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SOVEREIGN STATES, j
La^?t Act in the Admission of
North and South Dakota.
Proclamations Issued Declaring
Them Members of the Union,
President Harrison has issued proclamations
admitting North and South Dakota to
the Union of States. It was expected that
the President would withhold his proclamation
until all four of the new commonwealths
could come together. General Harrison
said the returns from both the Dakotas
were in and there was no occasion for
further delay in the matter. As [
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soon a? tile returns ironi >? luuuigivu
are received the proclamation admitting
her will lie issued and so. too. with
Montana, when the present political complications
shall have been straightened out.
The following dispatch was sent from the
Executive Mansion by Secretary Blaine to
Governors Mellette and Miller, of North and
South Dakota, Bismarck, North Dakota:
"The last act in the admission of the two
Dakotas as States in the Union was completed
this afternoon at the Executive Mansion at
3 o'clock and forty minutes by the President
signing at that moment the" proclamations
required by the law for the admission of the
two States. The article on prohibition, submitted
separately in each State, was adopted
in both. The article providing for minority
representation in South Dakota was rejected
by the people. This is the first instance in
r.he history of the National Government of
r.win States, North and South Dakota, entering
the Union at the same moment."
In the proclamation admitting North
Dakota the President says:
"Whereas it has been certified to me by
the Governor of the Territory of Dakota
that within the time prescribed by act of |
Congress a constitution for the proposed
State of North Dakota has been adopted and
the same ratified by a majority of the qualified
voters of said proposed State iu accordance
with the conditions prescribed in said
act;
"And whereas it is also certified to me by
the said Governor that at the same time tV-at
the body of said constitution was submitted
to a vote of the people, a separate article
numbered twenty, and entitled 'Prohibition,'
was also submitted and received a majority
of all the votes cast for and against said article
as well as a majority of all the votes
east for and against the constitution, and
was adopted:
"And "whereas a duly authenticated copy
of said constitution, article, ordinances and
propositions, as required by said act, has been
received by me.
tnefofnre T Beniamin Harrison, I
President of the United States of America,
do, in accordance with the provisions of the
act of Congress aforesaid, declare and proclaim
the fact that the conditions imposed by
Congress on the State of North Dakota to entitle
that State to admission to the Union
have been ratified and accepted and that the
admission of the said State into the Union is ,
now complete."
In the proclamation admitting South
Dakota the President says:
"Whereas it has been certified to me by
the Governor of the Territory of Dakota that
at the election for delegates the 'Sioux
Falls Constitution" was submitted to the peo-1
pie of the proposed State of South Dakota,j 1
as provided in the said act; that a majority i
of all the votes cast on this question
was 'for the Sioux Falls Constitution ;r
and that the said constitution j
was at the time prescribed in the act
resubmitted to the people of South Dakota,
with proper changes and amendments, and
has been adopted and ratified by a majority
of the qualified voters of said proposed State
in accordance with the conditions prescribed
in said act:
"And whereas it is also certified to me by
the said Governor that at the same time that
the body of said constitution was submitted
to a vote of the people, two additional articles
were submitted separately, to wit:
An article numbered twenty-four, entitled Prohibition,'
which receives a majority
of all the votes cast for and against said article,
as well as a majority of all the votes
cast for and against tne constitution,and was
adopted, and an article numbered twenty
ave entiueu .ninoniy xvepr^cutattuu,
which did not receive a majority of the votes
cast theron or upon the constitution and was
rejected.
And whereas a duly authenticated copy
of said constitution, additional articles, ordinances
and propositions as required by said
act, has been received by me?
"Now, tnerefore, I, Benjamin Harrison,
President of the United States of America,
do, in accordance with the act of Congress
aforesaid, declare and proclaim the fact that
the conditions imposed by Congress on the
State of South Dakota to" entitle that State
to admission to the Union have been ratified
and accepted, and that the admission of the
wiid State into the Union is now oomolete."
THANKSGIVING DAT NAMED
/*
The President'*; Proclamation Fixing1
the Date.
The following proclamation, setting apart
Thursday, November 2S, as a day of National
thanksgiving, was issued:
v^Bythe President of the United Slates?a
proclamation:
A highly favored people, mindful of their
dependence on the bounty of Divine
Providence, should seek fitting occasion to
testify gratitude and ascribe praise to Him
who is the author of their many blessings.
^- v. It behooves us, tlien, to jook uack wmi
thankful hearts over the last year, and bless
God for His infinite mercy iu vouchsafing to
our land enduring peace, to our people
freedom from pestilence and famine, to our
husbandmen abundant harvests, and to them
hat labor a recompense of their toil.
Now. therefore I. Benjamin Harrison,
President of the United States of America,
do earnestly recommend that Thursday, the
twenty-eighth day of this present month of
November, be set apart as u day of National
thanksgiving and prayer: and that the people
of our country, ceasing from the cares
and labors of their working-day, shall assemble
in their respective places of worship and
give thanks to God, who has prospered us ou
our way, and made our paths tne paths of
peace; beseeching Him to bless the day to our
present and future good, making it truly one
of thanksgiving for each reunited home circle,
as for the Nation at lnrge.
Iu witness thereof I have hereunto set my
hand and caused the seal of the United States
to be affixed.
Done at the city of Washington, the first
day of November, in the year of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and eighty-nine,
and of the independence of the United States
the one hundred and fourteeth.
Benjamin Harrison.
By the President.
James G. Blaine, Secretary of State.
SENTENCED TO DEATH.
Nine Men to Hang at Fort Smith,
Arkansas.
Judge Parker, of the United Slates- Court
for the Western District of Arkansas, has
passed sentenced of deatb at Fort Smith upon
Sam Coins, Jimmon Burris, Harris Austin,
John Billy, Thomas Willis, M. James. Jefferson
Jones, George Tobler and Charley Bullard,
execution to take place Thursday. January
16, 1800. This is the largest number
ever sentenced in the court at one time, and
as there are no extenuating circumstances
connected with any of their cases, they will
all likely be executed on the same day and at
the same time, making the largest number
by three ever hanged in Arkansas 011 the
same day.
Goins and Jimmon Burris. Choctaws, killed
Houston Boice in the Choctaw Nation in
November, 18S8. Harris Austin, Chickasaw,
slew a white man at Tishomingo in 1884.
John Billy. Thomas Wiilisand James. Choctaws,
murdered Matison Williams in the
Choctaw Nation in April, 1889. Jefferson
Jones, Choctaw, killed Henry Wilson in the
Choctaw Nation March 13. 1880. George
Tcblcr. colored, slew another colored man at
a dance in the Choctaw Nation. Charley ,
Bullard, colored, murdered Walker Dean
near Gibson Station, Cherokee Nation, iu I
March last.
