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! RELI&IOUS BODIES.
Centennial Meeting of the Presbyterian
General Assembly.
Bishops Elected by the Methodist
General Conference.
me centennial meeting 01 me x i csuj wniui
General Assembly, the supreme ecclesiastical
court of the Presbyterian Church in the
United States, commenced in Philadelphia,
the 17th of May. There were over 500 delegates,
or commissioners, in attendance, representing
every State and Territory in thi>
Union. The opening services were held in
the First Presbyterian Church, the oldest of
E& the denomination in the city, to whic h the
commissioners marched in procession from
Horticultural Hall, where the business sessions
were held. Rev. Dr. Charles L. ThompL
son, of Kansas City, Mo., was elected Moder&
ator by a decided majority.
lav. charles' i* Thompson*, d.
Dr. Thompson is about forty-eight years of
age. and was born near Allentown, Fa. His
boyhood days were passed in "Wisconsin, and
he entered Carroll College in that State,
" ~ graduating in 1858. After his collegiate career
he entered Princeton Seminary, having
determined to study for the ministry, where
ne spent two years, musuiiig ma aeuuuai j
course at the Northwestern one, the McCormick
Seminary, in Chicago. He graduated
. in 1861, and his first charge was at the little
town of Juneau, Wis., the next at Jonesville.
His first city church was the First Church,
Wf of Cincinnati, from which he went to the
/ First Church, of Chicago. He became
editor of the Chicago Interior between the
years 1874-77, but resumed pastor?! work in
1 Pittsburg. His last five years have been
P passed as pastor of the Second Church of
Kansas City, where he is in charge at present,
although he still continues to be an
editor of the Interior.
' B2V. J. STjLtOCK, D. D.
On the same day that the Northorn Assembly
convened in Philadelphia, the South*
ern Assembly met in the Franklin Street
"" Church, in Baltimore. The Southern Assembly
is composed of thirteen synods,sixty-nine
presbyteries, 1116 ministers, 2223 churches
and 150,3(J8 communicants. The entire con"tributions
for all purposes last year were
$1,415,318. After the delivery of the annual
sermon, tho Assembly proceeded to the election
of Moderator, llev. J. J. Bullock, of
Washington, being chosen.
The Rev. Joseph James Bullock, D. D.,was
born at Lexington, Ky., December 23d, 1S12.
He received his classical education in Centre
College, Kentucky, where be graduated in
1832. He studied law in the Transylvania
University, Lexington, in 1838, and graduated
in theology from Princeton College in l8bU
He received his first call to take charge
_ of a congregation at Frankfort, Ky., the
rammer of his graduation, and the same
t year was made State Superintendent of Public
Instruction. In 18W5 he resigned his
charge to accept the Secretaryship of tte
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J. H. VINCENT, D. D.
Board of Domestic Missions of the Presbyterian
Church. In 1818, resigning that position,
he went to Walnut Hill, where he took
charge of two country churches, and at the
same time established a large female seminary.
His health being fully restored, he accepted
a call to the Second Presbyterian
Church,Louisville,Ky., in 1853,where he ministered
until 1855, when he returned to Walnut
Hill. In the spring of 1SG1 be accepted a I
call to the Franklin Street Presbyterian
Church, Baltimore, where he labored successfully
for nine years. In 1870 he accepted
the charge of tbe Second Presbyterian
f!h?rch. Alexandria. Va.. where he remained
until 1878, when he was elected Chaplain of
the United States Senate, which office he
retained for five years. He is now
Secretary of Foreign and Domestic
S3S0 Missions, and resides in Washington, D. C.
3HH A feature of the Assemblies was a recep5B|f
tion given at the mansion of Mr. Morris,
Overbrodk, Penn. The members of the
Northern and Southern Assemblies were
to there in full force, and many prominent peoM
pie, including President Cleveland and his
wife, were pressnt. The President made a
BP short address of greeting to the delegates of
BT the two General Assemblies, and expressed a
j wish for Presbyterian Union.
* On the following day?May 24, the centennial
date of the Presbyterian Church?the
members of the two General Assemblies united
y. FITZGERALD.
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ESHnBHj^HMnH^^RM^^B^al Hall, Philadelphia.
Dr. Cuyler, of
IV itherspoon,
of Virginia,
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union of the Northern and Southern Presbyterians
were heartily applauded
Five New Methodist Bishops.
At the Methodist General Conference in
New York five new Bishops were elected after
much balloting. The following is a short
summary of the lives of the newly-chosen
Bishops:
Dr. Vincent was born in Tuscaloosa, Ala.,
in 1832, and educated in Pennsylvania, entering
the ministry in 1853. He began the
publication of Sunday-school papers in I860
and has become prominent in that work, being
for years Secretary of the Sunday-school
Union. In 1874 he organized, with Hon.
Lewis Miller,the Chautauquan lecture course,
that has had many thousandsof students all
over the United States, and has made the
summer school on Lake Chautauqua famous.
Rev. James N. Fitzgerald, the second bishop
elected, has been the Secretary of the Newark
Conference for a number of years, Recording
secretary of the Missionary Society for
J the past eight years. He was in the conferences
of 1870, 1880, 18S4 and the present
I one.
The Rev. Isaac W. Joyce, D. D., who was
the third Bishop elected, was bora in Hamilton
county, Ohio, about fifty years ago. He
was admitted to the Northwest Indiana Conference
in 1859 and has never held any office
in the Church other than that of Presiding
Elder. His success in the pastorate began
with his appointment to a charge at Greencastle,
Ina., the seat of De Pauw University.
1 Here he became very popular with the
students. Since 1SS0 he had been a pastor in
Cincinnati and is now in his second term as
pastor of St Paul's M. E. Church in that
city. He was a delegate to the General Con
REV. ISAAC W. JOYCE, D. D.
feranee in 1880 and is a member of the present
Conference. He received his literary degree
from Indiana Asbury University and
was made a Doctor of Divinity by Dickinson
College.
