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jp? 'i 1 ai .?*. 1^ - .. . , , ?#.. I SfSfffSST '~' UNION C. H., SOUTH CAROLINA, A'RRIL 19, 1889. NUMBEK 16. PWf-^AALi?<iui ;. - i ? W. ' : _ I ' ?mm K? SABBATH SCHOOL. I RELIGIOUS RHAniNf; I trwpwp*^^^ i - INTERNATIONAL LESSON FO r APRIL, ai. ! Lemon Ipit: " The Two Great Con nmn?ncnl?sH Markxll., 2S-3IGolden Text; Rom. xiii., lO?Commentary. > I " ' 5 if Lot us bear in mind that wo aro in the. lessons in tho last week of our Saviour's lit on earth and only two or three days bofoi . His crucifixion. Ho is spooking His lai words to them, and every word is w eighth than they imagined, and of more important than ever wdjfovo yet soon. Ho continuest speak uuto them in parables, because tho rg- I Alter the nr|%- of thb Vineyard, tfa Wicked husbandman, and the rejected Son, c lost day's lesson. Ho thon further tough them by the parable of the marriage suppe and the wedubig garment (Matt, xxii., 1-14) after which tho several deeplsers of tho grac of ti?> T. 1 *1 ? - w.u?uiu wurjiuy liunuca nerodian tho infidel Sadduceo and the self rightoou Pbariseo?ootno forward in succession oppoc ing the Saviour, but aro each and all of thou Sut to silence. This lesson tells of tho last o tieeo opitoscrs and the Saviour's answer t them. 28. "And ono of tho scribes come, and having heard them reasoning together, and pei reiving that Ho had answered them well asked Hun, Which is the first commandmen of all!" From Matt, xxii., 34, 35, wo loan that this scribe was a lawyer and a Pharisee and that ho came tempting Iliin. That an; man or company of men should think tlia thoy could entangle Jesus in His talk, o: ?s\ catch Him in His words, and to that cn< feign themselves just men (Matt, xxii., 15 Mark xii., 18: Luke xx., 20), soemstons vor; foolish indeed; but wo must remember tha they did not know Jesus and were blinded bo cause of their unbellof. What seems mon strange is, that oven now in our day there ii Just tho sarao spirit that was manifest ii these unbelieving questioners 29. "Jesus answered hhn: Tho first of al tho commandments is, Hoar, O Israel; th< Lord our Qod is ono Lord." In this and th< next verve of < - r Icsron Jesus quotes fron DouU >L, 4, 5; the word a..^K in Him riclilj and Ho had answer for every one from it TO. ? a? i.ji-n-. " gM . uui w?t|iwu ny QHiAii no oviTcamo him bj 'quoting from this book of tlio law, and how often we find Him saying "It is written." 01 "Huvo yo never road in tlio Scrlpturcsr' II is the sword of tho Spirit with which wo musi bocouio familiar if wo would bo soldiers ol Christ, and use it skillfully both for our own *lofon.TO and for tho overthrow of tho enemy. ? THio words "Hem-, O Israel," we found four times in Deuteronomy (v 1; vi., 4; ix., 1: xx., 8); twice in reference to obeying God's laws, and twico in reference to His presence witli them. Tho nations about thorn hod gods many and lords many, but Israel was chosen nnd separated from all othor nations to bo a witness to tho truth of tho one only Living nnd True God, to whom they were to render a cheerful anu whole hearted obedience, Ho on His port promising to be their salvation nnd their glory. SO. "And thou shalt love tho Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, nnd with all thy mind, and with all thy strength. This is the first commandment." When God. ' lire, tlio words of tho ten commandments, of which tho Saviour hero gives tho mini, Ho (iiMn ivitti flwaoJrt UT ?rn !?? tioixl thy God, which have brought theo out *vP fl\n Inn/J F,irvnf. nnjj pf fn/j hOUSC O? -4k bondhcrn" n?x. Il' *1 nml mr>r?th?n eightv times tkis fact is mentioned in tbo law, the 1 manbote and the Psalms, either as an evidence I .of His great lovo or as a reason why thoy should oboy Him. It was not till after Ho redeemed them from Egypt's bondage that He gave them His oommaudments, nor did He ask them to lovo nud serve Him unt il Ho had proved His great love to them." Ho comes to us with tho great gift of HLs Bon Jesus Christ, assuring us that He so loved us ns to give His Only Begotten Sou for us; Josrn Himself assures us of His love by giving Himself for us; and tho Spirit through t ho apostlt* is over repeating tne same great truth, and not until we cau say: "We have known and , believe tho love which God hath toward us,' can wo also say: "Wo love Him," and thou wo will bo sure to add: "Because Ho first loved us." (I John iv., 1(1-19.) God modi man for Himself that Ho might lavish Hii love upon us and that wo miglit be for Hu glory; not anything that Ho lias created, bui only Himself con satisfy oar souls which Hi has made, and having given Himself for u and to us in tho person of His Bon, it is surelj ? . ... reasonable that we should give to Him in re turn tlie lovo of our wholo heart, soul, mini and strength. 31. "And the second is like, namely, this ^ Thou slialt lovo thy neighbor ns thyself there is none othor commandment greatoi than these." As love to God comprehend tho first four of the ten commandments, ? lovo to man comprehends tho othor six* am as our golden text says "Love is the fulfill ing of the law." These very words, "Thoi halt love thy neighbor as thyself," aro an othor quotation from the law of Moses, am aro found in Lev. xix., 18. When wo thin! of tho full significance of this love as define* in I Cor., xiu., 4-7, long suffering, kind, fro * from onvy, not vaunting itself, not puffed uj nor behaving unseemly, seeking not her own not provoked (R. V.), thinking no evil, etc. where can we look for any illustration of i except in Him who in our lesson has thus re plied to this scribe? It is as if He said to him in Moses you find thd law, but in Mo you fln< tho law fulfilled, for that law is in my heart and I camo to fulfill all righteousness; rcceivi one, poor, helpless sinner, and I will be t< you the end of the law for righteousness feo, I will be your righteousness, gjv iu. "And tho scribe said unto Him, Well r Master, thon hast said the truth; for thero i i?no God; ami there is nono other hut He.1 Tho scrllie believed in one God and thus fai accepted the truth, but ho was blind to th fact that the Truth stood boforo him in bumai form, God ma feet in the flesh. Ho knev , that the God of Israel onoe tabernacled in < tent in tlio wilderness, nnu also at ungai ant Sbfioh in the Holy Land, aiul afterward ii Solomon's temple at Jerusalem; but ho di< not know that the same God had now onni and had already tabernacled among them more than thirty years in tlio body prepare* for Him (John i., 14; Hob. x., 5); anil that i was He that talked with him. .13. "And to love Him with all the heart and with all the understanding, and with al the soul, and with all the strength, and t love his neighbor as himself, is more tha KS c > whole burnt offerings and sacrifices." Trul . .