The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1876-02-02
OCR NEW YORK LETTER.
New YORK, January %, 1876.
THE WEATHER

New YORK, January %, 1876.
THE WEATHER
The city is thankful for the cool
change that came this week. Fog,
rain, and fever-breediDg weather
were just making ready for host of
small epidemics The ice-men were
sick with hope deferred, for their an
uual ice-erop, aud 5000 men were
waiting for work to begin at the
great iee-hOuses up river. There was
little need of invalids going to Flori-
da. But the north west wind brought
bracing weather that makes life a
luxury With all the warm, unfavor-
able weeks, the season is far from
being an unhealthy one, the death
rate for the week being considerably
less than the corresponding one last
winter. After the weather, the
BEECHER TOPIC.
The motions of Plymouth Church
may de called erratic. if nothing
harsher Its last performance after
snubbing the idea of mutual eOun-
ell, was to summon Mr.. Bowen. edi-
tor of the Independent, to a church
meeting to hear grievances against
him. His two SOUS were allowed
with him, on sufferance, but the stem
ographer he brought was promptly
turned ont But the reporter made
good use Of his time while be did
stay, and took down the debate word
for word, and quietly took satisfac-
ZION in putting into next mornings
papers, where it didn't read credite-
bfy to the fairness or order of private
Plymouth Church proceedings. AZ
ter all, the charge against Mr.. Bow
en- was that when a church demand
ed that be should tell all he knew
about the Beecher matter, he refused
to say anything good or bad about
1t. The shrewd, long-witted Bowen
knew what would exasperate the
swivel-tongued brethern, and did it,
by keeping his mouth shut. He
turned the tables on the meeting last
night by taking ground that the
church summoned him TO hear eharg-
es and receive advice, not to answer,
and the Bowen moHnt closed like ad-
amant. The silent man is the strong
est in the quarrel.
MOODY AND SANKEY.
Barnum's Hippodrome, where .Jer-
sey and Vermont girls rode Roman
chariot races last Winter, and Gil
more's Brass Band made everybody
thirsty enough to drink oceans of
beer, last summer, is now converted
into tabernacle for Moody and San
keys great meetings in February.
Seats for 1000 cover the saw-dust,
and a choir of 700 from different
church choirs will lead the singing.
The vast building has been divided
up into rooms for various purposes.
Besides the vast auditorium for the
regular meetings, there are four very
large rooms for inquirers. rooms for
preachers meetings, rooms for class
es, aud rooms for every purpose.
The money for all this has been furn-
ished by wealthy religious people in
the city, who are determined to
make some head against the deprav-
ity that rules the city, and is running
it. One liquor seller, who has one of
he most popular bars in the city,
and actually paid $1,000
to the fund for the Moody meetings.
When asked why he paid his money
to cause that was in direct conflict
with his business, be answered that
he had real estate, the income from
which was greater that the profits
from his bar The demoraliza-
ton of the city, the vice and crime
that made New York an undesirable
place to live in, was hurting his larg-
est interests. IF them howlers kin
stop that kind of thing" said be,
"they are doing me the best turn
they kin :" Not q very Christian rea-
son, but ae exceedingly practical one.
But when you come TO re. = 81
there are two in the city who deserve
more encouragement than they are
getting:
DwYER AND NcCAULEY
are two brands snatched from the
burning, that is, one was miserable |
drunkard and the other was prize
tighter. They were converted, and
both felt called upon to do something |
for the people they had formerly |
known. So they take their lofts or
cellars, just as they esa, down in Wa
ter and Vandam streets, and they
hold services among the lowest and
most wretcbed people in the city.
They are mobbed, and hustled, and
despitefully used in all sorts of ways,
but they stick to it with the zeal of
and are actually accomplish
ing something. They have got to-
gether small congregations in both
those streets, and have actually in
iuced large number Of men and
women to try better life They
work without pay, or hope OF pay,
happy when the well-inclined give