Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 30, 1874, Page 12

12 to tako the placo of the Zomo and Foreign Record, " THE CHURCHES, - - +'. - 'COMMITTER ANNOUNOED. Tho followlng . Commitico on the Woman Questlon waa announced: Tho Rov. R. If, Riol~ ards, B, T, urd, W, T, Findloy, J,.0. Murray, Jr., J. H, Lowls, and Elders I’y 'hrbison and Al Wiidden, APTERNOON BEESION. ¥ On motlon of Dr, Booth, tho actlon of tho Ilouse on the subjeot of consolidation was ro- forred to the Committeo of Lugrossmont, who aro to roport 08 soon ns possiblo. TEPORT, Tho annunl report of the Board of Rducation, was preaonted by Dr. Brood.. Thorocolpta of tho Oonsolidation of the Benevolent Work of the Pres- byterians, The Question of Paramount Import- ance at St. Louis. Board during tho_yonr, woro 87,1063 oxpondi- tures, 897,081, 'I'lio Board atiil lss o doflolonoy of $11,600, Tho roport was recoivod and A 8tep Made Yesterday Toward Sim- pliication. adopted. TIIE TEMPERANOE QUESTION wns takon up again. Dr. Crosby, Ohairman of the ‘C]ogxmltznn on unmz nln% Ovortuzos, rocom- monded that no action bo taken. Dr. Atwator offered a rosojution that in view of tho provaloncoof tho terriblo sin of intemper- anco, this Assombly curdially ap) rovoand oarnost- ly recommenda practlcal total abstinonge from all liquor aa s bovorago, aud rejoicing {u tho rocont progroea made jn obating tho manufacturo and galoof thosamo; oxhorts all to porsevero in thelr cnmlinltfilorlsl and m‘nynr to diminish and torminato this erying ovil. |“l)r. Orosby sald ll’:ya Eolluved tho Proabytorisn Qhurch shonld prosont an unbroken front against the acoursed liquor traflic, but ho found one ob- stnolo to tho ncoomplishmont of tho work. Trothron want _to forco their poouliar notions upon others. AMany bolieve in octotaliem ns o matter of expedloncy. 1o did, and, as a mntter of oxpadioncy, it was for_mau to fmlgu of its application befora God. Othars wanted to make it & law of tho Church, but he objeoted to this, for tho roason that it no longer loaves man to decide consldumtul{. I'ho quostion will be resumed to-morrow. THE CUMBERLAND ASSEMBLY. Correspondence of The Chicago Tribune. BPRINGFIELD, Mo,, May 26, 1874, The Rov. N. P. Modrall, the Rov. E. K. Squiro, Prof, MoGlumphy, B. G. Burnoy, D, D, A. J. Bolrd, D. D, woro mado a Committes to corro- spond with and roprosent this Ohurch in tho mattor of the Pan-Presbytorian Oouncil reforred to by tho communication of Howard Orosby, Dr. MoCosh, and others, Tho roport on publication intorosts was called up. It recommended tho confirmation of Mr. Porter ss & member of the Board ; and that Dopositories bo made at Mom- phis, Tenn., Pitteburgh, Pa, aod Jofforson, ‘Pex., for tho snlo of books. Aftor discussion upon tho lattor toplo, it was detormined to leave tho whole subject to the discretion of tho Bonrd, The Committes rocommendod the establish. mont of o Church-papor as_soon s it may soem practical. In the course of disouesion upon this point, Dr. Steinback enid tho profits on tho {s‘unday Aforning, now published only six months, 843,87 ; and tho profita on the dem for tho year have beon Dr. Howard Crosby Defines His Position on the Liquor Question. The Southern Presbyterians Con- sidering Their Relations to the Church North. Address of Dr, Morrison, of Scotland, Beforo the Cumberland Assembly. Home Missionary Work of the Illinois Congregationnliats. ]’.Llst Year's Work the Most Gratifying on Reeord. THE PRESBYTERIANS. Special Dispateh to The Chicago Tribune, TWO NEW QUESTIONS IN THE ASSEMOLY, Br. Louis, May 29,~Tho uattendanco to-day was Jarger than in any previous meoting of the Assombly, Two questiona of importance wero Bprung, in addition to tho coneolidation scheme that romained ovor from yosterdsy : Woman's place i tho church and tompéranco. An over- turo was recolved, aeking if tho defiverances of tho church wero that women shonld not speak orpray in tho rogular prayor-moctings of the Church, and tho suswor vas “ Yos, oxcopt only In omergoncics of which tho sossion and pastor sl docldo tho urgonoy.” This report by Dr. Crosby caurod & vory lively sensation.. Judgo Drako insisted that it was eithor right or en- tirely have boon $1, Sumlay-sdma‘ $1,864.84, Greotinga wore then heard from Dr. Morrison and Fergus Forguson, of the Evavgolioal Union NG FOR WOMEN TO PRAY bin of Beotland, and epoak in the prayor-moeclings, and thelr right could not bo seitled by any pastor or seseion, Dr. Robert Aikman, of Orango, N. J., said that tho best part of the auswer was in the excop- tion ; ho said Bt. Paul had beon appenled to as intalliblo on this subject, Now It was excoed- ingly doubtful what Paul did teach on this ques- DI, MORRISON BAID 1 + + . Wo woro delighted, fathers and brotuiren, to loarn from tho report of your lsab year's Assembly that proposals wora made for offecting a tnfon tween yourselves ani tle great body of Prosbytoriins in tho United Biates, If buch 5 unon could bo cous summated without {lio surrend:r or compromize of Consclentious thealogical principles on cithor aide, 1t Would, I do belicvo, be by far tho most important ocelosiatical ovent of. tho ngo, th I was chinrmed with the basis of reunlon proposcd uun,’d i d fl;?““‘“ :,';y‘;f:n o e by your Commitics, L am foFfrom rogarding [t oo siioloty jon.-Lhi- | ik plaln and impracticablo, And, when 1 read, a month about somo of tho other injunctlons o h?r{unun' 13‘ i .mmw !12;;1{ afi:’lp;‘l}y::. 0 unie, that the pro - fn rogerd to mon, such =88 wear- f oo 4T, SGine Gommition® I Was more ing long bair, which tho nativo | geliguttully nstonished. Largo o8 my {deas Chrlstiaus in Oriental countrios did, snd the anoioting tho siek with oil, which they did not do, although Paul gave positive instructions to do g0, « " Blin, of Troy, N. Y., thought tbat common senso ought to be used on this aubjoot, cspooial- 1y as mon wero tho onos that killed prayer-moot- Ings and not'women. Ho thought it was an . PHOPER ¥OR THEM TO PRAY A8 TO BING, Ford, of Philadelphia, did not want any dodg- ing on the subject, sud Elder Dixon, of Phila- delphis, and the Rov. Mr.' Lowis, of Neosho, of Atnerican Nberality were, T bud boon earcely pro- Parod for atich & woblg atrido of liberal sontiment, Dut X ansumea tho corroctness of tho roport, and conso. quently folt n gush of intense gratification which T cannot adequately express, A union offected on {he baals proposcd would giyo an incalenlable. fmpotus to tho wholo of Ohrlstcadom, and to the triumph of Obristianity—pure, unsectarian, and uuselfisli—ovor all tho datk powcrs and apiritusl principalities of Athelsm, Infdelity, Bkopticism, sud Immoraity. Yt scorhs to me, Modoratar, that your Cousmittee has taken thie true initintive, ovon_ thougli &t bo iu pdvanch of thoago, It is, 88 I spprohond, utterly in vain to oxpect that any ono of tho cxialing sects within tho palo of Ghristianity Is to sborh and_assimilute all tha Gther denourinatous, Tt in idle to expect thnt unity la 10 bo achioved by the brandishmont of theologlcal Ko, folt tho somo way, Fathor Hunt | jooic in tne arans of debate, Iide not by tho path of wanted to Imow _what common- -sonso [ ihis red-Indisn method " that denominationallsm meant; he had hoard erough about 'common wenso and publio opinion. He wanted tho ques- tion settled on sound doctrine. Aftor somo skirmishing, the subjoct was put ovar into the hands of a committos’of