Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 January 1886 — Page 3

POSITION AND DUTIES OP RULING ELDERS

A Paper Head Before the Presbyterian Ministers’ Association by Mr. C. X. Todd, v [Some of the suggestions made by Mr. Todd touching the duties of ruling elders in the Presbyterian Church should interest official members in other denominations. It will be good reading for them on Sunday, or. for that matter, on any other day. If all Presbyterian elders come up to Mr. Todd’s standard they must be a very busy and a Vs ry useful body of men. At all events, Mr. Todd’s essay should interest them.] The church, a body of believers called out from the word for the worship and service of God, is the same essentially in every age. Its design is to enthrone Christ and develop His spirit in the human soul. As He is the same, so virtually must His church be. It cannot be one thing to-day and another to-morrow. It may vary in the degree of its development; its life and growth spring from the same divine source. Yet its visible, external guidance is intrusted to human hands. It is not self-perpetuating nor self-directing. “Order is heaven’s first law,” and is secured by obedience to law. It reigns in every realm of the Creator. The natural world must have it; social and civil society cannot live without it. No more can the spiritual organiza tion, the church. Chriet, its head, acts through its members. It is a representative body. We do not find the people as a whole exercising* supervision and authority. This duty is committed to a chosen few. This body, in its united capacity in our church, is known as the session, composed of the pastor and elders. Elders had a place in the ancient church. We read of them in the time of Moses, also under Joshua, the judges and kings, as well as in subsequent periods of the Jewish dispensation. We find them recognized in the service of the* synagogue. It is thought by our best writers that the New Testament church, so far as it had any form, followed that of the synagague. The first disciples were Jews, and much attached to their mode of worship. They would not readily, therefore, have yielded to what widely deviated from it True, in our Savior’s time, this worship had become formal, yet its nature and design were spiritual. It would, therefore, be wise for the teachers and apostles to carry out the true spirit of that service. Elders are mentioned as attached to the synagogue. When the apostles organized churches they sot apart persons as officers, similar to those known under the previous economy. They are spoken of as overseers, or inspectors of the church, rulers in the house of God. whom the members are to obey as thoss caring for and directing their spiritual interests. It is frequently stated in the epistles that aposties ordained elders in every church, in the smaller as well as the larger ones. There was a ruling as well as a teaching element “Let the elders that rule well be counted worthy of double honor,” implying the existence of two classes. The office of the elder is, therefore, not one of convenience or custom. It is not simply sanctioned, but created by divine authority, and is, therefore, an essential factor in church organization, while tjaere is revealed in the New Testament no clearly-defined church polity, it is believed that the Presbyterian is quite in accordance with what, iu a fragmentary shape, is there presented. Led by divine authority the voice of the church is expressed in the choice of its office-bearers. They should be men of practical sense, integrity and piety, whose light shines equally in the home, in business, in the world and in the church—whose life is marked by purity and prayer, good deeds and zeal for the Master. No specific instruction is given in Scripture as to the kind of service in detail elders are required to render. We find there general statements, as we also do in our form of government, which convey the idea of watchfulness, kind supervision, guidance and control, so that the sphere of the session embraced in itswido range whatever, will promote the order, peace, purity, growth and influence of the church. It would seem not only desirable but necessary that elders should be in full sympathy with the pastor. There should be mutual affection and confidence. They form his cabinet advisers. His interests are largely interwoven with theirs. His labors, iu a great. measure, are combined with theirs. There is, therefore, a common tie uniting them. Duties pertaining to both they ~4B*y happily share together. A distinction is to be observed between the pastor and elders in their relations to the church. His time and energies belong to the church. This is his calling, a prominent feature of which is his public ministrations in the line of instruction. He is to give himself to the ministry of the word, and thereby feed the flock of God. This requires most thorough preparation. The elders, on the other hand, find the burden of their duties in a different sphere. They are not exclusively devoted to church work. Their daily avocations must receive attention. On these they and their families more or less rely for support But elders are not alike situated. Some are more closely pressed with engagements than others. Still there are few if any, indeed there should he none, who cannot, b\ r a wise system, find intervals of time for the Master’s cause. If so. their place is not in the eldership. The elders, if Chey are to have oversight of the congregation, must know the members. The pastor is expected to have a personal acquaintance with all. A degree of attention is sometimes expected on the part of the people impossible in a large congregation. To fully meet such expectations would leave him but little, if any time, for other duties. The elders ought really to have more to do with the members than the pastor. They are nearer the people and more familiar with their daily experiencethan he is. The elders’knowledge would often harmonize conflicting interests and reconcile matters, trivial perhaps in themselves. but which, dwelt upon and magnified, might lead to mischief. It has come to pass that the success or failure of a church is made to depend on those who minister at tho altar. If it is prosperous he generally, as he