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T. A. HAVRON, Publisher, ■forgiveness. "Lot Not the Sun Gk> Down Upon Your Wrath.” lh'e* *»r ReVengo—Sermon toy Re*. T. L‘e- Wltt Ta Image, U. D. ; Brooks. t.N. Oct. 23.—Dr. Tafmagtftook t<* his text to-day: Ephesians, ir., 25: “Let not the sun go down upon vour wraih.* 1 Dr. Talmage said: What & pillow em broidered of all colors bath the dying day) The cradle of .clouds from which the 9un rises is beautiful onough, but it is sur passed by the many-colored mausoleum in which at evening it is buried. Sunset among the mountains! It almost takes one’s broath away to recall the scene. The long shadows strotching over the piain make the glory of the departing light, on the tip-top crags and struck aslant through the foliage, tiie more tran spicuous. Saffron and gold, purple and crimson commingled. All tho castles of cloud in conflagration. Burn ing Moscows on the sky. Hang ing gardens of roses at their deepest blush. Banners of vapor, red as if from carnage in the battle of the elements. The hunter among the Adirondack's, and the Swiss villager among tho Alps, know what is a sunset among tho mountains. After a storm at sea the rolling grandeur into which the sun goes down to at uightfall is something to make weird and splendid dreams out of for a lifetime. Alexander Smith, in his poem, compares the sunset to “tho barren beach of hell;’’ hut this wonderful spectacle of nature makes me think of the burnished wall of Heaven. Paul, in prison, writing my text, remembers some of the gorgeous sunsets among the mountains of Asia Minor, and how he had often seen the towers of Damascus blajo in the close of the Oriental days, and he flashes out that memory in the text when he says: "Let not the sun go down upon your wrath.” Sublime and all-suggestive duty for peo ple then and people ndw. Forgiveness be fore sundown. He who never feels the throb of indignation is imbecile. He who can walk among the injustices of tho world, inflicted upon himself and othors, without flush of cheek, or flash of eye, or agitation of nature, is either in sympathy with wrong or semi-idiotic. Whon Ananias, the high priest, ordered the constables of the court-mom to smite Paul in the mouth, Paul fin* up and laid: "God shall smite thee, thou whited wall.” In tho sentence inf mo '.lately before my text Paul com mands tho Ephesians: ‘‘He ye anKcy and sin not.” It all depends on what you are mad at and how long the feeling lasts whether auger is right or wrong. Life is full of exasperations. Saul after David, Succoth after Gideon, Korah after Moses, the Pasquins after Augustus, the Phar isees after Christ, and every one has had his pursuers, and we are swindled, or be lied, or misrepresented, or persecuted, or in somo way wronged, and tho danger is that healthful indignation shall become fcaleful spite, and that our feelings settle down into a prolonged outpouring of tem per displeasing to God and ruinous to our selves, and hence the important injunction of the text: “Let not tho sun go down upon your wrath.” Why that limitation to one’s anger! Why that period of flaming vapor set to a flaming disposition! What has tho sunset got to do with one’s resent ful emotions I Was it a haphazard senti ment written by Paul without special sig nificance! No, no; I think of five reasons why wo should not lot tho sun set before our temper sets: First, because twelve hours is long enough to be cress about any wrong in flicted upon us. Nothing is so exhaust ing to physical health or mental faculty hs a protractod indulgence -of ill-humor. It racks the nervous system. It hurts the digestion. It heats tho blood in brain and heart until the whole body is first over rated and then depressed. Besides that |t sours tho disposition, turns one aside From his legitimate work, expends ener gies that ought to be better employed, and lloes more harm than it does our antag bnist. Paul gives us a good, wide allow ance of time for legitimate denunciation, From six o’clock to six o’clock, but says: "Stop there!” Watch the descending orb bf day, and when it reaches the horizon take a reef in your disposition. Unloose your collar and cool off. Change the sub ject to something delightfully ploasant. Unroll your tight fist and shake hands With some one. Bank up the fires at the curfew bell. Drive the growling dog of enmity back to its kennel. The hours of this morning will pass by, and tho afternoon will arrive, and tho sun will begin to set, nnd I beg you on its blazing hearth threw ail your feuds, invectives and satires. Other things being equal, the man who preserves good temper will come out ahead. An old essayist says that the celebrated John Honderson, of Bristol, England, was at a dining party where political excite ment ran high, and the debate got angry, and while Henderson was speaking his op ponent, unable to answer his argument, dashed a glass of wine In his face, when the speaker deliberately wiped the liquid