The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1875-05-12
Moody and Sankey.

LONDON, May D, 1919.
The Christian Convention met to-
day in the Haymarket Theater. D.
l.. Moody, the American revivalist,
| was chosen Chairman; Canon Baters
by, of the See of Carlisle; Canon
Freemantle, Chaplain to the Arch
bishop of Canterbury; Lord Chal-
| mondeley. the Rev. Mr.. Aiken, and
many hundreds of other delegates.
representing the principal towns in
the kingdom, were present. The
Rev. Mr.. Kelman, of Edinburgh, in
an address stated that the results of
! the work of Messrs. Moody and San
key in that city were truly marvellous.
Three thousand persons had been
converted, and the number of drunk
ards and theater goers who had been
reclaimed was remarkable.
The stamp of civilization-the
postal stamp.
The largest mixed college in the
country is Oberlin. OF its 800 stu
dents 633 are women.
AS the result of meeting of repre-
sentatives of both companies at Indi-
annapolis, Monday, the Great Western
Dispatch and Erie & Pacific Dispatch
companies. freight lines, were consoli-
dated and officered.
The antecedent termination of the
original Woodruff scandal is now de
scribed thus: Tilton told it to Sam
Wilkeson; Sam. told his vile; she
told her sister. Elizabeth Cady Stan
ton; Elizabeth told it to Woodruff
and Andrews, who published it, and
so raised all the rumpus.
The crusade has broken out in New
York IT it has political effect there,
as it had here, it will make the EN-
pire State Democratic by hundred
thousand majority. Nothing has APP
peared equal to the crusade for de-
pleting the Republican ranks.
What shall be done with an Indian
who kills another Indian, there being
no law for the punishment of that
crime, is painful inquiry made by
the Christian Commission. The New
York Herald answers: Give Linn a
gun, quart of whisky, string of
beads, and So.
France reconsiders and gives adhe-
sion to the International Postal
Treaty, with some conditions that can
be easily arranged. One point is that
she wants uniform system Weights.
If the other nations had been wise
they would have been using the
French decimal system Of weights and
measures long since.
The case in a nutshell: A lady
entered a street car in Richmond,
Va, not long since The only vacant
seat was by MISUNDERSTANDING col
ored woman. The latter politely
drew away her skirts and made all
the room possible. The true born
she Southern declined the seat with
scornful toss of the head and tip OF
the nose more than nature had given
it. 'Lor bless ye, honey said the
colored woman, smilingly, ''ef ye
owned me you d sit in my lap"
Prof. Tice, the meteorologist, states
that from the 9Th of June next until
about July 18th will be season of
high electric tension in the atmos-
phere, many and severe thunder
storms, possibly heavy rainlalls and
cyclones, such as water-spouts aud
tornadoes. Again in October like
of the atmosphere will oc-
cur. The Professor maintains that
the equinox of Venus will produce
these disturbances, and that they may
be looked for either twenty or twenty
five days preceding that event.
The Vallejo California; Chronicle
relates the following incident of the
revival now in progress at that place,
by the Rev. Mr.. Hammond:
Last Thursday evening Mr.. Ham
mond preached from the text, Saul.
Saul, why persecutest thou me?' In
the audience there was an engineer
named Saul. who was accompanied by
his wife and little girl. The rever-
end gentleman repeated his text sew
eral times, Saul, Saul, why persecu-
test thou me?" At last the little one.
who thought that the text had per-
sonal application, looked up into the
face of her parent, and said, Father,
don't mind him: he's drunk !