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12 THE METHODIST HOST. Followers of Wesley in the District of Columbia. Congregations in This City Connected With the Baltimore M. E. Conference—The Birth- place of Methodism—The Early History of the Denomination. HE BALTIMORE CONFERENCE OF THE Methodist Episcopal church is now in ses- sion at Hamline Church in this city. The an- nual meetings of this representative body of a large and flourishing religious denomination are always events full of interest. The pres- ent occasion has been no exception to rule. It is especially appropriate that such gatherings should be held in this city, for here was the scene of the labors of the pioneers of Meth- odism in this country. Asearly as the year | 1784, seven years before the site of the capital | city was chosen, there was a congregation of Methodists in Georgetown. and here Bishop Asbury, the first bishop of the church in Amer- jea, came to preach. Georgetown, was the scene of the labors of Rev. William Watkins, the first native-born minister of the denomination. It was the day of small things, for the records show that in the | year 1801 there were only 58 white members and $7 colored members in Georgetown and | Washington. In 1805 the members had in- creased to 173 whites and 137 colored. The Dunbarton Avenue Church, then located on Montgomery street, was the only Methodist ehurch in tho District. The old Ebenezer Church, now Fourth Street, was organized in 1805, and in the next year there were reported to be in Georgetown 110 white members and 92 | colored, while in Washington the membership | comprised 61 whites and 25 colored. An incident in the war of 1812led to the eree- tion of the next church edifice in the city—the Foundry, at 14th and G streets. Rev. Henry Foxhall, s local minister, having come from England, established a foundry above George- town. Here under contract with the govern- ment he cast many guns. It was believed that the English, after burning the Capitol and pub- lic buildings, intended to destroy this foundry. A territic storm, however, caused a change of plans and Mr. Foxhall’s property was saved, He regarded this as the result of providential interference and asa token of his gratitude he decided to erect achurch. He purchased the site at the corner of Ith and G streets and erected a church building, which was appro- priately christened Foundry Church. Shortly after the war Mr. Foxhall made a visit to England. During his absence the con- gregation erected a “preacher's house,” as the parsonage was then called. When Mr. Foxhall heard of it on his return he was not pleased with what they had done and did not again auter the church. He returned to England in 1823 and died in that Rev. Thos. Burch was the first pastor of the Foundry, and in Si7, with the Fourth Street Church, reported 383 white and 137 colored members. From these congregations the other churches have eprung. As the membership of Foundry Church increased some who lived farther east found it expedient to forma church and thus Wesley came into existence in the year 1829, Next McKendree Church was formed by those aembers of Wesley and Foundry churches liv- dng in that se Union Church was estab- on. lished by members of Foundry and Georgetown churches; Ryland by mem- bers of other churches living in| South Washington, who held first prayer sery- ices in an old engine house on Maryland avenue | near 10th street; Waugh Church originated in a | mission of Wesley congregation, Gorsuch from | Ryland and East Washington, Grace started as | a mission Sunday school from Wesley Chureb, Fifteenth Street (Mount Zion) from Foundry, Twelfth Street from East Washington, North Capitol Church, on K street, succeeded Prov eat 2d and Istreets. Hamline had its origin in a split McKendree Church. Fletcher was regularly started by McKendree people. Metropolitan M.E.Chureh w. . but owing to the unse of affairs the building was not compl about 1863. It will be of interest to know something more of the churches which were thus established. Sketches are given below of the history of the churches in the District, accompanied by some details of the lives of the pastors, DUSBARTON AVENUE cuURCH. The Dunbarton Avenue Church of George- town is one of the oldest societies of Metho- dists in America. It is also the first one es- tablished in the District of Columbia. For over a hundred years it has been a landmark of Methodism. Methodist Preaching was | intro; juced into the town of Georgetown as early as 1772, twelve years be- fore the organization of the Methodist Episeo- pal chureh. On Decem- ber 24. 1772, Robert Strawbridge, the father of American Methodism, and Richard Owings, REV. x. 7.5. nice. the first native local Preacher, were sent by Mr. Asbury to build up ‘the cause of Christ in Frederick county, Md., which then embraced Georgetown. In March, 1773, Mr. Owings reported to Mr. Asbury that “I know not what it will come to. Almost every person seems to be under a re- ligious concern. ‘There are about twenty-two fersons already joined in society at Seneca. At Georgetown four have been lately en- abled to rejoice in God, and one at Rock Creek.” Itis probable that the four converts in Georgetown constituted the germ of Metho- dism in that place. It is likely that Methodist preachers labored in the place for a number of years before a per- manent or regularly organized society existed. ‘Tradition says that the first meetings were held in a cooper shop owned by a Mr. Williams and located in the neighborhood of Gay and Con- ress streets. It was probably in the year 1795 that the first house especially built for religious worship was erected on Montgomery street. Under date of November 2, 1795, Bishop Asbury of it as a “new chapel. From 