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SERMON. - ; - SuLbJect: Preaching, ' Teaching: : Exhortation. : ; and Text: Or ministry,' let tut wait on our tninistert0 ; or Ae that tracheth; on teach ing ; or he that exhorteth, mCexhortaotu itomans, xii., 7-tj : ;.'. . -... i - Before the world Is converted tho style o religious discourso will have to be converted7 You might as, well go Into the modern Sedan or Gettysburg with bows and arrows Instead of rifles and- bombshells and sparks of artu-lery,-a3 toexpact to conquer- thi3 world for God by the old styles of exhortation and ser monolgy. Jonathan Edwards preached the sermons most adapted to tho age in which Ihe lived, but if those sermons were preached now they would divide an audienco into two' classes, those sound asleep aud tho33 wanting to go home. -.'..: ' : , .. .-. ,Bnt there is a rehgious discourse Of the future who will preach- it I have no Idea; in what part of the earth it will be born I have no idea; in which denomination rof Christians it will 1 be delivered I .cannot guess That discourse or exhortation may be bortt in the country meeting-house On the banks- of the. St. Lawrence, t' the Oregon, or the Ohio, or the Tombigbee,- or the Alabama. The per Bon who shall deliver it may this moment be in a cradle under- the shadow of the Sierra Nevadas, .or in a New England farm-house, or amid the rice-fields of Southern Savannas. Or this moment there may be some young man in some of our theological seminaries, in the junior or middle or senior, class shaping that weapon of power. Or there may be coming some new baptism of the Holy Ghost on the churches, so that some of us who now stand m tne watcn-towera of Zion, wa'smg to a realization of our present inefficiency, may preach it ourselves. I That . coming 'discourse may not be fifty years off. 4 And let us pray God that its arrival may be hastened, while I announce to yon what I .. think will be the chief characteristics of that discourse or ex hortation wbea it does arrive, and I want to make the remarks of the morning appropri ate and suggestive to all classes- of Christian workers;:";'T'.. , : :' '. . . ' rj.; ':.,'; -v)i.y;.-!' ; First of all I remark, that that future re ligious discourse will be: full Of a living Christ in contradistinction to didactic techni calities. A discourse maybe full of Christ though hardly mentioning His name, and a Bermon may be empty of Christ while every sentence is pititious of -His titles. The world wants a living Christ, not a .Christ standing at the head of a formal system of theology, but a Christ who means pardon and sympathy, and condolence, and brotherhood and life,: and heaven. A poor man's Christ. A rich man's Christ. An overworked man's Christ. An invalid's Christ. U farmer'a Christ. A merchant s Christ. I An artisan's Christ. An every man's Christ. A symmetrical and. fine-worded system of theology is well enough for theological classes, but it has no more business in a pul pit man nave tne teenmcal pnrases ot an anatomist or a psychologist or aphysicianin the sick room of a patient. ? ITie world wants help, immediate and world-uplifting, and it will come through a discourse - iu which Christ "shall walk right down into the immor tal soul and take everlasting possession of it, filling it as full of light as is this noonday firmament. L r i -. 1. - ; ; - ; That sermon or exhoitation of the futttr will not deal with man in tho thread bare' illustrations of Jesu3 Christ. ' In that' coming I address' there will - be Instances of vicarious suffering taken right out of every--day life, for there is not a day somebody is not dying for others.. As the physician sav ing his diphtheritic patient by sacrificing his own life; as the ship captain going down with his vrseel while he is getting . his pas sengers i into - the : life-boat; as the rire inan consuming In the burning " building while he - is " taking' a child ' out of: a .; fourth-story .wiudow: as in summer the strong swimmer at East. Hampton, or Long Branch, or Cape May, or Lake George himself perished trying to rescue the drown-1 ing; as the newspaper boy one summer, "sup porting his mother for some years, his invalid mother, when offered by a gentleman fifty, cents to "get some especial paper, and he got it, and rushed up in his anxiety to deliver it, and was crushed under thewheels -of - the train, and lay on the grass with only strength enough to say: - "Oh, what will become of my poor sick mother now P - ; . : . - Vicarious suffering. The world is full of it An engineer said to m ou a locomotive in Dakota : " We men seem to be, coming to better appreciationr than we nsed to. Did you see that account the other day of an engineer who, to save his passengers, stuck to his place, and when he was found deal in the ; locomotive, which was unside down, he was : found still smiling, his hand on the air-brak jf And as the engineer said it to me, he put his hand on the air-brake to illustrate his mean- . ing, and. I looked at him and thought i:" You would be just as much of a hero in the same crisis." f :-;-r '-. '-v, ,a.'