seven, to will bo brought into submisslon and surrender, No,sir; it 18 by the pathwayof suotherand less prodatory methiod tiat the glarious end. coutemplated y all tho good and great, in ol _ceclesiastical partics, i8 1o be reallzed. Your Commitice, ir, has distincily 4 ointed it out, ‘The pathiwoy is the bighway of ber- bxlnfim a roport covering tho wholo subjoot. fy,—on wide and roEm, ufimy oriny I-hoyhaly bond A schomo that was embraced in ministorial re- | and boundary of devotodness to the Gospel and ~ King- lief and education was talen up, and the same partios that have taken the ‘sides of Now York and Philndelphis, rospectively, heretofore, took the same positions to-day, ouly Dr. Booth stood by Dr. Johnson, and offored no compromige. It a8 finally decided to leave thoss matters as 8y now stand, only | THE NEW YORKERS CARNIED ONE 8TRONG POINT of tholr consolldation schieme, viz.: that thers should bo one Treasuror for the Bonrd of Trua- teos of the JGdenoral Assomby, the Committeo ‘of Ministorial Reliof, aud tho Board of doun of our Divine Lord sud Bavior, Jesus Olriat. Moderator, the projoct of your Committco shoutd e accepled, tho Presbyterian Chrch of America will haye the high houor of effecting mors for tho ultimato unification of all Christondom than Liss beon nchioved #ince tho complolion of the cauon of tho” Holy Borip- ure, Bincs our arrival in this country, T linve learnod, Moderator, thot the report in iho Trfbune news: papor was premature. The Joint Committos hnd not it ‘secmu, acen iia way olear fo take {ho dellghtful stride. ¥ do not wonder at it, although I regret t, Time i8 required for doliberation snd ventilntion, and for blawing into oblivion the secumulated chntf Education, instond of throe, a8 thoro &ro nOW. | of nges, Hut thora is o future as well as a prosont and This was the groat point gafnod by Dr. Johnaon, | ast And i that futuro tho sindows whi As avay, for whicl ho was fightiug in his confolidation scheme. It was brought out to-day, by roports of committeos, that, instend of $1,000,000, B8 your correspondent telegraphed yestor- uud the day will dawn when it will be matter of mar- el that thero should have beon suy hesitation in Teforence to the spirit of your projoct. You will bo plonoers once more, At to tho littls band in Scotland, which §s repro- goy, thore wore mently 82,000,000 handled | gentod by my beloved brather, the Ro¥, Foraus Fergne by those varlous =~ committees anuuslly, | non, and’ myself, you do not meed that much should Which thia aonanlidation schome proposes £0 | bo ' sald by us, You lmow us, bLecauso yom concentrate in Now York, beside large | know youraclves. Wo exist A a meparate amonnts of eapital stock and roal property held in trust. Thus it will bo seen WIIY PHILADELPIIA FOUGHT HARD at overy stop to Liavo no ohaugo, a8 any chango mennt the ouriching of the New York manage- ment. Inlaoking ovor the battle and grouping tho resulte, it moy aafely be said that New York hag won Lalf of thoe battle. Dr. Atwater brnn{,vhz in hls report on the codifying of tbe rules of the Mission Baard, under its changed relations, hut thero was notbing particulnrly significant about it, except that tho rulos were moro stringont than those boretoforo obtaining. & lltle brotherhood, becauss wo wero not allowed to preach the universal love of Father, Bon, and Holy Spirit, one God, to man, {0 men, We had ‘been led by our examihation of the Inspired Record to believe thiat Ulte Divine Father renlly and sinceroly loves all mankind, and desires that sll should be saved, But that, wa wero told, Is Lieresy, Wo wers ot ta proavh it, An interdict wes Jald upon us. - Moderaior, we cauld not underatand it, for we read in our Bibles thnt Gad &0 loved the world—tho bona-fido world—ibat He gave lls only-bogotten Son that whosoever beliovoth 1im ehould not porish, but bave eternal life, Again, we belioved that the Divine Son, our biessed Buvior, cofncided in His love with the Divine Father, 80d gvo Himslf & xansom for all; we Toad it il tie Book, We bolievad ife tastod death that In tho dlscusslon on cousolidation, Db, Will- | for every man; “we seed it in e’ Hook, 1t iam - Vi way by Wl wo oursclves enteres Tmbly ;‘;3:&;;“‘;;,?’ roat force on tho A= | Lt0 peace. " Wo belloved fliat tue Holy Lauab of God 1a thie Propitiation for our ainy, and ot for ours only, but also for theeins of tho whole world,—tho wholo real world, We read it in this Book, and our souls leaped for Joy whon wo found that nei{lier wo nor any of our friénds or foes wero mystorlously and uncon. ditfonally !\uum\ by, Dut here again we wers met with an {nterdict. The doctrine of tho universality of tlio atouement of Clrlst fs, we wero told, n lioresy, aud we must not preach it, Alas for ual Yor how, then, ‘could we preuch the goapel to every ofosture?’ How could we be sure that there was salvation for our- ealves? What could wo make of the shuple and eub Hme utterances of Ho‘g Writ? Our hearts Wore bruised and crushod within ua, Ty aud by, a8 %o took {uto consldoration the casen~ tial untty of'the Godhead in_all moral characteristics, and sg ws cuted onr rescarches into the testimo- nies of Holy Scripture, o saw E;)od and overpoerin Teason for Lolioving {hat tho lova of tle Holy Spiri towards the human race is, 1ediatorially viewed, run- ning parallel with tho lové of the Diviia Futher and tiso love of the Divino Sou. the case sebmod to un to fnyo some kind of discord in the Trinily, If By bas dono fls part for tho waivatlon of all ‘withows excoption, and if the Bon has dons Iis part for the salvation of all without distinction, why should o uppose that any. Eecuu-n y . the ‘mediatorfal relstionship of tho Bpirit domanded that 1o ahould hold back from doing Hia part for the sale valion of ail without distinction or oxcoption? Ia it not truo thiat 16 strivea with mun saman 7 Is Mo not poured. out on all flesh? Ta it not exprossly writton hat, when 1o sliould_coms, He would oparats on the tlio world, reproving of sfn, and convincing of Judg. mont and of rightcousnoés ? In it not the case that 1o pincorely says, Gome, to every one to whom flia rido elthior actually says or shouild say, Gomo 1 1f w0, ¢an, e caslstontly conceivo fhat during all tho thne {iat e porslatently plise invitalion, Ho is, nevertlio. less, withholding from miliions upot miitions, whom 2o ritbmatio ¢an number, the ouly voveralg fnilu- ence which evor doos aval ura wayward huma hearts to goodness and to God ¥ 4 i Bir, I caunot bellove it, T cannot think that it 18 be- causo of any stiutiug or withholding of the indispen sable influence of thoMoly Bpirit {liat so many sinners of the Lhuman race remaln unconyicied, unconyorted, ‘unsaved, 0 res! ir, in not 1o be attribuled to the stint of Divine Gracs, but 10 tho superfilty of buman noughtiness, Men rosist God when God desls with thiom ax moral agents aud keopa Hia physical omnipos tenca in aboynnce, Tho moral will'of inau 4 Indo atzuctibly freo, ul, sir, all such 1dcas, we wera fold, woro horeay, And thus & now cross was 1aid upou our kliovlders aid our hoarts; a cross heavier still than the crosses (st hiad bean limposed before, What, fathiors and brothe ron, could we do? We were 'uuwilling to loave our dear companfoushipj but we woro more uuwilling 10 shaka Off tha holy crosses undo* which wo wora condemuod-fo wend our way In tho footsters of our blessod Lord, Our conw