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A BRITISH WARSHIP LOST.
?lie Serpent Founders Off the
Spanish Coast.
Over Two Hundred Perish and
Only Three Saved,
' The British torpedo cruiser Serpent has
foundered off the coast of Spain. Out of a
total ofc 250 persons on board only three were
saved.
The disaster occurred at a point twenty
miles north of Cape Finisterre. The Serpent
went on the rocks during a storm
at night. A heavy mist prevailed
at the time of the disaster. Owing
to the violence of the storm, it was impossible
to send assistance from the shore.
Tremendous seas swept the decks of the vessel,
carrying away group after group of the
men on board.
The news of the wreck was conveyed to
Corunna, a distance of sixty miles, over
mountain roads.
The Serpent's complement was 170 officers
and men. * The others on board were going
out to relieve men now on ships on the African
station.
Lloyd's agent at Corunna telegraphs: "It
appears that the Serpent was running for
shelter in one of the bays north of Finisterre.
It is not known whether she foundered or
grounded on the fearful reefs that are a continuation
of the Galician Mountains. If she
foundered, nobody need be surprised but the
Admiraltv. If she grounded on the reefs, j
she could "not stand a minute's battering in a
heavy sea."
The Serpent had just started on hei J
maiden voyage. She was commissioned for
service in Africa last June, but was detained
by several mishaps to her machinery. She
and her consorts were cordially disliked by
;the service. The Serpent has a bad record.
She broke down more than once in the
manoeuvres of 1S88. Several Admirals
condemned the whole class as crank.
' An official telegram from Corunna says j
the Serpent was wrecked off Cape Bucy, neat
' the village of Camarinas. There were 276
persons aboard, of whom only three were
saved. The bodies of three ladies have been
washed ashore.
The Governor has ordered the authorities
at Camarinas to render every assistance in
their power.
The three persons saved from the Serpent
are sailors who swam ashore at Camarinas.
They express the belief that all the others on
board were drowned.
The newspaper offices at Plymouth, England,
were besieged by crowds of people
anxious to hear further news of the disaster.
Among these were the sobbing wives and
daughters of many of the lost seamen.
It is stated that many of the crew of the
Serpent, before the vessel started on what
proved to be her last voyage, expressed the
rear that some misfDrtune would befall the
ship.
The lost man-of-war was a twin-screw
vessel of 1770 too and 4500 horse-pofver, and
can-led six guns. She was a swift, light
cruiser, one of eight begun during the administration
of Lord Northbrook. She was
launched in 18S7.
The Serpent was built after the ideas of
Admiral Conner Kev. who insisted upon an
Immense horse-power, which, according to
previous notions, was oat of all proportion
to her displacement. She could maintain
a speed of seventeen knots an hour.
Lord Brassoy, in his naval manual,
adversely criticised the vessel. He said
that economy of weight had been carried to
excess in the construction of the ship, that
her plating was too thin, and that her armament
was overdone. In a seaway, he said,
her heavy top-weight would be a detriment
to her speed, and would unduly strain the
hull. The vessel was 225 feet long, while she
had a draught of only 14^ feet.
THANKSGIVING DAY.
President Harrison's Proclamation
Appointing It for November 27.
The President issued a proclamation desig
naticg Thursday, Novembar 27, a3 a day of
thanksgiving. The proclamation is as follows:
By the grace and favor of Almighty God
the people of this Nation have been led to
the closing days of the passing year, which
has been full of the blessings of peace and the
comforts of plenty. Bountiful compensation
has come to us for the work of our minrls
and of our hands in every department of human
industry.
Now, therefore, I, Benjamin Harrison,
President of the United States of America,
do hereby appoint Thursday, the 27th day of
the present month of November, to bo observed
as a day of prayer and thanksgiving;
and I do invite the people upon that day to
cease from their labors, to meet in their accustomed
houses of worship, and to join
in rendering gratitude and praise to
our beneficent Creator for the rich
blessings He has granted to us as a Nation,
and invoking the continuance of His protection
and grace for the future. I command
to my fellow-citizens tin privilege of remambcring
the poor, th? homeless and the
sorrowful. Let us endeavor to merit the
promised recompense of charity and the
gracious acceptance of our praise.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set
my hand and caused the seal of the United
States to be affixed.
Done at the City of Washington, this
eighth day of November, in the year of our
Lord, one thousand eight hundred and
ninety, and of tho independence of tho
United States the one hundrodand fifteenth.
Benjamin Harrison.
By the President:
James G. Blaine, Secretary of State.
FATAL" FIRE.
Four Persons Burned to Death at
Denver. Col.
Fire started in the rear of M. J. Todd's
livery yard in Denver, Col., and notwithstanding
the efforts of the fire department
the flames had spread nearly all over the
yard before the water could be turned on.
The flames quickly passed to the St. Elmo
Hotel, Meyer's Liquor Company and
O'Leary's drug store, while a number of
dwellings just across the alley went up in the
flames.
The firemen made every endeavor to keep
the fire from jumping across Lamarie street,
where there were a number of large business
blocks. The entire block between Ninth and
Tenth streets and Laramie and Market
streets was a seething mass, but the fire is
now under control unless a strong wind
comes up.
One unknown man was burned to death in
the hotel, and his charred remains now lie at
the Coroner's.
Another man and two children were
caught in the same building and burned to
The ?auso of the fire is not known. The
loss will probably be over $100,000.
STORM IN GREAT BRITAIN.
A Yacht "Wrecked, and Viscount
Cantelupo Drowned.
A heavy storm prevailed throughout
Great Britain and Ireland and much damage
has been done. The rain fell incessantly
and in many sections the country was
flooded. The downpour was accompanied
by a high wind, ana reports have been received
'of many houses being unroofed by
the gale. The storm was especially severe
oil shore. Telegrams from various* points
along the const stat9 that an enormous
sea is ruuuiug and that a number of
coasting vessels have baen wrecked. Advices
from Belfast state that a report has been received
there that th9 yacht Frauia. foundered
in Belfast Lough, and that its owner.
Viscount uanteiupe. was uiunueu. ? i.u
crew was saved. Viscount Cantelupe was
the eldest son and heir of E?rl De La W&rr.
Viscouuti Cantelupe climbed the rigging
*nd cheered the men for a while, but th*
cold was so bitter that he became benumbed
and was swept overboard.
