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COr.'.tu, So .. : Sermons on Pnul ia jail, Paul ottliarS iill Paxil in shiftwreekv Paul before the KKnLc.lrjiii) Paul before Felix are plentiful, but iii inV text we htvt Patil in a basket Datita,-e-os ii a.city Of White find glistening ttfohitSctrtrt sometimes called 'the ejfe Of tb& East,!? some-., times ctllBd "pearl Surrounded by erncm'd3," at One time distinguished ' for swords of the best materiil, called Damascus blades, and upholstery of - richest j fabric called damasks. :-A- horsaman by tha nai of Saul, riding toward i this city7 hod odan thrown from the saddle, i The hore had dropped under a flash fforti the sky wich at the same time was so bright it blinded the rider for many days, ait , 1 think j pr manently injured his eyesight that tins oe.ect of vision bearji9 tha thorn in the iir 4 afterward epeak of. 5; He started for Damas cus to batcher Christians, but after that hard fall from his horse he was a changed man and preached Christ in Damascus tilt the city was shaken to its f oundatiox The Mayor gives authority for his arrest, and the popular cry is ?Kill him ! hill him V The city is surrounded by a high Wall and the gates are watched by the- police less the Cicilian preacher scope-. Many bf the" houses were built on the wall, all, 1 their balconies pro jected cleat over and hovered above the gar dens Outside. It was customary to lower bas kets out of these balconies and pull up- fruits and flowers from the gardens.' ..To ' this day visitors at the monastery at Mount Sinai are lifted and let down in baskets." -Detectives prowled around from house to house looking for Paul, but his friends hid him, now in one plac, now in another. He . is no .coward," as i fifty incidents t hi his life-, de monstrates.1 But . he feels his . Work is not done yet, and so he tsvades assassina tion, j" Is that preachei1' here IT the fbam ing mob shout at one house dooiv Is that fanatic beret" the police shout at another house door, r Sometimes on the street incpg- nito he passes through a. crowd of clenched fists and sometimes ha secretes himself on the housetops. At : last ; the infuriated populace get on sure track of him. - They have positive evidence that he is in the bouse of one of - tho Christians, the balcony of whose home reaches over. tho wall. " Here no, is I Here hat isl" The vociferation and blasphemy and holiug of the pursuers are at the front door They breaR" in. MF- tch at that gospeh3rt and let tW hang his head ou the city gate-. AV nereis lie 3" The emergency was terrible;- pravidehkiall there was a good Stout basket in the housed Paul's friends fasten a" ropa to. the basket. Paul steps into it. The basket is lifte i to the edge of tha balcony on the wall, and then while Paid holds on to the rope wit loth hands, his friends lower away, carefuLy and cautiously, slowly but surely, further dovn and further down, until the basAet strikes t'-e earth and the apostle steps out, and afoot and alone starts On that famous missionary tour, the Btory of which has astonished earth and heaven. Appropriate entry iii Paul's diary of travels! :,ThrUg?i a window ih a basket was I let down bV thfe wall." - Observe, first, on what a slender tenure great results hang. The ropemaker who twisted that cord fastened to that lowerii'g basket never knew how much would -depend . upon the strength of it. How if it i.ad ucn broken and the apostle's life had been dashed out? What would have become of the Chris tian chuichf All -that magnificent mission ary work in PampliUia, CappadocL, Galatia, Macedonia would ; n e have been accom plished. All hisw itin- that make up so indispensable and enchanting a part of th New Testair eat would nev r have been writ ten. The story of resurrection would never have been so gloriously- told aa be told it That example of heroic and triumphant endurance at Philippi, in the Mediterranean Enroclydon,i under flageUatioa and at his beheading, would not have kindled the courage of ten thousand martyrdoms : But that rone holdinar thr l basket, how much de pended on it! : So, again and again, great results have hung on what seemed slender circumstances. -.ri ' D d ever ship of many thousaud tons cross ing the sea have such important passenger as had once a boat of leaves from taffrail to stern, only three or four feet; the vessel made waterproof by a coat of bitumen,, and float tag on the Nile with the infant lawgiver of the Jews on board? What if i some crocodile shouldTcrunch it? What if some of the cattle wading in for a drink should sink it? Vessels of war sometimes carry forty guns looking through the port holes, ready to open battle. But that tiny craft on the Nile seems to be armed with all the guns of thunder that bom barded Sinai at the-! lawgiving. On how fragile craft sailed how muoh Historical im portance! l; ;. J "I- - The parsonage at Epworth, England, is on fire in tho night,, and the father rushed through the hallway for the rescue of his childre Seven children are out and safe ou the ground, but -ne remains in the consuming building. That one wakes, and finding his bed on fire and the building crumbling, comes to the window, and two peasants r make a lad der of their bodies, one peasant standing on tho shoulder of the other, and down the hu man ladder th boy dscends John - Wesley. If you would know how much depended on that ladder of peasants, ask the millions of Methodists on both sides of the sex - Ask their mission stations all around the ; worlds Ask their hundreds of thousands already as cended to join their founder, who would have perished but far the livuig stairs of peasants' shoulders. : : --. .