Nappanee Advance-News, Volume 11, Number 17, Nappanee, Elkhart County, 17 July 1889 — Page 2

COME INTO THE BOOTH. Bermon by Rev. T. De Witt Talmage, D. D. The Speaker Construct* a Gospel Arbor, mid Invites All to Come Into 111. tiinatr and Everlasting Relationship with God. Dr. Talroago In a recent sermon took for hie subject “The Bower of Tree Branches,” and for his text the latter portion of the fifteenth verse of the eighth chapter of Nehemiah: “Go forth unto the mount and fetch olive branches, and pine branches, and myrtle branches, and palm branches, • and branches of thick trees to make booths.” Following is the sermon: It seems as if Mount Olivet were unmoored. The people have gone into the mountain and have cut off tree branches and put them on their shoulders, and they come forth now into the streets of Jerusalem, and ou the house-tops, and they twist these tree branches into arbors or booths Then the people come lortli from their comfortable homes and dwell for seven days in tfhese booths or arbors Why do they do that? Well, it is a great festal time. It is the feast of the tabernacle; and thise people are goiug to celebrate the desert travel of their fathers and their deliverance from their troubles, the experience of their fathers when, traveling in the desert, they lived in booths on their way to the land of Canaan. And so these booths also become highly suggestive—l will not say they are necessarily typical, but highly suggestive—of our march toward Heaven and of the fact that we are only living temporarily here, as it were, in booths or arbors on our way to the Canaan of eternal rest. And what was said to the Jews literally may to-day he said figuratively to all this audience. Gd forth into the mountain afid fetch olive branches, and myrtle branches, and palm branches, and branches of thick trees to make booths. Yes, we are only here In a temporary residence. We are marching on. The merchant princes who used to live in Bowling Green, New York, have passed away and their residences are now the fields of cheap merchants. Where are the men who fifty years ago owned New York? Passed on. -• There is n,o use In our driving our stakes too deep into the earth; we are ou the march. The generations that have preceded us have gone so far on that we can not, even hear the sound of their footsteps. They have gone over the hii:s and we are to follow them. But, blessed be God, we are not in this world left out of doors and urfsheltered. There are gospel booths or gospel arbors in which our souls are to be comforted. Go forth unto the mountain and fetch olive branches, and pine branches, and myrtle branches, uud palm branches, and branches of thick trees, and buil(\ booths. W’ell, now we are to-day to construct a Gospel arbor, or Gospel booth; and how shall wo construct it? Well, we must get all the tree-branches and blitld. According to tny text' we must go up into the mount and bring olive branches. What does that mean? The olive tree grows in warm climates, and it reaches the' height of twenty or twenty-two feet, a Straight stem, and then an offshoot from that stem. And then people come, and they strip off these branches sometimes; and when in time of war the Gedotal of one arniy takes one of these olive brunches and goes out to the General of another army, what does that mean? Why, it means, unsaddle the war chargers It means hang up the war knapsacks. It is but a boau.iful way of saying: Peace! Now, if we are to-day going to succeed in -building this Gospel arbor we must go into .the mount of God’s blessing and letch the olive branches, and whatever else we have wo must imve at least two olive branches—peace with God and peace with man. When I say peace w ith God I do not mean torepre.s. ut God as a bloody chieftain, having a grudge against us, but Ido mean to affirm there is no more antagonism between a hound aud .a hare, between a hawk and a pullet, between elephant and swing than" there is hostility between holiness aid sin. And if God is all holiness and- we nil sint tbero rfiust be a readjustment, there _ must be a reconstruction, there must boa fi eatyj tjy-n TANARUS"" ' ’ of- olive J blanches. There is a great, lawsuit going; on now, ••tend itlo adawsmt wt:teh nvtf i.'i4vi/.giii a " against his Maker. That lawsuit is now on the calendar. It is the human versus the Divine; it is iniquity versus the Immaculate; it is weakness versus Omnipotence. Man’ began it; God did not begin the lawsuit. We began it; we assaulted our Maker; and the sooner we end this part of the struggle in which the finite attempts to overthrow the Infinite and Omnipotent—the sooner we end It the bettor. Oh, ’it doesn’t make much difference what the world thinks of you—what this King, that . Queen, that Senator thinks qf you. But come into the warm, intimate, glowing and everlasting relationship with the God of the universe; that is the joy that makes a hallelujah seem stupid. A§, why do we want to have pence through our Lord Jesus Christ? Why, if we had gone on In ten thousand years of war against God we could not have captured so much as a sword or a cavalry stirrup, or twisted dff one of the Wheels of the .chariot of His omnipotence. But the moment we bring this olive branoh God and all Heaven come on our side. Peace through our Lord Jesus Christ; and no other kind ot peaco is worth any thing.

