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SUNDAY'S SERMON IX THE NEW
YORK ACADI53IY OF MUSIC.
Subject: "A Snowy Day.
Text: "Ho wont -lown an l .slow a lion In a
pit in a si..jry day." I Chruuielos xi., 22.
Hsvj you cviT hoanlof him? His name
was li'b:uati. He w:w a man of st -u tnuslo
an.l ol Rr.-at avoirflupois. His father was a
hro, and he inherited prowcan. He wa?
athlt'tf, and thoro was iron in his blood,
and tho stroujrost ;ne in hii bo. I v was baok
bono. He is known fof othof wonders bo-fci-los
that of the uxl. An Ktryptian five
cnbits in stature, or n.hout sevn fe-t nine
ir.'jhos hili. wiw movinjr around in iirata
docio nnvl nourishing a irroat spear, carele.-s
as to whom he killed, and K;naiahof mvtext.
with nothing but ft walking stick, came miori
iiim, snat;iiod the spear from the Egyptian,
and with ono thrust of its sharp edge "put an
nd to the blatant bH;y, which makes us
think of the story iu our Greek lesson, too
hard for us it the smarter boy on the same
bench had not helped us out wth it, in which
Moratiui the Macedonian and Dioxipnus the
Athenian fought in tho presence of Alexan
der, the Macedonian nrme 1 with shield and
sword and javelin and tho Athenian with
nothing but a club. Tho Macedonian hurled
th-s javlin, but the Athenian successfully
dodg;d if, and the Ma'doniaa lifted the
spea', out the Athenian With tiie club broke
it, and tlio Maeeilon:aii drew the sword, but
Vic Atheiiicn tri.p ;d him tii before lie could
fctriko with it. and then the Athenian with his
club Would ha ve beaten the life out of the
Macedonian, fall.-u among his useless
weapons, if Alexau lor had not commanded,
".St.or.! Stop'."
lilt lienaiah of Iho text is about to do
so-iu t.liing that will eelip.se even that. There
i-i Irouble in all tho neighborhood. Lambs
are carried oft in the night, and children ven
ttirimr only a littlo way from their father's
house nn, found mangled an 1 dead. Tho
fact is the land Was infested with lions, and
few peopi:; ibire.l meet oho of thesn gri-'-zly
b as: , niueh If ss corner or attack it. As a
good l'rovidesic i would have it. one morning
' footstep o a lion was tracked in the snow.
U haJ beer out on its devou ring errand
through the darkn.?, but at last it is found
by t!ie impreK-.i-di of the four paws on the
wh; snrfa-e of t'l ! ground which way the
v-;!.! b.'a-:t cmii' and which way it had gone,
l'e il dis underlaVing, but IJenaiah, the lier.)
of the text, a-ms liiinself with such weapons
as tlKjso early days afforded, gunpowder
having been invented in a far subsequent
century by tho German monk Bertholdus
Schwars. Therefore without gun or any
kind of firearms. Uenaiah of the text no
doubt depended on the sharp steel edge for
his own defense and tho slaughter of tho
lion as he followed the track through the
snow. It may have been a javelin; it may
have bc?n only a knife. But what Benalah
lacks in weapons ho will make up in strength
of arm and skill of stroke. But where is
the lion. We must not get off his tra"k
in the snow. Tho land has manv
cistern-, or pits, for catching rain, th
rainfall being very Scarce at certain secasons,
andJie-ree theso cisterns, or reservoirs, are
digged here and there and yonder. Lions
have a'i instinct which seems to tell them
when t'ley are pursued, and this dread mon
ster of which I speak retreats into one of
ihes -cisterns which happened to bo free of
water and is there panting from the long run
and licking its jaws after a repast of human
flesh and after iiuafllng the red vintage of
human Mood.
Benaiah is all alert and comes cautiously
on toward the hiding plaee of this terror of"
the fields. Coming to the verge of the pit, ho
looks down at the lion, and the lion looks
up at him. What a moment it was when
their eyes clashed! But while a modern Du
Chaillu, Gordon Cumming o Sir Samuel
Baker or David Livingston; would have
just brought tho gun to tho shoulder, and
held the eye against the barrel, and
blazed away into the depths, and finished
the beast, Benaiah, with only the old
time weapon, can do nothing until he
gets on a level with "the boast,
and so he jumps into the pit, and the lion,
with shining teeth of rage and claws lifted to
tear to shreds the last vestige of human life,
springs for tho man, while Benaiah springs
for tho beast. But tho quick stroke of the
steel edge flashed again and again and again
until tho snow was no longer white and the
right foot of triumphant Benaiah is half
covered with the tawny mane of the slain
horror of Palestine.
Now you see how emphatic and tragic
and tremendous are the words of my text,
'!? went down and slew a lion in a pit in a
snowy day."' Why put that in the Bible?
Why put it twice in tho Bible, once in the
book of Samuel and here in the book of
Chronicles'? Oh, the practical lessons ore so
many for you and fcr me! What a cheer in
this subject for all those of you who are in
conjunction of hostile circumstances. Throe
things wore against Benaiah of my text
in the moment of combat, the snow that im
peded his movement, the pit that environed
him in a 6mall space, and the lion, with open
jaws and uplifted paw. And yet I hear the
shout of Benaiah s victory. Ob, men and
women of three troubles, you say, "I could
stand oae, and I think I could stand two,
but three are are least one too many."
There is a man in business perplexity and
who has sickness in his family, and old age
is coming on. Throe troubles a lion, a pit
and snowy day. There is a good woman
with failing health and a dissipated husband
and a wayward boy three troubles. There
is a young man, salary cut down, bad
cough, frowning future three troubles.
There is a maiden with difficult school
lessons she cannot get, a face that is not
as attractive as some of her schoolmates', a
prospect that through hard times she mut-t
quit school before she graduates three trou
bles. There is an author, his manuscript re
jected, his power of origination in decadence,
a numbness in forefinger and thumb, which
threatens paralysis three troubles. There
is a reporter of fine taste sent to report a
pugilism instead of an oratorio, the copy
he hands in rejected beeau..e tho paper
i-s full, a mother to support on small
income three troubles. I could march
right off these seats and across this platform,
if they would come at my call, 500 people
with three troubles. This is the opportunity
to play tho hero or the heroine, not on a
small stage, with a few hundred people to
clap theit. approval, but with all the galleries
of heaven filled with sympathetic and ap
plauding spectators, for we ar3 "surrounded
by a great cloud of witnesses." My brother,
my sister, my father, my mother, what a
chance you have! While you are in the
struggle", if you only have the grace of
Christ to listen, a voice parts the
heavens, saying. "My grace is sufficient
for thee." "Whom the'Lord loveth He ehast
eneth." "You shall be more than conquerors."