1802 to 1805 a society of Methodists at Greenleaf's Point (the nucleus of the Fourth Street Church at the Navy Yard) was attached to the Georgetown statio. In 1849, during the ministrations of the Rev. Henry Slicer, the present edifice was built. It was dedicated July 3, 1850, during the pastoral term of Rev. Jobn Lanahan. The old church on Montgomery street, around b clustered so many sacred memories, was sold to the corporation of the town for £1,200. It has ever since been used as a public school. ‘The Sunday school was organized in 1819, ite Breguet membership being $25. Mr- Joseph W. irkiey is now superintendent. The present membership of the church is 318. Ber, M. FB. Rice, the present born in Frederick county, Md., and is three years of age. His father was farmer and his early education was received at the country schools. When, however, his widowed mother brought her family to reside in the Peighboring village of Jefferson Mr. ice, then deing but m years of age, was sent to the academy of that pi i in the Ebenezer, then as East Washington and then under its present name. This tion has been still is one of the strongest <2 nearly a ° Sunday school. From this con- gregation other congre- gations have gone out and — they have a sebool. was born in Baltimore, Md., August 23, 1849, was’ educated in the schools of that city, REV. W. M. FERGUSON. united with the age ist Episcopal Church when fourteen years ager was licensed to preach in his ninteonth year and joined the Baltimore conference in his twentieth year. He has been stationed at the following’ places: Hampstead, Md.; Union Bridge, Md.; Unionville. Md.; Catonsville, Md.; Winchester, Va: West River, Md.; Baltimore circuit, Reisterstown, Md.; Monument Street, Baltimore, and Fourth Street, Washington, D- ©. He was for ten years the ‘statistical secre- tary of the conference and fora number of years served on committees to examine candi- dates for holy orders. Heis nowfinishing the third year in this pastorate. FOUNDRY. Foundry Charch was organized in 1815. Two years later, through the generosity of Mr. Fox- | hall, they hada permanent place of worship erected on the present site, 1th and G streets, ‘The church was » primi- tive barn-like structure facing westward. The building was enlarged nd remodeled until finally the present sub- tantial brick structure was erected. The con- gregation has enjoyed great prosperity. The membership now num- bers about 600 and there are nearly 500 members in the Sunday school. ‘The pastor, Re Elliott, wa year. His father was s Methodist preacher, who, in 1854, went farther west and gave thirty to laborious service in the hardest kind in Wisconsin and Iowa. d at Cornell College nd immediately began the publication ofa country weekly newspaper, which he de- clares to have been too well conducted at the editorial end to ever have been a success at the counting room end of the concern. Quite satisfied with two years’ experience of journal- ism he entered th joining the upper Towa conference, in which he traveled ten years. He was an active agent in securing the passage of the prohibitory amendment to the constitution of Iowa in 1882. In 1884he won the Fletcher prize, offered through Dartmodth College, for the best treatise on the moral obligation of the Christian Sabbath, which is published in book form under the title of “The Abiding Sabbath.” In the fall of the same year he was transferred to the Baltimore con- ference and stationed at Union Square Church, Baltimore, from whence he was appointed in 1887 to Foundry Church, Washington, where he is just completing four years of ministry. WESLEY CHURCH. Wesley Church dates from 1829, when it was organized bya number of the members of Foundry Church. The first church was an old- fashioned oblong build- ing, which was replaced by the present struct- ure in 1866. For a long series of years this church was the strong- est financially and nu- merically all the Methodist churches in the city. Notwithstand- ing many of its mem- bers assisted in form- ing the Metropolitan Chrureh and othershave gone to other churches there remain about 400 membersand a Sunday school of about 400 members. e pastor, REV. CHAS, W. BALDWIN. [icy Charles We Bald win, son of Judge William H. Baldwin of Anne Arundel county, Md., was born at the family homestead, Bunker Hill, near Annapolis. Mr. Baldwin was prepared for college at the county academy. entered Yale junior year and was graduated in 1861 and took his master’s degree in 1864. He studied law for two years, taught school one year and pursued theological courses for one year at Yale and one year at Union The- ological Seminary, New York. He entered the Baltimore conference in 1866. In 1868 and 1870 he was successively ordained to the deaconate and eldership by the late Bishop E. R. Ames. He has served the following churches: Sev- ern cireuit (his native place), from 1866 to 1868; Ryland Clapel, Washington, 1868 to 1870; West- minster, Md., 1870 to 1872; Hereford circuit, Baltimore county, 1872 to 1873: East Baltimore station, 1873 to 1874; Bennett Memorial, 1874 to 1876; Patapsco circuit, Md., 1876 to 1879; Hunt- ingdon Avenue, Baltimore, 1379 to 1832; Center Street, Cumberland, Md., 1882 to 1885; Union, Washington, 1885 to 1387; Ryland, 1887 to 1890, and Wesley, 1890 to 1891. x’ KENDREE. ‘McKendree Church dates from 1845. In that year aSunday school was organized in the carpenter shop of Mr. J. T. Walker, 8th and K streets, and shortly afterward a modest church edifice was built on the present site. From a mere handfull the membership has grown to about 450 and the church with the ad- joining parson is valifed at $35,000. The Sunday school numbers about 500. The pastor, Rev. C. Herbert Rich- ardson, who is now clos- ing five