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A LAND OF LEGENDS.
Some Glimpses of the Country AIodr
the Banks of the Rhine.
A WARNING TO FUTURE TOURISTS.
Sever Hake the Trip Prom Dover to Calais
Except bj DayligM.
MAKING USE OP HOSEI'd ilAGIO POWER
rCORKZSrOXEESCE OF THE DISPATCH. 3
Mayence, October 9. In leaving the
world's metropolis for middle Europe by
way of Dover and Calais the traveler passes
over London. 4 A kindly familiarity with
back window, with tiny flower gardens
upon the tops of hundreds upon hundreds of
London houses, with odd places where peo
ple seek rest and qniet away above the roar
and rumble of the street, with sparrow
houses and dovecotes, with miles upon miles
of rows of chimney pots, looking, one half
fancies, like quaint dragoons on guard in
faded Vandyke uniforms indeed, even with
the architecture of the roofs of churches and
cathedrals, rich with the historic associa
tions of centuries come before and intd the
vision with a glowing and imagery, that
bring the olden tales of this mother city of
the English race back to the memory and
heart, like sweet old songs resnng.
As we neared the channel not only did the
Ecenery become bold and rugged, but the
night came dqwn with a storm, and as we
rushed through the last long tunuel and
sped along the feet of the white chalk
cliff, the roar of the sea was louderupon
the great stone quays than the din of this
fast mail train, as we rushed in upon old
Dover town. Sorting us like sheep, we
were at last huddled aboard the Foam most
appropriate name, as even alongside the
docks the spume of the sea was dashed over
us the luggage and continental mail some
how taken on, and, with a great lurch, from
which she only recovered to stagger in
another direction, our steamer began
ricochetting across the channel.
A FBIE2rDIS: -WARN1N O.
You who are to come after, listen to the
voice of experience and never cross from
Dover to Calais save by day. It is a weird
experience by storm and night Through
the noxious vapors could be seen, at either
side of the little cabin, in tiers, the one
slightly above another, capacious bunks,
each provided with a leather enshion and a
surge-covered pillow, and nearly all occu
pied by men and women in all imaginable
attitudes of human suffering, or preparation
against torturing experience. Over yonder
were a party of Americans, evidently an en
tire family, cursing everything outside of
America, and struggling with each other as
their physical convulsions increased.
Beyond were three old friars, evidently
from some of the cloisters in Prance, beyond
Amiens, sober and grave in their brown,
rough dress, but ever and anon compelled
to be as other humans, and bearing their
miserere with holy fortitude. Opposite were
flighty Frenchmen, full of antics in their
torture, and Frenchwomen graceful" and
pretty even in this most pitifully leveling
of all ills, sea-sickness. The horrible air
and scenes of the cabin force you back on
deck, where all are knocked abont fearfully.
There is no escape. All bravery, resolution,
supreme will power, are of no avail. You
Euccamb. For a good hour every aspiration
and ambition of life is swept away. But at
last utter exhaustion comes; and then the
storm which sweeps up the channel pounds
new life into you; the salt spray dashes into
your face and revives you; and, crawling
ilong the deck to where the four grim
wheelmen are, the head wheelman comforts
you with the consolation:
"Doan't mind it, mon. The best there be
doan't be able to stand on their legs herea
bout!" A LONG WATT.
It is well for travelers passing through
Cologne to know that all trains, for some
inscrutable reason, remain for nearly two
hours. This gives opportunity for a deli
cious lunch at the station, a'brief drive
through the principal streets of the old
walled city, and, as the great Cathedral is
not a stone's throw from the railway, a fine
ramble about this stupendous structure. I
confess it did not fill me with the awe many
prolebs to experience. There has been a
wondrous amount of work about the place;
but that they have been at such cvcles of
years and infinite pains in finishing the
great pile seems to betoken great laziness
. rather than great accomplishment This
much Is certainly true. There is faulty pro
portion in the exterior of the structure; for,
with its mighty and lofty spires, and with
the inconsiderable buildings all about the
Cathedral, affording fine contrast, the ma
jestic in effect has been ery far from
reached.
Again on our way, the vallev of the
Rhine is spread before us, a noble pano
rama for nearly 100 miles; indeed, during
all the distance from Cologne to Mayence
there are constant beauty, never-ending
picturesqueness, occasional grandeur; but
place the same legendary and historic inter
est along the Hudson, upon the shores of the
upper Ohio, along the upper Mississippi,
and in either of the three latter localities
there would live an equal charm. Al
though to the right and left there are num
berless castles in ruin, partially restored, or
fully restored and occupied, regarding each
of which a volume, rich.with interest might
be written, after the Castle of Godesburg
which was -erected in the thirteenth century
by the Archbishop of Cologne, destroyed bv
daughty Bavarians just 300 years ago, and
is now the property of the Empress dowager
of Germany is passed, the most interesting
view is given as the great valley of the
Rhine narrows near the old and ancient city
of Bonn, where there are the noted Univer
sity with its fine faculties, its interesting
cathedral, museum, famous coin collection,
and a great monument to Beethoven, the
immortal creator of symphonies.