And that reminds me of a letter on my table
written by some one whom I suppose to beat
this moment present, saying, "My dear, dear
doctor, you will please pardon the writer for
asking that at some time when you feel like
it vou kindly preach from the thirtieth
l'salm. fifth verse. 'Weeping may endure for
a night, but joy cometh in the morning,' and
much oblige a downtown business man."
So to all downtown business mea and to
all uptown business men I say: If you have
on hand goods that you cannot sell and
debtors who will not or cannot pay, and you
aro also suffering from uncertainty as to
what the imbecile American Congress will do
about the tariff, you have three troubles, and
enough to bring you within the range of the
consolation of my text, where you find the
triumph of Benaiah over a lion, and a pit
and a snowy day. If you have only one
trouble I cannot spend any time with you
to-day. You must have at least three,
and then reinomber how many have tri
umphed over such a triad of misfortune.
Paul trad three troubles: Sanhedrin de
nouncing him that was one great trouble;
physicaUnflrmity, which he called "a thorn
in the flesh," and although we know not what
the thorn was, we do know from the figure
he used that it must have been something
that stuck him that was the second trouble;
approaching martyrdom that made the three
troubles. Yet hear what he say, "If I had
only one misfortune. I couid stand that, but
three are two too many?" No. I misinterpret
He says: "Sorrowful, yet always rejoicing.
Poor, yet making many rich. Having noth
ing, vet possessing all things." "1 hanks be
unto'God, who giveth us the victory through
our Lord Jesus Christ."
David hail three troubles, a bad boy, a
temptation to dissoluteness and dethrone
ment. What does he say? "God is our re
fuge and strength, a very present help In
time of troubK Therefore will not we fear;
though the earth be n?moved( and though
tho mountains be cast into the midst of the
sea,"
John Wesley had three troubles defa
mation by mobs, domestic infelicity, fatigue
from more sermons preached and more miles
traveled than almost any man of his time.
What does he say? "The best of all is, God
is with us." And when his poet brother,
Charles Wesley, said to him, "Brother John,
if the Lord were to give me wings, I'd flv.
John's reply was, "Brother Charles, if the
Lord told me to fly, I'd do it and leava Him
to find the wings.'"'
George Whitefield had three troubles re
jection from tho pulpits ot England because
ho was too dramatic-that was one trouble;
strabismus, or the crossing of his eyes, that
subjected him to the caricature of all the
small wits of the day; Vermin and dead ani
mals thrown at him while he preached on the
commons that made three troubles. Never
theless, his sermons were eo buoyant that a
little childi dying soon a'ter hearing him
preach, said in the intervals of pain, "Let
me goto Mr. Whhfleld's God." Oh, I am
so glad that Benaiah of my text was not the
only one who triumphed over a lion in a pit
on a snowy day.
Notice in my text a victory over bad
weather. It was a snowy day, when one's
vitality is at a low ebb and tho spirits are
naturally depressed and ono does not feel
like undertaking a great enterprise, when
Benaiah rubs his hands together to warm
thorn by extra friction, or trashes his arms
around him to revive circulation of the
blood, and then goes at the lion, which was
all the more fierce and ravenous, because of
the sharp weather. Inspiration here admits
atmospheric hindrance. The snowy day at
Valley Forgo well nigh put an end to the
struggle for American independence. The
snowy day demolished Napoieon'a army on
the way from Moscow.
The inclemency of January and February
weather has some years bankrupted thou
sands of merchants. Long succession of
stonnv Sabbaths has crippled innumerable
churches. Lighthouses veiled by the snow
on many a coast have failed to warn off from
the rocks the doomed frigate. Tens of thou
sands of Christians of nervous temperament
by the depression of a snowy day almost
despair of reaching heaven. Yet in that
style of weather Benaiah of the text
achieved his most celebrated victory,
and 1-t us by tho grace of God become
victor over influences atmospheric. If we
are happy only whn the wind blows from
the cleat- northwest, and the thermometer is
a'l.iv-! freezing point, and tho sky is an in
vert" 1 blue cup of sunshine poured all over
lis, it is a religion 05 per cent. off. Thank
God there ai-e Christians who, though their
whole life through sickness has been a snowy
day, have killed every lion of despondency
that dared to put its cruel paw against their
suffering pillow. It was a snowy day when
the Pilgrim Fathers set foot not on a bank of
flowers, but on the cold New England rock, and
from a ship that might have been more ap
propriately called after a December hurri
cane than after a "Mayflower" thoy took
possession of this great continent. And
amid more chiliy worlJly circumstances
many a good man or a good woman has
taken possession of a whole continent of
spiritual satisfaction, valleys of peace and
rivers of gladness and mountains of joy.
Christ landed in our world not in the month
of May, but in the stormy month of Decem
ber, to show that we might have Christ in
winter weather and on a snowy day.
Notice everything down in the pit that
snowy day depended upon Benaiah's weapon.
There was as much strength in one muscle of
that lion as in all the muscles of both arms of
Benaiah. It is the strongest of beasts, and
has been known to carry oft an ox. Ls
tongue is so rough that it acts as a rasp
tearing off the flesh in licks. The two great
canines at each side of the mouth make es
capo Impossible for anything it has once
seized. Yet Benaiah puts his heel on
the neck of this "king of beasts,"
Was it a dagger? Was it a javelin? Was it a
knife? I cannot tell, but everything de
pended on it. But for that Benaiah's body
under ono crunch of the monster would have
been left limp and tumbled in the snow.
And when you and I go into the flght with
temptation, if we have not the right kind of
weapon, instead of our siaying the lion the
lion will slay us. The sword of the Spirit!
Nothing in earth or hell can stand before th.at.
Victory with that, or no victory at all. By
that I mean prayer to God, confidence in His
rescuing power, saving grace, almighty de
liverance. I do not care what you call it. I
call it "sword of the Spirit." And if the
lions of all the jungles of perdition should at
once spring upon your soul by that weapon
of heavenly metal you can thrust them back
and cut them down, and stab them through
and leave them powerless at your feet. Your
good resolution wielded against the powers
which assault you is a toy pistol against an
Armstrong gun; is a penknife held out against
the brandished sabers of a Heintzelman's
cavalry charge. Go into the flght against
sin on your own strength, and the result will
be the hot breath of the lion in your blanched
face, and his front paws one on each lung.
Alas! for the man not fully armed down in
the pit on a snowy day, and before hirn a
lion!
All my hearers and readers - have a big
fight of some sort on hand, but the biggest
and the wrathiest lion which you have to
fight is what the Bible calls "the roaring
lion who walketh about, seeking whom he
may devour." Now, you have never seen
a real lion unless you have seen
him in India or Africa, just after capture.
Long caging breaks his spirit, and the con
stant presence of human beings tames him.
But you ought to see him spring against the
iron bars in the zoological gardens of
Calcutta and hear him roar for the prey. It
makes one's blood curdle, and you shrink
back, although you know there is no peril.