The latest scheme to relieve the employer
from liability in the case of injury to an employe
is the design of an insurance company
m London. The workman takes out au accident
policy and the premium is paid from
his wages. He also signi a contract indemnifying
his employer. ;
! THE NEWS EPITOMIZED.
Eastern and Middle States.
T. W. P. Phillips. of Burrillville, R. I.,
I has become insane in consequence of his removal
from the post master snip in that town. !
Eight workmen were seriously injured, |
some fatally, by the ' olliipse of two houses !
built on Buddensiek principles at Passaic, i
N. J. I
William Hkxry Cresson", cashier of the I
Tradesmen's National Bank, of Conshohock- i
en, Penn.. is a defaulter in $50,000. The j
bank is dosed.
Harrisox Lorixg, of Boston, has been j
awarded the contract for building cruiser No. !
31, one of the "iOOO-ton type, for -W4.000.
Archbishop Katot.lt. the Pope's delegate
to the Catholic Centennial at Baltimore, has j
arrived at New York on the steamer La j
Champagne.
Moses Robbixs. one of the most prominent j
and wealthy men in Bloomsburg, N. J.,
committed suicide by hanging.
Ix the first ten days that the subscription j
books for the World's Fair at New York I
were opened, for the purpose of raising a !
guarantee fund of $5,000,000, about ?2.500,000 j
was subscribed.
Twit r?f tlua ctanmoi* S ft Rrnwn pi- !
ploded oir H'Tost'ord Inlet, X. J. Three men
were fatally scalded and the vessel badly I
wrecked.
Abraham Hatfield, entered the Milford j
(Mass.) Methodist Church during service and i
set fire to oil-saturated cushions. The fire !
was soon discovered and extinguished amid 1
much excitement.
Six men wero burned to death at the |
Colebrook furnace at Lebanon. Penn., by j
the escape of riolten iron. Two other labor- |
ers were fatally burned.
Soutli and West.
While a portable engine was being worked j
on a farm near Hamlet, Ind., the boiler ex- !
ploded. killing Adam Mann and seriously !
scalding Jive others.
In a saloon row at Nashville. Tenn.. Sheriff
Grigsby. of Dickinson County, was shot to j
death by J. C. Arelidge, a distiller.
The 20(10 Indians occupying the Wind j ,
River Reservation, just north ?f the Yellow- i
stone National Park, W T.. are in want and i
many jnay die of starvation before spring.
The attempted assassination ot a Chinaman
in Chinatown, San Francisco, led to a j
pitched battle between highbinders, in which !
several persons were wounded. i
Earthqi*ake shocks have been felt in j
Illinois and Missouri.
Senator Kennedy has anuounced his j
withdrawal from the defense in the Cronin |
murder trial at Chicago. i
At the Cronin trial in Chicago Martin j
Burke was identified by three witnesses as i
Frank Williams, who rented the Carlson cot- j ,
tage where Dr. Cronin is supposed to have ;
been murdered. !
A freight train was derailed 10" miles :
west of Savannah. Six cars went off the !
track. A colored man stealing a ride on one j
of the derailed cars was killed.
Del Pino Brothers' immense cigar fac- i |
Lory at Key West, Fla., containing over one | ;
million cigars, besides a largo quantity ot j j
Havana tobacco, has been completely con- I
sumed by fire. The loss is $120,000. j !
The Supreme Court of Michigan has deci- j ,
tied that adopted children cannot inherit j '
from their foster parents.
Fire destroyed the West Refrigerator | ;
Company's building in Chicago, IU., causing j
a loss of two million dollars. i
K. L. Boone, a member of the Georgia '
House of Representatives, was found dead !
in his bed at his boarding-house in Atlanta. J <
Apoplexy was the cause of his death. I '
By a collision of freight traius near | :
Wawak, Ind., two engines and fifteen cars j
were completely wrecked, and the track j
badly torn up.
Leonard's mill dock on Muskegon Lake, 1
Mich., has been burned with a large quantity 1
of lumber. The loss is not less than $150,000. j <
l
Washington. j f
The President has appointed William B. | ]
Sheppard, of Florida, Collector of Customs t
at Apalachicola, Fla.; also the following i
Surveyors of Customs : John Mahood at j
Galena, 111.; William H. Alexander at i (
Omaha, Neb.; Henry C. McArthur at Lin- I t
coin, Neb. j (
The Government Directors of the Union j c
Pacific Railroad in their report to the Secre- j ]
tary of the Interior say that the interests of 5
the United States demand early action to se- I (
cure the payment of the company's indebted- j
ness to the Government.
L. P. Dawson, son of ex-Education Com- ; i
missioner Dawson, is under arrest in Wash- j s
ington for stealing postage stamps from the ' s
rooms of the bureau. ! ?
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Postmaster-General Wanamaker has ] '
made public an order fixing rates on Govern- , j
nient telegraph messages for the current i '
fiscal yew.
The estimated stock of gold and silver coin" ,
in the United States Treasury for November <
1, shows gold coin, $Gl!>, 940,450; full legal 1
tenders silver coiu, $343,038,001; subsidiary i
silver, $70,6'-iS,7Sl. ]
The total gold coinage at all the mints dur- 1
ing October was $2,570,{)ti6.50; total silver 1
coinage, 53,310,504.35, total minor coinage, j
$0.01*.153.44. ! ]
The Treasury Department officials esti 1
mate that the public debt reduction during | .
October amounted to about ?9,000,000. ; J
The cruiser Charleston has been formally ' (
accepted by Secretary Tracy. j i
Chairman Cooley, of the Interstate Commerce
Commission, has expressed his official
opinion that passenger rates in the West '
are too high.
The President has appointed Jerome A. 1
Watrous, of Wisconsin, to be Collector of
Customs for the District of Milwaukee, Wis. ^
Secretary Tracy has written a letter to
Rear Admiral Gherardi, complimenting him
on his conduct of American interests at
Hayti.
Mrs. Harrison left Washington on a visit !
to Mrs. Wanamaker at Philadelphia.
di'ring the ]>ast fiscal year the United i
- :- l o /-Tt-nl r>f <f?. A->7 141) i
mates .un?t> wuiwi c* iw?? ^
pieces, worth $fSO,%r>,927.01.
President Harrison has appointed War- ;
ren G. Sayre. of Indiana, a member of the
Cherokee Commission, vice John F. Hartranft,
of Pennsylvania, deceased.
By touching his finger to a telegraph kev :
President Harrison set in motion the wheels ]
of the Southern vlxposit ion at Montgomery. j
Ala.
