A SL AAA ——— HI a LL sn ————————— | ———— oY PRESBYTERIANS MEET The 101st General Assembly in Session at New York, Southern Presbyterians Gather at Chattanooga, Tenn, The Rev. Dr. Howard Crosby's Fourth Avenue Presbyterian Church, in New York «ity, was filled to overflowing when the 101st General Assembly of the Presbyterian | America | Church in the United States of opened its annual session with prayer. Altogether there wero 450 delegates or commissioners to the Assembly, half of then clergymen, the other half ruling elders, They represented twenty-eight synods, or State districts, the synods being divided into 210 presbyteries, which correspond to local or city governments, and these again includ- | ing 6500 churches with 760,000 communicants, and representing a total population of about 2,500,000 persons. The Rev, Dr. Charles L. Thompsan, of the Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church, of New York city, the retiring Moderator, de- livered his final sermon, after which Dr. William C. Roberts, the President of Lake Forest University, was clected the new Moderator. On the second Rev, Dr. Morris, of Lane Theological Sem inary, reported that 1130 churches, or 17 per cent. of all, had vacant pulpits in 1858 and that 400 or 55 will remain vacant for lack of a supply and lack of money. The rate of dis- solution of churches is increasing from mi- gration and from denominational rivalry, but most of all the cause lies in lack of ministers and lack of money. mended that the separate should especially care for the weak churches and supply ministers when there was a chance of nursing fechle churches back | to vigorous life, Ta Committee on Revision of the Confes- sion of Faith asked to have Professor W. G T. Shedd, of Union Theological Seminary; Professor E. D. Morris, of Lane Theological Seminary, and Professor R. B. Welch, of Auburn Theological Seminary, added to the committee and the werk continue. until next year. The report was adopted Colonel Elliott F, Shepard, Chairman of the Comerittes on the Observance of the Sab. bath, reported that there is an increasing disposition to observe the Sabbath in this sountry, especially in the matter of trans. wtation. The committee had also reason to Bel ve that the circulation of Sunday news PAPI 1s decreasing The ev, Dr. Joseph T. Smith, of Balti committee which t South ore, Chairman of a a similar committee of the the eral Assembly, reported that the commitiees agresd to work together in many ways—not to tresspass on each ther's territory and to let the work in the colored churches go beret A mioority report by 8S. M B- tucky, declared for an Northern and Southern 0 as in tf ere Was a reception in the Mot n { 2 iven by the Presta n to Commissioners of the Gene Assembly Governor Beaver, of Pennsylvania, as Ruling Elder in the Assem- bly, dud others spoke. fonthern General Assembly. The General Assembly of the Southern Presbyterian Church met in its twenty-nintl annual in Chattano Eleven States were represented fhe body was called to order at I A A in the First Church by the Moderator, J. J Bullock, of Washington. D. C., who con ducted devotional exercises. The Rev. Dr Bullock delivered the annual sermon of the Moderator Dr. H. €. Hill, of Fayetteville, N. C., was elected and installed as the new Moderator J. W. West, of Mississippi, and R. E. Cald well. of Louisville, were clected temporary secretaries. geasion A good portion of the second day's session of the Southern Assembly was devoted to reading reports The report of the Conference Committee with a similar committes of the Northern Assembly, on unification, was read. It is similar to to the report presented at the Northern Assembly A telegram of salutation was received from the Northern Presbyterian Assembly én session at New York, ON FIRE IN MID-OCEAN. Thrilling Scenes and Heroic Conduct Aboard a Blazing Vessel, The Hamburg-American Line steamer Rugia, from New York for Hamburg, which arrived a fow days ago at Plymouth, Eng. reports that the cotton in her afterhold was spontaneous ignited four ni, previous or Pai. mid-ocean Tl fro burned fiercely, but was quenched after five anxious hours, Auring which everything had been got in readiness to abandon the steamer. One bundred and thirty burning cotton bales were jettisoned. Great alled among the . rr id. on deck for forty-eight Through the efforts to quench the fire the eabing were flooded and two-thirds of the was spoiled. Much praise the Captain and crew for their Two of the crew were injured. It After the - had gained considerable y some of those on board made prepa desert the ship, but were prevented the Captain, who threat. a revolver, When the iron took fire. Casks of lard, the ; well abandoned and boats to lave the threatened in to fire, GREAT FIRE IN CANADA, About 700 Houses