histiui VOLXXVII. TIIK Hit HATE ON I; IMS IT I ON. Oppflihis th Keport li l of ii To. tloloH of tliw Con lion— 1 T to- Rev. I>r. Kobinwni TUoujjht tile I'resbyiery Hlglit Hotter be Shvlijjj souls Instead of Tampering With the Old Creei 1 . i New York Bun. When the New York Presbytery rc sutned its debute ntidamnation io t t'ti. <• v tinu . h tin- , i-t>i,i,i,-d revi : Westminster Confession in the Scoteli Presbyterian Church in We t Fourteenth street, the Rev. Dr. Francis Brown of the Union Theological Seminary took the ttoor in behalf of the report of the cora raitteo containing the suggi b I chances, lie said that,the very di cti ion of tlie matter was an evidence of a desire for relief lam some ol the needle-sly harsh and emphatic doctrines taught in the Confession. We in it on ttie sovereignty of God in election," he continued. " What kiud of a God is it whose sovereignty we con fess ? If it be a God -.tic most perfect we can conceive, than whom no being more lovable is conceivable, to believe in His sovereignty is no harsh dogma. But to insist on His justice standing aloneun i to * leave love out is as false as it is cruel. When we are told that God would be just if He saved none of His creatures, as He is under no obii ration to save any, such a view of God !•• contrary to Scriptural t it! : , tOt> Ot G"l ! can't acn >t." Dr. Brown thought the committee's suggestion as to a new creed a good one, and ttrg; d t tat the love of God, as ti -mii festcii it' Christ, la: made, the central I ruth of such a or. eh The Rev. Dr. Cbatles 8. Robin on said he vas < opo ti to the report of the Committee, root aid branch. He thought those pre no be : . , employed iu -avinv souls than 11 westing time in larupe ii y w.th :•<• crt d of tht ild church. . could satisfy ;.i a m mbcr of the Pri byte: ' tut Dr. ok-iurst, \ who 1 >-*:•. ' i •I it. pul pit : ' 1 don't believe there arc live per sons hero who have read the Westminster Couf sion. , I Devt ■ iid and 1 never shull.' Y'et w lien he ordained to the ii .misty lie said ho accepted it." The :• • -taker here cnlle 1 to order on the score tb .t sucn personalities were unparliamentary, tt Sioiffiratoi so tam ing tho appeal. cision : "The Magna Chart', of the Church is under discussion, end yet we who dele ditimi tot ,it :tk of the ad missions of our iver arie i because of it parliamentary rul - while we are pleud ing that Calvinism niay be tolerated in the Presbyterian Church. Fur eon all lem to bin r thy a -prion of this re port." ed to the tear; u t i can hut do evil b- lor ri coy ration ad j gifitflng a speech again • i •.. ion; "If report In eai it was a compromise and because of tho omi .■ions and changes it suggested ■ 'veil as proposed. He wijh "infirli . Papist old other idola vert," etc, ml said lie p -uially didn't ... .... ..... didn't want to marry an iiilidei. Papist, < r idolater. In order to justify the' u t said: " I believe tbo Papal Church, like a I chameleon, changes its color according to nationality, and that if it ever gets a grip On America, the grip will be worse than the Russian one, and anaconda like, it will essay to wallow the Protestant Inmh. But when the day come that the Romish Church is thus revealed in its true colors, a new Luther will nail start ling theses on tho doors of the Union Seminary, and he will probably be Dr. Biggs." When Dr. Sutton, the next speaker, be gan to oppose revision because of uncon- i stitutionality of procedure on the part of ' the General Assembly in initiating legisla- i tion on the subject—a question, be said, i which would ultimately have to be (iecid- ■ ed by the civil courts—bo was called to order by Dr. Briggs, and the Moderator ruled that the constitutionality of the re vision was not a matter for debate. After 1 JOHNSTOWN, CAMBRIA COUNTY, PA., FRIDAY, JANUARY 81 , 1890. * some time had I ecu spent in trying to al ter this decision, Dr. Sutton, protesting against it, conducted bis argument on Other lines. Hu implied that the appar ent sentiment in favor of revision was manufactured. Prof. Siepbt n-on of the New York Uni versity also spoke against revision. i I'.ANCTS O'FREIL DEAD. One f thfl Y.n-t Notfil 1>(to in Northern Cambrltl Jolt - the ilmoreluiul and ('bi'i i }. tut'iil Gas C'ompu >y arc hav ing t lb 8 di agi'i -rat it. 