Evening Gazette

              NUMBER ITU. I Weakly Eataklbktd 1830. | PITTSTON. PA* ATURDAY, MAY 26. 1888. !two oehtr. -fen Cents • Week nlttee, before a wrangle should be began upon the floor of the assembly. Judge Story offered a* an amendment a proposition that the committee on union be enlarged by the addition of six members and continued for further inquiry, and that the report under consideration be committed to this enlarged Committee with instructions to correspond with any oommittee which may be appointed by the southern general assembly.Dr. Paxton at this point said that his remark* had been misunderstood, and he wanted to explain that when he said "God cufse the day when the negro had been brought to America," he intended that remark to apply to our forefathers In Massachusetts, as well as in New Orleans, who stole the negro from his African home and sold him as a slave. 8HERIDAN10UT OF" DANGER. Chosen Bishop for India Dreary Day in Congress Excited Presbyterians. A Relapse Whloh Is Fallowed by a Deulded Improvement. FRIDAY EVENING'S TALK IN mc —a ease of shells or birds or a season ticce* « some picture gallery. If 70a do nothing but play on one string of the base viol you will wear It out and get no healthy tune. Better take the bow and sweep it clean across in one grand swirl, bringing all four strings and all eight Btops into requisition. BROOKLYN TABERNACLE. Washington, May 20.—Gen. Sheridan was not so well yesterday, and although be was feeling better in the evening it was deemed best to have a consultation of three physicians. It was held at 8:80, and late in the night Dr. O'Reilly issued the following bulletin: Dr. Talmage Says Morbidity In Beflglon May Be Cared by Outdoor Exercise—The Ineffltble Softness of Much That Is Called Hisses for Dr. Paxton at the General Assembly. Dr. J. M. Thoburn Elected by the Methodist Conference. The Legislative, Executive and Judicial Appropriation. Christian Literature. Let us go much into the presence of the natural world if we can get at it. Especially if we live in great thoroughfares let us make occasional flight to the woods and the mountains. Even the trees in town seem artificial. They dare not speak where there are bo many to listen, and the hyacinth and geranium in flower pots in the window seem to know they are on exhibition. If we would once in a while romp the fields we would not have so many last year's rose leaves in our surmons, but those just plucked, dewy and redolent. We cannot see the natural world through the books or the eyes of others All this talk about "babbling brooks" is a stereotyped humbug. Brooks never "babble.*" To babble is to bo unintelligent and imperfect of tongue. But when the brooks speak they utter lessons of beauty that the dullest ear can understand. We have wandered from the Androscoggin in Maine to the Tombigbee in Alabama, and we never found a brook that "babbled." The people babble who talk about them, not knowing what a brook i& We have heard about the nightingale and the morning lark till we are tired of them. Catch you for next religious talk a chewink or a brown thresher. It is high time that we hoist our church windows, especially those over the pulpit, and let in some fresh air from the fields and mountains. "Consultation by Drs. Matthews, Yarrow and O'Reilly. Patient sitting up; voioe strong; bright, cheerful and hopeful CBdema of Jegs diminished; pulaa, 110 (his normal pulse rate being 106), firm and regular. Heart sounds are dearer. Respiration, 80 [ regular. Has had no nausea and hat taken sufficient nourishment. Tongue clearer. Condition in general has improved since morning visit R. M. O'EHLIT, It D." Col L. M Sheridan says: Brooklyn, May 25.—To-night the Rev. T. De Witt Talmage, D. D., took for the subject of his talk, "A .Morning in the Country." Following is what he said: DISCUSSING OBGANIC UNION. THE TEMPERANCE QUESTION. MANY AMENDMENTS PRESENTED. Deport of Conferenoe Committees frosn An Antl-IJquor Resolution Upheld—Book Rejoice with me, for I saw tliia week a great novelty for those who live in towns and cities—a morning in the country a little further south. That la to me the greatest event of this week, and I feel like rhapsody. Both Northern and Southern Branehes Agent* Also Elected—Sla Sek Ong Gives His Opinion In the Purest Chinese—The lleved by Occasional Gufftews—Senator The Monotony of Doll Debate Only Re- Presented, and the Whole Matter Finally Blalr Thinks State Laws Should Not Referred to a Special Committee of Six. Color Line Toted Down. Deal With Religions Subjects. Philadelphia, May 26.—The seventh day's proceedings of the Presbyterian general assembly were held in Horticultural hall. The first half hour was spent in devotional exercises, conducted by Rev. George Plerson, of Henrietta, Tex. The assembly was then called to order by the moderator, Rev. Dr. Thompson. "For that crime," he said, "we have been cursed. We have paid for It in treasure and in blood. That was the idea in my mind, and X am sorry that I have been misunderstood." (Applause.) New York, May 36.