Pike County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 47, Petersburg, Pike County, 7 April 1887 — Page 1

Pike County Democrat J. L. MOUNT, Proprietor. ‘Our Motto is Honest Devotion to Principles of Right*” _ , _:_UOITIOE, orer 0. E. MONTGOMERY'S Store, Main Street. VOLUME XVII. PETERSBURG, INDIANA* THURSDAY. APRIL 7, 1887. NUMBER 47.

PIKE COUNTY DEMOCRAT Published every Thursday. TKBXS OF SUBSCRIPTION i For on* year ..... . ft jj For III months.. 75 For three months. u | INVARIABLY IN ADVANCNADTERTISING HATKSi One square «ll.ieai. car insertion.fl po Back additional insertion.. go A liberal reduction made on advertisement* rannlnr three, six, and twelve months. Laral and transient adrcitiseinenls must be paid lor in advanoe. " ,

PIKE COUNTY DEMOCRAT JOB WORK or ALL KINDS tefojatly Executed REASONABLE BATES. NOTICKI Persona receivinjr a copy of this paper with this notice crossed in load pencil sre notified that the time of their auhacnption iiaseapired

■ PBOTEMlom CABDIt 4 _,__. ®. *- ronr. A. i BOSkTCBT*. v POSEY ft HONEYCUTT. ATTORNEYS AT LAW | Pttwskug, lad. WBI practice. In all (be court* AI! bwetnew pt\ mptijr Attended to. A Notiry Public oon•Untty In the office Office o*er Prank A Horubrook's druir More. M. r. aic«Aitu*qw. a. a. tatloa RICHARDSON ft TAYLOR, Attorneys at Law PETERSBURG, UCD. ~ * t Prompt attention Riven tb all bnainea*. A Notary Public constantly In the office. Office to Carpenter ponding, MM and Main. H U. t T<nv\>KMi. MAST PLKBXEK. TOWNSEND ft FLEENEK, Attorneys at Law, PETERSBURG, IND. Will practice In all the court., Office, ovet till!, I rank* a loro. t»|>crlal ntteniiou irl»en to « Elections. Probate Business. Having anil Selllnki.amla. Kinmmin!; Titles and Furnish Inn Abstracts. A- A. KLT, 4. W. WILSO!f. ELY ft WILSON. Attorneys at Law, PETERSBURG, IND. croffice An the Hank BuU'Hug.^1 “ T. 5 ft E. SMITH, ''successors to Hoyle A Thompson) Attorneys at Law, Real Estate, Loan&Insurance Aits. Offlec. ggcottd tlo r Hank HuilHnir. Fcter*bur*. tad Th- b««t f’lre and l ife Insurance Compa* nies n prvftfnf^l- Moi y to loan on !ir*t ir.ort.iu. p at a ven and < i>rM in*r cent. Prompt attentl n to cbUe lions ami nil e bmin • ** Intro t<*,l to n# ^ i & H. Kills, M D.. Physician and Surgeon PETERSBURG. *ND. Office, over II r*tt A > n** *torc; realden e bn Sevontn Street. to.ee a pure# aontb i of Main. Calls promptly attcu led to. day or I fotffbt. • J. B. DUSCAN, Physician and Surgeon 9 PKTFsRSBCKO, - IND. • Office on flrat floor Carpenter Build lb*.

C. B. BLACKWELL, M. D., ECLECTIC Physician and Surgeon, Main street. bfttteA 6th and Tib cppoaltc Model Drug "tore. PETE It8 ItUBfi, : INDIANA. Will practice Medicine. Surgery and Obstetric-* n iown and country, and wtir vMt any part. f the c »untr> In consult-ation. Chrome - dlec-aac* suco^>s(uU>- tre«M0. K. Shaving Saloon, J. E. Tl'RNER, Proprietor. PETERSBURG, IND* Partiee wiping work done at th«»r n *1 4»‘no»f vUI>tv« order * at the fhop, *n I»r Adam*' new t u iding. rear of Adam* A eon a drurf rtore i HOT rue Lingo hotel, PETER8BtTRO, IltD. THE ONLY FIRST-CLASS HOTEL IN TOWN. New throughout, and UntcUn accommodations In every reepect. 4 CEORCE QUIMBY, Proprietor HYATT II OUSE, Wuklattoi. la A. ■» o- Ontrallj Local .-d, and Accommodation* Firm-clam • HENRY HYATT. Proprietor. PIKE HOTEL, PrreKSBi'Ru, - - Indiana. CHARLES SCHAEFER. Proprietor. Located In the business par* of; town. Term* reasonable A ifood Bar, choice Uuuort,Tobacco and t'tgara. Corner Seventh and Walnut m recta.

CITY HOTEL, I'nlcr new manage nCal, •s W. J. SHRODE, Proprietor. Cor *th and Main :tt. opp. tour;-hou»e. * lN*tcr»burg, Ind. The Cltv Hotel li centrally Ward, flrat•laaa in all it* appointment* and t ie N'rt anti etieapeet hotel in the city.. Sherwood House, Under Sew Manac ment BISSELL & TOWNSEND. Prop’r*. First and Locust streets. Evansville, : : Indiana. RATES. $2 PER DAY. Sample Rooms for Commtreial Moo. -v Whon at Washington Stop at the MEREDITH HOUSE. First-Class in All Respects. Maa Um Hunt and Aiiioj HoanaLL rroprtetora Uni t itossKTKB. JsssaJ. Moboax, Late of Cincinnati Late of Vaahtngtoa.Ind. HOTEL ENGLISH, ROSSETER * MORGAN. Lessees. Indianapolis. Ind. Bonae Kle*an«. Table. Service and Genera Me«p >un*»r*or. Location boot tm the city— on the C ircle. M1SCKTLAXKOCS. PHOTO GALLERY, OSCAR HAMMOND, Prop’r. ** Pictures Copied or Enlarged. AU hind* of work done promptlv and at ■••enable rate* Gall and eaa ulne hia work. 6aHery ta Kinecti new baldiat, Poft-ofcoa. Pe<araburg. lad. >■ Great Reduction t in (Be pr!et cf SADDLE, lABHSSS, HCJICL the public k hereby in'oraned that 1 will aeB ■plane Meek of SMtetot Haimt and ^tyt&tek tap* by we.lewer than erela thia place before tf you want anyth lay Una. don't tail to call on me a# an* I FRED REUSS,