should, receives credit; if failure results, the blame rests with him. There would be less mourning over unsuccessful church enterprises if Aarons and Hurs more faithfully held up the hands of Moses. The elders should not only warmly sympathize, but heartily co-operate with the pastor in his arduous labors. In these he should find great sapport from those associated with him. There is no doubt of the value of ministerial visitation. Dr. Chalmers said: “A house-going minister a church-going people.” The extent of this must be measured by the size of the congregation and the claims for his services in other directions. Here is a work in which the elders may largely and justly participate. As has already been stated, the elders should know the members. But it is not sufficient to greet them at the services, or on the street, and call them by name. Theyshonld be met at their homes and in their families. A systematic visitation by the office-bearers brings them in close contact with parents and children of the households. In order to secure this end more fully, it is useful to make divisions, and assign each to one or more elders, who, for a stated period, may have a personal and friendly supervision of members n.nd families in such divisions. By exchanging these divisions, eaeh elder in duo time may have a knowledge of the entire congregation. Such calls may be made when convenient, and not necessarily with the pastor. As to the character of such visits, no rules can or should be given. In general, we think they should be friendly rather than formal; genial and sympathetic, having a human as well as spiritual aspect, Common sense and grace will enable one to adapt himself to the surroundings—when to call and when to leave—sometime, but not always, a word of prayer. This, with a divine promise, when there is sickness or sorrow, will bring comfort and cheer. Occasions will offer when relious conversation will be in place, and deep, serious, saving impressions may be made. Sometimes it may be previously known or revealed during the visit that there have been omissions of duties. Then may be seen tne value of a kind word in season. Children and youth in these homes should receive special attention. They will thus be made to feel that they, as well as their parents, are part of the great church family. Intercourse like this would boget confidence; even if not regarded as official, it would show that the church has a deep and special interest in all its members. It would form a stronger bond between them—the office-bearers and the pastor. Items of interest might be gathered which would be of great service to the pastor, and give him a better knowledge of the condition and wants of the people. It might help to erect new family altars, aid the work of family instruction in the shape of a religious paper, and draw attention to neglected ordinances In fine, it wonld awaken new interest in church services and impart a fresh impulse to many branches of church work. Perhaps it might win a parent or child to the Christian life. It may be said that such a course as has been spoken of

savors of a kind of spiritual espionage,. or detective system. Conducted in a Christian spirit, as it should be, it has none of this, nor would any one with right views imagine it. The supervision and control is moral in its character, and should be manifested in the most confiding and affectionate manner, partaking of a courteous, kindly Christian fellowship. This will not interfere with a careful and discreet watchfulness. Some may think that in certain families such visits would be unwelcome, and regarded as intrusive. This idea would not be cherished in families of true disciples. If so, there might be special need of a friendly call from the session. Such disciples voluntarily joined the communion of saints, and yielded themselves to the care and guidance of the church. The older needs no apology for his visit. He is only fulfilling the solemn trust committed to him. In tho regular or called meetings if session, matters come up which relate to the life and efficiency of the church, such as the examination of candidates, the reception and dismission of members, matters pertaining to worship and the conduct of services, and plans and methods for best calling forth activity in the members, and sometimes when the peace, purity and growth of the church require it, what is most difficult and delicate of all, the exercsie of judicial authority, which at times is imperative and should not be neglected. Here the common sense, business tact, wisdom and Christ-like spirit of the elders will be of the highest value. These are some of the more quiet duties that appertain to office-bearers in the church. There are others of a more public character which we wish to notice. The Sabbath-school should be under the special care and oversight of the session. The design of the Sabbath-school should be to complete, not supersede, home teaching. It is now regarded too much, we fear, as a substitute for parental training. While this does not, in fact, release the parent, it imposes a serious duty on the Sabbath-school teacher. To fill the minds of children and youth with the living word and lead taem to love its Divine Author is a matter of most solemn and vital interest. The Sabbath-school has become a place for Scripture study by adults, many of whom are already disciples, who wish larger and clearer views of the precepts, doctrines and duties which the inspired volume reveals. They may thus be quickened for greater activity and usefulness. Here is work for the elder. He should be a Bible student, familiar with the principles and practical lessons of revelation. Here, as teacher or helper, he will find use for his best gifts and attainments, an honor and privilege he may not refuse except for most weighty reasons. The elder should be oftener visible and more prominent in the higher courts of the church. This is not named as equal iu importance with some other matters in the line of duty. In respect to numbers and power in meetings of presbytery and synod, the church provides for an equality in clerical and lay members. At such times the former are generally in their places; the latter too often fail by their absence to recognize their obligations