The Brooklyn Daily Eagle from Brooklyn, New York • Page 2

THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE MONDAY, KOVEMBER 12, 1888. 2 ST. AUGUSTINE'S KING DAVID. ITS MISSION. and best; Struggle1 often baffled sore baffled driven as into entire wreck; yet a strugglo novor ended, even with tears, ropontanoe, truo unconquerable purpose begun aitow." Ah, tlio man who sneers at David does not know his own heart, nor does he dream how a fiorco, hot breath nnght consume to ashes, his own boastful The true man will profit by David's example, and double tho guard over Iiib own conduct; while he will bo profoundly grateful that even for David was there forgiveness with God.

It is the parable of the prodigal in real life. It will send no man into the slums, but it will encourage many a man to come hack or to call a halt in his course. There are scars uppn your soul, perhaps; there are Bocrets that haunt and curse you, there arn memories that torment yon; but, my brother, the gate of return is open, and Ho who pardoned David has mercy for thousands, and will vou whiter than snow, if you como to Him with a broken heart. Tho subject of the next Sunday evening's dis courso will be "A Birdseyo View of tho First Book of Kings," and it is: presumably a wise policy Which, first gives heed to their wants, but it would bo cause for gratification to all good Catholics to see the work on the cathedral, so long delayed, once more resumed. The development of Catholic Brooklyn, under Bishop Loughlin, as seen in the erection of churches, hospitals, orphan asylums and schools, has indeed been suyprisingand nothing but the completion of the cathedral would now seem to remain in order to' round out an episcopal career signally successful in practical achievement.

Before' another year goes by, the Eagle hopes to see the work on the Clermont avenue edifice well under way. Ingenuity has thus far been unable to devise methods for lessening the dangers' of ocean navigation, and although there has been much talk about an international code of signaling adequate to all emergencies nothing has been done in the desired direction. The fact that the Umbria literally carved her way through the Iberia would indicate flint her rate of speed, in view of the fog, was dangerously high, and this view is strengthened by the knowledge that the Cunarders, of all the oeoau steamships, pride themselves on their fast records. If safety is to bo subordinated to speed it is manifest that not even the most efficient system of signals will do any good. Captain Cook, of the Etruria, and Captain MeMiekau, of the Umbria, are two of the most popular and capable commanders sailing between New York and Liverpool, but thoy should be reminded that beating tho record" is a performance which is at all timesattended by more risk than due regard for the greatest' safety of tho passengers would allow.

1 Klsmere and ChadU'ick. It might be as well to vomit Mrs. Ward's famous book to purely literary criticism. A work of fiction is pretty sure to fail as a theological essay, and the failure of the treatise will bo proportioned to the success of the novel. Robert Elsmere has commanded the attention of multitudes of readers, and will secure a permanent place if it is to have one at all, not by its arguments for this or that form of belief or unbelief, but by its truthful portraiture of men and women, of widely dilfering characters, in trying and dramatic situations.

With such an undertaking an author's preferences or convictions properly have nothing whatever to do, and so far as they are allowed to intrude they arc not only impertinent but a blotch upon (lie work. Shakspeare is as careful in his delineation of Iago as of Othello, though it is not difficult to conjecture which one he would have liked the better as a companion or an exemplar. There is nothing new in the opinions of the people who figure, in "Robert Elsmere." Its charm consists in the fact that the author has done absolute justice to every one of the individuals who represent in her pages the various aspects of the religious thought of the time. The further discussion of the volume by the pulpit will scarcely amount to much. Its treatment there of course depends upon the point of view, and the point of view is predetermined.

Some weeks ago Dr. Bohrends applied the orthodox test to it and yesterday Mr. Chadwiek measured it by the radical rule. The sermon of the advanced rationalist was awaited with curiosity because of an assumed resemblance between himself and Mrs. Ward's hero.

It might have been taken for granted that this identity of sentiment would interfere with a broad and impartial consideration of the subject. At all events, oven the strongest admirers of Mr. Chadwick's courage and cleverness must admit that his discourse was rather disappointing. The best part of it was the plea for sincerity. The fidelity of Elsmere to his convictions was dwelt upon with much eloquence, but nothing was said of the sincerity of the ritualist Newoome, wdio would have gone to the stake for his faith as readily as any of the martyrs whose names illumine the calendar.

There was not the slightest sense of the sincerity of Catherine, who sacrificed just as much love to her belief, wdio suffered equally at least in the struggle between affection and what she conceived to be her duty. Granting that she was narrow, she was none tho less sincere, perhaps all the more so on that account. It is a striking vindication of the fidelity of Mrs. Ward to her art that while her sympathies probably ran out toward the radical man the conservative woman is perhaps the strongest figure in the story. In ignoring such a character Mr.

Chadwiek show3 that he is far less catholic than his author. The fact is a good illustration of the emptiness of "liberality" and "tolerance" as these hackneyed terms are used. "Liberality" really means hospitality to the innovations one advocates. "Tolerance" is demanded only for difference with established opinion. Tho cynic will make merry over the discovery, while the philosopher will find in it the verification of human nature that the bitterest, impatience as to matters of faith breaks out sometimes in the "liberal" and "tolerant" pulpit.

An Laying the Cornerstone of New Catholic Church. a Impressive Ceremonies in Rer. Father Mccarty's Parish Yesterday Afternoon. Bishop O'Farrell's Address Listened to by Mayor Chapin and Other Prominent Citizens. A gathering of worshipers, glad of the privilege, shivered in tho chilling November wind of yesterday for two hours at the ceremony of the cornerstone laying of tho new church edifice of the parish of St.

Augustine, being built at the corner of Sixth avenue and Sterling place. The hour for the ceremony to begin was fixed at .1 o'clock, but long before that the people poured into the inclosurc. They included many persons notable in city affairs. Mayor Chapim Corporation Counsel City Auditor Rutan, City Judge Clement, ux llegister McLaughlin, Fire Marshal Lewis. Thomas B.

iVarsall, William Richardson and Walter PariiU were among the number who were interested lookers on. Some time after 3 the procession of priests and acolytes entered at the altar end of the church, preceded by tho Bight Rev. Bishop Bidden, of Syracuse, dressed in full pontificals. They proceeded to tho altar place and formally blessed it, and then while the chorus choir of voices pealedout the anthem, "Except the Lord Build the House," the procession moved to the cornerstone, which was formally blessed and laid by the Bight Rev. Bishop Liulden, and the choir snug a To Bourn Laudanvus.

The cornerstone is octagonal, with polished sides, is four feet across and two feet high and weighs two and ft half tons. The fan fronting the angle of the streets bears tho cross and the letters I. H. on the Sixth avenue side is St. Augustine," and on the Sterling place side Anno Domini, 1SKH." The stone rested on top of tho space prepared for the copper box, which contained different daily papers and Catholic weeklies; history of the parish; names of the reigning Pontiff, archbishop of the province, bishop of the diocese and pastor and assistants in the parish; names of the President, Governor and Mayor; list of the Executive Committee in chargo of tho construction of the cdi ttee and of the ushers.

Theso latter consisted of Messrs. Frank Conklin, John T. Kelly, James Rhnvlin, Michael Bennett, Thcopluliis Olena, Bernard J. York, Senator O'Connor, James Lynch, Thomas Barrett, Kdward Clync, James Conafy, Edward Ryan, A. .1.

liooney, John Byrne, M. E. Finnigan, W. Bennett, Farrell Fitzpatrick nnd Dr. H.

C. McLean. After the ceremony of blessing the stone, tho procession passed around blessing the walls of the spacious building. The Bight lie.v. Bishop 'FaiTcll, of Trenton, then delivered the address.

His appearance was attractive. A round, sunny face and a well modulated voice, added to the interest in his discourse. Many among his hearers remembered him as tho popular priest of St. Peter's Church, on Barclay street, No.v York, a generation ago, and yet apparently ho is no older now than then. Tho theme of his discourse was the Catholic Church in America.

He said in substance The building whoso cornerstone we have to day laid with tho solemn ceremonies of tho church Bhonld and will be the place from which we can see the ladder rising toward heaven, up and down which shall pass mvriads of ministering angels for the strengthening and comfort of tho people who shall worship hero for all time to come. Catholics should be proud of the erection of a noble edifice such as this and the people generally should feel that this was another bond for the strengthening of the country's greatness. Wc are proud of the Catholic church and of her achievements. Delivered by Cod Himself her doctrines havo been unchanged through all tho mutations of time since first she was established on the earth, aud wlnlo seekers have gone to and fro through the land asking for the truths, while the license granted by many has permitted heresy and blasphemy to he promulgated aud listened to from public platforms by men who have been afterward honored by their hearers, tlio Catholic church, has stood up, a strong bulwark against the flood, never compromising the truth. For thirty generations the church has prospered, even under tho erfcreisc of tyrannical powers and tho efforts of kingdoms to crowd it out.

It has thriven best in the pure air of freedom, though its inherent strength has caused it to flourish everywhere. SS'atered bv the blood of martyrs, tho "tree of truth has grown and spread its branches in every land, but nowhere has it grown stronger, nowhere can it better thrive than uudor the glorious Stars and Stripes. I ho Catholic church has beensadlv misunderstood by many people, who think it thrives best when sustained by the State, and where ignorance rules. These people cannot have looked back at the ages past to see what the Catholic Church has done for freedom, education and tlio emancipation of man and of woman. It has brought man out of barbarism, made woman his equal, a wife and a mother to be honored, and enveloped tho familv with sanctity.

Under its doctrine safety is insured for the family, and the wife is always a holmuoet to the hn iband until death parts, them. Divorce is not allowed and grievous wrongs arc not permitted as bv others, lho Catholic church protects the family, the Catholic church protects the youth and favors education. She loves and fosters hi hools and is safer the more education abounds. Education makes the man add the woman too, and Christian education makes the Christian man and woman. These are questions that should be discussed, aud I would love to discuss them fairlv before those who doubt, feeling sure of niv ability under (iod to present the truth to their conviction.

