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PURE-WATER OF GRACE.
Free for All Who Would Have
Eternal Life.
The Only Fountain That fan Slake the
Sinner’s Thirst ami Allay a Longing-,
Weary Soul’s Troubles—Talmage s Ser
mon.
The Hamptons, July 17.—Rev. T. De
Witt Talmage, D. D., pastor at the Brook
lyn Tabernacle, continues to enjoy the
summer in this pleasant place. His ser
mon for to-day was on the text: “We can
not, until all the flocks be gathered to
gether, and till they roll the stone from
the well’s mouth-, then we water the
sheep.”—Genesis xxix., 8. A scene in
Mesopotamia, beautifully . pastoral. A
well of water of great value in that region.
The fields, around about in white with
three flecks of sheep lying down waiting
for tjae watering. I hear their bleating
coding on the bright air, and the laughter
of-young men and maidens indulging in
rustic repartee. I look off and I see other
flocks of sheep coming. Meanwhile Jacob,
a stranger, on the interesting errand of
looking for a wife, comes to the well. A
beautiful shepherdess comes to the same
well. 1 sec her approaching, followed by
her father’s flock of sheep. It-> was
a memorable meeting. Jacob married
that shepherdess. The Bible ac
count of it is: “Jacob kissed
Rachel, and lifted up his voice and wept.”
It has always been a mystery to me what
he found to cry about. But before that
scene occurred Jacob accosts the shep
herds and asks them why they postpone
the slaking of the thirst of these sheep,
and why they did not immediately pro
ceed to water them. The shepherds reply
to the effect: “We are all good neighbors,
and as a matter of courtesy we wait until
all the sheep of the neighborhood come up.
Besides that, this stone on the well’s
mouth is somewhat heavy, and several of
us take hold of it and*push it aside, and
then the buckets and the troughs are
filled, and the sheep are satisfied. “We can
not, until all the flocks are gathered to
-gether and till they roll the stone from the
well’s mouth; then we water the sheep.”
Oh, this is a thirsty world! Hot for the
head, and blistering for the feet, and
parching for the tongue.
The world’s great want is a cool, refresh
ing, satisfying draught. We wander
around and find the cistern empty. Long
and tedious drought has dried up the
world’s fountains, but nearly nineteen
centuries ago a Shepherd, with a crook in
the shape of a cross and feet cut to bleed
ing, explored the desert passages of this
world, and one day came across a well a
thousand ’’ feet deep, bubbling and bright
and opalescent, and looked to the north
and the south and the east and west, and
cried out with a voice strong and musical
that rang through the ages: “Ho, every
one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters 1”
Now a great flock of sheep to-day gather
around this Gospel well. There are a great
many thirsty souls. I wonder why the
flocks of all nations do not gather—why
so many stay thirsty; and while lam won
dering about it my text breaks forth in
the explanation saying: “We can not, un
til all the flocks be gathered together, and
till they roll the stone from the well’s
mouth; then we water the sheep.”
If « herd of swine come to a well they
angrily jostle each other for the preced
ence ;if a drove of cattle come to a well
they hook eachjother back from the water
but when a flock of sheep come, though a
hundred of them shall be disappointed,
they only express it by sad bleating: they
come together peacefully. We want a
great multitude to come around the Gospel
well. 1 know there are those who do not
ike a crowd —they think a crowd is vul
gar. If they are oppressed for room in
church it makes them possibly impatient
and belligerent. We have had people per
manently leave our church because so
many other people come to it. Not
so did these Oriental shepherds. They
waited until all the flocks were
gathered, and the more flocks that
came the better they liked it. And
so we ought to be anxious that all the peo
ple should come. Go out into the high
ways and the hedges and compel them to
come in. Go to the rich and tell them they
are indigent, without the Gospel of Jesus.