But then we must have tiiat other.nHvebranch, peace with man. Now it is very easy to get up a quarrel. There ari^gunpowdery Christians all around us,"011(1 one match of provocation will Bet the ill off. It is easy enough to get up a quarrel. But, my brother, don’t you think you had better have your horns sawed off? Had you not better mako an apology? Had you not better submit to a little humiliation? Oh, you say, until that man takes the first step I will never be,at peace with him; nothing will be done until he. is ready to take the first step. You are a pretty Christian! When would this world be saved if Christ had not taken the first step? We were In the wrong, Christ was in Ibe right—all right and forever right. And yet He took the first stop!": And instead of going and getting a knotty scourge with which to whip your antagonist, your enemy, you had better get' up on the radiant mount where Christ suffered for his enemies, and just take an olive branch, not stripping off the soft cool, fragrant leaves, but leaving them ail on, and then try on them that ddspel switch. It won’t hurt them, and it Kill save you. Peace with God; peace Kith man. If you can not take those two doctrines you are no Christian. Blest be the tie that binds Our hearts in Christian, love; The fellowship ot kindred miQds I* like to that above. From sorrow, toil and pain, And sin we shall be free; Arul'p-rfert love and friendship reign „ Through s.U etern ty. ' But my text goes further. It says: “Go ’vp .into the mountains and fetch olive j brunches aud pine branches.” New wfiat

is suggested by the pine branches? The | pine tree is healthy; it is aromatic; it is evergreen. How often the physician says to his invalid pati nts: “Go and have a breath of tho pines! That will invigorate yon.” Why do such thousands of people go Son'll every year? It is not merely to get to a warmer climate, but to get to the influence if the pine. There is health in it, and this pine branch of the text suggests the healthfulness of our holy religion; it is full of health, health for all, health for the mind, health for the soul. I knew an aged niah who had no capital Os physical health. He had had all the diseases you could imagine; he did not eat enough to keep a child alive; he lived on a beverage of hosaitaas. He lived high, for he dined every day with the King. He* was kept alive Vjjtaply by the force of our-holy religion. It is a healthy religion; healthy for the eye, healthy for the hand, healthy for the feet, healthy for .the heart, healthy for the liver, healthy for’the spleen, healthy for the w hole man. It gives a man such peace, such quietness, such independence of circumstance, such holy equipoise. Oh, that we all possessed it,- that we possessed it now. I mean that it is healthy if a man gets enough of it Now, there are some people who get just enough religion to bother them, just enough religion to make them sick; hut if a man take a full, deep, round inhalation of these pine branche *of the Gospel arbor he will find it buoyant, exuberant, undying, immortal health. But this pine branch' of my text also suggests the simple fact that it is an evergreen. What does this pine branch care for the snow on its brow? It is only a crown of glory. The winter ean.not freeze it out. This evergreen tree branch is as beautiful in winter ns it is in the summer. Aud that Is the characteristic of ' our holy religion; in the sharpest, coldest winter of misfortune and disaster it is os good a religion as It is in tho bright summer sunshine. Well, now that is a practical truth. For if I should go up and down these aisles I would not find in this house fifty people who had had no trouble. But there are some of you who have especial trouble. God only knows what you go through with. Oh, how many bereavements, how many poverties, how many persecutions, how many misrepresentations! And now, my brother, you have tried every thing else, why don’t you try this evergreen religion? It is just as good for you now as it was in the days of your prosperity; It is better for you. Ferhaps some of you feel almost like Muckle Backie, the fisherman, who was chided one day because he kept on working, although that very day he buried ‘his child. They came.to him and said: “It is indeeent for you to be mending th.it boat when this afternoon you buried your child.” And the fisherman looked up and said: “Sir,-it is very easy for you gentlefolks to stay in the house with your handkerchiefs to your eyes in grief; but, sir, ought I to lettho other five children starve because one of them is drowned'? No, sir; we maun work, we maun work, though our hearts beat like this hammer.” You may have hud 'accumulation of sorrow and misfortuno. They come in flocks, they come in herds upon your soul; and yet I have to'tall you that this 1 religion can console you, that it can help you, that It can delivor you if nothing else will. Do you toll me that the riches and gain of this world can console you? How was It with the man who had such a fondness for money that when he was sick he ordered a basin of gold pieces to be brought to him, and ho put his gouty hands down among: the gold pieces, cooling his hands off in thorn, and the rattle and toiling, of these gold pieces were his amusement and entertainment Ah, the gold and silver, the honors, the emoluments of this world are a poor solace for a perturbed spirit. You want something better than this world can give, A young Prince, when the children came around' to play with him, refused to play. He said: “I will play only with Kings.” And it might be supposed that you would throw away all other solace before this regal satisfaction, this imperial j9y. Ye who are sons and daughters of the Lord Almighty ought only to play with -Kings. The h 11 of Z on yields A thousand sacred sweets, . .. , • Vcfctxl n'ftxfa'Ttt the. rfriivehly fields Or walk the golden,streets. But my text takes a further step and ■iivjs: ‘.’Oo lnto the mountain ands etchpilye branches, and pine Branches, and palm branches.” Now the palm tree was very much lionorod by the ancients. It had three hundred and sixty different uses. The fruit was conserved, the sap was a beverage; the stems were ground up for food for camels;-the base of the leaves was turned into hats aud mats and baskets, and tho leaves were carried in victorious processions; and from the root to the top of the highest leaf there was usefulness. The tree grew otghty-five feet in height sometimes, and it spread broad leaves four and five yards long; 1t meant usefulness and It meant victory; usofulnessfor what It produced, victory because It was brought into celebrations of triumph. Aud oh, hOw much wo want the palm branches In the churohes of Jesus Ohrist at this time! A great many Qtu'istlfSns dßjjks amount to'any thing. You have to shove them outol tho way when tho Lord’s chariots come along. We don’t want any more of that kind of Christians in the church.

The old maxim says: “Do not put all your eggs into one basket;” but I have to tell you in this matter of religion you had better give Your all to God, and then get in yourself. “Oh,” says someone, “my "Business is to selFsilks ami cloths ’’ Well, then, my brother, Jell silks and cloths to the glory of God. And soipe one says: “My business is to raise corn and carrots. ” Then, my brother, raise corn and carrots to the glory of God. And someone says: “My business is to. manufacture horse-shoe nails.” Then manufacture fiorse-shoo nails to the glory of God. There is nothing for you to d/that you ought to do but for the glory of God. Usefulness is typified by the palm tree. Ah, we don’t want in tho church any more people that are merely weeping willows, sighing Into the water, standing* and admiring their long lasließ in the giossy spring. No wild cherry, dropping bitter fruit. ■Wo want palm trees, bolding something sou God, something for angels, something for man. I am tired and sick Os this fiat, tame, insipid, satin-slippered, nambypamby, highty-tighty religion. It is worth nothing for this world, and ibis destruction for eternity. Give me five hundred men and women fully confeecrated to Christ and we will take any city for God in three yeari >. Give me ten thousand men and women fully up to the Christian standard; in ten years ten thousand of them would take the whole earth for God. But when aro wo going to begin? Ledyard, the great traveler, was brought before the Geographical Society of Great Britain, and they wanted him to make some explorations In Africa and they showed him all the perils and all the hard Vvork and all the exposure, and after they had told him what they wanted him to do in Africa they said, to him: i “Now, L-dyard, ’when are yon ready ito atari,?'’ He said: “To-morrow morn--I-. ' 7%■ '* ;j 7.