In the City of St, of the Assembly the | The committee recom. | Presbyteries | of the vessel's onrgo, also | flames LATER NEWS, Correcror Enpanor, of New York, has discovered that the Prison Aid Society of London has been shipping ex-convicts to this | country under contract to a man at Sequine, Texas. A rigid investigation is to be made, Mns. Many Bruwer, who lives near | Harrisburg, Penn., bas just celebrated her | 108d birthday, She enjoys fine health, has | black hair and is an inveterate smoker. Tuner of the persons implicated in the | in Arizona have been captured, | L. Milburn was struck and instantly killed. | The ten-year-old son of M. Dorsey met a simi- | | lar fate near Chamberlain, Dakota. At El | dora, Ia., ten valuable horses were killed, Herald, shot and killed George Elmore, and himself received wounds in the stomach and | The sheoting grew out of a reference to | | side, Elmore in Thomas's paper. Netrsoxy CoLpert (colored), who murdered Philip Wentzell, the Buperintendent of the Columbia street car stables in October last, was banged at the District jail, Public School in Washington were standing | in the aisles of the school-room, waiting for | | dismissal when their teacher, Mrs. Sarah E, | Allen, was fatally shot in their presence by | her worthless husband, who then killed him- self. {| Troops fired upon strikers near Breslaz, Germany, killing a number of people Tax Parnell Commission is still examining witnesses for the defense. It will not make! its report to the House of Commons unti next February, Queex Many, of Bavaria, mother of King Otto, is dead in her sixty-fifth year. AN express train struck a market wagon near Fernwood, Penn., and instantly killed James McCartney, the owner and his grand. son, James Cumberland, Tur Almy Manufacturing Company, of Philadelphia, manufacturers of clothes, has falled for $200,000 ladies’ fine A pexse fog caused the Servia to strand in Gedney's Channel, New York Harbor, and delayed the outgoing Transatlantic fleet. The off Long Branch, ariotte Webb » Fr Captain Albert C, ship Algoma went ashore N. J. Pilot boat Cl down and sunk by tl La Normandie, Was run och line steamer Mal Fitz. wined, The and colm, one of the pilots, and Charles gerald, the boat-keeper, wi steamer Gruyandotie Bay Ridge aged re dr ran into the Comal off and both were dam werionsly DriLxcares from of over XX men, met fifteen of the prin ipal block coal mines Indiana, representing at Brazil Ind, rejected the operatory’ duction, thirds vote lemand for twenty cents re and declared a strike by a two Tae business portion was destroyed by § f Hunt Loss 8175.000 nburg, Ind. AX eight-year-old girl and an eleven old boy, childrm of dered their baby because she eried Gahriel sister in Columl A PARTY of « Vieksbarg, Mis in tw lored men were returning to from the Louisiana shore » skiffs, and when near the foot of West Pass the passengers io one of them, frightened by the wind and waves « apsized the boat Nine of them were drowned, one little girl alone escaping Brrree feeling, engendered by an election for School Direct sulted in the we in Forest City, Ark, re Killing of three white and one eolored man Marshal Frank Folbre was shot down first, but before he died he killed Sheriff D. M. Wilson and Thomas Parham A. M. Neely, a prominent colored politician, charged with causing the trouble, took refuge in & newspaper office, but was hunted down and riddled with bullets SECRETARY Bramwe has appointed Louis Dent his Private Secretary in place of | Thomas H. Sherman, the new Consul to Liverpool. Mr. Dent isa nephew of Mrs. General Grant, and assisted Mr. Blaine in the preparation of his “Twenty Years of Con- Tux Comptroller of the Currency decided to allow the claim of John Davenport, of Now York, for $3200 for extraordinary expenses uring the election last fall HURRICANES swept over Saxony, Hesse and Thuringia, accompanied by torrential rains. A number of bridges wore destroyed and many lives were lost, Mn. Feaxaspo Cruz has been appointed | Minister of Guatemala tothe United States { in place of Mr. F. Lainflesta. EE ————— | A BATOH OF APPOINTNENTS, Judge, Marshals and Collectors Chosen t 7 the President, The President has made the following ap pointments Charles Swayne, of Florida, United States | District Judge of the Northern District of | Florida, i Willlam D. Lea, of New Mexico, Associate | Justios of the Supreme Court of the Territory of New Maxicn | John W, Whitcher, of Nevada, Attorney of | the United States for the District of Nevada, | John C, Murphh, of Dakota, United States | Attorney for erri of Dakota. {| Richard IL. Walker, of K United | States Marshal for the District of Kansas. | Jacob Yoon, of A FIREMAN'S FATE, Dictating His Will While Slowly the track and was ditobed. Fireman Chiari RNA robbery of United States