Go to the poor and tell them the affluence
there is in Christ. Go to the blind and
tell them of the touch that gives eternal
illumination. Go to the lame and tell them
of the joy that will make tho lame man
leap like a hart. Gather all the sheep oif
of all of the mountains. None so torn of
the dogs, none so jpck, none so worried,
none so dying as to be omitted. Why
not gather a great flock? All Brook
lyn is a flock; all New York is a flock:
all London is a flock; all the world
is a flock. This well of the Gospel
is deep enough to put out the burning
thirst of the twelve hundred million of the
race. Do not let the Church, by a spirit of
exclusiveness, keep the world out. Let
down all the bars, swing open all the
gates, scatter all the invitations: “Whoso
ever will, let him come.” Come, white
and black. Come, red men of the forest.
Come, Laplander, out of the snow. Come,
Patagonian, out of the heat. Come in furs.
Come panting under palm leaves. Come
one. Come all. Come now. As at this
well of Mesopotamia Jacob and Rachel
were betrothed, so this morning at this
well of salvation, Christ our Shepherd
will meet you com'ng up with your long
flocks of cares and anxieties, and He will
stretch out His hand in pledge of his affec
tion, while all Heaven will cry out: “Be
hold, the Bridegroom cometh; go ye out to
meet Him.”
You notice that this well of Mesopota
mia had a stone on it, which must be re
moved before the sheep could be watered;
and 1 find on the well of salvation to-day
impediment and obstacles which mgst be
removed in order that you may obtain the
refreshment and life of this Gospel. In
your case the impediment is pride of heart.
You can not bear to come to so democratic
a fountain; you do not want to come with
M others* It is to you Uko when you
! ore dry coming to a town pump, as com
| pared sitting in a parlor sipping out of a
i silver salver. Not so many publicans and
1 sinners. You want to get to Heaven, but it
must ( be in a special car, with
your feet on a Turkish otto
man and a band of music on
board the train. You do not tvant to be in
company with rustic Jacob anil Rachel,
and to be drinking out of the fountain
where ten thousand sheep have been
drinking before you. You will have to
remove the obstacles of pride, or never
find your way to the well. You will have
to come as we came,' willing to take the
water of eternal life in any way, and at
any haul, anif in ary kind of a pitcher,
crying out: “Oh, Lord Jesus, lam dying
of thirst. Give me the water of eternal
life, whether in trough or goblet; give me
the water of life; I care not in what it
comes to me.” Away with all hind
rances of pride from the well’s mouth.
Here is another man who is kept back
from this water of life by the stone of an
obdurate heart, which lies over the mouth
of the well. You have no more feeling on
this subject thau if God had yet to do you
the first kindness, or you had to do God
the first wrong. Seated on his lap all
these years, His everlasting arms shelter
ing you, where is your gratitude} Where
is your morning and evening prayer?
Where are your consecrated lives? I say
to you as Daniel said to Belshazzar: “The
God in whose hand thy breath is, and all
thy way, thou hast not glorified.” If you
treated any body as had as you have
treated God you would have made
five hundred apologies—yea, your
whole life would have been an
apology. Three times a day you have
been seated at God’s table. Spring, sum
mer, autumn and winter He has appropri
ately appareled you. Your health from
Him; your companion from Him; your chil
dren from Him; your home from Him; all
the bright surroundings of your life
through Him. O, man, what dost thou
with that hard heart? Canstthou not feel
one throb of gratitude toward the God that
made you, and the Christ who came to re
deem you, and the Holy Ghost who has
been all these years importuning you? If
you will sit down five minutes under the
tree of a Saviour’s martyrdom and feel His
warm life trickling on your forehead and
cheek and hands, methinks you would get
some appreciation of wliat you owe to a
crucified Jesus.
“Heart of stone, relent, relent,
Touched by Jesus' cross subdued;
See his body, mangled, rent,
Covered wrth a gore of blood.
Sinful soul, what hast thou done?
Crucified the eternal Son."
Jacob, with a good deal of tug and push,
tooTr the stone from the well's mouth, so
that the flocks might be watered. And I
would that this morning my word, by the
blessing of God, might remember the hin
drances to your getting up to the Gospel
well. Yea, I Like it for granted that the
work is done, and now, like Oriental shep
herds, I proceed to water the sheep.