Dr. J. P. Newman, pastor of the Metropolitan
Church, Washington, D. C., was
born in New York citv in 1827, and educated
at Cazenovia and Wesleyan University,
Newark. His first charge was at Hamilton,
N, Y. From there he went to Fort Plain,
where he, in 185S, married Miss Angeline
Ensign, preceptress of the Fort Plain Collegiate
Institute. Some years latter Dr. Newman
came to New York, taking the Bedford
Street Church, and after a two years' course
of travel and study in Europe and the East,
DR. J. P. NEWMAtf.
returned to take the Washington Square
Church. Five years later he was stationed
in New Orleans, and his work among the
colored people resulted in building many
churches, and aided in the organization of
the Southern conferences. From there he
went to Washington, to the church of which
he has now been pastor three times, and was
for three years chaplain of the United States
Senate. His association with General Grant
began at this time and continued to the dsath
of the latter at Mount McGregor. After a
pastorate of three years at the Central
Church of New York Dr. Newman went
to the E?un e:iical Council in Londoft. On
his return he filled the pulpit of the Madison
Avenue Congregational Church, being at the
time a located Methodist minister. After
two years he resigned. He returned to the
active ministry, however, after the death ot
General Grant. Dr. Newman is considered
the nKlpsfc sn?ntf>r in tha Mfifchodisfc niilnit
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REV. DANIEL A. GOODSELL.
The Rev. Daniel A. Goodsell, D. D., the
fifth Bishop elected, is a native of Newburgh,
N. Y. He is 48 years old, and has
been a member of the New York East Conference
for twenty-nine years. His father
was the Rev. Buel Goodsell, well known in
this vicinity in his day. Dr. Goodsell's work
as a pastor has been almost entirely confined
to Brooklyn, New York, and New Haven, j
He is now Secretary of the Church Educational
Society
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.
Lilliax Russell is the best dressed woman
who sings in comic opera.
Macbeth by Irving is promised to English
theatre goers next season.
Minnie Maddern, the actress, made her
professional debut at the age of four.
Nitika, a young Americaa singer, has been
scoring a triumph in European concert
rooms.
Mrs. Asia Booth Clarke, a sister of Edwin
Booth, died recently at Bournmouth,
England.
Mr. TV. S. Gilbert, of "Pinafore," and
"Mikado" fame, is 6nga?ed in erecting a per
feet theatre in .London.
Karl Formes,the famous tenor,is seventythree
years old. He will sing in London in
Italian opera next season.
Sara Bernhardt, the French tragedienne,
says she has 800 plays in her possession, and
that she never read one of them.
An all-summer run is indicated for Sydney
Rosenfeld's comic opera, "The Lady or the
Tiger,'' at Wal lack's Theatre, New York.
Joseph Jefferson's spring tour this year
was of only two months' duration, but it was
15,000 miles long and be played in forty
cities.
A company of colored minstrel performors
is being formed formed for a tour to Australia
and possibly India. Charles B. Hicks is to
manage the troupe.
Go wan-go-Mohawk, who "was a member
of the "Michael StrogofF' company last
season, is to be starred in the cheap theatres
next fall. She is a halt-breea Indian girl.
At the last concert in St. Petersburg in
aid of the military veteran* of the empire,
the music was furnished by 400 singers, a
band of 900. 150 drums anil 34 piano3 played
by 48 women.
Edward HarRtcan's new play, more ambitious
than any ho has yet appeared in, will
be called "The Metropolis," and will represent
phases of New York life. He will begin
the next season at his New York Theater
with it.
Harry Miser, the New York manager,
has bought Mr. Mackaye's play, Paul Kauvar,
and also secured control of all the plays
now in the possession of, or that may be written
or adopted by Mackaye during the next
five years.
Among the things that have been promised
to this country in the future is a series of
performances by a Russian opera company
of seventy Loffs and Effskyg. The troup is
now in Berlin and will sing its way across
Europe to the BAaboard.
Hateful to me as are the gates of
^ell ia he who, hiding one thing in his
krt, niters' another.?Homer.
THE NEWS EPITOMIZED.
Eastern and Middle State*
Dr. Lyma.v Abbott, the editor of the
Christian Union, has been elected by Brooklyn
Plymouth Church to fill the pulpit made
vacant by the death of Henr^ Ward Beecher.
The Rov. Dr. Thoburn was elected Missionary
Bishop for India and Malaysia by
the Methodist Conference while in session at
New York.
Austin Corbijt has negotiated in London
a loan of $56,000,000, secured by a four per
cent, mortgage on the Reading Railroad.
Mrs. Cleveland spent Friday in Philadelphia
as the guest of Georgo W. Childs.
She paid an informal visit to a female college,
attended a missionary meeting and then departed
for Princeton College, N. J., to attend
the Commencement Exercises.
William Nickerman, a young boy, fell
into a tub of hot water at Bridgeport, Conn.,
and was boiled to deat"h.
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xkajiji -hills, ui ouu -r riwiuisuu, viu., a
student at Harvard College, died from excersive
indulgence in opium smoking.
A child in Philadelphia, Penn., was
choked to death by a candy sour ball she was
eating, dying in great agony.
A storm swept over a wide stretch of
territory, Monday, and caused a great
amount of damage to crops and property in
West Virginia, the oil regions of Pennsylvania,
Northern and Middle Ohio, Southern
New York and Michigan.
South and West;
The Colorado Democracy assembled in Convention
at Denver and elected an uninstructad
delegation to the Presidential Convention.
The Sheriff of White County, Ind., was
fatally injured by three prisoners, who
I fractured his skull and escaped from the
County Jail.
The Ohio Prohibition Convention met at
Toledo and put a State ticket in the field.
I The platform adopted favors a woman suffrage
and denounces trusts and contract
labor importation.
An immense crowd assembled at Jackson,
Miss., to participate in the military demonstration
accompanying the laying of the
corner-stone of a monument erected to the
/v# Mie<o{oelrir\io?o mtIia tui'nichor? in
lliCXllUi y UL iUloOlsOi^^iniM TT uv j/v* <wuwv? MA
the Confederate Army.
Joseph James has been arrested at Timmonsville,
S. C., charged with hiring a col
ored farm hand with 8400 to assassinate his
father.
