Nappanee Advance-News, Volume 20, Number 51, Nappanee, Elkhart County, 2 March 1898 — Page 3

(’heavenly shepherd. tto. Talmaee Delivers a Glowing Pastoral Sermon. tar* Ground—The Shearing and the New Void. Bev. T. DeWitt Talmage in the following sermon presents a lowing pastoral scene to the mind’s eye. The text is: The Lord Is my shepherd.—Psalms xxllL, l. What with post and rail fences, and our pride hi Southdown, Astrakhan and Flemish varieties of sheep, there is no use now of the old-time shepherd, guch an one had abundance of opportunity of becoming a poet, being out of doors 12 hours the day and oft-times waking up in the night on the hills. If the stars, or the torrents, or the sun, or the flowers had anything to say, he was very apt to hear it. The Ettrick shepherd of Scotland, who afterwards took his seat in the brilliant circle of Wilson and Lockhart, got his wonderful poetic inspiration in the ten years in which he was watching the flocks of |£r. Laidlaw. There is often a sweet poetry in the ragged prose of the gcotch shepherd. One of these Scotch shepherds lost his only son, and. he jrnelt down in prayer, and was over- • heard to say: “Oh, Lord, it has seemed good in Thy province to take from me the staff of my right hand at the time when to us sand blind mortals I seemed to be most in need of it; and how I a ha.n climb up the hill of sorrow and suld age without it, Thou mayst ken, but I dinna.” David, the shepherd boy, is watching his father’s sheep. They, are pasturing on the very hills where afterward a Lamb was born of which you have heard much: “The Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.” David, the shepherd boy, was beautiful, brave, musical and poetic. I think he often forgot the sheep in his reveries. There in the solitude he struck the harp string that is thrilling through all ages. Dayid, the boy, was gathering the material for David the poet and David the man. Like other boys, David was fond of using his knife among the saplings, and he had noticed the exuding of the juice of the tree; and when he became a man he | said: “The trees of the Lord are full sap.” David, the boy, like other boys, had been fond of hunting the birds’ nests, and he had driven the old stork off the nest to find how many eggs were under her; and when he became a man he said: “As for the stork, the fir trees are her house.” In his boyhood he had heard the terrific thunder storm that frightened the red deer into premature sickness; and when he became a man he said: “The voice of the Lord maketh the hinds to calve.” David, the boy, had lain upon his back looking up at the stars and examining the sky, and to his boyish imagination the sky seemed like a piece of divine embroidery, the divine fingers working in the threads of light and the beads of stars; and he became a man and wrote: “When I consider Thy heavens, the work of Thy fingers.” When he became an old man, thinking of the goodness of God, he seemed to hear the bleating of his father’s sheep across many years, and to think of the time when he tended them on the Bethlehem hills, and he cries out in the text: “The Lord is my shepherd.” If God will help me, I will talk to i you of the shepherd’s plaid, the shepherd's crook, the shepherd’s dogs, the shepherd’s pasture grounds, and the shepherd’s flocks. And first: The shepherd’s plaid: It would be preposterous for a man going out to rough aqd besoiling work to put on splendid apparel. The potter does not work in velvet; the serving maid •does not put on satin while toiling at her duties; the shepherd does not wear a splendid robe in which to go out amidst the storms, and the rocks, and the nettles; he puts on a rough apparel appropriate to his exposed work. The Lord our shepherd, coming out to hunt the lost sheep, puts on no regal apparel, hut the plain garment of our humanity. There- was nothing pretentious about it: I know the old painters represent a halo around the babe Jesus; but I do not suppose that there was any more halo about that child than about the head of any other babe that was born that Christmas eve in Judea. Becoming a man, He wore a seamless garment, The scissors and needle have done nothing to make it graceful. I take it to have been a sack with three holes in it; one for the neck and two for the arms. Although the gamblers quarreled over it; that is no evidence of its value. I halve seen two rag pickers quarrel over the refuse of an ash barrel. No; in the wardrobe of Heaven He left the sandals of light, the girdles of beauty, the robes of power, and put on the besoiled and tattered raiment of our humanity. Sometimes lie did mot even wear the seamless robe. IV hat is that hanging about the waist of Christ? Is it a badge of authority? Is it a royal coat of arms? No, it is a towel. The disciples’ feet are filthy from the walk on the long way, and ■are not fit to be put upon the sofas on which they are to recline at the meal, and so Jesus washes their feet' and gathers them up in the towel to dry them. The work of saving this world was rough work, rugged work, hard work, and Jesus put on the raiment, the plain raiment, qt our flesh. The storms were to beat Him; the crowds were to jostle Him, theduat-wa* to sprinkle Him, the mobs were to pursue Him. Ob! .shepherd of Israeli leave at home 'Thy bright array. For Thee, what streams ■ forai He puts upon Him the plam raiment of our humanity; wears our woes; and while earth and Heaven ®ud hell stand amazed at the abnegation. wrapsaround Him the Shepherd s plaid: Cold mountains awl the mVdnlxb! air. Witnessed the fervor of Hi* prayer - Next I mention the shepherd s crook. This was a rod with a curve at tae

