Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 April 1891 — Page 6

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1SUNDAY THOUGHTS!

HON MORALS3 MANNERS BT A CLXSOTViRi The chief weakness of the church today is in the smallness of its actual working force. Tako out of tho average church twenty women and half as many men and what would be left of it? Very little hardly enough to sit lor a photograph! The foremost duty of every pastor is to increase tho workers and decrease the shirkers in his parish. How? By makinc each member of the church responsible for something. Make each a majorgeneral. Kcnieraber that responsibility b the great educator. Here ia a young wife left suddenly a widow. Ik-fore her loss sho seemed hopelessly frivolous. Fhe dated time from ball to ball and lived for gaiety and pleasure. She farmed out her children nor Irish help and sauntered from dinner-table to theater and from theater to bed. But now, with the care of her children's education and entrance into life thrust upon her, Eee how prudent and lagacious she becomes, how comprehensive in views how sober in conduct. Ilow much Intellect and character she eurprises her old friends with! "What effected the change? Kesponsibility I let it be understood, then, that when conVerts come into the church the come not only to bo saved but to be saviors. Give each member a function and a magistracy. Do as the bee do sting the drones out of the hive. Create an almost hive of Christian work. Make doing the text of leicg. Oh, that the church miirht be inoculated with the beautiful contagion of epostleship. Some theological graduates, when they pet their parchment diploma, only add a eheepskiu to a sheep's head. Let the preachers today speak the truth and shame tho devil. Tt has been eagely said that the minister who is careful not to often d anybody will not help anybody. People who carry their besom tins to church with them will quite likely, without some pungent preaching, take their peta Lack home with them. Some one remarks that the church is too often hidden under the bushel of attention to secular affairs. Only spare time is given to tho church. If, instead of this, Christians would decline this chance to make money, or that call to enjoy the world, on the ground that they hadn't time for these worldly matters, they would impress the world with a sense of their honesty and reality in the Christian life. This would give the church an advertisement which it eadly needs. As it is, Christians are too apt to f ive their time to the world and their eisure to the Lord. Earnestness is as mighty in religion as it is in the world. In all departments of human endeavor success reserves its crown for earnestness. Just so in religion, Critics and unbelievers stand and ask: Ilow much are these Christians willing aad read3 to sacrifice for their faith? According to the answer they get they are weakeued or confirmed in their position cutside of the church. A church exists for a two-fold purpose: To build up believers into the image of Jesr.r, and to disciple those within its reach. Tho church which best subserves this double mission is tho best church. Eut the church which resolves itself into a mutual admiration society; which values elegant surroundings in themselves an ! not as means to the grand end of the re'igious life, and as the appropriate accessories of worship; which finds jesthetic pleasure in fine music and poetical preachin?, and is disturbed by a call to work such a church is dead in life. It should be buried before it becomes a stench in the nostrils of the community. ' 'Tis a gross delusion," remarked G uizot, "to believe in the sovereign power of political machinery." The same thing may be said of ecclesiastical machinery. As, according to Sir "William Jones, "men, high-minded men," constitute a state ; so men devoted in mind, heart and purse to the service of God and humanity, can alone compose a chnrch. The world itself respects a church ju3t in proportion to it3 enthusiastic devotion to its work its evident sincerity and zeal. And in this God and the world are agreed. A selfish, lazy church is a contradiction of terms. Such a church is in fact a synagogue of Satan. For all good purposes it is .Aa l a a painted ship Upon a painted ocean. Us prareth bt who loreth toft All Uiiogt, Loth great and imalL. The famous Dr. Chalmers was once driving along a country road in Scotland. His horse was very tired. Presently it stopped. Chalmers laid on the whip the beast remained immovable. He got out, eeizd the bridle snd tried coaxing with no better effect Then, looking around, he espied arisD of hay. Thi3 he eo fastened in the bridle that it was within the horse's eight but jut beyond its reach. The beast reeinz and smeilinz the hay wanted it, took a step forward to get it, and that cot enRicing, another, and another, and so driven by desire continued to go until home was reached. This incident suggested to Dr. Chalmers the theme of his Greatest sermon, that on "Expulsive 'ower of the New ACection." People whom you can't drive you can coax. Those who can't be coaxed can be moved by the expulsive power of a new affection. This is the great secret of Christianity. Spite of Dickens' sneer, the Christian who is not interested in the evangelization of Porioboolagha is not interested in tho conversion of his own parish. Our neighborhood doesn't end just "round the corner.'' Leligion is outreaching as well as in reaching. 'Tis both microscopic and telescopic. A parBon asked a wealthy parishioner for a contribution for foreign missions. "No," was the reply. "I don't believe in foreign missions; 1 believe in home missions." A little later ho solicited for homo missions. "Well," said the man, "homo missions we right; but when there is so n.uch to be done in our own parish I don't believe in sending money olf to tho frontier." loiter still an effort was made to repair the fence around the crave yard in tho Tear of the church. The parson thought that now at lat he would succeed in getting a contribution from his friend. He tackled him and stated the case. The old skinflint scratched his head and said: "After all, what's tho tifte of puitin' a fence round that grave yard? Those who are in there can't get out, and thote who are oat don't want to get iD." You can't give reasons for being generChildren Cryfor.

