5 The Sermonas Delivered b the Brooklyn + Divine. 2 TEXT: “There. was silence in heavex about the space of half an‘hour.”—Revelas tion viii, 1. 3 ~The busiest place in the universe is heaven. It is the center from which all i fluences start. It isthe goal whic good results arrive. The Bible represents it as active with wheels and win, orchese #rasand i ted, arrest ‘was put u all the ndors. *‘Stop, heaven?” ried ai dupont voice, and it stop 'or iy utes everything celestial stood still, “There was silence in heaven for half an hour ” _ ¥rom all we can learn it is the only time heaven ever stopped. It does not stop as other cities for the night, for there is no might thera. It does not stop for a plague, for the inhabitant never says, “I am sick.” "© It does not stop for bankruptcies, for its in- habitants never fail. It does not stop for - impassable streets, for thers are no fallen Snows nor sweeping freshets. What, then, the destruction of Jerusalém: Mr. Lord thinks it was inthe year 811, between the ~ close of the Diocletian persecution and the “beginning of the wars by which Constantine ned the Satori. But that was all a guess, ugh a learned and nit was and :1 hat 3 all wemay learn that God and all heaven honored silence. The longest and widest dominion (that ever existed. is “that over which stillness was queen, ' For ~ an eternity there had not been a sound. “World making was a later day ‘occupation. For unimaginable ages it wi "2.4 ut “werse. God was the only ng, and as there was no one fo speak to there was no mtterance, - But that sience has been all broken up into worlds, and it has becoma a meisy universe. Worlds in upheaval, worids in congelation, worlds in ¢ afiagragian; worlds in revolution. If geologists right ~—and 4. believe they are—there has not been a moment of silence since this world egan iis travels, and the crashings, and tae splittings, and the uproar, and the hub- dub are ever in pro But when among the supernals a voice cTieq, “Hush!” and for half an hour heaven’ was as honored. The full of us have yet to sever shook the world. Oftentimes, when we are assailed and misrepresented, the’ might-. dest thing to say isnothing,and the mightiest thing to do is nothing. Those people avho are always rushing into print to get iemselves set right accomplish nothing bug their own chagrin. Silence! Do right and deave. the results with God. Among the grandest lessons the world has ever learnei are the lessons of patience taught by those who endured uncomplainingly personal or. «domestic or social or political injustice. _ Btronger than any bitter or sarcastic or wevengeful answer was the patient silenca, The famous Dr. Morrison, of Chelsea, ac- ished as much by his silenf pati 0 Lg ues ; enty-1i ve ye: «ouch at two o'clock each morning. His oursonsand daughters dead. The remain- g child by sunstroke made insane. Tne fl man said, *‘'At this moment there ds not an inch of my body that is not filled "with agony.” Yet, he was cheerful, trium- sphant, silent, Those who were in his pres aca said they foals as though they were in: © g of ‘Heaven. : b, the power of patient silence! Eschy- us, the immortal poet, was condemned to iting Something, Sua offended 11'the pleas in his behalf wers until his brother uncoversd the «on earth is silence if it be of the right kin and at theright time. There was a quaint old hymn, spelled in the old style, and onca sung in the churches; i race is not foraver got By mm who {asteat runs, Near, telby those peopell That shoot with the longest gans. # ‘My friends, the tossing Sea, of Galilee d mostito offend Christ by the amount of 1 it made, for He said to it, “‘Be still? Heaven has been growning kings and queens unto God for many centuries, yot heaven mover soppd a moment for any such occur- rence, but Stotned sirty nutes for the «<oronation of , ‘There was silence in heaven for half an hour.” Learn also from my text that heaven must ¥ “and active place, 0 ob that it.conld afford only thirty mn 3 ©F recess, ' There have been events on earth whole week: or whole year for leday or Wi .£ © 4 eration. | If Grotius wasright and this silence occurred at the time of the i erusalem, that scene was so Riclonged that the inhabitants 11d mot bave done justice to it 4n many weeks. After fearful besiegement of the two for. . ¢resses of Jerusalem—Antonio and Hippicus «had been going on for a long while,a Roman ‘soldier mounted on the shoulder of another soldier hurled into the window of the tem- ple a firebrand, and the temple was all / aflame, and after coverin, ADS sacrifices to the holiness of God, the building itself became a sacrifice to the rags of man, The hunger of the people in that city during the legement was 80 great that assome out- _ .daws were passing a doorway .and inhaled * the odors of food, they burst open th _ threatening the motnér: of the jhe dpo with death unless she she took them aside and showed them it was hor own child she was cooking for the ghast. & since that seemed to demand a | ey % £4 ix n |, priests ‘were destroyed on A use the temple being gone there was nothing for them to do. Six thou- J le in one eloi were consumed. 