years of service, is a native of Baltimore. He was born November 23, 1842. His religious REV. c. H. RICHARDSON. life dates from the great revival in that city in May, 1857. He at once united with St. John’s Independent Methodist Church. He was or- dained a deacon in that church in February, 1869. Having received his education in the schools of Baltimore and graduated at the high school in 1859, he read law with Reverdy John- son, jr., and was admitted to the bar in Novem- ber, 1863, and practiced for five years. In 1865 he was assistant states attorney. In Fel % 1869, he joined the Fayette Street M. E. Church and being recommended by that chureh for the ministry he was received on trial by the Balti- more conference in 1869, at the Foun- dry Church in this je traveled Bentley Springs circuit in Baltimore county one year, was pastor at Hereford two years; r, two; Towson, three; Strawbridge, Baltimore, three; McKendree, three; Broadway, three, and back to McKendree four years. UNION CHURCH. ‘The organization of Union Church was ef- fected in the year 1846. At that time the first meeting was on, for purpose of taking steps for the erection of achurch building. Rev. . A. Davis presided C.A. Davis, RW: Bates, Geo. T. McGlue, Jos. ‘and ope: worship in 1847, Rev. Wm.Hamilton being at that time 4 leg A society in the west end of the city. Since that time the church has numbered among its pas- tors some of the most active and efficient mem- bers of the Baltimore conference. ‘The build- was used as a tal during the war ate gunsequance, was mach it was re- built and enlarged in 1864. During the past year it was thoroughly ‘overhauled and beau- tified. The improve- ments cost over $6,500. It is not stately ‘and magnificent, but it is beautiful and comfort- able. {t has a member- ship of over 300 per- son. The Sunday school numbers about REV. J. A. PRICE. 860 scholars. It is in a very healthy and grow- ing condition. e pastor, Rev. J. A.Price, D.D., is a native of Pennsylvania. He entered the Baltimore conference in the year 1855. The first thirteen Fire, of his ministry were spent in central nsylvania, and he was pastor of churches in Mifflin, Mechanicsburg, Northumberland, Huntingdon and Bloomsburg. Since that time he has been stationed in churches in Fred- erick, Baltimore and Washington. He was also presiding elder of the Baltimore and West Bal- timore districts and was a delegate to the gen- eral conference which met in Cincinnati i 1880 and also to the general conference which met in Philadelphia in 1884. He was pastor of Hamline and Waugh churches in this city and has served one year at Ryland. AUGH CHURCH. ‘Waugh Church had its inception in a Sunday school enterprise begun at the house of Han- son Brown, on Massachusetts avenue between $d and 4th streets, in the year 1858, under the fostering care of Wes- ley. The church was organized by Rev. J. H. Brown, with » con- gregation’ of twelve members, but one of whom was a professor of religion. The corner stone was laid by Bisho; Waugh in 1864, an Rev. G. H. Day was the first pastor. ‘The mem- bership is over 500 and there are over 700 scholars in the Sunday school. REV. ALEX. B. GIBSON. The pastor, Rev. Dr. Alexander E. Gibson, who is serving his first year at Waugh, is now about sixty years of age.” He is anative of Baltimore. He is a graduate in medicine and in his early manhood was in active practice and during the war asa surgeon was in charge of the United States army hospital at Frederick, Md. He was educated in the Baltimore schools, after which he went to Dickinson College and after fraduating he studied medicine and received is diploma from the Baltimore Medical Col- lege. “He was converted in early boyhood and from the first wasa zealous, efficient mem- ber of thechurch. After the war he entered the ministry and it was not long when his abil- ity brought him to the front in the ft the ministry. He has served as pastor at For dry Chureh, this city, Whatcoat, Grace and Fi etie Street’ in Baltimore, and’ then came to Waugh Church. On all questions for the ad- vancement of the interests of the church he is in accord with his people, but he is opposed to woman representation in'the conferences, for which the church voted. Notwithstanding the relations between pastor and congregation are most cordial and in his pulpit work he is most efficient and his powers of description are of the high order. Unlike the large majority of his denomination, Dr. Gibson believes in ob- serving appropriately the church festivals, such as Christaims and Easter. HAMLINE CHURCE. Hamline Church was dedicated to the mem- ory of Bishop Leonidas Lent Hamline, who was born in Burlington, Conn., May 10, 1797, and died in Mount Pleas- ant, Iowa, February 22, 1865. ‘The initial step to- ward the organization of thischurch was taken at Union League Hall, } 432 9th street northwest, July 2, 1865, anumber of persons Laving taken their certificates from McKendree Church up to September 11, 1865,when the first quarterly con- ference met, united to- gether under the name of the Ninth Street Meth- REY. HENRY R. NAYLOR. odist Episcopal Church. ‘This organization continued to worship in Union League Hall and afterward in Columbia Institute, on M street near 10th northwest, un- til the erection of frame building on the site of the present edifice,which was dedicated July 1, 1866, by Bishop’ Jesse Peck as Hamline Church: On the 23d of November, 1873, the present edifice was dedicated by Bishop Ed- ward G. Andrews. Its cost was @40,000. In 1890 the church was partly remodeled and en larged at an additional cost of $21,000. Itis now one of the finest church edifices in the city. ‘The pastor, Rev. Henry R. Naylor, spent his boyhood in western New York. He entered the Indiana conference