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Newspaper Page Text2 ▼isal. You see the Divine Sonsbip in every drop of rain. The jewels of the shower are not flung away by a spendthrift who knows not how many he throws or where they fall. They are all shining princes of heaven. They all have an eternal lineage. They are all the children of a King. “Hath the ram a father?” Well, then, I say if God takes notice if every minute raindrop, be will take notice of the most insignificant affair of my life. It is the astronomical view of things that bothers me. \\ e look up into the night heavens, and we say: "Worlds! worlds!” and h w insignificant we feel! We stand at the foot of Mount Washington or Mont Blanc, and we feel that we are only insects, and then we say to ourselves: “Though the world is ao large, the sun is one million four hundred thousand times larger.” “01’we ■av, “it is no use, if God wheels that great machinery through immensity, he will Dot take the trouble to look down at me.” In fidel conclusion. Saturn, Mercury, and Jupiter are no more rounded, and weighed and swung bv the hand of God than are the globules on a lilac-bush the morning after a shower. God is no more in magnitudes than he is in minutiae. If be has scales to weigh the mountains, he has balances delicate enough to weigh the infinitesimal. You can no more see Him through the telescope than you can see Him through the micro scope; no more when you look up than when you look down. Are not the hairs of your head all numbered? and if Himaaya has a God. "hath not the rain a father ?” 1 take this doctrine of a psr tlcular Providence, and I thrust it into the very midst of your every-day life. If God fathers a raindrop, is there anything so insignificant in your affairs that Hod will Dot father that? When Druyse, the gun smith, invented the needle gun, which de cided the battle of Sadowa, was it a mere accident? When a farmer's boy showed Blucher a shortcut by which he could bring bis armv up soon enough to decide \V aterloo forEugland, was it a mere accident? When Lord Byron took a piece of money and tossed it up to decide whether or not he should tie affianced to Miss Millbank, was it n mere accident which side of tho money was up and which was down? When the Christian army was besieged at Beziers and a drunken drummer came in at mtdmgnt and rang the alarm bell, not knowing what he was doing, hut '■ aking up the host in time to fight their enemies that moment arriving, was it an accident? When, in one of the Irish wars, a starving mother, fying with her starving child, sans dawn and fainted on the rocks in the night and her hand fell on a warm bottle of milk, did that just happen so? God is either in the affairs of tntD, or our religiou is w rtb nothing at all, ana you had better take it away from us, and instead of this Bible, which teaches the doctrine, give us a secular book, and let us.as the famous Mr. Fox, the member of parliament, in his last hour, cry out: “Read mo the eighth book of Virgil.” O! my friends, let us rouse up to an appre ciation of the fact that all the affairs of our life are under the King’s oominand, and under a Father’s watch. Alexander’s war horse, Bucephalus, would allow anybody to mcunt him when he was unharnessed, hut as soon as they put on that war horse, Bu cephalus, tho saddle, and the trappings of the conqueror, he would allow no one hut Alexander to touch him. And if a soulless horse could have so much pride in his owner, shall not we immortals exult in the fact that we are owned by a King? “Hath the rain a father?” Again, my subject teaches me that God’s dealings with us are inexplicable. That was the original force of my text. The rain wa9 a great mystery to the ancients. They could not understand how the water should get into the cloud, and getting there, how It should lie suspended, or falli ig, why it should come down in drops. Modern science comes along and says there are two portions of air of different temperature, and they are charged with moisture, and the one portion of air decreases in temperature so the w ater may no longer be held in vapor, and it falla And they tell us that some of the clouds that look to be only as large ns a man’s hand, and to be almost quiet in the heavens, are great mountains of mist four thousand feet from base to top, and that they rush miles a minute. But after all the brilliant experi ments of I)r. .lames Hutton, and Baussure, and other scientists, there is an infinite mystery about the rain. There is an ocean of the unfathomable In every raindrop, and God says to-day as be said in the time of Job: “If you cannot understand one drop of rain, do not he surprised if mv dealings w ith you are inexplicable." Why does that aged man, decrepit, beggared, vicious, sick of the world, and the world sick of him, live on, while here is a man in mid-life,con secrated to God, hard-working, useful in every respect, who dies? Why does that old gossip, gadding along the street about everybody’s business hut liar own, have such good health, while the Christian mother, with a llock of little ones about her whom she is preparing for usefulness and for heaven—the mother who you think could not be spared an hour from that household —why does she lie down and die with a cancer? Why does that n.au, selfish to the core, go on adding fortune to for tune, consuming everything on himself, continue to prosper, while the man who has been giving 10 per cent, of all his in come to God and the church, goes into bankrup cy? Berore we make stark fools of ourselves, let us stop pressing this ever lasting ‘‘why.” Bet us worship where we cannot understand. I-et a man take that one question “Why?” and follow it far enougD, and push it, and he will land in wretchedness and perdition. Wo want in our theology fewer interrogation marks and more exclamation points. Heaven is the place for explanations. Kurth is the plaoe for trust. If you cannot understand go minute a thing as a rain drop, how can you expect to understand God’s dealings? “Hath the rain a father?’’ Again, my text makes me think the rain of tears is of divineorigin. Great clouds of trouble sometimes hover over us. They are black, and they are gorged, and they are thunderous. They are more portentous than Salvator or Claude ever painted—cionds of poverty, or persecu tion, or bereavement. They hover over us, and they get darker and blacker, and after awhile a tear starts, and we think by an extra pressure of the eyelid to st p it. Others follow, and after awhile there is a shower of tearful emotion. Yea, there is a rain of tears. ‘ ‘Hath that rain a father !" |f; “ O,” you say, a tear is nothing but a drop of limpid fluid secreted by the lachrymal gland—it is only a sign of weak eyes.” Great mistake. It is one of tho Lord’s rich est benedictions to the world. There are people in Blackwell’s Island insane asylum, and at Utica, and at all the asylums of this land who were demented by the fact that they could not cry at the right time. Said a maniac in one of our public institutions, under a Gospel sermon that started the tears: “Do you see that tear? that is the first I have wept for twelve years. I think it will help my brain.” There are a great many in tbeg; ave who could not stand any longer under the glacier of trouble. If that glacier had only melted into weeping, they could have endured it. There have been times in your life when she would tave given the world, if you had possessed it, for one tear. You could shriek, you could blaspheme, bat you could not cry. Have you never seen a man holding the hand of a dead wife, who bad been ail the world to him ; The temples livid with excitement, the eye dry and frantic, no moisture on the upper or lower lid. You saw there were bolts of anger in the cloud, but no rain. To your Christian comfort, he said: “Don’t talk to mo about God, there is no God; or if there is i hate him; don’t talk to me about God: would he have left me and tbe-e motherless children;” But a few hours or days after, coming across some lead pencil that she owned in life, or some letters which she wrote wnen he was away from home, with an outcry that appeals, there bursts the fountain of tears, and as the sunlight of God's consolation strikes that fountain of tears, you find out that it is a tender-hearted, merciful, pi i ful and all-compassionate God who was tne fatter of that rain. “O,” you say. “it is absurd to think that God is going to watch over tears.” No, my friends. There are three or four kinds of them that God counts, bottles and eternizes. First, there are all parental tears, and there are more of these than of any other kind, because tho most of the race die in i fancy, and that keeps parents mourning all around the world. They never get over it. They may live to shout and sing after ward, but there is al ways a corridor in the soul that is silent, though it once resounded. My parents Dever mentioned the death of a child who died fifty years before, without a tremor m the voice and a sigh, 0! how deep-fetched. It was better she should die. It was a mercy the should die. Bhe would have been a life-long Invalid. But you cannot argue away a parentjs grief. How often you hear the moan, “O! my child, my child!” Then there are the filial tears. Little children soon get over the loss of parent*. They are easily diverted with a new toy. But where is the man that has come to .0, or 40, or 50 years of uge, who can think of the < id people without having all the fountains of liis soul stirred up? You may have had to take care of her a good many years, hut you never can for get how she used to take care of you. Tuere have been many sea-captai s converted in our rhurcb, and the peculiarity of them was that they were nearly all prayed ashore by their mothers, though the mothers want lmo the dust soon after they went to sea. Have you never heard an old man in deli rium of some sickness call for his mother ? The fact is wo get so used to calling for her the first ten years of our life we never get over it, and when she goes away from us it makes deep sorrow. You sometimes, per haps, in days of trouble and darkness, when the world would say: “You ought to be able to taka care of yourself”—you wuke up from your dreams finding yourself saying : “O, mother, mother!” Have these tears no divine origin? Why. take all the warm hearts that ever beat in all lauds, and in all ages, and put them to gether, and their united t irob would be weak compared with tho throb of God’s eternal sympathy. Yes, God also is father of all that rain of repentance. Did you ever see a rain of repentance? Do you know what it is that makes a man repent? 