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r ! RELI&IOUS BODIES. Centennial Meeting of the Presbyterian General Assembly. Bishops Elected by the Methodist General Conference. me centennial meeting 01 me x i csuj wniui General Assembly, the supreme ecclesiastical court of the Presbyterian Church in the United States, commenced in Philadelphia, the 17th of May. There were over 500 delegates, or commissioners, in attendance, representing every State and Territory in thi> Union. The opening services were held in the First Presbyterian Church, the oldest of E& the denomination in the city, to whic h the commissioners marched in procession from Horticultural Hall, where the business sessions were held. Rev. Dr. Charles L. ThompL son, of Kansas City, Mo., was elected Moder& ator by a decided majority. lav. charles' i* Thompson*, d. Dr. Thompson is about forty-eight years of age. and was born near Allentown, Fa. His boyhood days were passed in "Wisconsin, and he entered Carroll College in that State, " ~ graduating in 1858. After his collegiate career he entered Princeton Seminary, having determined to study for the ministry, where ne spent two years, musuiiig ma aeuuuai j course at the Northwestern one, the McCormick Seminary, in Chicago. He graduated . in 1861, and his first charge was at the little town of Juneau, Wis., the next at Jonesville. His first city church was the First Church, Wf of Cincinnati, from which he went to the / First Church, of Chicago. He became editor of the Chicago Interior between the years 1874-77, but resumed pastor?! work in 1 Pittsburg. His last five years have been P passed as pastor of the Second Church of Kansas City, where he is in charge at present, although he still continues to be an editor of the Interior. ' B2V. J. STjLtOCK, D. D. On the same day that the Northorn Assembly convened in Philadelphia, the South* ern Assembly met in the Franklin Street "" Church, in Baltimore. The Southern Assembly is composed of thirteen synods,sixty-nine presbyteries, 1116 ministers, 2223 churches and 150,3(J8 communicants. The entire con"tributions for all purposes last year were $1,415,318. After the delivery of the annual sermon, tho Assembly proceeded to the election of Moderator, llev. J. J. Bullock, of Washington, being chosen. The Rev. Joseph James Bullock, D. D.,was born at Lexington, Ky., December 23d, 1S12. He received his classical education in Centre College, Kentucky, where be graduated in 1832. He studied law in the Transylvania University, Lexington, in 1838, and graduated in theology from Princeton College in l8bU He received his first call to take charge _ of a congregation at Frankfort, Ky., the rammer of his graduation, and the same t year was made State Superintendent of Public Instruction. In 18W5 he resigned his charge to accept the Secretaryship of tte !c p J. H. VINCENT, D. D. Board of Domestic Missions of the Presbyterian Church. In 1818, resigning that position, he went to Walnut Hill, where he took charge of two country churches, and at the same time established a large female seminary. His health being fully restored, he accepted a call to the Second Presbyterian Church,Louisville,Ky., in 1853,where he ministered until 1855, when he returned to Walnut Hill. In the spring of 1SG1 be accepted a I call to the Franklin Street Presbyterian Church, Baltimore, where he labored successfully for nine years. In 1870 he accepted the charge of tbe Second Presbyterian f!h?rch. Alexandria. Va.. where he remained until 1878, when he was elected Chaplain of the United States Senate, which office he retained for five years. He is now Secretary of Foreign and Domestic S3S0 Missions, and resides in Washington, D. C. 3HH A feature of the Assemblies was a recep5B|f tion given at the mansion of Mr. Morris, Overbrodk, Penn. The members of the Northern and Southern Assemblies were to there in full force, and many prominent peoM pie, including President Cleveland and his wife, were pressnt. The President made a BP short address of greeting to the delegates of BT the two General Assemblies, and expressed a j wish for Presbyterian Union. * On the following day?May 24, the centennial date of the Presbyterian Church?the members of the two General Assemblies united y. FITZGERALD. BgBB|^wlQHHBB^H8H^^^Lngs ill the Academy of ESHnBHj^HMnH^^RM^^B^al Hall, Philadelphia. Dr. Cuyler, of IV itherspoon, of Virginia, nflSniB88^^B91wwHQnn09Nli9^^L.caroiina WMCfWjBgEffiMCjW^^ York, ex union of the Northern and Southern Presbyterians were heartily applauded Five New Methodist Bishops. At the Methodist General Conference in New York five new Bishops were elected after much balloting. The following is a short summary of the lives of the newly-chosen Bishops: Dr. Vincent was born in Tuscaloosa, Ala., in 1832, and educated in Pennsylvania, entering the ministry in 1853. He began the publication of Sunday-school papers in I860 and has become prominent in that work, being for years Secretary of the Sunday-school Union. In 1874 he organized, with Hon. Lewis Miller,the Chautauquan lecture course, that has had many thousandsof students all over the United States, and has made the summer school on Lake Chautauqua famous. Rev. James N. Fitzgerald, the second bishop elected, has been the Secretary of the Newark Conference for a number of years, Recording secretary of the Missionary Society for J the past eight years. He was in the conferences of 1870, 1880, 18S4 and the present I one. The Rev. Isaac W. Joyce, D. D., who was the third Bishop elected, was bora in Hamilton county, Ohio, about fifty years ago. He was admitted to the Northwest Indiana Conference in 1859 and has never held any office in the Church other than that of Presiding Elder. His success in the pastorate began with his appointment to a charge at Greencastle, Ina., the seat of De Pauw University. 