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A HURRICANE OF FLAMES. '
The Business Portion of Lynn,
Mass., Laid in Ashes.
Twenty Acres Denuded of Factories
and DwellingsThe
city of Lynn, Ma.ss., lias been visite^l
by the worst fire in her history, and. indeed,
the worst in all New England history, with
?/?>>?I'rnw?P/wtlorwl in 1S!Ui nnrl Boston
in 1S72. The flames had almost undisputed
sway for nearly ten hours, some twenty
acres of the heart of the city are a mass of
ruins and the loss is estimated at about *7,000,000.
The loss of life, happily, is small, only one
death being reported, with a few injured. In
the ruins are the city's largest and finest
shoe factories.
A lire started little before noon directly
over the boiler in A. Mower's wooden factory
in Alinont street and quickly ascended
by means of elevators to the roof. Fortunately,
nearly all of the two or three hundred
men and women in the various portions
of this building had just left for dinner, and
but very few were on the upper floors. So
quick were the flames that the proprietor
had but just time to close his safe and leave. |
One man was caught in the upper story, and
was rescued by firemen by means of a lad- j
der.
The flames finished the wooden building, i
in which were half a dozen shoe manu- ;
facturers and the Benudrey Machine Com- 1
pany. The Mower brick building on Willow j
street was the next to go. Its walls fell in at j
12:30 with a crash, and one man was reported j
to be buried beneath. This building, five |
stories high, 100 by 100, was totally destroyed, j
The next building was a large frame wooden j
x factory of Bennett & Barnard, manufac- j
turers of the finest shoes in New England, I
> 1 TI,,V I
ttUU CUlfJlUJ I1J? lO\T XLtiJ k;ui?vw^0 ??.
a five-story structure and about 200 feet j
longExtending
back to Alrnont street the great j
structure yielded like pasteboard to the j
march of the flames, and. with its hundred |
thousand dollars' worth of fiue shoes in all j
stages of manufacture, was entirely swept j
away.
The fire advanced with marvelous speed, |
licking up the mass of lime sheds and shanties I
in the rear of the lofty wooden structures on [
Central avenue, and working along with such |
rapidity that the great brick block just :
erected by B. W. Currier on Union street was !
imperiled before a stream had been turned on j
from the hydrants and steamers. The people \
turned out with a will and lent a hand in i
emptying the numerous factories and stores j
of their more valuable contents.
It was recognized at once that the Lynn
Fire Department could not cope alone with
the enemy, and calls for help sent to Peabody,
Salem, Beverly, Marblehead and Boston
were promptly answered by steamers and
men.
The scene in fifteen minutes after the first i
stroke of the alarm had sounded exceeded |
anything ever before witnessed in Lynn, j
Central square and all its adjacent thorough- j
fares were filled with flyiug wagons and vans i
and hurrying people bearing books, dry i
goods, shoes and valuables of every descrip- j
tion to friendly shelter.
' By 1 o'clock the fire had cleared between i
two and three acres, including the Western
Union Telegraph Company, the Lynn Morn- j
ing Xcics and Daily Press, and" other im- j
portant local offices. By this time all travel (
im flip Tlnstnn nnrl Mninp ronil east and west '
of Lynn was wholly suspended, and in a !
short time the Central Station was gone.
By 2 o'clock, in spite of stout brick walls, the !
great fire had burned its way into the heart !
of the business section of the city.
The scene became thrilling, and the air resounded
with the crash of falling walls. |
There was talk of blowiug up buildings to
check the flames, when the Boston Fire Dcl>artment
detail arrived and was quickly put i
at work. The heat was terrible.
The firemen fought behind shutters and -p
screens, and yielded inch by inch up Unjefi 1
street. The conflagration swept on/fffitil it i
reached the corner of Mulberrv^flg. t, where 1
the firemen had a vantage.^Six steamers |
were massed at this,pgint, and a grand fight
was made upopJtKe historical old Sagamore J
^ ScteL^Jarge brick building four stores In '
height; it was a ban! contest, Many times |
l^e buildingwas on fire, But after a stubborn i
"struggle the flames gave it bound, and a
boundary was thus established at this point.
On the opposite side of Central avenue and j
Central square the flames made short work j
of the fine Puller block, a four story brick
structure 200 feet long, in which was C. W.
Pecker's model shoe factory, one of the finest I
in Lynn, which was recently exhibited to ,
Sonthern visitors as one of the best types of
the New England shoe factory to be found in
the section. This factory employed 200 hands.
Following the railroad track, the fire swept I
--cut the entire square to Washington street, j
destrojirg the JeVfcrly House, th? Salem !
House, ana iiumberless small shon^ I
TEC --TYDl'teCMpei riistrrcfr tfas cleaned j
out entirely, and the fire moved toward Mar- |
ket street. By this time from eight to ??&
acres were burned over. The flame's con,- |
tinued to spread; anda after reaching Broad 1
street, traveled on with great fufy down
Beach street, eating everything in their j
path. The large and magnificent structure !
of V. K. & A. F. Jones and S. N. Breed,
cornel- of Market and Andrew streets, totrothar
xriMi t.fmcA r\f T.nthor ft .T^lincrvn Xr '
"Wiiliaui Porter and FYank W. Breed,
on Mount Vernon street, which are occupied |
as shoe factories, and the Central Congregational
Church on Silsbee street, were also
totally destroyed, entailing heavy lssses.
The flames, in going through Beach, Suf- ;
folk, Amity, Sagamore and Tudor streets,
burned a large number of tenement houses,
and hundreds of families lost their homes. [
Finally powder and dynamite were used to '
?jpar enough open space tu itcn the further
Bpread, but wfth little efTect. In spite of all j
efforts the fire burned Itself out. By 7.30 it
* control, and about, ,
. "Degan w iro ? ....... 4' i
o'clock wna fnllv sr>. 11.
A. TuU GOES TO PIECES.
Many Lives l<ost by a W reck on the
Oregon Coast.
The tug Fearless, of Coos Bay, Oregon, ;
Captain James Hill commanding, ran on
to North Spit at the month of the Umpqua
River and soon went to pieces, not j
one of the crew or passengers escaping.
She was on her return trip from Asto- |
ria, where she had to go to take a lot of Chi- ,
namen lately discharged from the canneries j
nn Pnnc RflV
She was last seen off T-'ppjr Ten Mile, ;
steaming slowly down the coast just outside I
the breakers, which were running very high, j
and her whistle was heard off the month of
the Umpqua. Before night she gave three
sharp whistles, which was the last heard of |
her until the next morning, when her pilot ;
house, with the end stove, a small boat, one ;
side of her hull, and numerous small pieces I
were discovered coming up the river with !
the tide.