Mr. and Mrs. Drake, an old couple, and
their two infant grandchildren were murdered
at Kickapoo, Wis., by burglars who
escaped with a large quantity of valuables.
The Democratic Convention of Louisiana
met at New Orleans and elected a Cleveland
delegation to the National Convention,
headed by ex-Governor S. D. McEnery.
A cloud-bcrst in Dewes county, Neb.,
submerged five miles of railway," flooded
many farms, raised the White river sixteen
feet in forty minutes, and drowned many
cattle. The water fell in a solid mass many
feet thick.
William H. Roe, a wife murderer, has
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ucua uaugCM ov Aiiuoiovu, MV
Six men were killed and over ninety injured
by an explosion of gasoline at Frederick,
Md.
A terrific wind storm passed over Southern
Indiana and did great damage at Wabash
and Mentone. At Hendricks a farmer named
Bunson and two horses were struck by lightning
and killed. Bunson's barn was. destroyed.
A party of surveyors employed in Wise
county, VaM by the Tennessee Steel and|Iron
Company, were attacked by settlers whom
the company seeks to drive off and two of
their number killed.
Mr. and Mrs. William Powell were
struck by lightning at theirhomein Parkersburg,
W. Va., and instantly killed.
Washington.
Senator Hawley- has accepted the official
invitation of the city of Philadelphia to de
liver the oration in Independence Square on
the Fourth of July. ^
A dispatch to the Navy Department from
Montevideo, Uruguay, announces the death
of Lieutenant-Commander George M Totten,
United States Navy, executive officer of
the United States steamer Tallapoosa, flagship
of the South Atlantic squadron.
The President has approved the act granting
certain lands in Wyoming for public purposes;
the act authorizing a loan or arms and
i ?A nfti'finf nnrl WnnnroWfl
eqUlfJUiCIlLD W IUO Aiiuivuv
Artillery Company of Boston, and a number
of private pension bills.
Foreign.
The village of Harlan in Roumania has
been destroyed by fire. Four hundred families
are homeless.
Four men were killed and thirty seriously
injured at Montreal, Canada, by the explosion
of the city gas reservoir.
Large and demonstrative Nationalist
meetings were held throughout Ireland, and
speeches against the Papal rescript and denouncing
the Irish bishops were made by
Messrs. O'Brien, Healy ana Dillon.
The camp of Osman Digna, the leader of
the Egyptian rebels, has been burned by incendiaries
in order to compel him to retreat.
Two thousand of his followers are said to
have perished.
Anxiety about the fate of Stanley, the
explorer, has been allayed by news just received
from Zanzibar that his expedition is
safe, and that all its members are alive and
WP?11
J. 6. Voight, United States Consul at
Manila City, Philippine Islands, is dead. He
had been in charge of the American Consulate
there for three years.
NEWS FROM STANLEY,
Reports From the Great Explorer
That He AVas Well.
A despatch from Zanzibar states that
messengers from Tippoo Tib have arrived
there with letters from Major Barttelot,
dated Singatini, on the Congo, October 25.
Major Barttelot says that deserters from
Stanley's camp had arrived at Singatini after
a twenty days' canoe voyage. They reported
that Stanley and all his party were well, and
had a plentiful supply of food.
The'letters farther say that the Denavior
of Tippoo Tib has not been satisfactory. No
details ore eiven recardine Stanley's route.
NEWSY GLEANINGS,
Trenton*, N. J., will grant no liquor
licenses to foreigners.
It is probable that mackerel fishing will be
a failure in the South.
Tobacco and other vegetation in western
North Carolina has been injured by frost.
The fruit crop of Georgia is a failure, ex
cepting blackberries, wild haws and persim
mons.
A fleet of cruisers will guard the Canadian
coast against American fishermen this
season.
In- a fight at Lincoln, Neb., one Burlington
brakeman killed another by biting off his
tongue.
The Emperor Frederick's medical staff will
be reduced, and there will be but one bulle
tin weekly.
Professor Virchow's formal report say?
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mere is iiuiiiiu^ muuiuus nuvuv wuu
Emperor's malady.
Eugene Chalfault, a laborer in tht
glass works-at New Albany, Ind., died recently
of hydrophobia.
Louis Neebe. the Anarchist convict in
Joliet, 111., penitenitiary, is breaking dowr
physically and mentally.
TnE total numbar of saloons permitted fc<
sell liquor in Philadelphia after June 1, art
1310, aguinst 0910 the past year.
An Oregon boy recently killed a companiot
for answering in Sunday-school a questioi
on which he himself had failed.
Two St Joseph (Mo.) girls were struck bj
lightning, which tore off all their clothing
but left them otherwise unharmed.
William Patterson, a condemned mur
derer in the Louisville prison, turns evan
gelist and has converted seven fellow pris
oners.
The King of Portugal has ordered thirtj
tons of fireworks and fifty tons of mortari
for u?o at Lisbon in the royal reception tc
the King of Sweden.
Mrs. Sallie Y. Henderson, widow of a
contractor, has recovered $28ZC46 in a suit
against the city of Louisville, Ky., after thir
teen years of litigation.
Jahes W. Schooler was recently admitted
to practise in the Kentucky Court of
Appeals, the first colored man to whom the
privilege has been accorded.
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DECORATION DAY.
Genera] Observance Throughout
the Country.
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President Cleveland at Parades
in Brooklyn and New York
Decoration Day was observed in th9 usual
manner this year in various parts of the
country. Below we give the loading features
of the exercises at prominent points:
Opposite the Worth monument in Madison
Square, New York, the President of the
United States Decoration Day reviewed one
of the largest pageants that was ever assembled
in the metropolis of the nation to
honor the memory of the brave soldiers who
gave their lives to the preservation of the
unity of their country. Twenty-one years
ago Congress set apart the 30th day of May
for that purpose, and no year since Decoration
Day was made a national institution has
it been observed with more becoming ceremony.
President Cleveland and three members of
his Cabinet, Secretaries Endicott, Whitney
and Fairchild, came over from Washington
to participate in the day's ceremonies. They
arrived early at the reviewing stand, but
even before they came a vast concourse of
citizens had assembled to cheer the survivors
of the war on their errand of fraternal affection.
