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Newspaper Page Text7“ THE MOBSINIS NEWS. I J Established !. Incorporated 1888. V •j tsTABUj H t sTILL. President. j A SAD SCENE ON THE RAIL MEN COLD IN DaATH AND three baddy injured. Tte Accident Caused by the Tender 3f the Engine Jumping the Track Fou r Miles Frcm Brunswick - The Locomotive and Several Cars Wrecked— Ons or the Injured Bure to Di© .nUVswiCK. Ga., July 21.—This morn rneshortlv after 12 o’clock a terrible acci dent occurred on the Ea3t Tenn-ssee road about four miles from thi city by which two men "ere killed, three badly injured and one fatally hurt, and a passenger engine and frur freight car completely demolished. The killed are: GeoR'IE Douglass, an engineer. Jgsepb Ames, a fireman. The injured are: Yardmastbr Robinbtt. A. J. Anderson, a car cleaner. Daniel Scott, also a car cleaner. The two car cleaners are colored. The news of the occurrence reached the citvabout 1 o’clock and spread like wild 1 fire. THE MORNING NEWS ON DECK. The local agent and conductor D. C. (Srnith of the road were soon at work making up a train to dispatch to the scene of tLe disaster. The Morning New* corre spondent attempted to go out with the offi cials and Drs. Dana and Botsford, tho road physicians, but was denied permission to board the train. He was not to be foiled, however, and securing a livery team, drove to the four rails crossing. Walking back about 500 yards he came upon a scene not soon to be forgotten. WRECK OF THE ENGINE. Across the track and lying; on its side was engine No. 206 with one pair of its driving wheels in the nil* and its smoke stack buried three feet in tho earth behind it, and three cr four feet from the track. Tho coal box was turned bottom up with a Hat car piled across it. Beneath, these two men were cold in death. The engineer lay beneath the ponderous ■wheels of the engine and only fus head and shoulders could be t-een through the debris. A few feet back lay the fi: email, cru-hert and bleeding, though he had evidently died from suffoca tion by steam in the wood*. SUFFERING ON A STRETCHER. Just a few feet from the wreck another man lay on a stretcher, uttering agonizing groans while the doctor was carefully bandaging limbs that were scorched and bleeding. Even while he workod toe flesh fell from the bones on his lower extremi ties. This was Yardmaster Robinett. The two bodies under tho wreck were those of Engineer George Douglass, the hostler, and Fireman Joseph Ames. The two negroes bad been brought to town. While the wounded man was being made as comfort able as was possible wreckers were at work digging cut the dead. This was at last icc-impltshed, and tho special started back to Brunswick with its ghastly load. I CAUSE OF THE ACCIDENT. It is hard to learn the cause of the acci dent. The track from four-mile crossing, the scene of the disaster, to town is laid Riih chair iron rails, so nailed on account if a peculiar clamp they are fasteuod to the rack with. The engine was being banked o town, tender forward, with seven fiat 'nr., attached. One of the chairs was irokeu, and this caused the tender to climb be rails. This rarely happens when an Biigme is going forward, as its heavy pres sure keeps the rails down, but the tender being forward and being very light, jumped on top of the rails and from there to the lies. ANOTHER EXPLANATION. Another reason given for the accident is that the track was rough and that the sway ing of the water in the tank overbalanced the tender, which had nothing in front of it to support it on the track. Three engines were at the crossing coaling up when the accident occurred. As No. 206 pulled down tne East Tennessee track engine No. 14, Eu fineer brubb, and engine No. 19, Engineer unions, were on the Brunswick and West ern track headed for town. When the ac cident occurred Engineer Grubb saw it, rad, as engine No. 19 was most convenient, ient it to learn the particulars. Engineer jrubb pulled out for town and notified the tffieials. DIED WITH A PRATER ON HIS LIPS. Engineer Simons reached the scene and !1 ! f ' ltwar,i Owens, hastened to the -jured. Pjreman Ames was still alive and as praying. He called Owens and re luesttd him to tell his mother that he tried c die a Christian. He commenced praying liter tie spoke those words and died m a few mnutes after with a prayer on his lips, •ngineer Douglass never uttered a word liately fel; ’ haTln i: evidently died imme- A LEAP FOR LIFE. Bbs°n f h JaCOD i S i < uolor6d ) was on the last car nen the accident occurred, and happening ’ro7r 0 tor ‘ der ,]® a P the track, he sprang f,M lS . Beat ' 7 h#Q he uedovered from ■w Ull, he saw Yardmaster Robinett run u g p7 UK '*, Uk ’ woods - H ® caught him, ird ;‘ eH ‘“P'ored bim to leave him irkf *i? thomen under the engine. His JEL I ti’f ™ for ‘hem, and he ‘Mv , a , ke ‘? for , th ® ,n > moaning as he did so: Ra/dnin r °° y s My Poor boys!” Robinett SmithfF 3 ° Qduct °r s duty for Conductor sort l r " om ' m '* te ' who askttd mm to nr? m t i >day - His caso to-night nenam • OUl ?°* d -,- ho P eleas - AU tilß white not ? No m( l uost was held, as it s not thought necessary. SUNDAY AT DF.BB PARK. at Church in the Morn- T n? ’ and Later Out for a Walk. Park, Md„ July 21,-President j M “°“ hear d a sermon to-dav bv Rev E. 7iurm® pisco P aliau - on the duties of "ei'ce to 7? Christians. A passing ref he effect th ?n* by tbo I’ roactl ©r was to tgencim irT 1 Reemployment of improper 1 1 iiur ae-enc >Ub C affu,r ’ lo counteract heside nf g ?,H u "“ never justifiable. The •'-'inaiued a 'D Dr - Scott, lcu iuiunion. ter 1 aerv ' lCo3 Partook of ‘tonVhiThlrr* *£* a Btroll in the after sit, 19 anil ly at the cottage. Pri .brut Mrs 0 ?? Halfoi ' d sa >’ 8 rV *fiib Ivilr.i garrison inviting a physician Irst tr!n to t p,lrty on the occasion of her Fine was , Leer Pari[ 10 have a glass of Tha rv V ure invention. 