I have not time to dilate upon the debt of the Cnit 'd States to olics. The country owe I its discovery to Catholics, i i earliest explorers were missionaries ol the Catholic church, who suiTei and died tor tho truth. The Constitution of the United States was largely framed by Catholics, and they have alwavs served their country freely and gladly. A largo proportion of the Catholic church is made up of those who (led here from tyranny and oppression, and why should not appreeuito the blessed privilege of liberty that is here secured bv them I see already the mist of prejudice fading away before tho bright sun of iutel the people everywhere acknowledging the truth and tho real purpose of the Cathoho churc h. At the conclusion of his di icourso the bishop wittily referred to the rain of Saturday as presaging the outpouring of contributions for tho church, anil the breeze of the instant as a suggestion that Father MeCarty knew how to raise tho wind.

"Tho choir sang tho Hallelujah choi'UB, under direction of Professor Oiorza, and the corcmontes closed with this. This is tho professor's last service in connection with St. Augustine's, as he has gono to St. Agnes' in New York. Father MeCarty has reason to be proud of this event in his pastoral life, and a proof of his popularity among his brother clergy is found in the fact that, in addition to his assistants, Fathers James F.

Croly and John L. Bolford, there were present from other parishes Vicar General Kee gan, the Hev. Dr. I'rausioli and tho Rev. Fathers Lane, Fitzpatrick.

Duigg. Harry, McNamiira, Duffy, York Roily. Shivhy, Neimann and others, to take part in lie ceremonies. These and tho choir were cared for afterward at the residence of John Gtiorin, Sterling place. The proposition for a new church began with the knowledge that rapid transit was a fixed fact for Fifth avenue.

the corner of which avenuo and Bergen street the church building now occupied stands. Comiit tition for plans was solicited, and there were four from New York, four from this city and two from Philadelphia. That ol raiiitt 'Brothers, of this city, was accepted. II proposes the Thirteenth Century style of architecture, and the plans include a church, a chapel, a school and a pastoral residence, facing on Sixth avenue and Prospect and Sterling places. Ground was broken in November, 1 7, for the chape and in tho work begun.

Tim chapel building will be completed in about a year. The contractors for the work are: Mason, T. B. stone work, F. SSr.

Shnimp; carpenter, L. W. Seaman, plumbing, Harry Hawkcs. 0RITUARY. John V.

Hollenbnch. On Saturday John C. Bollenbaeh, an old a'nc much respected resident of Fkithii di. b. Jilt father of Mr.

George II. bollenbach. a well knowr printer, of this city, died at his residence, Clark, son street, near Rogers avenue, in the yoai of his age. The deceased had been ailing for 3 long time of cancer of the stouia h. The funeral, which was largely aftoid took place at 2 o'clock this afterno in from hi late residence.

John V. Hrinter. John Sr. Bristol' died Saturday at his home, 45 South Oxford street. He had a large circle o' friends and acquaintances and was a well knowi member of Eureka Lodge No.

F. and A and Knox Council of the American Legion ol Honor. The funeral took ,1 ic to day from nil late residence and was largely attended. FOlt THE imOOKI.YS 'UKK KISOKIMi AIITEX. An entertainment for the benefit of the Brook, lyn Free Kindergart will given in Historical Ball to morrow evening.

Mr. George Kiddle will appear in a new and varied programme, which includes "The Romance or a liosc'" "To morrow at 10." "Aunt Vi. if," "The Boat "Carcassonne," "To and "llcston Fads." The kindergarten is on Willow place, near Joralcmon street, and was started by the ladies of a local literary club. It is doing excellent work for children who are too young to attend regular schools. Vountr A.

Smylio'K SCicIc I.lcorlco Proven coimti.A!.k bosLjOrhit in sh. ivoTins. WILLIAM It cSS.q 1. oo fn II A 4iA Vtt 11 ON NN 'SS" 3SS3 OO NN Uosiirtfutly aaaoanco that their stock of lino DIAMONDS. WATOHKS.

JKWKbKY. STIilU ISti KIL VKUWAKK, ic, was never in largo and tine as ut present, lu anticipation of the holiday atason. They have decided to remain hTO they havu beou for many y.ars. hi Fullou st, oppoiite Clark, ft location conveniently reached from nil pans of the city. Tlinlr stock is 'l'l ll I i.aucf.st stock of fink goods in TIIEIlt LINK TO I5K FOUND IS IlltOOKI.VN Their prices are most reasonable, as companion wilt slio.v.

Their diamond lnountins; is dono on the premi. upstairs, in charge of Mr. ltobi rt Laurence, Ilio celebrated diamond setter. THIJEi: WATUI KKI'AIRKKH AKE OF THH lllUHUST AIIIMTV. CLOCK.

UKPAIIUNO, IX CIIAllfJK 01" Mil. DAVIS is attonded to carefully aad well. In fact all departments I ho I' nllir any bnsinoii in their cxtcimivo lino to uu to Vi II.I ln, IAM WISE KON. thn olde established J'' in tuocity. Gold of 18k.

and I Ik. only, silver only of rterlius. OAKUS and INVITATIONS. Adilrc monogram, inns "est, tamping and lino stationery in charce ot Mr. J.

a. GoULitoiu. formerly of Tvrcutj tllinl New York. able sums under the astonishibjg; delusion that he would be elected. Now that his total at the polls shows on insignificant minority be.is.

constrained to publish the names of the per sons received the funds. What air. Coogan hopes to accomplish by his "revelation," unless to keep himself a little longer in the public view, it is difficult to understand. There will always, he should remember, be "strikers," just as long as partisan contention continues in this country. Nor need he deceive himself with tho notion that the supply of fools in the world "is exhausted.

Every recurrence of popular excitement brings them to the surface. Without them the "striker" would be ut a discount and the irresponsible heeler would find his occupa tion gone. Even Coogan, had the rule not have held good, might have been un known to fame, albeit a round amount in pocket. Coogan may have meant well enough. He was not without his uses.

He furnished some even when weighty matters were on nana. Possibly ho was the safety valve that let off dangerous steam from the campaign boiler. But he showed himself to be more, of a clown than a statesman and his disappearance into obscurity will be more of a relief than a privation for sober minded people. That Coogan was buried "when the votes went out" was unfortunate for Coogan, but creditable to Now York. The Central Labor Union or any other body wastes time in discussing him and his affairs.

The KjigJisli View of It. The noble lord who holds the reins of the English administration takes the view of the result of our election which he might have been expected to take. British beef and beer are not tue toon or statesmen who gei, excited over, Mi Lord Salisbury is not excited. If the Sackville West incident raised his temperature a single degree, or caused his heart an extra throb, the Republican triumph has restored his normal placidity. The sturdy Tory bulldog eoudeseends to be cynical, but it is a cynicism that bespeaks a mental condition which aftects neither Ins sleep nor his appetite.

At tho banquet Saturday night he was pleased to observe that the removal of the British Minister did not rise to the dignity ot a casus belli. It was not even due to an un pleasantness between two nations. It lacked any of the characteristics of an international affair. As a matter of fact Sack ville loved and admired the American people and the American people loved and admired Sackville. Tho trouble had a personal and partisan origin.

Things were in such a fix that sacrifice was called for. The blood of an Englishman was wanted to sprinkle tho altar of the Irish American vote. Sackville's little indiscretion pointed him out as a handy victim and the sacrificial knife promptly severed his ambassadorial jugular. A few days later there followed an appeal to the ballot box, and the verdict rendered was that his Lordship had been ill used, or, as Salisbury put it, the statesmen who had immolated Sackville had not commended themselves to the American people. Cleve land had been the chief priest at the sacrifice, and his reward was to be driven out upon the barren shores of the opposition.

In the judgment of the Tory Premier the election of Harrison was the deliberate indorsement of Sackville and tho punishment of the man who had wronged him. So the new Administration will find itself on a footing of high esteem with the English Ministry. Salisbury is pro pared to vouch for its English sympa thies. It came iuto power as a vm Loidship's representative mil therefore the English dication of his at Washington, people will be disposed to regard with favor ible eyes the head of the new Administration and to overlook the part wdncn Ins great hearted ancestor played in the tragedy which dosed the career of Charles I. upon the scaf fold at Whitehall.

1 PERSONAL MENTION'. William H. Barnaul's condition is unchanged. Secretary Bavard will resume the practice of law when he leaves the Department of State. Surceon General Harrison is to resign and take clnn L'e of thfJinnml of (lie Amerienn Medical Association.

Boston society frowns on Miss Endicott's choice for a husband. Joe Chamberlain is not popular in the Hub. The condition of Mrs. Jay Gould is still extremely critical. It is said that President and Mrs.

Cleveland will make their future home in Washington. 6 RECENT EVENTS. There were twelve new oases of yellow fver In Jacksonville, one death. Six men convicted of murder are in jail at Fort Smith, Ark. Nyaek has a new German Presbyterian Church.

A Raleitiii 'NT negro was blown out of bed by a gas pipe explosion. The Cu iard steamer Uine ia and the Frcncl teami.r Iberia collided in a fog twenty miles from Sandy Hook. The stern of the Iberia was torn awav, and the vessel bad to be towed in for The Umbria was so badly damaged that she had to return for repairs. The rear wall of the armory, being built for the Fi'dith New York Regiment at Madison avenue and Ninety fifth street, was blown down, was injured. No one The demonstration in Chicago was not characterized by violence.

party will leave Washington on Satnr day on a scientific trip through Mexico and Cen tral America to determine longitude by telegraph Senor Canovas, tho Spanish Conservative leader, was violently attacked by a mob in Madrid. The work of recovering the bodies at Pitts buva (Kah.) continues. Tim Oeel, Indians have driven a number St ruffians out of their territory. The Young Men's Christian Associations through out the world began a week of prayer for young men. A Boston dispatch says "A very peculiar look ing fish was caught at Revere Beach yesterday morninc.

near the Revere House, bv Messrs Collier and Denver, employes of the hotel, who cvnevienfioil some difficulty in landing it. Tho monster looks more like a skate than anything else. It is all head, however. It has two hand Bhaped tins, with five fingers on the under part of its body. From the mouth to the tip of the tail it measures four feet; the width of its month is fourteen inches.

Upon cutting opan the fish a l'li i'c sea (mil was found, which it could not digest, so death soon followed after landing upon the beach." The schooner I. I. Warington, from Salem, for New Brunswick was wrecked. The captain and bis wife and child clung to tho ri. ging all night and were finally rescued.

