Wisconsin has a representative in the
cabinet, it is much more lik ly to be
Senator Spooner than Payne or Gov. Rusk.
Friends of Senator Spooner who know
how bitterly be opposed Mr. Blaine’* nomi
nation at Chicago laugh at the widely cir
culated reports that He ator Spooner went
to Indianapolis to bom Mr. Blaine. On
the contrary, it is well understood that, like
most of the republican senators, he i* for
Senator Sherman for Secretary of Stato,
just as ho and they wore for Senator Sher
man or Judge Gr<*sbam or Gen. Harrison
for President in preference to Mr. Blaine.
OEN. SCHOFIELD’B WIFE DEAD.
A Cold Rune Into Bronchial Catarrh
and Heart Failure Follows.
Warhinoton, Dec. 80.—Mrs. Schofield,
wife of Maj. Gen. Schofield, died of fiaraiy
sis of the heart at 7 o’clock this morning.
Hho bad been suffering from the effect* of a
severe cold, which developed into bronchial
oaturrh a few days ago, but wa*
not thought to be in danger until
heart failure sunorvenod only au hour or
two before her death. Mrs. Schofield was
a daughter of iY>f. W. If. C. Bartlett,
formerly of the United Stato* military
academy, and now actuary of the Mutual
Life Insurance Company of New York.
The remains will be interred next Wednes
day, at West Point.
TO FIGHT THE TARIFF.
The Senate Bill Won’t Be Pigeon-
Holed in the House.
Wahiiinoton, Deu 30.—The democratic
members of the way® and means committee
deny emphatically that the Senate substi
tute for the Mill* bill will be piyeon-holed
in their committee, if it reaches the House.
On the contrnry, they propose to fight it to
the death m the open. All of them and
all of the tariff re ormers in Congress or*
greatly encouraged by the cheerful and
courage >ui utterance* at the dinner of the
Mft*'aobu*elt* Tariff Reform league. They
think the outlook for tariff reform ad
mirable.
JCSB IS GOING TO MOVE.
A New Temple Erected for the Wor
ship of Buddha.
New York, Dec. 33.—Within two or
three days of the opening of the New Year,
according to our calendar, the Chinese Joss
house, or Buddhistic temple of New York
city, will be removed from No. 10 Chat
ham spuare, where it has been fi r many
years, to No. 18 Mott street, whore spacious
and appropriate quarters have been pro
vided. The Chinaman is, according to
American notions, a queer bird in many
rtMi|ects, but in none more so than in the
manner of ins worship. A temple is to
him, not only a place f>r prayer and votive
offerings, but a son of club room as well.
The old room, used as a temple, faced on
one of the noisiest quarters of the city. It
wa almost titular the Chatham square sta
tion of the Elevated railroad, and tho de
votees have long beeu tired of the placo.
Accordingly they clubbed together, a*
they do for all purposes, ami raising a con
siderable sum they purchased the double
lot at No. 18 Mott street, and set about the
erection of a building that should be all
their own. They have put up a five-story
tenement house on the usual Now York
plan and have devoted the lower part to
business aud dwelling purposes, wfiile the
top story i set aside lor a temple. The
entire expense of buying the land and
erecting the building u a little more than
$50,000. and not less than $5,000 has been
devoted to the fitting up of the temple itself,
ready for the oecupatmy of tho expensive
aud beautiful god who now inhabits tho
old temple. Probably slo,*ooo will be nearer
the exact figure wheu tho furnishing is all
done.
The entire building below tho temple
floor is already occupied, tho Chinese hav
ing already established there restaurants,
hoarding houses, private establishments,
opium joints, aud fau-tan whop* or gambling
rooms. No other tesauts than the Chinese
themselves, and the Irish American women
who live with some of them as wives, aro
iu the building, and it is probable that none
other will hire apartments there.
