in astronomy, a good many things about my 'own system I don't understand; yet I believe them. And I'm glad there are things in the Bible I don't understand. If I could take that book up and read it as I would any other book, I might think I could write a book like that, and so could you. I am glad there are heights I haven't been able to climb up to. I am glad there are depths I haven't been able to fathom." Geo. F. Pentecost says: "In the history of the ministry and resurrection of Christ there is no room for delusion, and no conception of trickery; though unbelievers have in vain tried to fasten both delusion and fraud upon the New Testament records; but the more these records have been examined in the light of historical criticism, the more transparent does it appear that the supernatural history therein recorded actually occurred. The Christian need have no fear that the foundations of his faith will ever be shaken by any examination of them which infidelity may choose to institute. It would be well for us if we might shake ourselves entirely free from the various efforts which misguided friends of Christ have made in order to explain, in accordance with natural causes, the undoubtedly miraculous history of our faith." Soul sustaining power of grace, Leave me not till I may share Marshallton, Pa., Eighth mo. 17th, 1885. What Sort? What sort of morality is that which satisfies a man in the non-payment of a debt as long as his creditor refrains from dunning." What sort of morality is that which satisfies itself in the non-payment of a debt because it small amount-a trifle. is What sort of morality is that which calls the attention of the creditor to an overcharge, but is silent about an undercharge? What sort of morality is that which seeks to evade meeting his creditor lest he should be more plainly reminded of his indebtedness? What sort of morality is that which satisfies itself in the non-payment of a debt because the creditor is presumed by the debtor not to need what the debt calls for? What sort of morality is that which satisfies itself in the non-payment of a debt because of a failure in farming, or other enterprise or undertaking? What sort of morality is that which gets offended when asked to pay a debt which the debtor promised to pay long before the time of dunning? What sort of morality is that which provides for his own wife and children by defrauding the wife and children of another man, dead or alive, to whom he is justly indebted for things which have been used by the debtor's family for their own enjoyment or profit? What sort of morality is that which ignores moral obligation as to a debt, and pays only when the civil law compels? What sort of morality is that which lightens the obligation to pay a just debt in proportion to the length of time since it was contracted? In short, what sort of morality is that which disregards the command, "Thou shalt not steal."-Christian Neighbor. Without grace possessed there is no salvation. Selected. THE OLD HOMESTEAD. That sing unconscious hymns of praise; The same bright sunlight gently plays To upland field and wooded hill; Once more I see the spindle fly. I see the garret once again, As summer clouds go drifting o'er. Still keeps its webs and buzzing flies, I see the circle gathered round The open fire-place glowing bright, The well-sweep creaks before the blast, O loved ones of the long ago, Whose memories hang in golden frames, And fill the vacant chairs of mirth!- Two little children are at play, The squirrel chatters 'neath the trees, They hold Aladdin's lamp and keys. To find the water just as cool, The fountain gurgles o'er with joy No other spring in all the world Is half so clear and cool and bright, Reflect for me such golden light. But, like the limpid meadow stream, -Harper's Magazine. A Reminiscence of Slavery Times. Young men setting out in life, and encount ering for the first time the difficulties usually met with, and which prove so discouraging to many, will do well to read the story of Charles Reese, who was born a slave in Southampton county, Virginia, his mother of course a slave, and his father a white overseer on an adjoining plantation. He was fortunate in having in his early life kind masters, but at the age of twenty-five, on the death of his master, he was advertised to be sold. He exerted himself to find a good master, and was fortunate in procuring a certain kind doctor to become his purchaser, and who paid for him $950. After some two years' service in the doctor's family, he obtained permission to work on his own account by paying his master ten dollars a month, and soon after secured a situation as waiter, the business of his life, with a man in Richmond, who was about going to New York to live. The master was obliged to go and make oath to the captain of the vessel as to his ownership of Charles, and his consent to his going on the vessel, before the captain would take him. The new employer paid the passage money and so they departed. The master's friends made merry over what they considered his folly, saying that "the nigger" would never come back, and that it was a clean loss of some $1500. Charles returned when he said he would. After this further proof of his trustworthi ness, Charles was allowed to go when and where he pleased, spending generally his winters in New Orleans, and his summers at this (Hot Springs), or other summer resorts, but paying regularly the price of his time to his master. Ho was steadily saving money, the amount of which he did not take any special pains, however, his master should know. In the meantime he married a slave woman in Richmond where he made his home, and had two children, when, at the age of forty, in 1857, after having paid his master $10 dollars a month for ten years, or an aggregate of $1200 in cash, he proposed to his master to buy himself out and out, which was finally agreed to, and $1100 fixed as the price. Charles placed the money in the hands of a colored friend, on whom the