and privileges. Vacant churches frequently have no representative to speak or act for them. Thus they are practically ignored. This is especially true of many of our feebler churches. In consequence, they decline for lack of knowledge, lose their interest, become comparatively fruitless, if not really dead. These courts are a part of tho church’s economy, and essential to its efficiency. The presence and support of a full number of elders would more helpfully promote their design. The influence of elders in these bodies should be more positive. They are ready with their views and experience in the daily affairs of trade, but with them in church councils, silence is in order. Their votes count in the result, and yet their voices have done but little in bringing it about It is here that the condition, progress and wants of the churches are considered. Brethren of the ministry are ready with words and measures. Their thoughts have been on these subjects, and they can freely express them. The elders feel that they occupy a lower level in the matter of utterance, and they shrink from expressing their views, which, as practical business men, would be of marked value. Perhaps they are not as familiar as they might be with the topics under discussion, and, therefore, they hesitate. They should feel called upon to study more clearly the claims of the church and thus they would be more fully identified with the onward movements of Christ’s kingdom. The elders may be of material, and, even essential, service in the prayer meeting. Here is the very center of power in the church. The throbbings of’piety and the evidence of increased spiritual life, if if they exist, will here be manifested. The responsibility of directing and sustaining such services is made to depend largely upon the minister. Sometimes he assumes it and sometimes he is compelled to take it. The prayer meeting is the people’s meeting. The members ought to be witness-bearers —the elders especially so. Were this more generally true it would both encourage and strengthen the pastor. A feeling often prevails that the l&ity cannot successfully conduct prayer meetings. That they do not is too often true, which might not be the case were there more free participation in the exercises. Upon this most usually the interest depends. Many go to the prayer-meeting to be taught or entertained by the pastor in a lecture or address. Some pastors feel compelled t 6 prepare themselves as thoroughly as for the Sabbath service. But really it is not so much a season of formal instruction as of spiritual heart communion, enlivened by brief expression of thought and feeling in exhortation, prayer, song or scripture texts. In some churches the meeting is in charge of an elder. The pastor may or may not assist. There are churches where this can be done, no doubt, with entire satisfaction. Experience and practice might render a larger number of casos successful. I would not undervalue ministerial aid in this matter. Would that elders and members generally were led to co-operate more fully with the pastor in th’s service, and thus divide with him the weight of this heavy responsibility. The elder suitably to fill his office should be alive to the benevolent work of the church. The claims of its beneficent system he should recognize, the missionary spirit cherish and diffuse around him. More should be learned of the trials and triumphs of devoted Christian men and women in the missionary canse, the crowning effort of the age. This would train a missionary chnrch. There is much public labor resting on the ministry, some of which at least might with profit and safety be shared with elders. It may be best strictly to construe our church polity. Yet reasons exist why it should be more elastic. There is ability and piety in the eldership, hidden forces, comparatively, which, under proper restrictions, might be more fully developed and utilized. Let the officers advance and the members will follow. I am no advocate for impulsive and unauthorized lay effort in the high places of the church. The element of pulpit power and success depend on talents, learning and piety. It would not bo wise for eldersto assume sacred functions that rightfully pertain to the ministry. But is there not a sphere of Christian activity and public leaching, partially, at least, unoccupied, which intelligent, devout elders might acceptably and usefully fill? Effort and experience would help their fitness for such work. Intrust them with prescribed duties and hold them responsible. This is a day of opportunities. Outlying fields are in want of spiritual husbandry. Larger harvests might be gathered with more reapers. The clergy are not responsible for this state of things. It is impossible for them to cultivate their own vineyards and occu.-j- fields which the providence of God opens around them. Vacant churches, especially smaller ones, instead of closing their doors when ministerial labor can not be supplied, might with profit be served by elders. These views are presented in response to a call from the Ministers’ Association. They might he offered in better form. They are given as helpful to the pastor, to the elders, and through them to the church itself. A variety of Unties is named, and yet it is hardly expected that any elder will observe all forms here specified. Most elders have not the time, and for some enumerated they may not have the taste or qualification. With them, as with others, there are diversities or gifts. Elders should use their high vocation in willingly seeking some department of Christian work; some in one line, others in another. What iu one office-bearer is wanting may be supplied by others, till the circle of duties is made complete, the Savior honored, the people blessed. Let the elder magnify his office, not to render himself or his work more conspicuous, but to enlarge his influence and increase his power for doing good. He will also lighten the pastor’s burden, and supply, in a manner, his necessary lack of service. Cowardly Insinuation. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: That was an unmanly, mean and cowardly insinuation in the J eurnal of yesterday morning

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, MONDAY, JANUARY 18, 1886.