Paymaster Wham LiGuTNING hasdone much damage in many | | places. At Leonardtown, Md., Judge John | R.Y. Tomas, editor of the Caseyville (Ky.) | Tax little girls attending the Jefferson A BULL FIGHT. VIVID DESCRIPTION OF ONE WIT. NESSED IN MADRID, How the Infuriated Animal is Des patched by the Sword in a Mata. dor's Hand ~The Picadors, Banderilleros, Etc. REMEMBER only ever saw, and the only one I ever wished to see. 1 had other oppor- tunities in Bpain to witness the pa tional spectacle, but had no stre to again in the brutal and disgusting per- formance. It was on Sunday; and this is the only day in the capital of Spain when the exhibition takes place, The regular programme for the Bun- days of the mild season was to go to the bull-fight I! de- | assist” church in the forenoon, though this duty | was as faithfully neglected there as in the fight at 1 o'clock, and the opera or the theatre in | ‘the evening. In the heat of the summer the “functions” are suspended for a brief | period, and closed for the winter at the end of October, to be renewed in the early spring. 1 saw the last one of the season, and flaming posters all over the city announced that eight bulls would be killed on this special occasion, though six is the ususl number. These bulls are bred for the ring, and the bills inform the curious experts at what farms they were raised, for each had its own reputation to maintain. The principal actors are named, and are re. garded in much the light as the great actors of other lands Early in the afternoon the Calle de eala, the leading from the lel Sol, was I by the mn Ame Al stroet Puerta crowd that haste ad p Plaza de Tor in Spanis} fel LO seCun TRC TERMN Easter Sur The 12.000 persons ArENA Was fu Se sixth of noney received for sami the he apit als, bos N Dull r the asudiend hat can be said of t) tinguished per A bane ntree flourish DroCess) There ar very sctive mes and yellow, with which they sttention of the bull pursues sther performers. Th often chased ww the bull, and their pring ipal business high They afternoon | preset and each announced with a of trumpets } The first scene 3a a of the bull fight all ranks The chulos are who carry banners of red draw off the he of four classes when ¥ Ar wems Lo con leaping over th fetsce which » ds the arena LTO sre paid from $15 to $20 fora The next is Ul LE ' They are rank oe $ 5 are Nl sik emer nounted Worn « which luty buses or hae Their legs are pro tected from the assaults of the bull by splintz of wood and THE MATADOR. sole leather, and they are so en- umbered by this armor that when un horsed they are unable to mount their steeds without assistance. They are men little esteemed, but they are exposed to danger and ave paid $100 for their fervice A banderilla i= a round stick about two feet long and an inch or less in diameter, armed with a barbed dart at one end. The second-class in rank use this imple ment, and are called banderilleros. They large cities of this country; the cock. | o'clock; the bull-fight at 3 | must be very expert, and they are paid from £50 to 875 for their services The highest class are espadas, the latter meaning *‘swords.” They are the elite of the ring, and havea | national repulation, receiving for each funcion from #8250 to 8300 photographs are for sale at the stores and the matadors, or | Their they are looked upon with admiration, | | At least two of them are employed at each spectacle, with a substitute at hand | : in case of accident, As soon as the procession has feft the | ring, a bugle blast is sounded, the doors of | | Owe of the entrances are thrown wide open, | and the bull, if he be a gamey one, rushes | furiously into the arena. He has been | | thorned and worried, until he is desperate. | | Not far from the gate a picador has | | placed himself, facing the centre of the i | ring, with his lance poised. As soon as | | the bull sees him he rushes upon him, | United States | while some of them amuse the beast the others pick up the pleador and put him on his poor old horse. Then it is seen that the ball has ripped up the animal, and he is ridden out of the ring with his entrails dragging on the ground, while the brutal spectators applaud, Lightly and gracefully the banderilleros spring over the fence into the ring. As soon as the bull sees them he gives them a chance to play their part. Dropping nis head s0 as to make his long horns available he rushes upon one of these men, who has a banderilla in each hand, profusely dressed with gayly colored papers, It looks then as though ha would be transfixed on the horns of the mad beast, but he does not flinch, and when the animal is in the right place hy adroitly swings his two implements ove his head and drives the darts into the flesh of his foe Just back of the shoulders The darts remain and add to the