Evening Gazette

              Wimim® JiSlk (Safett t NU.UMBK 8015 j •MklT EklaUUbcd 1830 ( PITTSTON, PA-, MONDAY, MAY 6, 13*9 (TWO OBW TnOnMi Week. SENATORS DISPLEASED. 18 an adjournment will follow for the sum mer vacation. A number of opinions will be delivered on the 13th, among which is specified what is hoped to be a final decision in the celebrated Myra Clark Gaines case from New Orleans. After the court adjourns the several justices will go out on their circuits for several weeks. Nothing certain is known in supreme court circles about the sucoessorship to Justice Matthews, but it is the opinion of some persons connected with the oourt that the appointment lies between Judge Graham and Attorney General Miller. DID PORTER RUN AWAY? MOLONEY BACK IN CANADA. SHOT AT THE PRE8IDENT. ONE MAN KILLED DR. TALMAGE'S SERMON. and tato just one egg. and «H«»oe your conscience by saying they won't; miss it. Yon take & ilruik again out of the very buck* that lbC old well fetched up. You go for th« sows el night, and ibid tbaro wagging their heads through the bare. Ofttimea In the dusty and busy streets yon wish you were home again on that oool grass, or in the rK carpeted hall of the farm house, through which there was the breath of new mown hay or the bloesom of buokwheat. And Another Bo Badly Beaten That H« Will Dto. Ben Sutler's Charge Against HIi Health Is Better and He Will Mot .Give Slate's Evidence. M. Carnot Attacked by a Sup- New Brunswick, N. J., May 6.—The Baritan River Railroad company attempted t« lay a spur track across Noah Freeman's land at Sayreville, and their employes were resisted by the employes of a brickyard situated on the land. In the fight that ensued George Kissengen, one of the railroad rmployes, was killed and a man named Kennedy so badly beaten that he will die. The railroad construction car was burned and the rails spoiled by the fire. The sheriff, with a posse of fifty men, took charge of affaire and is preserving order, but the brickyard men are still belligerent and have not yet allowed Kissengen's body to be removed. They are mostly .foreigners. They declare that they will kill any railroad men who attempt to lay railsi The railroad men have not renewed the attack since they were first driven away. Kissengen's neck was broken, but it is not known who killed him and it probably never will be. A number of men on lioth sides were more or less hurt. "We Centennial People" Gave the Admiral. Montreal, May ft.—"Billy" Moloney and his son and daughter arrived from England on the Parisian at Quebec. Moloney went abroad for Up health ear:y last fall, and his return is thought to indicate that he has recuperated.posed Maniac. Them a Snub. He Preaches to a Large Audi- GEN. SHERMAN NON-COMMITTAL. ence. FRANCE'S GREAT CELEBRATION. A PREHISTORIC RELIC FROM CHINA An OIHeer Under Butler Who Was Below A report that his return has some connection with the approaching Now York boodle trial is entirely without foundation. Moloney has never paid much attention to the trials, as he has made up his mind never to return to New York, and any stories connecting his name with the trial that Legins next week are without foundation. Moloney has a hoot of friends here who will meet him today and afterward give him a reception. SUBJECT: OTHER DAYS LIYED OVER A Warning to Boulangei—Probable Panic Experiments with Sorghum—Judge Mat- thewn' Successor—The Sunday Gasette Porter's Fleet on the Mississippi £ay» In the Cotton Industry—Henry George's to Be Sold—Gen. Black's «100,000 Ubel He Did Mot See the Fleet Go Out to Before Discussing the Experiences of the Fast, He Denies Emphatically That He You may have in your windows now beautiful plants and flowers brought from across the seas, but not one of them stirs in your soul so much charm and memory as the old iyy and the yellow sonflower that stood sentinel along the garden walk, and the forget-nw note playing hide and seek mid the long grass. The father who used to come in sunburn! from the fields and sit down on the door sill and wipe the sweat from his brow may hava gone to his everlasting rest. The mother, who used to sit at the door a little bent over, cap and spectacles on, her face mellowing with the vicissitudes of many years, may have put down her gray bead on tha pillow in the valley, but forget that home Jou never win. Have you thanked God for it! Have you rehearsed all these blessed reminieosnossl Oh, thank God for a Christian father; thank God for a Christian mother; thank God for an early Christian altar at which you wsre taught to kneel; thank God for an early Christian home. THE IVY GBEEK. tingle Tax Theory to Play a Prominent Suit—Personal Mention. Washington, May 6,—Col T. G. Morrow, proprietor of The Sunday Gazette of this city, announced in his paper yesterday that he will sell his newspaper at public auction next Thursday. The Gazette was established in 1805 by CoL Tom Florence, an ex-member of congress from Pennsylvania. CoL Morrow has owned and had control of the paper during the past eight years—conducting it as an independent Republican journal. He proposes now to retire from journalism and engage in other business. A Chance for Somebody. Sea—Military Men Exeltod. t'art In British Polities. Washington, May 6.—The Sunday Herald has this complaint to uiake about the treatment of the senate committee at the centennial: With a great flourish of trumpets, the "Committee on the Centennial Celebration of the Inauguration of George Washington as President of the United States" sent to the senate of the United States one year in advance of the date fixed for the celebration an urgent invitation to participate in the celebration. The senate accepted the invitation and appointed a "committee of seven membenrto attend the celebration, and with such other senators as may be then present in New York represent the senate thereat" This committf comprisid the leading senators— Ingalls, president pro torn., Sherman, Dawes, Allison, Culloin, Hampton, Eustis and Colquitt, and the representation of the senate was completed by the presence of the secretary, Anson 6. McCook; the sergeant-atarms, W. P. Cauadny, and Deputy Sergeantat-arms Frank M. Evans. Boston, May 6.—The story in which Admiral Porter is charged with oowardice by Gen Butler has disturbed a hornet's nest, and military man are getting excited at the prospects of a legal battle in which a man'i character is at stake. Col. C. M. Whelden, of Pittsfield, who was with Gen. Butler at New Orleans, was asked about the accuracy of Gen. Butler's statement in reference to Admiral Porter's running away at the time the forte were attacked below New Orleans by Fftfragut He said that there were several statements that be oould not vouch for frotn personal knowledge, but in many respects he thought Glen. Butler was correct Ever Advocated Bliacegenatloa—A Ser- Paris, Hay 6.