1 Here he became very popular with the students. Since 1SS0 he had been a pastor in Cincinnati and is now in his second term as pastor of St Paul's M. E. Church in that city. He was a delegate to the General Con REV. ISAAC W. JOYCE, D. D. feranee in 1880 and is a member of the present Conference. He received his literary degree from Indiana Asbury University and was made a Doctor of Divinity by Dickinson College. Dr. J. P. Newman, pastor of the Metropolitan Church, Washington, D. C., was born in New York citv in 1827, and educated at Cazenovia and Wesleyan University, Newark. His first charge was at Hamilton, N, Y. From there he went to Fort Plain, where he, in 185S, married Miss Angeline Ensign, preceptress of the Fort Plain Collegiate Institute. Some years latter Dr. Newman came to New York, taking the Bedford Street Church, and after a two years' course of travel and study in Europe and the East, DR. J. P. NEWMAtf. returned to take the Washington Square Church. Five years later he was stationed in New Orleans, and his work among the colored people resulted in building many churches, and aided in the organization of the Southern conferences. From there he went to Washington, to the church of which he has now been pastor three times, and was for three years chaplain of the United States Senate. His association with General Grant began at this time and continued to the dsath of the latter at Mount McGregor. After a pastorate of three years at the Central Church of New York Dr. Newman went to the E?un e:iical Council in Londoft. On his return he filled the pulpit of the Madison Avenue Congregational Church, being at the time a located Methodist minister. After two years he resigned. He returned to the active ministry, however, after the death ot General Grant. Dr. Newman is considered the nKlpsfc sn?ntf>r in tha Mfifchodisfc niilnit ^ . REV. DANIEL A. GOODSELL. The Rev. Daniel A. Goodsell, D. D., the fifth Bishop elected, is a native of Newburgh, N. Y. He is 48 years old, and has been a member of the New York East Conference for twenty-nine years. His father was the Rev. Buel Goodsell, well known in this vicinity in his day. Dr. Goodsell's work as a pastor has been almost entirely confined to Brooklyn, New York, and New Haven, j He is now Secretary of the Church Educational Society MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC. Lilliax Russell is the best dressed woman who sings in comic opera. Macbeth by Irving is promised to English theatre goers next season. Minnie Maddern, the actress, made her professional debut at the age of four. Nitika, a young Americaa singer, has been scoring a triumph in European concert rooms. Mrs. Asia Booth Clarke, a sister of Edwin Booth, died recently at Bournmouth, England. Mr. TV. S. Gilbert, of "Pinafore," and "Mikado" fame, is 6nga?ed in erecting a per feet theatre in .London. Karl Formes,the famous tenor,is seventythree years old. He will sing in London in Italian opera next season. Sara Bernhardt, the French tragedienne, says she has 800 plays in her possession, and that she never read one of them. An all-summer run is indicated for Sydney Rosenfeld's comic opera, "The Lady or the Tiger,'' at Wal lack's Theatre, New York. Joseph Jefferson's spring tour this year was of only two months' duration, but it was 15,000 miles long and be played in forty cities. A company of colored minstrel performors is being formed formed for a tour to Australia and possibly India. Charles B. Hicks is to manage the troupe. Go wan-go-Mohawk, who "was a member of the "Michael StrogofF' company last season, is to be starred in the cheap theatres next fall. She is a halt-breea Indian girl. At the last concert in St. Petersburg in aid of the military veteran* of the empire, the music was furnished by 400 singers, a band of 900. 150 drums anil 34 piano3 played by 48 women. Edward HarRtcan's new play, more ambitious than any ho has yet appeared in, will be called "The Metropolis," and will represent phases of New York life. He will begin the next season at his New York Theater with it. Harry Miser, the New York manager, has bought Mr. Mackaye's play, Paul Kauvar, and also secured control of all the plays now in the possession of, or that may be written or adopted by Mackaye during the next five years. Among the things that have been promised to this country in the future is a series of performances by a Russian opera company of seventy Loffs and Effskyg. The troup is now in Berlin and will sing its way across Europe to the BAaboard. Hateful to me as are the gates of ^ell ia he who, hiding one thing in his krt, niters' another.?Homer. THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Eastern and Middle State* Dr. Lyma.v Abbott, the editor of the Christian Union, has been elected by Brooklyn Plymouth Church to fill the pulpit made vacant by the death of Henr^ Ward Beecher. The Rov. Dr. Thoburn was elected Missionary Bishop for India and Malaysia by the Methodist Conference while in session at New York. Austin Corbijt has negotiated in London a loan of $56,000,000, secured by a four per cent, mortgage on the Reading Railroad. Mrs. Cleveland spent Friday in Philadelphia as the guest of Georgo W. Childs. She paid an informal visit to a female college, attended a missionary meeting and then departed for Princeton College, N. J., to attend the Commencement Exercises. William Nickerman, a young boy, fell into a tub of hot water at Bridgeport, Conn., and was boiled to deat"h. n- if?- ~ _ n n tt ? a xkajiji -hills, ui ouu -r riwiuisuu, viu., a student at Harvard College, died from excersive indulgence in opium smoking. A child in Philadelphia, Penn., was choked to death by a candy sour ball she was eating, dying in great agony. A storm swept over a wide stretch of territory, Monday, and caused a great amount of damage to crops and property in West Virginia, the oil regions of Pennsylvania, Northern and Middle Ohio, Southern New York and Michigan. South and West; The Colorado Democracy assembled in Convention at Denver and elected an uninstructad delegation to the Presidential Convention. The Sheriff of White County, Ind., was fatally injured by three prisoners, who I fractured his skull and escaped from the County Jail. The Ohio Prohibition Convention met at Toledo and put a State ticket in the field. I The platform adopted favors a woman suffrage and denounces trusts and contract labor importation. An immense crowd assembled at Jackson, Miss., to participate in the military demonstration accompanying the laying of the corner-stone of a monument erected to the /v# Mie<o{oelrir\io?o mtIia tui'nichor? in lliCXllUi y UL