'i'he tioiibii r, unfed in the Natural Gas Company or. during the supply of gas turned off the .1 an -n Go's woi i. o \\ hen .Mr, Thomas ' Friday afternoon for the purpose of clos ing ttic valve, he was met by one of tin watchmen who ordered him off the prem ises. The siout ! 'pernor declined ti g>, Used in ejecting him. In fact, according to eye-witnesses, four officers were eon -i icrably used up In inducing Mi. ( arlen t > retire. Returning to the G - Com pa e ' office, nc i-xioib-1 hi failure i. carry out ins insiiodious. The Miperiulendci. , ' nccei'sury, bided 1m time, and after tee tic uppi.y. It is rumOMul that the Lay AT SBOOK tl' Til TO IV .V. j An I.:.plosion ot '. init,-e Along Con< moment everyone tfhp had iu>i gone to i bed was in tlie stt ut. "VS but wus it mid where was it?" was in all months. Mo body could give an answer. It seen ml to come from tho region of Ibe Gnut'iv j mills. Some of the DEMOCRAT employe saw a shower of lire in that dir. euon a moment after the shock, and an ;uve>ii gnrion was tiiHilc. j caused by dumping a <• ,r load of molten cinder on the side I of the dump, where it slid into i ■ cooling caused it to explode with terrific j violence, find strange to say no one was hurt. Fragments of the red hot cinder 1 flew high in the air in all direction', some j of it fulling above the bluff actoss the Pennsylvania Railroad. Great numbers of men were out on the streets looking for some supposed wreck of a .house or other building. They would hardly believe that an explosion of such violence could be produced by 1 the cinder. A battery of boilers or a bouse full of gas, would, in their minds, more likely have muds sucli a report. On H Charge of Bmbczzlrinent. On Tuesday afternoon Officer Boucher, on a warrant from Pittsburgh, endorsed by Justice Bland, arrested IV. A. McVey at the B. & O. station, on a charge of embezzlement. It is not known just what the grounds for the charge arc, McVey spent Tuesday night iu the Mill ville lock-up. Yesterday morning Officer Boucher took McVey to Pittsburgh, where his borne is > "i HE EATS v, • •• • the waters of Ma rail beautifui.hu 1 ': tei East 1 neinangh Loses of If .1 Know u < Itlsms j James Mastersoq, 01 n of the le - | wax i "11 ia i I, (- - -: ( I! f ' '. ■it . ret Gibeuy. How Is This ? Sotrrn FORK. January £B, ISGO. . The Pittsburgh Flood Relief Commit Pittsburgh pap. i pub i this i ra the names Of the perso:-- wh • :cived tile ¥5,000 Sent to this plate. Ac the bottom of the list of the m-met of the per sons who received tlie moeev. in - . band, writing of J. B. Kremer, c.r -; the State Flood Oommisnion, appears the following: "Forty-two persons in nlj— 'ut ot which nine per- sis tec- ivc-i $4 000 18, out of >-5,000 sent," The names are pulilislied -v Iit cive i the money at South Fork, and the -i.tlt-J is stiid to have been divided amon forty two of tin in. Whydoes not Mr. Kremer, or tho Flood Commission, or Governor Beaver, publish tlie names of the people who received money in Johnstown ? It is said one man, or his family, in Johns town received over §B,OOO, and ye' Mr. Kremer is troubled about §5,1)00 being distributed among forty-two people at Mouth Fork. Let the names and amounts he published of how the money was dis tributed in Johnstown, and the unfair and outrageous discriminntion practiced in Johnstown will so overshadow the paltry §5,000 at South Fork, that the Flood Commission and Mr J. B. Kremer will feel disposed to hide their heads. Let the name of every one and the amount he received be published. A SOUTH FORK SCFFBRER. 1 JOHNSTOWN KOKOUGH eOtXC L. i 'i lir l- ljM-trle rarer! Cur oniiniitic-s Fsu-.