At Liverpool and in the vicinity of that
city the storm raged with terrific fury. The
damage-in that section is great. The Aiatret)
race meeting has been postponed in consequence
of the storm.
Icb brought to New York City lately from
Mai.?e and Norway has been sold at auction
to dealers for $1.75 a ton, bat for family use
ttocharge ia stUl at the rate of $30 a xou.
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THE NEWS EPITOMIZED,
Eastern and Middle States.
Mrs. Barbara Lamprecht, evidently in
satie, cut the throat of two of her children a
Philadelphia, Penn., with a large butche;
knile ana then cut her own.
Three mills belonging to the J. B
Williams Company of Glastonbury, Connwere
entirely destroyed by fire. The loss ii
placed at $100,000.
The "Wells Grain Elevator was burned it
J Buffalo, N. Y., causing a loss of 8250.000.
Daniel Taylor and Samuel Keigei wer<
instantly killed and William Pettit was
fatally Injured by a falling wall at Doylestown,
Penn. The accident occurred at th?
large new mill being erected by Swarthj
Brothers & Co.
The striking salesmen of the six larg?
clothing stores of Pittsburg, Pennwon then
strike. The firms conceded the demands of
the salesmen for shorter hours. The met
who took tho strikers' places will bo discharged.
Mrs. A. A. Nickersox, of Bangor, Me.,
while out shooting with her husband was instantly
killed by the accidental discharge of
her rifle. '
One man was killed and four seriously
burned by an exoloding shell at Fort Wadsworth,
Staten Island, N. Y.
Thomas Harper, President and Treasurer
of the Harper Brothers Company, manufacturers
of decorated lamps and lamp
shades, New York City,and William Harper,
manager of the factory, have disappeared,
lfaving debts reoorted to be from ?25,000
$50,000.
The American Committee for the Relief
of Famine Sufferers in Ireland has temporarily
withdrawn its appeal.
A freight train and a gravel train came
into collision atEatontowu, N.J., and a number
of cars were wrecked, and two brakeman
were fatally injured.
Hannah Demon, one hundred and two
years and eleven months old, died a few days
ago at South Dartmouth, Mass.
Tames Struthers. an old member of the
New York Stock Exchange, dropped dead
on its floor during the excitement in the
market. His death stopped a panic.
The reception given to the Irish Members
of Parliament in New York City was a success;
$37,000 was subscribed for the cause of
Home Rule; speeches were made by Messrs.
O'Brien, Dillon, O'Connor, Sullivan and
Governor Hill.
A collision between a passenger train
and a construction occurred near Yarmouth,
Mass. No one was killed, but about fifteen
persons were bruised or scalded,
i Hoboken, N. J., is not satisfied with her
44,000 population announced as the Federal
I census, and has begun preparations to have
a police census taken at once.
Henry M. Stanley gave the first lecture
of his present American tour in New York
City. The Metropolitan Opera House was
crowded. The title that Mr. Stanley gave to
the story he told was "The Rescue of Emiii
Pacha; the Forests, Pigmies and March
Across Africa."
sour li auu ivest.
Ex-Mayor IV. W. Cottrell, of Key
West, Fla., who a few weeks ago was a
terror to tho officials and was finally driven
to Alabama, a fugitive from justice, was
shot and killed by Gerald, the Chief of
Police at Montgomery, Ala. Cottrell was
drunk and was arrested by the police. He
insulted the Chief and challenged him to
fight a duel.
Black diphtheria is prevailing in an epidemic
form in Cygnet, Ohio. The schools are
all closed, and business is practically susEended
in the town. A number of deaths
ave occurred and many persons are leaving
the place.
General E. A. O'Neill, who was Governor
of Alabama from 1882 to 1886, died a
few days ago at his home in Florence, Ala.
He was State Solicitor in 1841 and a member
of the Constitutional Convention of 1875.
During the war he rose to the rank of Brigadier-General
in the Confederate army.
Wiifslow, a town of Pike County, Ind.,
was totally burned. Tho houses were all
frame structures. Not one is left, and four
hundred people are homeless.
The body of Abraham Lincoln, Jr., was
deposited in the monument at Springfield,
111., alongside of that of his grandfather.
Ex-Governor Edward A. O'Neal died
at his home in Florence, Ala., after an iliness
of five weeks, from paralysis. Governor
O'Neal served two terms as Governor of Alabama.
A. C. Evans, a millionaire manufacturer
of Springfield, Ohio, after an escapade with
an actress in Cincinnati, ashamed to face his
friends, committed suicide by taking opium.
Early in this season he was manager for
Agnes Herndon, the actress.
Mrs. Mary Kent, colored, die! at her
home in Moundsvilla, W. Va., aged 114
years.
The boiler at the sawmill of M. J. Wright
& Son, near Maguolia, Miss., exploded, killiner
two men and fatally injuring two others.
A traveling showman at Birmingham,
Ala., designedly precipitated a panic among
a thousand children, in which many of the
little ones were horribly crushed and bruised.
Ida Snyder was returning home from
church at Hanna, Ind., riding in a buggy
with a female friend. Albert Shurt, a discarded
lover, met her, and shot Miss Snyder,
killing her almost instantly. Shurt then
killed himself.
The Oklahoma capital has been located at
Kingfisher.
A jury at San Antonio, Texas, awarded
Charles N. Briggs ?30,000 damages against
the Southern Pacific Road for the loss of
a leg.
At a secret session of the City Council
of Brazil, Ind., Jacob Herr was deposed as
Mayor for alleged inebriety.
T. C. Dawson, a prominent citizen of
Glenvilie, Ala., was shot and killed at a race
track in Columbus, Ga., by the Howard
Brothers, who accuse! Dawson of having
married and deserted their sister.
*- *- - AS ? A 4U-.1 iU. ?
IT IS Oinciauy aiiuuuui;ea mo vuocii
and Crescent systam, the line from Cincinnati
to New Orleans, is to pass into the hands
of the officers of the East Tennessee, Virginia
and Georgia Railroad, and that the
two systems are to be operated under one
manage men..
? "Washington.
The amount of per cent, bonds redeemed
under the circular of October Si
makes a total to date of $4,002,599. '
Major-General, Schofield made his annual
report to the War Department on the
condition of the army.
{Secretary Noble refused Mayor Grant's
second application for a recount of the population
of New York City.
The members of the Beta Thsta Pi Fraternity
living in Washington and vicinity
had a social reunion ami dinnvr at the Shoreham.
