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I the MORNING NEWS. 1
J Established 1850. Incorporated 1888. >
j J. H. ESTILL President. I
PORTUGAL MAY REVOLT.
A CRISIS BROUGHT OUT BY THB
BRAZILIAN UPRISING.
The Portugese Also Anxious for a
Republic— Dom Pedro Sails for Lis
bon After Formal Notification of
His Deposition—His Civil List Not
to be Cut Off—All Contracts Entered
Into to be Fulfilled by the Govern
ment.
Brussels, Nov. 17.—The Independence
Beige has a dispatch from Lisbon, saying:
“The overthrow of the Brazilian monarchy
is regarded as definitive. The Portuguese
people sympathize with the Brazilians.
Similar events are possible in Portugal.”
TWO ARRESTS.
Lima, Nov. 17.—The latest advices re
ceived here from Rio Janeiro, dated Nov.
16 9-5.5 o’clock p. m., are to the effect that
Viscount Ouro Presto, ex-minister of the
interior, end Senor Mayunck, a banker,
have been arrested. The emperor was
looked on with suspicion. The provisional
government has at olished the monarchy.
The revolutionary commission ad
dressed a message to the emperor
telling him to leave the countrv
in twenty-four hours. The emperor
acknowledged this and left by the packet
Aiagoas, accompanied by the ironclad
Rlachuelo. The Brazilian republic will
give the emperor a certain amount to live
ou in Europe. The revolutionary commis
sion has been sworn in before the chamber
of the municmality. The republic is a cer
tainty, and great enthusiasm prevails.
DOM PEDRO SAILS FOR LISBON.
London, Nov. 17.—A dispatch from Rio
Janeiro says: ‘'Dom Pedro has departed
from Brazil. He sailed direct for Lisbon.
Before bis departure he was formally noti
fied of his deDOsition. At the same time he
was informed that the civil list would bo
continued.
"The province’of Bahaia opposes .the re
public, but most of the other provinces have
signified their adherence to the new regime.
‘‘Dr. Barboza, the new minister of finance,
announces that all contracts en tered into by
the imperial government will be main
tained.
"The city Is quiet. The overthrow of the
monarchy has temporarily paralyzed busi
ness. On the exchanges nothing is doing.”
DECIDED ON MONTHS AGO.
The Paris correspondent of the Daily
.Veins says: “The republic council at Rio
Janeiro decided a tow months ago that the
anniversary of the French revolu ion was the
most fit ing occasion on which to proclaim
a republic. The leaders of the party were
so confident of success, that they ordered a
number of republican flags to be made in
this city. In the new flag the imperial
crown is replaced by a Phrygian cap.”
DOM PEDRO EXPECTED IT.
“It is reported that Dom Pedro recently
expressed to his prime minister the opinion
that the government had not much longer
to live. Among the causes that led to the
revolution were tyrannical measures to
which the government resorted in order to
secure the return of its supporters at the
last election, when many olectors were
arrested and imprisoned.”
OFFICIAL NEWS VERY MEAGER.
Washington, Nov. 17. —The members of
the Brazilian legation are still without in
formation direct from their country in re
gard to the situation of affairs. They were
in hopes of receiving some news to-day, but
none came, and their only intelligence
was derived from the press and
from a telegram to the United States
department of state. Secretary Blaine
said this evening that he had received only
one dispatch from Rio, and that that sim
ply confirmed the press dispatches. It was
stated in substance that tho army and nayy
were on the side of the insurgents, that a
provisional government had been formed,
and that the emperor was a prisoner in his
palace.
THE EX-PREMIER ORDERED TO LEAVE.
Oporto, Nov. 17. —Dispatches from Rio
Janeiro to tho Commercio de Porto say
that the former prime minister of Brazil
has been ordered to leave the country and
that he will sail immediately on board tho
Ralilia.
EXPECTS BLAINE TO ACT.
Berlin, Nov. 17. —Commenting upon the
chaos likely to result in Rio Janeiro, the
Cologne Gazette says: "Mr. Blaine will
hardly resist the temptation to bring
America’s influence to bear upon the desti
nies of South America.”
A CORVETTE SAILS FROM PORTUGAL.
Lisbon, Nov. 17.—Tbej corvette Bathol
omes Diaz has been ordered, to Brazil.
CATHOLICS FOR HIGH LICENSE!.
A Mass Meeting as a Sequence of the
Baltimore Congress.
Baltimore, Md., Nov. 17.—The natural
sequence of the position taken by the Cath
olic congress was a mass meeting to-night
under the auspices of the Catholic church
lin favor of high license,at Harris’ academy
lof music. It was attended bv persons of all
■ shades of religious opinion. On the stage sat
■ his eminence, Cardinal Gibbons, Mgr. Mc-
I a Archbishop Elder, Bishop Virtu,
■ bishop Keane, Rev. Jas. Nugent, Rev. Jas.’
■ bleary aud some hundred prominent citi
-126,18 interested in the movement. Every
■ 6eat was occupied and hundreds were
■ turned away. Speeches were made by Car
■mn u Gibbons, Rev. James Nugent, Bishop
■lreland and Rev. James Cleary.
■ I-esolutions in favor of high license were
■<ri pied.
■ MRS. PARNELL NOT IN WANT.
BHer Physical Condition Good for One
■ of Her Years.
■ Borden town, N. J., Nov. 17.—Dr. WUI
-H. Shipps of this oity, who has been
■U ■ attending physician of Mr. Parnell’s
V; -'’her here for the past ton years, says
■: at , 110 time since Mrs. Parnell took up her
■jsidence at “Ironside” has she lacked
■ ‘“ r medicine or medical attendance. He
■ * r says her present physical condition,
Vordering her years, is remarkable for its
■igor.
R A NEW COMET.
Poor Thing Wandering About
■ Without Nucleus or Tail.
