Pike County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 45, Petersburg, Pike County, 24 March 1887 — Page 1

J. L. MOUST, Proprietor. “OtU* Motto is Honest Devotion to Principles >f Riight” OFFICE, oy®r 0. E. MOHTQOMERY’S Store, Main Ssrwt VOLUME XVII. PETERSBURG, INDIANA, THURSDAY. M 4RCH 24, 1887. NUMBER 45.

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W0rBSI05AL CARD*. R. WRT. A. J BOKKTCCT*. POSEY 4 HONEYCUTT, ATTORNEYS AT LAW ' P*Ur»Vwf, lad. win practice in all theiroorU Al' Kn'nc** pri numy attended to. A NiiUrp Public con■kaotiir in the .'Itice uflko ovar Frank A Hwahtouk’a druir more. '»• *■ UCltUanii. a. a. tatco*. ■ ' RICHARDSON * TAYI-OIt, . Attorneys at Law PETERSBURG. DVD. Prompt attention irVen to Ml bn»lnc»*. A Xolary l*« Idle tiuidv nil v In theottlcf. offlce In Carpenter Hu l ling, stlt and Main. tea. r Toaraaaan. ntnntisia TOWNSEND & FLEENER, Attorneys at Law, PETERSBURG!. IND. ■';! WUI practice In alfthc rourtc Ofltoe, ovct tiei Frank's suite. t>|iectnl attention aieen to t oUcvt.ou*. Probate Ituameea. Kurin* and Selnua i Cniui'n ujt Titles and Tnrntsli lna Abstracts. a. a. tu. ■». *. mijsos. jELY & WILSON. Attorneys at Law, PETERSBURG, IND. UrOlliej in the Honk Huildina.'tl - * X. s. & e. smith,IntNoon to Hoyle A Thompson: Attorneys at Law, EealEstate. Loan Slssnraace Ails. * nocowI iiu r Hunk Uulidin/. Poter*bjjj:;. ind Th • » 't n « atxl Lifts 1*5 iimiUT * t in|* v BtaMi irpn^ntiil. Voi-y »o loan on first ii.ofl.irH~-1» Rt right per wnt Prom »t a” ,.r » n to hjh;-- anil alt l»ii* n iiuru’afe I to **:■» R. E. KIMK. M. l>.. Physician and Surgeon PETERSBURG "ND. omen, over i: ret* A -s n*. more, realitrn -e on 'event Mrccl. t c < c . juvrt's south All Mam- t aha promptly aiCutc# to. day oi iil*iit. s _ J. R DUNCAN. ' Physician and Surgeon ♦ • PETERSBURG, - I.VD. Omct'fin first fli»r Carpenter Building.

C. B. BLACKWELL, M. D., K€ LECTIO Physician and Surgeon, Oflkrr, Main * treat, M«*fa «t!i kul Tlh 1 oppoalp* Moilel l»nu >tw. PKTKitsnrm;, 2 ikdiaxa. Will prwetiee MeJirlm*. Sunrery «n 1 Olniftr.r* n«own and country. a <1 wilt vtait any |**»t i f the country in <* >n*u.tatt«m. Chronic diieiMM •4Ci>c!«lUi).v treat hL 0. K. Shaving Saloon, 3. E TI RNKR. Proprietor. > ■PETERSBURG, IND. $ I'artiew wUhin* work 4one at th«*ir r. *t4aece a will leave ort|*r» at i.'.r th^f* n Dr . A<UmV near t u Ida;, rear t»f A*i««m> Jt >oo l , drvir ftor# LINGO HOTEL, i PETKKHtfCRO, IND. "THE ONLY FIRST CLASS HOTEL IN TOWN. ! New threuffhou’. i& <■(«•# accommo. Oat.' ia tn every »f»*|4KwiP CEORCE QUIMBY, Proprietor HYATT § OUSE, * Wukti(<M. lad. CYatnUljr Local •< »nd A«CMUMdrttoM ttrttsdu* HENRY HYATT. FnpIcUr. PIKE HOTEL, pKTLK'Bt'Kti. - - Indiana. CHAEES SCHAEFER, Proprietor. Ix>eat -.1 tn the bueinea-* part of town. *Te»m* reasonable A ic*>o*t H»r, choice I l.htuors. lob ICVO ami Cigar*; lorun Sev | ruth amt Walnut strvetl. j CITY HOTEL, • Vn ler new man * e Mnt, W. J. SHRODE, Proprietor. Cor. sth and -Vtn'n : t* , opp. I'ourt-fcous®. Petersburg, I ml. • ’ ' TTic City Howl I* rpntrilly k-ct’i-d. firs,elaa* In ail it* ap^o ntmenlt amt t-ie beet an I cheapest hotel tn the ctly. 'Sherwood House, 4 Coder S,» Vtnap m -nt. BISS ELL A TOWNSEND. Pirop'rs. | Kind mid Locust f-liect*. Evaimlllr, : : Indiana. RATES, $2 PER DAY. Sample Roomafor Commercial Men.

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NEWS IN BRIEF, fem»Ue4 treat Varies* Sowrets. PERSONAL AMD POLITICAL. Hon w. P. Bococx, twice .AttorneyGeneral of Virginia, and a member of the constitutional contention of 1$». died on the 14th in Appomattox County, Va., aged eighty years. Ta* cititens of Brooklyn are starting the Beecher monument project. Bn. Ki'Ouxs will pass his period of retirement with his friend, Rer. D. J. Corkery, pastor of the Church of the Immaculate Conception at Amtnia, N. V. Taa condition of Secretary Hanning, who is Hi at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, New York, was somewhat improved on the 14th. and his condition is not considered at all dangerous, although it was said he would be com pel fed to postpone his departure for Europe until the 19th, when he will sail on the Umbria. Matok Hewitt, of New YorkAas selected Jas. C. Haylos, editor of the tro* A<p and JfrMf H'eritre, as president of the Board of Health, to succeed General Shaler removed. Mayor Hewitt administered tho oath of ofllce to Mr. Bayles on the 14th Mr. Bayles has been for many years the foremost writer on sanitary matters in the country. It t» stated on good authority that Dr. M'-Glynn has received several letters from Rome within the .past few days. One from Cardinal Gibbons states that the Pope is desirous of having Ur. McGlrnn visit Rome, and Cardinal Gibbons was instructed to so advise him. The other letters are from bishops now in the consistory at Rome who commend Ur. McGlyun for his cdhrse. It is believed that U.r. MeGlyun’s reinstatement is simply a matter of time. The New York Timn says that stock brokers were betting freely that when tiy smoke clears sway the new owner of the Baltimore & Ohio woull be found to be Jar Gould. M. Ue Us*em has returned to Paris, and is posture peace is to continue between France and Germany. Tue cataract over the eye of Sir Michael Hu-ks-Hcach is.becoming larger and lessening the vision of the optic. The Pope Is reported to have changed some of his plans iu regard to cardinals in deference to Germany's wishes. A movkwent is on foot among Brooklyn members of the G. A. R to reedgn x j the patriotic services of the late Henry Ward Beecher in tho cause of the Union by organixing a post to bear his name. Geneksi. E. 8. Basso is confined to his^ home in Fond du Lie. AYis . by blindness. ■ Hi* eyesight failed him while he was out driving. Partial paralysis has completely blinded one eye. The General thinks the loss of sight is not permanent. Uanicl M**\1no. ei-Secretafy of the Treasury, sailed for Europe on the 15th. instead of waiting till the 19lh as he had intended.