Plenty of lions in olden time. Six hundred
of them were slaughtered on one occasion in
the presence of Pompey in the Roman
amphitheater. Lions came out and de
stroyed tho eamels which carried the bag
gage of Xerxes' army. In Bible times there
were so many lions that they are fre
quently alluded to in the Scriptures.
Joel, the prophet, describes the "cheek
teeth" of a great lion, and Isaiah mentions
among the attractions of heaven that "no
lion shall bo there," ;.nd Amos speaks of a
shepherd takim?a lamL's car out of the mouth
of a lion, and Solomon describes the righteous
as "bold as a lion." and Daniel was a great
iion tamer, ami David and Jeremiah and St.
John often speak of this creature.
But most am I impressed by what I have
quoted from the Apostle Peter when he calls
the devil a lion. That means strength.
That means bloodthirstiness. That means
cruelty. That means destruction. Some of
you have felt the strength of his paw, and
the sharpness of his tooth, and the horror of
his rage. Yes, he is a savage devil. He
roared at everything good when Lord
Claverhouse assailed the Covenanters,
and Bartholomew against the Hugue
nots one August night when the bell tolled
for the butchery to begin, and the ghastly
joke in the street was, "Blood letting is good
in August," and 50,000 assassin knives were
plunged into the victims, and this monster
has had under his paw many of the grandest
souls of all time, anil fattened with the spoils
of centuries he comes for you.
3at I am glad to say to all of you who have
got the worst in such a struggle that there is
a lion on our side if you want him, Revela
tion v., 5. "The lion of Judah's tribe." A
Lamb to us, but a lion to meet that other lion,
and you can easily guess who will beat in
that flght, and who will be beaten. When
two opposing lions meet in a jungle in India,
you cannot tell which will overcome
and which will bo overcome. They
glare at each other for a moment, and
then with full strength of muscle they
dah against each other like two thunder
bolts cf colliding stormelouds, and with jaws
like the crush of avalanches, and witn a re
sounding voice that makes the Himalayas
tremble, and with a pull and tear and clutch
and trample and shaking of the head from
side to side until it is too much for human
endurance to witness, and, though one lion
may be left dead, the one which has con
quered crawls away lacerated and
gashed and lame and eyeless to bleed to
death in an adjoining jungle. But if you
and 1 feel enough our weakness in this bat
tle of temptation and ask for the divine help
against that old lion of hell, described in St.
Peter, will go tothestronger lion described in
Revelation, and it will be no uncertain grap
ple, but under one omnipotent stroke the de
vouring monster that would slay our soul
shall go reeling back into a pit 10,000 times
deeper than that in which Benaiah slew the
lion on a snowy day.
A word to all who are in a snowy day. Oh,
fathers and mothers who have lost children,
that is the weather that cuts through body
and souL But drive back the lion of
bereavement with the thought which David
Kaet of Edinburgh; got from the Scotch
gravediggerj who was always planting white
Clover and the sweetest flowers on the
children's graven in the cemeterv, and when
asked why he did so replied: "Surely, sir,
I canna make ower fine th5 bed eoverln o'
a littlo innocent pleeper that's waitin
there till it's God's time to waken it.
and cover it with the whit robe, and waft it
away to glory. When mc grandeur is waitin
it yonder, it's fit it should be decked oot
herd I think the Saviour that counts its
dilst sae precious will like to see the white
Clover sheet spread ower it. Do ye noo think
so, too, sir?" Cheer up all, disconsolates.
The best work for God and humanity has
been done on the snowy day. At gloomy
Marine Terrace, island of Jersey, the e:le,
Victor Hugo, wrought the" rr.ls'h',;i.it
achievements of his pen. Ezekiel, banished
and bereft and an invalid at Corn
hill, on tho banks of Chebar, had his
momentous vision of the cherubim and
wheels within wheels. By the dim light of a
dungeon window at Bedford, John Bunyau
sketches tho "Delectable Mountains." Mil
ton writes the greatest poem of all time
without eyes. Michael Angelo carved a
statue oiit of snow, and all Florence gazed l.i
raptures at its exquisiteness, and many of
God's servants have out of the cold out their
immortality. Persecutions were the dark
background that made more impressive the
courage and consecration of Savonarola,
who, when threatened with denial of burial,
said, "Throw me into the Arno if you choose;
the resurrection day will find me, and that is
enough. Benaiah on a cold damp, cuttinir,
snowy day gained leonine triumph. Hard
ship and trouble have again and again ex
alted and inspired and glorified their Bub
jects. The bush itself has mounted higher
And flourished uueoii3umed in lire.
Well, we have had many snowy days within
the past month, and added to tho chill of tho
weather was the chilling dismay at the
non-arrival of the ocean steamer Gascogue,
Overdue for eight days, many had given her
up as lost, and the most hopeful were
Very anxious. Tho cyclones, whose play
is shipwrecks, had been reported being in
wildest romp all up and down the At
lantic. The ocean a few days before had
swallowed the Elbe, und with unap
peased appetite seemed saying, " Give
us more of the best shipping." The Norman
die came in on the same track the Gaseogno
was to travel, and it had not seen her. The
Teutonic, saved almost by the superhuman
efforts of captain and crew, came in and had
heard no gun of distress from that missiug
steamer. There were palo faces and wring
ing hands on both continents, and tears
rolled down cold cheeks on those snowy
days. We all feared that the worst had
happened and talked of tho City of
Boston as never heard of after sailing, and
the steamship President, on which tho brill
iant Cookman sailed, never reported and
never to be heard of again until the time
when the sea gives up its dead. But at last
under most powerful glass at Fire Island, a
ship was seen limping this way over the
waters. Then we all began to hope that it
might bo tho missiug French liner. Throe
hours of tedious and agonizing waiting and
two continents in suspense. When will the
eyeglasses at Fire Island make revelation o!
this awful mystery of tho sea? There it is!
Ha, ha! Th Gascogne! Quick! Wire the
news to the city! Swing tho flags out on the
towers! Ring the bells! Sound the whistles
of the shipping all tho way up from Sandy
Hook to New York Buttery! "She's safe!
Sho's safe!" are the words caught up and
passed on from street to street. "It is
the Gascogne!" is the cry sounding
through all our delighted homes and thrill
ing all the telegraphic wires of the continent
and all the cables under the sea, and the
huzza on the wharf as the gaffgplauks were
swung out for disembarkation was a small
part of the huzza that lifted both hemi
spheres into exultation. Tho flakes of snow
fell on the "extra" as we opened it on the
street to get the latest particulars.