ous half as fast as a stingy man wilt find reasons for being stingy. Set it down, too, as an axiom that the man who does not "believe in foreign missions does not believe in homo missions nor In anything, lie is his own world tho movable center of . a contracted circumference. His feelings, like a river,, rise in himself, run through his own 'interests and empty in his pocket. Mere activity is not christian work, Diozenes once got into a barrel, rolled back and forth, and said be most do something because every . one else was doing something. Let us distinguish usefulness from uselesscess in activity. The true university ia a collection of books. Carhfe, Tho history of heroes is the history of youth. Disraeli. Search thy friend for his virtues, thyself for thy faults. Spunji-on. "What to thee is shadow to Him is day. J. G'. WhiU'ur. If I wished to raise up a race of statesmen higher than politicians, animated not by greed or seltishnes, I would familiarize the boys of the lan 1 with the characters of the bible with Joseph and Moses, Joshua and Samuel, Daniel and Paul and I would teach them the gentle wisdom of Jesus Christ John. Halt. One act of charity will teach more of the love of God than a thousand sermons. F. I J', llobirtson. Young converts are generally great bigots. When wo are first converted to God our brotherly affection too often resembles the narrowness of a river at its first setting out. But aa we advance nearer and nearer to the ocean of all good, the channel widensand our hearts expand more and more. Salter. Only love to the living God, this and this only, is the basis of Christian morality, and science will never find one that is plainer, nor life one that is surer. Hermann Lotze. A countryman once said to me: ' "I was exceedingly alarmed this morning, sir, I was going through a lonely place and I thought I saw a strange monster. It Fcemed in motion, but I could not discern its form. I didn't like to turn back, but my heart beat and the more 1 looked the more I was afraid. And who do you think it was? Why, my brother John !" Ah, reflected I, as he added that it was early in the morning and very foggy, how olten do we thus mistake our Christian brethren. William Jau. When we destroy an old prejudice, we have need of a new virtue. 31m e. de Start. He that rejoices in the fall of his brother rejoices in the devil's victory. Ht. Ambrfw. The idle word is that which profits neither him that speaks nor him that hi are. St. Jerome. It is only in fellowship with Christ that we can receive those influences and impulses wnich will enable m to bring forth much fruit, and thus show that we are his disciples. pmcc. For tho encouragement of fyoung Christians who think they have no gift of speech we may recall the case of Mr. Moody. When the famous evangelist united with the l'ev. Dr. Kirk's church in Boston he impressed those who heard his first attempt at prayer and exhortation as being utterly incompetent. Finaliy Dr. Kirk said to him: "Brother Moody, we all respet t your good intentions and earnestness, but you h;id better not try to speak or pray in the meetings; your gifts do not lie in those lines." Ten years later Dwight L. Moody was the prince of evangelists. His voice has been heard bv more people tha:i any other since Whitcfield and John Wesley. His