| TaxT:
drink, or whatsoever
Glory of God. Corin
When the. ap
2 4dea that so
Fr
s x., 3L
) C ‘hristian
regaling of the religious appe-
they cannot take the f ¥
exercise of faith rp
uous
Steamer puts out for Southampton and
that direction and the other six
F directions, how long before the
get to Southampton? If will
seem to be
day, if durin; ng six of
week he is going toward the Ts
ward the flesh, and toward the devil,
never
heaven.
Sabbath banquet that
dsm and princely behavior of
: are no apology for lack of ri t
circumstances ificant ‘Bnd inconspicv
ous. The 8 is not spas-
modic; does not go by fitsand starts. It toils
hd occasions
-on through heatand cold up steep mountains °
and along dangerous declivities, its eye on
st crowned with the castles
the everl
wf the 1
ligion
; Ko
ligion
isting hills
ed
i morning to plead for a
ce, we want to bring the re
b pla ! 1 ;
rist into our conversation. When
is, and §wo or thres
verwhelmed, or an earthqu :
America swallows a whole city, then people
Segin to talk about the uncertainty of life,
. and they imagine that they are in
. positively religious conversation. fe . You
may talk about these t! 2
grace of God at all in your heart. We ought
-every day to be talking religion. If there is
anything glad about it, anything beautiful
about if, we ought to be continuously dis-
«cussing it, Ihave noticed that men, just in
“proportion as their €hristian experience is
shallow, talk about funerals and graveyards
-and tombstones and deathbeds, The real,
genuine Christian man talks chiefly about
ithis life and the great geernity beyond, and
not so much about the insignificant pass be-
tween thst ao residences. And yet how
ew circles: there are where the A ion of
J ais Chris is Welcome, z
fo info a circle even of Christian
“where they are full of joy Aries 4s”
talk about Christ or heaven and everything
is immediately silenced. Asona summer
“day, when the forests are full of life, chat-
ter and chirrup and carol—a mighty chorus
of bird harmony, every tree branch an or-
~ Chestra—if a hawk appear in the sky every
‘voice stops and the forests-are still; just so,
1 have seen a lively religious circle silenced
~on the appearance of anything like religious
aversation, No one has anything to say,
ve, perhaps, some old patriarch in the
corner of the room, who really thinks that
something ought to be said under the cir-
«cumstances, so he puts one foot over the
other and heaves a long sigh, and says, ‘‘Oh,
so, that’s sol” o
ends, the religion of Jesus Christ
talk about witha glad
aroun
when you ought to be sin ing
At in cheerful tones of voice, How often it
“is ‘that we find men whose lives are utterly
inconsistent, who attempt to talk religion,
and always make a failure of it! My
friends, we must live religion, or we cannot
talkit. If a man is cranky and cross and
‘uncongenial and hard in his dealings, and
then begins to talk about Christ and heaven,
‘everybody is repelled by it. :
© Yet I have heard such men say, in whining
“tones, ‘‘We are miserable, sinners.” ‘The:
Lord bless you,” **The Lord have mercy on
you,” their conversation interlarded with |
‘such expressions, which mean nothing bus
canting, and canting is the worst form of
hypocrisy, If we havereally felt the religion
«ot Christ in our hearts lef us talk it, and talk
it with ifluminated countenance, remember-
ing that when two Christian people talk God
gives especial - attention and writes down
what they say. Malachi iii,, 16, “Then they
that feared the Lord spake offen one to an-
.other, and the Lord barkened and heard it,
.and a book of remembrance was written.”
Again, I remark, we must bring the re-
ligion of Christ intq our employments.
#'0h,” you say, ‘‘that is very well if a man |
handle large sums of money, or if he have
-an extensive traffic, but in my thread and
needle store, in my trimming establish-
ment; in the humble work in life that I amy
scaled to; the sphere is too small for the
action of such grand, heavenly principles.”
‘Who told you so? Do you not know that
“od watches the faded leaf on’ the brook’s
surface as certainly as He does the path of
a blazing sun? And the moss that creeps up
the side of the rock makes as much impres-
sion upon God's mind as the waving tops of
Uregon pine and Lebanon cedar; and the
alder, crackling under the cow's hoof, sounds
as loud in God’s ear asthe snap of a world’s
«conflagration. © © 55 i“
When you have anything to do in: life,
‘however humble it may seem to be, God is
always there to help you to doit. If your
work is that of a fisherman, then God will
help you,®as He helped Simon en he
«dragged Gennesaret. If your work is draw-
ing water, then He will help you, as when
He talked at the well curb to
house, He will lead you, as He led Matthew
sitting at the receipt of customs. A religion
: thatis not good in one place is not worth
sanythjp in another pl The man who
bas o;
* tainly needs the guidance of religion as he
who rattles the keys of a bank and could
:abscond with a hundred thousand hard dol-
Ts, %
‘I'here are those prominent in the churches
who seem to be on public occasions very de-
yout, who do not put the principles of
«Christ's religion ine ractige. Cheyare the
most inexorable of érediters. « They are the.