- this man seems enlightened; he not onl. ,t'' knew tbo truth when no heard it, but li I^T* seemed to understand it, and to know the dil ferenee between outward, formal worshi and real heart service; he seemed to undw 'fa stand that no amount of burnt offering c sacrilleo would avail unless there was on th part of tbo offerer a spirit of true obedient and a grateful sense of the love of God. L-* 84. "And when Jesus saw that ho ai sworod discreetly, He said unto him: The ^ Wrwi -An nnt frrati th? Ifimrdimi of find " Fl knew the truth, ho understood the truth, 1 spoke wall of the truth, but he did not r celva the f frith. Ho was very near enteric j.i In, just at ttio door, and tho door was opa ^Imt we do not road that ho entered in. B Bfei. v ^wos in u meittuo' oonvlctod, hot not oo o verted. How near one may ho to the Kh\ fflfrjy doni without entering in is made awful clear In Hob. vf., 4-6, R. V., where we a told of some who wore enlightened, tooted tl fcSw* y. heavenly gift, were made partakers of tl | Holy Ohost, tasted tho good word of Oo * and the power* of the ago to come, and y K&- fell away. John x., 27-30; X John 11., 1 ..Phil. I., tk and other passagos make it unm tababiy clear that the truly saved are fc over saved: but Heb. vL, 4-6; x.t 36-30; r.. Pet. ii.t 20-33. tell us how much one nu know and enjoy, and yet be lost: how vr near one may bo and yet not enter in. T [K:jK.r' Lord Jesus Christ Is the only Haviour, oi the only saved ones are thoeawho are tn; ?& in Hkv.?Uston Helper. 1 a Sanctified. j "Sanctified in Chri t Jesus." (I Cor. 1:2.) Church of God, beloved and choson. Church of Christ, for whom Ho died, _ '' Claim thy gifts aud pfralss iho Glvor? "Yoore washed ani sanctified," Sanctified by God tlve Father, And by Jesus Ghrist His Son, And by God, the Holy Spirit, Holy, Holy, Throe 111 One. By His will He sanctifleth, *3 By the Spirit's power within; fo By tho loving hand that chasteiioth e Fruits of righteousness to win; jt By His truth nnd by His promise, ? By tho Word, His gift unpriced, ? By His own bloqd. and by union * o With the risen lifo of Christ. E- ?'? ,o Sin's dominion crushed and broken >f By tho power of grace aloneit Goers own holiness within tlieo, r His own beauty on thy brr.w,? ; This shall bo thy pilgrim brightness, 0 This thy blessed portion now. 1 a He will sanctify thee wholly; (. Body, spirit, soul shall lie a Blameless till thy Saviour's coming, f In His glorious majesty! o He hath porfectod forever Those whom Ho linth sanciiftod; Spotless, glorious, and holy Is tho cnurch. His chosen Bride. I a "More Than Conquerors." ? A conqueror mny compel subin 's don, hut f he cannot comixd lovo. The conquered na' tion may l>e filled with hatred and tliir I for revengo. Christ is more than a conqueror, 1 for Ho not merely subdues H's pople under 5 His Bway, but Ho draws out their affections f to Himself; His enemies are thus changed " into loving aud devoted friends. The perse" cuting Haul, breathing out threat- nines and 3 slaughter, and making havoc of the church, 5 became the devoted apostle Paul, to whom 1 "to live was Christ." The t hristinn is "more than a conqueror." Tho tribulation, distress 1 and persecution but lead him all tho closer ! 3 to Christ; so that ho not merely submits to ] 3 those seeming ills, but ho rcioic s in tribula- . 1 tiomand actually thanks Cnrlst for sending r it. The sting is taken out of tho persecution, and tho Christian rejoices that ho is counted worthy to suffer for Christ's sake.?George . [ Jeffrey. j 5 i b Nno Strife Up Here. ' It is said that an old Scotch oldor had once i a serious dispute with his minister at an elders' meeting. Ho said somo things that t ' nearly broke tno minister's heart. Afterward c ho went homo, and tho minister went home, i too. Tho next morning tho elder camo down, t and his wife said to him: "Ye look sod, r i John; what is the matter with vo t" "Ah," f ho replied, "Jrou would look sad, too, if you * had such a dream a-? I have. I dreamed that 1 I I had boen at tho elders' meeting, and hnd 4 t said somo hard things and grieved n i tho minister; and when ho went hojne t I thought ho died and went to heaven; v and when I got to tho gate of heaven out b camo tho minister and put out his hand to t take me. saying: 'Come along, John; there's u nae strife up hero; I'm happy to seoye.'" I &VT5fcrdonV'ai^ eider wax so stricken with (he bluW T'lfil VSio ' ! weeks after lie also departed. "And I should * uot wonder," said ho who related the inci- 8 dent, "if ho mot tho minister at heaven's c goto, and heard hiro say: 'Come along, John, there's cae strifo up hero.'"?JJriftsh Wsrlxaatu g Denied, Yet Answered. * When Augustine, in his homo at Car- ^ i thng.-, res lived to visit Rome, his mother [, i wished either to prevent him from going, or I to go with him. Ho would listen to neither i proposal, and rqsortod to a trick to carry out i his plan. One evening he went to tho soa> short), and his mother followed. Thero , i wero two chapols dedicated to the memory t of tho martyr Cyprian, and ho pressed her i to spend one evening in tho church of tho I mnrtyr, while he would accompany a friend I on board a ship, thoro to say farewell. , ' While sho was thero iu tears, praying r i and wrestling with God to prevent the t voyage, Augustino sailed for Italy, and , 5 his deceived mother next morning found | i herself alono. In quiet resignation she ro' turned to tto city and continued to pray f r , t the salvation of her son. Though meaning | i well, yet sho erred in her praye s, for the | s journey of Augustine was the means of his f salvation. Tho denial of the prayer was in | - fact, the answering < t it. Instead of the j t husk. Go I granted rather the substnnco of her petition in the conversion of her Ron. | "Therefore," Raid he, "O God, thou hast re- ( 1 gard to the aim and essence of her d sires, r and didst not do what sho thon prayed for, 8 that thou mightest do for me what she conJ tinually implored."