1 see people going around trying to repent. Tljey cannot repent. Do you know, no man can repent until Goi helps him to repent? How do I know? By this passage: “Him hath God exalted to be a prince and a Bavinr to give repentance,” O! it is a tremendous hour when one wakes up and says: “I am a bad man, I have not sinned against tho laws of the land, but I have wasted my life; God asked me for my services, and 1 haven't given those services. O! my sins, God forgive me.” When that tear starts It thrills all heaven. An angel can not keep his eye off it, and the church of God assembles around, and there is a com mingling of tears, and God is the father of that rain, the Lord, long suffering, merciful and gracious. In a religious assemblage a man arose and said: “fhave been a very wicked man; I broke my mother’s heart, I became an infidel; but l have s eu my evil way, and I have surrendered my heart to God; but it is a grief that I can never get over that my parents should never Dave heard of my salvation; I don’t know whether they are living or dead.” While yet he was standing in the audience a voice from the gallery said: “Ol my eon, my son!” He looked up, and he recognized her. It was his old mother. She had been praying for him for a great mauy years, and when, at tho foot of the cross, the prodigal son and the praying mother embraced each other, there was a rain, a tremendous rain, of tears, and God was the father of those tears. O! that God would break us down with a sense of our siu, and then lift us with an appreciation of his mercy. Tears over our wasted life. Tears over a grieved spirit. Tears over an in jured father. CM that God wonld move upon this audience with a great wave of re ligious emotion! The King of Carthage was dethroned. His people rebelled against him. He was driven into baulsbment. His wife and children were outrageously abused. Years went by, and the King of Carthago made many friends. Ho gathered up a great army. He marched again toward Carthage. Reaching the gates of Carthage, the best men of tho pilace came out bare footed and bare-headed, and with ropes around their necks, crying for mercy. They said : “Wo abusod you and we abused your family, but we cry for mercy.” The King of Carthago looked down upon the people from his chariot and said : “1 came to bless, I didn’t come to destroy. You drove me out, but this day I pronounce par don for all ihe people. Open the gate and let the army oome in.” The king marched in and took the throne, and the people all shouted: "Bong live tho king!” My friends, you have driven tho Lord .Jesus Christ, the King of the Church, away from your heart; you have been maltreating him all these years; but be comes back to-day. He stands in front of the gates of your soul. If you will only pray for his pardon he will meet you with his gracious spirit, and he will say: “Thy gins aud thine iniquities I will remember no more. Open wide the gate; I will take the throne. My peace I give unto you.” And then, all through this audience, from the young aud from the old, there will boa rain of tears, aud God will be tho Fattier of that rain! ORLANDO’S CELEBRATION. The Parade a Pretty Spectacle—The Gun Club Contest. Orlando, Fla., July s.— Orlando had a grand celebration yesterday, with an attend ance of about 2,000 or 3,000 people. The parade, which took place at 10 o’clock in the miming, included the Shine Guards, the local lire department, the Knights of Pvthias, the Orlando cornet band, tableau of the uuion with Miss Cora Holden as Goddess of Liberty, and forty-four young ladies representing the states. The merchants ana business men of the citv were also represented by gaily decorated floats. The line of march was nearly two miles long. A grand barbecue was spread at Mills park, after which the sport began. The Shine Guards drilled, the prizes being awarded as follows: First prize, Fiist Sergt. Gus Hart; second prize, Corpl. Howe; third prize, Corpl. Scrugs. The gun club contest took place at4D. m. The first prize was won by Orlando No. 1, composed of Messrs. Dolive, Moonev and Hudson, with 47. Each had ten singles and five pair of doubles. Jacksonville No. 1 and Orlando No. 2 tied oa the second, but on trying it again the Jacksonville team won. The foot race was won by S. G. Presten, and the swimming race by C. Hiley. A JUMPING RECORD BROKEN. C. S. Baber Makes 23 Feet 64 Inches in the Running Broad Jump. Detroit, Mich., July s.— The Central Amateur Athletic Union meeting yesterday resulted in the smashing of one world’s record and in another being equaled. Tho record breaker was Charles Raber of the Pastime Athletic Club of St. Lous, who made 23 feet 6,4 inches in the running br ad jump, set ting the mark three inches to tho fore. Harry Jewett tied the record in his 220 yard run, making it in twenty-two seconds. Liberty’s Independent Troop. Mclntosh, Ga., July 4.—The Liberty Inaependent Troop celebrated the national independence to-dav with a good attend ance. The company was drilled on horso, and carried through the guard mount by First Lieut. J. B. Fraser, commanding. After a sumptuous dinner the troopers en tered into a contest for two prizes, the first being won by Sergt. Maj. A. Gordon Cas uals, and the second by R. F. Caisels. The prizes were delivered by Hon. Ben Way in a very appropriate speech. Struck by Llgtning. Sandersville, Ga., Juiv 3.