'r>m rn>w * 7; 11 take up public hd-'l - 1 but no appointments are °KLAHOMA’3 convention. “ e Ttr *' i „ tory to be Divided Into Twelve Counties. rnS“’ oklah °Ma, July 21.—The Intil An r V: (mtl ° U ad j° urut * i yesterday ►irtur'ity't?' wm-k V6CHmmit , tees a “ °P- p l ~* .* ao proceedings were *w th s? nirnittees on organization. •ore apDonufj ary iV lho |®K i3i **ure, etc., be tern-.,p,. i'. b waa decided to divide lames twelve <>.ounties. Tho ia f'Ker. Harif? nded two of thecoun narriaon and Cleveland. lUflfnitßj Ifrtnjji. BOULANGERS NEW MANIFESTO. The Charges of the Ministers Handled Without Gloves. London, July 21.—Gen. Boulanger, Count Dillon and M. Rochefort hare issued the following manifesto: To the French Electors: “We l ave disdained to reply to the ab surd calumnies concocted by ministers who have been convicted of peculations. Our abstention from this odious comedy is now justified by the indignant repulsion of the attempts to extort from officers of the army lying denunciations of their former chief. These suborners of witnesses have not hesitated to employ the tax-payers’ money to obtain false deposi tions from jaii-birds in their very cells at Alazas. These are miserable prevaricators, who accuse their former minister of war of corruption. The public disgust has already condemned, and the justice of the country w-ill speedily overtake, those malefactors. Tuey appealed to the penal code, hut the outcome of their infamous machiuatious was that they could bring absolutely nothing against us. If they could have obtained the most trivial proof they could not thus have risked the assize court by negotiating with forger.-. It is for you, dear fellow couutry rr.en, to judge between us and those thieves. We wait with confidence your sontence.f rom which these bandits, who feel.its approach, vainly endeavor to escape. Long live re generated France, long live an honest re public.” Labor Congress in France. Paris, July 21.—At a meeting of tho labor congress to-day resolutions were passed calling upon tho government to oppose monopolies in the necessaries of life, and urging the working classes to organize against trusts. The next congress will be held at Brussels in 1891. The Mavelst congress has decided to hold demonstrations throughout Europe and America on May 1, 1890, in benalf of the eight-hour system. AU Quiet at Samoa. Aukland, July 21.—The stenmor Zoalan dia, which has just arrived hero from Honolulu, reports that all is quiet at Samoa. The Amancau war ship Alert hail left Honolulu with supplies for the Nipsic, which was waiting at Fanning island. The Alef% was to take the Nipsic in tow. Movements of Russian Troops. London, July 21. —A dispatch from Erz round to the Standard says: “There is an unusual movement of Russian troops be tween the Turkish front, Ivortais, Tiflis, Alex-indropol and Erivaa. It is estimated that 80,000 men are already collected, and more are coming.” Spain Not Eager for the Pope. Madrid, July 21.—The government has forbidden any demonstration calculated to encourage the pope to come to Spain in the event of his leaving Rome. More Troops for Assouan. Cairo, July 21.—Eight hundred more British troops have started for Assouan. DEATH OOT THE RIGHT ONE. A Husband W ho Tried to Kill Hie Wife the Only One to Die. St. Louis, Mo., July 21.—About two years ago James Sylva and Miss Buckalew, daughter of a weii-known citizen of Klik vilio, were married and removed to Keokuk, la. About six months ago Mrs. Sylva returned to the parental roof, stating that her hn-band would not support her. Yesterday she received a telegram from Sylva saying that he would be there to-day to kill the family. He kept his word. Arriving this morning and going to his wife's father’s Douse, he asked his wife: “Allie, will you return to me!” The young woman replied in the negative. AVhereupon Sylva fire.l at her and she fell. Thinking that he had killed his wife Sylva turned rhe weapon upon himself aud sent a ball into his brain. He will die. Mis. Sylva was not hurt. ON FIRE IN THE LAKE. Narrow Escape of the Crew of a Cleveland Steamer. South Haven, JMich., July 31.— The steam barge J. P. Farnaui, Cupt. L. G. Vosburg, owned in Cleveland, caugnt fire aft yesterday afternoon, and the flames spread so rapidly that it was impossible to get out the boats. The mate was seriously burned in making tho attempt. A frail raft was hastily im provised and the crew of eleven and the captain and his wife put oft on it. The patrolmen of the life saving station, twonty miles away, discovered tho tire, and the steamer Glen, with the lighthouse crew, steamed out to the burning wreck and rescued the persons on the raft, who were in imminent danger. RUNNING DOWN MURDERERS. A Triple Lynchlnsr on the Programme in Louisiana, Clinton, La., July 21. —Three of the five negroes who murdered Pratoriau a few mouths ago were captured at Red River junction, brought to Clinton to-day, and will be lynched to-night at the scene of the murder. Tne pursuit of tho Pitta murderer, at Pantherburu, suil cou inues, but persons arriving from the vincinity say that no more captures have been made. A NATURAL GAS TRUST. Preliminaries Completed in Ohio and Indiana. Lima, 0., July 21. —There is a movement on foot looking to the consolidation of all the natural gas companies in the Ohio and Indiana field, and the formation of a trust. It is understood that this a. rang nine at has the sanction of Calvin 8. Brice, Oliver H. Payne and other Sta dard Oil magnates. They now own a majority of the stoca of the companies in Ohio and Indiana, and will buy up the stock of the remaining inde pendent companies. FOUB HUNDRED HOUSES AFLAME. Many Children Believed to Have Per ished in the Fire. Festh, July 21.