fury of the bull, Sometimes two more darts an planted in him by the ether man. These actors are enabled to retire with the aid of the chulos. Then comes the fourth and last act of | the tragedy. All the actors are dressed in Spanish costume, as we see it on the stage, and most of them look very gay; but the espada is clothed in sober black, wirhaps as more becoming to his office. le marches to the front of the box in which the patron of the ** function” is seated, makes au bow and delivers a little speech, asking permission to kill the bull for the glory of the city and the benefit of the hospital, adding that he will do so | or be killed in the attempt, throws his hat into with his red and yellow banner in one hand and the long sword in | the other he approaches the bull with the | dignity of a king. For some time he plays with the bull, who flies at his banner every time, and he able to show off his skill to the best | He is vigorously applauded The audience are sometimes so carried ao voy the audience, and slender SaAYARn ag when he does a8 wonderful set ASSAULT BY THE PICADOR. it they tarow their ing by their enthusiasm th nng. hats into TRIrely, sven sl a " and fn he has done f this vlay he i CIEArs, money. BOO resses his office he desires the master work of he banner in his left hand, but ! bull he side, and, as the rushes it, upon down between over the hb and tures heart, if he is for. ‘ h But he often times he has to try several bull is sure to be killed in al ns ros 4 ' a hit : in : in inted instrument is y complete the A team of three rated with nib rena, makes the car or pe pie 8 hie first soene wed on the ¢ bugle blast is heard wll rushes to his pertain pre is carried (me espada | saw lost his it in the ring he must the same (rTRITAIN Rin d on his weapon, leaving bull By the law of the pull it out, for must not use another | sword By standing on the high fence he succeeded in recovering it after many trials Another bull leaped over the fence, he wag the chulos: but he was driven back Some bulls will snd then they are worried by dogs and fireworks An American lady who witnessed this performance said: ‘My sympathies were all with the bull. I should have been giad to see the men gored by him Oliver Optic, in New York World, pering am No Need of His Crying. Then he | and | his : Oldest Chureh in the United States, The Church of Ban Miguel was erected at Sauta Fe, New Mexico, seventy-seven years before the landing of the Pilgrims on Plymouth Rock, twenty years before the founding of 8t. Augustine, Florida, and fifty-three years after the landing of Columba, The accompanying picture, says Judge Morrison in the Freeman's Journal, gives tn good idea of this venerable church as it has been restored and preserved from decay by the thoughtful piety of the Rev, Brother Butolph and his good Brothers, According to the learned researches of Father De Fourd, Ban Miguel's was built in 1548, and therefore is now*three hun- dred and forty-five years old, making it, [ think, without dispute, the oldest church anywhere north of the Mexican frontier, Like all the other churches of this part of America, it is built of adobes, on the simple plan of four plain, and very thick walls, and & pearly-flat roof supported by heavy beams. In some as here, CAKES, CHURCH OF BAX MiIGt thus simply the roof was finished windows are small obvious the y of Indian rau or fume In writers rest 1710 the ancien retrasit * appears elaborately letters on one of the beams of the g mscription “El Senor Mar costa el Carved { 1 give the interests Spanien n reso wz de la Penuela, } fabrica res Real Don Augustin Flores Vergam de 1710 (His Lord. y Penuela erected Royal Et Don i servant.) § expected to rs books wos : Alle Lowy ign rm, | our A Unigue Factory, { you donot think that thirsty mace you should is a unique mankind visi a {shop in a back street in Washington {| There is nothing quite like it on the face six feet high, causing a goeat scam- | not fight, | | dulcet charm on a sultry | they are drawn through sa straw f the earth, and it is 5 ;Garvelous expo- went of the hibulous ability of the world. | Some years ago it popped into the mind of an ingenious man that by the aid of machinery he could beat nature mak. ing straws He had noticed, as so many ther people have noticed, that cooling Irinks soquire an added smoothness and night, when This operation, however, required the pur chase of good strong unthrashed straw in | | large quantities, and the item of expense became quite appreciable. Our ingenious | friend cudgeled bis brains and made a machine which would curl paper into a cylinder and thus pamllel nature's handi- work. ! he was not satisfied, Patenting his first attempt, therefore, | he began to improve upon it, and he kept | Dn “What's the matter, little boy!" “That