— Lightning struck the reside ce of Mr. IV. J. Holton, who lives near Harr.son, in this oounty, a few days ago, and damaged the budding considerably. The entire family was severely shocked and Mr. ana Mrs. Holton ware knocked insensible by the bolt. Fortunately all of them escaped wi.hout serious iujurv. The chimney was partly knocked down and some of the weatherboardiug torn looe. THE MORNING NEWS: MONDAY, JULY 6, 1891. A BURGLAR’S STORY. SEQUEL TO T>:E PLUNDERING OF AN OTIO BANK. When the Cracksmen Got Away With Over $ 1 ,000,000-The Concern Had Eeen Wrecked by Its Officers, Who Hired tne Crooks to Cover Up Their Misdeeds aud Prevent Discovery. Among the criminals recently released from the Ohio Pen under the “Good Time” law, says the Cincinnati Enr/uirer, was George Jackson, a noted burglar, who had completed an eight-year term. Jackson has operated with some of the most famous and successful crooks, es pecially with those who make a specialty of bank robbery. He was in the oity the other day looking about for some legitimate employment, as he claims he has had enough of a criminal’s career. While here he told a strange story about the robbery of the Ocean Bank of New York, one of tho most celebrated in crimi nal rec rds. The revelations were called forth by the recent arrest of George Bliss for tje SBO,OOO jewelry robbery at Glovers vilie, N. Y. Jackson formerly “worked” with Bliss, Mark Shinburn AND OTHER EXPERTS. In 1863 the Ocean Bank, which was on the corner of Fulton and Greenwich streets, in New York was robbed of over SI,OOO .OOtJ in cash and negotiable securities. The crooks concerned in the big robbery were Mark Shinburn, Jimmy Hope, Ned Lyons, Geoige Bliss, Adam Wortn and Isaac Marsh. None of them were brought to trial for the affair, nor was any of the swag ever recoveied as far as known. The rob bery has always been considered as “on the square,” but Jackson’s story throws anew lignt on it. “the ocean bank,” said Jackson, “was an old established con cern. Its depositors were principally whole sale butchers, fish and oyster men. The officers had gutted the supposed well-filled vaults, and the time was fa-t approaching wbeu discovery seemed inevitable. In some way they became acquainted with Bliss, t whom they made overtures to burglarize the bank. He consented for a good round sum to make a gaog and carry out the scheme. The basement beneath the bank was occupied as a broker’s office by an old ox-soldier, who was above suspicion. From him they rented a portion of the room ostensibly as an exchange. A parti tion was then erected in such a manner as to make a now apartment directly under the room of the bank president. Tools were brought, and behind this partition the BURGLARS WENT TO WORK. One Saturday evening, after everybody about the bank had gone, the cracksmen bega i to out through tho stone floor of th< bank. Furnished with the combination of the outer vault door, it was an easy matter with wedges, powder, six-feet sectional jimmies and hydraudlic power to force the inner door. Onoa in the vault they made quick work of the burglar safes, two iu number. Nothing was loft undone to make the job a success. JStrips of rubber were placed over the windows and doors, and all the crevices wore covered so as to keep the smell of powder from escaping and tho noise from being heard. The colored janitor, whose duty it was to look around every hour, was evidently having his day off, a practice frequently indulged in and winked at by the officials from the force of very peculiar circumstances. Government bonds were in great demand at that time as investments. Boxes contain ing nearly $1,000,000 in bondi were in the vaults; at least the tin boxes were supposed to oontaiu that amount. They were on the floor, and It was not necessary to break into the safes, but, to completely square the bank officers, both were cracked. Between SJO,OOO aud $30,000 in gold and silver was left on the floor, it being afterward supposed that the coin was too heavy for the burglars to carry away. The ’robbery’ was discovered the following Monday morning. The bank officers squealed fora big amount, although really ihey lost only what they paid the burglars. Tho bank struggled ou for a fen months and then closed its doors. There you have a true story. Perhaps it may not please Bliss, but It is true all the same.” BEHIND THE 3CENES. European High Life and the Foibles of Titled People. Marquise tie Fontenoy in New York Recorder. King Humbert of Italy, whose recent mysterious trip to Milan has given rise to muoh speculation throughout Europe, un dertook the journey solely for the purpose of attending the death-bed of Ids illigitimate son Alphonse, to whom his fair friend the celebrated Duchess of Lltta gave birth just a year prior to the King's marriage with Queen Marguerite. In deed the duchess had hoped that hor presen tation of a soa to her royal lover, coupled with her own marvelous attractions, would prove sufficient to break off the projected match betweon Humbert and Princess Marguerite, but her expectations were disappointed. Humbert, however, con tinued his intimacy with her after his marriage, and at length his wife, Prin cess (now queen) ilargurite, was forced, in sheer self-defense, to appeal to King Victor Emmanuel, declaring that either she or the duchess must leave Italy. The duqhess, ac cordingly, was ordered to travel abroad, aud it was not until three years ago that she returned to Italy and took up her resi- deuce at Milan aud at Rome. The duchess’ record is an extraordinary one, aud hor name figures in a sinister man ner in several of the darkest pages of mod ern history. Her intimacy with Napoleon 111. was of the most audacious natu; e, and was the cause of Empress Eugenie’s sudden and hurried visit to Scotland in 186S. On one occasion Bhe was expelled from France owing to an attempt having been made by some Italian emissa ries of Manziui to assassinate Napoleon while he was honoring her suburban villa at Pa-sy with a midnight visit. It was only with much trouble that the