in the autumn of 1860. After occupying the most prominent pulpits in the conference and stato he was transferred to the Baltimore conference in March, 1875, where he has consecutively served the following churches: Fayette Street, Baltimore; Metropol- itan, Washington; Madison Avenue and Eutaw Street, Baltimore, Foundry, Washington, and is now closing his fourth year at Hamline. Gorsvcn. Gorsuch Church is an offshoot from Ryland and was organized into a separate station in 1856. For many years it was the only pratest- ant chapel in the ex- treme southern of the city. It is loosted on the corner of 434 and L streets southwest in a rapidly growing section of the city. Pastors have been regularly signed to it since its or- ganization. Ite Sunday school is large and-un- der the able superin- tendence of W. R. Hunt, who has had charge of this department of chureh work for twenty years. The young peo- rev. wa. a. osBonNE. ple’s choir has among its member a number of active young gentlemen and ladies whose serv- ices are highly appreciated by the congrega- tion. Recently the church hasbeen thoroughly repaired within and without and presents an inviting aspect. Rev. William M. Osborne, M. D., is its present pastor, and is now closing his third year in this charge. He is a native of Ohio.” The far west early offered him an in- Viting field and he joined the Rock River conference, Illinois, in 1846, and for seventeen confined his labors to the prairies of finnesota and Wisconsin. The last year of the war found him in the service of the Christian commission at Winchester, Va., and Martinsburg, W.Va. At the latter place he took charge of an academy for a few months until his transfer to the Baltimore conference in 1866. Eleven years were spent in station work in Paltimore and four years in this city. Be- fore entering the ministry he devoted some time to the study of medicine, and he graduated from the Baltimore Medical College “~with the 1 greater efficiency to his life work. A.rcady scribe, Dr. Osborne. hae done considerable labor with his pen, both as a re- porter and contributor to the religious and secular press. RACE CHURCH. Grace Church owes its existence to the teachers of Wesley Chapel Sunday school, who, ata meeting held on the evening of May 31, 1843, conceived the idea of establishing a Sab- bath school at the northern terminus of 7th street. A committee com; -d of Messra. C. C. Burr, ©. E. Walker aud Chas. P. Blackmar Tus appointed to look into the matter, and on the 5th of the July following a favorable report was made, and the Sabbath school held its first session in'the woods at the head of 7th street. Later, in August, 143, it was docided to erect & chapel, and ‘contributions were solicited. Overs thousand dollars was subscribed and the lot on whicb the church now stands was purchased and frame was erected. lere the congregation worshiped until 1872. ‘Then under the pastorate of B. Rice the prevent church was erected ai the corner of and 8 streets. The church has a large con- gregation with a day school. , Rev. A. . Reiley, was born in inverts Md., in the year 1831. He received ‘an academic education at Front Royal, Va. In bie earl he worked on a farm, and THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, D.C, SATURD. at the end of the third year went to W. Va, taking charge of At the end of eighteen months he returned to Bentie Spring circuit lg y it for two years. charge was at Patapsco, Md., where he re- mained three years, going to the Long Green circuit in Baltimore county the following year. He returned to his old church on Caroline street next and then came to Washington three years later. where he is now closing his second Year of service. FIFTEENTH STREET CHURCH. Rev. Dr. John H. Dashiell, pastor of the Fif- teenth Street Church, is very near the age when active workers in the pulpit retire from their labors and rest, He was born in Salis bury, Md., in October, 1821,’ and ‘is therefore in his seventieth yeur. When he was nineteen years old he joined the chureh and two years later he was licensed to reach. He received is preparatory educa- tion at the Salisbury Academy, of which he was afterward the pres- ident, and then he went to Dickinson College and graduated. Dr. Dashiell did not begin active work in the pul- pit for ten vears after is admission to the ministry, teaching in REY. DR. DASHIELL. and near Baltimore in the meantime. In the fifties he was invited to take the presidency of Dickinson Seminary, a Methodist institution at Williamsport, Pa., which was heavily londed with debt when he took charge. Through his energetic management when he resigned, a few years later, it was free from this burden of debt and better equipped than ever for_work. He then returned to teaching, and in 1870 he began preaching again. He has at various times occupied pulpita in Baltimore, George- town, Washington, Annapolis, Hagerstown and Frederick. He came here from the last-named place five years ago to take charge of the Fi teenth Street Church, which was then badly in debt. Here again his business methods have prevailed and today the church stands not only ree from its encumbrance, but almost ready to replace the modest little frame structure that has been the meeting house for years with a larger brick church on the capacious lot that is now the unmortgaged property of the con- gregation. There are about one hundred and fifty members in this church, constituting one of the brightest and most intelligent congr gations of Methodists in the city. There is a large area to feed this church, as it is the only one in this part of the city. Dr. Dashiell hopes to retire from active work this year. NORTH CAPITOL. Rev. Charles 0. Cook, pastor of North Capi- tol Church, corner North Capitol