power in speech and prayer has been recognized by the foremost orators on both sides of the Atlantic by' Gladstone in Lngland and by the late John Ii. Gough in 'America. Best of all, the people have heard him gladly, and the divine spirit has used his homely utterances in the conversion of myriads and in the edification of hundreds ot thousands of Christiana. The case of Moody shows two thing, viz.: the fallibility of human judgment and the possibility by grit and grate of overcoming the most stubborn infirmities and transforming them into instruments of favor and promise. We say to young disciples, who like Moses are slow of speech, remember the. case of Moody. Imitate hi perseverance and consecrated pluck. When the late premier Disraeli made his maiden speech in parliament ho was laughed down. Gritting his teeth he cried: "You shall yet hear me!" and thev did. The finest

i aptitudes without application and prac tice will amount to little. Applicabilities by effort and urgency are transformed into helps and honors. Biography is full of illustrations and examples of this fact, from Demosthenes with tho pebbles in his mouth to cure his stammering to Moody, the gawky beginner and eventual monarch of 'evangelists. Nil desperandum. That the prevalent materialistic relaism is unsatisfactory is evident from the lecture of Taul de Jardines in Geneva, who declared that Kenan's ideal consists in knowing everything and laughing .at everything. Kenan's position, says the professor, cannot be accented ; man requires something more than knowledge; he must have- that which will enable him to work and will give him strength and pleasure in his tasks. De Jardirjes adds: "Our race is pick and miserable. It seek outside of itself a support which is not yet found. We expect great things from intellectual cu'ture, but science has not made us happy. Under the electric.light we drag along with us the same uncertainty and the same cares which our fathers did under the fold classic, tallow candle." After this pessimistic utterance, and although not himself a believer, the professor confesses "in the verv home of science nothing has been found, take it for all in ail, that is belter than faith." No Republican lit,, (Columbua Herald. And now the republican papers hereabouts will set up a howl that will be loud, long and ear-piercing It. M. Johnson, democrat, of 1 ranklin has been appointed to a lucrative position in the treasury department by Secretary Foster. The secretary wanted a better man for the place than the civil service commission or the republican party could furnish, and he took Mr. Johnson. Efldeoca Plntd That Wiy. lTh Clothier. Mrs. Binzo "There ! I knew it. Those moths have got at your dress suit and eaten a hole ritrht through the pocket." Mr. Bingo "They must he female moths." MMMtaWMM The Hear (.Trie. Muntr'a Wraklr. , Ethel "The way that Clara flirts is perfectly shameful." Maud "Don't be too hard on her, dear. Kemember you were onco young vourself." ' Completed in Diitdiroiit. . The Burlington Houte, C, B. &Q. R, K. from Chicago, Peoria nd St. Louis, is, now completed, and daily passengei trains are running through Lincoln, Neb., and Custer, S. D., to Dead wood., Also to Newcastle, Wyoming. .Sleeping cars to Dead wood. PItcher'c Caetorla.

THE NEWS OF THE WOULD.