empe ror'a equerry. Gen. Fleury, succeeded in preserving his master from injury. A few months later, however, she had man aged to persuade the sovereign that she was innocent of all complicity in tho at tempt on his life, and was in consequence permitted to resume her residence at Paris and also her visits at tho count of the Tuilerieß. The Empress Eugenie neverthe less got her revenge, for on being appointed regent after the departure of the emperor for the seat of war in 1870 she signalized her accession to executive power by clapping ! the Milanese duchess into a dungeon at the i Castle of Vincennes on the charge of being in the pay of Prince Bismarck as a spy. Tho duchess was kept imprisoned there to r six weeks, and did not secure her liberation until tho fall of the empire and the proclama tion of the republic. ********* Princess Constantine Gortchakoff, the daughter-in-law of the famous chancsllcr of the Russian Empire, was pronounced guilty las: week ny tho Paris tribunals of having robbed tho corpse of her mother of a vast amount of jewels and valuable securities, thereoy defrauding her brother Prince Gregory Stourdza, the Roumanian general and statesman, of a sum of over $3,000,000, due to him under his mother’s will. The issue of tho trial has created a sensation throughout Europe, and in particular ut Paris, where Princess Constantine has figured for several years past as one of the most brilliant but dissolute mondaines, an i where she has rendered herself celebrated by the magnifi cence of her entertainments. Beldotn has a more cold-blooded con spiracy tieeu revealed in the Paris law courts than that of which the princess has just been declared guilty—a condemnation which, by the bye, will deprive her of a goodly portion of her ill-gotten wealth. When her mother, old Princess Stourdia, died at Baden-Baden she left property val ued a few weeks before her demise at the c lossal sum of $18,000,000. Her daughter. Princess Gortohakoff, was the only mem ber of her family with her at the time of death. It was well known that the old lady was in the habit of wearing dny and night a soft chamois leather belt tied around her waist and containing all tier most valuable securities, jewels and title deeds. That this belt was in its usual place when she died is shown by the sworn evi dence of the two Bisters of Mercy who tended her through her last ill ness, but when the body was ready to be placed into the coffin they noticed that it had disappeared. Nor is this all for Mme. de G rtchakoff had dispatched a telegram to Paris, as soon as the death agony had commenced, summoning an ex ceedingly clever locksmith of the name of Landry, who was known to have dosigned the complicated locks of the four steel safes in which the old princess hoarded all of her valuables which she was un able to carry in her belt. Landry arrived on the evening before the funeral took place, and spent the entire nigat with Princess Constantine picking the locks of the safes, the keys of wbicu had been so carefully hidden away by the old lady that they had escaped all her daughter’s researches. When the local au thorities presented themselves to make the duly prescrided inventory of the property left by the deceased it was discovered that an enormous sum had vanished mysteri ously. Prince Gregory Stourdza at once com menced proceedings against his sister for the purpose of Compelling her to sur render what he was certain she had stolen. The trial was begun at Paris, but the plaintiff was nonsuited in conse quence ot the absence of two of the princi pal witnesses against Princess Constantine —namely, her maid and groom of the chambers, who had seen her rifle the safes of their contents the night before the funeral. Mme. de Gortchakoff had pur chased their silence by giving them part of the deadjlady’s jewels. But as soon a3 she found out that they were going to be subpoenaed as witness against her she caused them to be arrested in Germany at Frankfort on a charge of having robbed her of her diamonds. As the jewels vere found in their possession the easa looked very black against them, and it is only a short time ago, after long and tir - sime judicial proceedings that they were able to obtain their liberty, and that the trial has been continued. * * * * * * * Princes* Constine Gortcbakoff’s story is a strange one. She is the daughter of the late Hospodar of Moldavia and was married in the year 1868 to Prince Gortchakoff, by whom she had three children. •She did not love her husband and determined to rid her.elf of the bonds of matrimony a few months after the death of her father-in-law, the groat chan cellor, of whom she stood in great dread. In 1883 she traveled all over Europe in the company of an Englishman of obscure origin, creating thereby great scandal, but her husband even after this act of open de fiance refuged to sue her for a divorce. In deSpalr at her failure, she actually went the length of lodging a petition for divorce against him at lit. Petersburg and at Bucharest, but in both cities the holy Bynod rejected her demand. She next tried Stamboul, and there she was more successful, for by enormous bribes -he succeeded in inducing the patriarch of Constantinople to pronounce tho annulment of her union with Prince Gortchahoff. Of course the decree in question is re garded as entirely invalid both in Russia and in lioumapia, the synod on the Bos phorous having no legal competence to deal with her case. ******* In referring to Count Victor Crenneville, the secretary of the Austrian legation at Washington, in connection with the law suit brought in Loudon by Miss Valerie Wiedman against Mr. Corbin's son-in-law, Capt. Walpole, for betrayal. 