Isaac H Viscm, defaulting State Treasurer of Alabama, ha* been caught in. Texas arid taken home for trial. Tut Pennsylvania House congressional apportionment committee has agreed to give Philadelohi* six districts, a gain of one. A Philadelphia reapporUontnent was also agreed upon, making all of the six districts Republican, thus shutting Mr. Randall out, Horace Pec.k, aged oighty-flve years, was buried at Clarendon. Orleans County, X. Y . on the 14th. He was secretary of the Masonic lodg - at Katana. N. Y . when the famous William Morgan seceded and disappeared Peck was always a staunch defender of the attitude taken by the order during those exe ting times . . C. H J. Tati.in (colored). of Kansas, has been appointed Minister to.Liberia. Os the Ihth James G. 1} ame was a visitor on the Boor of the State‘Senate of Maine. Mat Scalcbi is very sick with fever in Chicago. It is denied that ill-feeling exists between her and Mme Patti A. K. CrTTtso has turned up (n New Orleans looking for work He has positioned revolutionizing Northern M exiyo indefinitely. - - La SO Cosnz HIS token SrAaxs denies that he bus written s 1-tter to Governor Hill of New York supporting ham for the Presidency. The slave girl whose freedom Plymouth Church purchased twenty-seven years ago, at the request of Henry Ward Beet her. is reported to be still living at Ptvkskil', X Y., near the Beecher country scat. Os receiving the French' General. Marquis D'Abiac. the Kmperor William is reported to have made strong peace remarks, among them: •Sit’d will soon call me to himself. I do not want to leave my people a heritage of blood." The funeral of Lieutenant Powell, of the signal corps, took piaqp from his late resilience in Washington on the 16th. The interment was made in Glen wood cemetery. A number of signal-service men attended the funeral. Tin department of State has received a copy of the will of the late Jose Sevilla, who died In Lima. Peru, recently, leaving fWXS.OOO to be applied to the establishment in New Yorkof an institution for the education of poor female children. Joax W. Mackay says that he is not in any way connected with the deal for the Baltimore & Ohio railway. The press of France is indignant at De lwsscps for publicly asserting in Berlin that France is the natural friend of Oer-. many.

Patrick’* l)»jr ifSMk »t Detroit, Slick, and leave tome original views on the “Sew South." Ox the 17th the funeral of the late Captain James H Ea Is took place from Christ Church, st Lou ta Os the 17th Pierre Sohdar Milon. who served with distinction under Napoleon Bonaparte in the early part of the present century, died at New York in his one hundredth year. lx reply to no official inquiry from the Cotttmissioner of Agriculture, th>' Commoner of Internal R'venue states that the .quantity of artificial butter manufactured and removed for consumption or sale during the months of November. December and January was as follows: November, 4 7ii5tW pounds; December, 3,736,27$. pounds; January, 2.901,114 pounds Total, 10.0ffii0fil pounds. Rev.'Da. McOtvsx made a speech at Jones' Woods, noar Raw York, at a 8t. Patrick's Day picnic, which was in sentiment very similar to that male during the New York mayoralty contest, and for which the Pope suspended him from the priesthood. llox. Bgx Bern: a worth. of Ohio. has ! written a lettor to the Toronto (Oat.) Mail on the dispute between Canada and the United States, in which ho defends his own course in Congress and, by implication. denounces the retaliatory legislation enacted rannts AND CASUALTIES. Ox tbe 12th John Funk, aged thirty-five, of Columbia. Pa., was struck by a train on the Pennsylvania road, half a mile above that town, aad was decapitated. Ox the night of the 12th fire destroyed . Kora's hotel, a tyro-and-a-half stonr frame stricture at Camden, Jl. J-, and three children were burned to death. Charles, Frederick and Eddie Bear’e, aged from •enn to tea years, were the names of the victim*. Tanas nr* contradictory reports concerning the alleged attempt to assassinate the Char A suet, with worse horrors than those at While River Janction. occurred near Bos ton on the 14th, in which upwards of thirty people wen killed aad many more