—As President Carnot waf leaving the palace of the Elysee to attend the centennial celebration at Versailles a stranger drew a pistol and pointing direiuly at him fired. The man was Immedi'i' ly he ied and a rush was made toward the president to diaooVer the extent of his injury. M. Carnot quickly assured the crowd tl .t he was not hurt and the excitement was over. The man who did the shooting gave the name of Pen-In and his occupation that of a marine storekeeper. He stated that he had no desire to kill the president and showed the truth of hi* aawrtion by proving that he had And a blank cartridge. Jb declared th«t be had, been punished unjustly by the governor of Martinique, and his object in firing was solely for the purpoee of calling attention to his wrongs and the foot that the persecution he had undergone had reduced him to poverty. He had been unable to obtain redress from his persecutors and believed that bis action in firing the blank cartridge would direct the president's attention to his case. Perrin is evidently Insane on the subject of his grievances. mon on Religions Life* Brooklyn, May 6,—At the Tabernacle today the Rev T. De Witt Talmage, D. D., preached a sermon on the subject, "Other Days Lived Over," and made reference to the falsehood that he bad advocated miscegenation of the white and black races. The vast congregation sang the hymn beginning: DR. CRONIN MISSING. He Was Call, d to Make a Professional Visit, and Has Mot Been rfeard From. Chicago, May 6.—Dr. Patrick H Cronin, a leader of one of the Chicago factions of Irish Nation n'i,ts, was called from his residence early to make a professional call, and has not since been hoard of. It is feared that he has been foully dealt! with. Many sensational rumors are current concerning Cronin's mysterious disappearance, which is coupled with the finding of a large trunk on the roadside in the suburbs of the city. The trupk was broken open, and the ipterior was found to be smeared with blood, and a quantity of cotton batting, such as is used by surgeons, was saturated with fresh blood. The police are searching for Cronin, but his whereabouts remain undiscovered. Our hope for years to oome. „ Or. Talmagp's text was Deuteronomy vili, 2: "Thou shalt remember aD the way which the Lord thy God led thee." He said: Our God, our help in ages past, CHEATED HIS WIFE AND FLED. Personal Mention. Mr. Allen Writes That He Has Gone West Ex-Secretary and Mrs. Vilas left the city for their Wisconsin home. Of the official family of Pi-esident Cleveland ex-Attorney Genera^Garland is now "the last leaf on the tree." He has become a permanent resident of the city. Bufkaix), May 6.—Handsome Mrs. Gtaatfl' W. Allen, Jr., formerly of Detroit, is mourning the loss of her husband and considerable cash. Five years ago on Christmas eve Allen and his brother married two sisters in Detroit George and his bride came to Bu/Ialo. She was rich and supplied him with ($oney to carry on the coal business at 18 Lake street to Join the Boomers. Before entering on my subject I wish to my that some newspaper correspondents, referring to a recent sermon in which 1 welcomed foreign nationalities to this country, have said that 1 advocated as a desirable thing the Intermarriage of the white and black races. 1 never said so, I never thought *D, and any one who so misrepresents that sermon iseithera villain or a fool, perhaps both. Not Ready to Say It Was Porter. "Were ycji a member of Qen- Butler's staff at the time Fort St Philip and Fort Jackson we'-e captured below New Orleans in 1862?" asked the reporter. /Lieut W. Maxwell Wood, of the navy, who, since his return from China, has been on special duty in the bureau of equipment and recruiting, navy department, has been detached and ordered to the nautical schoolship St. Mary, at New York. This ship is under the control of the chamber of commerce of New York city, and the apprentices are trained for entering into the merchant marine. I bring to mind another passage in the history of your Ufa. The day came when you set up your own household. The days passed along in quiet blessedness. You twain sat at the table morning and night, and talked over your plans for the futurei The most insignificant affair in your life became the subject of mutual consultation and advisement You were so happy you felt you never could be any happier. One day a dark cloud hovered over your dwelling, and it got darker and darker; but out of that cloud the shining messenger of God descended to incarnate An immortal spirit Two little feet started on an eternal journey, and you were to lead_ them, a gem to flash In heaven's coronet, and you to polish it; eternal ages of  darkness watching the starting out of a newly created creature. "No, 1 was not At that time I was lieutenant colonel of the Thirty-first Massachusetts regiment, which was the first one to land when Gen. Butler landed at New Orleans. I became a member of his staff in January, 1868." He acted as her agent, and lately she scrutinized his accounts carefully, suspecting that something was wrong. A few days ago he presented her with a contract (or 1,000 tons of coal and obtained (500 to pay on it She has not seen him since, but received a letter from Chicago, whieh said that he had wasted five years m Buffalo, tied to a woman's apron strings, and was going west to the aud of the boC mere, where he could own what he earned. He asked his wife's forgiveness. She is not forgiving, for since he skipped she has found that he defrauded her out of several thousand dollars. But to open this morning's subject I-have to say God in the text advises the people to look tack upon their past history. It will do us all good to rehearse the soenes between this May morning and our cradle, whether it was rocked In country or town. A few days ftgo, with my sister and brother, I visited the place of my boyhood. It was one of the most emotional and absorbing days of my Ufa. There stands the old house, and as I went through the room* I said, "I could And my way here with my eyee shut, although 1 have not been herein forty years." A ere was the sitting room where a large family group every evening gathered, the most of them now in a better world. There was the old barn where we hunted for Easter eggs, and .the places where the horses stood. There is where the orchard was, only three or four trees now left of all the grove that onoe bore apples, and such apples, too. There is the brook