?Sel. ' i 1 Ulnnnna. in rlmMinte* j Rev. Charles H. Spurgeon Imautifully il{ lustratea the marks of dimness in Christian j i character boiii iwlint as follows: One mark 0 is beauty. Ripo fruit Ins its own perfect p boauty. As the fruit ripens, the sun tints it , with surpassing loveliness, and the colors deepon till the beauty of the fruit i* equal to ^ the beauty of the blossom, and in some re^ snoots superior. There is in rips Christians , the Imauty of realized sauctificnl ion, which | the Word of God knows by the name of '"beauty of holiness." 0 Another mark of ripe fruit is tenderness, j The young, preen fruit is hard and stone-like; ; but the ri. e fruit is soft, yields to tho prossure. can almost lie moulded, retains the I, mark of tho finger. 80 it is with the mature s Christian; ho is noted for tenderness of " spirit. r Another mark of ripeness is sweetness. h Tho unripe fruit is sour.niul perhaps it ought 1 to bo, or cbo we should eat all tho fruits v while they are yet preen. It may. therefore, a bo in tho order of grace a fit thing that hi I tho youthful Christian somosharpnest should II be formed which will ultimately be removed. I As we grow in grace we are sure to grow in n eharitv. svmnathv and lovo; we shall have # greater and more intense affection for tho ^ porson of Him "whom having not wen, wto t love;" we shall have greater delight in the preci ms things of Hie gospel; tho doctrines 1 which ix-rhnps we did not understand at first will become marrow and fatness to us o as we advance in grace. We shall feel that " there is honey dropping from tliehone* comb y in tho deep things of our religion. Y Wo shall, as we rip?n in grace, nave 8 greater sweetnoss toward our follow Christians. Bitter-spirited Christians P may know a great deal, but they are irnmar" tare. Those who are quick to censuro may >r be very acute in judgment, but they are as 10 yet immature in heart. I know wo who are 18 young l>eglnners iu grJC3 think ourselves qualified to reform tho whole Christian *" churoh. We drag her before us and con* domn her straight war; but when our vir[o tuns become more mature I trust wo shall 10 not be more tolerant of evil, bnt wo shall bo c' moro tolerant of infirmity, more hopeful for I? the people of God. and certainly fern arrogant in our criticisms. I? A naih/vM am/1 a mien anna runrh" *\t rirMnnaa p" l< ft loose hold of earth. Ripe fruit easily F" parts fro ? the bough. You shake the tree jy and the ripe apples fall. If you wish to eat V? fresh fruit you put out your ha'id to pluck , ? it> and if it comoa off with difficulty you fool I you hod better leave it aloue a littlo longer, "l but when it drops Into your hand, quite J; ready to be withdrawn from the branch, you know it to be in good condition. * H>. ....... " When Hit wire is in connection with the %y battery, you feel its tingling touch. If J* Christ in me la working m!g tlly, I, n mem wir.*, may ?oad llfo thrilling throngh another JJ<1 whom I touch.. Filled wlih the fulness o( v God, I msy minister of that fulnena to reedy rmla.-/>/-. K. JtraMfn. ill' '.'l' '*>. -.,?* f. JL Aiim jjiiaiivylii BTRIK* FOR FRKKDOM. Ob, slave of the cup, say how long will you kneel; The yoke on your neck, tho chain on your heel, The stripes on your back, the dust on your lips, And body and soul In the darkest eclipse* Do you breatho the free air, Is this a free land, Where you kiss the red rod in the Bacchanal's hand? Will you cringe to tho men who stand by tho bowl. When giving tho stripes without stars on tho sow* Will you go to the altar of freedom, and then, Like the craven, bow to the merciless man 11Ttii'|l illi?l" I * I'tnrin n "* nl When lie, for pieces of silver, his Master sold? Will you lie a slave on American soil, And leave in saloons tho hard earnings of toil; Will VOll Wot. out. tR?? " " _ ? ouuo uu 1UU Udg ot mo free And bo scourged by its stripes on the suppliant knee? With your nock 'ncath the feet of tho tyrant you fear, Givo your money and lifo to Gambrinus and beer? No! Arise and bo free in a land that is free! Let your appetites drown like the swine in toe sea. Tho spirits you drink aro the spirits of wine; Not changed from tho water ny wisdom divino; But like domons o? evil that entered the swine. Now let your motto be: "Freedom is mine!" ?O. Vk. Bungay, in National Advocate. A NEAT RETORT. Pastor Horne, of Ayr, Scotland, having made a pungent reference to the drink traffic in one of his sermons, letters poured to ipon him calling him everything but a gentleman, and one publican sent him a ticket with these words inscribed on it: "Admit the bearer :o any lunatic asylum in the United Kingdom >r Colonies. Reserved seat." Mr. Homo's etort was rather neat. "I was always of minion w 1 A . ? UV, timlp JJU UIIU1I1S KO))L atiniisifon tickets to lunatic asylums, for the use ol .heir customers, and now I am sure of it. 1 nbeud to get that ticket framed as a trophy." A DEPLORABLE PRACTICE OE WOMEN. The use of stimulants before and after ivory slightest effort or exertion by refined nul well-cared-for women is another practice rhieh disgusts and surprises me. "Oh, dear, 1 have had such a long drive 1 nust havo a 'drop' of sherry," and "I am ;oiug to have sucli a long wait I must take a taste' of claret," and "On, door, that woman )ored me so I can't do a thing till I havo n sip' of port." etc., etc. Wines are supplemented bv whiskies and punches, these again iy cordials, pink, blue, green and red?it alrays makes me think of the application of lacking my best shoes. I always know thou hat they are through the best half of their sefulness, that the more I put on the more have to, and that I can never