The temple floor at the top of the build
ing is divided into four rooms, which serve
as a church, a sacristy room iu which tho
high priest lives with his asdstunts, a coun
cil room, and a smaller one, which is to be
a sort of committee room. The church room
is of course the largest, and is not less than
a hundred feet long, ami about 25 foot in
width. As iu the old room, tho god him
self will occupy one end. and the aitar will
be set directly in front of him.
•loss is a trinity. Three images of tho
most gorgeous character imaginable by
the Chinese mind sit serenely watching
the operations at the altar, while the high
priest keeps a sharp lookout for the offer
ings that are laid before the altar. R>
splendent with gaudy colors, rich vest
ments of embroidered silk, jewels und
silver and gold, the trinity sits iu a shrine
of oriental magnificence. Shrine, altar
and all, will ho carried to the now temple
on January 3. To prevent the bearers o
the god from treading on heathen ground,
a scarlet carpel of costly cloth will o laid
from the door of the old temple through
the halls and along the stairways to tho
edge of tho side > Aik before the god starts
<>n his journoy. Tho sacred fl.’e that must
always burn before him will be left burn
ing while he travels. When ho is settled in
his now homo the sacred fire will be lighted
in front of him, and the one in the old
place will bo extinguished.
Thereupon will begin Toasting, such as
tho Chinese only know how to arrange.
The rooms will bluze with magnifies ice
and color. The luxurious cnairs and mas
give tables are to be of ebony, inlaid with
mother-of-pearl, and carved in tho intri
cate and grotesque patterns that only seem
possible to a Chinese artist. The walls
will bj ablaze with color and rich with
paintings—water colors ou silk for tho
most p rfc —and gorgeous mottoes iu
queer fire-cracker characters. On tho
tables will bo dishes of tho weird and won
derful viands of tho Chinese larder. Thero
will be preserved fish and candied pickles,
dried fruits and pickled eggs, sweetmeats
and tea, with queer little bottles of liquor
ho flrev that it can only le drank from
thimbles. Toe feast will be spread for tho
devotee, the contributors to the expense of
the new temple, and their friends.
An orchestra of awful instruments, tom
toms, devil fiddles, and the like—will make
the atmosphere dizzy with vibrations,
while the merchants in tho neigh
borhood will set off firecrackers as
only a Chinaman can do, by the 100,000
at once. Heveu hundred thousand fire
crackers iu a single stung is a common and
favorite amount for a grand celebration,
and when thirty or forty wealthy men each
start a string • f this kind there is a noise.
Altogether it may l* predie ©d that when
Josh moves there will be a *tir in China
town. David A. Curtis.
A BRAVE POLICEMAN.
He Captures a Ghost That had Fright
ened Hundred* of People.
Boston, Dec. 27. —The prank* of sportive
youngsters raised the liveliest kind of a
rumpus in old Roxbury to-night. Some
time before midnight a skeleton was sent
prancing about an old tomb in tho burying
ground in Washington street, which con
taius the dust of revolutionary heroes. At
la*t a crowd mi inhering fully 500 blocked
tho street, watching thoauticsof the gho®tiy
vision.
For a long time believers in tho super
natural thought they bad found a genuiuo
ghost, and there was much speculation a* to
tho cause of the unusual visitation. Finally
a p licernan named Gunn, who carried a
(small sized gun in one hand und a nub in
the other, boldly tackled the skeleton,
thereby gaining for him-elf a reputation
for courage and at, tho name time exposing
tlm ingenious trick which had frightened so
many people.
The skeleton was made of wood cover© 1
with phosphorus, and was suspended from a
tree, so that tho swaying motion might lie
obtained. Strings worn attached to the
arms and legs, and at the other ends of the
string* wero mischievous boys, who skedad
dled as soon as the policeman invaded 'heir
impromptu spirit land. The crowd disap
pound as rapidly as it hod collected, and
the policeman dragged the gho*t to the sta
tion house.
Arrested for Murder.