The President lias pardoned John A. j
Kimball, convicted of violating the post?! |
laws and sentenced to imprisonment at hard j
labor for two years.
Foreign.
Foi'R Peruv ian revolutionists were caught j
while trying to capture a cruiser in Callao :
Harbor.
The overflow of the river Po, in Italy, has j
Mis-cd the ios of several lives and the destruction
of much property.
The French Government has suspended the
navment of the sf>oe"d? of fifty-five priest*
in various parts of France for preaching j
political sermons on the occasion of the re- {
cent elections.
Nicolas Gabrilovitch Tschernischew- ,
ski. the father of Nihilism in Russia, is dead,
aged sixty years.
The Swiss Government has apologized for
a mistake made last August in the arrest of j
five American gentlemen on the charge that !
they were pickpockets.
The members of the Irish Home Rule par- j
ty who have been traveling through A us- ;
tralia have finished their tour. They collectvd
$100,000 to advance the Irish cause.
A letter has been received at Zanzibai 1
from Stanley, the explorer, which reports
that he and his party are well.
The Spanish Government proposes to in- j
crease the import duty on wheat (lour.
The Emperor and Empress of Germany j
arrived in Constantinople and were received i
by the Sultan with great honor.
Many families at Terrenee Bay. Nova Son ! i
tia. are Imrdering on starvation, owing to the j
failure of the fisneries.
At the fortnightly meeting of the
Irish National League at Dublin it was an- j
nonnced that contributions amounting to j
$40.000 had been received from America since !
the last meeting.
In the municipal elections throughout Italy |
the Liberal and Radical candidates were successful
in the great majority of cases, the
Clericals winning in only a few towns.
The New York Club won the series of
games with the Brooklyn Club?the former
representing the League and the latter" the
I American Association?for the world's cham1
pionship. Score, six games to three. -
ELECTION ECHOES.
Tickets Were in the Field in
Ten States of the Union.
Late Keturns From the Various
Scenes of Battle.
Ten States have held elections. In five of
them, Iowa, Massachusetts, Mississippi,
Ohio, and Virginia, a Governor and other
State officers were chosen: in New Jersey a
Governor and members of the Legislature;
and in the other four, Maryland, Nebraska, }
New York, and Pennsylvania members of j
T nffi/.orc WPl'A Vrttfifl I
me licgluatuicauu muiv> ~ ..
for.
In Iowa there were three State tickets, |
Democratic. Republican and Labor. The
vote of the State last year was: Cleveland.
179,877; Harrison, 211,398; Streeter (Labor),
9105.
In Massachusetts there were also three
tickets, Democratic, Republican, and Prohibition.
Last year's vote was: Cleveland,
151,855; Harrison, 183,892; Fisk, 8701.
There was only one ticket in the field in
Mississippi, the Democratic.
In New Jersey there were three tickets,
Democratic, Republican, and Prohibition.
The vote last year was; Cleveland, 151,498;
Harrison, 144,344; Fisk, 7904.
In Ohio there were four tickets. Democratic,
Republican, Prohibition, and UnionLabor.
The vote of the State last year was:
Cleveland 396,455, Harrison 416,0.54, Fisk
24,356.
There were only two tickets in Virginia,
Democratic and Republican. The vote last
year was: Cleveland 151,977, Harrison 150.438.
Maryland elected only a Comptroller.
There were Democratic, Republican, and
Prohibition tickets. Last year the State
gave Cleveland 106,108, Harrison 99,986, and
Fisk 4767.
Nebraska elected a Supreme Court Judge
and two Regents. There were Democratic
and Republican tickets. Last year Cleveland
received 80,552 votes, Harrison 108,425
and Fisk 9429.
New York elected a Secretary of State.
Treasurer, Comptroller, Attorney-General.
State Engineer, and Court of Appeals Judge
;tnd an entire Legislature. There were Democratic,
Republican. Prohibition and Greenback
tickets. Members of both houses of the
Legislature were also chosen. The vote of
New York last year was: Cleveland 635,965.
Harrison 650,338, Fisk 30,231.
Pennsylvania elected a State Treasurer.
There were Democratic, Republcan and Prohibition
candidates. The vote of Pennsylvania
last year was: Cleveland 446,633,
Harrison 526,091, Fisk 20,947.
Details of the returns from the various
C,i-A Kftl/vti* oc for AC tllPV WPTP
ouites cue ^IVCU uciu??
received up to the time this side of our paper
went to press:
NEW YORK.
Returns from all parts of the State indicated
the election of the entire Democratic
State ticket by about 22,000 majority. The
Legislature wentRepublican in both branches.
The Republicans gained in the Senate and
the Democrats in the Assembly. In New
York city, Rice the Democratic candidate for
Secretary of State, had a plurality of 64,000;
nearly the whole of the Tammany city ticket
was elected over the fusion ticket of County
Demo2rats and Republicans. In Brooklyn
Mayor Chapin (Dem.) was re-elected by
lbout 8000 majority. The last State Senate
stood Republicans 20, Democrats 12. The
Senate of 1890-91 will contain 22 Republicans
and 10 Democrats. The last Assembly
stood Republicans 79, Democrats 49. The
Assembly just elected will contain 70 Repubicans
and 58 Democrats.
NEW JERSEY.
New Jersey elected ex-Governor Leon A baett.the
Democratic candidate for Governor,
ay about S000 majority over his Republican
opponent, E. Burd Grubb. The Democrats
etain the Assembly, having made a slight
;ain there, but they have lost the Senate.
I"he Senate will stand 11 Republicans to 1ft
Democrats, and the Assembly 24 Republicans
:o 36 Democrats.
PENNSYLVANIA.
In Pennsylvania the vote was light and
:omparatively little interest was manifested,
he election of Buyer, the Republican candilate
of Secretary of State, being a foregone
:onclusion. Early returns showed net Remblican
gains over the vote of 1887 of about
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50,000 plurality.
massachusetts.
The counting of the vote in Massachusetts
mder the new Australian ballot law went on
Jowly, but the early returns pointed to a
;mall plurality for the Republican State
icket. Later returns made the issue somewhat
doubtful, and both sides claimed the
governor. The Democrats made gains in
joth branches of the legislature.
ohio.
The vote for Governor in Ohio was very
. lose. At 2 a. sr. on the morning after elec:ion
day the Chairman of the Republican
State Committee sent out the following dispatch:
"The Republican Executive Committee
claims the Legislature and
:he Stat? ticket, except Governor Foriker,
who is in doubt. If Repub- |
lican counties on the Western Reserve and in
ither parts of the State held up to expectations,
nowever, Foraker, will pull through by
a small plurality." Democrats made heavy
gains in Cincinnati, and claimed the election
of Campbell as Governor over Foraker by a
small plurality. Both parties claimed the
Legislature on joint ballot. The Prohibition
vote was larger than usual, which was a loss
to the Republicans.
virginia.