It was nearly 9 o'clock when the
President, in company with J. L. Linbeck,
chairman of the Memorial Committee, drove
up and took his position on the reviewing
stand
The head of the procession reached the reviewing
stand at a little before ten o'clock.
At that hour the stand was filled with prominent
citizens, judges, commissioners and
other public otncers.
First came the First Brigade of the National
Guard under the command of General Fitzgerald,
and then the always imposing Old
Guard, clad in their heavy beaver skinned
hats. As the militia and the Old Guard
passed the stand the crowd for the first time
warmed to the enthusiasm of the occasion
and greated them with a hearty round of applause.
Then came the other regiments of
the State militia, each in turn saluting the
Chief Magistrate as it passed the stand,
and receiving a bow of recognition in return.
When the Richmond (Va.) Grays, clad in
uniforms similar to those worn by the Confederate
armies, passod the stand, sandwiched
between two companies who wore the blue,
and carrying at their head the Stars and
Stripes in recognition of the fact that all hostile
feeling between North and South had
long since died away, they were greeted with
a round of cheers sufficient in itself to repay
them for their journey from the Old Dominion.
Never since the day was first observed has
a more inspiring, buoyant procession paraded
the streets of the metropolis, r uuy iu,wu
men were in line, and the general regularity
and perfection of their marching could but
recall the days when with their departed
comrades most of them marched together.
It was after noonday when the last of the
procession had passed the reviewing stand,
and President Cleveland was driven to
Brooklyn to review the parade in that city.
As the carriage containing the President
drove away the assembled crowd loudly
cheered him on his way.
The parade in Brooklyn was the largest
and finest ever seen in that city on Memorial
Day. Over ten thousand men were in line.
These were the army of veterans, a battery
of regular artillery, a battalion of
marines, about three hundred bluejackets;
the Thirteenth, under Colonel Austen;
the Thirty-second, under Coonel Finkelmeier;
the Forty-seventh, under Colonel
Gaylor, and the "Fourteenth, under Colonel
Michell, the brigade being under the com
manrt oj ijenerai James inciter.
The veteran organizations, under General
E. B. Fowler, carried their tattered battle
flags, and included the Burvivors of all the
regiments that left the city during the war.
It was just a quarter past twelve when
the crowd that had long been waiting at
and around the reviewing stand in front of
Washington Park, between Do Kalb and
Willoughby avenues, broke into enthusiastic
cheering at the approach of President Cleveland
in an open carriage.
Among tne company on the reviewing
stand were the Mayor and Mrs. Chapin, the
District Attorney and Mrs. Ridgway, William
E. Robinson, J. S. T. Stranahan, the
Rev. Charles H. Hall, U. E. Lathrop, who
looks so much like the President that the
crowd cheered him on his arrival; Mrs. Dr.
Talmage and daughter, General Black and a
delegation of Grand Army men, General
Butterfleld, Admiral Gherardi, ex-Mayor
Hunter and some of the city officials.
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It was a quarter to one wnen me nettu ui
the procession came by, the band playing
"Dixie." The President stood up wnen the
procession began, and answered the salutes
of the marching men by bowing and smiling,
He remained standing until the Fifth division
had passed. Then he and the party left the
stand and took seats in the carriages. They
remained a few minutes longer, ani then, at
five minutes to two, as the firemen were
passing the stand the distinguished party
were driven away to Mr. Cross's house,
where the President held an informal reception
until 3:30 o'clock, when, accompanied
by his cabinet officers, he left on a special
train for Washington.
At night services in memory of the doacl,
held in the New York Metropolitan Opera
House, Chauncev M. Depew preside! and
Colonel R. _G. Ingersoll made a memorial
address. " ' .
The most impressive services were held at
the tomb of General Grant. Twenty thousand
people were gathered at Riverside Park in
the afternoon at the hour of 3, when the services
in honor of the dead commander were
begun.
Kpatq were arraneed in front of the tomb
for the Grand Army Posts and the Virginia !
company and the members of the 10th Kegi- I
ment. After the band had played a funeral j
march, the Rev. Dr. 3VT. King offered prayer,
and the ritual of the Grand Army was read.
The oration was delivered by General Stewart
L. Woodford. He was frequently applauded
by the Richmond Grays, as well As
by the Grand Army men.
At the close of the services the Richmond
company fired three salutes in front of the
tomb. The bugle call was sounded, and as
the members of Grant Post marched past the
tomb each threw a bunch of flowers within.
The Grand Army of the Republic ceremonies
in Washington were on a scale of
great splendor. All the posts were out in
force. Statues of revolutionary heroes as
well as those of the late war were lavishly
decorated. A large delegation honored the
memory of General Logan in Rock Creek
Cemetery, where Representative Mason,of Illi- j
nois, delivered a touching oration. At noon an
artillery salute was fired. The procession]
was formed in front of the Arlington Man- |
sion, and, after the usual visit co me grave 01
the unknown, etc., Senator Palmer, of Michigan,
delivered an oration in the vine covered
amphitheatri. He was followel by Senator
Manderson, of Nebraska.
Philadelphia honored the day by parades,
addresses and decorations. On the tomb of
Major General VVinfleld Scott Hancock, at
Norristown, a splendid floral piece was
placed by the Hancock Veteran Association,
and there were floral tributes from a number
of othtr organizations.
Gettysburg also made a grand patriotic
display. The proceedings ^in the National
Cemetery were unusually impressive. Colonel
W. F. Ryan, of Rochester, N. Y., recit.'d
Lincoln's famous address delivered at'the
dedication of the soldiers1 monument,
November 19, T. E. Tarsney, of
Michigan, discussed the results of the
battle of Gettysburg in a way which
held the closest attention of the large crowd.
Colonel Dewitt C. Sprague, of Washington, |
read a poem, the subject of which was: "The
Dead of Gettysburg.'' After music by the
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nanu iuo ucuouttviv.i ??* - __^
Rev. T. J. Barkley.
