The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 30, 1897, Page 5

I\ THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1897. 5 VAN NEW MARS ARE SUOVERED Important Astronomical Observations Made in Arizona. SEE’'S REMARKABLE RESEARCHES. Not Less Than Five Hundred New Stellar Systems Are Located. NEW DOUBLE STARS ALSO FOUND. Solution for the Popular Phenom- enon of Twinkling Solved at Flagstaff. Special Dispatch to THE CALL. BOSTOX able to co picion of impo —T8E CaLL to-day is r the first time the ronomical discov- recently made at the Lowell observ- atory at 2 which has prevaiied among men of science for the last few months. There has just arrived in Boston a nota- ble man of science, Dr. J. J. See, who is arzely responsible for the many valuable coveries in the heavens made at the L observatory. Dr. See has charge the double star observations; Mr. sus- of Lowell has cnarge of the planetary expe- rimentations. Dr. See came to Boston with all of his records for the year. These records, which Tre CaLL correspondent secured to-day, ¢ tute the most im- portant additions to southern stellar as- nomy sin the survey of Sir John Herschel six £0. Briefly summarized, the distinguished the year at Flagstaff includes the covery of about 500 new . the measuring of some T ticed by previous observers, the carcful on of 5000 stars in the zone be- 0 and 65 degrees south declination, orighter than the tenth magnitude, etection of the rotations of J i and fourth satellites resulting no examir tween al in uable facts, an exhaustive generaliza- va on of the stars 1 with excellent known as the tv neralization of in space, an invest esults of the phenom- kling of the stars, many double ha Phoenieis, pi,\Velorum, stars, and Lambda Norloe are saia ta Scorpii be ug the new doubles discovered. Another important discovery is the de- tection of the ro of Jupiter’s third es, made by Mr. Doug- vations tak in Mexico se two moons, like our w one face only toward the body which controis them. This ellites are deprived traceable to the tidal action er in accordance with laws which worked out and Dr. See has d and extended to the stars in n space. A popular phenomenon of great general raged the attention of Dr. past summer. Thisis the g of the sta this year assigned time. Mr. Douglass discov- air through which the as- erv full of small waves These little phenomena size of an egg, or some- as a man’s hand, and they running water where As the waves pass tie the as b about grave ve the lizht of the star is first cne side and then to the other, mes is spread out into its forms a spectrum ition to these bright stars there otliers which are very close and eparated in the great tele- he images are very still. It gested that a few of the most ult obj-cis—those which are exces- »bscure and shine with s dull brown- _might be self-luminous, e probably planets shining by re- flected light. Should tnese darkish hodies turn out to be actual planets they would be the first the kind ever seen. They are certainly uniqu: in appearance, and lie on the very 1 tof vision; and every one of these ob- swept up by Dr. See was jound to be not new. These waves are seld ldom absent except In the best-seeing and are the direct canse of bad-seeing as well as the twinkling. Dr. See took up the question of twinkling, and proved by an ingenius inquiry that the cause of stellar scintillization, which rched for since the time of Humboldt, was nothing else than small waves discovered by Mr. Douzlass. Among the last observations securea by Dr. See and Mr. Boothroyd, his assistant, were some measures of the companions of Sirius and Procyon and of tne difficuit double star 95 cet1. Heretofore Procyon’s companion has been seen only at the Lick Observatory, and the same is true of Sirius’ faint attendant; put both were ciarly and distinctly seen at Flagstaff with the 24-inch Clark lens. The very difficult double 95 ceti was philosopbers had aiscovered by the senior *Alvan Clark, ard never again measured tiil 1888, when Burnham got one view of it with the great Lick telescope. On dozens of other nights he searched in vain for any trace of it, even under the best conaitions vrevailing in California. As the com- panion is now closer than when Burn- am searched for it with the great Lick lescope, the recent observation by Dr. -e with the Lowell 24-inch must be re- garded as a supreme test of telescope and atmosphere. Pacific Coast FPensions. WASHINGTON, Nov. 29. — Pensions have been issned as follows: California—Original—Augusius L. De- mars, Vallejo; William A. Sharon, Dutch Flat; George B. Torrey, Pasadena. Washington—Original — Henry Tobin, Walla Walla; Thomas M. Davidson, Cas- cades. NEVILLS