end, whieh, when a sheep was going “tray was thrown over its neck; and m that way it was pulled back. When the sheep were not going astray, the shepherd would often use it as a sort of crutch, leaning on it; but when the '^£F' P ' w ?lVv the crook wSs always busy pulling them back. ! ike Bh eep, have gone astray, and had it not been for the shepherd’s crook, we would have fallen long ago over the precipice. Here is a man who is making too much money. He is getting very vain. He says: “After awhile I shall be independent of all the world. Oh, my soul, eat, drink and be merry.” Business disaster comes to him. What U God going to do with him? Has God any grudge against him? Oh, no. God is throwing over him the shepherd's crook and pulling him back into better pastures. Here is a man who has always been welL He has never had any sympathy for invalids, he calls them coughing, wheezing nuisances. After awhile sickness comes to him. He does not understand what God is going to do with him. He says: “Is the Lord jmgry with me?” On.no. With the shepherd’s crook he has been pulled back into better pastures. Here’s a happy household circle. The parent does not realize the truth that these children are only loaned to him, and he forgets from what source came his domestic blessings. Sickness drops upon those children, and death swoops upon a little one. He says, “Is God angry with me?” No. His shepherd's crook pulls him back into better pastures. Ido not know what would have become of us if it had not been for the shepherd's crook. Oh, the mercies of our troubles! You take up apples and plums from under the shade of the trees, and the very best fruits of Christian character we find in the deep shade of trouble. When I was on the steamer coming across the ocean I got a cinder in my eye, and several persons tried to get it out very gently, but it could not be taken out in that way. I was told that the engineer had a faculty in such cases. I went to him. He put his large, sooty hand on me, took a knife and wrapped the lid of the eye around the knife. I expected to be hurt very much, but without any pain, and instantly he removed the cinder. Oh, there come times in 'our Christian life, when our spiritual vision is being spoiled, and all gentle appliances fail. Then there comes some giant trouble, and, back-handed, lays hold of us and removes that which would have ruined our vision forever. I will gather all your joys together in one regiment of ten companies, and I will put them under Col. Joy. Then I will gather all your sorrows together in one regiment of ten companies, and put them under Col. Hreakheart. Then I will ask: Whieh of these regiments has gained for yon the greatest spiritual victories? Certainly that under Col. Breakheart. In the tinie of war, you may remember, at the south and north, the question was whether the black troops would fight; but when they were put into the struggle on both sides they did heroically. In the great day of eternity it will be found that it was not the white regiment of joys that gained your greatest successes, but tlie black, 'troops of trouble, misfortune and disaster. Where you have gained one spiritual success from your prosperity, you have gained ten spiritual successes from your adversity. 4 There is no animal that struggles” more violently than a sheep when you corner it and catch hold of it. Down in the glen I see a group of men around a lost sheep. A plowman comes along ami seizes the sheep, and tries to pacify it; but it is more frightened than ever. A miller comes along, (flits down his grist, and caresses the sheep, and it seems as if it. would die of fright. After awhile someone breaks through the ticket. He says: “Let me have the poor thing.” He comes up and iayir his arms around the sheep, and it is immediately quiet. Who is the last man that' comes? It is the shepherd. Ah, my friends, be not afraid of the shepherd's crook. It is never used on you, save in mercy, to pull you back. The hard, cold icebergs of trouble will melt in the warm stream of divine sympathy. There is one passage I thihk you misinterpret: “The bruised reed He will break.” Do you know that the shepherd in olden times played upon these reeds? They were ver/ easily bruised; but when they were bruised they were never mended. The shepherd could so easily make another one, he would snap' the old one and throw it away, and get another. The Bible says it is not so with'our Shepherd. When the music is gone out of a man's soul, God does not snap him in twain and throw him away. He mends and restores. “The bruised reed He will not break." When In the o'erhaoxinif heaven* of fate. The threatening cloud* of darkne** dwell. Then let u* humbly watch and Walt, It shall be well. It shall be well.

