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A VETERAN LAID AT RKST. ON LONG ISLAND SIOMIAY EVEM.N'G. NDVEUHEU 31, 18S7. Tlii Paper liav lUe Lsirsowt Circulation of any Evening Paper Published in tin: Uuitcd Slates. Us value as nil Advert iin; Medium is therefore ap tle with the tyrants of Dublin Castle in a linen shirt and a pair of jean drawers.

As Mr. Gill very appropriately observes in tho words of Lovelnco Stone walls do ot a prison make Nor Iron bars a cage," and that is the reason why the people of Tullamore Jail are wild with excitement." Yes, the jugged and jaded champion of Irish liberty "has once more triumphed." "Ho has, in accordance with the expectation of his past career, given a mastor stroke and the castle and prison boards and jail authorities find themselves completely outwitted." It was indeed, as Mr. Gill declares, a "grand plot." Tho Plantag oncts' and Tudors never stole the raiment of the nncient O'Briens, and the Guelphs cannot hope to havo better luck by practising that sort of larceny. Clothed or naked the O'Briens are invincible. creased their value for labor and in the market Tbo liquor doaler has no interest in the comfort of hia victims or their households.

Ho will tako a man's last penny and thon, without any Bcruplea, turn the nnfortuuate Into the streot. destitute of food or clothing. Charactor gone, self respect gone, cash gouo, friends grloved and disgraced. The liquor dealor takes the hard earned wages of Ihe workmgman and glvos him no equivalent. Tho paupers, who are mads so by drink, come in thoir aquallor to your doors, look through your ashes for cinders and aro sent to the poorhouso or supported by the associated charities, nnd the saloonlst goes on licensed to do that thing and chuckle In his sleeves.

A PADLOCK 0 THE DOOR. No Services Yesterday in tho German Evangelical Church. For the first time since the dedication of the Gorman Evangelical Church, of East New York, on Fulton avonue, near Bradford street, tho congregation did not hold tho usual Sunday sorvlce in that edifice yesterday. Tho two large doors woro fastened with an Immense padlock and a sentinel was posted on the stoop to uotlfy those who callod that no service wotjld be hold. The children attended Sunday school as usual, but tho attendance was not what it has been in tho past.

Tho peremptory sua penslon of tho pastor, tho Rev. Henry Hoysor, by the Board of Trustcos at its mooting on Friday night does not appear to moot the approval of many mem bors of tho congregation. Thoy claim that the do ralulo should havo beon entitled to a hoarlng bofore any action was taken in the premises and that such a chance was not allowed him at the mooting of the trustees. They claim also that the language attributed to tho Rev. Mr.

Hoyser originated in the fanciful brain of somo ovor enthusiastic newspaper man nud that the statemout that tho pastor had accused the members of his congregation of boing Auarthlsts aud Socialists was untrue. Pastor Heysor has taken legal steps in tho matter, claiming that his suspouslou was lllogal. On Saturday last he consulted counsel und, acting on tho letter's advice, ho walked up tho church stops yesterday morning and trlod to outer. Finding tbo heavy padlock on the doors ho retraced his steps to his homo across the street and, having thus mado the first move, awaited further developments. Ho had boon at home but a short time whon sovontoon members of tho church filed into the pastor's parlors and turned thom into a place of worship.

Kogular services wore hold, the pastor taking for his text Matthew xiil. :47, 18 and 49. The discourso was brief and had no bearing whatover on tho present trouble. Au Eaolk reporter called on Pastor Hoysor last evening and found him iu a cheerful mood. Yos, it is true that I havo consulted counsel," ho said iu answer to a quostion, but I cauuot give you his namo at present.

It was tho only course loft for me. lwasuttho mooting on Friday night, but was not allowed to speak, although I askod permission sovoral times. Tho motion to suspend mo was carried through nud I might say right bore that Mr. Droher, ouo of tho mon appointod on the committee which is to investigate tho chargos against me, has not boon ingide of tho church since I have boon its pastor. I was also accused by ono of tho members of interfering iu family matters.

That charge 1 emphatically deny, but I will say that members of my church have come to mo, with toars straining down their checks, aud tho stories thoy havo told rao of family troubles would not be pleasant news for the ears of some of my accusers. Those storios ara known only to tho persons who told thom, to my God and to myself. This morning, acting upon tho advico of my coun which he rejoices to credit Henry Ward Beecher, yet as independently as if Henry Ward Beecher had never lived, the ghost of no incensed greatness will chase him up and down the aisles of Plymouth Church, and thoso who look for a preacher and a pastor will see no parody sitting or standing behind the man at tho desk. Tho message from Plymouth pulpit will bo worthy one, exactly in the degree that the trumpet is made give forth no uncertain sound of imitation. Tho accompanying labor among the educational and benevolent auxiliaries of the church can be stimulated to higher activity than it over was bofore, for in that labor Mr.

Beecher, in the years of his pre eminonce and in thoso of his sorrows, took little or no part outside avocations which assuaged his spirit but which did not add to his happiness, to his usefulness or to his fame, engaging his time at the expense of his work where he was always greatest, in his pulpit ami in his parish. As necessary as any other thing is it also that, in coming to Plymouth, Mr. Berry should resolve gradually to find or gradually to make his own preferred fellowships in the church, on the laws of congeniality aiul capacity therein, ns ho may discover them. That might result in tho recognition or confirmation of existing condition" of assumed primacy, but it would mom likely result in their measurable nullification. If he at first makes his ftp peal to or projects his lines of reliance on less than the whole people, ho may become tho property of a clique and fail to make himself the loader of a host.

The coherence of old Plymouth in its entirety is not possibly to bo expected. The preservation in and the increase around Plymouth Church of a vast and aggressive moral constituency are easily assurable. Its situation is excellent. Its temple, schools and missions nro complete. It is solvent and it has ii surplus larger than even tho debt of many a church of pretension.

Its history is grand. The local attachments of three generations cluster abont it. It has a laity tho more capable of great work from the very fact that a towering personality for forty years tended to depress that laity in activity and selfhood. If Mr. Berry will come in love and labor for all, in dominion to none, and in all things be himself, ho will find the field of opportunity white unto the harvest of a consecrated purpose.

"Kurt Man" and "Interlocutor." "Senator Bob Hart" some timo ago announced that he had "reformed." He had a clear right to do that, and if half he said about himself was true certainly "reform was necessary." At the same time, assuming 'his self portraiture to be entirely accurate, the process should have been perfected in modest obscurity and thero should have been a long course of works mete for repentance iu private bofore an open reformatory onslaught was made upon other people not nearly so bad. But the passion for publicity was too strong, tho performer's instinct prevailed, and tho "Senator" immediately and persistently exhibited himself as an "end man" in ecclesiastical organizations more or less irregular. This bad taste might havo been pardoned if ihe Senator" had not done something worse yesterday iu resigning his place for the time as end man to Benjamin Staunton, late of this city, ami himself acting as "interlocutor" jr that notorious person at an alleged church over a shop in Lafayette avenue. Staunton is a man condemned by both ecclesiastical and civil courts, who should not be countenanced by any organization pretending to be religious. Yet this man occupied the pulpit of Senator Bob Hart," profaned the service by performing it, and was actually allowed to baptise several innocent children.

Among other misdeeds committed by him is contempt of court in tho non payment of alimony in his divorce suit, and it would seem that he could escape the hand of the law only by visiting tho city, playing his engagoment with the Senator," and getting out of the State, all on a non juridical day. The scene yesterday was mado complete by the congro gallon's gathering about Staunton, woeping and embracing him, asking for his autograph, and the like. The Brooklyn Presbytery may reflect with shame that iu this its own example of "mush" and "gush" was imitated. Indeed, the Presbyters went a little further. The congregation did not go out with Staunton for oysters.

The French Mugwumps. French politics is as sparkling as champagne. It has all tho fizz and pop of that delectable beverage when relieved of the imprisoning cork. At the present moment it is particularly vivacious. At all times the peculiar divisions of the legislature are conducive to this effervescence, but there aro personal and social iuilueneos now at work which send to the surface, of the political situation an unusual number of bubbles.

The infiltrations of the scandal involving tho President's sou in law are evident on every hand and between the old man's" determination to stick and the resentment provoked by his apparent confidence in the canny Scot who has hitched himself to the fortunes of the house of Gravy, Paris is ill ft state of mind. If we are to judge of the gravity of the cu isis liv the condition of the pulse of the Bourse there is no occasion to feel any alarm. The Stock Exchange gamblers of the French capital who can scent danger quite as keenly as the bulls and boars in Wall streot, do not think that the foundations of tho republic are likely to be disturbed by the ultimate issue of existing complications. On Saturday prices wore firm with tho single exception of Panama Canal shares, which declined 8i francs, though not on account of anything happening at the Elyseo. or in the Chamber of Deputies.

The fact that the President has summoned the Mugwump contingent to a consultation will increase this general feeling of security. Men like Goblet, Brissou andLock roy, although classified as belonging to the Left, aro not prepared to indorso any extreme measures that may be proposed by their section. M. Clomenceau's speech in moving the interpellation which resulted in the defeat of the ministry had theroforo a good effect in giving prominence to the Mugwump eloment. He may thank his stars, whether ho feels inclined to do so or not, that his rancorous observations and pessimistic hostility are the real causes of tho invitation extended to M.

Goblet to form a Cabinot. The alliance by which M. Ilouvier and his colleagues wero overthrown has not a single principle of per manauey. It was horn of the desire of tho two extreme factions of the Chamber to worry the Government. It was a sort of colloguing of oil and water.

That aii effort will be mado to reconcile M. Clemcuceau appears from the latest dispatches. Ho is to meet tho President at tho Elyseo palace to day and will probably have an opportunity to express his mind on the subject of Mugwump Cabinet with M. Goblet at tho head. The latter has asked for time to consider the invitation extended to him and meanwhile the doughty radical who precipitated the crisis will be subjected to the political massage treatment at the hands of the Chief Executive.

It is not a bad day for Franco whou a Mugwump wedgo is firmly inserted between her irreconcilable parties. "Believe Me for tho work's sake." Ills work was to teach men tho truth of God and to aavo men from' tho consequences of evil and sin. Tho losson of Ills groat examplo was that religious work eUglild always be soparato from charitable vfk. Tho plan of mixing tho two haaJSeau tried and failed. This had been anujjflemonstrated In tho Middle Ages, when the beggar tapped at tho door the moro rovorently was ho received.