Well, it will be better than that when some
of you are seen entering tho harbor of
heaven. You have had a rough voyage. No
mistake about that. Snowy day after snowy
day. Again and again tho machinery of
health aud courage broke down, and the
waves of temptation have swept clearoverthe
hurricane deck, so that you wero often com
pelled to say, "All Thy waves and Thy billows
have gove over me," and vou were down in
the trough of that sea and down in tho trough
of the other sea. and mauy despaired of your
safe arrival. But th9 great Tilot, not ono
who must come off from some other craft,
but the one who walked storm swept Galilee
and now walks the wintry Atlantic, comes
on board and heads you for the haven,
when no sooner have you passed the
narrows of death than you find all the banks
lined with immortals celebrating your arrival,
and while some break off palm branches
from the banks aud wave them those stand
ing on one side will chant, "There shall be
no more sea." aud those standing on tho
other side will chant, "These are they which
came out of great tribulation and had their
robes washed and made white in the
blood of the Lamb." Off of the stormy
sea into the smooth harbor. Out of leonine
struggle in tho pit to guidance by tho Lamb,
who shall lead you to living fountains of
water. Out of the snowy day of earthly
severities into the gardens of everlasting
flora and into orchards of eternal fruitage,
the fall of their white blossoms the only
snow in heaven.
Successful TJfe Savins Devices.
A public test was made, a few days ago. at
No. 6 truck-house, Hanover street, Baltimore.
Md., of a device recently invented by Chief
Ledden, of the Fire Department, for saving
lives at fires. The test was witnessed by 200
persons and was entirely satisfactory.
The device is called by Ciiief Ledden a life
saving belt. It is very simple and consists
of a strap of leather three inches wide and
six Inches long, with an iron ring in each
end. A rope sixty feet long, having a stout
hook in one end, completes the device. Wiiea
it is necessary to rescue a person from the
window of a burning buildingaud there is no
Ladder at hand, a fireman will go to the win
dow in the house next door and pass the belt,
attached to the rope, to the person to be
roscued, who will in turn make a loop of the
belt by means of one of the iron rings and
will slip the noose under his arms. The fire
man will take up the slack, and the pers
to be rescued will allow hiu:seif to swing out
of the window and to be lowered to trie
ground. In case of the firemen being cut off
from escape by the usual means he can fasten
the hook in one end of the rope to the win
dow frame or other convenient place and
slide down tho rope. Each engine company
has been furnished with one of the appliances,
and each district chief carries one in his
wagon.
In the test at No. 6 truck-house Henry
Toepfor. a member of the company, was low
ered to the ground from the top of the truck
house. Mr. Toepfor weighs 200 pounds, but
he was lowered without difficulty. The
members of the various Baltimore tiro com
panies will be drilled in the use of the life
belt. Insanity in Connecticut.
The report of the Connecticut Hospital for
the Insane just issued contains memoranda
of the first quarter-century of the existence
of the institution, from which can bo de
duced striking indications of the increase of
insanity in the State. A report of a legisla
tive commission in the year 1865 showed that
in that year there were 706 insane persons in
the State, of whom 202 were in a private re
treat at Hartford. 204 in the almshouses and
300 outside of both. At that time the popu
lation of the State was approximately 4'JS.
800. Now, with a population in the State of
approximately 790,000, there are 1580 pa
tients in the State Hospital alone. During
the last fifteen years, while the population of
the State has risen from 622.700' to about
790,000, the number of patients in the hospi
tal has risen from 608 to 1580, and it is now
greatly overcrowded.
Japanese Placards in Fekin.
If the Chinese newspapers speak truth, tne
Japanese have plastered Pekin with posters
implying that they will be there in a jiffy,
but do not intend to hurt or molest any
peaceful citizens. One would expect the
Pekin policememen to pull down the posters.
But the Japanese have appended a notice
offering a reward for information that will
lead to the detection of anyone destroying
them. And the Pekin police judge it wiser
to let the posters remain where they are.
The Qil Output.
Pennsylvania produced 30.000,000 barrels
of oil last year, and the price was twenty
cents a barrel better than it was la 1893.
BISSELL HAS RESIGNED.
The Postmxster-Genera! Retires From
President Cleveland's Cabinet.
TO RESUME HIS LAW PRACTICE.
It is the Firm I'.icnk in the Administra
tion's Family of Adviser He Leaves
tho Cabinet With Kegret, but Ills Fro
fessdoniil Work Demands His Atten
tionThe President's Kxphmation.
Postmaster-General Wilson S. Bisseil set at
rest all doubts as to his purpose of remain
ing -u the Cabin'-t by tendering his resigna
tion to President Cleveland. This action
was not taken hastily. As far back
as the eariy autumn Mr. Bisseil felt that
tiis law practice, at Buffalo, N. Y., required
his personal attention, and at that time he
notified the President that sooner or later he
would be compelled to retire to private life.
Nothing further was said on the subject until
fen days ago. whea Mr. Bisseil again assured
the President that he must soon resign his
portfolio.
WILSON 8. EI6SELL.
The Postmaster-General's resignation was
not known until a late hour in the evening to
his private secretary, nor will it be known
in all probability to any of his subordinates
at tho department until its publication in
the morning news. The letter of resigna
tion was brief, and was couched in the usual
formal terms. It recites the fact that he
deems it advisable to rotire from the Cabinet,
and that he will do so upon the appointment
and qualification of his successor. The letter
was by Mr. Bisseil personally handed to his
chief. To a reporter who called at his resi
dence Mr. Bisseil said:
"I have placed my resignation in the
hands of tne President. The reason is
chat my professional work at home demands
my attention, and I feel that I cannot longer
remain away from it. The business of
the Department is in good condition, and
its transfer to my successor can be made
without affecting the public service. I
have found my work agreeable, although at
times quite onerous. I confess I leave it
with regret, because I have become deeply
interested in it and had a desire to accom
plish something more in the development of
Che postal service than I have found possible
in theso two years of effort. I deeply re
gret, also that I am thus compelled to sever
Dfflcial relations with the President and his
Cabinet, which have been most satisfactory
ind cordial throughout. Perhaps I may now
jay that all rumors of disagreement between
the President and any of his Cabinet h.ve
oeep without foundation. I doubt if there
ver was a more harmonious Cabinet than
ihe present one, and its members are a un,it
in support of the President on every public
juestion."
Speaking of Mr. Biasell's resignation, Presi
ient Cleveland said: "It surely is not neces
lary for me to say that I shall release Mr.
Bisseil with the utmost regret. All his asso
jiates in the Administration will feel that they
have lost a colleague who in all respects was a
valuable factor in their executive labor,
is well as a companion to whom they have
eeonio greatly attached. I am not taken by
iurprise, for I have known for some time
Jhat it was inevitable, because Mr. Bissell'e
reasons for his action were of a personal na
ture, and were inexoruble. Still, this first
Jreak in a Cabinet which has been, in
!he midst of many perplexing situations, en
tirely harmonious, always actuated by a
loyal devotion to the public interest, and
pervaded in a marked degree by the personal
ittaohment which such connections cannot
tail to create, causes us all real sorrow. Much
gratification awaits Mr. Bisseil in the ap
preciation of his countrymen of his splendid
ind valuable public service."