feller hit me.” “Well, I wouldn't cry if [ were you." “Course you wouldn't, ‘cause you're big enough ter lick him." Lie. ———I—— Japan's Queer Horticulture, plying his plant as his business grew, till now he has in his shop 154 machines capa- | ble among them of turning out 2,000,000 paper straws a day. In wero weather yusinoss is slack, but as the thermometer rises his machines grow busier and busier, snd now they are running at their full capacity. They arerun by a three horse ower electric motor. This business has born developed inside of four years from the smallest and crudest of beginnings to ita present gigantic proportions, and ita history shows how much a good thought is worth, New York Sun. ® A Fishing Trip. \ . N ~ N 4 “wu there are large brackets at each end of the beams elaborately carved, | Prot him the ru obsdiance and i : : I C lea a ust Over these rafters some kind of covering | y : was placed to sustain the heavy mass of | adobe ciny that was placed thereon, and | | The | Thess ana well up toward | But it was a crude triumph and | MORNING IN THE COUNTRY. | ’ Shrill crows the cock, a misty ght creeps fm At windows looking on the eastern sky, The cattle low, and pigs and cows begin To rai thelr voices in discordant cry, When Farmer John, with many s lusty yawn, Deserts his bed and stalks into the dawn. With ears a-point, subdued but joyous neigh Comes faithful Dick his outstretched hand to “nose,” While Beauty, springing from her couch of bay, Bweeps ciraling round, loud baying as she Bows; A hundred voices answer % his call, The robin’s treble winding through it all With liberal hand he takes from stack and store, And smiling feeds his trooping flocks and herds, Each known by name; the weak he lingers o'er With soothing touch and kindly, cheering words, They teach him that the gentle are the just, Compared to his what pleasure may they know Who in doll round of oent-per<cent en gage! | About his fect the fragrant blossoms blow | E'en while the thunders oer the hilltops rage. | Here thick-leaved maples grateful shades ex, tend, There cowslip blossoms o'er the brouklet bend. sloping uplands clothed in cnerald sheen The solemn woods, the flelds of velvet corn, The clover meadows stretching gay between, “be lark in carol to the dewy morn, these are yours, with all their cluster. ing charms Great bearted tillers farms of our country's And here among these rich, sequestered Oe Au independent eful path you tread; er your sky terrenes, turn your airs to ron No tainting substas Nor marshaled chimney Ie add, Above you ben The sun un hone —w i the blue unsullied dome veiled looks smiling on your lex E. Banks in Farmer's Voice. HUMOR OF THE DAY. magicians means of support is A remark fellow Order is Nature's first law, and it has never been rep #100 s always rued when it getsa mio troub Promissory notes— Tuning the fiddle before the performance If you are out in a driving storm, don’t attempt to hold the ruins A large head does not always hold brains-—the hogs-head, for instance. The less head a man has the more fro. gently he loses it. — Oil City Blissard. Many a man's work gets a week behind by his having a weak back. — Baton Cou. rier The min is no deadhead. When it drives into our streets it lays down the dust. — Dinghamton Republican Now that bustles are going out of fashiap, it is 80 be hoped that the Indians will leave off their war whoops It is a little girl of five who makes the discovery that the shad is a porcupine turned inside out. — Boston Transcript. The sportenan cupid whets his darts And dons his lightest suiting To sally farth midst fluttering hearts, Upon his summer shooting In many cases people who boast that they play cards for fun only, get merely the fun while the other man gets the money. — Merchant Traveler Live within my income? Very much [ doubt it; What I'd like to know is How to live without it, Judge. Tt is said to be an omen of illduck to sit thirteen at dinner. This is particu larly true if all are hungry, and tions have been made for only five.— Basar, The physician who ssserts that disease may be spread by kissing evidently refers to a complaint known as palpitation of the heart. And let her oe Now rin bowen Herald. Lat us them be up and With a heart tor ny far If we cannot do the Possibly, we map out hat we Washington When. a cabinet-maker and an under. | taker are located.side by wide, it is a on improving his apparatus amd multi. | foreible reminder of the shortness of the distance from the cradle to the grave. Merchant Traveler, New Yorker‘ ‘The game out West is fast d ng, so 1 understand.” Western “Guess not. The offi cers at the frontier post have not quit playing poker.” —8i/tings. pher-—*‘Now, sir, the expos- ure is about 0 be made. Put on a
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