ALL THE CONTINENTS REPRESENTED. Minor Occurrence nt the) Faat Week Briefly Paragraphed for "The Weekly Sentinel" Look Sharp or Ulii m N w j Item. Umpire Gleason has '.een let out of the association. Senator Edmunds has resigned his seat in the senate At Sandoval, ni., heavy wind and rain did great damage. The census bureau has issued an inter esting railroad bulletin. Attorney General Miller is confined to his residence bvsiekness. At Henderson, Ky., Lem "Wilson, col ored, killed Abe Jonev, colored. There are nineteen cases cf small-pox in the military hospital at Havana. The town of Tobias, Neb., wns nearly wiped out by fire. Loss, $:0.000. American syndicates have monopolized the cattle export trade of Canada. The Des Moines water comnanv's dam went out, causing a loss of $25,000. W. I Sharp & Son's foundry, at Steubenvilie, O., burned. Loss, 23,000. Benjamin Horton committed suicide in Brooklyn while crazed by the grip. Three cases of typhus fever have been discovered in New York in a week. A national association of inventors was formed at Washington Friday night. Another attempt on the czar's life was frustrated by the police last Monday. It is rumored that the Mexican congress will create the oiiice of vice-president. Governor Burke of North Dakota reports the crop outlook extremely favorable. Three men were blown to fragments by a dynamite explosion at Petrolia, Ont. ' At Rome, Ga., Mrs. Ora McKee was ac quitted of the murder of Mrs. Wimple. Baron Fava spent a quiet day in New York and refused himself to all comers. Italian socialists are preparing for a grand demonstration on the 1st of May. The Washington national bank of New York will into voluntary liquidation. Eleven Hungarians were killed and in jured by a jras explosion at Braddock, Fa. At Detroit Frank Clark died uuder very myeterious and sensational circumstances. Ixjuis Bulling, under sentence of death at Savannah, Mo., broke jail and escaped. Secretary Proctor passed through Omaha Thursday evening en route to Washington. J. Walker, the alleged chief of a gang of tram robbers, was arreatod near Mobile, Ala. Another case of typhus fever has been found in the Polish colonv at Elizabeth, N.J. Dunn is out of the race for the Florida penatorshipand it is now Call against tho field. Late advices from Honolulu are to the eflect that " everything is quiet in the islands. Late reports from Chili are to the effect that the insurgents are rapidly gaining ground. All is quiet in the coke regions and the operators are making vigorous attempts to resume. At an amateur performance at Tuscaloosa, Ala., little Irene Hays was fatally burned. All intruders have been ordered out of the Sac and Fox reservation by the government. x Over 900 immigrants were landed at Castle Garden, Friday, and several were sent back. The southwestern shortage in the hay crop is making itself seriously felt in Minnesota. The amount of 4 J per cent, bonds redeemed was $141,200, making the total ?14,UfS,4"0. Ex-Governor Thoma C. Fletcher of Missouri is very ill at his home here of pneumonia. Cattle grazers are still sending cattle into the 0age nation in defiance of the government. Tho Franklin mine, at Houghton, Mich., is on fire, and one miner was probably fatally injured. At New York yesterday 4,332 immigrants were registered, among them being 2,1"J7 Italians. Tho Sons of Veterans began court-martial proceedings against Walter I. Payne of Fostoria, O. The Rev. Joseph Cook was suddenly attacked by the grip while lecturing at Ft. Scott, Kas. Tho cotton 6heds of Hill, Fontaine " Co., at Memphis, were destroved by fire. Lees, $3:$,00U. Farm work near Burlinirton, la., was retarded by heavy storms Wednesday night and Thursday. It is feared that El wood, Kas., will be swept away by the Missouri river, which is rapidly rising. Henry Hiles was arrested atSpringdale, Ark., for burelarjzing tho postolhce at Christopher, Mo. The lo?s at the stock yards fire at Cincinnati was greatly exaggerated, being only about $40,000. The political situation in Europe is looked upon aa very grave and war seems to be near at hand. The Canadian cruisers will go into service about the 1st of May to protect the Canadian fisheries. The grip is largely on the wane at New York, and the mortality record shows a gratifying decrease. At "Bine Blutr, Ark., Robert Williams was sentenced to be hanged for the murder of A. B. Haves. Thomas Beard, a Santa Fe employe at Kansas City.seized a live e'ectric wire and was instantly killed. ' The G. A. R. department encampment elected officers and adjourned to meet next year m rort Wayne. John Jones of Dale county, Alabama, is in jail for assault with intent to murder his nine-year-old son. ' Mrs. Andrew Doll, of Herman, Neb., killed her two children and committed suicide, while insane. The Postal Telegraph and Cable com pany is about to absorb the Michigan! 