The News and Observer VOL. XXXVIII. NO. 1-V. TOE BJS\GB(BEST ©IMtgQJJILMTOK] (BE AKIY MO3TM Sz&CMJILOIiM IMOQX THE EPWORTH LEAGUE SKRTCH OF ITS ORGANIZATION— Ui OF ITS NAME AND ITS I RULE-FOLD OBJECT. IN SESSION nr CHSTTSNOO'uN. Three Thousand People Attend the Sunrise Prayer Meeting on Lookout Mountain-— Chattanooga Thronged With the Followers of Whiskey- Rev. Mr. Turrentiue, of Winton, Pleads for Sacred Instead of Secular Song* By Godless Choirs. Chattanooga, Term., June 29. —Three thousand people attended the sunrise prayer meeting held on Lookout Moun tain this morning. Every train on both roads from 2 a. m. till day light was crowded. The devotions were led by Col. Fran* A. Hardin, of Freeport, Ills. Hie Illinois delegation at a meeting to day unanimously elected Dr. S. A. Stell, General Secretary of the Southern Branch, a member of the Illinois Con ference of the League. Rev. W. B. Murrah, of Jackson, Miss., presided over the assembly meeting in the tent this morning. Rev. H. L Kin dig, of Lebeon, Ind., leading the devo tions. Rev. Chas. Stuart, of Chicago, spoke first on “Spirit of Methodistism,” followed by S. B. Turrentme, of Win ston, N. C , in line with a strong under current against classical music. The lat ter speaker said: “We must guard against the use of secular hymns as sung by a Godless chorus. ” The Park sisters, Cornelists. of Boston, are favorites with the conference. “Methodist fervor,” was ably discussed by C. A. Littlefield, of Watertown, Mass , who furnished an apt illustration of his subject. Gen. Secretary, S. V. Crews, of Canada, spoke of “Catholicity,” taking the place of N. W. Boswell, who was absent, while Rev. G. W. Kirby, of Toronto, closed with a solo. Toronto Canada, and Seattle, Washington, are represented by strong delegations, pulling for the next place of meeting. The afternoon tent service was pre sided over by Rev. John H. Coleman, of Albany, N. Y. An interesting devo tional programme was carried out. At 7:30 p. ip. came the junior league— The children's hour. President, Rev. W. H. Mickle, of Poughkeepsie, N. Y. The report of the committee on resolu tions and present by the secretary. This committee is composed of Bishop I. W. Joyce, Bishop C. B. Galloway, Rev. R. N. Burns, Rev. Jesse Bowman Young, Rev. J. W. Newman, Rev. Geo. Bond, Rev. J. E. Price, J. R. Pepper and N. W. Powell The resolutions as follows were adopted section by section, in order read: In section I—we recommend that the next biennial session of the Interna tional Conference of the Ep worth Lea gue be held in the city of Toronto Canada. After the election of the meeting place had been ratified with great demonstrativeness by the conference Rev. 8. V. Crew, League Secretary for Canada, arose and thank ing the conference for its consideration lauded the claims of Toronto to the skies. But one other city made a bid for the convention that was Seattle, Washington. A strong delegation from the coast town came with a guarantee from the city council of SIO,OOO towards expenses of the meeting and railroad fare beyond the Missouri river. Sec. 2. Resolved, that the conference rejoices at the friendship and brotherly love that has prevailed throughout this conference. Sec. 3 Resolved, that we are unal terably committed to the prohibition of the liquor traffic, and that we are de termined to fight the saloon until this deadly foe is destroyed in the land. This resolution was adopted standing, amid th° waving of handkerchiefs. Sec. 4.—We exhort our young people to c ultivate their eva gelistic gifts and to co-operate with their pastors in the work of bringing sinners to repentance. Let us not neglect this duty of saving the lost. Sec. 5 We believe that uniform prayer meeting topics and uniform Bible topics ought to be used by the three gnat leagues represented in th : s conference. Sec. 6. We urge the Epworth leaguers to make large use of their denominations, theological literature. Sec 7. We exhort our young people to study the questions of government and to do everything in their power to expe dite the cause of good citizenship. Sec 8 We urge Epworth leaguers every where to do all in their power to maintain the sacredness of the Sabbath * day. \ See. 9 Took the form of a message of i fraternal greeting to the International convention of the society of Christian Endeavor in session in Boston, from the 15,000 Epworthians assembled in Chat tanooga. tr* Ju Rev. J. N. Cole, pastor of Edenton p street Methodist Church, Raleigh, wl e is in Chattanooga attending the annual . meeting of the Epworth League, writes a that it is a great occasion—full of iater- t H est and profit. A copy of the Chatta 1 , nooga Times sent by him is handsomely ' ‘ and profusely illustrated with pictures of 1 the leading delegates in attendanoe. The leading BisYops of the Northern and Southern churches are in attendance and ten thousand |>eople were present at the first service. There is in the Southern Methodist church alone more than 10(1,- 000 members of the Epworth League aipl there are many