Deacon Coffee found his son-in-law, Parson
Can troll, a Seven-day Baptist, engaged
on Sunday in ploughing his field near Jitntown,
Indian Territory. The deacon remonstrated
and undertook to kick the parson out
of the field. Cantrell resisted and split his
father-in-law's head open with a hoe, killing,
him.
The United States Government has advertised
for five thousand American whitemarble
headstones. Congress, on March 30,
made an appropriation of $20,000 to pay for
them. The headstones will be used for the
unmarked grave3 of Union soldiers, sailors
and marines in various parts of the country.
"Willie Pullman, a Nashville (Tenn.) lad,
went out upon a raft the other day to drown
a cat in a break In its surface. While thrusting
the animal under water its claws fastened
upon his sleeve, and, losing IV balance, the
boy fell under the logs and was drowned
along with his four-footed victim.
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SDMMABI OF 00NQBES3.
Senate Proceedings.
100th Day.?The House amendments to
the Senate bill for a public building at Paterson,
N. J., were concurred in Senate bills
appropriating $59,000 for a public building
at Staunton, Va.. and 8100,000 for one at
Newport News, Va., were placed on the calendar
A resolution wa3 adopted instructing
the Committee on Indian Affairs to examine
into the condition of State bonds held
by the United States in trust for indians....
A Senate bill for the confinement of inebriates
in the Government Hospital for the Insane
was placed on the calendar ... Mr. Turpie
introduced a bill for the making and
printing of the "Register of Labor." It proposes
the annual publication of the names of
persons reputed in their vicinity as most
skilled in the mechanical and other arts....
Mr. Blair introduced a joint resolution proposing
an amendment to the Constitution to
the effect that no State shall ever make a
law respecting an establishment of religion
or nrohihitinc thn fro? exproisft thereof that
no money raised by taxation shall ever be
appropriated for any school, where instruction
is given in any doctrine peculiar to any
religion.... The House bill making an appropriation
to supply a deficiency in the appropriation
for expenses of collecting the revenue
from customs was passed.
101st Day.?The following bills were reported
: The House bill to create a Department
of Agriculture; the Senate bill for the
reduction of the Round Valley Indian Reservation
The Committee on Commerce
reported back the River and Harbor Appropriation
bill. Mr. Frye stated that it
appropriated t'21,388,783, being Jsl,7b3,000
more than the bill contained as it came from
the House The Senate then proceeded to
the consideration of Executive business....
By a vote of 21 to 19 the bill to discuss the
Fisheries Treaty in open session was passed
Mr. Stewart spoke against the disturbance
of certain land titles in California.
102d Day.?The first open session for the
consideration of executive business was held.
The British Fisheries Treaty was brought up
for consideration, and Mr. Frye took the floor
and delivered a lengthy speech in opposition
to i ts ratification... Mr. Manderson brought
up in the Senate the bill to promote General
Sneridan to the office of General of the Army.
Unanimous consent was necessary, and the
bill was placed upon the calendar, with a favorable
report _____
Home Proceedings.
123d Day. ?The Sub-Committee on Ap
Kopriations reported ror consideration cue
gislative and Executive Appropriation
bill. Mr. M'Comas spoke against certain
provisos of the measure.
124th Day.?The House continued tha consideration
of the Legislative and Executive
Appropriation bill. Mr. Cannon spoke on .
the subject of providing special judges on a '
fixed salary to hold court in the Indian Ter- ]
ritory. The measure went over The reso- ?
lution to increase the force of the Civil Service
Commission was passed.
125th Day.?The following bills were in- 1
troduced: Appropriating $275,0JO for the
rebuilding of the Government dam at Rock .
Island Arsenal, and for the immediate construction
of a temporary dam; granting to f
Government employees who were present at (
the battle of Gettysburg leave of absence to
attend the anniversary celebration of that
battle; to select a site for a Postoffice build- 1
ing in Washington, D. C.; to retire ex-sol- I
diera and sailors who have been wounded in |
battle, after twenty-one years' service in the
civil service The Committee on Public
Buildings and Grounds reported the bills for J
the erection of public buildings at Taunton, \
Mass., and Norfolk, Va., to the Committee
of the Whole The Committee on Military
Affairs reported the bill authorizing the '
President to amioint and retire John C. Fre- i
mont as a Maior-General; to the House cal- i
endar... .The House then went into Committee
of the Whole on the Legislative, Executive
and Judicial Appropriation bill The i
House Committee on Military Affairs completed
the Army Appropriation bill and reported
it to the House. The bill makes a 1
total appropriation of $34,289,700. ]
CHINESEPIBATES.
A. Horde of Thieves Attack a Sinking
American Ship.
The regular China steamer has brought
news to San Francisco of the extraordinary
wreck of the costly steamer San Pablo,
which occurred ion a reef off Turnabout
Island, in the Formosa Straits, off the China
coast. Only brief cable reports have been
received of the disaster. The vessel struck
a sunken rock in a thick fog early in the
morning. Every one was aroused, and the
Captain soon saw that the vessel must be
abandoned, as she was filling fast, and.
Bhowed a tendency to capsize. Just before
the lifeboats were ready to be lowered, a
swarm of Chinese piratical junks came
from the neighboring mainland. Th%?
queer looking vessels sailed in line of
battle, and Captain Reed, realizing the
j ? okonrnn worn in mA/fo nrenara
UtUi^Cl Uiooucugw ?. v* v ?, ? g _
tions to repel the attack. The pirates, nowever,
came Li such overwhelming numbers
that before any demonstration could be made
on board the sulking vessel the pirates were
climbing up the ship's sides.
They were led by a man who was armed with
a cutlass and a large revolver. Hi9 shipmates
were also heavily armed. Captain Ree.l passed
revolvers and guns among the passengers
and crew, and after a furious fusillade the
coolies were beaten off. They rallied, however,
and made a second and more desperate
attempt to board the San Pablo, which was
fast settling in the water. Some of the pirates
gained the main deck, in spite of the gallant
stand of the passengers and crew, and were
swarming toward the promenade deck,
where the defenders were busy
firing and reloading, when Captain
Reed brought the ship's hose pipes
into requisition. The long coils of hose were
manned by the crew, and instantly the pirates
were again put to flight, the torrents of boiling
water from the pipes sweeping many oi
them off the decks into the sea.