William Shannon Bisseil was born in Rome,
Dneida County, N. Y.f December 31, 1847.
When ho was about six years old his parents
aioved to Buffalo, the city which he has
sailed his home ever since. He entered Yale
In 1865, and was graduated with honors
in the class of '69. In the
pear of his graduation Mr. Bisseil
oegan the study of law in Buffalo with A. P.
Darning. In 1872 he became the law partner
it Lyman K. Bass. Two years later Mr,
Cleveland joined the firm, which was known
is Bass, Cleveland & Bisseil. It enjoyed a
largo practice, and Mr. Bisseil came to be
snown as one of the ablest railroad lawyers
in the country. When Mr. Cleveland
was married Mr. Bisseil was best
man at the wedding. Mr. Bis
jell remained a bachelor until February 6,
1890, when he married Miss Louise Fowler
3turges, of Geneva, N. Y. In politics Mr.
Bisseil has been active ever since his former
partner became a candidate for Governor of
New York. He has been a consistent and
zealous friend of Mr. Cleveland.
MANY MINERS KILLtD.
The Result of an Explosion in a New
Mexico Colliery.
A terrific explosion of gas occurred in the
White Ash mine of the Santa Fe Railroad
Company, three miles from Cerrillos, New
llexico, at 11 o'clock a. m., causing the
leath of at least thirty-nine miners.
The flrt intimation of the disaster was a
aiuffled roar, and clouds of smoke and dust
rolling lrom the mouth of the mine. Nearly
$00 men are employed in the mine, but only
Ifty were at work" when the explosion oc
:urred. Only eleven of them escaped alive,
ud some of these were fatally injured.
Twenty-eight bodies were taken from the
mine soon alter the accident.
Relays of men worked heroically all day
:o reach those who were still imprisoned in
:he mine, but little progress could be made
n account of the gas which permeated everv
shaft.
Up to -1 p. m. those on the inside could le
heard trying to work their way out from the
;aved-in mine. Since then the imprisoned
men in all probability have succumbed to
:he deadly ga.s.
The scene at the mouth of the shaft after
:he explosion was heartrending. One wo
nan, supposing her husband to have been
silled, tried to commit suicide by throwing
tierseli in front of a moving train. Her hus
oand was afterward rescued alive, and the
reaction from insane grief to delirious Joy
was nearly fatal.
The mine was known to lie badly ventilated
and full of bad air and gas, and a catastrophe
of thia kind has been frequently predicted.
The Fatal Trolley.
Gustave Carisen. tw elve years old: Frank
Dumbleton, twenty years old, and Stephen
Gill, twelve years old. were killed during on--Jay,
each in a separate accident, by trolley
ears in Brooklyn. These deaths men-asa the
total number of persons killed by trolley cars
in Brooklyn to 1C2.
FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS.
In the Senate.
57th Pat.- M.-. Woleott introduce! an
amendment t'i the Sundry Civil bill, which
authorizes th President, on the invita
tion of any of the Governments of Europe,
to appoint Commissioners to a Mone
tary Conference to be held with a view to
secure International Bimetallism Th"
Agricultural Appropriation bill wa pasl.
V motion to take tip the Rail
road Pooling bill War defeat-'d. The
Indian Approprirtion bill was passed.
Mr. Petti grew offered a refdutioii permit
ting the remains of Frederick Douglav to lie
in state in the rotunda of the t'at-itol and h
asked for its immediate consideration. Mr.
Gormau objeete.l and the resolution went
nver. The day's session was closed with
the delivery of eulogies on the late Repre
sentative Shaw, of Wisconsin.
58th Day. The Sundry Civil Appropria
tion bill was disposed of, excepting the Gor
man amendment providing for three jwr
cent. Treasury debt certificate-.
59th Day. The Senate agre 1 to amend
ments to the sundry 'ivil bill appropriating
?50.000 for commencing work on the Pater
son (N. J.1 public buildine. and 22.950 ad
ditional for the Troy t X. Y.) public building.
The Senate adopted the sugar bounty
amendment to the Sundry Civil Appropria
tion bill. The amendment to the Sundry
Civil bill creating a retired list for th"
revenue marine was passed.
COth Day. After h spirited d"bate grow
ing out of opposition to the .aimUKMI.OOO
certificate amendment to the Sundry Civil
bill. Mr. Gorman withdrew the amendment.
f.lST Day. The Simdrv Civil Appropriation
bill was passed, its consideration having oc
cupied the larger share of four legislative
days. An amendment appropriating .KM).
000 for seed to be distributed to the people
inhabiting the arid region whose iirops were
destroyed by drought last summer
was agreed " to yeas, S2: nays. 7.
The amendment appropriating ;?1 25.000 to
aid the exposition at Nashville. Tenu.. in
commemoration of the hundredth year of Its
Statehood was agreed t . When the night
session opened at 8 p. in. there was not many
Senators present. but th" galleries
were crowded with spectators. The
reading of the Legislative bill was proceeded
with. Mr. Chandler made u bitter attack on
Senators Martin and Itoaeh. declaring they
were not elected honestly. whi"h was de
nounced by Mr. Hill as menu and contempti
ble and hyena-like. Mr. Martin war; culled
to order for his comment.-, on Mr. ("Handler's
speech. Th" Legislative. Executive and
Judicial Appropriation bill was passed at
12.30, and tne Senate adjourned.
C2u Day. The General Deficiency bill
occupied the attention of tho Senate.
It appropriates -Jl, 809,539 to pay a
judgment in favor of the Southern
Pacific Railroad Company, and 'J00,000
to pay a part of the French Spoliation
Claims. The amendment for the acquisi
tion of the Mahone lot was also agree 1 to.
The Bering Sea indemnity was defeated.
At 7.35 p. m. the bill was passed Th re
mainder of the session was given t - private
pension bills and to the delivery of eulogies
on the late Representatives Lisle, of K-u-cucky;
Wright, of Pennsylvania; Post, o
Illinois, and Houk, of Ohio.
In the House.
62d Day. The entire
to tho consideration
flciency Appropriation
session was devoted
if the General Do
bill for the cur
.". in Committee of
to give extra,
of about 400.
seer "tarie-. An
rent year. The Hou-
the
pay
000
Whole, voted
to tho amount
to clerks and
amendment was agreed to. directing the
payment of $200,000 of Indian depredation
claims allowed by the Court of Claims.
Without completing tho consideration of the
bill, the House devoted the rest of th" ses
sion to tho delivery of eulogies upon the late
Senator Z. B. Vance, of North Carolina.