-. . - . -r .: . - i . - . ; : A n English ship stopped at Pitcairn Island and right in the midst of - surroundig -canni-lalism and squalor the passengers discovered a Christian colony of churches and ' schools and beautiful homes and highest stylo of relig ion and civilization. - For tiftyyears no m s sionary and no Chi-istian influence had landei there. . " Why this oasis of light amfd a desert of heathendom? Sixty years before a. ship hod met disaster and one of the- sailors, iiti oble to save anything else went - to his trunk ' ami f took out a Bible which his mother had placed there ' and swam.. ashore, the Bible held in his teeth. The book was read- on all sidts until the rough and vicious population were evangelized,; and a church -was startei and an enlightened com monwealth established,1 and the world's history has no more brilliant page than that which Cells .of the transformation of a natioii by one boofc - It did "not seem - of much importance whether the- sailor continued to hold the book in his teeth or let it fall in the breakers, but upon what .small circumstanco depended what mighty results 1 - - 1 i Practical inference:- lhereare;no msig- nificancesin our lives. : The minutest tiling is part of a magnitude, Infinity is made up of infinitesimals,;. Great things n aggregation of small things."? Betlxlehent manger jmlling on a star in the eastern sky. One book in a drenched sailor's mouth; the evangelization of a multitude, - One boat of papyrus 011 the L Nile freighted with events for all agco. The fate of ; Chnstendom in a basKet let aown from a window on the wall. . What you do, Ldo welL; - If you make a. rope make it strong and true, for you ' knownot how-- much may depend ; on. your s woikmanship, :. If yon fas'aion a boat let it' be waterproof, for yoa know not who r may sail in it. : . If you put a Bible in the :4;runk of your boy as he goes f romiiome, let it be heard i in ;yonr. prayers,, for it may, have a jnission as far reaching as the book which the sailor carried in hii teeth to the Pjtcaira beach. ; The plains est man's life is uri island between two eterni ties eternity- jxist. rippling against his shoulders. - eternity- to comet, touching bis blow., . The casual, the: accidental, that which rnerely hapfened so, are pprts of a. great plan, and the rope tbt lets the fugitive apostle from the Damascus wall; is the cable that holds to its mooring the ship' of the church in the northeast storm of the centuries. Again, ; notice ' unrecognized and uiu'e covded , services. - Who spun that rope I Who ' tied it to the- basket I r Who steadied the illustrious p-cacher as he stepped into f Whd r3laxd not a niuscte f the afifl r dismissed an apKidttS .lok frdrtt his tacet Until khd b&St tdtiched tlid ground -aad oisehatged ;its- magnificent cargd ? Not one of their nanies has come to ui; bE tbei;t, was no work done that day in Damascus or in all-- tho : earth compared with-. the imy liortance of 4 their work. What if ' they? had - in the atritatioit tied r knot that coma slip f What if the sound of the 1 mob -'i at the door had led them .to say s " Paul miisfrtaka ctve of hinuJf, and we will, take, cave of ourselvesr No, nol They held th lops, and in doing SO did more for the Cllris feian etiurcli that! rny , thousand 0 Us will ev6r , awbmplish-. BUt Qod knows dnd ha9 hiode eternal record Of their iJjidSriakin:': And th&y- knWWi Hdw Exultant the must hard f4t tHiirl t.ViS-sr Vila )J t-a uJ Jiomaiis, to the Corinthians: to the Galfitian3: tor the fcphesians, to tho Phitippians, to- the vuuiwmuis, 10 toe u nesaaionians, to Timothy to Titus, to Philemon, to tho Hebrews, and when . they heard , how he "; walked ouf" of pi-ison -with the, earthquake unlocking the" door for him, and ; took -command -of f the Aloxfti.th ian corn -ji When the sailors were nearly scared to dt ath, -nd preached a ser hito th$ iieariy flhoote Felix off his judgment sea her the . iied nd wdmeii who helped fxitti. dawh thi'-otlgU th.o wiudow alii over tHi wall talking in private over the jnirtter.