Nor had we yet fully outgrown the practice. Tho rational organization of our charities was one of the hardest of social problems. It was tlmo for tho church to understand that its duty was to address itself to the souls of men, aud to teach them to live on tho linos of truth and rlght oouaness. The broad and butter question will settle itself bolter without the interposition which keeps peoplo from helping thomselvos. Whorevor tho Gospel took root there would be better men aud womou, who would be, in times of extremity, content with tho crust that onabled thorn to maintain their independence.

The moaning of tho miracle of the loaves and fishes was In the circumstances uudor which it took place. One of the lessons taught was tho importance of watchlug the lino along which God does nis work. He is not impulsive. Jesun did nothing until He received from His disciples the acknowledgment that they wero helpless. Then, cognizant of their want He supplies with an abund unco beyond their needs.

Was not this the way In which God always acts lor us? Our Lord did not disdain tho smallnoss of tho resources, but mot the multitude on their level. He simply multiplied what they hail, but did uot transform It. Ho took tlmo to blass tho food, to consocrato It. There was no evidence of undue haste or hurry certainly He took tlmo for grace. It might be little we could do, but God domanded from us all our duty, that wo should take timo to acknowledge Him when about to partake of his mercies.

Tho love of order was also taught in the disposing of the multitude into groups and rows on tho grass. It took time, but It savod temper. Then He taught that becauso thero was abundance there need not be waste, for tho fragments were gathered up "twelve baskotsfull." So tho duty of economy was impressed upon all who participated. 'Ihe subject to bo considered noxt Sunday evening will be "Tho Stilling of the Totupost." PRAY FOR THE VOUMJ MEN. Kev.

A. B. KcniUn HcIIovck They Arc In a. Hud Wuy Spiritually. Hanson place M.

E. Church has a preacher now who is stirring things up. Uo Is kindllug all the furnaces and worklngonough old time furore to set tho plaeo on fire. Whon he prays he lifts all the congregation with hint and ho reaches up for mercy with both hands. Tho pooplo aro usod to keeping quiet, for it is many yoars since tho amen comer of Hanson plnco Church was an institution, but thoy cannot withstand his burning zeal and oarnostness, and tho Church now ochoos with "Yea, Lord," and "Even So" and "Amon," that como at present from the lips of a few, but will soou swoll to a groat chorus.

Tho preacher Is tho ltov. A. B. Koudig, re contly of Boston, a typical Yaukeo In face and form, with features that look as if thoy wero cut out of wood, and gray hair and beard cut and brushed a la tho old fashioned Methodist doacon. Dr.

ICeudig prouchod last ovoning to youug men ou tho suDjoct of "Tho Young Men in History and Homo." Ho said In substance: I nsk tho attention of parents to somo statistical facts concerning tho youug men. Thoy are one sixth of our entire population that is, thoro nro, iu the L'nltod Status, 10,000,000 mon betweou tho ages of 10 und 35. in this Stato tho prisoners iu tho Juilsaud pouituutlaries aro two thirds youug men. In one groat Jail that I havo on this list the average ace Is 24 among the mon. In ono city whoro thoro are 2,500 saloonB thoro are only 35 churches aud during tho past year not ono young man became a mombor of any Protestaut church.

The last annual roport of the police of Brooklyn, page 1, says that tho total number 01 arrests mado in this city last yoar was 25, TU'J. Boys hot ivoon the ages of lli and 20 eomprlso over .1,000 aud young naeu between 20 aud comprise more than 13,000, and therefore, out of tho total arrests of criminals tins city, tno onormous numoor oi 10,031 woro bolow 11 years of ago. Not only Is this 80, but thore aro somo still more astonishing facts. Of thoso criminal males thore wore 37 under years of ago and 397 undor the ago of 14. I hoard some ono say "Oh!" well, say it.

it is time to say "uui" ana tlmo to act. Timo to nail up all tho liquor saloons with nails so long aud bars so strong that nil hell could not undo them. Throe fourths of the total erimlual arrests mado during tho past year in Brooklyn wore of young meu aud women between tho ugos of 20 aud 40. Where are our young men drifting to? They aro going away from Jesus. Look to it, parents and rrienus, lor on them moro tuau on any otners ue peuds tho future of our civilization.

Look to it. Iu ono city, which is not west of tho Mississippi Klver, one fourth of tho total population of males botweon tho neos of 16 aud 35 was soon to enter the doors of tho local saloons botwoon tho hours of 8 and 12 o'clock on a elven Saturday ovoning. In unother city of 20,000 Inhabitants, where thero are 3,500 youug mou, only ono in forty of these are members of churches. Our young men aro preferring the world to tho church. Thoy aro sotting up their Idols of brass and wood aud going out to worship thom.

A few mouths ago a youug mau of Brooklyn camo suddonly Into possession of milllous of dol lars, aud was moro talkod about tuau coinmoaoro Vunderbilt when ho was alive. Everybody won dered wiioro ho got his mouoy and how he camo to have control of tho Cincinnati, uaytou anu uuio Uallroad. His course seemed brilliant aud secure aud he seemed to fill the highest niche in tho tem ple of finance, but ho hud ascended a ladder oi lies, and tho fall of Houry S. Ives was quick and crush lug. Youug men, if you dou't love truth aud stick to it I'll write "Villain" on your frontlet, and God will burn it iu so that every man who sees you may say, "Thoro goes a villalu." It Is a sayiug among many Americans, "Evory man has his price." Porhaps this is truo in many cases, but uot in all.

Whou trousou raised Its head lu tha laud the Confederacy offered Pettus $100,000 for iho uso of his paper. The editor scornfully replied thut he aud his paper wero not for sale, and tho Louisville Courier Journal still waved tho old flag. At the bamo crisis In tho nntlon's history, General Pope sent to Parson Brownlow, asking him to come over to tho Southern aide nud be chaplain of the general's own regiment. Tell General Pope," said tho sturdy old Methodist; tell Geuoral Pope that whou I want to go to hell I will thero direct aud not by way of the Southoru Confederacy." Savo tho youug men; turn mom Dacx; teacu mom mat truth and houor aud lovo for tho right aro not dead and that, thounh liei and fiaud may triumph for a whilo.thoy fail at tho last and tho most thoy do for tho man who wieiaou tneni is to maso nun ima mous. Tako David's hoys, Absalom and Solomon.

Solomon is revered tho world around; Absalooi cursed everywhere, as au unnatural son. Kvon now no Arab passoa tho grave of Absalom without throwing atonos at It aud cursiug Absalom. Absalom was the mau for our Niuetoonth Coutury soci ety, though. Ho would hnvo suitod the politicians. He would have won au election wuorever it was possible to wlu by fraud.

Ho would have proved as good a liar and bully aud choat as any. Truth and right wero more words to Absalom and he could not by any moaus realize the powor of good to resist evil. So he camo to be hanged. Solomon wa3 wise aud reverent aud pious and respectful to his futhor and truthful aud honest. So he came to bo glorious.

At the close of his sormou, on the Invitation of tho preacher, about two huudrod youug men who wautod to bo like Solomon stood up. BROOKLYN TO HE CHHISTIAMIZED. Or. Storm Without Doubt as to the Future o( the City. The Kev.

Dr. B. S. Storrs, the recently elected presldout of the American Board of Foreign Missions, preached yesterday In the Church of the Pilgrims, iu behalf of the Brooklyn City Mission. We aro told that tho truth of God has so little opportunity of being intelligently heard and accepted, the Gospel has no powor to contond against popular prejudice it is uot strong enough lo resist tho poworful pull of tho world, especially on the moro advanced pooplo; Iho beauties ot riches, Iho claims of literature and art, tho excitement of business and politics! attract so mnuy that Christianity can got no foothold.

This, thoy claim, is ospocinlly truo iu cities; not in heathen cities, but In this very city In which we live, a city which in our own limo husgrowu from 00,000 to probably 750,000, an easily moving population, drifting from one street to auother, with low nolghborly attractions and local affiliations. Wo must romombur also that this population takos lu a certain portion of foreign ole mont, and that tho Christian institutions havo not koptpaco at all with tho swift aud vast outstretch of tho city. Wo must romembor, too, that temptations have kept pace with tho growth of the city; iu many vases tho grog Bhops havo outstripped it. Walking up Fulton street ouo day, I saw a sign, "Vises aud chains sold bore," and I thought thut this might well bo said of many placos whoro meu are allured and onslavod. All thoso facts aro to bo rocogulzod, and whou we say that it is possible to make thlB a christian city, thoy say it would bo as easy to turn tho river into molten gold, or the bridge Into Jasper and pearls.

What aro a few tracts aud a mi. siouui now uud thon whon tho Sabbath is disregarded and tho Bible forgotten, and Anarchy and Socialism have a hoarlug whore iho gospel cannot bo heard You might as well Btand ou tho banks of a river whou tho freshet is pouring down aud attempt to stem tho current by casting iu a fow broken twigs. I admit tho difficulty, and lu tho face of that aud nil other facts 1 say: Be ye not afraid and dismayed by reason of this groat multitude; for tho battle is not yours, but God's." 1 want Jahaziol to tako my placo this morning and preach to you. God is certainly in the Qospol. No ouo can doubt that who admits His existence.

Tho whole tone ot it is so peculiar aud unique God is in tho Biblo. Its harmony, unity, holiuoss, niajosty, all demonstrate that fact. He is lu tho soul of man and makes Himsolf known at times whou tho soul seems to rise aud lift Itsolf. God cornea to man in ills providouco, as wo have seou lu seasons of revival ugain and again. God has all tho instruments of providouco under Ilia control.

Tako tho ltoman Empire God converted It and did not take many centuries to do it either. So the savage hordo thut invaded Homo. He conquered it and it passed away. His bauuors have nover gouo down lu any struggle. Now, I am not golug to despair when I soo bucIi workings in tho past, aud 1 shall not limit Omnipotouco now.

Whun I see a mighty current flowing from tho hills aud gathering strength as it goes, I do uot oxpoct to Beo it stop and suddouly disappear. Whou I see tho suu rise in all his mujosty I do uot oxpoct him suddonly to stop and decline toward tho oast. So tho powor of God is not to bo dofeatod. American genius can do many things, but It cannot do that. Sin lives loug, but God never dies; siu Is stroug, but God is almighty.