from his face and said: “This, sir, is di gression; now, if you please, for the main argument.” While wordly philosophy could help but very few in such equipoise of spirit, the grace of God could help any man to such a tri umph. "Impossible,” you say; “I would have either left the table in anger or have knocked the man down.” But 1 have come to believe that nothing is impossible if God help, since what I saw at BetVShun faith cure in London, England, two sum mers ago. While tho religious servico was going on Rev. Dr. Boardmnn, glori ous man! since gone to his Heavenly rest, was telling the scores of sick people present that Christ was there as of old to heal all diseases, and that, if they would only believe, their sickness would depart. 1 saw a woman near me with hand and arm twisted of rheumatism, and her wrist was fiery with inflammation, and It looked like those cases of chronlc flieu we have seen and sym path *>a with, cases beyond all human healing At the preacher's reiteration of tho words: ‘‘Will you believe! Do you be hove!” Do you believe now!” I beard this poor •* sick woman *»*y. with an emphafcis which sounded through the building: "1 do believe.” And then she laid her twisted arm and hand out as straight as your arm or hand or mine. If 1 had seen one rise from the dead I would not have been much more thrilled. Biuce then I believe that God will do any thing in answer to our prayer and id answer to our faith, and our bodies, and if our soul is all twisted and misshapen of ro vengo and hate and inflamed with sinful proclivity, He can straighten that also and make it well and clean. Aye, yoo will not postpone till sundown forgiveness of enemies if you can realize thaitheir be havior toward you maybe pnjintothe catalogue of the "all tilings” luav “work together for good to those that love God.” I have had multitudes of friends, but I have found in my own experi ence that God so arranged it that the greatest opportunities of usefulness that have been opened before me were opened by enemies. And when, _yoars ago, they conspired against me, that opened all Christendom to me as a field in which to preach the Gospel. 8o you may harness your antagonists to your best interests and compel them to draw you on to better work and higher character. Suppose, in stead of waiting until six minutes past five o’clock this evening, when the sun will set, you transact this glorious work of forgiveness before meridian. Again: We ought not to let tho sun go down on our wrath, because we will sleep hotter if wo are at peace with every body. Insomnia is getting to bo one of the most prevalent of disorders. How few-poople retire at ten o’clock at night and sleep through to six in the morning! To relieve this disorder ail narcotics, and sodatives, and chloral, and bromide of potassium, and cocaine, and intoxicants are used, but nothing is more important than a quiet spirit if we would win somnolence. How is the man going to sloop when he is in mind pursuing an enemy! With what nervous twitch he will start out of a dream! That new plan for cornering his foe will keep him wide awake while the clock strikes eleven, twelve, one, two, three, four. I give you an unfailing pre scription for wakefulness; spend the evening hours rehoarsingyour wrongs and the best way of avenging them. Hold a convention of friends on this subject in your parlor or office at eight or nine e’ol.ici*. Close the ct-~ la.; u_> -* t: il a Ditter leaver expressing your senti ments. Take from the desk or pigeon hole the papers in the case to refresh your mind with your evening’s meanness. Then lie down and wait for the coming of tho day, and it will come before sleep comes, or your sleep will be a worried quiescence, and, if you take the precau tion to lie flat on your back, a frightful nightmare. Why not put a bound to your animosity? Why let your foes come into the sanctities of your dormitory? Why let those slanderers who have already torn your reputation to pieces or injured your business bend over your midnight pillow and drive from you oue of tho greatest blessings that Almighty God can offer sweet, refreshing, all-invigorating eleep? Why not fence out your enemies by the golden bars of the sunset ! Why not stand behind the barricade of evening cloud and say to them: “Thus fur and ho further.” Many a man and many a wo man is having the health of body as well as the health of the soul eaten away by a malevolent spirit. I liave in time of religious awakening had persons, night after night, come into tho inquiry-room and get no peace of soul. After a while I have bluntly asked: "Is there not some one against whom you have a hatred that you are not willing to give up!” After a little confusion she has slightly whisper ed. "Yes.” Then I said to her: "You will never find peace with God as long as you retain that virulenco.” A boy in Sparta, having stole a fox, kept him under his coat, and though the fox was gnawing his vitals, be submitted to it