TAGTICS 0 ET MONEY Trick of His Lordship to Secure Indorsement of a Note. GAINS AN OFFICER’S SIGNATURE. The Dupe Believed That He Was Merely Witnessing a Private Papar. SCANDAL REVEALED BY A LAWSUIT. Incldentally the Methods of a Most Notorlous Money-Lender Are Also Revealed. | Special Dispatch o THE CALL | LONDON, Nov. —The Lord Chief| Justice Is hearing an interesting case which is attracting the attention of clu men and members of the aristocracy here. It is the suit of a money-lender to recover from an officer of the guards named Clay the sum of £11,113 due on two promissory notes cashed for Lord William Nevill. Sir Edward Clarke, Q. C., representing Clay, examined the plaintiff and | showed that Lord Nevill borrowed | large sums at from 30 to 40 per cent interest and that in one case recently the parents of a youth who had indorsed Lord | Nevill’s unpaid notes paid the plaintiff | £40,000. | Sir Edward Clarke, for the defense, al- leged that Lord Nevill secured Clay’sin- dorsement by a trick. Nevill, according to counsel’s statement, asked Clay to wit- s his signature to family documents of ivate ch cter, these documents be- covered by a paper in which there were slits, where C.ay was asked to sign. | The latter aemurred and asked to see documents, whereupon he was told the documents referred to a divorce of Lord Nevtll's sister, Lady Cowley. Clay ac- cepted the explanation and signed with- out having any idea until he was sued that he was signing promissory notes, Clay testified corroboration of the statement made by Sir Edward Ciarke, in and said that after the discovery of the trick- plaved upon .him he ed Lora Nevill with it, wtereupon Lord Newv:li | wrote and asked him to hola his tongue | tor a short time, as otherwise he (Lord ! | Neviil) would be ruined for life. Finally | Clay called Lord Nevill a swindler. At tue close of to-day’s testimony. the case | was adjourned. | Lord William Beachamp Newill, who was born in 18 of the Marquis of serly an aide-de- and, the Duke of Marlborough, and tenant in the Third Battalion of the Royal West Kent Regiment. He is married. Thefifth dauehter ot the Mar- quis of Abergavenny is Ladv Violet, born | i 1866 and married in. 1839 to the third | Eart Cowley. On October 30, 1896, a peti- brouzht by Countess lleged matrimonial miscon- auct and extreme cruelty on the part of The co-reepondent in the case was & Mrs. Charington. It was brought out in the course of the trial, which be- | ~an in January last, that the Earl, while Viscount Langan, was forced to heavily compensate Phyllis Broughton, the actress, for breach of promise. n the trial of the divorce suit Earl Cowley and Mrs. Charington denied t e allegations of the complainant. Counsel or the Countess . asked permission to amend the petition of the plaintiff by in- troducing a new co-respoudent on the fol- lowing Monday. The request was zranted and the jury was discharged. Wher the Liearing of the case was resumed on Feb- ruary 1, Earl Cowley made no contest, but admitted his conduct with the second | co-respondent, and in August last the | Countess obtained adecree of ab-o.ute di- vorce, with alimonv to the amount of £2200 a year for life. © Sam wis, the money-lender in the | case on trial in London to-day, is proba- bly the most notorious man of his ciass in England. During the bankruptcy proceed- ings against the Marguis of Ailsbury, who died in 1894, it developed that Lewis had a claim of £257,000 against the estate, which includes the famous Savernake ! forest. Lewis, in September, 18! chased the beautiful residence ot ¢ ess Cowley at Maidenhead for £12,000. CHOKES A GIAL 10 DEATH. of I is a lie Crime for Wh;'cT a Silver City Mexican Will Be Lynched if i Captured. Tesadl SILVER CITY, Now. 20.—Lulu Werney the I4-year-old daughter of William Werney, a rancher living about twenty- five miles south of here, left her home un Saturday to search for a horse. .She did not return in the evening and a searching party was organ zed. Yesterday the body of the girl was round in & gully about two miles from Ler home. She had been assaulted and then choked to death. ‘Ambrosio Garcia,a Mexican employed as a sheep-herder, disappeared on the same day, sas the girl, and that night came to Silver City and told triends that he had | committed the crime, but this was not re- | | ported to the officers until after he had | made his escare. Several posses are now after him and should he be captured it is likely tbat he will be lynched. Evidence of his guilt is conclusi e MOURMNING IN GILROTY. Passing of Frank Smith, an Early Iiesident of the Valley. GILROY, Nov. —Frank Smith, one of the early residents of Gilroy Valley, died at his home in this eity list night. Hewas a prominent hardware dealer here forover twenty years, and prospered in his busi- ness. Smith was a native of Massachusetts, aged 75 years. One of his last acts of charity was the founding ot the Frank Smith orphanage fund, which now amounts to over §500, being the accumula- tions of bis sick benefits from the Gilroy Lodge No. 54, 1. 