‘most gr: of dealers. They ‘known
(as sharpers on the street. They fleece every
sheep they can catch. A country merchant
«comes in to buy spring or fall goods and he
| | gets into the store of one of these professed
hristian men who have really no grace in
‘their hearts, and he is completely swindled.
He is so overcome that he cannot get out of
‘town during the week. He stays in town
‘over Sunday, goeés‘into some church to get
Christian, consolation, when | what is’ his
amazement to find the very man who hands
him the poor box in the church is the one
10 reliev of his money!’ Bu
has his black ‘coat
Don’t
cket, = You attend i
will attend to ours
t business and religio
tend To your
m in
mat
“Whether, therefore. ye eat or
ye do, do all to the
] | ¢ ver. In
other words, a man cannot be so much of a
. Christian on Sundsy that he can afford to
bea worldling all the rest of the week, - If a
to 3
he will
e up into the peaceful harbor of
You cannot eat so uch ‘at the
ou can ord re-
ligious abstinerics the other six days. Hero-
in South |
gs and have no
: well e Hamaritan (
woman, If you are engaged ini the custom ’
“a day's wages in bis - pocket ‘as cer-
porter:
last only
mansion
said
man who
"There
and
day
30!
antly
not stand
endure
the
dra
it replies,
SBY,
sponds,
+| heavens
| dome to
attend to
bodies
work is
for me.”
best one
“The
fable for
the glory
grace of
‘man.
not, the
you shall’
may be
amount
Jost my
man.”
digging,
terjoin
oe a
houses,
nothings
Now,
Compel
on
for you to do.
of that flower.”
the field?”
are” taken,
said, *What's that?”
click! I say,
harder?” . *Oh,” he repli
shatter the statue.
T must Jo it this way!”
So he works on, and after awhile the feat-
ures come out, and evervbody that enters
ell,
ittle sorrows,
" ghan great ones. ' A
kill a grain field soo
three or four cattle. 2m
You say, “Since [ lost my child, since I
roperty, I have been a di
ize the archi-
t are hewing,
shaping, splitting and i-
g your mor Rats
One lucifer match
send destruction through a block of store-
edicis got her death
from smelling a poisonous rose. .
by stopping and asking for a piece of
and a drink of water at a
vent, was led to the discovery of the Ne
‘World. And there isan intimate Connection
between trifles and immensities, betw
tecture of little annoyances t)
vidual taxes do not. aiioun
the ag oto m
a he
The Sabbath day is
twenty-four hours.
hristians
high tariff on every annoyanes
comes through your soul.
2 in single
it would be a
w erwise irritate ani annoy.
A returned missionary told me that a com-
: pany of adventurers rowing up the Ganges
were sting to death by flies that infest that
region at certain seasous, I have seen
the earth strewed with the ecarcassses
of men slain by insect annoyances.
|The only way to get prepared for
Ye great trouble of life ‘is to eonquer these
troubles. What would ye say of a
‘soldier who refused to load his gun or to go
into the conflict because it was only a skirm-
ish, saying: “I am not going to expend my
o | ammunition on a skirmish. Wait until there
a great scale,
great d
y of life
everyda
eal of bot
ance of this p
he ancient temples of Rouen have
into storehousss and smithies.
poets and princes have
turned into brokers’ De The classic
Ashland has been cut up into
ks. The groves where the ts
the gods dwelt have bee
for firewood. The muses
read about have disappear
grant’s ax and the trapper's
z fi Hf
of
is wail
is,
on,
the bite of a mis
& No,”
And
al finke of the
@ gonclusion that we can
the minute things in
3 said,
and “all
taken,
And some one replied,
has ben left for you.”
the church.
of God.
God did you apply?