'cs tal lelegraph company. At "White Oaks, N. M., two young women killed themselves in each other's arms on Easter morning. ' James Sumpter, of Little Rock, Ark., while repairing a wind mill, was brushed off by the fan and killed. .William Skages, a U. .8. prisoner, lamped from a moving train near Lebanon, Mo., and escaped. .The April returns of the department of agriculture make the condition of wheat (winter) uo.9, and of rye 9").4. D. E. Kimball, a Northwestern ticket Agent at Omaha, shot himself. No cause known. He leaves a family. . The navy department paid Cramp A Son the second installment on the price of the new cruiser "The Pirate." The remains found at North St. Louis were identiGcd as those of Mrs. Elizabeth Cumming. She was demented. '. Willis Howard, the notorious Kentucky rtutiaw, who was pardoned by the governo. of California ia order that he

might he tried fcr murder in Missouri, was taken to Vienna, Mo., Friday to stand trial for killing a deaf mute. The lady to whom it is reported Mr. Parnell has been married is said to be the eldest daughter of Mrs. O'Shea. Milton and Harry Kaufman, two young Lancaster, Pa., men, killed themselves with poison. N'o cause is given. A eerioua riot took place at Oporto, the republicans being the aggressors. The military quelled tho disturbance. Tom Puzh and Bill Daiiey fought to a finish at Edwardsvillc, Pa. Puirh's leg was broken and he threw up the fight. The Philadelphia Ilrcord is authority for the statement that a trigantic copper trust was formed in that city Thursday. Dover, N. II reports the drowning of Daniel Dixon and his grandson in Great Bay by tha capsizing of their boat. The white women in Topeka, Kas., voted the democratic ticket because the colored women voted with the republicans. Secretary Troctor passed through Chtcniro Friday. He denied any intention of trying to succeed Senator Edmunds. At a congregational dinner in Devonshire a prominent minister created a sensation by refusing to toast the queen. The first train through the tunnel under the St. Clair river at Port H uron. Mich., made its passage Thursday afternoon. Harry Donovan, heir to $100,000, was abducted by his grandmother and rescued by his father after a sensational chase. A mail pouch was stolen between New Orleans and Austin, Tex., and seventynine valuable packages were abstracted. Mariza Strukaneza, a young Bohemian girl, tried to kindle a fire with kerosene at Pueblo, Col. She was fatally burned. Bowe and Myer have posted their forfeits to guarantee their appearance in the Olympic club ring at 'Frisco May 19. It is reported that near Lytton, British Columbia, a gold mine has been discovered giving on assay 9,000 ounces to the ton. Count de Keratey has been sent to this country to decorate two Americans for their services in behalf of the copyright law. A cyclone is reported at Nevada, Mo. Three dwellings were destroyed and several barns demolished. No lives were lost, The funeral of the late Gen. Albert Pike took place at Washington Friday. The remains were interred in Oak Hill cemetery. Patrick Murray, who was stabbed by Moses T. Walker at Syracuse, N. Y., is deaJ. Walker is under arrest. Both colored. Moses Morgan, prominent resident of Blossom, Tex., has been indicted for a-easainating James Ward ia October, 18SS. Dispatches from Warner Miller state that his party is in good health, aud about to follow up tho line of the Nicaraugua canal. A Big Four passenger train was wrecked by an open switch near Sauduskv, O. Engineer Joseph Scheufler was badly injured. Charles E. Kinkaid, the newspaper correspondent, was acquitted of the murder of ex-Representative Taulbee of Ken

tucky. Dr. J. C. Branner, state geologist of Arkansas, has been ollered the chair of geology in the Stanford university in California. Hon. Charles Foster, the new U. S. secretary of tlie treasury, was given a b;g reception by the Ohio repubdeans at thy capital. Pork packers do not anticipate that the removal of tho pork embargo from Germany will increase the hog exports greatly. The New HYork methodist conference has decided overwhelmingly that women ehail not be admitted to the general conference. The engagement of Ogden Armour, eldest son of Philip D. Armour, to Miss Sheldon, a prominent New York belle, is announced. At Warren and Tiskilwa, 111., the first rain in many weeks is reported. The storm lasted twenty-four hours and did much good. At St. Paul, Minn., it rained all Thursday and snowed all night over most of southern Minnesota. Snow also fell in the Dakotas. Charles Stevens of Susquehanna, Ta., has sued a Scranton-st. railway for 5h,0(X) for injuries to his daughter, resulting in St. Vitus dance. The proposition to epII the old Navoo temple, the cradle of mormonism, for exhibition at the world's