down which we rode to the watering of the horses, bareback and with a rope halter. We also visited the cemetery where many of our kindred are waiting for the resurrection—the old people side by side, after a Journey together of sixty years, only about throe years between the time of their going. There also sleep the dear old neighbors, who used to tie their horses under the shed of the country meeting house and sit at the end of the pew, singing "Duke Street," and "Balerma," and "Antioch." Oh, they were a glorious race of men and women, who did their work well, raised a splendid lot of boys and girls, and are now as to their bodies in sUent neighborhood on earth, but as to their souls in jubilant neighborhood before the throne of God. P feel that my journey and visit last week did me good, and it would do you all good, if not in person, then In thought, to revisit the soenes of boyhood or girlhood. "Thou shalt remember all the way which the Lord thy God led thee." A RETROSPECTIVE SERMON. They Were Snubbed. Boston, May 6. —A number of prominent citizens of BostC n ore agitating a plan to help the evicted tenants in Ireland l.y establishing in one of - the poorer districts of that country a factory where the evlotod persons con find employment in making boots, shoes, clothing and underwear, the money to start the enterprise being raised by popular subscription among friends of the Irish cause in the United States. The originators of the scheme propose to go to Ireland personally to supervise the work of oarrying it out, and they will first submit the matter to the judgment of Messrs. Parnell, Oavitt and O'Brien. There will be no attempt to do anything which could possibly lead the Eoglish government to object to the plan. A Laudable Scheme. Their experiences can be briefly summed up in the statement that they received virtually no attention on the part of the committees whose duty it was to attend to their comfort, convenience and entertainment. The committee representing "the most distinguished of all legislative bodies" was allowed to shift for itself in the main with possibly the single exception of the banquet, at which its presence was provided for in accordance with tlie proprieties of the occasion and a due regard to its high representative status. But there was virtually no other preparation madj for these distinguished senatorial gueits. They got their own car riages, took "Hobson's choice" of hotel accommodations, were stored away in side rooms at the Fifth Avenue hotel, and, finding that they were not provided with accommodations on any of the stoamers to witness the nival procession in the harbor they obtained, by especial telegraphic order from the secretary of the treasury, the United States revenue cutter Grant, and were then enabled to witness the grandest procession of its kind that ever was made in this conntry. Senator Ingalls said recently: "In my opinion there will be an extra session of congress called next fall, probably about the middle of October. This course has been deemed judicious with a view to organizing the house of representatives and getting legislation in shape before the holiday recess." "Well, colonel, after reading the interview with Gen. Butler, what is your opinion of the controversyf President Carnot Cheered. PrD sdent Carnot was enthusiastically cheered by the crowds which lined the way from the palaoe to Versailles. Upon his arrival be unveiled • memorial tablet affixed to the building in which the states' generals met one hundred years ago. The grand assembly had congregated in the hall of mirrors, and were addressed by M. Leroyer, president of the senate, after M. Car- Dot's arrival. It was no longer, he said, deputies of the third estate to whom the privilege of standing upright was denied, but the elected representatives of the nation were bowing before their freely elected chief to pay tribute to the great dead to whom they owed their liberty. '"It becomes those old smugglers for liberty," he oontinued, "to remind us that the revolution not only bequeathed to us doctrines, but lessona If the revolutionists sinned by the audacity of thendreams, we sin by our want of self abnegation, our incomplete knowledge of our dutiee and our hesitations of policy." "I know there was an officer connected with the navy on the Mississippi who ran away." "Are you ready to tay that the officer was Admiral Porterf Preparations are already under way at Deer park T r the expected visit of the president this summer. A cottage has bean secured for him and it will be ready for occupancy at short notice. Secretary and Mrs. Windom have engaged apartments at the hotel, and Commissioner of the Census Porter will map out his plans in the same neighbor hood. Nut Likely He Went That Way. "No, I am not from ray own knowledge." "Where were you when Farragut went up the river to the forts at the time Oeu. Butler was passing up behind him P' Uniontowk, Pa., May 6.—As soon as Somerset and Fayette counties are through with Lewis aud Sullivan, of the Cool Springs robber gang, they are wanted at Kingwood, W. Va., where the Preston county jury have indicted them for the robbery of Ami Meyer. Meyer, a miser, was robbed nearly a year ago of $8,000. His nephew, -Webster Meyer, wai arrested for the crime. , He is now out on bail and has made a confession in which he states that Lewis and Sullivan were the principals. He furnished them the information as to his uncle's money on the inducement that they would give him one-third of the booty. After they secured the money they paid him off with a twenty dollar gold piece. He Was a Juvenile Judas. You rejoioed and you trembled at the responsibility that in your possession an immortal treasure was placed. You prayed and rejoioed, and wept and wondered, and prayed and rejoiced, and wept and wondered; you were earnest in supplication that you might lead it through life Into the kingdom of God. There was a tremor in your earnestness. There was a double interest about that home. There was an additional interest why you should stay there and be ' faithful, and when in a few months your house was Oiled with the musio of the child's laughter, you were struck through with the fact that you had a stupendous mission. Have you kept that vowl Have you neglected any of these duties! Is your home at much to you as it used to bet Have thoee anticipations been gratified! God help you today in your solemn reminiscence, and let his mercy fall upon your soul if your kindness has been ill requited God have mercy on the parent, on the wrinkles of whose faoa is written the story of a child's sin. God have mercy on the mother, who in