A number of invite i guests from the
University of Virginia and Johns Hopkins
University were present.
The President appointed Harry H. JBengough
to be pension agent at Pittsburg,
Penn., vice William H. Barclay, resigned.
{ Captain N.M. Brooks, of Virginia, ha?
I been annointed Superintendent of Foreign
Mails in the Postoffice Department.
Mrs. Margaret S. Watkins, a clerk in
the general delivery branch of the Washington
City postoffice, was temporarily suspended
from her duties, by order of Pr stmaster-General
Wanamaker, pending an investigation
for alleged offensive language to
Richard Quay, son of Senator Quay.
. Acting Adjutant-General Chauncey
McKeever, in his annual report, says that
tho desertions from the Army last year were
489 less in number than in the preceding
year, and the parcenta^e, ns compared with
the enlisted strength, was reduced from
eleven to nine per cent.
Major David B. McKibbev, United
States Army, died at the Garfield Hospital,
Washington, a few days ago. He suffered a
long time from a cancerous affection of the
throat.
Don Frederico Volio, Charged'Affaires
of the Costa Rican Legation, and Actios; I
Minister for some montns past, died In his |
rooms at the Elsmere, in Washington, of
pneumonia, after an illness of five days.
The funeral of Senor Don Frederico Volio,
Charge d1 Affairs of the Costa Rica Government
in this country, took place. His body
was taken to St. Matthew's Church by ten
sailors, preceded by tho Marine Band, and
escorted by the entire diplomatic corps in
full dres3 and t* o detachments of cavalry.
Never in the history of the diplomatic service
of the United states has 30 much pomp
been shown at the funeral of the repressn
tative of a foreign Government dying m
Washington.
Attorney-General Miller has decided
that a "guessing contest" conducted by a
newspaper is not a violation of the AntiLottery
law.
The report of the United States Signal
Service Bureau was made public. The work
of reorganizing the Signal Corps was begun.
Foreign.
At the close of the celebration of a Buddhist
festival recently in the province of SzeChuen,
China, a number of organized mobs
attacked several Christian villages, burning
the buildings anl looting their contents.
Twenty native converts to Christianity were
killed during the disturbances and their
bodies thrown into the Yang-tse-Kiang
ruver.
Lord Chief Justice Coleridge, while
presiding over the Court of the Queen's
Bench Division, London, England, was stricken
with paralysis.
Thanksgiving Dat was observed in
Canada by special services held in all the
Protestant churches of the country.
Dr. Robert Lucius Ballhausen, Prussian
Minister of Agriculture, Domains and
Forests, has resigned.
The establishment of the British protectorate
over Zanzibar has been formally proclaimed.
The Bank of England discount rate was
advanced from five to six per cent. It caused
a panic.
Chancellor von Caprivi, of Germany,
bad an interview with Prime Minister Crispi,
at Rome, Italy, and afterward was entertained
at dinner by King Humbert.
The shoe manufacturers at Erfurt, Germany,
have declared a lookout in consequence
of a dispute arising from the dismissal of a
workman. Three thousand men are thrown
out of employment.
It is said that many cures have resulted in
Germany from Professor Koch's remedy
for consumption; nothing is yet known of
the nature of the process.
Despite the order issued by the Government
prohibiting the emigration of peasants
and Polish Hebrews to Brazil, 300.000 have
left Russia for that country in the last three
months.
Part of the roof of a house in course of
erection in Prague, Austria, collapsed, demolishing
a scaffold upon which a number of
men wore working. Five dead workmen and
six injured ones were extricated from the
ruins.
Five hundred armed Armenians concen
trated at Mador, Russian Territory, and
made a raid on several Kurdish villages,
killing five persons.
T xt,?, Pofar Panr? mare* punsized
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in a dory, while attending trawls, off New
Foundland Fishing Banks, and drowne d.
Election riots are reported to have occurred
at Rosario, Argentine Republ'c.
Troops were called out and several persons
killed.
A large tobacco factory at Madrid,
Spain, was burned. Loss, ?200,000. Ten
thousand persons were rendered idle by the
conflagration.
The reappearance of influenza is being reported
on all sides in Germany, and a seminary
in Nagold, near Suttgart, has been
closed in consequence of an epidemic of this
complaint, which has been raging there.
A .ferryboat capsized in the Rivei
Waag, near Bisztritz, Austria, and fifty-five
peasants were drowned. The boat was
overcrowded with men, wagons and horses.
LATER NEWS.
The North River Bank, of New York City,
closed its doors, owing to the Wall street
panic, and there were two unimportant failures
announced at the Stock Exchange; "Wall
street was easier
Mayor Grant's application for a copy of
the census returns of New York City was
granted by the Census Bureau at Washington.
T?n"WiMwirowf .Tohn Whalen and
William Hastings were drowned in Ipswich
Bay, Mass., a few days ago. They were of
a party of sir meu who had gone out on a
sporting trip ou the schooner Carrie F.
Two old maids, Mary and Ann3 Meyers,
who lived with an imbecile sister, Mrs.
North, at Hartford, Conn., were found dead.
They had evidently been dead for several
days, as the bodies were somewhat decomposed.
The cause of death was old age.
Selby Jones, who committed suicide at
Kansas City, Mo., a few days ago, was responsible
for the shortage of $100,000 in the
defunct firm of Hall & Willis.
Jitdge T. P. Sanders, Associate Justice
of the Supreme Court of Arkansas, died at
his home in Fort Smith a few days ago.
The annual report of General Greely, Chief
Signal Officer of the United States, show8
that of the weather forecasts made during
the year ended June 30th last, eighty-two par
cent, were successful.
The marriage of Captain William P. Hall
and Mrs. Therese Blackburn Stewart,daughter
of Senator Blackburn, was celebrated at
St. John's Protestant Episcopal Church in
Washington City.
Postmaster-General Wanamaker has
sent a letter to City Postmaster Sherwood
directing the reinstatement of Mrs. Margaret
S. Watkins, the delivery clerk at the postoffice
who was temporarily suspended for
Oiinv's son that his father's
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mail went to the Dead Letter Office now.
Generai?S. V. Bexet, Chief of the
Bureau of Ordnance, has submitted his annual
report to the Secretary of War, From
the report it appears that the bureau has expended
during the last fiscal year $'2,2S9,820,
leaving a credit in the Treasury on June 30,
1890, of $3,994,484.