■ Rochester, N. Y., Nov. 17.—Dr. Lewis
Erector of Warner observatory,
ered lust evening a suspected comet,
■hi'Ch was verified by motion this evening
iii wa s, and is to-night, in
■t "nth Pegasi, right ascension 22*
R 0 *- declination north 11“ 50’. It is
But ““ ow ly northeast. It is pretty large
■ ut without nucleus or tail.
■p. p °ters’ Alleged Massacre.
■ ‘ hU*’ Nov. 17.-St. Rust, iu a letter
a i W6e,£ 'ater than Dr. Peters’ last
K 1, - does not mention the massacre of
voters and party.
H. Moreanet to be Divided.
a!', 1 -*’ Germany and Belgium
bf divide the district of Mores-
V “‘-tween them.
IPjc Jlofniiwr
R3SD NOW CN THB SCENE.
He is Confident of Election to the
Speakership.
Washington, Nov. 17. Candidate
Thomas B. Reed arrived this morning, and
is comfortably established in his six-room
suite on the sixth floor of the Shoreham.
He saw some of his friends and supporters
this afternoon, and met others of them at a
dinner party which his chief lieutenant,
Representative Henry Cabot Lodge, gave
at his residence in Mr. Reed’s honor this
evening.
CONFIDENT OF ELECTION.
Mr. Reed had very little to say for publi
cation, and that little was conventional,
compared with Mr. Reed’s usual utterances.
He seems confident of his election to the
speakership, and relies not only upon the
information which his lieutenams give
him, but also upon his own knowledge of
what members-elect have said they would
do.
NO PLEDGES GIVEN FOR VOTES.
Mr. Reed has personally directed his own
canvass. The pledges of his supporters and
prospective supporters have In most cases
been made directly to him. In return he
says he has made no pledges whatever,
except that he will, if elected, do the best
ho can to advance the interests of the
Republican party. But he has made, ho
says, no promises of committee places.
This explains why he claims no southern
votes. They have been notoriously in the
market for the highest bid ter. Mr. Reed,
even when directly approached, would not
make a bid.
STATES HE COUNTS ON.
_ Mr. Reed claims New England, New
York, Pennsylvania aud New Jersey, the
Pacific coast and the new states on the
fii st ballot, to say nothing of scattering
votes. His claim of Pennsylvania is based
on assurances from .Senators Quay and
Cameron, Chris Magee, and Messrs. King
ham and Bayne.
When the second choices come into play
(provided Mr. Reed is not elected without
them) Mr. Reed’s personal friendship will,
it is claimed, divide most of the western
delegations.
SATISFIED WITH HIS RECORD.
Mr. Reed’s answer to the charges against
his record, is that there is nothing in his
record which need prevent any republican,
east or west, from supporting him.
Meanwhile, Messrs. Cannou and Hender
son and Burrows are hopeful, and Mr. Mc-
Kinley will be here iu a few days, most
hopeful of all, for Mr. McKinley is lying
low.
LOUD MOUTHED MBB PARSONB.
The Chicago Nuisance Again Wag#
Her Incendiary Tongue.
Chicago, Nov. 11.—Mrs. Lucy Parsons
entertained the members of the Arbeiter
Bund, who gathered atjthe East Twelfth
street Turner hall yesterday afternoon,
with a very lurid address. She abused the
police iu terms that have become familiar
from frequent repetition, referred to the red
flag as the only banner that would lead to
freedom, and ventured into the realm of
theology as she spoke of her dead husband
and child.
parsons didn’t kiss his black baby.
“Do you suppose they kissed each other
in the beautifully described hereafter?” she
said. "Bah! don’t be deceived when so
called Christians will tell you such things.
What we want are homes in tuis world, aud
let God, Christ and all religious function
aries take care of themselves. This is the
teaching of anarchy, and, as such,. it will
live. The principles of anarchy will pre
vail, even though it takes blood to make
them supreme.”
Mrs. Parsons was followed by Moritz
Schultz of New York, who spoke in Ger
man. His talk was semi-political in its
character. He said the world at large
underestimated the number of anarchists
by half, and all they needed to secure cer
tain success was united action.
AN EXTENSIVE! CAVERN.
Subterranean Passages Extending in
Every Direction Near Spencer, Ind.
Martinsville, Ind., Nov. 17.—H. H.
Sturm of Indianapolis and Richard Penck
ert of Spencer have discovered a cave near
Spencer. Last night they explored it. The
entrance is a hole twenty feet deep and
about three feet in diameter. At the bot
tom begins a narrow and steep passage
running northeast about thirty-five feet.
At the end of this passage was a step-off of
about five feet ana immediately to the left
was a chamber about eight feet in
diameter, the wall rising gradually in
the form of a cone, meeting at
a point overhead', thirty feet from
the floor. The walls are hung with numer
ous stone pendants. A passageway eigh
teen inches wide and ten feot long led from
this opening toward tiie northwest to an
other chamber similar to the first, but
about sixty feet high. A passageway then
brought the party into still another room a
little smaller than the first. From this a
narrow aisle sixty feet long and seven feet
high led northwest to a small opening or
manhole. At the end of this last passage
there led off two openings about as large as
a stovepipe. Stamping on the ground
brought oat the fact that another cavern
was underneath. The estimated depth
of the cave from the general surface is 150
feet.
NEW FIELDS TO CONQUER.
Edison Finds a Good Place for Phono
graphs in Mexico.
New York, Nov. 17.—Thomas A. Edi
son has made a contract with tho Mexican
government to furnish the postoffices of the
republic with phonographs, to be used for
the transmission of messages. In place of
writing a letter, a Mexican hereafter can sav
what he wants to say to a phonograph, and
the wax impression of his tone will be
forwarded to the postoffice nearest to the
residence of the person for whom the mes
sage is intended. The latter will be notified
on its arrival, and the message will be
ground out to him by tho local phonograph.