—Four hundred bouses and public buildings were destroyed by Are in the town of Paks to-day. Many children are reported to be missing. Hun dreds of people are rendered Lomelass by the fire, and the greatest distress prevails. HORSES ROASTED ALIVE. One Hundred and Twenty-Five Perioh ."With Fifty Carriages In a stable. /New York, July 21. —The stable and carriage storage place of Moses Weil, od y.ast 110th street, was burned this morning, frith 125 horses and fifty carriages. The loss is f45,000. Furniture Dealers Assign. | Baltimore, Md., July 21.—Renwick & iSons, furniture dealers, on North Howard Jstreat, hare assigned. SAVANNAH. GA„ MONDAY, JULY 22, 1889. he has two hearts. Tho Wonderful Darky Who Dropped Into the Editor’s Room. Pittsburg, July 20.—“i’se Dootah Will yum-m King, the Yankee Black Man from Boston. Ise got two hearts, an’ two sets of ribs, an’ I kin stop eeder heart—’jest as easy ” ” The foregoing was the startling announce tnent of a short, heavy-set negro who strode into the Dispatch editorial rooms last night ino colored gentleman took off his coat mopped his brow with a bandana, and dropped into a chair. He then raised Ins only remaining upper gar mid proceeded to roll about his abdomen, which consisted of a groat soft bu b, in a most ludicrous manner. Suddenly the workings of the muscles ceased, and, when tho city editor and tne reporters put their hands on the negro, where formerly there had only been a soft bull) there was now a hard, resistant, bony cage. In other words, the ribs appeared to ext.-ud from tho neck to the legs. W ith Lie hands of the spectators still on these fa.so ribs, the latter wore gradually allowed to recede and apparently tele scoped up behind the truo ribs. At the request of Mr. King, the city editor put a handou each side of the negro’s chest, and was surprised to find a distinct impulse or thud on each side, just below the i.ipp.e, as though two hearts were beating against the ribs. Next, the nogro, after n sort of convulsion of the abdo ninai mus c , • protruded a violently throbbing inter nal object down below bis ribs on the left side; then, allowing this to recede to its place, he pulled down what he called his other heart, which could be seen and felt pulsating low down on the right side. With one hand on this pulsating mass and the other outlie left breast, both hearts could be felt dis tinctly beating. Here it was thought advisable to call in a physician to explain the phenomenon. A messengor was sent out. and soon returned with Dr. Chevalier Q. Jackson. The doctor proceeded to make a thorough examination, auu soon reported the results substantially as follows: Ibe man has two distinct hearts,! con nected only by the large blood vessels and probably a very elastic pericardium. Ho has the power of moving these two hearts independently and can place them one at a time down in his groins, when they can he seen and felt pulsating. He can stop one or both from beating for a period of a nnuute aud probably longer, if I would let him. The stopping of either heart stow the beat on the corresponding s.de. If both hearts are stopped no pulsation can lie detected over the heart, at the wrist, tem ples, nor anywhere else in the body. Ihe left heart is .the larger, being as big as a cocoanut, which is a large heart for this sized man. The right heart is sin Her— about as big as a goose egg. When one heart is down in the flank, and the o.hor in its natural place, the two organs are sepa rated about 14 inches. As they lie ordinarily in the chest, they are about 2or 3 inches apart. POSSIBLY it’s HOPS. His pulsation Is about normal; but he has a murmur in his right heart which may be from drinking. He has an alcoholic pulse, and probably if he don’t give up whisky he will turn up some fine morning on the dis secting table. He will be worth more dead than living—that is, worth more financially, for any anatomist will give SIO,OOO for his ti dy- As to tho phenomenon of stopping his neart, that is not an absolutely new thing; there have been three similar cases known to science; one who, after stoppiug his heart for exhibition, failed to get it going again, aud died in consequence. None of the three cases I refer to could stop their hearts for as great a length of tiuio ns this man. I have warned him to be careful, for he already has a murmur in his right heart, and with his alcoholic habit it w ill he no surprise to me to hear of him seme day not being able to start his heart after stopping it. The most peculiar thing about it is the fact that each heart appoars to bo complete, and to furnish blood each to its own side of the body. In some species of the lower am uials thore are two distinct hearts, but in them the right side sends blood to tho lungs, and the left side to the general circulation through the whole body. As to HIS SECOND SET OF RIBS, they seem to be there, but the great thick ness aud rigidity of his muscles makes a positive examination impossible. Certain if is, however, be has some sort of bony formation which he has the power to bring down seas to cover his bowels and his en tire belly, so as to make his trunk rosomble a bony barrel. I will make a more thor ough examination of nim when 1 have more time. He is certainly the only man living who has any of the peculiar qualities that he has shown me. Mr. King is about 5 feet 2 inches in hight, of herculean build, with gig intic biceps, Ho has traveled from one end of tue earth to the other exhibiting his iiocu li tr attributes to ths medical profession. He is . t present boarding near the south end of Panhandle tunnel. He says ha is 72 years Id, though he does not look it by thirty years. He claims to lie ablo to bond a three-quarter inch in -a bar across his left arm; and to feel his arm, no oie would doubt it. Physicians everywhere are in tensely Interested in his case. ON THuf DIAMOND. Results of the Gams* Between the Country’s Leading Teams. Washington, July 21.