The number lost is said to be from ten to [
fifteen souls. The Fearless was not generally
considered seaworthy.
THE BEST COW.
Two Awards at the American Fat
Stock Show.
In the American Fat Stock Show at
Chicago awards were made in the
milk test for the best cow, three
years old or over. There were nine
entries. The first premium was awarded
to May Overton, a Holstciu. the property of
F. C. Stevens, of Attica, N. Y. Her record
was: Total milk ?">5 pounds and 7 ounces,
86.12 ounces of butter. 120.2 ounces of solid.
A Holstein from Bulger, Penn., took th?
second prize, with a record of 57 pounds 13
ounces milk, 22.40 ounces of butter, and
01.21 ounces solid.
FATAL GAS*EXPL0SI0N.
Two Children Killed and Three
Adults Fatally Injured.
An explosion of natural gas occurred at 10
o'clock a. m., at the residence of Scott Hawthorne,
in the western part of Dayton, Ohio.
The house, which was a two-storv brick
structure, was blown to atoms. Two children
were killed, and Mi-. Hawthorne, his
wife and father received probably fatal injuries.
They were tali en to a hospital. The
gas was cut off from the section in which the
explosion occurred as soon as possible after
the accident. The explosion wo? heard nil
over the city. _
TEE NEWS EPITOMIZED.
Eastern and Middle States.
Two men were killed by the premature exI
plosion of a blast in a stone quarry near C&lj
asauqua, Penn.
' The Lawrence Bank, of Pittsburg, Penn.,
! chartered under the State laws, failed with
I liabilitiesof between $090,000 and ?<00,000. '
I Its capital is f$lKl,000, and its assets are an
j uncertain quantity.
Professor E. N. Horsford's tower, mark- i
| iug the supposed site of the Norse city of
i Norumbega, uear Watertown, Mass., was j
I dedicated under the auspices of the American j
Geographical Society.
i The prize of $o00 offered by the publisher ,
: of the American Agricntt urist for the largest \
i crop of oats from one acre has been awarded '
j to It. W. Strickland, of Albion, N. Y. His i
1 acre yielded a few pounds more than 134 ;
| bushels of oats.
| Jame*; Smith, a letter carrier, killed his j
two baby children at his home in New York j
city. He was slowly dying of consumption, j
; and his wife had left him after a quarrel.
Stephen Pettus, the well known tobacco
! merchant, and Secretary and Treasurer of J
: the Brooklyn Union Elevated Railroad, was !
dint miH almost, instant.lv killed in New York !
| city by Mrs. Hannah M. Southwprth, also of j
1 Brooklyn.
The steamer Manhattan, bound from New j
I York for West Point, Va., came into collision i
with the four-masted schooner Agnes Man- I
ning, and sank in fifteen minutes. Twenty- j
two of the crew were picked up at sea. The j
remainder including three passengers, were j
probably lost.
L. Lum Smith, editor of the Agents' |
Herald, convicted of libeling Anthony Comstock,
of the New York Society for the Suppression
of Vice, was sentenced at Philadelphia
to six months' imprisonment.
A two-story brick dwelling at Braddock,
Penn., was blown to pieces by an explosion
of natural gas. Two persons were fatally
burned and six others severely injured.
A fire occurred in the wholesale grocery
house of Janney & Andrews, Philadelphia,
resulting in the death of one man, and dam- j
age of property to the extent of $250,000.
Prominent members of the Admiralty !
Bar of New York city and other lawyers I
gave a dinner to several delegates to the |
International Marine Conference who repre- !
sented the Admiralty Bars of their own i
countries.
South and West.
The National Short-Horn Breeders'
Association in annum meuiiug at i/Uictt^u
ratified the action of the Illinois breeders in
recommending that Congress subsidize a
steamship line between the United States
and Central and South America.
At the trial of the Navassa rioters in i
Baltimore witnesses testified that the treatment
of the laborers was shocking, the men
being tied up by the thumbs for hours for
trivial offenses. I
Ax agreement uniting the Rock Island
Railroad and the Atchison system under the
name of the Rock Island and "Santa Fe Route
has been made public.
Henry Den-hart, Reo Smith and J. B.
Suyder were fatally burned by an explosion
of natural gas near Washhigton, 111.
A freight train at Marquette, Mich., j
jumped a twelve-foot bank and Engineer ,
Reinhart was killed and Fireman Tilnatz fa- ,
tally hurt. The engine and nine cars were
wrecked. i
Henry Brcnier, age seventeen, a butcher 1
of Baltimore, died at the Maryland Univer- 1
sity Hospital from a severe scalding in a vat
of boiling water. John Fisher is held by the
police to answer the charge of throwing
Bruuier into the vat.
John Hendkicksox fatally shot his wife
at Centre Point, Iowa, and then blew out hjs~-j
own brains with a shotgun. ^
While being tested a boiler-exploded at i
Joplin. Mo., instantly killing John Madison j
and fatally wounci&g C. J., John, Thomas I j
and George-Johnson and A. L. Crockett.
-the^counsel for the defence in the Croniu j <
murder trial at Ulucago announcea mat
they had no more evidence to offer.
Editor J. H. Laborcs, of Abbeville, Ala.,
shot and killed B. F. Bussey, of Montgomery.
whom he bad denounced as a swindler.
Washington.
The President has appointed Thomas Clay
McDowell, of Kentucky, to be Collector of
Internal Pvevenue for the Seventh District of
Kentucky, vice William Cassius Goodloe,who
was recently fatally wounded in a fight. Mr.
McDowell is the son-in-law of Mrs. Goodloe.
In the Pan-American Congress, Delegate
Henderson, of the United States, introduced .
a resolution welcoming Brazil as a republic; r
the resolution was tabled.
The Republic of Brazil has been definitely T
and regularly recognized by the United
States, and the new credentials of its envoys, t
UUtu uruiwirjr auu c.viiauiuiuaij, unvu uc^ii ?
J?ndered Secretary Blaine, and accepted in
cmeTorifl by faro, T
XflE President has appointed Thomas J. 1
FSvrir?. of ^ ^^avalQ^ififir.
of Customs it\ tfie District of Philadelphia, 1
arid John J. Ridge way, of Pennsylvania, to t
be Surveyor of Customs in the "District of
Philadelphia. . i
The President has appointed William H. I ii
Shelmire, of Pennsylvania, to be Pension i
Agent at Philadelphia.
it
Foreign. j c
Universal suffrage has been established :
throughout the new republic of Brazil. , r
An epidemic of measles in frightful form \
has prevailed in Lota and Coronet, Chili. It ; s
is said that more than six hundred children
died of the dreadful disease in two months. I ?