- Ob. m that relieious discourse of the future there will, be liyiug illustrations taken out : irom every-oay life or yicarious suitenng illustrations that will bring - to mind 1 he ghastlier sacrifice of Him who in the hish places of the field, on the cross, fought our battles, and wept our eriefs. and endured our.; struggle, aud died our death. ; O A German sculptor made ' an image of Christ, and he asked his little child two years old who it was, and slie said: "That must be some great man."; . The seulptor was. dis- pieusett r wuii , ine . criticism, . so ne - got; another block of hiarble, and ' chiseled away oi it two or three years, and then be . brought iu his little child four or Jive years of" ageamt nes.y to her: "Who do you think tliat isf she said: "That mast Lethe One who took little children t his: nriiKartd bicssed thein." VThsn the sculptor was satisfied; Oh. my friends, what the wo:ld wants is not a cold Christ, not an ; intellect aal Christ, not a severely magisterial Christ, ,1jut a loving Christ, spread ng out His arms of sympathy to press the whole wsria to nis loving neart. But, I remark again, that the religious dis-r course of the future will be short. : Condensa-- tion is demanded by the age in which we live, No more need of long introductions and Ion 3 applications, and so many divisions to a di course that it.may be.said to be hydra-headed. In other days men got all their informatioa from the pulpit. There were few books and there were no newspapers, and there was litv tie travel'from place to placeand people would sit and 'listen two and a hall hours to a religious ' discours3', au 1 4 'seventeenthly : wo aid find : , thorn f i"esh and chipper.-. In t those t days there was enough; time for a man, to take an hour to warm himself up to tho subject and an hour to cool off. But what was a nec?ssity then is a superfluity now. Congregations are fulll of knowledge from booksfrom newspapers, from rapid and continuous mtercommunica- tion, and - long disquisitions of what ; they know already will not be abided. - If a relig ious teacher cannot compress what he wishe3 to say to the people in the space of forty-five minntes, better adjourn it to some other day. The trouble is we preach audiences into a Christian frame; and then we preach them out of it We forget that every auditor has so much capacity of attention, and when that is exhausted he is restless. That accident on the ..Long Island . Railroad . some years aso rame from the fact that the brakes were out of order, and when they wanted to stop the train c they could not stop, " and., hence the jasualty: was. terrific, In all religious dis sourss we want locomotive power and pro pulsion i We want at the sime time stout brakes to let down atthe rigbt instant It is dismal thing after a hearer has compre hended the whole subject, to hear a man say: uNow to recapitulate," and "a few woiMs by way of application,?' and. i"onee more,": "and ''finally." and "now to conclude." . - Paul preached until midnight, - and . jSuty rhns got sound asleep and fell oat of a win dow and broke his neck. ; Borne would fay: "Good for him." ; I would rather be sympa thetic like Paul and resuscitate him. That accident is often quoted now in religious circles as a" warning' against : somnolence, in church. X It is just as much a warning to min isters against prol ixity. " Eutyeh us ; was wrong in his somnolence, but Paul made a l,!listakeTnen hete5P on until midnight. He I there would have b3n no accidenS. : If Paul tmght have gone on to toa great le lgth, let all those Of- us who are now preaching tho Qospel remember that there is a limit to re ligious discourse, or ought to ber aud tha t in our time, we have ' no ar)ostoJiC 4 power of miracles. .r t -; - -; - r--., 7,:r. Ilm150011 m an address of seven minutes Mirnled-his army.and thrilled Europe. Christ's bermon onthe Mount, the-model sermoni was ss than eightean minutes lous at orjiiaary. mode of deuvery. It is not electricity scat tered all over the sky that strikes, but elec tricity gathered into athunderbolt and hurled, and i6 w not reliffious trufeh srtRt.tri spread outover a vast reach of time, but rei nmraie tmfl. . 1 . "o1" " "'u jji ujceieu intampaci iorm tnat flashes light upon tho soul-and rives its indifference.:'.