The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1874-04-28
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NRw YORK. April 27.-Rev. W. T.
Sabine, Rector OF the Church of Attoue
ment, announced yesterday that he in
tended to resign from the ministry o
the Protestant Episcopal Church, and
then gave in his sermon the grounds
for his actionIaud for his preference fol-
the Reformed Episcopal Church recent,
ly founded by Bishop Cummins.
John Sullivan and John Gary have
been arrested and held to await an in'
vestigst,on, on . charge OF murder, the
fotmer for killing James Mullsne in
November last, and the latter for Gauss
ing the death Of Michael Cavanaugh
two weeks ago.
Rev. John N. McLead, pastor of the
First Reformed Presbyterian Church ol
this city during the past forty>eight
years. died to-day, aged 60.
The Produce Exchange has appointed
q committee to solicit contributions for
the relief Of the sufferers by the over
flow Of the Mississippi river.
The woman Mary Connolly, charged
with i'll treating the little girl Mary
Ellen, has been convicted OF assault
and battery and sentenced to year in
the penitentiary.
The Decline in Gold.
The reasons assigned for the decline
OF gold 10 ll2s, were that about two
millions and q half Of gold were sold
ou, by private arrangement, for the ac-
coust OF a speculator who was unable
to meet his contracts. Gold later,
touched ll3s.
Disorders I'm Poland.
A letter from ST. Peterebursh gives
some particulars OF d soriers in Poland
growing out Of the attempts to force
the inhabitants to attach themselves to
the Russian National Church. Tine
priests Of the parishes 10 the govern >
meut OF Siedlowe were all thrown into
prison for refusing to carry out the
orders OF the Russian Greek Church.
The peasants refused to recognize the
Russian priests or attend the churches,
whereupon they were sent there by
force. In some places the peasantry
stoned the priests, and in the village OF
Crale!re resistance was made 10 the
military and several soldiers and
officers were wounded by pixies
and stones. The soldiers fired on the
peassntry aud large number were
killed. In the village OF Proteulin q
eimIar disturbance took place, in
which several officers and many OF the
soldiers were killed and some fifty
seven peasants were shot down. The
prisons at Siedie and other chief towns
are crowded with prisoners. Besides the
arrests which were made the inhab-
itants OF the rioting districts were
sentenced to be beaten with fifty blows;
women twenty-five, while the children
received ten blows each without distinc-
ton of age or size. Some OF the wo-
men who were violent in their language
received as many as q hundred and
fifty blows.
Murder ofan American Missionary
Rev. Daniel F. Watkins, the Protes-
tant Missionary at Gaudato Jovs,
Mexico, has addressed q letter to the
Secretary Of the American Board OF
Foreign Mis.ions, giving an account OF
the murder of the Rev. NJ. Stephens.
lie says: Mr.. Stephens had been in
the hay lot but few moments when
a furious throng entered where he had
taken refuge. Seeing soldiers in the
crowd he ran TO meet them, thinking
they had come to his help, and when
be sried out, Protect me protect me "
they replied, They come they come"
and st the same time the
soldiers and others discharged mus
kets aud other firearms on the beloved
brother, killing him instantly. One
shot entered his eye and several his
breast, and as sooD as the villains
reached him they used their swords in
cutting his head literally to pieces and
battered out his brains, it is said, with
sticks. They afterwards robbed his
body OF every article he had on, and
the house OF everything he had. They
took all bis books and burned them in
the public place. An old English BIZ
Bile ths, was in the martyrs hand
when he died shared the same fate, and
lest the awful crime should fail to
prove the utmost barbariiy they enter
ed the church and announced the deed
well done by ringing atwice merry peal
OF bells.