And when the storm has passed away Aod suD-hhinu smile* on flood End fells How sweet to think, how sweet to say. It has been well, It has been welt Next I speak of the shepherd’s dog*. They watch the straying sheep and drive them back again. Every shepherd has his dog—from the nomads of the Bible times down to the Scotch herdsman watching his flocks on the Grampian hills. Our Shepherd employ* the criticisms and persecutions of the workl as His dogs. There are those, you know, whose Whole work is to watch the inconsistencies hi Christians, and bark at-them. If one of Gods sheep gets astray, the world howls. With more; avidity than a shepherd's doe ever -caught a stray sheep flankJior lugged R by tbs ears, worldlings seize the Christian astray: It ought to do us good to know that we are thus watched. It ought to put , ua on our guard. They can not bite us, 1 1 we stay near the Shepherd. The sharp knife of worldly assault will only trim th* vines u*>tl they produce better —ape*. The more you pound marjoram and rosemary. the sweeter they amelL The more dogs take after you, tha quicker you will get to the gate. You have noticed that different flocks

of sheep have diflerent marks apom them; sometimes a mark, sometimes a blue mark, sometimes a straight mark, and sometimes a crooked mark. The Lord, oar Shepherd, has a mark for His sheep. It ia a red mark—the mark of the cross. for righteousness’ sake, for theirs ia the kingdom of Heaven.” Furthermore, consider the shepherd’s pasture grounds. The old shepherds used to take the sheep upon the mountains in the summer, and dwell in the valleys in the winder. The sheep being out of doors perpetually, their wool was better than if they had been kept in the hot atmosphere of the sheep-cot. Wells were dug for the sheep and covered with large stones, in order that the hot weather might not spoil the water. And then the shepherd led his flock wherever he would; nobody disputed his right. So the Lord our Shepherd has a large pasture ground. He takes us in the summer to the mountains, and in the winter to the valleys. Warm days of prosperity come, and we stand on sun-gilt Sabbaths, and on hills of transfiguration; and we are so high up we can catch a glimpse of the pinnacles of the heavenly city. Then cold wintry days of trouble come, and we go down into the valley of sickness, want and bereavement, and we say: “Is there any sorrow like unto my sorrow?” But, blessed be God, the Lord’s sheep can find pasture anywhere. Between two rocks of trouble a tuft of succulent promises; green pastures beside still waters; long sweet grass between bitter graves. You have noticed/the structure of the sheep’s mouth? It is so sharp that it can take up a blade of grass or elover-top from the very narrowest spot. And so God’s sheep can pick up comfort where ot hers can gather none. “The secret of the Lord ia with them that fear Him.” Rich pasture, fountain-fed pasture, for all the flock of the Good Shepherd. The hill of Zion yields A thousand sacred sweet* Before wo reach the Heavenly fields, Or walk the golden streets. Lastly: Consider the shepherd's fold. The t>me of sheep-shearing was a very glad time. The neighbors gathered together, and they poured wine and danced for joy. The sheep were put in a place inclosed by a wall, where it was very easy to count them and know whether any of them had been taken by the jackals or dogs, The inclosure was oalled the sheep-fold. Good news I have to tell you, in that our Lord the Shepherd has a sheep-fold, and those who are gathered in it shall never be struck by the storm, shall never be touched by the jackals of temptation and trouble. It has a high wall—so high that no troubles can get in—so high that the joys can not get out. How glad the old sheep will be to find the lambs that left them a good many years ago! Millions of children in Heaven! Oh, what a merry Heaven it will make! Not many long-meter psalms there. They will be in the majority, and will run away with our song, Carrying It up to a still higher point of ecstacy. Oh, there will be shouting! If children on earth clapped their hands and danced for joy, what will they do when, to the gladness of childhood on earth is added the gladness of childhood in Heaven? It is time we got over these morbid ideas of how we shall get out of this world. You make your religion an undertaker planing coffins anil driving hearses. Your religion smells of the varnish of a funeral casket. Rather let your religion to-day come out and show you the sheep-fold that God has provided you. Ah, you say. there is a river between this and that. I know it; but that Jordan is only for the sheep-washing, and j they shall go up on the other banks i snow-white. They follow the great ' Shepherd. They heard Ills voice long j ago. They are safe now—-one fold and 1 one Shepherd! ’-■ ' j Alas for those who are finally found ! outside the inclostire. The night oi their sin howls with jackals; they are thirsting for their blood. The very moment that a lamb may be frisking upon the hills, a bear may be looking for it from the ticket! f In June, 18T5, there was a very noble purty gathered in a house in St, James’ square, London. The prince regent was present, and the occasion was made fascidating by music and banqueting and by jewels. While ■ quadrille was being formed, suddenly all the people rushed to the windows. ; What is the matter? Henry Percy I had arrived with the news I that Waterloo had been fought, i and that England had won I the day. The dance was abandoned; the party dispersed; lords. Unlies and musicians rushed into the street, and in 15 minutes from the first announcement of the good new* the house was emptied of all its guests. Oh! ye who are seated at the banquet of this world, or whirling in its gavetie* and frivolities, if you could hear the sweet strains of the Gospel trumpet announcing Christ’s victory over sin and death and hell, you would rush forth, glad in the eternal deliver- ! ance! The Waterloo against sin has j been fought, and our Commander-in-: ! chief hath won the day. Oh, the joys of j this salvation! Ido not care what met- { apKor.what comparison you have; bring iit to me,that 1 may use it. Amo* shall bring one simile. Isaiah another, John j another. Beautiful with pardon, i Beautiful with peace. Beautiful with i anticipations. Or to return to the pas- ! toral figure of my text, come out of the j poor pasturage of this world into the rich fortunes of the Good Mhepberd. The shepherd of old used to play beautiful music, and sometime* the fhscpfiKsii gather around him .ami listen. To day my Heavenly Shepherd j calls to you with the very music of 4 Heaven, catling you to leave your sin ! and accept Hh pardon. Oh, that ail [ this flock would hear the piping of the ; Good Hbepherd. . Ha influence is* more effective in aiding ns to reach our moral ideal than the inflaenee-of the church.—Rev. Dr. Hinckley, Unitarian, Philadelphia, P*>