Philadelphia, Pa., Dec. 30.— A sensa
tion was created late to-niglff bv the arrest
of Jacob Bchroop. living at No. 1212 Cod
wuloder street, this city, on suspicion of
having murdered a man, whose remains
were found In the park. Several parti**,
including a daugnter of Hohroop, identified
the body os that of Antoine Rebelling, who
lived with the Hchroop family aud who has
beeu missing since Wednenday.
Poisoned by Head Uiieoee.
Chattanooga, Dec. 80.—The family of
Iru War ford, of Ht. Elmo, consisting of
four p*roH, was ttoisouud today by eating
headcheese. Mr. Warford is in a very pre
carious condition, and ins wife is serioudv
ill. Tho children art doing wsll and will
H sftt * ______
Murder at Walhalla.
Charleston, H. C.. Dec. 80.—R. J.
Campbell, formerly from Newlierry, ns
muraer'-d at Waihuiia last night. A white
man and a negro have been arrested on
suspicion.
I DAILY. $lO A YEAR. I
4 80ENT8 A OOPY. V
| WEEKLY,? 1.25 A Y EAR.)
OZARK’S JAIL DELIVERY*'
NONE OF THE FUGITIVES APT TO
BE TAKEN ALIVE.
The Hole in tho 1 rlson Wall Cut by
Pardos on the Outalde -One of the
Prisoners Almost Too Rat to Squeeze
Through What Thoee Who Re*
malned Bay.
Ht. Louis, Dec. 30.—A Republic spcoial
from Ozark say®: “David Walker gave the
following account of the way the Bald
Knobber prisoners escaped: The hole in the
wall of tho jail, which was about 14 inches
square, was made by j*ersouson tho outside,
and shortly before 2 o’clock they crawled
through it and with keys of sotao sort
opened the cell door* aud told all the pris
oner* to come out. Walker and his son and
Caleb liucker refuted to go. Rucker was
then bound and gagged, and the roHcuer*
would have secured tho two Walkers ill
some way, blit they resisted, aud were per*
nutted to remain in their cells.
ALL DONE IN THE DARK.
“Tho whole thing wa® done in tho da k
None of the prisoners had any troul-1 * iu
getting through the hole except J ha
Matthews, who is a lurge man, and had to
l> dragged through by his confederates.
As soon os tho men were out of hearing.
Date Walker called loudly for Hi; rill
Johnson, who, with his family, lives in the
second story of the jail, but it was then fc o
lato to capture tho iugitives.who had disap*
poured in tho darkness. Walker says he
did not go with the rescuers h canto he did
not wish to go that way. He aiitici| ate*
commutation of his sentence, and ins sou
suvs he prefers to be hanged than to be
hunted ami bounded by oflb era
NO CLEW TO THE RESCUERS.
“Thoro is no due to the parties who res
cued the prisoners, but it is believed that
tb*y aro members of the Bald Knohoer
gang. Sheriff Johnson and hi* deputies
an* out on a hunt and expert to capture the
fugitives, hut the general opinion is that
they have been furnished with fleet ho m.w,
and, if they are overtaken, they will not lie
captured alive. John and Wiley Mattlmw*
have families in Christian county, but they,
like nearly all tne kilo bers, are very poor,
many of whom find it hard to keep tho wolf
of hunger from the door.”
HELD A8 A PAL OF HAWES.
The Prisoner Certain ot His Ability to
Bhow a CL an Record.
Atlanta, Ga., Dec. 30.—-John Wiley, a
young railroad man, waa arrostod here to
night,accused of being implicated with Dick
Hawes of Birmingham in the murder of
Mrs. Hawes and her two children. A teW
days ago a detective came to Atlanta search
ing for Wiley, who was believed to he iu
Atlanta visiting relatives. Wiley was out
of the city, but learning that an officer wa*
hero looking for him, he called at police ,
headquarters to-night and a<k dif he wa* *
wanted. He was informed that he was and
that the detective had gone to Alabama to
get a requisition for him. Wiley stated
that ho was about to leave the city for
Birmingham.