Abu .ram EttxsM tar*© steam saw-mill at Good Spring, Pa., was totallv destroyed bv fire on the night of the 18th. A largo quantity of lumber was also burned, entailing a heavy loss. The fire is supposed to have been the work of an ineendiary. Fin* at Willin',antic. Conn., oh the night of the 13th, destroyed the mill of E. A. Buck 4t Co. The WtllimanOc Electric’ Light Company's work* were ruined. Buck's loss is estimated at No estimate can yet be made of the amount of the. loss to the Electric Light Company. Hakkt S. WascoTT. night (clerk at the tValnut Street House, Cnicinhati, is missing. He left the money-drawer and safe locked, so that they had to \ be broken open. It is estimated that he parried off about *510 belonging to the hotel and to guests who had deposited their valuables with him. Tiis sheriff of Howard County, la, took Jutlsan Taint ad go, the em be riling agent of the American Express Company at Cercaco. In, from Lockport, S Y.. on the 14th. Talmud go was short ft,500 in Ilia accounts He w‘as two months In Canada and gave himself up at Suspension Bridge a few days ajro A qt'aHTEK Mii-i.iov dollar fire occurred on the 15th at Buffa q S. T Hi *xt> Mks Hrou Dinxjsox were burned to death.in a hotel fire at Bracebridge. Ont., on the lVh. Hirr the town of Oxford, S. jCL. was destroyed by fire, on the 15th, alleged to have been,of incendiary origin. ConnncTrn and revised lists of the casualties in the wreck on the Boston & Providence railroad give .twenty-four killed aud 114 injured. Ox the W: h five counterfeiters—two of them women—wore captured at North Lcwisburg, O. N**n Vincent. O., oh the 16th, a railroad wreck occur red, in which two people were killed and three wouqded. Ox the M'h a passenger train on the Aubnrn branch of the Now York Central, west from Auburn, collided with a freight near the depot at Geneva. N Y- Four persons virere injured, including one of the epgiujeers. who is not expected to live. St. P*tki ck‘s Catholic Church at Norwich. Conti., wai. damaged to the extent of *10.000 by tiro on the 16:h. The building cost PB0.0K1 und is insured for 152,006. The tiro, which was caused by a careless altar boy dropping a coal from the censer, was stubborn, and required iwo hours' work by the Bremen to extinguish it. Ox the 17th the New York Supreme Court e in firmed the sentence of Peter Smith for murder, and fixed his execution for May 5 Ox the 17th arguments began in the Illinois Supreme Court on a motion for a new trial in.the I'hK-ago Anarchist case. Two persons were fatally ami four seriously injured by the caving in of church steps at Chicago during St. Patrick's I>ay

Ox the 17th Bertha K’ine. act'd thirteen years, tvho had a finger crushed in a cotton mill ten days previously, died at Lancaster. Pa., of lockjaw, after suffering terribly. Ox the 11th Post-office Inspector Hartshorn wat arrested in Sew York, charged with connection with e swindling watch j concern, IV* J. Hctci txsox. an ex-New York broker, is in prison there f r conversion of stock* to'his own use which had been intrusted to him. Frink |A ScoTT. the defaulting cashier of the publishing firm of Webster & Co., of New York, has confessed to Charles L Webster at the county jarl: that he ap- : propriaied to his own use f'&.00>of the firm's money. The prisoner further said that he would not resist any action taken by the firm. He also expressed a determination to make restitution. Ox the Uin an explosion of gas occurred in the Conyngham mine of the Delaware fit ^Hudson Coal Com pany at Wilkesbarre, j Pa. Four men were burned, two of them, it is believed, fatally. Tbeir names are Jacob and Stephen Snyder. William Bloom and William Th.eman. Uses* Coat, who got himself into hot water by helping Wittrock tiodispose of the boodle after the Frisco train robbery, was arraigned in the Criminal Court at Independence. Mo., on. the j 17th. Cook pleaded guilty to one count in the indictment. and wus sentenced to three years ! in the penitentiary. Ix the Sing Sing (N. Y.) prison, convicts to the number of seven hundred and over, who are locked up for want of employment in consequence of the expiration of the stove and other routracts inhibited by the law. say that they are undergoing a moral death in^a living tomb, an l call loudly tor occupation of some kind as a relief from the tedium of enforced idleness. Ox the 17th. Benjamin Spandauer, who was mainly instrumental in securing the conviction of Mrs. Surratt of complicity in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, was jailed at Baltimore. Ml., as a purchaser of pei jurir. Ox the 17th Geneva Stoner* aged seventeen years committed suicide at Lancaster. Pi., by tak.ag a dose of rat poison. She gave as a reason for the act that her mother would not allow her to go out at Bight. Walt* a E Lawtox, a new York merchant, has run awav, a Her defrauding various people to the amount altogether of about tt,'XN,<WO. Bm effect* have been attached.

Tennis?** is to vote on prohibition in September. t . Til* Missouri Senate has agreed to- adjourn on the Slat in»L Tn* Yung Lung Chinese bank ha* (ailed, and a celestial financial crisis ex? To* trial of thirty-one South Carolina I Ivnchers. was begun at Charleston on the 15th. I Tu* Salvation Army ia preparing to atj tack the strongholds of sin among the Canadian Indians Hkavv aura -storms prevailed on the 15th throughout Havana and Wurtemburg. A scveVe shock of earthquake was fell in Munich and vicinity during the day, but it did no damage. f Tn* annual meeting of the Department of Superintendent#' National Educational Association was begun at Washington on the 15! b. Rt-ssi.tx o(B -ial circles now admit the correctness of the reports about the attempt to assa ainate the Cxar. At the eight eenth annual reunion ef the Society of the Army of the Cumberland, to be held at Washington, May 11, a statue of General James A. Garfield will be nave i led O' Tn* Natioml Association ef General Passenger ami Ticket agents held its annual meeting tfi Washington on the 15th. Acrixc S*ciurra*T FuncraiLD, with the President's approval, has designated Ban Francisco as a port from which imported merchandise may be shipped in bond in transit through the United States to and from the British possessions in North America. Tn* President has granted n pardon to J. J. C. Daugherty, who was convicted of embesxliag money-order funds amounting to 13.391 and sentenced October A 18B*. to three years’ imprisonment in the Baltimore city iail and to pay n fine equal to the airoamt embexsled. Tu* First Comptroller of the Treasury has decided that no portion of the interest of the fund of 9390,09) appropriated by Congress for the education of the blind can be used in the purchase of embonsed books and tangible apparatus for the education of the Mind, made elsewhere tnaa at the Arneru an Institute for the Blind in Louisville. K -. 'I Ox tike icth the Virginia Legislature assembled in extra session Tax broken Maritime Bank of Sew Bruns wick share* i,re being bought ap by