-'.:: ':. .J - i. .',;...,-i - :. J . ..,;- iJ When the religious' disCoursa of the f uturo arrives in this land ; and in the Christian chureh, the discourse which is to arouse the world and .startle the nations, and tisher in th kingdom; it will be a bi-ief -discourse. Hear it all theological students, all ye' just entering Upon religions work, all ye men and Women who in Sabbath-schools and othr de- partments are toiling for Christ ant! the sal vation of immortals; Brevity! " Brevity 1 But I remark also that the. religious dis course of the future of which I sieak W01 be a popular discourse." Theraare those in these times who speak' of a popular sermon ; as though there must be something wrong about it As these critics are dull themselves the world gets the impression that a sermon is good m proportion as it is stupid. - ChrisW was tue-mosi; popu lar preaciier tne world ever saw, and considering the small number of the world b population, had; the largest audience ever gathered. Ha never preached anywhere without making a great sensation. People rushed out in the wilderness to hear him, reckless of their physical necessities. So great was their anxiety to hear Christ, that, taking no food with tUenv they-would, nave fainted and starved had not Christ performed a miracle and fed theni - . . ;; - V-Why did so many people take the truth at Christ's hands? . Because they all understood it 1 He illustrated his subject by a hen and her chickens, by a bushel measure, by a hand ful of salt, by a bird's flight ani . by a lily's aroma. All the people knew what He meant and they flocked to Him. And when; the re ligious discourse of the future appears, it will not be Princetoniatt, nojfc Rochesterian, not Andoverian, not Middletonian, but Olivetic -plain, practical. Unique, earnest con pre hensive of all the woes, wants, sins, sorrows and necessities of an auditory. . . - But .when that exhortation or discourse does coma there will ba a thousand gleaming ecimetars to charge on It There are in sa many theological seminaries professors tell iaz youai men how to preach, themselvej not knowmg how; and I am told that if a young man iu some of our theological semi naries says anything quaint or thrilling or unique, factl ty and students fly at him and feet him right, anl straighten him out, and smooth him down, and chop him onT, until he says everything, just as everybody else say it -: Oh, when the future religious discourse of the Christian church arrives, all the churches of Christ m our great cities will be thronged. The world wants spiritual help, v All who have buried their -dead want comfort All know themselves to be mortal and to be im mortal and they want to hear about the great future. I tell you,"my friends, if the people of our great cities who nave had trouble'only thought they could get practical and sym pathetic help in the Christian church,- there would not be a street in New i- York,,' or Brooklyn or Chicago, orCharleston, or PhuW adelphia, or Boston which would be passable on the Sabbath day if their were 'a church on it; for all tho people would ' press to that asylum of mercy, that great house of comfort and consolation. - A mother with a dead babe in her arms came to the god Veda, and asked to have her child restored to life. The god Veda said to her: - "You go and get a handful of mustard from a house in which there has been no sorrow, and in which there' has been no death, and I will restore your child to life." So the mother went out, and she went rom house to house, and from home to home, look ing for a place where there had been no sorrow and where there had been no. -death, but she found none. She went back . to the god Veda and said: "My mission is a failure; you - see -1 r haven't brought "the mustard seed; I cant find a place. where" 1. 1 1 . fn-- tit itA rluAi-.l, "Oh," says the god Veda, : "understand your sorrows are no worse than the sorrows of others; we all have cur' .griefs, and: all have onr .heart-breaks. " - .':-'"-. V; -." ,.: : Lansh and the world langh with yon,'" -j " Weep, and you weep alone; . .. ;'i " l - l : ; Tor the pad old earth mnsfc borrow Its mirth, .. ' ' But nis trouble enough of its owtu ; i;;v! i; - "We hear a great deal of discussion now all over the land about why people do not go to church. ,; Some say it is because Christianity Is dving out, and because people do not be lieve in the truth of God's word, and all that. They are false reasons. The reason is because our sermons and exhortations are not inter esting, "and practical, and helpfuL Someone might as well tell the whole truth on this sub ject and so I will tell it ; Thevreligious dis course of the future, the Gospel sermon come forth and shake the nations and hf t people out of darkness, will be. a popular ser-, nion, just-for the simple reawn that it will meet the Woes and the wants and the anxie tiesof the people. : s ; - . ;. - There are in all Onr denominations ecclesi astical mummies sitting around to frown upon tne f resit youc g pulpits of America, to try to awe them down, to cry out: Tut! tut! tut! Sensational P-They.stand to-day preach ing in churches that hold a thousand people and there are a hundred persons present, ana if they cannot ha ye the world saved in their way it seems as if they do not want" it saved at alL : : v;"- " ' ' V-'-' . " - I do not know but the old wayof -making ministers of the Gospel is tetter a collegiate education and an apprenticeship under, the care and home attention of some earnest, aged Christian" minister, the young: man cefctins the natriarch's spirit and assisting him in his religious service. Young lawyers i study with old r lawyers, young physicians f with old physicians, and 1 believe it would be a great help if every young , mnn .studying the home, and heart, and sympathy, and i under the benediction and perpetual presence ' :f a Christian fflinister. . : . i:?. r ? 