stop it once P<Su^.???rYertrength lent to your vitality, dear ladies, by S y, timulantfi is pftifully thin and is bound to ( rack the leather.?New York Star THE parrvifARP'a sow. A bright looking boy entered the Chestnut Itreet Police Station last night. He seemod , o be in great distress. "Well, my little fellow," said the big, but , ;ind-hearted Sergeant at the station "what , s troubling you?'r "Please, sir,is my mamma locked up Uerer "Who is your momniaf' "Please, sir, her name is Martin. The Sergeant looked at tho record book on vhich the names of all prisoners were regisered. "Yes, here is her name." "Please, sir, can I see her?" "She is drunk. I don't think it would do rou any good, my littlo man. Come back igain in an hour." The poor little fellow, with his eyes filled vith tears, turned slowly, and reluctantly en wo omco. In exactly on hour he returned. He had lot been very far away, but spent the tinje n going from store to store watching the lour. This timo ho was admitted to the door of ;he cell. The mother had recovered partially from the drunken stupor. "I will let her out in a little while, my lioy," said the Sergeant, patting the I toy's rurly head. The la tier's eyes brightened. "Oh, thank you, sir," he said. "Where is your father? Is he dead?"' "No, sir, papa, he is at homo." "Why don't he come down for your mother?" Again the boy's eyes filled with big tears. "Because, sir, he is drunk, too." "Poor boy," muttered the officer, "if you should grow up to bo a sober man you would Indeed be a model." "Mamma was always so kind and good," lie continued between his sobs. "Papa drank so hard, and then she thought she'd stop him If she did it too. No they Doth get drunk so often." The recollections of his miserablo homo seemed to flit across the boy's mind and again he burst into tears, and the officers expressed much sympathv for tho boy, whose love for a drunken motner was so earnest, so deep. It was a temperance lecture that appealed to tho heart.?St. Louis Star Sayings. temperance news and notes. The saloon must have boys, or it must shut jp shop. South Africa has a Woman's Christian Temperance Union composed of natives. An Inebriate Home for Women has recently been opened in tho north of London. There were 52,762 arrests for intoxication uul disorderly conduct in Now York city in 1888. Kighty-ono new members have been added to the Central W. C. T. U. of Chicago during the past year, and more than $90,000 have passed through the hands cf the society. An English brickmaker, after careful investigation, reported that among his men the beer drinker who made the fowest number of bricks in a given time made 87,000 leas than the total abstainer who made the fewest number in tho same length of time. Mr. D. H. Burwell, of Allegheny City, Penn., recently did a week's campaigning for the amendment at Erie, under the auspice* of the W. C. T. U. It is stated that 8000 persons signed the pledge, nearly all of whom were men and noys. Four hundred young men signed after one meeting. To throw a bomb, to set a house on Are, to wreck a railroad train, are inconsiderable offenses compared to the deeds of the men who have introduced into millions of homes poverty, wretchedness, ignorance, crime and .laafk TTawt Irvnrr nalra TtVva'e Tfffftljt will A Christian public tolerate inch criminals abroad? Mitai Frances K. Willard and Miss Anna Gordon left Chicago recently for a nix weeks' trip in the Houtn, during which time they wifi attend tho annual W. C. T. U. Conventions* and visit the leading cities in Georgia, South Carolina, Florida, Alabama, Missis sippi. Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas and Indian Territory, returning by way of St. Louis early in May. Rev. Dr. Daniel Dorchester, in the Independent, compares the cost of pauperism in three cities and two large towns at periods twenty yearn apart, the first being a period of prohibition and the second of license. He shows that in these Ave municipalities in twenty years the increase in cost of pauperism under license averaged 483 per cent, over the cost under prohibition, the average increase in population being but 77 per cent . . "r_ * ' ' SWKfT BY A BALE. ?j JL Terrific .'Storms Throughout Virginia and Maryland* | The United States Ship Fensabola Sank at Norfolk. A dispatch from Norfolk, Va., says: Thunder and lightning, hail and snow and a howling gale were what the people in this vicinity were treated to the other day. This continued all day and changed at 10 o'clock at night to a regular cyckme, the wind blowing upward of flftv-four miles an hour until 5 o'clock that morning. The wind oasae Was eighteen Inches higher than ever recorded before. The United States ship Pensacola Bank in drvdnolr wrU/.*- ?- * _v??, ..mu. o we was Doing prepared for sea. Her sea valves hod been opened for in spection and another one was being cut. The tide flooded tbodock and she filled with water, and, getting off her keel, sank lieforo she could be got in position again. A diver will have to bo sent down and her valves stopped up and the ship pumped out. The Simpson Drydock was flooded and the damage may reach *400??. Tlio lower port of the city was flooded by the tide, and fire broko out on Water street, caused bv slacking limo on tho wharf of John O. Damage 8c Son. The en tiro block, with the exception of Sovago, Sou 8c Co.'s, commission merchants, was in flames. Tho old Cotton Exchange building, containing about 800 bales of cotton, and the warehouse of J. W. Perry & Co., containing about COO bales of cotton, were totally destroyed. Santos & Bro.. coal dealers, lost everything except their office building ;Batchcldor 8c Collins, coal, lumber and lime, are damaged to the amount of $4000, John A. Damage's loss, including building, is $10,000. .The loss on buildings and stock destroyed iu this block is estimated at $150,000, partly insured. It Is firobablo that the losses sustained by tho wholesale grocery merchants from the water forced into tnair warehouses by tho unprecedented tide will nearly equal this amount. Hundreds of barrels or sugar and flour and other goods aro ruined. During the storm