Virginia, after one of the most exciting
political contests in its history, elected Mc
Kinney, Democratic candidate for Governor,
over ex-Senator Mahone, by an estimated
majority of 30,000. The Democrats elected
both branches of the Legislature, ami will !
have two-thirds on joint ballot, in Kionmond
the negroes generally refrained from
voting, and many of them "kept awav from
the polls in all parts of the State. Charges
of fraud were made on both sides.
At 10 p. sr. on election night. Herbert P.
Harrison, while standing on the street in
front of General Mahone's residence at
Petersburg,engaged in celebrating the Democratic
victory by exploding fireworks, was j
shot by somebody apparently in the Republi- |
can candidate's yard. Immediately great ex- I
citement ensued, and General Ma hone was
arrested and, followed by a great crowd, ivas
taken to a Justice's office. When it was dis- ,
covered that Harrison's wound was slight, |
the excitement abated.
IOWA.
In Iowa the vote for Governor was close, j
the Democrats claiming the election of Boies
by a small plurality owing to gains in many |
places. Tne Des" Moines iSlate. Register j
(Rep.) and the Republican State Committee j
claimed Hutchison's election with probably :
ROOD plurality. Returns from 140 precincts
indicated a Republican plurality of 6000.
The Democratic leaders claimed the State.
MARYLAND.
In Maryland the principal contest was in i
Baltimore, where the Independent Democrats
united with the Republicans on a local
ticket. After one of the hottest canvasses
vne city has ever seen the regular Democrats
elected their candidate for Mayor by about
4500 majority, and retained control of the
City Council. The Legislature is Democratic,
insuring the election of a United States Senator
to succeed Senator Wilson.
NEBRASKA.
The returns from Nebraska indicated the
usual Republican success by a majority of
If,000 to 20.000.
MISSISSIPPI.
The Democratic ticket was the only one in j
the field in Mississippi, and it therefore had a I
i? amu ?>-*.
|
Later Returns.
Corrected returns put the plurality of Rice j
lV>r Secretary of State in New York at about '
.'0,(100. With this change the Senate will
be composed of 19 Republicans and 13 Democrats.
The Assembly will contain 08 Republicans
and ii() Democrats. This is a gain of
11 for th-i Democrats in the Assembly and of
i Democrats in the Senate. Iu New York
city Amos J. Cummings was elected to Congress
as the successor of the late S. S. Cox,
without, opposition.
In Ohio Vhe Democrats have elected Campbell
for Governor over Foraker by about
10.000 plurality. The Democrats also elected
a majority of members of the Legislature
in both branches, insuring a Democratic successor
to United Stales Senator Payne.
Governor Foraker sent a dispatch of congratulations
to Governor-elect Campbell.
Later returns make Abbett's majority for
Governor of New Jersey about 12,000. The
Senate stands J1 Republicans 1ft Cfmo
crats and the lower xiouse 57 Democrats to
"28 Republicans.
In Massachusetts Brackett (Rep.) for Governor
has a plurality of 6000. The Legislature
will stand 162 Republicans and 78
Democrats.
In Iowa the Democrats elected Boies Gov-ernor
by a plurality of about 6000. The rest
jof the Democratic ticket was also successful.
The Republican State Committee claimed
[the Legislature by three majority on joint
ballot.
"later news."
Heavy snows have blocked traffic on the
Denver, Texas and Fort Worth Railroad.
All the freight conductors and brakemen
of the Evansville and Terre Haute and
Evansville and Indianapolis roads and
branches of the Mackey system have struck
for an advance in wages.
Miss Mae Lester, the pretty blonde 10year-old
daughter of John T. Lester, the
$10,000,000 Board of Trade operative of
Chicago, has eloped with young Phil
Armour.
Natives of the Solomon Islands decoyed
an Englishman named Nelson and three
navive boys to one of their villages, murdered
and then devoured them. Upon learning
of the massacre, the Captain of the
British cruiser Royalist shelled the villages
along the coast where the murders were
committed.
Emperor William and the German Empress
sailed from Constantinople on their return
to Berlin.
Rev. Dr. Talmage has arrived in London.
Baron Ashbourne, the Lord Chancellor
of Ireland, has called Judge Gowan, of
Canada, to the Irish bar, in recognition of
his services as a jurist.
The Russian Government, in order to avoid
anti-Russian demonstrations, has postponed
the elections in the Baltic provinces until a
proclamation has been issued placing the
provinces under Russian supervision.
The closing of the Paris Exposition was
marked by a brilliant fete. Four hundred
thousand persons were present, the largest
attendance since the opening of the Exhibition.
It is reported at Zanzibar that the Masais
or Somalis have massacred Dr. Peters, the
German African explorer, and his whole
party except one European and one Somali,
who were wounded and who are now at
Ngao.
The sum of $400,000 was paid over by the
Provincial Government of Quebec to the
Jesuit Order in Canada, in consideration of
the orders total and perpetual abandonment
of claims to the estates which became
the property of the Crown when the order
was suppressed nearly a century ago.
SILLED THEIR CAPTORS.
A .Sheriff and Deputy Murdered by
Kiglit Indian Prisoners.
Sheriff Reynolds, W. A. Holmes and
iugene Middleton, while taking eight Apache
Indian murderers and one Mexican to Yuma,
(Arizona) Penitentiary, were killed by their
prisoners. The Sheriff had removed tho
shackles from the legs of six of the
Indians before they started to walk up a
heavy sandwasb, but they were handcuffed
together by the wrists in sets of two, thenouter
hands being fr?.e. At a signal from one
of the Indians, the Sheriff was seized by the
two immediately back of him, while tfce two
Indians immediately in front of the deputy
secured his gun, with which, after killing
him, they shot the Sheriff, who was held by
their companions. During the massacre the
Mexican ran to the stage, and warned the
driver, Middleton. The latter drew his piscol.
but was shot twice by the Indians and
badly wounded.
THE LABOR WORLD.
Boston's electricians are going to start a
union.
Many Southern unions are composed altogether
of colored men.
The National Association of Stationary
Engineers has now 4811 members.
The eight-hour rule is observed by the
Cincinnati Board of Public Works.
One hundred type-writers will be em;
ployed by the United States Census Bureau."
The Knights of Labor claim that S340 men
joined their order during August and September.
There are good prospects for the project
of forming an International Wood Workers'
Federation.
Two-thirds of the cigar dealers of San
Francisco have pledged themselves not to sell
cigars made by Chinamen.