The coolies then bsat a retreat, and drawing
tvioir vessels ud in line, cruised hall
a mile off the sinking vessel, with the
evident intention of waiting for the
abandonment of the vessel During
the fight Captain Reed imprisoned all the
Chinese among his crew with the Chiness
passengers in the forehold, for fear they
would aid their countrymen in the attempt
to loot the vessel. As soon as possible the
passengers, mails, and specie were put into
the San Pablo's small boats, and then all bore
away for the mainland. When only a short
distance from the wreck Captain Reed and
bis charges saw the pirates set sail and rush
upon the San Pablo as they had done a few
hours before They clambered over the ship's
sides with grappling hooks, and were
soon masters of one of the finest boats that
ever sailed the Pacific. Whether by accident
or design, they soon set fire to the ship,
and when last seen smoke was pouring from
the wreck ii great clouds. The passengers
were taken to Hong Kong, and tugs were
sent to the relief of the San Pablo, but they
found only the hulk, burned to the water's
edge, and stripped of everything valuable.
it is estimated that at least a score of pirates
lost their lives in this stubborn fight
with Captain Reed and his men. During the
battle the women aud children who were on j
board the San Pablo sought the staterooms,
where they were in constant fear not only of
falling into the hands of the pirates, but of
being drowned in the water which was fill
inc me snip.
The San Pablo was fitted up in finer style
than any steamer that ever left San Fran- {
cisco, and was valued at $500,000, which is a
total loss, as she was uninsured.
A CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY,
Cardinal Gibbons Lays the Corner
Stone in Washington.
The corner stone of the Catholic University
was laid in Washington, D. C., Thursday
afternoon by Cardinal Gibbons, aided by
Archbishops Williams, Ireland and Ryan,
Bishops Spaultlinj? and Kane, and others.
The steady rain which fell during the (lay
caused the abandonment of the parade of the
j societies President Cleveland drove out to
I the grounds, which are two miles and a half
from the city, and was given a seat on the
platform bet-veen Cardinal Gibbons and
Bishop Spaulding.
The choir was supported by the Marine
Band. The blessing of the site of the university
and stone laying followed. The sermon
was by Bishop Spaulding, and the presentation
of a gold medal sent by the Pope to
Miss Caldwell, whoso gift of $300,0JO was the
nucleus of the fund by which the university
has been founded. A largo number of prominent
officials, Congressmen, Cabinet officers
and diplomats were in attendance.
Lawyers from all over the country met
In convention at Washington recently to secure
uniform laws throughout the country
on divorce and commercial paper. About
fifty were from New York, thirty from tha
Pacific slope, aud 200 from the Middle State*
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WORK OF A CYCLONE.
Ttfo Towns Partly Destroyed in
Kansas and Texas.
& A
Large Number of Persons Killed
or Badly Injured.
A destructive cyclone has swept through
Kansas and on into Texas, causing widespread
disaster. In Kansas the severest effects
of the whirlwind were felt at Argonia,
which is presided over by the first woman
Major ever elected in tnis country, juts.
Susan Salter.
It cut a wide swath through the thickert
settled portion of the place.
The largest residence, that of Mr. Campbell,
was literally picked up and carried a
quarter of a mile. Of three churches only
the foundations remain- The school building
was torn to pieces, and there was not a house
that was not damaged. All the houses were
shaken up and the greater part of them carried
away from their foundations. Seventy-five
people are reported as seriously injured,
and two, a young ladv teacher, Miss
Monroe, and a railroad hand, nave sincedied.
A great many had their legs and arms
broken by flying timbers. Two men had
both eyes put out, and a child had its skull
crushed
The cyclone swept on to Brownton, Texas,
destroying the Methodist, Baptist and Congregational
churches and eight dwelling
houses. Nine persons, including the Sheriff
and County Recorder, were killed. The
damage will exceei $12,000. The path of
the storm was 300 yards wide, and everything
within those limits was swept away.
The damage to business and residence
property at Corsicana, Texas, will exceed
$25,000. The damage to crops cannot be
estimated, but is very great Over a dozen
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UUliUillKS wtjio ulii wicu. xuo uij-^wua i
I tor j or A. Fox & Bro. sustains a loss of
(10,000. About a dozen small houses wers
demolished.
Great damage was done at Sulphur
Springs, Texas, to growing crops and fruit
trees. The storm covered a belt three miles
wide. The cotton plants were completely
destroyed, and must be replanted. Tue hailstones
were so large that they broke shingles
an the roofs of houses, and tore limbs from
trees.
LATER NEWS,
Judge Edward A. White, of Baton
Rouge, has bsen selected by the Louisiana
Legislature to succeed J. B. Eustis as United
States Senator.
A large crib of lumber slid upon and
!atally injured three man at La Crosse, Wis.
The Southern Presbyterian Union at the
3eneral Assembly in Baltimore declared itlelf
opposed to organic union with the North;rn
Presbyterians.
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Secretary Fairchlld Has appointor jduivard
Burgess, of Boston, to be President of
:ho Board on Life Saving Appliances, rice
Captain R. Baby, defeated. This is the Mr.
Burges3 who designed the yachts Puritan,
Mayflower and Volunteer. He has accepted
the office.
Frederick N. Fot, Township Clerk, his
wife and three children, aged five, nine and
sleven years, were burned to death in their
house at Uffington, Canada.
A fire in the establishment of Edward
and Robert Garrould, linen drapers, London,
England, barned six shop women to death,
and many others were injured by leaping
from windows.
Emperor Frederick at last accounts was
said to be in a fair way toward complete
recovery.
THE NATIONAL GAME.
Ed. Swartwood is Captain of Hamilton.
About 6,000,030 balls were used last year.
Tiernan, of the New Yorks, leads the
League in home runs.
Radbourv, of Boston, appears to have lost
none of his own skilL
Sunday, of Pittsburg, now leads the
League in base stealing.