There to the left stretches the grand range
of mountains called the Siebenbirge Seven
Mountains crowned by the lofty Konigs
winter. They are long-drawn mountain
ridges, like softly outlined majestic bil
lows, which, as we speed along their bases,
ever changed in beauty and grandeur. At
every point where onijuts a precipice, or an
apparently inaccessible crag, is a gray old
ruin or lofty fortress, from which ever float
-ilto colors of some member of the German
lability. Xbe poet the artist the dreamer,
red go no further in the Bhine country
tjhin Bonn and the Seven Mountains. ,
" A LASD OP LEGENDS.
' Soon after scores of villages; of lofty
crags, surmounted by ruined castles; of
quaint churches; of pleasant groups gather
ing the late crops, or plowing anew the
fields; of every fashion of life in lowly garb
and mien, doing all things still in the olden,
burdensome way you reach Coblenz, where
the legend haunted Mosel flows into the
Bhine., Coblenz is entitled to veneration.
It was founded, so the story goes, eight years
before Christ Quite a long time this to de
velop its 55,000 inhabitants. But being the
capital of the Prussian Bhenish Provinces,
it is very stately and formal;and, I am told,
one has a soldier instantly at his side herein
Coblenz should he dare converse above a
whisper. But as one looks out through the
blue eky in the heights of Rhrenbreitstein
and its splendid castle, built nearly a cen
tury ago at a cost of 8,000,000 thalers, the
artist's instincts are certainly touched. Near
by is Fort Sayn, destroyed by the French
in the 30 years' war, the abbey Sayn, and
tb splendid castle of Sayn; while at the
foot of the mountain is a sort of European
"happy family," at Nenweid, where there
are 10,000 inhabitants, comprising Protest
ants, Catholics, Herrenhuter, Mennonites,
Quakers and Hebrews.
"As peaceful as at ifeuweid," is a com
mon saying throughout all Germany.
It is one story, over and over, up the
Bhine; but to hie, "Sweet Bingen on the
Bhine" seemed to possess the deepest inter
est It is a pretty place ol itself, nestled, as
it is, between the mountains, where the im
petuous 2ahe rushes down, with a great
noise and pretension for so small a stream,
into the Bhine. Quaint, sleepy, of a for
gotten age, it rests there as a sweet picture
of a poetic past Bingen is at the foot of
the Bochus mountain, upon which are the
ruins of the ancient fortified Castle Klopp,
in which Henry the Fourth was imprisoned.
Upon the summit of the mountain is the
Boman chapel of Bochus. OppositeBingen,
across the Bhine, rises a grand mountain,
uponHhe top of which, and circling away
many miles to the right is the Kiederwald
(low forest). From the temple here, it is
said, can be had the finest view of the whole
Bheingan. At the further edee of the
mountain, commanding a noble view, stands
the colossal statue of Germania, commemor
ative of the late Franco-Prussian war;
while the side of the mountain which de
scends toward the Bhine, and forever smiles
upon Bingen with joyous plenty, is one of
the most famous vineyards in all Germany,
its purple glory making the little village
belo r, Budesheim, famous the world over
for its wine.
A FAMOUS BRIDGE.
On arrival at the fortified city of May
ence, in due order I visited the famous pon
toon bridge across the Bhine; the splendid
railway bridge, with its mighty fortified
castles for defense at either approach; the
great castle of the city; the Bishop's palace;
the Gutenberg-Platz and the noted monu
ment to dear old Gutenberg; the Mayence
theater, looking for all the world, from the
interior, like a moss-grown gas reservoir;
the Bierbich castle, and the EDlendid statue
to Germany's immortal poet, Schiller.
Then came an inspection of the great fortifi
cations of Mayence. These cost 15,000,000
marks. Ten million came from the impe
rial treasury and 5,000,000 was levied upon
the city. They are of gigantic proportions
and completely surround the city, though in
my judgment thev are too near the vital
spot to be protected.
An enemy's shot or shell which could
reach any portion of the stupendous works
could pass over them and thus work great
and even absolute ruin to this the most im
portant base of military supplies in all
Europe. Beturning to my hotel I was re
minded that I had not seen the one great
objectof interest in Mayence, the mighty
Dom. On my way thither, though it is
not a quarter mile from the station, I was so
interested in the quaint narrow streets of
the city some of them not over eight feet
in width, bnt with handsome shops and
cafes within the dark streets, lighted all day
long with gas or candles that the gloaming
of the evening had come down upon the
town before I had reached the Dom, or
cathedral. The business part of the city
is built about the great pile, up against,
into it, under its roots. Groping in and
about weird old courts, I finally came
upon a stupendous gate, in which
was a little iron wicket half open. Enter
ing this, I stumbled about for a time, finally
coming upon a plump maid who was work
ing away at a gigantic pump.
Ah, no, the Dom was closed, she said.