limes more in the Northern and Canadian Methodist ohurehes. The hast steps towards the o 'gau ar fciou of the young people of the Southern church were made at the geUeral confer ence of the year 1890, when the Sundav school board was authorized to orgat J ize young people’s socities. The general conference of 1894 erected this branch of Sunday school work into a distinct department of church work. From the very first the movement leaped into favor, and under the arrangement of last year the power and influence of the societies were greatly extended. The societies are under the direction of a board of management known as “the Epworth League Board,” of which Bishop R. K. Hargrove is president. The Bishop has always manifested a lively interest in the young people. To him is largely due the rapid increase of interest in the league work in the South. “The name “Epworth” links the leagues of modern Methodism to the home of the founder of Methodism, John Wesley, who was born in the old £p worth rectory, England. The designa tion, “League,” recalls the saying of John Wesley, “I desire a league offensive and defensive with every soldier of Jesus Christ.” This name was assigned to the organization by the board of control, and immediately it met with favor. The object of the organization is three fold—to develop personal piety, to pro mote works of charity and to cultivate studious habits. Is a word the object .’s to promote loyalty to God, church and the State. The promoters of the league feel that the young people of the church are kept Lom the ways of sin better by directing and encouraging them in rigl t doing than by merely forbidding the wrong way They feel that to get the best results in dealing with the young that the profoundest motive must be set forth—a death to shun and a life to gain. To this end the course of reading in cludes biography, history and revelation, the best available. The social, as well as the Intellectual, is attended to. Also the broadest opportunity is given for the exercises of the charitable turn. THE TREASURY DEFICIT. Had me House Bill Passed it Would Have Been $3,000,000. Washington, D. 0., June 29.—The fiscal year 1894-5 ended today and from officsal and semi official figures obtained at the Treasury Department which will not vary more than $250,000 either way from the figures finally announced, the government revenues and receipts for the fiscal year can be stated. The receipts are as follows: 1894-5, $312,500,000; 1893-4, $297,722,019; 1892-3, $385,819,628. The expenditures for the same year were as follows : 1894 5, $356,000,000; 1893 4, $367,525,279; 1892-3, $383,477,- 954. The deficit for the past two ficial years were as follows: 1894-5, $43,- 500,000; 1893-4, $63,803,260. For the year 1892-3, the receipts over revenue amounted to only $2,394,674 Prior to that year there had been an excess in receipts over expenditures for every fiscal year since 1865, the lowest excess in all these years up to 1892-3 having been in the year 1874, when the receipts exceeded the expenditures by only $2,344,882. For tire present fiscal year ending to day, Secretary Carlisle on December 3d, 1894, estimated that the deficiency would $20,000,000. As shown the official figures this estimate was more than $23,- 000,000 out of be way, due largely to the elimination of the income tax trora revenue. Had the House bill with sugar, iron and coal, placed on the free list, be come a law, the actual deficit for the present fiscal year, instead ot being over $43,000,000, would have been over $33,- 000,000. On February 2, 1895, Secretary Car lisle, in an estimate furnished to Con gress, stated that for the calendar year, 1895, the surplus revenue over expendi tures, would amount to $22,563,023. Six mouths of this period have now passed, and the deficit for this six months is $16,750,000. Assistant Secretary Curtis, in a pub lished statement, estimated that the deficit up to December Ist, 1895, would be $35,000,000. This estimate was made after the in come tax had been declared unconstitu tional by the United States Supreme Court. It was based upon the increased appropriations made by the last Con gress, which goes into effect July Ist, aud which iuclude five million dollars for the sugar bounty, and increase in teract charges on account of the several 1 ond issues aggregating $162.400,C00. For this month of July which begins Monday it is estimated by the Treasury, if receipts continue normal, that the expenditures will exceed the re ceipts by about 12,000,000 or 13.000.000 dollars, July being an interest paying month, and the payments on account of pensions being also especially heavy. For the month of June just ended the receipts have exceeded the expenditures by nearly $2,000,000, the first month since last August, when this has been the case. 1 ELI GRAPHIC BRIEF#. The quarantine against Bau iton, V>.J was raised yesterday. Treasury balances: Coin, $104,947,- 936; currency, $87,074,000. Gen. Green Olay Smith died at 1 o’clock yesterday in Washington, D. O. Congressman