The eight-hour movement has been started
in Albany. N. Y., the trades unions and the
Knights of Labor co-operating.
Five assemblies of the Knights of Labor
in Cincinnati have joined the International
Boot and Shoe Workers' Union.
The journeymen tailors' strike in Chicago,
which lasted five days, has been declared off
and the men have returned to work. j
Stonecutters in St. Louis complain that
their situations are threatened by ttie competition
of convict stonecutters in Illinois.
J. J. Geraghty, candidate of the miners
and other workingmen, has been elected
Mayor of Strcutor, 111., after an exciting contest.
In New Hampshire working children between
the ages of 14 and IB years are compelled
to go to school three months of the
year.
A union of machinists is to be formed at
Indianapolis, Ind. The Bookbinders' Assembly
of that city is going to reorganize as an
open union.
The Brotherhood or rainters ana Decorators
has 7000 members enrolled in 130 local
unions. The receipts last year were $0401;
expenses, $5200.
The silk trade in England is threatened by
France, which is running up a lai .^e number
of silk mills and producing some of the finest
work in the world.
Brooklyn has the largest an-1 best appointed
labor hall in the country. It is owned
and managed by workingmen. It is known
as the Labor Lyceum.
Trade is very good in the iron and steel industry
at Young-;town, Penn. All the mills
are running at full blast and no one is idle
who is willing to work.
A fre.vch letter, which reached the office
of the Americau Federation recently, states
that a number of unions in Paris have begun
to agitate for an eight-hour workday.
Over seven hundred men are now employed
at the granite quarries of West Sullivan, Me.
The product of the quarries averagts from
three to four millions of paving blocks a year,
besides other work.
The strongest labor organization in the
United States is the Flint Glass Workers'
Union. There are 0000 flint glass workers in
the country, and all "are union men with
the exception of less than 100.
In 1870 there were 739,167 children under
sixteen years of age at work in factories in
the United States; in ISSOthey had increased
1,118,356, and it is believed that in spite of
factory laws there are more than ever of
children employed.
An investigation lately made into the condition
of colored labor in the South in blast
furnaces, rolling mills, iron works, mines,
lumber mills and similar industries showed
that WOO colored people were so employed.
nf ci-;u..^
Many tilings arc reversed in Australia.
It is summer there while it is
winter in America. Trees shed their
bark instead of their loaves; fruit ha9
the stone or kernel outside; swans nro
black; there is a species of fly that
kills and eats the spider, and a fish
called the climbing perch, walks deliberately
out of the water and, with the
aid of its fins, climbs the adjacent
trees after the insects that infest the?. j
ODR FIRMING INTERESTS.
First Annual Report of the
Department of Agriculture.
; A Summary of Secretary Rusk's
Facts and Suggestions.
The annual report of the Secretary of Ag|
riculture?the first issued under the newly
j constructed department?has been made pub
lie. Secretary Rusk says that the aggregate
! sum asked for in his estimates must not be
I measured by what is past, but by what a
great agricultural country should do toward
"sustaining, protecting and promoting a
j calling which lies at the foundation of its
I prosperity and power." Of those countries
| which "are the most active competitors of
American farmers in the world's market,"
Great Britain appropriates for agriculture
SI,500.000; Germany, $2,850,000; Brazil,
520,000,000; for agriculture and mines;
France, $8,000,000, and Austria more than
. $4,000 000.
Of the crop reporting system, he says:
. *?WV?ilo annrATi'motfl nr?r1 Vft 111 ?hl A it 1*? in dftTl
ger of becoming discredited by the popular
acceptance of its results as exact in precision
and absolute authority. It should be remembered
that they are not the conclusions of a
thorough census, though they may be far better
than the work of a poor census; they are
the consolidations of local estimates of agricultural
experts, and are intended as a foil to
the interested, biased and untruthful statements
that speculators issue to mislead their
victims."
The report urges the duty of the Government
to assume a more definite supervision
of such forest areas as are still owned by it
and as occupy a position of importance in the
regulation of water flow and of other climatic
conditions, and emphasizes the importance of
the relations which the forests bear to the
problem of irrigation in the arid lands and of
j their immense annual product.
The subject of agricultural organizations
| is dwelt upon earnestly, their astonishing
i growth during the past few years being cited
| as strong evidence of the growth of the spirI
it of self-help among the farmers. The
: farmers' institutes are referred to particular|
ly as one of the greatest movements in the
I history of agriculture, and as the strongest
lever for raising and upholding the work of
superior agricultural education represented
by our system of agricultural colleges and
I experiment stations. The Secretary recomI
mends, without going into details, that the
i department should be empowered to afford
I aid and encouragement to this work.
The sheep and wool industry secures special
consideration in the report. The
growth of the mutton interest is referred to
as one to be greatly encouraged. As to wool
growing, the reduction of the tariff in 1883 is
earnestly deplored. To it is attributed the
great reduction in the number of sheep,
which has since then fallen off by about
seven million head, while the importation of
wool has increased from 78,350,651 pounds in
18S4 to 126,487,729 pounds the past year.
'"On behalf of this industry," says the Secretary,
"I recommend these facts to you, and
should they be submitted to Congress, I ask
for them intelligent and careful consideration/'
The condition of the sugar industry is reviewed
in detail, and the results declared to
be of a mixed character. The region where
the sorghum sugar industry may be attended
| with success has been localized in the south
| ern part 01 uenirai ivansas, v?est uuu wu?u
of Wichita, and in parts of the Indian Territory
resembling it in soil and climate. The
j Secretary is seeking a variety with a higher
j amount of available sugar.
j The botanical department is to be specially
! occupied in an effort to solve the problem of
I increasing the forage yield on the 300,000,000
acres of the arid region outside of possible irrigation
by promoting the productiveness of
the grasses now growing there.
The language used by the Secretary in regard
to a national meat inspection law is
pointed and vigorous. "The* necessity for
inspection at the time of slaughter is, first,
to enable the authorities to promptly locate
any cattle disease centres, and, second, to
avoid the anomaly of leaving the inspection
of our own meat products to the officials of
ither countries, thus giving foreign Governnents
some show of reason for the claim
that they have better opportunities for learning
of disease among American cattle than
ire enjoyed by our own Government." He
accordingly advocates "such an amendment
10 the law under which the bureau is at present
organized as will provide for such official
national inspection as shall guarantee the fitness
of our meat products for food consumption,
under the seal of the United Stat?-.
Courts."
A TEAR'S COINAGE.
Interesting1 Facts in the Report ol
Director of tne .mnr.