John L. Sullivan is gaining strength. Ho says that in three months he will be stronger than ever. A new independent oil company lias been or ganized in Pittsburg. It proposes to lay a pipe from the lower oil fields to Philadelphia.

Mrs. Helen Maria Hoyt, widow of Jesse Hoyt, the urain dealer and railroad man, who died in August, 1882, leaving a fortune of $8,000,000: died on Saturday. President Foster, of the Sugar Trust, is report ed as saying: "We don't regulate the price of sugar; the price is regulated by the law of supply and Sometimes the crop runs behind; the ice of raw sugar is higher then and this makes tho refined articlo cost the consumer more Wo havo orders ahead all the timo and buy tho raw sugar in advance, and sometimes we make snuar with hardly any profit. At other times, When the price of raw sugar goes lower, we make up in our profits. Again, to show you that our business is not so profitable as the uowspaueri and public suppose, we have to pay enormous taxes and we use a great (Tea! of water, which, of course, costs us considerable money.

Samuel Young, an Elknon (Md.) nogro, shot and killed his son in law without provocation. P0LITI i.h POINTS. Both aides are still claiming West Yirg'nia. The Catholic authorities at Rome are said to express satisfaction at Harrison's election. The Central Labor Union held a wake over the e.ornse of tho United Labor party hi Clarendon Hall.

It is generally believed that the Western States will have a majority of tho positions in the new cabinet. CONTEMPORARY HCJI0R. Small Boy (at theater door) Do ye admit do pro fesh to dish show for uothiu'7 Doorkeeper What profesh. Johnny Small Boy Wy, de teatrical profesh, of course. Doorkeeper Well, yes, sometimes.

Are you a member? Small Boy No, not izzactly; but my sister Jennie she's one of de Queens of Beauty in de gum chewing contest at do dime museum. IVrrc Hanle. Express. Tailor (measuring eminent Prohibitionist for trousers) Seven a halfrthirteen a quarter, ten seven eighths. How's Prohibition up your way, Mr.

Dryrot? Mr. Dryrot First class. Tailor Thirty one a quarter, nine, twenty a half want hip pockets, sir Mr. Dryrot Yes, two on 'em. Tailor And two hip pockets, Prohibition size.

Enoch. THREE Sl'DDES DKAT1IS IS HEMPSTEAD. There were throe sudden deaths in tho Yillago of Hempstead yesterday. William B. Bedel, farmer, 72 years old, died from a paralytic shock, Mrs.

Edward Haaf, 8a years old, died from apoplexy. Henry H. Demott. 00 years old, a confectioner, was found dead in his store, tho causo of death in his case was heart disease. THE LiST GAME OF THE SEASON t'laycd in ItidgrowAoa Park Wa Very Ught Attendance.

The cold nor'weater interfered materially with the last game of the.seiison yesterday, Which was played at Ridgewood Park before tho smallest crowd'present at any game this season. Hughes failed to put in ah appearance and Burns was put in to pitch by Captain Charley Ebbotts, the latter playing at left field, and the result was the success of the New York team by. the appendod score Brosnan's Holding at second base was tho feature of tho contest, he putting out six players and assisting nine times without an error: NEW YOKE. BBOOKLVn. n.ln.r.on.R.

iUn.P.O. Jones. 3b 1 1 1 0 fi 0'Nolson, r.f 0 0 0 1 Burns, 1 110 4 0 ClOiT, .0 15 0 1 1 JjlTerrf, o.f......O 0 2 0 0 4. OlMoGlono. 1 1 a () Weavinnr.

r.f .2 J. Lohnne, lb. .3 113 Troy, Sl 1 1 Kennedy, 1.1.. 2 0 1 Mumhv. 0 2 1 0 0 3 0 (t 0 1 10 10 8 0 5 0 3 0 0 0 2 Millor, 1 1 1 Total i0 11 2722 4iTotal Jill 27 23 7 BCOnK BY ismKas.

13 3 4 5.0780 Now York 1 Brooklyn 1 0 2 0 0 0 10 0 3 Earnod rnns New York, Brooklyn, 2. lurst baao bv errors Now York, Brooklyn, 1. Left on bases Nbw York, Brooklyn, 8. First baso on balls inK, Esterbrook, 1 Lehane, Troy. Nelson.

Motllono, 1: Hchonck; 1. Struck out Weaving, 2 Lo hann, 2. Stolon baso Weaving, 1. Double plnys Bros nmi and Orr, Jones, Troy and Brnsnan, Orr and lalenok, 1 Troy, Orr nnd Holbert, 1. Hit by pitohor Miller, 1 Weaving, 1.

Wild pltolies Miller, 1 Burns. 4. Timo of eamol hour and 13 minutes. Um pire Ferguson. About two hundred persons witnessed the gamo between the Cuban Giants and the New Yorks at the Long Island Grounds yesterday.

The weather was too cold for comfort and the game was called aftor four innings had boon played. Score; Cuban Giants, 13; New York, 5). Umpire John Kolly considers Hubbard Collins, of the Brooklyn team, the best all round player in the American Association and says that Mr. Byrne did good work for his team when ho signed him. The only player who has signed to play with the Now York team for 1889 is Pitohor Tiicomb.

The veteran Corkhill wdll captain the Brooklyn team in 1889 and thon the team will have tho right man in the right place for the first time. The value of batting averages as data in selecting men for a team is Bhown in the fact that the Now York a lowqj batting averago and made less runs than in any previous year, woii tlio pennant. Disengaged managers are industriously circulating reports about thoir being wanted by this, that and the other league or association club, when the fact is that tho majority of thorn would jump at a minor league club's offer. In 188G tho Chicago Club collected over $2,000 from its prominent players in tho shape of fines for drunkenness, in which Mike Kelly, Me Cormaek, Williamson and Flint and othors figured conspicuously. It was Spalding's temperance platform which really drove Kelly to accept Boston's terms.

Kelly wants to see Ward on the Boston team. He will act as lieutenant under Ward, but under no other man. On October 27 John Ward paid $20,000 for real estate in Denver, which is. now in the residence district, but will soon bo a lively business part of tlio city. Last Summer John realized $15,000 on tho salo of the some lots ho purchased there in the Spring for $2,000.

Every ball player who had a chance to go on the Australian tour should read Harry Palmer's account of the visit of tho players to tho Garden of the Gods," at Colorado Springs, on the trip from Denver to Han Francisco, which appears in the Sporting Lire of November 14, published yesterday. HARVEST HOME EXERCISES lit (lie Ocean' BSill ISzipliat Cliurcli Yes teiilay. Harvest Home was appropriately celebrated last evening in the Ocean Hill Baptist Church, at tho corner of Roekaway avenue and Somer street. Standing, room was at a premium long before the commencement exercises. The pulpit was loaded with vegetables of all kinds, while "Horns of Plenty," filled with fruits, were strung along tho walls The programme of exercises had been carefully arranged by Sir.

Philip Evans, the assistant superintendent of the Sunday school. "Everything on this platform," said Mr. Evans, in opening the exercises, speaks of God's goodness to us. There is a sermon in every plant, in every flower and in every vegetable; a sermon of thanksgiving to God, who has given nil theso blessings. I hope will all love Him more and more, and serve Him hotter, as day by day wo grow older, so that by and by we may enter into that harvest home which He provides." Then the school sang "Go hear tho joyful tidings," and the Rev.

J. L. Campbell invoked the blessing. One more day's work for Jesus was sung by the school, and Hilton C. Johnson, tho superintendent of the Sunday school, read the Scripture lesson.

The Rev. J. Campbell offered prayer. The. rest of tho programme consisted of songs and recitations.

DEFENDING THE CHURCHES. Without Them E'icnds Would Steer ICrooklyn to Doom. Tho Rev. Duncan McGregor, of the Carroll Park M. E.

Church, preached last evening upon "The Christian Forces of Brooklynwith special reference to the remarks which Rev. Dr. W. F. Bainbridge lately made in regard to the city Kinking back into a slough of irreligion very much akin to heathendom.

Mr. McGregor defended the churches of Brooklyn strongly, though admitting that they were not in some cases working up to their full capacity. He said: You wouldn't for a moment doom the. pumps upon a sinking vessel a failure while they kept the vessel from going down, though tlicy did not stop the leak or repair the vessel. This city, like every other city, has sprung a leak, and if it were not for the pumps of Christian forces all the while at work it would sink.

Kin has sprnng thousands of leaks in her, and if the gospel pumps should stand still the fires of her enginery would be put ont and the great sea of criminality, tides ot dissipation, of drink, of licentiousness, of theft, of ignorance and of fraud would overwhelm us. Let the church, with all their religious destitution he claims, all their supiiieness, all their dead material, all thoir slumbering energies, all their spurious commodities, all their society seekers, with ell their religions loafers, with all their religious crunks, tnimp i and fanatics, clone her doors, put out her altar fires, silence the word ot her testimonies, disband her communions, muzzle her oracle, muffle her song and clip the wings of her faith, then would tlio great scant Kin mid darkness pour in unon her, the monsters of the deep would hold high carnival in her cabins, the sea serpents would waltz her decks, while fiends wonkl seize her rudder and run her to doom. ST. CLEMENT'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH Organized Xcslcrrtsiy in tho 'fwenty isixlii Ward, A now Episcopal church, St. Cleme.

wac organized yesterday in the Oriental Building, on Atlantic avenue, near Georgia avenue. Tho present quarters are only temporary. Archdeacon Stevens and the Bev. H. D.

Seiuhh of St. Andrew's Church, conducted tho services. The exercises commenced with singing by the congregation. The declaration of the formal opening of the church was then read by the archdeacon. The choir sang the offertory while the collection was taken, after winch tho archdeacon preached a short but appropriate sermon on the Power of Faith." Mr.

Stevens took his text from I Kings But he himself went on a day's journey into the wilderness and came and sat down under a juniper tree; and he requested for himself that he might die and said it is enough: now, Lord, take away my life for I am not better than my father." The speaker pointed to the fact that very frequently the most sanguine become despondent. As a coiroboration of this view ho showed how even Elijah, who in his career commanded the sun and moon to stand still and who called down fire from heaven to consume the sacrificial pyre which he had prepared to show tho falseness of tho god of Baal, had bocomo so despondent as to beg for death at the hands of tho Almighty. CHILDREN'S MISSIONARY SOCIETY. An Interesting; Meeting aud Entertainment. The Children's Missionary Society, connected with several Baptist churches on the Hill, held an iiitoivstiflg meeting and entertainment at tho Marcy Avenue Baptist Church Saturday afternoon.