After 6 o'clock no sacrilegious traveler
could enter. I reckoned differently. Away
over there it seemed a mile distant was a
thread of light streaming through the mold,
the ruins and the ivy. Barking my shins
and bumping my head much, brought me to
it Peeping through the lattice I saw an
ancient verger doing some sort of religious
service all to bimselt. l cnocKea at the
door. The old man seemed horrified at the
sacrilege. Finally he bade me enter. I
spoke eloquently with my hand. It was
f nil of small coin, among which, I remem
ber, there was some white money.
money's magic powee.
What a magic this thing money has, in
deedl In a few moments the clanging of the
gates, the creaking of the hinges and the
flare of the verger's lighted cresset awoke
the sleeping pigeons within the gables, and
soon down, down, down, and up, up, up,
and then down and up, and, winding about,
we came to the heart of the sacred place. It
was all told me in whisper, most reverently.
It was all showed to me in stealth and
gloom. The great font with its olden brasses
flared back at us reproachfully. The won
drous crucifix seemed to move and change
restlessly. The tombs in stone and iron and
brass had, somehow, a horrible movement
among them.
The great paintings, with their oaken
frames, shifted about uneasily. The massive
pillars and columns loomed through the
shadows mightily. And away up there,
height upon height the groined arches
lessened and grew, and retreated and dis
closed until one got dizzy with looking.
One point of light only, this from the very
apex of the dome, told of the dying day
without "Westminster Abbey, Bt Paul's,
the Cologne Cathedral, one and all have no
measure of the solemn grandeur of the
majestic interior of this great pile, begun so
long ago that the time of its beginning is
lost in tradition, and built in such propor
tions and strength that it will remain when
a thousand other great edifices ot our time
are crumbled and forgotten.
Edgar L. Wakejias.
How They Size Up Plttibnrg.
The Secretary of the Chicago "World's
Fair Association issues a report in which he
says that the manufacturers of "Western
Pennsylvania favor Chicago lor the "World's
Fair because it is their best and biggest
market Judge W. B. Cunningham, who
headed the recent visiting delegation and
made a great speech, also testified that Pit U
burg heartily lavored the "Windy City.
FITTSBTJRGERS NOT SLOW.
They Know a Good Thing; When They See It.
"We have great confidence in the practical
common sense of the people in this com
munity. Propose to them a new idea or
system of conducting any large enterprise,
and if it is good you can rest assured of their
support No better evidence of the truth of
this statement is needed than the wonderful
success of the E?erett Club, or co-operation
plan of selling pianos adopted by Alex.
Boss, of Allegheny. This plan is simple,
bnt very effective. Mr. Boss proposes to
conduct the piano business by making large
contracts for 350 pianos at one time, thus
getting the lowest possible cash price and
saving each member of the club at least $75
in the price of each piano, at the same time
he gives everyone an opportunity to get a
fine piano. The plan is so arranged that
members can payin the waymost convenient
to themselves, from $1 a week up to the
whole amonnt Since this plan has been
adopted Mr. Boss has had to increase bis
force of employes six times, and they have
all they can do to supply the demand. The
system is good, and the people know it All
that is necessary to convince anyone is to
examine the piano and understand the plan.
Send for circular to Alex. Boss. 137 Fed-
f eral st, Allegheny.
REAL ESTATE SAVINGS BANK, XJSL,
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401 SmlthQeld Street, cor. Fourth Avenue.
Capital, $100,000. Surplus, $45,000.
Deposits of $1 and upward received and
interest allowed at 4 per cent txs
Why I Dreydoppel Soap Like Mr. Elif
Becanse it gets there; washes clothes
clean, beautifully white, sweet and health-
lul to wear; is the nnest, best and most
economical for all purposes that soap can be
used for. Reduced to 6c a full pound bar,
at grocers everywhere.
To My Fatrooi and the Public
My branch Steamship and Exchange
office, at 639 Smithfield street s ov open
for business. J. J. McCosmice, Agent
Wine or Pepsin
For dyspepsia, indigestion and enfeebled
condition of the stomach. Pint bottles, 75c,
at Fleming's Drugstore, 412 Market st
TTSSU
Are Yon Lucky
.Enough to hold one ot onr club tickets? If
so, call at Elite Gallery, 516 Market street,
immediately and receive the benefit
F. & V.s Iron City beer is unrivaled.
Connoisseurs pronounce it so.
See James H. Aiken &
display, 100 Fifth ave.
Co.'s neckwear
CLARA BELLE kxSrSBS 2&
everyday incident o Jfeut York life.
ZEAL OR KNOWLEDGE
Both Really Prerequisites to True
Success in Christian Work.
THE DANGERS OP EVANGELISM.
Some Evangelists, by Their Coarseness, the
Cause of Untold Woe.
ITEMS OP INTEREST FOE CHBIST1AKS
Mr. D. L. Moody said when in this city
in 1867, "It is better to have zeal without
knowledge than knowledee without zeal,"
and these words have often been quoted by
enthusiastic church-workers. Bat Mr.
Moody has since learned that both are pre
requisites to true success in Christian work.
The season has now arrived when pastors
and people are planning for extra service,
and this should not be forgotten. People
are found in the churches who think no
good can be accomplished without the aid
of evangelists, and, so the work of the pas
tor is too often unappreciated. Doubtless
there have been and are grandly useful men
who have done the work of an evangelist Bnt
there are dangers to be avoided, as churches
have been weakened and pastors too often un
settled In this way.
