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              %Hnin% C£afett t* ) TWO CENT!*. / On Cent* m Week NIISMUi IMS. ( VMklr BtttklKhtd ISM. ( HUSTON. I'A.. MONDAY, DECEMBER 12. 1887. TABERNACLE SERVICES. PECULIARITIES OF LOVERS HUGH O. PENTEC08T'S FAREWELL. TO EXCLUDE ANARCHISTS. A CONFLICT OF AUTHORITIES. THE attempted murder MRS. HUMPHREYS THOUSANDS. MUSIC HALL. rite Kloquent Newark Preacher's Formal The Collector and United States Judges Nearly #90,000 Given to Charities—Yale University Gets 920,000. Tuesday, December 13th* TWO FOOUSH MAIDENS AND THEIR SILLY CONQUESTS. Newark, N. J., Deo. 12.—Her. Hugh O Peniecost, the eloquent young pastor of tht Bolieville Avenue Congregational chu'di, preached his resignation sermon yesterday morning to an overflowing audience. He wai frequently applauded as be gave hit reason* for resigning, and defined his attitude on religious and social questions. H pointed sat that when he came to the chuie! two years ago his religious views werknown to be as liberal as they are now. Hi iiad never been criticised (or liberality in religion, but simply for taking an activi part in a political movement which ht believed to be one of reform, and one which would go far toward bringing Christianity hack to its primitive purity and rffectivin 84 as the religion of the poor and oppressed, as well as of the well-to-do. Christianity at pieai-bed to-day in orthodox churches was so far from ChrUt that it was Impossible for liira to remain connected with orthodox Christianity, and possibly with organised Christianity of any kind. He was no longer in sympathy with what is called evangelical Christianity, and he must withdraw from it. He would continue to preach what he relieved to be Christ's doctrines, but he had ■to definite plans laid out. His sermon on the Anarchists had been misrepresented. He did not sympathize with crime, but he pitied tbosu who were tempted and driven to crime by wrong social conditions. Those conditions should be remedied. To remedy them study of sociology was needed. His opponents were many of them good people, but they did net understand what tbey were opposing. They simply refused to study the question, and see whether it was truo or not. 1'iie truth disturbed these easy going people. Tliey wanted quiet. He would withdraw, and they could settle down to ease. But truth would triumph in the end. Withdrawal from His Church, THE BILL TO BE PRESENTED BY A 8Air Francisco, Dec. 12.—The conflct of opinion existing between Collector Hager and -the United States judges regarding the landing of Chinese on a ploa of previous residence nearly resulted in a serious rupture between the executive and judicial brandies of the Federal government on Saturday. Thirty Chinese women arrived in this city within the past twenty days, and have been refused a landing by tts collector on the ground that they were being imported for immoral purposes. Ail had been placed on board the city of Peking, which sailed for China Saturday afternoon. Friends of the womtn obtained writs of habeas corpus directing the captain of the steamer to produce them in court Saturday noon. Have s Slight Disagreement. OF M. JULES FERRY CREATE8 JN- New Haven, Dec. 12.--Yal« Univ rsi y bas r. ceived bequosts amounting to $2fi,0CXD Dy the will of Mrs. Vrania Buttoll Humphrey, who died recently in Norfolk, Conn., where she went from Brooklyn to ie*ide. By the will nearly (90.000 is distributed in charitable bequests. Yale gets C15,003 foi the general fund, $0,000 to be added t'D tht three scholarships founded by Mrs. Innv Battell Lamed, the testator's sister, anu {5,000 to be added to the musical fuud. Mrs. liunipbrey had made generous gifts to Y;.l before her death, and her brother, Jos-pli Battel!, gave 165.000 for the Butlell ohup'l, ■jug of the handsomest structures on the campus. Her sister, Mrs. Larned, guve $15, J00 for a fund to further tho cultivation of mcred music, and altogether the family lias given Yale more than $200,000. STRAINING AT A GNAT AND SWAL- CHICAGO CONGRESSMAN, CREASED BITTERNESS. LOWING A CAMEL, LAUGH Although the Ex-Premier's Injuries Are Slight, Conservatives Claim the Outrage as the Result of Utterances by Kadlcal leaders—M. Faille re. Give. It Up. Pauline's Brtthn on the Warpath In a Search tor Her Indian Husband — A Michigan Schoolma'am Leaves Her Aliens Who Menace the Public Peace by Advising the Destruction of Property May, when This BUI Passes, be Arrested and Conveyed Out of the Country. Dr. Talmage Says There Are a Thousand Scoundrels Outside the Church to One Inside of It—Why the Law Taxing In- comes Was Repealed. YOU CAN'T HELP BUT LAU6H. Home to Join a Dusky Lover. Washington, Dec. 12.—The recent trouble with the Anarchists in Chicago and the prosecution of John Host in New York have suggested the preparation of a bill, which will be introduced in the house of representatives by ths Hon. George E. Adams, of Chicago, providing for the expulsion of dangerous aliens from the territory of the United States. The bill was suggested by Herman Raster, the editor of The Stants Zeitung, of Chicago, in a speech made by him before the Union League club of that city. After drawing the bill Mr. Adams submitted it to Mr. Raster, and also to members of that club, and made many changes in the original text to conform to their views. The bill as it now stands provides that, "Whereas, aliens residing in the United States have lately menaced the public peace by advising and encouraging the destruction of property and the murder of officers of the law; and whereas, such acts are offenses against the sovereignty of the United States;" therefore, when any district attorney of the United States shall have information in writing from no leas than three reputable citizens that any alien has aided, advised or encouraged the destruction of property or murder of any officer of the law,or has attempted to overthrow the laws, or to excite domestic violence in any state, such information shall be transmitted at onoe to the president of the United States. The president shall then issue an order in writing requiring such alien to depart from the territory of the United