and K streets northeast, was born in Baltimore, Md. He at- tended the public schools of that city, af- ter which he spent four yenrs in Baltimore City College,graduating with honors. "He then began the study of theology, and was admitted asa member of the East ; Baltimore conference in the spring of 1865. He wax stationed as pastor at Hancock and West- - minister, Md., in the Frostburg circuit and the -North Baltimore circuit. In the spring of 1869, the East Balti- LY CHAS. 0. COOK. more conference, being divided between the Central Pennsylvania an Baltimore conferences, he was assigned to Berkeley Springs, W.Va., in the Baltimore con- ference. In 1871 he was assigned to Boons- boro, Md., which charge he served two years. His healtii failing, he was placed on the super- numerary list for two years. Since that date he has been stationed at a number of churches, and in 1889 he became pastor of the North Capi- tol Church. FLETCHER CHAPEL. Rev. James Russell Schultz was born near Staunton, Va. When ten years of age his pa- rents moved to Knoxville, Tenn. His ancestors were from Germany. is of good Methodist stock. His parents have been members of that church for more than fifty years. He was edu- cated at Grant Univer- sity. He joined the Hols- ton conference in 1873 and labored successfully in different charges in the bounds of that con- ference, among which was Jonesboro’, the old- est town in the state. He served the church here four years. In 1880 he REV. 3. BR. SCHULTZ. was transferred by Bishop Foster to the Kansas conference. He served the church in the city of Clifton two years. In March, 1887, his trans- fer was requested from the Kansas to the Balti- more Conference. At the Elkridge charge un- der his labors the church debt was paid and a mortgage lifted from the parsonage and the membership increased. Before the close of the year at Elkridge he received a call from the Epworth Independent Methodist Church of Baltimore city, and with the consent of the conference he accepted. At the close of the year his conference relation was changed, and Rewassent to Fletcher Chapel in tit ty, where he was notable to receive a sufficient support financially,and he, with the consent of his presiding elder, accepted @ position in the census office last fall, which he has recently re- signed. Getcher Chapel, however, did not suffer on account of receiving but a part of his serv- ices, and he has been able to close the year very successfully. The congregations have been more than’ doubled. A Epworth league has been organized. The Sunday school has been reorganized with a young and enter- Prising element, and, isin quite « flourishing condition. As an evidence of the appreciation of the labors of Mr. Schultz and the esteem in which he is held it is stated that it is the unan- imous wish of the members of the congregation of Fletcher Chapel that he should be returned to them for another year. CALVARY CHURCH. Calvary Church was erected nearly forty years ago and is located at the corner of 35th and T streets, Georgetown. Its seating capac- = ity is 500, with a base- ment for Sunday school and lecture purposes. ‘The conference has reg- ularly supplied its pul- © "ee TWELFTH STREET CHURCH. The pastor of the Twelfth Streot Church, Rev. Henry Baker, D.D., is a native of New England. In 1854 he graduated from Wesleyan University, and until ‘ 1856 was president of old Saratoga Seminar y— joined the California fornia regiment when the war broke out, and was elected captain of « Massachusetts volun- teer company. always been an out- spoken advocate temperance, and one of - the leaders of the pro- hibition party. He has occupied stations in REV. HENRY AKER. Sacramento, Brooklyn, Jersey City and Baiti- more, and last year with his wife made an ex- tended tour of Europe, Greece, Palestine, Egypt and the islands of the Mediterranean, England, Scotland and Ireland. He has been successful in his present charge, and it is pro- posed to erect a new church edifice on the site at the junction of Pennsylvania avenue and E street southeast, which has recently been pur- chased ANACOSTIA CHURCH. The Anacostia Methodist Episcopal Church was organized in 1869 by members from the Fourth Street Church. It has nearly two hun- . dred members and a Prosperous Sunday school, with 260 schola: Mr. Henry A. Linge the superintendent. The church building is in- adequate for present necessities and the soci- ety hope to erect a» new church in a short time. Rey. E. Richardson, the pastor, has just closed a serios of meet- ings and added to the membership more than REV. E. RICHARDSON. thirty persons. He is a native of Baltimore city, Md., graduated from a New England college, and has occupied dif- ferent charges in the conference, meeting with success. He is chaplain of the John A. Logan Post of G. A. R. and the Masonic lodge of Ana- costia. He is closing his second year as pastor of the church. DOUGLAS MEMORIAL. Douglas Memorial Church was organized as a mission by Rev. G. G. Markham and others in the year 1876. The present church building was erected by Mr. John in memory of his d daughter, Mra, Flora P. Markham, wife of Rev. G. G. Markham, and afterward deeded to the ME. church by Mra, 8. V. “Douglas.” The church has 202 full mem- bers and a flourishin, Sunday school of 57 scholars, with B. L. Nevinsassuperintendent. During the past year the lot in the rear of the church, 808 11th street, was purchased at a cost of $1,020, and a hand-nev. p. 4. BRowxING. some brick parsonage erected thereon at a cost of $3,300. Mr. John H. Lewis, the contractor who built the parsonage, has just kindly donated a handsome iron’ fence “around the church, thereby greatly improving the appear- ance of the property. ‘The pastors have been