¢ him. He is worth to-day a hundred fold Inc his yer, ever was or ever: "will be, and he saved his son'.” Young men, it is safe to'do right. Thers are young men in this house to-day who, ‘under this storm of temptation, are striking deeper and deep- er the'r roots and spreading out broader their branches. They are Daniels in Baby: lon, they are Josephs in the E i they are Pauls amid the wil Ephesus. I preach to encourage them. Lay hold of God and be faithful. _. There isa mistake we make about young men. : We put them in two classes; the one ° there, waters'th oh ere, no Lancets to cut and juugger: ne and hooks to swing on, : 5 ¥ oung brother, wa have to Sermon as Delivered by the Brooklyn Divine, choose between fourand five. 5 the Koran of the Mohammedan, or the Shas- : tap of the Hindoo, or the Persian, or the Confuci Chinese, or the Holy Scriptures? helping me, I will take the all darkness; rock for all CTExT “Surely, in vain the net i the sight of any Bird." bi aaie er | “Barly in the morning I went out with & Peter R. Mi Loss esti PENNSYLVANIA NOTES. CAPITAL AND LABOR DO: A Few Condensations of Evants Occur THE TREASRY REPORT A Few Items of Interest to the Wage ring Throughout the State. Review of the Financial Con: The grand jury at Beaver Falls returned a true bill jin the libel suit of Senator Quay against W. A. Mellon and H. proprietors of the Star. Fire destroyed the barn, outbuildings, farm implements, crops, etc.. belonging to Quaid, near at $2,000; insured; incendiary. foundation, balm forall wounds. that lifts its pillars of fire over- the aess march. Do not ‘ Ask them what infi lift the fourteen hundred millions of 1 Ask them when infidelity ever instituted a sanitary commission, and oefore you leave their society once and for- ever tell them that they have ins up upon the deathbed of your mother, and class is moral, the other dissolute. The ywier to catch wild pigeons. We hastened moral are safe. The dissolute cannot bo re- through tue mountain gorge and into the Aa ead out the nef, and covered up the edges of it as well as wecould. We . arranged the call bird, its feet fast and its wings flapping, in invitation to all fowls of heaven to settledown there. We retired into a booth of branches and leaves and waited. After awhile, looking out of the 'déor of the ock of birds in the sky. ve up your Bibles. ity bas ever done to mozal are not safe unlessthey have laid hold: of God, and the dissoluta may be reclaimed. I suppose there are self righteous men in this house who feel no need of God, and will not seek after Him, and they will go out in the world, and they will be The residence of George Ammerman at Port Matilda was burned and two of his children, aged 1.and 4 years, were burned to dition of the United States. . The néw three-year scale, which was pres sented to the workmen of the Edgar Thomp- son Steel Works at Braddock, Pa., has been: signed by the majority of the parties inter- ested, and all trouble anticipated has -been averted. General Manager Schwab stated last night that no man in the mill’s employ had been asked to work any additional time, and that the only change that did not please the men was the cutting’ down of Revenues and Expenditures of th: Government for the Year. The annual report of Secratary Foster of the Treasury, just submittad to ths Presi. dent at Washington, is almost exclusively a resume of tne reports of the subordinate It is presumed that the fire caused by the children, who were left alone. The second child of Farmer Isaac Hess, who resides near Lancaster, diel of diph- theria, nnattended by any physician, a vic tim of ‘‘faith cure’’ only. was most pathetic. and nearer, and after a nd ar the swine’ssnont rooted up th i to 8woop into the net, when | ii Pin the Lot ster, who died believing in the Lord “If these people scoff at you as though re- 1 8 the. Bible were iE onl® for weak- ple, you jus enl you are not ashamed to be in the com ¥ down, until some night you will see them going home hooting, raving, shouting blas. hemy—going home to their mother, going ome to their sister, going home to the jon to whom, only a little whileago, in the presence of a brilliant After awhile we saw another flock see grandpa.’ birds. They cam&nearer and nearer un- 3 Just at the moment when they were about ing unanswered. the statesman, and Raphael; and Thorwaldsen, the sculptor, and the musician, and Blackstone, the lawyer, flashing lights and orange blossoms, and censers swinging in the air, they promised fidelity and purity, kindness perpetual. As that man reaches but she will stagger back her look there will be the woes that are coming shiver in peed of fire, hunger that will cry in .vain for bread, i very much disappointed as is the matter? and “Why were not ebirds caught?” We went oot and ex-. ned thenet and by a flutter of a branch part of the net had been conspicus osed, and the birds coming very ‘near bad seen their geri] and darted away. oung man, hold on to yoar Bible It is the best book you ever owned. you hy dress; how to bargain, how to walk, how to act, how to live, e! Whether on parchment or duodecimo, on the center “That reminds me of a passa W. D. Wolf, an employe of the Cumber- land Vailey railroad, was instantly killed at Carlisle by falling from his train. : _ Fire at Bradenville destroye1 eight build- ings, entailing a loss of about $20,000. John McGuire, timberman at Phoenix shaft, near Taylorsville, shaft and was killed. caused by part of the platform he was work- ing on giving way. hrely in aii is the of any bird.” Now the net stands for temptation. 266 7n my The call bird of sin tempts men on from ‘point to point and from branch to branch wntil they are about to drop into the net. If a man finds out in time that it is the temptation of the devil, or that evil men re attempting to captura his soal for time sand dor eternity, the man steps back. * says, ‘I am not to be caught in that wi I wing room or in the counting room of the banker. Glorious Bible! Light p to our path. Hold on not leave the heart when they have crushed it, but pinch it again and stab it again, until some night soe will open the door of the place where her com ruined, and she will fling out her arm from guder heir ragged shawl and say, with al- most omnipotent eloquence: ‘‘Give me back Give me back my all! heart and gentle Words i psi! net spread in the sight | text to our feet and lam; @ The second class of insidious temptations. our young men is led on ployer. Every com- mercial sstablishinent is a school. In nine cases out of ten ti i prine and the manly brow, Samuel Daugherty, of Beaver, was struck- by a freight:train on the Pittsburg and Lake Erie railroad at Beaver Falls and killed. District attorney Kohle of Franklin, last week purchased a lot on' which taxes were upaid at Oil City for $32, gnd now he has discovered that the Standard Oil Company has a building thereon erected valued $110,00, which will greatly’ enhance property. ‘back obese and filthy, will push back their matted locks and th: see what yon are about; sur - “met spread in the sight There are two classes of tom were just starting in life--in commercial life Workmen at Warren found two dynamite bombs on the railroad and in fear cast them into the river. i t honesty was moti mar- ketable; that, though’ you might sell all ood! shop, you must mot sell your conscience; that, while you were to ex- ereise all Industry and tact, you were no sell your conscience: if you were taught that gains gotten by sin were combustible, and at the moment of ignition would be blown on by the breath of God until all the splendid estate would vanish into white ashes scat- tered in the whirlwind, then that instruction has been to you a precaution and a help ever superficial and =the subterrantous—those above ground, those underground. If aman <eould see sin as it is, he would no more em- brace it than he would embrace a leper. ‘#in is a daughter of hell; yet she is gar- 3anded and robed and trinketed. 38 a warble, Her cheek is the setting sun. Her forehead is an aurora. She says to Aner.: ‘Come, walk this path with me. It is thymed and primrosed, and the air is be- -wvitchel with the odors of the hanging gar- ens of heaven. The rivers ars rivers of vine, and all you bave to do is to drink p in chalices that sparkle with dia- and amethyst and chry Asus. itis all bloom and rogate cloud and man, without God you are in peril. Amid the ten thousands temptations of life there is no safety for a ddressing some who have and so I assault that other the dissolute cannot be re- claimed. Perhaps you have onl there a voice within you say- did you do that for? Why did ‘hat did you mean by that?” ory in your soul that makes God only knows all our earts. Yea, if you have gone so ; : aa ig ve gone thro invite you back this since. ’ There are hundreds of conimercial estab- lishments in our great cities which are edu- cating a class of young men who will be the honor of the land, and there ars other estab- lishments which are educati X to be nothing but sharpers. man who was tau, an establishment that it is right to lie, : French label is all that is necessary to make a thing French, and that you ought always to be honest when'it pays, and that it is wrong to steal unless you do it ed Margaret Lowry leyville. She was instantly killed. The residence of Philiph Herman,near La: trobe, was burned. Loss $1,500; no insur. 