God
And
of
Ah, no. 8a;
way.
rokes
be a glad
king on. I co ‘show ot 4
city a woman who has had rheumstism for
twenty years, who has endured more suffer-
ing and exhausted more grace than would
have made twenty martyrs pass triumph-
through the fire. If you are not faith-
fulin an insignificant position in life, you
“would not be in a grand mission. If you can-
to wh
when I'find out
‘blossom of the
ter, 1
afford to
life, and that
what we do we ought to do well, since there
is as much perfection in the construction of
a spider’s eye as in the conformation of flam-
ing galaxies.
Plato had a fable which I hav:
forgotten, but it ran something like this:
He said spirits of the other world dare back
to this world to find a body and find a
| sphere of work. One spirit came and took
the body of a king and did his work.
other spirit came and took the body of a
and did hig work.
came, and he
After awhile \
“Why, all ae
the grand
There is nothing
prepare you
ys
owever, a fleld for endurance
front achievement, but it is in every-
dz. How could you
the breath of a basilisk? ¥
. Do not think that any work God gives
you to do in the world is on too small a scale
The whole universe is not
ashamed to take care of one: little flowers |
I say: “What are you doing down herein.
grass, you poor little flower? Are you
‘not afraid nights? You will be neglected, |
you will die of thirst, you will not be fed.
Poor little flower” « *‘No,” says a star, ‘Dll
watch over it to-night.”
cloud, “I'll give it a drink.”
sun, “Pll warm it in my bosom.”
see the pulleys going,
‘water, and
doing there, O clouds?”
‘We are giving drink to that flower.”
Then the
and the clouds are
say, ‘‘Whnat ‘are you
And they reply,
ts psalm
whither
“We are going to codl the cheek |:
then I bow down and. |
take care of the grass of
And a flower at my footre-
“Yes; He clothes the lilies of ‘the
eld, and never yet has forgotten me, a
r little flower.” Oh, when 1 see the great
bending themselves i 1
e now nearly
“Ah! the
Ulysses
And the reply was,
body of a common man, doing a com-
mon work and for a common reward.”
good fable for the world and just as
Again, we need to bring the religion of
Christ into our commonest trials.
vere losses, for bereavement, for trouble
that shocks like an earthquake and that
blasts like a storm, we prescribe religious
consolation; but, businessman, for the small
annoyances of last week, how much of the
“Oh,” ydu
‘say, ‘‘these trials are too small for such ap-
plication!” My brother, they are shaping
your character, they are souring your tems
per, they are wearing out your
and they are making you less and less of a
I go into a sculptor’s studio and
ses him shaping a statue.
one hand and a mallet in the other, and he
gives a very gentle stroke—click, click,
“Why don’t you strike
“chat would
1 can’t do it that way;
or se-
tience
He has a chiselan GB
the studio is charmed and fascinated.
God has your soul under process of. develop-
ment, and it is the little annoyances and
vexations of life that are chiseling
immortal nature. Itis click, click, click! I
wonder why some great providence does not
come, and with one stroke
heaven, °
that
f little annoy
little vexations, until ‘at
“spectacle for angels
for men. You know that a large for
nt in small change and a
“moral character may
ut you do not rec
cutting,
qualities.
ship.
Catherine de
and everyth 3
be ror) wo ot none of those an.
noyances go through your soul unarraigned.
itual wealth The season of yp
iritnal w . @ scratch of a sixpenn:
rl emetmen produces Josk Jaw, and Hin:
clip of a most inrnitesimal annoyance may
damage you forever. Donot let any annoy:
F=plexity come across your sot!
m
them to
aking you better.
J onl Sans do 2k 2
it; beli put a tax on pins and
g lg mi if ig tax oho
Binh bu:
88.
a
away
small depletion. = It is the little Ba
life that are having more effect upon you
A swarm of locusts will
ner than the incursion of
lu
cisean con-
Le
The i
go
ns.
g up to its eyed in clover, yet ne
d rises and comes bending
down the wheat and sounding i
torough the forest, and I cry.
away on such swift wing, O wind?’
seems
Sses
left
A
od a
‘Whether we ze or
drink, or'whatsoever we do, let us do it to
out your
for
ferent
y
| say that at present
: Ind
nk
comes a general engagement and then you
will see how courageous I am and what bat-
tling I will do?”
The general would say to such a man, “If
Ion are not faithfulin a skirmish, you would
Dothing in a general enzagement.” And
1 have to tell you, O Christian mea, if you
cannot apply the principles of Christ's re-
ligion on a small scale, you will never bs
able to apply them on a larzascale. If you
& ily contend against these
‘small sorrows that coms down single handed,
what will you do when the greater disasters
of life come down with thuadering artillery,
rolling over, your soul?