1 , But I remark again,, the religious discourse y of the future will be an awakening sermon.; i From alter rail to the front door step under that s?rmoa an audience will get up and start I . mi : . 1 - i- . . . lor neaven. - xnera wui do m n manv wu cato passage. It will not be a lullaby; it will be a battle charge, Men will drop their sins, for' they will feel the hot breath of pur suing retribution on the back of theiir necks. -It will be sympathetic- with: all tlie physical distresses as well as ths spiritual distresses of the world. . Chiist not only preached but He healed paraiysis, and He healed epileysy, aud He healed the dumb aid the blind and ten That religious discourse of the f uturo will be an everyday sermon," -going : right, down Into everv man's life, and it will teach , him how to vote, hovv td bargain,- how. to plough, how to do any work he is called to, how to wield trowel and pen and pencil and: yard 3tickand plane. And. it will teach vomen how to presid3 over .their households, and how to educate their children, and how to Imitate Miriam and Esther and Vashti-and Eunic3, th3 jnothr ol Timothy, - and ;Mary, the mother of Ciirist: and those women who. o i Northern and .'Southern"- battlefields, were i niista cen by the wodtid j! f or angels of mercy . li2ti frmn the throhi of God r Yes, I have to tell you the religious dis " coursi of the future will be a reported ser i mon.- If you have an idea that printing. w invented simplv to print sscular bonk'V ani -' stenography and phonography i were' eon trived merely to set forth secular ideavyuc J are mistaken. The printing pijss is tor be thf ? "great agency of Gospel proclamation; It -it J nigh time that good men instead of denounc- in- the press, employ it to scatter forth th I Gospel of Jesus Christ The vast majontj I of people in onr cities do not come to church and .nofehing;but the; printed senhon cat r reach them and call them to pardon, and ' life, and peace, and Leaven. . - , , j So I cannot understvna ine uoi vuibmiw ui ' some of my brethren of the ministry.- - When they see a newspaper man coming in they say: "Atas, , there is a reporter." Ever j aaneo. reporter js wsn. rnousana, mxy tnou Band, 'a hundred - thousand immortal soub added to the auditory.? f The time will come when all the village.town and city newspapers will reproduce the Gospel of Jesus Cfiriat, anil sermons preached on the Sabbath will i-evei-berate all around the world, and, some by .type and some by voice, all nations will be evangelized. - . - - The practical bearing of ; this is upon those who are engaged in Christian work, -not only upan theological students and young minis ters, but upon -all who pi-each ihe iospe!, and alt who exhort in .meeting, and that is all of you if you are doing your dnty - Do youex hort in prayer - meeting Be short -and be srriritedU Do you teach in Bible class? Though you have to study every night be in teresting. Do you accost people on the sul ject of -religion in their home? or in public places? Study adroitness and use common sense. The most graceful and mostrbeautiful thing on earth is the religion of Jesus Christ end if you awkwardly nresent it, it is defa fliation. 5 We roust do pur work rapidly, and we must do it eifectiveiv. Soon cur time for work will be gone.-" : . . .. 4 . - - .A dying Christian tOfsk out bia'wafch and gave it to a friend and said r Tako that watch, 1 have uo uiore use f or it; tirno js ended for me and eteiuity begius.r Oh,V my friends, when our watch has ticked. away for us the last moment, and Our clock has struck ior us the last hour, may it be found we did our work well, that we did it in tlie very best, way, and whether we preachwl lh Gospel ii pulpits or .taught rSabbati clasces, or adr ministered tot the sick s physiciarei, or bargained as 'merchants, '.. or- plead the law; as , attorneys or were busy as artisans, or" as husbandinen, ori as mechan ics,, or were like Mart'ja called to give a.meai ; to a hungry Christ, like Hannah to make o coat for a prophet; or like Deborah to rousS the courage of some timid Barak in the Lord's conflict, we did onr workin such a way that it will stand the test of the Judgment -And in the long procession of the . redeemed that march around the throne, may it be found there are many there brought to God through our instrumentality ancLJn whoso' ieseue we are exultant . ;;;--? ;---:'-?: l-P:'-r- ' But, . O ye unsaved, wait not for that re ligious discoui'se of tho f ntuix; , It ma come after your obsequies. It may como cer the Btone-cnttei has chiseled your nauie- on the. Blab, fifty years before. lo not-wait for 8 ; great steamer of the' Cvmard yr White Star hne to take you off the ivrevk, bnt hail the first craft, with however lw a ;mast and however amall a . hulk,; and ' however poor rudder, anl however weak a captain. "Better' a