NEWS IN BRIEF, Compiled from Various Sources. PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. Gexehal Eli Hcgues diea ut bis bonus in Hadley, Me;, on the 27th. He w as General of the First brigade of tbe Connecticut militia at the betaking out of the scar, at which time he resigned. He was seventy years old, had been married three times and was the father of sixteen children, ten of whom survive him, as does his third wife, Tue following is the inscription on a brass tablet, which has recently been placed in the window in the south transept of Bt. John's Church. Washington: “This inscription, in memory of Chester Allen Arthur, is placed here bv the vestry. He was the twenty-first President of the United States, a worshiper in the church, and in IStW erected the window to the memory of his wife He died November IS. 18t)ft Tiie Empress of Germany has sent greetings and thanks to the Pope for his favorahic political attitude. Loan L*xsnowx«,Governor General of Canada, denies the published statements about evictions and racx-rant policy agaiust the tenantry on his Irish estates. H. M. Fi.ockexs, French Minister of Foreigu Affairs, is reported as having made some very flattering comments about Russia, and some very slighting remarks about Germany. F*Tiirn.« Ryan and 'Slattery were lodged in Kilmainhaui j <?t, Dublin, on the Kith. ' Ox the 28th a granddaughter of Daniel O'Connell, the Irish liberator, died at 8t. Johns, Newfoundland. Ox the 29 h Mrs. James Brown-Potter made her debut at the Haymarket Theater,London, in Wilkie Collins' “Man and Wife," bef >re a large audience, the Prince of Wales and Minister and Mrs. Phelps being among the number. The lady was fairly successful, but some of tbe critics think her unwise in' the choice of her play. JIki-atioxs are again reported to be strained between S • votary Kndicott and General Sheridan cone jrning the appointment powers of the latto.r. The probable appointees on the PaciflRailway Commission’ are cx-Goverpor Atibett, of New Jersey, General K. 8 Bragg, of Wisconsin, and Davfd T. Littler, of Springfield, 111. Ox the tS:h Baron De Struve, the Russian Minister, accompanied by Secretary Bayard, paid a farewell visit to the President prior to sailing for Russia. It is said at the Department of State that the minister goes to Russia 03 leave of absence to visit liis family. Ox the 29th Rev. Ray Palmer, secretary of the Ameriean Congregational Union, died at Newark, N. J.. aged seventy-nine. He was born in Rhode Island and graduated from Yale col'.ego in l<tl He was author of the well-known hyraa, “My Faith Looks Up to Thee.’’ The will of the late Captain James B. Ends was probated at New York on the 3.1th.

a# J* m «. n until, s is u iuvmv i» tui-vi » •' *» « announces his willingness to fight Sullivan. Colosei. E. C. Mohk. Consnl-Oeneral to Mexico, paid his respect* to the president and Secretary Bayard on the SJth ; M Ecoexe Srru.ru has been elected vice-president by the French Chamber of Deputies. The indications for a ministerial crisis are becoming more pronounced and numerous. The New York 8ms sutes that James U. Blame has completed all his arrangements for a European tour. Mr. Blaine will sail m June and remain abroad for over a year. < • Ms Cushi.es i>k Lessees. son of the French engineer,.arrived in New Orleans On the 29th from Panama. - He is staying at the home of some relatives of whom he has quite a number in the city. CornsANtiEH CRsnwiCk, who has been on duty as mtral attache of the Ameri an legation in London. arrived in. Wash in glon on the 80th. and reported at the Naval : Department. His business is to consult with the department in reference to the construction of the new <1,001-toil armored vessels for which ho has'been collecting plans and information in Europe. RcrraLo Bill mind his Wild West show railed for London on a chartered steamer" on the 81st. - IUe^uu Sneh id vn has returned to Washington from his Western trip. Eahl Caikhur. in the British House of Lords on the 31st, introduced an Irish Purchase bill. Colorel Fletcher P. Cveet. a lawyer of Washington. D. C. died suddenly at Hot Springs. Ark., on the Slst, v The beating of the springs of the tjueeu's railway carnage necessitated a full day's delay in the British royal party reaching Cannes, Franc% Cilmsal M anriRif has written a letter indorsing the position taken by Cardinal Gibbons concerning the Knights of Labor in America. Ciuu.es S. Fairchild, of New York, was appointed Secretary of the Treasury sn the 1st, and Isaac H. Maynard assistant secretary. Hkkmt M. Rtixi.it. the noted evnlorer.

writes from the Interior of Africa, giving i gloomy picture of the British status in that country. He says that France, Portugal and Germany hare virtually driven British trade and prestige away. James R Roaissos. of Fargo. Dak., has been disbarred from practising as an attorney before the Interior Ucpartm.’nt, its bureaus and local offi-es. i The Secretary of W ar. in order to respond to the request of Senator Cockrell, -hairman of the Senate select committee to investigate the work of the depart meats, hss directed s thorough investigalion'of the work of each bureau.. Secretart Exdicott has Issued a circular calling for information relative to the condition of business in the War Department, the business methods of the bureaus and other matters required by Senator Cockrell's committee, r. A rEXSioa has been granteif Peter Schumsker, formerly private in Company D, Fourth Wisconsin cavalry, oa the ground, of inaanity. He gets $T3 per month and arrearages, aggiegating {p.&3^ne of the biggest pension payments ere^made. Secretart Whitnet has approved the report of the board appointed to select the sites for the two uew dry docks authorised by the last Congress. The docks will be located at the New York and Norfolk yards, and will be built by. contract ndhe general plan of the Simpson dry docks. General P. M. k Yocro, of Georgia, late the Consul-General at St. Petersburg, is prominently mentioned tor appointment to the Austrian mission. General Young himself states; however, that he is not an applicant for the position. gnnm AND CASCALTW. Tan building used as a paint shop by the Austin. Tomlinson A Webster Manufacturing Company in the Michigan State prison inclosurts was burned on the night of the 26th. together with some other adjoining shops. The convicts in the cellhouses were in n state of great excitement during the progress of the fire, but the buildings being practically fire-proof, their danger teas more imaginary than real. Tan sinking ot an unknown brig, with nil an board, is reported from Halifax. N.& Rahway. N. J, is much excited over n female murder mystery, and developments Of a sensational character are being brought out. ' A auAar lght. occurred between shepherds and cowboys near Grant's Station. N-M-, outheasi h. in which two Shephards lost their lives and one cowboy was