',_ ' i \ |ing.” The learned men were astonished; they thought be would take weeks oz months to get ready. Wall, nw, vou tell me you want to be earnest for Christ; you want to be, useful in Christian service. When are you going to begin? Oh, that you have the deoislon to say: “To-day, now!” Go now into the mount and gather the palm branches. But the palm branoh also meant victory. In all ages, la all lands, the palm branoh means victory. We are by nature the servants of Satan. He stole us, ha has his eye on us, he wants to keep us. The word oomes from our Father that if we try to loose from this doing of wrong our Father will help us; and some day we rouse np and we loolc the black tyrant in the face, and we fly at him and wrestle him down aud we put our heel on his neck and we grind him in the dust as we say: “Victory, viotory,. through our Lord Jesus Christ!” Oh, what a grand thing it is to have sin under foot and a wasted life behind our backs. “Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven and whose sin is covered” “But," says the man, “i feel so sick and worn out with the ailments of life.” Yon are going to be more than conqueror,. “But,” says the man, “I am so tempted, I am so pursued In life.” You are going to be more than conqueror. “I, who have so many ailments and heartaches, going to be more than conqueror?” Yes. unless you are so self-conceited that ybh want to manage all the affairs of your life yourself. Instead of letting God manage them. Do you want to drive and let God take a back seat? Oh, no, you say; I want God to be my leader. Well, then, you will be more than conqueror. Yous last sickness will come, and the physicians in the next room will be talking about what they will do for you. What difference will it? make what they do for you? You are going to be well—everlastingly well. And when th spirit has fled the body your friends will be talking as to where they shall bury you. What difference does it make to you where they bury you? The angel of the resurrection can piok you out of the dust anywhere, and ail the cemeteries of the earth are in God’s care. Oh, you are going to be more than conqueror. Don’t you think we had better begin now to celebrate the coming victory? In the .old meetinghouse at Summerville my father used to lead the singing, and he had the old-fash-ioned tuning-fork, and he would strike it upon his knee, and then put the tuning-fork to his ear to catch the right pitch and start the hymn. But, friend, don’t you think wo had better be catching the pitch of the everlasting song, the song of victory, when we shall be more than conquerors’? - Had we not better begin the rehearsal on earth? “They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more; neither shall the sun light on them, nor any heat For the lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall lead them to living fountains of water; and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.” City of Eternity, to thy bridal halls From this prison would I flee; Ah, glory 1 thut’s for you and pie. My text brings you up one step further. It says, go forth into the mount and fetch olivo branches, and pine branches, and myrtle branches, and palm branches, and branehes of thick trees. Now, you know very well that a booth or arbor made of slight branches would not stand. The first blast of the tempest would prostrate it So- then the booth or arbor must have four stout pole3 to hold up the arbor or booth; and hence for the building of the arbor for this world we must have stout branches of thick trees. And so it is in the Gospel arbor. Blessed be God that we have a brawny Christianity, not one easily upset The storms of life will come upon us, and we want strong doctrine; not only love, but justice; not only invitation, but warning. It is a mighty Gospel; it is an omnipotent Gospel. There are the stout branches of thick trees. I remember what Mr. Flnnoy said in a school-house In this State. The village was so bad it was called Sodom, and it was said to have only one good man in all the village, and he was called Lot; and Mr. Finney, preaching, described the destruction of Sodom, and the preacher declared that God would rain destruction upon his hearers unless they, too, repented. And the people in the school-house sat and ..aiijaßr..aiid cljncped their fists In indignation; but before he was through with his sermon they got down ou their knees and- cried for mercy while mercy cculd he found. Oil, it is a mighty Gospel; not only an invitation, but a warning; an omnipotent, truth, stout branches of thick trees. Well, my friends. I have shown you Here is the olive branch of peace, here is the pine branch of evergreen Gospel consolation, here is the palm tree branch of usefulness and victory, aud hero are the stout branches of thick trees. The Gospel arbor is done. Tho air is aromatic of Heaven. The leaves rustle with tho gladness of God. Come into tho arbor. I went out at different times with a fowlei to the mountains to catch pigeons; and we made our booth, and we sat itt that booth and watched for the pigeons to oo.no. And we found flocks in the sky, and after awhile they dropped into the net aud we were successful •Bo I come now to the door of this Gosper booth and I look out, 1 see flocks of souls flying hither and flying thither. Oh, that they might come like clouds and as doves to the window! Come into the booth. Come into the boo.th. - . - .The Victim* of Nerves. “Nervous” people; experience shows us, are, as a rule, extremely selfish. La femme ner veuse is the most inconsiderate specimen of her sex. Her nerves have become a species of fetish, which must be propitiated by the sacrifice pf every body's comfort except her own. She considers every action, both of herself and the world at large, primarily from the point of view of the offect which it will have on her nerves. If she happened to be omnipotentshe would,no doubt, at once stop the movement of the earth, for fear of itsgivinghera"turn." Her sentiment of pity for the misfortunes of others is entirely blunted by her horror of the sight of pain and the sound of woe. She exacts the utmdst'forbearance and sacrifices from othefs - not for herself, but' for her nerves—and exempts herself from gratitude on the same grounds. She tends, in fact, to become completely soulless, accepting all devotion as her due, bitterly resenting any resistance to her claims, and substituting for all higher spiritual life an egotistical form of pessimism, Which is as delusive as it' is difficult to combat That she is not actively cruel is an accident; passively cruel she is continually without remorse or thought aud it is probable that when provocation and opportunity offered themselves simultaneously she would not 1 stay-her hand from direct cruelty. Standard. __ > _ , V One secret act of self-denial, one saori. • flee of inclination to duty, is worth all the mere good thoughts, warm feelings,passionate prayera in which idle people indulge themselves.