sclences would not allow us to disburdeu oursolves, Wohad but 1o aay with Luther, cach of ua for Linie sclf, T cun no more; sodelp mo God 1" Wo uald it wo fult it, We went Lighors. wo weat to Paul, oue o our pobleat exsttplary, sud with him, bir wo Lnve Iearnod 1o ‘say, i all mookness and humility, “God forbld_ that wa ahould glory, save in (o crous of our Lord Jeaus, by which the world 1a orucifled to us, and ™Y ethecs'aad brst b 'athers an reihren, you have far greater reason 10 be encoursged than we lu Sootlnd.” Your lsnd s the Iand of the fulure; Isca it. Itis aiready the Jand of thefroe; Iscel, Liberty's battles may nead to b telsewhore; Libertys viotories are to bo sohloved 11iat Liberty’s triumphu are to Lo enjoy- xoux Cawuuties's Brolesh L7 unign Wil paid highor than it is by tho Assembly. TIE TEMPEIANOE QUESTION, ‘Thero are two propositions now before the As- sembly on the temporance queation : One is for the crusaders’ way of doing things, and declar~ ing oll whisky-sollors aud makers crimivals be- fore God and man, and tho other iusists only that total abatinonce ia tho rulo of the Church, and that all lawful ond rightoous means should be used to kill tho liguor trafic. Dr, Crosby has omphatically ~deolared for - the latter proposition, whilo TFather Hunt seoms to favor the orusader's way, That quostion comes up to-morrow as tho order of the dny. A grand complimontary concort will be given to the Assombly to-night at tho Firat Presbyte- rian Church, , 5 7o the Associated Press) WOMEN-FREACIHERS, Br. Lous, May 20.—Another oxciting scene accurred in tho Presbylerian General Ausembly this morning. An overture fromthe Rook River i) Pmub‘ylary was prosented, which dosired the Assembly to toll thom If 8r, Paul's lsuguage eoncerning the Fr_nuhxng and praying of womon inpublic hould be intorprotad literally, and ‘whetber it applios to the praying of womon at the weekly prayor-mootings. Dr. Orouby, for the Committos on Overtures, said:" *' Yos, ex- cept in spoclal onsos, to bo docided by the pastor ;" _but many voiced oriod, ! No, no.” Judgo Drake said that If the' Boripturo spoko lainly and unequivacally upon this aubjoot, for- giddin women to spenk or pray, then the an- swer should bo “No.” It thoy do not, then it should be an emphatlo ' Yes." [Ap{:lluun.] Dr. Aikman Iho\l[flllll& that womon should not speak or pray in publio, x’Dr, Blh[;n,’of’ oy, N. Y., thouglt that women wero tho greatest power in the Church—in faot, the right hand of it. [Loud applsuse from the Assembly and the gallories.] Baveral speachos were mado pro and con,, and domonstrations of approval and disapproval were frequent and hoarty, Dr. Crosby said that a long dobate on this quostion would lead to things that would militate against the perfect reunion of tho two bodies of the Church, and aaked tha membors to let it alono, Fiually, tho matter was reforred to & comumittee of Hoven Prasbyters. otber concaption of ve the nllp{vgllllfln of 6 Fath TEMPERANCE, Mr. Lawrence wanted an oxprossion of the Assembly on the question of total nbstinenco, which led to another disoussion, Placed on the docket, . THE EDUCATION DOARD. The regular order of the day, ‘‘Bhall the Board of Education remain as at present 2" thon oame up, and was discussed. After a lonmhg disoussion 1t was decided, by a ‘wole pf 218 10148, that tho Board of Fducation and &nnmmun on Blinistorial Rellef should re- fih‘c & meparate Beoretary, but with only a easurer for both, The Rev, Mr, Beatty, from the Hchool Board of Publication gaid it was Gfix}yuwi to ntart & f9% pspoy galled the Chur lonthiv, whioh 1§ -and by be acoepted, The apirit of the ago Is works ;3. ot 11, "The apieit of (e hobleet, of e peopia o Hlikso Gion a workivg for t. “Brovidante fn warking for it, Logio, itaoif, will work foriv for logic, Wit {ta grand, inoxorabio unscotarisnfsm, will be unable to devisa’ any othor practiosble sohemis for real Oliris- tinn \infon, “The day ‘of. triumnph will cothe, Lot ail bo animnted with a lively hope, Dr. Morrison's romnrka woro régolvod with gront approbation, Mr. Forguson followed, Aponking {n a happy strain of “humor and wit, that kopt the wholo body in an.upronrof laugh- Lor for soma .thirty minutes, No "li\"" yould do it justico, WM. G THE SOUTHERN ASSEMBLY, Coruatnus, Misg., Moy 20,—~Tho subjoot of ab- sorblug interest in tho Assombly for-tha past throo days has boon tho questionof the rulo adapted by the Faculty of the sominary at Colum- bis, 8. 0., requiring the attondance of divinity studonts upon the prenching at tho Chapel on Babbath morning. This rulo was enactod last January, aud many of the studonts fool that it infeingod upon thelr Christisn liborty, and that lh‘;)x ought to have tho priviloge of worshiping G on the -Lord's Day in _ tho Proabytorian Ohuroh in Columbia. Sevon atudonts woro dismiesod aud the othors suspended. Tha subject comes up on aroviowof the procoedingaof the Sominary, The dobato has beon oatnest and epirited, turn- ing on tho Impnr of Ool. Qollier, rodommending that horoafter tho attoundanco upon thoso sor- vicos in the chapol on Sabbath mornings be yol- untary on tho part of students and tho Faculty. Tho Rov, J. W. Pratt offered tho following as's substltuto: g Whilo the Goneral Assembly rofrains from expross- ing an opinion respeoting the original intention of the framors of tho Conatitution, and refuscs to rofloct upon tl,o past course, elthor of profcssors or studonts, attondance upon chapel _sorvices it intorprets the ~ Constitution logical Beminary at Oolumbia as romiiting tho entire disolpline of the Sominary to the Faculty of thio Sominary, and thot tho studonts are under thelr pastoral nad Imperativo control, aubjoot to the review of tho Goneral Assombly, The points made on one side wers the right.of oouscfence to worship God, and on the other aido that tho_suthority of {he Faoulty sad Di- rectora muat bo uphold. A tost voto was roached, when Mr. Pratt's substituto was rejectod—yone, 513 nays, 84. Col. Ooller's amendment wans adopted and in- corporated in the yeport on scminarics, and tho report was adopted. ‘Che spoakers in favor of liberty of - con- solonce wero Mosars, Witherspoon, Plumer, COaldwoll, Wilson, and Pitsor; for continuing the rulo, Mosars, J. W. Praffy 3L Kirkpatrick, R. Ferris, . . FRAUDULENT RELATIONS. Tho toplo for to—dny 18 *¢ Qur relationa to tho Northern Assembly.” Thres propositions aro ponding, the firat presented by Dr. J. L. Kirk- patrick, to appoint an uninatructod committee to confor with "the Northern Committee, not on the subject of organic unfon, but friondly rolntions and ~ fratoroal apondonco ; tho socond by the Rev. J. W. ogt, doclining to appoint & committee, but statiog * our roadiness to rocoivo and eond fra- tornal dologatos at once " tho third is by Judgo Fontross, rofusing correspondoncs or roference until the Northern Assembly shall explicitly ro- scind its action coucorning us. The sentiment of the Assombly ia largely in favor of the first, Tho debate has continued all day, aud tho vote will bo taken to-night. RESIGNATIONS. The Rev, Dr, J. K. Wilson sud J, Badgor, Pro- fossors in the Bominary at Columbis, 8. O., pre- sentod lotters of ranlfinuuon of their Professor- smpzaE Roforrod to the Commitieo to briug in & minuto. — TEE OONGREGATIONALISTS. Special Dispatch to The Chicage Tridune, MONKING HESSION. Kewaneg, I, May 20.