Qceen Emma has been appointed Regent
to govern the kingdom of Holland during
the illness of King William.
The Emperor of Germany opened the
Prussian Diet with a speech from the throne.
He said Prussia had strengthened her relations
with foreign States during the past
year, and he looked forward confidently to
continued peace.
A revolution is now in progress in the
capital of Honduras. The President of that
Republic has been driven from the city, but
is now collecting a force of troops, and is expected
to make a fight for the recapiure of
the Government.
A KENTUCKYTOWN BURNED
The Moat Imnordtnt Buildings ot
Owcnsboro in JRuins.
Owensboro, Ky., was visited by the most
destructive fire in. her history. .At 1 a. m.
the firo ha:l destroyed property to the amount
of $250,005. At that time it was bslieveJ
thai at least five persons hai met their
death under falling walls, while others
were seriously injured in jumping from
burning buildings. The fire originated in a
pantry in the basement of the Budd
liousD, which was filia l witu quests. The
ilaines hail gained considerable headway before
they were discovered. The guests
were awakened, an 1 some ran out into the
streets in tlieir nigut-ciotning, wune many,
crazed by fear, jumped from the windows
of the hotel. Among these were two women
and n child, all of whom were badly injured.
William II. Halm jumped from a third story
window of the Budd House, fell on his back,
and was fatally hurt. Charles Laibeck,
a traveling salesman from Philadelphia,
and Charles Bareford, of
New Albany, were badly burned. A high
wind was blowing at the tiru9 the fire originated,
and a,fter the hotel had been swept
away the flames reached the Bank of Commerce,
nest door, and that with the buildings
occupied by Mark3 & Dregan, grocers, and
Quicksert & Co., merchant tailors, was soon
Id ashes. The buildiug occupied by the
Gwensboro Messenger and several other
houses were destroyed.
THE NEXT CONGRESS.
Senators and Representatives
From the Various States.
The Farmers' Alliance Elect
Twenty-three Members.
The following is a tabulated comparison of
the present with the next House of Representatives
as indicated by returns furnished
by the Associated Press dispatches. The
Senate after March 4, 1891, will stand as follows,
one seat, from New Hampshire, being
omitted as in doubt:
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Alabama. ...# 2 Nebraska .. 2
Arkansas 2 Nevada. 2
California 1 1 New Hampshire .. 1
Colorado 2 New Jersey 2
Connecticut.. 2 New York 1 l
Delaware 1 1 North Carolina. 2
Florida 2 North Dakota 2
Georgia 2 Ohio 1 l
.Idaho 2 Oregon 2
Illinois .1 1 Pennsylvania. 2
Indiana.... 2 Rhode Island 2
Iowa 21 South Carolina.. 2
Kansas *1 1 South Dakota... *1 1
Kentucky.. 2 Tenneesee 2
Louisiana....... 2 Texas... 2
Maine 2 Vermont .. 2
Maryland 2 Virginia 2
Massachusetts 2 Washington 2
Michigan 2 West Virginia .. 2
Minnesota 2 Wisconsin 1 1
Mississippi 2 Wyoming .. 2
Missouri 2 ? ?
Montana..... 2 Total 42 45
Controlled by the Farmers' Alliance.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
5Ut Conqrts*. 52d Congrm.
Dm. Rep. Den. Rep.
Alabama 7 18..
Arkansas 8 2 5
California.'... 2 4 0 6
Colorado 1 .. 1
Connecticut 18 3 1
Delaware * 1 .. 1
Florida 112..
Georgia 10 .. 10 ..
Idaho .. .. 1
Illinois 7 13 15 6
Indiana 10 8 11 2
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Kansas 7 5 2
Kentucky 9 2 10 1
Louisiana 5 1 6
Maine .. 4 7." 4
Maryland 8 3 6
Massachusetts 2 10 7 6
Michigan 2 0 7 4
Minnesota 5 6 ..
Mississippi 7 . .. 7
Missouri 10 4 14
Montana 1 1 ..
Nebraska..... 3 3..
Nevada 1 .. 1
New Hampshire 2 2
New Jersey 8 4 5 2
New York 15 19 23 11
North Carolina 6 8 8 1
North Dakota 1 .. 1
Ohio 5 16 14 7
Oregon 1 .. 1
Pennsylvania 7 21 11 17
Rhode Island...... ..2 1
South Carolina 0 16 1
South Dakota 2 .. 2
Tennessee 7 3 8 2
Texas 11 .. 11
Vermont 2 .. 2
Virginia 0 4 10
Washington 1 .. 1
West Virginia 2 2 4 ..
Wisconsin : 2 7 7 2
Wyoming 1
Total 151 179 248 80
Whole number of members. 332
Democrats in next House C4"i
Republicans in next House 89
Democratic majority ...T. 151
THE FARMERS' ALLIANCE.
The following table shows the numbsr of
Farmers' Alliance candidates elected, with
their party affiliations:
lad. Dem. Rep.
Georgia 6
Illinois 1
liwa 1
K
.......... ? ..
Minnesota 1
Mississippi 2
Nebraska ~
North Carolina..... 2
South Carolina 2 * ..
Tennessee..
~7 15 1
Total elected r?.~.T.M..
THE HOUSE BY DELEGATIONS.
Should the next Presidensial election oy
any possibility bo thrown into the House,
each State delegation would be entitled to
one vote, and the political party having the
largest representation in the delegates would
control that vote. The following table shows
which party has a majority of Representatives
in each State:
Democratic State*. Republican S'a tt.
Alabama, Colorado,
Arkansas, California,
Ccmecticut, Idaho,
Delaware, Maine,
1 lorlda, Nevada,
Cror^ia, j North Dakota,
J-JJr 3i", Oregon,
>, 1 Pennsylvania,
, South Dakota,
]jcuo-nj, Vermont,
l^crylinr., "Washington,
Hcr^?.cad<-ctta, Wyoming.
Michigan.
fSIinacsol-a,
iJ.licciEsinpi,
illicsorji.
'Mon^c,
'Kebz-asifi.,
Kcw Hampshire,
Kcw Jersey,
l\ew York,
North Carolina,
Ohio,
Rhode Island,
South Carolina,
Tennessee,
Texas,
Virginia,
West Virginia,
Wisconsin.
Total?Democratic delegations, 30; Republican
delegations, 12; Alliance, 1 (Kansas);,
in doubt, Iowa.