Edward 0. Leech, the Director of the
Mint, in his annual report for the fiscal year
ended June 30, 1SS9, reports the coinage at
the mints during the year as follows:
j Gold coins (in value), $25,543,910; silver
| dollars, $33,793,860; subsidiary silver, $721.I
0S0; minor coins, $!X)f5,472; total. $60,965,929.
' III addition to this gold bars, valued at $22,i
241,121, and silver bars, valued at $6,709,240.
I were manufactured at the mints. Geld bars
were exchanged for gold coin, principally at
I the assay office at New York,during the year,
| mainly for export, of th? value of $57,507.I
812.
! The profit on the coinage of silver dollar.and
subsidiary coin during the year was
$9,403,049. The total coinage of silver dollars
under the Bland act up to the first of Novemi
ber was $343,638,001. Gold imports during
I the year amounted to 510,372,145,and exports
{ to $60,033,346. Silver imports amounted to
1 $24,6S2,3S0, and exports $36,716,783. These
! figures show a loss to the United States, by
! excess of exports over imports of gold, $49,:
061,101; silver. $12,034,403.
The Director estimates the consumption of
; gold and silver in the United States in the
j industrial arts for the fiscal year to have
I )>?<>?,. finlrl XI(1000.000: silver. 38.000,000.
: The product of gold and silver in the United
j States for the calendar year 1888 he reports
| as follows: Gold, $33,175,000; silver, *comj
mereial value. ?43,000,000; coining value,
; $59,195,000. The product of the world for
that year was: Gold. SI05.994,150; silver.
: commercial value. $103,050,000: coining value.
[ $142,439,150.
i The coinage of the world for the year 18V.
was: Gold, $134,720,639: silver, $149,737,442.
j Deducting recoinages reported and the coinage
of Mexican dollars, "the net coinage for
! the year approximated: Gold. $109,000,000:
j silver, $95,000,000. Of the latter, about
j eighty per cent, was full legal tender coins
executed by the mints of the United States.
India and Japan.
Director Leech recommends legislation
looking toward the discontinuance of the
j coinage of the three-dollar and one-dollar
I gold pieces and the three-cent nickel piece,
j and withdrawal from circulation of pieces of
those denomination* now outstanding.
TORMENTED TO DEATH.
Robbers Subject an Aged Couple to
Fearful Torture.
Masked robbers perpetrated an outrage on
an old couple living at Jackson Cross Roads,
Mo., which ended in the death of the wife of
I Jasper James and the serious injury of the
husband. James keeps a small store at the
cross roads, and is known to have a dislike
for banks. What money he has he keeps
j hidden about his place, and as he is accredited
| with being a mis ?r, it is generally supposed
j ;hat he had considerable money hidden. The
I other nicht his house was entered by three
j masked men, who demanded that the* old
: man tell where he hail his money concealed,
j The information was stubbornly refused by
j both Mr. and Mrs. James. The robbers tied
! the couple back to back, and began torturing
the old man, hoping that his agony would
make iiis wife * give up the secret.
They stuck pins in bis feet and
legs and even burned his face and hands with
matches. The old man was plucky and insisted
that his wife keep still. At last he
fainted from pain. His wife then told where
part of t he money was hidden and the robbers
released the couple. Mrs. James worked
to restore her husband and after he had recovered
consciousness she was overcome with
1 exhaustion and sank fainting to the floor
| Her husband summoned aid. but she died in
| themoruinc. The robbers secured $400.
It seems to be a settled fact that a large
body of colored colonists will be given a
tract of land by the Mexican Government.
* % - ' -,r O-"" '' ' ~ -j .. h\ - ' /
RET. DR. TALMAfiE.
THE BROOKLYN DIVTNE'S PARE
WELL SERMON.
Dictating a sermon to jus Many
Readers as He Embarks
for t he Holy Land.
The Rev. T. De Witt Talmage, D. D., on
his embarkation at New York for the Holy
Land, by the steamer City of Paris, addressed
his millions of friends through the
press, taking for his text Acts xx.. 38: "And
they accompanied him unto the ship." His
sermon is Drinted below in full:
To the more tUau twenty-nve million people
in many countries to whom my sermons
come week by week, in English tongue and
by translation, through the kindness of the
newspaper press, I address these words. I
dictate them to a stenographer on the eve of
my departure for the Holy Land, Palestine.
When you read this sermon I will be midAtlantic.
I go to be gone a few weeks on a
religious journey. I go because I want for
myself and hearers and readers to see Bethlehem,
and Nazareth, and Jerusalem, and
Calvary, and all the other places connected
with my Saviour'slife and death,and so re-enforce
myself for sermons. I go because I
am writing the "Life of Christ," and can be
more accural auu ^rapuic wuen jl uave uwu
an eye witness of the sacred places. Pray
for my successful journeying and my safe
return.
I wish on the eve of departure to pronounce
a loving benediction upon all my friends in
high places aud low, upon congregations to
whom my sermons are read in absence of
pastors, upon groups gathered out on the
prairies, and in mining districts, upon all
sick and invalid and aged ones who cannot
attend churches, but tt> w 10m I have long
administered through the printed page. My
next sermon will be addressed to you from
Rome, Italy, for I feel like Paul when he
said: "So, as much as in me is, I am ready
to preach the 6 ospel to you that are at Rome
also." The fact is that Paul was ever moving
about on land or sea. He was an old
sailor?not from occupation, but from frequency
of travel. I think he could have
taken a vessel across the Mediterranean as
well as some of the ship captains. The sailors
never scoffed at him for being a "land
lubber."' If Paul's advice had been taken,
the crew would never have gone ashore at
Melita..
When the vessel went scudding under bare
poles Paul was the only self-possessed man
on board, and, turning to the excited crew
and despairing passengers, he exclaims, in- a
voice that sounds above the thunder of the
tempest and the wrath of the sea: "Be of
good cheer."
The men who now goto sea with maps, and
charts, and modern compass, warned by Duoy
and lighthouse, know nothing of the perils of
ancient navigation. Horace said tnat the
man who first ventured on the sea must have
had a heart bound with oak aud triple brass.
People then ventured only from headland to
headland, and from island to- island, and not
until long after spread their sail for a voyage
across the sea. Before starting, the weather
was watched, and the vessel having been
hauled up on the shore, the mariners placed
their shoulders against Ihe stern of the ship
and heaved it off?they, at the last moment,
leaping into it.
V essels were then chiefly ships of burden?
the transit of passengers being the exception;
for the world was not then migratory, as in
our day, when the first desire of a man in
one place seems to be to get into another
place. The ship from which Jonah was
thrown overboard, and in which Paul
was carried prisoner, went out chiefly with
the idea of taking a cargo. As now, so then,
vessels were accustomed to carry a flag. In
those times it was inscribed with the name
of a heathen deity. A vessel bound for Syracuse
had on it the inscription, "Castor and
Pollux." The ships were provided with anchors.