His power is not relaxed nor loosened, and In the end it is certain to bo triumphant. Tho city is capable of being mado Christlau. It must bo if the continent is to bo savod. The city is to be ChrHtiau lzod as surely as Christ diod on Calvary. If wo aro discouraged tho people of Jorusalom should robuko us; their dangor was far greater than ours.

Thoro was no powor iu Jerusalem to ineot tho hordos. Our work is not merely to carry a tract lo a tono moiit houso; not merely to tuke tho Biblo whoro it will bo roud; not merely to send a missionary among tho poor ail this lu part, but our real work is to mako thU a Christian city. That is a work which God glvos to us. God educated tho church by putting on it tho work of Cnrlstinulziug tho world, lie glvos to the churches of this city tho work of converting this city. "God wills It," was tho cry of tho first Crusade.

Let that bo our watchword. God will havo this city for His own, and It is our prlviloge to help him mako it so. THE WAGES OF SIN. Au JOiitflinh Cleriry lunu Preaches to Mr. iilick'si Former Congregation.

Since tho depnrturo of the Rev. Mr. Gulick from tho pnbtorai dutios of the Twelfth street l(o formod Church there has boon a noticeable diminution in tho attendance at its Sunday servlcos aud ospoclally at tho evening Borvlcos. A Tory small congregation assembled last ovoning to listen to tho Kov. William Lyttell, of Longtowu, Cumberland shire, Eugland.

Tho Bubject of his discourse was the "Wagos ot Siu." The Borvlcos were oponod with tni usual congregational eluglng, followed by the reading of tho Scripturo and prayer, after which tho preacher gavo his text. Death, he aald, ta the direct result of lu. Is not an absolute necessity that men should die spiritually. If thoy do it is an act of their own volition, but tho docroo has gone forth from tho Almighty that if yo slu yo must surely dio, and thoro is uo going back. God does not desire that any mun should die; salvation Is full and free; "whosoovor will may come." Tho preacher nssurod his hearers that thore was but ono period of probation, but ono timo to llvo or to die, and exhorted thom to so live that whoa the tlmo comes for thom to depart this Hie thoy win uo ut to go.

AN ATTACK ON LIQUOH DEALERS. What Dr. Pardinfftou Says oi (lie Pro prictor of SulootiN. The Kov. Dr.

Pardington nilUressed a large auilioiico Inst nlghl In tho Fleot streot Methodist Episcopal Church. Tho membora of Amulot Lodge of Good Templars woro prosont. Dr. Pardington spoke in favor of total absttuonco aud prohibition. Among otlior things ho said: Self Interest on tho part of the slaveowner lud him to feed and clothe his slaves.

By doing so ho in PULPIT Yesterday's Sermons in Some Brooklyn Churches. Dr. Talnitifre Talks or Spiritual Dependency The Rey. Mr. Behrends' Ssries of Dlscenrgoa AdTico to Yonnpr Men.

Kov. T. DoWitt Talmage preached the Gos pol of hoalth yostorday morning to the usual multitude. His tezt was: "Till a dart strike through Ms liver," Proverbs Somo of his expressions aro given bolow: Lei all good pooplo avoid the mistake of thinking that they are all wrong with God because they suffer from spiritual depression. Many a consecrated man has had his spiritual sky befogged and his uopo of Heaven blotted outaud himself plunged ohln deep Into the slough of deapoud and has said "I am all wrong with Ood; 1 have boon mistaken; I am a child of darkness when I thought I was a ohlld of light nobody could bo as gloomy as I am and be a Christian." And ho has gone to a minister for consolation and ho has gathered Flivoll's books and Cecil's books aud Baxter's books and read and road and read and prayod and prayed and prayed and wopt and wept and wept and groaned aud groaned and groaned.

My brother, your trouble Is not with your heart It Is a gas trio Ulsturbaucn or a rebellion of the liver. You want a physician moro than you want a clor gy man. It is not sin that has blotted out your hope of Heaven, but bile. It has not only yellowed your eyeballs aud turrod your tonguo and given you a hoaduehe, but swooped upon you with whole Mocks of dejections aud forebodings. The devil is after you.

Having fulled to despoil your character ho does tho next best thing for you; ho ruffles your pence of mind. Wlion he tells you you are not a forgiven soul, and that you are all wrong with God and that you nover will get to Hoaven, he lies. Having boen unable to keep you out of tho promised land of Canaan he is dotermlned that tho spies Bhall bring you no Jishcol grapes and you shall havo noihlug but prickly pears and crab apples. You aro as good a man now under the cloud as you were whon you used to rlso at 5 o'clock in the morning to pray aud sing Hallelujah, 'Tis Done," before breakfast. Edward Payson, so far up somotlmes on the mount of oxultatlou that it seems as if the centrlpotal foroo of tho earth would hardly detain him; at other times undor physical disorders so far down it seems as if the nethor world would dutch him.

Glorious William Cowpor was as good as good could be, and yot that good man was at one tlmo so depressed with physical disorder that had It not been for tho ralstako of a cab drivor who took him to the wrong place Instead of the river bank he would have committed suicide. Spiritual condition affected by physical condition what a significant opportunity for Christian physicians who fool tho pulso of tho body aud fool tho pulso of tho soul at ihe same time, and if moillolno bo noeded giving that, or if spiritual advlcu be uoeded giving that, calling upon the apothocary of earth and tho pharmaey of hoavou at the same time. That Is tho kind of doctor 1 want when I get sick ouo who can not only couut out tho right number of drops but who knows how to pray. That is the kind of a doctor I have generally had in my houso when sickness or death came. I do uot want any of your profligate athoistic doctors around my loved ones whon the balances of life aro trembling.

A doctor that can graduulo from the medical collage and in a dlssoctiug room ail through tho wondors of tho human mechanism aud yet find no God lu any of tho labyrinths Is a fool, and 1 do not want him around mo. But, oh, the Christian physicians! what comfort they brought to many of our households, and thoy should have our oarnost prayers and they should havo our best praiso. Oh, 1 thank God that thu number ot Chris tain physicians is all tho timo multiplying. Aud there are siudeuts of medical colleges hero to day, and I bloss you, aud I hall you, and I ordain you to tho tonder, tho beautiful, tho heaven descended, work of a Christian physician; and when you graduate from Loug Island Medical College with a diploma to administer to tho porishablo body, bo sure you tako iiIbo a diploma from the skies to administer to tho Imperishable spirit. Oh, that all Christlau physicians would uulte with all ministers of the Gospel iu porauadiug good people that their spiritual depressions uro not bocauso thoy aro all wrong with God, but becauso of physical disorder.

Do not charge to your heart the crimes of some other part of your body. Do not think you are on rho wrong road because it is not arborod with as fine a foilage or its banks as beautifully snowed undor with exquisite chrysanthemums as once. Tho road you aro on Is comiug out at tho shining gate, whother you walk on it with tho stride of an athloto or como up on crutches. Thousands of good people morbid about thoir buBlnoss, and morbid about their experience, and morbid about tho prosont, and morbid about tho future thoy nood this sormon. "Oh," Bays some man, "It Is absurd, for a man ought not to allow physical disorder to effect bis spiritual condition, aud a man ought to live so near to God that he can keep a porpetual sunshine." Good advlco.

But I warrant you that you, tho man who gives it, havo a healthy llvor. My subject has a groat and important bearing upon tho young. The theory is abroad that a mau must first sow wild oais acd afterward Michigan wheat. 1 break tho aelusion. Ail tho wild oats you sow you bow iu your llvor aud they can nover be pulled up.

Tho placo will be so occupied that there will be uo room for tho implantation of a righteous crop. All around us are splendid old men, erect, alort and clever minds at 80 how much wild oats did thoy sow botwoon 18 nud 30 years of ago Nouo, absolutely none. God seldom honors with old ago a man who in early lifo sacrificed swine on tho altar of his bodily temple. Trembling aud staggering along our streets to day are mou bent over aud docayod nnd promaturely old, simply bocause bofore they bad reached twenty five years of age thoy put Hen on their physical health; they gave a drst mortgage to tho dovil, and a socond mortgago to tho devil, aud a third mortgago to the dovil, and the devil Is foreclosing all those, and all that is left of that physical estate tho undertaker will soon put out of sight. Thirty years ago a dart struck through his llvor aud It is there yet.

God forgives, but outraged physical law never. It has a Siual, but no Calvary. Mark that. What! Will a man's body uevor in thlB world recover from early dissipation" Nover, never. How about the world to como Well, I think porhaps God may fix it up lu tho resurrection body so that it will not go limping through all eternity; but the liver ouco thoroughly damaged is damaged forever.

The physicians call it cancer of the liver, or fatty defeneration of tho llvor, or congestion ot the liver, or hardening of the liver; but Solomon puts all tho distresses in ouo figure and cries out, "Till a dart strike through his liver." Heslod iu his poem speuks of I'romothous as being fastened to a pillar aud of au eagle that camo to pack and clnw away at the liver day alter day and night after night, and iu tbo night timo, ho says, tho liver grow so that the devouring kept on year after year until af tor a while Hercules alow tho oaglo aud i'romothous wasiroleaied. And every young man by his dissipated habit Is assuring for hlraBelf a ferocity that will keep gnawing and clawing and pecking away at his llvor year Iu and yoar out and death is the only Hercules that will break tho power of its beak or unclutch its claw. Virgil and Homer wrote fables about people chained to rocks and vultures feeding on the liver. But it is not a fablo with somo persons who aro in this houso to day, but a terrific reality, a vulture feeding on the liver. That young man smoking cigarettes, poisonous cigarettes, that youug man smoking cigars does uot know he is getting for himself a smoked llvor.

Ah, my friends, do not got the Idea that you can after whilo correct all your early mistakes. You cannot. You open the battle against slu too late; you uover get over It. What makes that St. Louis express train threo hours late iu Jersoy City Why, Just after it started from St.