rather than expose his misdeed. Many a man with a smiling face has under bis jacket an animosity that is gnawing away the strength of his body and the integrity of his soul. Better get rid of that hidden fox as soon as possible. There are hun dreds of domestic circles where that which most is needod is the spirit of forgivoness. Brothers apart, sisters apart and parents nnd children apart. Solo mon says a brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city. Arc there not enough sacred memories of your childhood to bring you together? The rabbins re count how that Nebuchadnezzar’s son hud such a spite against his father that after he was dead he had his father burned to ashes, and then put the ashes into four sacks and tied them to four eagle’s necks, | which flew away in opposite directions. And thcro are now domestic antipa thies that seem forever to have scat tered all paternal memories to the four winds of Heaven. How far the eagles fly with the sacred ashes! The hour of sundown makes to that family no practi cal suggestion. Thomas Carlyle in his bi ography of Frederick the Great says the old King was told by the confessor he must be at peace with his enemies if he wanted to enter Heaven. Then he said to his wife, the Queen: "Write to your broth er after I am dead that I forgive him.” ltuloff, the confessor, said: "Her Majesty had better write him immediately.” “No,” said the King, "after 1 am dead ; that will be safer.” So I>£ let the sun of his earthly existence go down upon his wrath. Again, wo ought not to allow the sun set before forgiveness takes place, because we might not live to see another day. And what if we should be ushered into tho presence of our Maker with a grudge upon our soul! The majority of tho people de part this life in the night. Between eleven p jtj, and three a. m. there is something in the atmosphere which relaxes the grip which the body has on the soul, and most people enter the next world through the TRENTON. DADE COUNTY GA., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 28. 1887. shadows of this world. Perhaps God m »j. have arranged it in that way so as th make tho contrast tho mors glo rious. I have seen sunshiny days ic* this world that must have been almost, like the radiance of Heaven. But, as most people louva tho earth between sun down and sunrise, they quit this world at its darkest, and Heaven, always bright, will be the brighter for that contrast. Out of blackness into irradiation. Shall wo, then, leap over the roseate bank of sunset into the favorite hunting ground of dilease and death, carrying our animosities with us! Who would wont to confront his God, against whom wo havo all doao moaner things tb"ji any body has ever done against us, < >n rying old grudges! How can wo expect His forgiveness for the greater when w* are not willing to forgive other* the loss? Napoleon was encouraged to undertake the crossing of the Alps because Charle magne had previously- crossed them. And all this rugged path of forgiveness bears the bleeding footsteps of Him who con quered through suffering, and we ought to be willing to follow. On the night of our departure from this life into the next, our one plea will havo to be for mercy, and it will have to be offered in the presence of Him who has said: "If you forgive not men their trespasses neither will your" Heavenly Father forgive y-our tres passes." What a sorry plight if we stand there hating this one, and hating that one, and wishing this one a damage, and wishing some one else a calamity, and, wo ourselves neoding forgivoness for ten thousand times ten thousand obliquities ot heart and life. When our last hour comos, we want it to find us all right. Hardly any.tiling affects me so much in the uncovering of ancient Pompeii as tho account of the soldier who, after the city had for many cen turies been covered with the ashes and'” scoriae of Vesuvius, was found standing in his place on guard, hand on spear and hel met on head. Others fled at tho awful submergernent, but the explorer, seven teen hundred years after, found the body of that bravo fellow in right position. And it will be a grand thing if, when our last moment comes, we are found in right position toward tho world, ns well as in right position toward God, on guard and unulfrighted by the ashes from the moun tain of death. I do not suppose lam any more of a coward than most people, but I declare to you that I would not dare to sleep to-night if there were any being in all the earth with whom I would not gladly shake bands, lest, during the night hours, my spirit dismissed to other realms, I should because of my unforgiving spirit baAaniad AJyjqo for rive ness v 1 Again; We (ufgnt'not to aimw' itm pass age of the sunset hour before the dismis sal of all our affronts, because we may as sociate the sublimest action ot the soul with the sublimest spectacle in nature. It is a most dclightsomo thing to have our personal experiences allied with