—Baseball games were played to-day with the following re sults: At Cincinnati — Cincinnati 7 1 0 0 0 0 2 0 o—lo St Louis 0 0000000 1 — 1 Ease hit3—Cincinnati 10, St. Louis 3. Errors: Cincinnati 0, St. Louis 3. Batteries; Duryea and riullane, Chamberlain and Boyle. At Louisville— Kansas City 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0— 1 Louisville 0 0 1 0 0 0 2 0 0— 3 Base hits: Kansas City 5, Louisville 9. Er rors: Kansas City 5, Louisville 5. Batteries: Swartzel and Donohue, Ewing aud Cook. \t New York— Athletic 2 0 0 2 0 0 0 2 0-6 Brooklyn 3 1 0 2 0 1 0 1 x— 8 Base hits: Brooklyn 6, Athletic 11. Errors: Brooklyn 4, Athletic 1. Batteries: Weyhing and Cross, Carutbers aud Visner. At Columbus — Columbus 0 000001 0 o—l Baltimore 2 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 I—6 Base hits: Columbus 11, Baltimore 8. Errors: Columbus 3, Baltimore 0. Batteries: Baldwin and Peeples, Kilroy and Tate. KILLED BY A SHARK. A Young Englishman Attacked While Bathing at Fernandlna. Jacksonville, Fla., July 21.— Edward Roe, a young Englishman, while swimming In Cumberland sound with fifteen other boys from Feruacdiua, was struck by a shark, which bit off the calf of one leg. Roe was taken into a boat at once, but hied to death before medical assistance could be obtained. This is the first instance know i< fa shark attacking a man in these uosroN Heiress—l am afraid it is not for me, but for my money, that you come here so often. Anient Wooer—You are cruel to say so. How can 1 get your money without getting you?— Hot ton Courier. HOW TO CONQI’EU EVIL. REV. TALMAOB PREACHES AT THE CULVER PARK ASSEMBLY. Solomon’s Sketch oi the Mental Oper ations of One Who Has Strayed From the Path of Rectttude and De sires to Return—Habit a Hard Task master to Overcome. Lake Maxinkcckke, Ind., July 21. — Rev. T. De Witt Talraage preached at Cul ver Park assim ly, this place, to-day, great crowds of people being present from Chicago, Indianapolis and the surrounding regions. His subject was: “How to Con quer.” Tho text was: “Whon shall I awake? I will seek it yet agaiu.” Prov. xxiii, 35. The eloquent preacher said: With an insight into human nature such as no other man ever reached, Solomon, in my text, sketches the mental operations of one who. having stepped aside from the path of reotitude. desires to return. With a wish for something better, he said, “When shall I awake! When shall I come out of this horrid nightmorn of iniquity!” But, seized upon by the uneradicated habit, and forced down hill by his passions, he cries out: “I will seek it yet ag in. I will try it once more.” Our libraries are adorned with an elegant literature addressed to young men. point ing out to tuem all the dangers and perils of life—complete maps of the voyage, show ing all the rocks, the quicksands, the shoals. But suppose a man has alr-wlv made shipwreck; suppose he is already off the track; suppose he has already gone astray. How is he to get back! That Ufa field comparatively untoucheu. I propose toad lre-s myself to such. There are those in this audience who, with every passion of their agonized soul, are ready to hear such a discussion. They compare themselves with what tljey were ten years ago, and cry out from tho bondage in which thoy are incarcerated. Now, if there be any h<Te, ooire with an earnest purpose, yet feeling they are beyond the pale of christain sympathy, and that the sermon can hardly be expected to address them, then, at this moment, 1 give them my right hand, and call them brother. Look up. There is gbrious and triumphant bop# for you yet. I souud the trumps, of gospel de liverance. The church is ready’ to spread a banquet at your return, and the hiarurclis of heaven to fall into line of bannered pro cession at the news of your emancipation. Ho far as God may help me, I propose to show what are the obstacles of your re turn, and then how you are to surmount those obstacles. The first difficulty in the way of your return is the force of moral gravitation. Just as thero is a natural law which brings down to tho earth anything you throw into the air, so there is a corre sponding morai gravitation. In other words, it is easier to go down than it is to go up; it is easier to do wrong than it is Lo do right. Call to mind the comrades of your boyhood days—some of them good, some of them bad—which most affected vou! Call to mind the anecdotes that you have hoard in tho last five or ten years— some of them are pure and some of them im pure. Which the more easily sticks to vour memory! During the years of your life you have formed certain courses of con duct, —some of them good, some of them bad. To whioh style of habit did you the more easily yield? Ah, mv friends, wo have to take but a mo ment of self inspection to find out that there is in all our soul# n force of moral gravitation! But that gravitation may bo resisted. Just as you may pick up from tne earth something and hold it in your hand toward heaven, juetg i, by the power of God’s grace, a soul fallen may be lifted toward peace, toward pardon, toward heaven. Force of moral gravitation in every one of us, but power in (rod’s grace to overcome that force of moral gravita tion. The next thing In the way of your return is the power of evil habit. I know there are those who say it is very easy for them to give up evil habits. Ido not believe them. Here is a man given to intoxication. Ho knows it is disgracing his family, de stroying his property, ruining him, body, mind and soul. It that man, being a i in telligent man, and loving his family, could easily give up that bubit, would he not uo so? The fact that ho does not give it up proves that it is hard to give it up. It is a very easy thing to sail down steam, the tide carrying you witn great force; but suppose you turn the boat up stream, is it so easy then to row it? As long as we yield to tho evil inclina tions in our iiearts, and our bad habits, we are sailing down stream; but the moment we try to turn, wo put our boat in the rapids just above Niagara, and try to row up stream. Take a man given to the habit of using tobacco, as most of you do, and let him resolve to