WALL STREET PANIC. 1
A Flurry in Stocks and the- Suspension
of Three Firm3.
The growing scarcity of money at the
financial center, New York City, culminated
in the inability of three banks to make good
their debit balances at the Clearing House
in the morning.
It was a day of wild excitement in Stock
Exchange and financial circles. Decker,
Howell &Co., C. C. Whitney & Co., and
David Kicbmona suspenaea, dug rirsr
named with liabilities of {10,000,000.
The Bank of North America, the North
River Bank and the Mechanics and Traders'
Bank wero unable to make good thenbalances
at th9 Clearing House and the
associated banks had to come to their relief
and advance $1,300,000. Clearing House
certificates will be issued and a bank panic
prevented.
It was also announced that the firm of
Narr & Friend, at Philadelphia, one of th9
members of which belongs to the New York
Stock Exchange, had failed, and the failure
of John T. "Walker, So*i & Co., merchants
and importers, at No. 81 Pine street, New
York City, was also made public, but their
suspension was only indirectly connected
with tlip tight money market in Wall street.
This monetary stringency is due to two
causes?first, tho exigencies of London,
brought about by over-speculation in almost
every part of the world in general, but in
tho Argentine Republic in particular; and
secondly, to the almost unprecedented ac
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drawn fuuds away from the Eastern centres.
The present disturbance is a repetition of i
the two preceding ones. In the great d9- ]
pression of 1873 tho first to go were the
northern Pacific stocks, which were then j
controled by Jay Gould, who went down in
tlio wreck. The Northern Pacific stocks led 1
on the dccline of 1884, aud buried in their 1
ruins Henry Villard, who was the master I
spirit in them. i
Tlvj action of the Clearing House in voting !
to issue loan certlHcates to tue JJank ot iNortn
Atnorica and all other banks connected with
it that might require assistance, went far
toward relieving the panicky feeling in the
market.
Some idea of the great loss sustained in
Wall street is afforded when it is said that
twenty-three stocks showed, up to the time
of the panic, a total shrinkage in value since ,
November 1 of about $100,000,000.
The associated banks of New York City
have available assets of 195,000,000. Against
this it was voted to issue Clearing House certificates
in such volume as the situation
might suggest or require.
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FALHROi
The Government Statistician's
November Averages.
The Largest Cotton Yield Ever
Eecorded.
The November returns to the Department
of Agriculture of rates of yield per acre
make the average for corn 19.9 bushels; pota
toes, 57.5 bushels; buckwheat, 14.o Dusneis;
hay, 1.20 tons; tobacco, 718 pounds. The
corn crop makes the smallest yield reported,
excepting only that of 1&81, which was 18.6
bushels. That of 1887 wa3 20.1 bushels. It
is 83 per cent, of the average of the last
ten years, a period which included four unusually
poor years, and only 73 per cent, of
last year's crop. The indications of recent returns
Lave been so uniform that the estimate
for permanent record will not be likely to
change this figure unless by a fraction. The decline
of the last decade is not due to loss
of fertility, but to unfavorable meteorological
influences. The highest rates are in New
England as usual. New York averages 25.3
bushels; Pennsylvania, 27.5; Ohio, 20.7; Michi- <
can, 26.7; Indiana, 24.3; Illinois, 25; Iowa, ]
26; Missouri, 25.8; Kansas, 11.3; Nebraska, '
20.3. The principal decline is in the corn I
surplus States. i
The average rate of yield of potatoes is 57.5 i
bushels. The condition of the crop in Octo- i
ber was lower than any reported previous
crop, except in 1887, beuig 61.7, against 61.5, <
when the rate of yield was 56.9 bushels per i
acre. It imports scarcity and warrants high i
prices. The low rates of yield of principal i
States areas follows: New York, 62 bushels;
Pennsylvania, 68; Michigan, 58; Ohio, 46; 1
Indiana, 37; llliuois, 30; Iowa, 48; Missouri,
39; Kansas, 28; Nebraska, 27; Minnesota, 68; i
Maine, 95; New Hampshire, 90, and Vermont,
95.
The yields of thb hay crop are large as a
rule throughout the country. The cane
sugar crop will be a large one, and sugar '
beets have dono well west of the Missouri,
indicating a probably rapid development of
the sugar industry.
The cotton returns for November are
county estimates of yield per acre. The consolidation,
considering areas with rates of
yield, with correction only o? obrious
errors, majces the average yield 187
pounds of lint per acre. It
is about the same as the yield
of last year, and better than the returns of
vield last November, which were exceeded
by the results of the final investigation.
Much will depend on the weather of November
and December, not only in perfecting
growth, but in saving the orop. If the season
remains favorable,and the views of the correspondents
prove conservative, the result may
be slightly larger than is here anticipated.
The estimated yields by States are as follows:
Virginia, 16S pounds; North Carolina, 182;
South Carolina, 175; Georgia. 163; Florida, i
108; Alabama, 100; Mississippi, 200; Louisiana,
238; Texas, 196; Arkansas, 225; Tennesse,
191.
The Government cotton crop report was
received at the Cotton Exchange in New
York City and caused some excitement in
the market. It was the largest crop on
record, being abont 8,000,000 bales, or about
700,000 more than last year. The market declined
from twelve to sixteen points and
closed in a nervous condition.
DESPERATE DUEL,
Three Men Killed and. Others
Wounded in Kentucky. (
The election day duel in Estill County,
Ky., turns out to have been one of the most)
desperate encounters ever witnessed in KenJ '
tucky.
A man from Irviue, Ky., tells the follow- 1
ing story of the duel: The principals were
Dr. P. A. Lilly, a prominent young physi?
cian of the town, son of Juage H. Clay ,
Lilly, on the one side, and John Wilson, J
Commissioner of Common Schools in Estill,
on the otber. Lilly was a Republican and ]
Wilson a Democrat. Lilly brought upTi .
colored man to the polls to vote him. Wil- j
son challenged him.
The judges of the election sustained the ,
challenge and the vote wa3 rejected. This
fired up Lilly, and hot words ensued, result- j
ing in the drawing of pistols by both men. (
Lilly got his pistel out readily, but Wilson's
"hung in his hip pocket and was acci- ,
dentally discharged before he could get (
it out. In the meantime he received |
two bullets, both lodging near the ;
heart. The wouuds, however, were not im- j
mediately fata!, and the combat continued. .