There were representatives from tho Washington Avenue, Emmanuel, Sixth Avenue and Hanson Place Baptist churches. Miss Estello Miller, of Marcy Avenue Church, read a gratifying report of the society's work during the past quarter. Master Humpstone, sou of Dr. Hump stone, recited, and tho entertainment concluded with a dialogue written by Miss L. Leeming, and in which characters were assumed by Miss Winni fred Leeming, Mabel Leonard, Grace A.

Green and Mabel Smith. It represented tho introduction of a Japanese girl to American civilization, and was well portrayed. The costume worn by Miss Green was real Japanese. The costumes of many Asiatic countries were also displayed to tho interest of tho gathering. WHAT THEY OUGHT TO BE.

Tho Rev. John Adair McGieaham, pastor of tho Orchard Primitive Methodist Church, Oakland street, delivered the fourth sermon of a series to young people, at the church named last evening. The subject of the discourse "What Young People Ought to be," was ably handled. Mr. McGi eaham held that first of all young people should become christians, and said that by leading a consistent life under church influences their after life would bo strongly molded thereby.

There was a large congregation present. HOTEL ARRIVALS. St. George J. O.

Stearns, Corning, N. Mr. and Mrs. Tilton, Boston; H. G.

Billiard, United States Navy; H. II. Douglas, Hempstead: J. U. Shorter, Washington; Mrs.

L. Zimmerman, H. Williams, Philadelphia; Sirs. T. AY.

Taylor, New Brunswick, N. C. W. Berry, Port Bryson, N. W.

Goodbody, Dublin; F. G. Osborne, T. A. Kccney, D.

J. McKinlay, It. H. McLean, A. S.

Maclean. Mrs. Bead, Miss Bead, Brooklyn. F1KK IS A BAKERY. About 5 o'clock this morning, a kettle of fat was aceidently upset in tho bakory of Frederick Wall, 325 Oakland street, and set fire to tho building.

Had it not boon for the promptitude of the firemen, the building would have been destroyed. The building is owned by Frederick Rumwell, who estimates his loss at $500. and tho baker's loss is about tho same amount. Both are insured. JEFFEKS0S HEIGHTS El'CHHE C115B.

The prizes in tho Jefferson Heights Euchre Club contests were won by the following members: Ladies' first, Miss Gough; gentlemen's first, Mr. Halloubock: ladies' booby. Miss Kirby; gentle men's booby, Mr. Sherman. Ti' i xr trtfifcjv uti Rev.

Dr. Behrends' Bird's Eye View of Second Samuel. Tlie Hebrew Monarch as a DiscipIo of the Prophet, an Exile, a Warrior, a Ruler aud a Poet. The Control Congregational Church was filled with an oager and attentive audience last evening upon the occasion of Rev. Dr.

Behrends' discourse on tho Books of the Bible. This was tho fourteenth in the Bird's Eyo View" serieH. and the subject was The Seooud Book of Samuel." The following was the text: He thatruleth over mon must ho just, ruling in tho fear of God. And he shall be as the light of the morning, when tho sun even a morning without clouds; as the tender grass springing out of the earth by clear shining aftor rain." 2 Samuel 3 4. Dr.

Bohronds spoke substantially as follows; These are the words of the dying David. The experience of a long and laborious life, extending ovnr a period of fortv vears. durinor which thn speaker had known the extremes of personal 'for tune, is gathered up in this sober statement of the poet king. Wo havo here the sum and sub stance of political science. Good government is, at heart, a very simple thing, however numerous tho intorcsts that must be fostered and however complicated tlio machinery of administration.

It exists, by the appointment of God, for the welfare of the people. The true ruler is like the sun, Scattering the clouds and mist, making all things radiant and glad; like the tender grass after the gentle rains of the Spring time, grateful to tho cyos of men and refreshing to tho flocks, a carpet of beauty and a table of plenty. Prosperity is based upon simple justice, the recognition, maintenance and defense of personal rights. And the best school of public justice, like that of private virtue, is tho fear of God, the cordial recognition of the Divine authority and the habitual obedience to the Divine law. David anticipated tho conclusion of Plato, wisest of the Greeks, who in his republic traced private and public virtue to tho same ground, as consisting in every man's doing his own work, having amplo opportunity to display his energy without trenching upon his neighbor's activity, by more than (00 years.

Justice is the strength anil glory of States, and the law of God is the stniidard of righteousness. The aged monarch confesses that biB administration had not been beyond criticism. Heacknowl 'edges that ho had made grievous mistakes. But be claims that in the main, and by his ruling intention, his rnle had boon a righteous one. To please God had been his salvation and all his desire, and in the assured establishment of his house ho read the sentence of divine approval.

The divine leniency should incite us all to charitable judgment, ltuiors aro neither infallible nor faultless, and have a right to bo judged by the general tenor and trend of their administration. To govern a city, to rule State, to irnido the destinies of a nation, is no easy task: and the men upon whom lay such burdens aro entitled to our sympathy and our most generous judgment. It is this moderate judgment which the (inbiascdaud impartial historian at last formulates and fixes. Judged by this criterion, tho reign of David was the most illustrious and beneficent in all the annals of Jewish history. I am embarrassed to night by the wealth of my material.

For David is. next to Moses, the most heroic figure of the Old Testament. In the case of Moses, however, the legislative activity overshadows the biographical description. The personal incidents of his long life are few and scattered. Tho biography of David, on the other hand, is minute, and its threads are overywhoro interwoven with his public activity.

Even his recreation has had a world wide meaning. The harp was his solace in tho solitude of his early life: and that harp lie has conquered more hearts than by his sword. We havo a better knowledge of him than we have of any other man who lived years ago; Tho account not only covers the entire Second Book of Samuel, but the latter and larger half of the First Book and the whole of tho First Book of the Chronicles, to say nothing of the lost histories written by the prophets Nathan and Gad. To this should be added the charming Boole of Ituth. Tho combined aceonnts contain not fur from sixty thousand words.

Nearly one half of tho compact history, describing the fortunes of the Jewish monarchy from the election of Saul to the captivity of Babylon, a period of over five hundred years, is devoted to the checkered life and work of this one man. This sample statement discloses a marvelous literary activity by known and unknown writers; for while the authorship of the historical books is unknown, there can be no question that they are based upon a critical sifting of contemporaneous accounts, and a careful examination of State papers. It brings to light also a most impartial and elevated historical judgment; for the earliest estimate of David has been confirmed by all subsequent criticism. With all his faults and grievous sins, lie was the greatest and the best of alrthe kings of Israel, a man of large and gen erors mold, rightly named the Beloved, the man after God's own heart. His preparation for the monarchy from the din when Samuel annointod him at Bethlehem, until the death of Saul made him the ruler of Judah, is the first chapter in his recorded life.

Here he "ppears at his best, in the freshness of his youth, the fearless bravery of bis spirit, the modesty of his behavior, the magnanimity and self restraint developed during his long and hard exile, the unstained loyalty of his conduct. Again and again is it said that David behaved himself wisely. He was every inch a warrior. The people met him with shouts that filled Saui's heart with envy, an envy that grew at last into settled hatred. Wascverfaithfulsoryant treated as was this young man by his Icing, driven from the palace to Samuel's retreat, and thence to mo enemy country, oniy on imini iikiuji into the wilderness, to live as an outlaw, with a price upon his head? Twice was Saul in his power, but he would not harm a hair of his head.

The king of Philistia hoped to win him as an ally, but ho never smote an Israelite. Through all these vears he knew that the prophetic authority of Samuel had declared him to bo the divinely chosen successor of Saul: but he raised no standard of revolt. He waited for the providence of God, and for the voico of the people. In nil this he was a true disciple of Samuel. And when at last Saul's life went out in tragedy, tho lying reporter, who claimed to have been the.

hero of tho hour, was summarily and severely punished, while David broke out in words of lamentation that have become proverbial: "Thy glory, Israel, is slain upon thy high places! How arc the niightv fallen Tell it not in Gath: publish it not in the streets of Ashtelonl Yo mountains of Gilboa, let there bo no dew nor rain upon you! Ye daughters of Israel weep! How are the mighty fallen!" Noble and patriotic words from the Hps of as noble a soldier and patriot as ever lived. And now, as we follow him into larger arena, for twenty years, wc have little reason to blush for him. The tragedy of bis life comes the middle of his reign. Ho had waited long and patiently for the crown. Judah promptly recognized his authority, and he was anointed at Hebron.

One id' his first public acts was to thank tho men of Jabcsh Gilead, whom Saul had delivered from their Ammonite oppressors, for their bravery and kindness in rescuing the bodies of the fallen king and his sons and giving them decent burial, The war between his own house and the house of Saul was purely defensive on David's part. He permitted no reprisals and frowned upon 11 treachery. The slate was divided for seven years and a half, when the riiie prizo tell into David's hands without a blow on his part aud by request of all the tribes. Abner had espoused the cause of Saul, making lsh bosheth king, a man of narrow and jealous disposition. It was not long before Abner deserted to David's camp, stung by the mean suspicions of his master.

He was a powerful ally, having the ear of tho northern tribes, whom he counseled to follow him. Joab was the chief military officer of David's band, and dreading the influence of a rival be slew Abner with his own hand. The dastardly murder of lsh bosheth followed soon after, a crime which was intended to clear David's way, but complicity in which he repudiated, punishing the offenders with death; while the lamentation over Abner, whose death had some ground in the death of Asahcl, Joab's brother, at Aimer's bauds, moved the people to tears. At last all opposition disappeared, not by smiting ot tho sword, not by the Oriental policy of dagger and poison, but by patient waiting and magnanimous forbearance. The character ot David brought the tribes his feet; and at their request he was for the third and last timo anointed king.

11c was now '17 years old; and the vigor with which he entered upon his aggret sive ami organizing work shows that he had laid his plans long before. His retirement had not been spent in idleness. He saw that the new state needed a capital, centrally located and easily defended. He pitched upon Jerusalem, then a Jebitsito tor tress, which the occupants regarded as impregnable. Its capture was a masterly stroke, and was succeeded by he removal of the ark to the new capital, making tho city the political and the religious headquarters of the nation.