—The attendance at yesterday's sessions of the Methodist general oonferenoe was notably smaller than previously. Bishop Andrews presided. The discussion of the report of the committee on temperance and the legal prohibition of the liquor txaffio was resumed. A resolution which had previously caused much discussion, and which states that while the conferenoe does not presume to dictate to its people as to their political affiliations, it expresses the opinion that they should not permit themselves to be controlled by party organizations that are managed In the Interest of the liquor traffic, was finally adopted. It is never real morning except in the country. In the oity in the early part of the day there is a mixed color that climbi down over the roofs opposite, and through the smoke of the chimney, that makes people t.hinir it ia time to get up and comb their hair. But there is real morning in the country. Horning! descending "from God out of heaven like a bride adorned for her husband." A few moments before I looked out, and the army of night Bhadows were striking their tents. A red light on the horizon that does not make me think, as it did Alexander Smith, of "the barren beach of hell," but more like unto the fire kindled on the shore by him whom the disciples saw at daybreak stirring the blaze on the beach of Qenesareth. Just now the dew woke up in the hammock of the tree branches, and the light kissed it. Yonder, leaning against the sky, two great uprights of flame, crossed many rundles of fire I Some Jacob must have been dreaming. Through those burnished gates a flaming chariot rolls. Some Elijah must be ascending. Morning 1 I wish I had a rousing bell to wake the whole world up to see it. Every leaf a psalm. . Every flower a censer. Every bird a chorister. Every sight beauty. Every sound musia Trees transfigured. The skies in conflagration. The air as if sweeping down from hanging gardens of heaven. The foam of celestial seas splashed on the white tops of the spiraea. The honeysuckle on one side of the porch challenges the sweetbrier on the other. The odors of heliotrope overflow the urns and flood the garden. Syringias with bridal blossoms id their hair, and roses bleeding with a very carnage of color. Oh, the glories of day dawn in the country! My eyes moisten. liulike the flaming sword that drove out the first pair from Eden, these fiery splendors seem like swords unsheathed by angel hands to drive us in. Washington, May 28.—The house passed yesterday in discussing unimportant amendments to the legislative, executive and judicial appropriation bill, "The family of Gen. Sheridan considers that he has Improved, and oan see for themselves that he Is stronger." The debate npon Judge Strong's resolution was further oontinued, aud finally the whole matter was referred to a special committee of six, of which Judge Strong was named as chairman, to consider it and report, having precedence over all other business. Dr. Yarrow said to a reporters Private business was set aside, and the house in committee of the whole resumed consideration of the legislative, executive and judicial appropriation bilL The bill was read by paragraphs for amendment. "I felt quite uneasy in the morning about Gen. Sheridan, but when I saw him in the afternoon I notloed a change for the better. He was additionally improved at night when I left him. He was cheerful. He walks up and down his room, and I feel assured that the danger point has passed." Rev. Dr. Howard Crosby announced that an invitation had been extended from the Fourth Avenue church, New York, for the meeting of the next general assembly. Rev. Dr. W. H. Roberts said the committee reootnmended the selection of that place. This was agreed to, and Rev. Dr. Crosby was appointed to report a committee of arrange- The report on foreign missions that the receipts of the year amounted to $901,- 180.80, or an advance of $117,023.21 upon last year. This splendid up lift along the grooves of finance Is due to an increase from legacies, of $.'D«,4M; of churches, $20,120, and from women's societies, of $46,851. The additions to the missionary force and the los9oe by death and withdrawal since the last report, leaves a net gain of nine ministers and eleven unmarried ladies. Mr. J. D. Taylor, of Ohio, offered an amendment increasing the salary of the chaplain of the house from $900 to (1,200, which created some discussion of a bantering character relative to the amount of prayer necessary for the well being of a Democratic house. The amendment was rejected. SOUTHERN PRESBYTERIANS. Still Arguing Over Dr. Woodrow'a Iheo- A QUADRUPLE MURDER. Baltimore, May 26.—The convention of southern Presbyterians met at 8 p. m. yesterday after the return of the delegates from Philadelphia. Rev. Jacob Henry Smith, of North Carolina, presided. Th® order of the day was the consideration of the appeal taken by Rev. Dr. Wood row from the discussion of the synod of Georgia on his theory of evolution, anil Rev. Dr. Strickler took the floor. ries of Evolutlou. A resolution which was adopted at the session of Thursday evening declared in favor of constitutional prohibitory amendments, and quoted a committee of United States senators as saying "to refuse such a hearing is just cause for revolution." Governor Lounsbury, of Connecticut, and several other candidates wanted this clause reconsidered, as they thought no member of the conference should be on record as voting for such a revolutionary sentiment. The motion tn reconsider, however, was lost Several hours of dreary discussion on trivial amendments ensued. children Butchered by Burglars In Reuben Drake and Wife and Two Grand- Tbelr Wisconsin Home, Mr. Cobb, of Alabama, opposed the entire appropriation for the botanical garden. He said that when he first oame to congress he bad said to an old member that he would vote to abolish the garden. This member— an economy and reform Democrat, too—told him that if he did he would be a "d—d fool." (Laughter.) He had then asked what was the use of it, and the reply was that one of the uses was that favored members could procure flowers there. His informant could not • tell where the flowers went, but knew that they did notjgo to the members' wives. (Laughter.) VmoQUA, Wis., May 26.