Louis thore was a detention of ton or fifteon minutes and tho train suf forod all the way on switched off on this track, switched off on that track, halted hero aud haltod thero. And every particle of strength you lose, oh, youug man, every portion of tlmo you loae, youug man, in the early iart of life will affect all tho attor Journey. The first twenty years will affect tho next fifty. I am preaching Ihe first Uospol of health you have hoard, perhaps, and, as It may be the Inst discussion of tills subject you will over hear, I chargo you in tho name of God and Christ aud usefulness aud otornal destiny to look after your health. If you die aud you will dio and upon thu tombstone of some of you au houest epitaph is placod, it will road something like this: lloro lies the victim of late suppers;" or your epitaph will read, Behold, what chi jken salad at midnight will do for a man;" or it will road, "I sat half a day with wet foot;" or it will read, "I thought I could do at 70 what I did at 20;" or it will road, "This is tho result of ton cigars a day;" or It will read, Went out without my ovorcoat and took this chill;" or It will road, lloro Is whoro I have ainckod my harvest of wild oats;" or it will road, I died from thin shoes last Winter;" or thoro will be no words for an epitaph, but tho stonecutter will chisel two figures on tho tombstone, the figure of a dart aud the figure of a llvor.

THE LOAVES AND FISHES. Dr. Behrcnds' jsormon in the Central Congrctrutiounl Church. The Central Congregational Church was filled to Its utmost capacity last evening by au audience who listened attentively aud eagerly to the sixth lu tho sorlos of discourses on the miraclos delivered by ltov. Dr.

A. J. F. Behreuds, pastor of tho church. Tho spools! topic considorod was "The Miracle of tho Loavos and Fishes," and tho text seloctod as a basis was the following: "And thoy did all oat and wero filled; and they look up the fragments that remained, twolvo baskets full." Matthew, Of the moro than thirty miraclos performed by Jesus Christ this was tho only ono recorded by all the ovaugolistn.

John mado record of tho first and of tho last, the beginning and the ending of miraclos. Dr. Bohrends had rocoivod a communication asking him how Mary, tho mother of Jesus, know Ho could work tho miracle at Cana of Galiloe. Tho slmplost explanation of this would bo that through all the early or premluisterlal lifo of our Lord, at home, among friends, in tho tomplo, whorovor He was, His mother was a witness of His eouduct and His transactions, of tho integrity of His character and the purity of Ills life, of Ills wonderful knowledge and tho ovidoneos of powor displayed by Him, and boing thus familiar with Him aud remembering tho testimonies which poured In upon Him lu ills earliest infancy from devout old Simoon and other worshipful poraonagos, she doubtloss felt tho assurance of His diviun character and His groat mission. It was said that Mary hid these things iu hor heart," and, although a rollcont woman, Bho was novortlioless conscious of what might bo ox pectod ut Ills hands when opportunity should offer.

His first miraele was at tho bogiunlng of His public ministry. By that tlmo Ho was known aud famed throughout Galileo. Tim Scribes and Phari seos had huled Him secretly and when Ho healed tho impotent man on tho Sabbath day, tho ono gom which thoy watched with Jealous caro, thoy were overwhelmed, aud whon Ho said to tho man: "Take up thy bud nud walk," Ho had glvon them the sharpost weapon with wliich thoy sought to Justify their hutrsd. due and a half yoars had elapsod from tho working of His first miracloand ono year lator Ho was betrayed, trlod, condemned and put to death. In tho record ot tho miracle of tho loavos and fishes was tho evidence of tho marited popularity our Lord had attained.

Ho heard of the killing of Johu the Baptist and determined to bo alone, but tho people had hoard It, loo, and thoy followed 111m in multitudes. Tho diBclplos had come to Him first to express thoir Indignation. It seemed to them that Ho was the ouo man who could avenge that Ilerodlau murder, the taking off of him who had horaldod nnd glorified Jesus. How did Ho receive thoir expressions? What did Ho say? "Lot ua go Into a desert placo for a whilo." Thoy needed rest. Thoy needed to bo calmed and pacified and it was proposed to get away from tho gathering multitudoof 5,000 persons, alt hanging upou Him lu the expectation that He, the Messiah, would assert His powor against tho tyranny and dospotlsm of tho Koman government.

Ho gave them to understand that their ideas of tho Messlahshlp were uot iu accord with Ilia. His was not the kingdom they had pictured. His mission was to save men from tho results of their sins. Thoy know lie could allay the Roman aud doubtloss wore disappointed aud angry becauso Ho did uot at once intorpose His hand and bring tho enemy to nought. The disciples too had ovlnced a disposition to shake in thoir faith toward Him alter tho multitude was dlsporsed, for Uo snld unto thorn, "Will ye also go away It was easy for us, In the last part of tho Nineteenth Century, to criticise those peoplo for thoir course, but If we had been undor the tyranny of Herod and had ox pectod tho long promised but few of us would probably havo boon wlsor.

Whon tho anti elavery controversy riigod.in;thi country how many men out of tho whole community had tho courage stand up for freedom Lot us remember how hard it Is in a groat moral crisis to find mou roaily to gathor to tho standard. Lot us not bo too novure In our Judgment of the men of Galilee. Thero was much to be admired iu tho heroism of the litllo baud who clung to tho Iird under the circumstances. I'oter was worthy of lovo for his confession, "Lord to whom shall wo go? Thou hast tho words of eternal life?" Thoro was spirltuul Insight here. So Ho gathered this little baud closer to Hlai and taught thorn In tho way of usefulness.

should bo observed that miracles had nn Incidental und BUburdlnato place iu the thought and ministry of Christ. They wero uot the most remarkable features lu ills ministry. Ho was always glad to receive the homage of His followora without tho miracles, as He acknowledged when He said to Philip, Old Soldier and Firemen at Funeral of I Jicir Comrade. Rlcliard t'aiuerou. Tho most numerously attended funeral sorvico ovor witnessed In New Brooklyn was that ovor tho romaius of Richard Cameron, which took placo yesterday.

Thousands wero unablo to oven ontor the house at 47 Bainbridgo street. Among those who congregated lu tho block were CommlB sloner George Iticurd Conner, Deputy Commissioner Moore, Chlof Euginoer Novins, District Engmoer McGroaty, a detail of two meu from each company in tho paid Firo Dopartmout; the Veteran Yolun. teor Firemen, to tho number of 150, under the mar shalship of Munson S. Brown; tho Volunteer Firemen's Association, 150 strong, commanded by Justice Johu Courtney; Rankin l'oat, G. A.

100 strong, Including the Drum and Flfo Corps; the Ono Hundred and Thirty ninth Regiment of Veterans, 75 mon, with drums and fifes; Post 10, G. A. 210 men; tho trustees of tho Widows' aud Orphans: Fund, tho Order American Firemen, O'Connor's Band, of this city, and tho Vau Uouton Drum Corps, of Jersey City. Tho ltov. Dr.

Hamilton, of the Embury Mothodist Episcopal Church, ofllclated. He read tho sorvlces for tho dead and feelingly alluded to tbo Ufo and services of tiio deceased. When services in the house wero at an end tho casket, covered with flowers, was borne on the shouldors of men to the hearse, and while the band piaj ed a dirge the membors ot each association marched by with uncovered heads. Wbou all was ready for tho solemn march liuo was again formed und, headed by the detail from the paid Firo Department, the whole procession movod through McDouough street, to Marcy avonue, to Now York avenue, to Herkimer street, past the homo of Engine 14, ot which Mr. Cauioron was foronmu, back to Fulton streot, and on out to Evorgroeu i Cemetery, whoro Dr.

Hamilton read tho committal. Then all that was mortal of the veteran fireman and soldier was laid at rest. Tho major portion of the procession fell Ut of line after passing tho engine house, but many old soldiers and flremon followed as individuals to tho comotcry. Among those at the grave were Alexander Jamison, J. K.

McGee, W. G. Cheney, William Farrell, Aleck Stewart, Patrick Crook. Thomas Craig nnd Samuol Dsrllngame, of Engine II, of the old Volunteer Firo Department; William Brown and G. C.

Gunning, of the Widows' and Orphans' Board of Trances; tho whole of Engine Company 11, of Ihe present Dopartmout, and many of the military associations. IUKLI'D AX UNI.OCKKD SAFE. Tho bakery shop of Kudolph C. Batche, at 483 Manhattan avenue, was, somo timo yootorday morning, entered by burglars, who took $100 from tho safe, which had been left opon. Colonel Tool Ochiltree and John Cham berlin at Work for ChariiicN.

Waskinoton, D. November 10, lf87. Hon. Tliomm P. Ochilt oa: 1)i Sin 'or number of years I 1)hto IllGClNS German LaCvdiiy Soap, and have found it both sprrice abie and ouomu thai the lirm ot CilAKLES HlttLil.vs S'N, proi ri' tors 'f fauious ao.ip, have to nnn.nK ttie clmntablo iustiluti'ms in and about Nvw Yt rk Citj, in proportion to tile number of C.

LaunI'KY So.u' wrnpp. rs lii hl by each institution, and although not a resi ut of New York City, but desiring lo the oi chinty, I have indti ueted my servants to sure the wrapper and fonvard them to you, askiiu; that you use your own judgement aud send them to s' itution you think most deserving. 1 am yours reapectfuliy, John Cll.Ml:KliLlN. New YortK, November 17, 18 7. Johu Chamberlin, Deaii Sin In reply to your favor of this dale, Ivrould say that will cheerfully take charge of Hmol.NS' tir.ll man LaCNPHV Soap wrappers, which you proposo to puil me, and will donate thom, as yon suggest, to some deserving charitable institution.

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Piorropont, free Bpeech had perished at the foot of the Nelson monument. This reflection came too late to avoid the little unpleasantness of a week ago, but it served to prevent a similar outbreak yesterday. Tho advocates of revolution wisely argued that it was better to go to Hyde Park, where nobody opposed their going, than to make auother effort to set up the Ebeuozer of reform in Trafalgar square. Of course they camo to this conclusion reluctantly. The very fact that thoy were forbidden to enter tho square was ono of their chief reasons for attempting to force an entry.

Even men who are capa blo of assimilating tho sublime programme of "liberty, fraternity, equality" have a strong leaven of the old Adam in them that mingles with their virtues a largo share of pigheadedness. This is what ailed the enthusiasts upon tho occasion of their meeting last Sunday. Thoy romombered the gleaming b.iyouets of 1,10 grenadiers of the guard, and yesterday thoy wore more amonnble to reason. An Imposition liiposeil. The Eagle greatly regretB that, owing to an imposition practiced upon itself, it should havo done injustico to a number of estimable citizens by a false report of a dinner in this city last Thursday oveuing.