As the vast majority of the Mexican popu
lation cannot read well or write, it is be
lieved that the phonograph will be ex
tensively used for correspondence. The
terms of the contract and other details can
not be obtained until Mr. Edison’s agent
returns from the City of Mexico.
FIRE AT FIDO.
The Warehouse of J. G. Moore Burned
With Part of Its Contents.
Canouchee, Ga., Nov. 17.—J. G. Moore
of Fido, Bryan county, lost his warehouse
by Are this morning shortly after daybreak.
The warehouse was located within 100 feet
of his dwelling and store, and contained a
large quantity of baled cotton, both long
and short staple, most of which was saved.
Ten or twelve bales were destroyed, to
gether with 100 bushels of rice, a large
quantity of cotton seed, flour and miscella
neous articles. The loss is about 11,‘JOO,
with no insurance,
SAVANNAH, GA., MONDAY, NOVEMBER IS, 1889.
TALMAGE AT BRINDISI.
HIS SUBJECT “A VOYAGE ON THE
MEDITERRANEAN.”
Paul’s Tempestuous Voyage Suggests
It—The Miraculous Escape of the
Shipwrecked Travelers of the Bib
lical Story, and the Lessons De
ducted from It by the Preacher.
Brindisi, Nov. 17.—The Rev. T. De
Witt Talmage, D. D., preached in this
Italian port to-day. His subject was, “A
Mediterranean Voyage,” and he took for
his text Acts xxrii. 44: “And so it came to
pass, that they escaped all safe to land.”
Dr. Talmage said:
Having visited your historical city, which
wo desired to see because it was the ter
minus of the most famous road of the ages,
the Roman Appian Way, and for its
mighty fortress overshadowing a city which
even Hannibal's hosts could not thunder
down, we must to-morrow morning leave
your harbor, and after touching at Athens
and Corinth, voyage about the Mediter
ranean to Alexandria, Egypt. I have been
reading this morning in my New Test unent
of a Mediterranean voyage in an Alexan
drian ship. It was this very month of
November. The vessel was lying in a port
not very far from here. On board that
vessel were two distinguished passengers:
one, Josephus, the historian, as we have
strong reasons to believe; the other, a con
vict, one Paul by name, who was going to
prison for upsetting things, or, as they
termed it, “turning the world up
side down.” This convict had gained
the confidence of the captain. In
deed, I think that Paul knew almost
as much about the sea as did the captain.
He had been shipwrecked three titrios
already; he had dwelt much of his life
amidst capstans, and yardarms, and c ibles,
and storms; and be kuew what he was talk
ing about. Seeing the equinoctial storm
was coming, and perhaps noticing some
thing unseaworthy iu the vessel, he advised
the captain to stay iu the harbor. But 1
hear the captain and the first mate talking
together. They say: “We cannot afford
to take the advice of this landsman,
and he a minister. He may be able
to preach very well, but I don’t
believe he knows a marliuspiko from a luff
tackle. All aboard! Castoff! Shift the
helm for headway! Who fears the Medi
terranean?” They had goue only a little
way out when a whirlwind, called Euro
clydon, made the torn sail its turban, shoo c
the mast as you would brandish a spear,
and tossed the' hulk into the heavens. Over
board with the cargo I It is all washed
with sals water, and worthless now; and
there are no marine insurance companies.
All hands aboy, and out with the anchors 1
Great consternation comes on crew and
pas-engers. The sea monsters snort in the
foam, and the billows clap their hands in
glee of destruction. In a lull of the storm I
hear a chain clank. It is the chain of the
great apostle as he wains the deck, or holds
fast to the rigging amidst the lurching of
the ship—the spray dripping from his long
beard as he cries out to the crew: “Now I
exort you to be of good cheer; for there
shall lie no loss of any man’s life among
you, but of the shin. For there stood by me
this night the angel of God, whose I am,
and whom I serve, saying, Fear not, Paul;
thou must be brought before Caesar: and 10,
God hath given thee all them that sail with
thee.”
Fourteen days have passed, and there is
no abatement of the storm. It is midnight.
Standing on the lookout, the man peers into
the darkness, and, by a flash of lightning,
sees the long white lino of the breakers,
and know# they must be coming near to
some country, and fears that in a few mo
ments the vessel will be shivered on the
rocks. The ship flies like chaff in the tornado.
They drop the s unding line, and by the light
of the lantern they see it is twenty fathoms.
Speeding along a little farther, they
drop the line again, and by the light
of the lantern they see It is fifteen fathoms.
Two hundred and seventy-six souls within
a few feet of awful shipwreck! The man
agers of the vessel, pretending they want
to look over the side of the ship and ander
gird it, get into the small boat, expecting
ia it to escape; but Paul sees through the
sham, and he tells them that if they go off
iu the boat it will be the death of them.
The vessel strikes 1 The planks spring! The
timbers crack! The vessel parts in
the thundering surge! Ob, what wild
struggling for life! Here they leap from
plank to plank. Here they go under a9 If
they would never rise, but, catching hold
of a timber, come floating and panting on
it to the beach. Here, strong swimmers
spread their arms through the waves until
their chins plow the sand, and they rise up
and wring out their wet locks on the beach.
When the roll of tho ship is called, 276 peo
ple answer to their names. "And so,” says
my text, “it came to pass that they es
caped all safe to land.”