—Reuben Drake, his wife and two grandchildren were murdered Thursday night in Mr. Drake's residence, about four miles from the village of Readstown. No clew has yet been obtained to the perpetrators of the deed. The house was ransacked and the furniture overturned, showing that the murderers had searched for money and valubles. We need to drive out from our hearts and our churches everything like morbid religion. Much of the Christian character of the day lacks in swarthlness and power. It is gentle enough, and active enough, and well meaning enough, but it is wanting in moral muscle. It can sweetly sing at a prayer meeting, and smile graciously when it is the right time to smile, and make an excellent nurse to pour out with a steady band a few drops of peppermint for a child that feels disturbances under the waistband, but has no qualification for the robust Christian work that is demanded. Dr. Strickler called attention to the (act that tl\p convention was to vote upon the action of the Georgia «ynod, and that any new matter that may have been brought up here could have no weight in the final discussion. He argued that Dr. Woodrow's theory was against the teachings of the church, and that if a teacher in the church could not be charged with an offense in transgressing the word of God, there was no telling whore it all would end The burdeu of Dr. Strickler's argument was that the church accepted the words "God made man from the dust of the earth" as one of her standiyds, and with no other interpretation than they bore on thj'r face, and that Dr. Woodrow violated tha word of God when ho attempted any other interpretation. Rev. Dr. Sanford Hunt and John M. Phillips were then elected eastern agents to manage the New York branch of the Methodist Book Concern, and Rev. Dr. Earl Cranston and W. P. Stowe were chosen managers of the Cincinnati branch. These gentlemen are their own successors, and receive a salary of about 94,000. The afternoon session of the Presbyterian general assembly was taken up in the hearing the report of tho committee of conference. This report from the committee of conference, with a like committee of the Southern assembly, on the question of the union of the two assemblies, recommended that the assembly indorse the views of the committee as expressed in a letter to the committee of the southern church. That communication, addressed to Rev. J. B. Strickler, D. D., chairman of the southern committee, set forth: Yesterday a neighbor had occasion to go to Mr. Drake's house on an errand, and upon entering the room a fearful sight was presented. Drake and his wife lay near each other on the floor in pools of blood, which flowed from gaping gunshot wounds in their heads. Mr. McComas, of Maryland, offered an amendment increasing the clerical force of the civil service commission. On a bed in an adjoining room lay the little children, both under 7 years of age, with their throats cut from ear to ear. One of the children was still alive when found, but died a few minutes later. The report of the committee on missions, which recommended that a missionary bishop be elected for India, was then taken up. Dr. lyinahan again vigorously opposed this, and Bald he was suspicious of sudden conversions. Dr. Robinson, of India, answered him in scathing tones. "Wise men," said Dr. Robinson, "change their minds often, but fools never. This is an old saying, but evidently a true one." He then spoke upon the needs of the missionaries for a commander who was not 8,000 miles away. His speech was eloquently indorsed by Dr. J. E. Wilson. One reason for this is the ineffable softness of much of what is called Christian literature. The attempt is to bring us up on tracts made up of thin exhortations and goodish maxims. A nerveless treatise on commerce or science in that style would be crumpled up by the first merchant and thrown into his waste basket. Religious twaddle is of no more use than worldly twaddle. If a man has nothing to say be had better keep his pen wiped and his tongue still. There needs an infusion of strong Anglo-Saxon into religious literature and a brawnier manliness and more impatience with insipidity, though it be prayerful and sanctimonious. He who stands with irksome repetitions asking people to oome to the Saviour, while be gives no strong common sense reason why they should come, drives back the souls of men. If, with all the thrilling realities of eternity at hand, a man has nothing to write which can gather up and master the thoughts and feelings of men, his writing and speaking are a slander on the religion which he wishes to eulogize. This led to a debate on civil service reform. The president was attacked for making many removals. Mr. Hopkins, of Illinois, asserted, and commented on the assertion, that throughout the United States Mr. Cleveland's Federal office holders had captured- Democratic state conventions and elected delegates to St Louis, regardless of the wishes of the people. "Touching our doctrine of the spirituality of our church: Our committee beg leave to gay that we do not conceive it to be any part of the duty with which we are charged to Bit in judgment upon the consistency of our church with itself at different periods of its history; to institute any compensation with a view to this end, between the earlier and later deliverances of its successive assemblies, but rather to represent the present attitude of our church toward certain issues which are regarded as pending between the bodies which we respectively represent Mr. and Mrs. Drake were over 80 years of age. Mr. Drake was a highly respected farmer, and no other cause than robbery can be assigned for the deed. Dr. Strickler said that if the convention declined to sustain the decision of the synod of Georgia it refused to stand on the face of the meaning of God's word. We all need the refreshing influenoes of more outdoor life. Almost every nature, however sprightly, sometimes will drop into a minor key or a subdued mood, that in common parlance is recognized as "the blues." There may be no adverse causes at work, but somehow the bells of the soul stop ringing, and you feel like sitting quiet, and you strike off fifty per cent, from all your worldly and spiritual prospects. The immediate cause may be a northeast wind, or a balky liver, or an enlarged spleen, or pickled oysters at 12 o'clock the night before. Mr. Reed, of Maine, said that he could remember how gentlemen on the other side, in season and out of season, used to point out the melancholy spectacle of Federal oftica holders participating in nominating conventions. They asseverated that if they ever came into power they would end that thing, uid declared that it was to the interest of the republic that it should end. At the evening session Dr. Woodrow held the floor for tiro hours in his own defense. 