addition to her other pangs, has the pangs of a child's iniquity. Oh, there are many, many sad sounds in this sad world, but the iiaiM—t sound that is ever heard is the breaking of a mother's heart. Are there any here who remember that in that homo they were unfaithful! Are there thoee who wandered off from that early home and left the mother to die with a broken heart! Oh, I stir that reminiscence today. "I was stationed on the army flagship near the east bank of the river, where the transports were anchored at the time. I was on board the boat during the whole day. Farragut started up the river at 8 o'plock in the morning, and Butler#was following him on his headquarters boat, the Banon. Porter was between where I was stationed and Farragut, with a fleet?" Njew Vow. May 8-crTlie American Meat company has been reorganized, with Warner Miller as president and ex-Congreswnan J. J. Belden, of Syracuse, as one of the directors. This is the company with $28,000,000 capital which intends to become a rival of the "Big Four Dressed Beef Combination." It will control large ranches in the west and stock yard facilities at Kansas City. The company as organized contained a number of cotton oil trust people, but they were frightened out, it is alleged, by t(ie Armours threatening. A Gigantic Meat Concern. Baron Erlanger, the great European financier and capitalist, is at Wormley's, accompanied by his son Frederic and Alfred Slidell, of New Orleans. The baron is cosmopolitan, and proves it liy registering from London and Paris. The baron has about $15,000,000 invested in American roads. "Could Porter have gone down the river, as Butler says, and passed your boat without your seeing or knowing about itt" A MANIAC'S TERRIBLE DEED "Yes, he could if he had passed on the other side of the river, which he would not have been liable to do under the circumstances,lD  M. Leroyer asked President Carnot to raise his voice in order to guide Frenchmen in the direction of mutual concessions. A Fine Specimen for the Kxlilbltlon. He Flung HI* Uubo Against tlip Wall More Glory to Capt. Murroll. Washington, May 6.—One of the most interesting exhibits for the exposition in Paris has been sent from the bureau of printing and engraving. Th.s exhibit consists of three large plaques containing specimens of the work which has been turned out by this bureau during the twenty-five years of its existence. In one of the larger plaques is to be seen, arranged in th£ form of an arch, the engraved portraits of all the president) from Washington to Cleveland, and just below tht center of this arch and forming the central piece of this exhibit, is an unusually fine en graving of Pr.sident Harrison, whilst just above is one of Secretary Windom. At the bottom, and forming the base to the arch, are the portraits of all the secretaries of the treasury from Hamilton -to Fairebild. On the left, and forming an abutment to the arch, are grouped the secretaries of war, and similarly placed on the right, the secretaries of the navy. Interspersed through the whole are portraits of the eminent naval and military commanders and other prominent Americans. The second plaque contains the notes and securities of the largest denomination used by this government. and Daitlied Out IU Brains. M. Carnot said: "I greet in the palace of the old monarchy the representatives of a nation now in complete possession of itself, the mis:ress of her destinies and full of splendor, strength and liberty. The first thoughts of this solemn meeting turn to our fathers. That immortal generation of 178U, by dint of courage and many sacrifices, secured to us benefits which we must bequeath to our sons as a most precious heritage." He reminded all that in France the personal power of one man was a thing of the past, no matter what title he may take. The sole sovereign now is the laws enacted by the repr esentatives of the nation. A Warning to Boulallger. New York, May 6.—The passengers of the lriBt steamer Denmark, who arrived at Castle Uarden per steamer Wieland, speak very highly of their treatment by Capt Murrell of the Missouri and the Wieland's officers. They also had good care at the Azores. A largenumber of friend* greeted the belated voyagei-s on their arrival today. Rasmus Anderson, aged 33, one of the Denmark's people, died on board the Wieland of appoplexy. With the exception of this sad event the voyage from the Azores was without special incident. Chicago, May 0.—William Tansor, of this city, a machinist by trade, 20 years of age, living with his young wife and 6-months-old bnby, became suddenly insane while in bed, and, after a desperate struggle with bis wife, seized the baby from the crib in which It was sleeping and dashed its brains 9Ut against the wall of the room. He theneeieed a butcher's knife and tried to murder his wife, wbo-etaded the madman and fled to the street, meanwhile arou-sing the neighbors by her piej'ping screams Tansor then slashed his own thjroat With the knife, and when the police arrived be was walking to aqd fro in the room with a terrible gash in his neck, from which the blood was streaming, while in one hand be held the bloody knife and on his left arm lay the horribly mutilated body of the dead infant. The murderer was at once overpowered and taken to the hospital for treatment, and is still alive. Saw None of I'ortm'a The National Game. "How long did you remain stationed where you were in the river after Farragut went up toward the forts'" At Brooklyn- Athletic ......... .0 0 1 0 0 4—5 Brooklyn.,. 0 0 0 0 0—1 Batteries: Weyhing and Cross, Terry sad Clark. At Cincio»ati~ Cincinnati Louisville "We bad orders to leave that afternoon, and we started immediately, and went down out of the river and came up around into Sable bay near Sable Island. I think it is about Bve miles east of Fort St. Philip." .0 4 8 1 1 0 4 0 0-1* 3 01 000200—6 Batteries: Smith and Baldwin; Hecker and Cook. Umpire: Goldsmith. At Kansas City— "Did you see any of Porter's fleet at any time in passing around Sable bay ?" Kansas City .002 0 4 0 0 11 1—18 "None at all." Bt. Louis. .« It 4 1 0 0 1 1 1-18 Youth Is apt too much to spend all its time In looking forward. Old age is apt too much to spend all its time in looking backward. People in mid-life and on the apex look both ways. It would be well for us, 1 think, however, to spend more time in reminiscence. By the constitution of our nature we spend most of the time looking forward. And the vast majority of this audience live not so much in the present as in the future. I And that you mean to moke a reputation, you mean to establish yourself, and the advantages that you expect to achieve absorb a great deal of your time. But I see no harm in this, if it does not make you discontented with the present, or disqualify you for existing duties. "Had Butler come back to where you were stationed before you sailed around 'to Sable bay!" Batteries: Swartzel and Hoover; Devlin, King and MUligan. Umpire: GalTney. Au Old Minstrel Commits Suleld*. At Columbus— Columbus ,,.,,,,0 0 0 0 S 0 0 S 0— 8 Baltimore 0 7 0 1 0 0 0 8 x—10 Batteries: Baldwin and People*; Foreman and Quion. Umpire: Ferguson. The Bishop Congratulates M. Carnot. Bloominston, Ilia, May 6.