A not.n a', tempt at bank* robb'ry and murd r is reported from Aatigonl*b< N. M. The teil'r was shot in the head and stde. The robber-assjissm was captured. Geoiuie II. IUcox, manager of the Dulie.-u (Canada) Milling Company, was arrested at New Haven, Conn., on the 88-.h, and Will bo held for extra litio i on a charge of embezsiin r *.11,010 from that concern by the aid of forgery. Du. N. E. Elt, aged sixty-seven, a prominent physician, worth $150,OX), suicided at his home in Girard, I’a., on th 3 night of the »b, by taking morphine. The delusion that his property was slipping away from him and that poverty was imminent drove him to self-murder. Joseph Torso, of Bpringtown, N. J., whoso same was forgot on notes for flat) by William 8. Carpenter, a justice of the peace, wbo absconded several weeks ago from that place, committed suicide on the night of the 27th by hanging. He and Carpenter were brothers-imlaw. The leather factory, storehouse and stock bf John Maxwell & Co., at North Winchester. Mass., wore burned on the night of the 38th. Loss, about *109,000; partly cove re 1 by Insurance. Two hundred employes are thrown oat of wo-k. While duck-hunting at Muskegon lake, north 4>f Wabash. Ind.. on the 88th, a gun in the hands of E. 8. Moon was accidentally discharged, the load entering William Walton’s head and killing him instantly. Walton was a son of one of the best known pioneers of Northern Indiana. Moon is crated with'grief over the affair. The jury in the case of Alexander Golde$son, at Ban Francisco, charged with the murder of a school girl, Mamie Kelly, November 40, IS-®, returned a verdict on the 28th of murder in the first degree. - ChaWi-ks Froocb, policy-examiner for the dilleghefiy Insurance Company of Pittsburgh, Pa., entered the safe in the office on the morning of the 28ih, and, seating himself in a chair, shot himself through the head. He iWaa found an hbur later quite dead. He had been in the company's employ eighteen years. Charlxl Hpeipel, the book-keeper of Wernier & Co., New York, who misappropriated *1,*M, was on the 28th sentenced to five years in State prison. Spcidel's stealings covered a period of five rears, and his methods were many and various. He was an associate of a bankteller who recently fled to Canada with a large sum. , A mob attacked and broke the windows in the employment registries in Qnartier des Halles, Paris, on the 28th. Louise Michel participated in the riotous demonstration. but she was manaced by a market women and oompeled to take refuge in the police station. Os the 29th Troy, N. Y., suffered a hundred thousand dollar & re. On the ‘29th J. Finley Hoke, the embesiler, was arraigned for forgery at Peoria, 111, and plea led not gin lit y, Citt Marshal Whitxet of Bangor. Me., has received a dispatch from Oakland, Cal. announcing the arrest of Calvin Graves, the murderer of game wardens Hill and Niles at Fletcher’s brook last fall.

murder in the. second degree, at Cleveland, O. was sentenced to the penitentiary for life. A smile overcame his face as the judge pronounced the decree of the court. Another attempt is said to have been made to assassinate the Czar of Russia oil the 29th. I Marino LetRa, the notorious leader of border bandits, hast been slain in Mew Mexico. Tnr Russian Nihilists have killed a wealthy Russian merchant ami are threatening other capitalists1 with death if money is not forthcoming for the “common cause.” In the Haddock trial at Sioux City, In., on the 9)th,'Albert Kosohniseki, the informer, gave testimony detailing the plot and murder of the temperance preacher. Cl.AI TON Mater, ai convict in the Pennsylvania penitentiary, confesses to having burned buildings be onging to temperance leaders at Coohrantowa. Pa, in IS St, at the instigation of saloon men. Pingree & SriTh's shoe factory at Detroit, the largest m Michigan, was totally burned, with contents, on the 30th. One fireman was injured fatally. Loss, ■ about *300.000. I, AT Erie, Pa., on the 81st, by a boiler explosion, three workingmen were fatally scalded. -1 News of the loss of the sealing steamer Eagle, oil the New found land coast, is confirmed It is considered certain that two hundred and fifty seamen perished. A ten thousand Collar mail robbery astonished the New To-k p<«t-office officials on the 30th. A clerk named Clark was finally centered upon ns the thief, and he was arrested on the 31st, the missing package being found later, and finally Clark confessed. ar(d was sent to jail Edward M New ran. in the employ of Michael Levinson, wholesale clothier. New York, was arestedi on the Slat, charged with defrauding tj»e firm of over *73,(00 by means of false entries and misusing the checks pf the firm. Newman was taken to the Toombs. Cormissioxer Scares .of the General Land Office has issued an order creating a contest board to which all contest cases now pending, or hereafter arising, in the pre-emption and public lands divisions, shall be referred tor examination and decision. After action is taken bv tins board upon a contest case, it will go to the Board of Review. •Kino Christian of Denmark has .been informed from St. Petersburg that another unsuccessful attempt has been made upon the Cxar*s life. News has also been received of the discovery of n conspiracy in the Caucasus. One handred officers of the Till is garrison have been arrested for complicity in the plot.

MiSCItl.L.A.* CUv5» ^ Jaui* R. Jordan, recently appointed United Staten marshal for the Wertern district of Virginia, will be the youngest person ; holding, and probably e*dP appointed, to that position, being mnly twenty-seven years of age. He is a son of Colonel W, J. Jordon, of Newbern. Va., and a member of and secretary to the Domocaatic committee of the Ninth CouTum engrossing clerks of Congress, careful as they are, occasionally make errors wjuch cause the accounting officers no end of trouble. In the Naval Appropriation bill for the next fiscal year the following item is written: “Contingent marine corps—furniture for Of course, houses are meant, but the exact accounting officers do not know in whnt wsy to get around the “horses,” the word being written so plainly that no effort of the imagination could transform it into “houses.” >, Carrara Kni R. Wallace, of the navy, who was stationed at St Louis for several years as inspector of the light-house district, sad while there married Mins Patterson of that city, has just been given an important command. He has, for tome time, been captain of the yard at the navy yard at Washington, having remained in charge after the retirement of the former commandant. Admiral Queen. He hue now been regularly detailed by the Secretary of the Navy as commandant of the yard, which office he will permanently fill under the new regime which makem the Washington yard an ordetanoe foundDistress, ^ordering on starvation, » reported to exist in portions of Newfoundland. Is vxsrte avion* made by the Govern, meat show an alarmMig state of techs regarding food sdalterations * Tit* “Congress of Churches sad Clu-is-tiaas” was m session at Chicago on the aath. Its object] was to annihilate secret societies. '3