master was told to call, the services of an attorney were obtained, the deeds of manumission duly executed, and after due legal notice free papers obtained from the court allowing him to remain in the State as a free citizen. But a year or so had elapsed after this when he was horrified to learn by a letter from his wife Emily, that she and their two chidren were about to be sold. He hastened to Richmond and found it but too true; they belonged to an estate which had to be settled, and he was told that if he had any person to buy them, some "nigger traders" would be got to appraise them, and they were valued at $1600, and Charles arranged for their purchase, but succeeded in getting the amount reduced to $1250, one-third cash, one-third in six months, and the balance in nine months, security being given for the last two payments, all of which be met as they matured. A few years after the close of the war, in addition to having bought himself, wife and two children, for an aggregate sum of $2350, Keep no company with irreligious or world- he found himself able to purchase a house ly companions. and large lot of ground in Richmond, on which THE FRIEND. his children have since built for themselves noise subsides, and the men wait on, patient, three other houses. Though wholly without dogged, hungry-eyed, as before. East Indian Coolies. In The British Friend of Eighth Month, education himself, he has had all his eight At another time a call will come for two George Pitt commences a narrative of a resurviving children educated in the public men, and the same scene will occur again, and cent journey which he had made round the schools, in which two of his daughters are so on throughout the day. But of the great world in company with his wife. The motive now teachers at fair salaries. Charles is now numbers who crowd the gates in their des- which induced him to make the trip, he thus at this place, where he has spent many sum- perate struggle to obtain employment, only describes: mers, and is in the charge of some of the baths a very few comparatively can ever be engag for men, as his wife is for some of those for ed. One in every three or four appears to be "A vehement love and innate sympathy I women. This story of their lives has been the average number who obtain work. The feel towards the poor, who are the great mataken from their own lips, and their truthful- Quiver. jority of the world, and who are by Chrisness verified by others.-T. H. S. in Friends' tians despised, and in scorn called heathens, Intelligencer and Journal. In some of those seasons of deep baptisms was to my mind an ample incentive to visit before related, it used to spread upon my those distant and little known people in India, The Struggle for Employment in London. mind that the Lord had a service for me, to China and Japan, (but especially India) who In sunshine or shower, fog or fair weather, make use of me in His church and family, form considerably more than half the entire the approaches to the docks and wharves of which brought a great fear over my mind human race. I desired by personal observathe metropolis are every morning thronged lest Satan (whose power in deceiving I was tion of these poor native people to be satisfied by crowds of eager, anxious men, struggling, now measurably acquainted with,) should put whether they are, as commonly represented, nay in many cases fighting like wild beasts, on the appearance of an angel of light, and little better than cattle, because they are not to obtain work within the gates. As the deceive me, and so I should become a vessel so-called Christians, or, as my heart of hearts hour draws near for the ringing of the great marred upon the wheel. The preparation of has believed from childhood, that they are bell announcing the commencement of work, the heart in man, and the answer of the tongue the particular objects of God's redeeming love a crowd of often a couple of thousand of men in this arduous concern, must be of the Lord and of his fostering care, who visits every press around the principal entrance of the alone; man must give up his wisdom, and his one of them, intending each should have an London Docks, and as the big gates swing acquired knowledge must be submitted to opportunity of salvation, so as to be eternally slowly open, the mighty mass of humanity Divine direction, and only such parts retained happy, for He is no respecter of persons." rushes forward like an overwhelming flood to as Divine wisdom may see meet to make use They left England in a steamer for Bombay, the chain-barrier where the superintendent of, although it may make us appear as fools via Suez Canal. About 60 of the crew of the gives out the metal tokens entitling the holder to those who before thought otherwise of us. vessel were Indian Coolies. to employment within. Of course he shows Yet this state is afforded us in mercy, to G. Pitt says:preference to those previously employed, but humble us, that we may depend upon nothing "As we had not met with Indians before, there is always the chance of obtaining a of our own, or of former knowledge of doc- and were going out expressly to form their ticket, and the men strive to clutch one of the trines, unless we feel them renewed in the acquaintance, we rejoiced to think our voyprecious talismans with intense and passion-life and Spirit; that thereby all our fresh age would baptize us into their ways and ate eagerness. They push and jostle and springs in and to service, may be in Him our characters, and afford us abundant opportu struggle, leaping on each other's shoulders, Head and holy High Priest. What humilia-nities of noticing and proving their faults and and fighting and wrestling in the mad rush tions are requisite to bring us to that standard failings, or their virtues. like famishing animals rather than human which God is pleased to teach of his ways! We therefore silently and constantly watchbeings. The most desperato determination And how unwilling are too many to come