4.t 10 p. m. the roll call was begun, each delegate being allowed three minutes in which to present bis views on the subject of sustaining or reversing the decision of the Georgia synol. Up the hour of adjournment, 11 p. m., the three minute speeches would indicate that Dr. Woodrow Was stronger than the synod of his state. Murdered by Nejro Preacher*. Arkadelphia, Ark., May,26.—It is learned from Coroner Callow, who was summoned to sit upon the body of a dead man near Curtis, in this county, that it was that of Arthur Horton, a negro, and was taken from his bed Tuesday morning by five other negroes and carried a short distance to a thicket, where his head was crushed with an iron bar. The names of the principals In the affair are George Dandridge, Willis Green, Bob Broeg, Anderson Mitchell • and Dan Jones. All have been arretted but one. Three of them are preachers. _ A storm of applause broke out when the bishop recognized the Chinese delegate, Tia Sek Ong, and the celestial went to the bar to discuss the He spoke in his own tongue-and his remarks were translated by his official interpreter, Dr. Bites. He began with a profound salaam to the stage, which was interpreted "Mr. President." He said that for twenty days he had been sitting in his seat, extending little by little tbe greetings with which he was intrusted, but this was the first opportunity he had had of greeting the conference as a body. He brought the love and affection of the little infant church in China to the great mother church and its gratitude for the gift of the gospel. After a further debate, and pending a vote upon Mr. McComas' amendment, the committee rose. "Our reunited assembly has no other doctrine of the whole subject involved in this question than quoted in the Omaha paper referred to by you, to wit: 'Synods and councils are to handle or conclude nothing but that which is ecclesiastical; and are not to meddle with civil affairs which concern the commonwealth, unless by way of humble petition in cases of extraordinary, or by way of advice for the satisfaction of conscience, if they be thereunto required by the civil magistrate.' In such depressed state no one can afford to sit for an hour. Pint of all, let him get up and go out of door*. Fresh air and the faces of cheerful men and pleasant women and frolicsome children will, In fifteen minutes, kill moping. The first moment your friend strikes the keyboardof your soul it will ring music. A hen might as well try, on populous Broadway, to batch out a feathery group as for a man to successfully brood over his ills in lively society. Do not go for relief among those who feel as badly as you da Let not too that i and rheumatism and hypochondria go to see toothache, rheumatism and hypochondria. On one block in Brooklyn live a doctor, an undertaker and a clergyman. That b not the row for a nervous man to walk on, lest he soon need all three. Throw back all the shutters of your soul and let the sunlight of genial faces shine in. A Republican caucus was called for to-day after adjournment, and a Democratic caucus (or this evening. HE KILLED WILLIAM JONES. Philip Stein Found Guilty of Murder In In the senate, Mr, Blair introduced a joint resolution, which was laid on the table, proposing a constitutional amendment prohibiting the making or maintaining of any state laws respecting the establishment of religion or the free exeroise thereof. Erie, Pa. Deliberate Siitolrte, Morbidity in-religion might be partially cured by more outdoor exercise. There are some duties we can perform better on our feet than on our knees. If we can carry the grace of God with us down into every day, practical Christian work, we will get more spiritual strength in five minutes than by ten hours of kneeling.- If Daniel had not served God, save when three times a day he worshiped toward the temple, the lions would have surely eaten him up. The school of Christ is as much out of doors as in doors. Hard, rough work for God will develop an athletic soul. Religion will not conquer either admiration or the affections of men by effeminacy, but by strength. Because the heart is soft is no reason why the head should be soft. The spirit of genuine religion is a spirit of great power. When Christ rides in apocalyptic vision, it is not on a weak and stupid beast, but on a horse— emblem of majesty and strength: "And he went forth conquering and to conquer." Erie, Pa., May26.—Philip Stein, of Rochester, N. Y., has been found guilty of murder in the second degree for killing William A Jones in this city Dec. 1, 1887. Stein had just finished an eight years' term of imprisonment in the Auburn state prison. He was penniless, ragged and hungry, and Jones, the hotel keeper, gave him food and shelter for several days. When he knew Jones had $60 on his person Stein attacked him when the two wore alone, crushing his skull with an ice pick, rifled the dying man's pockets, and fled. Love drew him back to Auburn, where ha wad captured last December.Odeix, Ills., May 26.