disabled schooner thatcomes up in tinie than a fail-rigged brig that comes up iif tex you have sunken. ,-'-; 7 -a ;; ; "',-, Instead of - waiting fof that religious His course of tho future it may be forty, fifty years off take this plain invitation of a man who. to have - sriven you spiritnal eyesight. would be glaxl t-vbc culled the spittle by the hand of Chi'ist put on the eyes .Of a blind man. and who would consider the highest cou pliment of this service: if at the- close five hundred men . should start from thesa doors, saying: "Whether he be a sinner or no, I know not " This one thhig I know whereas I was blind now I see." --" - ; . -:- v- , V Swifter than shadows over, tho plain, duicker than birds in their autumnal flight. hastier than eagles to their preyj hie you to a; svmoathetio- Christ -- Tho orchestras of "neaven'havo already strmig their instruments o celebrate your rescue. h -- - - "And many were the voice? ironnd the thro--':. Rejoice tor the Lord b:ings back his own." Xhe Xcvirs -Missionary" Enterprise. -Tlie Rev. S. Augustus Cole.' author of. in teresting works on African secret societies, customs and religion, stopped a short time in England during January, lt87. He remained a week in ? Livei-pool ami -mada a daily memorandum of tho shippings returns posted every day in that .port as receive! from Madeira, where all vessels bound for West or South African ports from Europe or America scop. JUurmg one weoK these bulletins of the cargoes reorted at : Madeira contained "the following amounts of liquor and tobacco. Mr; Cole vouches ..for the correctness of the list below, as he daily copied it The valua tion i3 his' estimate and "may not be strictly correct, but is under rather than abovcthe truth '--;a j. This is the terrible" list for only one week:-! r- 960,000 cases of gin... ; 10,000 2I0J0 butts of ram.. 240,(KX) - 3U,uw cases of brandy... .... ; 90.003 ' ; 28,000 cases of Irish whisky... 4 60,000 - 800,000 demijohns of rum.. . . .-. . , ; 340,(K) .. .ao,Oiiu oarreisot rum TJ,W0 60,000 hogsheads of tobacco.,. : I,S00,000 ;r 30,000 cases of Old Tom 60,000 ? 15,000 barrels of abainthe;'.': . - 45,000 ? 800,000 barrels of ale and beer:.. -1,603,000 600,000 barrels of clarets... .... SOO.XXK) ;' 500,000 barrels or port wine . s . . . - ; 100,000 40,000 cases of vermouth... i ; o',000 -1,800,000 boxes of cigars..v...i. 270,000 -; 3S,116,000 ..i... $140,000,000 Eqnalto. ;;?:i'i;; Some Lose, Many Gain. ., ; !;Last week one of the city breweries calcu lated its loss by the closing of the Sunday be fore at "$1,200, and if the closing continues, the loss in a year will amount to $40,000. .; This may - be somewhat exaggeiated-perhaps is, but take the half of it and say; $0,000, and this by one brewery. Others will-lose corre spondingly then what a prodigious amount of drinking -there must have, bean on Sun-: days! ; But the- breweries may cot. sole "them selves with the , assurance that what in this way is lost by a few, will be more than coun terbalanced by the gain to the community. Whef e are or were that - f 1 ,00 which 'this brewer claims to have lost? " Of course it re mained in the pockets of "tha drinkers, and that sum of money would pay for- a large amouut of healthful , food or coriifortable clothing and $40,000 a year saved by the consumers would be quite an item with them, certainly as much as .it would be to- tha brewers, so what might be lost on one side would-be saved by the other. St. Louis Christian Advocate. . . 1 No Wonder They are Rich;; ; "' - The National Bureau of Statistics show3 that on the $700,000,000 which annually passes into the this :- of the retailers "of intoxicate ing liquors in this country there is a profit of 133 per cent ; If poor peop'.e had to pay such a tax as that on bread there : would be a rebellion. . But wHfen a man tosses Off a glass of whisky and pays five, cents for the drink and seven or eight cents to the barkeeper .for. the trouble of handing it to him he generally; thinks the bartender an awfully, good fellow. Springfield Union. - - . ; V Temperance News. and. Notes. . J The Danish temperance movement has now an army of 35,000 total abstainers. . : -y- Kansas has increased her population under prohibition from 950,000 to 1,500,000. -; ; - Rev. Dr. W. R. Huntington prescribes the three T's Toil, Thrift, and -Temperance as the best antidote for poverty. : , . : v. Hand bills ;were circulating in. England, saymg: "Remember if you drink " to : the Queen's health you damage your own." . . . " The- London , Medical Record i says that deaths from apoplexy are more numerous m T. 1 - L .... fhn .-.