1 mentioned the fact that tho count had bean obliged to appeal for protection to the authorities a. Constantinople against her vio lence. 1 now find that according to his affidavit and to the records of the Austrian embassy at Constantinople she at tempted to murder him on two separate oc casions, and almost succeeded in strangling him. She is tall and very powerful, and it was only with difficulty that he was rescued from her bands. CUSBING’S GREAT EXPLOIT. The Most Dauntless Naval Deed Known in Our Annals. In view of the recent use of the torpedo down in Chile the July Cosmopolitan brings up the Albemarle episode. Torpedo warfare was in its infancy whan William Barker Cushing blew up the Albe marle. Farragut once said to Gen. James Grunt Wilson toat he deemed the destruc tion of the Albemarle the most dauntless naval deed ever performed by any young officer of the American navy. This power ful vessel had successfully encountered a strong fleet of federal gunboats and fought them for several hours without sustaining material damage. There was nothing in the northern squadron able to cope with her. Cushing, savs Gen. Wilson in the Cosmo politan, volunteered to destroy the Albe marle, and w ith a steam launch aud a small crew ho ascended the Roanoke river towing an armed cutter. This was on the night of Oct. 27, 1864. STRAIGHT AT THE RAM. The river was lined with piokets to guard against just such an attack as this, but the lieutenant’s luck did not desert him, aud he was within 100 yards of the iron-clad ram be fore he was discovered. Casting off the cutter he ordered her crew to attack a picket post near by, while, with a full head of steam, bo drove tho launch straight at tha huge vessel, whose crew rushed to quarters and at once opened fire, Cushing replying ef fectively with his howitzer. A circle of heavy logs, boomed well out from her sides with the very purpose of preventing the action of torpedoes, was discovered by the young hero, but the boat was driven over tnem.as they had become slimy, and by the time the launch received her death wound from the enemy’s guns, Cushing had coolly swung the torpedo boom under the Albemarle's overhang or bottom and ex ploded the charge. CUSHING’S ESCAPE. Ordering bis crew to look out for them selves he sprang into tho river, swam under water as far as possible, and in the dark ness escaped alone, reaching the opposite bank half a mile below. As soon as he re covered his strength he plunged Into the dense swamp, and, after many hours of weary wandering aDd wading, came out upon the shore of a creek, where, with his usual good luck, ho found a small picket boat, and at 11 o’clock the following night, almost dead from cold, hunger and fatigue. Cushing was carried on hoard the Valley City, a United States gunboat. As soon as it was KDown that he had returned, after destroying the Albermarle, rockets were re joicingly thrown up by every vessel In the fleet. Of the gallant fellows who volunteered to risk their lives with the fearless Cushing, but one escaped, all the others being either drowned, killed or captured. To his brother officers he remarked os he was setting out to destroy the iron-clad: “Another stripe ora oofnu!” Five times he was officially complimented by the Becretary of the Navv, and for the affair f the Albemarle ho re ceived the thanks of congress. Broke Bar Leg. Sasdkrsvilue. Ga., July s.—Mrs. L. N. Batchelor, who lives a few miles below Tunnillo, met with a painful accident a few days ago. She stepped upon a wooden frame to gather some peaches from a tree, slipped and fell, and broke her right leg Justabove the knee. Mrs. Batcheloris very fleshy, and the sudden precipitation of her weight on one leg caused tne limb to break. She is a middie-aged lady, aud suffers con siderably on account of the accident. TALLAHASSEE TOPICS. The Military of the State—River Phos phate Mines. Tallahassee, Fla. , July 5. —Three bat talions and Wllson’s battery of Jacksonville make up tho Florida state tr ops. The First battalion has three companies, Maj. R. M. Call commanding, with head quarters at Jacksonville. The Second has fiveoompanios, Maj.T. D. Lancaster commanding, with headquarters at Ocala. The Third has three companies. Maj. W. F. Williams commanding, with headquar ters at Pensacola. After the annual encampment the in fantry will he increased to twenty com panies and another battery organized. Parties desiring to mine phosphates in certain portions of the Alafia and Mans tea rivers have raised questions as to naviga bility of said portions of said streams, which can only be settled by the board sending an engineer to examine and report upon each river. Capt. Bethel of Key West, representative from Monroe county, is at tne capital. Col. A. Orr Symington, general manager of the Carrabelle, Tallahassee and Georgia railroad, arrive! from the north this week and departed south of the line. Hon. Mil ton Saylor, a leading spirit in the enter prise, is expected here daily. J. H. Hartsfield, living a few miles west of Tallahassee, had three cow* killed by a single bolt of lightuiug one day this week. Judge R. B. Hilton of Jacksonville is spending a few days with his Tallahassee friends. The Floral City Guards, a colored mili tary company, will give an entertainment at Monro's opera house next Monday night. One feature of the occasion will be "a prize drill in the manual of arms for a gold medal, offered by the colored people of Tallahassee. The Tallahassee Knights of Honor will discuss this question at their next meeting: W T hat is productive of most good, “The fra ternal features of the order properly mani fested” or “The financial aid secured by our policies?” Fire Destroys Five Buildings. San Francisco, Cal., July s.