stop, and he finds it very difficult. Tweoty-seven years ago I quit that habit, and I would as soon dare to put my right nand in the fire as once to indulge in it. Why? Because it was suob n terrific struggle to get over it. Now, let a man be advised bv his physician to give up the use of tobacco. Ho goes around not knowing what to do with himself. He cannot add up a line of nis figures. He cannot sleep nights. It seems ns if tho world had turned upside down. He feels his business is voing to ruin. Where lie was kind and obliging he is scolding and t; e ful. The composure that characterized him has given wa.v to a fretful restlessness, and lie has become a complete fidget. What power is it that has rolled a wave of woe over the earth and shaken a portent in the heavens? He has tried to stop smok ing or chewing! After a while he says: “lam going to do as I please. Tne doctor doesn’t understand my case. I’m go ing bacg to my old habits.” And heretu ns. Everything assumes its usuai composure. His business seems to brighten. The world becomes an attractive place to live in. His children, seeing tue difference, had the re turn of their fa her’s genial disposition. What wave of color has dashed blue into the sky, and greenness into the mountain foliage, and the glow of sapphire iato the sunset? What enchantment has lifted a world of beauty aud joy on his soul? He has gone back to tobacco! Oh, the fact is, as we all know in our own experience, that habit is a taskm ister: as long as we obey it, it does not chastise us; but let us resist, aud we find we are to be lashed w ith sco pion whip* aud bound witu ship cable, and thrown into the track of boue-hreaking Juggernauts I During the war of 1812 there was a ship set on fire just above Niagara Fails, and then, cut lo se from its moorings, it came on down through the nigh* and tossed over the falls. It was sold to have been a scene brilliant beyond all description. Well, the e are thousands of men on fire of evil habit, coming down through the rapids and ttirouga the awful might of temptation toward the eternal plunge. Oh! how hard it uto arrest them. God only can arrest them. Suppose a man after five, or ten, or twenty years of evil doing, resolves to do righi! VVhy, all the forces of darkness are allied against him. He cannot sleep at nights. He gets down on his knees in the midnight aud cries, “God help mel” He bites his lip He grinds his teeth. He clenches his fist in his determination to keep his purpose. He dare not look at the bott es in the window of a wine store. It was one long, bitter, exhaustive, hand to hand fight, with infiamod, tantalizing and merciless habit. v\ hen he thinks he is entirely free, the old inclinations pounce upon him like a pack of hounds with their muzzles tearing away at the fi inks of one poor roiudoer. Iu Paris there is a sculptured representation of Bacchus, the god of revelry. He is riding on a panther at fill leap. Oh, how suggostivel Let every one who is speeding on bad ways understand ne is not riding n docile and well broken steed, but ho is riding a mon ster, wild and bloodthirsty, going at a death leap. How many there are who resolve on a better life and say: “When ehall I awake? - ’ But, seized on by their old habits, erv: “I will try.it one,u more; 1 will seek it yet again I” Years ago thore were some Prinoe ton students who were skating, and the ice was very thin, and some oue warned tho company back from the air hole, and dually warned them entirely to leave tue place Lilt one young man with bravado, after all thsrpst hat stopped, cried out: “Oueround more!” Ho swept around and went down, and was brought out a corpse. My friends there are thousands and tens of thousands of men losing their souls in that way. It is the one round more. I have also to -ay that If a man wants to return from evil prao.ices society repulses him. Desiring to reform, he savs: “Now 1 will shake off my old assis-iat.es, and I will find Christian companionship.” And ho ap p nrs at the church door some Sabbathdav, and the usher greets him with a look, as much as to say: “Why, you here! You are the last man I ever expected to gee at, church! Come, take this seat right down by the door!” Instead of saying: “Good morning; lam glad you are here. Come; I will give you a first rat" seat, right up by the pulpit.” Well, the prodigal, not yet discouragid, enters the prayer meeting, and some Christian man, with more zeal than common sense, savs: “Glad to see you. Thodvi-ig thief was saved, aud I suppose thero is mercy for you!” The young man, disgusted, chilled, throws himself hack on his dignity, resolved he never will enter the house of God again. Perhaps not quite fully discouraged about reformation, he sides up by some highly re spectable man he used to know going down the street, and Immediately the respectable man has au errand down some other street! Weil, the prodigal, wishing to re.urri, takes some niombor of aohristian association by the hand, or tries to. The Christian young man looks at him, looks a: the faded apparel and the marks of dissipa tion, a id instead of giving him a warm grip of the hand offers him the tip end of the long Gagers of tho left hand, which is equal to striking a man in the faoe. Oh, how few Christian people understand how much force and gospel there is iu a good, honest handshaking! Sometimes, when you have felt the need of encourage ment, and some Christian man lias taken you heartily by the hand, have you not felt toat thrilling through every fiber of your body, mind and soul, an encouragement that was just what yon needed ‘ You do not know anything at all about this unless you know when a man trie3 to return from evil courses of conduct, he runs against re pulsions innumerable. VVesay of somemau, he lives a block ot two from the church , or half a mile from tho church. There are people in our orowdod cities who live a thousand nulog from the church. Vast