—The Congrogational Associetion was organizod s followa: Tho Ttoy, W. G. Pierco, Moderator ; the Rev. 0. E. Dickin- son, Beribe; the Rev, George 8, Bascom and W, A. Dickerman, Xsq., Assistants. » Prof. G. N. Boardman, D, D., read an able and oxhaustive papor upon the true basis of follow- ship in Congregational churches, whioh ho was roquoated to publish in such form’ s ho might desiro, "T'he reports from bonevolont socisties showed an increaso of contributions, The Rev. Goorge Huntington ‘read an ossay upon the Christian dootrine of the family.as opposed to Mormoniem, Woodhullism, and oasy divorces. . &y Dr, Troat made an urgent npfmn\ in behalf of the American Board of Commissioners for For- oign Missions, whioh called forth tho "unani- mous adoption of the following resolutions: Reaolved, That this Assoclation recommends that, without hesitation, tho American ‘Board of Commis- sloners for Foreign Missions maintain its scale of Iabor, and we horoby pledge the causs our inoreased prayers and offorts, R esalved, That a committes of three be sppointed to address at onice an approprinte olsoulsr to the ohurches of Liltuole, 'on the great subjeot, The Rev. 8. B. Goodnow read a paper upon absent church-mombors. Tho Rev. Jamos Tompkins, tha Rov. C.D. Holmer, and the Hon, Wililam J. Phelpe, wero appointed delegates to the National Couneil. THE BVENING BESSION Ly was devoted to tho socond snoiverssry of the Illinois Homo Misslun Sooiety. Tho report showed that tho ociely had more thap fulfilled its plodge made Iaat yoarto assume self-supnort. The recoipis for thegnnr have beon $13,600; exponditurea in the Slate, $12,117,—leaviug a balsnco of $943, The number of missionaries um&floy@d was fifty, serving fifty-ning churches ond twonty-two out-stations. The Rev. D.B. Coo, D, D., Becrotary of the Amerioan Home Minsion Society, made the ad- dross of the eveniug. Ho eaid thot this was the first time in the history of the Boole! that a Btats west of New York had ralse more for bome missions than it had expended. He thanked God that ho could bo there. Tho parant Soclety had done more during the past year thon in any yoar befors, Thero waaneed of muohs more, “Formerly the Society was sble pretty nearlyito keep up with the advance of civilization, but “not now. If they would ad- vauce acoording to the growing needs of the country, vory much of the money must come from the interior Biatos. BPEOULATORS PIEFER CONGREGATIONALIEM. Bpeoulators who owned new towns on the frontier; told the Secretarles that the Congre- gationalists were the best to -increase tho prico of land. Thoso men would build churches, but the Home Missionary Booioty must send the ministers. The following resolutions wore ldogted‘ in vlew of the facta rondered by Bupt. oy and Boorotary Coo : i Reaoled, That this Soclely ackpowledy ith tlank- fulness tho blossinga which aod f\n! he;’l‘:}'v'v'od on the Liomo misslonary causo during the Fm year, -c CC ‘That wo refoica eapocially in the increased liberality mnlful!ed«b{'tha churchies of the Association; we are thankful that at ast the State of Illinois has' be- come self-supnorting in ita relations to {he Amorican ‘Home Misstonary Soofet] That we recognizo; in rhn Divine favor hestowed on us and on our counfry during the past year, and in the mumrtuam D{:lfl! of uew doors {0 homo mis~ slonary labor, an incontiva to ronowed ond mora com.. plete consacration to the Lord aud lis work, Wa Teel thnt wo shall come short of both duty and privi- lego if wo do not increaso tho offort to mllu OUr BgETE- Efia contribulious for home missjons du; the coms ¢ yoar at Ioast §1 por membar of our churehes, st cae dt THE EPISOOPALIANS, LouisviLLE, l{{5 May 29.—The Episcopal Conyontion of the Diocoss of Kentuoky adjourned until soma futuro time after the session of tho Genoral Convontion, whon it shall ba called to moet togather by tha seniar Nishop, for the pur- pose of lupnlylnli tho vacancy caused by the separation from the Church of Mr, Cummins, the Bishop to give ehh-tf days' notice of “hiw _ in~ tent to calltho Convontion, —— GRANGERS IN MICHIGAN, Special Dispateh to The Chioago Triduna. Lansing, Mici,, May 20.—8. I, Brown wishes 0 gorroct an orror that has been publisked In many 8tato papors as to his construction of the Grange rules, Hesays: ' MY construction of tho rule is this : That any male who {5 18 yoars of ago, Whouo loading or predominant mnterest is in agrioulture, s eligiblo to momborship in our Order, although he might bo engaged In the businosa of a Llacksmith or any other moohan- loal Inbor, if ho is not engaged In busincss an- n;}mnuu {0 our purposes.” 'hero nre now organized in the State of Mioh-~ igan 480 Granges,—Pewamo Gravges, Ionia lounty, bolng the last one orgaunized, e 5 Runniug Amok. A corrospondont of the. London Daily News wrltes from Datavie ; * From Hourabaija we bave jnst rocelved in- tolligonco of ono of the most teritble instances of an ¢ Amok * murder whiok Lias occurred inthe Indion Archipologo, The murderor was an encapod convict, and the soene of the wholesale ulnufihtar, committed bythis one man, ts Terna, & emall aland not far from Bourabaija. The fel- low wont on the aftornoon of Jan, 18 to tho Dbazaar, in the chiet town of tho islsnd, where he hought some tobacco. MHe thera drew hin knite and attacked evory one— man, woman, aud child—within his resch, wound. ing and killing ninetoen ons in less time {han it takew to mantion It He then msdo hig THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: oncape into the thick junglo which begina at the baak of tho town snd runa.up to tho donsoly- wooded hills, Of theso nineloon wotinded por- sons fifteon sro dead, somo killod outright, others ngorlnF on for a dayor two. Kor ten days thin ruftfan romatued at largo, to the great fonr of the town and nelghboifiaod, fow darlvg to von- turo out aftor dusk, and ono and all shunning tho “ pasnar,” or bazear. During thoso ton dn[y! rogular, volunteor, and natlvo troops were cal od out, sconring the woods and jungles. Ho was Ginally oapturad, aftor wounding Hired of his pur- suord, who woro Jarmed natives sont out by tha Bultan of Torna, Bo irato woro hia captors that, aftor ohopping off lus hoad, thoy literally cut his body into minco-mont. **'Tho Malays aro n strango mixture of child and tlror—hnrmloun ina gonoral way, snd given to ohild-like plonsures, but tholr passions once arousad, they hecomo vory flonds in their thirst forblood, Jonlousy I8 tho most froquont causo by far of their ‘Amoka.’ A gang of 100 to 300 conviots moay often bo met with on the publie ronds hore, unattondod by any but a fow unarmad nativeguardsor Jallora; tho convicts themsolves froquontly oarrying nxes, hoavy wood-knives, oto, Though 20 to 80 por cont of thewo are Embab]g murderord—ns porcentago noarly dou~ lod fn Bumnira—yot, as thoy motols slong, thoy 1augh and talk ltke a parcol of schootboys; and should one of them Lo tho happy posscesor of a ragged handkorchiof tled flag-fashlon to the ond. ot apolo, Lo is admired aud enviod by all of them. It in raraly that drink or oplum—Dboth forbidden indulgences by thoir roligion—holps to ald thoir murderouns frenzy.” FIRES, At Zilhwaulkco, Mich. Speoial Dispatch to The Chicago Tridune, Easr BSacixaw, May 20.