iUloOlsOi^^iniM TT uv j/v* <wuwv? MA the Confederate Army. Joseph James has been arrested at Timmonsville, S. C., charged with hiring a col ored farm hand with 8400 to assassinate his father. Mr. and Mrs. Drake, an old couple, and their two infant grandchildren were murdered at Kickapoo, Wis., by burglars who escaped with a large quantity of valuables. The Democratic Convention of Louisiana met at New Orleans and elected a Cleveland delegation to the National Convention, headed by ex-Governor S. D. McEnery. A cloud-bcrst in Dewes county, Neb., submerged five miles of railway," flooded many farms, raised the White river sixteen feet in forty minutes, and drowned many cattle. The water fell in a solid mass many feet thick. William H. Roe, a wife murderer, has t 1 A ucua uaugCM ov Aiiuoiovu, MV Six men were killed and over ninety injured by an explosion of gasoline at Frederick, Md. A terrific wind storm passed over Southern Indiana and did great damage at Wabash and Mentone. At Hendricks a farmer named Bunson and two horses were struck by lightning and killed. Bunson's barn was. destroyed. A party of surveyors employed in Wise county, VaM by the Tennessee Steel and|Iron Company, were attacked by settlers whom the company seeks to drive off and two of their number killed. Mr. and Mrs. William Powell were struck by lightning at theirhomein Parkersburg, W. Va., and instantly killed. Washington. Senator Hawley- has accepted the official invitation of the city of Philadelphia to de liver the oration in Independence Square on the Fourth of July. ^ A dispatch to the Navy Department from Montevideo, Uruguay, announces the death of Lieutenant-Commander George M Totten, United States Navy, executive officer of the United States steamer Tallapoosa, flagship of the South Atlantic squadron. The President has approved the act granting certain lands in Wyoming for public purposes; the act authorizing a loan or arms and i ?A nfti'finf nnrl WnnnroWfl eqUlfJUiCIlLD W IUO Aiiuivuv Artillery Company of Boston, and a number of private pension bills. Foreign. The village of Harlan in Roumania has been destroyed by fire. Four hundred families are homeless. Four men were killed and thirty seriously injured at Montreal, Canada, by the explosion of the city gas reservoir. Large and demonstrative Nationalist meetings were held throughout Ireland, and speeches against the Papal rescript and denouncing the Irish bishops were made by Messrs. O'Brien, Healy ana Dillon. The camp of Osman Digna, the leader of the Egyptian rebels, has been burned by incendiaries in order to compel him to retreat. Two thousand of his followers are said to have perished. Anxiety about the fate of Stanley, the explorer, has been allayed by news just received from Zanzibar that his expedition is safe, and that all its members are alive and WP?11 J. 6. Voight, United States Consul at Manila City, Philippine Islands, is dead. He had been in charge of the American Consulate there for three years. NEWS FROM STANLEY, Reports From the Great Explorer That He AVas Well. A despatch from Zanzibar states that messengers from Tippoo Tib have arrived there with letters from Major Barttelot, dated Singatini, on the Congo, October 25. Major Barttelot says that deserters from Stanley's camp had arrived at Singatini after a twenty days' canoe voyage. They reported that Stanley and all his party were well, and had a plentiful supply of food. The'letters farther say that the Denavior of Tippoo Tib has not been satisfactory. No details ore eiven recardine Stanley's route. NEWSY GLEANINGS, Trenton*, N. J., will grant no liquor licenses to foreigners. It is probable that mackerel fishing will be a failure in the South. Tobacco and other vegetation in western North Carolina has been injured by frost. The fruit crop of Georgia is a failure, ex cepting blackberries, wild haws and persim mons. A fleet of cruisers will guard the Canadian coast against American fishermen this season. In- a fight at Lincoln, Neb., one Burlington brakeman killed another by biting off his tongue. The Emperor Frederick's medical staff will be reduced, and there will be but one bulle tin weekly. Professor Virchow's formal report say? ! A1-; ? fUo flarmn* mere is iiuiiiiu^ muuiuus nuvuv wuu Emperor's malady. Eugene Chalfault, a laborer in tht glass works-at New Albany, Ind., died recently of hydrophobia. Louis Neebe. the Anarchist convict in Joliet, 111., penitenitiary, is breaking dowr physically and mentally. TnE total numbar of saloons permitted fc< sell liquor in Philadelphia after June 1, art 1310, aguinst 0910 the past year. An Oregon boy recently killed a companiot for answering in Sunday-school a questioi on which he himself had failed. Two St Joseph (Mo.) girls were struck bj lightning, which tore off all their clothing but left them otherwise unharmed. William Patterson, a condemned mur derer in the Louisville prison, turns evan gelist and has converted seven fellow pris oners. The King of Portugal has ordered thirtj tons of fireworks and fifty tons of mortari for u?o at Lisbon in the royal reception tc the King of Sweden. Mrs. Sallie Y. Henderson, widow of a contractor, has recovered $28ZC46 in a suit against the city of Louisville, Ky., after thir teen years of litigation. Jahes W. Schooler was recently admitted to practise in the Kentucky Court of Appeals, the first colored man to whom the privilege has been accorded. \ " T- ^Vv ; . / ' r DECORATION DAY. Genera] Observance Throughout the Country. I ? President Cleveland at Parades in Brooklyn and New York Decoration Day was observed in th9 usual manner this year in various parts of the country. Below we give the loading features of the exercises at prominent points: Opposite the Worth monument in Madison Square, New York, the President of the United States Decoration Day reviewed one of the largest pageants that was ever assembled in the metropolis of the nation to honor the memory of the brave soldiers who gave their lives to the preservation of the unity of their country. Twenty-one years ago Congress set apart the 30th day of May for that purpose, and no year since Decoration Day was made a national institution has it been observed with more becoming ceremony. President Cleveland and three members