There are evangelists and evangelists. Some
by their Indiscretions, coarseness, irreverence
and sentlmentalism, instead of doing good are
the authors of untold evil. They put a false
estimate on the pastoral work and on the
real demands ot the gospel. The
converts they rejoice over are not con
verts to Christ, but to the evangelist.
They are rushed into the church, and after a
very short season become cold, indifferent, lrro
liglous. and their last state is worse than the
first. We have knowledge of one church where
ISO were enrolled on its records, and after a year
not one of that number could be found at its
communion table, and the pastor in sorrow had
been compelled to seek another "call."
This kind of evangelists has no responsibility,
is self-appointed and self-assertive. To control
the engine on yon track we demand an ex
perienced man at the throttle. Shall we ask less
of those who are to direct us on too path to an
other world. This kind of evangelist's greatest
fort is in holding churches and pastors up to be
laughed at because they have not gotten up a
revival long ago. But the churches want no
gotten-up revivals, they want them bronght
aown, waterea by showers oi grace irom on
high. Something more is wanted than merely
responding in the meeting in answer to the in
vitation, "All who want to be Christians, stand
up."
We would not disparage for one moment
those who sincerely say: "My heart's desire and
prayer to God is that they may be saved."
Surely in the long winter evenings it is emi
nently wise for churches to hold extra services,
both to stlrto renewed zeal those who are
Christians and for the conversion of those who
aretnot But is it not the wiser plan for pastors
to help each other, and by this means avoid
much of the friction that is often developed.
The pastor of one church can go for a week or
two, or even more, to help a pastor of another
church, and then a return of labor can be paid
in that way, and so unitedlv laboring they may
have reason to hope that the blessing they de
sire will be bestowed on their labors.
Let none hear yon idly eaylnr,
There Is nothing lean do,"
"While the souls or men are dying,
And the Master calls for yon.
Take the task He gives you gladly,
Let His work your pleasure be;
Answer quickly when He calleth,
"Here ami; send me, send me."
Church Notes.
The National Bible Society received 8170,000
last year. '
Theue are 1,895 Sunday schools in theSynod
of Pennsylvania.
"Woosteb, O., TJ. P. Church has completed a
very fine parsonage.
The Baptists of Monongahely City are erect
ing a $1,500 parsonage.
Oveb 200 Baptist churches in New York
State are wltbont pastors.
A new Baptist church has been organized at
Verona. It has 30 members.
St. James Church, "Wilkinsburg, held a
bazaar three days this week.
The Reformed Church Synod held its meet
ing at AUentown this week.
The Fruit and Flower Mission will hold a
grand entertainment early next month.
Bet. J. C. F aeeen, Tyrone, has gone to
Johnstown to succeed the late Father Davin.
Rev. T. DeWitt Talkaqe will break the
gronnd for his new tabernacle on Monday next.
CnrxDitEN contributed $46,705 to the Lent
Missionary Fund of the P. E. Church this year.
The pastors of the Reformed Churches held
a meeting at the Monongahela House on Tues
day. Postmaster Wahajtakeb will not give up
his Philadelphia Sunday-school class, as re
ported. St. Leo's German R. C. Church, on the
Brighton road, was dedicated last Sunday
morning.
Next spring the congregation of S3. Peter
and Paul German It C. Church will erect a new
S5O.O0O edifice.
Bev. G.F.Stbeet will deliver a lecture on
Thursday evening next, in the Mt. Washington
Baptist Church.
The Inter-Seminary Mission Alliance at its
meeting last week voted to meet next year in
Allegheny City.
A bao carpet and egg social was held at the
Fifth Avenue M. E. Church on Thursday and
Friday evenings.
Rev. H. O. Bosborotjgh, of Smithfield, Pa.
is called to thepastorate of the Montour Pres
byterian Church.
The new Boman Catholic church at Dawson
was dedicated on Sunday last Br. Bev. Bishop
Phelan officiating. .
The General Missionary Committee of the
M. E. Church meets in Kansas City, Mo., on the
13th of next month.
Warren M.E. Church, Pittsburg, colored,
is sorely pressed on account of debt They
need 53,000 at once.
The Rev. A. Van DeVyver was consecrated
as Bishop in St. Peter's R. C. Cathedral, Rich
mond, Va., on Sunday.
Bev. J. M. McJunkin, pastor of the Presby
terian Church, Oakdale, becomes pastor of the
First church, Canonsburg.
Spuegeon's College in .London has sent
800 men into the ministry, of these 640 are now
actively engaged In the work.
There were, in 1881,2 Christian Endeavor
Societies with 68 members, now there are 7,672
societies anu oj,via raemuers.
A Sabbath school institute, in connection
with the Allegheny Presbytery, will be held in
Sewlckley, on Thursday next.
The Presbyterian Ministerial Association
will listen to a paper on Monday by Bev. John
Fox on "Creed Subscription."