—Daring a heavy thundor-storm which visited this section Inst evoning, » barn, ownod by O. M, Glavo, at Zil- ‘waukoo, balow thia nlty, wan atenalke by lightning and got on firo. The firo waa extinguished twico but broke out afresh and communicatod with the rosidonco of Mr, Glave, and with a grocory store owned by him, destroying both, as” well “aa the barn, Loss $8,000 ; fnsured for $2,000, At and Nonr Plttsburgh, Prrrsnunon, Pa., May 20.—Early this morning tho car works of Georgo Bitner & Co., noar Tor- ronce Btatlon, six miles from this oity, wero de- atroyed by fire. Tho estimatod loss is $300,000; fully insured, About 10 o'clock this morning & firo broko ont in tho paint shop of Appel & Rogers, on Oarson streot, noar Sawvmill run, on the South Bide. .Tho shop, together with sovoral business houses ani dwulknsn, was dostroyed. The loss is about $26,000; parislly insured, HEROIC DEED. Oounorn Brurrs, May 20.—This moming as an extra stock train was a[')flrnnching Farragut, on tho branch road between (nm= burg - and Red Oak, tho engincor, Jack Evans, discovored a_ochild on tho track some sixty yards distant, TLvans rushed out upon tho cow-catcher, and, when_the engino had renchod within ten footof the child, whoso arms woro ralscd, mado a leap, graspod the ohild, and tho two rclled down the embankment. The child was uninjured, Evans reciving severe, though not sorious, injury of the sukle for his horolo effort. —— e THE WEATHER, ‘Wasainatox, D. 0., May 20.—For the Lake Region, Tonnessee, and tho Obio Vallow, partly cloudy weathor, eastorly to southarly winds, high tomporaturo, and statlonary to faliing barome- tor, with light rain in the Tennessoo and tho Ohio Valloy, and near Lake Superior. For the Northwest, partly cloudy woather and local raing, with variablo winds and high tempera- turo In Missouri and Iows, and lower tempora- ture from Lake Buperior westward .to. tho Mis- souri Valley, LOCAL OSSERVATIONS, Qinoaso, May 28, 1874, 518 ‘ g Hour of ab-| g § Direction and| eruaton, | & | § | B Yores ot Weater 6:53 0., m..[00,03] 63 11:18 0, m..{30.10] 80 %00 p, m..[30.07| 85 8:03 e [ Maximum tLormomotor, 88, Min{mum thermemoter, 43, GENEUAL OBSERVATIONS, C110AG0, May 50—1 8, m, | Rain) Weather, avonport .|30.08 30,11 Glear, Light rain, MIS0ZLLANEOUS REPORTE, Correspondence of The Chicago T'ribune; Bervmeeg, 111, May 28.—A heavy shower fell here at noon to-dny, secompaniad by hoavy thun- dor sad shath lightiiog. Airetalo fell To:tor- rents, withwcoasional hail, for ‘the " spaco of pn hour, doing an immenso amount of good to tho owing crops. The farmers wore beginning to i:al nervous on accountof the drought, no rain having fallen to speak of since seeding com- moncod. * Speetal Dispateh to 1'he Chicago Tribune, JawesviLne, Wis, May 29-—A foarful rain, wind, and Lail storm passed over McHonry Oousty, Ill., aod Walworth County, Wis., yes- | terday aftornoon. Tho wind blow o hard that an express-train waa obliged to stop ina cut for fonr of bolng blown from the track, Tompera- turo hero, 95 fn tho shado. % ! 5 —_— . Anciont Vessols, Magnificont and large #8 aro some ‘of our modern ateam vesscls, they are inferior, it we may judge from desoriptions, both In_size and splondor, to the vossels constructed by tho Kings of Egypt and Byracuso, on a soale of grandour corrosponding fo tho immoneo prep- arationa of their sculpturd and architocture. Ptolommus Philopator, King of Egypt, built s vousel 420 foot long, 56 feot broad, 72 feot Ligh from the kool to the top of tho prow, hut 80 fest to the top of the poop, Bhe had four hielms of .60 feet ; hor Iargest oars wero 50 foot long, with leaden handles, to as to work more easily by the rowers; sho Liad two prows, two storns, sevon rostta or besks, successively ris~ ing and swelling out oue over the other, tho topmost one most prominent and mm{; on tho poop and prow sho had figures of animals, not less than 18 feot high: sll the intevior of the vosgol was benutifled with s dolicato mort of painting of o waxen color. Bhio had 4,000 rowors; 400 onbin boys or orvants; marinos to do duty on the docks, 2,820; with an fm- monse store of arms aud provielons, ‘The gawo Prince bullt anothor ship, callod tho Thal- amogus, or bed-cbembor ship, which was only used as a pleasure yacht foren‘fllng up and down the Nile, . Bho was not so long or Iarge as the proceding, but more splendid in the chambers and their furnishivgs. = Hioro, King of Byracuse, built an enormous vessel, which ho intonded for. | & oorn trader; hor longth is not givon, She was built at Byracuso, by & Corinthian ahipbuildor, and was launched by an apparatus devised by Achimodes. All" Mor bolts and mails wero of brassy sho had twonty rows of oars; hor apartments ware all. aved with neat, squore variegated tilos on whioh was painted ol tho story of Homor'a Iiind, Bho hnd ..g{(mmwlum, with shady walks, on her uppor’ deoks, gardon plots atockad with varions plants, and nourlsbod with limpid water ihat tlowad ciroulating ronnd them in a cannl of Joad, 8ho had, hero and thero on deck, arbors mantlod with ivy and vine brpuchos, which flourishod n full greonnoss, befug suppliod with the priuci- Bln, of growth from tho london canal. he had “one clsmbor Fnrunuhu-ly splondid, whose pavoment was of agato and other SATURDAY, MAY 3b, 1874, urgose of desiroying- them, -The tunnels or 0wla on hor mn::s’lwg'n of brass, with men in ench. Sho had twelve atohors and {hreo iiséts; It was with diffloulty they conld find a troe Jargo and strong enough for bor highost mast.” Groat Britain—an ominous ciroumstance for .the.su- poriofily of Dritish onk—had the glory of be« stowing npon her a sufiiolont troo for that pur- poso. It wan discoyored amid the rocessos of ‘Alblon's forosts by a swinoherd! What is re- markabloe in the conatruction of this gigantic voagol s, that hor aontina, or aink, though large and deop, was ompticd by ono man by means of & pump invenled by:Archimodes. Hiero, on fluding tbat tho Syracusan was too mnwioldy to bo admitted with safely futo tho barboss of Bleily, made a prosont of hor {o Ptolomy, who obnngod hor namo o tho Alexandrian. Wo may add, as a panorgon to thislong tale of asbip, that Archimolus, tho Greok oplgrammatlst, wrote a littlo poom on the largo vousol, which was ro- wm!mf by Hioro with a prosont to its talontod suthor 0f 1,000 measures of corn,—a premium proportionad, it not to the poem, at least to the magaitude of tho theme colobrated. —— e Fatnl Omeons. Not n fow old families prido themaclvos upon inhoriting cortain omous whoraby thoy aro warned of death’s approach, Some aro warned by a mateor's light, some by molanchely strains of musio floating from the mansion to die away intho woods. A mysterious knooking, nover hoard at any other timo, tolls the lords of Bamp- ton that onoof their raco is bonad for tho silont land. A atamping by ungoon foot on tho palaca floor prediontoa & dosth in the family of tho ducal house of Modens. A sture goon forclug its way up the Trent toward Clifton Hall, 8 "a “elgn that . the Oliftons of Nottinghamabire will have to put on mourning, For some days bofore the death of the hoir of tha Brorctons, the trunk of a troe is to bo seon floating on tho lako near the family mansion. Two giant owls porch upon the bat- tlements of Wardour Onstlo when an Arundel's hour has come. If n Dovonshire Oxenham is about to dio, s whitc-broasted bird tutters over tho doomed one's bed, A local ballad relatoshow on the burial ovoof Margaret, holross of the brave and gencrous Sir James Oxenhnm, & eil- vur-bmnulmf