Come, all ye thirsty! You have an un
defined longing in your soul. You tried
money-making; that did not satisfy you.
You tried office uuder Government; that
did not satisfy you. You tried pictures
and sculptures; but works of art did not
satisfy you. You are as much discon
tented with this life as the celebrated
French author, who felt that he could not
any longer endure the misfortunes of the
W’orld, and who said: “At four o’clock
this afternoon I shall put an end to my
own existence. Meanwhile, I must toil
on up to that time for the sustenance
of my family. And he wrote on his
book until the clock struck four, when he
folded up his manuscript and, by his own
hand, concluded his earthly life. There
are men in this house who are per
fectly discontented. Unhappy in the past,
unhappy to-day, to be unhappy forever,
unless you come to this Gospel well. This
satisfies the soul with a high, deep, all
absorbing and eternal satisfaction. It
comes, and it offers the most unfortunate
man so much of this world as is best for
him, and throws all Heaven into the bar
gain. The wealth of Croesus, and of all
the Stewarts, and all the Barings, and all
the Rothschilds is only a poor, miserable
shilling compared with the eternal for
tunes that Christ offers you to-day. In
the far East there w’as a King who used
once a year to get on a scales, while on the
other side of the scales were placed gold,
and silver, and gems; indeed, enough
were placed there to balauce the King;
then, at the close of the weighing, all
those treasures were thrown among the
populace. But Christ to-day steps on
one side the scales, and on the
other side are all the treasures of
the universe, and He says: “All
are yours—all height, all depth, all length,
all breadth, all eternity; all are yours.”
VV’c don’t appreciate the promises of the
Gospel. When an aged clergyman was
dying—a man very eminent in the Church
—a young theological student stood by his
side, and the aged man looked up and said
to him : “Can’t you give me some comfort
in my dying hour?” “No,” said the young
man; “I can’t talk to you on this subject;
you know all about it, and have known it
so long.” “Well,” said the dying man,
“just recite to me some promises.” The
young man thought a moment, and he came
to this promise: -The blood of Jesus
Christcleanseth from all sin;” and the old
man clapped his hands, and in his dying
moment said: “That’s just the promise I
have been w aiting for. ‘The blood of Jesus
Christ cleanseth from all sin.” Oh, the
warmth, the grandeur, the magnificence
of the promises! *
Come, also, to this Gospel well, all ye
troubled. Ido not suppose you have es
caped. Compare your view of this life at
fifteen years of age with what your view
of it is at forty, or sixty, or seventy. What
a great contrast of opinion! Were you
right then, or are you right now? Two
cups placed in your hands, the one a sweet
cup, the other a sour cup. A cup of joy
and a cup of grief. Which has been the
nearest to being full, and out of which
have you the more frequently partaken?
What a different place Greenwood is from
what it used to bcl Once it was to you a
grand city improvement, and you went eat
TRENTON, DADE COUNTY, GA., FRIDAY, JULY 22. 1887.
on Che pleasure excursion, and you ran
laughingly up the mound, and you
criticised in a light way the epitaph.
But since the day when you heard
the bell toll at the gate when you went in
with the procession it is a sad place,
and there is a flood of rushing memories
that suffuse the eye and overmaster the
heart. Oh, you have had trouble, trouble,
trouble. God only knows how much you
have had. It is a wonder you have been
able to live through it. It is a wonder
your nervous system has not been shat
tered, and your brain lias not reeled.
Trouble, trouble. If I could gather all the
griefs, of all sorts, from this great audi
ence, and could put them in one scroll,
neither man nor angel could endure the
recitation. Well, what do you want?
Would you like to have your property
back again? “ No,” you say, as
a Christian man, “ I was becom
ing arrogant, and I think that
is why the Lord took it away. I don’t
want to have my property back.” Well,
would you have your departed friends
back again! “No,” you say, “I couldn’t
take the responsibility of bringing them
from a tearless realm to a realm of tears.
I couldn’t do it.” Well, then, what do you
want? A thousand voices in the audience
cry out: “Comfort, give us comfort.” For
that reason I have rolled away the stone
from the well’s mouth. Come, all ye
wounded of the flock, pursued of the
wolves, come to the fountain where the
Lord’s sick and bereft ones have come.
