The Newtown bee., 1878-04-04

Aa h'e NeNHafeo faiioJ VI NsN nheAiA" penilenls arc often required 10 undergo frighIful suiferings, They fast until scarcely able tn stand, scourge their nak- cd bodies until they are covered with sores, and on Good Friday take heavy wooden crosses on their backs and stum ble along, blindfolded, to the summit of hill Here they are bound to the up. right crosses with strong cords, and left for three days. Some are said 10 die through weakness and pain, and to be secretly buried. Others fall insensible before reaching tho hill. On Easter Sunday, in 1876, four penients died from the effects of the torture, one of whom lay all Easter night on the thres. hold of church, after three days of scourging. h the morning life was eX' tlnct. ...
 The Methodist Episcopal pastor of church at Sandlake, N. r.; surprised his people on Sunday last by making this announcement "The Board of Trustees have not paid my salary, have taken no notice of my demands, circula. ted no subscription paper, nor made any other effort to fulfil their obligations to me, l am badly involved in debt, and do not propose to continue preaching for nothing l therefore declare the pull pit vacant until God in his mercy Can send you minister who can live on air, and wear buckskin brooches of his own make"
 The hero of five wives is a Mir. F. J. Goodrich of Clarksburg, W. Va., who is revivalist, temperance lecturer, &c. He borrowed $l0 of the minister that mar ried him the 9th time, and owes the edi. tor of the Burlington HaWkeye for the wedding cards. He was an enthusiastic worker in minor religious meetings, and carried the young ladies captive with his eloquence. He proposes to relieve the tedium of Imprisonment in jail by writ ing the life of Christ.
 D. F. Swingel and young woman of Chicago differ in opinion as to whether they are married. One day the Rev. Dr. Evarts was called upon by the pair to untangle their complicated love affair. and he advised them to let him unite them in marriage. She was willing, but Swingel was adverse, and it was only by long urging that he was induced to grasp her hand. The clergyman lost no time, but hurriedly said, J pronounce you man and wife" There being no further ceremony. Swingel claims that he is not a husband, While the young woman, supported by Dr. Evarts, claims that she is a lawful wife.
 ErzerOum, in the recent war, seems to have been vast charnel house. During the past three months $500 Turkish sol diers haze died in the various hospitals there, and probably at least as many civ, ilians, making total mortality of nearly 10000 in ErZeroum alone in about twelve weeks. In January, the weather being then very severe, detachment of soc
 troops WAS sent over the mountains tc
 Erzingham. Only 300 reached their des
 tination. They were overtaken by z
 fearful snowst0rm. The colonel had his
 wife and three children with him in { covered araba; he and they all perished The hospitals at Erzeroum are full O
 cases of frostbite, some ot them as sevcr as any cases on record. Twenty-seveI soldiers without feet are under tn charge of one surgeon alone they hat been all frostbtten, and their feet had t
 be amputated.
 Subscriptions have begun toward tn
 bailding of a narrow gauge railroad. fv
 miles long, from Valley Stream, Lonj Island, to East Rockaway, and thenc , across Barnum Island to beach tw
 miles in length, where a watering plac, is contemplated. The spot will have tn advantage, through distance, of being
 less frequented by casual visitors thar
 Rockaway or Coney Island, and at tn same time will be nearer to New Yorl by fifteen miles than Fire Island.
 The Rev. Dr. John Hall suggests, i
 the Ledger, that an artist might pain "Ehchantment' as "a bright young gir
 on the deck, of an ocean steamer at thu wharf, chattering to the friends around
 her, grandly directing her bouquets tc be sent to her room, full of the joy of the voyage and her first trip to Eu rope" He adds that companion pit
 ture might be ca He'd ''Dsenchanted, representing the same girl, like Jonah , gone down to the sides of the ship, nc like him, asleep, but with great inwar trouble, like that in the venerable SC story. "The first hour feared I woul die; the second hour feared I woul
 not" The faded bouquets, disordere ! garments, and very crowded fort ground wauld complete the scene" The poorest girls in the world ar 5 those who have never been taught | / work. There are thousands of then Rich parents have petted them the,
 have been taught to despise labor, ant depend on others for a living, and ar perfectly helpless If misfortune come , upon their friends, as it often does, thei
 case is hopeless The most forlorn ant : miserable women belong to this class. 1 hnlnnnn Ia r,nrnnts tn ,,rntnnf fho;