-' and feaying; HHow glad I am that we effected that rescuel In coming times others may"get the glory of Paul's work, but no one shall rob ns of the satisfaction of knowing that f we held the rope. . . ,.: ; t c : Once for thirtyix hours we , expected everj moment xo go to - tno - ooccom - ot: tne pceaii, Tha waves struck through the sky lights arid.i'uslieddawn int the jiold ot the ship and hissed Against the bbiierS-. was ah tiwfultime; biit, by the blessing df God and the faithfulness of the menin chargewe came out of the cyclone and we . arrived, at home. Each one. before leaving the ship thanked Captain Andrews, v I do' not think, there was a man or woman that -went, off that ship without thanking Captain Andrews and when -years after I heard of his death I was impelled to write a letter of " condo lence to his family' in ? Liverpool Ev erybody recognized the goodness, the eour hge, the kindness of Captain Andrews f but it occurs to me now that we never" thanked, the eogineefi He stood away doWnni the darkness amid the hissing furnaces doing his whole duty: , - Nobody thanked the engineer but God recognized his heroism and his con tinuance and his fidelity, "and- there- will be just as high reward for the engineer 'who worked out of sight as for the captain who stood on the bridge of the ship in the midst of the howling temp t - C - j ---; There are said to be about 69,000 ministers of religion in this country. : About 50.000 I -warrant camo from early homes which had to struggle for tho necessaries of life. .- The .S03S of rich bankers nndmei-chantsgenerally become bankei's and ' merchantsi The most -bf tiitjse.Who become ministers are the sons of ttidse iio had terrific struggle t9 gettheii e vei"'day breafL The collegiate dud theologis cal education ot that son took eveiy luxury from the parental table for ight years. The other children were more scantily appareled. The son at college -every little while got a bundle from home.; In it were the socks that mother had . knit, sitting up -'- late ' at night," her sight not as good . as ones it -was. ; And there also were soma delicacies from ? the sister's - hand ' for the voracious appetite of a hungry .student. The father swung the heavy cradle through the wheat, the sweat rolling from hid ehinbe-' dowiug every , step of the wayt and then sit ting down under the "cherry tree' at noofi thinking to himsolf : 4iI amfearfulry tired.but it will pay if I caii pnee sse that boy through college, and if I can know, that he-will be preaching the Gospal after I am dead." : The younger children want -to know why they -can't have this and that as others do, and the mother says: "Be patient, my children,' until voui" brother graduate?, and then you .shall have more luxuries; hut we must see that boy through." . V- :' 'V " . v : . The years go by, and the son lias been ordained and is preaching . the glorious Gospel, and a great revival comes, and souls by scores and hundreds accept the Gospel from the lips of that young preacher," and father, and mother, quite old now, are visiting the son at that village parsonage, and at the close Of A Sabbath of mighty blessing father and mother retire to .their room, the soa lighting the way and asking them if he can -do anything to make them more comfortable, saying if they want anything in the 'night just to knock- on the- walL And then, all .alone, - father and mother talk over the graoioU3 t influences of the day " and say: "Well, it was worth all we went through to educate that boy. It was a hard pull, but we held on till the work was , done. ! - The world mav not know it. but. mother, we held the rope," didn't wc" And the voice, tremu lous with ioyf nl emotion, responds: : Yes, father, we held tha ropx tfeel my work is done. Now. Lord, lef-.st Thou , Thy servant depart in pea"-; for mine eyes have seen Thy salvation " r Pshaw!'" says the father. - "I never felt so Tnuch like Uving in my life as now. I want to sae w hat that fellow is going o:i to do, he has begun so well.". -'Something occurs to me quite personaL T was the youngest of a large family of child ren. My parents were neither rich nor poor; four of the sens wanted collegiate education, and four obtained "t, but not without great 1 oma struggl We never heard the old peo ple say puce that they were denying themselves to effect this, but I remember now that my parents' always looked tired I don't think they ever got rested until they laydowit in the Somerville cemetery. Mother would sit down in '-tue : eemnS anqisay:.--Tfe, I dont know what takes , me . feel fo tired 1" ; Father -; would - fall -immediately to sleep, seated . by the . evening stand o-ercome with the day's fatigues. One-of the four brothers after oreachine the srosoel for about fifty years, entered upon his 5 neavn enly rest. Another of - the four is on the "other side of tho earth -su missionary of the cross. Two of us are 111 this land in the home ministry, and I think all of us are willing to acknowledge our obligatioiiS to the. old folks at ho-ie. About twenty-one years ago the one, a.id about twenty-thi-ee; years ago the other, put down the bm'dens of this hfe, but the" still hd the rope. . -.'