“Ah,” says some one, “you are not old
enough to understand my sorrows. You
have not been in the world as long as I
have, and you can’t talk to me about my
misfortunes in the time of old age.”
Well, I may not have lived as long as you,
but I have been a great deal among old
people, and I know how they feel about
their failing health, and about their de
parted frieuds, and about the lonliness
that sometimes strikes through their
souls. After two persons have lived to
gether for forty or fifty years, and one of
them is taken away, what desolation!
I shall not forget the cry of the late
Rev. Dr. De Witt, of New York,
when he stodd by the open grave
of his beloved wife, and, after the
obsequies had ended, he looked down into
the open place and said: “Farewell, my
honored, faithful and beloved wife. The
bond that bound us is severed. Thou art
in glory, and I am here on earth. We
shall meet again. Farewell! Farewell!”
To lean on a prop for fifty years, and then
have it break under you! There were only
two years’ difference between the death
of my father and mother. After my
mother’s decease my father used to go
.= round as though looking for something.
He would often get up from one room,
without any seeming reason, and go to
another room, and then he would take his
caiie and start out, and some one would
say: “Father, where are you goiwg?” and
he would answer: “I don’t know exactly
where lam going.” Always looking for
something. Though he was a tender
hearted man, I never saw him cry but
once, and that was at the burial of my
mother. After sixty years’ living together
it was hard to part. And there are aged
people to-day who are feeling just such a
pang as that. 1 want to tell them there is
perfect enchantment in the promises of
this Gospel; and I come to them and offer
them my arm, or I take their arm
and I bring them to this
Gospel well. Sit down, father or mother,
sit down. See if there is any thing at the
well for you. Come, David, the Psalmist,
have you any thing encouraging to offer
them!’’ “Yes,” says the Psalmist, “‘they
shall still bring forth'fruit in old iqge; they
shall be fat and flourishing, to show that
the Lord is upright. He is my rock, and
there is no unrighteousness in me.’’’Come,
Isaiah, have you any thing to say out of
your prophesies for these aged people?
“Yes,’’says Isaiah; ‘“Down to old age
lam with thee, and to hoary hairs will
I carry thee.” Well, if the Lord is going
to carry you, you ought not to worry much
about your failing eyesight and failing
limbs. You get a little worried for fear
some time you will come to want, do you?
Your children and grandchildren some
times speak a little sharp at you liecause
of your ailments. The Lord will not speak
sharp. Do you think you will come to want!
Who do you think the Lord is? Are His
graneries empty? Will He feed the raven,
and the rabbit, and the lion in the desert,
and forget you? Why, naturalists tell us
that the porpoise will not forget its
wounded and sick mate. And do you sup
pose the Lord of Heaven and earth has
not as much sympathy as the fish of the
sea? But you say: ‘‘l am so near worn
out, and I am of no use to God any more.”
I think the Lord knows whether you are
of any more use or not; if you were of no
more use he would have taken you before
this. Do von think God has forgotten you
because He has taken care of you seventy
or eighty years? He thinks more of you
to-day than He ever did, because you
think more of Him. May the God of Abra
ham and Isaac and Jacob and Paul the
aged be your God forever. >
But I gather all the promises to-day in a
group, and I ask the shepherds to drive
their flocks of lambs and sheep up to the
sparkling supply. “Behold, happy is the
man whom God correcteth.” “Though He
cause grief, yet will He have compassion.”
“Many are the afflictions of the righteous,
but the Lord delivereth him out of them
all.” “Weeping may endure for a night,
but joy cometh in the morning.” lam de
termined this morning that no one shall
go out of this house uncomforted. Yonder
is a timid and shrinking soul who seems
to hide away from the consolations I am
uttering, as a child with a sore hand
hides away from the physician lest he
touch the wound too roughly, and the
mother has to go and compel the
little patient to come out and
see the physician. So I cor. e
to your timid and shrinking soul to-day,
and compel you to come out in the pres
ence of the Divine Physician. He will not
hurt you. He has been healing wounds
for many years, and he will give you
gentle and omnipotent faedicameot. But
people, when they have trouble, go any
wh«r« rather than to God. Letjumoy took |
opium to got rid of his troubles. Charles
Lamb took to punch. Theodore Hook took to
something stronger. Edwin Forrest took
to theatrical dissipation. And men have
run all around the earth, hoping in the
quick transit to get away from their mis
fortunes. It has been a dead failure.