the roofs of tho Opera House, Masonic Temple and many dwellings were torn off, and the Virginia Beach Railroad depot is badly injured and the track for hundreds of yards is seriously damaged. In Portsmouth lire destroyed tho limo and lumber yard of Trugie & Hill. Tho wires along tho coast were all down. The snowstorm began at Charlottesville. Va., early in tho morning and continued through the night. The telegraph wires were badly broken down along tho Chesapcako and Ohio and tho Richmond and Danville railroads and all trains were delayed. Tho electric light wires wore down in tho city. Tho worst storm of tho season provailod at Richmond. Va. It commenced with thunder and lightning, and was followed by ruin, hail and snow, augmented by high wind. At nine o'clock tho snow and wind showed no abatement, and reports denoted the storm general throughout tho State. A flirinna 1 *-M 1 -- H4V"TBW1?" uuzzaru pro^atlcil at Winchester, Va,, aj| jgj SWJft* "a loud clap of thundox east startled tho citizens. TheV^^a very liigh all doy. Teleerapli wires wore tlown in nil directions. This is tho severest storm this late in tlio mason for years, i The storm in Washington badly interrupted electrical communication and workmen woro busy all day retiring damaged telegraph and telephouo wires. Thoro aro 884 potcs down between Alexandria and Fredericksburg, Va. The barge Sunrise, bound from Norfolk for New York with coal, was towed to a buoy in Delaware Bay and anchored by the tug B. W. Morse during a heavy gale. At midnight the bargo foundcrod. The Captain, bis wife and two childron and one seaman were tost. Joseph Coyle was tho only survivor of tho wreck. Coylc, in tho open boat drifted ashore near tho Government pier. He was picked up in an exhausted condition by one of tho crew of the Lewos Life-Saving Station. A dispatch from Baltimore says: iteports coming in from the counties in tho State show the storm to have been a very peculiar cue. The snow and rain was accompanied by thunder and lightning, and much damage was done. Near Blount Airy rAin began to fall in torrents and continued until at about 2 i*. u., whon the snow began. In some places it wns from eight to teurinches^leep. A terrific gale of wind wns blowing, and the snow was blinding. A singular feature of tho storm was that while tho snow fell tbero were continuous peals of thunder and vivid flashes of lightniug. From ICnoxviUe down the telegraph poles and wires were strewn in all directions. Throughout tho State nearly all 4ha nriaaa wam /lanm VI.A KA,. ?LA *<**" uvnu, wu cuv WJ U11V nuiu blew a galo. TEMPEST-TORN TAHITI. The Society Island* Swept by Harricaiis and Torrent n. The tamo hurricauo which raged so disastrously over the Samoan Islands March 15 was felt with terrific forco at Tahiti, where the island was swept by wind and flood, and thousands of lives were said to have been lost. The waters poured over the level lands forming the outer portion of the island, and the capital city, Tapoiti, was entirely submerged in the torrent Houses were carried away, the public buildings ruined and devastation was spread everywhere. The interior of the island is mountainous. 8om* oI Um people managed to reach these high lands and thus escaped the flood but the number who perished is far larger and was beyond calculation. The level tracts of land in the island are fertile, and the chief dependence of the inhabitants for food has been upon the fruits IMIU V?gOb:iUICTi I/IIVIU. 1UWJ ' i up were destroyed and tho people who escaped the flood found themselves confronted by the danger of famine. Tahiti is about 1500 miles from Samoa, in an east south-east direction. It is thirtytwo miles long, and the island is under French control. It* capital city, Papeiti, has about a thousand inhabitants. On the Island of Tonga thirty persons perished and the storm did great damage. STANLEYANPiMIN. / A Report That They are Marching To gel her to tho East Coast. Advices reccivod at Brussels, Belgium from Stanley Falls state that Arabs who havi arrived there report that Henry M. Stanley and Binin Pasha were heard from in Febru ,ary. They were then marching towan Zanzibar, witlueveral thousand men, womei and children. They a too had 0000 tasks o ivory. The Aram who brought news o Stanley and Emtn arrived at Stanley Falls ii February. They claimed'do have seen Stan ley several months Itefore that time. : This report, says the N^w York Pott. seem wuea confirmation 01 iw runior, punusiux recently, that Stanley was on his way to th East Coast, and it would also indicate tha he bad safely rejoined Kroiu according to th< iplan mentioned in the letter Just published and that the latter had determined finally V [return to civilization with nil the men women and children attached to his com mand. This would apparently fulfil the mall object of Stanley's expedition, although t her is a political side to it yet to be explained. The Pails Ex|>osition will extend two one one-half miles long and one and one-hat titles wide. It wtUhe opened May 5. THE BIG CELEBRATION. Completed Official Programme of tho Exercises. The fallowing is the official programme of the Washington Centennial Celebration exercises at New York: Wednesday, April 17.?Formal opening of the Loan Exhibition of Historical Portraits in the assembly room of the Metropolitan Opera House, at 8 p. m. Monday, April 2??Arrival of tho President and Cabinet at 11 o'clock, a. v., at Elisabeth port, where they will embark at onus for New York city on the United States steamer Despatch. Governors, Commissioners and otner guests Will embark at 9.8-) o'clock, a. m., on the steamer Erastu* Wiman at the ferry slip foot of West Twenty-third street, and proceed to Eliza bethport and to meet the Despatch and accompany -her to the city. The steamer * ifhe line of United fcftntos war ihfps} yachts" and steamboats will be formed iu the upper bar and after saluting will follow in this oraer: 1, President: 2, Governors aud Com inissioners; 3, other guests. Oil arrival at the foot of Wall street, a barge manned by shipmasters from tho Marine Society of New York. Captain Ambrose Snow, coxswain. will row tk? ,J?