7 There were one million one hundred thou- sand dead, according to Josephus, . Grotius toinks that this was the cause of silence in heaven for half an hour. . If Mr. Lord was tand this silence was during the Diocle- tian p tions, by which eight hundrad and forty-four thousand Ch: suff dea and. exposure, why did not heaven: listen ghroughont at least one of those awfal years? ~ Nol Thirty minutes! The fact is that : the celestial program : Tacle tab it nn afford only one recess in all \ 7 eternity and that for a short space. : While there are great choruses in which . all heaven can join, each soul there has a story of divine mercy peculiar to itself and it must, be a solo. How can heaven get through ‘with: all its Tecitatives, with all | 3t8 cantos, with all its grand marches, with "all its victories? Brest, is too SE to (utter all the praise, ‘my text heaven spared thirty minutes, but it will never ‘again spare one minute, In worship in rearthly churches, when there are many to EE how ‘wi eave) of rapidly en i let ithe one Edy nd forty-four h Bill the one hi So Cot ae olf po riumpha. of ; nly a ] e trium 0) oy brilliant’ gress: “1doy tospare. Silence m heaven only the canturi from the. minntes aseBold ave them food, and me is socrowded with specs ou- ! ven 1 would not have ‘ab the annou ncemen § but if adicaten Shirty Ran a 2 z of the greatly good and useful that we will want to ses; gi of Se inscrutable things of earth .we will need ; 80 many exciting ear! exper- dences we will an to talk over, and all the other spirits and all the ages will want the same, that there will be no more opportunity for cessation. How busy we will be kept. in having J pointed out to us the heroes and heroines -| that the world never fully appreciated—the yellow fever and cholera doctors who died, not flying from their posts; the female nurses who faced pestilence in the lazarettos; the railroad engineers who staid at their places in order to save the train though er Go i aster miner, wh 0 8 er, wi landing from the bucket at the bottom of the mine, just as he heard the waters rush in, and when one jerk of the rope would have lifted him into safety, put a blind miner who wanted to go to his sick child in the bucket and jerked the rope for him to be ulled up, crying, *‘Tell them the water has urst inand we are probably lost, but we will seek refuge ati theother end of the right gal- lery;” and then giving the command to the _ other miners till they digged themselves so near out that the people m the outside could come to their reseue, The multitudes of men and women who got no crown on | earth we will want to see when they get their crown in heaven. I tell you heaven will have no mere half hours to spare. Besides that, heaven is full of children. Stopped 1t for thirty minutes? Grofius an: - They are lu the vast majority, No child on, Professor Stuart think it was at the time of | guiet half an hour, and how: are you going ‘fo keep five hundred million of them quiet half an hour. You know heaven is much more of a place than it was when that recess | ¥ of thirty minutes ocenrred. Its population gq ; «conta centupled. ouses down on tho East: village reached mp only to Sands street, as compared with what this great Shy snowy Jou not so much difference be- tween New York when al street was far \up town, and now when Canal street is far down town, than there is a difference be- ‘een what heaven was when my text was written and what heaven is now. The most ‘thrilling Place we have ever been in is stupid comp with that, and if we now have no time to spare we will then have no eternity an My sabject also impresses ma with the im- morality of a half hour. . That half hour mentioned in my text is more widely known than any other period in the calendar of heaven. None of the whole hours of heaven are measured off, none of the years, noné of an Of the millions of azes past ani the millions ‘of ages to coms not one is especially measurel off in the Bible. The half hour of my text is made immortal. The only part of eternity that wasever measured by earthly timepiece was measured by the minute hand of my text. Oh, the half hours! They decide every- thing. Iam not asking what you will do with the years or months or days life, but what of the half hours. the history of your half ‘hours and [ will tell you the story of your whole life on earth and the story of your whole life The right or wrong things you can think