which attributed the cause of the trouble and unprofitable discussion in the School Board to women. It is only worthy of a man who would inflict injury upon innocent parties, in order to divert personal responsibility from himself. * BOYS AND TOBACCO.

It is impossible to walk even for a short distance along the thoroughfares of any city or town in our country, without meeting the pathetic as well as disgusting eight of a small boy with a cigar in his mouth. Boys of ten, twelve and fourteen years of age, or perhaps a year or two older, sometimes having clean faces and good clothing, indicative of respectable homes, so frequently use tobacco in public that the majority of men have grown indifferent to the practice. Even the best of men, as a rule, while they acknowledge this habit in children to he wholly deplorable, treat it as an unavoidable, if not a necessary evil. Its commonness and publicity seem to have a blinding and discouraging effect when they should rather arouse and stimulate an aggressive warfare against it To be sure, the use of tobacco is often condemned by ministers of the gospel in their public discourses: and other reformers speak and write strongly against all forms of this indulgence, in general. But what is needed is some combined and effectual action which will awaken public opinion to a sense of the particular evil of the habit in boys. The lethargy of parents in this matter is almost unaccountable. Is it the consciousness of their own deficiency that ties up the hands of fathers, and the misleading old saying that “boys will be boys” which leads mothers too often to meet with a slight reproof and a sigh the knowledge that their young sons use tobacco? The truth is, boys do not wish in any sense to be simply boys, but rather and chiefly to be men. And if they are not carefully watched and guarded they will almost certainly imitate, as far as possible, the bad habits of their elders, and neglect the good. They do this, not because of their own depraved tendencies, but because bad things and bad habits are most conspicuous. It is not strange, therefore, thatAwys without the safeguard of special teaching should consider the worst or most notable habits of men their peculiar badge of manhood, and thus the things necessary to bo acquired by would be men. “Father smokes, why shouldn’t I?” is the most natural thought a boy, under favorable circumstances, can have. But that good old argument of example as the best support of precept is sometimes too strongly insisted upon, and the necessity of special instruction, apart from example, rendered less emphatic. The fear of inconsistency is a great bugbear to many good people, and, consequently, a hindrance to progress. It is not necessary for a man to uphold tacitly or verbally what he knows to be wrong, simply because he is, or has been, guilty of it himself. On the other hand, he should be the one to condemn his particular weakness most severely, to prevent others from being wrapped in the toils. Boys should be taught especially what manliness is, and how it is to be acquired. They should be given to understand that if brother, father, or even the minister smokes, he lacks that much, at least, of being the highest type of a man. From earliest childhood, their minds should be impressed with the truths that tobacco is a poison and its common use wrone. A boy thus carefully taught can no more readily be excused for disobedience or disregard for parental wishes in this respect because father smokes or chews than for getting angry and saying naughty things because father manifests his anger somewhat forcibly once in awhile. If intelligent. respectable people would carry out their own beliefs in this matter public opinion would soon be sufficiently revolutionized to demand and obtain what is a necessity for the good of all classes of boys—a stringent law prohibiting the sale of tobacco to minors. We have a right to demand such a law on sanitary and humane grounds, as well as from the higher grounds of morals and manners. The best physicians long ago decided that the use of tobacco, even the least amount, before the full maturity of the system was attained was injurious to health. Many