certain objects. There is a tree or river bank where God first answered your prayer. You will never pass that place or think of that place without thinking of the glo rious communion. There was some gate, or some room, or somo garden walk, where you were affianced with the compan ion who has beoa your chief joy in life. You never speak of that place but with a smile. Some of you have pleasant mem ories connected with the evening star, or the moon in its first quarter, or with the sunrise, because you saw it just as you were arriving at h rbor after a tempestuous voyage. Forever, sud forever, O bearer, associate tho sunset with your magnani mous, out-and-out unlimited renunciation of all hatreds and forgiveness of all foes. I admit it is the most difficult of all graces Ito praetico, aud at the start you may make a complete failure, but keep bn lu the attempt to practice it. Shalsespere wrote ten plays before he reached "Hamlet," and seventeen plays before ho reached “Merchant of Ven ice,” and twenty-eight plays before he reached “Macbeth.” And gradually you will come from the easier graces to the most difficult. Besides that, it is not a matter of personal determination so mu h as the laying hold of tho almighty arm of God, who will help U 3 to do anything wo ought to do. Remember that in all per sonal controversies the one least to blame will have to take tho first step toward pa cification, if it is ever effective. The con test between JEschines and Aristippus re sounds 'through history, but Aris tippus, who was least to blame, went to ./Eschines and said: “Shall we not agree to be friends before we make ourselves the laughing stock of tho whole country!” And jEschines said : “Thou art a far better man than I, for I began the quarrel, but thou hast been the first in healing the breach,” and they were always friends afterward. So let the ono of you that is least to blame take the first step toward conciliation. The one most in the wrong will never take it. Oh, it makes one feel splendidly to be ablq by God’s help to practice unlimited forgiveness. It improves one’s body and soul. It will make you measure three or four more inches around the chest and improve your respiration so that you cau take a deeper and longer breath. Itximproves the countenance by scattering the gloom and brightening the forehead, and loosening the pinched look about the nostril and lip, and makes you somewhat like God himself. lie is omnipotence, and we can not copy that. He is independent of all the universe, and wo can not copy that. He is creative, and we can not copy that. He is omnipresent, and we can not copy that; but He forgives with a broad sweep all faults, and all neglects, and nil insults, and all wrong-doing, and in that we may copy Him with mighty success. Go harness that sublime action of your soul to an au tumnal sunset, the hour when the gate of Heaven opens to let the day pass into the eternities and some of the glories escape this way through the brief opening. We talk about the Italian sunsets, and '•unset amid the Appsnines, aud sun set amid the Cordilleras; but I Will teli you how you may see a grander sv-'se? than any mere lover of nature evor beheld. That is by flinging into It all your hatreds and animosities, and lot the horses of lire trample th"m, and tha chariots of fire roll over them, nnd the spearmen of fire stab them, and the beach of fire consume them, and tho billows of fire over whelm them. The sublimest thing God does is the sunset; the sublimest thing you can do is forgiveness. Along the glow ing banks of this coming eventide let the divine and the human bo concurrent. Again: We should not lot tile snn go down on our wrath, because it is of little importance what tho world says of you or does to you when you have tho affluent God of the sunset as vour provider and de fender. People talk as though it were a fixed spectacle of nature and always the same. But no one ever saw two sunsets alike, aud if the world has existed six thousand years there have been about 2,- 190,000 sunsets, each of them as distinct from all other pictures in the gallery of the sky as Titian’s “Last Supper,’’Rubens’ "Descent from the Cross,” Raphael’* "Transfiguration” and Michael Angelo’s “Last Judgment” are distinct from each other. Tr that. God of such infinite re sources that He can put on the wall of the sky each night more than the Louvre, and the Luxembourg, and tho Vatican, aud the Dresden and Venetian galleries all in one, is my God and your God, our Provider and Protector, what is the use of our worrying about our juman antag onism? If we are misinterpreted tho God of the many-colored sunset cau put the right color on our action. If He can afford to hang such masterpieces over tho out side wall of Heaven and have thorn oblit erated in an hour, He must bo very rich in resources and can putus through in safoty. If all tho garniture of tho Western heav ens at eventide is but tho upholstery of one of the windows