0. O. for the benefit of the Orphans’ Home in Gilroy. DA Doran 10 be Discharged. WASHINGTON, Nov. —By direction of the Secretary of War Private John 8. Doran, Battery D, Third Artillery, now at Angel Island, wiil be discharged from the service of the United States on receipt of this order by the commanding officer at his station. COLLECTED LOIN FROM TEACHERS Climax Reached in the Los Angeles School Scandal. AXTELL MAKES FULL CONFESSION. Swears That Directors Webb and Adam Levied the Blackmail. WEEPS AS HE TELLS HIS STORY. Was the Middle Man and.Handled Money Ex‘orted From In- structors. Special Dispatch to THE CALL. LOS ANGELES, Nov. 29.—The climax was reached this evening in the investiga- tion 10 progress as to the blackmail and extortion levied by certain School Direc- tors upon the emploves of the department. Superintendent of Buildings C. H. Axtell, the collector of the bribe fund, made a full confession before the board aud 1000 as- sembled spectators. By his confession he makes Director Walter L. Webb and Director Joseph F. Adams the offending members of the board. The scene in the council chamber dur- ing the time when Axtell told the details of the plan whereby vrincipals and jani- tors of the city schools were to be mulcted 10 retsin their positions was a most dra- matic one. Axtell is 62 yearsof age. His hair is as white as snow, and as ha told of how he collected or attempted to collect the bribe fund the. tears rolled down his cheeks. His voice was repeatedly failing him, and on numerous occasions he was unable to proceed until he had recovered from a partial fainting spell. There were many ladies present, and as Axtell told why he had done what he had they mani- fested their sympathy with sobs. Axtell tock the witness-stand, and, after being duly swern, he siated that he had first ended, when the public be- came 1niormed as to the charges of extor- tion, to deny evervthing; but since the first publication had been made the pressure upon him had been very great. Tne pape rs had condemned him, and, he | said, all'that had been said of bim was justified. his I could have withstood,” said the gentleman, as the tears rolled down his fuce, “but when my poor old wife cam- to me, as she did last Thursday, and made an appeal to me to save what little there might be left of my good name, if there was any to be saved at_all, then.I concluded that I would make a clean breast ot it all, and I did so to her, the first she knew of the matter ola Here the witness broke down completely, and it was several minutes before he could proceed. When L did he told the ta'e ot infamy in its entirety. He said that in the Board of Education rooms he had been approached by Director Walter L. Webb and giver-a list of principals who ought to pav to retain their positiona. This list he had jotted down, and five of the principals be had agreed to see and did see. His motive in doing so was to save them their positions, as they were personal friends of his, and he feit certain that unless they paid they would certainly be removed. He was not himself to re- ceive one dollar of the money. His under- standing with Webb was that he was to see the principals named and secure the money from them for Webo, who was on the teachers’ committee and who was an influential member of the boa:d. After tn1s listof principals whom Axtell was to see was given him by Director Webb, Director Adams had come to him and had asked him how he was progress- ing with them. He told him thal he was | doing the best that he could. Then Adams had a ked him about getting a montn’s salary ($65) of Janitor E. E. Cooper of the Stentons-street School. Axteil swore that he saw Principals Keppel, Emery, Bonebrake and Phillips and told them as a friend that he thought if they wisbhed to retain their positions they had beiter pay. Later, he had in- formed Elder J. 8. Pitman, of whose churech he was a member, of the matter and more particularly of the case of Janitor Cooper, who was also of the Pit- man flock. Some few days after this Pit- man had come to him and paid him $60 for Cooper. This money he had taken at once to the Board of Education rooms. Webb was not the-e and he had sent for him. Finally Webb did come to the rooms and Axtell swore that he turned the $60 over to him with the remark: “‘Here is Cooper’s moner.’’ Webb said to this: “That's not my money; it belongs to Adams."” To this Axtell-claimed that he said: don’t care whose it 18; I don’t want it.” Webb took it and that was the last Ax- tell saw of it Axtell admitted that he had on previous occusions denied having receivea this money, but that was prior to the time that be had decided to tell the whole truth. He swore that before he had testified in the Grand Jury room he pad conversed with Webb an¢ Adams, and it was then agreed that the money vaid by Coovper sktould be left in Pitman’s hands by the testimony of all three of them. Axtell swore that all Iaborers in the de- partment were hired through Webb, but that he had never heard of any of them paying for their positions. About six months ago he had placed_his own resig- nation in the nands of Director Webb without any date attached, but he de- clized to state for what reason, and the matter was not pushed. Asked if he in- ten.ed to hold his position until he was removed, Axtell said that he did. Asked if he thought ne was from a moral stand- point qualified he said : I wiil average up morally with the rest of the department, and Ikaow, for I have been connected with it seven years.”’ Axtell’s tesumony, o' course, created a sensation. Director Webb arose, and in a voice trembling with passion denied hav- ing ever received a doliar trom Axtell or any one else. He then proceeded to de- nounce Attorney T. E. Gibbon, who is conducting the prosecution as the repre- sentative of the League for Better City Government. He accused Gibbon of mal- jce, and claimed that the reason of his ill-feeling was that he (Webb) hed refused to appoint a lady friend as a teacher. Gibbon arose and yery broadly inti- mated that Webb lied. Webb insisted that be baa told the truth. Gibbon said that he would give Webb an oppor.uniiy 1o prove it in a court of justice. The prosecution then rested and to- morrow evening the defense will take up its case. ol ENCOUNTERS GALES OFF MENDOCIND Rough Experience of the Ship Llewellyn J. Morse. BIG WAVES SWEEP g HER DECKS. Seamen Thrown About Like So Many Corks by the En- croaching Seas. ONE MAN’S NARROW ES- CAPE FROM DEATH. After Having Been Washed Over- board He Is Hauled Back Upon the Vessel. Special Dispateh to THE CALL. SAN DIEGO, Nov. 29.—The ship Liewellyn J. Morse from Nanaimo for San Diego has arrived in a leaking condition. She was caught in the heavy gales that raged along the coast from November 16 to 19. The Morse left Nanaimo on November 12, with 2100 tons of coal. Everything went along smoothly for four days, when she was caught 1n the gale off Cape Men- docino, which nearly settled the fate of the vessel and the entire crew. The offi- cers anda sallors this morning expressed thems:lves tnankful that they reached their destination in safety. ““When off Cape Mendocino,” said Cap- tain Anderson, “I thought our time had come. The storm had been raging for twentv-four hours. The decks were flooded and everything movable was washed overboard. “The men were tbrown about the decks like so many corks. Sometimes we were on deck and at other times we were sim- ply swimming on the crest of waves (hat rolled over the ship. At one time, when the second mate was forward, the vessei shipped a heavy sea and he was washed from the forward part of the vessel against the after hatch. The force knocked him senseless, but we managed to get him and carried him below, +“Phe gale increased in fury, piling up mountainous seas that swept us from stem to stern. The weather was bitter cold, which added to our discomfort. We had no hot food, as everybody, even the cook, bad to get out and help man the vessel. The ship strained and labored heavily, but she proved pretty stauuch 1n view of the terrific battle. “While the seas were running their bighest, one of our forecastle hands, John Anderson, was swept overboard on a huee wave. He yelled like a pirate and we pre- pared todo what we could to help him, but before we could turn around another sea swept by and deposited Anderson safe and sound on deck. He grabbed a hai- yard and huag on. “The vessel, after fighting the gale for over fourteen hours, sprung a big leak and we kept the donkey engine hard at work. It was abad prospect, but fortun- ately the pumps kept unclozged and we kept the water dow Another sea came down on us at 3:30 A. M. on the 17th, which put cut the tires in the engine- room, and the vessel syrung a new leak. She was filling rapidty. *“fhere was then ten feet of water in her hold. Everv man of us gave up all hoype, and we thought the time to make peace on earth had come. Abie, the Japanese cabin boy, with a pistol in hand, said : “1Assoon as she goes down 1 will blow" my head off.” “The storm subsided in about two Lours. Then we got the pumps to work again, and they have been working twen- ty-four hours a day since, trying to keep the vessal afloat. ~ Sne is leaking like a basket and wiil bave to undergo repairs before another voyage is made.” The L. J. Morse is an old wooden ship, flying the American flag. She is com- manded by Captain Anderson, one of the best-known ship-ma:ters of the Pacific. NOT ENIIILED 10 SALARY. Decision Against San Jose’s Old Charter Couneilmen. SAN JOSE, Nov. 20.