fatal diseases are now known to result from the use of tobacco. Smoking is perhaps the most common form of the habit among young persons, and to them cigarette-smoking is almost wholly confined. This last and newest form of smoking is said to be the worst, and it is apparently becoming more and more widespread. The peculiar danger in the use of cigarettes is, indeed, almost daily the subject of a paragraph in the newspaper. The following is. perhaps, the most serious, if not the latest testimony: “Out of several hundred youne cigarette smokers, onefifth had heart disease.” It is not difficult to understand that only bad effects can result from the constant infusion of what is an acknowledged strong poison into a sensitive, growing, human frame. A boy who smokes or chews cannot be perfectly healthy. His face has often a pallid, unhealthy appearance, and he is troubled with weak eyes. His digestion is, without doubt, always impaired, and his appetite capricious and often feeble. His growth is probably, in many instances, retarded or wholly stunted, and his constitution permanently weakened; and if he does not thus sow the seed of some future physical trouble, he will be less able to resist serious diseases which may attack him through life. This is almost a self-evident truth, but if desired, statistics could probably be obtained which would prove it incontestably. Again, tobacco is a stimulant, and thus making a constant drain upon the vitality, causing the user to live faster, it must in this way shorten life. Attempts are constantly made to prove the last-mentioned effect of tobacco a fallacjq but if it was not true, no special effort will be called for to prove its falsity. Who are responsible for these physical injuries done to boys by the use of tobacco? Not the boys themselves, whose judgments are immature, and whose knowledge and power of foresight are so limited. It is upon their elders, parents, guardians and law-maters, who are bound by every moral and religious law to protect these little ones from bodily harm, that this responsibility rests, and by them alone can it be properly met; but an acceptation of the burden and a realization of its weight is, of course, first necessary. From the stand-points of manners and morals, the subject is still more serious. A boy who uses tobacco is necessarilly less of a gentleman than he would be otherwise. For he is not only offensive to the sight and smell, but in doing that which he knows to be disagreeable to others he becomes in a degree callous to the feelings of other people, and the gentlemanly instincts he may possess are weakened thereby. His conception of true manliness becomes distorted, and he acquires the idea that in some things the opinion of his mother and sisters is to be entirely ignored. Asa natural consequence he is less courteous to all women, and less nice and delicate to every one. Finally, injury to morals is almost inseparably connected with injury to health and injury to manners. A boy who smokes or chews injures his nervous system, and with it his power of selfcontrol, and is then less able to resist all kinds of temptation, and that which makes one regardless of the feelings of others is liable to increase any natural tendency to selfishness and brutality. But there are special moral dangers in this habit. A boy’s first cigar is usually smoked in secret, and in this way he may learn an effective lesson in underhand acts and deceitfulaess. The sinfulness in spending money for that which is only harmful, and the habit of wastefulness thus engendered or encouraged. are also worthy of emphatic mention. Last and worst 6f all, it is said that the use of tobacco creates a thirst which in innumerable instances leads to indulgence in intoxicating drinks. This statement is supported and indirectly proved by the fact that so many drinking men and drunkards use tobacco. These things have been said much better many times before, but as yet public opinion has manifested no practical realization of their truth. Boys must continue to be poisoned and demoralized by nicotine until sleeping fathers and mothers awake and demand laws prohibting the sale of tobacco to minors. Mary E. Cakdwill.