Wilson got his weapon free at last and fired
tero shots, one of which struck Lilly near the j
heart. About this time Wilson's brother interfered
and succeeded in wrestling Lilly's
weapon from his hand. Nothing daunted (
him. however, and almost Li the throe3 of (
j T :i 1? UiP 1'nifa mflflfl CQPArfll
U till Oil ljlllj UiOn uto ftuifcw mum ww . ? ? J
stabs at his enemy.
Both fell to the ground, but the terrible
uael was not over. With the last of his fastebbing
strength Wilson raised up and fired
the last load in his pistol at Grant Lilly, a
brother of Dr. Lilly, who had appeared on
tho scene, inflicting a dangerous, if not fatal |
wound, and theu crawled over to where his
antagonist had fallen and buried the ham- (
mer of his pistol in his head. Lilly died in a
few minutes, while Wilson lingered until
the next day at noon.
In addition to the parties already noticed
as having been shot three outsiders wer? ]
wounded, but were not seriously hurt. Al- j
together the affair was the most desperate j
that ever occurred in Estill County. ,
Grant Lilly is also dead. All the parties |
to the difficulty were prominent men in Es- (
till County. Judge Lilly has gained a (
national reputation for trying the mountain j
dasperadoat of Kentucky. (
JNUVJjL Tltiurj it?Ui3j5ijrti. ;
A Sneak Thief Opens Safes and Gets
Away With $12,000. <
Two night trains on the Georgia Railroad,
one leaving Atlanta for Augusta, at 11:50 i
o'clock, and the other leaving Augusta for '
Atlanta at the same hour, were robbed on a
recent night. The Southern Express Com
pany takes no way packages, and the mes- ]
sengers sleep on cots in the express car. The j
train leaving Augusta was robbed of about t
540. ?
Messenger Ficklen is a heavy loser, a tel- ,
egram from Atlanta saying that his pack- j
ages amounted to $12,000. Ficklen says he j
must have been robbed between Conyers, j
which is about thirty miles from Atlanta, t
and Oconee bridge, about eighty miles from (
Atlanta. He was asleep on a cot in his car, ,
and the robber must have entered the door ?
next to the engine. Ficklen's key was in (
his vest pocket, which hung on the wall, j
One package could not be got into the safe ,
and lay alongside. In the morning when .
Ficklen reached Augusta his key was miss- f
iug. After two hours' search, failing to t
discover it, his safe was broken open, and it j
was then discoverel that he was robbed. (
Both robberies wore evideut'.y the work of j
the same man, who probably knew the run |
of the road. The trains were not stopped, ,
the robber mounting them at a station quietly,
and doing his work and getting off after- <
ward. <
MURDERED 200 INFANTS. !
Ihe Chief Culprit Sentenced to Only }
Three Years' Imprisonment. i
The trial of the midwife, Skibinska; her
married daughter, Mme. llanowska; the ?
latter's sister-in-law, and another woman, be- '
si'rJpa frwn men for the murder at "Warsaw.
Poland, of 200 infants, has just been concluded.
It was brought out in evidence
that the children were never interred singly, c
but in order not to excite suspicion the con- r
spirators waited until half p. dozen of the un- .
fortunates had died, when they were huddled
into the same coffin. I
The accused were defended by seven advo- }
catss, but all were found guilty. Skibinska,
the chief culprit, was sentenced to three
years' imprisonment, while her aicomplices I
got shorter terms. Against thi3 leniency the I e
Public Prosecutor promptly appealed. | t
TKE total assessment ot Montana last yea\ c
was a little over $79,000,000. This year it is ?
$107,000,000 without tbe supplementary as- .
sessment, which will bring the total to >110,- c
000,000, an increase of $31,000,000 for the i
year, or nearly forty per cent. ?
religious_reading7
TRUST.
A picture memory brings to me:
I look across the years and see
Myself beside my mother's knee.
I feel the gentle hand restrain
My seldxh moods, and know again
A child's blind sense of wrong and paiu.
But wiser now, a man gray grown.
My childhood's needs arc better known,
My mother's chastening love I own.
Gray grown, but In our Father's sight
A child still groping for tlio light
To read his works and ways aright.
I bow myself beneath his hand;
The pain itself for good was planned;
I trust but cannot uuderstand.
I fondly dream its needs must be,
That :is my mother dealt with me,
So with His children dcaleth He.
I wait and trust, the end will provo
That here and there, below, above,
The chastening heals, the pain is love.
-[J. G. Whittier.
LOVE IS TIIE nOME.
Nothingcan be more beautiful in the sight
Df God than a home circle where the Lord
reigns in the hearts of the members, and
where love for each other is manifested in
looks and tones, but dreadful the homo
marred by unkindness and bickerings. Family
quarrels are the hardest to heal, the
most wretched to endure.
Daily taunts and flings keep such wounds
open, uutil finally hatred for each other ensues
in utter defiance of the terrible denunciations
of the Scripture against those who
cherish hate in the heart.
Love is the keynote of heaven, and the
bappy, loving home is the purest type of the
paradise above, where love and joy eternally
reign.?[Christian at Work.
A DRAUGHT FROM A DE1SP WELL.
"I remember going into tne country on
Dne particular occasion for my vacation. At
the farm where I lodged there was an old
wen, worKtng witu u sweep?uiai is, a oig
beam working on a pivot, with n bucket at
one end, which was so suspended that the
bucket end could be dropped into the well,
which was about sixty feet deep. I got hold
of the beam and swung it round till the buCKOt
touched the water, and I got a good drink.
Just theu the old farmer came out; up baa
3een mc at the well. 'I have no doubt thai
is fair enough water,' he said, 'but you do
not know now to ? get a right good drink,'
and coming over he seized the beam and
sent the bucket down into the water about
twenty feet, and I cot a draught taken from
the very heart of the living rock.
"I had thought the water I had drawn
myself all that could be desired, but when I
tasted the other I thought I had never drunk
real water until then. I have often thought
that young converts do not get deep enough
spiritual draughts. One touch of the hem of
Christ'!) garment, faith as a grain of mustard
seed will save you. but if; dear friends,
you wish to know Christ in his inexhaustible
fullness you must drink deep of the living
water which He so freely gives."?Rev. Geo.
F. Peutccost.
SUGGESTIONS FOB MOTHERS.
I have been much impressed while reading
the reminiscences of Lamartine's childhood
with the natural way in which his mother
taught her children to pray to God and to .
think of him.