deserts of indifference between them and the house of God. The fact is, we must keep our respectability, though thousands and tens of thousands perish. Christ sat with publicans and sinners. But if there comes to tho house of God a man with marks of dissipation upon him people throw up their hands iu horror, ns much as to say, “isn’t it shocking?” How these dainty, fastidious Christians in ail our churches are going to gat into heaven I don’t know, unless they have an especial train of cars, cushioned and upholstered, oanh one a car to himself t They cannot go with the groat hoi .1 of publicans and sinners. Oh, ye, who curl your lip of scorn a, the fallen, I tell you plainly, if you had been surrounded by the same influences, instead of sitting to-day amid tho cultured and the refined aud the Christian, you would have been a crouching wretoh in stable or ditoh, covered witm filth and abomination I It is riot tiecause you are naturally any better, but boo mho the mercy of God has protected you. Who are you, that brought up in Christian cir cles, and watched by Christian parentage, you should he so hard on the fallen? I think men also are often hindered f om return by the fact that churches are too anxious about their membership arid too anxious about their denomination, an i they rush out wnen they see a man about to give up his tin and return to God, and ask 7>im how he is going to be baptized, whither by sprinkling or by Immersion, and what kind of a church he is going to join. Oa, my friends! It is a poor time to talk about Uresbyterian catechisms, and Episcopal liturgies, and Methodist love feasts, and baptisteries to a man that is coming out of the darkness of sin into the glorious light of the gospel. Why, it reminds us of a man drowning in the sea, and a iife-boat put out for him, and the man in the boat says to the man out of the boat: “Now, if I got you sshoro are you going to live in my streo:?” First get him ashore, and then talk about the non-essentials of religion. Who cares wbat ohurc i tie joins, if ho only joins Christ ami starts for heaven? Oh, you ought to have, my brother, an illumined face and a hearty grip for ovory oue that tzies to turn from Ini evil way. Take hold of the same book with him, thoug hi* dis sipations shako the book, remembering that he that convertot.h a sinner from the error of his ways shall save a soul from death and hide a multitude of sins. Now, I have shown you these obstacles because I want you to understand J know all the difficulties in the way; but I am now to toll you how Hannibal may scale the Alps and how the shackles maybe unriv eted and how the paths of virtue forsaken may be reg.iinea. First of all, my brother, throw yourself on God. Go to him frankly and earnestly and tell him those nabiti you have, and ask him, if there is any help in all tho resources of omnipote t love, to give iu to you. Do not go with a long rig marole people call prayer, made up of “ohs” aud “alls’’ and “forever aud forever amensl” Go to God and cry for help! helbl help! and if you cannot cry for help just look and live. 1 remember in tne war I was at Antietam, aud I went iu o the hospitals after the oattlo, aud i said to a man, “Where are you hurt?” He made no answer, but held up bis arm swollen and splintered. I saw where ne waa hurt. Ti.e simple fact is, when a man has a wounded sou!, all he has to do is to hold it before a sympathetic Lord and get it healed. It does not take any long prayer. Just hold up the wouud. Oh, it is no small thing wtieu a man is nervous and weak aud oxnausted, coming from his evil ways, to feel that God puts two omnipiteut arms around about him and says, “Young man, 1 will stand by you! Tne mountains may depart aud the hills be removed, but I will never fail you.” Aud then, ns the soul thinks the news is too good to be true, anil cannot be lieve it, and looks up iu God’s faoe, God lifts his right hand and takes an oath, au affidavit, saying, “As I live, saith the Lord God, I have uo pleasure in the death of him that dieth.” Blessed be God for such a gospel as this 1 “Cut the slices thin,’’ said tne wife to the husband, “or there will not he euougn to go all around for the children; cut tue slices thin/ Blessed tie God there is a full loaf for every one that wauta it; bread enough and to spare. No thin siloes at the Lord’* tabie. I roinenilier when the Master street hospital, in Philadelphia, was opened dur ! i'>K the war, a telegram came saying: i “there will be 300 wounded men to-night; . let ready to tako earn of them;” an l from , my church there went in some twenty lor thirty men and women to 1 >ok after these poor wounded fellows. V < they came, some from one part of the lanu, *otn from ano her, no one avked whether tbit man was fr nu Oregon, or from Massachu setts, or from Minnesota, or from Now York. There was a woundod soldier, and the only question was how to take off the rags moat gently, and put on the bandage, and administer the cordial. And when a soul comes t > God ho does not ask whore you come from or what your aim stry was Healing for all your wounds. Pardon for all Tour guilt. Comfort for all your troubles. 