-iJ at Hi® Mi eting Tuesday Night. The Johnstown Borough Council met ' in special session Tuesday night. The prin "! cipul matter considered was the Electric 1 Street Railway ordinance, or rathei such ■ amendments to the Stseet Railway ordi ■ nance of 1882 as would enable 1 the Street Car Company to operate ' its lines by electricity. The matter v. a • tirst taken up by sections, and finally ' passed as a whole upon third reading, 1 with some slight modifications from un original draft of the Committee, the changes making but a rniall variation ' from the ordinance a" previously pub lished. Where a double track is laid tin Street ' ( ar Company is obliged to pave the whole street lying within one foot beyond the outside rail. Tlie amount of salt that may be used to melt snow on the tracks is left ' to the discretion of the Burgs- s in- teail of ' the Council n proposed. The Street Car Company i-, alb wed thirty days time after tlie Burgess sig,,s the ordinance, in which to accept the terms and sign the agreement. A motion to change from elect- c cars to horse ears or cable received three votes. An amendment to cotnpcll tho Street ' ar Company to put alow:: a dbubh track en a'! streets where ears are rut: was lost. An a mend mint was added to the ordi nance exempting the borough or the fire men from being liable for damages from the cutting of the wires or -toppii; / of traffic, made nece.-sary in tlie manage ment of any die, was put ed and finally carried a- a part < f the ordln nee, as was also a provision of the fame kind in :c --gard to the neces ary moving of build ings across or along any street, according to permit from the borough authoriti, >. There was a go d deal of quibbling anil no little objecting, while on t, m of tin si e'.ions' several niembi-s von 1 a positive Tho question " I t ordi nance pa ?" received no pi.nentii-.g vootes, and as l e annoqhccd ihe r- suit President K; nnedy exclaimed with a righ of relief "Thank g'odno we're, done " The m-.ttler : !' tho e>: : ! i 1 linquScnt ax pay-. : . ~-t -i tit la', uup and exonerations for tho several wards, were grunted ;s follows: Fira! ward §78.82, Second ' 120.55, Third §115.02 Fourth §41.70, Fifth §77 22. Sixtl s•' .70 - • venVli ..:."7; tsi' 721. •-•.!. Th e were also enough exont iarione on salot a itnl other estftblisomems tiiat had . one out of business to make a gr nd tot ! of § 1,202 >5. On motion i-i ll adj-> PTV I. iilort il . t . 4ai M. i.. Chi'' "i, Ttie First 2). E. Church.wax cre-wdeii again Sum; , tho iton-Jon bran tin' memorial litrvices for the meiabet* who were lost in the flood. Among tra a nou teem, as made by the pastor, Riv. LI received into the full communion of tin n<• , ct-d fine, in ! ere l-i'cr rsvl with ver: j ' of William Lu-ytou, one -. f ' e otcwai't spoko in !■>! -ct i James B-ocn ' p irtment of Sunday :'.'IKH)I, Mrs. C W. M" es read an ftddnss in ri I. tion to tin official members of the Wonunil's i reign Missionary Society, who Weio 'ost i n tho The folio r ing are the nan-o cf those who perished in the great flood of L. T. Beam, ,\l. '' . Mrs. Jmo Pnilltps, Cyrus P. Tittle,' Mrs. K. rah Const Mile, William Lnyton,Mrs. Elvira I,iyton, Mi n May Lay on, Ella S. Lay ton, Joseph Kidd, di Kidd, C. C. Him: . Mrs. C. (', Himcs. Josephine 1 limes, J. B. Eck. i Mrs. Mary Eck, Mirs Lillie Eck, Mary i Eck, Jr.. Mrs. Mary Cadug in, Miss An ' nie Cadogao, Caroline Bunting. Mrs. , Margaret Fisher, Miss Cora Given, George ! Johnston, Miss Minnie Fisher. Miss Emma Fi iter. Miss Ida-Fisher, William Hep burn, George Hummer, Mary E. Ileedy. 11. E. Moroburg, M- D., Joseph Box.-, James Rosensteel, Mrs. Susan Tiiomas, i David Yallenco, Amanda Yallence, Iloss M. Standfieid, Mrs. Priscilla Wearn, Mrs. Fred Hugh ton, 8. Vincent Webster, John W. Stuft, Malinda Stuff, Jlrs, Richard Wearn. Airs. Mary McKinstry, Mrs. ■ Maucy Howe, Mrs. Margaret Cope, Miss Ella Cope, Mrs. Jennie Junes, Mrs. Ann Lewis, Miss Eva Btatler, Mrs. J. H. Pal i mer, Miss Mary Hamilton, Alias Jesse Hamilton, Miss. Lulu Finlev, Miss Georg iana Peyton, Miss Jane Given, Miss Era ma Bover, Minnie Hoffman.