of our future home, what small business for us to bo chasing enemies! Let not this Sabbath sun go dowu upon your wrath. - WHEN DAYLIGHT COMES. Hard to Tell Where It Really Begins, f or It Is Seen Everywhere. The succession of day and night depends on the rotation of the eaith on its axis, and since the oarth is of a globular shape it Is evident that the whole of its surface can not be turned toward the sun at one and the same time; in other words, that it cannot be noon all over the earth at once. A little thought will show that whenever it is noon at any one place it is midnight on the oppo site side of the earth, and at the different places between all the times ot the day are at one and the same moment to be found Take a particular example to make this clearer: When it is noon at London the countries exactly on tho opposite side of ~ »i»k— — • Vy’r'qfl.Jtnil Itf l rybfhr borhood—are turned directly away from tho sun, and therefore have midnight. Paris, being a little further east than London, will have been brought direct ly under the sun n little earlier— that is to say, at London noon Paris noon has bean gone a few minutes. Go to Egypt and Constantinople, farther East; their noon has been gone an hour or two. Farther on again liuliu is approaching her eventide, nnd Japan havo already sunk into dartres. fuce West, however, across the Atlantic; you Will find our American cousins have not yet reached their midday; In fact, are thinking in New York about breakfast, and out West, in Cali fornia, are hardly yot getting up. Still to the We-t wo come round i.gain to New Zeal and. where the day—which was only just dawning in California, which was high noon at Loudon and afternoon in Indiu—the say the Ist of July, is, as we saw, eve of departing altogether to give place to a new one, the 2d of July. It iA clear, then, that while tho Ist is still ylung in America, and long before It is over eJen in England, the 2d will bo well started in New Zealand and countries In that longi tude, and will come round the world from East to West, as all its predecessors have dona The question then arises—-where did this day, the 2d of July, first begin? It was not in America, for we saw the folks there just about to riso on the Ist Yet it was begin ning in New Zealand or some place between there and America. The fact is that there is no defined placo where the day can be said to appear first of all. Civilisation orig inally spread from East to Weßt across the old world and then ucross the new, carrying its calendar with it The day came from the East and traveled across to the West, and no one asked whence it originally oame or where it untimately died Ihus, the com mon usage, treating the day as appearing first in the old world and then proceeding to the new, left no place for the new day’s birth except the wide Pacific Ocean, and when traffic began to cross that ocean and the question was forced upon men’s minds a sort of understanding was arrived at that tho day should be deemed to begin there.-* Chamber's Journal, How to I>ry Fern*. Get any carpenter to plane two deal boards, about half an inch thick, a foot wide ami a foot and a half long. Between these place one or two quires of bloltlng paper. In gathering the ferns cut them as low down In the stem as possible, and in small speci mens get up the root, if you can. It is best at first to make the pressure light, so as to alter tho form of the plant if needful before it is completely dried, then increase the pressure day by day until tho specimens a.o ready to move. When they aro removed fer final use they should be secured, if n<*c> s sary, by little strips of gummed p.qnr, which is best prepared beforehand by cov ering a sheet of note paper with a strong solution of gum, which, when dry, may be kept for a long time ready for use. In dry ing ferns, be careful to change the blotting paper two or three times a week, so as to remove any dampness, and dry the paper :n the sun or bpfore the fire very often. It is best to have two sets of paper, so that one cm be dried while the other is in ns& Any ordinary fern will be sufficiently dried in two or three weeks, at most —Albany (A". Y.) Journal. Kixti looks, kind words, kind *vsts and warm hand-shakes—these are secondary means of grace when men nre in trouble, and are fighting their unseen battles.— Dr. John Hall. ■ -e An actual heroe* aro essential men, and all men possible heroes.—‘J? B. Broun* ing. ANARCHISTS’ DESPAIR. There Is Little Hope of tho Cov eted Writ of Error. Preparations Making for Carrying Out the Sentence# Chicaoo, Oct.. ?!.’>.