1 hen he gave his attention to the enemies of Israel. He never seems to have provoked a war, but when he entered upon a campaign he pushed his advantage to the utmost. The eighth chapter ot Second Samuel contains a brief summary of the wars in which he was engaged against Philistia, Moab, Syria and Damascus, Amnion and Edoin. The Ammonite war was the fiercest, anil was renewed a second time. The hostile league included hyna and Damascus, but the victory was overwhelming and decisive.

At the time of this second Ammonite war David was about 00 years old. and ho had reached the zenith of his power. He had made a league with the King of Tyre, and he ruled from the Euphrates to the Mediterranean. There is but one faint shadow upon this period ot twenty years the polygamy which was introduced as a "feature of the royal household after the public coronation at Hebron. And now, after thirteen years of undisputed sovereignty, with the last great war drawing to an end, there conies a startling lapse, and the next twenty years are keyed to a moan.

Vou know the story. David's double sin was followed by a succession of awful domestic tragedies, by the rebellion and death of Absalom, and by the revolt of Shcba, which seems to have liad the connivance even of Amasa, one ot David's most trusted military leaders, those things indicate breaking energy. He was growing old'bv the pressure of his grief, and the 1 ltty first psalm shows us that his spirit was morebowed down than his hodv. The man's magnanimous tenderness holds out to the last. He is crushed with grief over Absalom's death.

He liberally commends and rewards Barzillai. He restores Amasa to a command in the army. He refuses to retaliate upon Shemei, who greeted lam with curses upon his Ho feels that he has more than deserved it ah; and so he shows n. Jus second exile the same noble qualities that. marked his early outlaw life.

Only onco during this period docs the old martial spirit revive in him, and then the record sfiows that it was the momentary flaming up of spc it fire. Against the advice of his chief military officer and in spite of the protests of the members of his staff, David ordered that a military census be 1 he work was never fully completed. But when the returns began to come in David's heart smote him and God severely rebuked him. Wherein the sin consisted it is not easy to see, but it is perfectly plain that the king's policy was regarded as unpatriotic and dangerous and that it was condemned by that higher authority which guarded the claims of God and of His law. In the book we havo been reviewing very little is said about the internal machinery of the government, that is left to the First Book of the Chronicles.

The record here deals entirely with salient historical facts, and especially with their moral meaning. And here we see that the death of Lnah marks the change in David's personal fortune. 1 ho avenger of blood pursues him relentlessly. Deeply does he repent of his sin, and Nathan assures him of the Divine forgiveness; bnt the natural consequences of the sin are not thereby cancelled, nor is chastisement suspended. It is an awful and salutary lesson that sin compels us to eat the bread of bitterness even though our pardon be sealed by the word of God.

The groat contrast between Sanl and David is to be observed in the profound and constant roBpoct with which the latter heard and heeded the admonition of tho prophets ot God. The prophets were preachers of righteousness. Sanl heard Samuel, and then did as lie pleased. He was restless under admonition, anil disobedient. David bowed his heart, and repented in dust and ashes.

Hero is themoia grandeur of the man which makes him a model for all time, A true servant, oi God, oe a uo always nnd promptly submissive the diui reproof. It is a splendid tribute hie that sc crest and sourest of all critics, pays to the character of the gi ca I leb nt, I' Who is called the man attei C'od nh ci iiiiv i.i the Hebrew king, had fallen into sins oi gh blac) est crin cs thore was no want of sh And therefore the unbelievers sneer, and ask, 'Is lis your man after God's own The sneer I must say, seems to me hut a shallow one. What are faults, what are the outward details of a life, if the inner secret of it. the remorse, temptations, the often baffled never ended struggle of it bo forgotten? David's life and history as written for us in those psalms of his, I consider tlio truest emblem ever given of a man'e moral progress and warfare hero below. All earnest souls will ovor in it the faithful struggle of an earnest human soul toward what jb Kootl MONDAY EVENING, N0VEJI11ER 12, 18S8.

T.tliu lus tho Circulation of any Evening J'anor Published in tlio trniiuil Status. Its vuluo as an Advertising Medium iw therefore apparent. EaRlo OCHc.os lv.J 7 Avenue, Near lillloil Street, Fifln Avenue, Neat Ninth Street, unit 'i'l Slroadwuy, Brooklyn, It Advertisements for the week day editions mil be received up to 11:30 o'clock A. and for the Sunday edition up to 10 P. M.

on Saturdays. Election Figures, True mut False. The Eagle had curlier nnd br tter service on election figures, this vetir, than ever before. The service was rendered by its own reporters in the election districts find Polioo Headquarters, by the Western Union Telegraph Company, by tlio Associated Tress, by the United Press, by the New York City Press Association and by John J. Kiernun's ticker." From local sources the Eagle mid its Brooklyn contemporaries knew, between 0 and 10 o'clock election night that the majority for Cleveland in this city and county would not be 13,000, and would probably be less.

In their first extra the Eagle nnd the Standard Union published that fact. The Brooklyn Times published no election night extra. In the first extra the Eagle and the Standard Union published figures from the State indicating that Harrison had carried New York State, because of the apparently large llepublienn gains in the interior and the known vote of New York City and Brooklyn. As correctly given and as promptly sent as the Brooklyn returns were also those by the Associated, United rfnd New York Ciiy Press associations, and by Kievnan's ticker," on each of which the figures were substantially identical. Those that came by the "ticker" came first as the tape ran right into the offices of subscribers, and they were the same figures afterward received by the pivss associations.

The truth of how the election had gone was never so quickly and so clearly ascertained before. The Eagle and its readers owe thanks to the agencies which through this paper so well served the public. Every event, however, seems to have its base Bide. The base side in this case is supplied by the conduct those who are well known when they are called the gang. The gang got the correct figures as soon as anybody.

They knew how Kings County, the State and the' Union had gone, as soon as anyone did and that was very early. Instead of giving out the truth, they gambled on lies about it. They placarded here and telegraphed to New York lies about the vote in this county, grossly exaggerating the Democratic majority. They exhibited here pretended telegrams from New York and elsewhere, with lies in them about how the election had gone in other quarters. By this means the gang deceived many Democrats into betting on Cleveland, late at night, while the gang themselves were betting on Harrison, through their agents.

The gang thus, bv deceiving Democrats with false news and by robbing them by fraudulent bets, made up their own losses and walked off enriched by the disaster of their own party and by the swindling of their own victims. That was nbout the meanest form of crime ever committed, even by the gang, and mates with, if it does not exceed, their plundering of the city. Confronted by their swindled dupos, the gang are trying to east the blame on the news ngeuciesundon Kiernan's "titk' As already said, all the agencies, including Kiernan's, and we may add Kiernan's especially, were scrupulously correct in their figures and sent them earlier than ever before. The crime 'wtts made possible by substituting bogus figures ftjr the true ones, to hedge on fraudulent bets. The bogus substitutions and lhe fraudulent bets were both the work of the gang themselves.

Tlic Easfle in the Canvass. Our esteemed Pepublican contemporary, the New York Tribune, publishes the appended complimentary allusion to the course of the Eagle in the recent political campaign Now that tlio campaign is over, a word or two of praise for its course from the beginning to the end is due to the Kaoi.e. I mean its impartial course in tlit treatment of the public demonstrations of the two parties. It is not a new thing for thcEAfiLii toffivc as full of llepublican meetings as of Democratic, but its impartiality was never more conspicuously shown than in the canvass just closed. The series of meetings addressed by Messrs.

Miller. MeKinley, Ineersoll, Depuw and Blaine has never been surpassed in Brooklyn. The Eagi.j: gave verbatim reports of all these speeches, hist as it did of the meetings of its own party at which Mills, Hill, Bayard and others spoke. This regard for the interests of the minority party is one of the Bocrcts of the success of the Kaiii.i:, which is understood never to have been more prosperous than at present. In general it may be said that the Eaole's editorial treatment of its opponents this year has been fair and honorable.

A conspicuous exception is its persistent attacks on William 0. Wallace, which were ivholly uncalled for and useless. The F.ac.i.k at first commended the nomination, and then turned and tried to rend the candidate. To the foregoing could be added many similar compliments from readers of the Eagle, representing all political parties, which have been received at this office. The Tribune is mistaken, however, in regarding the time honored practice of the Eagle in getting and publishing all the news as any "secret." It is known of all men and appreciated by all men in Brooklyn.

Because the Eagle is a newspaper, not a hidebound partisan or factional machine organ, it is the accepted journalistic exponent of this vast and splendid municipality. Untrainmeled by outside influences, regardless of the interests of leaders or managers, it gives to its constituency all the available material necessary for a correct understanding of the questions involved in every popular controversy, more than the news the Eagle does not want. Ti ss than the news it will not have. To its invariable custom of opening its columns to men of every shade of opinion, and setting forth attractively and accurately their utterances, is attributable the generous share of popular favor which has been showered upon it and given it the commanding position it occupies in this community. That a single exception is taken by our contemporary to the uniform fairness of the Eagle's editorial comment is not surprising.

The Tribune, believes avowedly in going "the ticket, the whole ticket and uothing but the ticket." Vhateverexpressions adverse to the candidacy of Congressman Elect Wallace appeared in these columns were based not upon any animosity felt toward the candidate, but on the criticisms supplied by such eminent members of his own party as ex Mayor Frederick A. Schrocder, Mr. llob ert D. Benedict, the most conspicuous candidate before the Congressional Convention, and Mr. David H.

Honghtaling. They believed that they could because of the circumstances atteidjhg'ins nomination, cast their votes forluju. Then' right to' dissent was unassailable. That thoy, regret their action nowhere appears. The' Eagle hopes that Mr.

Wallace will make a good Congress, man but it sees no reason to believe that the Republican criticism' on his course antecedent to the nomination was not fully, justified by the circumstances. The Vmbria's Collision. The remarkable good fortune of the Cu naTd Line in freedom from loss of life by accident was again exemplified yesterday in the collision between the Umbvia and the French steamship Iberia. All the conditions were favorable to the sacrifice of many lives, and yet, most fortunately, not a single one was lost. It was at noon on Saturday that the accident occurred, just twenty miles outside Sandy Hook.