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YESTERDAY’S SECOND EDITION. [The following items of news appeared in our Second Edition of Sunday;] Canse of Miss Bayard’s Death. Washington, Jan. 16. —The immediate cause of Miss Bayard’s death was disease of the heart. She had been troubled with weakness of that organ, and had been treated by tbe family physician at intervals for several years. At the reception at her father's house last night it was remarked that Miss Bayard was unusually animated, and exerted herself to the utmost to entertain the guests. It is presumed that the undue excitement may have precipitated tho fatal end. When the young lady retired last night she expressed the wish not to be disturbed until noon.. Between 1 and 2 o’clock this afternoon her sister went to her room, and was at once alarmed at the pallor and death-like appearance of her sister's face, and being unable to awaken her, immediately family. As soon as the family recovered from their consternation, physicians were summoned and powerful restoratives, including electricity, were applied, but in vain. The physicians express the opinion that Miss Bayard had been dead several hours when her sister entered her room. The interment wili take place at Wilmington, Del., probably on Tuesday, where Secretary Bayard's family are buried. The news of Miss Bayard’s death created a profound sensation throughout the city, and for a time, in the absence of definite information, a number of wild rumors circulated. The tacts, however, stated above, are from an unquestionable source. Strike In the Connellsville Coke Region. Pittsburg, Jnn. IG.—At the meeting of tho coke-drawers at Scottsdale, to-day, all the mines in the Connellsville region but two or three were represented. After a lengthy discussion it was unanimously’ decided to ask an advance in wages of 10 per cent., and if not granted by 1 o’clock Monday afternoon, the strike will be declared general. A special to the Dispatch from Connellsville, says she situation at Mount Pleasant looks alarming. The coke-drawers and miners at the Moorewood and Standard works struck yesterday, and both works are now idle. A howling mob of Hungarians have congregated in the vicinity of the mines, and will allow no one to lifts tool. In these two works, there are 1,050 ovens. The strike was started by the Hungarians. and from present indications it will be necessary to call out the militia. A report reached Connellsville this morning that a not was in progress, and all the coal and iron police, besides numerous deputies, are now at that point. In the coke regions there are over 7,000 workmen. If a general strike is ordered there will be much trouble, as the Hungarians are a turbulent set. It is the general opinion, however, that the demand will be granted, and that the strike will not last long. At Moorewood and the Standard works the strikers have been ordered to vacate the company’s houses within ten days, and have also been refused credit at the company’s stores. Ryan Anxious to Meet Sullivan. Troy, N. Y., Jan. 16.—A dispatch was sent from Boston yesterday afternoon announcing the arrival in that city of John L. Sullivan, and the receipt of a dispatch from Wra. Bennett, of New York, to the effect that the proposed fight between Ryau and Sullivan was off, because Ryan could not raise the $2,500. Paddy Ryan was shown the telegraph by a reporter, to-night, and the pugilist said: “I know nothing at all about it. I have telegraphed and written to Coburn for information, but have received none, except the dispatches published last Sunday. I did not authorize Cobutn to make any match for me, nor do I believe that Sullivan authorized Bennett to match him. You can say for me, though, that lam ready and anxious to meet Sullivan at any time or place, and fight on any conditions that he may name, and that I can raise the $2,500 there is no doubt When I received Coburn’s dispatch, although my mother was very sick at the time, I had to accept it, or I should have been put down as a coward and afraid to meet Sullivan. What I said then I say now. I believe that Sullivan and I will eventually come together, but I do not believe that anything will be done until Sullivan’s contract with Lfsler & Alien has expired. Let SullivaD narneche place, conditions, and amount, and I’ll be on hand.”

T>e Frecinet’s Programme, Parts, Jan. 16.—M. De Fraycinet made a declaration in the Chamber of Deputies of the policy the new Cabinet would follow. He said that tbe colonial policy would be less adventuresome than that of its recent predecessor. This statement was cheered by the Chamber. M. De Frevcinet aho said: “It is necessary to restore good order n the administration, to hold the clergy to a strict execution of their duties, to restore a financial equilibrium, to vote no French loan, and to adopt no measures creating now taxes.” The Tonquin protectorate should bo organized on an economical basis. He said the government hopes to equalize the budget by rigid economies in the various departments, The readjustment of taxation, he said, would not effect the consumption of food. The War and Marine offices would be required to make the greatest sacrifices short of reducing the efficiency of the country’s defenses. The colonies that had been recently acquired would bo retained, and it was hoped that they would soon be able to pay their own expenses, when the direction of their affairs w'ould be retransferred to the Colonial Office. The message was received with cheers in both houses. Sensation Among Odd-Fellows. Special to tbe Indianapolis Journal. Richmond, Ind., Jan. 16. —Something of a sensation was created in Odd-fellow circles this evening by a charter for a