It appears that not any of tho devices and insiguia represented to have been employed on tho occasion wero really used. Instoad of a travesty the banquet at which Mr. H. N. Mover presided was an entertainment tasteful in its conception and execution, a well deserved compliment to an excellent and public spirited citizen, Mr.

J. M. Hopper. It was in all respects such an affair as would be provided by a social or business society composed of any gentlemen in the city. The Eaole can only ronow and emphasize its regret.

It has already takou caro that a like imposition shall not bo practiced upon itself and its constituency. Drowned in Dover Straits. Of tho 214 persons who ombarked on the W. A. Scholten from Botterdam for New York last Saturday morning 131, or nearly two thirds of tho whole number of passengers and crew, are dead.

The Dutch steamer collided with another and smaller steam vessel, that was heavily laden with coal, and foundered iu twenty minutes. Tho blamo seems to fall upon tho captain of tho Rosa Mary, who was cruising without lights through a donso November fog. Captain John H. Taat, the intrepid commander of the Scholten, rose to the emergency, covered his name with glory in a brief space of time by his noble efforts to preserve order and alleviate the loss of life, and when he knew that his ship must sink and nearly all on board must swim or die, ho kept at his post, superintending the disembarkation of panic stricken passengers, until the water closed over his head. Tho destruction of so many steerage passengers distributes through the communities where they lived an amount of sorrow equal to that which would have resulted from the death of a like number of cabin passengers, but the net commercial loss of that class of lives is not so accurately recognized.

The Scholten carried 158 steerage and 4 cabin passengers. They were bound for the United States to become producing rather than spending factors in the cooimuuity. Tho relative usefulness of these two classes of persons is scarcely an opportune question, for tho disaster will bo felt by old neighbors of the Schol ten's passeugcrs in Holland more severely than iu this country. It is a sad reflection to make, but it is reported that bodies recovered wore mostly those of women, while tho number of men, who floated with cork belts uniil rescued by tho steamer Ebro, was disproportionately large. The Authors' Show." By a curious coincidence, just as disaster is reported to have overtaken one show another is announced for a performance in full force in New York.

There is this marked difference between tho two exhibitions that, while the circus is candidly a "show," does not pretend to be anything else, iu fact insists that it is a show" not only, but "the greatest on earth," the members of tho Chickering Hall Company would probably foci deeply wounded by the intimation that their appearance next week is a mere matter of personal publicity. Yet with all duo respect to the eminent gontleinen concerned it would be hard to classify the event in any other way. Public opinion would no doubt favor an international copyright if only the authors and the publishers could come to an agreement upon such a measure. The popular instinct of justice discovers no difference between the theft of an original book and that of a new broom, and tho fact that tho maker in either case dwells in a foreign country does not affect the moral quality of the robbery. But the pooplo are not wrought to such a pitch of enthusiasm on tho subject that they would crowd a looture room to hoar it anonymously discussed.

They might go to listen to addresses relating to the question by leading men of letters. But this would involve more labor than the leading men of letters who announce the Chickering Hall benefit for the Copyright fund aro inclined to give. Instead of taking the trouble to furnish something of au intellectual attractiveness they propose to appear as readers. They can hardly holp knowing that this is preposterous. They are not olocutiouists they are not public readers.

All of them have written something worth reading, but the suitable sceno of tho perusal is tho closet. This truth was especially emphasized in the case of Mr. William Dean Howells, who, fancying that certain brilliant dialogues of his composition wero dramatic, procured tflcm to be produced upon the stage, with such results that ho was constrained not only to denounce the critics who pronounced upon them, but which is a far more serious thing to bocoino a critic himself. But even if their works are proper ones to be read in public there aro numbers of professional persons who could read them moro effectively than their authors. On tho other hand most if not all tho members of tho company might deliver more or less interesting addresses.

Mr. Georgo William Curtis has been ono of the foremost orators of tho Republican party ever since its formation. Mr. Egcleston was formerly a preacher and in a celebrated trial described himself picturesquely as a clergyman "lying around loose." Mr. Cable might repeat ono of his Biblo class lessons.

Mr. Clemens could at least furnish an after dinner speech. Mr. Lowell, although copyright is tho subject, might substitute for it at the last moment "Democracy," tho topic with which he was expected to entertain a Chicago audience when he gavo to its indignant surprise, a Shaksperean "chestnut." When, instead of doing anything like this these men of letters employ tho reading of selections from their own works as an excuse for exhibiting themselves to gratify public curiosity, they aro really engaged in tho "show business." It may bo a novel and rofmod "show" it must bo as it originated in Boston; but it is still a "show." It might be made far more effectivo and crowd compelling if tho authors should throw aside their books and employ ono of their number as "lecturer" on tho "curiosities." If Mark Twain should assume the part of the late Artemus Ward and deliver a new "wax figger" lecture, accompanied by a piano in a corner of tho room, he might pack Chickering Hall for moro than two afternoons. O'Brien Victorious.

Tho great Irish question Has O'Brien recovered his trousers has beon answered. Tho faithful historian to whoso pen wo wore indebted for the full particulars of the infamous larceny which deprived Mr. O'Brien of his outer garments and left him a trembling victim of British perfidy and outrage in his underclothes, enriches tho thrilling chronicle by another chapter showing how a complete now suit was smuggled into the patriot's cell, and describing the consternation produced among tho jail authorities by tho discovery of this triumph of Irish wit and ingenuity over English brutality and barbarism. It is not oar intention to attempt even a synopsis of Mr. Gill's account of this clover achievement, but merely to placo on record tho fact for the gratification of all who sympathize with the great movement which Mr.

Gladstone leads, and for the confusion of thoso who harbor the idea that tho devil of British despotism is not so black as ho is painted. Every right minded American will feel all tho moro comfortable in his own clothes since learning that tho uncouquored O'Brien at Inst has clothes ho is willing to wear, and that he is no longer obliged to fight tho unequal bat St. Ann's Church in Sayville Nearly Completed. It Will be the First Stone House of Worohip in Suffolk Conntj Judge Bartlett to Sit in Special Term Real Estate Sales and Improvements. The only stone church in Suffolk County, the new St Ann's (Episcopal), at Sayvlllo, Is drawing near completion.

Tho style Is Norman. The church is a memorial to the lato Mr. Suydam aud is to be a gift to the Dioceae of Loug Island from Mr. Walter L. Suydam and Mr.

Fulton Cutting. Tho stained glass windows will bo presentod by Mr. Cutting. Tho seven ovor the chancel will coat A rose window in tho front gablo will cost $100. The walls aro of Connecticut graystone.

Tho iutorior will be finishod in yellow pine and oak and tho walls will bo plastered and tinted. A handsome leetern of polished brass has beon donated. The parish has a spocial organ fund of $2,000 and tho organ is boing built by the Hoosevolt Company. The old church will be remodeled for a Sunday school aud horso shods will be erected. SFKCIAI.

TF.KM OF COURT. Judge Bartlett will hold a Bpeclal term of tho Supreme Court at Long Island City, boeinning on Monday, 28th. Thore Is a culondar of sixteou cases as follows: Peter M. Wilson vs. Annie F.

Darrugh and othori, II. Corey vs. Samuol D. Itoe, Johu C. Onderdonk vs.

Audrow J. Ondordouk and others, Morris Fosdick vs. Charles McXeil and oth ors, Lydla M. Eastman vs. Charles Jones and Daniel Kelly, Alico C.

Coxo vs. Franklin Coxo, llon riette Graham Youngs, vs. the Knickerbocker Trust Company, Charles Davison vs. Wallace I'oarsall and others, Ell.abot'i Gins Mohllg vs. Adam Gins and olbors, Jliry Higgiu vs.

Lucy I. Smith, Edward A. Young vs. Johu M. I'eck aiid Adelino A.

Peck, the Hubert Goer Bauk vs. Larry Sluthort and others, Aaron A. Dograuw vs. Elizabeth S. Hogoman, Samuel D.

Thompson v. William 11. Clark, Julia l'ome roy vs. Long Island City, llopkin Williams vs. David Itichards.

Tho most interesting case is that of Coxo vs. Coxo, for au absolute divorce, the defendant being promlueut clubman ot ew York who has a country house at Bay Side. IMl'ltOVEMKNTS IN THK TOWNS. Mr. D.

Roberts is layiug out uow avouuos at Hinsdale preparatory to erecting a nurabor of cottages. The Methodist Society at DutchiCills is pro paring to erect a uew ediflco at a cost of $3,000. Morcoiu Thoma3, ot Brooklyn, is preparing the plans. Klchard Gipson's cottagn at Far Hockaway is in frame. At Averno, Uockaway Boach, Charl os Crabbe is having six cottages erected, coating $4,000 oach, one of which ho will occupy himself.

A hotol is to be built at the samo place which will cost $31,000. Firo cottagos are in conrso of oroction at liandall I'ark, Frceport S. P. Hinckley is to have a fmo rosidouco built at CeJarhurat, aud so many sites have been sold it is oxpectod that twenty uew residences will be erectod during the Winter Porhaps next woek ground will bo broken in Port Washington for a uew Baptist church. Ilorbort Wilson will build a now residence at Islip.

Tho Mothodist Society in Southampton is building a now parsonage. It will cost $3,000. C. II. Vaughn ia building a pretty coltngo on lionry street, Sag Harbor, and William Balky Is buildiug at Shelter Island.

KECENTllEAL ESTATE SALES. Bothpago Francis J. Cogswell, oxocutor to Martin Meyer, two parcels, $7,100. Far Uockaway Samuol B. Althouse, to Johu S.

O'Connor, four lots, Loug Island City Maria J. Livingston to Laura A. Gray, plot on East Third streot, $7,500. Queons Emma L. Holm to Abram S.

Borgon, plot on Franklin avenue, $6,000. Henrietta Coruoll to Edward J. Morse, twenty five acres ou the Jericho turnpike, $15,000. Lawrence Albort C. Chapin to Robert F.

Weir, plot on Central avenue, $23,000. Uockaway Boach Joseph Heisir to Urban Kneer, parcel, $1,000. Tho same to Georgo A Braudretb, parcel, $6,100. Jamaica Harriet L. Dunham to Johu II.

Briuk erhoff, plot on Shslton avenue, $1,800. Clara Atkinson to Elizabeth J. Lester, plot on tho Jamaica turnpike, $5,000. Juntos B. Smith lo Maria B.