There was a dense fog. and while cutting it the Umbria bore down on the Prencli vessel, tearing away fifteen or twenty feet of her stern. The shock was hardly felt by the passengers on the big Cunarder. Had it not been for the Iberia's water tight compartments the probabilities are that she would have sunk immediately and that most of her crew would have been drowned. The perfect discipline which was maintained by the captains of both vessels is the cheerful part of the story.

The slightest panic must, havo involved consequences more or less fatal. It does not yet appear to whom the blame for the, collision is to be attributed. Rev. John W. Chadwiek Dis cusses "Robert Elsmere" He Tiews Mrs.

Humphrey Ward's Book from a Purely Unitarian stauapoim A Word to Insincere Preachers. The ltov. John nhadwick, nastor of tho Sec ond Unitarian Church, took as tho subject of Mb diacourao yesterday morning Mrs. '1 nomas Jium nhrcv Wnrd 8 Tirivnl Robert Elflifiera." Aftor briefly sketching the story for the benefit of those whom "tho cares of tho worm ana me aeeeniui ness of politics" prevented from reading it, tho Rov. Mr.

Chadwiek said among other things: It is hardly. to he doubted that Mrs. Ward litis prejudiced the influence of hor novel by associating tho critical influences operate on Robert's mind and his supernatural belief with such character as tho Sguire, boUihIi and morose and hovering on inu veitse ui mental oborration. But it i worth remembering that the snuire had not been always skeptical. At Oxford ho had been Newmans trieno.

and and Had. gonp wuu juui. iu the very edge of the declivity irom which Newman made his final rush into tho embrace of Rome Then disappointed and disgusted ho had reacted violently and with such result as always comes with violent reaction mental exaggeration and disease. But there ls.this of art in making snch a poison as the Squire the mstruniont of Roborfs intellectual emancipation. If the personal medium of liberalizing thought to him bad been Professor Grey, or some other like unto him, a beautiful soul, then his personality might have attracted Robert to his thought.

As it was the Squire's thought, so far as it prevailed over Robert's early creed, did so in spite of his repliant personality, so that Robert might have said: If truth that comes to mo with such deterrent personal associations can approvo itselt to me as solum anil goon, it muse luuoeu uu num. crtlieless I cannot but consider it unfortunate that tho process of Robert Llsmere theological eumntcipation is associated so closely with such a character as tho Squire. Novels aro read verv carelessly, and not one person in a hundred notes that ElBmero does not accept the negatjvo dogmatism of tho Squire, but stands out against it manfully. It is not the Squire's own books that shako his faith to its foundations, but books from the Squire's library, confirming tendepcios which were already getting well established when the Squire came on tho scene, ami yet, I cannot but regard it as unfortunate that Elsmere process of emancipation is associated closely with the Squiro, as much a bicot in his skepticism a Newman was in bis orthodoxy. For the implication is very natural that on the happy chance of stumbling on some amateurish critic and philosopher must depend the youthful theologian fate, that only in Home, sick, old skeptic's library aro to ho round tne booKs wincn miuie iyi uumm, when, in fact, every book that Robert found in the Squire's library he might have found at Oxford in tho Bodleian, enough of them to do all that the Squire's books did in that delightful Oxford book store, where I browsed around one perfect dy in June.

Win no did not tlnd them tlie.ro, especially iiu uu friends as Orov and Langham for his Oxford guides, I am suro I do not know, except that in Oxford he lived almost exclusively an emotional religious life. A further implication of the situation in "Robert Elsmere" is that the books which lead to the conclusions that Llsmero finally adopted aro books conceived in a spirit hostile to Christianity and to religion. Nothing could be further. I am sure, from Mrs. Ward own thought and fooling, but she has made such an implication easy and natural for the general reader by associating the intellectual influences that affected Flsmere's mind so powerfully with a.

person whose hostility to Christianity and to religion was extreme. Nothing coiiui oe iruui inan hucij an iuiji. ui.iuii, j. fhft vnrionn nartf standintr of the. character ot the various parts which made up the Old Testament and the Now, WHICH umuu up viiu u.uii......

VI, nnd nvnrv theory ot the Bible as a supernatural booh, or ns tne trust worthy record of a supernatural orueroi evenis that understanding is in every particular tho result of tho moat faithful and tender and ipvmg study of the 15iblo on tne pap ui scholars, prof cssors of the highest rank in schools of Christian learning. Tho Tanft is going to be revised by its friends, we are assured, ine iiilitc has Deen revised oy ira iriuim. jut which has been worked out, so fatal to the super naturalist theory, has boon worked out very gradually in the course of two, or three centuries. Scholar after scholarhas addeda little to the sum of all his predecessors' labors. And yet every day we hear the grand resnlt denounced as if an enemy had done this." Consider next with me the final outcome of TClsemero's rehgipuB thought, the basis of his now religious orgaiuzn tion.

We shall find it in that famous sermon to tlio worlangmou. wnien lnusi nave oi uu as Dr. Barrow's sermon upon charity three hours and a half for which tlio text might well have been. "Charity never fiiilefh. hesaid, 'that the true story of Jesus of Nazareth was from the beginning obscured by error mistake granted that those errors and mistakes, which were mice the strength of Christianity, are now its weakness, and bv the slow march uiid sentence of time are.

now threatening, unless we can clear them away, to lessen the. hold ot on the love and remembrance ot man. What l.hc fact is morel a call to you and me who recognize it to go back to the roots of things, to rcconceivc the Christ. to bring hinuafresh into our lives, to make the' life so freely given for man minister again in new ways to man new. needs.

io re conceive tlio Christ Unquestionably, "5s something we are called upon to do. It. is something that I have myself tried to do tor you and with vou and the result of my endeavors is cin Im Cfl he Man Jesus, and it is a result conforming as nearly as may bo to the result in "Robert Elsmere." 'hlsmure thought," wo read, "knew nothing oi a perfect mr.n, as it knew nothing of an incarnate The man it knew was human every whit, ins iite a wonderful ellipse, having for one of ns centers trust in the eternal God and for the other a great compassion for all suffering and smtul men. it is vottr urgent business anil lie haul, to do our verv utmost to bring this life ot Jesus, our precious invaluable possession as a people, hack into some real and cogent relation with our modern lives and beliefs and hopes. Jhat combination ami brotherhood do for the licwci and simpler faith what they did once for the old let them give it a practical shape, a practical grip on human life.

Then We, too, shall have our Easter too, shall have the right to say lie is not hen he is risen.1 Not here in legend, in miracle, in the beautiful outworn forms and erys talizatious of older thougiit. He is riscn in a wiser reverence and a more reasonable love; risen ill new forms of social lu Ip, inspired by his meiu orv called afresh by his iiame." Io re eonceivc the man of Nazareth lias been one ot my most careful and laborious tasks. And no ot tier task lias brought a richer reward. Hiero arc manv pages in my little book. that were writ ton with" difficulty because of blinding tears of admiration for tho man and sympathy with his tragic course and end.

It has been an unspeakable delight and blessiift' to conceive Jesus a purely human way. But I have felt no stronger inclination since this reconcephon than before to make Jesus central to my presentation ot religion. I must confess that in Elsmere New Brotherhood there seems to me something, arbitrary, something artificial. I am sure that any attempt to carry out the scneme on a large scale we should find men "dwelling with noxious exaggeration," as Emerson has written, 'on the person of Jesus." I am sure that we should ha a great deal of what Channing called a swollen vav of talking about Jesus." I am surf: I ha the endeavor would be made to rhetorically inflate the human Jesus to the measure of the incarnate (iod. I am sure that the human Jesus will do us a more real service if wo do not try to isolate him, but allow our rove.rer.ee and lovo to play about Him with spontaneous sympathy.

Wccnn Elsmere in his the whole ot Cod's lesson from him." Indeed we cannot and there is so much we cannot learn, that we simply have no right to isolate in our reverence. He, has for us no word of science or of art: no word of political or social help: no word for our domestic life. Living as he did in the expectation of a groat world catastrophe he did not address himself to tlio shaping of a. social order. Had it been otherwise the conditions of his life were so dilfcrent from ours that the wisest legislation tor his time would not havo suited ours.

To recon conceivo the universe and man and (rod this is a much greater, grander task nan to reconceivc the Christ." But this and no other is the task appointed for our time. And the means for its accomplishment are barely mentioned m. tne pages of Mrs. Ward's delightful and; inspiring book. Literature and philosophy and history are her intellectual linos and they would seem to have fallen for her in pleasant places.

But tliero is another lino. It is that of science, and it is mainly upon this that those are working who are endeavoring succc i. J'ully to rcconceivc the universe and man and God. One thing, I think, must have impressed you all, as you have read the sermons that have been preacned in criticism of "Robert Elsnici the assumption that if one s.il"; prefers the Divine Christ to the human Jesus lie is perfectly at liberty to enjoy his preference. Our real choice is not between thehuman Jesus and the Divine Christ, it is between the human Jesus and none at all.

Whatever preference you may have for a miraculously born and risen and ascended Christ of one substance with the father, of coeternal majesty, it is simply a question ot documents and testimony as to whether there ever was any such being in tin; world. And when we come to look at the documents and to examine the testimony we find that they are wholly insufficient for the purposes which they have been made to serve. By far the greater portion of the Bible proves to be anonymous. Much of it proves to be pseudonymous to have a pretended authorship which is not lucre is nothing in tho character of what remains to make an incredible statement in the least degree more credible than it would be the Koran or the Avesta. There is no exaggeration in the words of Elsmere when he writes "that to the man who has had the special training required and in whom this training has not been neutralized by any overwhelming bias of temperament it can be as clearly demonstrated that the miraculous Christian story rests upon a tissue of mistake, as it can bo demonstrated that the Isidorian decretals were a forgery or the correspondence of Paul and Seneca, a pious lraud.