of his Cabinet, Secretaries Endicott, Whitney and Fairchild, came over from Washington to participate in the day's ceremonies. They arrived early at the reviewing stand, but even before they came a vast concourse of citizens had assembled to cheer the survivors of the war on their errand of fraternal affection. It was nearly 9 o'clock when the President, in company with J. L. Linbeck, chairman of the Memorial Committee, drove up and took his position on the reviewing stand The head of the procession reached the reviewing stand at a little before ten o'clock. At that hour the stand was filled with prominent citizens, judges, commissioners and other public otncers. First came the First Brigade of the National Guard under the command of General Fitzgerald, and then the always imposing Old Guard, clad in their heavy beaver skinned hats. As the militia and the Old Guard passed the stand the crowd for the first time warmed to the enthusiasm of the occasion and greated them with a hearty round of applause. Then came the other regiments of the State militia, each in turn saluting the Chief Magistrate as it passed the stand, and receiving a bow of recognition in return. When the Richmond (Va.) Grays, clad in uniforms similar to those worn by the Confederate armies, passod the stand, sandwiched between two companies who wore the blue, and carrying at their head the Stars and Stripes in recognition of the fact that all hostile feeling between North and South had long since died away, they were greeted with a round of cheers sufficient in itself to repay them for their journey from the Old Dominion. Never since the day was first observed has a more inspiring, buoyant procession paraded the streets of the metropolis, r uuy iu,wu men were in line, and the general regularity and perfection of their marching could but recall the days when with their departed comrades most of them marched together. It was after noonday when the last of the procession had passed the reviewing stand, and President Cleveland was driven to Brooklyn to review the parade in that city. As the carriage containing the President drove away the assembled crowd loudly cheered him on his way. The parade in Brooklyn was the largest and finest ever seen in that city on Memorial Day. Over ten thousand men were in line. These were the army of veterans, a battery of regular artillery, a battalion of marines, about three hundred bluejackets; the Thirteenth, under Colonel Austen; the Thirty-second, under Coonel Finkelmeier; the Forty-seventh, under Colonel Gaylor, and the "Fourteenth, under Colonel Michell, the brigade being under the com manrt oj ijenerai James inciter. The veteran organizations, under General E. B. Fowler, carried their tattered battle flags, and included the Burvivors of all the regiments that left the city during the war. It was just a quarter past twelve when the crowd that had long been waiting at and around the reviewing stand in front of Washington Park, between Do Kalb and Willoughby avenues, broke into enthusiastic cheering at the approach of President Cleveland in an open carriage. Among tne company on the reviewing stand were the Mayor and Mrs. Chapin, the District Attorney and Mrs. Ridgway, William E. Robinson, J. S. T. Stranahan, the Rev. Charles H. Hall, U. E. Lathrop, who looks so much like the President that the crowd cheered him on his arrival; Mrs. Dr. Talmage and daughter, General Black and a delegation of Grand Army men, General Butterfleld, Admiral Gherardi, ex-Mayor Hunter and some of the city officials. ~ * ? * - ? 1 ~ M It was a quarter to one wnen me nettu ui the procession came by, the band playing "Dixie." The President stood up wnen the procession began, and answered the salutes of the marching men by bowing and smiling, He remained standing until the Fifth division had passed. Then he and the party left the stand and took seats in the carriages. They remained a few minutes longer, ani then, at five minutes to two, as the firemen were passing the stand the distinguished party were driven away to Mr. Cross's house, where the President held an informal reception until 3:30 o'clock, when, accompanied by his cabinet officers, he left on a special train for Washington. At night services in memory of the doacl, held in the New York Metropolitan Opera House, Chauncev M. Depew preside! and Colonel R. _G. Ingersoll made a memorial address. " ' . The most impressive services were held at the tomb of General Grant. Twenty thousand people were gathered at Riverside Park in the afternoon at the hour of 3, when the services in honor of the dead commander were begun. Kpatq were arraneed in front of the tomb for the Grand Army Posts and the Virginia ! company and the members of the 10th Kegi- I ment. After the band had played a funeral j march, the Rev. Dr. 3VT. King offered prayer, and the ritual of the Grand Army was read. The oration was delivered by General Stewart L. Woodford. He was frequently applauded by the Richmond Grays, as well As by the Grand Army men. At the close of the services the Richmond company fired three salutes in front of the tomb. The bugle call was sounded, and as the members of Grant Post marched past the tomb each threw a bunch of flowers within. The Grand Army of the Republic ceremonies in Washington were on a scale of great splendor. All the posts were out in force. Statues of revolutionary heroes as well as those of the late war were lavishly decorated. A large delegation honored the memory of General Logan in Rock Creek Cemetery, where Representative Mason,of Illi- j nois, delivered a touching oration. At noon an artillery salute was fired. The procession] was formed in front of the Arlington Man- | sion, and, after the usual visit co me grave 01 the unknown, etc., Senator Palmer, of Michigan, delivered an oration in the vine covered amphitheatri. He was followel by Senator Manderson, of Nebraska. Philadelphia honored the day by parades, addresses and decorations. On the tomb of Major General VVinfleld Scott Hancock, at Norristown, a splendid floral piece was placed by the Hancock Veteran Association, and there were floral tributes from a number of othtr organizations. Gettysburg also made a grand patriotic display. The proceedings ^in the National Cemetery were unusually impressive. Colonel W. F. Ryan, of Rochester, N. Y., recit.'d Lincoln's famous address delivered at'the dedication of the soldiers1 monument, November 19, T. E. Tarsney, of Michigan, discussed the results of the battle of Gettysburg in a way which held the closest attention of the large crowd. Colonel Dewitt C. Sprague, of Washington, | read a poem, the subject of which was: "The Dead of Gettysburg.'' After music by the i .a iraa T\rnnft!ir?f*fld bv nanu iuo ucuouttviv.i ??