Revs. W. M. Hammack, W. H. Reed, C. T. House, Win. Rogers and D. M. Browning. The present pastor, Rev. D. M. Browning, was born in Libertytown, Frederick county, Md., April 12, 1846. He entered the Baltimore conference at its session in Foundry Church, this city, in 1869, and has served the following charges: Montgomery, Elkridge, Tenleytown, D.C., North Capitol. Cumberland, Buckeyetown, Monroe Street, Baltimore, New Windsor, West River and Donglas Memorial. A Faded Violet. ‘What thought is folded in thy leavest iat tender thought, what speechless paint T hold thy faded Ips to mine, ‘Thou darling of the April raint J hold thy faded lips to mine, ‘Though scent and azure tint are fled O dry, mute lips! ye are the type Of something in me cold and dead. Of something wilted like thy leaves, Of fragrance flown, of beauty dim; Yet, for the love of those white hands ‘That found thee by a river's brim— ‘That found thee when thy dewy mouth Was purpled as with stains of wine— For love of her, who love forgot, Thold thy faded lips to mine! ‘That thou should’st live when I am dead, ‘When hate is dead for me, and wrong, For this, I use my subtest art, For this, I fold thee in my song. —THomas BAILEY ALDRICH. ———_oo —______ Electric Light in a New Field. A dark, barely visible furnished room, says the London News,in which the only glimmer of light comes froma miniature slate which has been rubbed with phosphorus, and a table around which are seated half adozen gentlemen in- terested in the study of the unknown—such was the scene in a house near the Foundling Hos- pital last night, while two spiritualists, who fave made a tolerably comfortable livelinoot out of human credulity for the last dozen years, displayed to the investigators the myste- Ties of the “Unscientific world at moderate rice. P'Ncither of the “medinms” knew that one of the auditory was an amateur electrician, who had in his pocket » small lamp with suc electricity to give a clear light for some mii utes. While e “spirit” seemed to be hovering about the room in the darkness, displaying its charms in etherealized drapery, the lamp was turned on, and the ghost, who had been sum- moned to,“revisit the glimpses of the moon,” or rather the phosphorescent slate, was discovered to be none other than the medium on duty,who was robed in graceful muslin folds for the oc- casion. The seance came to an abrupt ter- mination. To help in exposures of this sort a new field is thus ‘opened up for. the electri ig! fs ——+e2e—_____ pit since its organiza. ‘Massacre of Spanish Troops, ion and for many years jit was the center of membership, now considerably reduced in number by deaths, re- movals and other causes over which the church The particulars brought to Singapore of the Tecent massacre of Spanish troops and residents in the Caroline Islands, says the London Daily Jews, include some curious details. Without any kind of warning the savage natives of these How the Beautiful Wood Was Discovered and Brought Into Use. ‘The discovery of the beautifal and costly timber known as the mahogany was purely sc- cidental. ‘The first mention made of it was by Sir Walter Raleigh, who used it in 1597 at Trine idad for repairing his ships, says the Detroit Free Press. About the beginning of the eigh- teenth century small quantity of it was taken to England by a West India captain named Gibbons, who sent a few planks to his brother, 8 physician residing in London. This gentle- man, at the time of the receipt of the wood, was having a house built, and placed the planks in the hands of the carpenters. They attempted to cut it, but because of its hardness very quickly threw it aside. The doctor expostulated, but the workmen became fixed in their determination to have nothing to do with a lumber which so successfully resisted their attempts to saw it. The planks were then sent toa cabinet maker named Wollaston, who was directed to make a candle box with a por- tion of the wood. The same objection was ad- Yanced by this workman, but, being a perse- Yering individual, he ted and finally made the box. When ‘polished it so outshone any- thing previously made that it very quickly be- came an object of curiosity an people flocked to see it. Asa consequence the wood became quite popular, especially after a portion of the physi- cian’s treasures were employed in the con- struction of two bureaus, one for himself and the other for the Duchess of Buckingham. These specimens of cabinot work caused the rejected wood to become a prominent factor in’ the construction of luxurious pieces of furnitare. Thus Wollaston was amply re- warded for his perseverance in fashioning it into the candle box and his name, together with that of the physician and his nautical brother, became inseparably connected with the history of the introduction of this wood into civilized lands, — +. Ochiltree Not a Poker Player. Col. Thomas P. Ochiltree, in an interview in the New York Herald, is quoted as saying: It is generally supposed I play cards and that at Poker Iam an adept. I scarcely know the game and I rarely ever touch a card. and then itis only in a social way. Some very large-sized been credited to me, bat that is something I do not do—gamble. I know poker is considered a national game, and | not to play it well showsa lack of a certain kind of American polish, but I acknowledge y 'y cheerfully. To my miud there are other games as entertaining as poker, such a8 whist, cri’vbage and enchre. I presume the absorbing and perennial interest in poker is all owing to the large amount of money at stake. Once and for allI want it distinctly under- stood that lam not acard player and nevi have been. As for gaming—well, my opinion m the contained in these lines, paraphrased Latin: bat direst felon of the breast, jore than fortune