HELD FOR A REQUISITION.
110 was held, howover, and a telegram
was ®ent to Birmingham, stating that he
was under arrest. An answer noon cause
that epplirjtion had been in <do to Gov.
Seay of Alabama for p. roqui®ltiou, which
would be forwarder!. Wiley treats the
mutter coolly. Ho Hay* that he was with
Hawns oil tho morning of the Saturday that
it was discovered that Hawes’ family had
boon killed, ami that he was also with
Hawn* ou tho Monday following. He naye
that when ho was with Hawes Haturday
morning tho latter was buying hi* woo
ding outfit. He states that no knows
nothing about the murder of liawee*
family nnd feels perfectly satisfied that he
will be able to show a clean record in ttie
matter. VViloy does not appear to be the
least concerned in tho matter. Wiley says
that to-day somebody sent hi* wife a letter
in which it ls charged that her husband
wan implicated in the Hawes murder and
that a wurrnut is out for him Ho will de
mand an immediate investigation.
Tallahassee Topics.
Tallahahhek, Fla., Dec. 80.—Gov,
Perry hoe appointed Gen. William Miller
of l’oint Washington. Col. J. U. Hurbridge
of Jacksonville, and Hon. F. M. Hendry of
Fort Myers as ilelegates to re resent the
state of Florida atiho centennial celebra
tion of Washington’s inaugural tu the firs*
President of the United States.
In accordance with a request of Hecre
tary ot Htate Bayard, acting in pursuance/
of an act of congress, Gov. Perry has ap- t
pointed i ’ol. W. I). Cbipley of reusacola/
lion. Alfr*Ml Bishop Moeourif Jacks mville,
and Col. Jame* E. Ingraham of Hanford,
commissioners to represent Florida at tha
Pari* exfxaition from May to October, 1883,
A Negro Boy’s PistoL
Augusta, Ga., Dec. SO.—Brood Street,
near Marbury, was great y concern*! to
day over a shooting scrape iu 'which two
negro boy* were involved. James Robert*
sou pulled cut a small revolver and fired at
Jerry Hinilh. striking the latter, who lm 1
darted across the street, in the stomach.
The ball struck tome metallic substance,
probably a button, aud glanced off. Rob
ertson, without waiting to m*o the effect ofr
the shot, took to his heels and ha* left town. 1
Negroes en Route to Louisiana.
Augusta, Ga., Dec. ).—W. E. Will
iams, traveling pasnenger agent of the
Quean ami Cre oent route, passed through
tne city to-mgnt with a carload of nogroca,
fifty-three in number, from Lynchburg, H.
C., eu route for l/mi-iana, where they will
work on plantations.
—— ■ * •
HON. MOBES MORDECAI DEAD.
He waa Once United States Senator
from South Carolina.
Baltimore, Dec. 30.—Hon. Motes Mor
docai died to-day at his residence iu this
city of ossification of the heart, aged 84
years. He was a native of Houth Carol!i a
and lepras ntod that stato in the Uulted
States Senate for two terms preceding the
lute war. Mr. Mordecai was übi.tifbd
with steamboat inton xui of the smith and
was quite wealthy, though be lost heavily
by tLo war. His claim for a largo amount
against the government for carrying mails
Iwforo the scoewuoii of the south Ts now
peudiug.
BLAINE BLIPS FROM HOME.
A Whole Day l apsed Before Hi* Ab
sence waa Discovered.
Boston, Dec. 30. An Augusta.
■jxtihl to the Herald *ays: “Mr. BlaimjP
■lipped off so quietly on yesterday’s after
noon train for the west that his departure
wan not kuown until this afternoon, when
it leaked out that he had left for Washing
ton. Hu was <-o>,mr>AHi<<l by bit ho%
W&lker. Ills baiievea that it will new i*qj>
only settled whether he goe* u*to GeuZ
Harrison's cabinet or is left ouL”