I learu from this subject:
First, that those who get us into trouble
will not stay to help us out. These ship
men got Paul out of Fair Havens into tho
storm; but as soon as the tempest dropped
upon them, they wanted to go off in the
small boat, caring nothing for what became
of Paul and the passengers. Ah me! human
nature is the same in all ages. Tney who
?et us into trouble never stop to help us out.
hey who tempt tnat young man into a life
of dissipation will be the first to laugh at
his imbecility, and to drop him out of
decent society. Gamblers alwnys make
fun of the losses of gamblers. Tfiey who
tempt you into the contest with fists, say
ing, “I will back you," will be the first to
run. Look over all the predicaments of
your life, and count the names of those who
have got you into those predicaments, and
tell me the name of one who ever helped
you out. They were glad enough to got you
out from Fair Havens, but when, with
damaged rigging, you tried to get
into harbor, did they hold for you
a plank or throw you a rope?
Not one. Satan has got thousands of min
into trouble, but he never got one out. He
led them into theft, but he would not hide
the goods or bail out the defendant. The
spider shows the fly the way over the gos
samer bridge into the cobweb; but it never
shows the fly the way out of tho cobweb
over the gossamer bridge. I think there
were plenty of fast young men to help the
prodigal spend his money; but when he had
wasted his substance in riotous living, they
let him go to the swine pastures, while they
betook themselves to some other new comer.
They who take Paul out of Fair Havens
will be of no heln to him when he gets into
the breakers of Melita.
I remark again, as a lesson learned from
the text, that it Is dangerous to refuse the
counsel of competent advisers. Paul told
them not to go out with that ship. They
thought he knew nothing about it. They
said: “Ho is only a minister 1” They went,
and the ship was destroyed. There are a
great many people who now say of minis
ters: “They know nothing about the world.
They cannot talk to us!” Ah, my friends, it
is not necessary to have the Asiatic cholera
before you can give it medical treatment
in others. It is not necessary to have
your own arm broken before you can
know how to splinter a fracture. And wo
who stand in the pulpit, and in the office of
a ouristian teacher, know that there are
oertaiu styles of belief and certain kinds of
behavior that will lead to destruction os
certainly as Paul knew that if that ship
went out of Fair Havens it would go to
destruction. “Rejoice, O young man, in
thy youth; and let thy heart cheer ti.ee in
the days of thy youth; but know thou that
for all these tiling# Goa will bring thee into
judgment,” We may not know much, but
we know that.
Young people refuse the advice of par
ents; They say: “Father is over-suspi
cious, and mother is getting old.” But
those parents have been on the sea of life.
They know where the storms sleep, and
during their voyage have seen a thousand
battered hulks marking the place w.iere
beauty burned, and intellect foundered,
and morality sank. They old sailors,
having answered many a signal of distre-s
and endured great stress of weather,
and gone scudding under biro poles;
and the old folks know what they
are talking about. Look at that
man—in his eneek the glow of
infernal fires. His eye flashes not as once
with thought, but with low passion. Hii
brain is a sewer through which Impurity
floats, aud his heart the trough in which
lust wallows and drinks. Men shudder ti
the leper passes, and parents cry, "wolf 1
wolf !’’ Yet he once said the Lord’s Prayer
at his mother’s knee, and agi’.iust that in
iquitous brow once pis ed a pure mother’s
lin. But he refused her counsel. He went
where euroclydons have their lair. He
foundered ou the sea, while all hell echoed
at tho roar of the wreck: Lost Pacifies!
Lost Pacific 1 1
Another lesson from the subject is that
Christians are always safe.
There did not seein to be much chance for
Paul getting out of that shipwreck, did
there? They had not, in those da vs, rock
ets with which hi throw ropes over founder
ing vessols. Their life boat.-, were of but
little worth. Aud yet, notwithstanding all
the danger, my text says that Paul escape l
safe to land. And so it will always be with
God’s children. They may be plunged into
darkness and trouble, but oy the throne of
the eternal God, I assort it, “they shall all
escape safe to land.”
Sometimes there comes a storm of com
mercial disaster. The cables break. The
masts fall. The cargoes are scattered over
the sea. Oh! what struggling and leaping
on kegs and hogsheads and combing and
store shelves! And yet, though they may
have it so very hard in commercial circles,
the good, trusting in God, all como safe to
land.
Wreckers go out on the ocean’s beach and
And the shattered hulks of vessels; aud on
tho streets of our great cities there is many
a wreck. Mainsail slit with banker’s pen.
Hulks abeam’s end on insurance counters.
Vast credits sinking, having suddenly
sprung a leak. Yet all of them who are
God’s children shall at last, through his
goodness and mercy, escape safe to land.
The Scandinavian warriors used to drink
wine out of the skulls of tho enemies they
had slain. Even so God will help us, out of
tho conquered ills and disasters of life, to
drink sweetness and strength for our souls.
You have, my friends, had illustrations
in your own life of how God delivers his
people. I have had illustrations in my own
life of the same truth. 1 was once in what,
on your Mediterranean, you cail a Eurocly
don, but what, on tho Atlantic, wo call a
cyclone, but the same storm. Tho steamer
Greece of the National line swung out into
the river Mersey at Liverpool, bound for
New York. We had on board seven hun
dred, crew and passengers. We came
together strangers—ltalians, Irishmen, En
glishmen, Swedes, Norwegians, Am >ri
catis. Two flags floated from the masts—
British and American ensigns. We had a
new vassal, or om so remodeled
that the voyage had around it all the un
certainties of a trial trip. The great
steamer felt its way cautiously out into the
sea. The pilot was discharged; and, com
mitting ourselves to the care of him who
holdeth the winds in his fist, we
were fairly started on our voyage
of three thousand miles. It was
rough nearly all the way—the sea with
strong buffeting disputing’ our path. But
one night, at 11 o’clock, alter the lights had
been put out, a cyclone—a wind just made
to tear ships to pieces—caught us in its
clutches. It came down so suddenly that
we had not time to take in the sails or to
fasten the hatches. You may know that
the bottom of the Atlantic is strewn with
the ghastly work of cyclones. O, they aro
cruel winds. They have hot breath,as though
they came up from infernal furnaces. The r
merriment is the cry of affrighted passen
gers. Tneir play is tho founderingof steam
ers. And, when a ship goes down, they
laugh until both continents hear them.
