University of South Carolina Libraries
P. T. BARITCM. Phineas Taylor Barnum died a few even ings ago at Marina, his beautiful home by the Sound, Bridgeport, Conn., as the hands on the big old-fashioned clock in the hallway close by his bed pointed to thirty-two min utes after six o’clock, and thus death con quered in the long struggle which the veteran snowman had so gallantly carried on for the last fifteen weeks. A decided change for the worse occurred at 11 o’clock the night before. Mr. Barnum’s heart action, pulse and respiration grew sensibly feebler. At 4 o’clock next mornipg be relapsed into a semi-conscious condition. From that time till his death he was un conscious. Mr. Barnum had no organic disease. His sickness began with a cold. The weakness of age made it impossible for him to regain his strength. Warned by his long sickness, nearly an the family were at his bedside. Mr. Barnum leaves a widow, who was his second wife. By his first wife he had three daughters. The eldest, Mrs. D. W. Thompson, wife of a retired Custom House officer, lives at No. 107 West Ninety-third street. New York. A second daughter, Mrs. Nathan Seely, died several years ago, leaving two sons, Clinton Barnum Seely and Herbert Barnum Seely, jypH one daughter. The two grandsons are the only two male heirs of the great show man. The last words the old showman said to Mr. Fish, his Secretary, were eminently characteristic: ‘•Ben,” said he, “you don’t impress it enough on the public that the show is to go on for the next fifty years, whether I live or die.” “What were the receipts yesterday?” he asked. “Good,” said Mr. Fish, “the largest we ever had in New York.” Then, when the sick man had assured him self that neither nurse or clerk was in the room to overhear, he had Mr. Fish give him the exact figures. “Yes,” was his comment, “that’s good,but it isn’t up to the receipts of the Olympia in London,” mentioning the exact figures, thus showing the wonderful tenacity of his mind, unaffected by the direct bodily extremity. Mr. Barnum’s fortune is estimated at 115.000,000. He desired only the plainest funeral. A plain, deal coffin covered with black cloth is what he wanted. He would not listen to the proposal that his body should lie in state. cot Sketch of His Life. Phineas Taylor Barnum was born in Beth- , Conn., July 5, 1810. His father was country innkeeper and a merchant nail way. Phineas, from the age of “ to eighteen years, was in many J part of the time in Bi lew York. E NEWS EPITOMIi laatern and Middle States. fStockbridge (Mass.) Savings Bank_ pn placed in the bands of a receiver. ~ Trimble, a well-known Custom official, shot and killed himself at his >, Brooklyn, N. Y. Dixoif and his grandson were led at Dover, N. H. .kdrew Carnegie, the millionaire steel .ing, was arrested at Pittsburg on a bench warrant, issued by the Lawrence County Court, for contempt. He gave bonds for his appearance. Henry M. Stanley has returned to New York City, having completed his lecture tour under the management of Major J. B. Pond. Stanley was accompanied by his wife and her mother. Mrs. G. B. R. Tennant; Ernest Kendth, the courier, and Saleh Ben Osman the Zanzibar boy. Fire broke cut in Jacob Schwarz's dry goods store in the Central Hotel building. New London, Conn. The flames spread rap idly and the occupants of the hotel escaped in their night clothes, save one, Michael Daley, aged seventy, father of the Daley Brothers, proprietors of the hotel. He was suffocated by the dense smoke. The total loss is estimated at $40,000. Milton Kauffman, a young man of Lan caster. Penn., died recently under mysteri ous circumstances, and ten days afterward his brother Harry died from the same symp toms, which resembled arsenical poisoning. Their father said that Harry hod confessed to him that be and his brother had taken poison with the object of dying together. The boy would give no explanation of the act. Benjamin D. Horton, a retired wealthy merchant of Brooklyn, committed suicide. His son killed himself a few months ago. _ Captain Loar and thirteen of his depu ties, who shot down the strikers at More- wood, Penn., have been arrested, charged with murder. Baumgardner, Eberman & Co.,coal and lumber dealers at Inncaster, Penn., have as signed, with liabilities of several hundred thousand dollars. A forest fire near Plymouth, Mass., de stroyed over 1000 acres of young pine and oak timber. The Republicans were successful in the by-election in Providence, R. I. The fiftieth anniversary of the first issue of the New York Tribune was celebrated at the Metropolitan Opera House; addresses were made by W. H. McElroy, George Williams Curtis, Charles A. Dana, William McKinley, Jr., Chauncey M. Depew and R. G. Horr jastraos Night Blaze ia Rochester, Penn. South and West. The United States steamship San Fran cisco sailed from San Francisco Cal., for Chili. Charles G. Lincoln, cashier of the Hill City (South Dakota; Bank, has mysteriously