—Kred M. Mathiessen, a nephew of the wealthy bankers, refiners and smelters of that name in New York, Chicago and La Salle, Ills., committed suicide by shooting himself on Wednesday. He arranged for the suicide in tho most doliberate manner, and was found sitting in a chair with a Bullet hole tjirough his head. He had been well educated in a German college, but it is thought that too close application to his studies had Impaired his mind. His instructions from his conference were not to favor a missionary bishop for China. He did not wish to speak for his brethren in India, but he must do his duty and obey the instructions of his conference. House amendments to the senate bill for the erection of a public building at Paterson, N. J., were concurred in. "As to the relations of the colored people in the south to the church: Our church is not in favor of setting off its colored members into a separate, independendent organization. We believe that we have a great work to do among the colored people, for their own salvation and the good of the country; and that this is to be done by recognizing those who are in the church as entitled to all the rights and privileges that are involved in church membership and ordination. We believe, too, that the great work among them can only be fully done by our churches reunited as one, and this is one strong motive prompting us in our desire for reunion. A substitute to instruct the bishops to make annual visits to India was laid upon the table, and then the report was adopted by a vote of 282 to 15L The election of a missionary bishop for India followed, and Dr. Thoburn was elected, receiving 386 votes out of 110. House bill making an appropriation to supply a deficiency in the appropriation for expenses of collecting the revenue from customs was passed, and the senate went into secret session. The secret session was devoted to further discussion of the proposition to open the doors for consideration of the fisheries treaty. Mr. Morgan occupied the greater prrt of the time. The Democrats followed their policy of talking against time, and it is now evident that there is no prospect of an early vote on the question:  Albany, May 26.—Dr. Richard M. Dayton, an electric physician, and Albert D. Roraback were sentenced to state prison for twelve and thirteen vears respectively at the hands of Judge F/Wwrds for causing the death of May Willett, of Castleton, by malpractice. Roraback was charged with betraying the girl and Dayton with abortion. Both men declined to stan/l trwJ and asked the clemency of the court, which divided twenty-flve years between them. Jnstlce for Two. The election for secretaries of the Missionary society was taken up. While this was in progress Rev. J. M. Hchumber, a colored delegate from Columbus, Miss., caused a good deal of laughter with a speech in which he said that the lightning bad struck all around the colomd delegates on the floor, but none of it had struck the colored troops. Some men know how to catch lightning, he said, and the colored delegates wanted to learn how to catch it, too. He then offered a resolution setting forth that color should not debar a member of the Methodist church from any of its offices, which was adopted. The conference then adjourned. The defense offered no evidence, and claimed the right to make the opening and closing addresses to the jury, quoting a precedent from English common law half a century old. In the absence of a statute or -supreme court decision prohibiting this, Judge Gunnison recognized the rule of common law practice in England overruling it custom here as old as the state. Beside* that, why sit ye here with "the blues," ye favored ions and daughters of men, shone upon by such stars, and breathed upon by such air, and sung to by so many pleasant sounds! Tou ought not to be seen moping. Especially if light from the better world strikes its aurora through your night sky, ought yon to be cheerful You can afford to have a rough luncheon by the way If it is soon to end amid the banqueters in whits. Sailing toward such a blessed port, do not have our flog at half mast. Leave to those who take too much wine "the gloomy raven tapping at the chamber door, on the night's Plutonian shore," and give us the robin redbreast and the chaffinch. Let some one with a strong voice give out the long meter doxology, and the whole world "Praise God, from whom all blessings flow.' ' We are of the opinion that our assembly will agree to a basis of organic union, by which the present boundaries and constituencies of presbyteries and synods in the south shall remain In statu quo, to be changed only with the consent of the parties interested, aud that all new churches and new Presbyteries hereafter established shall be organized by and received into connection with presbyteries and synods respectively, as tka interested parties may mutually agree." Mr*. Cleveland Leaves Philadelphia. Philadelphia, May 28.—Mrs. Cleveland departed yesterday for Priuoeton, N. J., where she will be the guest for several days of Professor Marquand, of the College of New Jersey, at that place. Last evening she attended a dramatic entertainment given in honor of her visit, and this evening a reception will be tendered her at Professor Marquand's residence. THE WORLD OF SPORT. Auburn, May 26.—A etir was created in the prison when it was discovered about 8:46 last night that a convict had gone over the wall. Harry W. Phillips, a Frenchman, and cook for Warden Durston, had been allowed the privileges.usually given convicts in that position. It was the custom to lock Phillips up at 9 o'clock. He was very careful to report to the guard at 8:30 that he was in his accustomed place in the warden's rooms. At 9 o'clock when the guard went in search of him to lock him up for the night his prison garb was all that could be found of him, he having gone with a suit of clothes belonging to the warden. Search was made, and it was discovered he had scaled the walls by the aid of vinos and dropped a distance of twenty feet, and made good his escape. Escaped from Auburn Prison. A Five 'Weeks* Stupor Ends In Death. Events on the Race Track and Mews from the Diamond. Newburo.N. Y., May 36.