—J. H. Newman. w ' Some scientific toon declare tjiat it is impossible for man to think without 'words I That may be, but we all know that it is pos--1 Bible for man to use words without think' 1 tag.— Somerville Journal

STATE INTELLIGENCE. After fifteen months of contention with members ,pf the union, the employes of Indianapolis stonecutters have at last acceded to the demand for recognition of eight hours as a day’s work. The persistent agitation by the union brought the contractors to terms, and under the agreement by which the strike is ended none but members of the union will be employed. Jacoh Gaiimtch, an old and wellknown farmer living nefir Shelbyville, suicided the other mo ming at the homo of his daughter, in Shelbyville. The old man had been reprimanded by his son. and soon after walked out into the yard, laid down under a tree, and. placing the muzzle of a revolver at his ear, blew his brains out Wii. Mack, a prominent farmer near Columbus,' was thrown from a vicious horse and killed. An engineer named Taylor was scalded by the bursting of a steampipe in tho Eagle Cotton Mills at Madison. Goshen is to have electric light Loganspoht saloon-keepers have organized the “Cass County Liquor Dealers’ Protective Association,’’ and they propose to stand together in fighting the Prohibitionists. The Superintendent of Public Instruction has issued a notice to all county superintendents of the State, saying that each must give an additional bond, as tho State has made a contract for text-books to be used in the publio schools, The books aro distributed to the township trustees through the superintendents, and the now bonds are designed to cover any loss to the State that may occur thereby. The amount of the bond is regulated by the number of -inhabitants of each county, being SIOO for each one thousand population. At Fort Wayne, William Meyer, a prominent farmer, while cutting wheat fell off the reaper and was run over and instantly killed. He leaves a large family. The fifth annual old reunion of Putman, Clay, Owen, Morgan and Hendricks Counties, will be field at Cloverdale on July 25. The reunion last year was attended by from fifteen to twenty thousand people. —lndiana finds through investigation of the State Hoard of Health that she has been drinking under the name of pure, cider vinegar a mixture of rain water and sulphuric acid that would break up the internal economy of an ostrich. -• The Seymour city council by a close vote raised the liquor license to the full limit—s2so. The new appraisement at Ft. Wayno ! will add two million dollars to taxables, ! and the city tax will bo increased from ' $1 to $1.15. The State Board of Health has or- ! dered tho swamp near Lafayette drained. .This swamp was caused by the repairs on the Wabash & Erie .canal. Dn. J. D. Chenowetii, of Lafayette, drove his horse against a loose telephone wire heavily charged with electricity, and the animal was knocked down several times before being rescued. A boy who subsequently took hold of the wire was knocked in sensible. The south-bound Pan-Handle passenger train killed four valuablo horses bolonging'ta Geo. liozell two miles south of Tipton, tho other night The animals were appraised at S7OO. The President has appointed -Wm. B. •Ellis postmaster at Franklin, in place ol B. P. Brown, removed. The contract for furnishing.textrhonks for tho public schools of Indiana has been awarded to the Indiana School Book Company.- .. •- ' Two negroes, John Cox andMose HamAktop 3 bM. !>.,h ml tight .on boat on the Wabash river. Hamilton was k.illod. , EsTEIU.MEN.TS Avlth ,cr udo ofl at Terra Ilauto as a continue, and several factories have abandoned coal altogether. Frank 11. Webselt, was killed by an explosion in a mine at Coal Bluff. A syndicate has leased 1,000 acres near Linton and will bore for oil or gas. The German Lutheran Evangelical Association of Iluntingburg has accepted plans .for anew church building, to cost SIB,OOO. The grand jury, at Lafayette, has found forty-five indictments for violations of the liq uor law. The Salvation Army quarters at Indianapolis wero nearly destroyed with dynamite. , •*..... Rev. Thomas C. Puckett, pastor of the McKinney Christian Church at Marion, died a few days since, of cancer. New Albany considering the project of making an artificial lake near that city. - Thomas Bryant, of Plainvillo, was struck by a well-sweep recently and dangerously hurt. ThE Salvation Army of Crawfordsville has established an out-post at Alamo. The Army has abandoned Waynetown. Peter H. Battorff, of Clark County, reports an average of forty-three bushels of wheat from twenty-five acres threshed the other day. Two men were fatally injured at North Vernon by the premature explosion of a blast. Mrs. Mary Causane fell into a pool of water and was drowned, in Clay County. Six men were arraigned at Brazil, for dynamiting fish. The Terre Haute water-w'orks will issue $440,000 of bonds shortly, two-thirds of the proceeds of which will be used in improving tho plant Edward Clark, aged seventeen, Was shot and probably fatally injured by the accidental discharge of a,,pistol, near Marion. A rATENT-MEDiciNE vender named Pray was arrested at Madison on a charge of grand larceny. •; • Operators in the Brazil mining districts’* arß taking steps to introduce mining machinery. Lyman R. Williams, superintendent of schools in Steuben County,committed suicide by hanging. A stable loft, filled with wheat, fell upon Wm. Weaver, near Cory don, a few days ago, and almost crushed him io death.