When she went in the" morning to take
them from their beds and assist them to !
dress, she would tell them about the good
God who had given them sweet sleep, and :
who made tbo sun they saw shining, the |
liirHa tliev hpurrf sin<Hna. ihn arrflSS thev saw '
growing, nnd who had given thom kind
parents to prepare their food: then she
would appeal even thus early to their heart
and conscience to know if they ought not ,
to thank him for these pifts and ask him
to make them good children. So that it
became the most natural thing in the world
for them to kneel beside her ani offer a |
morning prayer.
At night she would not wait until drowsi* t
ness had benumbed their faculties or their
plays were absorbing them, but immediately
after supper she would call in the servant ,
smd read short selections from Scripture, explaining
them, and following with prayer. !
As soon as any of the children became old
jnougli, she would teach them to lead the
Jevotions.
She always said grace before and after
meals. It she walked tfith them in the .
country and they came upon any beautiful
bit of scenery, a cataract, a bed of flowers. J
she would lead their hearts up from nature
to nature's God. Nor did she neglect the j
principal part of their religious training.
For she took them with her to the bedsides
of the sick and made them her almoners of
bounty to the poor.
At twilight she would quietly leave them
to their play and retire for secret prayer.
Out of doors she had a cho?en spot under
some fruit trees?the most sheltered spot in
the garden?and this became a sacred place
:o her children. They never entered it in their
sports, knowing it was where their mother
lommuned with God; and when she returned
to them with a smiling countenance,
they felt that she had left behind her the
burdens of the day and was at peace.
Happy the children who had such a mother.?[New
York Observer.
THE MORAL VSE OK ItELPLHSSNESS.
God allows us to exhaust ourselves before
be Interposes. Tremature relief would be
injurious to depth of character. We must j
Srst despair of ourselves, before we can ' l
utterly put our trust in God. Tho prodigal j
began to be in want before he came to him- i
self; painful pressure of circumstances!'
iwoke bim to repentance. It is never any I
loss to come to great extremities In spiritual
experience, but an infinite spiritual gain. ' i
"When we were yet without strength, Christ i
lied for the ungodly" (Rom. 5:0). Wo are i
ilwaya without strength in reality, but we j 1
ire not always so in consciousness. ; i
The strengthlessness of our condition is i'
>ne of the first Jesons God sets himself to I
:each. And He teaches us, by not coming to <
onr aid the moment we cry, but leaving us <
to find out the measure of our power, and <
;he extent of our ability to help ourselves,
[/'brist stilled the tempest on the sea after the <
lisciplcs were so terrified that they cried, j;
'Lord save us; we perish." Not until they I.
lad lost hope in themselves did He display j i
jis power. "Then H e arose, and rebuked 1,
he winds and the sea; and there was a great j
aim." Their fearfuhuss of heart j
>nhanned the impressivenoss of j
lis command. and led to a pro- ; ,
founder appreciation of His majesty. "What J
iianmr of Man is this, that even the winds \
ind the sea obey Him" (Matt. 8:24-27)? The ,
experience is bitter, and often protracted, |
vhich issues in the soul ccasing from itself f
ind turning in helplessness to God; but it ,
omes forth with a poverty of spirit, a con- i
rition of feeling, a dependence on the Sa- (
rsour, which it could not otherwise have {
(quired. God's manner of dealing with ?
he iudividual is His mannero'' dealing with ]
he race. It was human help'e>sness He s
neant to teach and prove by delaying the j
coming of Christ to the world, lie allowed
ntellect, philosophy, art, civilization, to do s
heir best before He sent His Son upon the 1
scene. 1
They brought the world to despair. Then i
Christ comes" So is it now. and so is it ever. 1
!?ood only saves when we feel He must save <
is, or we shall surely peri>h. The moment
,vc abandon hope in ourscl .-e>, the out- i
stretched arm delivers. !{> grace are ye i
laved through taith. and that not of your- <
elves, it is the gift of God: not of work*, ]
est any man should -boast." While wo 1
struggle to achitve self-extrication fiorn our ]
iins, we, like the man in the morass, only
link deeper and deeper. To be resetted by ]
jod, we must resign ourselves to God.? i
[Rev. John Bainl. i
Nevada is getting on very well witliiut
a Governor or Lieutenant Gover- .
lor, both of these officials having died, 1
ind there being no provision for filling 5
ho vacancies until the next election. 1
tfuch has been said about the instabil- '
ty of republics as compared with mou-.
trchies, but our ropublio, in its form' 1
ind the character of the people, is such
hat its Fedoral and State Governments 1
tan exist in security for an indefinite :
>eriod without an official head?a con- 1
lition that has suddenly plunged strong 1
nonarchies into auarchy and blood- i
lllflfL 1
J:
SABBATH SCHOOI
INTERNATIONAL LESSON FO?
NOVEMBER 30.
Lesson Text: ''Jesus Risen," Luk?
tj.iv., 1-12?Golden Text: I Cor.
xv., SO?Commentary.
1. "Now upon the first day of the week;
very early in the morning, tney came unto
the sepulcher, bringing the spices which
they had prepared, and certain others with
them." On Friday afternoon His body
wrapped in linen, with about a hundred
pound weight of spices which Nicodemus
provided, was by him and Joseph of Arimathea
laid in Joseph's new tomb, wherein
was never man yet laid (John xix, 88-42).
According to Matthew and Mark, some of
the women of Galilee who followed Him,
ministering unto Him, saw Him die as they
stood afar off, or rather were standing afar
off when He died, and also saw where Joseph
and Nicodemus buried Him. Th6n they returned
and prepared spices and ointments
and rested the Sabbath day according to the
commandment (xxiii., 56). These are they
who come so early to the sepulchre. Witn
?nri and h?arv hearts thev come to add ona
more kindness to the many which they have
already bestowed on Him whom they loved
so well.
2. 4,And they found the stone rolled away
from the sepulcher." They said as they came,
"Who shall roll us away the stone from the
door of the sepulcher?' (Mark xvi., 8) But
they find that difficulty removed ere thev
come to it. When love leads us on in His v
service, even though it often be unnecessary
and unbelieving effort, His love and power
rolls away all the stones; how much mora
does He do this when our service is believing
as well as loving!