-1l . xsol uoaux man in. any uiun muuo u. The fact is attributed to the bibulous- habits of the Bordelais. - - Kentucky whis'y distillers haye concluded not to make any more whisky until October. There are' now 39,000,000 gallons of whisky, 18,000,000 of which was produced last year, in bond in theStata. v ' ' '"-' ' - M. L'Hoste, the French aeronaut, recent ly 'fell with : his balloaa into too sea same: leagues away from the British coast vHe was rescued after twenty hoars' struggle to keep afloat by a passing, stealer. : i S' y ;: J 5 ' ; ; : Allen Harp, a boy sixteen years old, shot himself through lb.3 head over the grave of a Sit dog in tiie grounds of tha Bryn Mawr otel, near Philaielpnui,afew nights ago. DESTRUCTIVE FLOODS DISPATCHES ; FR03I ' POINTS. . VARIOUS Loss of Life Reported, at Great Bar rlngton, Mass. High "Water at : Other Points. Springfield, Mass. A special from Great Barrington r ports eighteen lives tost by the flood. - .r. . --- - It is reported that two dams gave . way in Williamsburg Sunday evening. T A' special from Miller's Falls say s that the neavy rain Saturday night and Sunday .did much damage. ' : One landslide and a dozen washouts occurred within two miles of that place onthe Fitchburg Road ; Twh passen ger trains anl one Jriegnt train, witn nvo carloads of hogs, are stalled "-Passengers were c irried t -Irvm r by- teams, which in returning were nearly washed into . Miller's t nver. '. ihe ineght-honse has - been nuder- mined and One side has settled three feet Five frieght cars ase in the ditch just below the f riegt-housa. . r-T. ;;'--.J';A i he early news received f rbm . the Mill River Valley is that Thayer's . grist mill dam and Morton's dam have given way. People a'ong the valley of the Old Mill river disaster have been anxious all day,-and are lying awake tonight;' A part of the founda tion of Sill's' grist-mill at Williamsburg was wasned out this mormng, but it is impossible to learn what damage the givingway of the dam has done. . , - ' - Boston, Mass. A late dispatch from Great Barrington to the Associated Prisssays that but one' life was lost ' Frank jCharles' Drum climbed into a railroad tank to escape the flood and was drowned. ' Twenty three bridges are gone, besides gristmills, dams and factories. ;. -There are-'washouts is spots 50 feet long and 10 feet deep. The lost bridges were valued at from $2,500 to $5,000 apiece. - ; ; 'J. ''rf::'-' v Great Barrikotox, Mass. The .cloud burst of Friday mornin which caused Green river to w rflow, carried off WilUam's bridge, at Alf rd, a structure sixty-five feet long and ten feet above : water. The water rose ten feet r Kellog's grist-mill, below the village.-.was .saved by opening the -gates, The dam was damaged. At Berkshire Heights reservoir the water on the dam was four, feet deep, and carried away timber bridges along the stage route to Aiforn. also stone walls. The Egremont road was impas sable for hours A hole four feet in diameter and six inches deep was made in the ground were the gaseous ball fell yesterday" and ex ploded;; A man named Drum was drowned in a tank at Craryville. : " - -. - Lakk Pleasant, Mass. This has .been the, most sevee rain : ever known in this vicinity. The water in Lake Pleasant is two feet higher than; ever before. The roar-jof the mouantain streams sounds like that of the ocean, and cau be heard for miles. There was a reported rise in the Connecticut river of ten feet in o e hour 20 minuees. No trains have pa sed here since morning. A wash out is reported on. the Fitchbuag Road, near Irving, -100 f e t long and twenty feet deep All carriage roads in this vicinity are badly damaged and many bridges carried away. . - Elizabeth. N. J. The storm here Satur day was the severest experienced, in twelve years. , The rain poured inf torrents incess antly, accompanied by lightning and thunder Many streets were inundated,- particulary along the Elizabeth river, where the occu pants of ; houses were imprisoned in the second story-- - . ..." Phillipsbtro, N. J. An unprecedented electr.c storm accompanied by a heavy rain fall, occurred here Saturday. The. house of George Fox, station agent et Manunka Chunk wae undermined by water, from the tunnel and wrecked ; Mr. Fox's mother and niece Mrs. Beers; were killed. Several farm-houses were struck by lightning. .y-: - - ' --i-; Manchester, N. H. The severest storm in many years" has .been in progress: since Thursday and rain is still falling. , In , four: hours 3.4 inches of rain fell, and many streets were rendered J impassable by torrents of waer? which swept through them. -- The river is a 'foaming torrent . New Brunswick, N. J. There has been twenty-four hours constant rain here. , The Raritan river has overflowed its banks from Bound Brook to the bay.' :. i-' - - Newark, N. ' J. The -violent thunder storms that have prevailed during the past two days have done almost inestimable dam age thi oughout this county. This is especi ally the case among the lands of farmers along the upper Passaic. - Here the hay crop is entirely cut off. The large quantities of water that have fatlen have flooded the cul r tivated lands and destroyed" many valuable crops. .; In Bloomfield,' Montclair and other places small brooks overflowed their banks, and goods stowed away ih cellars, amount-- ing to several ' thousand dollars, were de stroyed.. - ' -. '---"-.".;:; '. ,: .- .. .-.