—Mosoa Solomon, one of tbo counsel for the Anarchists, tele graphed his clients from Washington last evouing that there was little hope that a writ of error would be granted by tho Su preme Court, and that tho whole matter would come back to this State to rest with the Governor. The seven men held a con ference as soon as they wore liberated and seemed to feel more depressed than any time since incarcerated. Parsons afterward admitted to a reporter that Solomon’s dispatch had almost destroyed their last hope aud they were ready for any thing now. Nina Van Zandt was present when the news came. Spies told her tho con tents of the message. “Well, if you die,” said Nina, “you will not die aione. I will go into the grave with you.” Lingg shed tears, and the wife of Engel, who was present, was almost prostrated by the news. Preparations are already being silently made for the great anti-Au archist drama of the 11th of November. Already orders have {men given, it is said, to the members of the Second I. N. G. that they will be required to be on duty for a full week, and perhaps longer, prior to November 11, at their armory, or wherover their services may be required. Tbo probability is that tho First Regi ment will bo called upon to do the same thing. It is understood, however, that neither of the regiments will be called from their respective armories unless in the ease of absolute need. It is also stated on authority that tho entiro block on which the county jail and Criminal Court buildings aro located will lie cordoned with police, and all the North Clark street buildings abutting on the jail will be guarded with police officers, and no ono al lowed to enter them until after the execu tion of the condemned men. - —• CHOLERA. Breaks Out on the Steamship Britannia Detained nt New York. New York, Oct. 25.— Cholora has brokon out on the steamship Britannia, which has been for some time detained nt Lower Quarantine. Tho record thus far is ono death and one new case. Last Sunday Petrouia Sevanclo was removed from the Britannic, to tho Hospital at E*»iidjui;*>« •u* u ’ sx h 8 dread mßense was upon him, and yesterday ho died. Ho was fifty years old. Last night Geuo Rosa Madria Givi, an Italian girl aged twenty-two, was stricken with cholera on the Britannii, and was at once removed to tlio hospital on Swin burne Island. She is very low. The Ala sia’s passengers who havo been in the Swinburne Hospital havo entirely recov ered, and will to-morrow be removed to Hoffman Island to join the Alesia’g de tained passengers. No case was devel oped on Hoffman Island since October 7. The Britannia is carefully guarded. - ■ ♦ ♦ - ■■ Coal Famine Causes Closing of Schools. Spkingfirld, 111., Oct. 25.—0 n account of the scarcity of coal, caused by tha strike of tho coal miners in this district, tho public schools were to-day compelled to close. Tho price of anthracite coal has advanced one dollar per ton, and oue hun dred per cent, udvauce in bituminous coal is predicted. A few days of cold wenther will cause a shortage of fuel among pri vate consumers which will undoubtedly result in a vigorous howl. Borne of the mines are still being worked, but tho coal pool will not receive any orders from pri vate consumers. The Police Were No! Welcome. Columbia. S. C., Oct. 25.—At a supper held by colored people near Newberry Sunday night a fatal riot occurred. Two policemen were detailod from that town to preserve order. They were attacked by a gang of nogroes who were offended at their presence Rnd one of the officers was stabbed and beaten insensible. The other emptied his revolver in the crowd and the negroes scattered. One has since been found dead in a corn field near by and it is believed others were wounded. -New Gold Field. Duluth, Jln'X, Oct. 25.—The reported find near the International boundary was proved last evening by the arrival of George and Frank Spencer, of St. Louis, and Louis Boaubien, of British Northwest Territory, with a small tin box full of nuggets of native gold, including a magnificent specimen of almost entirely pure gold, almost as large as a man’s hand.; They were en route to St. Louis, and will return with a large party in about three weeks. Pallry Dollars lor Precious Lives. St. Louts, Oct. 25.- John S. Stevens, the attorney of the Toledo, Peoria & Warsaw railway, with headquarters at Peoria, says rlie company has up to date settled with the relations or legal representatives of forty of the people who were kiiied at Chatsworth, and with sixty of those who were injured. The highest amount paid out on death loss was £2,000. Convicts Attempt an Escape. Columbus, 0., Oct. 25.—Prisoners in tho penitentiary made an attempt at escape, but were frustrated in their purposes, aud were reduced to the striped grade. Giving Club-Houses a Chance. Boston, Mass., Oct. 25.—The Supremo Court decided yesteiday that the prohibi tion Inw did not forbid the sale of liquor by clubs to members. Killed Under a Falling Wall. Tnor, N. Y., Oct. 25.- A portion of the wall of Senator Miller's paper mill fell, killing John Mallory, jr., and injuring Others. VOL. IV.—NO. 36. IS GARRETT INSANE? Blutrcsufng; Report* Respecting the Ux- Mngiiatii'n Mental Condition. Nhw Yokk, Oct. 24.