1 Ob, my friends, if for one moment the «choiring of all these concerted voices of sin ~<onld be hushed, we should see the orchestra ~of the pit with hot breath blowing through fiery flute, and the skeleton ‘arms on drums sof thunder and darkness beating the chorus, #The end thereof is death.” ‘tI want to point out the insidious tempta- © “tions that are assailing shore especial young men, The only kind of nature com- paratively free from temptation, so faras1 ean ‘judge, is the cold, hard, stingy, mean ‘temperament. What would Satan do with such a man if he got him? Satan is not anx- ous to get a man who after awhile may dis- -puite with him the realm of everlasting s of thy youth: but 1 these things God will ar Haan, your amers onng man our ype, Jeuty am, 0 sour ospel-eould: to-day be unlim- t all those. influences which are so many of our young men. a trumpet of warning: this whole audience would ' Suppose, now, a young man just starting mn life enters a place of that kind where there are ten young men, all drilled in the infamous practices of ths establishment. He is ready to be taught, no theory of commercial ethics, he to get his theory? He will get the theory |" Oh from his employers. One day he yond what ths establishment | demands of him, and he fleeces a customer | antil the clerk is on the seized by the law.” What is di head of the establisment says to The young man has n workers, my heart is high The dark horizon is blooming | It is the generous young man, the ardent by Drophets rp foung man, the warm hearted young man i #he sccial young man that is in especi peril. A pirate goes.out on the sea, and one bright morning he puts the glass to his eye and looks off, and sees an empty vessel float- dng from port to port. He says, aming; that's no prize for us.” morning he puts the glass to his eye, and he. =ees a vessel coming from Australia laden swith gold, or a vessel from the Indies laden stages of develo 2 you hatchery at Erie. might be caught; but really that was splen- didly done; you will get along in the world, Then that young Kho; up until he becomeshead clerk. He ! Aniguit Joseph Baldwin of New Castle was held ug by two men and a woman bridge and robbed of $100 Tuesday night. - Wm, H. Dill, ex-President of thedefunct National Bank and owner of Houtzdale bank was arrested on information made by John R. McGrath, cashier of the Houtzdale bank when it went under. The information charges Dill with having on or about the 15th of May willfully and fraudently convert to his own use $25,000 belonging to the Houtzdale bank Dill at once gave bail in $3,000 for his appear ance for a hearing on Thursday, The other cases against Dill returned to De cember term of court have been continued A B. & O. train ran down a woman nam- on the trestle near Fin: A. E, Alter & Co.'s store at Johnstown was entered by burglars, the safe blown open and $100 taken. : Fred Getroat, while trying to throw a belt at New Castle Torn Works was sfruck on the head with a timber and knocked senseless. Hes still living but cannot recover: Governor Pattison issued a announcing a reduction of the past year amounting to $2,538,352, A crank has been pesterin ‘Wright, of Philadelphia, by 090 of the city’s cash. He has sistent since the Russell Sage incident. Over 10,000,000 fish eggs ars in various pement at the State fish The 15-year-old son of Conductor Hunt, ol the Baltimore and Ohio road, i Uniontown stole 500 dollars from his father and with another bo the mountains and the hills sak forth Into sinzing frees of the wood shal with spices. “He says, “That's our prize; One morning the emp! to spend it. Most of soblshmante He Bo room and throws up his ing hooks: are thrown. D #Why, the safe has been robbed!” What is folded and are. compelled to t lent form. the matter? Nothing, nothing; only the clerk who has been. practicing a good while on customers. is practicing a little on the employer. No new pringiple introduced into that establishment. It is. a will notrwork both ‘ways. steal unless you can do it well. He did it well. lam not talking an abstraction, Iam talking a terrible and crushing fact. Now hereis a young man. Look at him five years from now, tis not the empty vessel, but the laden smerchantman that is the temptation of the And a young man empty. of head, sempty of heart, empty of life~~you want no * Noung Men's Christian Association to keep. him safo; ‘he issafe,” He will not gamble unless it 3s with somebody else's stakes. -*4will not break the ' One of the greatlacks of our religious life ‘We are more or less dis. posed $0 De superficial i We donot’ pnt the of heart and brain: among: our and service that we Ho in our temporal affairs. We are not thorsugh. We recognize the truth and ate more or less moved by it, but we do not go to the bottom of thé matter, and therefore we do not get ng we need and think we are seek- bath unless somebody He will not drink un- ess some one else treats him. He will hang daysbu The other day Wilson Wright of New Se wickley township found his flock of 300 im- ported sheep either killed, mangled by dogs that they are organized and propose Slaushier of all the dogs in the neighbor L. W. Wagner's broom factory at Holi rg with 5,000 dollars - liabilities was closed by the sheriff, around the bar hour after hour waiting for ome generous young man to come The generous young man comes in and mmceosts him and says, ‘Well, will you have a drink with me to-day?’ The man,asthough 4t were a sudden thing for him, says, “W a—well, if you insist on if, I will=I will.” Too: mean to go to perdition unless spme- sbody else pays his expenses? _goung men we will not fight, = We would -ao more contend for them than Tartary and Ethiopia would fighteas to who should have ~the great Sahara desert; but for those young men who are buoyant and enthusiastic, those who are determined to do something for “time and for eternity—for them we will Aght, and wemnow deciare everlasting war against all the influences that assail them, -and we ask all good men and philanthropists do wheel into line, and all'the armies, of aeaven to bear down upon the fos, and we y Almighty God that with the thunder- ts of His wrath He will strike d and sonsume all these influences that are attempt» dng to destroy the young men for whom after he has been under trial in such an Here he stands in the shop § { ned of Ephraim and Judah with the breath of i that their ‘‘ goodness was as the morning cloud and the early dew, that that is, their amendment of turning to him were spasmodicand: not pers manent. They were unstable in their spirit- This is one of our worst faults. ‘We turn to God for a little while. our backs on the world and upon the tempta- tions which lure us from a downright service of God and seek after him ;sbut this sesrch after Gad and this walking in his ways are” fitful. We weary of it and cease before we find him. 7 There will be many meetings held through- out the land presently, seeking by payer and supplication anoutpouring of the Spirit. but itis doubtful if there will be one out of a dozen in which there will be that-stead- fastpess which will keep the people at God's feet long enough to get the blessing. The Tord did not tell his principles how long | they must tarry ‘at Jerusalem before he would send the promise of the Father upon them, but simply bade them to tarry until the enduement came. must wait for the blessing tho’ it tarry. ‘For of for an appointed titte; ‘but all speak and not lie; tho’ it tarry, wait for it; because it wil come, it will not tarry.” Have we thoroughness of. desire and pur- pose to ** wai‘ on the Lord?” and seek him till he answer? If we have we shall receive the blessing; but if our purposes and de- desires are as the nmiorning cloud and early dew, disappointment is in store for us. When we seek the Lord we must put away out of our hearts and out <f cur If we are covetous; if we are dis- honest in trade; if we are unclean in life or thought and take delight in these things; if we oppress the poor by keeping back their wagés or grinding their faces for our profit; if we are living in carnal self-indulgence; if “we are using religiofi ag a cloak for our sins and as a superstitions refuge for o of troub'e—of eourse te L us. Therefore did David pray that to-day, his cheeks rudd the hills. He unrolls the goods on the coun= ter in gentlemanly style. them to the purchaser. He poi good points in the fabric. He effects the sale, The goods are wrapped -up, and he dismisses = the customer with a cheerful “60d morning,” and the country merchant departs so impressed with the straightfor- wardness of the young man that he will coms again and again, every spring and every autumn, unless interfered with, The young man has been now in that es- tablishment five years. He unrolls the goods He says tothe customer, Now these are fhe best goods we have in They have better on our establishment.” these goods less