Mader, plot on Highland avenae, $2,030. Baysido Frederick Storm to Leah M. Wersan, plot ou Fifth street, $2,200. Newtown Lewla W. Ferth to Cliarlea A.

Moinlk helm, plot on Juniper avenuo, $2,229. Rockaway Bench John M. Stewart to Ilonry Nelson, plot at avonue, $2,500. Ann Eliza MorrUon to Mary E. Rulaud, plot on Eldert avenue, $2,300.

Long Island City John Schlmpf to Alarceila C. Sheridan, plot on Flushing avenue, $2,000. College Foiut Abraham Hewlett to Ferdinand Geutner, plot on Fifteenth street, $2,500. Flushing William C. Buhrmau to David L.

Vau Nostraud, parcel at Little Nock, $3,000. Long Island City David F. Atkins to Cynthia A. Brown, two acres on Fifth avenue, $3,000. Yaphauk Edward L.

Gerard to Houry E. Woodward, ono aero on Patchogue road, $3,500. Islip Mary L. Hart to Eudora J. Vandereau, fifty five acres on Great South Bay, $15,000.

Port Jefforaon Charlea V. Randall to John F. Hawkins, land and ahlpyard, $2,719. Islip Edward P. Day to FroJorick C.

Day, land on thn railroad, $3,550. Edward P. Day to George K. Day, adjoining land, $3,500. GBNBRAL NEWS NOTES.

Congressman ISolmonl will soon leave for Washington. He is in oxclleont spirits. Union Collogo has mortgaged some of its property In Long Island City to tho Union Trust Company of New York for $20,000. Work on tho now Methodist Church at Islip will not be commenced until Spring. The olectric railway between East New York and Jamaica will bo in operation early noxt wook.

The financial condition of the Queens County Agricultural Society is uot so bad as reports painted it. The disaster caused by the rain on the occasion of the fair imposed a loss of only $1,300, and the society has a fund of $3,700 In bank. CENTRAL LABOR UNION. Mr. Liiavy Fails to Appear and Itlr.

O'Connell Talka. The Central Labor Union hold its regular mooting yesterday afternoon in the Labor Lyceum, on Myrtle street. Tho hall was crowded. A dole gato trom tho Thomas Jefforsou Club occupied tbo chair. Tho cause of tho large attoudnnco was due to tho fact that Mr.

Leavy, of the firm of Loavy Britton, was oxpectod to be present, to givo his sido of tho trouble existing between the linn and tho mou uow on strike. Mr. Loavy did uot appear, however, but Mr. OX'onnoll was there, with his war paint ou. Having beon grautod tho prlvilogo of tho floor, Mr.

O'Connoll said I came here to day from District Assembly 19, to gothor with McKouna and Greene, to ask your moral support in this light of our organization against tho firm of Leavy A llrltton. I heard that Mr. Loavy was to bo hero to day, aud I camo hero to confront him, but as I expected, ho has not got the cournge or tho manliness to present himself and oxplntn his side. 1 don't want the press to put mo lu a falso light boforo tho public, as they havo bcou doing. Tho AVio l'ork Slar has maliciously lied against mo.

I am but a poor working man, getting a few dollars a week. I irork for a living and have a family to support and I cannot afford to be dragged through tho press continually, unless It is in a fair way. Mr. O'Counoll weut on to describe the cauao of tho striko In tho brewery of Leavy Britton, which has already boon given iu tho Eaui.e in full. Mr.

MeKonnn, ot the commlttoe Tho firm of Leavy Britton aro to blamo lu this striko, aud they havo proved themselvos antagonistic to organized labor. We havo the affidavits of twenty men who aro on tho stroot to dny, who wore told by Mr. Leavy If thoy did not leave tho union they would havo to loave tho brewery, and they took tho latter alternative. Mr. O'Connoll It has beon said that I am paid by tho Long Island Brewery to try aud down Loavy Britton.

That Is a falsehood. Mr. Greene I am told that tho Central Labor Union would like to get acquainted with mo. Now I am here. I am the mau who ordered tho striko in Leavy Britton's Brewery.

I callod upon Mr. Loavy to try aud soltle tho troublo, but he always managed to bo conveniently "sick." He is a slippery customer. I met Mr. Loavy, aud ho said In au iutervlow that ho did not want to havo anything to do with tho organization, and would not listen to tho committee that waited ou him. A committee from Jourueymon Brewers' No.

1 was grautod tho privilege of the floor and entered against tho admittance of Mr. O'Conuell as a dologate, on account of his boing the cause of getting inon out of work in T. C. Lyman's Brewery, New York. Tho Grievance Committee reported progress on Iho admittance of Mr.

O'Counoll as a delegate. The committee to reorganlzo the Building Trades Section reported that au orgauizatlou had been effected and that nftoon organizations had responded to tho call. Tho committoo to settle tho difficulties existing botweon the hall proprietors and tho Waiters' Union, nid that tho bosses woro willing to hire union men and pay union wages, but they would uot sign any contract. Credentials wore recoivod from Painters' No. 2, Eccentric Unginoers' No.

3, Lathers' No 1, Lumber Handlers' nnd tho Uriah S. Stephens Association. Thero woro ten dologatos obligated. A committee from tho Progrosslvo Cigar Mnkor asked tho Central Labor Union to try and tettlo a diflloulty oxlsting in Schllloln's shop lu Now Y'ork, where the meu aro locked out The troublo ia between the Intoruatiouals and tho Knights of Labor. A committee was appointed and will immediately Investigate.

Tho following amendmont to the constitution was adopted: That a commlttoe of seven be appointed who shall bo kuown as a Legislative Committoo and whoso duty it shall be to look after the legislation in the luterosts of Labor and of tho citizens of this city and county in tho Board of Aldermon, tho Board of Supervisors of Kings County, the Legislation of the Stato of New Y'ork and the Congress of the United States; also, to report from timo to time on bills that thoy may think aro for the best In orest of the people. AGAIN ADJOURNED, 'The Hearing tbo Case Against Richard Walters. Richard Walters, who lives on Blake avenue, noar Oeeau, In the Twenty sixth Ward, was to havo boen tried beforo Justice Sehielletn this mor lug, on a serious chargo preferred by 6 year old Jennie Corkhill, but on motion of Counsellor Pink for tho detouso, an adjournment was taken until to morrow inorulng. Tho chargo against Walior is shocking in Its details, and If proven against him will be the means of sending him to prison for a long term. His friends and neighbors who have known him for years placo implicit conlldonco iu his iutogrity nevertheless, aud are positive that he will bo ublo to prove his Inuoceuce ou tho hearing.

Walters is 05 years old, has beon married thlrty flvo years and 1ms a family of gcowu up children. IIKLP FOli A I1UU('H GUILD. A musical and dramatic entertainment will be given to morrow evening at Kobert iou's Hall, Gates avouuo, corner of Downing street, of tho Church of tho Kof.irraation, lor local charities in which the church guild takos an actlro hand. Tho programme ill includo a recitation, by Ml.s Mario Bryor; a soprano solo, by Miss Minnie IlolUa; a piano duet, by Frossard and and tho f.u'o. "My Uncle's Will," by Miss V.

N. Drlukor nud U. Cuuulugltam aud W. O. Lowe.

Eaclc Urmicli Ottlc.cn 1,2 27 Bedford Avenue, Sear Fullou Street, 433 FiftU Avenue. Near Ninth Street, and 41 IJrotuitvay, Brooklyn. E. D. Adccrtisements for Vie week day edition dill lc reed ted up to 11 :30 o'clock A.

and for tic Sunday edition up to 10 P. M. on Saturdays. Let Nr. Berry Be IliniKClf.

The reports which are received concerning the Kev. Charles W. Berry not worked up In order to make a fuvoniblo impression. They arc manifestly candid and correct. One conclusion to be drawn from them is that Mr.

Uerry is a strong, eloquent, earnest and very eflicieut man. Another is that the fart was not suspected by the religious public until a sories of events which, whether regarded OS accidental or providi ntial, were Significant, revealed the gentleman to the view pud to the estimate of the worU now the "fad Z'lymouth's pnr.sk iouers is to not" "I(l to augment even though the Augmentation be done nrtilicially as points of resemblance as may be Mr. Berry and the late Ilonry Ward Jleecher, and to emphasize what may be termed Ike Beecher incidents in the matter of calling tho Englishman to the church. Borne of these incidents hardly need emphasis. The first.

Americans to see and to signalize the hortatory force of Mr. Berry, which was made evident in an address which he delivered to Sir. Beecher, were Henry Ward Boechcr and James B. Pond. Their relation to one another and cither's relation to Plymouth influences cannot be exaggerated.

The first to lecord Mr. Beechor's estimate of Mr. Berry tvas the lecture agent, who put that estimate into a book. He was nlso the first to suggest to the Advisory Committee that Mr. Berry rko was coming to America anyway be invited ttpecupy Plymouth Church a suggestion efffon which the proper authorities prompt lyand successfully acted.

It is well, perhaps, in the interest of the truth that the beginnings of' credit and responsibility in the Berry Plymouth matter be thus definitely fixed, so that no factitious claims concerning those beginnings can be made causes of celebrity, revenue or notoriety, as they were in the case of Mr. Beccher's coming here and as they 'always will be with reference to that case, liogiis assertions in the premises having crystallized into the adamant of mendacity which, in this instance, is called "history." Thus the first striking estimate of Mr. Berry was that of Henry Ward Beecher. The recorder of that estimate and the suggester that Mr. Berry be invited to preach here was James B.

Pond. The American genesis of Mr. T( rry belongs to them. Other action was sequential and secondary. That other action may and it is to be hoped will result happily, but it should not be permitted to get mixed up with, to supersede or to eclipse the primary action in the case.

The effect of this primordial relation of Mr. Beecher himself to Mr. Berry's advent in America is seen in tho endeavor to force artificial resemblances of an alleged Beecher Bort "in tho subsequent proceedings." The public is informed that the call to Mr. Berry Was drafted in the same house and at the Banie desk in which and at which the original call to Mr. Beecher was drafted, and was (Signed, with others, by one of those who Bigned that original call.