up ed their behavior, early and late, daily and is written on every face, and there is small to this standard to be measured by it! But hourly, and under all circumstances; at work, thought, in the mind of any man of that when his righteous judgments are in the at meals, off duty, and in their berths. They surging crowd for any one but himself. For earth, it is then, and then only, we are willing were thinly clad-barefoot, two cotton garwork means food-poor and scanty, no doubt, to learn righteousness. In this important ments less than a pound weight, and a small but still something to keep the terrible wolf engagement it may be said, He leadeth Israel cap and headcloth, was their outfit; and from the door. Failure means semi-starva- as a flock, and bringeth them oftentimes into though India, their home, is so hot, they were green pastures, and causeth them therein to working at our start in frost and snow, wash tion or worse. Respecting them But of the crowds who struggle and fight lie down as at noon. This indeed is a great ing decks or climbing up rope-ladders to the at the gates, frequently not more than one- mystery, which the worldly-minded professor dizzy heights and lengths of the rigging, third are selected, and the remainder, bearing knoweth not, neither can, because it is only swiftly and cheerfully; and executed all their their sad fate with as much philosophical spiritually discerned, and by them for whom duties with an alacrity and willingness that fortitude as they can muster-perhaps it is it is prepared. This was the case with the was admirable. Orders were sometimes given stony despair, rather-turn disconsolately disciples formerly, when it was said, "Unto them in a barsh way by their officers, yet away, some to seek work at other places you it is given to know the mysteries of God's were always received and obeyed with a which open later, and others to wait for "calls" kingdom, but to the world in parables." The meekness and sweetness which caused our which may occur at any time during the day. true ministers go forth without scrip or purse, envy. They always wore a smile, moved Thus a visitor strolling through the fine without depending on any thing but the call briskly, and we could never catch them drondocks and admiring the shipping and immense to present service; they do not think former ing. At meal times they would squat down quantities of merchandise piled on every experiences, nor yet the concurrence of their on their haunches, close to the ground, yet hand, is suddenly arrested by the strange brethren and sisters, (the laying on of the not touching it, neither sitting nor kneeling, sight of a sea of white, anxious faces pressing hands of the elders) a sufficient qualification and close to one another in a circle, so they wistfully against the bars of a side entrance. to officiate in the church; but have to wait needed neither chairs nor tables. Yes, men are still waiting there for any call for the fresh anointing, if it may be afforded; Their food was boiled rice, served up in a for laborers that may come during the day. if not, they are silent, and wait on their Lord large bright brass cauldron-shaped pot, holdAnd presently, as you wait, the superintendent and Master girded till he is served. And so ing about a peck. It was not choice Carolina appears, and criesgodly jealous are these baptized servants of rice, but a kind of sweepings, pepper and salt "One man wanted!" the honor of their Lord, that they neither color, such as we should disdain at 7 lbs. for Instantly all the watchers spring up like look for nor receive wages or hire from any 18. This without milk, sugar, or butter, but caged animals when food is brought them, other hand but his; they are willing to spend with a little salt, onions or other small vegeyelling, shouting, and extending their bands. their own, and be spent in health and consti- table cut up, and occasionally a morsel of dried They leap on each other's backs and clamber tution, in his service, knowing that when He up to the top-most rails; and all this feverish comes his reward of peace is with Him. excitement is to obtain one little metal ticket From John Conran's Journal. -perhaps for one hour's work, entitling, the owner to fivepence or sixpence at most! It is too frequent to begin with God, and One out of the large number receives the end with the world; but He is the good man's ticket, apparently by chance rather than by beginning and end-bis Alpha and Omega.any other manner of selection, and then the Penn's Maxims. fish, or curry prepared by themselves, was their staple food, as it is all through Indiawhich they eat with a relish, thrive well on, and are perfectly contented and happy with. I wondered they were not offered some of the enormous lot of excellent food which is daily wasted by the passengers, but found they were vegetarians, and do not eat meats, neith er will they eat food prepared or touched by us, and that we might see Him. The good powder is the usual dose. So many strange strangers. They do not smoke, or chew, or Saviour has shown us the way to his Father, discoveries have been made during the predrink beer or spirits, tea, or coffee. Amongst and, lest we should lose the path, He marked sent generation, that it is a safe plan to be themselves they are gentle and affectionate, it with his blood." almost playful. We never heard a bad or quarrelsome word from them. Now these poor Indians are called heathens. The passengers regarded them with contempt cautious in rejecting them; but until this one is more thoroughly tested, the public preference will, we think, continue to be given to quinine. Natural History, Science, &c. Balata. This is a substance of the same Hay Fever.