. Again we must bring the religion of:
Christ into 6ur commonest blessings. When
the autumn comes and the harvests are in,
and the governors make proclamation, wo
assemble in churches and we are very thank-
ful. Bub svary day ought to be a thanks-
glving day. e do not recogniz> the com-
mon’ mercies of life. “« We. have to see
a blind man led by bis doz before
we begin to bethink' ourselves of what a
grand thing itis to have eyesizht. We have
to. se me ong, afflicted Vitus's
ith his empty coat-sleeve
re we learn to think what a
God did for us w.
our limbs,
“ean arouse us up to our
As the ox grazes in the pasture
P thinking
il: who makes the clover, and as thevbird picks
“up the worm from the furrow not knowing
that it is God who makes everything, from
the animalcula in tae sod to the seraph on
the throne, so we goon eating, drinking and
enjoying, but never thanking or seldom
thanking; or, if thanking at all, with only
balf a heart, :
I compare our indifference to the brute;
but perhaps I wronged the brute; : I do not
know but that; among its other instincts, it
may have an instinct by which it recogniz.s
the divine hand that feeds it. I donot know
but that God is, through. it, holding com-
munication wa What Wo call’ “irrational
creation, he cow tha ¢ er the
Seillow By Hho wathriorain Ehewing 1s ou
looks very thankful, and who can tell how
‘much a bird means by its song.
Thearoma of flowers smells like incense.
from the river oh
ra as responsive! Yet who thanks
d. for the water that gushes up in the
well, and that foams in the de, ani
that lauzhs over the rocks, and that patters
in the showers, and that clasps its handsin
the sea? Who thanks God for the air, the
fountain of life, the bridge of sutibeams,
1
into ‘the ‘ear, this sof
myriad delights over the nervous. tiss
rolling of the crimson. fide. through. artery
and vein, this drumming of the heart on our
march -to immortality? We’ take all these
things as a matter of course. a
| But suppose God should: withdraw these
common blessings! Your body would be-
come an inquisition of torture, the cloud
would refuse rain, every green thing would
crumple up, and the earth would crack open
under your feet. The air would cease its
healthful circulation. pestilence. would
swoop, and every house would become a
place of skulls. Streams would first swim
with vermin and then dry up, and: thirst
and hunger and anguish and despair
would lift their scepters, : Oh, compare such
a life as that with the life youlive this
morning with your families about you! Is
it not time that, with every word of our lips
and with every action of our life, we began
to acknowledge these everyday mercies?
\l Whether yo eat or drink; or whatsoever ye
"86, do allo the glory of God” Do I ad-
dress a. man or a woman this morning who
\has not rendered to God one single offering
of thanks?
:I was preaching
: one Thanksgiving day
and announced m
text, “Oh, give thanks
unto; the Lord, for He .is good; for His
mercy endupeth forever.” I do not know
whether there was any blessing on the ser-
mon or nob; but the text went straight to
asyoung man’s heart. He said to himself,
as I read the text: * ‘Ob, give thanks unto
the Lord, for Heis good’— Why, 1 have
never rendered Hin any thanks. | Oh, what
an ingrate I have been!” Can it be, my
brother, that you have been fed by the good
hand of God all these days—that you have
had clothing and shelter and all beneficent
surroundings, and yet have never offer
your heart to ;
Oh, let a sense of the divine goodness
shown you in the everyday blessings melt
your heart, and if you have never before
uf one earnest note of thanksgiving
let this be the day which shall bear your
What I say to one I say to all of this
audience. Take this practical religion I
have recommended into your everyday life.
Make every day a Sabbath andi every meal
_a sacrament and every room you enter a holy
“of holies. We all have work to do; let us
be willing to'do it. We all have sorrows to
bear; let us cheerfully bear them. We all
have battles to fight; let us courageously
fight them.
f you want to die right you must live
right. Negligence and indolence will win
the hiss of everlasting scorn, while faithful-
ness will gather its garlands and wave its
scepter and sit upon its throne long after
‘this ' earth has put on ashes and eternal
; begun their march. You
| £0 home to-da;
sphere of ¢
2 ne li | Hyory
hison every.step shall be
| a triomph gh, and the humblest foot«
| stool on which we are called to sit will be a
| congueror’sithrone, a
Ix an article on the great sheep
|| ranches of Australia in the February
“Scribner,” Sidney Dickinson says:
‘‘Many of the Australian stations are
of magnificent proportions, “Old Jim-
my Tyson,’ as he is familiarly known,
who is reputed to be the wealthiest
man in Australia, and worth at least
£9,000,000, pastures 70,000 head of
ties, and owns stations, both in New
South Wales and Queensland,’ each of
which is larger than Bavaria. Mr. Al-
I1son, of New South Wales, in his two
djoining stations of Mergular and
bar, holds an area greater than
Belgium, 4nd in the same colony Mr-
“William Halliday’s ‘Brookong’ station
(one of the finest in Australia) com-
prises 200,000 acres and carries 250,000
sheep. Figures like the above might be
quoted indefinitely, but is is enough to
thé pastoral, lands
tall
excess hr
oa Sa
{
your little
‘| ot Rostraver’'s respected
cattle upon a single one of his proper-.