* - __^ Rev. T. J. Barkley. Deacon Coffee found his son-in-law, Parson Can troll, a Seven-day Baptist, engaged on Sunday in ploughing his field near Jitntown, Indian Territory. The deacon remonstrated and undertook to kick the parson out of the field. Cantrell resisted and split his father-in-law's head open with a hoe, killing, him. The United States Government has advertised for five thousand American whitemarble headstones. Congress, on March 30, made an appropriation of $20,000 to pay for them. The headstones will be used for the unmarked grave3 of Union soldiers, sailors and marines in various parts of the country. "Willie Pullman, a Nashville (Tenn.) lad, went out upon a raft the other day to drown a cat in a break In its surface. While thrusting the animal under water its claws fastened upon his sleeve, and, losing IV balance, the boy fell under the logs and was drowned along with his four-footed victim. ; g* p> SDMMABI OF 00NQBES3. Senate Proceedings. 100th Day.?The House amendments to the Senate bill for a public building at Paterson, N. J., were concurred in Senate bills appropriating $59,000 for a public building at Staunton, Va.. and 8100,000 for one at Newport News, Va., were placed on the calendar A resolution wa3 adopted instructing the Committee on Indian Affairs to examine into the condition of State bonds held by the United States in trust for indians.... A Senate bill for the confinement of inebriates in the Government Hospital for the Insane was placed on the calendar ... Mr. Turpie introduced a bill for the making and printing of the "Register of Labor." It proposes the annual publication of the names of persons reputed in their vicinity as most skilled in the mechanical and other arts.... Mr. Blair introduced a joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution to the effect that no State shall ever make a law respecting an establishment of religion or nrohihitinc thn fro? exproisft thereof that no money raised by taxation shall ever be appropriated for any school, where instruction is given in any doctrine peculiar to any religion.... The House bill making an appropriation to supply a deficiency in the appropriation for expenses of collecting the revenue from customs was passed. 101st Day.?The following bills were reported : The House bill to create a Department of Agriculture; the Senate bill for the reduction of the Round Valley Indian Reservation The Committee on Commerce reported back the River and Harbor Appropriation bill. Mr. Frye stated that it appropriated t'21,388,783, being Jsl,7b3,000 more than the bill contained as it came from the House The Senate then proceeded to the consideration of Executive business.... By a vote of 21 to 19 the bill to discuss the Fisheries Treaty in open session was passed Mr. Stewart spoke against the disturbance of certain land titles in California. 102d Day.?The first open session for the consideration of executive business was held. The British Fisheries Treaty was brought up for consideration, and Mr. Frye took the floor and delivered a lengthy speech in opposition to i ts ratification... Mr. Manderson brought up in the Senate the bill to promote General Sneridan to the office of General of the Army. Unanimous consent was necessary, and the bill was placed upon the calendar, with a favorable report _____ Home Proceedings. 123d Day. ?The Sub-Committee on Ap Kopriations reported ror consideration cue gislative and Executive Appropriation bill. Mr. M'Comas spoke against certain provisos of the measure. 124th Day.?The House continued tha consideration of the Legislative and Executive Appropriation bill. Mr. Cannon spoke on . the subject of providing special judges on a ' fixed salary to hold court in the Indian Ter- ] ritory. The measure went over The reso- ? lution to increase the force of the Civil Service Commission was passed. 125th Day.?The following bills were in- 1 troduced: Appropriating $275,0JO for the rebuilding of the Government dam at Rock . Island Arsenal, and for the immediate construction of a temporary dam; granting to f Government employees who were present at ( the battle of Gettysburg leave of absence to attend the anniversary celebration of that battle; to select a site for a Postoffice build- 1 ing in Washington, D. C.; to retire ex-sol- I diera and sailors who have been wounded in | battle, after twenty-one years' service in the civil service The Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds reported the bills for J the erection of public buildings at Taunton, \ Mass., and Norfolk, Va., to the Committee of the Whole The Committee on Military Affairs reported the bill authorizing the ' President to amioint and retire John C. Fre- i mont as a Maior-General; to the House cal- i endar... .The House then went into Committee of the Whole on the Legislative, Executive and Judicial Appropriation bill The i House Committee on Military Affairs completed the Army Appropriation bill and reported it to the House. The bill makes a 1 total appropriation of $34,289,700. ] CHINESEPIBATES. A. Horde of Thieves Attack a Sinking American Ship. The regular China steamer has brought news to San Francisco of the extraordinary wreck of the costly steamer San Pablo, which occurred ion a reef off Turnabout Island, in the Formosa Straits, off the China coast. Only brief cable reports have been received of the disaster. The vessel struck a sunken rock in a thick fog early in the morning. Every one was aroused, and the Captain soon saw that the vessel must be abandoned, as she was filling fast, and. Bhowed a tendency to capsize. Just before the lifeboats were ready to be lowered, a swarm of Chinese piratical junks came from the neighboring mainland. Th%? queer looking vessels