canton of the degree of Patriarchs Militant being displayed in the storo window of a member of the old Patriarchial Circle. The presumption was that tho members of the circle were still turning a deaf ear to the edict of the Sovereign Grand Lodge, as they threatened to, and their disgusted brethren of the three links who had not gone into the circle were on the eve of having them expelled for not obeying the edict of the Grand Lodge, when they suddenly reveal the fact that Richmond Temple No. 4, of the Patriarchal Circle, was auietly mustered in on the night of Dec. 8 as a canton of the Patriarchs Militant (which the Grand Lodge ordered substituted for the Circle), by Gen. H. C. Underwood, who came in on a a night train and left at 5 o’clock in the morning, without his presence being known to any of the hundreds of Odd fellows in Richmond, save the forty odd in the Circle, who kept quiet on tho matter until now, to worry the other Odd-fel-lows who had opposed the Circle. No Change at the Edgar Thomson Works. Braddock, Pa., Jan. 16. —The situation at the Edgar Thomson steel works remains still unsettled, and the outcome of the trouble is hard to determine. The men are confident their terms will be complied with, and think that by the middle of next week the mill will be running full in all departments. Is is rumored here tonight that the firm has offered the men 35 per cent advance in wages, and work twelve hours as heretofore, or no advance and work eight hours. It is difficult to tell which of these propo sitions would be accepted. To-morrow Father Hickey, a Catholic priest, will address a meeting of the striking steel-work-ers, and offer them the eight-hour turn, as demanded, but not the 10 per cent, advance. Father Hickey represents Carnegie Bros. & Cos. in this transaction, and possesses much influence. The probabilities are that the strike will be ended, though the men say they will refuse anything but eight hour turns and 10 per cent advance. Victim* of the Storm. Denver, Col., Jan. 16.—A Benkleman special to the Tribune-Republican says: “G. W. Tupper, living on a claim eleven miles southeast of Benklemen, started to a neighbor’s and got lost. He was found frozen to death. Three men named Cherry, Carson and Carter left Won a, Kan., the 6th of this month, going home, sixteen miles south; Carson and Carter, going to Goudy, eighteen miles further, lost their way. They were found, five days later, sixteen miles from Cherry’s place, lying side by side in a small field, frozen to death.” Rev. Dr. Pershing's Coming Trial. Pittsburo, Jan. 16.—The preliminary investigation into the case of Dr. I. C. Pershing, president of the Pittsburg M. E. Female College, is to begin on Tuesday, and will continue a week, or perhaps longer. Owing to tbe prominence of Mr. Pershing, the trial will to of interest to all

Methodists in the country. The charges are embraced under the general bead of conduct not in accordance with the rules of the church, and will be confined chiefly to the business transactions of the Doctor for several years past. There will be at least three specific charges to be investigated, under which there will be twenty-five counts. Business Embarrassments. Milwaukee, Jan. IC.— The Western Crockery Company's business was placed in the hands of Charles Andrews, as receiver, to day. The assets of the company are stated by one of its officers to be $51,000, and the liabilities $30,000. The failure grew out of a claim for SB,OOO filed by Burgess 6s Goddard, of New York and Liverpool. Chicago, Jan. 16.—Louis Rienach, wholesale dealer in toys, failed to-day, with estimated liabilities of $75,000 and assets about $68,000. His creditors are principally in the East. Mr. Rienach hopes to effect a settlement and resume, business. New York, Jan. 16. — Schedules of Adolph Goldsmith, dealer in watches, filed to day, state his liabilities at $177,866; actual assets, $73,870. Banquet to Joseph Arch. London, Jan. 16.—A banquet was given tonight in honor of Mr. Joseph Arch, M. P., who is the first agricultural laborer to be elected to Parliament Mr. Chamberlain, who presided, made a speech, in which he enlarged on the importance of agrarian reform. He emphasized the fact that Mr. Arch is a dissenter and declared that that the Church of England has never given help to great popular movements. McNeil’s Alleged Accomplice. Boston, Jan. 16.—Dr. E. S. Nelsou, who was arrested, charged with complicity with President McNeil in the embezzlement of the funds of the Lancaster National Bank, and who was arraigned and placed in $15,000 bail, was arrested in this city to-night, on a United States warrant, for embezzlement. Ho was taken before Commissioner Hailett and placed under SIO,OOO bonds, which he furnished. Killed by a Kailway Train. Elmira, N. Y., Jan. 16.—Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Bennett, of Horsehearls, N, Y., while crossing a railroad track, two miies from Elmira, to-day, were struck by a train. Mr. Bennett was in stantly killed, and Mrs. Bennett will probably die. Gold Discovered in Texas. Fort Worth, Tex., Jan. 16. — A special to the Gazette from Leakey, in Edward county, tells of the discovery of a paying gold mine. The ore yields from S6B to S3OO per ton. Prospectors are pouring in, and inanv claims have been stiked off. Fourteen Lives Lost. Boston, Jan. 16.—1 tis now generally believed that the captain and entire crew, fourteen souls, of the wrecked bark Julia A. Brown, which left Perth Amboy for this port, on the 6th iust., were drowned. Arrest of Professor O. S. Fowler. Buffalo, N. Y., Jan. 16. —Professor O. S. Fowler was arrested to-day, and held to await the action of the grand jury on a charge of practicing medicine illegally.