-' ;.. - - "J " ' O, men and women here ' assmbladj- you brag sometimes how you have fought your" way in the world, but I think there havetesn helpful influences that you have .never, fully acknowledged. Has there not ben some in-f fiuence in yonr early -or present home that the world cannot see? ' Does there not reach to yen from among the ;New England htDs, or from - western prairie, or from southern plantation, or from English or' Scottish or Irish home j cord of influence that has kept you right when you would have gone astray, and which,-after you had made a crooked ti-ack, recalled you? .; The Te? may; be as I--ii5 as thirty years. ; or five hundred miles long, or three, thousand miles long, but hands that went out of mortal sight long ago will hold - the rope. You : want, a very swift horse, and you need 'to rowel him with", sharpest' spurs, and - to let the 'reins lie loose upon the neck,, and to give a f shout to the racer, if yott are going to ride j out of reach of your mother's prayers. iWhy, j a ship crossing the Atlantic in six days can't 1 sail away from that. ; A sailor finds thenf on ) the lookout as be takes his place,, and finds them on the mast as he climbs the ratlines to disentangle a rope in the tempest, and finds - J-- il . 1 ; 1. .V.nn - Y.a. them Kvriniin? on the hammock When -.he turns in; Why not be frank and -acknowledge it--the most of us would long ago have been dashed to pieces: had not gracious and loving hands steadily, lovingly and mightly held the rope. - . . - , ' ' r v ' But there must come a time when we shall find -out who these. Damascenes were who lowered Paul in the basket, and greet" them and all those who have rendered to God -and "the world unrecognized and , unrecorded' 'services. That is going to be one of the glad exa'tements of heaver, the hunting Tip and trick msr out of those wno did ereat good on earth and eot no credit- f or ifc Here ithe t church has been going on for nineteen cen turies, and yet the world has not recoenired tne services oc caa peopie ui tuai, uiua-jo balcony. - Charles G. Finney said, to paying Christian : " Give my love to St. Paul when yon meet him. " Whenyou and I meet lain,: as we wifi, I shall ask. him introduce me Damasceni pt-riL - ; '1 - VS -' r ? We go into long sermons to prove ' taA wh will be able" ,tb 'recognise people id heaven, iwhen there ii cjie reason: we fail t piesenl, and that is bett a-r thau all-Gd will inti-ci-us.. .We shall have thorn a!t ji- ini out. You woujd not be gUilty 8f'&6 impbliteiigS! of having friends in your parlor not,' irtti ft dticed, and -celestial politeness will derrand that we be made acquainted w ith "-all Hie heavenly household. What rehearsal of old times and recital of sfeinins reminiscences t If others fail t J give. introduction God will take us through, and before our first twenty-four hours in - heaven if it . were $alculated j- by ,t earthly-1 tiniepieccs-have-passecUwe shall loeer.and talk with - more heavenly celebrities than in our entire mortal state we,niet With earthly celebrities, - Many Midmde great noise M wgfuinosS will sit births last seal; by the . front door ef . the heavenly templef 7"w arm's l"eajh of the heavenly throne will be many who, though they oould not preach themselves or "do eat Lexpld'iti -fdr God; nevertheless held the rope,- : ; -, . . ..- , . Come, let ns go right up and - accost those on this jCircle of , heavenly thrones. - Surely they-must have killed in battle a million men: Surely tbev must have been bnri.&d with all the cathedrals sounding a dirge and all the towers ef ail. the" cities tolling the national grief: . Who art thou, mighty ne of heaven i .'.'I lived by choice "the unmarried daughter in. an humble home that I rthgnt take cai e ef iiiy parents in their old ago, and I e'udiire'd with out complaint all their querulousness and ad-niinistfti-ed . to- ell heir, wants . for , - twenty years,? - . ' - . - Let ofi pars on round the circle of thrones. Who ai t thou, mighfey one of hea cfi? ' was for thirty years a Christian invalid, and Bulfereii al! the whileoccssionally writing a tidfe of sympathy far those wo-se oft' than I, arid Was ge'ue'iai. confident jof all those, who had trouble; and tfetee m a while I "was i strong enough to make a garment 10 , -ha fc ptWr fam ily in the- back lane.1' Pass on to ".nother throiw. Who art thou, mighty one of heaven? "I was the mother who raised whole familv of children for God, and they are "mt in the world Christian merchants. Chribtiah me- L chanics, .Christian wi-es, and I , have had full reward of all my toiL" Let us pass on in the circles of rthrones. ;I had a Sabbath school class, and they were always on. my heart, and they all entered the: kingdom of God, srtd I am waiting for their arrival ? But who art thott, the mighty one of heaveii tSithis othei- throiiei "In time of. bitter per secntion I owned a bbuse irt - tJamflscits, a