A dispatch from th? African explorer, j J
Henry 31. Stanley, says he expects $?eacli , 1
Llio dpast in lour or fire days, and iu?v ?? !
tias mnde an important geographical fliSroV; ' H
wy. | t!
uISPaTCHES from Samoa say that Malign, I
was reinstated amid great rejoicings., The j
nn/1 AiriPvir'Jin aSTfilltS iSSUCu . 0
DnilMJ, yryjuiwu . w0 ?
proclamations recognizing Malietoa as King, j li
Minister Phelps gave a dinner at the i 1!
Kaiserhof, in Berlin, to Count Herbert Bis- j
inarch. j ^
Captain Wissman.v, the German officer, ' 1
has been promoted to the rank of Major for ,
services in South Africa.
Rev. T. De "Witt Talmage and his party ' 1
arrived at Athens, Greece. The great j 1
preacher secured a corner stone for the new j ,l
tabernacle to be built in Brooklyn. It was
taken from Mars Hill, from which St. Paul i '
addressed the Athenians. (
The Republics of Uruguay and the Argen- j *
tiuo Confederation have recognized the new
United States of Brazil. ]
Mr. Scuuyler, the new American Minister
to Egypt, has presented his credentials '
to the Khedive. !
A seven-YEAR inquiry into an alleged
wholesale poisoning in Hungary has just '
ended. Thirty-eight persons were poisoned,
and fifty-seven arrests have been made. !
The German Consul at Zanzibar has confirmed
the report of the safety of Dr. Peters,
the explorer. ^
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THE NATIONAL BANKS,
They Number 3319 and Have an AgKregate
Capital of $0120,174,305.
The annual report of the Comptroller of
the Currency covers the year ended October
31, 1889, at which time there were in existence
; 3319 national banks, the largest number in
| operation since the inauguration of the system.
These associations possess an aggrc- j
! gate capital of $020,174,365.
souri, Kansas ana i exos express u am, uunu
bound for St. Louis, was held up on Pryor
Creek near Perry Station and the express car
robbed of about. $3000. The robbers displayed
great coolness, and went about their
ivork in such a familiar manner as to convince
the train men that they were old time
professionals.
The road agents were only two in number.
They had concealed themselves in a clump of
bushes near the water-tank on Pryor Creek,
ind when the train stopped for water they
boarded the engine, one on either side, and
:overing the astounded engineer and fireman
with their revolvers, explained to them
their design of robbing the train. One of
the robbers climbed into the tender, and
from that point of vantage was master of
the engine. The men in the cab were at his
mercy, and were compelled to obey
his commands. The other robber, in the
meantime, had gone back to the express car
ind had uncoupled it from the rest of the
train. Entering the car he intimidated the
sxpress messenger by presenting a brace of
revolvers at his head and ordering him to
disarm himself. The messenger obeyed, and
the robber possessed himself of the messenger's
weapons, and then through the window
;alled to his confederate in the tender: "All
right; let her go." The latter repeated the
jommand to the engineer, who had nothing to
3o but obey. He opened the throttle and the
sngine and express car sped away from the
rest of the train.
Meanwhile the robber in the express-car
had not been idle. He compelled the mes>enger
to open the safe by a threat of death
ind to transfer the contents to a large gun
ay-sack that the robber had brought along
to convey the booty in. The. messenger again
obeyed. The robber then made a nasty examination
of the car to see that nothing
valuable was overlooked, and giving a signal
bo his confederate, the latter ordered tho
engineer to slack up. This done, the robbers
iisembarked, and made their escape in the
Ja/kness.
All this was done so quickly that the engine
had proceeded only a mile and a half
trom Pryor Creek, and the robbers had completed
the robbery and effected their cscape
before the surprised trainmen knew what had
occurred. No attempt was made to pursue
the road-agents, and the engineer ran back
to tho creek, picked up his train, and purged
his trip.
The train was the regular express, which
always carries a large amount of express
matter and the robbers could hardly have selected
a better one for the robbery. When
it arrived at Oswego, Kansas, Express Messenger
Johnson had just completed footing
up his loss. The total figures were between
>4~ tV)r\ Thic lncc must, hp hnrno
by the Pacific Express Company, which
aperates on the line of the Missouri, Kansas
and Texas.
An attempt to rob the Santa Fo train was
made at nearly the same point in the Territory
during the previous week, but the officers
of the road in some way heard of the
plan and prevented its execution, although
thev were unable to capture the robbers.
Another Train Kobbery.
Fifteen masked and heavily ariTittrnien
boarded "the SQljth boiindJgar.ta-Pc passenger
train at Berwyn, a "small station in the
Chickasaw Nation, Indian Territory, and cut
the engine and mail and express car loose
from the coaches. They then ran the train
two miles, and threw the fireman off the locomotive.
Two miles further on the engineer
was thrown off, and after running four
miles further the steam was turned o/r, and
the locomotive killed. I
Then the robbers began an attack on the
express car. The guard and messengers
llred twenty shots, but finally gave in afte/
the robbers had literally riddled the car. |
rhe money stolen is between $20,000 and
$0,000, ana came principally from Chicago.
rTV?i*o/-i Rtotoc wpnt. in rmrKiiit of I
he robber?!
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.
M
"Paul Jones" has passed its 300th per- i
ormance in London. [
Sophie Eyre made a hit in San Francisco ,
nth her new play, "The Witch."
Clara Louise Kellogg is now so stout
hat she will never again be seen on the |
tage.
Patti is said to be the only person in the
iclrld wftg ran draw a full house to Albert
Loll. Tn ixyjdoiL
Myron W. Whitney, the popular Boston
lassft. is proud of. the faSt ho was a I
in'ckla^er for seven years of his life?' I
Minnie Hack, the American singer, has' I
>ought the h?>u<?e near Lli^rne, Switzerand,
that used to be*ocoupled by Wagner? ' I
"SnEXANDOAH" will very probably bo j
liUl tl#V ju UUUCCU ill XA'jiuum, nuvu una iaxu
lie success of Bronsou Howard's play in this j
ountry.
The fashion of trying new plays at matrices
is becoming so common in London that |
lie performances themselves are losing all i
ignilicance.
It is reported that W. H. Crano has won a j
narked success in the West with "The Sen- j
tor." the play which was written for him by I
>avid 1). Lloyd. i |
Princess Beatrice flayed the pianoforte j
..j?Mnn.'ment to II. Wolff's violin when
hat artist befo>'e the Queen of j
England recently. i
A number of Parisian women have seut j
ri address to M. Sardou thanking him for j
lis rehabilitation of the stage mother-in-llU'^
n "Belle Manian."