in thirty, minutes, the right or wrong things you can say in thirty minntes, the right or wrong things you can do in thirty utes are glorious or baleful, inspiring or desper- ate. Look out for the fragments of time. They are pieces of eternity. It was the half hours between shoein horses that made Elihu Burritt the. i blacksmith; the half hours between pro- fessional calls as a physician that made Abercrombie the Christian philosopher; the half ‘hours between his duties as school- master that made Salmon P, Chase chief justice; the half hours between shoe lasts that ‘made Henry Wilson vice president of ‘the Unifed States; the half hours between canal boats that made James A, Garfield president. : The half hour a day for good books or bad books, the half hour a day for prayer or in- dolence, the half hour a day for helping others or blasting others, the half hour be- fore you go to business and the half hour after your return from business—that makes the difference between the scholar and: the ignoramus, between the Christian and the infidel, between the saint and the demon, be- tween triumph and catastrophe, between heaven and hell. The most tremendous | things of your life and mine were certain ‘hours, ©: % 1} : The half hour when in the parsonage of a nister L resolved to become a : become a preacher of the Gospel; the half hour when nN first realized ‘that my son was dead; the half hour when I stood on the top of my house in Oxford street and saw. our church burn; the half hour in which I'entered Jerusalem; the half hour in which I ascenced Mount Cal- vary; the half hour in which I stood on Mars hill; the half hour in which tha dedi- catory prayer of this temple was made, and about ten or fifteen other half hours are the ghief times of my life. You may forget the nama of the exact or most of the im- portant events of your existence, but those half hours, like the half hour of my text, will be immorial. : I do not query what = will do with the Twentieth century. Ido not JQuery what you will do with 1892, but what will you do with the next half hour? Upon that hinges your destiny. And during that some of you will receive the Gospel and make complete surrender, and during that others of yon will make final and fatal rejection of the full and free and urgent and impassioned offer of life eternal. Oh, that the next half hour might be the most glorious thirty min- utes of ou sarihiy « existence. bm n ‘ar back in a great geographer stood with a sailor loo Eat a globe. that represented our planet, ani he poin a place on the globe where he thought there was an undiscovered continent. That un- discovered continent was America. The ‘geographer who pointed where he thought there was a new world was Martin Bel sailor to whom he showed it roy . This had picked that out to you huother continent, yea, anoth world, that you may yourselves find a ra; world, and that is the world a hopr of which we now study. Ob, set sail for itt Here is the ship and here are the compasses. In other words, make this half hour, be- ginning at teenty minutes to twelve by my watch, the g est half hour of your life and become a Christian. Pray for a regen- erated spirit. Louis XIV, while walking in the on at Versailles, met Mansard, the eat architect, and the architect took off 8 hat before the king. ‘Put on your hat,” said the kin cold.” And Mansard, the architect, the rest of the evening kept on his hat. The dukes and marquises standing with bare heads be- fore the king expressed their surprise at Mansard, but the king said, “I can make a duke or igre ps, but God only can makea g » d Il say to you, my hearers, only by His convincing andoonverting grace can makea’ Christian, but He is y this very half hour to accomplish it. Again my text suggests a way of studying heaven so that we etter understand it. terni that we handle so this masterpie that amounts to anything ‘ean be kept Tell he in eternity. ‘the: made it out of the sea and set it in the Sonn of the world’s geography. Oh, ye who have been sailing up and down the rough seas of sorrow and sin, let me poini ‘for the evening is damp and" re oe Ee more en we e only minutes of itat a time. Now We lave 20me- thing we can come nearer to grasping, and it isa quiet heaven. When we discourse about the multitudes of heaven it must be almost a nervous shock to those who have all their lives been crowded by many peo- ple and who want a quiet heaven. the last thirty-five years I have been much of the time in crowdsand under public scrutiny and amid excitements, and I have sometimes thowght for a few weeks after I reach heaven I would like to go down in guiet part of the realm with a few some friends and for some little while try com- parative solitude. Then there are thosa whose hearing is so delicate that they get no satisfaction when you describs the crash of the eternal orchestra, and they feal like say- ing, as a good woman in Hudson, N. : d, after hearing me speak of the mighty chorus of heaven. ‘That must be a great heaven, but what will become of my poor head?’ Yes, thishalf hour of my textisa still experience, s #There was silence in heaven for half an hour.” You will find the inhabitants all at home. Enter the King’s Palace and take only a glimpse, for we have only thirity min- utes for all heaven. *'Is that Jesus?’ ‘‘Yes.” Just under the hair along His forehead is the mark of a wound made by a buuch of twisted brambles, and His foot on the throne has on the round of His instep another mark of a wound made by a spike, and a scar on the palm of the leit hand. But what a countenance! What a smile! What a grandeur! What a loveliness! What an overwhelming look - of kindness and grace! Why, He looks as if He had redeemed a world! But come on, for our time is short. Do yousee that row of palaces? hat is she Apostoiic row. Do ou see that lon; S glories?’ That is Martyr row, Do you ses that immense. structure? That is the big- t house in heaven; that is “the House of any Mansions.” Do you see that wall? Shade your eyes against its burning splen- dor, for that is the wall of heaven, jasper at the bottom and amethyst at the top, See this river rolling through the heart of the great metropolis? That is the river concerning which those who once lived on the banks of the Hudson, or the Ala- bama, or the Rhine, or the Shannon say, “We never saw the like of this for ‘clarity and: sheen.” That is the Chiat Tver of heaven—so bri ht, sO wide, Jo eel ub you ask, _‘Waoers ara. tha asylums for the. bla’ 1 answer, “Fas inhabitants ars all young?” ‘‘Where are the hospitals forthe lame?’ ‘‘I'hey are all agile,” ‘Where are the infirmaries for the d and deaf?! ‘‘Theyall see and hear.” “Where are the almhouses for the oor “They are all muitimillionaires.” ‘Where are the 'inebriate asylums?’ * ‘Why, thers are no saloons.” = *‘Whera are the grave: yardsf® “Why, they never. die. | H: Sows ‘those vards of gold and amber and sapphire and see those interminable streets built by the Archi- tect of the universe into ' homes, over the threshold of which sorrow never steps, and out of whoss windows faces, once pale with. earthly sickness, now look rubicund with immortal health. ‘‘Oh, let me go ina se them?” you gay. No, you cannot There are those there who go in. would never consent: to: les you ‘come up. on yy Lak mo ata y here ‘in this place where they never sin, where they never suf- fer, where ‘they never part.” No, nol Our time is short, our thirty minutes are almost gone. Come on!’ We must get back to the earth before this half hour of heavenly silences braaks up, for in your mortal state you: ean- not endure the pomp and splendor and reso- nance when this half hour of silence is ended. The day will come when you can ses heaven in full blast, but not now. I am now only showing you heavenat the dullest half hour of all the eternities.. Goms on! There. is something in the celestial a aT ; makes me think that the half bour of silence will Soon be over: Yonder are’ the white ing hitched to chariots, and yonder a harps as if about to | are seraphs fingerin strike then into symphony, and yonder are conquerors taking down from the blue halls of heaven the trumpets of victory. Remembar, we are mortal yet, and cannot endure the full roll of heavenly harmonies and cannot endure even the silent heaven for more than half an hour, Hark! the clock in the tower of heaven begins to strike and the half hour is ended. Descend! Coma back! Oome down till your work is donel Bhoulder a little longer Jou Burdens! Fight a little longer your battles! Weep a little longer your griefs! And then take heaven, not in its dullest half hour, but in its mightiest pomp, and instead of taking it for thirty minutes take it world without end. : But how will you spend the first half hour of your heavenly citizenship after you have e in to stay? After your prostration be- throne in worship ‘of: Him who ble for you to get there at all, I think the rest of your first half hour in heaven will be passed in receiving Jour Tes ward if you have been faithful. have a strangely beautiful book containing tures of the medals struck by the English Government in honor of great battles; these medals pinned over the heart of the re- turned herossot L3he army on great eecasious, the al fami resent; the rimean hos id the Neth cross, the Waterloo medal, In first half hour in heaven in some HE be honored for the earthly struggles in which you won the day. Stand up before all the royal house of heaven and’ receive the while you are an. victor over over dom infelicities, victor over me. chani¢’s shop, victor over