Orders hin been Issued to tbe police to shoot down Irish tenants who may sb> tempt to prevent the arrest Of Father Keller. Tax ho* packing In Milwaukee lor tits winter season 1886-7, Just dosed, aggrogated 329,35 head; average weight, 181 pounds net; average yield ot lard per hog, 87.19 pounds—a decrease of Id. 157 hogs and ft70 pounds per hog in average weight as compared with the winter of 18856. Bummer packing of 1886-7 (March 1 to November 1), 215,833 head; averajiw weight. 17ftSS pounds net; average la::d yield, 85 pounds. Total packing for the year, 553.077 hogs Dominion officials have sent a suggestion to London to hare the flsh dispute with the United States settled hr arbitration. Os the 16th five county officials were arraigned in court, at Chicag% charged with “boodlmg” - Os the 16th the upper Missouri acid other Northwestern rivers were reported on a big nse. and much overflow damage was also , reported. Th* colonial government of Nora Scotia is said to be about to .submit to a popu lar vote the question of secession from Canada. Tag IWmimg .Vnt has investigated the Dedham diaastor, near Boston, and pronounces the bridge to hsve been a vecitable death trap Tut press of Germany taken a gloomy view of the situation of affairs in Russia, drawing conclusions from tbe late attempt on the Csar's life. Tns Morris <: Essex Railroad Com piny have about concluded to pay their State taxes to New Jersey rather than run the risk of forfeiting their charter. Os the 16th the proposition to submit a prohibitory amendment to the Constitution to a rote of the people of Illinois at the next general election was rejected by the House by a vote of 78 uoes t > 65 yeas. Hot'sx bill to increase the Governor’s salary to 18.000 a year was passed by the Ohio Senate on the 16th. Tax Boston District Telegraph messenger boys struck on the 16th for an increase of weekly wages from 94.00 to 94 50 a week and a half holiday on St. Patrick’s Day. A xi»m was issued at the Treasury department on the 10th amounting to 91.800.000 in favor of the collector of customs at New York to pay debentures and drawbacks and refund excess of deposits for unascertained duties. Tux Comptroler of the Currency has authorised the following National banks to commence business: The People’s Bank of Lancaster, Pa., 1800,000 capital; First National of Pratt, Kas., 950,000; First National of Grass Valley, Cal., 850,00ft AaorT two hundred and fifty section hands employed on the Pittsburgh division of the Fort Wayne railroad, struen on the 16th for an advance in wages The men were receiving 91.25 per day and struck for 91-50 per day. It is hardly probable that they will be granted their demand.

A si'mber oi suspicious-iooiaug men have been lately making frequent visits to the money vaults of the Treasury Department during the hours allowed for public inspect ion. Such of them as called on the 16th were notified that they must not come again, and the officers in charge of the vaults have been instructed to keep a sharp lookout on visitors in the future. Tbb arbitration committee of the knit goods manufacturers at Cohoes, X. Y.. after a conference with the Knights of Labor committee on the 16th, notified the latter that they would no further consider their proposition fora new scale of wages The scale was demanded for 10,00) operatives and there is much anxiety us to the result of Us rejection. Ox the 17th a large temperance convention was held at Cedar Rapids Is Kidxapixo and incendiarism are said to be epidemic in Cubs Tub new Scut hern Cotton-8eed Oil Company has contracted for half a million dollars' worth of machinery for their contemplated mills in the cotton belt The National Opera Company is in continued financial trouble, most of the principal singers being behind with their salaries. Caxaoiaxs contemplate inviting a crack; regiment of militia from the United S tates to participate in the celebration of the Queen's jubilee. The captain of the British Prince sifted the racing ocean yacht Dauntless oi:t the morning of the Hth. A riK3t of architects in Washington have been awarded the prise competition of artists and architects all over the world for a monument to the City of Mexico, to commemorate the war in which Mexico became an in dependent nation. It Is Vo b» of Mexican marbles and broaxe to cost KXU.00U ^ CONDENSED TELEGRAMS. Mas. Horr. the President's sister, tan guest at the White House in Washington. ‘ Biruut But." has been rnjtde it Colonel of Nebraska militia. The Irish police have at last succeeded ip arresting Father Keleher. It is stated at Washington that exRepresentative Benton J Hall, of Iowa has Seen decided upon as the successor to Mr. Montgomery as Commissioner of Patents.

MRS- ADILI URaTlOT-W wue of the Hon. E. B. Washburne. ex-Min iater to France, died ia Chicago on the l*hM. Da Ltasin saya he don’t care whmt i the Pariaian press say abont his reamt uV tcraoces at Berlin; that he still sticks to them. .f1 An appalling hotel horror occurred «a the 18th at Buffalo, >’. Y.. ia the burning of the new Rir hmond House. A namber of human lives were lost and a grout; many people were injured. A Mas who, from papers found in his pocket, was undoubtedly Pa tries* IL Dolan, s clerk, fell in front of an engine | at the Ninth street (Sew York) station of ; the Third Avenue Elevated road on the ISth, and was instantly killed. Ts* Russian Press is raising laws cash contributions from public subscriptions for the families of the insurgents recently executed in Bulgaria. Tax second trial of Michael Kselin, at Louisville. Ky.. for the murder of bis wife on August 7, ISA, resulted oa the ISth in bis being sentenced to the (ioniumtiary for life. Upon his first trial he w as sentenced <io bang. Tux weekly report of the Commissioner of Pensions shows that during the week ending March 13 there were recei'-ed^et his office fiXA applications for pensions; 2.154 cues were disposed of during the week, leaving a total of iSfiSSS ease* ingIssTRfcriosi have been issued to the superintendents of the life saving districts. embracing the lakes, to man their stations and pnt them in operation at the opening of navigation. Stations in the lower districts will begin operations April land the others between that date and the tilth proximo. A DisraTCR from Summerville, 8. C., says that nc earthquake shoes was felt at six o’clock on the evening of tlw 18th, which was the worst that has occurred ia two months. It caused some excitement, because it was thought ts be severs enough to do the town some damnse. Tbs PWkKiai Ciranpsadrum isrs the Turkish Government has warned tlie Bulgarian Government of a projected rebelious motrement from Roumelin, under Captain Nabokoff, with a band of armed Montenegrins It ia the general opm on in Hour York mlway circles that the Ballmers ,fc Ohio dicker is fuUy esasummated, but tor the pa is sat the names are held under injureUons of secrecy by a cor fide mill low, among tlie latter bung Hsa,7 W. ©rod/ ot the Atlanta (On.) CmMrnltm.