than cost.” They are mak: r cent. He says, “There is nothing like them in all the city.” There are fifty shops that want to sell’ the sama } thing. He says, “Now, thatisa durable article: it will wash.” Yes, it will wash out, The sale is made, the goods are wrapped up, the country merchant goes oft feelin; that he has an equivalent for his money, an: the sharp clerk goes into th the counting house, and h gotrid of those goods at last. thought we never would sell them. him'we were selling them less than cost, and tting a good bargain. died. st class of temptations that assaults a young man is led on will not admit that he is an infidel or athe- ; Oh, not he is a *‘free thinker-” he is one of your “liberal” men; he is free and easy An religion. Oh. how liberal he is; he is so _*iberal” that he will he is so “liberal” that throne of ¢fernal justice; heis 80. ‘liberal that he would be willing to give God éut.of thie universe; heis so *‘liberal” that he would zive up his own soul and the souls of all his + the way of liberality?’ The vi robably just come from the gh the’ intervention of This is the law ; we ve away his Bible; of the two. he thought he was Got rid of them at 1 tha firm says; “That's well done, splendidly done’: Meanwhile God had recorded eight lies—four lies against the lies against his employer, that the employer: is 4 ni is clerks, and all the ini. Hosa who are. clerks of these dow to the tenth generation, if those ers inculcated iniquitous: and damn 771 stand before young wen This morning who are under this pressure. Oh!” you say, “I can’t; I have on were, in a religious family, d all those things, but I got Thomas Moffit, of Beaver Falls, whose wife died last week. has commenced to con- struct a coffin for himself, as he says that he Sgen expects to die. He is about 70 years Robert Nelson, a farmer Springs, suffered a fracture of the skull by being thrown from a horse. Renjamin Monerief, aged 61 years, was killed while crossing the Pennsvlvania rail. road tracks at New Castle Saturday. . Miss Caroline Pentland, 72 years old, was killed on the F't. Wayne road near Freedom. Mrs. Wm. Lamb, of near Cairo, was so badly burned that she has since died. She was 1nsane-and is supposed to have upset 2 Jamp upon herself near the grate. The reported murder of P. J. Millet, wealthy Tennessee railway contractor, by a negro at Peach Bottom camp, is denied. United States Deputy Marshal Stainacker narrowly escaped with his life counter with moonshiners near Braxton. He had captured Joseph Richardson, a wages, and that had been done only where the men were well able to stand = it. number of workmen at the mill would not be diminished, but rather increased. The Hancock flint-glass works of Findlay, O., has closed indefinitely, it is said, on account of financial embarassment. 2 The Executive Board of the United Mine Workers has asked for a per capita fax of 2¢ cents a week from the members while the strike of the Indiana miners lasts. he The employes of the Crane Iron Works al Catasaqua, Pa., 250 men, have struck for an increase of 10 per cent in their wages. The total receipts of the Government for 1801 fell off $5,418,847.52 from those of 183) e ordindry expenditures inereassi §$57,636,198.14. The bi from all sourcas were $458,544,%55.03, and the exoenditures 04,470.46, leaving a surplus of applied to the public debt, The little girl came down stairs last night and said: 1 want a nice, clean bath, for I'm going to Her grandfather has been dead for several years. Her faith prevailed, her parents’ prayers without works remain- ‘the revenues for the present fiscal year are estimated at $433,000,000 and the ze endi- enues for the fiseal year 1893 are $455,336.~ 850,44, and the estimated requirements, ex- clusive of sinking fund, $441,300,093.61. The estimated receipts from customs are ‘The Secretary explains briefly the canses which led to the rates of The 414s at per cent. and announces that the amount of those bonds now outstanding and on interest at 2 per cent. is $25,364,500. After summarizing the of the Treasurer and Mint retary recommends the continuance of the recoinage of uncurrent silver coin, the lossof metal to be made good from the “silver profit fund,” or an appropriation of $100,000 to be made for that purpose. tions of the late Secretary of the Treasury in regard to amendments of the laws relating to the administration of the Customs service are made by Secretary Foster. The total internal revenue receipts were $146,085,415.97, a gain of $3,440,719.40 over 1890. The receipts from manufactured tobac- co fell off $1,162,720.09, There was an increase of $110,544.69 in the cost of collection. The pial production of distilled spirits A SCAFFOLD GIVES WAY. Two Men Killed, Two Probably Fatally and Others Seriously Injured. 