READY TO FIGHT. ? I'sef Bam Prepare* far Aay Basercesrr—McKlaler** Ward*. Washington, Feb. 24.—“1 do not propose to do anything at all to precipitate war with Spain. Up to the present I do not think war is either necessary W issuSfcsbis-' 'L.*sss*Ar. -ha .ia* -ftfc, JPJL duty, however, if I did not prepare for the future. The situation ia grave, and the pdlicy of the administration will be determined almost entirely by the course ,of events from time to time. There is no necessity of alarming the people, but congress most be ready to assist the administration without making too many inquiries as to the course of current events.” To a senator who called upon him in order to ask some serious questions as to the policy of the administration,

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President MoKlnley, with the utmost frankness, uttered the above words. There is now no doubt of the fact that the government of the United States Is actually preparing for war with Spain. It docs not follow that war will come, but the activity in both the war and navy departments is too unmistakable to be concealed. Crowded Tenement la Pluses. Charleston, S. C., Feb. 26. Nine lives were lost in a fearful fire which raged for a short while in Church street this (Saturday) morning. At 2:10 o'clock a policeman on duty noticed big sparks flying from the tenument bouse at No.

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160 Church street. The officer found that a blaze was Issuing from one of the windows on the first floor. The doors were broken ojwn, end the family on that floor were rushed out without any damage. Homebody yelled thut i family of women were sleeping on the third floor. The jmjllcc rushed upstairs, and when they reuched the top story thfi life-saving work was stopped by the flume* which seemed to be playing' over the entire building.

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Scream* from dying women were heard, and Officer j lag by rushed in and pulled out three ebarred bodies. The -quick -work of the —lira- department checked the Are, and It waa soon under control. but not until nine live* on the third floor had been loat. Hassell Hass's Offer. New York, Feb. 25,~Jtiiae|l fiage an-' n ounce* that be will loan WJ/rO/iOO If money 1* needed for war with Kpaln. Ask Ur Nriff. t'bicago, Feb, 20, —Trustee* of the Woman's temple have adopted resolutions asking the general public throughout the country to assist in raising the debt whlch TiAngs over the butidIng, recti listened “Willard temple." Cstkall* Prelate DrsX. Kingston; <>*l., Feb. 25.~ James Vincent Cleary, archbishop of the Roman Catholic dioc*ee of Kingston, died itera Thursday. ' . ; 1 / ff*f*d j*ekr bead. London, Feb, 2s-—George Barrett, tbs jockey, is dead.