-,. -. New Haven, Conn. A perfect deluge of rain has fallen in this city during the past two days.5? Much damage has- been done in the surrounding" country. The heat has been and k till is frightful, and; te death rate is the largest ever -known during a simi lar month . . . ' : -v. . . . - ; 0TIVOtED;;PEqP Sir Charles Dilke is to"visit this "coun try shortly. -." : ; ; ,V- --.. J "; "'""V '.' . The brother of the King of Siam is soon to pass through this country. -; "rW - "'-.. -Professor Scott, of Rutger's College, is writing a history Of New Jersey. Speaker Carlisle's dauehfer is said to be the prettiest girl at the Greenbrier Sulphur Springs. - Mrs. Cleveland will visit Atlanta when the President goes there to attend tne ex hibition. - - Mr. John G. Whittier has never been further than Washington from his home in Amesbury, Mass. ?..- ';; ;-..',' ";'-- Stepniak, the famous Nihilist writer," ex -pects to pay a long visit to the Unitid States the coming autumn. ;' "..; :,'.' " ". ' . .' : '-' Blondin, the rope walker, ' will make a Vorcsslonal visit to this country in the Fall, le is not dead, as was reported. : ; ' ; r ; Bishop Warren, of the Methodist Church is in Japan. His wife, who brought him several millions of dollars, is in Caliiornia. James S. Richardso.t, of New Orleans, h the largest cotton planter in the world H has 38,00 J acres in cotton and 7,000 in corn. . Dwight L." Moodt, the evangelist, is con templat ng an extended tour of India. H thinis Iniia a first-rate field for mission work. ' . " - Neal Dow has accepted an invitation to deliver an address- on - Prohibition in Massa chusetts. He will then take part in the can vass in New York State, ' Congressman PheLan, of Memphis, is the Tonnsmst. memher jof the Fiftieth Congress. He will not be thirty-one when he takes hit sr.. . CVmo-resman Vandever. the oldest member, Is seventy-oae. ";C;r :. h-- ' ' Gsxeral- Francis E. Spinner," formerlj trra?nrftr of thi United States, is greatly en joying lif e at his t snt home on .Pablo rJeach, Fiorina.. At e gtay years of age he is aj trenial and " heai w as ever and ,.welcomet hosts of visitors; - i T -"- -;-' .- - J?. Carrie M. Ahl is the wondar of Georgia, She lives about tea miles from iJaxley, is ten old and weLrh3 180 pounds. Sht i-h0 1 t. th nw nf W vwirs 140 oounds. She is no higher than children usually at bet age". , . Person? who have seen ner say sne is as bi oad as she is long. . George Inness, JiC,the New York'animal painte?, has a studio on wheels, with which he goes tip and down country roads. Hs stops -at a p!ace sketches tilths gets t:red. -and thea moves on.;" Ih3 coacera is, nccea w.fa s:e3pmg berths. Ihe artist s wire soaie-timoXae-conya-oie? him on those cxcursipns. COMING FAIRS. A List of ..the State and Provincial Va irs to: be Held In 1 88 7. "The American Agriculturist for August publishes the - following list of State and Provincial Fairs to be held this year: Alabama . ; . ... . , . Montgomery. . . . Oct 17-23 Am. Institute.. ...New York i. Sept 28-Dec, 3 Canadian Expps'nToronto, Ont Oct 5-17 California... . , . . . .Sacramento. . . .Sept 12-24 Connecticut ...... Meriden . . ......Sept 13-16 Delaware . . . ; . . . .Dover. . . . .Sept. 2t-Oct 1 Frontenac Prov'e. Kingston, Ont ..Sept 27-30 Georgia Macon ..Oct 24-Nov. 2 G't Central Fair.. Hamilton. Ont. Sept 2-30 Illinois . . r. i . . . Olney. ...... . . ..Sept 24-30 Illinois Fat Stock. Chicago ......... Nov. 8-1 8 Indiana i . .; . . . .Indianapolis. . ..Sept 19-24 Iowa;.v;.i...,...Des Moines..... .Sept 2-0- Kansas .......... Topeka. ...... ..Sept 19-24 Kentucky .... . .V. Lexington. Aug. 80-Sept 3 rat l Ag i jixp'n. . Janses tJity,!3eDt. 15-JSov.l u. iiiu ol, o. iuicu. jsiisaawaKa,ina, isepcio North'n Wis ...... Oshkosh ......... Sept -18- -9 jaame . , : lewiston . . Maryland .. . . ... .-Easton Michigan . , ..... Jackson . . . Minnesota St Paul . . . .Sept 6-9 .....Sept. 19-23 .....Sept. 19-23 ......Sent 9-17 Missouri. ... .... .St. Louis. .....Oct 3-8 MissouriFat StockKansas City. Oct 27rNov. 3 Montana . ...Helena. .Aug. 22-27 Mississippi .... Nebraska .... .. .New Jersey. ."., j. .Jackson... ... Lincoln . . . v.Waverly.. .....Oct 17-22 . .....Sept 9-16 ......Sept 19-23 . . ." . . .Sept. 8-14 xsew xorfc. .Boehsster. .Raleigh. . . North Carolina. . ....Oct 19-21 Ohio..,. CoIumbus..Aug. 29-Sept 2 Ohio North West'nFostoria. . Aug. 30-Sept 3 Omaha Expos'n . .Omaha, Neb. . . . Sept 5-10 Ontario.... . . . . . .Ottowa. . . . ... .Sept. 19-24. Pennsylvania. . . . .Phila . . . ......... Sept 5-17 Piedmont Exposi tion, including ... Va., Im. & S. C, . . ..