SULLIVAN Aft RESTED. The Big Bruiser Taken from Train at Nashville, Tenn., la Ke*poo to a Kequeat from Ike Governor of Mis*l*lpplHe I* Released under the Habeas Gorpu* Act and Proceed* on HU Joumey-KJl-raln Dodging the Officer* of tho law. Nashville, Tenn., July ** Jlvuu gave an impromptu exhibition in ““ city yesterday. Governor Lowry, ol Mississippi, telegraphed Chief of Polioe Clack thus: , >* 1 . “Arrest John L. Sullivan and bis fighting party and aellvor to sheriff here and I will pay you *1,000."' Charge, crime of prize J flgktln*. “Robert Lowry, Govomo t. As soon as the train with Sullivan and his party arrived at the Union depot it was boarded by Chief-of-Poce Slack and six offloers. They found Sullivan ,Muldoon and Charley Johnson in a state-room in the front end of the sleeper. Sullivan was [ lying on a berth, apparently asleep. The chief asked the other men|their names. One of them said his name was Lynch and the other called himself Robertson. Chief Clack saijl: “Gentlemen, Fm sorry to disturb you. but I ami chief of police for Nashville and you must go with me. ” Johnson inquired for what they were w^ntoda Clack said: “I intend to'arrest you.” “On what charge?” exclaimed Johnson “I have authority for tho arrest of your party and you must go with me,” answered the chief. “I will not go without a warrant. You must show your authority. I run a citizen of New York, and a tax-peyer, and I stand on my rights as an American citizen.” Tne foregoing conversation had passed while Sullivan was still lying at full length, either asleep or pretending. He was dressed in a light woolen shirt, open at the throat, dark trousers, blue belt and slippers. The on y evidence of the recent conflict were his'swollen hands. Tho chief told his friends that 4iejr? ( must wake him up. They declined to dmit and the chief himself shook hindsHghtly.’ Sullivan raised himselfgnp drowsny and looked asif he was wondering what all the row was about • The chief informed him of his business and asked him to go with him. He said he would not go. The chief said that he meant business and intended to arrest him. “Well, what are we going to do about it?” said Sullivan, addressing Muldoon. The latter replied: “Os course we won’t be arrested unless they show us a warrant” i ■ . t-ly- ' m “Then I won't go,” said Sullivan, angrily. “You can’t arrest me; my name is not Sullivan.” . • Finding that Sullivan would not go, the officers took hold of him. He arose and called cm his friends. They did not obey the request, but told him that he was dealing with the chief of polico and advised him not to hit the officers. “No, I will not hit anybody, but I will not go,” exclaimed Sullivan. Chief Clack caught him by the collar. Several other officers crowded into the room, aud a desperate struggle ensued Three or four officers caught Sullivan, his friends offering him no assistance and no resistance to the officers. Sullivan gave an exhibition of his splendid strength. Ho jerked and pulled and tried to push the officers off * “Give me a show; I won’t hurt you, but I won’t go with you,” exclaimed the Hercules., The officers held to him, although he was in the heat of passion. The sight of clubs and pistols are probably what caused him to restrain his evident strong desire to give the officers an example of his prowesS as a hard hitter. There were enough officers present, however, to overcome his giant strength. One of them Blipped the nippers on one of his wrists and then on the other. Seeing that he was at a disadvantage Sullivan gave in and was .'pushed out of the car as fast as the officers could make him move. Johnson was also handcuffed and taken out. The question as to whether Sullivan and Johnson could be legally held in custody to await requisition papers from Mississippi, was argued in the circuit court in the afternoon. Defendants’ petition for writ of habeas corpus was read, stating that he I had been arrested upon no process known ! to the law, and held without any charge I against him and without shadow of aw.tiwrlhg,. Ms dtmlaroJ. that, . had committed no offense against the laws of Tennessee and was not subject to legal estraint He had committed no felony ip fills ot any other State. Counsel discussed j at length and finally Judge McAlister rendered his decision- He was very emphatic in his opinion that to hold Sullivan longer would be a most arbitrary act on the part of the court; that the officers had prrested him without warrant or authority of law; ■ that misdemeanors were not extraditable j by the rulings of Tennessee courts and by precedents of Governor Taylor. He therej fore ordered Sullivan-released. There was an immense crowd present and the decision of the judge was greeted with great' ap--1 plause. Sullivan was made a hero of; and the town was his until he left it at 8 o’clock for the East Columbus, 0., July 12.