house on the walL A : man who preached Christ was houndedfrom street to street and I hid him from the assassins, and when I found them breaking in.my house and I could no longer keap him safely, 1 nnvis&rl him to flett for his Kfe, and a basket was let down over the wall with-the maltreated.; man in it and I was ons. who helped hold the rope." - - Ami I saidr "Is that .all?" And he auswered: -Ihat is all. " And while I was . lost in amaze tnent I heard a strong voice that sounded as though it might once have been hoarse from "many, exposures! and triumphant as though it" might have belonged ' to one of the martyrs, and it said: "Not many mighty,' not" many noble' aie called, but -God Iiath chosan, the weak things of the world to con found the things which are inightyr and base things of the world and things which are despised hath God chosen, yea and things which are not .to bring to naught i things which are, that no flesh should glory in His presence.1' And I looked to see from vh3iic the voice come, and lol it was the very one who had said: "Through a window in a bas ket was I let down by the wall."' - -, - Henceforth think of nothing as insignifi cant. A little thing may decide your all. A Conarder out out . from England fpr New York. -It was well e;uipped,Tut in putting up a stove in the pilot box a nail was driven too near tv compass. You know how that 4 nail would affect the compass. The allies officer, deceived by that distracted eompass. put the ship 200 mile3 off her course, end sui denly the man on the lookout cried: 'Land ho!" and the ship was halted within a few yards of her demolition on Nantuekrt shols. A sixpenny nail cams near - wrecking a Cu narder.. Small ropes hold mighty destinies. . A mimster seated in Boston at his table, lacking a word puts , his hand bshind -his. head and tilts back his chair to think, and the ceiling falls and crushes the table and would have crushed him. A mimster in Jamaica, at night by the light of an insect, called the candle fly, is kept from stepping over a preci-: pice a hundred feet. F. W. , -liobertson, the celebrated English clergyman, said that he entered the ministry from a train of circum stances started by the barking of a doj. Bad . the wind blown one way on a certain day. the Spanish Inquisition would have been' -established in England ; but it blew tho other way, and thatr dropped the accursed institution with 75,000 tons of shipping to the bottom of the sea, or flung the.jBplintered logs ou the rocks. ::- w-';!1 -Nothing unimportant in your life or mine. Three noughts placed on the right side of the figure one make a thousand, and six noughts on the right side, of the figure one million, and our nothingness placed on. the right side may be augmentation illimitable. All the ages of time and eternity affected by the bas ket let down from a Damascus balcony., w The First Woman Mayor. Argonia is a pretty little city of the third class; population 500; incorporated two years ago; situated in ISuniner coun ty, in the southern part of the State of Kansas. It has attracted - the attention of suffraaists by electing, this spring, a lady to thef Mayoralty. This is the first tune a woman has; held. - tnat omce in Kansas, and we are gliulthat the "inno vation" is made in the "person of one "who will fill that , office with, credit to - herself and sex, and the satisfaction to her townspeople. -' Mrs. Susanna Madora Salter, Mayor of Argonia, was born in Lamira, Belmont "J couhty, Ohio.:. ohe emigratea witn ner parents to Kansas, and entered the Kan sas State Agricultural College as a second year student at the age of 17 remained nearly ; three years, arid was ,compelled -by failing health -to leave two months before graduation. At -20 she married L. A Salter, a graduate of the same col lege, and they soon removed to Argonia, where Mr. Salter is practising law. : Four children have been born to them, "and Mrs. Salter, with all her other accomp lishments, is J a model mother; wife, and practical housekeeper. , Her father was" the first Mayor of Argonia. Mrs. Salter was elected by a two-thirds majority- only one woman voting against her. . At the age of 27 this : educated, womanly woman, is performing, in person, - tho duties of Mayor. " She does not fear them in the least and is as detennined, by the, help of God, so to conduct her office as to make it serve the best interests of the city She is an officer in the Argonia W, CJ., much interested in the enforcement of tiie Drohibitory law. and in the study j Df the best means of suppressing and I J LZ AT, tlt eiWjLlcaLllJ.g tilt) HOCO UUMl s UCiSCI) V jities. ; ' How much more seductivo Wrong is than Bight! Singular, is it ,not, that Good (which is right) never tempts us, ind ; that Evil (which is .wrong) s al- " Brays setting; snares for ns? Truly, I : 10 not Know: wnyjooa ana. jEiVii persisi. in standing on their heads, -and so give as confused and dizzy - notions of tho . Lord