fair, has been rejected by the saints. The four-year-old son of John A. Miller of Topeka, Kas., p aved with matches in his father's barn and' was roasted to death in the lire he kindled. Two freight trains collided at Wilmore, above Conemangh, Pa., and all the trainmen were injured, but none fatally. The damage was considerable. In a colision of passenger trains near Washington, Ia., both engines were badly wrecked and a number of passengers were injured, none dangerously. The new financial policy of the Argentine Republic has met with a more favorable reception thnn was anticipated and Argentine bonds are rising. Charles Radborne, the great pitcher last year with the Bostons, has signed with the Cincinnati league The terms are 5-3,000 and no Sunday games. The McIIaie bill, which prohibts the wearing of tights on the stage in Minnesota and compelling the use of at least a short skirt, passed the senate. The Xorih German Gazette says German exporters will lose a great portion of tho South American market through the U. S. commercial treaty with Brazil. Two negroes belonging to the L. & N. train robbers' gsng were arrested at Evergreen, Ala. The other members of the gang will shortly he apprehended. Charles Johnson, a professional thief of Brooklyn, was captured at Louisville, Ky., with the missing jewels 6tolen from Mrs. Coleman at Frankfort Wednesday. John Belton, employed to clean the boiler in the Richmond (Va.) city hall was suffocated and a fellow-workman was rendered unconscious, but revived. The federal grand jury at Chicago will investigate the charges against George J. Gibson of Peoria for conspiracy to destroy the bhufelt distillery with dynamite. The severest hail storm in ten years visited Springfield, Mo. Hail atones big as eggs fell, and over $2,000 damage was done and several persons were injured. E. II. Taylor A Sons of Louisville were granted a perpetual injunction agaiustthe George T. Stagg company, forbidding the latter to use the brands of Taylor & Co. It is claimed that the output of the tin mines recently discovered near South Riverside, Cal., will probably exceed the total consumption of tho United States. There were no new features in the coke strike. Both sides are making desperate efforts to win. The rompaniea wid soon begin the ejectment ol striking miners. Three tramps went to sleep under a ide-:racked freight car at Pittaburg. When the car was polled out two were killed and the third had both feet cut off. Henry Kuhlman, proprietor of a' hotel at. Dallas, Tex., which recently burned, destroying one life, has been arrested, charged with setting fire to the building. The St. Louis police has discovered a unique system of swindling, which con

sists of raising loans on bogus pawn checks purporting to represent articles of great value. The central committee of the panAmerican congress visited the white house and a short address was presented, to which the president replied in general teru.s. In consequence of the Russian massing of troops on the Galacian and Si eaian frontier tho German government has decided to strengthen tho eastern frontier garrisons. The eight-hour question is the rock on which the miners and operators split, and unless the interstate convention agrees on some satisfactory basis, 70,000 men will quit work. The convention of colored men called at Little Rock to discuss the question whether it was better to migrate to Oklahoma or remain where they are, adjourned without action. It is stated that Secretary Proctor Is a candidate for Senator Edmunds' seat in the senate, and in the event of his appointment, he will resign from the cabinet to accept it. The Russian war offico has ordered the expulsion from Russian frontier ramps of all foreign traders. It is feared they may rarry valuable information to Germany in case of war. Two men from New Orleans giving their names as Clarence Weils and William Wbyte, were arrested at St. Louis with a complete set of counterfeiters' tools upon them. At Munich a mob of unemployed Saxons and Bavarians attacked a gang of Polish workmen and a fierce fight followed and troops were required to quell the disorder. A train load of steel girders for the new Masonic temple in Chicago is held in the yards on an attachment against the Columbia iron and steel company, which recently failed. The meeting of the American agricultural colleges and experimental colleges at Chicago closed Thursday. The business transacted was altogether preliminary in character. Financial troubles caused John M. II. Stow, a Philadelphia commission merchant, to commit suicide bv shooting himself through the heart with a doublebarreled gun. The reorganized church of mormons will send missionaries to Utah to convert the mormons there from polygamy and other practices not countenanced by the reformed church. One thousand silver dollars were stolen from an express wagon at Louisville Thursday night while the driver stepped into the ollice to get a receipt signed. There is no clew. Augustus Stroker, the prominent colored attorney of Detroit, is prominently mentioned for appointment as one of the new I J. S. judge-, and his friends are very sanguine of his chances. The federal grand jury at Chicago has subpoenaed nearly every man who has, or ever had, any connection with the whisky trust. It is inferred that important evidence has been obtained. Two sho's were fire 1 by an unknown assassin at Judee J. T. Carvin of Coving