—As a re sult of yesterday’s celebration the Cen tenary M. E. church and four handsome residences were totally burned. The loss is SIOO,OOO. MEDICAL. Dyspepsia Makes the lives of many people miserable, causing distress after eating, sour stomach, sick headache, heartburn, loss of appetite, a faint, “ all gone” feeling, bad taste, coated _ , tongue, and irregularity of ® ■ StrGSS the bowels. Dyspepsia does After not get well of itself. It —. require 3 careful attention, baling and a remet jy ijt e Hood's Sarsaparilla, which acts gently, yet efficiently. It tones the stomach, regulates the diges tion, creates a good ap- . . petite, banishes headache, " and refreshes the mind. HeadaCnO “ I have been troubled with dyspepsia. I had but little appetite, and what I did eat Heart- distressed me, or did me little good. After eating I “Urn would have a faint or tired, all-gone feeling, as though I had not eaten anything. My trouble was aggravated by my business, painting. Last spring I took Hood’s Bar- OOlir saparilla, which did me an Stomach Immense amount of good. It gave me an appetite, and my food relished and satisfied the craving I had previously experienced.” George A. Page, Watertown, Mass. Hood’s Sarsaparilla Sold by all druggists, gl; six for £5. Prepared only by C. I. HOOD A CO., Apothecaries,Lowell, Mass. IQO Doses One Dollar SPECIAL NOTICES. LAST NOTICE. City Marshal’s Office, ) Savannah, July 4, 1891 ( On THURSDAY NEXT, July TANARUS, I will sell the Real Estatp of all persons in arrears for Taxes for 1890. ROBT. J. WADE, City Marshal. NOTICE. Mr. W. K. PEARCE has this day been ad mitted as a member of our firm The firm name will remain unchangod. BALDWIN A CO. Savannah, Qa., July 1, 1891. SIMMER BOARD SUMMER BOARD SUMMER BOA HD SUMMER > . i SUM "' ' y SID & HICKS'. • itELD & HICKS’. FREID & HICKS’, i- REID & HICKS’. FOR SALT WATER BATHERS. The Submarine Bathing Cap is made of pure rubber, and is the only device that will posi tively KESP THE HAIR DRY. It is decidedly “nobby” in appearance. After bathing it is a great luxury to use a Compressed Face Sponge. MEI.DKRMA is a Toilet Powder that instantly removes all unpleasant odor aris ing from perspiration. SOLOMON & CO.'S TWO DRUG STORES, Market Square. 92 Bull street. DR M. SCHWAB <fc SO.\, GRADUATE OPTICIANS No- 23 Bull Street, Savasnah, Ga. If your eyes are not properly fitted with eye glasses or spectacles, we desire tbe opportunity of fitting them with glasses which will correct any visual Imperfection ti.at may exist, or can be corrected by scientific moans As specialists we have fitted ourselves by a practical course of study, graduating from Dr. C. A. Buckltn'3 School of Optics, New York. We are practical opticians, and make our owngoods. New lenses put in old frames while you wait. Oculists’ prescriptions a specialty, and carefully filled. No charge for examination. ONE OF OIK MANY TESTIMONIALS. Butleb's Pharmacy, 1 Savannah, Ga., May 26, IS9L f Messrs. A. 3. Bacon rf: Sons, Savannah , Ga : My Dear Sirs—l enclose you my check here with In payment of invoice for fixtures for BUTLER s BRANCH PHARMACY, Abereorn and Henry streets. Let me thank you for your promptness in finishing tbis work and for the beautiful execu tion of designs which you furnished us. The fixtures have been very much admired by every onp who visits our store, and much praise has been heard of their beauty. Yours truly BUTLER & CO. IIEIDT DRUG COMPAN Y For reliable drugs, fancy articles, fine candles, soda, mineral waters. Reasonable pnc-’S. Pre scriptions a specialty. FOR MARRIED LADIES ONLY Japanese Cream removes stains, spots, grease and dirt. Renovates and brightens all fabrics. Cleans everything. Harmless a3 water. Price 25 cents only, by ROWLINSKL Pharmacist, Broughton and Bray ton street®. Telephone IG3, MEDICAL. HEADACHE Proceeds from a Torpid Liver and impurities of the Stomach, and can be invariably cured if you will only Let all who suffer remember that SICK and .NERVOUS HEADACHES Can bo prevented as soon as their symp toms indicate the coming of an attack. “I use Simons Liver Regulator when troubled seriously with Headaches caused by Constipa tion. It produces a favorable result without hindering my regular pursuits in business."— W. W. Wither, Des Moines, lowa. FUNERAL INVITATIONS. McCLOBKEY. - The friends and acquaintance of Mr. and Mrs. John J McCloskey and of *Mr. and Mrs C. Brickman and of Mr. P. McGarrity and of Mr and Mrs P. McGarrity are respect fully invited to attend the funeral of the former, from his late residence, 44 Taylor street, at 4:30 o'clock THIS EVENING. MEETINGS. THOI P CASTLE NO. 4, K <i IT Attend a regular meeting at your hall, No. 137 St. Julian street. THIS (Monday) EVEN ING, at K o’clock. Business of importance and installation of officers will take place. Visiting sir knights and members of sister castles are cordially invited to attend. R. P. GUERARD, N. C. Attest: Emile A. Gradot, M. of R. GEORGIA CASTLE AO. 11, K. G. E. Brothers —You are hereby summoned to meet at your hall THIS AFTERNOON at 3 o’clock, to pay the last tribute of respect to Sir Knight John McCloskey. By order JOHN