The main purpose of the book is. as I conceive, to show us a man who brought his actions into conformity with his thought in spite oi the most terrible temptation that could obstruct his path the temptation for tho love he bore his wifo and the love he feared to lose to say: "falsehood bo tlioit my truth. "Imagine," ho cries to Grey, "standing up Sunday after Sunday to say tho thing which yon do not believe, using words as a converter which those who hear you receive ag literal truth and trusting the maintenance ot your position either to your neighbors forbearance or your own powers of evasion." It.is not it difficult thing for any English clergyman to imagine, for it is a thing which is frightfully common in the Established Church, The right of men believing precisely what Elsmere did at last, to enjoy all the honor and emoluments of that church, to go through all its motions, is affirmed by men of groat ability and the highest standing. It is now a very common thing, I am assu.ed by one, an English gentleman who always weighs his words, for young men to enter the church openly rejecting, the creeds and ritual which thoy will piously recite, because they wish to do a' practical work and the church gives them a prop for their lever. In our American Episcopalian churches we have very Bimilar phenomena, and not in these alone.

Not, long ago a Presbyterian clergyman in New Jersey informed the Presbytery that he could no longer believe tho doctrines of the confession. The Presbytery made reply that so long as he continued to preach them they shonlrl bo glad to have Jinn stay with them and thev honed that he would be sa lsfieil with this arrangement. It was to blast this sort of thing that "Robert Elsmere" was Wilt ten. It is a summons to young men and old. tempted as Robert Elsmere was, not to make their lives a living lie, to be strong with his strength, true with Ids manly truth.

I cannot think that it will be in vain. Already 1 am sure it must have struck homo to many a wavering conscience with licensing and invigorating power. There is no word more needed in our time. Bettor that orthodoxy should hold its own another centurv than that we. should have a race of preachers keeping up a miserable pretense of belief from which tlio reality has forever fled.

A man's sincerity is the final measure ot his word. The regeneration of society is not for those who do not fit their words and actions as closely as possible to their inmost thonght: it is not for those with whom conviction is not the conscience of the mind. "What does it matter." Robert asked hunsolf, "if one's work be and uncomely All that lies outside the great organized traditions of an age will always look so." what then 1 If these organized traditions no longer answer to our sense of truth, to our conviction of reality be they never so beautiful and never so raw and uncomelv, the bleak alternative they must bo left behind: this must be freely chosen with a firm and unrelenting will. We can do no less and still preserve that self respect which is tho clearest voiced approval of tho highest God. ADDRKSSId IMS NEW CHAI2CE.

The new pastor elect of the Third Presbyterian Church at Albany, the Rev. Charles E. Dnnn, late of Hempstead, L. preached heforo his new charge for the first tune yesterday. rr "(Ji ri5 THE RED FLAG.

Brooklyn Anarchists Olwervinsr the An nivcrsnry of the Chicago Executions. Yesterday was tho first anniversary of tho hanging of the Chicago.bomb throwers, and last night half a thousand Anarchists and Socialists of Brooklyn got together under the red flag and commemorated the event by cursing and threatening the land of their adoption. It was a strange spectacle and one well calculated to startle a law abiding community. The celebration was held at the Labor Lyceum, on Myrtle avenue, near Broadway, and for throe long hours thero were yells, howls, stamping of feet, hisses and applause, as the mob listened to the speeches, declamations and singing of revolutionary songs offered for their delectation. The hai! had been profusely and appropriately decorated for the occasion.

From the. naileries suspended over the main floor were five large rod flags draped in black; all around the walls wero festoons of black caught up with crimson cloth, and at the platform somber draperies hung, as though about a pall. At the loffc of the singe were the pictures of tho eight Amu'chists in a big black frame. At the right was a large placard bearing tho inscription: IK IlKMlOtmiANCE of the Mabtvus of ClIIf'AOO, Sacrificed by Class Justice, November II, 18K7. Over the platform in very largo black lettem and on a board bordered with black was the inscription: "Our silence will be more powerful than the voices you strangle to day.

A. Scms." Tho audience was a typical aggregation of Anarchists and Socialists. Most of the men had red and black rosettes on their coats: many of them wore their hair to their shoulders, and covered their heads with rakish slouch hats. All the evening these seekers after blood were drinking boor and smoking bad cigars. When they were not drinking thoy wore yelling themselves hoarse over the sentiments put forth upon tho platform.

In all the audience there was not an American. Nowhere was there a sign of the Stars and Stripos. Bed Hags alone were the standards under which the mob could best express their feelings. "Revenge" was tho watchword audit certainly touched a responsive chord in their hearts. It was a strange sight to see those men, very few of whom could spoak a word of English, cursing this country because it was in thoir estimation not a land of liberty.

The performance began with a stirring song, tho "Volker Freiheit Sturm," by the Arboitcr Mannerchor, followed by a declamation, "Das Loos der Frciheitskampfer." These efforts warmed tho blood of the audience, and when the first speaker, Horr Schowitsch, an editor of the Yolks ZeUnnej, took the platform, the people were ready to give him a rousing welcome. Ho spoke slowly and distinctly, bringing out each word as though it weighed a ton and was to drop upon the heads of defenseless capitalists and monopolists. He said in part: Wo are come here to night, my brothers, to commemorate tho persecution of the Chicago Anarchists. We are come to commemorate them not onlv because they mot an unjust death liko men, but because they died as the representatives of the laboring people in a crusade for liberty. These men were murdered.

They did nothing for which they should have been put to death. They wero sentenced as accomplices in crime, when today the identity of the man who is acknowledged to be the principal is unknown. Thoy were put to death because they made use of freedom of speech in a measure which seemed dangerous to the monopolists and capitalists. The speaker then gave a historical sketch of tho Hayinarkot affair and said that the crowd which was dispersed by the polieo in Union square a fow months ago would have been perfectly justified in using bombs upon their persecutors. In murdering those Anarchists, he siiid, tho Government gave an example of bruto forces that will be remembered by the people when their great uprising comes, and this judicial murder is to lie avenged.

For the time will como, he added', when a hundred thousand men will arise and wipe out in blood the injustice done to the heroes of Chicago. A peaceful, social development was an impossibility and a terrific war of class against class would como before justice was done. From the blood of these martyrs of a year ago would spring a ricn Harvest oi revolutionary ideas. Their good work, asserted the speaker, would bear fruit month by mouth and year by year. John Brown was now a saint and Ids memory sacred.

The time Would surely come when Spies, Fielding, Engle, Lingg and their companions would be as sacred in the eyes of the world. Messrs. Witzka and Franz made speeches of a similar nature. A very dramatic scene was then presented. A tableau was shown representing tho sentencing of the Anarchists.

The judge the jury and the spectators were all shown and the curtain went down amid the wildest excitement. Only one thing remained for such an assemblage to do. As the audience separated the strains of tho Marseillaise rose loud and clear above the shouts of the crowd, aud as its words were taken up by first one and then another tho building fairly shook with the melody. The red flags llut tered responsively and with a last parting cheer tho mob filed from the building. CENTRAL LABOR UNION'.

IHsciissinf? tho IIcniiHn the Election. and Effects of Tho Central Labor Union held its regular weekly meeting yesterday afternoon in tho Labor Lyceum, Myrtle street. A delegate from Cigar makers No. presided. There was a large attendance of delegates, many of whom, although the election is over, criticised tho candidates and some of thn actions of employers in intimidating their employes.

The Grievance Committee reported on the grievance of the barbers against Zcinc r. barber, of Richards street, that they had visited that gentleman and had found that he had a union man from New York in bis employ, and that he dented having said that trad unions ami hinuhts of Labor could go to Hades, but he admitted that he tore up the Barbers" Union card, for which he apologized. He was angry, ho said, at the manner the delegate came into his shop. The report was received and the members of the barbers" Union instructed to be more careful aud ue a little mui'O discretion in visiting bosses. The Legislative Committee reported that thoy had succeeded in knocking out ralhijadge aud electing James 1'.

Graham, and advised the members of organized labor to look out for thoir enemies in the future. A circular was received from the American Federation of Labor inviting the Central Labor Union to send delegates to the convention to be held in St. Louis on Tiic iday. I'Jccember ,1 1 the object of the convention was principally to secure a reduction oi'th hours of labor, thereby having more men employed. On motion it was decided to send a delegate and Messrs.

lllnns and Pern were nominated. A recess of ten minutes was taken to prepare ballots. The vote was taken and Mr. James II. Perry, ot arpentcrs Union No.

1 1, having received the highest number of votes was declared eh 'ted. The delegate from the Tuseorora Labor Uub stated that his organization was dwindling down in numbers on account of the mm support organized labor, in not asking or demanding their 'lThe delegate from Cigarmakers' Union No. S7 said thev had adooted a new card to be placed in stores where there were strictly, union cigars sold. Ho placed the cordon exhibition. A delegate from the carpenters stated that there were seven men discharged by John l.

McKane for the reason that they voted tin saw fit. Ho thought it was time tins kind ot business was stopped, taking away the rights "I American citizens to vote as they plea didn't desire anv action taken by the body at present, but wished to call the attention ol the delegates to the outrage peroetrated. 1 ben union had a meeting, but no definite action will, be taken until tho members of all tiio lodges ot carpenters como together and make a united move. iUr. Evans' Defective Acquaintance With Olio of Them.

To the E'liloe of lh Earjle: The Eaole's article, "Memories of Many Men," published yesterday, was very interesting, bnt I was much surprised to find in one of the extracts from Mr. Bvans' book (in relation to Lincoln) a rather twisted rendering of a Shakspear. an passage. Possibly the author looked for tho and, not finding it in "Henry trusted to memory for its reproduction. If the gentleman should extend his acquaintance to or renew his intimacy with "Richard a further search for the lines would be successful.

W. L. BnooKLyx, November VI, 1SSS. ZOELbXEK MAK.VN'ICItCHOK CONCERT. An enjoyable concert was given last evening in the Amphion Academy by the Zoellner Macnnor chor, which comprises many good singers.

The chorus was assisted by Mrs. Theresa Herbr rt Foerster, soprano: Victor Herbert, violoncello, and Carl Steinbuch, baritone, together with a selection of forty musicians from Theodore Thomas' former orchestra. Mrs. Herbert I 'oers ter's selection from "Tannhauser'" was approved, and a performance which was alo enjoyed by tho large audience was Victor Herbert's "Andante and Tarantella," played on the violoncello by the author. Among the orchestral selections one of Liszt's well known Hungarian rhapsodic elicited many plaudits, and a baritone solo was me, rendered by Carl Steinbuch.