, LAST HONORS PAID. Paaeval B*rvl*e Oyer Remain* *f ■flee Willard at Rvaaetnp. Chicago, Feb. 26.—Evanston mourned in public Thursday for Frances E. Willard. Funeral services were held st 11 o’elock at the First If. E. church, conan hour. „ Seated about the altar, which was draped in white, were the speakers, for whom the following programme had been arranged: “Asa University Woman and Educator,” President Henry Wads Rogers, of Northwestern university. “Asa Neighbor.'' Dr. Milton ff. Terry. ~ “Her Public Life," Rev. Charles J. Little. l “Asa Woman and a Frisnd," Rev. Charlea P. Bradley. “Asa Patriot." Mr*. Louisa Rounds. “Asa Friend to the Stranger In Every Land." Mrs-Johnns Dot ter. of Iceland.

"Ae an Insplror," Mr*. Katherine I* Stevenson. “A* a Leader," Mr*. Clara Hoffman. It was nearly one o’clock when the services were concluded and the pallbearers, to the strains of the huge organ, bore the casket through the grlefatricken crowd to the hearse, and the Journey to Rose Hill cemetery begun. The public vault, where the body wll' lie till spring, was covered and llnec with flowers. Miss Willard’s final resting place lies between that of her mother aud her loved sister Mary. ! “ ~ ; Looked Like a Piet. Havana (via Key Weat, Fin.), Feb. 84. —The present situation, whiuh may of

course be changed at any moment by fresh discoveries, may l>* summed up us follows: The diver* having discovered case* of brown hexagonal powder for the ten-inch guns uiiexploded, and ‘believing also that others unesploded will be found in the ten-inch magazine on the starboard side forward, the conviction grow* that this magazine did not blow up. If tills It* so, and many have Insisted from the first that it is, The further conviction is forced that

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the explosion which wrecked the Maine came from the outside on the port bow. •••Its a P*a*l*, _ Waxhtngton, Firb. *5. Mrx. ttffrrlri Adams, of this city, the dependent mother of J, TANARUS, Adams, a coal passer, who lost his life on th-- Maineou Thursday. filed an application for a pension. This is the first pension claim filed in connection with the lon* of life on the vessel. , - Ural Part ul the T*w* B*r*d, fit. Lpufs, Feb, 24. A special to the Republic from Texarkana, Ark, say* that tb b indorse portion of its Kalb, Tex., 30 mile* went of Texarkana, on the Texas 4 JEfefffltLligft "** destrayed by n fire which brak* out at midnight Tuesday. Tha fir* originated in pa outbuilding In the raarof Willi*m Coffey** store. Loaa, fiOjHo, Meelnned. - Norfolk, Vs., Feb. 25.-Judge Robert Hughe*, of the -federal court of the Faster u district, appointed by PraaL dent Grant in 1874. ha* forwarded his feslfttsfioa to President MoKlnley.'

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A CHAPTER. OF HORROR& Tan Killed and Many Burt at a Fire in Kalamaaoo. Train Strikes a Party # Pteasarer. a*k*ry Near Chleano aad Seven Lives Are Lest Steamer Darns at Sea—Six Perlsfc. Kalamazoo, Mich., Feb. 88.— While firemen were trying to extinguish a fire in the second story of Hall Bros.' laboratory Saturday night a terrlfie explosion took place, blowing the roof sad the vydtia of the building Into the street Ten men were killed fourteen In? jured, as follows: DBAD —Georgs Hstlldsy. engine driver: Pst McHugh, plpeman: John Hastings, Jr., hoasman; Charles Whiting, spectator; James Quigley, spectator; William Wager, fireman; L. L Holloway, druggist; Prank Auwrra, fireman; Eugsn* Dole, fireman; Joseph Clifford, telephone lineman. INJURED—WiII Hastings, scalp badly cut and right foot blown off, necessitating amputation; Jams* Utter, driver, both legs broken; John McDermott, fireman, leg broken, fac* badly burned; Ordway Knight, fireman, head badly cut; Osorg* Chatterton. back broken, leg Injured; Vlotor Vooelie, scalp badly cut, skull Injured; Fred Btohrer, hip Injured; John McAUlstsr, fireman. leg broken; six others received lesser Injuries. Firemen were perched upon Indders on several aides of the building and they were buried in the great hapa of debris. The tiamee shot up 100 feet, nnd then after a moment two more explosions occurred. The ehocka broke tnuuy windows In other buildings, homes were knocked down, nnd spectators thrown off their feet The Ince will be 230,000, upon which there la an Insurance of SIB,OOO. The Kalantaxoo Paper Box company occupied the same building, and ita loss la $6,000; Insurance, $4,833. Home of the debt la was blown across the tracks of the Michigan Central railroad, ami It will atop traffic for several hours. A ire engine was cove ret I up by the bricks, mortar and timbers, and the horses mu away, dashing Into the crowd The bodies of Eugene Dole and William Wagar, both firemen, were taken from the mine Hunday. Early Sunday morning a force of men was set at work, and at noon the mangled body of Joseph Clifford, a laundry employe, was found. Other botlleeare supposed to be still in the building, ae two boys, l'hllllp* and West, and a Michigan Centra! brnkeman, are missing.