1 hen, al-o, 1 con tsel you, if you want to get back, to quit all your bad associations. O. n unholy intimacy will fill your *oul with moral distemper. In all th* ages of the church there has not been an instanoe whoro a man kept one evil associate and was reformed. Among the fourteen hun dred million of the race not one Instanoe. Go homo today, open your desk, take out letter paper, stamp and envelope, and then write a letter something like this: “My old companion!: I start this day for heaven. Until I am persuaded you will join me in this, farewell." Then sign your uaitiA, and send the letter with the first post. Give up your bad com panions, or give up hoaveiu It is not ten had companions that destroy a man, nor five bad companions, nor three bad com panions, hut one. What chance is there for that young man I -aw along the street, four or five young men with him, halting in front of a grog shop, urging him to go In, he resisting, violently resisting, until after a while they forood him to go in? It was a summer night, nnd tbo door was left open, and 1 saw the process. They held him fast, and they put the cup to his lips, anil they forced down the strong drink. What cbnuoo Is there for such a young man ? I counsel you, also, seek ohristlau ad vics. Every Christian man is bound to hslp you. First of all, seek G id; then seek uiiristlan counsel. Gather up all the ener gies of body, mind and soul, and, appealing to God for success, declare this day ever lasting war against all drinking habits, all gmnoTing practices, all houses of sin. Half and-half work will amount to nothing; It must he a Waterloo. Hhrlnk back now ahd you arc lost. Hush on and you are saved. A Spartan general fell at the very moment of victory, hut he dipped Ills finger in Ids own bio it and wrote 6n a rock near which he was dying, “Sparta has conquered." Though your struggle to |get rid of sin may seem to he aim ist a death struggle, you can dip your finger in your own blood and writs; on tne Hock of Ages, “Victory through our Lord Jesus Christ." Oh, wh it glorious news it would bo for some of those young men to send home to their parents! They go to the postoffice every day or two to see wnether there are any letters from you. How anxious they arc to hear. Someone said to a Grecian general, “What was the proudest moment in your life?" He thought a moment and said; “1 ho proude t moment in my life was when I sent word home to my parents that I had gained the victory.” And the proud est a id most brilliant moment in your life will he tho moment when you can sand word to your parents that you nave conquered your evil habits by the grace of God and be come eternal victor. Oh, duspise not parental anxiety! The time will come when you will have neither father nor mother, and you will go around the place whoro they used to watch you and find them gone from the house, and gone from the field, and gone from the neighborhood. Cry us loud for forgiveness as you may over the mound in the churchyard, they will not answer. Dead! Dead! And then you will take out tho white lock of hair that was out from, your mother’s bro v just before they buried Lor, an I you will tako tno cane with wmeb your father used to walk, nnd you will think amt tnink and wish that you hail done just as they wanted you to, and would give the world if you had nevor thrust a pang through their dear old hearts. God pit} the poor young insn who has brought disgrace on Lis father's name! God pity trie young man who has broken his mother’s heart I Better if he hanever been horn—bettor, if, In tho first hour of his Hie, instead of being laid against the warm bos irn of maternal to nierness, ho had been coffined and sopulchsred. There is no balm power ful enough to heal the heart of one who has brought parents to a sorrowful grave, and who wanders about through the dismal cemetery, re .ding ttie hair, and wringing the bauds, and crying, “Mother! mother!" Ob, that to-day by all the memorise of the past and by all the hopes of the future, yon would yield your heart to God. May your father’* God and your mother’s God be your God foreverl WB3T VIRGINIA'S FLOOD. Tho Latest List Gives the Names of Seventeen Who were Drowned. Wheeling, W. Va., July 21. —A special to the Intelligencer from tho flood district, near Parkersburg, to-night gives a list of tho drowned. It is thought that tho death list will be much larger when the districts now cut off from the outside world are heard from. The list received is; Robert Blaok, Mr*. Black, Mrs. Thomas Hughes and four chil dren, Edward Bose, Mrs. Isaac Roberts, Mrs. Orvile West and two c dldren, John Braly, Roy Keger and wife, Mrs. Lasa Tucser nuil u man whoso name cannot be ascertained The damage to property and crops cannot tie estimated at present. Hundreds of people lost all they possess and, and many families nro homolms. A late dispatch says the village of Morristown, W. Va., was nweptoutiroly away. Great sut feriug exists. The commissioners of Wood county will issue an appeal for aid. TERRIBLE TRIPLE TRAGEDY. A Man Kills His Wife, Her Father and Hlmßelf. Cleveland, July 21.—A terrible triple tragedy occurred near Edgerton, Williams county, to-day on the farm of a man named Newman, whose daughter had left her hus band, Hiram Hoadley, Jr., formerly a prominent county politician and a prosper ous and respected citizen. Headley’s wife was seeking a divorce, and this morning early he secreted himself near her farm house and killed her with a revolver as she passed by to milk the cows. He then shot three times and instantly killed her father, who was at tracted by the pisthl shots. He pursued the mother and sister of his wife also, but they escaped. He then returned to where his wife’s body lay and kil.ed himself. A tall on the Knights. Chicago, July 21. —The executive board of the Knights of Labor to-day decided to issue a call requesting contributions for the striking miners of tne Braidwood and Bra zil, lud., districts. No assessment is made. The board attended a secret meeting of the local bricklayers’ assembly to-nigut, and .Mr. Powdoriy answered questions concern ing the alleged corruption and waste of the foods of the order. I DAILY, *lO A YEAR. I < 5 CENTS A COPY. V I WEEKLY *1.26 A YEAR MADE HOT FOR M’DOW. TWO MORE DENUNCIATORY SBH MON3 AT CHARLESTON. The Verdict Looked Upon aa a Bad Btatn on the City’s Reputation—One of tho Sermon* Delivered at the Hu guenot Church end the Other at Grace Episcopal. Charleston, a C., July 21.