Of course, if this fce so, it was made so purposely, and the effect is a little impaired by the announcement or discovery of it, as if it were an acci ilent. To complete the parallel therein implied, all the circumstances surrounding that Original call would have to bo duplicated Brouiid the present one. a suggestion so obviously ridiculous that the few "coincidences" already arranged and protruded are made Wear a slightly theatric character. It will be best for all concerned to limit the Beecher side of tho contemplation of Mr. Berry to the single and significant fact that Mr.

Beecher heard him and highly commended him. The congregation to which Mr. Beecher preached have ratified that estimate Of Mr. Beecher for themselves by hearing and calling Mr. Berry.

That is a strong feature because it is true. That is a sufficient statement to make, because it is ihe only true and Unforced fact in the case Beyond that, Mr. Berry will be successful exactly to the degree to which he suggests and expresses himself rmd does not suggest or attempt to suggest Mr. Beecher. No imitator is needed in Plymouth Church.

No would be imitator of an inimitable man is needed there. Mr. Berry could not have achieved the nucccssea which lie has achieved, and would not be capable of the work expected of him in Plymouth Church. Were he, or were he regarded to be, an imitator of Henry Ward Beecher. To employ "just once" an Irishism, there have been two "second Henry Ward Btechcrs" in Brooklyn, though beyond a slouch hat, a rolling gait and long hair the resemblance was not apparent to Others than mushy men and silly women.

The "seconds" were not a success here. The first one of the two did not win the respectable place to which his entirely moderate talents entitled him, until he elaborately demolished the merely physical evidences on which the weakening resemblance was based. The eecond left the theological stage for the theatrical stage, and is not a shining success even Et "one night stands." Mr. Berry should be Subjected to no such fatal comparisons and should be saved from such catastrophes. There is a sense in which the new hoped for pastor may suggest and supplement Mr.

Beecher's work in so far as that work can be formulated while still being himself. Mr. Beecher was an exemplar of independency as distinguished from Congregationalism in its received sense. If Mr. Berry chooses to be BO.

too, the congregation will doubtless sustain him in being so, just as it would sustain liim, if he should let the reuniting forces in diffused Congregationalism, like patience, iiave their perfect work, permitting the rhi fraternity to reassert itself in the new era, by. the healing influences of interest Bud of time. That is a desirable result, but gush would only retard it and effort to precipitate it would only defeat it. By a paradox, Mr. Berry would follow Mr.

Beecher's path whether he inclined toward tho brotherhood of Congregationalism or struck out a lone course in Independency. The earlier Beecher did tho former and the later Beecher did the latter, and the new pastor pould be equally deferential to his predecessor, if he did either. The same remark holds good with regard to Mr. Berry's pursuing or avoiding Mr. Beoch er's theological road.

Whoever demands that Mr. Berry should adopt Mr. Beecher's theological views should hold himself obliged clearly to set forth what those views wero and What they were not. That is a task Mr. Beecher himself never undertook or encour Bged, nor did ho make any man the legatee or administrator of his theological estate nor would he have assumed to do so, except in the most wayward condition of his feeling US a humorist.

Mr. Beecher's was not the mind of a theologian or of a logician. He was a poet let loose in theology, and his Views were as incapable of formulation ns the lay of June's sun on a bank of flowers. The thing he saw in God was Love. That which lie sought for tho race was Brotherhood.

"What he tried to create or magnify in the individual was Manhood. Under these grand generalizations his often superficially conflicting statements arranged themselves in spiritual harmony. The editor who tried to deduce any One system of theology from the written data left by Mr. Beecher would find that, with perfect ease and equal citation, ho could deduce ell of them. Tho man was the modifier, magnifier, temperer or illuminator of the Variant message.

Of no other man should tho endeavor bo required to make a composite of Mr. Beecher's thoology, a proposition at which Mr. Beecher himself would have laughed, and endeavors to accomplish which havo been limited to ambitious mediocrities who have nly ridiculously wrapped themselves in grotesque clouds of self contradictory verbiage. The spirit in which wo work is the chief 8iatter. If Charles W.

Berry brings out what him to see and to say, iu tho spirit with For threatening tho life of a reporter in New York ono of Herr Most's Socialistic followers has been sent to jail, bocause of failure to provide bail ponding trial. The reporter went into a Socialistic stronghold, otherwise a beer saloon, in the discharge of uis duty, and, being recognized, was cnBt out of the door and his life threatened. Verv properly ho made complaint against his assailant who, when taken to the station house half an hour lator, flourished a pistol. It is to bo hoped that this particular Anarchist will get his deserts. Men who threaten life under nny circumstances subject themselves to arrest, but when iu addition to this thoy advocate tho wholesale destruction of property, as do Most's disciplos, thoy should be made to understand that there is a limit to patience and that it is not necessary to wait until an act of violence is committed before tho law asserts itself.

A term on Blackwell's iBland, at least, would seem to be in order in. this particular case. Pandemonium reigned in Bridgeport, last night when the Winter quarters of Bar num's menagerie wero burnod. Tho firo was caused by the accidental explosion of a watchman's lantern in a placo littered with straw and tho other inflammable materials common in stables. Thirty elephants, threo lions and ono hippopotamus wero savod, but they woro burned so that somo of them may have to bo Other animals of carnivorous habits broke from tho blazing buildings and terrified people in the streets, injuring many unwary spectators.

Tho police wero kept busy minting down lions and tigers that ran out of tho flames maddened with pain. Whilo these tor rific scenes were being enacted in Bridgeport Mr. Barnum slept serenely in a Now York hotel, having given orders nover to be disturbed in caso of tiro, and his agents straightway began negotiations for a new menagerie. Foot ball is a game that affords the widest outlet for tho oxuberanco of youthful vigor, but as an incentive to Christianity its merits wero not extolled until yesterday, when the rival players of Yale and Princeton Colloges met in the hall of the Young Men's Christian Association Building, in New York City, to vouch for tho religious spirit that pervades this fierce sport. Tho prizo "rusher" of the Princeton team held that the best collegiate athletes were Christians, from which fact it may be inferred that no hard feelings were inspired in the breast of Dougherty, who lost his teeth in the Pennsylvania Lehigh game, and that tho breaking of bones in plying foot ball is a salutary test of righteousness.

In after years when the pains of rheumatism become periodically sensible in disjointed limbs and when crutches lose their novelty, somo of these young apostles of muscular Christianity may repent their early enthusiasm. PERSONAL MENTION. Nina Van Zandt is said to be starving herself to doath from grtof for the Anarchist Splei. Mr. Gladstone is again confined to the house with a cold.

President Grovy declares that ho will dissolve tho prosont Chamber soonor than resign. The Crown Princo is secured from wakefulness at night by throat compressors which facilitate breathing. Editor O'Brien is said to have been removed socrotly to another prison. The young Prince Beira was burned in the face and lianda by a Are In the palace of the Duke of Iiraganza, near Lisbon. Dr.

Parker has given up his lecture tour and will sliortlj return to England. CURRENT EVENTS. Hyde Park, London, held an immense crowd yesterday, mostly antt coercion, which was addressed by speakors, but there was no serious disturbance. The Netherlands Line steamer Scholten was sunk by anothor steamer in the English channel, with tho loss of over 100 livos. Barnum's menagerie was visited by firo in Bridgeport, and the boasts that escaped were humod in tho streets.

People barricaded their doors for safety. The New York switches of the bridge were rolaid, making travol very slow by locomotive until completed iu the ovontng. Certain customs inspectors in San Francisco havo been Indicted for forglug certificates which liavo aidod Chinamen In illegally landing thoro. Tho town of Granby, was destroyed by (Ire. Diamonds of tho value of $10,000 wero stolon from the house of Matthew Morgan in New York.

Yale and Princeton foot bailers of Saturday wero oxhorters before tho Now York Young lion's Christian Association yesterday. A freight train dropped fifty feet through a draw into tho Lachino Canal. Two Chinamen were received into tho Calvary Episcopal Church, New York. Philadelphia has a six days' go as you please foot raco in progress. Tho two lepers from Brazil reported themselves at tho Philadelphia Health Office and were sent to tho contagion hospital.

Tho shoemakers of Philadelphia are leaving tho Knights of Labor iu large numbers. The scarcity of coal is more threatening in Philadelphia than hero. Jersey City must increase its debt $10,000, 000 If it is to havo a now and pure water supply. Cornell freshmen signalized their peace with the sophomores by burning a noiyspapor correspondent in effigy. The Maine logging army is about starting lor the woods for Winter operations.

Business is stopped at Houston, by a strike of frolght hands on tho Southorn Pacific. Fifty Harvard students have offered to undertake ovangellzlng work in Boston. Cincinnati is roduced by low water in the Ohio to 500,000 bushels of coal. Tho usual Fall stock Is throo or four millions. There woro many league meetings in Ireland yesterday, notwithstanding tho suppression of branches.

Thibodaux, is patrolled by a vigilance committoo, acting against negro sugar strikers. Three hundred thousand Russian troops are reported to bo massing near tho German and Austrian frontiers. Now York medical students held a missionary conference at Association Hall. Yellow fover is declared to bo at an end at Tampa, Fla. POLITICAL POINTS.

Tho Anti Poverty Society found Stoinway Hall largo onough last night. Dakota cast about 10,000 moro votes for division of tho Territory than against It. Mr. George, however, has mado a pretty good tiling out of politics. lie now has a comfortable fortuno and an Income which places him beyond tho roach of want.

The collapse of tho George boom jras porcolved somo tlmo ago by the Republican managors, and of lato thoy had not been placing much dopendence on It Troy Telegram. Wo must havo a candidato for President in 1888 who can carry New York," Is tho exclamation of some miscalculating Republicans. It will bo much easier to got a candidato who can carry the solid North, except New York, than to got ono who can carry that State. It Is not necessary to carry New York in order to elect a Kopubllcan President. Grant was olectod in 1808 and Ilayos was oloctod In 1876 without the holp ot New York.

H'm'saio Timet. CONTEMPORARY HUMOR. Miss Bas Bleu Aro you very fond of reading, Mr. Downtown Mr. Downtown Fair to middling.

Miss 11. Have you road "Homo Sum Mr. D. No; I never wa8 fond of arithmetic, and whoa I was at school I couldn't evon get on with his Iliad. ruck.