F. LUBS, N. C, Attest: Charles White, M. of R. GCORGI \ HISTORICAL SOCIETY^ The regular monthly meeting of this society will be held at Hodgson Hall THIS EVENING at 8 o'clock. CHAS. N. WEST, Recording Secretary Pro Tom. SiCEtTAL NOTICES. On and after Feb. 1, 1880, the basis of meas urement of all atoertukng in the Moanuio News will be agate, or at the rate of $1 JO an inch far the hr at insertion. .Vo Special Notice inserted for less than $1 00. TO OUR FRIKIYDS. Savannah, Oa., July 4, 1891. On NEXT TUESDAY. July 7, we celebrate the Second Anniversary of the establishment of our Brewery—the largest purely home en terprise in this city. You and your friends are cordially Invited to unite with us in the celebration, between the hours of 2 and 7 p. a. on that day. This will afford you an opportunity to see the many improvements made in the Ma chinery ns well as in the Buildings, and to sample the superior quality of our home product. THE SAVANNAH BREWING COMPANY'. Brewery at foot of Indian street. CHATHAM REAL ESTATE AND IM PROVEMENT COMPANY. Savannah, Oa.. July 1, 1891. The Board of Directors have declared a divi dend of One Dollar and Seventy-five Cents <Bl 75), series A, per share, being at the rate of 7 fier cent, per annum, payable on and atterthe sth Inst. Transfer book will be closed until after that date. M. J. SOLOMONS. Secretary and Treasurer. NOTICE TO TAXPAYERS. City Treasurer’s Office, 1 Savannah, Ga.. July 1, 1891. j The following taxes are now due: Real Estate, 2d quarter 1891; Stock in Trade, 2d quarter 1891; Money Solvent Debts, ete., 2d quarter 1891; Furniture, etc., 2d quarter 1891; Water Rents, six months in advance from July 1, 1891, to Jan. 1, 1892; Also Ground Rents In arrears for two or more quarters. A discount of ten per cant, will he allowed upon all of the above (except Ground Rents) if paid within fifteen days after tho first of July. C. S. HARDEE, City Treasurer. USE DR ULMER’S LIVER CORRECTOR FOR INDIGESTION, DYSPEPSIA, AND ALL LIVER COMPLAINTS. SILVER MEDALS AND niPLOSA Awarded it over all Liver Medicines. PRICE ONE DOLLAR PER BOTTLE. Freight Prepaid to Any Address. CALL ON “UNCLE ADAM” At No 20 Jefferson street, corner Conrress street lane, if you are short of ready money. He will advance you cash on your diamonds, watches, jewelry, clothing, musical instru ments, tools, etc. Open 6 a M. to 9p. a. ; Sat urdays to It p. st. NEW YORK LOAN OFFICE 20 Jefferson street, ADAM STRAUSS, Man ager. BOLTON STREET, Doubleoottage, north side, between Abereorn and Linooln. For sale cheap. Address WALTHOUR & RIVERS, Savannah, Ga. NATURE'S TRUE AGENT Is the celebrated BUFFALO LITHIA WATER. A large shipment received direct from the Springs. BOWDEN LITHIA, From Lithia Springs, Georgia, is fast attain ing a splendid reputation. Headquarters for Mineral Waters BUTLER’S PHARMACY’ Corner Bull and Congress streets, CLOTHING. * x 4JI TyjfC JACtJfi 7jv^Tl M !Coe. S/luutrij Peruaps you cannot escape high tem perature, but you can always he ready to meet it. You can get a summer suit almost for a song. It will keep you as cool as the proverbial cucumber, be cause it happens to be built that way. The cost is a mere bagatelle. Wbat is the use of perspiring profusely every time the sun glares at you when, for $lO, you can get as natty and comforta ble a suit as ever defied the close and sticky weather of a hot summer? Our stock is light in weight, and. as we want to make it light in quantity, we will, for a few days, give special inducements to clothing buyers. THIS WEEK a little money will buy a great many good goods. Money 18 what we are after, and it you want to save 25 to 30 per cent go to “THE FAMOUS” CLOTHING HOUSE, 148 Broughton St., Savannah. G-a. BENNETT HYMES, Proprietor. BUTSha. PULASKI HOUSE; Savannah, Ga. REDUCTION IN RATES FOR THE STXIMIIIVLIEIR,, JUNE Ist TO OCT. Ist. Rates $2 50 per Cay. _L. W. SCOVILLE. THE MARSHALL Summer Rates, AMERICAN METHOD, S3 PER DAY. EUROPEAN RATES. Rooms 50 cents, 75 cents, $1 00 per person. H. N. FISH, Proprietor. FIFTH AVENUE HOTEL, MADIHOX SQUARE, X. V, 'T'HE LARGEST. BEST APPOINTED and 1 MOST liberally managed hotel in the city, with the most central an l delightful location. HITCHCOCK, DARLING & CO. A. P. Darling, formerly of the Battle House, Mobile. lliram Hitchcock, formerly of the St. Charles Hotel, New Orleans. THE MORRISON HOUSE /'d ENT RALLY LOCATED on line of street v.' oars, offers pleasant south rooms, with ex cellent board. New oaths, sewerage and vwnti lation perfect, the sanitary condition of the house is of the best. Cor. Broughton and Drayton Streets, SAVA NNAH, OA. 240 Al% DO YOU Iff If you do, then buy SAVANNAH IADS SOAP. MAGIC, BIG 5, 4 DIXIE AND— FAMILY ARTESIAN. Sold by .All Grocers. MADE BY SAVANNAH SOA? WORKS, Cor. Pine and Lumber Streets. Orders taken at LINDSAY & MORGAN’S, Broughton and Barnard streets. BANKS. President. Vks- ProaklonA JAB. H. HUNTER, Cashier. SAVANNAH BANK A TRUST CO. Savings Bep’f ALLOWS % Deposits of li aw! CpwufJ B?ewvl Interest on Deposits Payable DIIiKCTORS: JoaurH D. W hd, of J. D. Weed & Ox Jobw C. Rowland, Oopitalk*. r •• Rains, Exchange aa i iDsuraaos. John L. Hardes, Capiktlkit. it. Q. Erwin, of Chisholm, Erwin & dußignon. Edward Kaeow. of Strauss £ Cos. Isaac G. Haas, General Broker. M Y. Maclntyre, of 3L Y. & D. L Kaolntyrs. John Lyons, of John Lyons & Cos. Vk altuk Coney, of Paterson, Downing £ Ox P C. Bacon, Lugiber. HARD,YAK t. Cotton and Rubber HOSE, Hose Reels, Etc. GARDEN TILE. Edward Lovell's Sons, 155 BROUGHTON AND 138-140 STATE STREET.