—Judge Lorigan to-day decided that the Councilmen who were elected under the old charter were not entitled to draw the salary of $25 per month provided for the office under the new charter. This decision was ren- dered in the suit brought by Thomas C. Hogan sgainst City Treasurer Ewing, to restrain him from paving a warrant drawn in faver of Councilman W. T. Nolt- ing tor salary for the month of April. The- suit was a friendly one and was brought simply to dermine whether the city officials elected under the old charter and holding office were entitled to the salaries provided for the officers under the new charter. The court held that the Councilmen in office when the new charter went into effect could not draw the salary provided and not until the next municipal election in 1898 will Counciimen be en- titled to draw salarv. The new charter provides a salary of §25 a month, while under the old charter there was no salary attached to the office Sued on Their Notes. Emilio Lastreto, administrator of ihe estate of Minerva McKinley, commenced suit yester- day against F. W. Spencer & Co. fo recover £1875 on & promissory note drawn December Ellsworth has been sued for $486 65 by Elizabeth M. Linnon on & promissory note arawn on the 18th iust. —————— King’s Daughters at Home. The WillingWorkers’ Circle,King’s Daughters will give its anuual at homeat tne residence of Capiain and Mrs. Charles Goodall, Pierce and MeAilister streets, this evening. Mrs. H. C. Porier and Miss Gussie Menke have pre- pared the programme, Which contains some of the best amateur talent in the city. The re- ceipts will pe donated to the general charity fund of the circle. Married by a Justice. Isnac Benjamin ana Minnie Ford, who failed to: have the nuptial knot tied in the lions’ cage at the Chutes because no one legally con- stituted could be found to perform the cere- mony, were married yesterday. by Justice of the Poace Giroeginger, who had been asked to preside in the cage, but declined. e Fire From a Coal-0il Lamp. An alarm was turned in from box 64 about 9:30 last evening for a blaze at 341 Mary street in & dwelling-house occupied by Bruno The fire started in the basement a4 was caused by the upsetting of a coal-oil smp. The damage amounted to about $500 | on the house aud $100 on the furnitu e. DR. TUBB UNDER FIRE. REV. WILLIAM H. TUBB, Whom the Church Extension Society Seems to Be Trying to Force.Oat of Bethlehem Congre- gational Church. TRYING 10 DUMT RE Db, TU55 The Congregational Church Extension Society Takes High Ground. SAYS HE WILL HAVE T0 RESIGN. But the Members Do Not Suc- ceed in Frightening Beth- lehem’s Pastor, HE PURPO:ES TO ““STICK IT OUT.” Says He Cannot in Honor Leave the Church Until It Wishes Him to Go. The Congrezational Ex‘ension Society is trying to oust Rev. William H. Tubb from Bethlehem Congregational Church. At least it would seem that way, for the members have cffered to pay off a partof the indebtedness of the church on the day they bear that his resignation bas been accepted by the church. Dr. Tubb, how- ever, reiuses to see it that way and says he will not be forced to resign until the members of his church want it. As for the members of the Extension Society, he snaps his fingers at them. If they will not give him the money he says he will have to raise it nimseli. *1 have already offered my place in Byron for sale and if it realizes what I think it will I myself will pay what is due.”” The story told by Mr. Tubb is this: Some time ago he thought the cnurch needed some repairs, and accordingly or- dered them made. A great deal of the work he did himsell. Before they were completed, however, he went to Brent- wood to preach a sermon, and when he returned he found placarded on the church a notice signed by Rev. Dr. Pond to the effect that for all the work done and being done on the church William H. Tubb would have to be responsible; that noone else was in any way responsible. The whole amount expended was $804 He then found out that he should have asked permission from the Extention So- ciety before having the work done. Ac- cordingly he went before them and received their sanction