They go in circles, or, as I describe them
with my hand—rolling on! rolling ou! with
the finger of terror writing on th(F white
sheet of the wave this sentence of doom:
“Let all that come within tins circle perish!
Brigantines, go down 1 Clippers, go down!
Steamships, go down!” And the
vessel, hearing the terrible voice,
crouches in the surf, and as the waters
gurgle through the batche# and port
oles, it lowers away, thou-ands of foot
down, farther and fartner, until at last it
strikes the bottun; and all is peace, for
they have landed. Helmsman, dead at the
wheel! Engineer, dead amidst the ex
tinguished furnaces 1 Captain, dead in the
gangway! Passengers, dead in the cabin!
Buried in the great cemetery of dead
steamors, beside the City of Boston, the
Lexington, the President, the Cambria
waiting for the archangel’s trumpet to
split up the decks aud wrem h open
the cabin doors and unfasten the hatches.
1 thought that I had seen storms on tne
sea before; but all of them together might
have come under one wing of that cyclone.
We were only eight or nine hundred miles
from home, and iu high expectation of soon
seeing our friends, for there was no one ou
board so poor as not to have a friend. But
it seemed as if we were to be disappointed.
The most of us expected then aud there to
die. There were none who made light of
the peril, save two. One was an English
man, and he was drunk, and the other was
an American, and he was afo 11 O, what a
time it was! A night to make one’s hair
turn white. We came out of the berths,
and stood in the gangway, aud looked into
the steerage, and sat in the cabin. W bile
seated there, we heard overhead something
like minute guns. It was the bursting of
the sails. We held on with both hands to
keep our places. Those who attempted to
cross the floor came back bruised and
gashed. Cups and glasses were dashed to
fragments; pieces of the table get
ting loose, swung across the saloon.
It seemel as if the hurricane took that
great snip of thousands of tons and
stood it on end and said: “Snail I sink it,
or let It go this oncer’ And then it came
down with such force that the billows
trampled over it, each mounted of a furv.
We felt that everything depended on the
propelling screw. If that stopped for an
instant we knew the vessel would fall off
into the trough of the sea and sink, and so
we prayed that the screw, which three
times since leaving Liverpool had already
stopped, might not stop now. O! how
anxiously we listened to the regular thump
of the machinery, upon which our
lives seemed to depend. After awhile
someone said: “The screw is stopped!” No,
its sound had only been overpowtrel by
the uproar of the tempest, and we breathed
easier again when we heard the regular
pulsations of the over-tasked machinery
going thump, thump, thump. At 3 o’olock
in the morning tne water covered the ship
from prow to stern, aud the skylights gave
way 1 The deluge rushed in, and we felt; that
one or two more waves like toot must swamp
us forever. A# the watc rolled back and for
ward in the cabin*, and dashed a Tains* the
w ill, U sprang halt way up to the ceiling.
Hushing through the skylights as it
Ciras in with *uoh terrific roar, there went
up from the cabin a shriek of horror which
I pray God I way never hear again. I hare
dreamed the whole scene over again, but
God mercifully kept me from hearing
that one cry. Into it seemed to be com
pressed the agony of expected shin vreck.
It seemed to say: “I shall never get home
again! My children shall be orphaned, aid
my wife shall be widowed! I am launching
now into eternity! In two minutes I shall
meet my God l n
There were about 550 passengers in tho
steerage, and as the water ru -hed in and
touched the furnaces, and began violently
to hiss, the poor creatures in tho steerage
i nainged that the boilers weregivingaway.
Those passengers writhed in the water and
in the mud, some prayiug, some crying, all
terrified. They mauo a rush for the dock.
An officer stood on deck and b at them
back with blow after blow. It was neces
sary. They could not have stood an in
stant on the deck. Oh! how they
t egged to got out of tho hold of
the ship! One woman, with a child ln
her arms, rushed up, and caught hold of
one of tho officers and cried: “Do let me
outl I will help you! Do let me out! I
cannot die hsre!'' Some got diwn and
prayed t> the Virgiu Mar--, saying: “O
blessed mother! keen US 1 Ilavo mercy on
us!” Some stood with white lips and fixed
gaze, silent ln their terror. Some wrung
their hands and ori>l out: “O God!
wnat shall I do? What shall I do?”
The time came when the crew could
no longer stay on the deck, nnd
the cry of tho officers was: “De
low I all hands below!” Our brave and
sympathetic Oapt. Andrews —whose praise
I shall noi cease to speak whllo I live—had
been swept bv the hurricane from his
bridge, and had escaped vory narrowly with
his life. The cyclone soeaned to stand on the
deck, waving its wing, crying: “This ship
is ruinol I have captured itl lla! ha! I will
command itl If God will permit, I
will sink it here and now I By a
thousand shipwrecks, I swear the
doom of this vessel!” Tli>ro was a lull
in the storm, but on ly that it might gain
additional fury. Crash I went the lifeboat
on ona side. Crash! went the lifeboat on
the other side. The great booms got loose,
and, as with the heft of a thunderbolt,
pounded the dook and boat tho mast—the
jibboom, studding sailboom, and square
sailboom, with their strong arms, boating
time to the awful march and music of tho
hurricane.
Meanwhile the ocean became phosphores
cent. The whole s 'one looked like fire. Tho
wator dripping from the rigging, there
were ropes of nrn; and there wore masts of
fire; ami there was a deck of lira A ship
of fire, sailing on a sea of fire, through a
night of fire. May I never see anything
like it again!
Everybody prayed. A lad of 12 years of
age got down ami prayed for his mother.
“If Isbould give up," he said, “I do not
know what would become of mother.”