63d Day. The General Deficiency Appro
priation bill was passed without th" provision
for paying 6425.000 damages to alleged Brit
ish and Canadian sealer?.
64th Day. The day was devoted to labor
legislation, and a bill' providing for tin' arbi
tration of differences between common car
riers and their employes was passed.
65th Day. Tne House spent most of the
day discussing the Printing bill and the pur
chase of tho Mahone site for the Government
Printing Office. Conference reports on the
Pension and Postofftee Appropriation bills
were agreed to. The Senate amendment
to the House joint resolution suspending the
transfer in bond through the United States of
articles destined for the Mexican free zone
was concurred in.
66th Day. The House took another vot"
on the Ilawniiau cable appropriation, and by
a vote of 160 ayes to 115naydeeided to lusist
once more upon a refusal to allow tin; appro
priation to stay in the bid. Another confer
ence was asked for. V message from the
President wis read vetoing the bill for the
relief of Catherine Oct. a soldier's widow,
on tho ground that it wa.s not so favor
able to her as the general law. It was
referred to the Committee on Pensions.
Senate bill providing for the ascertainment
of the net tonnage of vessels was passed.
The bill to protect forest reservations, for
which the Senate substituted an entire new
measure, was referred.. -several District
of Columbia bills Of minor importance were
passed.
67th Day. The House passed a bill au
thorizing the extermination of the ut-als un
less neighboring Nations shall agree to unite
with us in properly protecting them.
Senate bill to suppress traffic in lottery tick
ets between the several States and with
foreign countries was parsed. The House
Mil directing the Secretary of the
Treasury to pay to the State of West Virginia
the balance of the direct tax voted to it In
1891 about -i'lol.OOO -was passed. 157 to
72. An evening session was held for the
consideration of private pension bills.
The House decided to send the General De
ficiency Appropriati on bill to conference.
THREE MEN HANCED.
Executions of Murderers at Fairhurii, ;.,
Frankfort, K.v., and Plattsmouth, Neb.
At Fairburn. Ga.. it required two hangings
to execute Joe Dean, the colored murderer.
The trigger of the scaffold was worked with
a cord. Sheriff Camp pulled tin; trigger hin.
self. He said he ha 1 no deputies and
never shirked his duty. When th" party
reached the gallows, it was found the crowd
in its eagerness for a public hanging had
broken the uclo.sijre d iwn. Amid tho pray
ing and singing of a thousa n l excited col .red
people the. noose was placed around D'-an's
neck. When h fell the rope broke. The
unconscious man el.it'd.ed at his clothes and
almost tore them off entirely. The eolorcd
Spectators ran off in all direi-Uons. D'-an
was carried ba"k to the gallows, where a
stout"r rope was placed around ids neck and
the. trap was sprung the second time. He
died ln'fourtcen minutes.
At Frankfort, Ky.. George Mag'', colored,
was hanged in the jail yard for the murder
of Charles Thomas, a fellow convict. Magee
was brave to the last. ip. was only nineteen
vears old.
At Plattsmouth. Neb . ILirry Hill, the mur
derer of Matt Akesoi;, was executed at 9
o'clock a. m.
PROMINENT PEOPLE.
Qceen Victoria is something c
liypo-
chondriac.
Feed. Douolass. for twentv-on" years a
slave, left 200.00tJ.
The Sultan of Turkey has sent a fine Da
mascus blade to Emperor William for a pres
ent. Samcei. Dan Horton. tne di.-tingul.-in-d
writer on financial topics, died, a few days
since, in a hospital at Wr'-eingt n. D. C.
The late M. do Criers. Russian Minister for
Foreign Affairs, was a Lutheran, an 1 wn - de
scended from a Swedish family settled in Po
land. His public service extend--d over a
period of fifty years.
Dr. Schweninger a 1 vised Princ" Bismarck
to receive only a few deputations on April 1.
his birthday, and to meet the i.-th-r- on ill
sequent days.
The Duchess of Devonshire is ;u'tte "f
eight magnificent country seats and town
houses in England, a chateau in France, a
villa in the Riviera, and has a daughter mar
ried to a man who lears three dukedom
Hamilton. BraDdon and Chateiherault. She
herself has been twice led to the altar by a
Duke. Her ducal rycord is thus quite unique.
THE NEWS EPITOMIZED
Washington Items.
PoSTM ASTKR-t ilMBit BlSKI.I. attended th"
regular Cst'im-t meeting Mt the White House
for the last tint". AM th" Secretaries were
iTiwnt. Only routine business was transact.-!.
Thk Argentine Minister and Mmc. Zolwllo
gave a dinner in hunar of the Secretary of (
Siat" and Mrs. tlrethnin.
Conoressmax .Toir.ru H. n'Nr.iu cf Mas
sachusetts, has 1 Hn nominate.! to l-e Assist
ant United Stat-s Treasurer nt B-wton.
SetUKTAHY Ghi-sham Intimated to France
that she will not tie permitted to foretMv col
lect her San Domingan claim, as it would d'
stroy hu equity held by an American com
pany The National Dairy Congress held a thrs
days' se-vsou at the Agricultural Dejiartment.
The National Council of Women amwndisl
its constitution, creating an upper nud lower
house. Mary Lowe Dickinson was elected
President.
Secbktauy Cahi.isi.e asked Congress to
make changes in various tnrttT fs-heilubx for
the purpose of making clearer the intent of
the law.
A Senate sul-committi reported that the
ruinously low price of cotton is due to th"
demonetization of stiver and dealingn in
futures.
The Ways and Means Committee recom
mends that England. Russia and Japan !
requested to oo-opernt" with the United
States in protecting the seals.
l'KKKIPEXT Cl.EVTl.AM decided the lioljn-
dary dispute bet ween Bni7.il and Argentina,
in favor of Brazil.
Foreign Note.
Commxiiant Lei'iiattbliek. of the marine
force, fought a duel with M. l'erehor. an ed
itor in Paris, iuflicting a wound from the ef
fects of which Percherdiml in a few mi merits.
The weapons were swords.
The German Kcjchstag approved tho up
proprintion for the four new cruisers.
Thk loss of life in the wreck of the Intei
Oceanic Railway, in Mexico, has Ju-t beei
made known, sity-ilve person wer" kille.;
instead of forty-two. as first stabM, and forty
were injured.
PltlM'K Lol'.ANoKI- llosroVSKY has Usui ap-
jxiintisl Russian Minister of Foreign Affair?
to suce.-cd the lute M. dc (liers.
Sik II eh Tt.p.s KoiuNsoN has tiecn reap
pointed Governor of Cape Colony. S uilh
Africa, a- Cecil I'.h nles could imt g'-t alont.
with Sir H"iiry Loch.
Fire at Halifax. Nova Scotia, destroyed hu
elevator aud a wharf stored with merchan
dise. Loss. . 1,000,000.