to the work, and gave his bond for $500 io Dr. Pond, who transferred it to the Extension Society. He also agreed to be responsible for the rest of the money. He afierward asked sor financial aid, and it was promised him. In the meantime he was taken ill, and the payment of the interest on the land, which was leaced and only partially paid for, iell off. The Extension Sociely was responsible for the money, and had to pay it, This seems to be onre of the reasons for wishing to put him out of the chureh, but he has lately notified them that he will be able to meet the paymentsin Do- cember, and will do his best to make up 2l that is overaue. Dr. Pond was heard to say vesterday that the payments of the interest for Bethlehem property was going behindhand, and that if Mr Tubb could not bring people enough into the church to pay it, it wonid be advisable, so he thought, to put some one in who could. Dr. Tubb continue.:: “Two weeks ago I was informed by Rev. Loyal Wirtywho is secretary of the soci- ety, that it had voted me $300, and that a letter notifving me of the tuct was on the way. When I went to the soc.ety’s head- quarters, in the Y. M. C. A. building, on in<t Tuesday, to get the money, I was given aletter by Mr. Wirt. “This letter, af.er eulogizing my efforts for the church, referred to the debt, and postuiating my desire to retire, stated that on my resignation the Extension Society would assume the $300 still due, **As you imagine this was somewhat of asurprise and I told them [ had never veen so grosslv insuited in all the days of my Life. M:. Wykoff told me not to get my back up and asked me to communicate with the committee through Mr. Wirt with the view of bringing about a com- A Big Regular Army. The mightiest hbst of this sort is :he army of invalids whose bowels, livers and stomachs have been regulated by Hostetter's Stomach Bitters. A regular habit of body 1s brought about through using the Bitters, not by violenty agitati g and griping the intestines, but by re-enforciog their energy and causing a flow of the bile luto its proper channel. Malaria. Ia grippe, dyspepsia and atendency to inactivity of the kidneys, are coa- quered by the Bitters. | the committee that I willeall & meetin promise. So I prepared a latter on November 23 and sent it to Mr. Wirt. Here are a few extracis from the ietter’: In ssking for the sum of $300 to aid me paying the debis incurred 1u_making re improvements on and within Bethiehem Con gregational Church there was no question of my resignation as pastor of said caurch con- in templated. Neither wss ita condition stated or implied. Yesterday afternoon I spoke to you concern- my appl on for “They voted y wa aid. You said warmly: u $300 nnd the letter is on the ’ but not one word of my resi O, my brethren, when I think iie rea- son ziven I feel thatone mightier than I will take up this matt Iam neither an Esau. a Judas or a Benedict Arnold. Three hundred dollars or three million doliars is not an equivalent for the i h 1 have pub- iicly and privately promi-e congregation to remain with them until théy are satisfied to let me go. As far esIam competent to judge I am cool, guiet and ealm. I shall do nothing rashly. I shall simply pray, and prayer to me means something more than words, “8till, they will give me no help until I agree to their conditions. will not do. I consider that thev are soing outside of Congregationalism and assuming powers not delegated to them. I never heard of such a thing before, an. what is more I donot ever remember having heard a pastor being asked to give a personal bond before, *I propose to stick it out, no watter what they do. I will raise monev in some way. I have already offered my property in Contra Costa County for sale, and i | can raise money on that Ishall pay off the | This is the aunswer I sent | indebtedness. them to-day : Y. L. C. A, Nov. 29, 1897. i t, secretary of the Chusch 2 Francisco and vic You wil please To Rev. Loyal L Exztension Society of Deur Broiuer Wirt: church and congregation and lay betore them the requesi of the committee that I resizn my prstorate _of Bethlehem Congregational Churen. I the chuica and congregation wish me to resign I shall doso at ihe expira- tion of my commission as home missionnry, which extends to the last of Mareh, 1898, Should the church and congregation refuse (o | request me to resign, L shall, in accord with | my often expressed promise, retain the pas- torate of Betilehem Congregational Church until the church is wiliing to accept it. [ shall, however, work 10 tuis end, and trust that Ishall be enabled to bring about said resignation in Six or twelve months. More thun this I caunot in honor do. Ihave