Two Indian youths sailed on the 30th from Philadelphia for London to act as ushers at the American and Colonial exhibition. Toe report of the Canadian Minister of Customs shows that the fishery policy be: ing pursued by the Dominion Government toward the United States is proving disastrous to Canadian maritime trade. A remarkable publication Is made in Belgium of what Bismarck is alleged to have said recently, which, if true, dispels all hope Alsace-Lorraine may have entertained of neutrality in national or military affairs. Pen-disci the selection and preparation of permanent offices for the nse of the Inter-Stats Commerce Commission, temporary quarters have been secured with the United States Geological Survey la the Hood building. The President has turned oxer to the Secretary of the Treasury an anonymous letter and an inclosure of 9503, -which he received from some person in Brooklyn, N. Y. The writer says he owes this amount to the Government for customs duties. It is est imated at tho Treasury Department that there has been s decrease of about $12,000,003 in the public dubt during March. The receipts for the month to tho 30th amounted to 9St.2!B,203 and the expenditures to 9$t.:*SS,5S0, including 95.735,219 pension payments. The net gain of receipts over expenditures is tlf,HiT41 The Connecticut Senate on the 30th, bya vote of 20 to 8. passed tho Ten-Hour law for women and children, already passed by the House. It is the same as tha Massachusetts law. An amendment exempting mercantile establishments was rejected by 18 to 5. The Postmaster-General haa issued a circular letter to postmasters calling attention to the advantages of the special delivery system and urging them to commend its use to the public as worthy pf confidence. Its value, he says, will grow with the growth of.its business, every increase of patronage bringing with it the means of increased efficiency. Govkknob Hill of New York sent; a special message to .the Legislatui^rf^-Lho 30th oh the subject of special legisdaci .h. The message is believed to be aiinijd^U the High License bill for New York and Brookl.vn, recently passed by the Assembly. It is now deemed certain that the Governor will veto the btU should the Senate pass it. Tue Lighthouse Board has completed the plan for lighting the Bartholdi statue of Liberty on Bedloe’s Island. A strong lens will be placed in the torch, five additional electric lights will be placed around the base, making thirteen of such lights in all, and a diumber of incandescent lights will be placed in the interior of tbe statue. Tbe light to be placed 'in the torch will be one of the most powerful fixed lights in the world. The National Builders’ Association closed its business at Chicago on the 31st ana adjourned. The Illinois Legislature has been officially informed that the old Lincoln homestead at Springfield, 111., is not for sale. TwEXTT-TnREE indictments have, so far, been returned by the Chicago special grand jury investigating the alleged Cook County frauds.

— iHE rennsyi vania noose oi nepresenw lives, on the 31st, passed a resolution protesting against Irish coercion and e xprcssing sympathy for Ireland. A snw postal convention has been arranged between the United States and Mexico of great, interest to Western men chants. Tbb sale of the Stewart statuary collection began in New York on the 31st. Th« bids for many choice works were so low that they were rejected. Meetings of Conservative and LiberalUnion members of the House of Commons were held at ]„ondon on the 31st, at which it was determined to support the first reading of the Irish Crimes bill. Tax Inter-State Commerce Commission were sworn in at Washington on the 31st, and organised by the election of Judge Cooley as chairman. Tu Pittsburgh (Pa.) police are endearoring to learn of the whereabouts or fate of a bride of three weeks, who has been missing since the recent wreck at Leetonia, O. ' ^ Treks was an army of dead-head passengers on the trains of the Pennsylvania Company’s lines on the 31st. The freepass “habit” expired on that system at midnight of that day. Born the ocean cable lines of the Ben-nett-Mackay Cable Company are broken, and the company is doing its business over the French line. The breaks will soon be repaired. *; Poi.ica lxsrscTon Bowaruxa and Constable Barrett, who were found guilty by the coroner’s jury of murdering Hanlon, at Youghal, Ireland, have been released on their own recognisances. ■ ■■ — • — .-— CONDENSED TELEGRAMS. William Rich Wish » Missouri pioneer, died on the 1st at Bed alia, aged ninety-four years Two men, engineer and fireman, were killed in a railway collision on the- 1st near Corinth, Miss Tub unal debt of the United Burns is now fl.m-0T,5ia«W It was decreased during March tlA90S,tfi'Tl. Jon Talbott, one of the meat notorious burglars on the continent, was enptured in New York City on the 1st. Qceek Victoria was received with much pomp and ceremony nt Cannes, France, on the 1st A T*s»rtu -rnt? antrrm

rmer, is gotog to remove from 8t Mo., to florid a. Ej-8ecbstsst Maxxnra's health to report'd to have grown worse since hto arrival in England. Son e of Congressmen Springer's friends have recommended him to the President for the tscant Southern Illinois Judgeship. It develops that the latest attempt on the cant's life was made by an army officer, who Bred at hot missed the monarch. Means Y. Mostoomst, of Michigan, has been appointed Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the District of Coli umtato. “Bccxsxis Jon" (J. a Wirks) to ittPort Worth, Tex. perfecting n Pan-Handle colony scheme. He to still determined to nettle in Oklahoma. Ten comments of the London paters on the new Land bill, and oa the popular feeling over proposed coercion legislation, arc not very encouraging to the governmeat aide. Arrza serving ten months of n year's imprisonment sentence, si Blackwell's 1.1,cd, He r Moat, the Anarchist leader, was relear>ed on the let ami returned to Hew Yorli City. SnsvmsxT la Canada is reported to he erystaliming strongly against the government's Anti-Bait bilL It to riaim ri that the measure wUl prove more detrimental to Canada than to Americans. Formal complaint has been made to the Cml-SerTice Commission agaimt Collector See burger, of Chicago, charging him with violation of the law. He will have a hearing about, April IS. U. Astoixs. a member of the Reichstag from Alsace-Lorraine, has been ixpeled from that country by the German Government and escorted across Gw frontier. Hie expulsion has grantly incensed the populace of Paris and France generally. Thb “Billy Kissane” sensation at Hew York and San Francisco to un abated. “Killy’s" lawyer failed to get him old indiriment nolle proeeed at Have York. “Billy's” identity has not yet been given to the pu bile Lewis Stxwabt, colored, was bunged at Laurens, 8. C., on the tot, for the murder et: his wife. Tat coinage of the miuto during the smith of March was «.l*i,M8, <f which C.OiQ^S) was in standard si lver dollars.