Buffalo Bill contemplates taking his. I
rVild West show to India. Certain Indian' j
lotentates who visited Paris in the summer
idviwjd bim to do so. ?
At tile DfU VcTme Theatre, in Milaii, a
>lay has been brought out entitled "The Rcreat
from Moscow," in which the leading
rharacter is Napoleon I.
Miss Jucn, who sang Gounod's "Ave
Vlaria.'' drew a large crowd, including Presilent
and Mrs. Harrison, to the Church of the
Covenant in Washington.
Frederick Warde has commenced preparations
for a Shakespearean revival in ftew
ifork city next season, when he will have the
issistance of several prominent actors and
ictresses.
Sir George Grove, the eminent English
nusician, was educated for a civil engineer.
He designed the first two modern lightnouses
irected by the English Government in the
West Indies.
Mr. William Archer, in the London
World, reads Mr. Irving a lecture for his
failure to produce new works. He says: "He
has done much for the English stage, nothing
for the English drama.
Mme. Fursch-Madi has appeared at the
Lainoreaux Concerts in Paris with great sue
cess. !SUe is now singing in jDeruu unu mu
probably appear in Now York in the oratorio
of "Messiah ' this winter.
Mr. Alexander Comstock has gone to
England with the view of completing arrangements
for the production of "The Old
Homestead," now in its second year at the
New York Academy of Music, in that country.
The famous company of the Saze-Meiningen-Court
Theatre will give a series of performances
next year in Russia. They will
open at Kiev in February, and proceed
thence to St. Petersburg, Moscow, Riga and
Warsaw
Mr. Sidney Dickinson, the well-known
art critic and lecturer of Boston, is now a
very successful lecturer in Australia. He. is
in the employ of the Government of New
Zealand, delivering illustrated lectures ou
that country.
Eduard Strauss and liis famous orchestra
have completed a tour of eighty cities in
180 days, during which time an average of
twenty-live pieces a day were played. At
Hamburg 45,000 persons attended his concerts
in four weeks.
Ex-Mayor Hewitt, of Mew York, has
bought an inhabited island, called by its fifty
or sixty people Plum Island. It is one of the
small islands in the Sound between Long Island
and the Connecticut shore. It was solcl
under foreclosure for $15,000. '
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NEWS.
Wellington Hart and R. A. Smith, wellknown
old farmers, wore drowned near
Woonsoeket, R. I.
The main building of the Hecla Iraa TVorks
of Brooklyn has been destroyed by fire. Loss
about $200,000.
Isador H. Sultzbach, retail clothing
dealer of Philadelphia, has assigned. The
liabilities are estimated at from $150,000 to
$ 200,000.
At Anaconda, Montana, J. F. Holditz was
shot and killed by his son, who afterward
committed suicide.
Lyman R. Casey, of Jamestown, has
been elected as the second United States
Senator for Dakota.
The Territorial Asylum at Blackfoot,
* ' > ' J > A U,. TKfir
JUiano. nas ueen uanujcu uj m c.
seven out of sixtj--five inmates were rescued,
while eight persons were killed. The loss
is estimated at $300,000.
President Harrison' has appointed Frank
Hitchcock, of Illinois, to be United States
Marshal for the Northern District of Illinois.
j Albert C. Ridgway, of Illinois, has been
appointed confidential clerk to the Commissioner
of Pensions, to succeed Miss Ada
Tanner, resigned.
Secretary Tracy has made arrangements
by which the Navy will be furnished
with the brown prismatic powder for large
guns and the new smokeless powder for
smaller arms.
A dispatch from Constantinople states
that the steamship India, with 500 Mohammedan
pilgrims on board, had been sunk in
the Aegean Sea, and that of all on board
only the Captain and two passengers survive.
All the cigar factories in Havana, Cuba,
closed up except the Gener factory. The
G-ener factory "is the only one that does not
belong to the combination or manufacturers'
(rust.
Twelve hundred Clyde engineers at
Glasgow, Scotland, went on a strike.
Eighteen firms, under pressure of contracts,
were obliged to concede to the strikers' demands.
AN explosion occurred at the Allegheny ;
Bessemer Steel Works, in Duquesne, Penn. '
A night Superintendent named William
Marshall and a man named Cooper were
killed and a number of others injured.
Rev.W. Little,of Elizabethton,Tenn.,shot
and fatally wounded Daniel Hyde, a well!
known young man of that place, for betraying
the minister's daughter.
It is announced that the Afro-American
League's Convention,called to meet at Nashville
January 15 next, will meet instead at
Chicago, the date remaining the same.
Tiie National Silver Convention met in St.
[ Louis; General A. J. Warner, of Ohio, was
' chosen President.
Ox a train at Taltic, Ark., a conflict occurred
between colored passengers and the ]
| white train crew, and one colored man was
! killed and .several others latauy wounuea. i
L vAT_Hpughtoij^Mich., an explosion in a I
1 drift in the Huron~minc killed two Finnish I
| miners. Alexander Sle?nbach7T/ftS-Qf them, I
had the top of his head blown off, yet~hfi*4
| isked for his partner, and said he would die
f !f his partner was killed.
| Tiie North Pacific whaling fleet arrived at
Sau Francisco. The catch was the poorest in
; ten vears.
| School Trustees J. W. Williams entered
the High School at Petersburg, Va.,
and before the pupils horsewhipped the head
master for whipping his ten-year-old boy
' with a rawhide.
Warrants were issued for the arrest of M.
0. and G. V. Fredericksen, of Chicago, and
W. F. Bidgood, their bookkeeper, charged
with obtaining about 11,000,000 by fraudulent
land transactions.
Robert Russell and Michael Foy were
found guilty of robbery at Chicago and a [
jury fixed their punishment at "imprisonment
in the penitentiary for the term of their
natural lives.'' This is the first conviction in
Illinois under the recent "Habitual Criminal
Act."
Superintendent Poiitek, of the Census
Oflice, has appointed T. H. Wines, special
ngent for the collection of statistics for the
oWenth census relative to pauperism and
crime.
The President has appointed Otis H. Rus- j
sell Postmaster at Richmond, Va.
The International Marine Conference ;
adopted an amendment that sailing vessels i
under way shall keep out of the way of saili
i?x ?
ing vessels or uoms uuyugeu m u?uub.
The Pension (Commissioner lias issued an
order that great care must be exercised in
the rejection of applications for pensions,
and that all letters rejecting claims must
bo signed by the Commissioner.
Medical Director Fraxcis M. Gunnell,
until recently Surgeon-General of the
Navy, will Ik? placed on the retired list.