The Japanese Government lias order! all
its officers now serving in the Gorman army
to return home at once for duty in China.
News has been received of a battle near
Cali, Colombia, in which the rebels were
defeated. Many wore killed on both sides.
The Government forces captured a large
body of prisoners.
A una, to mak" American goods pay at
least twice as min-li duty in Germany as the
goods of other Countries Is before th" Reich
stag. A mild type of influenza has spread over
England. I'll" public offices have l mi"
short of hands, and the service is, conse
quently, crippled.
The importation of American cattle into
France has been forbidden.
Li Huno Chanh's yellow jacket, pacock
feathers, etc., have been restored to htm Ly
tho Emperor of China.
Domestic.
Max H. Gbacek. the firebug, convicted of
arson in the first degree, was sentenced in
New York to hard labor in Sing Slug Prison
for thirty years. As Grauer is forty odd
years of age, this is practically a life .sentence.
Mrs. Liebermann. Ids accomplice, was sen
tenced for six years.
The Washington express of tho Central
Railroad of New Jersey ran into coal ears
near Bayonne, N. J., and two men, Wlnfleld
Holland, fireman, and William Thomas, en
gineer, were killed find three injured.
The doors of th" Holdrodgc (Neb.) National
Bank wer' closed and the Government was
notified to assume charge. The capital stock
is !?50.00(.
The United States rruiser Montgomery
sailed from Mobile, Ala., for Truxillo, Hon
duras, on a secret misriou.
Freshets in Pennsylvania and Ohio have
done great damage.
At Kingston, N. C fire, which originated
in Bryan field's stables, spread to the wooden
buildings in the par of Oettedger Brothers'
store and to the Opera House. The two
main business blocks of the town were de
stroyed. The loss is fully 223,000 and th
insurance small.
The experiment of sending weather in
dications by Hash light from the tower of the
Chicago Auditorium proved a success.
Two farmers from Texas, one of whom ha I
a big revolver conveniently tucked away in
the leg of his boot, aud who said they hrt 1
come to get money from green goods" men.
wore arrested in Jersey City, N. J., togethe.
with a sixteen-year-old lad who acted as
' 'stoere r. ' '
Twenty-five men wore killed by the miu"
explosion at Cerrillos. New Mexico.
Tut Michigan Democratic State Conven
tion adopted a free silver resolution.' with
only one dissenting vote.
MokoanfieiJ). the Aqiiia Creek CVa.) train
robber, was found guilty and sentenced to
eighteen years in the penitentiary.
A heavy rain has broken the drought in
Northern Texas.
Court Orm-EH HiniAnn Mounts was fatally
wounded at Cincinnati. Ohio, while H'-rvlng
a warrant on Louis Stolzenbcrger, a black
smith, and Patrolman Fred Shaffer instantly
killed Stolzeuherger.
Leroy Fernoi.ti. aged thirty-eight, an
insane son. first killed his mother with nn
axe and then sot lire to their home at East
Lebanon, Me., where the body lay.
Detectives: Jacob and McMancs. of Sup
erintendent Byrnes's staff. New York City,
were arrested "and held in 1000 each on a
charge made by Parkhurst Society agents, to
the effect that thoy had allowed a burglary to
take place ami reci-tved money therefore.
A Cuban mass meeting at N'-w York City
developed wild enthusiasm for the rdx-l
cause and much money wa-t contributed.
Ax explosion in three, empty ramshackle
buildings in Williamsburg Brooklyn, which
nobody could explain, killed one hoy. John
Fluhr; fatally hurt another, Peter Wenz; in
jured six persons and broke windows blocks
away.
The cupola of Brooklyn's City Hall buricxl
and with it went the figure of Justice, tin-two-ton
bell and th" clock. Loss i-5,0oo to
35.000. mostly by water.
The Mils for the ity tun. jwr cent, gold
bonds, on being opened in New York City,
were found to amount to almost four tiui'-s
the amount of the issue.
William Haveri.y was shot and.fatally in
jured at Engei's Pavilion, Chicago, by Pro
fessor" Alfred Rleckhoff, alleged charnj.loii
rifle shot of the world." The men wre r
fvrming the human target act.
W-hile skylarking at Louisville, Kv , M.r:
Brunn shot to death through the le-art Off
ence Watts, with a pupjosedly empty r -volver.
Thomas Cavanaugii and his wife, who live 1
in Hog's Hili, C inn., were burned to death
in their house. Tiiir charred bodi we.--found
in the ruins.
The new naval dry dock at Port R ya'. S.
C., has beeneoru;icte.lau 1 t; with htguly
satisfa -tory results.
At Mansfield. Ohio. Fred J. Crooks, age I
nineteen, and his sister, Mary E. Crooks,
aged twenty, wen) out driving when they
were struck by a freight train and instantli
killed.
George Heinzelman. of Cbillieothe. Ohio,
died of grief two hours after the death of Ids
wife.
Cordelia Hill, the eleven-year-old colored
child who shot and killed her father in de
fense of her mother in Charleston. Va.. has
t.ieen acquitted, th" trial lasted about three
hours and a verdict wa-t reache 1 in half an
hour.
The drouth district of N'-tiraska tin been
blessed with a heavy rain.
Farmer Frank Henurick and hir? wife were
found mysteriously murdered in their bouse,
two mile south of Lebanon. Ind.
TRAIN ROBBERS IN TEXAS.
Fifteen Armed Men Plunder an Fipress
Car and Thru 1rnpe.
At 7 a'dock p. m. flfb'on nrind men bel l
up tho Houston and Texas Central north
lund express at th" Missouri, Kansas and
Texas crossing, on the outskirts of Dallas,
Texas.
The engineer and fireman wer" mad" to
l"nv"th" 1. -.motive. Then the rot-ts-.-s cut
loose th" Wells, Fargo xpnsvs and th"
baggag" cars, mad" th" engineer get back on
the engine, pulled the throttle tqMt.
and ran northward. leaving th"
riwt of tho train behind. The engine"
was made t run b a pla.s near
White R'X-k Creek Bottoms. a!ut five miles
north of Dal bis union station. There tin
rotitsrs stop(ss th" train and conis-lled th"
expres messenger to open th" I'lpnw car
and admit them. He was also made to ox'U
the .safe and the rob! " plundered It.
They ton up a larg nuintwr of M"kag'.
After they had finished w ith th expre enr
they shot out the. headlight and other light-.
The robbers then scnttensl to thetimlsTof
Whit" Rock Cn-ek Bottoms. Railroad and
express official and employ" dec I art that
the robbers seeunvl no money. Th" Indict Is
general, however, that a large sum vt money
was mvurcil.
K.ntlre Knslnes District I turned.