prayerfully and carefully considered the nbove, and (his expression on my part is final. I believe in the auionomy of the local church and in the feilowship ot the churches. Iem willing for any number of its commitiee to go among My congregation and make any explanation they may desire. Fraterualiv, WiLLtaM H. TUEB, Mr. Tubb has taken a firm stana and But that (] will not be forced into doing what he does not think right. And in this stand "he will be supported by his congregation, who have the warmest reard for him. When asked for his reason for the action of the society he said that he thought it was simply that one member of the so- ciety wanted him out, and that it was merely a matter of personal spite. Said be: I consider the local church is the only one that has authority to transact business | for the committee. Legislative power i3 | not vested in any other body. The church is considered competent in itself. I am ready to resign mv church any time my people desire me to do so. The people of my church have assured me that they de- sire me to stay, and I promised them that I would stay as long as they felt the need for me.”’ One of the prominent members of the congreeation has a petition which will be put in circulation to-day, stating that Dr. Tubb is not wanted to resign for any cause whatever. It is understood that Mr. Tubb was threatened by members of the society yesterday, and given to under- stand that if he did not resizgn he could never expect anyvibing from tne Congrega- tional church in the future. If he has been threatened, it does not seem to worry him in the least. NILLS ONITARTANISH. It Was Fully Discussed by the Christian Ministerial Association, A paper on the ‘“Present and Future Effects of Unitarianism on B. Fay Mills” was read at the Christian Ministerial As- | sociation yesterday by Rev. Thomas U. | Butler, pestor of the First Christian Church, Oakland. He spoke of his bril- lianey and success, and of the unusual stir his secession from the ranks of orthodoxy made. He then wenton: Mr. Milis hitherto held membvershipina vierian church and a Congregatioual at one and the same time, until very recently, he has been & sortor a doublesdyed and a double-senied factor of orthodoxy, which by his recent theological and ecciesi- astical somersault nas landed him completely the broad line of demarcation by which | heterodoxy 1s distinguished from orthodox: So tnat by his own dcclaration and the co sensus of ovinio1 on both sides of that line Mr. Milis no longer is numberea among Pres. byterians, in whose feilowship his member- ship 18 understood to be forieited, and this is equally true in regard to hus fellowship in the Congregational body. He proudly planis himself among the ver- benss, the hyacinths and the daffodils of Unitarianism, aud henceforth, unless he re produces the somerseult and alights once more | upon his maniy feet, he will be the emascu- | 1ated and shory, but withal, perhaps. the culu- vated wreck of grand and noly possibilities. Ample and glad provision will doubtless be mde for Mr. Mills by the Unitarians, who are proud of their brilliant acqui- s ¢ will make the mostof iheir con- quest. Consequenty Mr. Mills is henceforth a back number in ail the reaim of active and beneficial evangelism without & message that is needed, and without a commission from the Son of God. At the Congregational Monday Club a paper on *The Development of Congrega- tionalism’’ was read by W HESAC kinson. Dr. Adam, who recently attended a meeting of the various hospital directors | of the city, said that at this meeting it was suggesied to have an annual collec~ { tiun taken in the churches to sustain the | tree bed. The club then appointed Octo- | ber as the Congregational collection day. 4‘ The paper of the day at the Presbyterian | | | Ministerial Union was written by G. B. U. Stewart and read by Rev. F. R. Fer- It was an historical paper on Jonn i S e JaUisat | Sudden Death of Captain Young. Captain H. G. Young,s watchman around | the wharves, was taken with a fit of apovlexy vesterday in the Pier saloon, corner of Mission and Steuart streets, and died in the ambulance | while being taken to the Ferry Keceiving Hos- | pitni. e decersed was 75 years old and re- | sided at 95 Steuart street. He had been mate | in the service o1 Goodall, Perkins & Co. some years ago. - Guest of the G. A. R. | There will be an open meeting of George H. i | Thomas Post, G. A. R., this evening, at Ruby Hall, 320 Post street. U. . GrantJr. of San Diego will attend the meeling as a guest of the post._Colonel Eady wiil deliver a short address. Music will be given by the Philo- m is. 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