—s7. B. 11. Bill, Jr., son of the late Senator Hill, of Georgia will publish, some time this year, a volume of eight hundred or a thousand pages, containing his father's speeches. THE STAR OF BETHMEHEM. 1 Revival of tle Itomancc of itn Prospective Ktiapjpouruitoo This Year. i liostou roar. ' j Prcf Pickering of Harvard University,. on being shown a dispatch dated Vienna and announcing that the star of Bethle hem would reappear this year, said : " I can scarcely believe that, this story etnan a ed from the astronomers at Vienna, for bad there been riie slightest intimation of the appearance of thi- slur, it would have been cabled to us ut once, ft" is ays dene in the ease of nstononiic.il news gathered i i Europe. Tl.e report - proba bly tiic unauthorized revival ol old rumor tha'Oii star, erroneout.l\ railed tie slur of Bethlehem, was to m ike its appearance, hut as this statu. ; i has been made several times siuce ISo-t, when the star was looked for by some us'rotio mors, there is doubtless nothing iu it. " The star referred to was the ono dis covered by Tycho Brabe in 1572, and was named for him. It appeared quite sud | denly in the constelletion of Cas.-iopeia, ' and had a brilliancy greater than any of ' the planets, so much so that it was visi ble in the daytime. From certain records, it was believed by SUIT.;- that this star liad appeared in the same position 512 years before, or iu 1200, and assuming this in terval of appearance to bo cbrrect.it would have been visible about the ti-ne of the Christian era, and it was tints termed by some the star of Bethlehem. 1 its re turn was after 512 years, tin time f its reappearance would have been iu 1 >4,but i; thin - litis yet been seen -r Ibou.li many observers watched for it at that time. 8m iaf hi - -mcnon • the present J- j would i ve tilt' highlit Value to aU.:; rater, fori} the use of mi .u; ; , ola \ ions could be t'..-.en a.< 1 information catiiered that would be of tin. greatest .. Distance iu a . There is, however, s ■ much oubt in the matter that it is of but little ura: to reir m; e*to th -' . rcntipt trre.t • " he "V- • - • ':ut • tra The . -Ii .iu I get; ; . • uu- • i the eo.i.-'i; i:i t ~ '• t! of, the cou grea-aiio aoiu i m iii-i b, -.hich il re fuse Ito noi.cu askin Pres .-.cry to accept the rc. i aPi-.-n • ' t -. ; rei.or, the ~US iWI -Ut to :lUpto it w raid . .tlx bat • ;.-h • reins . u-it to he th case. ' Th- : '.el' ■ iff i'- ; n t' vr r ' Tt ii.-j 't\ i to abide by ; Gi! Pr- ,d- i tof' .e major ity, c.r- other tvi.-e st o.irivu iml out. In ; k- rinhiaiio to ik t ru- i-npp -rs to have tafti u l it >'! the ii. or at least a few • t the - .'•••. ataon.. ahi i arc sonic if rloi the id ; 'dip. - :em3 to he a light ■ ■ • dt i in.; .-it •i ; .ci tit - -iiul i i. • s, • hich, OU BCOOUI. ar • - r tly s: ploy cl, will net hei'f the t'glr - in; . e en - ot tile mem* 1, -rs ov. rto their w lyof linHitut, cms f i fluty to tin • n nn the claim to -c r o. v.' cant ot un- V\ have tie- -r. y;- ,fa \ king in era- id erable study, which won'-! iu ify such a measure. In conclut iin may we b- aii ved to re- mark, that, if these parties 1- ve overbad a real cause of complaint they are de tro; ing tin. <• !-r th • -rax i;i dtcatcd above. Iu Ihu interest of Cliris , tianity, for tin-.;ake of the racial and re i ligious Interests of the community at s large, and the progress and welfare of the • church, and last, but not least, the carry -1 ing out faithfully of the command of the ' .Master, when he said, "Go ye into all the • world and preacli the gnspcl to every 9 creature," wc pray these parties to stop, 1 deliberate and cease this senseless and ■ unseemly strife. 3 Ix TUB INTEREST OF PEACE. EMINENT physicians everywhere recom mend Aycr's Cherry Pectoral as the most reliable remedy that can be had for COWFJ 1 coughs, and all pulmonary disorders. Ask 3 your druggist for Ayer's Almanic ; it is , the best publication of the kind, and full of Information. NO 41.