-Sleep and freedom from pollen and contumely, never giving them a kind general character as gutta-percha and Indian are said to be the most efficient means of curword. I believe if a hundred of them were rubber, obtained from the sap of a tree (Mi-ing hay-fever. This has been shown by the drowned accidentally these Christians would musops balata) growing in Venezuela and effect produced by sleeping where the air that regard it as coolly as if they were so many Guiana. The wood of the tree is hard and reaches the patient is strained through wetted animals, and of less value than one European. red colored, and possesses great strength and cloths, which remove the germs that produce Indeed I heard that sentiment expressed. I durability. Balata is superior in some respects the disease. turned from these to the saloon passengers, to gutta-percha, and commands a higher price. Pounding of Locomotives.-It is impossible who would spend hours in drinking and smok- When exposed to sun and air, it is less liable to perfectly balance the reciprocating parts ing, who at meals would have two or three to undergo a change into a brittle, resinous of a locomotive engine. The consequence of kinds of meat, choosing the best, and leaving substance. Though distinctly different from this is that when in motion it delivers through large portions each time to be wasted, and gutta-percha, it is treated by manufacturers its driving wheels a series of blows upon the grumble at everything; and I concluded it as a superior variety of that material, and its rails, which, the Scientific American, quoting was "living to eat, not eating to live." But own name disappears when manufactured. from the Locomotive, says, in the case of an these were called Christians, and attended It is now gathered only from the trees ordinary express engine running at the rate Divine service! The Indians were called growing near the rivers and creeks, where of fifty miles per hour, is equal to a load of Heathens! The Christians had the Name the settlements are located, to which the over six tons suddenly applied four times per without the Nature. The Indians had the milky sap is brought to be dried. The col- second. This "hammer blow" is an element Nature without the Name." lector cuts narrow grooves in the bark of the of danger from its tendency to cause breaktree which converge to a point near its base. age of wheels, rails and bridges. John Randolph.-From the appendix to Under this is placed a calabash into which. Rotting of Timber.-The Builder says that Bishop Meade's "Old Churches and Families the milk flows. Three pints of milk are con- the wood-fungus which is most destructive to of Virginia," a correspondent of the New York sidered a good yield for a tree from 15 to 20 timber requires both heat and moisture for Observer gives the following statement as to inches in diameter. The collectors generally its existence. Hence it does little damage in the religious views of John Randolph, one of sell the milk to an agent who converts it into cold weather; and it is checked by ventilathe founders of the American Republic: "Mr. a solid by exposing as much as possible to tion or currents of dry air. John Randolph, of Roanoke, had filled his the air in shallow wooden trays. The life of Spontaneous Combustion of Lamp-blackDecline and Fall of the Roman Empire with the balata collectors is a hard one. The The Scientific American publishes a communotes approving the deistical views of Gibbon. ground they have to traverse is generally nication from a carriage manufacturing firm Most of these notes he obliterated. On the very wet and swampy. In many cases the at Leavenworth, Kansas, which mentions that margin of the fifteenth chapter he wrote: traveller sinks at every step to his knees in on the 15th of Seventh month, one of their 'When the pencilled notes to this and the suc- water, and this continues for miles. Yet it painters poured out some lamp-black from a ceeding chapter were written (and indeed, pays those engaged in it better than most pound paper of the finely powdered material. all, the notes one excepted in Vol. x., page-)' mechanical employments, while the season Two or three ounces were left in the paper, [his copy was in twelve vols.] the writer lasts. which was set on the paint bench. In the was an unhappy young man deluded by the Bromine as a Disinfectant.—A correspondent course of 20 or 30 minutes the men working sophisms of infidelity. Gibbon seemed to rivet of the Magazine of Pharmacy states that a near the bench detected a smell of burning what Hume and Hobbes and Bolingbroke and bottle of Bromine left unstopped in a closed soot, and a slight vapor or smoke was seen to Voltaire had made fast and-the evil principle room all night, will destroy infection and in- arise from the lamp-black paper. In the in our (fallen) nature-had cherished; but, sect life. He says: "I have cleared places course of from half to three-quarters of an praised be his holy name, God sent straight which were infested with vermin many hour the black became red hot, and after a to his heart the sense of sin and the arrow of times." time burst into a bright flame. If it had not Items. the angel of death, "unless ye repent," and Sulphurous Acid in the Air of Towns.- been noticed, it would certainly have burned with it came the desire of belief; but the hard Sulphurous acid is always found in places the place, surrounded as it was with mixed heart of unbelief withstood a long time, and where coal is burnt, owing to the presence of paints, oil, turpentine and varnish. fear came upon him, and waxed great, and sulphur in coal. At Rouen some observabrought first resignation to bis will, and after tions have been made by a man named Witz, much refractoriness (God be praised, but who noticed that the bright orange placards never sufficiently, that he bore with the fro- used in advertising, which were colored with -Effect of Evil Associations.