States within a given time, and his order shall be served by the United States marshal upon the person to whom it is directed. The president shall have power to revoke such order or extend the time within which such alien is required to leave the country for good cause. If the offender shall refuse to obey such order it shall be the duty of the secretary of state to cause him to be arrested and conveyed out of the territory of the United States, and if he shall return again to this country be shall be punished by imprisonment not more than three years, and at the expiration of his term of imprisonment shall again.be conveyed out of the country, and not permitted to return until the order expelling him shall be revoked. Section 8 of the bill provides "That whenever, in the ju lgment of the president of the United States, the public safety shall require, it shall be lawful for the president to cause any such alien to be arrested without notice and conveyed out of the United States." The bill is likely to exoite considerable comment and discussion. London, Dec. 12.—From information received from Paris It appears that Auliertln, alias Berckheim, the assailaut of M. Ju.es Ferry, has long borue t!:e reputation of being a dissolute fellow, whose innate depravity rendered him capable of almost any reprehensible act. He has lately lived with a young woman named Grangier, and it is learned that just previous to his attempt to kiil M. Ferry he wrote to her stating his intention, and uurisiiig her in the event of his successful accomplishment of bis murderous purpose to leave France and take refuge with certain of her friends residing in Bugland, where be would join her. A'ubertin maintains a dogged demeanor, refusing to answer questions and manifesting no desire to ask any. His assault upon M. Ferry has bad the effect to completely open the breach between the Radicals and the Conservatives, which was already painfully notioeable. The Conservatives are extremely bitter against the Radicals, and describe Saturday's scene in the lobby of the chamber of deputies to the daily exhibition of venom on the part of The Intrnnsigeant and The Cri du Peuple, wbiuu lias unusually inflamed the passions of the Reds until weak minded and irresponsible persons have been transformed from harmless Imbeciles into murderous maniacs. O.ie tbing is absolutely certain, and that is that the combination of Republican groups which elected M. Carnot to the presidency nnd for a few days promised to endure it, a. until the new government sLoui i get a good start, is hopelessly disintegrated, and the chances are that more serious trouble than has yet occurred will ensue. Brooklyn, Dec. 11.—To-night the Rev. T. De Witt Talmage, D. D., preached at the Tabernacle, this city, on "Too Much Ado About Small Things." His text was: "Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat and swallow a camel!" Matt, xxiii, 'M. The eloquent preacher said: Niagara Palls, N. Y.. Dec. 12. —The elopement of a daughter of the Rev. Augustus Schwitsen with David Littlejohn, a fullblooded Tuscarora Indian, who she thought wai a Spaniard, became public yesterday. Mr. Schwitsen Uvea in Swarmsville, near Transit, on the Central railroad. His daughter Paulina will be 17 years old in February. Bne is a blonde, with blue eyes and flaxen hair. Last summer Bhe came here with some friends on an excursion. While on Goat Island she missed ber companions, and, meeting the Indian, asked him to assist her in looking (or them. He made himself so agreeable that an acquaintance followed. He to'd her he was a Spaniard, and was stopping at the Prospect house with some '.titled Europeans, by whom he was employed. The acquainsance ripened into love, and lately arrangements were made by letter for an elopement She left home on Monday and took the train at Transit for Niagara Palls. Some letters written by Littlejohn, found in ber room, accounted for her disappearance. Her brother traced his sister to Niagara Falls and lost track of her. He went home on Thursday. ■MISS Victoria Temple. At that hour Judges Sawyer and Sabin sat on the bench, but the women did not appear. Milton Andras, attorney for the steamship company, stated that writs had been served, but that when an attempt wai made to 1 riug the women to oourt a deputy collector interfered and prevented tbem from leaviug the steamer. Judge Sawyer then said: "The order of the court is that these women be brought into court at onoa. This order will enforced with the whole power at the command of the court. If the custom house officials interfere to prevent the order of the court they will do it at their own peril, and risk indictment for interference with orders of the United States court." A proverb is compact wisdom, knowledge in chunks, a library in a sentence, the electricity of many clouds discharged iu one bolt, a river put through a mill race. When Christ quotes the proverb of the toxt ho means to set forth the ludicrous behavior of those who make a great bluster about small sins and have no appreciation of great ones. The Prettiest and Brightest Star on the Amcrt can stage, in the Funniest of all Funny 1'luyi. THE NEW Other bequests in Mr-. Humphrey's will are as follows: Long Island Historical society, $10,000; Bellevue Hospital Training School for Nurse*, $6,000; Noriolk (Conn.) Ecclesiastical Fuud, $5,000; for a chapel at Norfolk, Conn., $10,000; American Home Missionary society, $2,OtO; American Bot.nl of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, $2,- 000; Connecticut Training School for Nurses, $0,000; Seamen's Friend society of Mew York, $1,000; Brooklyn Protestant Orphan Asylum, $1,000; Home for Helpless Women and Children, Brooklyn, $2,000; Brooklyn City Mission and Trust society, $2,000; Long Island College hospital, $10,000; Church of the Pilgrims, Brooklyn, $2,500; Brooklyn City Hospital Trainiug School for Nurses, $0,000. MUGGS' LANDING EVERYTHING NEW. NEW MUSIC. NEW SINGIN l DANCING and SPECIAL NEW SCENERY In my text a small insect and a large quadruped are brought into comparison—a gnat and a camel. You ha ve In museum or on the da%rt seen the latter, a great awkward, sprawling