disappeared. The bank is closed and there is no clew to the whereabouts of the cashier. The amount of the defalcation is unknown. The Memphis (Tenn.) merchants, Toof, McGowan & Co., made an assignment as sets estimated at $375,000, liabilities, $136,000. ALL the business houses on the north side of the square of Stepbensville. Texas, have been burned, including the postoflice. William Wallace. Postmaster of In dianapolis. died a few days ago from a com plication of heart and kidney diseases. He was born in Brookville, Ind., in 1825. The Indiana Supreme Court decided that where candidates for public offices receive an equal number of votes, the election may be determined by the drawing of lots. The first train passed through the great International tunnel at Port Huron, Mich. The train entered from Canada, passed through to the American portal and re turned. The approaches will be completed for traffic in about two months. Two Kansas towns elected women police justices. Mrs. Mary T. Burton, formerly editor of the Kansan and at present. Post mistress, was elected Police Judge at James town. Cloud County, and Mrs. Jessie Mc Cormick, of Burr Oair, Jewell County. Both strong Prohibitionists. .mpton Nelson and Gentry Butler, eol- [, were hanged at Sumter, S. C., on a )le gallows, for the murder of Captain Maxey, a well known planter, a few Ail Italian Family Nearly Ex terminated by the Fire. A dispatch from Rochester, Penn., says that in a fire on a recent night a large frame structure, on New York street, belonging to John F. Smith, in which was located the tea and coffee store of George Edwards, the mil linery store of Mrs. Hall and the shoe shop and dwelling of G. J. Keene, were destroyed. An Italian family lived over the millinery store. The fire started in the kitchen of Keene’s place and he and his son Walter, aged nine, were overpowered by the smoke and were not discovered until too late to save them. Ths other persons mentioned escaped, but a number of Italians occupying the upper rooms of a portion of the building were burned to death with the exception of Maria Tec- chio, sixteen years old, who escaped by leaping from an upstairs window. She gave the following as the names of those who lost their lives; Vittoria Tecchio, aged thirty-seven, her uncle; Anna Tecchio, aged thirty-five, her mothes; Baptisto Tecchio, aged forty, her fath^t Rosa and Fannie Tecchio. aged eight and two, her sisters; Josef Tecchio, aged thirteen, her brother, and Josef Raema, aged thirty-five, a boarder. Maria Tecchio, who escaped by jumping from the second story, was not seriously in jured. She remembers little of the frightful struggles of her family. She says that when she awoke the fire was burning below and their rooms were filled with smoke. She slept in the back room, her mother and chil dren in the middle room, and her father and his brother and Josef Raema, both visitors, occupied the front room. Maria tried to arouse her people, but they were already asphyxiated. She stayed until the fire burned her an 1 she was compelled to jump for her life. All the bodies have been recovered. Each body is burned beyond rec ognition. There is no definite idea as to how the fire started, but it is the opinion of the authorities, and it seems to be the .correct one, that a lamp left burning by Mr. Keene in the kitchen exploded and fired the house. There appeared to be no in dication of incendiarism. The total loss is $10,000, which is fully covered by insurance. One hundred and fifty dollars in gold were found in the ruins, supposed to have belonged to the Italians. Maria Tecchio says that there is $500 more in the ashes. Keene was a shoemaker, and was forty years old. EDMUNDS RESIGNS. The Vermont Senator Retires After Twenty-five Years of Public Life. Senator George F. Edmunds, of Vermont, who has been in the Senate of tbs United States since April, 1866, and nearly, if not quite, all of that time one of the Republican leaders, has resigned, the resignation to take ' ^ He ' ere is a copy the effect on November 1 next, ot his letter tendering his resignation to Governor of Vermont: “U. S. Senate, Washington, April 6, 189L “Sir: Considerations entirely personal lead me to tender to you as Governor of the State of Vermont my resignation of the Office of Senator of the United States, the resignation to take effect on the first day of November, A. D., 1891. This action has beep for some time in contemplation and i» finally decided upon and communicated to you at this time in order that there may be ample time to hear and consider the views of the people of our State in respect to the selection of my successor. In thus terminat ing my official relations witn the State, I beg to express to her steadfast, intelligent and patriotic citizens my profound gratir for the long and unwaverii ~ and support they have an eventful period in many far as I f fare. PB( ;nt people. The Governor-General of Canada costs the people of