-It may be set down wardness of the child of sin, whose wages is red lead pigments always become blanched, on the testimony of the Elmira Reformatory in its death), after a long course of years, God in in time,-the sulphurous acid in the air con- whole history, that nineteen-twentieths of the young his good time sent pardon and peace. Alle- verting the oxides of lead into salts, which persons who commit crime in the State of New York had thoroughly bad company, and only one-fiftieth lujab.' The above is a transcript from the were nearly colorless. Inside of dwellings kept good company; and this too, by their own conoriginal pencilled remarks of Mr. Randolph. the effect is more marked than in the open fession, when many would be inclined to represent (Signed) air. The presence of sulphurous acid in the their company as better than it was.--The Christian To Bishop Meade. Hugh B. Grigsby. air of manufacturing towns becomes very evi- Advocate. dent in connection with the first white frosts -Opium in China.-The opium traffic in China Among the converts to the Christian faith of winter. A great deal of acid vapor is then is a question that is continually coming to the suramong our Indian tribes, was one whom they condensed with a small portion of water, and face, and which, like the traffic in intoxicating distinguished by the title of good Peter, and its effect upon exposed objects is sometimes drinks, can never be settled until the consciences of who, with truly Apostolic spirit, used to quite destructive. Christian people shall bring it to an end. The Inpreach the gospel to his poor benighted brothPowdered Crab as Medicine.-The Scientific Niagara Falls, and composed of missionaries of all ternational Missionary Union, recently in session at He once addressed them in language to American quotes a Russian paper as stating Protestant denominations for various mission fields, this effect: "My Brothers, the Good Spirit that, during the last fifteen years the inhabit- was so deeply moved by the representations of the loves all his creatures. He loved them so ants of a malarial locality in Kharkoo Gov- great evils of the traffic, and of the great obstacles much, that He sent his own Son to bring them ernment in Russia have used the crab powder placed by it in the way of the evangelization of home to Him. But his son was so bright, with great success against the fevers. The China, that it adopted a strong protest against the brighter my brothers, than yonder sun, that powder is prepared from live crabs by pour- tivation of the poppy in India and against the conconnection of the British Government with the culwe could not look at him; therefore he wrapt ing whisky over them until they are stupe- tinued legalization of the traffic in China. This himself in a mantle of flesh, (wrapping his fied, then baking them in an oven and finely test is to be forwarded to the Anglo Oriental Society blanket round bim), that he might live with pulverizing them. A tea-spoonful of the for the Suppression of the Opium Trade, in London. ers. pro -Immoral Prints.-Premier Brisson of France, informed his colleagues on 8th mo. 27th, that he had authorized the prosecution of authors of obscene prints. On the same day, at London, a meeting of ratepayers resolved to send a memorial to the English Home Secretary, praying for the suppression of the sale of the same abominations. wars. valuable to the Government.-New York Sun. One of the earliest examples of the estab- away from the restraints of the cross, and lishment of disciplinary rules in the Christian to promote a worldly spirit; and which -Indian Rights.-The barbarous notion that In-Church, which has been left on record, arose experience has shown are hurtful to the. dian reservations are prisons, and that Indians be- from the attempt of some of the Jewish mem- spiritual life. Among these are musical income outlaws the moment they leave them, and bers to enforce the Mosaic law on the Gentile struments, theatrical amusements, the use of' should be shot on sight, is enough to cause Indian converts to Christianity. The question was spirituous liquors, &c. If meetings or their Indian reservations are not prisons, but brought before the Apostles and Elders at officers permit violations of our rules on these lands which the red men have received from the Jerusalem; and a careful consideration of it subjects to pass unnoticed, without extending Government in exchange for other territory more resulted in the adoption of certain decrees or that personal labor to these concerned to -A Dangerous Habit. The Episcopal Recorder rules of discipline; which were sent to the which they are entitled; and yet take cognisays:-"A few days ago, when taking lunch in a different churches for their observance. These zance of such things as administering oaths, down-town restaurant, we noticed a young clergy- were sent out in the name of "The Apostles selling goods for military purposes, preferring man, pastor of a prominent church, washing his and Elders and Brethren," at Jerusalem; and creditors, &c., can it be truly said that they dinner down with a large-sized glass of claret. The they were prefaced with the instructive words, exercise the discipline without partiality? day following, while talking to a gentleman in his "It seemed good to the Holy Ghost and to And if they allow to other meetings the same office, in reeled our old pastor, of fifteen years ago, us." It is further recorded that as Paul and privilege of choice which they exercise themso much intoxicated that he was at once summarily Silas travelled through the cities of Syria and selves, as to what rules they will observe and ejected. "No doubt the former gentleman would have Cilicia, "they delivered them the decrees for what they will neglect, will not the whole been very highly insulted, should we have insinu- to keep that were ordained of the Apostles system of our discipline become a mere rope ated that his end might possibly be like that of his and Elders which were at Jerusalem." of sand? older brother in the ministry, who began in pre- The whole narrative instructively shows cisely the same way, by no means intending to end the true ground of discipline in the church, his days as a drunken outcast, turned from the doors that the regulations adopted should be such SUMMARY OF EVENTS. of his former associates, who once so admired his deep learning and eloquence. We never remember as the Spirit of Christ, operating on the UNITED STATES.