Auchors were of two kinds?those
that were dropped into the sea, and those
that were thrown upon to the rocks to hold
the vessel fast. This last kind was what Paul
alluded to when he said: "Which hope wo
have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and
steadfast, arid which entereth iuto that within
the vail." That was what the sailors
call a "hook anchor." The rocks and sand
bars, shoals and headlands not being mapped
out, vessels carried a plumb line. They would
drop it and find the water fifty fathoms, and
drop it again and find it forty fathoms, and
drop it again and find it thirty fathoms, thus
discovering their near approach to the shore.
In the spring, summer and autumn the
Mediterranean Sea was white with the wings
of ships, but at the first wintry blast thev
hied themselves to the nearest harbor: al
though now the world's commerce prospers
in January as well as in June, and in midwinter
all over the wide and stormy deep
there float palaces of light, trampling the
billows under foot and showering tne sparks
of terrible furnaces on the wild wind; and
the Christian passenger, tippeted and
shawled, sits under the shelter of the smokestack,
looking off upon the phosphorescent
deep, on whicli is written in scrolls of foam
and fire: "Thy way, 0 God, is in the sea, and
Thy path in the great waters!"
It is in those days of early navigation that
I sec a group of men. women and children on
the beach of the Mediterranean. Paul is
about to leave the congregation to whom he
had preachcd, and they are come down to
see him off. It is a solemn thing to part.
There are so many traps that wait for a
man's feet. The solid ground may break
through, and the sea?how many dark mysteries
it hides in its bosom! A few counsels,
?lhasty good-by, a last look, and the ropes
ritttle, aud the sails are hoisted, and the
jf&iiks are hauled in, and Paul is gone. I expect
to sail over some of the same waters
ovel which Paul sailed, but before going 1
want to urge you all to embark for heaven.
The church is the dry dock where souls ara
to be fitted out for heaven. In making a vessel
for this voyage, the first need is sound
the timber. The floor timbers ought to b?
of solid stuff. For the want of it, vessels that
oivin t/i vim fhm'r iihhoruns into the ev<
of any tempest, -when caught in a storm hav?
been crushed like a wafer. The truths ol
God's Word are what I mean by floor timbers.
Away with your lighter materials. Nothing
but oaks, hewn in the forest of divine truth,
are stanch enough for this craft.
You must have love for a helm, to guid'
and turn the craft. .Neither pride, nor ambition,
nor avarice will do for a rudder.*
Love, not only in the heart, but flashing in
the eye and tiugling in the hand?love married
to work, which many look upon as so
homely a bride?love, not like brooks which
foam and rattle yet do nothing, but love like
a river that runs up the stej>s of mill wheels
and works in the harness of factory bandslove
that will not pass by on tbc other side,
but visits the man who fell among thieves
near Jericho, not merely saying: "Poor fellow!
vou are dreadfully hurt," but, like the
good Samaritan, pours in oil and wine and
pays his board at the tavern. There must
also be a prow, arranged to cut and override
the billow. That is Christian perseverance.
There are three mountain surges that
sometimes dash against a soul m a minute?
the world, the flesh and the devil?and that
is a well built prow that can bound over
them. For lack of this, many have put back
and never started agaiu. It. is the broadside
wave that so often sweeps the deck and fills
the hatches: but that which strikes in front
is harmless. -Meet troubles courageously and
you surmount them. Stand on the prow;
and, as you wipe off the spray of the split
surge, cry out wuu tue aposiie: inoiie ui
these things move me." Let all your fears
stay aft. The right must conquer. Know
that Moses, in the ark of bulrushes, can run
down a war steamer.
Have a good, strong anchor. "Which hope
wc have as an anchor." By this strong cable
and windlass, hold on to your anchor. "If
any man sin, we have an advocate with t he
Father." Do not use the anchor wrongfully.
Do not alwavs stay in the same latitude and
longitude. Von will never ride up the harbor
of Eternal Rest if you all the way drag
your anchor.
But you must have sails. Vessels nre not
fit for the sea until they have the flying jib.
the foresail, topgallant, the skysail, the giuTsail
and other canvas. Faith is our canvas.
Hoist it and the winds of heaven will drive
you ahead. Sails made out of any other canvas
than faith will be slit to tatters by the
first northeaster. Strong faith never lost
a battle. It will crush foes, blast rocks,
(juench lightnings, thresh mountains. It is a
shield to the warrior, a crank to the most
ponderous wheel,a lever to pry up pyramids,
a drum whose beat gives strength to the step
oCthe heavenly soldiery, and sails to waft
ships laden with priceless pearls from the
narbor of earth to the harbor, of heaven.
But you are not yet equipped. You must
have what seamen call tbe running rigging.
This comprises the ship's braces, halliards,
clew Jines and such like. Without these the
yards could not bo braced, the sails lifted nor
the canvas in anywise managed. Wo have
prayer for the running rigging. Unless you
understand this ticklilic.xrui nva wni a ?
s
aal seaman. By ptfltTiTg oa these ropes yon
hoist the sails of faith and turn them every
whither. The prow of courage will not oat
the wave, nor the sail of faith spread and flap
its wine, unless you have strong prayer for a
halliard. \
One more arrangement and you will i?
ready for the sea. You must have a compass , J
?which is the Bible. Look at it every uay,aBfl
and always sail by it, as its needle paints tpward
the Star of Bethlehem. Through fog
and darkness and storm it works faithfully. 7]H
Search the Scriptures. "Box the compass."
Let me give you two or three rules for tie a
voyage. Allow your appetites and passion* 7.1
only an under deck passage. Do not allow '
them ever to come up on the promenade deck, . I
Mortify your members whicn are upon the ->
earth. Never allow your lower nature any- ' <
I thing better than a steerage passage. Let
watchfulness walk the docks as an armed sen- |
tinel, and shoot down with great promptness 1
anything like a mutiny of riotous appetites. .
Be sure to look out of the forecastle for . \\
icebergs. These are cold Christians floating
about in the church. Tho frigid zone prolessors
will sink you. Steer clear of icebergs.
Keep a log-book during all the voyage?an
account of how many furlongs you make a x
day. The merchant keeps a day book a?
well as a ledger. You ought to know every
night as well as every year, how things are ">
going. When the express train stops at the
depot you hear a hammer sounding on all .4
the wheels, thus testing the safety of the
rail train. Bound, as we are, with more ?
than express speed toward a great eternity, |
ought we not often to try the work of sell- - <7.
examination? .