—Horry W. Bishop, better known in the minstrel business as Harry Robinson, "the man with the silver horns," committed suicide by taking morphine. He left several letters, in one oi which he said be had deliberately committed suicide, because he was homeless and penniless aud feared he would soon be rendered helpless from paralysis, with which he wa* afflicted. His father lives at 333 East Twelfth straet, Brooklyn. He was 55 years old. It is believed that his suicide was precipitated by the fact that his wife obtained a divorce from him last week. "No; we were under Adjt. Gen. George C. Strong, We sailed around with him, and a part of the troops were lauded on the east side of tbe fort. Just as I bad received the command to disembark the Thirty-first regiment tbe signal was given to return, as the rebel flag had been hauled down from Fort St. Philip. The troops immediately went aboard, and we returned to the Mississippi river, where we met Butler, and went up the river toward New Orleans." The bishop of Versailles addressed President Carnot, saying that though they had fallen as victims in the revolution of 1789, the clergy had shared in the movements toward reform and had never ceased to give proof of their readiness to make sacrifices for their country. He congratulated M. Carnot on his escape from the assault of an assassin and rejoiced that the occasion was one on which tribute was paid to a man whose dignity and character commands the respect of aR 1 find another point in your life history. Tou found one day you were in the wrong road; you couldnt sleep at night; there waa just one word that seemed to sob through your banking house, or through your office, or through your shop, or your bed room, and that word was "Eternity." Tou said, "I am not ready for It. O God, have mercy." The Lord heard. Peace came to your heart In the breath of the hill and the waterfall's dash you heard the voice of God's love; the clonda and the trees hailed you with gladness; yon * came intb the house of God. TBI CONVICTION HOUH. Hie Vat Woman's Will. Philadelphia, May 6.—Hannah Perkins Battersby, tbe circus fat woman who died In Frankford last month, left an estate valued at $5,000 to her husband, John L Battersby, formerly a "living skeleton." Her will, which has just been admitted to probate in the office of the register of wills, requests her body to be decently buried in Cedar Hill cemetery, Frankford. Mr. Battersby, who is ill and emaciated, had to be parried from tbe carriage into the register's office. Washington University's New Professors. New York, May 6.—B.shop Keune, of Washington university, who arrived on the Umbria, says be succeeded beyond his expectations in securing satisfactory incumbents of the leading chairs in tbe university. The following were engaged : Dogmatic theology, Rev. Dr. Schroeiier, of the Cologne seminary; moral theology, Rev. Dr. Bonquillon, of the University of Lille; Holy Scripture, Rev. Dr. IJybernat, the famous Orientalist; philosophy, Rev. Dr. Poble, of Fulda. The professor of canon law will be Rev. Dr. Massemer, of Be ton Hall, and the lecturer on English literature is Charles Warren Stoddard. Other professors remain to be engaged. Experimenting on Sorghum. Not Willing to Give Butler Credit. "Where was Porterf" Washington, May ft—Experiments in cultivating and manufacturing sorghum will be continued this year under the auspices o( the agricultural department. Professor Wiley, chemist, last week laid out the work for a fluid on the Maryland experimental farm, eight miles from Washington, the labor on which will be performed by employes of the Maryland Agricultural collego, upon whose grounds the station is located. On one plot in the field are planted 250 lots of pedigreed peed, taken from stalks grown in Kansas, of which au analysis was made. Over 2,000 stalks were thus analyzed, and 250 showing the highest percentage of saccharine matter saved for sowing, to determine whether or not this excellence is hereditary and can be perpetuated. Still a third plot is planted with four kinds of seed which showed the best results in experiments already made, and they too will he treated by the various fertilizers manufactured. An exact duplicate of this experiment in all details will be made at Sterling, Kan., the seed having been divided for that purpose. Portions of the experiment will be repeated at Bio Grande, N. J., Kenner, La., Cedar Fall-, la., and at several points in Kansas. It to a useful thing sometimes to look back, and to see the dangers we have escaped, and to see the sorrows we have suffered, and the trials and wanderings of our earthly pilgrimage, and to sum up our enjoyments. I mean this morning, so far as God may help me, to stir up your memory of the past, so that in the review you may be encouraged, and humbled, and urged to pray. IT IS GOOD TO LOOK BACK. Id True Imperial Fashion. "I do not know. I did not see him, but 1 suppose his flotilla was tn the river below the forts. Of course 1 was not thinking much about Porter at the time, but if his flotilla bad been around there I think I should have seen it," Upon entering Versailles President Carnot exchanged the posting chaise in which he had ridden from the Elysee for a caleche, equipped in a fashion exactly similar to the one in which the emperors used to rida to Longchamps. M. Carnot was vociferously cheered everywhere. The absence of ladies from the exercises caused much comment and .-peculation. Jamestown, Dak., May 6.