bless yon ! There ain't nothin- , i - v " 1 , 1-ra.U m a man b uuuac, xi x c..v.x0 X. that can teke. the place of babies ! A yyfe-y; --it -,-r - -iL ' " r go ; excellent: as the : ;.lpectacle ol an old raw who believes m njs jeuow men 1 ;. : CLOSE 0F THE FISCAL -YEAR. Changes irt the' Washirigfort J&epart nieiitg Twedty Treasury Clerks " . . LLs?Ltdrgea. . : A dispatch from Washington, says ( .No changes of consequence will be made in the clerical f orces of the State and Navy Depart ments as a result, of the legislation contained in th ) appropriation.bills, which take effecft at the close of the fiscal year ending June 80. - To carry' out ' the- Secretary's ideas re garding tha consolidation of the purchasing system eiy the Navy " Department In one bureau, a number of financial elerks of the different bureaus liave been, transferred to the paymaster-general's bureau. In the eOri sular serviee of the government the present system of compensating consuls by fees will, under the terms of tM ilew appropriation bill, be supplanted jto a largg extent by a system of graded salaries. Of saved ftlerka and copyists dismissed in the quartermaster general's office all but one were women. Besides these, dismissals- there Fwere' many changes in this office, a "number of clerks, being reduced to lower grades and" as many more promoted or transferred to other gr&tesV Twenty clerks in the Treasury De partmeiit haye beeii dismissed because of the -failure Of CoagiesS to make provhiion for ; the payment of their salaries. A num ber of minor changes, such as increase and reductions i r the salaries of certain officers,; will take effect tomorrow, as does also the executive order consolidating internal rev enue; districts, and reducing the number of collectors and other employes. The judicial b aneh af -the government is increased by two -judges and a few clerical changes occur -in the department -oil justice. The 20 per cent, reduction- in the salaries of assistant district attorneys goes into effect July; 1st The new appropriat'ons will cause" about twenty-four changes in the agricultural de partment. Twelve new , appointments will be made, arid about twelve persons serving under temporary appointments will betrans ferro I to the permanent rolls. Dr. C. A. Crampton has-been promoted to the office of assistent chemist, vice-Edgar- Richards, re signed to accept a position: in the internal revenue bureau. The appropriation for the government printing - is r abou $150, 000 less thanfor the past fiscal year, but printer Benedict says that very few employes" will be disturbed, r The changes in the cleri cal force of the Interior depai tment incident to the close of the .fiscal are comparatively slight. The new l'w provides for three ad ditional members ; of -the board of pension : appeals,- and for a number of agents to allot lands in severalty to..the Indians. -. Neither the law clerks nor the ; Indians agents have yet been appointed. Tho changes in the bureaus of the Interior Department are in signiflc'antw . - ' - . . - ;,i DROUGHT JN THE WEST. , Illinois aud -Wisconsin Suffering for r- Ijack of Raiu. . ' ; - A dispatch from Chicago says: No such drought as how prevails has exisil in Illi nois and Wisconsin for many years: The roads are ankle deep with dust.; the pastures are brown and tie leaves on forest and shade" trees are shriveled up and each hot breath of ah4 from the cloudless horizon drives them away in showers. Creeks hrve run dry and the water in the larger streams is at a lower stage than was ever known -before --There has not been a soaking rain in this part of the country since March. XTwo "showers in April and one, each in May and June had but a temporary effect on crops. Stunted -yellow spears bendi g diseonsolatory over immense beds of dust are the only evidence that the farmers sowed any corn this year. The leaves of he fruit trees .are falling off and the f mit which - promised to be plenty, Is wrinkled ; and dried to the stem. - Raso- . berry bushes look as though they were pro aucmg a crop pi snot, so infinitesimal and hard are the berries. - " The drought has become so terrible that -pnblic prayers are being offered for rain. The fences along the county roads and the dead walls of the villages are plastered with hugh bills calling for special .services at the district school houses and churches. - Fires are burning in the woods and pastures for Tniles around are scorched.. The . farmers have lost many cattle in these fires, Which seem to spring up in dozen places at once. Reports from all parts of Henry and adjoin ing counties tell of intense suffering from the drought. The chunking, water in many tow ns has been polluted and ,the white beds of the creeks are covered with decaying flesh. The .drought in the northern arid central tiers of - counties of - Illinois is rot any more serious than it is irt WTisconsin. The badger State is literally burning up and fruit and crops are nearly destroyed. Reports from northwestern Iowa state that the drought has been broken. - AN EDITOR CHALLENGED.. He Refuses to Entertain it, but "When .