that Dominion nearly $1,000,- Count Leo Tolstoi, the Russian author, reads, writes and receives his friends in his bedroom. Andrew Carnegie, the Pittsbnrg iron master, has given a $2500 library to a town on the Orkney IslA Senator-elect Hlmer, of Illinois, is a man of only modVte fortune, his estate being estimated to M worth $100,000. Ex-Emperor Do* Pedro, of Brazil ac companied by his daughter and grandson, visited Queen Victoria at Grasse, France. Count Schouvaloff, the Russian Am bassador in Berlin, reports to the Czar that his post is untenable, and begs to be recalled. Emin Pasha has been beard from. A car avan sent to the coast by him has arrived at Bagamoyo. It brings a consignment of ivory valued at $20,000. Pasteur, the French scientist, is famous for his absent miudeduess. It is said that he would frequently forget to eat his dinner if some one aid not remind him of it. Adelaide Ristorl the Italian actress, is nearly seventy years old, but she is still a beautiful woman. Her figure is straight and graceful and her voice strong and clear. Squire Beasley, of Aberdeen. Ohio, has married more than 5000 runaway couples within twenty-one years. The Squire is now eighty-two years old, and hale and hearty. Senator Washburn, of Minnesota, has so many Scandinavians in his constituency that he has decided to visit Norway and Sweden this summer to study the original stock. Dr. Wm. I. Harris, the United States Commissioner of Education, is a tall, straight and rather thin man. His beard is short and all gray. He speaks rapidly and easily and is a very entertaining talker. Ernest Hornung, the new Australian writer whose work is becoming very popular in England, is a mere boy in years, not yet having reached the age of twenty-one. He began to write stories in despair of making a success in mercantile life. The late General Albert Pike was an un known man when he first got into the maga zines. He was a pioneer in the wilds of Arkansas when his “Hymns to the Gods,” published in Blackwood’s Magazine, excited the admiration of literary Europe. John Stephenson, of New York, who built the first American horse car, is more than eighty years old, but still vigorous and energetic. His mind is yet busy with inven tions, and he can accomplish as much work in a day as a man many j'ears his junior. Mrs. T. Dewitt Talmage is a busy wo man, most of her time being devoted to help ing her husband in his literary and pastoral work. She takes entire charge of her hus band’s mail and is frequently up soon after day-break to open it. Many of his letters she answers herself. Both the parents of Congressman Mc Kinley are living at the old home in Clinton, Ohio, aged eighty-four and eighty-two re spectively. The Congressman is the baby of the family, at the age of fifty-four. He has a brother who is Consul at Hawaii, and the two brothers have not met in fifteen years. Frank Stockton, the author, dictates all his novels at the rate of 1000 words a morn ing. He has the entire plot of the novel, with its dramatic situations and even por tions of the conversations, mapped out in bis head before he has a word of it put on paper. He is a dark-faced man, with jet black hair and dark eyes. Humbert I., King of Italy, was born March 14, 1844, and was the eldest son of Victor Emanuel, the first King of United Italy. He succeeded his father in 1878. He married in 1868 his cousin, Margherita, daughter of Ferdinand, Duke of Genoa. The heir apparent, Victor Emanuel, Prince of Naples, was bom in 1869. [VERSABY. ^tion at Wash- President. Congress of of Patented "the beginning the American ' NEWSY GLEANINGS. England needs rain. Canada has 5,250,000 people. There are 37,730 pension agents. Five British regiments wear kilts. Pomona, Cal., has 120 artesian wells. Italy has an army of 1,200,000 men. Influenza is again raging in Berlin. St. Louis has twenty-eight railroads. Many Pittsburg horses have the grip. Silver has been found near Peoria, 111. The war cloud is rising up again Europe. Canada will drill 45.000 militia this year. Petroleum has been struck at Goshen, Ind. Farmers’ Alliance co-operative stores spread. There are 208,749 railroad bridges in the United States. j Paris monks will leave for Algeria to fight the slave trade. Only 2044 foreigners have been natural ized in Mexico since 1828. Yellow fever is raging at Rio Janeiro, Brazil, in a virulent form. Austria’s changes in Government will make her practically a republic. Evidence has been adduced showing that a Mafia society exists in London. Kansas’s output of coal last year was 50,- 000,000 bushels, valued at $3,200,000. The present number of Italians in this country is estimated at about 300,000. The Pope expresses his satisfaction over the Parnellito defeat in Sligo, Ireland. In California now a man convicted of wrecking a train may be punished by death. Natural gas has been reported among the recent discoveries in the Argentine Repub lic. 1 A cargo of over 300 