Seventh TJ. P. Church chose Messrs. A. R,
McConnell, Robert Hutchison, R. C. Mulhattan
and Robert Wllklson as elders.
Rev. John W. Hess, who was In his second
year on the Centerville circuit died on the 12th
ult. He was sick onlv one week.
Rev. C. M. JUNxnr, who leaves the School
Street Presbyterian Church, will preach his
farewell sermon to-morrow morning.
The Christian Endeavor Society of the
Fourth Avenue Baptist Church, will hold its
first anniversary to.morrow evening.
Grace Reformed Church, Rev. John H.
Prugh, pastor, received 13 adults as new mem
bers on Sunday last, making 420 in alt
AT the Methodist ministers' meeting on
Monday a paper was read by Bev. C. E. Felton,
D. D, on '-The Perils of the Ministry."
Thb ladles of St. James' Roman Catholic
Church, Wilkinsburg, held a bazaar on Tues
day, Wednesday and Thursday evenings.
The Woman's Centenary Association of the
Universallst Chbrch at their annual meeting
reported receipts ot $8,446 during the year.
Revs. Maxwell and Btllesbt have re
turned from the Protestant Episcopal conven
tion and will be in their pulpits to-morrow.
At the Central Presbyterian Church on Sun
day 10 were added to the membership: S3 to the
Bouthside church, making 13i since last Febru
ary. Rev. J. C. Boyd, D. D., of Mt Lebanon, has
been sent to visit the Associate Reformed
Synod of the South, by the U. P. General As
semply. Bev. Mr. West, assistant pastor Fourth
Avenue Baptist Church, will preach in the
Rlxon Street Church, Allegheny, to-morrow
morning.
The United Brethren at their last Confer
ence voted to admit women to the ranks of the
ministry. Miss Alva Button was appointed to
a circuit v ,
The annual meeting of 'the Women's Socie
ties of the United Presbyterian Association
was held at the Fourth U. P. Church, Alle
ghen), yesterday.
The First Congregational Church, Alle
gheny, will observe the thirtieth anniversary of
tho organization, beginning on Friday next and
continuing three das.
Butler U. P. Church added 13 to its mem
bership, and the Seventh Church, Pittsburg, 12
on last Sabbath. Eight were received by the
New Wilmington church.
The Fourth TJ. P. Church publishes a neat
four-page paper called Our MUtion Quarterly.
It is to help the pastor in communicating with
the workers of his church.
The Seventh Presbyterian Chnrcb, Herron
avenue, is thinking of enlarging their edifice,
the congregation Is increasing so much that
there is not room for it
Rev. Fathee Katlor has been appointed
tn take charge of the Sewlckley R. O. Cburcb.
On his leaving McKeesport he was presented
witB a gold watch and chain.
AT the Baptist Ministers' Conference on
Monday next, Bev. A. J. Bonsall will read a
paper on "Current Discussion in Old Testa
ment Theology for the Year 1888."
Special services for the Reformation Fes
tival and General Council Mission Day will be
held to-morrow afternoon at Christ Lutheran
Church, Sheridan avenue, East .nu.
THE U. P. Ministerial Association on Mon
day next will listen to a paper by Prof. O.J.
Thatcher on "The Lessons to be Learned From
Rev. C. H. Parkhurst as a Preacher."
The Episcopal Convention decided that a
clergyman can still partake of the communion
alone if he so desires. Many were in favor ot a
change in this matter, but were defeated.
Rev. J. C. Taylor, colored, read a paper at
the Baptist Ministers' Conference on Monday.
He said there are over 1,000,000 communicants
in the Southern Baptist colored, churches.
The Second Adventists have again learned,
it is true, that "man proposes, God disposes,"
as October 25 has come and gone, and the
trump has not sounded to call them all away.
Rev. J. W. Reid, 'D. D., will conduct the
study of the Sunday school lesson for to-morrow
in the rooms of the Y. M. C. A. at noon
to-day; subject "Sin, Forgiveness and Peace."
To MORROW the new M E. Church at Evans
City will be dedicated. Rev. C. W. Smith, 1).
D.. of the Christian Advocate, will preach the
dedication sermon. Rev. T. J. Leak will preach
on Monday evening.
The Bev. E. Scbllnkman, a German Luth
eran minister of Illinois, claims to have been
drugged and robbed in a saloon, where he had
gone to get a glass of beer. Moral: Ministers
should not go to saloons.
The Episcopalians at their convention in
Mew York adopted as a canon: "Unmarried
women of devout character and proved fitness
may be appointed to the office of deaconess by
the Bishop of the church."
On Sunday last the members of the Third
Presbyterian Church were glad to sea and hear
their former pastor, Bev. F. C. Noble, D. D.,
now of St Paul. It was tbe seventh annivers
ary of Rev. E. P. Cowan's pastorate.
The Southern Conference of the Pittsburg
Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church
has be en in session at West Newton, Pa., this
week. It closed on Wednesday evening with a
sermon by Bev. W. H. Zuber, of Greensburg.