IN MEMORIAL CMUHiMitlln Services to t Late K«. Henry Ward Beecher—A < andly Impressive Service In Flymen Church— Characteristic Letter Fror Rev. Ittr. ITGlynn Rend. Evoking War i Approval. Brooklyn, March 13, — Numerous churches throughout the city o-day held services that were eulogist and com* memorative of the late Rev. enry Ward1 Beecher. In a cumber of inst aces a portrait of the dead clergymat was placed within the altar rail, framer with evergreens and flowers. The or lions .call with his whole life, but mor especially with his connection with thee lancipatlon of the slave and his services i * his country when in England during t elate war. A meeting will he held at Art Association Balt, on Montague street, on ' -iday evening, for the purpose of star ing a subscription to erect a monte nt to Mr. Beecher in the heart of the c y, at a cost of H5.001X Several ehurche appointed committees to be present at t e meeting. The service at Plymouth hurcb this morning was impressive. I any of the congregation were in tears, rhe church was Well filled. Rev. Lyman Vbbott and Rev. B. Hallidav occupied ths ulpit. Both prayed for divine comfort ant guidance in the trying days that had co i upon thi church. Mr. Balliday was ov rcomewiih emotion, and with difficulty Inish'd In invocation. Dr. Abbott’s sern in reviewed Mr. Beecher’s ministry, and c mpared its importance to that of PauL Brooklyn. N. Y., March V —A mentor ial service was held in Plvm uth Church last night. The, building wa: crowded to suffocation. On the platform were Rev. Dr. Abbott, Mr. HalUdav. Mr. Freeman, colored; Rev. E. D. Gulick, Reformed; Rev. J. G. Roberts, Congrcg. tonal; Rev. A. Gunnison, Cnivcralist; lev. G. E. Reed, Methodist; Rev. L K. Funk. Lutheran; Rev. J. C. Ab r, Sweden borgian; Rev. Mr. Humpsu e. Baptist, and Rev. Dr. Winters, Jewi h. Most of these delivered warm trilut > to the de parted apostle of liberality to 'eligion. The following letter of reg t was read from Rev. Dr. McGlynn. wl |iad been invited to be present: New YO c, Mareb IS. Ret. and Dear Mr. Hauu vr: 1 ret;rct very much that 1 can not, in c- apliance with your courteous request, be prose : this erenin? at the meeting in Plymouth Cl rch to honor the memory of the grept pastor nd to coudote for the Irreparable loss. I must herefore content myself with saying briefly 1 a letter what I should have been so glad to sa more fully in a speedt. It is a sign of the da' ting of a better day for which the world has ■ long yearned that such a meeting should b possible, and that you and yours should so e nestly desire the presence of a clergyman e that church which seems so remote, and nt y would say. no antagonistic to yours. Foretr st in the work of hastening the coming of the etter day was the great man whose death e mourn and for whose work we give thanks. None other so

welt ur iaw.uk mr w u ui uir wuu uuu to exalt the ftsentials of rellgir pure and. an defiled In which we all agree, an to minimise the difference that seem to seps tte us. To hit was given to see with clearer Ti; jd, to raves with unequaled genius and with ireless energy to make common among men ic meaning d! him whom we all revere as our rvine Teacher, who taught of old on the mount ml bv the seashore the core of all religion—tl i fatherhood ot God and the brotherhood of ma | I cheerfully confess that fro: Mr. Beecher ) : learned from the first day of ny ministry a new tenderness and fullness of he meaning in the term “our Father": and I im glad to be able here to state, that the the ogy of the old church agrees with his in tha the essence ot religion Is in communion with id. through the love of him for his own sake, a 1 in loving all men for God's sake with the best love with which we love ouraelves: and wt while sacrifice and sacrament, creed and r ual prayer, and sermon and song, may be a 1 are powerful helps and necessary manipulat ns of this religion. which is love; without It t ty.are mockery, a sacrilege and a blasphen . I thankfully count him among the mastt s from a hom 1 have learned a falter rneantn; of the prayer; "Thy will be done on earth as Heaven." We must all agree with Mr. eecher that the conditions, and duties, and st- es of our tern poral Hi* are but signs and syr Sols of spiritual and eternal things, and that lr he yearning ot the whole world for liberty, quality and fraternity under the reign of ju ice and love. U we pluck out the ligious heart of ft, the burden is >t worth the bearing nor the battle wo- h the fighting. ^He and the other giants e his time hav cleared the field and illumuu d the way to higher progress, and helped gire morep feet assurance of victory in ae strife that. now beginning against a w ;r slaveiy that that against which he dealt f s sturdy alowsthe enslavement of the mass* by the classes— and to cement a union not m sly of Ainbrieai States, bat of the people of U World. Stimulated by his exampl and enoocraged by bis success, let us take up »e burden of the poeple't wrongs where his Ur 1 should*«. have laid it down, aad fight the bs le, if nred be. even tiU the night shall come and ire. as the burden falls tram our should- s and the weap eas from our hand shall pan a nearer vision than was giv to hint of the reign of the Prince of Pest Affectionately sad fraternally yours, Edv rd McGtrsfi. Tte vast audience lister 1 to thu llettei in breathless silence an unmisiakabii signs of spporal followed t. A letter o» regret was also read from lev. Dr. WslL The services were solemn nd imprensivc. v ■—asmbinil la * v Turk. N*w Tobk, March 14. Eulogies upon Hbnry Ward Beet her » re pronounced yesterday from the palpi ■ of the Washington Square Methodist, e Free Baptist, the Bloommgdale Keforr rd Dutch, and several other New York t arches.

A Canadian View of the tlo*. Bosvos, March 14 — An to the Btr*ld says: ‘ It is cial circles that no logisli etui; daring the appro; Parliament on the fisheri assent of the Imperi al Go' been given to the hill pa session. It is considers meet all the requirement! order, however, to met whieh may arise from the the Retaliatory bill pass icon Coagrees, Partiamen to make a provision ths General m Council may emergency. As usual, or a new session, there is applications from manuf for alterations ia the tar quiremenla of their spec ness. It is questionable, I the Government will per ther tinkering of t® tendency of the namero creates feeling ol unrt cantile community. Ittawa special thought in ofllon will be neching seiaton of i question, the mment having ted at the last that this will of the cue In any difllculty mforcementol 1 by the Amormay b) asked the Attorney leal w tli any he appi-oach of large crop of •turers taking T to salt the re1 lines oltbuaiwever.'vhether it of muck furtariff, as the . channe l is to i in tlie msr PiTTSsraoH, Pa.. Marc W. D. Wood ft Co., w Russia planished iron, at a fight with the Amalgan of Iron and Steel wor! yean ago, in which Woe torious. A number of t Joined the Iron and Steel the firm issued a notice that their services wool qulred. The firm object any labor organisation. between the Iron and __ Steel W(_ which will affect about 1 14—TbJ firm of nufacturers of IcKeesport, had ted Association rs about eight ft Uol were viedr men Having Association of aturdar night, he same night, no longer be reto dealing with iis means a fight a Association of nd Wocd ft Co., ) men. Bonos, March 14—Pi received a letter from February 26, which at heavy-weight, were to lr America in about a ft added the information ' low later on with Greenfield and perhap “Gypsy.” This news please the American pa who are anxious to see to he a good man. Spar popular ia every city ft I rat. dsco, ia likely to like oi whieh was neve the sport iy Shcp p;ird has 'em Mace, dated as that Charley i, the champion re England tor night. Ho also at he might tolngh” Wa ll, Alt Jack Dai is, the •ill undoubtedly »us of thu nag. all, as I to is said ig spout, already a Boston to San S££ «MI l«