MANNINGS' SUCCESSOR. Hon. Chu. S. Fairchild to S" :«wl Secretary Manning In Presides' Cievelaad’s Cabinet—A Brier Sketch ot UbS HCW Setr rotary. Washixgtos, April 1.—It vas ofllciallj •announced from the White louse jesterday evening that Charles 8. Fairchild, of New York, will be appointed to-day Secretary of the Treasury, and Isaac Maynard, of New York, Assists;.t Secretary of the Treasury. Treasurer Jordan's successor has not yet oeen determined upon, tnd probably will not be announced for setae days. Mr. Theodore Cook, of Cincinnat . is "spoken of most frequently in connec ion with the place, and to-night is thought most likely to succeed Mr. Jordan. BIOGRAPHICAL. Charles Stebbins Fairchild w» born a Oazeno via N. Y.. April SI, 1H4S, and his position as a Cabinet Minister finds him in the prime of life and well tttted for the onerous 1 Sorsas bead of the financial department of the i iverament. Bis father was for many years the nitorney for the New York Central railroad, and is one of the eminent men of New York. Tie new Secretary of Treasury received his arly education at the Methodist Seminary at Cazenovia. and he entered Hanrard in 1859. grad ating from that institution with the class 18LS. He then entered the Harvard law school and was admitted to the bar in 1865. and subse , uently became one of the Arm of Hart, Hale. Swartz * Fairrhlld. one of the most success^ 1 legal combinations in New York. In 1874 lio was ay pointed deputy Attorney-General, and i n his first political position. he so distinguish d himself, that In the ensuing year he was nominated by the Democratic party for the Attorney Gensralship and was elected. He w -red in this capacity for two years, and the;,- were eventful ones for the people o; New York, because the alleged canal ring w< -e reeei ring the attention of Governor Ttlden, a :id his AttorneyGeneral cordially seconded hts efforts ti nd the State of them and their met ods. Xpon the expiration of his term as .v: torney-General. Mr. Fairchild. In 1878, visited Europe for the second time, his first trip ha sing occurred in 1871. While on the continent, the future secretary made a careful stall, af the monetary systems of the Old World, mad when he returned to New York he had sea lired a valuable fund of Information. From 1880, > hen he returned from Europe, up to 'iie time he was called to Washing in ».s Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, Mr. Fairchild was practicing his profession in New Yorl* City. The new secretary is a very straightforward mugot businnss, easy of access, for it has been his boost s ince he came to Washington that his door :ias always been open to callers, no matter wbc their business was, and In this respect he has shown a marked difference from other officials of the new administration. His face is round and smoothly shaven, a closely clipped black moustache being conspicuous above the firm, closed mouth, while iu stature he Is slightly above the medium height, compactly built, and weighs about one hundred and eighty pounds. x Secretary Fairchild is a flna believer In the efficacy of equestrian exercise, and every afternoon at the close of business he mounts his smart hay roadster and rides at a canter through the suburbs of Washi ngton as an appetizer for dinner. Socially be and his wife are very popular, and his bounitable mansion has always been thronged during the gay season.

ANOTHER EXPRESS ROBBERY. A Robber, Single-Handed, tt»ck,. Wound, and Robe Express Messen; er Lake on the West Shore Road—Onlr About *S00 Booty Secured by the Mir'nant Rome, N. Y., March 31.—A special to the Sentinri from Frankfort, I. Y., says Express Messenger Lake, who was robbed between Clark's mills and Frankfort last night, reached here abou midnight and was able to proceed to the otice of a physician, • where his wounds were dressed. He was shot in the upper part Df the right arm, the ball passing around the shoulder, causing an ugly wound. The doctors probed for th* ball, but were unable to locate it. Lt're endured the operation heroically without chloroform. He was weak from the st ick and loss of blood, but walked to the tation and took the half-past three o’clock train for Albany. Ou his way home to Khr-on Springs he stated to a correspondent that sodh after his train left Clark’s mill a man entered his car through the side door, which he shored back, saying r» he entered: ‘•Throw up your hands’ Lake did npt realise for the instant wtut was up, and failed to comply with th< command. The intruder leveled his revol or at the messenger and shot him. l ike fell to the Boor of the car, when hie assailant said: “Now, damn you, when I tell yon tc ho(d up your hands agai you will do it. won't you!" The fellow then bone ! the hands anu feet of Lake aud gagged dm. One of his legs the robber tied to- the safe. The desperado then took a bi ich of keys from the pocket of the messes rer am. nalocked the safe, which he rifled of its money packages The amour secured is believed to have been Ul’O or HfcM. The robber left the car at the Delaware, Lackawanna A Western cr ossing at Utica, where all trains come to a stop before going to the depot. B efore leaving the oar the robber said to Luke: “Damn you, if you *».-■ any thing about this 1’U come back and l ill you. ” The messenger replied ; “Yon wouldn’t rob a man, then kill bin., too. would you!’* “Yea, I would,” repli ed the robber, as he left. Lake tried to free hir self, but did not succeed. At Utica hie car was opened and he was relieved from his uncomfortable position. At this place it was determined that he had better stopover and have his wounds attend'd to. The messenger says ht‘a assailant waa a large, strong man, wearing n mask that hung down over his ch eat. His hair was cut very short at the b; :'c. and his hands were calloused- hard anv# dirty

A Bi« KaUwx Prejm* Bostos, March 3L—The Aimtitrr says it to reported that the TToion Pacific has a project on foot to few: Id a new line from Laramie Wy. T.t sooth to tin Colorado Bute line, where It can effect i. Vision with the Colorado Western, and continue the road through to Balt Luke City. The two corporations will act under the title of the Union Pacific ft Colorado Western railway, with a capital stock of IS,000,000, divided Into shares of 11,(01 A company has been formed with officers and directors, as follows: Charles Francis Adams, presiden t; Blisba Atkins, vice-president; F. L Ames, 8. it Callaway, Gordon Dexter, Sidney Dillon and Ears H. Baker. Henry McFarland is the secretary and treasurer The Pint Work elf the I WasaiBeTox, April L—The first bnsithat will come before the Inter-State Commerce Commission, after iU complete organisation by the election of a secretary, will bn to fix the time end place for the hearing of matters submitted by Mr. A. Smith, vice-president of the Louisville ft Nashville Railroad, and Virgil Powers, general commissioner for pool rates for the Saethera Hallway aad Steamship Association in reference to long and short haul feature of the Interstate Commerce act as R applies to the railroads east of the Mississippi river, south of the Ohio and west of the] Wants to Try it Si. Joax, S. B-, March SL—Frank Dowd, of Montreal, to dissatisfied with the reeult of the race with McCormick Wednesday night, and they are to skate another fifteen miles Friday night Dowd says that when near the finish ha saw • signal which he Wok to mean that the race was over, end fueling confident that ha had won. as he had been leading, hr stepped Be declares that he coulJ have won easily sc ough, for there wat plenty of reserve power in him when ha stopped aad in proof of this ha told all friends to bet on him, and they did so. II to well knows among thqpe claiming to be posted he ie not on* of socket by'o*i»g