—The Northern Pacific westbound limited passenger train collided wtih a freight train near Crystal Springs, thirty-six miles west of hem Engineer Boss of the passenger and Postal Clerk Slakerly were killed Baggage Master Nichols and P. stal Clerk Boundsbury bad their legs and arms broken and were badly scalded, but will recover. None of the passengers was injured. Three car loads of horses were killed. A misunderstanding of train orders was the cause of the collision. Fatal llallroad Collision. The Cleveland* in the Pine*. You remember how your hand trembled as you took up the cup of the Communion. Yoa remember the old minister who consecrated it, and you remember the church officials who carried it through the aisle; you remember the old people who at the close of the service took your hand in theirs In congratulating sympathy, as much as to say, "Welcome home, you lost prodigaland though those hands are all withered away that Communion Sabbath to resurrected this morning; it is resurrected with all its prayers and songs and tears and sermons and transfiguration. Have you kept thoee vowsf Have you been a backslider! God help you. This day kneel at the foot of mercy and start again for heaven. Start today as you started then. I rouse your soul by that reminiscence. Lakbwood, N. J„ May 6.—Ex-President and Mrs. Cleveland, Mrs, Folsom, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Watson Gilder and Miss Blaine, daughter of Secretary Blaine, arrived at th* Laurel bouse. Immediately on their arrival Mr. Cleveland, Mrs. Cleveland, Mrs. Folsom and Mrs. Odder drove through the pine forest, returning to tea at half-past 6 o'clock. Mrs. Cleveland will be here all week. "Do you remember a controversy at headquarters at that time, or any subsequent time, about Porter's running away J" "As I understand it, Porter was not willing to give Butler any of tbe credit for capturing the fort. He claimed that tbe capture was due to Farragut and himself." There to a chapel in Florence with a fresco by Guido. It was covered up with two Inches of stuoco until our American and Eupean artists went there, and after long toll removed the oovering and retraced the fresco. And I am aware that the memory of the past, with many of you, to all covered up with ten thousand obliterations, and I propass this morning, so far as the Lord may help me, to take away the covering, that the old picture may shine out again. Iu spite of the heavy rain which prevailed the streets of Paris were crowded. Parties, balls, fetes, illuminations, torchlight proceasi one, etc., were held in the principal towns thr oughout the republic. A Victory for tlie Machine Miners. Brazil, Inu., May 0.—The iirst victory in tbe adjustment of the yearly mining scale was achieved by tbe machine miners— cents with five cents advance on Nov. 1. This is a Ave cent reduction instead of ten, as demanded. Machines are used exclusively in tbe bituminous mines at Coxville and Clay City. The temporary rate agreed upon for bituminous miners is also a victory, as the rate is higher than at first offered, besides bringing aiuut the resumption of work it all bituminous mines in the state today. "Do you believe that Butler had anything to do with the capture?" "Certainly. 1 believe that Butler had much to do about the capture of the forte, for when the Rebs in Fort St. Philip found that Butler's men were being landed above them they mutinied on their officer and refused to fight, and soon after that the flag was hauled down," Galena, Ills., May 6. —Professor H. L Matchett, principal of the academy at Hanover, in this county, was shot d ad yesterday by George Skene, son of Township Supervisor Skene. The murderer escaped and has not been apprehended. The motive for the crime 1* said to have been a refusal on the part of the murdered man to permit hi* sister to receive attentions from Skene. Shot Hi* Sweetheart'* Brother. Henry George la British Polities. Killed While Eating Pie. Gi.abgow, May 6.—Henry George has met with marked success in his lecturing tour of Scotland. He will close his campaign with his speech at Glasgow next Thursday and return to London. Mr. George has made many converts dur.ng his tour, and it is now quite evident that single tax will be a very important factor in imperial politics in the north at the next election. Mr. George has made his greatest inroads iu the Liberal ranks, and it is quite clear that the Scotch Liberals must adopt his theory or become hopelessly divided. Kingston, N. Y., May 8.—John Westbrook, aged 23 years, son of Lawyer F. L. Westbrook, of this city, fell from the Becond story window of his residence, fracturing hii skull. He lived only a few hours. He wat eating a piece of pie while sitting on the win dow sill, and is supposed to have fallen out accidentally. He bad been married about a year, and was a nephew of the late Judge Westbrook. I want to bind In one sheaf all your past advantages, and I want to bind in another ■heaf all your past adversities. It is a precious harvest, and I must be cautious how I ■wing the scythe. But 1 must not speud any more of my Hm» In going over the advantages of your life. I Just put them all In one great sheaf and I wrap them up in your memory with one loud harvest song, such as the reapers sing. Praise the Lord, ye blood bought immortals on earth I Praise the Lord, ye crowned spirits of heaven I What AClmlrnl Porter Says. Washington, May 0.—Admiral Porter is inclined to Icok upon Gen. Butler's utterances as a huge joke. He was told the contents of the United Press dispatch. "And so Gen. Butler has been saying things about mefbesaid. "Well, what if be hast Ishall not fake any notice of it. He knows what I think of him. I have said time and again that he Is a coward and worse. Now I suppose he wants to get even with me in bis old age. Let him talk; nobody believes him," Hannibal French Dead. Domlnlck McCaffrey Started Them. Nbw York, May 6.—Dominick McCaffrey started the pedestrians in their six day oontest in Mad.son Square garden at midnight There was a fair sized audience, mostly mad* up of sporting men. The starter's werei Oliver's Unknown, Cartwrigbt, Herty, Spicer, Hughes, O'Leary, Hegel man, Golden, Connors, Burns, Davis, Noremac, King, Moloney aud Ray.  Among the greatest advantages of jour Dast life was an early home and its surroundngs. The bod men of the day, for the most part, dip their heated passions out of the boiling spring of an unhappy home. We are not surprised to find that Byron's heart was a concentration of sin, when we hear his mother was abandoned, and that she made sport of his infirmity, and often called him "the lame brat" He who has vicious parents has to fight every inch of his way if he would maintain his integrity, and at last reach the horn' of the good in heaven. A Hoy Tramp's Valuable Information. Sao Harbor, L. I., May 6.—Hannibal French, the oldest brother of Commissioner Stephen B. French, of New York, died here yesterday. Mr. French had been suffering from Bright's disease for some time. He was born in New York in 1817. For the past twenty years be «us engaged in the whaling business at Sag Harbor and was tbe owner of the last whaling vessel sailing out of that port Pittsburg, May 6. — An Erie special says that Ira Kufford, a newsboy, who left hi9 Lome at Grand Rapids, Mich., to becom# a ti .iin"* ran into the police station and gave info.