There is only one well that can slake the
thirst of an afflicted spirit, and that is
the deep and inexhaustible well of the
Gospel.
But some one says to the audience: Not
withstanding all you have said this morn
ing I find no alleviation for my troubles.”
Well, lam not through yet. I have left
the most potent consideration for the last.
I am going to soothe you with the thought
of Heaven. However talkative we may be,
there will come a time when the stoutest
and most emphatic interrogation will
evoke from us no answer. As soon as we
have closed our lips for the final
silence no power on earth can break
that taciturnity. But where, oh Christian,
will be your spirit! In a scene of in
finite gladness. The spring moruiqg of
Heaven waving its blossoms in the bright
air. Victors fresh from battle showing
their scars. The rain of earthly sorrow
struck through with the rainbow of etern
al joy. In one group God and angels and
the redeemed—Paul and Silas, Latimer
and Ridley, Isaiah 'and Jeremiah, Payson
and John Milton, Gabriel and Michael,
the archangel. Long line of choristers
reaching across the hills. Seas of joy
dashing to the white beach. Conquerors
marching from gate to gate. You among
them.
Oh, w hat a great flock of sheep God will
gather around the celestial well. No stone
on the w r ell’s mouth while the Shepherd
waters the sheep. There Jacob will rec
ognize Rachel,the shepherdess. And stand
ing on one side of the well of eter
nal rapture, -your children; and standing
on the other side of eternal rapture, your
Christian ancestry, you will be bounded
on all sides by a joy so keen and grand
that no other world has ever been even
permitted to experience it. Out of
that one deep w r ell of Heaven, the Shep
herd will dip reunion for the bereaved,
wealth for the poor, health lor the sick,
rest for the weary. And then all the flock
of the Lord’s sheep will lie down in the
green pastures, and world without end
will praise the Lord that on this summer
Sabbath morning we were permitted to
study the story of Jacob and Rachel, the
shepherdess at the well in Mesopotamia.
AGREEABLE PEOPLE.
Men and Women Who Are Welcome
Gncsti In Every Circle.
We all mean to be agreeable, but most of
l’s do not get any further than the inten
tion. Some people are naturally of amia
ble dispositions, and it comes very easy for
them to be agreeable, but the majority
bare not dispositions of this kind, and to
these people it is somewhat more difficult.
Agreeable people are always very pleasant
people to always feel at our
ease with
of then - commuting on every slight mis
take that we may make. They are always
a welcome addition to any assembly, and
their company is always in great demand.
We never hesitate to ask a favor from
tffem, for we are confidant that, if in- their
Jtower, they will certainly grant it It
may be at a great deal of inconvenience to
themselves, but that doesn’t matter, for
such ueople very rarely think of self.
'J for others and their
forgetfuWess of self are their chief charms.
'ljiey are always studying every body’s
Amfort, and are ready at any moment to
dl just what a person most wants done.
These people are never flatterers. We
would very soon weary ol them if they
were, for an incessant flatterer is of all
things the most wearisome. Nor do they
tell us disagreeable truths uuder the guise
of being called honest
“Oh,” says some of these would-be hon
est pemple, “I always say what I think; I
am perfectly outspoken; I don’t believe in
ihinking one thing and saying another; I
believe in being honest” It never occurs
to them that what they term honesty may
appear, and very often is, downright rude
ness. They really haven’t the least inten
tion of being rude; they generally mean
well and believe they are honest in saying
just what they think. They have not the
least idea that they annoy anyboly by
their seeming honesty. They are, as a
rule, thoughtless people, who believe that
if they are not outspoken, they may be
called deceitful, which, to be sure, they
never are. Whatever else these people
may be they are not hypocrites in any sense
of the word; they are very good people in
their way, nevertheless they are seldom
agreeable. When they attend a gathering
at the house of a frien l, they are very apt
to speak right out whatever is in their
minds, and frequently offend some one by
their thoughtlessness. The hostess is sel
dom at ease while a guest of this kind is in
the house. She is always afraid of some
thing unpleasant happening.