1 he conceit was conducted by Herr Arthur Claassen and was enjoyable throughout. A I'RKSKYTKKJAS FAIR. The rain of Satuday evening interfered with tho fair held at the Noble Street Presbyterian Church. It was intended to close the fair that evening. The ladies have determined to close the fair to morrow night.

All tho goods remaining unsold will then be auctioned off. IS NKW Ql'AltTKltS. The Women's Christian Temperance Association of tho Seventeenth Ward, held a meeting yesterday afternoon in their new quarters, 108 Franklin street. The attendance was quite large. Mrs.

Pritchard led lho meeting. TOSTPONKO FOIt A WEKK. The Recond annual reception of tho Young People's Christian Union of tho Hanson Place 31. E. Church, which was to have occurred this evening has been pofltponeduntilMondaytjvenins November 10.

The Parade ro Nifrlit. To night the irrepressible Republicans of Kings County propose to celebrate their vio tory by a grand parade. With the immortal Jones at their head the triumphant cohorts ore to march and countermarch, making tho welkin ring with their huzzas. No one need feel surprised if they tint the town with that ensanguined huo once peculiar to a certain undergarment, now happily nameless forever. All the statesmen will bo out, and all the patriots, too.

Bravely in the starlight will loom up tho pioneers in gallant array, with the faithful on the drag ropes, will sweep the batteries. Tho Protection legions and campaign clubs, tho Log Cabin veterans and Tippecanoe rangers, the Morton musketeers and the Miller sharpshooters, will tote their banners, pound their drums and blaze their way gloriously with countless torches amid flocks of voiceless roosters nnd forests of waving brooms. It will be altogether a rare time for our Republican neighbors. Thoy have won a splendid victory and are fully entitled to make the most of it. In one respect only are the arrangements for tho demonstration imperfect.

Brook lynites who are to post election jollity inclined could profitably have learned a lesson from their brethren in Albany. At the State Capital this evening there is also to be a glorification. The victors arc to march and the viuiqtiished are to furnish the. escort. lu other words, a Democratic club is to take tho Harrison campaigners under its wing, extend to them all the courtesies that the occasion affords, and fraternize generally in good old neighborly fashion.

This was done by the Republicans when they were defeated four years ago. Now" the Democracy of Albany are illustrating their belief that turn about is fair play." With entire propriety the Democrats of Kings might have followed the example of the Albanians. Such a display of magnanimity would reflect credit on all concerned. It would be much more sensible than would have boon the blunder of marching to the polls in uniform on Election day or going to any other nbsurd extreme. If the Democrats had concluded to turn out with their successful adversaries tho disappointment of defeat would have vanished in the general jocularity, anil a new era of good feeling opened among fellow citizens who are partisans during only a brief interval, but Americans and Brooklynites all the year round.

Inasmuch, however, its no escort has been offered, those who voted on the losing side may afford to show by their respectful demeanor that they can rise above the petty level of political animosity, contemplate with philosophical resignation the of their townsmen and submit gracefully to the expressed will of the majority. There is no room for exhibitions of spleen or spite, of anger, sorrow or malicious disapproval. To our Republican friends, then, let the city extend a generous greeting. Nature has promised them clear skies and a bracing atmosphere. Their admiring followers have suspended the banner of commendation and congratulation on the outer wall.

There will, presumably, be no stones thrown at this procession. Although the scoundrel who killed tt man in the Republican parade just previous to election, by crushing his skull with a brick, has not been apprehended, the authorities may, perhaps, be a little more energetic under present circumstances to prevent a repetition of the outrage than they were while, absorbed in partisan work. In any event, attempts to interfere with the demonstration should be resisted, if not by the officers, then by the plunders themselves. There can be no excuse for such interference, and it is reasonable to suppose that none will be undertaken. Every indication points to a display that will form a fine and fitting finale to tho period of Republican rejoicing.

After the marching is over it will be in order to get back to business. 4 Kings County as a Presidential Quantity. The JVetc York Sun to day says: Nevertheless Mr. Cleveland's plurality in Kinr County was Now, the normal Democratic majority in Kings under ordinary eircuni stiuicc is not niiu'li, if any, over 10,000. The truth is that Brooklyn did quite as well for the national ticket as was reasonably to be expected, if it were assumed that the Free Trade scare was to have any considerable effect there and'it certainly did have some effect.

The Kings County Democracy ii all, right. Under Mayor it. stands for nil that is best ill municipal government, and, if wisdom prevails in the national leadership of the party, it. may be relied upon to help largely in electing a Democratic President 1 The vote in Ibis county for various candidates for President has been as follows: Harrison. Whig Van Burcn.

Democrat 3,157 Plurality for Harrison 18 1 1. Clay, Whig Polk, Democrat Birncy, Abolitionist 130 0,107 Plurality for Clay. 430 184H. Taylor, Whig Cuss, Democrat Van Burcn, Free 4,882 81 Plurality for Taylor. ric i'ce, Democrat Scott, Whig Hale, Free Soil Plurality for Pierce 185G.

Buchanan, Democrat Fremont, Republican Fillmore, American Plurality for Buchanan over Fillmore Plurality for Buchanan over Fremont 1800. 10,021 8,487 00 2,134 14,174 7,840 8,047 0,328 Douglas, Democrat Lincoln, Republican. Majority for Douglas 18G1. McClcllan, Democrat Lincoln, Republican ,883 li 0,700 25,720 30,838 McClellan's majority. 4,888 30,838 37,707 18G8.

Seymour, Democrat. Grant. Majority for Seymour" 1872. Greeley, Democrat Grant, Republican Majority for Greeley 1870. Tilden.

Democrat Hayes, Republican 8,131 38,104 33,300 4,735 57,557 30,005 17,492 Majority for Tilden. 1880. Hancock, Democrat Garfield, Republican Majority for Hancock 1884. Cleveland, Democrat Blaine, Republican 01,002 51,751 9,311 00,243 531514 15,720 70,035 07,508 Majority for Cleveland 1888. Cleveland, Democrat Harrison, Republican Majority for Cleveland 1 2,037 Republican increase in four years 14,084 Democratic increase in four years 0,000 Democratic loss on majority of 1884 3,082 Democratic loss on majority of 1S70.

5,455 Pacts like these are of historical interest. They extend from William Henry Harrison to his grandson, over a period of forty eight years. They speak so plainly that speculation on them by readers or by newspapers is not required. They should also teach Democrats what to do to regain the balance which the figures show is going against them. Where Was Coogan "Where was Coogan when the votes went in?" is something that the defeated Labor candidate for imvyor of New York is vainly endeavoring to ascertain.

Before the election Mr. Coogan startled the public by announcing that an untnentioned person had offered him 100,000 to retire from the contest. The identity of the alleged briber he has not yet revealed, but he has disclosed enough to show that the ex candidate is a very vain, pretentious and giUliblo person. It appears that he poured out money consider amusing parallel is turnisnea oy pontics. The most unscrupulously partisan newspapers are those which have cried out against "partisanship." The relation of "Robert Elsmere" to the pulpit is little more than that of an occasion for dogmatizing, orthodox dogmatizing and radical dogmatizing; audit must be confessed that the dogmatism of unbelief is as sweeping and emphatic as tho dogmatism of belief.

As to one point in Mr. Chadwick's sermon there will be a general agreement that it is a shame and a scandal for ministers to go on preaching doctrines which they have wholly discarded or for men formally to commune with churches whose creeds they think they have outgrown. It is to be hoped that hypocrisy of this sort is not. so prevalent as Mr. Chadwiek seems eager to assume.

A man who cannot comprehend all that a church teaches, who is often conscious of grave doubts on important matters, is not necessarily guilty of moral sin in remaining in the society, because he may sincerely desire to work his way out to tho apprehension of a clear faith. Persons of believing tendencies wdio heard yesterday's sermon and no doubt there were many of them in the congregation would tell Mr. Chadwiek that the religious system which he employs Robert Elsmere" to promote is a hopeless scheme, because it fails to take adequate account of the human necessity for faith. Mr. Chadwiek.

they will say, may regard it as a misfortune and a mistake that men desire to believe something, but nevertheless they do so: the impulse is instinctive and irresistible and it cannot be suppressed until human nature is reconstructed. Therefore, these old fashioned people will say, until Mr. Chadwiek has provided some objfict for this essential faith to rest upon, he has not penetrated even the crust of his very considerable enteiprise. Will the Christ whom he says he has recreated serve the purpose Hardly, because though he evidently thinks well of "the man Jesus," and though he says that wdiile writing his book about Him his eyes often filled with tears in admiration for His character and in sympathy with His aims, lie asserts that even this revised personality will not prove an adequate foundation for the new religious society, and he thinks that Elsmere made a mistake in adopting it with that view. The fatal error of Elsmere and Chadwiek is in attempting the impossible task of establishing a religion with the supernatural factor omitted.

This is a contradiction in terms. Does not the pastor of the Second Unitarian Church himself contradict it at the very outset of his venture He seems to believe in God and to hold to a probability of immortality. Certainly this is supernaturalism. Catholic C'linrch Extension. Following the completion of the Church of St.

Agues, on the corner of Hoyt and Saek ett streets, occurred yesterday the ceremony of laying the cornerstone of the Church of St. Augustine, oil Sixth avenue and Sterling place when finished, will be one of the most attractive religious edifices in the city. It speaks much for the growth of the Catholic population in South Brooklyn that during the past few months building operations have been conducted on so extensive a scale, and what is equally to the point, that the debts incurred promise to be quickly liquidated. It was announced yesterday by Rev. Father Duffy, of St.

Agnes' Church, that within one year there is a prospect of the debt roznaining on the handsome structure under his charge, and it is assuredly a tribute to the generosity of the St. Augustine congregation that tho greater part of the cost involved in the erection of their new edifice has already been subscribed. The parish of St. Augustine Was fonnded in 1870, and for the past twelve years it has been under the ministration of Rev. Edward W.

MeCarty, to whose popularity, perseverance and excellent executive capacity, its material success has been so largely due. The new church will have no galleries and, from the standpoint of safety at least, this architectural design, is to be commended. It is anticipated that tho building will be finished within a year. "While so many new Catholic churches are springing up in all parts of the city, it must bo occasion for regret that the cathedral on Clermont rivpiiUG is still as far as ever from completion, tfo doubt the needs of the respective jinriskesuire at this time paramount,.