ton, Ky., through the rear door of his office, without effect. The judge is unable to account for the attempt. It is expected that over 1,000 delegates, froin twenty-ssven states, will attend the national union conference at Cincinnati, May It), the object of which is the organization oi a new political party. Connecticut's comptroller, answering the Executive Secretary Brainard's claim for salary, denies that Brainard holds such office, or that Bulkeley is governor, and theretore no money is due him. Sharp fighting is still reported at Simla and another British officer has been killed. The rebels have informed the Indian government that th-y killed Commissioner Quinton and his colleagues. The Northwestern base ball league, as now organized, comprises the following cities: Detroit. Grand Rapids, Bay City, Mich.; Evansville, Fort Wayne and Terre Haute, Ind.;To:edo, 0., and Peoria, 111. A heavy storm vUited Centrdia, II!., Thursday night, doing much damage. W. Nichols was seriously injured by flying debris. The village of Irvington, six miles distant, was also greatly damaged. The amount of silver offered for sale to the treasury department was l,fl05,500 ounces and the amount purchased 3.)3,500 onnees as follows: 28,500 ounces lit $0.97873, 83,000 at S0.0795, 224,000 at $0.08. A bill was introduced into the Pennsylvania legislature fixing the rates to be charged passengers for the use of Pullman cars at one-quarter of a cent per mile for chairs and one-half of a cent permile for births. The body of Gen. Albert Tike, the e inent mason, was taken to the congregation church at Washington, D. C, at midnight Thursday night, where the impressive ceremonies of . the Kadosh rite were performed. Ordinance officers at the war department have been earnestly at work for weeks past preparing to give etlect to some of the more important provisions of the fortification appropriation act, which will go into operation after June 30. The will of the late Prince Napoleon was a pecuniarily precise document. He disinherited his eldest son, Prince Victor, and provided that he should be buried either at Taris beside the First Napoleon or on a rocky islet in tho bay of Ajaccio. Tho first consignment of Missouri cattle shipped to Hamburg in several years will leave New York for that port near the end of this month. L. P. Kanawer of Fredonia, Kas., is the shipper, and the lot wid consist of 150 bead of extra fine beeves. The Standard's St. Petersburg and Jason correspondents continue to report activity among the Russian troops, great numbers of which are being massed on the AustroHunearian frontier. The Jason corre spondent gives a detailed account of the movement oi tne troops. Mr. Oberlin Smith of Bridgeton, N. J., presided over the secoud day's ecssion of the congress of American inventors. The speakers were Congressional Librarian Spofford. Prof. Thomas Gray of Rose Polytechnic institute, Terre Haute, and CoL F. A. Seeley of Pennsylvania. The body of an unknown woman wns found at St. Louis Thursday, near the river. An examination showed that mur der bad been committed, but there is no clew. Another body, also a woman's was found in tho river m North fct. Louis, which has not vet been identified. The congress of American inventors in session at. Washington, visited Mt. Vernon in a body Friday. Dr. J. M. Toner and ex-Reprrsentative Ben Butterworth delivered addresses. On returning to Washington the inventors visited the white house and were introduced to the nresident. . The Marquis di Rudini has renewed his instructions to Italian consuls in the United States to counsel calmness on the part of Italian residents aud that the premier is confident that in consoquenco of the departure of Baron Fava the federal government will give Italy the satisfaction that is due. The Union league club of New York has made a long declaration regarding the re cent Italian massacre in New York. In a series of resolutions the club calls upon the government to prevent the imnorta tlon of paupers and criminals; urges the courts to a rigid observance of . naturalization laws and calls upon the press and pulpit to agitate these subjects.

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