ii:A in run ill. In Craiktl hr a Tril* In Oaenpants Kill**, Chicago, Feb. M. Hlx [xtiou, pleasure seeker*. residents ofWh! liar? vey, were crushed to death Ba(unlay evening at the Western avenue crossing of tha Grand Trunk railroad aouth of liliia laland. A bua loaded with 11 man and women waa atruek l*y a passenger train. Only two of the occupants, Jamea linger* and J. 11. McKeon, coca |>el injury. Inatant death came to five, one died later at Ht. Luka*a boapital and the other* art dangerously wounded. Th vlotfm* ar#i • * DKADTImmu Hare*. rr*d Pslkr. Mary Itelia, Louis ffausrbler, iephla Van lluren, Jsnnl# Willeu*. INJUItKO-aeorge Mauarbler and Oraal Walker. The looomotlv* atruek the bua fairly in |tn center, burling the ahrlaklng oo* oupauta in all directions and crashing the woodwork of tha vehicle into frag' manta. For a hundred yard* tha train continued Ita flight, crushing and kilt* lag In Ita prograaa. Then the brake* workad and the engine earn* to a stand* still. The train waa lata and waa running at 40 inllee an hour at least. Tha engineer saw the bua at the aame time Its occupant* realised their peril, but neither could atop. Tha train 4*ea going too fast and tha slippery ground prevented the bu* brakes from working. The vletlioa of the disaster were on their way from West Harvey, a little village two miles south of Blue Island, to give a surprise parly lb one of their friends, a daughter of Ferdinand Lendgraf, proprietor of tha Union house, a hotel in Illue Island. WT AT SNA. British ilea me v Utlsi*r NsrsisM its Mes Perish. Boston, Feb. *o,~Th* British steamer Legislator, Cspi. Tennant, bound from Uvrrpool for Colo*, waa burned at aaa on February #ln latitude ||.S3 (f, and longitude 44,10 W. The Are broke out so suddenly that It men forward ware rut off fiout the real of the ship and la saving them a boat waa espaixed and five men, Including tha second and third officers, tha chief steward and the aoob ware drowned, A fireman received such severe burns that ha dloi In s few minutes Tits remainder of the crew, 31 In ail, with two passengers. Dr. W, II or liner and wife, of London, were rescued within four hours after the Are broke out by the fruit steamer Flower Cate and brought to this port. The fire is supposed to have been the result of sponieneous combustion in the Cargo of phospste. ie4 rale ml Two 4a* aisieee. ■ Parkersburg, W. Va, Feb. At Mineral Welle, near here, two old women, rs tilth and Linda Cap linger, lived logeilter-on- a email farm. Tha dress of Fdlili, atm Is kb years old, caught tire, Il*r staler Linda must have attempted U put it out. Moth women fin lb the yard all ebiaze, sod fat I 4 the ground, where they died la a abort time, but were not discovered until two hours afterward. aeilvilr oi WaieevWes. Albany, h. Y., Feb, is j-The greateot activity known dor* the late rebellion is now witoeaoed at H’atervHet arsenal, and *b* entire force la working night and day. Orders have been received tor the sbtprnrnt ofafl projectile* *ue on hand to tha several forts about Mew York, and to forward all completed gun* as speedily a* poeelb’'- to the proving ground* at Handy Hook. rseest Physician Dead. Dedham, M£**.Fcb. Mr-ifr. John P. Maynard, famous aa the discoverer of collodion, aa used in so.gery, died here Baiarday, aged njmm.