creature, with back two stories high, and stomach having a collection of reservoirs for desert travel, an animal forbidden to the Jews as food, and in many literatures entitled "the ship of the desert." The gnat spoken of in the text is In the grub form. It is born in pool or pond, after a few weeks becomes a chrysalis, and then after a few days becomes the gnat as we recognize it. But the insect spoken of in the-text is in its very smallest shape, and it yet inhabits the water—for my text is a misprint, and ought to road, "strain out a gnat." Diagram opens Saturday morning, Dec. Ufa at 9 a m. BAZAAR \ FESTIVAL For the benefit of the It was finally decided that they should be brought into court at 2 otlock, and that it should then be decided what disposition should be made of? them. At 2 o'clock the United States circuit court room was ornamented by the presence of twenty-six Chinese beauties. Tliey were remanded into the custody of the United States marshal until the writs could be heard and decided. "First Baptist Church, Of Pittaton, will be held in the lecture room oC Meanwhile Llttlejohn went to Swarmsvilie Hith the girl, introduced her m his bride, and sought parental forgiveness. The indignant relatives of the girt had ascertained that the man wai a ne'er-do-well Indian, and they ordered him oat of the house. He declined to leave unlees the girl went A light followed, in which Littlejohn was kicked and pounded mercilessly. The girl declared that she loved him, and would follow him wherever he went. Littlejohn was threatened with tar and feathers if he showed his face in the neighborhood, and Pauline was locked up in a room. She said they went to Hamilton from Niagara Falls, and were married by some minister whoee name she fails to recollect The certificate her husband kept Pauline persisted that ha was not an Indian, and believes that he ia well off. Her folks will try to have the marriage annulled. They think it was a mock marriage. The girl's brother came here yesterday hunting for the Indian. He said be had a revolver and would kill him. Steuben villi:, O., Dec. 1 a.—Michael Mo- Ginnws, an old resident of this city, was murdered Saturday night Two tramps bad been drinking In McGinniss' saloon, aud becoming disorderly young Mike McGinniss put them out. Shortly after this the elder McGinniss went out on the railroad track, near where the saloon is located, and while in a dark place a man stepped out and dealt him a blow on the head with a coupling pin, crushing his skull. McGinniss died in a .hort time after he was hurt. The tramps, giving their names as Anderson and Taylor, wei-e arrested for the crime. Murdered with a Coupling Pin. the church on December 20th, 21st and 22nd. My text shows you the prince of inconsistencies. A man after long observation has formed the suspicion that in a cup of water he is about to drink there is a grub or the grand paredt of a gnat. He goes and gets a sieve or strainer. He takes the water and pours it through the sieve in the broad light. He says: "I would rather do anything almost than drink this water until this larva be extirpated." This water is brought under inquisition. The experiment is successful. The water rushes through the sieve and leaves against the side of the sieve the grub or gnat. Then the man carefully removes the insect and drinks the water in placidity. But going out one day, and hungry, he devours a "ship of the desert," the camel, which the Jews were forbidden to eat The gastronomer has no compunctions of conscience. He suffers from no indigestion. He puts the lower jaw under the camel's fore foot, and his upper jaw over the hump of the camel's back, and gives one swallow and the dromedary disappears forever. He strained out a gnat; he swallowed a camel. Mr. Pentecost will probably preach hereafter in a hall in Now York city, the expenses being met by a popular subscription.TO REFORM THE JURY LAWS. There will be three supner tables and Moh table to be decorated in different colors mid wiiti waitresses to represent each table. All who desire a (food t mf» and a first class supper should come and help the cause. The Rill to be Introduced In New Jersey's Legislature. THEY DIDN'T LIKE HIS THEORIES. Trenton, Deo. 13.—A bill will be introduced at the coming session of the legislature to abolish the evils attending the present method of selecting jurors. It will provide for the appointment of jury commissioners to select the Jurors, a duty now unsatisfactorily performed by the sheriffs. The bill is already framed, and prominent lawyers have it in charge. They say that its object is to obtain good jurors, free from political or personal influences, and also to secure a proper enforcement of the lawB designed to protect society, but now in many cases disregarded and practically nullified. Under the provisions of the bill the judge of the circuit court in each county is to appoint two reputable persons, resident' and freeholders, who shall not be of the same political party. These are to be known as commissioners of jurors. Their terms are to be three years, and their compensation is not to exceed $1,OUO a year each. Their duty will be to make out lists of all the persons in the county liable to jury duty, and to make their selections for jurors therefrom, regard being had to the qualifications of persous so selected on account of talents, knowledge, independence and integrity. Pakis, Dec. 12.—M. Jules Ferry passed a feverish night, but wm able to leave his bed yesterday morning. During the day he received thousands of letters and cards from persons expressing sympathy, and a large number of senators and deputies, of all parties, called in person to pay their respects and inquire as to the wounded statesman's condition. All those who called signed the hospital register. Hot Chicken Supper, Oysters in all Styles, Cream and Home-Made Stormy Scene at a Sundav Service In a Syracuse Church. Ice Syracuse, N. Y., Dec., 13.