—Gertrude, nineyear-old daughter of Rev. Thomas Dnsinberry, of Livingston, Sullivan county, is dead. For five weeks she had lain in a stupor, during which time no food or stimulants had pa«sed her lips. The only sign that life was not extinct was a slight warmth of body and a scarcely perceptible pulse. On one occasion she became conscious for a few moments, spoke to her parents and at once relapsed into unconsciousness. New Yobk, May 26.—A driziling rain fell festerday afternoon, making the Cedarhurst track heavy. First race, handicap sweepitakes, mile and a quarter on flat) Mentor first, Jim Murphy seoond, Chanticleer third; time, Second race, purse, mile on Oat; Monte Cristo first, Neptunus second. Velvet third; time, 1:5L Third race, Polo Pony handicap, five furlongs on flat; Buckibot first, Wild Tom second, Little Rascal third; time, 1:13. Fourth race, Cedarhurst grand national handicap, about four miles; Major Pickett first, Monte Cristo second, Jim McOowan third; time, 7:21. Fifth race, Meadow Brook hunt cup, steeplechase, about three miles; Turk first, Lasso second, Tentellow third; time, 6:07. Sixth race, open hurdle race, mile and three-quarters; Harry Mann first, Brac-a-Ban sououd, Pat Oakley third; time, 3:33%. James M Thoburn, D. D., who was elected missionary bishop for India and Malaysia, was born in St. Clairsville, O., on March 7, 1836. He,, was graduated from Allegheny college, at Meadville, Pa., and began preaching in Ohio at the age of 21. He went to India twenty-nine years ago as a missionary, and, in conjunction with Bishop Taylor, did much to build up the church among the native tribes. He built the largest church in India at Calcutta, and preached for live years at Simla, the summer capital. He was editor for a time of The Indian Witness, published at Calcutta, and is the author of "My Missionary Apprenticeehip: A History of Twenty-five Tears' Experience in India," and of a volume of "Missionary Sermons." In consequence of an accident which temporarily unfitted him for his work he returned to America two years ago. After alluding to the powers vested in boards of the church the committee status: A Reception to" Nationalist Esmonde. New York, May iXJ.—The attendance at the reception to Sir T. H. G. Esmonde in the Academy of Music last night was very large, and the boxes and platform were crowded with political leader*. Every reference by the speakers to Chamberlain, Salisbury, Balfour and Churchill was loudly hissed, and the nanKs of Parnell and Gladstone were as vigorously applauded. "As to your fourth injury, concerning the existence of the heresy in the church, our answer is given only with a view to enable your committee to correct the misapprehension which you say exists in your church on this subjeot, in order that you may lay the facts before your assembly. We answer emphatically in the negative. In respect to this subject of doctrine ft its various respects we say that so far as our knowledge goes (and it embraces the records of all our judicatories)- there is no question of doctrine or of polity agitating any part of our church. The reunion of 1869 was effected on the basis of the standards without condition, and we believe that the subscription to these standards on the part of our ministers and elders is frank, sincere and without reservation. We all need to freshen up In our work, and a dose of the country is a mighty corrective. How to get out of the old rot without twisting off the wheel, or snapping the shafts, or breaking the horse's leg,, is a question not more appropriate to every teamster than to every Christian worktor. Having once got out of the old rut, the next thing is to keep out. There is nothing more killing than ecclesiastical humdrum. Some persons do not like the Episcopal church because they have the same prayers every Sabbath, but have we not for the last ten years been hearing the same prayers over and over again; the product of a self manufactured liturgy that has not the thousandth part of the excellency of those petitions that we hear in the Episcopal church. In many of our churches sinners hear the same exhortations that they have been hearing for the last fifteen years, so that the impenitent man knows, the moment the exhorter clears his throat, just what is going to" be said; and the hearer himself is able to recite the exhortation as we teach our children the multiplication table, forward or backward. We could not understand the doleful strain of a certain brother's prayer till we found out that be oompoeed it on a fast day daring the yellow fever in 1831, and bad been using It ever since. Titers are laymen who do not like to hear a sermon preached the second time, who yet give their pastors the same prayer every week at the devotional meeting, that is, fifty-two times the year, with occasional slices of it between meals. If they made any spiritual advancement they would have new wants to express and new thanksgivings to offer. But they have been for a decade of years stuck fast In the mud, and they splash the same on you every week. We need an universal church cleaning by which all humdrum shall be scrubbed out He Got Off by Paying S07D Canajoharib, N. Y, May 26.—The celebrated Knight of Ijabor suit of Miss Minnie Brown against Orlo Bates, which was to have been tried in the county court at Herkimer, has just been settled by the defendant paying $57. The case originated in the great lockout at Little Falls in 1886. Miss Brown sued to recover wages which she alleged were promised her by Bates if she would quit work in the mill during the strike. New Haven, May 86.— De Witt C. West, of Lowville, N. Y., a student in the junior class at Yale, slipped while boarding a train at the Union depot and was thrown against a post. He is suffering from concussion of the brain and lies in a precarious condition. He was going to Mott Haven to attend the athletic games. Injured In the Sew Haven Depot. A Monument to Confederate Soldiers. Jackson, Miss., May 26.