The man who can hang pictures under his wife's supervision for an hour ami keep his temper does not want to be an angel. He Is ono already, although he may uot have a pair of large, napping while wings behind his shoulder blades Somerville Journal. "Now hero is something you'll like," said the manager of tho tllo workB, as he was showing somo ladies tho proooss of manufacture, "toxt3 of Scriptures on tllds for mantel ornamentation." "Oh," replied Mrs. Fanglo, "I'vo often hoard of textile manufactures, but I nover saw them bofore." Tid Bile. sol, I walked across the street to tho church, but fouud the doors fastened for tho first time with a heavy padlock." Will you hold services In your homo this oven ins 1" "No; I havo received an Invitation to attoad Dr.

Cujior's church ihls evening and havo acceptod." C0XEY ISLAND JOCKEY CLUB. Some of the Events Which Will Figaro in Next Year's Programme. The Coney Island Jockey Club's pro gramme for next year has boon Issued. It has no hint of a Midsummer meeting, but all tho fixed events of tho past are retained, and two new ones aro added for tho Juno mooting. These aro tho Volunteer Handicap, for 3 year olda, at ono mlio and an eighth, and tho New Stakos, for 2 year olds, at throe quarters of a mile.

To tho Volunteer Handicap of $100 each, halt fgrfeit, tho association will add 12,000, and to the New Stakes, ontrance to which will bo $100 each, half forfolt, tho association will add $1,500. Tho woights have beoa ralsod In this last oveut to 122 pouuda for colts and 119 pounds for fillies and geldings, with penalties and allowances. Tho Suburban Handicap, the great nntopost betting ovoutof tho yoar, which is run on tho opening day of the Sheopshead Bay meeting, will be more valuable than ever next Juue, as iu accordance with tho vote of tho club last Summor $5,000 will be added, lustead of $2,500 as heretofore. Thla will mako the race worth botwoon $10,000 and $12, 000 to the winner. The second horse will receive $1,000 of tho added money and 20 per cent, of the stakes, aud tho third $500 of tho added money aud 10 per cent, of tho stakes.

This in each case will largely increase tho winning of tho second and third horses iu the race. Thore are changes, too, in the handicapping which will tend to bring the possible competitors more closely together iu the matter of weights. Winners after the publication of the weights on Fobruary 1 of two races of any value, or of ouo race of tho value of $1,000, will bo obliged to carry 4 pounds extra; of two races of $1,000 or one of $2,000, 8 pounds extra, and of three of two of $2,000,12 pounds extra. BUI in lUu caso ut hursts limidlcappod originally at 115 pounds or over, the penalties will apply to tho extent of one half the weights only. In both tho Bay Rldgo and Shoepshead Bay handica pa the money added by the association la incroased from $1,200 to $1,500.

Tho Hat of ovonts, entrloa for which will close on the 1st of January next tor tho June meeting, are for 3 yoar old and upward, as follows: The Suburban Handicap, $5,000 added, $100 each, half forfeit; one milo aud a quarter. The Bay Kideo Handicap, $1,500 added, $50 each, half forfeit; onb mile and a half. The Shoepshead Bay Handicap, $1,500 added, $50 each, half forfeit; ono mile aud an oignth. The Knickerbocker Handicap, $1,250 added, $50 each; half forfeit; ouo milo and three eighths. The Universal Handicap, $1,250 added, $50 each, half forfeit; ono milo and au eighth.

Tho Equality stakes, $1,000 addod, $75 each, $40 forfeit; ono milo and throe sixteenths. Tho Coney Island Stakes, $1,250 added, subscriptions basod on winnings; one miio and an eighth. Tho Uapld Stakos, $1,000 added, $75 oach, $40 forfeit; seven furlongs. Conoy Island Cup, $1,500 added, $150 oach, half forfolt, for winnora of in MS7, $100 each, half forfolt for others; ouo mile and three quarters. Tho Sporting Stakes (selling race), $1,500 added, 100 each, half forlcit; ouo inilo.

Tho Selling Sweepstakes (selling raco), $1,000 added, $50 oach, half forfeit; one mile aud au eighth. The stakos for 3 year olds to close on the samo date aro thoso: The Voluntoor Handicap (uw), $2,000 addod, $100 each, half forfeit; one milo and an eighth. Weights for thU evcut aro to bo announced February 1, und penalties are provided for winners of two races of any value or of a single race of the valuo of $1,500 or upward of from 1 to 12 pounds. Tho Swift Stakos, $1,250 added, $100 oach, half fortoit; seven furlongs. Tho Thistlo Stakes, added, $100 each, half forfeit; ono mile and three sixteenths.

Tho Emporium, $5,000 added, $150 oach, half forfolt; ouo milo and a half. The Spindrift States, $1,500 added, $100 each, half forfolt; ono milo aud a quarter. Theso stakos, open to 2 year olds only, and all at threo quarters of a milo, will also close ou Janu ary 1: The New Stakes (new), $1,500 added, $100 oach, half forfeit. The Zephyr Stakos, $1,000 addod, $75 each, $50 forfolt. Tho Spring Stakos, $1,000 addod, $75 each, $50 forfeit.

The Juno Stakes, $1,000 addod, S75 oach, $50 forfolt. The Great Two Yoar Old Selling Sweopstakos, $1,000 added, $50 each, half forfolt, with $50 additional for starters, to go to the second and third horses. On tho samo dato tho following stakos for 3 yoar olds, to bo run at the Autumn meeting, will closo for pvoliminary entries. Tho stakes will subsequently bo opened for entries up to August 15: Tho Flight Stakes. $1,000 ndded (2 year olds and upward), $125 oach for starters; soven furlongs.

Tho September Stakes, $1,500 added, $100 each, half forfeit; ono mile and threo quarters. The Bridge Handicap, $2,000 udded, $125 oach for starters; ono milo aud a half. The Siren Stakos (new), $1,500 added, for fillies only, $150 each for starters, $50 forfeit for those entered by January 1, $100 forfeit for thoso entered by August 15, when tho stakes will finally closo. Of tho addod monoy $500 will go to tho second horso nud $200 to the third. Tho winnor of nny raco exclusively for 3 year olds of $2,500 to carry 3 pounds extra; of two such races or one of $5,000, 7 pounds extra.

Non winnora of a raco exclusively for 3 year olds of $500 allowed 5 pounds; of $1,000, 10 pounds; maidens allowed 15 pounds. Ono mile and an eighth. Tho following stakos for 2 yoar olds, to bo run at tho Autumn meoti.ig, will also close January 1: The Autumn Stakes, $1,500 added, $100 each, half forfolt: three quarters of a milo. The Flatbush Stakes, $1,500 addod, $150 oach for starters; sovon furlongs. Tho Groat Eastern Uaudlcip, addod, $150 oach for startors; three quarters of a mile.

At tho sumo timo thut theso stakes close tho Futurity Stakes for 1830 will also closo. Tho association will increase tho addod mouoy In this atnko to $12,500, of which amount $1,500 will go to tho owner 01 tho maro foaling tho winnor and $1,000 to tho ownor ot tho maro foaling tho second horse, whether the brooders be the owners of the horse whou tho race takes placo or not. This premium to tho broodor is a now foaturo which will unquestionably prove a popular ono. Tho officers of tho club estimate that the stakes will bo worth $100,000 when tho raco Is run In 1890. Tho Futurity Smkcs for 1888 rocoivod 752 entries, of which ovor 400 aro still eligible, and tho stakes aro estimated to bo worth $50,000.

Tho Futurity for 1883 recoivod 815 ontrles, of which somo 600 are still ollgiblo, and It Is oxpectod that tho stakos when run In 1889 will bo worth $70,000. With tho addod prizo for brooders, it la bolioved that the ontrles for tho Futurity of 1890 will number at least 1,000. A RECTOR INSTITUTED. Illnens Prevented the Binliop From Lending the Service. Bishop Littlejohu was to have been present at St.

Bartholomew's, at tho corner of Pacific street nud Bedford avouue, yesterday morning to tako part lu tho ceremonies of the Institution of tho rector, tho ltov. T. B. Oliver, but ho was prevented by illness. Tho bishop has boen suffering from a sovore cold for some time past, but bo oxpectod to bo ablo to como yesterday, and It was not until 10 o'clock Suturday ovoning that word was received trom him that ho was too ill to leave home.

Tho ltov. C. W. Tumor, of St. Matthew's Church, was appointed lustitutor in tho bishop's place and the services took placo at 10:30 A.

M. Tho church was elaborately docoratod with flowors and was filled with a largo congregation. Tho sorvlces woro the usual aud exceedingly boautiful institution sorvicos of tho Episcopal church, and at thoir conclusion tllo ltov. Mr. Turner preached, a short sermon.

The Kev. Mr. Oliver has preached In the church of which ho Is now Iho roctor for one your. Uo is young mau of flno appoarauce aud is oarnost Rnd olnquont. Hols a graduate of QucDn's College, Belfast, Ireland.

The church ovor which Mr. Oliver is uovv settled was, until Kustor of this yoar, kuown as St. Luke's Chapel, when It was incorporated as St. Bartholomew's. 11 Is situated In ono of the most rapidly growing portions ol tho city, and already additions to the structure aro being contemplated by tho congregation.

Til S'aWSDKILSHS' ISAS.Ii. Tbo first annual ball of the Newsdealers and Stationers Association will be hold this evening at Masonic Tomplo, Grand aud Uavemeyor streets. Vo Blot Yesterday. The mobilization of tho West End dudes as special constables to preserve tho peace and order of London yesterday appears to havo had the desired effect. The Sunday passed off without a singlo incidont to inflame the passions of the rabble or gratify tho curiosity of tho gilded youths who looked down upon Trafalgar square from tho windows of tho club houses that face that historic plaza.

It was omiibatically a day of rest for the police, for the household troops and for the exeitablo men and women who love to stir the lazy blood of modern society with rack arock and dynamite. After all said and done it must be acknowledged that free speech is not utterly extinct in the English capital. Tho resolution to forbid popular assemblies in Trafalgar square was not intended to violate any principle of tho constitution. The municipality of London felt that it could reserve certain spaces in the city without outraging the blessed privilege accorded to every Englishman of spouting his thoughts within such limits as a due regard for order and decency prescribes. If the gentlemen whose skulls wore cracked by involuntary collision with constabulary locusts yesterday week had reflected that Hyde Park was at their disposal, thoy might havo saved themselves much personal discomfort and spared tho world the horrible rumor that.