—There was a stormy scene at the morning service in the First Universalist church yesterday, when the pastor, the Rev. J. C. F. Gruinbine, came to appeal to the congregation against the request of the trustees that he resign his office. Pastor Grumbine is the clergy man who has offended soma of his parisbiouers by his espousal of the Henry George theory, and by active participation in the recent cam|»tign. Mr. Grumbine told his congregation from the pulpit yesterday morning that lie had uo excuse for bis political views, and tbat so long as be refrained from expounding them iu his sermons the church had no cause for complaint. Regarding hi( objections to dancing, be (aid he did not propose to have any other man clasp bis wife iu the warm embraces of the waits, and tbat ought to be the opinion of. every decent buabaud and father. Candies, and the Bazaar will be filled with a variety of fancy goods both useful and ornamental Ticket,* 36 cents. Without tickets, admission 6 cents. Faille In a Church. N«w York, Dec. la.—One of the central iron pillars in the chapel of the Church of the linmaculute Conception, which had just been consecrated, fell at the close of the 9 o'clock mass yesterday morning. Several ot the worshippers were injured, and panio stricken people fled screaming into East Fourteenth street, creating intense excitement throughout the neighborhood of Aveuue A. The seriously injured were Jame* Cornelius, August Meyer, Clarence Brady and Lucy Reiner. Cornelius received injuries which may prove fatal. Do You Think Aubertin was examined before the judge dlnstruction yesterday. He baa lost none of his determination, and boldly declares that although he was an anti-revolutionist he was sorry his lack of (kill had prevented the accomplishment of his purpose to kill U. Ferry. Others, however, would succeed in doing what he bad failed to da Detroit, Dec. 12.—The neighborhood of Sand Creek, down the Grand river, near Lamont, is agitated over the elopement of • pretty school ma'am with a negro, as black as a trump spade. Miss Jennie Smith, the daughter of a neighboring farmer in well to do circumstance*, is the Juliet of the story, and the sable Romeo is a farm laborer and threshing machine operator of burly and belligerent propensities, named Alex McGee. Hiss Jennie is a tall, slender blonde of SB summers. Although she had no lack of admirers, she turned a deaf ear to all their protestations of love, and seemingly went about ber work like a level headed girl Last spring, however, the villagers were shocked to learn tbat Miss Jennie and Alex had a liking for one another, and when Jennie's friends expostulated with ber she became very angry and informed them that they could mind their own business. You Are Wise? Aubertin has displayed some talent as an author and likewise as an inventor, but his repeated failures to secure recognition in those pursuits, by reason of his poverty, hav« unbalanced his mind. When asked to reveal the names of his accomplices he promised to do so on Tuesday if in the meantime they should fail to carry out the work they set out to do—that of taking, or attempting to take the lives of the members of the Rouvier ministry. If, however, they are true to their oaths, he will not betray them. While Christ's audience were yet smiling at the appositeness and wit of his illustration —(or smile they did in church unless they were too stupid to understand the hyperbole —Christ practically said to them: "That is you." Punctilious about small things; reckless about affairs of great magnitude. No subject ever withered under a surgeon's knife more bitterly tham did the Pharisees under Christ's scalpel of truth. As an anatomist will take a human body to pieces and put them under a microscope for examination, so Christ finds his way to the heart of the dead Pharisee and cuts it out and puts it under the glass of inspection for all generations to examine. Those Pharisees thought that Christ would flatter them and compliment them, and how they must have writhed under the redhot words as he said: "Ye fools, ye whited sepulchres, ye blind guides, which strain out a gnat and swallow a camel." Taking Their Honeymoon Afoot. In no1; trying to do better, nnd ara you content to keep on in the same old high-priced groove, when JEFFKttsoNviLLB, Ind., Dec. 12. — Rev. John W. Adklnsand Lulie Boyd arrived here Friday night, having eloped from Green county, Ind. The bride's relatives had threatened to make trouble for the preacher, and tlie couple traveled twenty miles by wagon. They arrived penniless. The bride gave the clerk her engagement ring as a fee and the groom gave the justice a masonic pin. The couple walked out of the town happy, bound north, the groom carrying a large family bible.  Then the pastor attempted to call for a vote of the congregation on the question of retaining him. At this juncture H. P. Hall, the moderator, stalked down the aisle with blood in his eye, and, as he saw tbat the pastor bad the congregation on bis side, be declared the proceedings illegal. Death of Isaae 8. Kalloch. Saw Francisco, Dec. 18.—The death is reported from Washington Territory of the Rev. Isaac 8. Kalloch, who has long been a prominent figure on the Pacific coast. He was elected mayor of this city on the workingman's ticket in 1879. During the campaign he was shot by Charles De Toung, at tbat time editor of The Chronicle, the dispute growing out of a number of personal attacks made by both persons. A few months later Kalloch** son went to The Chronicle office and shot De Young dead, and was afterward acquitted of the charge of murder.  It is believed that the bill will pass both bouses early in the session, and meet with the approval of. Governor Green. VOU CM BO BETTER M. Fallieres ha* informed President Carnot that be finds it impossible to form a cabinet on the basis of concentration of the Republican groups, and therefore abandon* the attempt. The question finally came whether the fight shoald be settled theu r—d there, or whether it should be postponed for a week. The pastor's friends were for an immediate settlement, but the moderator ruled that the discussion be adjourned, and it ended with the benediction. Penn Van Has a Natural Gas WelL Lyons, N. Y., Dec. 13.