—Visitors from all parts of the surrounding country filled the town yesterday, and excursion trains brought hundreds of people to tTackson to witness the laying of the corner stone of the confederate monument which is being erected on the capitol grounds. A grand procession marched through the streets of the city, many distinguished veterans of the lost cause taking part. Col. Hooker, congressman from this district, made the address, and the Grand Lodge of Masons deposited memorials and laid the corner stone. FRIDAY'S BASEBALL (JAMES. Without Food on Welcome Island. At Brooklyn—Brooklyn, 4; Louisville, 1. Hits: Brooklyn, 0; Louisville, 7. Errors: Brooklyn, 6; Louisville, 8. Batteries: Mays and Holbert, Ramsey and Kerins. "In conclusion permit us to express the bope that our conference thus far may have disclosed such substantial unity of belief and practice between our two assemblies as will induoe your asaembl? to continue and enlarge the powers of yoqr committee for the purpose of full conference on the subject of organic reunion with a similar committee of our general asfembly. « How Brooklyn 'Will Entertain Them. Duluth, Minn., May 26.—The steamer United Empire arrived during the night with her bow plate badly broken and ripped off by the ice. The ice blockaded floes, In and out bound, were released yesterday by Inman tugs. Ice is drifting in huge windrows fifteen or more feet tfcick. Passengers who attempted to reach Port Arthur by walking over eight miles of ice floes were compelled to turn back, and narrowly escaped with their lives. One party who started for the shore succeded in reaching Welcome Island, where they are without food. Boats from Port Arthur will try to rascue them to-day. Brooklyn, May 26.— Mrs. President Cleveland will have a reception at Rev. Dr. Talmage's residence on Decoration day, only ladies who receive invitations being admitted. About 2,000 invitations have been issued. The president will at about the same time be receiving at the residence of Mr. Marvin Cross. Mrs. Cleveland will be present on the reviewing stand with the president when Ijie parade passes. At Cleveland—Cievelaud-St. Louis game postponed on account of rain. Vary Ancient sod Very Honorable.1 At Philadelphia — Kansas City-Athletio game postponed on account of wet grounda New York, May £6.—The Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of London arrived on the steamer Trave yesterday, and wap met by a committee of the Boston organization of similar name, who at once started with them for Niagara Falls. Thence they go to Washington, Gettysburg and Boston. At Baltimore—Baltimore-Cincinnati game postponed on account of wet grounds. At Boston—Boston, 1; Philadelphia, 4. Hits: Boston, 5; Philadelphia, 8. Errors: Boston, 5; Philadelphia, 2. Batteries: Clarkson and Kelly, Casey and Clements. "We wish frankly to add that, while our church is heartily in favor of organic reunion with yours, we do not believe that such reunion is desirable, or could ever be effective in the great work of the Master, unless it be consummated with the fullest confidence in the Christian character and doctrinal soundness of each other, upon terms of perfect equality and reciprocity, with an earnest and sincere desire to maintain the unity of the church and our common faith, and on the basis of a candid and sincere acceptance of our common standards." Chicago, May 26.—Michael Calapy, supposed to be one of the Mollie Mott gang, and who has been under arrest for the supposed connection with the shooting of Officer Nolan recently, has been indicted by the grand jury on the charge of complicity in the murder of E. D. Kreigh and Daniel Brassell, the two special detectives of the Chicago and Alton railroad, who were shot on the night of April 3. The conductor of the train positively identified him as one of the men who boarded the train the night of the shooting. Calapy Charged With Another Murder. Detroit, May 88.—The strike of the wood carvers here in the Pulldhn car shops, after sixteen weeks, has been declared off. The places of the strikers have baen filled, and they now think of starting a co-operative establishment. Striking: Wood Carvers Olve It Up. New York, May 26.—A special cable disdatch to The Sun from Paris s«ys that during a coversation Mr. Blaine denied the story that he wrote a letter to Mr. Conkling in 1884, which was by the Republican committee, and which would have gained Mr. Conkling's support for the Republican ticket had he received it. Mr. Blaine said there was not the slightest word of truth in the story. That Rlalne-Conlcllng Letter Story. At New York—New York, 1; Washington, 1 Hits: New York, S; Washington, 8. Errors: New York, 8; Washington, 1. Batteries: Welch, O'Rourke and Ewing, O'Day ind Deasley. Washington, May 28.—The senate committee on finance entrusted with the compilation of the tariff bill has begun work. It is understood that the committee will agree to the correction of oertaln incongruities in the existing customs laws which are embraced in the administrative features of the house bill and the undervaluation bill already reported to the senate, and that there will be an agreement as to the placing of certain articles on the free list, but that the committee will divide on party lines when it reaches dutiable articles, the tax on which is to be reduced. The Senate Tariff Bill. At Chicago—Chicago, S; Detroit. 2. Hits: Chicago, 4; Detroit, 9. Errors: Chicago, 4; Detroit, 7. Batteries: Krock and Flint, Conway and GanzelL Havre De Grace, Md., May 28.—After taking the 124th ballot .without material change, the Democratic congressional convention in the Second district adjourned until Tuesday.  They Took 124 Ballots. At Pittsburg—Plttsburg-Indianapolls game postponed on acoount of wet grounds. As soon aa the report had been read Dr. Kempshall presented a resolution providing that the original committee be enlarged TDy the addition of three ministers and two elders, with instructions to report to the next general assembly. Raleigh, N. C., May 26.