" GEOKSE H. PENDLETON,
c
'Xhe Late United States Minister to I
i Germany E\plres in Brussels.
Thfi Ibvn. CJCtSrge if. K^lle'cor, ex-Minis- j
4for of the United Stated to Germany, died a I
few nights ago in Brusseis, Belgium.
George Hunt Pendleton, the son of Con- |
gressman Nathaniel Green Pendleton, was j
bora in Cincinnati, Ohio, July 25, 1825. He
received an academic education, after which I
he studied law and was admitted to the Ohio
Bar. He was elected a State Senator
in 1854-5, and afterward acted
as Congressman from 1S56 to 1S65, having
been electcd on the Democratic ticket. During
each term he served as a member of the
Committee on Military Affairs, and in the
Thirty-eighth Congress was a member of the
"Ways and Means Committee, as well as
.Chairman of a special committee on admitting
.Cabiuet officers to the floor of the House.
He was the candidate for the Vice-Presidency
on the Democratic National ticket in 1804,
with George B. McClellan.
Mr. Pendleton was an unsuccessful candidate
for Governor of Ohio in 1869, and the
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same year was eieetea jrresmcui/ ui me mutucky
Railroad Company.
In 1878 he was elected United States Senator,
and as Chairman of tho Committee on
Civil Service Reform, introduced the Civil
Service biU which became a law.
He was appointed United State Minister
to Germany oy President Cleveland in 1885,
and held that position uutil Cleveland went
out of office.
Mr. Pendleton, '.u 1846, married Alice,
daughter of Francis Scott Key. Mrs. Pendleton
and her daughter were killed in a runaway
in Central Park, New York city, about
a year ago, and their death produced a
marked '.irect upon Mr. Pendleton.
In April of last year Mr. Pendleton was
nf n eli'mL-d ,,f nnnnlpxv from
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the effects of which, it is thought, he never
fully recovered.
KILLED BY HIS PATENT.
Fatal Ingenuity of a Young Man at
Washington.
Frank T. Barry, fifteen years old, son of
the late Honorable Henry W. Barry, of Mississippi,
was found dead in his bed at liis
home in Washington by his mother. He had
rigged a striDg from his bed to the gus bracket
so that he might study in bed and turn out
the gas without leaving the bed when he became
sleepy. In his sleep he had involuntarily
turned on the gas which during the night
Oiled the room and aspbvxiated him. '
STANLEY HEARD FROM.
Important Discoveries Made by,
Him in the Dark Continent.
His Hardships the Severest He
Has Ever Endured.
v " .
HENRY M. STANLEY.
The British Consul at Zanzibar, on the
fast coast of Africa, has received the following
communication from Explorer Henrj
M. Stanley, who is on his return from the
expedition into the interior of the continent: I
"German Station, Mpwapwa, Nov. 11,1889. ;
"Dear Sir?"VVe arrived here yesterday on j
the fifty-fifth day from Victoria Nyanza and j
the 188th day from the Albert Nyanza. We j
number altogether about 750 souls. At
the last muster, three days ago, Emin j
Pacha's people numbered 294, of whom I
59 are children, mostly orphans j
of Egyptian officers. The whites with me !
are Lieutenant Stairs, Captain Nelson, !
Mounteney, Jephson, Surgeon Parke. William
Bormy, Mr. Hoffman, Emin Pacna and j
his daughter, Captain Casati, Signor Marco !
and a Tunisian, Vitu Hassan, and an apothe- I
cary. We have also Peres Girault and J
Schinze, of tho Algerian mission. Among j
the principal officers of the Pacha are the
" " ' *?:~i
V Queers, UL iue J^uuctbunui puviuw, uuu
Major Awash Efferidi, of the Second battalion.
"Since leaving Victoria Nyanza we have j
lost eighteen of the Pacha's people and one
native of Zanzibar, who was killed while we
were parleying with hostile people. Every
other expedition I have lea has seen the
lightening of our labors as we drew near
the sea, but I cannot say the same of this
one. Our long string of hammock bearers
tells a different tale, and until we place
these poor things on shipboard there will be
no rest for us. The worst of it is we have not
the privilege of showing at Zanzibar the full
extent of our labors. After carrying some I
of them 1000 miles, fighting to the right and j
left of the sick, driving Warasura from theii j
prey, over range and range of mountains, j
with every energy on the full strain, they j
slip through our hands and die in their ham- ,
mocks. One lady, seventy-five years of age, j
the old mother of the Valkiel, died in this
manner in North Msukuma, south of Vic-j
toria Nyanza.
had as stirring a time for four days j
as we TiaTTanyw^e^e., For those four days j
we had nfinn icff^;Tr?H?-tW?nfi tue greut- j
er part of daylight [hours. The foolish na- j
tives took an unaccountable prejudice tc I
the Pacha's people. They insisted that thej !
were cannibals and had come to their coun-1
try for no good. Talking to them was of nc j
use. Any attempt at disproof drove them j
into white hot rage,and in their mad flinging j
of themselves on us they suffered.
"I am advised that the route to the sea via
Simba and Mwene is the best for one thing
that specially appears desirable to me?an
abundance of food. I propose to adopt thai
line. As regards the danger of an attack,
this road seems to me to be as bad as another.
"We have made the unexpected discovery,
of real value in Africa, of a considerable extension
of the Victoria Nyanza to the southwest.
The utmost southerly reach of this
extension is south latitude 2 degrees and 46
minutes, which brings the Victorian Sea
within 155 miles only from Lake Tanganyika.
"I was so certain in my mwainui i/umwi i
was known through the many voyages of
the Church Missionary Society to Uganda,
that I do not feel particularly moved by it. j
Mackay, however, showed me the latest j
maps published by the society, and I saw i
that not one had even a suspicion of it. On |
the 1 oad here I made a rough sketch of it. |
and I find that the area of the great lake is j
now increase:! by this discovery to '26,90f I
square miles, vf hich is just about 1900 square j
miles larger th?.n the reputed exaggerations j
of Captain Speke. |
' If you will glance at a map of the lake .
toward the southwest you will find that the !
coast line runs about west-northwest and j
east-southeast; but this coast line so drawn i
consists mainly of a series of large and raoun- J
tainous islands, many of them well peopled. I
whic'i overlap one another. South of these i
islam Is is a large body of water, just discov- j
ered Lake Uriji, also which Captain Speke '
60 slightly sketched. It turns out to be a I
very respectable lake, with populated islands
on it.
>iT i?4V.O+ t..o eVtnll mppt. hpfnre lone. I
1 IJUfJC IUUU UV UUMM Q.
"I beg to remain your obedient, servant.