H. St. George Tucker, of Virginia, is the father of twins, a boy and a girl. The Newport News shipyard has just closed a contract to build a $500,000 steamship for the C omwell Liue. Advices Lave been roaaivod *rom Havana stating that the insurgent leader Maceo has been captured and is now in prison. BALEXH, N C., SUNDAY, JUNE 30, 1895. NATIONAL NEWS RAILWAY POSTAL CLERKS W ANT THE SERVICE RE CLASSIFIED. TO TURN ON MORE LIGHT. The Treasury Department Pi paring tor More Lights for Ocean Wayfarers one to Light the Diamond Shoal Near Hatteras—-Uncle Wants a Dairyman, He Must Speak French. German and Other Cow Languages, Washington, D. C., June 29. The Railway Postal Clerks of the United Btates are again to ask Congress to provide for a re classification of service and to prescribe salaries of em ployees. Not since 1882 has there been any legislation in regard to the Railway Mail Service, while the Service has more than doubled in importance and magni tude since 1882, and as the Service was graded to the then existing conditions, it is wholly inadequate to present re quirements. The Postoffice Department has annually recommended this legisla tiou (since 1888) under both Democratic and Republican administrations, while the P. O. and P. R. committees of the 50th, 51st, 52nd and 53rd Congresses unan imously approved the measure and it has twice passed the Senate. The existing law should be modified, as the service would be improved. * * * Cost ot the U. 8. Weather Bureau. Ia view of the fact that the four years of civilian administration of the U. 8. Weather Bureau are so nearly ended that it is practicable to give a close estimate as to expenditures and amouut of growth in the interval, the following facts are presented : 1. The average annual expense of the Signal Service for ten yeais (1882 to 1891) under the military organization was $920,660.77. Under four jears (1892 to (1895) of civil organization $849,522.55. Leaving an annual bal ance in favor of civil organization of $75,133.22. 2. Moreover, while the military ad ministration had generally to apply for a deficiency, on each year’s disbursements the civil administration had an aver age surplus of about $58,700, each year. 3. During these four years (1892 to 1895) the worth of the Bureau has been very greatly increased. Perhaps the best index of the increase is the number of weather maps and crop bulletins issued, which is as follows: Average number issued by the Signal Service )1887 to 1891) 753,300 per year. Average number issued by the Weather Bureau (1892 to 1895; 2,979,250 per year, an increase of 295 per cent. * * * The Treasury Department is prepar ing plans for the construction of light houses authorized by the last Congress, and soon after July 1 will ask for bids for their construction. Among the light-house stations which are to be undertaken in one off Cape Hatteras to mark the Diamond shoal, about the feasibility of which eminent engineers have had some doubt. This great project, however, is to be under taken by the government, as it is not be lieved any contractor would be willing to subject himself to the enormous loss which a failure to build the structure would entail. The appropriation for the light amou its to $350,000, while it is estimated that about $1,003,000 will have to be expend ed before the light shines. Congress, however, will be depended upon to make good the deficiency as the work progres sea. The feat, if successfully accomplish ed, will mark the high-water mark of light-house building in this country, and as an engineering scheme will far out class in importai ce the difficulties over come in the erection of the famous light of Eddystone, England. Plans for the structure contemplate a light ou the screw pile somewhat similar to the Seven foot Kuoli light iu the Pataiwco now, only on a much larger scale. This offers but little resistance to wind and water, and is capable of great tensile strength structurally. The location of the proposed light has been indicated by a temporary structure, which now stands seven miles off shore, and which during the past winter has withstood manfully the poundings of the seas. As the season for work off Hat teras is limited it is not expected that any great progress will be made toward the light until next spring, when the weather is most seasonable. * ¥ * Highly Educated Dairyman Wanted. The Civil Service Commission will hold an examination commencing at 9 a. m , July 13, to fill a vacancy in the position of assistant chief of the dairy division, Bureau of Animal Industry, Depart ment of Agriculture, the salary of which is $1 ,800 per annum. The subjects of the examination are French (translation of the chemical technique), German (translation of chemical technique), chemistry of the dairy, adulterations and imitations of dairy products, prac tical dairying, organizations and litera ture, and tabulation and interpretation of agricultural data aud statistics A New Use for Sleeve*. Greensboro Christian Advocate* The extra goods iu the