TALM AGE’S SERMON. A Pungent Sermon With a Stingin? Subjaoi. The Hairnet as Trplrat or the Small Annoy* mace i of hire—Coasolatlaa For the Overworked—The Improvement of Adverse Influences. Rev. T. Dj Witt Talma?J ehose for the subject of a recent sermon in Brooklyn Tabernacle “Stinging Annoyances,” which he illustrated from the text: The Lord, thy God, will sent the hornet.— Dv'ui. vii, 39. ,He sail: It seems as if the insect tvorld were determined to war against the human race. It is every year attacking the grain Gelds, and the orchards, and the vineyards. The Colorado beetle, the Nebraska grasshopper, the New Jersey locust, the universal potato destroyer, seem to carry on the work which was begun ages ago when the insects buned out of Noah's ark as the door was opened. In my text the hornet flics out on its mission. It is a species of wasp, swift in its motion and violent in ita sting. Its touch is torture to man or beast. We have all seen the cattle run bellowing from the cut of its lancet. In boyhood we used to stand cautiously looking at the globular nest hung from tho tree branch, and while we were looking at the wonderful pasteboard covering we were struck with something that sent us shrieking away. The hornet goes in swarms. It has captains over hundreds, and twenty of them attacking one man w:il produce certain death. The Porsians attempted to conquer a Christian city, but tho elephants and the beasts on which the 'Persians rode were assaulted by the hornet, so that the whole army was broken up and the besieged c.ty was rescued. This burning and noxious insect stung out the Hittites and Canaanites ! from their country. What’the gleaming j sword and chariot of war could not accomplish was done by the puncture of an in j sect. The Lord sent the hornet. My friends, when we are assaultel by behemoths of trouble —great behemoths of trouble—we become ehivalric. and we assault them: wo get on the high-mettled steed of our courage, and make a cavalry charge at them, and if God be with ns, we come out stronger and better than when we went in. But, alas for these insect He annoyances of life—these foes too small to shoot-these things Without any avoirdupois weight—the gnats, and the midges, and the flies, and the wasps, and the hornets! In other words, it is the

stinging annoyances oi our nu wmcn drive us out and use up. Into the best- : conditioned life, for some grand and glorious purpose. God sends the hornet. I remark in the first place, that these small stinging annoyances may come iu the shape cf a sensitive nervous organization. People who are prostrated under typhoid fever or with broken bones get plenty of sympathy, but who pities any body who is nervous! The doctors say, and the family says, and every body says: “♦th! she's only a little nervous; that's all.” The sound of a heavy foot, the harsh clearing of a throat, a discord in music, a waut of harmony between the shawl and the glove on the same person, a curt answer, a passing slight, the wind from the east, any one of ten thousand annoyances, opens the door for the hornet. The fact is, that the vast majority of the people in this country are ovarworked, and their nerves are the first to give out. A great multitude are under the strain of Leyden, who, when he was told by his physician that if he did not stop workiug white ho was in such j»oor physical health he would die, responded: “Doctor, whether I live or die, the wheel me st keep going nround.” These persons of whom I speak have a bleeding sensitiveness. The flies love to light on anything raw, and these people are like the Canaanites spoken of in the text or in the context—they have u very thin covering and are vulnerable at all points. And the Lord sent the hornet. Again, these small insect annoyances may come to us in the shape of friends and acquaintances who are always saying disagreeable things. There are some people you can not be with for half an hour but you feel cheered and comforted. Then there are other people who can not be with you for five minutes before you feel miserable- They do not mean to disturb you, but they sting you to the bone. They gather up all the yarn which the gossips spin and peddle it. They gather up all the adverse criticisms about your person, about your business, about your home, about your church, and they make your ear the funnel into which they pour 'it. They laugh heartily when they tell you, as though It were a good joke, and you laugh too—outside. These people are brought to our attention in the Bible, in the Book of Ruth: Naomi went forth beau tiful and with the finest of wordly prospects into another land, but after awhile she came back widowed, and sick, and poor. What did her friends do when she came back to the city I They all went out. and, instead of giving her common-sense consolation, what did they do? Read the book of Ruth and find out. They threw up their hands 1 and said:

‘•Is this Naomi!’’ As much as to say: -How very bad you look!” When I entered the ministry 1 looked very pale for years, and every year, for four or live- years, a hundred times a year, I was asked if I was not in a consumption: and passing through the room I would sometimes hear people sigh and cry: •‘A-ah! not long for this world!” ][ resolved in those times that I never, in any conversation,would say any tiling depressing, and by the help of God I have kept the resolution. Th ese people of whom I speak reap and bind in the mat harvestfield of discouragement Some days you greet them with a hilarious “Good morning,” and they come tuning at you with some depressing information. The Lord sent the hornet It is astonishing how some peopts prefer to write and to sav disagreeable things. That was the case when years age- Henry M Stanley returned after his magnificent exploit of finding Dr. David Li rings tone, and when Mr HUnlay stood before the savants of Europe, and many of the small critics of the day, under pretense of getting geographical information, put to him most insolent questions, he folded his arms and refused to answer. At the veiry time when you would suppose all decent men would have applauded the heroism of the man, there were those to hiss. The Lord sent the hornet. Aqd when afterward that man sat down on the western coast of Africa, sick and worn perhaps in the grandest achievement in the way of geographical discovery, there were small critics all over the world to buzz and buzz, and caricature awl deride him; and when a few weeks alter that he got the London papers, us he opened them, out fleer the hornet When 1 see that there are so many people in the world who like to say disagreeable things, nod write disagreeable tilings. 1 come almost to my weaker moments to believe what a man said to me in Phil adelphia one Monday ,morning. 1 stent to get the horse that whs at the li very, and the hostler, a plain man, said is me: “Mr. Talmage, I sa w that you preached to the young men yesterday.” I said: VSfia.” He said: “Ho* use, no use; ma»’s a faiiannoyanoeso! this^C in tbs shape of aleoul does ne t amount . Aa.