TALMAGE’S SERMON. A Timely Discourse on the Sitfnificanoe of the DelugeAn Urgent Plea to Slnneni to Enter the Ark of Safety—The Doom Open to All— A Broad-Gunge Gospel and a Safe Haven. Rev. T. DeVVitt Talmage, daring his recent Western tour, delivered the following sermon atDes Heines, la., on “The Significance of the Deluge,” taking for his. text: Come thou and all thy house into the ark.— Genesis, viL, L The eloquent preacher said: We do not need the Bible to prove the Deluge. The geologist’s hammer announces it. Sea-shells nnd marine formations on the top of some of the highest mountains of the earth prove that at some time the waters washed over the top of the Alps and Andes. In what way the catastrophe came, we know not—whether by the stroke of a comet, or by flashes of lightning changing the air into water, or by a stroke of the hand of God, like the stroke of the ax between the horns of the ox, tho earth staggered. To meet the catastrophe, God ordered a great ship built. It was to be without prow, for it was to sail to no shore. It was to be withont helm, for no. human hand should guide it. It was a vast structure, probablv as large as two or three Cunard steamers. It was the Great Eastern of olden time. The ship is done. The door is open. The lizards crawl in. The cattle walk in. The grasshoppers hop in. The birds fly in. The invitation goes forth to Noah: Come thou aud all thy hous e Into the ark. Just one human family embark on the strange voyage, and I hear the door slam shut. A great storm ' sweeps along the hills and bends the cedars until all the branches snap m the gale. There is a moan in the wind like unto the moan . of a dying -world. The blackness of the heavens is shattered by the flare of the lightnings, that look down into the waters, and throw a ghastliness on the face of the mountains. How strange it looks! How suffocating the air seems! The big drops of raipi plash upon the upturned faces of thoib who are watching the tempest Crash! go the rocks in convulsion. Boom! go the bursting heavens. The inhabitants of the earth, instead of fleeiof? to the house-top and mountain-top. as men have fancied, sit down in dumb, white horror to die. For when, God grinds mountains to pieces, and lets the ocean slip its cable, there is no place for men°to,fly to. 8ee the ark pitch and tumble in the surf; while from its windows the passengers look out upon the shipwreck of a "race and the carcasses of a dead world. Woe to the mountaina! Woe to the sea! 1 am no alarmist. When, on the 30th of September, after the wind has for three days been blowing from the northeast, you prophesy that the equinoctial storm is coming, you simply state a fact not to be disputed. Neither am I an alarmist when I say that a storm is coming compared with which Noah’s deluge was but an April shower; and that it is the wisest and safest for you and for me to get safely housed for eternity. The invitation that went forth to Noah sounds in our ears:

Come thou and all thy house into the ark. Well, how did Noah and his family come into the ark? Did they climb in at the window, or come down the roof! No, they went through the door. And just so, if we get into the ark of God’s mercy, it will be through Christ the door. The entrance to the. ark of old must have been a very large entrance. We know that it was, from the tact that there were monster animals in the earlier ages; anti, in order to get them into the ark two and two. according to the Bible statement, the door must have been very wide and very high 80 the door into the mercy of God is a large door. We go in, not two by two, but by hundreds, and by thousands, ami by millions. Yes, all the nations of the earth may go in. ted millions abreast. The door of the ancient ark was in the side. So now it is through the side of Christ—the pierced side, the wide-open side, the heart side-that we enter. Ahal the Roman soldier, thrusting his spear into the Saviour’s side, expected only to let the blood out. but he opened the way to let all the world in. O what a broad gospel to preach! If a man is about to give an entertainment, he 1 issues one hundred or two hundred invitations, carefully put up and directed to the particular persons whom he wishes to entertain. Bnt God our Father makes a banquet, and go.'S oat to the front door of heaven, and stretches out his hands over land and sea, and with a voice that penetrates the Hindoo jungle, and the Greenland icoe-castle, and Brazilian groves, and English factory, and American home, cries out: Come, tor ill things sre now ready. It is a wide door. The old crons has been taken apart, and its two pieces are stood up for the door-poets, so far apart that all tho world can come in. giogs scatter treasures on days of great rejoicing. So Christ, our King, comes and scatters the jewels of Heaven. Rowland Hill said! that he hcped to get into heaven through the crevices of the door. Bet he was not obliged thus to go in. Alter having preached the gospel in Surrey Chapel, going up toward iheaTen, the gate-keeper cried: ... __l_I _ .1. .tine

ud let this mu cone in-” The dying thief went in. Richard Baxter and Robert Revrton went in. Eu rope, Ail in, Africa. Nortll and Boutli America, may yet go through thin wide door without crowding. Ho, erery one, all conditions all ranks all peoples! Luther said that this truth eras worth Carrying on one's knees from Rome to Jerusalem; bat I think it worth carrying all around the gle be, and all around the heavens; that God so loved the world that be cave his onlybegottenson, that wltosoever beliereth la him should not perish. hot have everlasting me. Whosoever will, let him oome through the large door. Archimedes wanted a fulcrum on which to place his lever, and then he said that he could move the world. Calvary is the fulcrum, and the cross of Christ is the, lever; and by that, power all nations shall jut he lifted. Further: It is n door that swings both ways. I do not know whether the door of the ancient ark liras lifted, or rolled on hinges; but this door of Christ opens both ways. It swings out toward all our woea; it swings in toward the raptures of heaven. It swings m to let us in; it swings out to let our ministering ones oome out All nre rat in Christ—Christians on earth and saints in heaven. One army of the Wring God, At His command we bow; part of the bust hove crossed the Hood, a ad put are crossing now. Swing in, O blessed door! until iB the earth shall go in and live. Swing out tin til all the heavens oome lorth to celebrate the victory. _ . . Bat, further, it in a door with fastenings. The Bible says of Noah: The Lord shat him is. _ _ A vessel without bulwarks or doors would not be a safe vessel to go in. When Noah and hm family heard the fastening of the door of the ark, they were very irlad- Without those door* wore batoned. the first hoary surge of the sea wouM have whelmed them, and they might aa well have perish* 1 outside the itrk as inside the ark. q. the perfect safety of 1 he erk! The »£ioft£W.a* the lightning* of the