Sam Wise"still makes plenty of errors, but
hits the ball at critical times oftener than any
other man on the Boston team.
it's'conceded that Kelly will win the bicycle
offered by a Boston firm to the Boston player
making the most runs this season.
The Hamilton team contains eight lefthanded
batters. A good "south-paw pitcher"
generally makes sad havoc with them.
The marvels and the wonders who were
discovered last winter are not proving
themselves to be what they were advertised
to be.
No base runner tak?3 so many desperate
chances as Ward, of the New Yorki At
times these attempts to steal a base are
brilliant.
The Chicagos' new suits are of black broadcloth,
and cost $45 each. The suit is to be J
worn at the opening eame in each League
town and during the Australian trip.
The work of Reipschlayer behind the bat,
for the Jersey City team, has greatly Aided
that club in obtaining its present high posi
tion in the race for the Central League pennant
The eight ball clubs in the Central Interstate
League will travel 15,736 miles. It
will cost them $31,452.40 for transportation.
The contracts have been made with the railroads.
It is a noteworthy fact that young players
seldom or never suffer from "Charliehorse."
It is generally the veteran players
who have been in active work for a number
of years.
Sowder?, of the Bostons, deliver! a difficult
ball for a catcher to handle. He has
control of the mysterious drop ball, but he
adds considerable more speed to it than
other pitchers.
Nearly all of the Texas League clubs ara
increasing their capital stock to raise the
wherewithal to strengthen their teams.
Dallas has secured $2500 extra and San
Antonio will do likewise.
The Chicago papers have started a story
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about the immense screngia <n UU1 tUCl o.
the new California pitcher, to the effect that
he can tear a pack of cards with his fingers,
and split a silver coin with his teeth- i
Tony Mullane, of the Cincinnatis, once
pitchcd in a Geneva (Ohio) team, and he received
the munificent sum of $4 a week for
doing it. When not playing, the players had
to put in the extra time in the hay and corn
fields.
Figures tell the story of Kelly's work for
the Bostons this season better than anything
else. In the first nineteen games played he
has made forty hits, and s:ored twenty-three
times, while the rest of the team combined
has made but sixty-seven runs.
In Charleston, S. C., a fund has been
raised to give such deserving boys as are unable
to pay for them, tickets to the best seats
at the baseball grounds. Fifty boys at a
time will be sent in while the fund lasts, at
ten cents each, and, according to the News
and Courier, "it is expected to last all summer."
Harry "Wright says that the team which
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plays steadily ana escapes mw u^aun?K
valuable players will capture the flag. He
believes Philadelphia, Detroit and New York
will do the principal fighting for the flag,
not having a high opinion of Boston, and
considering it problematical how long Chicago's
young blood will hold up.
NATIONAL LEAGUE RECORD.
Xante o'Club. 1Co?. L/W.
Chicago 21
Boston -0 12
Detroit 17 13
New York 1(5 12
Philadelphia 14 14
Pittsburg 12 1*5
Indianapolis !> 2)
Washington 8 21
AMERICAN* ASSOCIATION* RECORD,
'm/ of Club. Won.
C ncinnati 23 1)
i rooklyn 25 9
St. Louis 10 8
Maltiraore 13 15
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Atuieuc Cleveland
11 20
Louisville 9 23
Kansas City 7 22
Near Raleigh, N. C., a man killed himself
the other day out of remorse for the death of
a young lady, his cousin, who while driving
with him was thrown from the buggy ana
(ataUy hurt the week before his death.
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MB. BLAINE'S LETTEBf v
He DecTarS^r-TirKT-Ho Cannot PomI'
bly Accept a Renomination. ;
The following letter, forwarded by Jamed
G. Blaine from Paris to Whitelaw Reid, of C,
the New York Tribune, explains itself: V-..<.
Mv Dear Sir: Since my return to Pari*
from Southern Italy on the 8th inst, I hav? ;
learned (what I did not l>efore believe) that my
name may yet be presented to the Na?
tional Convention as .a candidate forth* .
I Presidential nomination of the Republic
can party, A single phrase of my letter
of January. 23 from Florence (which waA ,
decisive ot exvnrthuig. -I_Jiad the personal
power to decide) has been treat&i-by many of1
my mosfcyalued friends as not absolutely conclusive
inultimate and po^ible'wiifcmgenciei.
On the other hand, friends equally- devoted
and disinterested have construed my letter- '
(us it shnnld ha construed) to be an uncottr
ditional withholding: of my name from tbd
National Convention. They have in
consequence given their support to emi- . 'j
nent gentlemen who are candidates for thd 4
Chicago norai nation?some of whom would ^
not, I am sure, have consented to assui&S j
that position if I hai desired to represent tbd .?
party in the Presidential contest of 1888. N ~ 1
If I should now, by speech or by silence, ^
by commission or omission, permit my fllme,
in any event to come before the Con- jj
vention i - should incur the reproach
of being uncsndid with those who have
always D3eu_ candid with ma I speak
therefore, because I am not willing to
remain in a doubtful attitude I am :
not willing to be the causa of misleading
a single man among the millions who
have given me their suffrages and their
confidence. I am not willing that even >
one of my faithful supporters in the past
should think me capable of paltering in a
double- sense with my words. Assuming
that the Presidential nomination could by any
possible chance be offered to me, I could not accept
it without leaving in the minds of thon-..
sands of th*se men the impressions that I naa
not been free from indirection, and therefore
I could not accept it at all. The mfe* * ?{?
representations of malice bave no weight
but the just displeasure of friends I could not
patiently endure. " ?