The entire husimKS district of Bath Reach,
th" summer resort on Grnvesend Hay, ltriok-
lvn, consisting of two Mocks of frame build
ings, is a hug" jiile of smoking ruins. Fin
swept away eighteen buildings, and, faliievl
bv the strong a iuds that came across Gray -
end Ray. raged two and a half hours, N-foro
it was put out. The loss is said lo atuouut t
more than $100,000.
Killed Ills Wife and Himself.
A. rhillips, a logger, about thirty fl vo yearn
of ag", shot and killed his wife at t hehalls.
Wash., aa.1 then blew out his wii bruins.
Roth died within nn hour. The affair grew
out of Phillips's jealousy of his w ife.
Two Kmernrs F.mhrace In Vienna.
Emperor William, of Germany, arrived on
a visit at Vienna. Austria. Ho was received
with elTusi ye nordiatit y by Emperor Francis
Joseph, of Austria, wl mbraced him twice.
cwny (.leanings.
Paris theatres took in .5, '.00,000 in IS'.il.
Viitoi.siA had seven snow-storms in two
weeks.
Olive crops have failed both in Franco and
Spain.
Salmox is selling for f 1.25 per pound in
London.
Gold is lioing withdrawn from tho banks
in San Francisco.
Wahiiinuton City ha.su soup kitchen which
is feeding some 2Mi) poor a day.
The movement . for Southern cotton fac
tories has at last spread to Florida. An ef
fort is being mad" in 1'ensacola to get up
capital to th" amount nf e 100,000 for the pur
pose of building a factory.
THE MARKETS.
I.ate Wholesale Fries of Country Pro
duce yuited In New York.
U MILK AMI 11 P. AM.
A fairly good demand prevailed th" past
week and the market ruled generally active.
On Fell. 21 th" Exchange price was lowered
to 2,'ic. per quart net to the shipper.
Receipts of the week, fluid
milk gals l,477.2s
Condensed milk, gals 12.HI0
Cream, gals HS.l'iM
Itl' I I F.ll.
Creamery - ponn, extras (n --
Western, et ras 22' j(n XI
Western, firsts liO n 21' j
Western, thirds to seconds 15 fa i'.l
Stat" Extra (a' 2t
firsts n in
Thirds tos ids 10 (r 11
Western I m. Creamery 10 (n 17
Western Dairy (m
Factory, fresh 8 (a 1 1' '
nr.i.si:.
State Fiillcreain. while, faicy 10.'trr II
Full cream, good to prune J 0 (n 10
Slate I'a-tory -Part ski in--,
large 3 or 7
Part skiniSj Hina'.l 4 f H'
Full skims 1V
1 '.OS.
State .V 1'i'iin - Frch (a :it
Jersey Fancy .'12 (a :t I
Western Prime o choice. .. . ;so la j
Duck eggs Solllh A es( . . - (a
Goose eggs . la'
UKANS AMI I'KAS.
Beans -Marrow, ls:4. choice. r 2 l"i
Medium, lM'.M. choice fn 1
Pea. 1HH, choice Oi 1 '.''
Ited kidney, s!M, choice o, 2 t'l
White kidin-v, 1 1'.M, choice. - o, 2 I'l
Bla -k turtle soup, lS'.U. . .. 1 h", ( J y.
Lima, Cal.. 18'Jl, r1 00 - . 2 HU la 2 "i
Green peas, bbls - i 1 07 4'
mrirs and lkiili ks -ni.su.
Grape Fruit 1 'i o, 5 H I
Oranges, Fla., f box. 1 l Oi Mil
Craiiilierrics, 'apo ( :od, V bbl.in lip in 1 I u
Jersey, V crate ;i i:, in i no
Apples. greeiiing-. ' bbl :i VI o, 1 no
Baldwin il VI o, I u l
( 'oinmon qualities in
Grapes, Del., V ha-k'-t --
Catawba 1- 'a 2)
Concord
III il'S.
State lH'.U. choic", V lb
H'.M, common to fair
rnejlle Cast, choice
(iood to prime
Old odd.-
h a i a"'d hi haw.
Hav-Primo, V 100 lb
I !ov r mixed
Si ni w Long rye
Oat
I.IU I'ol LIilV.
Fowls. V lb
Chi-ketiS, V Mi
Rooster.-, old, t' rt
Turkeys, t' it.
Vl.tfa II
$ 7
10 .! 1 I
h in :i
2 fir 1
70 la 75
.' fa :r,
vi fa :,
;; fa: i )
fa '.I
t'a :
- o, :,
.... 'I la ID
. . . . ,i oi :.
1 iri i 1 :iv
:y in io
1 Hicks, V pl:i, . .
( iiisi', r1 puir . .
Pigeon.-, V pair
IiIiK.iskd l'ot .;i:V.
Turkeys, V It. X o, IV t
Chickens. Phila. broil-r-, i" It.. 12 io 2
Western 10 In 11
Jersey fa i
Fowls. V lli ''' i'l t
Du cks. spring, I.. Ea-t r1 IT, pi la l;
(i-er..-. f' Mi H In i I
Squabs, V doz 2 25 fa I 0J
VKOK I AllLES.
Potatoes. Rose. V bbl 2 00 Oj 2'l
Whit-Kind-, i' bbl 2 Id Oi 2 15
Sweet. ' bbl 1 Wl In 2WI
Cabbage. V I'M fit " 'rl
Onions Yellow, t' bbl 2 OO la 2 f l
Red. V I'M 2 'xi la i 01
Squa-ri. marrow, i' bbl 1 Oi tn 51
Hubbard oi
Turnips, V bbl 75 (a 10 1
Kaie - - (a I ii
( el.-ry. V- 100 r- : "Ill i,: 7 0 i
Par-tup- 7' fn 1 2't
(I'i'I'l! pea Ol
( -l .liflower. f' h.M fa
Spring :aa, V f
Spina" a 2 0 I la .'. II I
Carrot.i ... 7i fn 1 OJ
'..IAIN. I. re.
Fiour- V.'.n'er Patent
2 fa
Spring Pal
a i ia ; 7"i
L 1 l: ..S
- oi 57
la- II
Whci, No. 2 R- I
May
Corn No.
Oa'.? Nc- - Wiiit"
Trace, Whit-
Malt "Ye-. i. -:i
R t'-l-v -a i" I Western .
h e !s"-Ti:nothy, V 100
Ci vcr
Larv' City fctea-n
I.iVL KIOI'K.
i;..ev, city dreise.l
Mdc'l coW.-. Ho'"- to good . .,
cJ. ! '!ic.-.-cd
i .1 nlrv dre-.-d
She.-:. V I'M 10s
i. im '-. V 10 fi-s
it ig- -ievr, e 100 llj.i
A.lscd
hi
.;
I
70 la 'i 5
li i 11 '
i; o i oi r. .v
a ; . oi j 7 "
t; 4 Ull tl
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