sky may be twisted into a garland of snow and fire—deep to deep, stlprm to storm, darkness to darkness; but once in the ark, all is well. The Lord shut him in. There comes upon the gopd man a deluge of financial, troubles He had his thousands to lend; now he cab not borrow a dollar. He once owned a store in New York, and had branch houses in Boston, Philadelphia and New prlbans. He owned four horses, and employed a man to keep the dust off his coach, phlaeton, carriage and curricle; now he has hard work to get shoes in which to -walk. The great deep of commercial disaster was broken up, and fore and aft, and across the hurricane deck, the waves struc t him. But ha was safely sheltered from jibe storm. The Lord shut him is. A flood ofdomestic troubles fell on him. Sickness and bereavement came. T.»e min pelted. The winds blew. The Heaveis are aflame. All the gardens of earthly delight are washed away, " The fountains of joy are buried fifteen cubits deep, flut, standing by the empty crib, and in the desolated nursery, and in the doleful lull, once si-ring with mertry voices, now silent forever, he cried: The Lord gave, the Lord hath taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord. The Lord shut him In. All the sins of a lifetime clamored for his overthrow. Jhe broken vows, the dishonest Sabbaths, the outrageous profanities, the misdemeanors of twenty years, reached up their hands to the door of the ark to j>u'l him out The boundless ocean of :his sin surrounded his soul, howling like a simoon, raving like an euroclydon. But, looking out of the window, ha saw phis sins sink like lead into the sea. The dove of Heaven brought an olive branch to the ark. The wrath of the billow onjy pushed him toward Heaven. The Lord shut him in. The same door-fastenings that kept Noah in keep the world out] I am glad to know that when a man reaches Heaven all earthly troubles are done with him. Here he may have had it hard to get bread for his family; there he will never hunger any more. Here he may bare wept bitterly; there ~j" ! .- , < , j] The lamb that Is in the nrd*t of JUe throne will lead him to living fountains of water, and God will wipe away all tears from his eyes. Hero he may have hard Work to get a house; but in my father’s house are many mansions, and rent day never comes. Here there are death-beds, and coffins, and graves; there no sickness, no weary, watching, no choking cough, no consuming fever, no chattering chill, no tolling bell, no grave. The sorrows of life shall come up and kuock at tno dour, but no admittance. The perplexities of bfe shall coma up and knock on the door, but no admittance. Bate forever! All the agony of earth in one wave dashing against the bulwarks of the ship of celestial light shall not break them down. Howl on, ye winds, and rage, ye sens! The Lord shut him in.

Vj n uaii a j,‘uau wiw uywi |. uw h i«vi ov easily swung both ways, and with such sure fastenings. No burglar’s key can pick that lock. ,No swarthy arm of hell can shove back the bolt, I rejoin that I do not ask you to come aboard a craiy craft with leaking hulk and broken helm, and unfastened door; but au ark fifty cubits wide, and three hundred Cubits long, and a door so large tihat the round earth, without grazing thej posts, might be bowled in. Now. if the ark of Christ is so grand a place in which to live, and die, and triumph, come into the ark. Know well that the door that shut Noah in shut the world out; and though, when the pitiless storm came pelting on theiir heads, they beat upon the door, saying, “Let me iul let me in!” the door did not oiwd. For ono hundred and twenty years they word invited. They expected to come in; bnt the antediluvians said: “Wie must cultivate these fields; rye must be worth more flocks of sheep and herds of cattle; wo will wait until we get a little older; we will enjoy our old farm a little longer.” But meanwhile the storm was brewing. The fountains of hiaven were Ailing up. The pry was being placed beneath the foundations of the great deep. The last year had come, the last month, the last week, the last day, the last hour, the lastmoment. In an awful dash, an ocean dropped from the sky, and another rolled np from beneath; ami ®c-I rolled the eartfa and sky into one wavtt of universal destruction. So men now put off going into the ark. They say they will wait twenty years first. They will have a little longer time with their worldly associates. They will wait until they get older. They say: “Yon can not expect a, man of my attainments and of my position to surrender myself just now. But before the storm comes 1 will go in. Yes, I wilL I know what I am about. Trust use.” ' After awhile, one night about twelve o’clock, going home he passes a scaffolding as a gust of wind strikes it, and a plank falls. Dead! and outside the ark 1 Or, riding in the park a reckless vehicle crashes into him, and his horse becomes unmanageable, and lie shouta “Whoa, whoa," and takes another twist m the reins, and plants his fleet against the dash-board, and pulls back. But no use. It is not so much down the avenue that he flies as on the way to eternity. Out of the wreck of the crash his body is drawn, but bis soul is not picked up. It fled behind a swifter couiser into the great future. Dead 1 and outside the ark! Or. some night, he wakes up with a distress that momentari

ijr tuLirccsd, »»»« w -- pain. The doctors corae in, nad they give him twenty drop*, but no relief; forty drops, fifty drops, sixty drops, but no relief No time for prayer: No time to rend one of the promises No time to get i single sin pardoned The whole bouse is aroused in alarm. The children scream. The wife faints. The pulses fait The heart stops. The ssul flies. Ob! my Odd! dead! and outside the ark! I ha re no doubt that derision kept many people ont of the ark. The world laughed to see a man go in, and said: “Here is a man starting for the ark. Why, there will be no deluge. If there is one, that miserable ship will not weather it Aba! going into the ark! Well, that is too good to keep. Here, fellows, have you heard the news ! This man is going into the ark.*’ Under this artillery at scorn the man’s good resolution perished. And so there are hundreds kept out by the fear of derision. The young man asks himself: T “What would they say at the store tomorrow morning if I should become a Christian! When I go down to the clubhouse they would s howt: “‘Here comes that new Christian! Suppose you will not haye anything to do with us now. Suppose yon are praying now. Get down on yotsr knees and let us hear you pray. Cora**, now, give us a touch Will not do it, eh? Pretty Christian you aiel’ ” j: Is lit not the fear of being laughed at that keeps you cut of the kingdom of God? Which of these accruer* will help you at the last! When you lie down ©a a dying pillow which of them will he there! In the day of eternity wiE they ball yon out! My friends and neighbors, come in right Come m tt trough Christ, tbs wide doer that swings out toward yon. Come tat and be saved. Come ut and be hnppy. ii The spirit and the iWMe say, terns. Boom in the *rk! Bteoni m the.aril! But do not come atone. The text invitee yon to bring your family. Come thou sue ail tiny bouse. Hut means your wife and year < dren. You ean nut drive them is. Noah had tried tot drive the i _ the doves into the «urk he would ociv i . r-.r.c hish.14 ' "*1JL * r i^sSSli.'ii