Republican victory, the prospects of which
grow brighter every day, can be imperiled *only
by lack of unity in council or by acrim*
onions contest over men. The issoeof
Protection is incalculably stronger and
greater than any - man, for ft con- /
cerns the prosperity of thejpressnt and of
generations yet to come. Were it possiblefor
every voter of the Republic to tee -2
for himself the condition and recotnpenM .
of labor in Europe, the Party of Free- *
Trade in the United States wonld not ncaive
the stfpport of- one wage-worker be- .
tween tb?i two oceans. It may not b? <H-\^ rectly
iij^onr power as philanthropists to
elevate the European laborer, bat it will b^
a lasting stigma upm oar statesmanship if /->.
we permit the American Jabbrerto be forced. !
down to the European leveL And in th?
end the rewards of labor everywhere will
be advanced if we steadily refuse to low*', _
the standard at home. Yours very sincerely, '
Jakes G. Blaeh.. gsj
THE LABOE WOELD. M
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A $50,000 silk factory is to be bufltafcr
Jacksonville, Fla. ^
Pullman, BL, is to have an electric bejfc.
railroad five miles long. ' ;
Thirb are thirty-six societies of the various crafts
in Minneapolis, Mfan
In Massachusetts 12,000 children under 14
years of age are working in shops.
iVXTBiraiVX pot Mines lur wuiuug up >U.
native clay are now in course of building at- Memphis,
Tenn. : .'yvi
Industrial establishments are springing
up in the South faster than an account ofthem
can be kept
The Boston Herald, in furtherance of it*- ^
profit-sharing agreement of a year ago, has
divided $10,000 among its employes. . <\
Section men along the line of the Missouri
Pacific Railroad have gone on strike became- of
a reduction from $1.50 to $1.35 perday. ,
Twelve hundred Hebrews engaged in
tailoring at Leeds. England, have struck
against more than fifty-eight hours a
Two Presidential Labor party tickets ha*2^*^
been placed in the field, one by the Union Lap- I
bor party and another by the United Labor I
The industries in the United Stater ar?> . ^
now carried on by 4,000,000 pera>ns4n rouna
numbers, representing a population of 20,-.010,0-0.
t ..*
The Loughlin Coke Works at Bradford,
Penn., have shut down its 240 ovens indefinitely,
throwing a large number of men out
of employment
Retorts from 889 labor organizations In
New Jersey give a membership of 57,683-?
40,172 being Knights of Labor and 17,780Trade
Unionists.
There were over 100 delegates, representing
5 J00 butchers, at the annual session in
Philadelphia of the Butchers' Union. Thomas-' " .
Armour, of Chicago, presided.
The numberof men employed at iron mining
in the Lake Superior basin is estimated
at 150,000. Wages have been reduced from5
to 10 Der cent Miners get $1.65 a day.
It is reported that the Delaware, Lackawanna
ana Western Railroad of New Jersey
has issued notice that hereafter the train
bands on passenger trains will be held responsible
for damage to seat arms and backfc
Skilled laborers in China, such as cappenters,
masons, blacksmiths and the like, :<
earn from ten to thirty cents a day,while unskilled
laborers, men who, in the expreesiveterm
in their language, "sell their strength,"
earn from eight to ten cents a day.
The Union Steel Works of Chicage consame
daily 1000 barrels of oil as fuel ia-place.
of -:00 tons of coaL For every 18 barrels the/ # ;
save 15, or $278 per day. They dispense also- '* 1
with the labor of 65 men, or $180. In the 310working
days there is saved in these works; *?
alone the enormous sum of $126,4S0. ./
Workhen in the vicinity of Hackettatown,
N. J.,- are exuberant over the tidings that tha
Warren Foundries, owned by Cooper &
Hewitt, will be put In blast, employing several
hundred hands. These works have been
idle during the last five years, owing to the- *
depressed condition of the iron trade, during
which time the business interests of the town
have been paralyzed. Ti
General and Mrs. Greelt have taken
cottage at Pitts field, Mass., for the summer
and Mrs. Cleveland will be their gueLl for
somo weeks, beginning the first of July.
THE MARKETS. < J
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23 NEW YOBK. f
Beef, City Dressed 5)?<S> 5%
Calve?, common to prime.... ti @ 8
Bheep 6
Lamos 9 (3 \ V
Hogs?Live 5 85 6 00
Dressed 7,^(9 7H
Flour?City Mill Extra 4 65 yip 4 SO f , ^
West good to choice 4 fc5 <g 5 SO .
Wheat?No. 2 Red, tfune,.. 93>?(g) 94^
Rye?State 56 @ 58
Barley?State S2 @ 85 ' <
Corn?Ungraded Mixed.... CO\\(& 65% J
Oats?White State 4343% m
Mixed Western 3i @ 40 , M
Hay?Choice Timothy 95 @ 1 00 "
Straw?Long Rye. ? (? 1 00 1
Lard?City Steam 8 20 @ 8 40 1
Butter?State Creamery.... 25 -1
Dairy ? & ? I
W est I in. Creamery 15 @ 17 I
Factorv 14 @ 16 I
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Cheese?State Factory, ;>ew <7iv? Skims
1 ? J,,
Western 'K?
Eggs?State aud Penn 16 @
BUFFALO. '|
Steers?Western 4 35 @ 4 85
Sheep?Good to Choice 5 OJ @ 6 00
Lainos?Western ? 09 7 00
Hogs?Good to Choice Yorks 5 05 @ 5 90
Flour?Family 4 So <3 5 25 ,
Wheat-No. 1 93
Corn?No. a. Mixed 57 (? MX
Oats?No. 2. Mixed ? (& 39
Barley?State 88 (j 91
BOSTOX.
Beef?Good to choice 7 @ 8
Hogs?Live 5/i(sD 6
Northern Dressed.... 7
Flour?Spring Wheat pat's.. 5 25 <$ 5 05
Corn?Steamer Yellow. OS @ 69
Oats-White -48^
Rye-State 60 65#
WATIRTOW.V (MASS.) CATTLE VAHKM
Beef- Dressed weight. 7 <g) *
Sheep?Live weight 4jf(rj 6
Lamb3 6li@ 8
Hogs?Northern 7 (<S </*
PHILADELPHIA.
Flour?Penn.extra family... 3 K & 4 00
Wheat-No. 2, Red 9 JKO 97 ,
Corn?No. 2, Yellow ? ?3 63
Oats?Mixed 40 @ 4l$?-^
Rye?No. 2 ? @ 78
Butter?Creamery Extra... 19 @ 20
Cheese?N. Y. Full Cream.. 9}{(3i