| Welsh Ran, Fran
| ml ved.
PENNSYLVANIA NOTES.
A Few Condensations of Events Ocour-
ring Throughout the State.
A Pole named Jonn Mica has been asle p
13 months at the Wilkesbarre poorhouse, and
shows signs of waking. He opens his eyes
occasionally and takes nourishment.
The railroad from Montandon to Belle
fonte is seriously handicapped by the grip,
Hires tin the regular crews being laid
off and freight'traffic being greatly interfere 1
with. -
A bad gang of semi-outlaws of the
Slippery Rock district” has been broken up
by t e capture of David Shaffer, a young
man for whom six warants were out for
sundry assau ts and malicious acts. The
officers have been searching for him for six
years, - i
James Hilling, residing at Lemont, Fay-.
ette county, went to Uniontown Monday to
get some medicine for a sick child, but in-
stead got drunk and was arrested. He was
informed at the jail that his child was dead,
and he was released.
Abrakam Herr, aged 88, and Jeremiah N.
Sallada, aged 76, two prominent citizens of
Lancaster, died.’ Mr. Herrin early life drove
Conestoga wagons between Pittsburg and
Philadelphia. Mr. Sallada was a son of
-Jaeob Sallada, Surveyor General of Penn-
sylvania 40 years ago.
The Dawson deposit bank closed its doors
at Uniontown. Mrs. E. J. Dom, wife of W.
T. Dom, is the sole owner of the bank
which has been managed by her husband
for about four years. The liabilities of the
bank are about $16,000 and the assets $:7,-
. The cause of the suspension, he said,
was the falling off in deposits and failure to
realize on real estate investments. All credi-
tors will be paid in full,
Robert F. Pollock, who lived in North
Mahoning township, Indiana county, acci-
dentally killed himself inthe woods, Tues-
day by tripping and exploding the gu
which he carried. the contents enter.ng his
left side. He had & ne hunting to get a
squirrel for his child, which was sick.
Two cars on the Beaver Valley line col-
lided at West Bridgewater. William Hazen,
conductor, was perhaps fatally injured.
Joseph Gorman, a section foreman on the
Pittsburg & Western railroad, was instantly
killed near Bennet. He attempted to jump
an the foot board of the engine, but fell on
the rails, the wheels cutting his head off.
Gorman was one of the oldest employes on
{he road. He leaves a wife and family at
na.
Mrs. Zilla Moore, a widow who had been
living alone at Beaver, died from the effects
of an overdose o morphine. She was a
great sufferer from the rheumatism, for
which the drug was taken.
The body of William Hancuff, who hs
been missingsince January 2, was found on
the mountains near Altoona. He was sup-
posed to have wandered away while t-mp r-
rily insane and died of starvation.
The body of William Hancuff. who had
oeen missing since January 2, was found
Saturday on the mount ins near Altoona.
A vein of yellow ochre has been discov-
sred in Jackson tp., Lambria county.
The “production of the McDonald in-
sreased 31,000 barrels on ~aturday to 36.000
Sunday. The stock in the field is 85,000
barrels.
Dr. Poole, of Ruffsdale, is u-der arrest
‘or striking a 7-year-o d boy who had bested
ais son at wrestling.
John F. Reyfolds, who lived at New Castle
since 1805,died there yesterday,aged 90 years.
The Pennsylvauia = railroad is makin
preparations to open the Portage Railroa
sbove Holidaysburg which was abandoned
years ago. This proposed road will grade an
ir line routs down the = mountains from
Oreston to Petersburg, in Huntingdown
sounty, and it will shorten the distance 15
miles between Philadelphia and Pittsburg.
The limited mail on the Bal-
imore & Ohio road was wrecked at Port
Royal, injuring Engineer Nicholson and
Fireman Irvin.
Amy Vancoysis and Kate Graizer, whose
nusbands were killed on the Pennsylvania
railroad each entered suit for 30,000
damages ‘at Holidaysburg.