—Governor Foraker has received a telegram from I Governor Lowry, of •- Mississippi, ask- | ing. him to have chief of police .at Cincinnati arrest Kilratn and his party who were heading for that city, I requisition being on the way. Governor I Foraker forwarded Lowry’s telegram to Chief Deitsch and indorsed the request,also notifying Governor Lowry that hte request -had been complied with. —“ Cincinnati, July 12.—One of Kilrain’s personal friends learned of the Governor’s j message to the chief of police before 2 o’clock yesterday afternoon and he immediately telegraphed to Kilr.iin, who was on ; Ohio A Mississippi train No. 2. The Kil- ; rain party received the dispatch west of Seymour, lnd., and hastily bundling up, they left the train when they reached that point A Cipcinnati detective boarded the j train at the State line, but Kilrain had tied The crowd on the train at Cincinnati laughed at the chief of police who was i waiting at the depot and he retired badly I disappointed. Kilrain was in good spirits on the train. ■ Jackson, Misa, July 12— An act of 1882 | Imposes a penalty not exceeding SI,OOO nor less than s>oo, and imprisonment for , twelve months, or both, for prize fightI ing. A party causing death in a prize-fight is guilty of murder. If mayhem, the penalties are provided for. Aiders and abettors are subject ..to a fine of not less than 11,000, or jail for six months, or both. FRENCH MILITARY SERVICE. The New Law Compels Citizens to Serve ■ “ Period of Twenty-Five Years. Faris, July 12—The law relating to .three years’ military service has been finally ■ adopted by the Chamber of Depntie’s in the ■ form In which it was voted by the Senate , According to the terms of the law,- which , will probablyjje promulgated by President CarAot during the course of this week, all Frenchmen are liable to personal military Bervice, which includes three years in the active army, seven years in the reserve, six years in the territorial army, and nine years in the territorial reserve, making a’ total of twenty-five years. Yoluntary service of a , year and the requirements of the i&w of 11872 are abolished.

HAVOC BY THE STORM. The Lorn by the Cyclone at Princeton, O, —Great Damage to Crops and Other Property in lowa and Illinois. Hamilton, O. July 16.—Latestreports indicate that tM damage by the storm at Princeton, miles east of Hamilton, Sunday i 8,000. Outside of the t>wn eastward--for seven or eight miles on a path from 2XI to 600 feet wide the damage to barns, orchards, timber and crops was nearly as much more. The storm seemed to form by the meeting of two -olouds at Princeton—one from tho north, the other from the south where they formed a whirlwind and thepoe moved eastward toWurd the Shakers’ Union village in Warren County. Very few houses were blown down, but a great many were unroofed. One hundred acres •tot fine timber was blown down. The sawmill, the churches and the school-house in Princeton were badly tom up. Much damage was caused to the thirty dwellings of the town which were unroofed by the torrents of rain which fell during and for a long time after the windstorm. Wheat Bhocks in its path were tossed wildly and were utterly destroyed, fences were prostrated and standing grain in fields was twisted into entangled masses, rendering it worthless. The devastating whirlwind at times divided and followed two paths and then came together again. Within seven or eight miles east from Princeton the storm spent its energy or arose above the earth’s surface and did not approach it again. DAMAGES IN lOWA Des Moines, la, July Id—Reports from Saturday’s storm indicate that it was very severe throughout the State. A dispatch from Davenport says it was the most severe known there in years, the signalservice record showing a fall of over five inches in six hours. The river rose seventeen inches in seven hours. Tha telephone system was demolished and many bridges washed awuy. Two washouts are reported on the Wilton branch of the Chicago, Rock Island A Pacific railroad. Trainmen say that for 100 miles southwest of here cerh-fields are beaten flat by the rain and hail./ The damage to crops is heavy. At femurs the storm was accompanied by