* ' j'jvui o iu i kciock a reception will bo Sven tho President by tbo Art Comroitto> at l oan Exhibition rooms in the M-J ,ill ' hi^n*^rM?y 8?CIobo of the Loan Ex( " - 11 ^ NEWSY GLEANINGS Russia has 138 vessels. An ice trust is tho latest. Florida has fresh pineapples Profound peace reigns in Samoa. In America there are 500,000 Jews. Louisville is to have natural gas. Frogs' legs cost fifty cents a pound. Boston cats fifty tons of candy a duy. Chicago receipts of hogs nro increasing. The United States lias ninety-eight vessels,; European crop prospects continue favorable. The number of priests in this country is 6118. Murders are decidedly on the increase in Paris. In Germany there are one million surplus women. A foreign steel rail syndicate is being formed. A strong current of emigration to Chile is noted. In all there are 7030 miles of pipe lines in tho world. Louisiana strawberries are in tho New York market. Cincinnati is paving its streets with Georgia granite. TnE zounvo uniform is to bo abandoned in the French army. The brewery combination in this country has not succeeded. Maud S., queen of the trotting turf, is now fifteen years of age. Tiik annual production of mineral oil is 2000 million gallons. The Hessian fly is destroying tho wheat crop in central Illinois. Gas wells are being struck along tho Rocky Mountains' slope. Farmers aro paying high prices for s eed wheat in tho Northwest. A boom is on in tho City of Mexico and prices of real estate aro high. All, tho election cases in Indiana have been quashed by Judgo Woods. I* ?wU two cent* per oar per mile to run ; electric cars hi New York city. In flvo years there lias been coined in gold , $163,775,000, silver $263,953,000. One thousand locomotives and steamers i are now operated by petroleum. English and German hankers are gobbling up gold territory in South Africa. No Russian liable to military service ia permitted to leavo that country now. Florida has sent 2,000,000 young orango trees to California since last September. The Indiana Legislature refuses to allow ' natural gas to be piped out of tho State. An australian experiment of shipping oranges to London proved very successful. There will bo about ninoty vacancies this year at tho United States Naval Academy. Durino the last sevon years Atlanta, Ga.. * has put nearly $1,000,000 in her streets anil sewers. Tiie Spiritualists of Boston recently cele* brated the forty-first anniversary of modern 9 spiritualism. ^ Nearly two hundred thousand barrels of - apples are lying unsold in tho northern part I of Now York. i Alabama got the first Postmaster apf pointed in tho Southern States under tho now f administration. 9 Trotttno begins to be recognized in England. A track for it is to be established jusl out of Livernool. I A wkwspapkr trust is being organized ir 0 England. Newspaper men lire ordering sup t plies from abroad. b The Chinese are getting ready to build fiS l? miles of railroad, 571 loeoinotivesj 150 coaches r> and 060 cars. AU American make. '' A meat syndicate, to l>o known as th< Am Oilcan Meat Company, has boon organ II lsed in Philadelphia with a capital of &5, 0 000,000. Mr. Kkki.y, of motor fame, announces tlia > he has found the missing link neoessary t< * make the vibratory resonator and ethera generative evaporator a success. ?uw Aiooiuoub asuoro. He will then l>e received bv Chairman i William G. Hamilton, of the Committee on States. The Presidential party will bo escorted to the Kquitable Building, where a collation will be served and a reception given. This will consume the timo from 'J until -l o'clock. After the reception at tho Equitable Building the President and Governors will proceed to the City Hall, under military escort, where thero will be a public I i sveuuun in i ne governor's room, from 4 to 0 o'clock. In tho evening occurs the Centennial Ball. Tuesday. April 30?Services of tlianksgiv ing in tho churches of New York nnd throughout the country at nine o'clock a. m. A special service of thanksgiving will be given at St. Paul's Church at nine o'clock a. m., which the President will attoud. At 10 A. if. the commemorative Centennial oxercikes will take place on tho south front of the Sub-Treasury Building, tho sceno of the inauguration ceremony on April 3d, 1780. The exercises, will consist of prayer by tho Rev. Dr. U. S. Storrs, a poem by John Oreenleaf Whittier, an oration by Chauncey M. Depew anil an address by ('resident Harrison anil benediction by tho Most Rev. Michael Augustino Corrigan, Archbishop of New York. After these exercises tho military parade will take place under command of MajorUeneral John M. Soofleld. The right of lino is given to the military and naval cadets, followed by the troops of the regular army, and tho National Guard in the following order, each State contingent being headed by its Governor and his staff: Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Georgia, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maryland, South Carolina, Virginia, New York, North Caro> Una and Rhode Island. The other States will follow in the ordor in which they were admitted into the Union. Following will be two hundred companies of tho Loyal Legion, and then the posts of the Grand Army. The route will be up Broadway to Waverley place, to Fifth avenue to Fifty-ninth street. The reviewing stand will l>e at Madison Square aud Twenty-fourth street. e A ^ r, FILLING THE OFFICES. Close of tlie Special Session ofth United States Senate, Two Nominations Rejected an Eight Not Acted Upon, Fifteenth Day's Nominations. Jamer, N. Huston, Chairman of the Re publican Stato Committee of Indiana, U be Treasurer of the United States. Ellis H. Roberts,editor of the Utlca (N. Y. Morning Herald, to be Assistant Treasure of the tfnited States at New York city. William F. Wharton, of Massachusetts, t be Assistant Secretary of State. and Docks in the Department of the Navy.b fill a vacancy. L. Bradford Prince, of Santa Fe, Nev Mexico, to ba Governor of New Mexico. Louis A. Walker, of Helena, Mont., to tx Secretary of Montana. James E. Keiley, of Nebraska, to bo Re ceiver of Public Moneys at