— Tho par sons pitched Into Mellow to-day without gloves. At the Huguenot church, the oldest French Protestant church in the United .States and the place of worship for 200 years of the old cavalier* of Carolina, the Rev. Dr. Vodder preached a piworful sermon from Proverb* xvlL, 15. Alluding to the McDow verdiot he said: "Ourcity, so long nnd so worthily the pride of those whose birthplace it is, or who have learned to lov and call it home, never more dear than amid the calamities with whioh it was visited, nor more worthy of honor than from the spirit with which they were borne aud the strength with which thair desolations were repaired, had already passed iuto popular literature as the ‘City of Disaster when its crowning catastrophe came from it* hall of justioe. Whether or not tho judgment there ren dered wis toctmic illy warranted—and i® was reached by some, at least, of unim peachable integrity, some, at least, who might have been mistaken—l think they were—but who would not knowingly be unjust or untrue, yet there cannot be a doubt that a very large and influential por tion of our community, aud well nigh our whole land, hold It to have beeu there demonstrated t at Charleston holds noth ing more cheap than human life; that truth ha* beeu stricken down in what should have beon its very citadel; that 0,.e, whose loss was a public calamity, has b>on stealthily done to death, under circumstances that sicken the heart which hears the recital of them, whilst tho wanton and worse than vror; bless ‘slayer’ goes forth, not only un scathed of penalty, hut applauded by some as a well-doer. This is tho verdiot of a very extended and outspoken public sentiment." AT GRAOK EPISCOPAL OHUHCH At Grace Episcopal church, the fashion able otiuroh of the city, Rov Dr. Onarles Gatesworth Pinckney, who is flrg vice pres ident of the national society of the Cincin nati, prsachud from Gan. ix., 5,6; “Whoso sbeddeth man’s blood, by man shall hi* blood be shed.” He nnl: “Life is far too cheap in our land. It is sacrificed with a ru klessue a whioh would not lie tolerated In England or any other civilized land where God's law is known. The result of the reooiit trial in this city erns to fall very far short of any censure of humic: ie. It has failed too >ndemn crime, to vindicate God’* law, or to protect human life'against the murderous pistol. That a human life hns been taken by vio lence is an acknowledged fact, and the tri bunals of justice have no word of oe isure for the dee i. The slayer is rostered to his place without condemnation of any sort, without tine, imprisonment or any legal disapproval of the wrong. “Murder pollute* the land beyond all other evil deeds, and leaves an indelible stain in God’* sight. Nor cau this bmod stain be obliterated until it he ‘washed out with the blood of him that ghed it.’ Mercy to the murderer is cruelty to the community. Every deed of violence, whether murder, manslaughter or mob law, becomes the seed of future crime, un less repressed by the innjjgty of th; laws." McDow will, to-morrow, be di-cussad by the Wnahlngto . Light Infantry, the elite military company of the city, of whic i he is a member. He will probably be expelled. OUR FOREIGN MINISTERS. Reid and Pbelpe to Resign—Koason Badly Disappointed. WAflniifGTCN, July 21.—A triend of both White!*w Reid and Wil'iatn Walter Phelps said to-day: “Both Minister* Reid and Phelps will resign their missions within a year. Neither anted the mission he got, for both wanted the mission to England, but neither could decline very well, Minis ter Phelps less easily than Minister Reid considering tho way the German misiion was offered to him. But of all the disap pointed .nen, John A. Kassou i> th* worst. He confidently expected that Le would be appointed minister to Germany after the Berlin Bamoan conference should ad journ, and tho Gormans, remembering that, he had been minister to Berlin before, aud seeing him named first in the American commission, being given precedence fo- ago, had the same ex pectations aud tree toil him accordingly, linague the surprise of all when Mr. Ptieip* was a pointed. No w mdor Mr.Kasson went to Carlsbad, Ido not believe Mr. Kasaon will get either Russia or China, the only missions vacant. He is ovor 70, anti begin* to show his years. The weather in Rua.ia would kill him anyway.” MAHONE’S GHOULISH GLEE. The EvU Genl of Virginia Politic* Off for Home. Washington, July 21.— Gen. Mahona went homo in ghoulish gleo to-day, confi dent that through Senator (J lay he had hoodwinked both tbe national executive and the national executive committee of the Republican party. Brady being satis fied, he thinks he will have very little trouble with the “ kickers," as he calls the Blaine men who are opposing him In Vir ginia. Ho thinks his title to Virginia Ktronage Indefeasible now. He expecis to elected governor aud to carry the legis lature, which will olect a successor to .Senator Dan.el, so as to resume his soat in tne United States Senate March 3. 1393, if he is not elected vice president meanwhile. TROUBLESOME TANNER. Harrison Said to Have Given th# Corporal Another Lecture. Washington, Ju* 21. Secretary Noble, it is stated, asked the President to remove Commissioner Tanner last week, telling him that he would stand the corporal no longer. The Preside it is said to have responded that on account of Corporal Ta uior’s G. A. R. connections, he could not remove him, but in-toad he would give him a lecture. This be did w ith some sev.rity before leaving for Deer Park. If Corporal T nner obeys the President, there will b less extravaga ce aud loss declaration at tbe pension office. DAKOTA’S CONSTITUTION. A Draft that In Said to Fmbodj Many Excellent Features. Bismarck, Dak., July 21.—The consti tutional convention has been given a ga uiue surpriso by the presentation of a com plete constitution, whioh will be considered during the present week. This constitution is said to have been prepared wlin c-n-al care and after consultation with some of the ablest constitutional lawyers in the union. It lias tue best provisions of tbs various state constitutions fitted to North Dakota.