3. "And they entered in and found not the
botfv of the Lord Jesus." Putting the various
accounts together, it would seem that Mary
Magdalene was the first to find the sepulcher
empty and the stone rolled away, and that
she, too, was the first to tell Peter and John
(Johnix., 1,2). Then it would seam that
the other women came and saw an
angel sitting upon the stone which had
be?n rolled nway, and also an angel
sitting in the sepulcher. and that
each told them to go and tell His disciples
that He was risen (Matt, xxviii., 2, 7; Mark
xvi., 5, 7). Mary Magdalene seems to have
lingered after the others, so blinded by
grief and tears that she eituer did not know^
that it was angels who spoke to her from
the tomb, or did not care to know; neither
did she know Jesus Himself when He first
spoke to her until He cailsd her byname. ' !,
Bo blinding is unbelieving grief. U Mary :
and the other women and the disciples had '
onlv believed His simple statement that He
would rise again the third day thoy would not
have been found looking in a sepulchre for a
lifeless body or seeking the living among the
dead.
4. 'And it came to pass as tbey were much
perplexed thereabout, behold two men stood
oy them in shining garments." These ar?
probably the same two mentioned by
Matthew and Mark- Jesus sent the seventy,
two and two before Him (Luke *., 1): toe
Spirit sent forth Paul and Barnabas, then
Paul and Silas, Barnabas and Mark (Acts
xiii., 2; xv., 39, 40). In the beginning of the
church's history, and also in Jesus's last
days, we read of Peter and John as fellowlaborers
(Luke xxii., 8; Acts iiL, 1; iv., 19).
So also we often Unci the angels two together,
as when two accompanied the Lord
to visit Abram and two appeared at the
ascension (Gen. xviii., 1,2; Actsi., 10).
5. "And as they were afraid, and bowed
down their faces to the earth, they said unto
them, Why seek ye the living (margin, Him
that liveth) among the dead*" See His own
words to John long afterward: "I am the
first, and the last, and the living one; I was
dead and behold I am alive forevermore?'
(Rev. i., 17,18, R. V.). We learn from this
verse that unbelief causes fear and turns our
faces earthward. The remedy is to look up
and see Him who is alive forevermore, and
who has the keys of hades and death; who
has all power in heaven and on earth; who
says, "Fear thou not, for I am with thee."
6. "He is not here, but is risen: remember
how He spake uuto you when He was yet in
Galilee." It would not do for us to say of
nnr Haarl in Phrict tViah thev ara risen, for
"risen" refers to the body, and the body remains
in the grave till the resurrection of the
righteous at the coming of Christ; but we
may truly say as we look into the grave,
"They are not here, they are with Christ."
7. "Saying, the Son of Man must be delivered
into the hands of sinful men, and be
crucified, and the third day rise again."
Many times had He said these very words
just as plainly as these angels now said
them (Matt, xvi., 21; xvii., 23; xx., 19; see
also John ii19; Matt, xii., 40), but they hoi
never believed them.
8. "And they remembered His words." That
was tho right thing to do. If they had
remembered sooner they would have saved
themselves much sorrow. The word of God
is to be received, kept, hid or laid up in the
heart, eaten, talked about, meditated on.
9. "And returned from the sepulcher, and
told all these things unto the eleven, and to
all the rest." Remembering Hi3 word makes
us forget our sorrow, and turns us away from
the dead to minister unto the living. If we
have not something to tell about Jesus our
hearts must be very empty of the things
which concern Him, and we had better ask
ourselves if we really know Him. There are
two appearances of Christ which occurred
somewhere in connection with this lesson,
though not mentioned by Luke. His appearance
to Mary Magdalene before He had as
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CCilUCU LU bUU X awua \UUUU AW| *?/, M?v?
His appearance a little later to tlie other
women whom He suffered to hold Him bv
the feet and worship Him (Matt, xxviii., 0).
10. "It was Mary Magdalene, and Joanna,
and Mary, the mother of James, and other
women that were with them, which told these
things unto the apostles." According to the
word of the angels, "Go quickly and tell His
disciples that He is risen from the dead,"
"they departed with fear and great ioy, and
did run to bring His disciples word.' * It was
then that Jesus met them and said, "Be not
ifraid; gotell my brethren" (Matt, xxriii.,
r-10). The explanation of any seeming difficulty
in the various accounts is that some
of the evangelists summarize matters, while
Dthers give a certain item or items more in
detail. Thei e are no contradictions.
11. "And their words seemed to them as
idle tales, aud they believed them not."
Paul preached Jesus and the resurrection at
Athens; some mocked, and others said: We
will hear thee again of this matter. When
it Rome he preached the Gospel of the
Kingdom, some believed and some believed
not (Acts xvii., 32; xxviii., 23, 24). We are
lowliere encouraged to hope that in this dissensation
all who hear the Gospel will beieve.
The parables of the sower and ^he
:ares declare the contrary, and also the comnission
in Mark xvi., 15, 16. This is not to ~ -?
36 wondered at, for the carnal mind is
mmitv azainst God. But these men to
ivhom"thewomen came were disciples; they
lad lived with Christ, had preached the
Gospel and wrought miracles in His name,
ind to them the fact of His resurrection was
in idle tale. Let us not wonder then if the
31essed Hope of His return and all that ib
lijpifies is to many true Christians only an
dlo tale.
IV. "men arose reter. ana ran unto xno
iepulcher, and stooping down he beheld the
iinen clothes laid by themselves, and departed
wondering: in himself at that which,
ivas come to pass." This is probably the same*
risit to the tomb recorded in John ?x., 6, 7;
?r if not, then Peter went twice to the tomb
?once with John, when Mary told them,
ind again alone, when he received a personal
message by the other women. Some time
)n this day Ho appeared to Peter (vs. 34);
perhaps it was on this probable second visit
to the sspulcher. The words concerning the
linen clothes seemed to indicate that they
were left lying just as when His body was
lying in them, Ho having emerged from
them without disturbing them. Dlessvxl are
all who balicve. Wo shall be like Him.?Le>
son Helper. _
The Western railroads arc complain*
mg of a lack of cars to do tneir immense
business. At the same time the
stockholders are complaining of a lack
)f dividend prospects. There seems
;o be something rotten in the managemeat
of the Western railroads.
An English traveler in this country
lias criticised our umbrellas as "huge,
misshapen, bulky, discolored, wretchedlooking
articles." This may be true,
but we have the advantage of not being
required to carry the article as much aa
the critio would be in his own country.
, *\ i