sailed in line of battle, and Captain Reed, realizing the j ? okonrnn worn in mA/fo nrenara UtUi^Cl Uiooucugw ?. v* v ?, ? g _ tions to repel the attack. The pirates, nowever, came Li such overwhelming numbers that before any demonstration could be made on board the sulking vessel the pirates were climbing up the ship's sides. They were led by a man who was armed with a cutlass and a large revolver. Hi9 shipmates were also heavily armed. Captain Ree.l passed revolvers and guns among the passengers and crew, and after a furious fusillade the coolies were beaten off. They rallied, however, and made a second and more desperate attempt to board the San Pablo, which was fast settling in the water. Some of the pirates gained the main deck, in spite of the gallant stand of the passengers and crew, and were swarming toward the promenade deck, where the defenders were busy firing and reloading, when Captain Reed brought the ship's hose pipes into requisition. The long coils of hose were manned by the crew, and instantly the pirates were again put to flight, the torrents of boiling water from the pipes sweeping many oi them off the decks into the sea. The coolies then bsat a retreat, and drawing tvioir vessels ud in line, cruised hall a mile off the sinking vessel, with the evident intention of waiting for the abandonment of the vessel During the fight Captain Reed imprisoned all the Chinese among his crew with the Chiness passengers in the forehold, for fear they would aid their countrymen in the attempt to loot the vessel. As soon as possible the passengers, mails, and specie were put into the San Pablo's small boats, and then all bore away for the mainland. When only a short distance from the wreck Captain Reed and bis charges saw the pirates set sail and rush upon the San Pablo as they had done a few hours before They clambered over the ship's sides with grappling hooks, and were soon masters of one of the finest boats that ever sailed the Pacific. Whether by accident or design, they soon set fire to the ship, and when last seen smoke was pouring from the wreck ii great clouds. The passengers were taken to Hong Kong, and tugs were sent to the relief of the San Pablo, but they found only the hulk, burned to the water's edge, and stripped of everything valuable. it is estimated that at least a score of pirates lost their lives in this stubborn fight with Captain Reed and his men. During the battle the women aud children who were on j board the San Pablo sought the staterooms, where they were in constant fear not only of falling into the hands of the pirates, but of being drowned in the water which was fill inc me snip. The San Pablo was fitted up in finer style than any steamer that ever left San Fran- { cisco, and was valued at $500,000, which is a total loss, as she was uninsured. A CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY, Cardinal Gibbons Lays the Corner Stone in Washington. The corner stone of the Catholic University was laid in Washington, D. C., Thursday afternoon by Cardinal Gibbons, aided by Archbishops Williams, Ireland and Ryan, Bishops Spaultlinj? and Kane, and others. The steady rain which fell during the (lay caused the abandonment of the parade of the j societies President Cleveland drove out to I the grounds, which are two miles and a half from the city, and was given a seat on the platform bet-veen Cardinal Gibbons and Bishop Spaulding. The choir was supported by the Marine Band. The blessing of the site of the university and stone laying followed. The sermon was by Bishop Spaulding, and the presentation of a gold medal sent by the Pope to Miss Caldwell, whoso gift of $300,0JO was the nucleus of the fund by which the university has been founded. A largo number of prominent officials, Congressmen, Cabinet officers and diplomats were in attendance. Lawyers from all over the country met In convention at Washington recently to secure uniform laws throughout the country on divorce and commercial paper. About fifty were from New York, thirty from tha Pacific slope, aud 200 from the Middle State* ?* ;= :y ^ ' ;' ' ' . . - :. * / T' y #' WORK OF A CYCLONE. Ttfo Towns Partly Destroyed in Kansas and Texas. & A Large Number of Persons Killed or Badly Injured. A destructive cyclone has swept through Kansas and on into Texas, causing widespread disaster. In Kansas the severest effects of the whirlwind were felt at Argonia, which is presided over by the first woman Major ever elected in tnis country, juts. Susan Salter. It cut a wide swath through the thickert settled portion of the place. The largest residence, that of Mr. Campbell, was literally picked up and carried a quarter of a mile. Of three churches only the foundations remain- The school building was torn to pieces, and there was not a house that was not damaged. All the houses were shaken up and the greater part of them carried away from their foundations. Seventy-five people are reported as seriously injured, and two, a young ladv teacher, Miss Monroe, and a railroad hand, nave sincedied. A great many had their legs and arms broken by flying timbers. Two men had both eyes put out, and a child had its skull crushed The cyclone swept on to Brownton, Texas, destroying the Methodist, Baptist and Congregational churches and eight dwelling houses. Nine persons, including the Sheriff and County Recorder, were killed. The damage will exceei $12,000. The path of the storm was 300 yards wide, and everything within those limits was swept away. The damage to business and residence property at Corsicana, Texas, will exceed $25,000. The damage to crops cannot be estimated, but is very great Over a dozen i?i ? rru* UUliUillKS wtjio ulii wicu. xuo uij-^wua i I tor j or A. Fox & Bro. sustains a loss of (10,000. About a dozen small houses wers demolished. Great damage was done at Sulphur Springs, Texas, to growing crops and fruit trees. The storm covered a belt three miles wide. The cotton plants were completely destroyed, and must be replanted. Tue hailstones were so large that they broke shingles an the roofs of houses, and tore limbs from trees. LATER NEWS, Judge Edward A. White, of Baton Rouge, has bsen selected by the Louisiana Legislature to succeed J. B. Eustis as United States Senator. A