"Henry M. Stanley.
"To the British Consul-General at Zanzi !
bar":' |
THE POSTOFFICES.
i
There AVere 38,590 in Operation at I
the Close ol'the Fiscal Year.
The aiinual report of First Assistant Post- |
master-General J. 8. Clarkson shows that j
the total number of postoffices in operation
on July 1, ISS'J, was 58,59!?, of which number j
26S3 were Presidential offices. The whole
number of annointments of postmasters for j
the year is shown to have been 20,030, of j
which 8854 were on resignations and com- j
missions expired, 7853 on removals, 553 on j
death of postmasters, and 2770 on establish- j
ment of postoffices.
The number of money order offices in ,
operation at the close of the tiscal year was J
8583, an increase of 472 for the year; number I
of money order stations, 144, an increase of j
14; number of postal note offices, 557. There I
were 401 free delivery postoffices in opera- j
tion, an increase of 43 for the year, and in |
about 45 other offices the free "delivery ser- |
vice has been established since June 30. The |
number of carriers in the services on July 1 i
was 8257, an increase of 1911 over the pre- I
vious year. This large increase, it is said, I
is mainly due to the enactment of tho law
limiting the labor of carriers to eight hours
a day. The number of pieces of mail matter
handled by carriers during the year was 3,085.805,540,
an increase of nearly 455,000,000
pioces.
* : J r\r>cffl{rp Wflfi
xne amount receive wi iUUU D_ t
over $9,500,000, an increase for the year of
nearly $2,000,000. The excess of postage on
local matter over the total cost of the service
was $2,578,079,an increase over the previous j
year of $279,647.
The gross receipts of the 2683 Presidential j
offices for the year were $41,754,090, which is j
an increase of 8.5 per cent, for the year. The j
J aggregate of the salaries of Presidential post- j
j masters for the year was $4,429,100, repre- I
[ seutiug an increase of 5.4 per cent, for the j
i vcar. The aggregate of the estimates for .
compensation of postmasters, cieriis m post- ,
offices, rents, light, fuel, etc, for Presdential
offices is $22,907,500, an increase of $1,237,420
as compared with the previous year.
A new and dangerous cattle disease has
| made its appearance in Pratt County. 111.
i The t attle are attacked in the hind legs ami
itch so terribly that the animals eat the skin
off thern. When it goes up iu their body
| death ensues in a short time. The animals
never live over twenty-four hours after they
are attacked.
Seven million! of the nine millions of
nittve German! who are now living outMe
of Ctormanj are residing in the
United State*. -
BUILDIN& THE NEW"HATY,
The Annual Report of the Chief
Naval Constructor.
Theodore Wilson, Chief of the Bureau of
Construction and Repair of the Navy, has
submitted to Secretary Tracy his annual report.
The estimates for the coming fiscal
year, ending June 80, 1891, include among
other items the following: Preservation ana
completion of vessels on the stocks, purchase
of materials and stores of all kinds, labor in
navy yards, etc- $1,000,000; improvement of
plant at New York Navy Yara, 150,000; on
account of hulls and outfits of new ships heretofore
authorized bv Congress. $4,000,000; im
provement of plant at Ceague Island yard,
Philadelphia, 1250,000; construction of two
tugs, $80,000; construction of one freight
boat, $450,000.
A deficiency appropriation will be necessary
in order that the work of construction
and repair m$iy be carried on during the remainder
of the present fiscal year without
interruption.
The single turreted monitors are said to be
now in a worse than useless state, and the report
recommends that something be done
with them. To put them into condition for
efficient service in harbor and coast defence
will cost, it is estimated, $405,000. There are
thirteen of these monitors.
The Chief Naval Constructor calls attention
to the difficulty of getting satisfactory
bids for the construction of vessels when the
cost is limited by the acts authorizing them
to be built and recommends that in the
future the bureau be not crippled by such
legislation.
The United States has at present four steel
cruisers and a steel dispatch vessel in com
S?2 f-TL. - Tl.U! I. IT
UllbSlULL. llie JDU1 L-lUIUit*. VCbUVllUS, 1CUC1
and Charleston have had tneir trial trips and
may be expected soon to take their places in
the cruising fleet. There are twenty-one
wooden steamers and seven iron steamers
etill useful and serviceable. With the completion
of the vessels now building and appropriated
for, the United States will possess
ten armored vessels, thirteen single turreted
monitors, twenty-one steel cruisers or
gunboats, two dynamite cruisers, a practice
cruiser for cadets, an armored ram, one firstclass
torpedo boat and seven iron steamers.
THE LABOE WORLD.
The Order of the Knights of Labor is just
twenty years old.
Thb lace trade of France gives employment
to nearly 200,000 persons.
Georgia mill hands have been urging the
Legislature to pass a bill making ten hours a
day's work.
Sir Edward Guinxess, the big brewert
has given a million dollars tor tne erection 01
dwellings for the laboring poor of London.
Shipbuilding is so active on the Clyde,
Scotland, that in many of the yards work is
carried on at night by means of electric
lights.
Mhssrs. Krupp, of Essen, are about to
establish an immense iron foundry and steel
works in the neighborhood of Luxemburg,
Germany.
The prosperity of the cotton mills of Fall
River, Mass., during the entire year is without
parallel in the history of Fall River manufacturing.
The American Manufacturer of Pittsburg
states that ninety per cent, of the forge
companies of the country have formed a
combination for mutual protection.
At the session of the Knights of Labor in
Atlanta the words "of America" were
nrl ft-nm flm tiomA tVio Ar(yani7flHftn
ma?mg it Fimpiy the Knights of fabor.
Few people are aware that there is a
trades union or industrial organization of
colored men that dates back to 185G, five
years before the war, but such is the fact.
John McBride, President of the Miners'
Progressive Uuion, has called a convention
of the miners of Northern Illinois, Indiana,
Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia for
Indianapolis.
->?qmplaist has been made to the Treasury
T)ppflrtmpnt,Tfrfrfc4hg alien labor contragkJaw
is being violated at Detroit,"Mich., by Cani?~"4
dian laborers, who cross the line every day
to perform labor in the United States and
return to their homes at night.
The Knights of Labor as a body are not
disposed to interfere in the eight-hour question.
They discussed it at their meeting in
Atlanta, and came to the conclusion that the
best policy would be to allow the local assemblies
to deal with it as they saw best.
A maks mpflfcinc of the striking hlonk coal
miners of the central part of (Say County,
Ind., was held at Churchill mines, near Centre
Point. It was unanimously agreed to resume
work at the operators' order since forty
perceint. of the strikers were at work at the
reduction.