to a positive prostration, but which bothers yon when you want to teel the host. Perhaps it is a -sick headache which has been the plague of your life, acid you appoint vosn.) occasion of mirth or sociality, or usefulness, and when the clock strikes the hour you ran not make your appearance. Perhaps the trouble is between the ear and the forehead, in the shape of a neuralgic twinge. Nobody can see it or sympathise with you; but just at the nrao when you want your intellect dearest, and your disposition brightest, you feel a sharp, keen, disconcerting thrust Tha Lord sent tho hornet Perhaps these small insect annoyances will come in the shape of domestic irritation. The parlor and kitchen eje not always harmonise. To get good service and keep it is one of the great questions of the country. Sometimes it may be tihe »rn> ganev and inconsiderateness of the employers; hut whatever be the fact we all admit there are these insect annoyances winging their1 way out from the culinary department If the grace of God tie not in the heart of the housekeeper, she can not maintain her equilibrium. The men come home-at night and hear the story of these annoyances, and say: “O, these home troubles are very little things.” They are small, small as wasps, ;hu'; they stiug. Martha’s nerves were all Unstrung when she rushed in asking Christ to’ reprove Mary, and there are tens of thousands of women who are dying, stung to death by these pestiferous domestic annoyances. The Lord sent the hornet. These small insect disturbances may come in the shape of business mutations. There are men here who wen! through 1S57 and September 24, IS®, without losing their balance', who are every day unhorsed by little annoyances—<i clerk’s ill-manners, or a blot of ink ots a bill of lading, or tho extravagance of partner who overdraws his account, or tie underselling by a business rival, or tho whispering of business confidences in: tie street, making of some little bad debt which was against your judgment, just to please somebody else. It is not the panics that kill the merchants. Panics como only once in ten or twenty years. It is tho constant din of these every-day annoyances which is sending so mau;* of our best merchants into nervous dyspepsia and paralysis and the grave. When our National commerce fell hit ou its face, these men stood up and felt almost defiant; but their life is giving way now under the swarm of these pcs', if crons aunovances. The Lord sent the hornet.

1 have noticed m the History or some oi my congregation that their annoyances arc multiplying and that they have a hundred where they used to have ten. The naturalist tells us that a wasp sometimes has a family of 30,000, and it dto-s soem as if every annoyance of your Ufa tired 1,000,000, By the help of God to-day .1 want to show you the other side. The hornet, is of no usei Oh, yes. The naturalists tell us they are verf important in the world' s economy. They is ill spiders and they clear the aimosphbi’e. And 1 really believe God sends the annoyances of our life upon us to kill thy spiders of the soul and to clear the aim sphere of our skies. These annoyances are sent on us, 1 think, to wake us up from our lethargy. There is nothing that makes a nan so lively as a nest of “yellow, jackets,'* and I think that these annoyances are intended to persuade us of the fact that this is not a world for us to stop in. If wo had a led of anything that was attractive and soft and easy, what would we want *Jf Heaven! Yju think that the hollow tree sends the hornet, or you think the deva sends the hornejL I want to correct yoix opinion. The Lord sent the hornet. Then I also think these annoyances come upon Us to culture our patience, in the gymnasium you find upright parallel bars-^-bars with holes over e:u-1 other for pegs to be put in. Then tint gymnast takes a peg in each hand and he begins to climb, one inch at a tine, or l wo inches, and. getting his strength cnltugsd, reaches; after awhile the ceiling. And it seems to' me that these annoyances in life are a moral gymnasium, each worry a peg by which we are to climb higher land higher in Christian attainment. We all love to see patience, but it can | not be cultured In fair weather. It is a child of the storm. If you had every thing desirable aid there win nothing more to get, what would you want with patiepce.l The onlv tine to cultivate it is when you are slandered and cheated, amd sick aid half dead. “Oh,” yon say. “if I only had the circumstances of some well-to-do-man 1 would be patieut too,” You might as well say ! “If it were not for this water I would swim;” . Or, “I could shoot this gun if it were not for the caps.” When you stand chin-deep In annoyances is tie time for you to swim out toward the great headlands of Christian attainment. and when your lifls .a loaded to the muizle with repulsive annoyances— that is the time to draw the trigger. Hothing but the furnace will ever burn out of u» the clinker and the slag. I have formed this theory in regard to small annoyances aai vocations: It takes just so much trouble a fit ns for usefulness: and for heaven The only question fc» whether we shall take it to bulk, or pulverUed » nd granuatel

Here is one mu tnat iakps in me bulk. Hi; back is broken. «t lift eyesight put out, or some other calamity befalls him; while the vast t :ajority of people take the thine piecemea. Which Vf»j would you rather hare ttl Of course in piecemeal. Better hare Kto aehlig hieth than one booken jaw. Batter ter. ily-blisters than an amputation. 3e|ttor twenty squalls than one cyclone. There may be a difference of opinion an'to allopathy and homeopathy; but in this matter to trouble I like homeopathic c osts—small pellets of annoyance rather ttian some kc tek-down dose of calamity. Instead of tha thunderbolt, give os the hornet. If yon hare a bank you would s great deal rather that liny men should coma in with checks less than #1JO than to have two depositors to coma in the same day, each wasting his »10,<W& la this latter case yon cough and look down at the floor and np at the ceilisg before yon look into the safe. Now, my friends, would you not rather have these small drafts of annoyance on yonr bank of faith than some ailstaggering demanci upon year endurance! I want to make you so strong that you will not surrender to small annoyances. In the village of JdsmeliQ, tradition says, there was an invasion of rats, and these small creatures almostdevonred the town and threatened the live* of the population; and; the story is that a piper came cut one day and played a very sweet tune, and aU of the vermin followed him—followed him to the hanks of the Wrier, and then he blew a toast and theydropped in and disappeared forever. Of course this is a fable, but I wish I could, an a sweetor flute of the gospel, draw forth ell the nibbling and borrowing annoy ances of your life, and play them down Into the depths forever. How many touches did the artist give to his picture of ‘ CetopsMl" or his “Heart of the Andes!” I suppose about fifty thousand touches- 1 hear thn canvas saying: “Why do you keep me trembling with that pencil so Icug! Why don’t yon pat it on in one dash! ” “No,” says tbu artist,” I know how to make a painting; It wil|l lake 59,000 to And ]; want y on, ay friends, to tinder3itand that it is dime ten thousand annoyances w tick, uatar God, are tacking up the picture of yo wSifs, to hataag at iaat