bird flow over the wedding gu: just as Bir James rose to acknowledge thelr con< gratulationn, The noxt day tho bride fell doead at tho ltar, stabbod by a discarded lover. How- oll saw a tombatono in a stonecuttor’s shop in Floot stroot, in 1632, inscribed with the names of sundry porsons, who theroby atteated the fact that Jolin Oxenham, Mary, his sistor ; James, his son, an eth, his mothor, had each and all died with & white-brenstod bird flut- toring above iheir-beds. A family of Loch Ranza, Arran, koow when- one of their kin is about to dlo, by an invisi- ble piper El-ylnu o lament on tho hillside, When doath purposes visiting s MoLesn, of Lochbury, the unwelcoms oaller {a horaldod by the spirit of a batile-slain sncoator ringing the bolls on his fairy bridlo, as ho gallops twico round tho old homestead. As arule, doath-an- nouncing phantoms are of the feminine gender. No Lady Holland expocts to shuffie off this mor- tal coil until eho has sean a ghadowy countor~ feit presontment of hersclf, The Middlstons, of Yorkshire, a8 bocomes an mnclent Catholio honso, bave a Benedictine' nun to apprise them of & roduction in the number of Middletona. A wooping, moaning, earthy-sprite warng the Btanleys of tho denth'of a distinguished membor of the family, A hairy-armed girl, called May Moullach, . brings the like. sad nows to the Grants, of Grant; the Bodach-sm-dun, other- wiso the Ghost of the Hill, porforms the office for tho Grants of Rothismurcus, and most old Highland™ familios boast their own "familiar baushce, whose wailing; acreaming, and weop- ing tells thom the head of the houso muat make room for his hoir. Lady Fanshaw, visiting the head of an Irih sopt in his moated baronial grange, wos mado aware that bansheea aro not peculiar to Beotiand, Awakened at mid- night by an awful unearthly scrosm, ehe beheld, by tho lght of the moon, & female form at the window of her room, which was too far from the’ ground for any women of mortal mold to ronch. Tho creaturs owned & lipumy, pale face, snd rod, disheveled hair, and was clad in tho garb of old—very old—Ireland. After exbibit- fng hersclf for somo timo, the intoresting spoc- tre shricked. twice and vanished. hon Lady Fanshaw told hor host what she hed” -soen " ho' was mot at ' all snr- prised. A mear rolation,” sald ho, ¢died Iast night in this castle. Wo kept our expacta- tion of tho event from you lost it shiould throw ncloud over the cheerful reception which was ur dus. Now, before such au event happens n tho family and castlo, the fomalo epectro you sw alwnys "becomes visible. She is belioved to be tho spirit of a woman of inforior rank, whom ono of my ancestors married, and whom he af- torward causod to bo drowned in the most, to oxpiato tho dishonor dono to our racoe. If all bansheos originated in tho same way, the less the proprictors of such things brag of the mat- tor, the bettor.—All the Year Round, Lu-Obitinty Editors T'wo or throe yeara ago I was attached to the AMorning Argus, the only paper published in our village, and, during my engagement, wo em- Bloyml a8 an aesistant nd.ltnnyonn}; man named rinker. Whon Drinker began his dutios, the mansger ead to him:- - *'Beo lore, Drinker, smong . other things, I want you, whonovor you soe, in the exchauges or anywheros, & good hloumghlcnl sketch of any prominont man, to olip it out and put it away, 80's whon ho dies, gfl\l understand, wo can xush 1t out as an ‘obituary artiolo, as it were, Drinker went to work, and about two montha aftorward somo weoll-known man died, and I ex- amined the obitunry bureau for the purpose of obtawing his history. It wasnot thore; but I -discevered-that the innidious Drinker had’ stored ‘away In that mortuary receptacle ons bla'gnyh-‘ icnl sketch of John Wesley, a colleotion of anec- dotes sbout Gon, Putnam, and an essay upon “Iho Lifa and Borvicos of John Hancook.” - 1 commenced with Drinker npon the subject. ‘“Mr. Drinker,” I eaid, after calling his atten~ tion to tho article about the father of Mathod- ism, ‘‘you certainly must bo awaro that John “’I{I:nlug diod long boforo you csme into this oftice. *¢ N-n-no I" exclaimod Drinker, with a look of pained surprise with his faco, ** Whewh-what! John Wesloy doad! That great and good man oue | Thundor! Why, it's too bad. I Liad no don of such a thing. What 8 shook it muat hiave been to his family 1" “ And a8 for Gon, Putnam, Drinker, it is per- faotly abgurd for you toprotend that you thought ho was alive, you know, Come now, that's too ‘much,” 4 I8 ho dead, too?" Well, well. The fact is, I'vo been living down in tho country for two or throe yeats, and haveu't kept the run of things. And 50 old Putuam's dosd. Thatnoble old maa. Btrango, strange, how wo &ro Pmnlug away."” .,.'*And, Drinker, you certainly can't be such an idiot a8 to linve put awny this articlo about Han- cook, with the expectation that he would die agnin, _You know he did die onco, Why, Drink- er, ha diod ahout 10,000 years ago. ; ' Como, now {" exclaimed Drinker, exultingly, * I've got you there, Ahl nh! Died 10,000 years ago, ho, amarty ? You know too much,” You think ovorybody’s & fool but yourself! Dead, is ho? Now, whal's the use of your trying to stuff that down me, wheu I know woll enough that the Domoorata taliked shout running Han- cook for the Presidoncy at the last eloation! O, shaw! You ain't it to write for any paper at's got any sense." Then Drinker was discharged. I didn’t en- lighten bim, He will probably go.down to_the giave with the firm conviotion that Gou, Hau- cook is tho man who sot copy for the miserable penmen who signed the Declaration of Inde- pondence.—Max Adeler. Edmund Abont. Correapoundence of the Vienna Press. About is a fat, unwioldly man, with hardly an; neok at al}, and, at adiatauce, lookiog very muc! Jiko the disgracod Dazelue—a . resemblance which dlumwnm, howover, as soon as you geb nomor to him, for Bazaine has twinkling, lus- trous oyos, whilo this man's faco is dotted only by two very dim luminaries, which are almost olosod _as much by the heavy oyelids, even wlen ho roads, or looks at you, as wore thoso of the late Louis Napoloon, “Tho impression which ha malces upon thoso who do not know himn fs that of an himbls Frouchibourgeois, which 1 heighton- od by tho old-fashioned, loose, and badly-1ittin clothes in which his hoavy form is wrapped, an by tho elowness of his spoech, and dlagresable, loarse touo of his voice, And yot thisis Ed- procious stonos, and whoso panels, doors, and roofs were of ivory and wood of the thyn troe. Bhe had a scholastorlum or library with fiye couchos, ite roof arched into a polus or vrult, with tho atars ombossed ; shio bod o Dath, with its acoompaniments, il most mags nitluent ; whe had on each side of her dack ten stalls for horses, with foddor and furnishings for the grooms and ridorsy a fiuh pond of lead, full of flsh, whope waters could be lot out or ad- mitted ot ploasitro ; #lo Lad two toweis on the oop, two on tho prow, aud four in the middle, ull of armed men, that mamged the machines mvented by Archimides for throwing stones of ounds weight and arrows 18 foot long B.: the distance of alfurlong, Bhe lad threo maste, and two antednm or yards, that swung with hooks and massa of lead atiachod, Bhe had yound the whole clwult of her deck & rampart of iron, with iron prows, which took lml‘fJ of abigs and draggod them noaror for tho, mond About, the ominent novellst, aud keen, incislyo publicist, whoso books have hoon transe lated into all olvilized lm:lgun es, and who, as & humorist, slands unrivalod in tho present ltora- turo of Franco, Edmond About’s careor hias beon one of con- stant ups and downs, sinco his eminence as n writer, Whilo his fuine has etoadily grawn, ha hag made and loat fortunes, and {s uolluvmf, at tho present time, to Lave few vesources bosldes his magio pon, Ermclpnuy owiug to the blinduous with which ho hug porsidted in mintaking his vo- cation, and haa atriven to excel in aphores from Whioh his genius should shrink, while he has nogleoted that fleld for which Le is eminently destined,—tho novel. 