-An immense chart showing the having heard of a man who deliberately acquired minds of those who are in subjection to its areas of improved, forest and unimproved (including the evil habit with the intention of finally lying government, and who have had experience of waste) land in the United States, has been prepared in down in a drunkard's grave." the Agricultural Department for the Forestry Congress, its workings in them, leads the faithful mem- soon to meet in Boston. The data were carefully Revival" Meetings in North Carolina.-A friend bers to believe are needful for its preserva- gathered by correspondents in every county in the in North Carolina writes: "I was much struck at tion and growth. This view of church dis- Union, and verified by correspondence with State authe last North Carolina yearly gathering, by the cipline is that which is held by the Society thorities. It is found that there are 285,000,000 acres confession of 'revivalist' preachers, that the diffi- of Friends. George Fox and his co-laborers, of improved land, 445,000,000 acres of forest and 730,culty some of them experienced was in the same who were instrumental in introducing the land. Incidentally it is found that forests are disap000,000 acres of unimproved and waste untimbered persons coming repeatedly to the mourners' bench. Revivalist work at those devotional gatherings at system which still exists among us, substan-pearing at the rate of 25,000,000 acres each year. The the Yearly Meeting was vigorously prosecuted. At tially unchanged, claimed for this portion of forest product during the census year was 18,000,000,one I attended, all who were Christians were re- their labors the same leading of the Spirit 000 feet board measure. Last year it was 28,000,000,quested to stand up; had such and such experiences that led them to publish the doctrines of the 000 feet. to hold up the hand, &c., &c.; which certainly was Gospel. The Commissioner of Internal Revenue reports that "The power of God," in which be the amount of distilled spirits "gone into consumption" far from my views of what a Friends' gathering exhorted Friends to hold all their meetings, in the United States during the fiscal year which ended should be." remains to be the authority of meetings for Sixth month 30th last, was 69,156,902 gallons, and the -Fire at North Carolina Boarding School.-On discipline. Where the advices and regula- amount of malt liquors on which tax was paid during the 31st ult., one of the large buildings connected tions which the church issues from time to the same period, is 19,185,953 barrels. The amount of with the Yearly Meeting Boarding School at New wine consumed in this country during the year 1884, is Garden, N. C., was destroyed by fire. It was the time are adopted and sent forth under this estimated at 20,508,345 gallons. The amount of beer building formerly used as a meeting-house, in which authority, it is a very serious matter for sub- in round numbers is stated at 595,000,000 gallons. The the Yearly Meeting convened; and which a few ordinate meetings or individuals to neglect or estimated population of the United States is 58,000,000. years since was altered into a school building. It disobey them. It practically amounts to So it appears that the average consumption to each incontained the boys' sleeping apartments, study and setting up their own judgment in opposition habitant is as follows: recitation rooms, laboratory, &c. bors, and by some crowding in the old building the school was continued without much interruption. The whole cost of building and furniture was over $20,000. On this there was an insurance of $7,000. It is proposed to rebuild immediately, and assistance in doing this would be acceptable. Agents. 1.2 gallons of distilled spirits. to that of the collected church, as to the proThe fire caught in the roof, apparently several feet from any of the flues, and its progress was so priety and authority of the decrees delivered rapid, that not only the building itself, but much of to them to keep; or else it shows an unwill- Two gallons of liquor is used to every bushel of wheat! the furniture was consumed. ingness to submit to the restraints laid upon Local option has been defeated in Shackelford and Lodging was found for the boys among the neigh- them, which, if indulged, strikes at the foun- Red River counties, Texas. dation of all government in the church, and tour of fifteen counties around Athens, says there are The Savannah News says that a man who has made a tends to its general disorganization. much better crops in counties where whisky is not sold Our Society, under a religious concern for than in those where the bar-rooms are open. the maintenance of the various testimonies A Florida paper says: "Commencing with January, given us to uphold, and for the preservation we have strawberries then and until late in June. of our members from the spirit of worldliness April and last until August. Pine apples ripen in Japan plums from February. Mulberries are ripe in to which they are constantly exposed, has at June and last nearly all the year. We have guavas various times adopted advices and rules which from July until late the next spring. Of the various are binding on the members. In addition to berries-dewberries, blackberries and huckleberries, the watching over one another in love, which almost any quantity. Peaches from May first until July. Melons from June until late in the fall. Oranges belongs to all, it has provided for the ap--the best of the kind-from October until the next pointment of overseers whose especial duty June, with lemons and limes, LeConte pears, persimit is to exercise such supervision over the mons, pomegranates, grape-fruit, grapes, shaddocks and members of their own meeting. Now, if a number of other fruits." these pay no attention to the requirements