¢
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