—At Lenoir the Democratic convention of the Eighth district was held. W. H. H. Cowles was renominated by acclamation for congress; George W. F. Harper, of Lenoir, and R. W. Sandifer, of Dallas, were elected delegates to the national convention. Resolutions indorsing President Cleveland were unanimously adoped. Resolutions were also adopted approving Mr. Cowles'advocacy of the Mills bill. Thomas M. Vance was chosen elector. North Caroline. Nominees. Democrats Change Their Views. At Rochester—Rochester, 8; Syracuse, 8. Hits: Rochester, 13; Syracuse, 18. Errors: Rochester, 6; Syracuse, 1. Batteries: Callihan and Toy, Dundan and Shellhasse. New York, May 26.—At the meeting of tjie enrolled Republicans of the Twenty-eecond assembly district the chairman announced that thirty seceders from the Jefferson club, a Tammany organization, had joined the Republican organization, on account of opposition to the Democratic tariff policy. CONDENSED NEWS. At Buffalo—Buffalo, 16; Troy, 7. Hits: Buffalo, 17; Troy, 10. Errors: Buffalo, 4; Troy, 10. Batteries: Gibbs apd Graves, Seerlng and Banning. The investigation of the administration of the New York custom house bythe senatorial civil service commission is still in progress. Dr. Crosby, of New York, said that it was ft mistake to imagine that the report contained any-plan of organic union. If we would keep fresh, let us make occasional excursions into other circles than our own. Artists generally go with artists, farmers with farmer*, mechanics with mechanics, clergymen with clergymen. Christian workers with Christian workers. But there is nothing that sooner freshens one up tiian to get in a new group, mingling with people whose thought and work run in different channels. For a change, put the minister on the hay rack and thefartner in theclergyman's study. List us read books not in our awn Hue. After a man has been delving in nothing but theological works for three months, a few pages in the pategt office report will do him more good than Dr. Dick on "The Porsever- The University Gets •100,000 Mora. Jndge Harrison has ruled out the allegeddying declaration of Katie Anderson in the trial of Banclay Peak for her murder in Mount Holly, N. J. Rev. Dr. Paxton, of New York, who followed, created the sensation of the day. Ho Regretted that Dr. Crosby had spoken to the merits of the question at all. The southern brethren were asking that this question shall pot be passed at this time. After a further plea for the adoption of Dr. Kempsball's fpsolntion the speaker said: "But the negro I God curse the day when be was ever brought from the sunn/ slppes of Africa to the lahd of America." Baltimore, May 20.—Bishop Keane is much elated over a big addition to the Catholio university fund. Immediately after the oorner stone of the university had been laid he was called upon by a prominent Catholio of great wealth, who gubecribed $100,000 to the fund. The modesty of the gentleman prevents the publication of his name. At London—London, 8; Albany, 1. Game sailed in second inning on account of rain. Hits: London, 8; Albany, 1. Errors: Loo- Ion, 1; Albany, & Batteries: Bishop and Jordan, Reardon and Qulnn. Lafayette, Ind., May 28.— News has Just reached here that a prize fight has taken place twelve miles from_ here, on the Warren comity line, between John Gallagher, of Chicago, and Dick Keating, of Lafayette, for $300 a Bide. Eighteen rounds were fought and Gallagher was badly punished. A Brutal Fight of Eighteen Round*. Rev. Lyman Abbott, D.D., has been elected permanent pastor of Plymouth church. Brooklyn, by a vote of 400 to 60. Assistant Pastor Halliday and S. 8. Ferris speke agaiust the election, and several member* spoke in its favor. Opposed to Liquor In Any Form, At Toronto—Toronto, 4; Hamilton, 8. Hits: Toronto, 7; Hamilton, 11. Errors! Toronto, 4; Hamilton, & Batteries: Atkins tnd Decker, Green and Visner. Detroit, May 26.—A resolution was adopted by the Methodist Protestant conference at Adrian llieh., afino&iKnng unutterable opposition to any ■fbrm of liquor license, high or low, and condemning clergymen for signing a petition tojt license to sell liquor. A resolution condemning the use of tobacco provoked animated discussion, as a large pro- the clergymen use the weed. Westminster', M4, was selected as the place tot holding the nsot conference. Ohio ProhiMtloalsta. Boston, May 2&—Frank Mills, aged 18, of California, a sub-freshman a,t Harvard, died last night from the efltote of opium smoking. Mills And two companions indulged (or the first time in smoking a few nights ago, and osid a large quantity of the drug. All wear* made very ill; but the others will reoover. Died from Smoking Opium. Closing of Caaadlaa Bucket Shops. | Ottawa, May 28.—One of the most important measures adopted by parliament this Thomas Powman (colored) died at Mount Hollls Springs, Pa., at the age of 109 year*. He retained full possession of bis faculties This bold declaration made a profound ■enaatino in the assembly. Hisses were heard from every part of the hall and cries of "Shame! Shame!" Toledo, O., May 26.—Thestate Prohibition convention chose Rev. H. A. Thompson aa perm anent chairman. The platform adopted calls for the entire prohibition of the manufacture, tale, importation, exportation and interstate traffic in liquor by legislation. •esBion was the act for the suppression of bucket shops. It has already become a law, tnd has already had the effect of closing all the establishments. . Dr. Richard M. Dayton and Albert Ds Roraback were sentenced at Albany, N. V v to twelve and thirteen years' imprisonment: respectively tor causing the death of May Willstt, of Castleton, by malpractice. anoeof tha Saints." Better than this, as a diversion, to it to have some department of natural history art, to whiohyoniaftttora Dr. Paxton closed with aa eloquent plea for further consideration of the question in com-