the storehouse, victer ever home worriments, victor over physical distresses, victor, over hereditary depressions, victor over sin and death and hell, Take the badge that celebrates those victories through our Lord Jesus Christ. Take it in the presence of all the galleries— saintly, angelic and divine! Tay orious war They triamp] ney es see ui A d seize it with their eye. How He Hoodwinked Her. A celebrated German physician was pnce called upon to. treat an aristo- sratic lady, the sole cause of whose somplaint was high living and lack ot exercise. But it would never do to tell her so, 80 his'medical advice ran vhus: “Arise at 5 o'clock, take a walk in the park for one hour, then irink a cup of tea, then walk another nour, and take a cup of chocolate. Take breakfrst at 8.” Her condition improved visibly, until one fine morn- tng the carriage of the baroness was teen to approach the physician’s resi- dence at lightning speed: tient dashed up to the doctor's office, and on his appearing on the scene she gasped out: “Oh, doctor, I took the thocolate first.” ‘Then drive home as fast as you san,” ejaculated the astute disciple of Esculap, rapidly writing. a prescrip- sion, ‘‘and take thisemetic.” The tea "must be underneath.” The grateful satient complied. She is still ime - oroving. _ California produced the first ‘bars of American tin from American mines, worked by American machinery and dug out by American miners at Temescal, San Bernardino County. ha mad i A Now Haven {Cona.) physicisa hav 1a to th a that clams prop reaca of architectural . ancs which The pa-" lifting & shovelful ticular spot it POPULAR SCIENCE. A bee does not weigh the one-hun dredth part of an ounce. ; It is said that the grip this year par takes of the nature of neuralgia. Electric motors have been so greatly improved of late that they will now pull nearly 30,000 pounds. Naturalists haye enumerated 657 dif- ferent species of reptiles. Of this num- ber 490 are as harmless as rabbits. By a new system, compound sheets ot platinum and gold are used to make cru- cibles for use in industrial chemistry. The Maine Cattle Commission has dis. tovered tuberculosis in cattle from Mass- achusetts, and has ordered that importa- lion be stopped. Steel smokestacks are being placed up- » the locomotives of the elevated rails toads in New York City, thus reducing the weight from 800 to about 100 pounds. An apparatus for purifying lubricating oils coming from machinery has been patented in Norway whereby the same oil can be used many times at a trifling expense. * + In order to photograph the flying in. sect, the exposure must last only 1-25,- 900th part of a second. This the French photographer, M. Marey, claims {0 have accomplished by the aid of a new instru- ment invented by himself. © Hé has also photographed the blood globules circu- lating in a vein. Owing to the lack of penetrating fove possessed by the electric arc light n thick weather, its use in lighthouses is not recommended. Inventive talent is now being brought to bear in England to ascertain a better composition of the carbons, with a view to supplying the re- guired rays for penetrating effect. The effect of a recent explosion at Rome in which 265 tons of gunpowder blew up, has been observed on the bar- ometer at the Roman College, which is four kilometres from the magazine. The increase of atmospheric pressure caused by the sudden evolution of gases made the mercury jump up 11.4 millimetres. The recent rise in the price of cannel coal has led the English gas companies to look about for some other meais of increasing the illuminating power of the gas, This has been found in Russian petroleum, from a light product of which according to Mr, Weaver, a rich gas it ‘now being supplied in Kensington by the |' local company. An extraordinary result has been ob tained by some experiments made in Eng- land in signalling with electric lights turned vertically to the sky. The light of the Eddystone lighthouse can be seen only 17% miles, and then on a clear night; but a vertical beam of light of far less power is visible just twice as far, with g strong ebance of ‘its surmounting an or- dinary fog. i. . | Professor Krail,of Vienna, Austria, in examining the bands of a mummy, pro- bably of the age of the Ptolemies, which . ‘for the last forty years has been pre- served in a museum, has found a strip of linen with several hundred lines of Etrus, can writing. ' In this text, which is the longest ‘we possess in that language, some words occur that are to be found in Etrus. can inscriptions known fo us, but the whole cannot, in the actual state of Etrus. can studies, be deciphered. Examination has shown that fish came back to the stream where they were born after having been out at sea for the win- ter months. This is known