large crib of lumber slid upon and !atally injured three man at La Crosse, Wis. The Southern Presbyterian Union at the 3eneral Assembly in Baltimore declared itlelf opposed to organic union with the North;rn Presbyterians. x_J WJ | Secretary Fairchlld Has appointor jduivard Burgess, of Boston, to be President of :ho Board on Life Saving Appliances, rice Captain R. Baby, defeated. This is the Mr. Burges3 who designed the yachts Puritan, Mayflower and Volunteer. He has accepted the office. Frederick N. Fot, Township Clerk, his wife and three children, aged five, nine and sleven years, were burned to death in their house at Uffington, Canada. A fire in the establishment of Edward and Robert Garrould, linen drapers, London, England, barned six shop women to death, and many others were injured by leaping from windows. Emperor Frederick at last accounts was said to be in a fair way toward complete recovery. THE NATIONAL GAME. Ed. Swartwood is Captain of Hamilton. About 6,000,030 balls were used last year. Tiernan, of the New Yorks, leads the League in home runs. Radbourv, of Boston, appears to have lost none of his own skilL Sunday, of Pittsburg, now leads the League in base stealing. Sam Wise"still makes plenty of errors, but hits the ball at critical times oftener than any other man on the Boston team. it's'conceded that Kelly will win the bicycle offered by a Boston firm to the Boston player making the most runs this season. The Hamilton team contains eight lefthanded batters. A good "south-paw pitcher" generally makes sad havoc with them. The marvels and the wonders who were discovered last winter are not proving themselves to be what they were advertised to be. No base runner tak?3 so many desperate chances as Ward, of the New Yorki At times these attempts to steal a base are brilliant. The Chicagos' new suits are of black broadcloth, and cost $45 each. The suit is to be J worn at the opening eame in each League town and during the Australian trip. The work of Reipschlayer behind the bat, for the Jersey City team, has greatly Aided that club in obtaining its present high posi tion in the race for the Central League pennant The eight ball clubs in the Central Interstate League will travel 15,736 miles. It will cost them $31,452.40 for transportation. The contracts have been made with the railroads. It is a noteworthy fact that young players seldom or never suffer from "Charliehorse." It is generally the veteran players who have been in active work for a number of years. Sowder?, of the Bostons, deliver! a difficult ball for a catcher to handle. He has control of the mysterious drop ball, but he adds considerable more speed to it than other pitchers. Nearly all of the Texas League clubs ara increasing their capital stock to raise the wherewithal to strengthen their teams. Dallas has secured $2500 extra and San Antonio will do likewise. The Chicago papers have started a story * - * t)mwakam about the immense screngia <n UU1 tUCl o. the new California pitcher, to the effect that he can tear a pack of cards with his fingers, and split a silver coin with his teeth- i Tony Mullane, of the Cincinnatis, once pitchcd in a Geneva (Ohio) team, and he received the munificent sum of $4 a week for doing it. When not playing, the players had to put in the extra time in the hay and corn fields. Figures tell the story of Kelly's work for the Bostons this season better than anything else. In the first nineteen games played he has made forty hits, and s:ored twenty-three times, while the rest of the team combined has made but sixty-seven runs. In Charleston, S. C., a fund has been raised to give such deserving boys as are unable to pay for them, tickets to the best seats at the baseball grounds. Fifty boys at a time will be sent in while the fund lasts, at ten cents each, and, according to the News and Courier, "it is expected to last all summer." Harry "Wright says that the team which ' -J:? plays steadily ana escapes mw u^aun?K valuable players will capture the flag. He believes Philadelphia, Detroit and New York will do the principal fighting for the flag, not having a high opinion of Boston, and considering it problematical how long Chicago's young blood will hold up. NATIONAL LEAGUE RECORD. Xante o'Club. 1Co?. L/W. Chicago 21 Boston -0 12 Detroit 17 13 New York 1(5 12 Philadelphia 14 14 Pittsburg 12 1*5 Indianapolis !> 2) Washington 8 21 AMERICAN* ASSOCIATION* RECORD, 'm/ of Club. Won. C ncinnati 23 1) i rooklyn 25 9 St. Louis 10 8 Maltiraore 13 15 1(i 1S Atuieuc Cleveland 11 20 Louisville 9 23 Kansas City 7 22 Near Raleigh, N. C., a man killed himself the other day out of remorse for the death of a young lady, his cousin, who while driving with him was thrown from the buggy ana (ataUy hurt the week before his death. # ^ -W . I' MB. BLAINE'S LETTEBf v He DecTarS^r-TirKT-Ho Cannot PomI' bly Accept a Renomination. ; The following letter, forwarded by Jamed G. Blaine from Paris to Whitelaw Reid, of C, the New York Tribune, explains itself: V-..<. Mv Dear Sir: Since my return to Pari* from Southern Italy on the 8th inst, I hav? ; learned (what I did not l>efore believe) that my name may yet be presented to the Na? tional Convention as .a candidate forth* . I Presidential nomination of the Republic can party, A single phrase of my letter of January. 23 from Florence (which waA , decisive ot exvnrthuig. -I_Jiad the personal power to decide) has been treat&i-by many of1 my mosfcyalued friends as not absolutely conclusive inultimate and po^ible'wiifcmgenciei. On the other hand, friends equally- devoted and disinterested have construed my letter- ' (us it shnnld ha construed) to be an uncottr ditional withholding: of my name from tbd National Convention. They have in consequence given their support to emi- . 