Frequently a woman says: “I do like
Mrs. B , she is sp outspoken; I
shouldn’t have dared to say what she did
to Mrs. K , yet I’m glad somebody told her
her own?; it was the truth, anyhow.” She
cultivates Mrs. B ’s acquaintance, and
in a very short while is treated to a dose of
the same kind of medic ne as that admin
istered to Mrs. K . She very soon
comes to the conclusion that Mrs. B is
not as pleasant a companion as she could
wish, and it does not take a tong time to
convince her that outspoken people are not
always the most agreeable ones.
Agreeable people are not as plentiful as
they should be, and the more we have of
them the better. They are always the
right people in the right place. Always
ready and willing to help any and every
body that desire their aid. Thoroughly un
it lifish, their whole thought appears to bo
for the comfort of others.— Boiton Budget.
Don’t think that the world is coming to
an end because somebody you believed in
has talked or acted foolishly. There is
nothing so solid in this world as Simula
truth. Men may wreck themselves in this
way, but the truth is as strong as its Au
thor. Discouragement is another nami
for Doubt.— Christian Advocate.
m
Whsn a young woman behaves to her
parents in a manner particularly tender
and respectful—l mean from principle as
well as nature—there is nothing good and
gentle that may not be expected from her,
in whatever condition sho is placed.—
<Fordyes.
OVER A MILLION
*
Lost by the Burning of a Great
Wheat Elevator.
The Standard Oil Plant at Const,able Hook,
N. .1., In Flames and Threatened With
Complete Destruction.
Aiinneapolis, Minn., July 19.—The St.
Anthony Elevator, the largest in the
Northwest, located two miles east of this
city, on the Manitoba railroad, w r as burned
to-night. Loss on buildings and machinery
$250,000; loss on grain $825,000. Insurance
on the wheat not known. The wheat de
stroyed—about 1,100,000 bushels —is one
tenth of the visible supply in the North
west exclusive of Duluth. The elevator
was ow'ned by a syndicate of Minneapolis
capitalists.
New' York, July 20.—A fire broke out in
the barrel w 7 orks of the Standard Oil Com
pany’s immense plant, on Constable Hook,
at 12:15 o’clock last night, and spread first
to the warehouse and then to the oil tanks.
It also caught the buildings of the T. <fc S.
W. Sites sulphur manufactory, and al
ready a damage of $300,000 has been done,
and it looks as if the whole plant might
go. The flames are spreading rapidly,
and half of the towns and all the factories
are threatened. The loss may reach
$1,000,000.
HATCHED BY HEAT.
Peculiar Effect of the Hot Weattier on a
Consignment of Eggs.
Indianapolis, Ixd., July 10.—A novel
sight was witnessed here to-day as a re
sult of the high temperature of the past
three weeks. Some time ago Adams <&
Co., commission merchants, received a con
signment of eggs, packed in boxes, after
the usual manner. The eggs were placed
in storage, and this morning the consignee
had occasion to open the cases. When
the lid was removed the low pall of
chicks sounded in his ears. One entire
layer of eggs was found to be hatching
out, and in a few minutes after the eggs
were brought to the light fif'een well
developed “orphans” picked their way
through the shells. A motherly old hen
was taken from a coop and placed in pos
session of the brood. A mutual under
standing was soon reached, and the entire
family was doing well. Anothor layer of
eggs began to hatch out about noon, and it
now looks as if the entire consignment
will hatch. &
Harper Taken to Dayton.