5 Bethlehem, Pa., Dec, 10.—The thriving town of Lehighton was thrown into great excitement by a scaffolding giving way, killing two men, probably’ fatally injurin two and seriously injuring several othe: While a number of carpenters were engaged in erecting a large ice house, the scaffoldin gave way and precipitated all the men to the ground, a distance of 35 feet. The dead are Thomas Arnes, aged 35, of Franklin; Oscar Heilman, aged 20, of Lehighton.: Both were head when picked up. The injured are: Aaron Dreisbach, of Mahoning, Nathan Heilman, of Lehighton, both probably tal; Henry Schultz, of Lehighton, Hahn, of Franklin, and Benjamin Ru Bast Penn, all three seriously hurt. brandies, was 115,962,389 gallons, an in- crease of 6,686,461 gallons; of fruit bran. dies, 1,804,712 gallons, as a allons in the fiscal year of 1800. The num- er of distilleries operated decreased 2302. There was an increase of 2,935,265 barres in the production of beer. the internal revenue receipts for the current Hscal year will be $150,000,000. A large portion of the SBecretary’s report is devoted to the Statistics of ris Pr Imports. The total value of our foreign commerce during the year was $1,729,397, - 006, an increase of §8%,257,913 over the prece- ding year. The value of imports was $844, - $16,196, an increase of $55,605,787, and that of exports was $884.480,810, an increase of $26,652,126; excess of exports over imports, $39,564,614, against an excess in. 1890 of Tue excess of exports of--gold and silver over imports was $72.694,195; total exports of silver and gold, $108,953, - B42: total exports of gold, $86,362,654; total imports of silver and gold, '$36125Y,447; total imports of gold, $18,232,567. An excess of $183,319 in the imports of gold in ores and copper matte and of $7,309,473 in silver in pres and copper matte is recorded. The Sec- Jt 5s Sumated that GREAT WHEAT BLOCKADE. Dealers Bought Too Eagerly. New From Manitoba About Wheat. Winfield, Man.; Dec. 12.—Freight A Kerr, of the Ganadian Pacific railroad, to; notified the Manitoba Grain Exchange there i3 a tremendous wheat blockade in: New York, caused by heavy Northw shipments, and that the West Shore ra would refuse to receive shipments aft dispose of it, hoping to nn West Shore road. It is said thereisa block in elevators in Buffalo from. the same cause. Some Manitoba dealers, who have been buying and shipping since the f our total trade in ‘merchan- opened, have not yet sold a bus fise with Great Britain and Ireland mounted to $640,137,288, of which the value of exports was $445,414,026 and the value of NINE MEN WERE DROWNED The Bark Ben Butler, of San Francisco, ‘Wrecked Off Cape Arage. + Portland, Ore., Dec. 12.—The bark General Butler, together with 1,000,000 feet of lumber belonging to the Puget Mills company, of San Francisco, and nine men’ was lost about 100 miles southwest of Cape Arago. The boat, containing Captain Porker and’ : men, was picked up at Cape Arago last nigi Second Mate John Willoughby was. charge of the boat, containing: nine men: sess in exports of $950,690, 764. oort and export trade with Great Britain wd Iralind forms thirty-seven per cent. of mch trace with all nafions, and about ficty- ive per cent. of such trade with all Europe. Jur trade with North America, including the West Indies, stands next in value, followed »y that with South America’ and that with 4sia and Oceanica. Our trade with Ger- nany showed an excess of imports of $4 - $20,927; with France, of $15,995,305. In our ‘otal trade with Europe the excess of exports ver imports was $245,492 675. Our commerce in merchandise with North America, including Mexico, Central Amer- ca and West Indies, amounted to $259,- 75,208, of which the value of the imports was $163,226,079 and of the exports $95,- $49,129, an excess of imports of $63,676,= went to Washington e money was recovered With the exception of two families, the residents of Sonierfield, in Somerset county, are dangerously ill with gripin its most vio: 2g WHOLE BLORK WIPED OUT. A Little Wisconsin Town Visited by Big Fire. Loss $75,000, New Richmond, Wis., Ded. 1L.