—People In the Tillage of Penn Yan, Yates county, are excited over the finding of an unusually strong vein of gas in that place. William Townsend was boring a well, which had reached a depth of only fifty feet when the gas vein was pierced. Saturday afternoon a pipe was driven into the earth and the escaping gas was lighted. A flame burst several feet into the air and made a loud roaring sound, and the heat from the flame was Intense. Several gal wells will be immediately sunk in different parte of Penn Yan by enthusiastic citizens, and pipes will be laid throughout t e village for heating and lighting houses and business places. The negro vent out to Dakota in the early part of last summer, and the indignation of the neighborhood gradually subsided. Jennie kept her place a« echoolma'am, and alio kept up a correspondence with her black sweetheart. Last week Mix Smith packed up her dry goods, bric-a-brac, etc., and suddenly disappeared. She left a note at home saying she had goue to Dakota to join Alex. Subsequently it was learned that the foolish girl was met at St. Paul by her black lorsr, and that they have been married, and hare settled down in the land of blixiards and wheab M. Carnot has requested If. Tirard to undertake the tisk of conatructing a ministry. M. Tirard is a senator of France. Washington, Dec. 12.—The arrangements for the reception to bs given by the Irish National league, of Washington, to Messrs. Exinunde and O'Connor, the distinguished leaders of the home rule cause in the British parliament, are now complete. The reception will take place Wednesday evening at Masonic temple. Senator Ingalls will preside at the meeting, and Senators Sherman, Hawley, McPherson and other prominent men will be present and speak on the occasion. To Becelve the Irish Kmlssarles. Wo are not trying to make a fortuns in a year, and Later—The physicians' bulletin announces that the wounds of M. Ferry have developed ecchymosis, which is spreading in the region of the heart and liver, and that rest is much needed. A DESPERADO CAPTURED. The Friend of tlie Deaf Mutes. There are In our day a great many gnats strained out and a great many camels swallowed, and it is the object of this sermon to gkoteh a few persons who are extensively engaged in that business. OUR PRICES PROVE He Threatened to Kill His Father, and Hartford, Dec. 13.—The 100th birthday anniversary of Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet was appropriately celebrated at the Asylum for Deaf and Dumb in this city yesterday. This is the first asylum of the kind in America, and was established by Gallauilet seventy years ago. There are now sixty-six such institutions, with 7,000 pupils, and about 30,000 alumni, who were represented by delegates. Gallaudet's grave was visited and heaped with flowers by the silent worshipers of his memory. was Given Over to Justice. An usher warned M. Ferry not to see Aubertin, not liking the man's appearance, but M. Ferry, who was conversing with friends, did not heed tlie warning. He was shot while l-eadiug a letter under seal. The card sent to M. Ferry by Aubertin contained a favorable recommendation of Aubertin to M. Ferry's attention, signed Edward Heive. M. Herve is very indignant at the use of his name. Birmingham, Ala., Dec. 12.—Tom Key, one of the worst and most daring outlaws in the country, was airested in Walker coanty Saturday, for attempting to kill his aged father. Ten or twelve years ago Key was known in that county as a desperate horse thief. He was finally captured, after being badly wounded, and lodged in jail. Soon after he recovered from his wounds he esca|Ded and again entered upon a career of outlawry. He burned houses, robbed and plundered, until lie was tbe terror of the county. He finally disappeared for a time, and was next heard of iu Mississippi, where he stole several horses. That we are the most philanthropic people in the Cloth business. We aie content to take a small percentage of profit, and First I remark that all those ministers of the Gospel are photographed in the text who are very scrupulous about the conventionalities of religion, but put no particular stress upon matters of vast importance. Church services ought to be grave and solemn. There Is no room for frivolity in religious convocation. But there are illustrations and there arc hyperboles like that of Christ in the text that W'll irradiate with smiles any intelligent nuditoi y. There are men like those blind guides of tho text, who advocate only those things in religious service which draw tho corners of the mouth down, and denounce all those tilings which have a tendency to draw the corucrs of tho mouth up, and these men will go to installations and to presbyteries ami to conferences and to associations, their pockets full of fine sieves to strain out the gnats, while in their own churches at hoipe every Sunday there are fifty people sound asleep. They make their churches a great dormitory, a;ul their somniferous scrmoAs are a cradle, and the drawled out hymns a lullaby, whilo some wakeful soul in a pew with her fan keeps the flies off unconscious persons approximate. Now, I say it is worse to sleep in church than to smile in church, for the latter implies at least attention, whilo tho former implies tho indifference of the hearers and the stupidity of the speaker. In old age, or from physical infirmity, or from long watching with the sick, drowsiness will sometimes overpower one; but when a minister of the Gospel looks off upon an audience and finds healthy and intelligent people struggling with drowsiness, it is time for him to give out tho doxology or pronounce the benediction. Tho great fault of church services today is not too much vivacity, but too much somnolence. The one is an irritating gnat that may bo easily strained out; tho other is ft great, sprawling and sleepy eyed camel of the dry desert. In all our Sabbuth schools, in all our Bible classes, in all our pulpits, we need to brighten up our religious message with such Christ like vivacity as we find in liie text. Their Fattier Forgave Them. Reducing the Number of Saloons. Conway, Ky., Dec. lis.