'T'o this very day, notwith- standing his incessant failures as wuch, About belleves that he s the newspaper writor of France par excellonce, and he caanot scoount for the nnpnpulnrn{'ot tho Journals whose lead- ing writer ho has been, He dovoles most of ‘his time to the composition of editorials ar mag- azlio articles on politioal topics, snd only in hiis lelsura ‘bonra throwa off hyory How and Ehorl: bnies of -those mparkling and _ofton thrilling novelottes,’ whlul? ‘nro_ tha dolight of the most: oulllvated roadors of Fronch litern turo—most of thomo goms of Frenoh belles- lottros, whioh, as soon na thoy nppesred in Abvout’s own cnnmg, hinve boon tranainted into ovory languago of Kuropo ; and yot thoso whoso admiration they exclted }uum, tholr brilljant humor, their Iuoldity of stylo, have hardly nn {do of the incrodibly short space of timo In which thoy wero written, “The King of the Mountains,” a novel whicl has. passed through numerous oditlons, and which the gront Dore deomed worthy of boing 1llustratod by his maglo penci), and which Julea Janin pronounced abeolutely faultless as a novel, was complote in tho haundsof the printor two wooka aftor tho author had written tho first lino of it, *!Tho Noso of o Notary Public,” and *' Tho Man with a Brokon Ear,” two books over which tho first minda of Franco havo henriily laughed, woro tho work of & fow days. *“Tho Turco" is ovon sald to bave boon dictated by About to his amanucnsis in twonty-four hours, and * La Quos- tion Romaine " was principally writton on board of & Meditorranesn stoamer, aud on tho cars bo- tween Mareollles and Perls, Mont of these works wero- liborally pald for by About's publishors, and a fow yeara ago ho was roputed to bo quite rich, At any rate, he pur- cohnsed a vory valuablo estate noar Saverne, in Alesco, and Bovoral businoss houses in Daris, But tho war, and the (mrntunnl:y with whicl ho enponsod the cause of Alsace in tho midst of hor conquorors, cost him tho loss of that splondid roperty ;- sud ho lost tho remaindor of his for- {lum by ostablishing tho Soir newspaper, which after costing bim upward of 400,000 francs, ind to bo sold somo timo ago for less than ono-fifth of that sum. To-day, he lives with his intercsting family in a.very humblo houso 1n the Rue Millaud, belong- lnito his.o0ld adversary, Emilo de Girardin; and, althongh his hosltli_is by no means good— ha sufforing, like Jules Janin, very froquontly from sovera attacks of tho gout—he 1 fnvaria- m{ In excellent spirits, and takes hia roversos the ptulosophical calmnoss and good-humor of a Voltalre. 18 hufihlng importurbability, for which About Is noted among tho authora of France, ix beat shown by the mannor {n which ho has alwaya roceived his invariablo flasco as a dramatist. The dramatic succosses of bis col- lego-mates, 8ardou and Feuillot, caused him to write » number .of comodios, but fow of his plays had more than ono ropresontation. One day, s he onterod the Theatre Francals in the middle of a performance whioh was londly biesod by tho audience, About ssked with much grav- ity, “ Are :hn.y Playing hero, to-night, ono of my own pleces? " As a politician, too, o has always boon unfor- tunate, At every election, under tho Socond Emplro, he waa a candldats tor the Corps Logis- Intif, but he noyer recolved many votes; and he .prha to Prosidont Thiera for diplomatic mia- sion, y thelr AUCTION SALES, . ... A A A A~ A R R A A AN A A AR By ELISON; POMEROY & CO. BANKRUPT SALE Hardwood Lumber at Auction. TURGDAY MORNING, Junad, at10 o'alack, at Lum- b B Gy A S ohtre ook of AR LY. IO & O thoontire of 200, D nes FupLs, conaistl h, Walhut, Onk, 1iickory, Maple, Oltorty, Tutiormity and bihor hardwood lumbor: Alsn, Qorid-Wood. Qilice furpiture, ota., ote. Balo posilvo_ i 4 will ho enld in tofs toauit, o Do e oMV 4 U5+ AusHonoors, Tarn Out! Turn Out! TO THEH . . Great Land Sale EVANSTON, Wednesday, June 3, at 12 o'cl'k. BPECIAL FREE TRAIN loavos Wells-sb Dopot at 10. o’clock. ACCOMMODATIONS FOR ALL,. Our Mammoth Pavilion on tho ground. Refroshmonts furnished by one of Ohis oago’s best catorers, Paynes & MoNells Sibiivisim, 80 ACRES." NEARLY 300 Lares Builiing Lots, to be sold in lots or blocks, Alen four ti-room Drvollings, Gothio styls arobituctura, A olixnga for evory opo to procurs a home {n tho couat. 3 with ail the convanfondes of tha city. ‘* Whera could we send M. About;?” asked 3I. lora, **He will wril magnificont book on the country to which we accredit him as Ambas- sador, oxpote ita woakness in a masterly man- wer, aud embroil us eoriously with ita Govern- mont. No, he had better stay in Paris,” To the honor of About, be it said, ho, notwith- standing this rofusal, remainod a steadfast and ardent supporter of . Thiers, A Murder by Boys. From the Troy (Tenn.) Symal, May 23, One of the most” dastardly sctions that we have heard of for many a day comes to us from Union Uity. Ono dny last wesk a httle colorod hnslm-md for his sohool, and when near the M. & 0. Railrond met two "whita boys, about his own age, who commenced abusing him, Taking 10 potice of them, he pressed on toward his dostination, ihon ono of the boya told him that if he crossed the railroad track— which he wasa obliged todo in ordor to get to tho school—thoy would kill htm, And sure enough, when ha attempted to oross the treck, one of. them gava the othor & knifo' and fold him to *clonn the d—n nigger up," which he proceoded todo by cutting him severely with tho knifo, and from tho wounds thus inflicted ths Mstle darkey died noxt day. 3 e Polygzamy in Utah,. From Mr, Codman's book on Utahi: “T was astonished to hear polygamy advocated by ladies of education and refluement ; among them a school-teacher who strongly favored it, perhaps bocauseshe was no longer young. At a hotol whero I was staying, I mot a young married lady of one of the first families of Satt Lako. Two of her intimate friends woro with her, One day, ‘whon they were out of the room, she asked me, ¢ What do you think of A—-?' ‘Bhe ix a charm- ing girl, I'roplied, ‘Indeed shbe is,' exclaimed Mrs, B—. ‘I do wish B— [uor husband] would marry her; I should so like to have her withme all tlio time I " s S Disraclt’s Health. London Correspaiidence Naw York World, The condition of Mr, Disraell's health begins to excite much apprehonsion among his intimato political and personal frionds and couriderable speculation among politicians gonorally. Ho suf- fors greatly from .diabetes, o disoin) always treacherous and dangerous, and one that is grant- I nfigmvntcd by mental fatigue and exgitetaont. the event of Mlr, Disraoli’s retiring from the active loadership of the Government, eitbor for a fow montbs or Enmnnont.ly, it 18 eaid that Barl