Bloomington, Neb. George H. Shields, of Missouri, to be Assistant Attorney-General of the United States, vice Zach. Montgomery, resigned. Drury J. Burchett^ of Kentucky, to be Marshal of the United States for the Dis trict of Kentucky. The following confirmations were made bj the Senate: Louis Wolttey, of Arizona, Gov ernor of Arizona; C. T. Ashley, Indian Agent at Cheyenne and Arapahoe, Indian Territory; W. W. Junkin, Indian'Inspector: J. E. Kelly, Receiver of Public Moneys at Bloomington, Nob.; L. A. Walker, Secretary of Montana; J. N. Huston, Treasurer of the United States; E. H. Roberts, Assistant Treasurer at New York; E. H. Terrill, Min ister to Belgium; J. L. Abbott, Minister tc Colombia; C. A Schobey, Indian Agent at Fort Peck, and a large number of xwtmasters. Sixteenth Day's Nominations. Robert J. Fisher, of Chicago, III., to be As HlbUtllb COllimibSlUlioi B, Vance, resigned. Commander Bartlett J. Cromwell to l>o a Captain, Lieutenant-Commander Goorge 1L Durand to be a Commander, Lieutenant Uriel Sebree to bo a Lieutenant-Commander, Lieutenant Moses L. Wood (junior grade) to be a Lieutenant, Ensign James H. Glennon to be a Lieutenant (junior grado), Commander John W. Phillip tc be a Captain, Lieutenant-Commander Frauds M. Barber to be a Commander, Lieutenant Albert R. Conden to a Lieutenant-Commander, Lieutenant David Daniels, (junior grade), to be a Lieutenant; Ensipn Harry 8. Knapp to be a Lieutenant, (junior grade); Pased Assistant Paymaster Josiah It. Stanton to be a Paymaster, Assistant Paymaster Thomas J. Cowio to be a Passed AminUnt Second Lieutenant Harry K. White, Marine Corp3, to be a First Lieutenant. The Senate confirmed tho following nominations: George H. Shields, of Mlssoui*, to bo Assistant Attorney General; Drury J. Bursliett, to be Marshal of Kentucky; Robert J. Fisliar, of Illinois, to be Assistant Commissioner ot Patents: Captain George B. White, to bo Chief of tho Bucasn of Vards end Docks; L. Bradford P-tJre: ?_ .M?'^ ornt^ia.'-1--" ^ -aliu ? John B. Henderson, of Missouri; Cork*. >N. Bliss, ef Now York: William Fiuckuoy Whyto, of Maryland; Clemeut Studebaker, of Indiana; T. JefTersou Coolidge, of Mat sachuset-te; William H. Trescott, of Soutli Carolina; Andrew Carnegie,of Pennsylvania John R. G. Pitkin, of Louisiana; Morris M. Estse, of California, and J. F. llansom, ol Georgia, delegates to tbo Congress of Ameri can Nations to bo held in Washington Novem ber, 188t>. Tlie Naval promotions sont in by the President were also confirmed. Near the close of business Vice-President Morton said: "As tho present occupant of the chair is about to vacate tho chair for tho remainder of tho session, ho desires to avail himself of this opportunity to oxpims liis grateful appreciation of the courtesy and consideration which he has received from overy member of this body. Ho desires also to express tlie liope that ho shall find at the next session of tho .Sonata every Senator in his seat in good health, and thvt ho shall then have an opportunity to resume and continuo tho agreeable relations alroady established.'' Mr. Edmunds then odorcd a resolution that in the absence of tho Vice-President Mr. Ingalls bo chosen lYesident of tbo Senate pro tern. ^ mi! resolution wa9 put oy mo JSecretary and Agreed to without division, and than Mr. Ingalls, escorted by Mr. Edmunds, had the oath of office administered to him by tho Secretary and took the chair, expressing at the same time his grateful acknowledgments to the Senate for tho renewed expression of its conlidencc. The Senato then adjourned sine die by a strange coincidence on tho samo date 011 which it ad journed four years ago, leaving unconfirmed less than a dozen nominations, and among those only two of any importance?that of William Whitemau to be Associate Justice of the Supremo Court of the Territory of Now Mexico, and that of Ed ward Kursheed, to be United States Marshal of the Eastern District of Louisiana. Tho Senate's Work Summarized. Of the 3~>0 nominations sent to the Senab during the special session by President llarri son the following were rejected: Murat Halstead to be Minister to Germany Isauore S. Loventhal to be Postmaster e Modesto, Cal. Tbo following remained unacted upon (an therefore died) at the end of the session: William H. Whiteman tobi Associate Ju tice of the Territory of New Mexico. Edwin 1. Kursheeilt to tie Marshal for tt Eastern District of Louisiana. Postmasters?KittreII O. Haiders at Mino Dak.; Carl O. Crippen at Eustis, Ha.; Bui C. Drake at Gainesville, Fla.; Robert I Debout at Hushvillo, Ind.; George E. Niche son nt Ness City, Kan.; Samuel C. M001 at Findlay, Ohio. President Harrison's nominations we: contained in -84 messages. During the sp cial session of the Senato at the beginning < Pl?,,Jnnr0 lw> oonf f/x 1 Capitol 418 messages. Eighteen of his noin nations failed to receive confirmation, bi there were no rejections. At the Inst sessii of Congress during Hayes's Administratk the Senate failed to act on 1015 of his nom nations, and rejected three?nn utuxjuah record. ___ ANNIHILATED HER FAMILY A Despairing Mother Destroy* Hci golf and Three Children. Mrs. Margaret Kinlein and her tines clil dren were burned to death in their home Milwaukee, Wis., early in the morning. Tl house is a small two story frame buildli two doors from Walnut street, and Mi Kinlein, with her childron, occupied the thr rooms on the lower floor. Upstairs an <1 man named I.awrence Jung lived with I son and two daughters, and they were awn ened about 2 o'clock by the small of smo . which seemed to come from the room belo The son got up and going outside saw smo pouring from the lowor rooms. He smash ' in a window but got no response, and th turned in u fire alarm. In the middle room on the lower floor, t I doors of which had been tightly closed, t i charred bodies of Mrs. Kinlein and two soi John and George, aged six and four years snectively, were found, l.ater the body ' the infant son Richard, ago 1 two years, * found in the basement, a bole having burn through tflb lloor, through which the bo had fallen. There was every indication tt I the mother hod delihec.itely burned here j and her children to death by building a t J beneath the bed in which they all slept. M Kinlein lost her husband about a year ago A REJECTED NOMINEE. Marat Unlstead. Whom the Senate Refused to Send to Germany. IJ Murat Halstead, nominated by President 9 Harrison for Minister to Germany, and re. jected by the Senate, is one of the best-known . figures in American journalism. He wa? born in North Carolina in lS^O, but moved to > Cincinnati with his parents in 1S43. He be1 gan life as an ottice-boy und then became a reporter. Later he entered Farmers' College, ' and continued to contribute to the newspapers. He worked on several papers after leaving college, and in 1>>.j4 became a memr lscr of the firm which owned tho Cincinnati Commercial, a paper afterward consolidated ' with the Gazette. 