-;- v , Ga., Ala., and r Tenn.. ....... ..Atlanta, Ga Oct. 10-23 : Rhode Island ..... Providence Sept 19-2 J -South Carolina. . Columbia Nov. 8-11 Tennessee.... Nashville... Sept. 26-Oct 1 Texas. Dallas Oct 20-Nov. 5 Tri-State Fair:.. . Toledo, O..... ..Sept 5-10 Vermont. . . . . .;. . . . Burlington ..... Sept. 13-16 Virginia. , .Richmond. . . . . ..Oct. 26-28 West'n Michigan . Grand Rapids . . Sept 19-23 Wesfn Nat Fair ALawrence, Ks. . .Sept 5-11 West Virginia. s.'i Wheeling..... Sept. 5-9 V isconsm . . . . . . . . Milwaukee ..... Sept. 12-17 Wis. Industrial... Racjna..... Aug. 29-Sept 3 LOSSES BY A STRIKE. Millions Sunk by the Operators, While the Workers SacrifWed All Their Savings. A dispatch, from Pittsburg, says: The coke strike just ended was one of the most . stubbornly contested batt'es ever fought between capital' and Libor, For eleven weeks and four days the fight went on, and now that it is over jthe feeling between the men and operators is, if , anything, "more cordial than it was before. - The amount of money lost by the" long idleness cannot be accurately calculated but it runs into the millions. " When the strike began four-fifths of the 11,000 men in the region had money of their . own, but very few of thm have enough money now to take them out of the district if they wanted to leave. For the .first six weeks all of the.11,000 were striking The average wages paid including mine boys at 75 cents a day and coal miners at from $2.50 to $5 a day, is $2.05. Counting at that Tate, the good men lost during the first five weeks $553,500 in wages. Then A. Carnegie -gave tho advance, and 3,000 men went to work.; --For six weeks the remaining 6,000 have been carrying on the strike, and have lost $442,800, making a total loss in wages of $996,200. If a sliding scale equal to 12 1:2 - per cent-advance is arranged for them, it will , take a"jear and nine months' steady -work to make up for the time they have lost The operators have also been heavy losers. The -pumps have boen kept running at. all the pits," yard and pit bosses, superintendents and clerks have been drawing salaries, and mules -and horses have been getting fat on 'oats and hay that they did not earn. At West Leisering, where the Phikerton men .have been stationed, the expenses has been over $1,000 a day since the strike began. Besides this, the ovens have become cold and :" badly out of repair. " Fully a third of them , all over the region will have to be overhaul ed before coal can be put in them. Then , too, the coke trade has fallen off, and it will take time and money to build it up again. . It is estima ed that the actual expense to the operators has been from $7,000 to $10,000 a day. while their loss entire will foot up to over a million dollars. COULDN'T STAND : ADVERSITY. Sad finding of a Romantic Marriage - -' "" . Stranger than Fiction. A dispatch from St. LoUis says: Thomas Abbott recently disappeared. He is about thirty.v His family live in New York, and are wealthy." - He w. s educated for the Meth odist miiiistry, and had a church in Canada. He married a young girl wnose nome was near Toronto, aid by his marriage he dis-, pleased his family, and as a result was cast off. He came to St. Louis with his bride about five weeks ago and got a job as silver plater, ha rag learned the. trade before he became a preacher. .They struggle I along in poverty and distress until about ten aya ago, when .the woman died, as the doctor said from: cholera morbus. Next day t ;e , husband found a letter written by her before she died, in which she declared her intention of taking her life by poison, and begging him to follow her. The letter is a lengtiy and pathetie one, setting forth all - their trouble and accusing herself of being the , cause of it all. The second day after her death he disappeared, and the next day his employer got a letter in which he declared his intention of - following his wife. With his letter he inclosed his wife's last epistle. The employer who says he knows Abbott's people in New York, thought he would keep the matter quiet, in the hope that Abbot! had not taken his life, but to-day he changed his mind, and the matter was given to tb police. s: ...There seems to be no doubt that tha womanc mmittea suiciae, ana indications certainly are that her husband followed her. SHOOTING AT A TRAIN. Passengers Narrowly Killed. Escape Beinf A dispatch from St. Louis, says: Train men of tho Vandalia train due here Thurs day: night, but which did not arrive until 'between "12 and 1 o'clock Friday morning reports that at Long PoiDt, this sido of Indianapolis,' Conductor Pflautz discovered four rough looking men on the rear platform of the baggage car. He ordered them off the car, but as the tram started up tney got nthe-rearof the tender wnere tney wero again found when the train reached Greenup crossing. '-' - - -'' - - - ' - , - , This time they were forcibly put off and they moved away, but not far,, for as the I train was passing a clump or. Dusnes near the crossing they opened fire from r3voivers and sent some twenty bullets whizzing through the baggage and express cars end the - passenger coaches. Luckily noboly was hurt, but there were several narrow es capes. The train was brought to a halt and backed up to the crossing and a short search made, but the miscreants were not found, A posse of -citizens was organized at once, however, and a systematic search was begun. i J ' -
The North Carolina Prohibitionist (Bush Hill, N.C.)
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