----- - he. Goes on the Street lie Goes Armed. : A" dispatch from Augusta, Ga,, says: A personal ' encounter is looked for between Major J. WV Greeni General Manager of the Georgia Railroad and James Barrett," edi itor of the Globe and Lance, 4. Kiiight of Labor paper. " night Davis a conductor on the Georgia road, was Indict?d on the charge of criminal assault on a lady committed to his care. Pending the litigation . Major Green suspended hinvv Davis was acquitted, but Green refused to restore him to his place. The Globe and Lance, which paper is owned by Davis, made a furious personal attack on Greene. The Major ignoring Davis, sought James Barxett, the editor. . Barrett denied a, nj responsiointy, ana men wreen aureu upou him under the code, his second be ng the well-known lawyer, Major B.- B, Cummia. Barrett refused to rec- gnize Cummin or to j enteriam any ninii oj, a. ciioxicugts, iuotwj I marking that he wa s ready to defend him- sen wnenever aLtauiiou. - 'jrit-ciiD mcu mol ded Barrett as a coward using the dialect peculiar to duellists. To this Barrett replies as follows: ' . " ' s - - "Personal abuse can accomplish nothing. T An nnt-. Totort. hv chareine cowardice on Major Greene, v He can test my courage at any time and in any way tnat ne may tnins: i - . maTioTOr ait, Viaa of th thre e-entlemen Greene, -Davis or Barrett went upon the streets he went- prepared xor war ana sur rounded by friends. rlWhen they meet they will fight. . - ; ::-yVy vT;-T - MARKETS... - BaLtimoiih Flour City Millsextra,$3.25 Corn Southern White, 52a53cte, Yellow, 48a 4i CtS. r Kjaxa oauweru auu ieu njitouio, io'OTto . T-iro -Mni-vland and Peirnsvlvania. 58a60cta l Hay-Maryland and Pennsylvania 14a$1450: Straw w neat, .ouaa.w; tsutier, Eastern Creamery, lSaSOcts, near-by receipts 16al8cts. ; Cheese Eastern Fancy -Cream,S alOcts.. Western, 8a8Ucts. ; Eggs 16al7; Cattle 3.50a$4.75 : -Swine .: 6)4 a6cts. ; I Sheep -and - Lamb 3a4) cts.: Tobacco Middling, 5a$6, Good to fine red, 7a$9t Fancy, 9a$l2. - ; y w--; v;-; .... - - New York Flour Southern Common to fair extra, 3.50a$4; Wheat No. -1 Whit, 66 a87 cts. ; Rye State, 54a56 ; Corn Southern Yellow, 47a48cts.; Oats-rWbite State, 38a39 cts. ; Butter State, 13al9cts. ; Cheeses-State, llal4cts. ;'Eggs 14ai4i cts. ' . ? - " -. Philadelphia- Flour Pennsylvania, fancy, -3.5ua$4:, Wheat Pennsylvania ; and Southern Red, 84a85 cts; Rye Pennsylvania 57a58 cts.; Corn Southern Yellow, 45a47 cts Oats 36a37 cts. : Butter State, 18al9 cts. ; Cheese N. Y. Factory, Hal2 cts.: -Eggs-State, 12al3 CtS. . . - " -r : TELEGRAPHIC SUMMARY, " Eastern and Middle States. - . PEKsrofirrr Beach, o. Wesleyan College at Middletown, Conn. , has been removed by the Trustees,- who are dissatisfied With, hi man agement. , -: - ; . -; J Ames Cunitin ghaVi, em employe f tho Old " Colony Railroad, while at work on a moving - train "-at Boston, fell between the cars, V Fart of lita body was caught by the . train and part . was dragging on the ground. In this . position ha was" carried about forty feet, when, by dint of great exertion, he got loose and threw him self out of the way wC the moving train. He landed directly in front of another train, which ran oyer him and killed him. --- Portions ot New Hampshire and Vermont; have been visited I y an earthquake shock. A - Concord, N. H., Bellows Falls, Vt. ahd othei' p aces' lsre buildmgs were per ceptibly jarred. . -v MSRic. Twain and Rev. T; K. Beecher took turns in umpiring anokl-fashioned gama of baseball a few days since at Eimira, N. Y. Is thi first six mon tils of this year 212,655 lmmigraiifer arrived at New York an in crease of 0S,i)-U4 over the corresponding period during 1880. . - . John Wilson-,-a workman living near Chatham, N. J., killed his wife and then blew his own brains out. He . had been drinking heavily. . . -" t . - -The Thirteenth New Jersey Regiment de dicated its monument at Gettysburg. The oration was . delivered . by -v Major-General Sloetun. - . - ., . - ;- vYale defeatad Haivard five lenjths in the annual eight-oared boat race between the two Universities at.New London, Conn. The distance was four miles, and Yale's time was ; S3 minut.'S 10,' seconds. . : - - South and West., Four miners were comine out of a mine at Norway, Mich. , when some men above let a tram car get away, and it came thundering down the shaft. The car struck the cage con taining the miner j, aud all were killed. Scott Lyos and Jack Dillard, neerro rail road employes at Columbia, S.C., had a sav age fight,' during which the former butted the latter with such force that he fractured his skull, killing him instantly. A. fire swept over: one-fourth of the busi ness part of JSlizabethtown, Ky., causing a loss of 100,000.