—A big fire raged here yesterday. this morning and was not under controt for A block on the west side of Main street, in the business portion of the city, is now a smoking rnin. The loss wiil reach $75,000; insurance estimated at $45, Our total trade with South America in merchandise amounted to $152,444, 958, of which the value of the imports was $118,736, - 368 and of the exports $33,708,200, an excess >. imports of $85,028,378, . The total value of exports of domestic merchandise was $872,270,233, an increase of $26,976,455 over the exports of the preceding fiscal year, 1890, and was greater than that of any year except 1881. During the last fiscal year the valus of imports of merchandise was $814,916,195, an increase of $55,605,787 over the imports of The value of free mer- chandise imported was $366,241,352, and of was $478,674,844, an free merchandise of $100,572,723, and a d=crease in the value of dutiable goods of $44,966,936, caused mainly by the transter of sugar and certain textiles from the dutiable to the free list by the new After Two Cranks. : New York, Dec. 9.—0scar Weyraneh, the bookbinder, who wrote a threating note to Conrad Harris, a retired wine merchant, was transferred to the insane asylem om Just before leaving the pavillon Weyrauch became so violent that it took five men to hold him, An indictment was formally filed eral Sessions against John George Roth, the crank real estate agent who fired ‘at the Rev. Dr. John Hall, of the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian church. charges assault in the first degree. Roth is the tiscal year 1890. The Secretary notes an increase in exports to Brazil of $1,307,054. The total number of immigrants arriving was 560,319, an increase of 105,017. Good progress has been made in enforcing the Alien Labor laws, The Secretary commends the Ship Subsidy The indictment law and advises that no backward step be oth rate man, when the latter's wife at- tacked him with an ax, severely woundine still confined in the pavillon for the imsane FIRES AND FAILURES. at Bellevue Hospital. ‘The villian escaped, woman, who is said to have been the worst None of the citizens would .assist Stainacker through fear. The marshal swears to have Richardson dead or alive before the next court session. When Farmer Aaron Reamy,his wife and child. of Polar Run, returned home from church on Sttiday morning, their home, barn and granary, the summer's produce of the farm, a mass o smouldering ruins. The supposition is that the fire was the work of an incendiary, whe had a personal grudge against Mr, As he had no insurance on his property, the farmer by this loss is reduced to poverty. The Thompson glass factory at Union: town was sold for 13,300 dollars to Thomas J. Millér and other Pittsburghers who held against the concern a mortgage for 27,400 dollars. over it: the fact is, since I came to town I have read a great deal, and 1 have found that there-are a great many things in’ the Bible that. are ridieulous.. Now, for ine stance, all that abdut the serpent being oursed to crawl in the Garden of den be- .eause ithad tempted our first parents; why, absurd it is: you can tell from nization of the serpent that it #ad to crawl; it crawled before it wascursed crawled afterward; you its organization that it that story about the ‘whale swallowing Jonah, : the thing is absurd; it ‘4s ridiculous to suppose that a man could irough the jaws of a sea monster and yet keep his life; Bhi = jd have been digested; the gastrie juict would have dissolved the fibrine and. coagu: lated albumen, and Jonah would have beer ‘from prophet into chyle. Then all. tory about the micraculous conception fis ‘perfectly disgraceful. Ob nature. This is the ul pozress, sir; progress. | hi after or have been my widowed mother to support, and if aman Joses a situation now he can't I say, come out of it our mother and say to. her, 'l stay in that shop and be upright: what shall 1 do?” and if she is worthy of you she ‘Come ous of it, my son—we will ourselves on Him who hath prom- jsed to be the God of the widow and the fatherless; He will takecaraof us.” And I tell you no young man ever permanently suffered by such a course of co! the Lord would search his heart and try his ‘kee if there were any wicked wars: in him and lead him in the way everlasting. We are reminded that the seed which fell among thorns brought torth no fruit to per fection: also that we are bidden to break up our hearts, and not to rns. These are the things essing of God: '*Cares of this world, deceitfulness of riches, love ot pleasures and lust of other things,’? © Shall we be thorough in our.approach to God and get a great blessing, or shall’ we content’ ourselves with a mere superficial roach to his throne, and in- A ssing be thrown back upon ourselves to sink deeper into spiritual death? Not-the least