-uiution which enabled the police to surprise a gang of tramps who were stripping and robbing S. M. Wilson, a mill owner, of Cherry Valley, O., who had come to Erie to sell lumber, and had fallen in the way of the tramps while intoxicated. A Valuable Gift from China. But some of you have not always had » t| smooth life. Some of you are now in tho shadow. Others had their troubles yearsaga You are a mere wreck of what you onoe weret I must gather up the sorrows of your past life. But bow shall I do it! You say that is impossible, as you have had so many troubles and adversities Then I will just take two— i the first trouble and the last trouble. As when you are walking along the street and there has been music in the distance you unconsciously find yourself keeping step to the \ music, so when you started life your very life was a musical time beat. The air was full of joy and hilarity With the bright, clear oar you made the boat skip. You went on mru* li/o grew brighter until after a while, jj suddenly, a voioe from heaven said: "Haiti" and quick as the sunshine you halt- -'4 ed; you grew pale, you confronted your first sorrow. You had no idea that the flush on your child's cheek was an unhealthy flush. You said it can i. be anything serious. Death in slippered feet walked round about the cradle. - You did not hear the tread; but after a while the truth flashed on you. You walked the floor. Oh, if you could, with your strong, stout hand, have wrenched that child from the destroyer. You went to your room and you said, "God, save my child I God save my child 1" The world seemed going out in darkness. You said, "I cant bear it; I can't bear it" You felt as if you could not put the long lashes over the bright eyes, never to see them again sparkle. Oh, if you could have taken that little one in your arms, and with it leaped the grave, how gladly you would have done itl Oh, if you could let your property go, your houses go, your land and your storehouse go, how gladly you would have allowed them to D depart if you could only have kept that one treasureI Washington, May ft—The Chinese minis* ter has made a valuable gift to the regents of the Smithsonian institu ion. Ensconced in a beautiful gold plush case is a "jode" ring about ten inches in diameter and one-eighth of an inch in thickness. It has a hollow center about four inches in diameter. The face of the ring has ornamental spots and its back is quite smooth. It is of a pale pea hue, though it was originally of cream color. Upon it is a cream colored spot about the sixe of a ten cent piece, which, if continuously rubbed with a piece of silk, will grow in size. This ring is known as the "Han Pek" jewel of the dynasty of Han, who reigned about 3,500 years ago. In that dynasty the court officials, when having an aud.ence with the emperor, held this ring with both hands, thrusting their fingers into the opening and guarding against moving their hands while addressing the throne. It was used as an emblem of submission or respect for their sovereign. It bad been buried with its owner, was unearthed from the sepulcher recently, and is considered very valuable. A Probable Panic. London, May ft—The advance in American cotton has driven the cotton masters of Lancashire to the verge of a financial crisis. Most of the manufacturer*of cotton products will sustain heavy lotaee, and it is feared that a panic will ensue which will result in intense sufferings among the operatives, who will necessarily be thrown out of employment"But he says you ran away," ' Does he! Well, lei him say so. J have in my possession a Ifc'.tur written to me by Gideon Welles after th- capture of the forts thanking ine for my e.forta, and saying that but for my exertions Au.niral Farragut could not have captured New Orleans. I do not want any stronger praise than Secretary Welles gare me in ti letter. People who run away do not get t- the head of the navy. There were three offic, rs who were censured by Farragut, two of them unjustly. Tb« other one has never, to my knowledge, satisfactorily explained his conduct. I supposed Butler meant him, but you say he referred tome. Weil, well, well! It does not trouble me one bit. People who believe what Butler says must set history aside, and I have not the slightest regard for their opinion." Albany, May 6.—Secretary Cook had a bad day yesterday. Dr. Whitbeck departed from his usual custom and issued no bulletin during the day. It was learned, however, that the patient had slept but little during Saturday night, and was considerably worse. Late last night Mr. Cook was sleeping quietly, and his physician says he is in no immediate danger. 'Condition of Secretary Cook. CONDENSED NEWS. Perhaps your early heme was In the city. It may have been In the days when Canal street. New York, was far uptown, and the site of this present church was an excursion into the country. That old house in the city may have been demolished or changed into stores, and it seemed like saorilege to you— for there was more meaning In that plain house, In that small bouse, than there is in a granite mansion or a turreted cathedral. Looking back this morning, you see it as though it were yesterday—the sitting room, where the loved ones sat by the plain lamp light, the mother at the evening stand, the hrothers and sisters, perhaps long ago gathered into the skies, then plotting mischief on the floor or under the table; your father with a firm voice commanding a silence that lasted half a minute. The Wire Took Out One of Hli Ktm. At Blair, a small plaoo in S uth Carolina, a merchant named Melwick shot his wife and two children, burned their bodies with the house and then shot himself dead. Warsaw, N. Y., May 6.—Charlea Viner, of Buffalo, an elderly man, had'his right eye snapped out by a coil of brass wire escaping from a vise and one end hitting the ball of that organ. He is an organ repairer and came to Buffalo in December from Hartford, Conn.. where he had beeu in the employ of Johnson & Sons. Cable Flashes. Bebun, May ft—The emperor and empress arrived at Kiel to attend the ceremony of baptizing the first born son of Prince Henry and his wife, Princess Irene of Hesse. The emperor held the child during the ceremony. The young prince was christened W&ldemar-Wilhelm - Ludwig-Frederich-Victor-Heinrich.A large saloon known at one time as the "Pavilion," at the corner of Cottage Grove aveuue and Thirty-ninth street, Chicago, together with a ii ui' story building in course of erection, a dozen stores and the living quarters of four I ami ies, including the rooms and possessions of nearly fifty street car meu, werd burned. New York, May 6.