Cincinnati, July 19.—E. L. Harper, tho
financial manager of the defunct
Bank, who has been confined in the county
jail for a month, was removed from there
at eight o’clock to-night and taken to
the Dayton (Ohio) jail by Deputy Marshal
Charles Costello. For several days past
Judge Sage has had under advisement the
issuing of an order for the removal of tho
banker. This was caused by complaints
that have been made to the Government
officers that Harper was given too many
privileges at the jail. He was allowed so
much freedom that the authorities began
to think less freedom would bo far bettor.
Mexican Town Destroyed by Earthquake.
El Paso, Tex., July 19.—Bacariac, a town
twenty miles from Bavispe, had, before
the catastrophe at the latter place, twelve
hundred inhabitants. When Bavispe was
destroyed the town was badly shaken up,
and most of the inhabitants fled. ,Since
then the town.of Cacariac has been visited
by a succession of shocks that .hiive re
duced the whole town to ruins, most of the
people escaping, as they fled the country
terror-stricken on the first disturbance
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* A Girl to be Hanged.
Columbia, S. C., July 19.—Oxey Cherry,
an eleven year old colored girl of Barn
well, has been convicted of the murder of
her little white charge and was sentenced
to be hanged in September. The young
criminal was hired out by her parents to
nurse a white baby. The work was dis
tasteful to her, and she administered a
dose of concentrated lye.
. Think of This, Ye Swelterers.
Geneva, July 19. —There have been se
vere snow storms in the Swiss Alps. S>x
tourists, imiading three sons of the Di
rector College, have been lost on
the Jungfrau. Several parties were sent
out to endeavor to rescue them, but their
efforts were not successful.
Suicided on His Gog’s Grave.
Philadelphia, Pa., July 19.—Allen Harp,
aged sixteen, committed suicide last night
by shooting himself through the head.
His body was found lying on the newly
made grave of a dog which died recently,
and of which the boy had been very fond
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Gored by a Bull.
Moawequa, 111., July 19.—R. R. Adams,
a prominent farmer, was injured by a
vicious bull last night. His ribs U’ero
broken and a great ridge of bones pro
truded through the flesh and stein. The
wounds are serious, if not fatal.
Fatal Epizootic.
Findlay, 0., July 19.—Two horses owned
respectively by M. J. Shafer and J. W.
Hutson, valued at $1,500 each, died to-day
from epizootic. Mr. Shafer has twenty
one horses sick with the same disease.
Water Power of Niagara River.
Buffalo, N. Y., July 19.—A movement
has been inaugurated among the leading
business men of this city to raise a fund
of *IOO,OOO, which will be offered as a prize
for the best invention for utilizing tho
water power of Ihe Niagara river. Com
petition will be open to the world.
Skull Fractured by the Kick of a Horse.
Franklin, 0., July 19.—About five
o’clock this evening Alex. Powell, an em
ploye of the Franklin Pape;- Company,
had his skull fractured by i kick from a
horse which h“ was i;;i: ‘tci*.*’/ There is
little hope of his recovery.
VOL. IV—NO. 22.
THE TORRID TERM.
Terrible Mortality at Chicago, Cincinnati
ami Pittsburgh—New York Horses Die
From the Heat.
Chicago, July 18.—The sickle of the arm
cut a wide swath in the population of
Chicago last week and yesterday. It had
its victims in every grade of society, and
left them in every part of the city.
The welcome breeze that sprang up
last evening saved * many lives, but
many a sufferer was past all help, and the
night and morning added to the death
list. Twonty deaths from sunstroke- were
reported yesterday, and as many more
this mqrning, and 208 .babies less than.a
year old fell sick Iksf anfl diet? frtfhi
the heat. There were about 183 deaths al
together reported up to noon, and-only
half the day over.
Pittsburgh, Pa., July 18.—A good breeze
and a slight drop in the temperature made
life more endurable to-day, although the
death rate was the largest known in
j r ears. Seventeen sudden deaths from the
heat were reported to the coroner up to
noon, and nearly twice as many persons
were prostrated who will recover.
Cincinnati, July 18.—To-day was the
worst of the season, the thermometer at
4 o’clock registering 105 deg. in the shade.
Over eighty cases of prostration occurred
in this city with twenty-eight fatalities re
ported.