of the blessings ini store for those who will be thorough with themselves and in their approach to God is, thut it will ed and cleanse their own hearts and lives, and thus make it’ possible for God to hold communion with themand Uniontown on Orangeville’ hoasts o the fallow ground of u forel Judge Clark’ about $10,000. It is thou man said to his employer, A6wing the whale, wh icines on Sunday, butl can patent shoe blacking 2 said the head mau, ‘‘you will have to have to go away. «Diphtheria i town from days. While standing in front of a'grate -Mrs Wilson, of Congruity fainted an the fire and was fatally burned. A large barn on the Ho rg, was burned b t. + Loss 2,500 dollars. | and sheds on Dr. Walt Gault's near (Connellsville, valued at medicines, but not shoe blacking _ The Lord looked after of thousands of dollars him, The hundreds : he won in. this world were the 8 - God honored him. ) he saved his soul as well as Greensbu Sunday nigh ‘The barns stock farm, presen. : ili o i amilies is: reported ; Fayette county. now has 80 postoffices. ‘The last addition to the list is Balsinger, at Beals Threatened With Dynamite. Kansas City, Mo., Dec. 10.—It is reported that David Beals, whose baby was stolen last Thankbgiving, has received a letter from the mysterious Ralston,” who has been evad= ing the police, in which he threatens that unless the hunt for the kidnapper % #& stopped the residence of Beals would ba blown to pieces with dynamite. A heavy guard has been placed around the house by The Fort Worth, Tex., iron works has At Williamsburg, Ia., the principal ‘busi: ness block of the town was destroyed by fire. At Dogeville, Wis., Rudersdorf’s and the offices of the Chronicle, the Sun and Pye and the Siar, a blacksmith shop, a paint shop: and several other buildings burned. Loss, $40,000; insured. At Ardmore, I. T., the principal business section of the town and 25 dwellings were Six Children Burned to Death. Paris, Tex., Dec. 14.—Since cotton picking began in this county six children have lost: Most of thet” were the offsprings of cotton pickers left at home b: their parents. The last-victim, a 2-year-old child, was burned to death Saturday At Blair, Neb., seven business buildings were burned. = Loss, 75,000 dollars. belltown, five miles Blissfield, O., J. A. Hulce's store, a the Mc lellandtown road, a 5,000 dollars; insurance, 2,000 dollars. fa dog with aleather fortunate in having fire built by an elder brotner. At McBeth, near | Fireworks Explode. One Man Kille The canine was un cendiarism suspected. Scottdale, Pa., the postoffice, store and con- tents, including all mail matter. Loss, 3,000 eg shot off at the knee, and his owner Boston, Dec. 12—An explosion occurred had a leather stump made to fit the broken in a fire cracker factory connected with M s life jnsurance mounted to Schatz, aged 18, was killed, and three othe i is., the Republi ; ; At Antigo, Wis., the Republican office, L. | 100 51 the building more or less The estate will pro Strasher’s and Lee Woote's stores and the Toss, $60.000: insurance, verely injured, but not fatally. y 3 ? s almost epidemic in Blairs. ing was burned in a very short time. Thirty deaths have occurred in thal 8,000 dollars, was 1 have you will think just Two farmers named nm Sunday it on Baturday athe Hoon CC . arp on will please excuse fe, bousands of young men ‘are you pl Phin a box of mat inadverte: were so painfuily bu ed to a hospital Twenty-One Sailors Drowned. Genoa, Dec. 14—The boilers of the steamer Calabria, from Genoa bound for: Napl burst ashort distance ont from this port. 1 cluding the passengers and crew there wer 33 persons on board. Of this number ailors were drowned. HE No part of Australia is so hot a unhealthy as to forbid ‘white sett ‘ment, and if the strip of low ly ‘coast lands in the north be ie there is no part of it yet coloniz peans or America e dread disease within the last| vq Bellefonte, Pa., Iron and Nail com- pany suspended temporarily. The cause of ‘the failure is identified with an important chapter in the manufacture of nails in the The Bellefonte mill was constructed on an old pattern and pr the old fashioned cnt nails. These been driven out of the market tirely by wire nails, which have beea made | in such large quantities during the last few years in this country. The Bellefonte mill hung on to the death, but compete with the finished re nail mills. burned ‘from a lantern explosion. ‘Insurance $5, a A Beaver Falls Hungarian w a De {ches ina pocket, Of his coat tails sat down on them. His li
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