—Nearly 4,500 immigrants were landed at Castle Garden. 1,609 trom Liverpool, 918 from Glasgow, T27 from Copenhagen, 710 from Antwerp, 665 from Havre and 291 from Hamburg. 4,500 Immigrants Id One Day. Portland, Ore., May 6.—Reports from all portions of western, southern and eastern Oregon, an J from Washington territory, show a most encouraging condition of crops. Warm rains have prevailed for a fortnight, and all crops promise to ba unusually large. Good Crops Expected. Paris, May ft—The second ballot in Saint Ovensur-Seine, made necessary by the failure to elect last Sunday, has taken place, and resulted in the election of Oen. Boulanger and MM. Laguerre, Naquette and Deroulede to the municipal council. The ow. ers of the Chicago Stable have made a bid of ('35,000 for Proctor Knott, the celebrated race horse. Fire Record. The scull race between H»m:n and Peterson, which was to have taken place at Alameda, Cal., is postponed on account of rough water. Gen. Sherman Non-committal. La Porte, Ind., May 6.—The tool house of the Washington Ice company and sixteen ice houses, together with 26,000 tons of ice and twenty Like Shore freight cars at Stone lake, near 'hi, city, have been destroyed by fire. Lt«s, (65,000; insurance small. Charles Ohlea, sou of the.superintendent of the company, is, it is feared, fatally burned. The Government Must Protect Them. New York, May 6.—Gen. W. T. Sherman declined to express an opinion in regard to the Porter-Butler cont overly, but said: "I was uot it New Orleans., and don't feel qualified to say anything on the subject The gentlemen concerned are both strong, able men, and capable of looking out for themselves. Butler was a gallant soldier, and Porter was one of the hardest hitters in the navy. I regret the revival of camp Are stories. It is not right, especially just at this centennial time. These things had been discussed often enough, and ought to be dropped."  Oh, those were good days! If you had your foot hurt, your mother always had a soothing salve to heal it. If you were wronged In the street, your father was always ready to protect you. The year was one round of frolio and mirth. Your greatest trouble was like an April shower, more sunshine than shower. The heart had not been ransacked by troubles nor had sickness broken it, and no lamb haC a warmer sheepfold than the home in whicl your childhood nestled. Bklin, May ft—Tbe sub-committee of the Bamoau conference has been directed to devise and report to the conference mpans by which order may be established In Samoa, together with adequate guarantees for maintaining it The inquiry of the committee includes examination into the question of the claims of the different kings of the Samoan Island* to rulership. Alter More Breweries. Washington, May 6.—Oen. Black has made answer to the suit filed against him for the malicious withholding of a pension claim. The general says that the United States government is bound to liold harmless all its officers for their official actions, even though they maliciously construe or misconstrue the law. The pension commissioner decides on average of 500 cases a day, and if each applicant whose claim is rejected were to charge malicious intent, it can easily be imagined what a mass of litigation the government would have to deal with. It is understood that Gen. Black has consulted with prominent members of tbe government on the San Francisco, May ft—It ii said here that tbe English syndicate which has been buying up the large breweries in the east has ottered $2,500,000 for tbe Philadelphia brewery in this city. The offer has not yet been accepted.  In a row at Duquesne between a number of strikers and the new men employed by the company one of the strikers was seriously and perhaps fatally stabbed. The company are still hiring new men in place of the strikers. St. Louis, May &—The Harrison wire mills, the Crown cartridge factory and three dwelling houses were destroyed by fire on Eleventh and Papia streets, causing a loss of (70,000; insurance about (50,000. The wire mills have not been in operation for several months, and the Are is supposed to be of in cendiary origin. Escaped In Their Night Clothes. George Francis Train lectured at the Union Square theatre, New York, last night to a good audience and argued that by fasting all the ills that flesh is heir to can bo avoided. He seemed to be in his usual good health and spirits. He has fasted seventeen days and intends to make it 100. Burned by Drunken Sailors. Bangor, Me., May 8.—The Bangor bouse has been partially destroyed by fire, many guests escaping in their night clothes and losing their baggage and effects. Loss, about $30,000; partially insured. Hew York, May ft—A court of inquiry Bermuda has found that the brig Richard P. Buck, which was burned at that place last month, was set afire by sailors while they ware on a drunken carouse, having stolen the liquor from casks in the cargo. The origin of the fire had been • mystery, and some unpleasant suspicion* had been entertained, which are now happily removed. Perhaps you were brought up in the country. You stand now today In memory under the old tree. You clubbed it for fruit that was not quite ripe, because you couldn't wait any louger. You hear the brook rumbling along over the pebbles. You step again into the furrow where your father in his shirt sleeves shouted to the lazy oxen. You frighten the (wallow* from the rafters of the bejn. Killed In a Saloon Fight. Judge Chase Dead. The coal miners at Barclay, Ills., struck for the reason, it is alleged, that certain miners in Iudiana asked them to. There is a prospect that the whole of the Springfield district will become involved. Lykens, Pa., May 6.—During a saloon fight Sidney Ware shot and killed Morris Miller and fatally wounded Frederick Kindler. Ware and a companion, H. L. Jones, ware arrested. Miller and Kindler leave faailiee. St. Joseph, Mo., May 6.— The St Joseph elevator, with a capacity of 150,000 bushels, waa set on fire by incendiaries and burned to the ground. Loas, (£0,000. god's consolation. But one day there arose from the heavens s chill blast that swept over the bedroom, and instantly all the light went oat, nd Saco, Me., May ft—Ez-Judge Samuel F. Chase die!, aged 51 year*, of paralysis. H* was a prominent Republican and had held a number of important public positions. matter Washington, May ft—When the supreme court meets after the present recess on May Judge Matthews' Successor. The New Ulm brewery was also burned, the loss being (18,000. (CONTINUED ON SBOOVD PAG* )