'j nent gentlemen who are candidates for thd 4 Chicago norai nation?some of whom would ^ not, I am sure, have consented to assui&S j that position if I hai desired to represent tbd .? party in the Presidential contest of 1888. N ~ 1 If I should now, by speech or by silence, ^ by commission or omission, permit my fllme, in any event to come before the Con- jj vention i - should incur the reproach of being uncsndid with those who have always D3eu_ candid with ma I speak therefore, because I am not willing to remain in a doubtful attitude I am : not willing to be the causa of misleading a single man among the millions who have given me their suffrages and their confidence. I am not willing that even > one of my faithful supporters in the past should think me capable of paltering in a double- sense with my words. Assuming that the Presidential nomination could by any possible chance be offered to me, I could not accept it without leaving in the minds of thon-.. sands of th*se men the impressions that I naa not been free from indirection, and therefore I could not accept it at all. The mfe* * ?{? representations of malice bave no weight but the just displeasure of friends I could not patiently endure. " ? Republican victory, the prospects of which grow brighter every day, can be imperiled *only by lack of unity in council or by acrim* onions contest over men. The issoeof Protection is incalculably stronger and greater than any - man, for ft con- / cerns the prosperity of thejpressnt and of generations yet to come. Were it possiblefor every voter of the Republic to tee -2 for himself the condition and recotnpenM . of labor in Europe, the Party of Free- * Trade in the United States wonld not ncaive the stfpport of- one wage-worker be- . tween tb?i two oceans. It may not b? <H-\^ rectly iij^onr power as philanthropists to elevate the European laborer, bat it will b^ a lasting stigma upm oar statesmanship if /->. we permit the American Jabbrerto be forced. ! down to the European leveL And in th? end the rewards of labor everywhere will be advanced if we steadily refuse to low*', _ the standard at home. Yours very sincerely, ' Jakes G. Blaeh.. gsj THE LABOE WOELD. M v ' a A $50,000 silk factory is to be bufltafcr Jacksonville, Fla. ^ Pullman, BL, is to have an electric bejfc. railroad five miles long. ' ; Thirb are thirty-six societies of the various crafts in Minneapolis, Mfan In Massachusetts 12,000 children under 14 years of age are working in shops. iVXTBiraiVX pot Mines lur wuiuug up >U. native clay are now in course of building at- Memphis, Tenn. : .'yvi Industrial establishments are springing up in the South faster than an account ofthem can be kept The Boston Herald, in furtherance of it*- ^ profit-sharing agreement of a year ago, has divided $10,000 among its employes. . <\ Section men along the line of the Missouri Pacific Railroad have gone on strike became- of a reduction from $1.50 to $1.35 perday. , Twelve hundred Hebrews engaged in tailoring at Leeds. England, have struck against more than fifty-eight hours a Two Presidential Labor party tickets ha*2^*^ been placed in the field, one by the Union Lap- I bor party and another by the United Labor I The industries in the United Stater ar?> . ^ now carried on by 4,000,000 pera>ns4n rouna numbers, representing a population of 20,-.010,0-0. t ..* The Loughlin Coke Works at Bradford, Penn., have shut down its 240 ovens indefinitely, throwing a large number of men out of employment Retorts from 889 labor organizations In New Jersey give a membership of 57,683-? 40,172 being Knights of Labor and 17,780Trade Unionists. There were over 100 delegates, representing 5 J00 butchers, at the annual session in Philadelphia of the Butchers' Union. Thomas-' " . Armour, of Chicago, presided. The numberof men employed at iron mining in the Lake Superior basin is estimated at 150,000. Wages have been reduced from5 to 10 Der cent Miners get $1.65 a day. It is reported that the Delaware, Lackawanna ana Western Railroad of New Jersey has issued notice that hereafter the train bands on passenger trains will be held responsible for damage to seat arms and backfc Skilled laborers in China, such as cappenters, masons, blacksmiths and the like, :< earn from ten to thirty cents a day,while unskilled laborers, men who, in the expreesiveterm in their language, "sell their strength," earn from eight to ten cents a day. The Union Steel Works of Chicage consame daily 1000 barrels of oil as fuel ia-place. of -:00 tons of coaL For every 18 barrels the/ # ; save 15, or $278 per day. They dispense also- '* 1 with the labor of 65 men, or $180. In the 310working days there is saved in these works; *? alone the enormous sum of $126,4S0. ./ Workhen in the vicinity of Hackettatown, N. J.,- are exuberant over the tidings that tha Warren Foundries, owned by Cooper & Hewitt, will be put In blast, employing several hundred hands. These works have been idle during the last five years, owing to the- * depressed condition of the iron trade, during which time the business interests of the town have been paralyzed. Ti General and Mrs. Greelt have taken cottage at Pitts field, Mass., for the summer and Mrs. Cleveland will be their gueLl for somo weeks, beginning the first of July. THE MARKETS. < J ? ' ; 1 23 NEW YOBK. f Beef, City Dressed 5)?<S> 5% Calve?, common to prime.... ti @ 8 Bheep 6 Lamos 9 (3 \ V Hogs?Live 5 85 6 00 Dressed 7,^(9 7H Flour?City Mill Extra 4 65 yip 4 SO f , ^ West good to choice 4 fc5 <g 5 SO . Wheat?No. 2 Red, tfune,.. 93>?(g) 94^ Rye?State 56 @ 58 Barley?State S2 @ 85 ' < Corn?Ungraded Mixed.... CO\\(& 65% J Oats?White State 4343% m Mixed Western 3i @ 40 , M Hay?Choice Timothy 95 @ 1 00 " Straw?Long Rye. ? (? 1 00 1 Lard?City Steam 8 20 @ 8 40 1 Butter?State Creamery.... 25 -1 Dairy ? & ? I W est I in. Creamery 15 @ 17 I Factorv 14 @ 16 I - " ? -i '/a a I Cheese?State Factory, ;>ew <7iv? Skims 1 ? J,, Western 'K? Eggs?State aud Penn 16 @ BUFFALO. '| Steers?Western 4 35 @ 4 85 Sheep?Good to Choice 5 OJ @ 6 00 Lainos?Western ? 09 7 00 Hogs?Good to Choice Yorks 5 05 @ 5 90 Flour?Family 4 So <3 5 25 , Wheat-No. 1 93 Corn?No. a. Mixed 57 (? MX Oats?No. 2. Mixed ? (& 39 Barley?State 88 (j 91 BOSTOX. Beef?Good to choice 7 @ 8 Hogs?Live 5/i(sD 6 Northern Dressed.... 7 Flour?Spring Wheat pat's.. 5 25 <$ 5 05 Corn?Steamer Yellow. OS @ 69 Oats-White -48^ Rye-State 60 65# WATIRTOW.V (MASS.) CATTLE VAHKM Beef- Dressed weight. 7 <g) * Sheep?Live weight 4jf(rj 6 Lamb3 6li@ 8 Hogs?Northern 7 (<S </* PHILADELPHIA. Flour?Penn.extra family... 3 K & 4 00 Wheat-No. 2, Red 9 JKO 97 , Corn?No. 2, Yellow ? ?3 63 Oats?Mixed 40 @ 4l$?-^ Rye?No. 2 ? @ 78 Butter?Creamery Extra... 19 @ 20 Cheese?N. Y. Full Cream.. 9}{(3i