Conneatville, Crawford county has a re-
markably small death rate, It has 12,000
inhabitants. In 1891 there were only nine
deaths. The ages ofthe nine ranged from
38 up to 61 years. Seven of the nine aver:
aged over 77 years: Only seven deaths oc-
- curred in 1890; there were 12 in 1889 and only
four in 1888.
Bert Rimmel, of Dawson, was drowned by
the upsetting of a boat in which he was
crossing the river on his way to work. A
companion with him escaped.
William Harley and John Webb, miners,
were seriously and perhaps fatally burned
by explosion of gasin the Glendon colliery.
New Castle people are talking of placing the
control of their town in the hands of three
commissioners.
Fire destroyed the barn of Jghn Hieger’s
estate, at Siegersville. A number of horses
and cows were also burned. Loss, $12,000;
fully insured.
Dr. J. E. Byers, of Butler, and Bart Ne-
bel, of Summit township, partners in the
oil business, have assigned, with liabilities
© of about $25,000 and assets about the same
amount. A year ago they were properous
[odasess, but a poo? market and unprofita-
le drilling involved thera.
. EK. D. Bowman, owner of a large confec-
tionery establishment at Huntington, has
made gn assignment for the benefit of cred-
tors. The liabilities are $8,000.
Aaron Good a wealthy farmer of Harrison
ity, while temporarily insane from the
rip, seized a revolver, in the presence of his
family, and before he could be restrained,
laced it to his temple and blew out his
rains. He was about 50 years old, and
leaves a wife and grown up family.
. The grip is becoming epidemic in the
country jmmediately surrounding West
Newton. Those who have succumbed to it
are William Hayden, Scott Weddle aud ur.
Zimmerman, wealthy farmers of Rostraver
township; Mrs. James Henderson, who
lived just east of town, and Mrs; Peeples, of
Cowansburg. Murray Moiitgomery, another
farmers, is at
.death’s door, as is also a son of Scott
Weddle. The little village of Cowansburg
is full of grip-racked persons for whom
there seems to be no aid, all the physicians
here being kept busy nearer home.
‘Beaver county farmers report that their
fruit trees are irreparably ‘injured by the
recent snow and wind sto hi .
The Rev. W. A. Rankin, for 16 years
| pastor of the First Presbyterian church of
arren, died of the grip. He was 61 years
of age. Since his resignation from the
church here in 1882 he has been engaged in
“the oil business. He was well known
throughout the oil regions. He was burgess
of Warren in 1887 and 1888. He ran for
Congress against L. #, Watson in 1888.
Postal changes for the week:—S. Wert
appointed © at. Elizabethville, © Dauphin
county, vice V, B. Hackman; resigned; J.
H. Work at Maple Creek, Forest county,
vice N. L. Hili, resigned, F'. F. Stephens at
Nicholson, Wyoming county, vice J. Lord,
resigned; J. J. Bennatch at Reistyille, Le-
banon county, vice W, Reist, died; W. R.
Neiss at Denglers, York county, vice A. H.
Wantzell, resigned; F. Thomas at Youghio-
gheny, Westmoreland county, vice M. A.
Ament, resigned; H. N. Martell at Odessa,
Clearfield county, vice F. Martell, resigned;
. A. Curti tt Centre, Wayne county,
vice W Curtis, died; D. J naver at St.
Peters, Chester county, vice J. L. Wells, re-
moved Wm. Cartright at Sobieski, Clear;
field county, vice C. H, Howland, removede
1D. D. Stubbs at Delmar, Tioga county, vict
Es Ghrisian, Fosigned; B. Dime y Bt
wman Creek, Wyoming county, vice I.
nick, resigned; L. RB. Stack = at
.Dimmick, CL. 3 ;
tun n county, vice
GRAND ARMY COLUMN.
DEATH OF SERGEANT SORTORE.
The Captain ofthe Sergsant’s Company
Tells of His Promotiors.
The reply to a recent article headeo
“Almost an Encounter,” is a very good
description of a little skirmish be:
tween a platoon of the 4th N. Y. Cav
and a detail of the 9th Va. Cav., who
were guarding a bridge that spanned
the Mattapony river at a point just .be-
low Guinea Station.
The writer of the article above refer-
red to says that Mr. Knight does not
remember the name of the Sergeant
who was killed in that encounter on
that little bridge.
His name was Samuel Wells Sortore,
First Sergeant, Co. E. 5th. N. Y. Cav,
and his commission as second Lienten-
ant came the day of his death.