a population of 1,563,930, a gain since 1880 of 21 The State census of Wisconsin, just completed, shows of the discipline as to some of its advices, cent. The principal gain is in the northern part of the per One of the inestimable privileges of chil- with what consistency can they attempt to State, where new lumber districts have been opened. dren born in a Christian family is their growth enforce them in others? And will not this be The number of hogs packed in the West since Third and nurture under the healthy and refining one step towards the giving up of that watch-month 1st of this year, has been 3,615,000, against 3,influences of family religion, and the almost ful care over our members which has proved 115,000 during the corresponding period of last year. unconscious moulding of thought and feeling so beneficial to the Society of Friends? The number packed in Chicago was 1,925,000. There is a natural bridge near the boundary line beinto Christian forms. The danger to which we have referred is tween Arizona and New Mexico, twenty miles north of The following Agents have been appointed Jesse Negus, West Branch, Cedar Co., Iowa. the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad, which, it is claimed, surpasses in every way the famous one in Virginia. A terrible tornado struck the town of Washington Court House, in Fayette county, Ohio, about 8 o'clock on the evening of the 8th inst. Forty stores, three places of worship, four railway depots and over two hundred dwellings were destroyed. Five persons were killed and about 300 injured, four perhaps fatally. The loss on property is estimated at $1,000,000. Damage was done in other places in Ohio, houses being unroofed or destroyed and persons injured. The American Bank Note Company of New York, has obtained from the Mexican Government a contract for engraving and printing the bonds of the consolidated debt of the country, amounting to $140,000,000. The price is not made public, but it is understood that it is much less than the cost would have been to the Government had it executed the work itself, even if it had, as it has not, the requisite facilities. The plates, after they are used, will be sealed up by the Mexican Consul General and will be kept in the company's vaults. The deaths in this city last week numbered 388, which was 9 less than during the previous week, and 37 less than during the corresponding period last year. Of the whole number 204 were males, and 184 females: trading posts. 44 died of consumption; 24 of convulsions; 23 of cholera infantum; 36 of marasmus; 20 of inflammation of the stomach and bowels; 17 of typhoid fever; 14 of pneumonia; 14 of croup; 12 of diphtheria and 11 of old age. RECEIPTS. throughout Spain since 9th mo. 1st was 6379. The disease has almost disappeared from the Provinces of Received from Benjamin C. Reeve, N. J., $2, vol. 59; Valencia, Murcia, Saragossa and Granada. from Henry R. Woodward, N. J., $2, vol. 59; from On the 13th instant 1464 new cases of cholera and Amos Ashead, N. J., $2, vol. 59; from Edward Sprague, 428 deaths, throughout Spain, were reported. Pa., $2, vol. 59; from James E. Armstrong, Pa., $2, Germany's demand for reparation for the insult to vol. 59; from Edward R. Maule, N. J., $2, vol. 59, and the German embassy in Madrid, was received on the for Hannah R. Maule, $2, vol. 59; from Hetty Ann 8th instant. The note is couched in very reasonable Bellah, Del., $2, vol. 59; from Benjamin Ellyson, Io., terms. Spain's note in reply, expresses deep regret at $2, vol. 59; from Charles Bell, N. J., $2, vol. 59, and the occurrence of the incident, says that the offenders for Joseph K. Lippincott, Jr., $2, vol. 59; from Isabella will be prosecuted and punished, and that those re- P. Huston, Pa., $2, vol. 59; from John M. Roberts, sponsible for the safety of the embassy have been ar- N. J., $2, vol. 59; from James R. Cooper, Pa., $2, vol. rested and dismissed from the service, and condemns 59, and for Thomas B. Hoopes, Charles Cooper, and J. the action of the riotous mob. Morris Cooper, $2 each, vol. 59; for Isaac S. Yarnall, On the 10th inst. the Spanish Government despatched Pa., $2, vol. 59; from John H. Lippincott, N. J., $2, a special messenger to Berlin with an additional note vol. 59; from Elizabeth L. Dutton and Edward Reeve, to Germany regarding the serious question at issue be- Phila., $2 each, vol. 59; from Thomas Emmons, Agent, tween the two Governments. This note, which was ap- Io., for Joshua P. Smith, Jonathan Briggs, Thomas proved at the council of Ministers, requests Germany Blackburn, David Holloway, Benjamin Coppock, Mary to renounce all intention of establishing a suzerainty H. Brackin, and Jesse R. Garwood, $2 each, vol. 59; over the Carolines and Pelew Islands. It claims Spanish from Benjamin Macomber, Vt, $2, to No. 11, vol. 60; sovereignty over the Carolines on the ground of dis- from Milton Stanley, Agent, Ind., for Esther Mills, covery, exploration, missionary work, protection, recog- Edmund Osborne, and William T. Fawcett, $2 each, nition by the natives and the existence of Spanish vol. 59; from Jacob Maule, O., $2, vol. 59, and for Asenath Raley, $2, vol. 59; from William Berry, Gtn., In the event of Germany persisting in claiming the $2, vol. 59; from Henry Hall, Pa., $2, vol. 59; from Carolines, England, mindful of her rejection of Spain's Richard Wistar, Phila., $2, vol. 59; from Benjamin claims in 1875, will claim equal rights with Germany. Hinshaw, Io., $2, vol. 59: from Richard Esterbrook, Letters received in London from China represent that N. J., $2, vol. 59; from A. Spencer, Gtn., $2, vol. 59; France lost 15,000 men in the Tonquin campaign, and from Margaret Roberts, Pa., $1.75, to No. 52, vol. 59; that her losses in money, including the cost of building from M. M. Child, Del., $2, vol. 59; from Samuel Betts, forts, hospitals and frontier defences were £43,000,000, Pa., $2, vol. 59; from Catharine M. Wood, New York while China's losses were 100,000 men and £38,000,000. City, $2, vol. 59; from Phebe B. Chace, Mass., $2, vol. A despatch from Calcutta says: "No doubt remains 59; from Hannah F. Smedley, Phila., $2, vol. 59; from but that a terrible famine is impending in India. The Pennell L. Webster, Pa., $2, vol. 59; from Rowland crops in the Deccan have all failed for want of rain, Evans, Pa., $2, vol. 59; from George W. Thorp, Fkfd., while in Bengal the crops are ruined by an excess of $2, vol. 59; from Richard W. Hutton, W. Town, $2 to rain and floods. The country for fifty miles about No. 6, vol. 60; from Deborah Paxson, Pa., $2, vol. 59, Flour and Meal.