scattered them. Some parents are not wise about these things. They make iron rales about Sabbath3, and they force the catechism down the throat as they would hold the child’s nose and foroe down a dose of rhubarb or calomel. You can not drive your children into the ark. You can draw your children to Christ, but you can not coe rce them. The cross was lifted not to drive, but to draw. If I Be lifted up, I will draw all men unto me, As the sun draws up the drops of morning de w, so the sun of righteousness exhales tine tears of repentance. Bo si re that you bring your husband and wi e with you. How would Noah have felt if, when ho heard the ram pattering | on the .roof of the ark, he knew that his wife was outside in the storm? No; she went w ith him. And yet some of you are on the ship “outward-bound” for Heaven, but your companion is unsheltered. You remember the day when the marriage ring was set. Nothing has yet been able to break it. Sickness came, and the Anger shrank, but the ring staid on. The twain stood s lono above a child’s grave, and the dark mouth of the tomb swallowed up a thousand hopes; but the ring dropped not into the open grave,. Days of poverty came, and the hand did many a hard day’s work; but the rubbing of the work against the ring only made It shine brighter Shall that ring ever be lost.I Will the iron clang of the sepulcher-pate crush it forever? I pray God that you who have been married on earth may be together in heaven. Oh! by the quiet bliss, of your earthly home; by the babe’s cradle; by all the vows of that dav when you started life together, I beg you to see to it that you both get into the ark. Como thou and all thy house into the ark. Come in, “and briug your wife or your husband with you—not by fretting about religion, or ding-donging them about religion, but by a consistent life and by a compelling prayer that shall bring the throne of God down into your bedroom. Better live in the smallest house in the city and get into heaven than live fifty years in the finest house in the land aud wake up at last and find that one of yon, for all eternity, is outside tho ark. Go home to-night, lock- the door of your room, take up the Bible and read it together, and then kneel down and commend your souls to Him who has watered you all these years; and before -you rise there will be a flutteVing. of wings over your head, angel crying to angel: “Behold, they pray!” But this does not include all your family. Bring the children, toe. God bless the dear children! What would onr homes bo without them! We may have done much for them. They may have done more for us. What a salve for a wounded heart there is in the soft palm of a child ’3 hand I Did harp or flute ever have such music as there is in a child’s “Good night!” From our coarse, rough life, the angeds of God are often driven back, but who comes into the nursery without feeling that angels are hovering around? They who die in infancy go into glory, hut you are expecting your Children to grow up in this world. Is it not a question, then, that rings through all the corridors, and windings, aud heights and depths of your soul, whil.t is to become of your sons and daughters for time and eternity ? “O!” vou sav. “I mean to see that they

have good manners.” Very well. ‘‘I mean to dress them well, if I have myself to go shabby.” Very good. “I shall give them an education, and I shnll leave them a fortune.” ‘■Very well. But is that alii Don’t you mean to take them into the ark! Don't you know that the storm is coming, and that out of Christ there is no safety? no pa rdon? no hope? no Heaven? How to get them In! Go in yourself. If Noah had stayed out do you not suppose that his sons, Shem, Ham and Japhet, wcu!d have stayed out? Your sons and da ughters will be apt to do just as you do. v’ Reject Christ yourself and the probability is that your children will reject him. An account was taken of the religions condition of families in a certain district. In the families of pious parents two-thirds of the children were Christians. In the families where the parents were ungodly, or ly omvtwelfth of the children were Christians. Responsible, as you are, for their temporal existence, you are also responsible for their eternity. Which way will you take them? Out into the deluge, or into the ark? Have vou ever made one earnest prayer for their immortal souls? What will you say In the judgment, when God asks: “Where is George, or Henry, or Frank, or Mary, or Ann? Where are those precious souls whose interests I committed into your hands?” A dying son said to his father: “Father, yon gave me an education, and good manners, and every thing that the world could do for me; but, father, you never told me how to die, and now my soul in going out in the darkness.” Go home and erect a family altar. You mav break down in your prayer—but never mind, God will take what you mean, whether you express it intelligibly cr not. Bring all your house into the ark.Is there one son whom yon have given up? Is he so dissipated that you have stopped counseling and praying? Give him up? How dare you give him up? Did ever God give thee up? Whilst thou hast it single articulation of speech left, cease not to pray for the return of that prodigal. He may even now be standing on the lmach at Hong Kong or Madras, meditating a return to his father's house. Give i»im up? Never give hinl up. Has God promised to hear thy prayer only to mock thee? It is not too late. I. «at Th.nl?> T on in am it a. .whi a

jaering gallery. A voice uttered most feebly at oue side of the gallery is beard distinctly at the opposite side, a great distance off. So, every word of earnest prayer goes all around the earth, and makes Heaven a whispering gallery. Go into the ark—not to sit down, but to stand in the door, and call until all the family come in. Aged Noah, where is Japhet? David, where is Absalom! Hannah, where is Samuell Bring them in through Christ, the door. Would it not be pleasant to spend eternity with out families? Gladder than Christmas or Thanksgiving festival will be the reunion, if we get ail our family into the ark. Which of them can we spare oat of heaven? On one of the late steamers there were a father and two daughters journeying. They seemed extremely poor.' A benevolent. gentleman stepped np to the poor man’to proffer some form of rckef, and said: ‘ Yon seem to be very poor, sir.” “Poor, sir,” replied the man, “if there’s a poorer man than mu a troubling the world, God pity both of nst” “I will take one of your children and adopt it if you say so. • 1 think it would he a great relief to you.” "I “A what?” said the poor man. UA relief.” “Would it be a relief to have the hands chopped off from the body, or the heart torn from the breast? A relief, indeed! God be good to us! Wliat do yon mean sir!” However many children we may have, e have none to give up Which of our families can we afford to spare oat of heaven. Come, lather! Come,mother! Come, son! Came, daughter! Come, brother! Come, sinter. Only one step and we nre in. Christ, the door, swings out to admit us; and It» not the hoarseness of a sto rmy blast that yon hear, but the voiee of »loving and patient God that addresses you, saying: “Come then and all thy house into the •rlf.w , And there may the Lord shut us In. _it is what ma)| as us rouag « old, -Aifnd it U**L