At a meeting of the Washington Typographical
Union a resolution was adopted
repealing the eight-hour rule that has heretofore
prevailed. The printers in the job and
newspaper offices opposed the resolution
unanimously, but it was carried by the men
from the Government Printing Office.
lUE production or Bessemer sieex ingots in
the United States during 1S86 was 2,269,190
gross tons. Of rails the output was computed
at 1,562,410 gross tons. The production
of Bessemer steel ingots in 1886 was 689,670
tous more than that of 1885, while the |
production of rails had increased by 602,939
tons. v
A vein* of coal said to contain several million
tons has been discovered in Lawrence &
Brown's colliery at Mahanoy Place, Penn.
The vein was struck by some men engaged in
making a drift from an abandoned shaft to
another colliery. The find will go on record
as one of the greatest accidental discoveries
UI W1U U151UX J' VI LUUi iUUiiUg.
It is hoped that the discovery which has
been made in Trenton, N. J., in relation to
the heating of pottery kilns may result advantageously
to an industry which has already
made marked progress in this country.
By superheating the air before it enters the
kiln -it is claimed that perfect combustion
may bo obtained. Tho new method economizes
coal, and largely reduces the time reouired
for firing a kiln.
PROMINENT PEOPLE,
TnE Prince of Wales has recently become
very studious.
Mr. Edison, the inventor, receives about
1000 letters a day.
General Benjamin F. Butler has entered
his seventy-second year.
The Rev. Saui Jones, the Southern revival- j
1st, is said to be in failing health. !
Secretary Blaine has moved into the
old Seward house in Washington.
Robert Browning, the English poet, is
coming to this country next spring.
Ex-Secretary Bayard is the father of
six children?four girls and two boys.
The King of the Sandwich Islands is expected
to visit Washington this winter.
The tomb of the late Crown Prince of
Austria is constantly covered with flowers.
King Louis, of Portugal, left the copyright
of his literary works to charitable institutions.
J. D. Wickham, D.D., of Manchester,
Vt., is the oldest Yale alumnus; he graduated
in 1817.
The income of ex-Governor Hoadly, of
Ohio, from his legal practice is said to be
$100,000 a year.
xfoc Rttpwtt the authoress, is slowly
recovering from the injury she received
some time ago.
Ex-Congressman* Stephen F. "Wilson,
of Wellsboro, N. Y., lias built for himself a
granite tomb in the shape of a log cabin.
William Spp.ague, the war Governor of
Rhode Island and the husband of Chief Justice
Chase's daughter, is now living in poverty.
Governor Foraker, of Ohio, announces
his intention of resuming his law practice in
Cincinnati upon the expiration of his term J
Vi
' Jacob Brk;ht, n son of the late John
Bright, has been 'iu Washington, and was
much gratified to find his father's bust in the
grand corridor of the "White House.
Senatop. EdnxTnds, of Vermont, says his
daughter is about as skilled in the law as ho
is; she acts as his amanuensis and advises
with him when doubtful legal points arise.
Mrs. E. G. Tewksbcry is the first woman
enrolled in the Harlford Theological Seminary.
Her husband is in the senior class of
, the same seminary. Both are preparing for
foreign missionary service.
Archdeacon Jones, late Archdeacon of
Liverpool, who has attained the age of
ninety-eight and has been in holy orders for
seventy-four years, is believed to be the
I oldest clerevman in the Church of England.
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sabbat^SCH^H
INTERNATIONAL LESSON
DECEMBER 15.
Lesson Text: "Solomon's Fall," I Ki^^H
xi., 4-13?Golden Text: I Con^^H
12?Commentar^ta^j^^^H
4. "It came to pass when
that his wives turned away
other gods." As to the things of ^B^^^B^^B
on which the hearts of people in
been so firmly set, Solomon was
them. Riches and honor he enjo]^^^H^^^B
full and all the pleasures that
purchase. (Eccl. ii., 10.) No vesse^^^^^fi^H
was used in bis house (it was
stone and was thought nothing of),^H|^^^^H
of gold; he exceeded all the King^^BH^S
earth for riches and for wisdom, and^H^^^H
earth sought the face of Solomon to^B^B^H
wisdom, which God had put in his^^H^^H
(ChaD. x.. 21-24.) But Kins: Solomon^^^HIH
many strange women of the nations, coz^^^HB
ing which the Lord had forbidden
have anything to do with them.
and Dent, viu, 3, 4), and these tun^H^HQ^B
his heart, as God had said they
one great peculiarity of Israel
hovah, the only living and
their God dwelling in their
they were a peculiar people, sep?^H^^H|^^^H
all other nations to make known
Jehovah. (Ex. xxxiii, 16.) We
to God and at the same time
which God forbids, so when Solomon ciav^^ 1
unto these heathen women in love (v. Z) God 1
ceased to occupy His proper place in Solo- M
mon's heart. fl
"His heart was not perfect with the Lord B
his God^as was the heart of David, his father."
He had, at the dedication of the tem- B
pie, urged the people to let their hearts be
perfect with the Lord their God that all peopie
of the earth might know that Jehovah iaaM
God and that there is none else (chap, viii., 60,
61), but now through these many wives of
his own heart is gone. We are to lov^^H
God with the whole heart, and whatever els^^H
we love, wnetner wue or nusoatu,
or children, God Himself must have the fi^DB
place.