half-bred horses has been sent to England from the Argentine Republic. Reports from Italy are that the orange and lemon crops will be reduced fully seventy- five per cent. Dubuque (Iowa) physicians report the successful use of Koch’s lymph m pneu monia cases. Leading statesmen vnd diplomats in Euro pean capitals regard the political situation as serious. The Arkansas Legislature adjourned without making an appropriation for the World’s Fair. The French Government will add com mercial attaches to the staffs of its em bassies and legations. The Duke of Marlborough has bought six American trotting horses for breeding pur poses at a cost of $20,000. California, in a total population of 1,208,130, has 71,681 Chinese, a decrease of Chinese in ten years of 3451. Premier Rudini has telegraphed to the Italian Consuls in the United States to act with calmness and pi udence. The New York Conference of the Metho dist Episcopal Church voted against the admission of women as delegates. It is reported that the rice crop of 1890-91 in Georgia and Carolina is one of the small est raised in those States since the war. Newfoundland is discriminating in favor of American fishermen against Canadians, allowing the former free bait while charging the latter for it. The money in the Texas State Treasury has been counted in the presence of a com mittee of the Legislature. There was found to be $2,430,036 in cash and $8,281,579 in State and county bonds invested in the school fund. The amount of general revenue on baud is $1,593,000. THE LABOR WORLD. SABBATH SCHOOL INTERNATIONAL LESSON FOR APRIL 20. Lesson Text: “Nineveb Brought to Repentance.” Jonah iiL, 1-10 Golden Text: LuJte xl. f * 32—Commentary. Italy has 300,000 idle people. Paris has women street cleaners. New York has a peddlers’ union. Wisconsin has adopted Labor Day New York has a Japanese carpenter. New York furniture workers have a glee club. New York carvers will open a co-opera tive shop. Beaver Falls, Wis., has a co-operative flint glass oompat The Mayor of! : the« 1. "And the Word of the Lord came unto Jonah the second time, saying,” From the belly of the fish Jonah cried unto the Lord, and the Lord heard him, and spake unto the fish, and it vomited out Jonah upon the dry land (chap, ii., 1, 10). Jonah’s prayer is largely made up of quotations from the Psalms, as many as eight or ten different Psalms being quoted from (see marginal ref erences), teaching us that afflictions open up the mine of Scripture, and make real to us words before unheeded (Ps. cxix., 67, 71). If Jonah in the fish's belly was not hid from God’s sight and hearing, where can we hide from Him (Ps. cxxxix., 7-10)? Observe the obedience of the fish. At the word of the Lord it swallows Jonah, and at the word of the Lord it casts him out. Consider also the little fish of Matt, xvii., 27, and the multi tude of John xxi, 0, and ask vourself if like them you know no will but Uis. 2. “Arise, go unto Nineveh, that great city.” How very gracious of the Lord to come to him the second time with the same message (chap, i., 2) 1 How very patient and long suffering He is with us! “And preach unto it the preaching that I bid thee.” This is the whole responsibility of every preacher, for we are simply messen gers of the Lord of Hosts. “Thou shalt go to all that I shall send thee, and whatsoever I command thee thou shalt speak.” “Son of man, go, get thee unto the house of Israel, and speak with My words unto them.” “Now therefore go, and I will be with thy meuth, and teach thee what thou shalt say.” And our Lord Himself testifies that the Father gave Him a commandment what He should say and speak (Jer. i.,7; Ezek. iii., 4; Ex. iv., 12; John xil, 49). How careful we should be to get our message correctiy, and speak it faithfully in the power of the Holy Spirit! 3. “So Jonah arose and went into Nineveh, according to the Word of the Lord.” Now he is obedient. This is what he should have done at first instead of going to sea. By his willfulness he has lost much precious time and grieved his Lord. But let us take it to ourselves. Are we obedient to the word of the Lord, or wasting time and grieving the Spirit by our waywardness and disobedi ence? 4. “And Jonah bejjan to enter into the city a day’s journey. Many days had he journeyed from the seashore across the coun try (look at your map and note the distance! and much time had he for meditation and communion with his God. However lonely the way and long the journey, he had the consciousness that he was doing the will of the Lord and that the Lord had sent him “And he cried and said. Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.” What a strange cry for a lone man in a great and prosperous and wicked city! Who would give heed to him? who would believe him? Would they not arrest and imprison him as a disturber of the peace? With these things he had nothing to do; he was simply deliver ing his master’s message, and his master would see to all else. 5. ‘ ‘So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sack cloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.” God was with His servant, the Spirit of God was ia the message, and where the word of a king is there is power (Eccl. viii., 4). One man with God was a majority in this case, and so also was it at Pentecost, when through Peter 3000 became truly penitent and accepted Jesus of Naza reth as Saviour and Lord and Messiah (Acts ii., 41). But here is a whole city of half a million of people affected by the word of one man—no, it is not the word of a man, it is from the mouth of a man, but the words are the words of God. It does not say that the people belifeved Jonah, but that they believed 6. “For word came unto the king of Nin eveh, and he arose from his throne, and he laid his robe from him, and covered him with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.” So the word of the Lord through this humble man reached even the heart of the king on his throne, and he humbles himself before God, RELIGIOUS READING. THE MOTHER'S THAYER. Lord, give me this soul! I have waked for it when I should hav« slept, I have yearned over it and 1 have wept. Till in iny own the thought of it has sway All through the night and day. Lord, give me this soul! If I might only lift its broken strands. To lay them gently in Thy loving bands: If I might know it had found peace in Thee, What rest, what peace to me! Thou wilt give me this soul, Else with the joy, the grief, the doubt, the pain. The thought perpetual the one refrain. The ceaseless longing that upon Thy breast The tempest-tossed may rest? Dear Lord, give* me this soul! A CHANCE FOR ALL TO WORK. , / It does not require a giant to sow a seed»> nor a steam shovel or trip-hammer to bury it in the ground. A litt'e child can drop corn as well as Goliath, and it onlj r needs to be covered lightly and gently patted down ami tbeu the sunshine and the rain does the rest. Just so the good seed of God does not need giants, orators or great men to sow it. A word may be spoken by a little child; a tract may be dropped by the wayside, or en closed and sent through the mail; a letter may be written, and papers may be distrib uted by the feeblest, and so in a multitude of ways, humble and insignificant and un known persons way do[work,the importance of which none but the Lord can measure. A few pennies for Scriptures or tracts is all the capital or stock in trade required to begin, and when these are carefully dis tributed, with prayer for a blessing, then a new supply can be obtained, and the work can still be further extended. Here is some thing for every one to do, and when once done only the Lord can tell bow vast and how blessed the results may be. How many are there who stand ready to undertake such work as this? How many who are saving, hLord, what wilt thou have me to do?” and yet neglecting work which is clearly within their reach, within their means and within their power, and which can do no hurt, aid may do great good? THY STATUTES HAVE BEEN MY SONG. When some great sorrow is our portion, there are no considerations that furnish com fort like those which are drawn directly from Scripture. We use all possible means to avert impending evil, but find ourselves utterly helpless. Grief comes; no earthly power can hinder its approach. Under such circumstances it is well for us, if by long and prayerful study of the Bible we are familiar with the precise book, chapter and verse suited to the hour. “I-will flee as a bird to my mountain,” cries the stricken soul. When trouble or danger is near, there is an instinct, united with experience, that impels the bird to seek some mountain of safety. So it is with us. Added to deep spiritual instinct, there is a life-long experience that points the way. Our “mountain” is the holy word. We do not fly thither as into a strange country, losing ourselves amid sharp, un friendly ledges of rock. We have learned just where are the “strong habitations wbere- unto we mav continually resort.” There as “in the shadow of a great rock in a weary land,” we find not only rest, but delight also. There many a heart surprises all around by its outburst of song, having fled from its bitter griefs to this place of security. There is nothing like the blessed Bible. Happy is every one who owns this Book, not simply in the ordinary sense of possession, but in the sense of receiving its entire con tents for spiritual edification. If endowed with earthly wealth one may take delight; how much more when possessed of such treasures! True it is, the songs of a Bible- loving heart are songs for the night of ad versity as well as for the day of sunshine. breakihg down. Working for God is often painful as well as humbling. It entails suffering, and we are fitted for it by suffering. Why is thist Because the suffering brings us into closer fellowship with our I^^Bwho was the Man of Sorrow** bec.-tusfl^^Hi^jukUAio sj