Be sure to keep your colors up! You know
the ships of Ungland, Russia, France and
Spain by the ensigns they carry. Sometime*
it is a lion, sometimes an eagle, sometimes a
star, sometimes a crown. Let it ever bt A
known who you are. and for what port yoa a
are bound. Let "Christian" be written oq 9
the very front, with a figure of a cross, a 1
crown and a dove; and from the masthead A.
let float the streamers of Immanuel. Then V
the pirate vessels of temptation will pass yon .
unharmed as thev sav: 'TharA tmes ? A
tian, bound for the port of heaven. We wilL?^^
not disturb her, for she has too many gii2^y;>
aboard." Ron up your flag on this pull07^^^
"I am not ashamed of the Gospel of Chrat^Ha
for it is the power of God and the wisdom of
God unto salvation." When drivon back, or;
laboring under great stress of weather?now fl
changing from starboard tack to larboard,'
and then from larboard to starboard?look.
above the topgallants, and your h^art shall
beat like a war drum as the streamers float1
on the wind. The sign of the cross will make *1
you patient, and the crown will make you' H
glad- J
Before you gain port you will smell the " J
land breezes of heaven; and Christ, the Pilot,
will meet you as you come into the Narrows j
of Death, and fasten to you, and say: "When '
thoupassest through the waters,! will be \
with thee; and through the rivers, they shall . ]
not overflow thee." Are you ready for such j
a voyage? Make up your minds. The gang*
planks are lifting. The bell rings. All
aboard for heaven! The world is not your
rest. The chaffinch is the silliest bird in all
the earth for trying to make its nest on the
rocking billow. Oh, how I wish that as I embark
for the Holy Land in the East, all to
whom I preach by tongue or type would em- -4
bark for heaven. What you all most need is
God, and you need Him now. Some of you I jG
leave, in trouble. Things are going very 9
rough with you. You nave had a hard 9
struggle with poverty, or sickness or perse- ]
cunon or oereavement. Light arter light has m
gone out and it is so dark that you cad Jfl
hardly see any blessing left. May that Jesus,
who comforted the widow of Nain, and raised 3
thedeceased to life, with His gentle hand o? a
sympathy wipe away your tears. All is welL 1
When David was fleeing through the wfl- j
derness, pursued by his son, ho was being j
prepared to become the sweet singer ofr Is- |
rael- The pit and the dungeon were the best ' I
schools at which Josspu ever graduated.
The hurricane that upset the tent and killed '
Job's children prepared the man of Us to
write the magnificent poem that has astounded
the ages. There is no way to get I
the wheat out of the straw but to thresh it?
There is no way to purify the gold but to
burn it. Look at the people who have always
had it their own way. They are proud, discontented,
useless aiid unhappy. If you want
to find cheerful folks, go among those
who have been purified by the fire. After
Rossini had rendered "William Tell" the five
hundredth time, a company of. musicians'
came under hi3 window in Paris' and sere- |
naded him. They put upon his brow
golden crown of laurel leaves. But amidst
all the applause and enthusiasm Rossini H
turned to a friend and said: "I would give <
all this brilliant scene for a few days of
youth and love." Contrast the melancholy 1
T">Ua/l ATTAmrfKi'n^ fliaf 9
ieenug <ji xwaoim, nuu U.UV.V.J.UU.,, - _
this world could give him, to the joyful ex- iff
penence of Isaac Watts, whose misfortunes |f
were innumerable, when he sayB:
The bill of Zlon yields
A thousand sacred sweets, Ij
Before we reach the heavenly fields
Or walk tbe golden streets.
Then let our songs abound,
And every tear bo dry;
We're marching through Immanuel'i ground
To fairer worlds on high.
It is prosperity that kills and trouble that
saves. While the Israelites were on the
march, amidst great privations and hardships,
they behaved well. After a while, they i
prayed for meat, and the sky darkened witn
a large flock of quails, and these quails fell in
great multitudes all about them; and tbe Israelites
ate and ate, and stuffed themselves
until they died. Oh! my frieuds, it is not
hardship, or trial, or starvation that injure#
the soul, but abundant supply. It is not the
vulture of trouble that eats up the Christian'*
life; it is the quails! it is the quails!
I cannot leave you until once more I confess
my faith in the Saviour whom I have
nreached. He is rav all in all I owe more stM
j grace of God than most men. With 11
this ardent temperament, if I had gone over- M
board I would havo gone to the very depths. II
You know I can do nothing by halves. 9
0 to grace how great a debtor ' I
Dally I'm constrained to be I |
I think all will bo well. Do not be worried I
about me. I know that my Redeemer liveth, {;
and if any fatality should befall me, I r
think I should go straight. I have been most s"
unworthy, and would be sorry to think that
any one of my friends had been as unworthy
a Christian as myself. But God has helpeda
ereat many through, and I hope He will
help me through. It is a long account of
shortcomings, but if He is going to rub any .
of it out, I think He will rub it all out. . t.
And now give us (for I go no'; alone) your*'
benediction. Whon you seud letters to &
friend in a distant laud, you say via sucb-a t |
city, or via such a steamer. When you send ') 1
you good wishes to us, send t!:e.n via the J
throne of God. "We shall not travel out of I
the reach of your prayers. J
There Is n scene where spirit? dwell, m
Where friend holds Intercourse with friend; B
Though sundered for, by faith we meet
Around one common mercy seat. B
And now, may the blessing of GoiL^ome
down upon your bodies and upon yoursojatf-^
your fathers and mothers, your companions,
your children, your brothers and sisters, ana H
vour friends! May you be blessed in your H
business and in your pleasures, in your joys
and in your sorrows, m the house and by the
way! And if, during our separation, an
arrow from the uaseen world should strike H
any of us, may it only hasten on tho raptures H
that God has prepared for those who love fl
Him! I utter not the word farewell; it is
too sad, too formal a word for me to speak
or write. But, considering that I have your
hand tightly clasped iu both of mine, I utter
n Irinrl nn affectionate and a cheerful good
The physicians of a Iuna'ic asvlura
have found a new use for rabbits. A
number of these little creatwes have 9|
been turned looce onto the fields ad?
joining the institution, so that the in?
mates will be amused by seeing the
rabbits run about, and to divert the
minds of the patients u one of thef JB
great objects of the asylum. ^Hj
After destroying a very large nunw^^B
ber of letters, Mr. Gladstone has se^^H
lected GO,000 for preservation, and hag
built for them a five-proof room. When V
his biographer comes to overhaul thenj I
he will find aia work half done in ad*
vance. W I
The Boston Transcript gravely ad<^^J
vises its readers not to pick up horse
chestnuts in the street and pocket |
them. They may bo horse chestnuta I
that somebody else has leaded up witli 1
rheumatism and thrown away. I
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