—A Baltimore special soys: There seomi now to be no doubt that Mr. Robert Garrett, tho dethroned president of tho Baltimore & Ohio railroad, is afflicted mentally. His actions since his return to Baltimore have more ia»a convinced his relatives and friend* that he is in a sad condition. Ever wine* bis re turn to Baltimore hi* relatives and friend* have used the utmost precaution to keep the knowledge of his condition quiet but without avail. Whenever ho was ia the city lie was closely shadowed by a physician, which alono gave riso to a sus picion that something was wrong and his actions have more than confirmed that be lief. Some term his affliction softening of the brain, while others say that it is simply a giving way of hi* nervous system. His physician, Dr. N. S. Gortor, a day or two ago admitted to the Times correspondent that Mr. Garrett was laboring under a heavy menial strain, but be was hopeful that rest and change of living would re store his patient to perfect health. Tha slightest reference to Jay Gould throws him into a state of the wildest excita™ rnent. - ■■■■- ♦ ♦ — 1 CURSING IN CHURCH.' Sudden Insanity of a Minister at Sun-* day-Scliool, Where 110 Swears Bike a Trooper. Marshall, 111., Oct. 24.—Westfield, this county, was treated to a big sensation yesterday. J. R. Young, the recently appointed Methodist ministor, arrived there last week, and while superintend ing the Sunday-school yesterday morn ing suddenly began to use profane and abusive language, and seemed about to demolish tho entire gathering. He was promptly secured, as it was seen that he had become a raving maniac. He was at once brought to this city and con fined in jail. He sang religious softgs dur ing the entire trip, and since his Incarcer ation has made the jail rosound with gos* pel hymns, singing constantly. 110 is quite a talented young minister, but has been subject to such spells recently. Indeed, he was at oue time an iumato of an insane asylum. Tho cause of his sudden attack was religious excitement. Testing Constitutionality of Prohibition. Chicago, Oct. 24. Attorney Packard, of this city, has left for Washington to expe dite, if possible, a hearing in the Kansas and lowa prohibitory suits now pond ing in the Supreme Court. An important consti tutional point under the fourteenth amond uieut haa*found entry into these cases under the Federal law tho property or business of a citizen could not bo de stroyed, without compensation, and tho State would have to pay tbo damages for all saloons closed. There are four cases already undor advisement by the United Stales Supreme Court, and if a decision is entered soon in any of them it will put au end to all pending litigation. Winter Weather. St. Paul, Minn, Oct. 24.—1 t has been bitterly cold here all day, and to-night tka mercury stands at 29 degress above. At Billings, Mont., fifteen degrees below zero is reported, and at Aberdeen, Dak., a temperature of zero. Gayi.okh, Mich., Oct. 24.—A terriflo snow-atorm bas been raging hero for tw 1 days, and the snow is now eight inches deep. i Mormons Refuse to Swear. Salt Lars Citt, Utah, Oct. 24. —The venire of seventeen jurors for the civil cases called in the Third District court to day wore nil Mormons. Twelve of the number refuted to take the oath required of jurors by the Tuckor-Edmuuds law. L. S. Hill, a member of the late Constitu tional Convention, was one of the number who refused. Ho Took Horse Liniment. Akron, 0., Oct. 24.—A distressing acci dent occurred west of this city Sunday morning, by which George Bares, aged twenty-one years, lost his life. He had been suffering with malaria, and early Sunday morning rose from bed, and by mistake took a dose of horse liniment in stead of his medicine. He was in intense agony and died before relief could be ob tained. - ' Sugar Trust Petering Out. New Yokk, Oct. 24.—1 t is reported that t,be Sugar Trust is likely to go to pieces, Owing to the fact that tho Standard Re finery of Boston insists on its right to com plete its arrangement for a new refinery at Baltimore. The other members refuse to -concede this advantage to the Boston concern. A Startling Confession. Nan Frakcisco, Oct. 24.—Henry Borg hayon, who committed suicide in this city, left a confession that he poisoned his sis ter, the wifo of Dr. I. Milton Bowers, for insurance money. The husband, Dr. Bow ers, is now under sentence of death for the crime, y&i. | ♦ Double Lynching. New Orleans, Oct. 24.—Perry King and Drew Green (both colored), who, accord ing to King's confession, entered the house of Mrs. Barker, Lamar, La., with the in tention of assaulting her two daughters, were taken by a mob and lynched. Canard. St. Louis, Mo., Oct. 24.—The reported fight between vigilantes and outlaws near Wewoka, I. T., last Thursday, proves to be absolutely false. Bill Ignored. Chatsworth, 111., Oct. 24.—The grand jury has ignored the bill presented against Section Boss Coughlin for having caused the Chatsworth disaster. —♦ ♦ • Cork Proclaimed. Dublin, Oct. 24.—The city and county of Cork have been placed Under vhe minor clauses of the crimes act.