New York, July 18.—The mortality
among the horses in this city lias been un
usually great during the heated term. In
the last fortnight the horses have
been dying at, the rate of forty per day.
Since Junel over ten thousand horses
have died. Less than that number died
in April and May, the record showing
about two thousand dead horses for
the quarter ending June 30, exclusive of
the horses which were burned to death in
the Belt Line car stables. All the st reet
car companies have lost horses during the
hot weather, but the Belt Line ‘ lost the
most because it had imported so many
green horses to take the place of those
that were burned up in the stables. The
company has lost about four hundred
hprses since the fire.
Married Women and Public Lands.
W ashington, July 18.—Acting Secret ary
Muldrow, of tho Interior Department, to
day rendered a decision according to mar
ried women tho right to enter and pur
chase timber and stone lands under the
law governing the sale of such lauds in
the States of Mississippi, Louisiana, Cali
fornia, Nevada, Oregon and Washington
Territory. This law allows the sale of
lands obviously unfitted for agricultural
purposes at a minimum price of
two and one - half d»?l*ts*> Ar'aee’.
‘n tracts Of not to exceed
i(SO acres to any one person or association.
The Commissioner of the General Land Of
fice, in the base of Isabel Durvea. involv
ng an entry of land in the Humboldt Dis
trict of California, decided that the law
lid not contemplate married women as
separate from their husbands in such en
tries, and that but one entry by the heads
of the family could be allowed. The Sec
retary reverses this decision, and allows
a married woman to make entry, on the
ground that she acts as a femme sole in
making ttie purchase.
Unutterable Cruelty to a Child.
Little Rock, Ark., July 18. —News of a
most inhuman murder comes from River
Side, Ark. It seems that a man living
near that place had a step-soi> five years
old, whom he greatly disliked. He was
knotvn to treat him most cruelly, beating
him in a terrible manner, once putting one
of the little fellows eyes out while whip
ping him. A few days ago he beat the
child in a horrible manner, and then tied
him by the wrists to a stake in the hot
sun, without food or water until he died.
Just how long the child was left there is
not known hut the cords at the wrists
had cut into the flesh and the wounds
were filled with worms. The fiend, find
ing his victim was dead, armed himself
and took to tho woods. The child’s mother
seems indifferent over the affair.
Two Hundred Were Injured.
St. Thomas, Ont., July 18.—The remains
of all the victims of the recent railroad
disaster have been identified. The iujured
are all doing well except Mrs. Zealand,
whose condition is very critical. It is
now known that from 150 to 200 persons
were injured by the explosion. The
physicians offices and the drug shops are
crowded with patients, and many persons
seen on the streets have their heads,
necks or hands bandaged.
Blue Laws in Portland, Me.
Portland, Me., July 18.—The city mar
shal, having ordered druggists not to sell
soda and cigars on Sunday, all the drug
gists in the city, except the proprietor of
one small shop, closed their stores entire
ly yesterday, not even putting up physi
cians’ prescriptions. Their action is gen
erally commended by citizens, who do not
sustain the marshal in his attempt to en
force the “Blue Law ” The druggists will
take some further concerted action.
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From Lock-Jaw.
Springfield, 0., July 18.— This morning
ex-Constable Mohr died in great agony of
lock-jaw. Twd days ago a team ran away
with him, dragging him some distance on
the ground. Lock-jaw set in yesterday,
and he died this morning. He was a prom
inent member of the K. of L.
Violent Love and Cold Poison.
Fremont. 0., July 18. —John Young, of
Millersville, was discarded by a Fremont
girl named Kate Tepy. He went toiler
house to-night, and after repeated threats
to kill her. went out in the yard and took
strychnine. He is in a precarious condi
tion. The girl is prostrated.
Noted Trotter Dead.
Peoria, 111., July 17.—Glen Miller, the
gray stallion owned by F. E. Fay, of
Bryan, 0., died at Jefferson Park. His
trotting record was 2:18, and his owner
had refused SIO,OOO for him. He died from
Vhe effects of a drink of ice water.