—A Q. Baker commenced teasing Thomas Rose, of Jackson county, about a wooden button worn on Roue's coat. Rose shot Baker through the bowels and wrist, inflicting wounds from which he will di ■. The men had heretofore been the best of friends. After the shooting Rose jumped on his horse and fled, but was pursued, captured and placed in jaiL He is 2S years old. Shot In a Silly Quarrel. Madison, Wis., Dec. 12. — Miss Kitty Kanouse is a granddaughter of ex-Governor William K. Taylor. Kitty wbb a pretty chorus girl at the production of the cantata of "Queen Esther" at Stoughton a few evenings ago, and before the last act stepped past her waiting father and became a principal in an Interesting dramatic drama in which Grant Shelter, a sturdy young farmer, is hero. The young couple met outside of the opera house, jumped into a waiting carriage, and were whirled away to Oregon, where a binding but informal marriage ceremony was perfoimed. While this was in progress the bride's wrathful father was telegraphing all over the country for officers to apprehend his daughter, but it was too late. Kanouse was philosophical, for when he ascertained that the young people bad successfully thwarted him he extended parental forgiveness.  Philadelphia, Dec. 12.—The new high license law passed by the last legiafature promises to drive out of the liquor business not only those who cannot afford to pay the $500 license fee, but also many wealthy dealers who will fiud it impossible to secure the necessary bondsmen to become responsible for their faithful compliance with the law. Up to the close of buaiuess Saturday only 350 applications for licenses for next year had been fl ed with the clerk of the c&urt of quarter sessions. This is considered a small number, in view of the fact that there are about 6.UC0 saloons in the city. 388 You Arrested for the Erie Murder. Auijertin is impecunioos, and had been endeavoring to borrow money with which to go to Versailles during the sitting of the congr ss, intending to shoot M. Ferry if he were elected president. Mad 8 Happy Auburn, N. Y., Dec. 12.—Philip Stein, who is wanted in Erie, Pa., for the murder of William Jones, a restaurant keeper, was arrested here yesterday. Stein showed fight, drawing a knife, but the officer covered him with a revolver, when Stein surrendered. He claims to be able to prove his innocence. He is held to await the action of the Erie authorities. Stein has served two terms in Auburn prison, and was discharged in August last, alter serving a term of eight years tor sheep stealing. Three years ago the court house of Walker county, with all the records, was destroyed by tire, and among tbe other papers were the indictments against Key. He no doubt knew of the fire and its results, and recently returned to the home of his parents in the mountains, about tweuty miles from Jasper, the county seat For a time he was concealed by relatives and friends, but recently he assaulted bis old father and threatened to kill him. In addition to that he set fire to the barn and burned the products of tbe old man's farm. Tbe father could stand it no longer, and, procuring a warrant, directed ihe officers to his son's biding place. Key w is captured after a bloody fight with the officers, and did not surrender until be received a load of buckshot. He is seriously The couditiou of M. Ferry ia less favorable thou it had been throughout yesterday and last evening, owing in a great measure to the fatiguo and excitement of yesterday incident to receiving a large number of callers, etc. His febrile symptoms have very much increased. By taking bargains away from our store that will Traveling with Forty-two Criminal*. St. Louis, Dec. 13.—Deputy United States Marshal Thomas brought into Fort Smith, Ark., Saturday the largest batch of criminals ever brought there at one time. They numbered forty-two. Twelve of them are charged with raur.ler, five with assault with intent to kill, fifteen with laroeny, and ten with the violation of the revenue and intercourse laws. They all cume from tho Indian Territory.  BRIGHTEN YOUR HOUSEHOLD Columbus, O., Dec. 12.—The special grand jury impaneled to investigate the Columbus tally sneet forgeries of 18B5 reported Saturday evening. The sheriff roi used to announce the names of those against whom indictments are returned until they could be arrested, but it is understood that they are: Alien O. Meyers, Thomas J. Cogan, ex-member of the legislature; J. C. Blackburn, a lawyer, of Cincinnati; Fre . Steube, a night watchman at the vault where the returns were kept; R B. Montgomery,ex-state's attorney, and his brother, Di\ C. B. Montgomery. Steube was arrested and gave bonds. Indicted for Election Frauds. M. Tirard has informed the president that he has abandoned the undertaking of forming a cabinet. It is believed that M Floquet will be summoned. Illness of Prince Bismarck. and induce you to come and see us again. Hamburg, Dec. 12.—Reliable advices received here from Friedricbsruhe say that Prince Bismarck was seised with a sudden illness Saturday. Tbe attack speedily passed passed off, but his physician advises rest and abstention from business. He is suffering from indigestion and nervoua headache. Count Herbert Bismarck has arrived at Fri dricbsruhe. Wilkesbarrb, Pa., Dec. 12.—Ida Smedley and Jim Phillips, the notorious counterfeiters, were taken to Scranton by United States Marshal Barring and lodged in jail to await trial at the March term of the United States court in that city. They were arrested at Sunbury for complicity in counterfeiting operations which have been going for some months in Harrisburg, Reading, Poltsville, Brie, and other towns in this state. Judson Walcott and Joe Harlan, of Dunkirk, N. Y., and Qarrett Van Antwerp, of Utica, N. Y., members of the same gang, who were captured recently in this vicinity, are iu jail here. "Coiners" Behind the Bars. Albany, N. V., Dec. 12.