Derby will take the Premiorahip, without giving up the post he now holds, that of Foreign Seo- rowary. . - DEATHS. BATLEY—May 9, at hor realdonce, 192 Waest Madison- st,, Margarot ¥'ros, wifo of Willlam Balioy, sgod 54, ‘Hunoral uotios hieroatter. P * WILKINS—On Thursd 23th (st at rosidence, 146 Tzug.v:nn_z--t: Sr:'nn(l Wilkins, yoars. ‘Funeral Saturday, 50th inat., at 10 oalock, to G 1and Gainator, Evlsads of i famlly aro Iatiied 16 at- ond, NIOHOLS-At Wheatland, New Vork, May %, 181, 3ary. Hilzabuih, daughtor 0f Robert B, aad Hdward Nichols, of Cliicago, aked 6 yoars, 4 months, and 3 dsys. Notics of funors ercafior, BURTON-At Genevs, Til., Fridsy, Moy 29, Mrs, Johin Burto Jonrs, o remsl bs takod to Gracoland, and will arrive in Ohlo: tra{n Saturday morning, May B0, AgO lia 10 Garslngos st Wolla-sts depote MEDICAL. For Upwards of Thirty Years MRS. WINSLOW'S SOOTHING SYRUP has boon usod for ehildren with never-falling success. It corracts acld- ity of the stomsch, relleves wind calic, regulates the bow- els, cures dysentery and diarrhea, whether arising from toothing or other caucos. An old and well-triod romedy. For all Purposes of a Family ' Liniment, THE NOUSEHOLD PANACEA will bs found javalus. ble, Immediate reliof will follow its use in all casea of 1ain in the stomach, bo colds, sprains, and bruls wels, orsido; rhieumatism, collo, or {ntornaland extornal uso. ' Oliildren Often Look Pale and Siok From no other causa than having worms {n tho stomach. BROWN'S VERMIFUGE COMFITS will destroy worms. withoutnjury to the child, being perfootly WHITE, and freo from all coloring or athor Injurious Ingradionts usu- gents a box. ¥FOR SALE. “TEHPERANGE SOCIETIES, ATTENTIoN, POOKET TEMPERANCR HYMNS for prosent Tom- e aot U old nnd Sl fuois B0 aad wilriag dred. THE LAMOILE 4 000 Bole Agonts, 74 Ststo-at., Ch ally usod {n worm preparations, Bold byall druggiste. 35, Evanston siands firsb amung the. mn{nnburbfin towns adjacont to Ohicago, and tha praporty to bosold is the bes l‘l;u:-hla nnlhd‘ly In\p:wvglld olty. Bituated ‘%.‘l:l?-m a9, Aviton, igo. 3 aton, Chione .'fla.m,;?é'&m ortos-sie: Alss, foar now 11 Foom Hoasns, i Ann::: l.afl olln!“ and lined with beauti« ful shade-tress. Fino buildings on the Droporty. Over 880, oxpendeds T} ‘gommt 'h Ohicago are un. 0 moans o unieation i equatod: Tho Uhlangp & Northwestorn Ralirukd rian froauonitraing, A dummy-rondis now being construsted Laka Shorn drive dicoot to thls proporty is the fnesi drjve-way in tho world. - hoe oducationnl facilities nre the bost. Colleges and Schooly noar this proporty: oburohas, stores, olo.. avorything to make a rosfdcnoo dosirable. Na liquar oan evor bo wold in or noar Kyanston. Hoonre a homs with all tho comforts of tho country and conyanisnaze of tho city. NOW 1 ima to bliy, tato 15 proferty Is porfoct. Kl orinted certiied abatrot famishod. TS : Onothicd cash, balance in1, 3, aad 8 gears, B gt fgatzod at tims ot sale o 3 Romembor tho dator ‘Wednesdey, June 3. Tho psolal fron trata lonves Wells-at. depot at 10 a. m; Tor furthor parbloulars, plats, otc., call o3 Payne 4 MoRotl, 183 LaSalle-at,, or ELISON, POMEROY & 00, Auotionaers, 84 and 86 Randolph-st. B By WM. A. BUTTERS & CO., AUOTIONEERS, 108 BAST MADISON-ST, ‘Lo oniy strictly Commission Auction Houso in Chicaga. EEGT]’L_AB SATLE—BOOTS AND SHOES, m;l'\én-l.%fi‘gaga 3, .:OD-M a:glll’ml. at the Long Room, ATt AT BUTTENE & 00,, Austlonesrs. & SPECIAL SALE---STRA'W GOODS,. For Mon, Bays, Ladios, Missos, and children. Tuesd June 3, a1 0'gthek, at ton Loak loom, 105 st Madb WAL'A. BUTTERS & CO, Auctionsers. TMPORTANT SALE OF Amerjoan and Foreign {Collected by D, Gale, of Philadelphia), at our salesrooms, 108 East Madison-st., On Tueeday and Wednosday, June 2 and §, oommencing at 10 o'ol'k a, m, ench day, ‘Tho colleati: brace: the followl: 0, W, Enapp, @ W, Nicholson, W, W. Boyle, B, Fen« wiok, By Bosse, Gullllminst, Paul Bitter, 1. Shoner, B. D, Lewis, and many other namos known ta lovors of tha fine arte. ‘The sale will gontinue only the two days named above. Our instructions are to sell the ontiro collegtion without reserve, a8 Mr. Ghale lenves for Buropo on the 19th of June, Oataloguos can bo had nt our store. WA, A. BUTTERS £.C0., Auotlonsors. 108 East Madlson-st, DRY-@00DS, OLOTHING, PARASOLS, Htraw Goods, Hats and Oaps, sto., Thursday, June 4, 9130 %, ey st Long Room, 108 Fast Madisomss. By GEO. P. GORE & CO., 68 & 70 Weobash-av. A ATCOCTEION. On SATURDAY, May 30, at 9 o'clock a,m, 10Crates W.G. Crockery, GLASSWARE. AT 10 0'0LOOK % Parl ults, 15 Marble-top Oham. or Ste, 100 inck Walnut Dodsteads and Burcaus, 78 nd Wood Top Tabler, 3 Hefrigorators and oo idebosrds, Book-Chsce, ~Loungos, Rookora, Hirzors, Clairs, Gninate, Oica uid Farlor Desks, Bhov: . Oaxcs, Harblo-top Luroatis, n o, GEO. P. GORL & GO., Auctioneers. CHATTEL HORTGAGE SALE. AT ATCTION, On SATURDAY, May 20, at 11 a. m., of 4 Open Top-ttuggios, 1twosost Demoorat, and 1 Barodshe. By ordor of L, GAIRABOILE, P. GORE & 00, Austloncors, 6 and 70 Wabash DRY CGooDS! Evorything Frasn and Attraotive. Catalogus Auotion "Safo, Tuesday, Juno . &t Balfpast b bs iy Full line yuinmor Drdsa Gooda fn Lineny, Lawss, Poplins, plondid fnvolce of Hamburas, Heta snd oro. Elogant lin> of oth, and Linos Dot Whita tor Eihor . fer Ot lory amd Sliver-platad Waro. * Milllaces snd Straw Goods, INGRAIN CARPETS. Uatalogues ready Monday. , P. GORE & CO. CEO, Fina %0 Wabash-dr, and3 v, P.&J. CASHY, 4l and 43 Fiftheayw., Kaap on hand the largest sssortment in tho olty of New #d Begond-land Goals.” Puruiturs, Onroota Bodding, ice_ Doa utors, Ale 3 L Bhoiving, bobgheand soido Lo Frbom AUCTION SALES. <X SCLSON BAMESY « o dre “WILLIS, LONG & CO,, 195 and 187 Randolph-st. TO WHOM IT MAY CONCHRN, MENSE PAWNBROKER'S SALE ;" OF UNREDEEMED PLEDGES, Apbisslatgat., BYERY LYENINO, antl disposed oy ont " o Diduoe for anat, the oAtfro §23,00 stook 5t B Arlbvma: conslsting of Diunonds, Neoklaoes, Gold and Silvor d and O) ora Ohains, Watches, Gold Guar Musical, Burgionl, aud Architectural In- ytruments, Tlogant Munla Boxauy, Guns, Re- volvers, &o. __WILLIS, LONG & CO.. Auctioners, $5,000 Worth Of Now aud Hacond-Hand FURNITURE, We shall rell on Thursday, Juno 4, 8 full tine of DRY GOODS, lory, Notions, White Dress Guogn. dgni‘;g'm. oy HATS AND GAPS, STRAW GOODS, &o. Balo at hali*past O a. m, GE. P, GORE & CO. ¥ Wabashav, Y und By N. ¥. HARRISON, THIS MORNING, at 0) o’clesk, SPLENDID DISPLAY OF GOODS, TO BE S0LD AT AUOTION, At our Balesrooms, 204 & 206 E. Madison-st, Flegant Partorand Chambor Furalture, fino Brussels and Wool Oarpots, Walaut Book Oases and Bearota Fins Matblo-top Tablos, Halr, Muss and 1Tusk Mattresses nnd Spring Bods, largo lot Lace Curtains, Fino Gas Fis turos. Two Tna Planos to be sold at 13 o'clocks Iarge fat Finy Ghcomos and Stesl Lugrarings, Bhow Oases, Bowlig Machinos, Magnificant Sidoboards, Splondid Eayy Ghalrs, Wardrobee, Goudlola aud Carpet Loungos, &o., do, N. P, HARRISON, Auotioneer, B 204 and 208 East Madisommat, By BRUSH SON )., Oarpets, Stoves, Orockery, Ohrowmos, Bedding, &o, At auotion, ab our salosrcoms, 196 and 107 Randolphiat., To-dsy (Saturday), 30th inst,, 9 1-2 o'clock, " WILLLS, LONG & 00,, Auotigaoers, Hatusroow, 41 and 43 South Canalost, Furniture and Carpets At Auction THIS DAY, 10. fall Fu zml'x‘ir;'é'-r e kTl 2, & fobiae oLl llos ** Murgai lnnnlnliv! r&. ratars, 4o, i DRUBH, 0N UQ.s Anilieness