Society Women Who Play Poker. St. Louis • pectator. It is not generally known, but I am told that there are sevoral coteries of ladies in St. Louis who meet regularly to play poker. They go early to each others homes, and stay late. A good deal of money changes hands, some of the ladjes, who are very skillful, supplying themselves in this way with such little trifles as diamond ear-rings and sealskin saeques. It may he all rieht in this asre of progress, but I doubt whether these ladies would be pleased to have their sons, brothers, or husbands walk in on the little game. They certainly would have no right to reproach them in case they took to gambling themselves. A Bride Worth Having. Nogales (N. M.) Frontier. When the Apaches attacked the Black Rock ranch of William Johnson, a week ago last Sunday, only Johnson and his young bride were on the premises. They took refuge in a chickenhouse. from which the fight was kept up for an hour, the husband doing the shooting and the wife loading the gnns. Johnson was shot through the body and thigh, and had one arm broken. When the red devils gave up the fight and left, Mrs. Johnson hitched np a team, placed her wounded husband in the wagon, and drove twenty miles to Fort Thomas. The Martyr Mackin. Lewiston till.) Democrat. Joe Mackin is, after all. a better man than he is popularly supposed to be. He has gone silently to the penitentiary for crimes committed in the interest of other and greater rascals. It is rather sublime to see a mere servant and tool suffer so silently and heroically for the scoundrels who stood above him, and who were to be beneficiaries of his crimes against the sacred ballot-box. He Might nave Been a Prussian. Liberty Herald. Cleveland, in a letter to tho editor of Puck, an Englishman, took occasion to denounce the American press generally. Ye gods, what a spectacle of low-down, blinding ignorance on the part of the President of the United States, in writing condemnatory letters of the press of this country to the editor of one of the vilest and most libelous sheets published in this country. The Connection Between Whisky and Music. Springfield Republican. The lessee and treasurer of the New York Academy of Music made out in the Supreme Court on Wednesday that unless liquors could be served at balls, the main source of the Academy’s income would be cut off. This speaks volumes for music in this country. Interfering with Zealous Democrats. Lawrence Mail. Holman’s bill to secure purity of the ballot looks like an attempt by a prominent Democrat to interfere with the occupation of such zealous members of his party as John McLean, of Cincinnati; Sim Coy, of Indianapolis; Mackin, of Chicago, and others. i An Isosceles Triangle. Murtcie News. Cleveland draws the line of Democracy at silver coinage. Voorhees draws it at “to*the victors belong the spoils,” and Watterson, at the tariff. Thus we have the isosceles triangle, from which to solve political problems. If all so-called remedies have failed, Dr. Sage’s Catarrh Remedy cures. CHARLES E. KREGELO, TELEPHONE 56L FREE AMBULANCE. DIED. SKYBOLD—January 15, 1886, Martha Seybold, aged sixty-three years, of apoplexy. SOCIETY MEETINGS. Masonic— mystic tie lodge, no. sos, f. and A. M. Special meeting in Masonic Temple, at 7:30 o’clock this (Monday) eveuing. for work in second degree. JACOB W. SMITH, W. M. Willis J>. Engle, Secretary. ASONIC—ANCTENT - LANDMARKS LODGE, No. 319, F. and A. M. Special meeting this (Monday) evening, at 7:3oo’clock. in Masonic Temple. Work, second degree. WM. H. MEIER, W. M. Willis R. Miner, Secretary. POLITICAL ANNOUNCEMENTS. Township Trustee. WM. F. RUPP—FOR TOWNSHIP TRUSTEE— Subject to Republican Nominating Convention. Township Assessor. Hugh w. white will be a candidate for Township Assessor, subject to the decision of the Republican township convention. ANNOUNCEMENTS. __ DR. A. W. BRAYTON. OFFICE, ID WEST OHIO street. Residence, -A, liucklo street.

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