The Protestant Episcopal Church loses one
of its prominent ministers by the Rev. J. Mc
Dowell Leavltt D. D., going to the Reformed
Episcopal Church. He takes this step because
he cannot indorse some things taught by the
P. E. Church.
At a temporary organization of the new Uni
tarian cnurch, which was effected on Snnday
last. Rev. J. G. Townsend, D. D., was elected
pastor; Prof. JohnLangley President of the so
ciety; James M. Cargo, Secretary; Mr. Whltten,
.Mr. Levi and Prot Langley, Committee.
Bev. H. B. Grose on Sunday evening week
will begin a series of practical talks to young
people. The subjects will be "Lying," "Chris
tian Young Woman," "Work," "Play." "Choice
of a Life Partner," "Getting Acquainted With
una s eeii," steps oi success," MJownstairs to
Gloom."
The third annual convention of the Young
People's Society of Christian Endeavor will be
held next week in the Market Square Presby
terian Church, Harrisburg. Governor and
Mrs. Beaver will give a reception to the dele
gates at the Executive Mansion on Wednesday
evening.
The Baptist General Association held its an
nual meeting at Lewisburg this week. The
Education Society held its fiftieth anniver
sary. The Baptist ministers of this city were
nearly all in attendance. On Thursday 'the
Woman's Foreign Missionary Society met at
the same place.
Mrs. HARRrET Joseph Kerr died in New
York on Monday, She was tbe widow of the
late Bev. Joseph B. Kerr, pastor of the Second
U. P. Church, Pittsburg, from 1830 to 1S43. and
mother of Rev. J. R. Kerr, of the Third U. P.
Church 1863 to 1872. Her remains were in
terred in Alleghany Cemetery.
On account of the division which occurred
in the conference of the United Brethren at
York, Fa., an equity suit has been entered in
the courts to decide which party shall have the
ownership of the properties. This affects the
churches in Ohio, Illinois and Canada, They
will have to change their name to Bis-United.
THE National Missionary Convention of the
Christian (Disciple) Church is holding its
meetings at Louisville, Ky. There are GOO dele
gates present Mrs. King, of AUeeheny. for
the children's work, reported that 15,000 ot the
children's money wassent to Bllasnure, India.
The Woman's Board expended $36,279 17 last
year.
Bev. W. P. Shrom, pastor of the Biootnfleld
Presbyterian Cbnrch, has been very sick with
diphtheria. Six of the family have been afflict
ed with the disease. One of them is well known
to readers of The Dispatch as "Sister Sue."
In the death of their little Eddie, 5 years old.
they have the sympathy of a large circle of
friends.
Conference lectures are delivered on
Thursdays in the Western Theological Semi
nary. The subject for this week was "The Six
Keys to Knowledge, or Infidelity Ignoring in
formation," bv Rev. Loyal Young. D. D., But
ler, Pa. On November 7, Rev. W. Gaston, D.
D., will take for his theme, "Christ as a
Preacher."
AT Youngstawn on Monday at the Minis
terial Association, Rev. J. A. Curry, formerly
of P ittsburg, read a paper on "The Christian
Law of Divorce." It was urged that none but
ministers ought to solemnize marriages.
Would it not be well to forbid ministers mar
rying poople on their doorsteps and in the
middle of the night, at fairs and in balloons.
Rev. J. T.Iownsend, pastor of the Unita
rian Church, sends a spicy challenge to Rev. J.
T. McCrory on account of tbe sermon preached
by him on Snnday evening last Tbe punish-
gient Mr. Townsend would agreo to infiict on
imself if defeated is to hear Mr. McCrory
preach each Sunday evening for three months.
This might be hard for Rev. Townsend, but all
are not agreed on this.
Bev. J. C. Brach, Secretary of the McAll
Mission, Paris, France, delivered addresses in
this city on Sunday and Monday. He says a
great change has taken place in France
through the instrumentality of this mission. In
18 Tears 40 halls and 60 churches have been
erected in Paris. Tbe converts number 15,000;
over 15,000 children are in the Sunday schools
and 134,000 of the McAll's Hymnals have been
distributed.
AT the meeting of theU. P. Ministerial As
sociation on Monday Rev. J. T. McCrory read a
paper that excited more than usual Interest.
His subject was, as to whether temperance and
political reforms can be preached without
interrupting the real Gospel work. He thought
it certainly could and must be done; there are
subjects on which it will not do for tbe minister
of the gospel to keep silent such as profane
swearing, tbe social evil, tbe Saboath, marriage
and divorce; It cannot be questioned, that if
government is so disposed, it can by anti
hristian legislation cripple the gospel, or pre
vent its preaching altogether; all agree that the
i general morais in
naturally turned to or repelled Irom any
doctrine or system according to its attitude on
the great public questions.
A Transatlantic Case.
A commission was to-day issued to J. S. Jack
son, Justice of the Peace of County Galway,
Ireland, to take depositions of witnesses in the
case of James Welsh and. wife vs J. F. Have
cote and Deeds Brothers. The former is ex
ecutor and trustee of tbe estate of William
Haslage, and the latter the contractors of the
Haslage building which collapsed April, 18OT,
burying under it Bridget Welsh. The present
suit was bronght by Messrs. VanVorhls, Mc
Ilvaln and Mercer to recover damages lor the
death of tbe girt The witnesses to be exam
ined in Ireland are the father and mother of
the deceased girl.