from its wretched thrall ; Spreads o'er the soul the inert, devouring pest, ‘And ghaws and rote und taints and rains al! —_— en Curious Suit Against a Prince. A curious lawsuit, says the Paris correspond- ent of the London Telegraph, is being brought before the civil court of the Seine, in which the defendant is Prince Napoleon. On March 29, 1889, the prince was crossing from Ostend to Dover on board the Comtesse de Flandre, when she was run into by the Princesse Henriette. Her boiler burst, wounding mortally the Prince's scrvant, Castel. A few moments be- fore the explosion occurred the man had been ordered by his master to go down to the cabin in search of a bor, and. although the outlook was not very promising at the time, as the Comtesse de Flandre had sustained considera- ble damage, he obeyed without the slightest hesitation. The box contained some important political documents, and Castel’s son—who is bringing this action against Prince Napoleon—maintains that his father did not meet his death through an ordinary accident, but while he was dis- charging a special service, at imminent peril to himeelt—in fact, that he was exposed thereby to more risks than of the any other passengers. He has, therefore, sued the prince for damuges to the amount of £400. When You Need Your Brain No Longer. From the Pittsburg Times. If, when you open your mail, dear reader, you receive @ polite request for your brain, do not be astonished. The explanation is this: A number of scientific men have formed an or- ganization, the purpose of which is to take ths brains of distinguished persons after death and study them, with a view to fuller knowledge, both of medicine and mind. Dr. Joseph Leily is president of the organization and Dr. Peppe= secretary. Both are of Philadelphia. A large number of persons have already promised to allow their brains to be examined when they have no further use for them and among these perons is the Rev. Phillips Brooks of Boston. Letters requesting brains have been sent out 1 the notable men and women of the “y ext summer, at the meeting in ugton of the congress of physicians and surgeons, this organization will be pe and associate members in the different citi will be authorized. When that isdone you can do your family physician special honor by bequeathing to him your brain, which he will examine and report oh oF perhaps forward it to the specialists in Philadelphia. = mae A New Danger. An English physician, says the New York Herald, has discovered that infections diseases are spread by means of £5 notes. A man is attacked by smallpox while he has a bani: note in his pocket. The note becomes filled with the germs of the disease and as it is passed from one person to another the disease is spread. ‘The poorer classes, among whom epi- mics always make their worst ravages, habitually carry their money in the form of bank notes, for the reason that their pockets are too full of holes to be trusted with coin. This is the reason why epidemics always find their greatest number of victims among the . Of course bank notes can be thor- oughly disinfected by burning them, but this for some reason is seldom done. Fortunately, it is not alleged that the £50 notes are liable to become infected. We should therefore never accept anything leas than a bank note of that denomination and we may in such ease hope to be safe. It is hardly fair to accuse the physician who has made this discovery of a desire to induce his patients to give him £50 instead of £5 fees, but surely no person would be guilty of offering » £5 note to @ man who had demonstrated that such an offer carries with it an assortment of fatal dis- eaves. ‘One Sea-Side Grave. ‘Unminafal of the roses, Unmindful of the thorn, * Kindng tis gathered corn mong e 5 Somight 1, the morn! Cold as the cold Decembers, Past as the days that set, ‘While only one remembers And all the rest forget— ‘But one remembers yet. Spring Humors, whether itching, burning, bleeding, » crusted, pimply, or blotchy, whether of the skin, scalp, tact Chem simple, scrofulous, or hereditary, are now Speedily, permanently, and economically cured by the Cuticura Remedies when the best physicians and all other remedies fail. daily effected by them prove this. No them not warranted by the strongest The almost miraculous cures Statement is made regarding evidence. They are, in truth, the greatest skin cures, blood purifiers, and humor remedies of modern times. They are absolutely pure, and agreeable to the most sensitive, and may be used on the youngest infant and most delicate invalid with gtatifving and unfailing suo cess. Curicura, the great skin cure, instantly allays the most intense itching, burning, and inflammation, permits rest and sleep, Soothes and heals raw and irritated surfaces, clears the skin and scalp of crusts and scales, and restores the hair. Curicura Soap, the only medicated toilet soap, is indispensable in cleansing diseased surfaces. Curicura REsoLvent, the new blood and skin purifier, and greatest of humor remedies, cleanses the blood of all impurities, and thus re moves the cause. Hence, the Cuticura Remedies cure every humor of the Spring, frem the simplest facial blemishes to the worst case of scrofula. 