What makes this little skirmish and
the death of Serg’t Sortore so indelibly
impressed on the writer's memory was
the circumstances connected with it
as relatesto his premonition of his
impending fate long before he met the
member of the 9th Va. Cay. who car-
ried the ball that was to end his career
on the 21st day of May, 1864. It may
be of interest to Serg’t Knight, Chief
of Scouts, and Lieut. Lewis, of the
Confederate army, to know more of
that brave Sergeant, now that they are
enjoying the luxury of swapping war
incidents. Sergeant Sortore’s premoni-
tions of death, so far as 1t was known
to those comrades who were more inti-
mately conneted with him, dated back
nearly a year, or about the time of the
Gettysburg campaign, while he was
Sergeant of the Ambulance Corps of
the Third Cavalry Diyision, Army of
the Potomac.
In December of that year he asked
to be relieved from his duties in the
Ambulance Corps and return to his
company, giving as hisreason that it
looked cowardly for an able-bodied
man to stay in a position that would
keep him out of battle for fear of being
killed. “I know I shall be killed, but
I am going back to my company,” he
he said. No attention was paid te
these often repeated: remarks; but
when his death finally came these re-
marks were recalled by his comrades
and his changed appearance to a more
solemn, thoughtful and often absent-
mindedness that was observed by all
who knew him best.
His relations with the company were
of the highesi and most pleasant. On
5ne of the last days of December, 1868,
he re-enlisted, having already served
from Augnst,1861. While about to do so
he said: **This is my Only chance to get
a furlough to go and see my old mother,
futher and home.”
As the furloughs were received by
the re enl1 t:d men until after Gen.
Kirkpatrick’s raid to Richmond, in
March, we had only just a few days
previous to the skirmish above spoken
sf returned to our regiment having.been
delayed in Washington waiting for
horses, and were fresh from oar homes
and the girls we left behind us. At
the expiration of our furloughs, when
Sam (we always called him Sam) came
on board of the car at the station near
his home in Friendship, N. Y., to re-
turn to his regiment, who were known
to be at the front with the Army of
the Potomic, the writer met him and
he said: “Dick, do you ever expect to
come back?”
I said: “Yes, when the war is over.”
He replied, “I don’t,”
The evening before the fatal bullet
struck him he gave his little valuables
to his messmates with directions where
to send them, as he was to ‘be killed
the next mornink, It was nearly an
wll-night’s march for us to get from the
right flank of the army to the left front,
while the army was moving, and we
had only just got our line of skirmish-
ars out as the gray of dawn began to
appear in theeast. The balance of the
regiment not on the skirmish line were
marching in columns of fours in the
toad.
Sam and the writer were riding side
by side at the head of the second pla-
toon, he commanding the first. As
soon as the skirmishers were out they
immediately began firing. Just then
we distinctly heard a voice at the front
say: “Send up a platoon to charge the
bridge.”
Sam said: “That means me; I av.
first on the detail. I shall be Rilled,
but I'll go.”
This call might have come from
Serg’t Knight, of the scouts, though
[ have no recollection of seeing him
there, but he was always turning up in
unexpected places, and it is net sur-
n-ising to learn that he was there. The
first platoon was ordered out, Serg’t
Sortore leading it, and making a gal-
lant charge on the bridge and receiv-
ing the fatal bullet where his horse
halted at the point where the planks
were torn up. The second platoon was
immediately ordered up and arrived
just as the Sergeant,who had dismount-
3d from his horse, came back off the
bridge, and as the writer met him said:
“Dick, I am shot,” and throwing up
his hands fell to the ground. But the
progress of the second platoon was
only delayed an instant, while the last
plank was being replaced, and joining
in a pellmell chase after the few Con-
federates in thé woods, who, after
making a gallant little fight, did their
best to escape.—F. 8. DICKINSON in
National Tribune.
Educational.
Billking—*Some able writer says a
man who trusts a friend educates
him.”
Sillkins—*Yes,
himself, teo.”
“How?” ;
“Teaches himself to know better next
time.”— Detroit Free Press. :
and he educates
If you wish to scald your husband,
‘or wife, as the case may be, procure
t- cold water and heat
CURIOUS FACTS.
fondon policemen never carry pistols,
Turniptown, Ga., bas a gourd with &
handle tive feet long.
A Norfolk (Va.) woman has given
birth to nine sets of twins.
Every year 1000 children are born in
the workhouses in London.
A recruiting sergeant says that few
men have legs of equal length.