hail, covering a tract fourteen miles long and two miles wide. In the city of Lemars thousands of windows were destroyed. Many farmers lose their entire crops. Several large fields of com are pounded into the ground, not more than six inches of stalk being left standing. Glenwood reports that about one-third of the apples were blown from the trees and growing corn ” was • badly lodged. Trees were broken and considerable other damage done. * Six iftiles south of Dexter the storm assumed the nature of a cyclone, doing great damage to crops and buildings, The large hay bam of Fred Leuvecker was completely destroyed and another large barn near by was badly damaged. THe hay bam of Eli Snyder, in the same neighborhood, was struck by lightning and' destroyed with forty tons of hay. Considerable stock was killed and many small bridges washed out In Greeley township, Audubon County, a strip of territory six miles long and two miles wide w r as devastated by a hailstorm, the growing corn being beaten down and ruined and small grain laid flat One house was unroofed and trees twelve inches in diameter snapped like pipestems. ILLINOIS. MattocJn, 111, July 16.—During the three hours of rainfall Sunday the precipitation wasfour inches in three hours' and the electrie storm was very severe. John Moor’s barn, containing seven head of horses and inuch other valuable property, was fired by lightning and consumed near Humboldt R. H. Williams’ barn was frurned five miles southeast of Mattoon. A farmer near this city named Cartwright was prostrated by a thunderbolt and many others were shocked. The Okaw river rose at the rate of a foot per hour Sunday afternoon, and all other streams are at high tide. Much damage will result to oats and hay, but corn and other growing crops, all of which are very luxuriant in growth at present, are safe. IN MARYLAND. Baltimore, July 16, The farm of Joshua Warhe Id, brother of Edward WarfieW, surveyor of the port of Baltimore, " 'MSHtInoS, w r as the scene of a remarkable freak of lightning during the storm on Saturday. stunned. Seeing the storm approaching, Mr. Warfield directed his men, who were at work in the field, to seek shelter. The horses were tied and fourteen men got under the thresh-ing-machine, which stood by a strawstack, and six others got under the wagons. The .lightning killed three horses, unprotected by the straw stack, and of the men eight were stunned. Mr. Warfield fortunately aroused them, and they were saved from being burned, as the straw stack had caught fire. - PENNSYLVANIA Reading, Pa, July Iff.—From early yesterday morning an unusually heavy storm of rain prevailed throughout the Lebanon valley. Creeks overflowed their banks, submerging fields, and tho crops which had been left out were swept away. At Avon, Myerstown and Lebanon numbers of the lower floors of houses were flooded and many occupants had their household goods destroyed. % SIX THOUSAND DROWNED, I Fearful Loss of Life by Flood In ChinaTen Thousand Homeless People—Many Villages Inundated. San Franjisco, July 16.—The steamer City of New York arrived Monday evening from Hong Kong and Yokohama Tha Japan Gazette of the 29 th ult. says intelligence has been received at Hong Kong from Kiaying Chau, a prefecture in the, northeast of Kwangtung, that early on the morning of the 2d inst the Chan Ping and Ping Yuen distrjets were flooded by the bursting of a v ~'Waterspout or tornado, described by the Chinese as a water dragon and the level country flooded with nearly thirty six feet of water. The villages of Chae Kon and Ha Ku Huiin the Ping Yuen district, and Cueong lan, Hop Lui, Ngat Ku, Sam Chan Kiu and San Po Hui in Chan Ping district were overflowed, many 1 houses being wholly swept away, while others were inundated. Upward, of 6 r O(X) lives were lost. Ten thousand people are homeless. ' ' THE THREE* AMERICAS. The Coming Congress Attracting Widespread Interest. Washington, July 16.— “ The Congress of the Three Americas,” which will meet here in the autumn, is attracting a good deal of attention in England and on the continent. The State Department, in aJaudable desire to give the matter the widest prominence, has sent out circulars explaining the purposes of the meeting far and wide. These circulars state in substance that “it la proposed by a congress of representatives of all the American governments to improve commercial relations between tha different countries, to estahlisl a system of arbitration in international disputes, and to adopt a uniform monetary syateon