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Waein winaws« co., THOMAS DOWLING, Anaiouer 1001 PENNSYLVANIA AVE. ¥. W. | Dae soax . MA Mt JAPANESE ART AT AUCTION. Owing to the inclemency of the weather it was im- Possible to close out the collection of JAPANESE CARVED IVORIES, BRONZES, 1" | OLD SATSUMA WARE AND cosTLY = | | ATOR DAM & SCREENS AS ADVERTISED. VALUABLE IMPROVED ‘We will therefore make a continuation sale each day |“ 1-aN1 AEN this week at SOUTHWEST Sly MAT AUCTION. ' ane ELEVEN A.M. AND THREE P.M, 1 nuk UCLUUA we will sellin tren yrs ‘The stock is very largeand in it will be found almost | WESOU ARE No. elsmeastesteey | jiacbes on the north sieot Marytend wed bye Two-story Brick Dwell Property is on the line of the Baltimore ani “ssnameee ane.” Potorias tatirond and is particularly adapted fur ware Every lot offered will be positively sold without re Serve. Be kind enough to note time of sale, viz, day of sale, mecured.t or-all cash, it thee prt ELEVEN A.M. AND THREE P.M., Every day until this immense stock is disposed of. ued tn, Washi Cline’, DAKK CO” ‘Ladies especially invited to attend. Se-THE ABOVE Sal DON AC. count of toe rain unt'l TUESDAY, THIRD DAY OF WALTER B. WILLIAMS & CO., eC smine bor and place: KATCLIPFE, DARK & CO., Ancts. cence SALE IS FURTAER Post- Auctioneers. ‘THOMAS DOWLING, Auctioncer. pened on ‘account of the weather mncl PRIDAY, foe 4 SIATH DAY OF MARCH. A.D wou and TWENTY THOUSAND HOLLS OF WALL PAPER MATCLIN oon Place. uw hidkas 0 TEN O'CLOOK, within my auction 7 1 shall lane an. valuable consirument of Wall Paper, Fed to iuy Totus for vonvenience of sale. B.—Much of this paper is very tine ‘and should ‘tention ot dealers abd private buyers. | THOMAS DOWLING, Auct. ([HOMAS DOWLING, Auctioneer. CHANCERY SALE OF REAL ESTATE OX FOURTH STMEET EAST NEAR PENNSYLVANIA AVE- | 00 Fi By virine of a decree of the 8: Court of the District of Columbiay passed” in egut “2M, TL will offer fF saieat pul mb7Akas Ree VAL ‘Square No. 819, having # front of 0 feet t | * inches on 4th street. Terns of sale: One-half the purchese money to be | Paid in cash on duy of sale or on the rs * by the court, the balance in six mont 1 sale, for Which thenote of the put chasers must be wiven, bearing inte1 irom day of saje and secured 1 Property, or ail cash, at the option of the pure purchasers: $200 deposit when property is own. It termsare not complied with within aight days trom day of sale the property may be resold at the risk ‘and cost of the defaulting purchaser atter five days’ notice. KT. MOMSELL, Trustee, mb6-d&ds 456 Lousiana avenie. ([HOMAS DOWLING, Auctioneer. AT AUCTION. HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, HORSES, WAGONS, CARTS, CARRIAGE, BUGGY AND SLEIGH, FARMING IMPLEMENTS, LOL OF CHOICE CHICKENS, &: AT THE RESIDENCE OF JOSEPH W. DAVIS, BELLEVUE, WESLEY HEIGHTS, OPPOSITE GRASSLANDS, On 7-THE ABOVE SALE 18 POSTPONED ON Ac- DA\. NINTH DAY OF ACH, 1801, same hour and place. RATCLIFFE, DAB Anhonsers BLE REAL ESTATE OF WASHINGTON, DIST& WEDNESDAY, MARCH ELEVENTH, 1801, COMMENCING AT ELEVEN O'CLOCK, T shall sell ou the above-mentioned premises the fol- lowing effects: TWO No. 1 WORK HORSES, TWO BROOD MARES, TWO-HORSE WAGON AND HAY CARRIAGE WATER CART, MAKKET WAGON, CAKRIAG: ND BUGGY, CART, SLEIGH, FARMING IM- PLENTS, AND LOT OF CHOICE CHIC ALSO LOT OF HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE. ‘Terms cash. mb5~tts RATcuerE, DARE & CO.. Auctioneers, ‘420 Pennsylvania ave. n.w. TRUSTEES’ SALE OF IMPROVED RFAL ‘ON FIRST STREET WEST BETWEE! Q STREETS SOUTH BY AUCTION. By ven tous and duly re » SH et seq. one of the ‘of Columbia, and at the re~ secured thereby. we will offer for the TORSDAL. The Or MANCHA ‘OCLOCK P- ‘BE TEN THOMAS DOWLIN PAST POUK f | heat offer for save on the same PM. ote 18, i. Jace cuit by the th Square 52%, Ue maine trehi iniproved by a trick dwell Je will next off HALY-PAST F SCLOCh Jot Hin square Sct, unproved men 0 bean i the city a ‘Columbia. ows’ One thinl of the purchases ‘each lot (o te paid in cash within ‘ten dase of sail, of which 100 is to be had -no control. The increasing population of REV. F. D. OWEN. Georgetown gives prom- ise of renewed prosperity at no remote da: Its present pastor is Rev. E. D. Owen, D.D. Pennsylvanian by birth and in the active min- istry since 1840. Dr.Owen has filled important churches in Baltimore and Washington and still retains much of the vigor and efticiency of his earlier years. As a pastor he has been succersfuland as a preacher popular and ac- ceptable. Dr. Owen isa resident of Capitol Hill, and in his home there he und bis life part- ner propose to spen ir re ig days. Dr. Owen is serving his first year in this charge, ‘THE METROPOLITAN. The Metropolitan Church, at the corner of building was completed in 1869, when it was for- mally dedicated. It was designed as a national church, and from the beginning the services there have been at- HE ee u islets of the Polynesian Archipelago fell on the unfortunate garrison, killing some ninety sol- diers and civilians. ‘The Sptalarde thereapon attacked the native fort, defended by a zigzag stockade of mud and’ timber. The natives fought with singular bravery, but were event- ually driven into the jungle. Here the difficulties of the Spaniards were in- creased in a curious fashion. ‘The undergrowth was very thick and the savages had sown the ground with man traps, which their Costume in war time consists of green leaves, which makes it very difficult to see them against the foliage. ‘These circumst ther with the remarkable size and strength of the md the fact that they were armed with placed. uropeans at still Nevertheless, the loss of life on the native side was ish commander was the slain. with the ‘con- ina «_Eiheligeok seems very pious when he call nr but don't trust him, dear | He the family Bible.” “ = The first bad a quorum when ge Es E Hi EPcieke sre not comp 7 ; *SPRASE 3. BROWNING, is WILLIAM A. RICHARDS.) 7. actos, AUSTIN 5S. FRANKLIN, MATCLIFFE, DAKK & ‘0b. + Aucts. UCTION SALE OF VALUABLE PERSONAL A PROPRETY. USTERS' SALE OF VALU: PAIEAL ESTALE ON KINO MAS 7. ‘Virtue of a deed of trust to HEE iy t i i ‘We cell them at the ascending scale ef ‘Be., Te., G1, 61.50. $2. ‘To suit all sizes and styles of Cyclists. GORMULLY & JEFFREY MPG. 00., ‘1m eth at. ow.