There is a man seventy-seven year
old studying at Harvard College.
Dried fish was formerly and is still £4
some extent a medium of exchange is
Iceland.
A river of ink that is suitable for writ’
ing with is one of the curiosities of
Algeria. Lok
The London Gazette is the oldest Eng:
lish paper. It was first published Nov.
smber 7, 1665. :
The waters of the Indian Ocean now
jow over the site of old Calicut, the
»lace from which calico takes its name
One of the Paris (France) restaurants
as introduced colored waiters, all of
whom, according to a correspondents
“speak excellent French.”
The frog, owing to its peculiar cons
itruction, cannot breathe with the mouth
open, and would die from suffocation if"
& were kept open forcibly. :
Wild clover is said to be a delicacy
among certain tribes of American In
dians, who devour it with all the relish
that a Frenchman does a salad. :
A woman and her two sons have jus
matriculated in the Kentucky Univer
sity, and expect to take the entire co
iege course 1n the same classes.
John Allen, a colored man, who is
said to have had the biggest feet e
seen in Towa, died the other day at Fort
Dodge. He wore No. 17 shoes. g
The Tasmanian caves, of which the
are a large number, are lit in a singulas
manner. Millions of glow worms I
ing to the walls and ceilings furnish th
illumination. Tinthe
According to a Chinese paper, §
locusts have been doing terrible dama
in the province of Yangchow, bul
strangely enough, they bave only eaten
reeds and leaves of trees and have
the crops untouched. on :
The bog of :Allen, Ireland, is
largest unclaimed bog, covering nearly
quarter miliion acres. The heatin
power of peat is about half that of coa
and it forms a very valuable article to
the poor Irish peasant. La
The broken idol that stands at the
corner of the plaza: at Granada, Spair
known as the Piedra de ta Boca,
stone with the mouth, always has
mouth stuffed with flowers whenever a
revolution is pending, and during earth:
quakes people have been caugh
shiping it. ;
Many kinds of grass seed are used ti
make flour for bread and mush of exce
lent quality. Along the rivers in Colo
rado and Arizona grass seeds are collect.
ed in large quantities and supply a muel
valued winter food for the Indians.
They are ground into flour, mixed with
water into a dough and cakes of the lat.
ter are baked in the het sand. it
The surface of any given quantity o
gold, according to the best authorities,
may be extended by the hammer 310,
814 times. The thickness of the metal
thus extended appears to be no more
than the 566,020th part of an inch,
Eight ounces of this wonderful meta
would gild a silver wire of sufficie
length to extend entirely around thi
globe.
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A Millionaire Chicken Raiser.
‘William K. Vanderbilt, of New York,
has a peculiar fad, and with teme Vande:
derbilt foresight he has turned it to pro
itable account. He devotes as much |
his time as he can possibly spare to &
chicken farm on Long Island. Twice
week he visits his chicken farm, and it
is said he is as fussy over the little chic
as a mother hen could possibly be. Per
haps he sympathizes with the little
birds, as nearly all of them come inte
the world orphans, thatis to say, they
are turned out of newly constructed in.
cubators at the rate of several thousand
a week. This farm is sometimes said fc
be an expéusive fad, but as a matter
fact it pays the owner a revenue of some
thing like $20,000 a year in addition
supplying the entire Vanderbilt conn
tion with chickens and eggs. ¥
Members of this family never talks
about their money. They have, literally,
bushels of it! but modestly refrain fro
boasting. They spend lavishly and are
said to be tne most liberal contributors
to charity of any rich family in America.
All the Vanderbilt boys married well,
and their wives have without exception
proved helpmeets to. them in every sense
of the word.—=8t. Louis Republic.
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A Singular Rex Trap.
Two of three nights ago a fox, while
prowling about the western part of South
Glastonbury, near the river, caught h
tail in a barbed wire fence. In sou
way, evidently in an attempt to escap
he twisted it about the wire seve
times and finally firmly anchored hims
In this novel way. Of course it did n
take very long for some one to discov
his plight in the morning, and the
ler boys put an end to his chicken
ing with their guns. The statemen
rest on perfectly unassailable testim
and the incident makes, 1t is believed
thoroughly unique record in the histor
of fox ‘‘hunting” in Connecticu
Hartford (Conn.) Courant.
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Origin of the Aztec Race
The Aztecs trace their * origin
legendary land of Aztian, where
dwelt in seven caverns of th
After a cataclysm and dis
tongues the '
their fellows, and traveled
It is said that the seven
it before using