There wore men, who, I think, had not
praye 1 for thirty years, who ttieu got down
ou their knees. When a man who has
neglected God all his life feels that ho has
come to his last time, it makes a very busy
night. All of our sins and shortcomings
passed through our minds. My
own life seemed utterly unsatisfactory,
I could only say, "Here, Lord, tike
me os I am. I cannot mend matters
now. Lord Jesus, thou didst die for
the chief of sinners. Tuat’g met It seems,
Lord, as if my work is and me, and poorly
none, and upon thy infinite mercy I cast
my-elf, and in this hour of shipwreck and
darkness commit myself and her whom I
hoi Iby the haud to theo, O Lord Jesus!
praying that it may be a short struggle in
the water, and that at the isme instant we
may both arrive in glory 1” Oul 1 tell you
a man prays straight to the mark when he
has a cyclone abovo him, an ocean beneath
him', and eternity so close to him that he
can feel its breath on Ins cheek.
The night was long. At last we saw the
dawn looking through the port holes. As
iu the olden time, in the fogrth watch of
tho night, Jesus catne walking on the sea,
from wavo cliff to wave cliff; and whon ho
puts his foot upon a billow, though it may
be t issed up witn might, it goes down. He
cried to the winds. Hush I They know his
voice. The waves know his foot. They
died away. And m the shining track of his
feet I rote! these letters on scrolls of foam
and fire, “I tie earth shall be filled with the
knowledge of Hod as tho waters cover
the sea." Tho ocean calmed. The
path of the stoamer became more
and more mild, until, on the last morning
out, tue sun t.irew ruu id about us a glory
such as I never witnessed before. Hod
made a pavement of ni isaic, reaching from
horizon to horiz in, for all the splendors of
eart i and heaven to walk upon—i pave
ment bright enough for the foot of a seraph
.right enou;h for tho wheels of the
archangel’s chariot. Asa parent embraces
a child, and kisies away its grief, so over
that sea, that had been writhing in agony
in the tempest, tne morning threw its arms
of boauty and of benediction, and the lips
of earth and heaven met.
As I oame on deck—it was very early,
and wo were nearing the shore—l saw a
few sails against the sky. They seemed
like the spirits of the night walking the
billows. I leaned over tho taffrail of th i
vessel, and said, “Th v way, O Hod, is in tho
sea, and thy path in the great waters.”
It grew lighter. The cloudi were hung
in purple clusters along the sky; and, as if
those purple clusters were pressed into red
wine and poured out upon the sea, every
wave turned into orimson. Yonder, fire
cleft stood opposite to fireeleft; and here, a
cloud, rent and tinged with light, seemed
like a palace, with flames bursting from
the windows. The whole scene lighted
up until it seemed as if the angels
of Hod were amending and descending
upon stairs of fire, and the wave-crests,
changed into jasp-r, and crystal, and ame
thyst, as they were fluug toward the beach,
made mo think of the crowns of heaven
cast before the throne of the great Jehovah.
I leaned over the taffrail again, and said,
with more emotion than before; “Thy way,
O Hod, is in the sea, and thy path in the
great waters I’
So, I thought, will bo the going off of
t> e storm and night of the Christian’s life.
The dai kness will f dd its tents and uway I
The golden feet of the rising morn will come
skipping up m tho mountains, and all the
wratnfu. billows of the world’s woe break
into the splendor of eternal joy. And so wo
come into the harbor. The cyclone behind
us. Our friends before us. Hod, who is
always good, all around us. And if the roll
of the crew and the passengers bad been
called, 7UO souls would have answered to
taeir names. “And so it came to pass that
we all escaped safe to land.” And may
God grant that, when all our Sabbaths on
earth are ended, we may flDd that, through
the rich mercy of . ur Lord Jesus Christ, we
all have weathered the gale!
Into the harbor of heaven now we glide,
Home at last!
Softly we drift on ih s bright silver tide,
Home at last!
Glory to God 1 All our uaugers are o’ei*;
We stand secure on the glorified shore.
Glory to Uod! we will shout evermore.
Home at last!
Home at last I
The gala coach in which the Princess Sophie,
recently married to the Crown Prince of Greece,
rode to her welding was bjilt for tue Count do
Chamber J. In expectation of riding in it to bis
■coronation. The King of Greece bought the
coach for 1*3,000 francs.
COL. SWOPE A s * A HOUSEMAN.
Ho Rode for Hall a Lay In a Contest
and Won the Pr.ze.
From the Louisville Courier-Journal.
Bowling Queen, Ky., Nov. 14.—The
recent tragic death of Col. A. M. Swope re
calls to a gentleman of this city an Interest
ing incident in which CoL Swope was a con
spicuous actor. The incident referred to oc
curred in Qreens'.iurg, Kv., at the Green
county fair, in the fall of 18(57. CoL Swopa
was at the time a slender, handsome young
man, and made a showy, graceful appear
ance on horseback. At the Greeusburg fair
he wa< in charge of an unusually line saddle
horse, owned by James H. Vivion, then of
I-ebanon, Ky., but afterward a resident of
this city for several years.
This horse was exhibited by Col. Swope
at many fairs throughout the state, as well
as at Greeusburg. Anon; other features
of tbo fair was a premium offered the best
and most graceful rider. When this ring
was ca led the only contestants for the priz)
were CoL Swope and Dr. Wood Bowling,
no v of this city, but then a resident of lis t
c mnty. It was readily seen from the start
that the contest would be close and excit
ing. Dr. Bowling, though of slighter build
than Swope, was of elegant and graceful
form and sat his horse ns if his life had been
passed in the saddle, and certainly two more
graceful riders than he and Swope never
contested for a prize. The judges seemed
unable to arrive at a decision. The ridors
were made to chango horses and ridejbare
hack, and after removing the saddlo from
his horse Dr. Howling sprang upon his ani
mal’s back by simply placing one hand on
the neck of Ins horse.