—In June last, John Walker, a canal contractor, living at Waterford, Saratoga county, disappeared, having 9300 in his possession. On June 23 bis body was found in the canal, between Cohoes and West Troy, covered with knife wounds. Foul play was suspected and Governor Hill offered a reward of (1,000 for the aapture of the murderer. Thomas Kelly, 55 years old, who is now an inmate of the almshouse here, has made a confession, saying that while working at Rotterdam Junction he overheard a conversation between two brothers, whose names are not given, in which they spoke of having "fixed old man Walker." In conversation one of the brothers told Kelly that detectives were, after him, and during tbe night the brothers left ths place and have not been seen sinoe. Detectives are now looking for the brothers. Alleged Confession of Murder. Cmirtlnndt Palmer Talks Anti-Poverty, Nkw YC rk, Dec. 12.—Courtlandt Paluur spoke before tlie Auti-Povertv society in Arthur hall, iu Harlem, last night He said in bis uddress that money did not always bring happiness, but that oil an average the workingmen of this country did not earn • n-iugli to live on, and this was due to cu;- ..liruat competition. What was wanted, he suid, was co-operation. We Are Not Hogs wounded. Tlie Pittsburg Revival. Another Irish Member Arrested. On the contrary, we are easily satisfied.Pittsburg, Dec. 12.—The eleventh anniversary of the great temperance rovival in ibis city, when over 25,000 people signed tbe pledge, was celebrated by Francis Murphy, ■ be evangelist, at tbe Bijou tbeatre last night. Every inch of the large auditorium was occupied, and Sixth street, in tbe vicinity of tbe theatre, was impassable for hours. D. L. Moo ly, the evangelist, closed a series of meetings here last night. From two to four meetiugs have been held each day foi three weeks, exoept on Saturdays, and the Central rink, seating some 3,500 persons, hai been crowded. Tbe result will be a large accession to tbe membership of ail the churches. Mr. Moody left for bis Massachusetts home to-day. Dec. 12.—Mr. Hooper, member of parliament, has been arrested at Cork for publishing reports of meetings of suppressed branches of the National league. A Victim of Superstition. Minden, La., Dec. 12.—Tbe body of Andrew E l wards, a negro 70 years of age, wus discovered a day or two ago suspended from tbe limb of a tree a few miles d.stuni from this place. The nutter bas been thoroughly investigated, and all the information warrants the assertion that the old man was lynched by men of his own color, and without the slightest cause other than superstition. Tbe old man was considered a voudoo, and upon this flimsy pretext he was lynched. The old man was universally esteemed by all the white people, and his death by violence will be avenged if possible. London, Dec. 12.—Archbishop Ryan, of Phil idclpbia, and DIabop Kyan, of Buffalo, arrived ai Queenstown on board the steamer &rvia Saturday, en route to Rome, to pay their reepects to Pope Leo XIII on the occasion of his holiness' jubilee. Among the other passengers was Charles Johnson, wbo is to act as Kilrain's American second in his light with Smith. Archbishop Hyatt's Safe Arrival. COME AND JUDGE FOR YOURSELVES Swelling the Banks of Idlers. Joliet, Ills., Dec. 12.—The Juliet Rolling millB, where 2,000 men were employed, has shut down. This is a severe blow to business interests here. To report JatrD 9, 1888- Pittston Borough—J B, Smith, gentleman. Piltston Township— William Harlan farmer.Jury Panel Drawn Yesterday. How well we treat our customers. TELEGRAPHIC NEWS CONDENSED, The ground around the principal shaft of the Calumet and Hecla mine has caved in, thus affording air and vent for the extension of the lire which has prevailed for over a month. Plains—John Kinney, merchant; Gilbert Ourry, teacher. Exeter Township— Merritt Roielle, farmer. Denison—Peter Schafer, farmer. Slocum—William Fink, farmer. Ashley—Philip Conrad, gentleman. Newport—E. B Jones, miner. Pleasant Valloy—Peter McQuian, engineer. HazUton—Reuben Klinger, carpenter; William Margwarth, painter. Henry Cohen CLOTHING HOUSE. , Cincinnati, Dec. 12.—During the performance oi "Michael Strogoff" at Robinson's theatre Saturday afternoon James O'Connell, stage manager, was instantly killed by an electric shock, which also injured Charles Christy, a stage hand. An examination of the wire leading to the electric light in the proeoenium arch revealed a defective insulation, making a connection with the metal speaking tube which led to the prompter's stag*. O'Connell got the full force of the current by reeting his band on the sine covered box from which the gas burners are controlled. The sad affair occurred almost in sight of his affianced wife, Nellie Collius, a member of the company. Her grief was extremely touching. Killed In Sight of His Afllanoed. Haktkord, Dec. 12.—Henry Jjovy, who shot Mis. OuD r.lut at Torrington on Friday, and escaped, wus found on Saturday hanging dead to a tree in the woods near his ho us.'. He bad commf ed suicide. Mrs. Querdat is recovering. A Would-be Murderer's Sutelde. I take down from my library the biographies of ministers and writers of past ages, inspired and uninspired, who have done the most to bring souls to Jesus Christ, and I rind that without a single exception they consecrated their wit and their humor to Christ. Elijah used it when be advised the Baalites, as they could not make their God respond; tolling them to call louder, as their God might bo sound asleep or gone a-hunting. Job used it when he said to his self conceited comforters, "Wisdom will die with you." Christ not only used it in the text, but when no ironically complimented the putrefied Pharisees, saying: "The whole need not a physician," and when by one word he described the cunning of Herod, saying, "Go ye, and toll that fox." Matthew Henry's commentaries from the first page to the last coruscated with humor as summer clouds with beat and lightning. John Bunyan's writings ore as full of humor aa they ore of saving truth, and there is not an aged man here who has ever read "Pilgrim's Progress" who docs not remember that while reading it he smiled as often as he wept. UUrysostom, Goorge Herbert, Robert South, John Wceley, Goorge Whitefleld, Jeremy Taylor, Rowland Hill, George G. Finney and nit mea of the past who greatly advanced ti e king.!om of God consecrated their wit anal their humor to the cause of Christ. Sc it has heon in all the ages, and I say to these Life or Death "Immaterial." The case of E. L Harper, indicted and tried for wrecking the Fidelity Natioual bank, of Cincinnati, is now in the hands of the jury. Rev. Dr. Berry Declines. Buffalo, Dec. 12.