5. "Solomon went after Ashtoreth, *
and after Milcom." These were idols of
Zidonians and Ammonites, whose wors^^HH
was accompanied with abounuablo-i-itesr^^^HB
as Solomon had taken wives from the^v^^^ll
tions, and they had probably gone witlL^^Hfl
to the temple to see the worship of his
they now persuade him to set up also
idols which they had been accustomedJ^^^H
worship; and as he had sinned in tairt^^^H
these wives, he now sins yet more to gral^H^fl
them. {
6. "And Solomon did evil in the sight
the Lord." He did evil in the sight of
he did evil against himself, but the greattJ^HH
of his sin was the fact that it was agafi^^^H
God. He was the Lord's representative,
he, of all men, should have been foithful(
Jehovah who had so blessed him above aBaH
men. Hfl
7. 8. "Then did Solomon build an high
place lor (Jbemosu, " * ' * ana mcewise^^H
did he for all his strange .wives." Thus add-HH
ing sin to sin, the more evil associates w^B
have, the more sin we are likely to commit^^H
and if we put ourselves under the least obli^^M
gation to an ungodly person we cannot wel^HI
deny them a favor when they ask it, evenfl^H
though we know it is wrong to grant
Righteousness cannot have fellowship
unrighteousness; nor light with darkness
Cor. vi., 14; Eph. v., 11). Let us walk in
light and avoid all appearance of evil. SonH^H
of these abominations which Solomon btrn^HH
on the Mount of Olives remained over thre^^B
hundred years, until the days of Tosiah
Kings xxiii., 13); showing us how lastinj|HN
and far reaching sin is and how hard to^^H
undo. H
0. 'The Lord was angry with Solomon.*
So we read that Jehovah was angry with H
Moses and Aaron and Israel (Deut. iv., 21;
ix., 8, 20; II Ki. xvii., IS); and that while
He is slow to anger and great in mercy, yet
ic a rlov pnminrr wViPn if. will hA ill
those wfro agj not huj^^aJfocr^AgST^BI
lfNaaumT^^Pi^--^r, 2, 3). It is hard for^^|
us to think of anger apart from sin, but^^H
when we read of the anger of God we must^^B
think ojly of the righteous indignation of a.^H|
holy God who cannot sin. He does not desire
the death of any sinner, but rather that,
the wicked turn from his evil wars and live: BH
(Ezek. xviii., 32; xrxiii., H; II Pet. iii., 9); 1B
so that the repentant sinner may be for-<*^B
given, for Jesus's sake, and sing: *'0 Lord, ItH
will praise Thee; though Thou wast angry
with me, Thine anger is turned away, ana.
Thou comfortest me." (Isa. zii., 1.)
"His heart was turned from the Lord God ;^H|
of Israel, which had appeared unto him
twice." The Lord had appeared to him&t-^^B
Gideon, when He said "Ask what I shall give fl
thee,'' and again in answer to liis prayer at
the dedication of the temple (chap, iii., 5;ix..
2), and these high favors, in addition to all
the other blessings, should have kept Solo
mon faithful to bis liod; but aias ror toe
desperate wickedness of the human heart
ana how marvelous the long suffering and
patience of Jehovah? .
10. "Ho kept not that which the Lord commanded."
It was a case of direct and willfill
disobedience. He was forbidden to multiply
horses or wives or silver or gold, and yet
these were the very things he did; he waa
commanded to keep by him a copv of the H
law and read therein ull the days or his life,
but this he evidently did not do, and conse- PH
quently, not being anchored, he drifted on
the rocks. (Deut. xvii., 14-20.) What a con- J
trast to his father, who said: "0. how love I a
Thy law; it is my meditation all the day"
(Ps. cxix., 97); and, "By the word of Thy lips 1
I have kept me from the paths of the de- I
stroyer." (Ps. xvii., 4.) ]
"I Will surely rend the kingdom from thee I
""'i it to thv servant." The record of J
this will be found more at length in our next I
lesson; but notice here how disobedience roba g
us of our blessings. Listening to the tempter I
and becoming persuaded by him that to eat J
of the tree of knowledge would prove an ad- |
vantage, Adam and Eve, in disobedience to I
God, sought a present gratification and thus |J
brought sin and misery upon the whole I
human race. Esau, for the present gratifies- I
tion of a mess of pottage, despised his birth
right and all its high privileges. Acham. B
for the present gratification of some gold ana 7*j 1
goodly raiment. Drought upon himself and his -
household a fearful judgment. Here we have j
Solomon gratifying himself to the full, re- A
gardless of consequences or of the command 9
of God. and thus he loses the kingdom. Abra- ?
ham and Moses, on the other hand, and the
list of worthies of Heb. xi. got their eyes
and hearts fixed upon the realities of an 'a
eternal city and kiugdom, and thus were en- ^
abled to walk with God in obedience here, /
setting a ri^ht value upon present things. J
and treating tneui tux-ux uiugij.
12. "Notwithstanding. in thy .lays I will H
not do it, for David thy father's *ake.'' While V
godliness is not hereditary, yet u-ho <Uaii esti- J
mate the benefit of godly" parents, or
blessings which come to us through those""^*
who love Lord Jesus. Let t!.e children con- 1
sider this and contrast the condition of many i
whose parents know not God with the condi- M
tion of the children of pious parents. 1
"I will rend it out of the hand of thy son."' 1
Here is the contrast: Solomon derives Benefit '
from his father's piety, while Solomon's son
is to suffer because of his fatLer's impiety;
so that evil doing reaches to others besides
the evil doer.
13 '-For David My servant's sake, and for
Jerusalem's sake, which I have chosen." The
blessing that will yet come to Jerusalem, because
God has chosen it, shall be seen in mil
lennial days, but leaving tnac. nonce um
David was not only Solomon's father: he was
the servant of Jehovah; one of the highest ?
titles that can be given to mortal man, inasmuch
as it is one of the titles of the Lord
Jesus Himself, who shall yet be the salvation
of God unto the ends of the earth (Isa. xlii.,
1; xlix., 6). and for whose sake any one may
now be saved who comes to God in His *
Name.?Lesson Helper.
A Lancaster Countt, Pennsylvania,
pensioner dawing $14 a month
recently boasted to a stranger that he
could set more fence than any man in
the county. When his pension .was
stopped he learned that the stranger
was a Government detective sent to <
investigate bis case.
ii? c?4.?,.Qa4.;,lfT murriacre
AN uniisusiiij' IUVUV?i>4wq ? ^
recently took place in Liverpool. Thebride
and bridegroom, both colored,had
traveled from Lagos, abont 5,000 miles, '
in order that the ceremony might be
performed by Bev. L. Nicholson, of
Brighton, formerly chaplain at Lagos.
C: '
| The last reports of condition exhibit their :
| resources ana liabilities ou September 30, I
' 1869. The number reporting at that time
was 3290. Within the year 211 banks were
organized, having an aggregate capital of
$21,240,000. Thirty-six of the new banks
were organized in Texas, the largest number I
in auy one State. Pennsylvania has now the j
' largest number of associations in operation.
! Massachusetts leads in point of capital stock,
| and New York in respect to deposits and
I volume of business.
Within the past year forty-one banks
j went into voluntary liquidation and only
j two failed, leaving the net additions to the
system 168, as against 90 last year, and 123
the annual average increaso since the inauguration
of the system. Notwithstanding
this increase, the sj'stem has not kept pace
with the necessities of the people for increased
banking facilities. This is evidenced
by the marked increased in percentage of
State banks organized the last flvo years as
compared with the percentage of the Ave
year^fomneciifttely preceding. .
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BARING TRAIN ROBBERY.
Three Thousand Dollars Taken
by Two Road Agents.
Capturing the Engine and Emptying
the Safe of the Express Oar.
A train robbery of extraordinary boldness
wras accomplished in the Choctaw Nation,
Indian Territory, the other night. The Mis
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