In brief, it will suffice to say that both
gentlemen demonstrated their horsemanship
to an extent never surpassed in this slate of
g aceful riders. The contest continued the
whole of ouo afternoon, and the juilgos
tlrst selected repeit.iily called in other
judges to aid them in arriving at a decision,
and the prize was finally awarded to Swope,
tliougn evidently against the wishes of the
large orowd present, for Bowling was tue
fnvorito with them, and certainly he was
perhaps the best horseman and fully as
grac ful as the othor.
Time brings changes. After thts contest
Col. Swodo became ail able p ditioal leader
and Dr. Bowliug an able and useful physi
cian, occupying in Ids profession a posit.on
no less c mspiouous than that attained by
CoL Swope in his sphere.
MAJ, M'KINLEY GAVE IT AWAY.
How a Republican Scheme for a Little
Sensation was Spoiled.
Washington, Nov. 17. —An amusing
story is told concerning tho rooont campaign
in Otdo. It appears that Congressman Mc-
Kinley, and CoL James E. Neal, chairman
of the democratic state committee, were
o'io day travel! g together on tho way to
Wilmington, where the congressman was to
address a meeting in tho evening.
A short distance from Wilmington several
members of the locil republican committee
boarded the train and sought out Mr.
McKinley. After tho usual greetings had
taken place the spokesman of the committee
said: "Mr. McKinley, wo have a little sen
sation arranged for to-day. When Mr,
Campbell spoko here a few days ago a
prominent republican arose in tho midst of
bis speech and declared his intention of
voting for the democratic candidate and
the whole ticket. It had a rather bad effect
on us, and we made up our mind to offset
it. We could not, find a democrat who
would declare for Poraker, so we got a re
publican who has Just moved into town,
and whoso politics is not generally known,
ami when you have finished your speech he
will announce that he has been a lifelong
democrat, but that he will vote for Poraker
and tho whole republican ticket. That will
lie a stunner for the democrats, won’t it?”
It was a very ludicrous position to place
Mr. McKinley in, but ho wnß equal to the
occasion and asked the republican commit
teeman if he could not secure two such
flippers. Tho latter said he would trv, and
then the congressman horrified tho Wilm
ington man by introducing him to “my
friend, CoL Neal, chairman of tho demo
cratic state committee.” v
CoL Noal said the Bcheme was an ad
mirable ono, but suggested that tho chair
man would not be able to defeat Mr. CampJ
bell if he were to obtain ten such floppers.
The chairman of the local committee was
v ery much relieved when the train reached
Wilmington, and he was able to make bis
escape and tell bis colleagues how Con
gressman McKinley had ruined their sensa
tion by traveling in company with the
chairman of the democratic committee.
WILL PBOVB THEIR UiOHT.
Heirs to an Immense English Estate
Discovered In Bt. Louis.
Bt. Louis, Mo., Nov. 17.—Representa
tives of the Hake family, who lay claim to
an English estate in chancery valued at
$45,000,000, leave for London next week
preDnred to prove their idouity and secure
the estate. In 18-40 Herman von Hake die!
suddenly in Birmingham, England, leaving
an immense estate and no will. Tue property
consist id chlellv of shipping interest!. Air.
von Hake was a native of Holland, where he
had an heir in a nephew. The court of chan
cery made an investigation a id discovered
that the nephew was dead and that two
sons had emigrated to America. Various
attempts were made to find the sons in
America, but they failed until a year ago.
Heers & Rockweller, a London firm of so
licitors, succeeded in locating the brothers
here. They proved to be the heirs, but
Heers died in this country before he had an
opportunity to report in England. The
two Von Hakes who came from Holland to
Ht. Louis have parsed away, but left four
sous wbo have large families, and who are
now the heirs. These you ig men pushed
their claims vigorously, and recently re
ceived a cablegram to report at once Lu
London.
Louis Hake, one of the four brothers,who
was found at his place of business, No. 817
North Ttiird street, expects his share, after
paying lawyers’ fees and expenses, will
amount to about $11,000,000. William
Hake, his brother, was deliberate in bis
calculations ou the am mat he would re
ceive, and placed his share at the same
figure. Louis Hake, Jr., is confident he
will soon be in possession of a portion of
the wealth. “If that lawyer wa-n’t pretty
sure that this tbi.ig was ail right he
would never have sent us that cable
gram, prepaid too. Bach men don’t do
that kind of a thing for fuu.” William
Hake, Jr., of the firm of William Hake &
Hons, c immLeiuu dealers, talked quietly on
the subject of his prospective wealth.
“There may something happen, of course,
which may keep us out of it, but as the
thing stands now I do not see but what
everything is coming out all right for us.
We are the only heirs to this immense
property, and we have a sure thing in being
able to prove our right to the money.”
May Build a New Palace.
Berlin, Nov. 17.—1 t is reported that the
emperor intends to build anew palace lu
the avenue Unter den Linden on the site of
tne royal academy of arts.
St. Louis Beats Boston.
Denver, Col.. Nov. 17.—A game of base
ball was pa el to-day as follows:
St. LeulS ...2 0 0 1 1 2 1 1 0-8
Boston 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0-2
( DAILY, *lO A YEAR I
■( 5 CENTS VCOPY. r
i WEEKLY $!. A YEAR.
INTERNALREVENUECASH
THB ANNUAL REPORT OP THB
COMM.SSIONER.
The Receipts for the Present Fiscal
Year Estimated at $142,000,000
The Aggregate for the Last Year
$ 130,894,434 Oleomargarine the
Only Taxable Object Yielding a De
creased Revenue.
Washington, Nov. 17.—Hon. John W.
Mason, commissioner of internal revenue,
has submitted to the Secretary of the Treas
ury a report of the operations of the Inter
nal reveuue service for the fiscal year ended
June 30, 1889.