- ; The Ohio Prohibitionist State Convent on at Delaware hominited a full ticket headed by Morris Sharp for Governor. - -. - Jefferson DavIs has written a letter to the Baltimore Sun in reference to the return of the Confederate battle flags. - Hs says that 'if tbe object now be to unite the peo- plejof" the North and South as brethren in the Union, as a means to that end -every sign of past conflict should, as far as practicable, he obliteratea." . Thxrtv- skeletons of human being3 have been discovered in a-cave near Cookville, . Tenn They arj supposed to be the remains of some murderel stock raisers. . - . - Washington. Comptroller Trenholm. who has been Fidehty BanTc, of Cincinnati whose failure was caused by the collapse 01 tne great wneac corner, says that the losses will not exceed $3,600,000. - He says further that the di rectors of the bank will be taught a lesson, as they are presumably liabie for the debts of the concern. ; The President has Pardoned "Tom" Eal- lard,the kingof counterfeiters, whohas served about one-half a thirty years' sentence in the . Albany penitentiary. . it During the last fiscal vear there were is sued' 112,340 pension certificates. Of this number 55,194 were original cases; 8,455 were Mexican war claims under the act of Janu arv 29. 1887: 10.030 were "amputation" cases under the act of August 6, 18:3,1036, and 37 were increase cases. i ; The consolidation of internal revenue dis tricts, whereby twenty-two district are merged into others,- has been consummated. A deficit of $28,000 has been discovered in the accounts of the late Levi Bacon, finan cial clerk in the Interior Department. : Foreign. An earthquake at Guayquil, .Ecuador, de molished several buildings. - -: CrviL war' prevails in Afghanistan. The Ameer's troops -have been whipped by the rebels in one battle, and in another the latter were defeated with heavy loss. - The New Zealand Hotel, - a bank and twenty-two shops have been destroyed by fire at Blenheim, New Zealand. The loss is $250,000. The youthful Empsror of China is to be married. The festivities will cost $5,000,030.. ' A short-time movement is spreading in every direction among English cotton spin ners. - - - ABOUT NOTED PEOP.LE Mr Bancroft, the aged historian, keeps eight type-writers busy. . . f . Mrs. CLEVEtAND will bo' twenty-threo years of age on the 2Isb of July. - . - ; The Hon. John S. Wise, of Virginia, de livered the Fourth of July oration in Philadelphia.- ; l - Jay Gould says that he is going to take thing3 easy this summer, and let. his son George do the work. - s One ot Mr.. Blaine's earliest invitations in London came from Mr. Gladstone, and wa3 promptly accepted. - ; - -Bishop Kip is the new President of the General Theological Seminary of tho Protes tant Episcopal Church of America. Professor Billroth, of Vienna, probably the greatest living surgeon, pronounces Pas teur's hydrophobia treatment a fiasco. W. L. Trenholm, XJnited States Comp troller of Currency, i3 a tall, lithe man, with dark eyes, gray hair and gray mustache. 7 Miss Olivia Cobb, a granddaughter of General Howell Cobb, of Athens. Ga. is pro nounced in Washington social circles the belle of the South. , .- . -. Senator Evarts has five daughters, four married and one single, s Miss -Mary Evarts is - an accomplished musician . and has a splendid contralto voice. .- . . Miss Mosby, daughter of the once famous guerilla chief, 13. writing a bit of war his tory." Her material is procured from a mem ber of the Mosby command. Captain Mackenzie, the champion chess player of America, has sailed for Europe to represent the New York Club in the German, English and Scottish international tourna ments. : - . - - - .. . . : . , - Mrs. Kate W. Howe, the lady member of the Grand Army, was the observed of all the observers at the Saratoga reunion. She sat on her horse firmly and rode in line hke a thorough veteran. . ; - . - Fred. II. Nichols, a Connecticut veteran of the late civil war, -entered the Union ser vice in 1862 at th age of fourteen years and one month. Hecarried a musket from tna day of his enlistment for three years and tooit part m many nara-iougnt Datues. Briggs Swift, President of the wrecked Fidehty Bank of Cincinnati, has had a previ ous "unpleasant experience wnn lawureaKers. At the time- the Cincinnati Court House was burning and the streets . were held by the rioters, Mr. Swift-went up "to see what was going on," and was severely wounded by a musket-ball, from the effects of which he lin gered for several weeks on the verge of the grave," . . , , ) ' ; .,- Dr. Prudden says that an ordinary glass of Tvater may contam hundreds of thousuids of bacteria, but nobody should quit drm -ing water on that account and take up witn the other thing. A bushel of bacteria in fcss stomach will play far less havoc with an; s natural history than ever so small a sua. i his boot, Was hington Critic. ... v 0- : v'-' ----- .r v
The North Carolina Prohibitionist (Bush Hill, N.C.)
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