1 Mr. Halstead has for many years been a > force in Ohio Republican politics, although ' he has made somo remarkable changes of r opinion. He strongly criticised General Grant's course during the war and was op posed to the use of colore 1 troops. He was ' one of the Liberal Republicans who sup ported Horace Greeley for tho Presidency in 1 187^. He was formerly an opponent of Mr. ' Blaine, but is now a warm friend of the Secretary of State. Six of the Republican Senators?Messrs. Quay, Toller, Jugalls, Plumb, Evarts and llawes?arw uudojuLuiud tohavo voted avainst Blackburn nud Call?for him, inakliigltha vote *25 to Id against confirmation. Eleven Hepublican Senators in all are said to have been ready to vote against him if moro voter to reject nod been required. The Republican opposition to Mr. llalstead was because of attacks upon Republican United 8tate3 Senators which he had made in his paper a few years ago for rofusing to investigate charges of bribery in connection with Senator Payne's election by the Ohio Legislature. THE PARNELL COMMISSION, Sir Charles Russell Mak.cs His Opening Speech Tor the Defense. The Parnell Commission resumod its sitting in London. Sir Charles Russell opened the case for the Parnellite?. He declared tnat the testimony of the 310 witnesses produced !>y Attorney-General Webster, leading counsel for the Times, was irrelevant. Ho admitted that crime prevailed in Ireland to n greater or less degree, and said that the colJapse ol tlie_2iui/is's caaa in fch* nwtur be infeaslhle. Judicial ' the time had come to try tho experiment ol ' home rule in Ireland. A RUSH FOR LAND. Many Thousands of Settlors Seeking, Homesteads in Oklahoma. A flood of applications for immigrant rates to Oklahoma is pouring into the StLouis railr&dd' offlcoi There is only roont for 10,000 homesteads, nnd applications for over 30,000 persons seeking low rates of transportation from St Louis have been received. Much suffering is anticipated this coining summer and fail among the shut-out pilgrims, many of whom will undoubtedly "move on' to Texas and Kansas. PROMINENT PEOPLE. Kino John of Abyssinia is dead. The Pope is a very fine chess player. Secretary Windom is worth $5,000,000. Senator Stanford is worth $40,000,000. P. T. Barncii began poor and "has now $5,000,000. Emperor Franz Josf.f is to visit Berlin about the middle of August. The Empress of Japan lias abandoned her intention of visiting tnis country. The Prince of Wales has accepted an invitation to dine with Mrs. Bonanza Maekay. Herat Haestead, editor of the Cincinnati Commercial-Gazette, is a sufferer from erysipelas. Mrs. Amelia Rives-Chaneer, the authoress, is just twenty-six years old, having been born hi 1803. Bismarck looks pale and haggard and has gr< iwn ten years older in nppcaraneo in the last twelve months. Thk Emperor of Austria lias given orders that his dead son's name shall never again ho spoken in his hearing. ,t Tiik late John Bright hail on the walls of his study a i>ortrnit of Gladstone, one of Lind coin and one of Washington. Stonknva rAj J acksox's widow is now living s" In Randolph County, N. C., with her father, ia who is ninety-one years of age. King Alexander, of Sorvia. is a tall, well-built boy, but awkward and shy. He rt takes much interest in natural sciences. P- Admiral Ktmberly, who is in command 1- of our Pacific squadron, is fifty-nine years of ro age, six feet in height, well profiortioned, and quick in all his movements, ro - ., . . . . . . . sm w ihe latnuy 01 assisrnnr rosnnnster-itcn:>f srol Clarksoii is composed of flvo jiersons? ,10 himself, Mrs. Clnrkson and three sons. The ,j. ?1(lest son is eighteen years of ago and the uj; youngest six. m Thf. will of the late John Hcott. of Pit torn (mrg, President of the Allegheny Valley Kaili tvny, leaves nothing to his wife, while his id Uiroe sons get only ?1 each. The estate is rained at Miss Clara Huntington, the daughter of f, llio railway magnate, has 94,000,000 of her >wn, and will inherit four or five times as p_ much. She is about twenty-three years old md goes but little into society. Ward MrAi.lister tho famed leader of I'* ilio Four Hundred Aristocrats of Gotham, is at dose on to sixty years of age. Ho is a tall, i,e well-built limn, with a brown mustache and jontce, slightly streaked with gray. ONE of the closest students of tho Tndian problem and one of the l>est inforrued persons fj in the country in matters relating to the In'V' lions is Ml?; Koto Drexel, of FriihuMphla. l lio Indian in her hobby, and she is said to jive 9100,(XX) a year out of her own income tc '.lie Indian Department at Washington. Chano Fan Moail the interpreter at^ Niched to the Chinese I ligation at WashingIon. is described as a ciirantic blonde China nan, with u profile 'an regular an a Greek he ifatue. Ho comes from the north of China, j,e where, owing to the severity of the surnptuM try laws, the race is kept intact as to its unit'. isiial size and jKvnliar attributes. of Mrk. Eixa Ci.ymek, tho now President of r*? porosis, Is said to !>o tho handsomest member >f that highly intellectual organization of "7 women in New York. Hhe has a sweet, Ma"Ji lonna-like face, big dark eyes, and a soft, I' jow voic e. Mrs. Clyiner is a widow, who was eft a large fortune by her husband, fthe x>ssesse* exquisite taste in dress, and is. in * 'act, an ideal Provident,