sleeve# of oar good sisters, if devoted to the Lord, would solve the problem of raomßjr for the missionary treasury. But thi# money will be as hard to turn into the treasury as the tobacco and cigar money of the men. A STRANGE COPARTNERSHIP Two Winston Mash Irate* will Dis pense Justic Together. Special to the News and Observer. Winston, N. 0.. June 29. Mr. 0. F. Tomlinson, of Archdale, N. 0., has been elected principal of the North Winston Graded School. He is a son of A. J. Tomlinson, E q , who for many years was one of the very best Jeachers iu the State. He is a graduate r °f Guilford College and the State Uni versity, and is a nephew of the late J. L. Tomlinson, the first Superintendent of the Winston Public school. A handsome two story residence be longing to Mr. P. R. Johnson, mail agent on the N. and W. road, between Win ston and Roanoke, was destroyed by fire Wednesday night, at Shoals, Yadkin Minty. All of the household property uelongihg to a Mr. Marler was bnrned, The Odd Fellows of Winston-Sahm will give a big picnic dinner at south side park on July fourth. The proceeds will go to the Odd Fellows Orphanage at Goldsboro. Messrs Stewart Bros., the State prin ters, say they have notified the authori ties at Raleigh that they expect to receive pay for all work in their line no matter what printing firm the contracts are given to. Two of Winston’s magistrates have formed a partnership for the dispensa tion ot justice. This perhaps is the first partnership of the kind on record. Rev. W. J. Wright, the noted Western Evangelist, and Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Fill more, are in the city. They will begin a protracted meeting at the Opera House here tomorrow, under the auspices of tne Christian Church. It was learned here today that all of the stock has been taken for the estab lishment of a big cotton factory on the Dan river near Madison. Winston Salem, and Roanoke capitalists are in terred in the enterprise. The water power at this point is very flue. Mrs. Judge Manly aud two daughters, Mimics Mary and Sarah Manly, of New Bern, are visiting Mr. Clement Manly, in this city. Rev. L. E Stacy, of the Western North Carolina Conference, and pastor of Weaverville Circuit, Buncombe county, was married to Miss Maggie Atkinson, a beautiful young lady of Davie county, early Thursday morning. The ceremony was performed at the residence of the bride’s fath r by Rev. H. M. Blair, edi tor of the North Carolina Advocate. The Lutherans will hold the first ser vice in their handsome new church next Sunday week. The dedicatory exercises will be held one week later. The contract has been let for the erection of a handsome brick church in wer Salem, to be known as Christ Chajfc.., Maravian denomination. The Winston Salem Y. M. C. A. is preparing a splendid program for one ot its famous receptions to be given on Tuesday, July 9:h. It will be a farewell reception to State Secretary Coulter, who wilt then visit the association here the last time. The musical, literary and re freshment featuns will be of the finest character. DIST. CONFERENCE IN SESSION. Rev. Dr. Kilgo's Able Address on Christian Education. Special to the News and Observer. Lumberton, N. C., June 29. The District Conference of Rocking ham district in session here since Thurs day last adjourned this afternoon. This morning Rev. Dr. Kilgo, of Trin ity College, delivered his address on Curistian Education before a large audi ence in the Methodist church. To say it fully met all public expectations Ls to say it was a success equal to the speak er's best efforts. For an hour and a half he held the people fascinated under his eloquence amused by his recitation, charmed and convinced by his very strong argument. The brethren are al together well pleased with the maa ar d believe that the cause of Trinity ia in exceptionally able hand 4. The following lay delegates to the next annual conference to meet in Elizabeth City on December 11, Bishop Wilson presiding, were elected just before ad journment, C B. Towusend, R. D. Phil lips, W. B. Harker, H. O. Wall Alern at.-s, R. N. Page, J. S. Betts. The conference decided by a uninau mous vote to hold the next district con ference for this district next summer at Mt. Gilead, Montgomery county. KILLED ~B*~LIGIITNING. School Interests iu Halifax Countv Ex ceptionally Good. Special to the News and Observer. Scotland Neck, N. 0., Jun.e 29 Near Palmyra Mr. Joshua Bell started to the hands in the field just after a thunderstorm, and before he reached there he was struck and killed by light ning. He was a well to do farmer, about 65 years old. Rev. Levi Branson, who is here gather iug material for the revised edition of his North Carolina Directory, says that the school interest in Halifax county is much better than in most of the ooun tioe in Extern Carolina. LARGEST IN ITS HISTORY. Winston Shipped Over h Million Founds of Tobucno in lane. Winstgm, N. O , Jane 29. Winston shipped over a million pounds of manufactured tobacco during ,e Tae revenue coileetlons here f