by the marks placed on them and by the general dif- ference in the varieties of salmon and shad which came to different streams. This is not only a curious and interest- ing fact, but an important one in the consideration of the laws governing fish- eries and fish culture, as it allows each Btate to have its own system and provide tor its own fish. or i ——— I ——— Baffle the Counterfeiters. “There is one featurejof United States Treasury notes which counterfeiters find impossible to imitate,” said a Treasury official to the Man About Town, ‘‘and that is the two blue silk threads which you have noticed run lengthwise through the bills. They are little over an inch. apart, and though sometimes almost in- visible they form part of every bill issued by the Government. These threads are put in the paper when it is made at the factory, and as it is a penitentiary offence for any paper manufacturer to make the paper it is impossible for counterfeiters to secure it. I never saw but one bad bill that had asilk thread init, and that only had one thread instead of two, and was, therefore, easily detected as spurious, It was quite plain from the frayed edges of the thread that the counterfeiter had split the bill, and then putting the thread in had pasted the two parts together again. The fellow must have been very stupid not to know that genuine money has two threads in- stead of one.”—8t.' Louis Republic. Dog Meat for Consumptives. How long will it be before canine cut. lets will be a part of the regular menu in hospitals where pulmonary diseases are specially treated? A New York woman acknowledges that she fed her’ husband on dog meat for months and effected a complete cure, the good man believing the while that the wife had discovered a new and more palatable way of prepar- ing mutton. This women is Mrs. Louise Schwartz, of East Ninth street. This was thirty-four years ago, and the hus- band died without learning of the de- ception his wife had practised on him, but he lived many years, and was finally carried away by a trouble that did not affect the lungs at all. But a Brooklyn German has gone a step further, he sells ‘essence of dog, or perhaps it would be more proper to say extract of dog, at $1 a bottle, having rendered it from the carcass.—St. Louis Republic. II ears. On the Eastern frontier of the Dark Continent coal is so plentiful that by of clay off any " reache EGYPT'S NEW KHEDIVE. The Career and Attainments of the Young Prince Abbas, The late Khedive of Egpyt, Tewfik Pacha, who died in Cairo on January 7, left four children, two boys and two girls, borne him by his only wife, Princess Emineh, whom he married in 187, His eldest son, Abbas Bey, the present hedive, was rn on Toe 14, 1874, and therefore will attain his majority in six months. he was educated by A. T. Butler, who acted for several years as his tuto~ and lwho has bee for a long while ingthe ‘da rice of the late Khedive. It is this circumstance which has given rise to the:too general be- lief that the young Prince, having been at first under British tuition, would prove to an ophite to a still greater extent than was father, Tewfik. But it is diffi- cult to decide that question, for Abbas Bey has not yet had an opportunity to show his sentiments and his opinion about the politi. cal affairs of his country. He has spent the last three years at the Oriental Academy of Vienna; and he speaks German and French 88 well ‘as ho speaks English. __ MERINO-SHEEP BREEDERS. The Annual Meeting of the Association Held at Steubenville, Steubenville, Jan, 30—The seventeenth annual meeting of the United States Merino- Sheep Breeders’ association was held here this week, with representativ s present from half a dozen States. The work of the execu- tive committee was approved, ard J. B. Hewey selected as president pro tem. ‘W. B. Pollock, of Canonsburg, Pa., who was a delegate of the National Delaine asso- ciation to a joint meeting of sheep-breeders with the World’s Fair directors, presented a report, claiming that American breeders were discriminated against, as there would be considerable red tapé connected with exhibiting. Exhibitions of Americans would have to be done as individuals as against English, Australian and Canadian sheep- breeders who could exhibit by States or counties. . A Pennsylvanian here arose and said tha in the committee of thirty appointed to look after Pennsylvania's interests atthe fair the farmer was not given half a show, as the only granger on the committee came from the Kast and that he hired his farm workers, They. as an association, had asked that a practical sheep breeder be appointed, but their request was ignored. e also thought they should exhibit as an association, so that a good showing cold be made: A committee of five was ‘then appointed