Fob headache, toothache, earache and
backache Salvation Oil is a certain cure.
Price 25 cents.
Brack's alterative and rheumatic
bitters, purely vegetable. Sold by all drug
gists and Jos. Fleming & Bon, cor. Dia
mond and Market sts. VfB
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LATE NEWS-ffl BRIEF.
George Kabourin, 21, a workman in thenew
Congregational Cuun.li at Newport. Vt., fell 80
feet from the spire, yesterday morning, and was
fataliylnjnred.
Much of the business portion of Port
Leyden, Lewis connty, N. Y., was destroyed by
fire early yesterday morning. Loss SIOO.OOO: in
surance about $01,000.
Dispatches from the City of Mexico say
that earthquake shocks were felt over a large
part of the country Wednesday evening, but no
damage or loss of life is reported.
The trial of Harry Spless, who killed a wo
man named Ruby Nelson in BuJIalo last Jane,
was concluded yesterday. Tbe Jury found bim
guilty 91 manslaughter in the first degree.
Not a freight wheel turned on the Chicago
and Great Western Railway yesterday, the
Btrikeof the switchmen being still on. Tbe
strike is the outgrowth of an alleged arbitrary
dismissal of a switchman last Thursday.
M. D. Trifren, a prominent lawyer and
real estate dealer of Kansas City, was arrested
on two indictments charged with embezzling
US in money and a note of 81,200, the alleged
property ot L. P. Jackson, ot Jackson county,
Captain J. H. Wallace, a prominent citizen
of Faulkton, 8. D., has been sent out by
tbe Commissioners oi Faulk county, one of tho
worst of the drought-stricken sections of Da
kota, to solicit anil receive aid for the suffer
ing farmers.
NewtonP.R.Hch,ln March, 1888, whllo
cashier for tbe Baltimore and Ohio Express
Company, at New York, absconded with $1,000,
was arrested in Chicago. He was identified by
the attorney for tbe American Surety Com
pany and taken to New York.
Secretary Crouse, of tbe Executive Board
of the Indiana striking coal miners, reports
$710 in excess of the needs of tbe dependents.
Tbe dependents are decreasing, while the re
lief fund is growing. Many blacklegs are at
work, and the strikers have no prospect of win
ning. Joseph S. Sonney, age 62, for 30 years a resi
dent of Lawrence, Mass., and a well-known In
ventor, shot himself through the heart yester
day morning. He took a pistol ostensibly to
clean it. but the wound is such as to preclude
tbe theory of accident. He was a prominent
Jiason ana Odd Jb enow.
Charles Mcllvaine, 19 years old, murderer
of Christian W. Luca, while committing a bur
glary in New York on tbe night or August 21-22
last was sentenced by Judge Moore, In the
Kings County Court of Sessions, yesterday
morning, to death by electricity at Sing Sing
prison in the week beginning December S.
Upward of 60 persons were Injured by the
dynamite explosion at Montreal Thursday, and
of this number five or six may die. The only
person known to have been killed was Jules
Chartrand, but it is rumored that two other
men were blown to pieces. Tbe block of stores
where the explosion occurred Is practically a
mass ot ruins. The loss to property is abont
$100,000.
E. J. GIrard, a Chicago saloonkeeper, shot
his bartender, Oliver Bertrand, shortly after
midnight The Injured man is at the County
Hospital and will die from the two bullet
wounds, one in the side and tbe other in the
abdomen. The shooting took place in front of
the saloon. Bertrand's employer accused him
of stealing from tbe drawer and a quarrel fol
lowed, during which the shooting occurred.
GIrard was arrested..
The State Prohibition Conference, held at
Birmingham, Ala., resolved that a party vic
tory at the polls was the only way to stop the
liquor traffic They therefore took steps to put
new life into the Prohibition party of Alabama,
appointed a committee to look after the pub
lishers of the Prohibition party papers and
others, and to make arrangements for" conven
tions for nominating State and county officers
next year. Hon. John T. Tanner, of Athens,
presided. .
The action of Patterson Post No. 88, G. A.
R., of Pittsburg, in objecting to the erection of
the Confederate monuments by the Maryland
regiments, has excited considerable comment
amone ex-Confederates in Baltimore. Thev
say that tbey cannot understand how the Pitts
burgers could have been led into such action.
General Bradley T. Johnson said that the mon
ument erected by-the Second Maryland Regi
ment at Gettysburg was the result of a press
ing Invitation from Colonel Batcbeller, the
Federal historian of the Gettysburg Memorial
Association. There was certainly nothing ob
jectionable in the monument, and Confeder
ates ad no apologies to make.
An Accident Averted.
Another fatal street car accident was nar
rowly averted yesterday morning. Mrs.
Porter, of Penn avenue, was crossing Penn
avenue, near Eleventh street, when she was
struck by a horse and knocked down. She
was almost run over by a cable car. Dr.
Beiber dressed the wounds she sustained
upon the arm and shoulder.