in the galleries of Heaven fit for angels to look at. God knows how to make a picture. ' I go into a sculptor's studio, anil see him shaping a statue. He has a chisel in one hand and a mallet in the other, and he gives a. very gentle stroke—click, click, click! Isay: '•Why don’t yon strike harder?” “Oh!” he replies, "‘that would shatter the statue. I can’t do it that way; I must do it this way.” Bo he works on, and after awhile the features come out, and everybody that enters the studio is charmed and fascinated. Well, God has yoursonl under process of development, and it is the little annoy ances and vexations of life that are chiseling ost yonr immortnl nature. It» click, click, click! I wonder why some great providence does not come, and with one stroke prepare yon for heave n. Ah, no; God savs that is not the way. And so he keeps on hy strokes of little vexations, until at last you shal l bo a glad spectacle for angels and for men. Ton know that a large fortune may bo spent in small change, and a vast amount of moral character may go away la small depletion. It is the little troubles of life that are having more effect up;m you than great ones. A smarm of locusts will kill a grain field sooner than an incursion of three or four cattle. You say: “Since I lost my child, sinoe 1 lost thy property, I have been a different man.” But you do not recognize the architecture of little annoyat.ces that are hewing, digging, cutting, shaping, splitting and iuterioining your moral qualities. Rats may sink a ship. Cue lucifer match may send destruction through a block of storehouses. Catherine de Medicis got kor death by smelling a poisonous rose. Columbus, by stopping aud asking for a piece of bread and a drink of water at a Franciscan convent, was led to the discovery of a new world. And there is an intimate connection between trifles and immensities, between nothings and everythings. Now, be careful to let none of those: annoyances go through your sottl unarraigned. Compel them to administer to your spiritual wealth. The scratch of a sixpenny nail some times produces lockjaw, and the clip of a most infinitesimal annoyance may damage you forever. Do not let any annoyance or perplexity come across yonr soul without its making you better.

uur national uevernment ODes nor toms it belittling to pat a tax on pins, and a tax on buckles, and a tax on shoes. The individual taxes do not amount to much, bat in the aggregate millions ami millions of dollars. And 1 would have you, O Christina man, put a high tariff on every annoyance and vexation that come through your soul. Tins might not amount to much in single cases, but, in the aggregate, it would be a great revenue of spiritual strength and satisfaction. A bee can suck* hooey even out of a nettle; and if you have the grace of God in your heart, you can get sweetness out of that which would otherwise irritate and annoy. A returned missionary told me that a company of adsenturers rowing up the Ganges were stung to death by flies that infest that region at certain seasons. I have seen the earth strewed with earn cassos of men slaift by insect; annoyances. The only way to get prepared for tho great troubles of life is to conqnor these small troubles. What would you say of a soldier wbe refused to load his gun, or to go into the conflict because it was only u skirmish, saying: -1 am not going to expend my ammunition on a skirmish; wait until there comes a general engagement, and then you will see how courageous I am and tv hat battling I will do.” The General would say to such a man: “If you are not faithful iin a skirriflkh you would be nothing in a ge neral engagement.” And I have to tell you, O Christian men, if you can not apply the principles of Christ's religion on a small scale, you will never be able to apply thorn on aTafge scale. If I had my way with yon I would have you possess all possible worldly prosperity. 1 would have you each one a garden, a river flowing through it, geraniums and shrubs on tho sides, and the grass and flowers as beautiful as though the rainbow had fallen. I Would have you a house, a splendid mansion, and the bod should be covered with upholstery dipped in the setting sun. I would have every hall in yoor house set with statues and statuettes, and then I would have the four quarters of the globe pour in all their luxuries on your table, and yon should have forks of silver and knives of gold, inlaid with diamonds and amethysts. Then you should each one of you have the finest horses and your pick of the equipages of the1 world. Then I would have you Hive 150 years, and you should not have a pain or aoho unti! the last breath. “Not each one of us!” you say. Yes; each one of you. “Hot to your enemies!” Yes; the only difference I would make with them would be that I would put a little extra gilt on their w ills and a little extra emhroidery on their slippers. But you say: “Why does not God give us all these things i”

Ah! I bethink myself. Ha is wiser, it would make fools and sluggards of us if we had our way. No man puts his best picture in the portico or vestibule od his hot.se. God meant this world to be only the vestibule, of heaven, that great gallery of the universe toward which we are aspiring. We must not have it too good in this world, or we would w ant no heaven. l olvcarp was condemned to be burnt to death. The stake was planted. He was fastened to it The faggots were placed around him, the fire kindled, but history tells us that the flames bent outward, like the canvas of a ship in a stout breoie, so that the flames, instead of destroying Polycarp, were only a wall between him and his enemies. They had actually to destroy him with the poni ard ; the flames w :mld not touch him. Well, my hearers, I want you to underatsnd that by God’s grace the flames of trial, instead of consuming your soul, arc only going to be a wall of defense and a ci.nopy of blessing and the promise, as He did to Poly carp. When thou walkest through the Are thou si ait noth* burnt ® Now you do not understand; you shall aMsll know hereafter. In Heaven you will bless God even for the hornet dost Keep Out Armgo, the French astronomer, tells, m Ids autobiography, how in Ids 5 outh he one clar became puxsied sad discouraged over Ids mathematics, and almost resolved to I five up the study. Ha held hispsperIjound text book in his hand. Impelled by tut indefinable curiosity, he damped the .sever of his book aad carefully unrolled the leaf to see what was on the other side. ;ft turned out to be a letter from IP Alembert to a young man like himself, dtoheartsned by the diBculties of mathematical study, who had written to Mm for counsel, this was the tetter: ‘Tio on, air, goon. The di Acuities you meet resolve them.ieives as you advance, 1’tcceed, and Hght will daws and shine with increasing ne^agoUfStewodtthe Simpls suggestion, “Go on, sir, go on.” and twcunwe fir* mathematic iaa i»f his aga - 1 H » » 1 • is always liberal, sad they that ‘ •* oaths prcltta of to-morrow itill is «ht a•afigii 4 m AM