to look after their interests at the fair. ' A resolution was also passed askin that the fair be closed on the Sabbath an that no liquor be sold on the grounds. It was decided that all sheep to be registered must be presented by July 1, 1892, and 1892 lambs by October 1, 1892. The following officers were then elested: President, T. Donaldson, Scroggstield, ‘ Ohio; vice presidents, . Arcuer, of Burgettstown, P.., and Robert Perrine, of Pattersons Mills, Pa; secretary and treasur- er, J. A. B. Walker, of Enon Valley. Pa.; member of executive board, James Buell, of Independence, Pa.; of auditing board, W. H. Buchanan, of West Middleton, Ohio; George J. Graham, of Smithfield, Ohio, and 0. Watkins, of Maynard, Ohio: examining sheep, James Glass, of Burgettstowm. The session adjourned to meet in Steubenville in January, 1893. The greatest merino sheep raising inter- ests in this district center around western Pennsylvania, West Virginia and eastern Ohio, within a radius of 100 miles,and many prominent sheep raisers of the district werd in attendance, BAKER BALLOT LAW TEST. Supreme Court Askad to Declare ths Ballot Law Unconstitutional. Philadelphia, January 30.—Application was made to the supreme court for an in- junction to restrain the commissioners, treasurer and controller of this county from putting the recently enacted Australian ballot law into operation. ‘The petition is signed by a number of prominent citizens; and is a very lengthy one, setting forth a number of legal reasons. The petitioners are all Prohibitionists and claim that because their vote fell below the 3 per cent. required by the new ballot law it divides the voters int)» two classes, making numbers in the party groups an additional qualifica tion for the free and equal execrcise of the right of suffrage. It is also claimed that the law is in violation of the bill of rights, and petitioners pray the court to pronounce it unconstitutional. FIRES AND FAILURES. At Centralia, Ill, Wells & Garrett's hard- ware store and John Glorer's harness store were burned. Loss, $25,000. The Guard printing office was badly damaged. The Chester, (8. 0.) cotton factory burned. Loss, $220,000; insurance, $150,000. Over 200 operatives are thrown out of work, At Duewest, 8. C., the Erskine college was burned. Toss, $25,000, with out insurance. At Kansas City, Mo., 3800 mules and 18 horses in Sparks Bros.’ mule market anda stallion worth $2,000, were consumed by fire. Loss, between $35,000 and $40,000; insurance not known. At Pine Bluffs, Ark:, a half block of busi- ness houses were burned. Loss, $150,000; insurance small. At Chicago, a five story building, occupied by the Chicago Crutch & Machine company, the Illinois Broom company, and the Smith & Bayne's Piano company, was gutted by fire. Loss, $65,000. : Vit A Wife Driven Insane. © Bethlehem, Pa., Jan. 30—Mrs, Catharine ‘Johnson isa raving maniac by brooding over the mysterious disappearance of her husband two weeks ago. The couple are : y moved Lore from, " probably fatall PENNSYLVANIA NOTES. A Few Oondensations of Evants Occur- ring Throughout the State. Jacob Reikal, aged 65, while working ina sawmill at Kremis, a small village near Mercer, was caught in a belt and drawn between a fly-wheel and boiler, where he was crushed into a shapeless mass, He leaves a wife and four children. Miles Bradshaw, of near Beaver Falls, on Monday nigbt had 70 sheep, valued at $400, killed by dogs. ; Beforeleaving for work Friday morning an oil driller ngmed Stoner, living at yo Junction, turned on the gas in the stove, leaving his wife and child seeping in bed. Shortly after fire broke out, and before the neighbors could subdue the flames, both mother and babe were burned to death. They were found lying in bed, with the child clasped in its mother's arms. RE The Pain ertown eil field, about nine miles southwest of Greensburg, is being de= veloped succe-sfully. Itis known now that an exceptionally fine grade of lubricating oil has been found on the Futon farm. Indications point to a good flow when the well is completed. Great secracy is main- tained by those in charge of the premises: ‘The oil, in its crude condition, is valued at $6 a barrel. i A lad named Michael McCloskey, aged & = Joass, residing in Philadelphia, secared & ; ottle containing about a quarter of a ping of whiskey and drank thecontents He had been a sufferer from valvular disease of the heart, and the whiskey so stimulated the action of that organ as to cause death. i Alfred James, a missing Washington Soy. > is supposed to'have perished by freezing im the woods. y License court convened at Clarion. Judge Clark granted license to 38 out of 44 ap cants, with an order that bars should be closed by 10:30 p. m. : A wire nail over an inch in length was found imbedded in the liver of