—John A. Van Norton, head of one of the departments in a leading dry goods stores, took twenty grains ol chloral Saturday. He had a dispute witl one of the clerks, and desired to eud life troubles. He came here from Oil City lusl Sepumber, but his home originally was al Newark, N. J. Three doctors worked ovei him all day and have hopes of saving hi: life. They cut open his windpipo and tried artificial respiration, but it did not work well. When asked It te did not want U live, Van Norton said it was "immaterial." He has been married twice, anil has tbro» children. Brooklyn, Dec. 12.— Rev. Lyman Abbott preached In Plymouth church yesterday morning, and at the oloee of the servioe reed the following cablegram from Rev. Dr. Berry, of Wolverhampton, Englan , declining the call to become Mr. Beecher's successor: "Charles Albert Berry greets Plymouth; appreciates its confidence; reciprocates its affection; prays for its prosperity; but cannot accept pastorate. Home claims inexorable. Duty here commands. Letter mailed. God bless and guide you." The decision of Dr. Berry caused great disappointment. New No., 65 North Mali A Victim of Melancholia, Thirty survivors of the lost steamer W. X. Scliolten arrived at New York on the Netherlands steamship J*. Caland. Plymouth Borough—John H. Chase, carpenter.Union—James Bilby, farmer. Roes—K. Roberta, farmer. Haste—Daniel Donahue, miner. Luxerne—Calvin Perrin, merchant. Black Creek—Tilmon Ritteuhouse, gentleman.Nbw York, Dec. 12.—George Graham Bond, aged 24, *Du of a wealthy Boston family, committed suicide in bis room at tbe Ousey house yesterday morning, by shooting himself iu tbe head. He was a victim o. melancholia. The Rev. Joseph Parker sailed for Europe in the Etruria. Gossip among thf politicians indicates that Fremont Cole haa the lead in the New York speakership raoe, liuited second and Ainsworth third. Seven Persons llurued to Death. Established in 18G3. Connected* niiug Seminary. Without a peM in the comprehensive arrangemefl of business study. Telegraphy, TM Tjpe-writing and Ornamental 1 taught. Boarding department beati and lighted by electricity. For Ct n*l adJn»t- W. L. DEAN, Pan 0etl8- I&w-l3w. R Washington, D. T., Dec. 12.—The bouse of Micnael Harris, wbo lesidss with his wife and seve ■ children lourtoen miles from here, caught fire Saturday ulght, ti'id ail but All.' Harris and one child were burned to death. John L. Sullivan had a lively reception on his arrival in Dublin yesterday. A Good Karss Foolish Treatment of Political Prisoners. There are thirty-eight widows of revolutionary soldiers on the pension lists. Abated aa a Common Nuisance. Should not hesitate to wait upon tlio-e ill with such diseases as Small-pox, Cholera or 8carlet Fever. There ia little to be feared by persons watting oo the tiok if thev will use Darby* Prophyiaotio Fluid freely. Ia sick roams in should be exposed on a plate or aaueer, and a patient spoogsd off with the Fluid diluted. For safety, cleanliness and eomfort in the Sick room the Fluid ie indispensable.Dublin, Dec. 12.—The authorities of Tullamore jail have prohibited the delivery to Lord Mayor Bullivan of The Nation and The Weekly News, which papers have been sent to the prison for him, and their action is undoubtedly in pursuance of instructions from the Dublin executive. The aggravating character of Mr. Sullivan's deprivation appears the more marked when it is remembered that both Edmund Yates and Mr. Stead were not only permitted to read their own and other papers during their terms of incarceration, but were also allowed to write whatever they pleased for publication in their respective journals. Silver Hollar Manufacturers. Mrs. Brower, who was frightfully beaten upon the head with the axe near Hempstead, L. L, Saturday, is still living. Topkka, Kan., Dec. 12.—Judge Brewer, of the United States circuit court, on Saturday issued a decree declaring the Walruff brewery, at Lawrence, a common nuisance, and directing the United States marshal to shut it up and abate ths same. The decree also perpetually enjoins the brewery Irom manufacturing or selling any intoxicating liquors. This is tbe first brewery that bas l een declared a nuisance under the prohibitory law of Kansas, and tbe decree is in accordance with the late deoleion of the United States supreme court on the prohibition question. Salt Lake City, Dec. 12.— John Rekaii and Toddy Maynes have been arrstod foi manufacturing counterfeit silver dollars Rekart is an old offender, having only recently completed a term iu the pauiteuliary for counterfeiting. The spui iom coin wsi manufactured at the town of Grautsville, twenty tulles front hero, and circulated principally anijiig the soldiers at Fort Douglass, who bought it at the rats of three for one The counterfeit is sail to be a very good one, the only defeot being in the metaVi) ring. More arrest* will probably be made London, D.-c. 12.—Information is received tbut a violent hurricane recently swept the Orkney Islands, and that twenty persons were drowned through tbe destruction of small vessels cruising in the vicinity. Death l» a Hurricane. Dentist John Wettlaufer, of East Thirty third street, after looking up the mauner in which a recent suicide was committed, hung himself. PROF. J. R. ARMSTRONG, „ MUSIC TEACHE Downs V naman, the cook of the schooner Nellie S. J.-rrell, wuich was suuk off ttarnegat on Thursday night, and who was supposed to have been lost, arrived at Goshen, N. J., yesterday. He was picked up after being eighteen hours in the water. Weather Indications. 133 PHILADELPHIA AVE., WEST P Pupils taken private, or In clasw Theory of Music, Vocal Culture and Bass. Tbe Rev. Geo- H. Thayer, of Bourboa lad. say* "Both myself and witsows our lives to Shiloh's Consumption Ours." For sals by J. K. Fleming. For Tu"»lay, la New Jersey, eastern New Turk, eastern Pennsylvania, aad in New England, fair weather, with nearly stationary, followed by rising temperature, and light westerly winds.  DMA I.JIM IX ALL KIJTDM OJT Ml CMVMCB Atrn MMCULAM. (OOHTKUXS 01 THOU) PAB*.)