He Had a Frngnl Mind.
"Word was received in the city yesterday
that J. "W. Houston, aged 24, and Celia
Bengough, aged 23, both of. Pittsburg, se
cured a marriage license and were married
byEev. Dr. Cooke in 'Wheeling. The
groom, an oil broker, said his inability to
entertain numerous friends at a home wed
ding was the cause of his flight
HOW TO GET MARRIED"
ac
cordance
with the law of 1835 is told in to-morroufs Dis
patch by JenKs.
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beside them those who are
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get the benefits, those who
don't go backwards their
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makes life easier and cleaner.
Washing and cleaning done
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enough to tire the body or ruffle the temper.
Not ours, but the word of the millions who use it as
to whether it hurts the hands, clothes or paint proba:
bly your neighbors can tell you all about PEARLINE:
s i 1 1 Peddlers and some unscrupulous grocers will
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UVIXVJ. XL LCLVIV Pearline." IT'S EALSE Pearline is never
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thing to do is send it tack. i6 ' JAMBS PYLB. New York.
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Tbe United Presbyterian Association I
Pronperods AHomBfor Ag-rd Pople to
be Oonddered.
At tbe afternoon session of tbe Woman's
United Presbyterian Association, which
was held yesterday in the Fourth TJ. P.
Church, 'Allegheny, a great deal of routine
business was transacted. Mrs. H. J. Steel,
Treasurer, read her report It showed a
balance in the association treasury of
$1,360 40. Subscriptions amounting to
over (6,300 had been given to the Orphans'
Home during the last year and 53,900 to the
Memorial Hospital fund.
Miss M. J. Reed, corresponding secretary
and chairman of the Visiting Committee,
made her reports. Both show a prosperous
condition of affairs in the Orphans' Home
and Hospital. Dr. Collins donated S1.C00
for the benefit of the Home last year. At
present there are 44 children in the Home;
33 were returned to friends during the year.
Both reports were adopted.
It was resolved by the association that the
new constitution be published in pamphlet
form. The motion to consider the advisa
bility of establishing a home for aged peo
ple, was laid on the table for consideration
at the next meeting. The election of
officers and committees occupied the atten
tion of the association for the rest of the
afternoon. The result was:
Mrs. H. a Campbell, President; Mrs. Wylle
Stevenson, Firt vice President; Mrs. A. K.
Duff. Second Vice President; Miss Agnes Car
naban, Recording Secretary; Miss M. F.Beed,
Corresponding Secretary; Mrs. M. J. Steel,
Treasurer.
These officers occupy the same official ca
pacity in the Orphans' Home also. The
managers of the Home who were elected are:
Mrs. Mary Alldred, Mrs. Mary Johnston, Mrs.
M J. Watson, Mrs. Robert MulhoIIand. Mrs.
George Sands, Mrs. John Anderson, Miss Lizzie
McKee, Mrs. J. M. Taylor, Mrs. A. M. Stnrte-
vqnt Afro- Afltfhell AfV Tnf,, Tanall Mr
H. C. Balr, Miss Etta Clark, Mrs. Dr. Camp
bell, Mrs. George Shaw, Miss Cula Sbaw, Mrs.
G. W. McDonald and Mrs. J. W. Arrett.
The hospital managers are: Dr. Vincent
Mrs. A P. Burchfield,Mrs. W. P. Price, Mrs,
Joseph McMaugher, Sr., Mrs. James Drape,
Mrs. George Sands, Mrs. S. J. McElhaney.
Mrs. William Hodge, Mrs. W. R. Ford, Miss
S. J. Armstrong; Miss Frew and Miss Porter.
Several committees on entertainments
and printing were appointed and Bev. D.
F. MoGill was chosen to preach the annual
sermon, the date to be chosen by himself.
The association here adjourned to meet in
Kovember.
niTTllA contributes to the columns oflo-
morroufs Dispatch an article on
dogs.
CURED of BRIGHT'S DISEASE.
Mr. James Clark bas, for 18 months, suffered
untold misery from Blight's disease of the kid
neys. He had great pain and soreness in his
kidneys and across the small of his back, and
more or less Boreness all over his body. The
urine voided gave him great pain and con
tained much albumen and uric acid. He lost
all desire for food,-and be could not sleep. He
found bis memory fast failing and he grew
weaker and more feeble until he was obliged to
give up all employments Having read in the
papers testimonials from patients cured by the
physicians of the Polypathic Institute of dis
eases similar to his, he began treatment with
them. He Says: ''I take great pleasure in
stating to the people of Pittsburg that I have
been entirely cured of tbe above disease, and
In every way feel like anew man.
"JAMES CLARK."
Mr. Clark Is well known in Pittsburg and can
be seen every day at his old place of employ
ment the Lucy Furnace, where this statement
can be easily proven.
DR. SHAFEB.
Bemember the P olypatble Medical Institute
is permanently located at Pittsburg, 420 Penn
avenue, for the treatment of all forms of kid
ney and urinary diseases. Office hours, 10 A. x.
to4F.3L,and6 to8p. u. Sundays, 1 to 4 P..
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