a chicken killed at Rochester. ° oh Bert Rush, a young man living at Farms ington, Fayette county, was thrown from pony Sunday and fataly injured. : John Wentzell, of Greensburg, was 3tacked and fatally injured by a ferocious 0g. i John Watkins, of Kamerer, Washington county, accidentally shot himself through the heart. ei Tl @ 3-year~old son of James Montgomery of Washington fell into the fire and was burned to death. Oliver Mackin was killed while felling a tree within a mile of Johnstown, the crushing his body. Ca Senator Cameron has introduced tions in the U, 8. Senate from over 200 towns in Pennsylvania favoring the passage of a bill. Sanonng oleomargarine to the laws of the several States. a 2 Daniel Weller died on his farm, where he was born, near Canonsburg, aged 81. : leaves 11 children, 27 grandchildren and one great grandchild, - ae John MeClymods and his daughter, of Darlington, were pethajs fatally injured in a runaway accident at Beaver s Sa Last week two children of the family of John Cetz, a hotelkeeper at Landis Vi ; died of diphtheria within half an hour of each other, Friday two more of his children died of the same disease. The first children who died were buried at the same time and the two who died Friday also will be buried at one time. 3, George R. Senter, employed at the e chute, as struck by an engine at PR and fatally hurt, Hori we Mrs Davis, of Philadelphia; laid | Sleeping infant on the open folding bed the other day, and went about her duties in an: other part of the house. While absent, her little son loosed the latch and the bed cl 5 He did not know baby was in the bad. Later the mother réturned and found her baby dead, it haying been suffoca Se Two dwellings on the Adair farm, Wash- ing county, were totally destroved by fire, The occupants lost all: their effects. Total loss, $5,000, : ia John Barr, recently released from the Riverside penitentiary, was frozen to death near Enterprise Wednesday night. Hehad been drinking heavily and attempted to = walk to the house of his sister, On account of business engagements, Cap- tain John ‘iorrison, State- TUrers elect, has decided not to accept the cashiers ship of the treasury tendered him after himy election by State Treasurer Boyer. - Robert F.-P. Pollock, of Marchard, killed himself by the accidental discharge ofa gus, while hunting. ba An insane man, J. J. McFee, was stran- led to death by a fellow inmate, O. A. Wil- ams, at the Dixmont, iPa.) insane asylom. Peter Ryan, & prominent f rmer living near Connellsvi le, while crossing a bi pil on the Southwest Penn road, was struckby a train and instantly killed. He leaves a wi ‘and six children. i ' Miss Allie Born, of Canonsburg, fell on th slippery pavement and iractured her skull. She is not expected to iive. : The handsome Catholic church at Con- nellsville was destroyed by fire, The build- ng including contents, was valu d at nearly insurance. The church was built in 1886, and the building, which was the finest church edifice in the country, alone cost. ,000. : iv John Lafferty, aged 84 years, was foumd = frozen to on a field adjoining his 9 residence at East Nottingham. i Anthracite coal has been found in Berks = county. Moh Seymour White, a brakeman in the Al- toona yards, wasrun over and instantly killed by a shifting’engine. ; George Leinbach, of Leesport, aged 40,and = one of the wealthiest citizens in Berks county, was killed in his stable by a vicious horse. He was kicked on the temple. Mrs. Edward Kensinger, of Altoona, was atally burted Saturday eveningby the exp losion of a lamp. According to the firsi official reportof Hoskins & McClintock, assignees of the Messrs. Delamater, the er lies of” theinsolvent bankers will not receive more than 8 or 10 cents on the dollar. : Near Erie, fire destroyed the Lone Fisher man’s inn, a widely known summer resort located on the bank: of Preseque Isle bay. Loss, $10,000; insurance unknown. ; 2 An incendiary fire at Altoona destroyed A.C. Mercer & Co.’s brick works. ' Loss, $6,000; partially insured. : 3 THERE is no doubt that the noise of ‘the city has been steadily increas. ing for many years. It is perhaps fn. evitable, and yet it is plain enough that, if some restriction is not puy upon the unnecessary turmoil, there will be no such thing as residence here, except to those unable to retire into the suburbs. One easily be comes convinced of the insensibl wear and tear upon the nerves of a the racket incident to the city by noting the irritability it oc-asions after the annual .return from the country, when a term of rural qui has taken us back to our normal sens sibility. Oh, for the conveniences of the city and the country’s opport te At : ties for r $100,000, on which theré was only $25000
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