-Dullness was again the prominent Calcutta is completely submerged. Nearly all the rail- and for Elias E. Paxson, $2, vol. 59; from Asenath H. characteristic of the flour market, and prices were weak ways in the province are injured by floods and land- Clayton, Canada, $2, vol. 59; from N. Newlin Smith, for all grades, except Minnesota clears and straights, slides. The railway at Lucker Sera has been com- Md., $2, vol. 59; from Thomas M. Harvey, Agent, Pa., which were steady on scarcity. Sales of 125 barrels pletely swept away. Public subscriptions have been for Celina T. Pratt and William Wickersham, $2 each, Pennsylvania family, $4; 125 barrels Ohio, clear, at opened here, and in all the large towns all possible vol. 59. $4.30; 125 barrels do., straight, at $4.75; 375 barrels preparations are being made to provide against the do., patent, at $5; 125 barrels Minnosota, straight, at famine, which is now inevitable, and to mitigate its $4.75, and 375 barrels do., patent, at $5 a $5.25. Ryeflour was in fair request and 100 barrels good sold at $3.50 per barrel. Markets, &c.-U. S. 44's, 112; 4's, registered, 122; coupon, 122; 3's, 104; currency 6's, 127 a 136. Cotton was in limited request at 101⁄2 cts. for middling uplands. Petroleum.-Refined was very quiet at 8 cts. for 70 Abel test, in barrels, and 94 cts. for 110 test in cases. Feed was dull, with liberal offerings. Sales of winter bran, spot, at $14.50 a $15.00 per ton. Grain. Wheat was active and firm, advancing a c., and closing with No. 2 red as follows: 9th mo., 881 cts. bid and 88 cts. asked; 10th mo., 894 cts. bid and 89 cts. asked; 11th mo., 914 cts. bid and 91 cts. asked; 12th mo., 93 cts. bid and 934 cts. asked. Rye was duli at 60 a 62 cts. per bushel. Corn options were quiet but firm. No. 2 mixed closed as follows: 9th mo., 49 cts. bid and 49 cts. asked; 10th mo., 49 cts. bid and 49 cts. asked; 11th mo., 49 cts. bid and 49 cts. asked; 12th mo., 46 cts. bid and 47 cts. asked. Spot lots were in limited request at former rates. Oats options were quiet but steady, with No. 2 white closing as follows: 9th mo., 324 cts. bid and 33 cts. asked; 10th mo., 32 cts. bid and 324 cts. asked; 11th mo. 32 cts. bid and 33 cts. asked; 12th mo., 33 cts. bid, and 33 cts. asked. Spot lots were inactive and c. lower. Beef cattle were lower, at 24 a 6 cts. Sheep closed dull and lower, at 2 a 4 cts. Lambs were inactive and c. lower, at 3 a 6 cts. Hogs were in good demand but fc. lower, at 6§ a 63 cents. The receipts were: Beeves, 3300; sheep, 17,000; hogs, 5000. FOREIGN.-Member Healy of the House of Commons for County Monaghan, speaking at Glengarriff, on the 13th, said that Gladstone was preparing a manifesto, in which he will give his views as to how much home rule it will be safe to give Ireland. horrors." Remittances received after Fourth-day morning will not appear in the Receipts until the following week. Diphtheria has been epidemic during the summer in the parish of St. Polycarpe, Soulanges county, Quebec. WESTTOWN BOARDING SCHOOL. 160 children have died of the disease. In one family alone eight children died. The Committee on Subscriptions for Westtown BoardTwenty-six new cases of small-pox and twelve deaths ing School, meet Ninth mo. 19th, at 11 a. M. were authenticated in Montreal on the 12th inst. The total number of deaths during the week was 117. WESTTOWN BOARDING SCHOOL. At a meeting of the Provincial Board of Health on 7th A Stated Meeting of the Committee on Admissions In each case the Principal is assisted by a corps of competent instructors, and facilities for illustration are afforded by a valuable collection of philosophical and chemical apparatus, minerals, and Auzoux's models of parts of the human system, &c. Charles E. Gause, a teacher of several years' experience, has been appointed to fill the vacancy in the corps of teachers at the boys' school, caused by the death of Wilmer P. Leeds. JNO. W. BIDDLE, Clerk. Jos. W. Lippincott, 460 N. Seventh St. TOUGHKENAMON BOARDING SCHOOL WESTTOWN BOARDING SCHOOL. The English hop harvest reports are discouraging. on the 25th of Sixth month, at the residence of Lessar next in commnnd. Both commissions will be The attention of Friends and others residing in the his son-in-law, S. W. Miller, Kansas, DAVID W. LUPmuch smaller than those headed by Sir Peter Lumsden city and its neighborhood is invited to these schools. TON, aged 72' years. His relatives and friends have and General Zelenoi. They will begin work within The terms are moderate, and parents sending children the consoling assurance that his end was peace. two months after the signing of the protocol and will who are members of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, probably finish their labors about 8th month, 1886. may be fully relieved from the charges should they be Madrid, 9th mo. 12.-The total number of cases of felt burdensome. cholera reported in Madrid since 9th mo. 1st, was 10,666, and for the whole of Spain for the same period was 23,644. The total number of deaths from the disease Further information may be obtained upon application to the Treasurer of the Committee, JNO. W. BIDDLE, No. 119 S. Fourth St. at her residence, near Mt. Gilead, Morrow Co., Ohio, on Fifth-day, the 10th of Ninth mo. 1885, MEHETABEL J. MORRIS, widow of the late Abraham Morris, in the 78th year of her age, an esteemed member and elder of Gilead Monthly and Particular Meeting. |