The aggregate receipts for the last fiscal
yqar were $130,894,434, or *0,567,958 mire
than the receipts for the previous year. The
receipts for the first three months of the
present fiscal year aggregated *34,684,526, an
increase of *3,470,807, as compared with the
receipts for the corresponding period of the
last fiscal year.
Til* PROBABLE RECEIPTS.
Commissioner Mason says if this ratio of
incr.'osn is maintained the receipts of the
S resent fiscal year will amount to over #143 .
k>,ooo. He and ies not, however, think such
will be the case, and estimates it at *136,-
000,000. The increased collections were
mainly on spirits distilled from materials
other that erp'es, peaches or grapes.
The onlv object of fixation showing a
decrease during the first quarter of the)
present year is oleomargarine, whies
dropped from #145,623 In 1888 to *124,730 in
1889.
The total cost of collection during the last
fiscal year was *4,185.729, a fraction less
than 3.2 per cent, of tho amount collected.
CONDITION OP THE SERVICE.
The commissioner says he regards the
general condition of the service throughout
the country as very satisfactory. One
thousand, two hundred and fifty-three vio
lations of the internal revenue laws were
re or ted by revenuo agents during tho year,
(559 persons were arrested and property to
the value of *137,494 reported by them fop
seizure and #94.685 for assessments tor
unpaid taxes and penalties. The number
of stills seized was 456. resulting in the
arrest of 236 persons and the death of one
and wounding of two officers of the service.
THB NEXT YEAR’S EXPENSES.
Ho estimates tho total expense* of the
sorv.ee for tho next fiscal year at #4,266,590.
The increase in the quantity of to acco
and snuff and in the mwi >er of cigars a id
cigaroito' for the last fiscal year over those
taxed during the previous fiscal year wasj
Manufactured tobacco, 11,535,630 pounds;
snuff, 626,631 pounds; cigars, 22,658,993;
cigarettes, 288,789,200.
The export accounts s’iow an increase in
manufactured tobacco of 118,183 pounds, an
increase in tho number of cigars exported
of 266,700, aud an increase of the number
of cigarettes exported ot 65,939,950.
IMPORTS OP CIGARS.
The number of cigars imported during
the year was 90,097,407. The vaiua of the
manufactured tobacco imported wap
#70,000.
The total number of special tax-payers is
given as 830.134, of wh .m 593,013 are deal
ers in manufactured tobacco.
The whole number of grain distilleries,
registered during the year was 1,440, of
which nmnlior 1,267 were operated, an in
crease of 140 in the number reg stered, and
ot 238 in the number operated as compared
with the previous year. The lager in
crease, Loth in the number registered aud
in the number operate I, occurred in tho
class of distilleries having smaller ca
pacities for the production of spirits, there
having l>een an increase of 142 in the num
ber of distilleries of this class registered
aud 170 in the number operated.
SPIRITS PRODUCTION.
The number of gallons of spirits produced
from grain during the year (87,887.456 gal
lons) shows an inm <-aso of 19,490,296 gallon*
over the product (68,383,103 gallons) of the
previous year, and is 4,161,150 gallons more
than tho ave ago produced (83,726,306 gal
lons) for the lust tea years.
The quantity of ruin distilled from mo
lasses during the year (1,471.054 gallons)
shows a decrease of 423,192 gallons from the
product of the previous year (1,891,24 ft
gallons), and is 416,510 gallons less then the
averago production (1,887,564 gallons) for
the last ten years.
TAXING FRACTIONS OF GALLONS.
Commissioner Mason renews the recom
mendations of his predecessor in regard ttf
the expediency of taxing all fractions of
gallons of distilled spirits, and expresses the
nope that legislation will be had to effectu
ally remove ail opnortunity for evasions of
the existing law on this subject.
Eighty-nine million, three hundred and
flfty-igtat thousand, five hundred and ten
gallons of spirits were produced and depos
ited in distillery warehouses during the
fiscal year, and 75,910,735 gallons were
witndrawu during the year. There were
withdrawn for exportation 2,590,235 gallons.
A DESPERADO KILLED.
It la Presumed to bo the Notorious
Rube Burrows.
St. Louis, Mo., Nov. 17.—A special from
Birminghan gives the details of the killing
of a desperado in Marshall county, pre
sumed to be Bubo Burrows. The shooting
was done by D. A. Scott. When the out
law fell mortally wound id, he said: “You
think lam Rube Burrows, but you are
mistaken. My name is Smith.” The dead
desperado wore a shirt of maiL
COTTON MILLS PKOSPERXNO.
The Past Year’s Record at Fall River
Ahead of All Others.
Fall River, Mass., Nov. 17.—The pros
perity of tho cotton mills of this city dur
ing the past six m mths, and in fact, during
the entire year, is without a parallel in the
history of Fall River manufacturing. Never
has there been a year when the dividends
paid were so large a* this.
$15,000 FOR TWO DRINKS.
A Chicago Drummer Quenches His
Thirst in au Expensive Manner.
Buffalo, Nov. 17.— One-twentieth part
of tick A 93 in a sou hern lottery is held in
Buffalo. It is worth #15,000, aud the story
of how It was obtained is a curious chapter
in the story of accidents About two weeks
ago a Chicago drummer passed through
Buffalo at a time wbeu he was very hard
up. Just before leaving the city early
ono morning he went to the saloon of
Christian Heintz, 263 Michigan street, and
got two drinks of whDky. He had no
money to pay for the liquor, and after much
haggli ig and several tureats of having the
drummer arrested, young Jacob Heiuts, son
of the proprietor, who w.s tending bar at
the tune, accepted the ticket and paid its
holder seventy cents in change.
When Hei ,tz came to read the number of
the ticket drawing the capital prize he was
the most astonished man in Buffalo. He
will go to New Orleans to-morrow toeollect
the tuoaqy.