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PRESBYTERIAN GENERAL ASSEMBLY.
NEW ENGLAND FOREST FIRES,
A LOUISIANA TOWN BURNED.
THE PRESBYTERIAN GENERAL
ASSEMBLYs
Proceedings Today.


,sARAToGA, N. Y, May l6.-This morning the
az aresoyterlan general assembly had devotional
ef olss iea ny Rev. Dr. Charles s. Robinson,
ara, ar clocn Tor half an hour. Then the mod
orator called TO order. Rev. DIR. s. i. Prime
,n "a .nat the moderator send fraternal greet
hss W Tue assemblies In session In Iouisvflle
ana Memphis The following STANDING conos
muees Were announced by the modersfor.
Bills ahd oxertures-Ministers Francis l. Psf
Son, harvey ID. Cause, Francis b. Wheeler. John
stockton, Timothy g. Darling John n R,,shn,. yv1a
henry X. Wilson, Robert s. Syminpton. Eiderr,,
Mn Win' =. podge, John Stewart, John d. Blakely.
Ammidown, Joseph ID. Alexander. .
judicial Commlttee-M'nisters Edwin n. Hat
neld, VIM. ID. snodgrass, Thomas CraIgh. A
Ben BeWan nan EanoeIS sheldon Haines JOS Corey.
Hon. Calvin T. Hibbard, Hon. Joseph Howard.
EDWARD Wells, Hon. James B. Lawson. Samuei
j. Thompson, Hon. Eperetus Seard.
Polty or the Church-Minfsters Henry Darl-
Ing. Richard II. Richardson, Ersidne N. White,
Robert n. M. Patterson, VIM. M. Paris Charles
I. White, Calvin A. Duncan, Isaiah Paris, EI-
erson, John p. Robertson, Hon Edward q Rice.
samuel M. Brown, John M. Cayner, Henry L.
Home Missions-Mtn,sters Charles q Ronan.
son, Henry NJ. Bacon John r. Kendall, stephen
M. Duncan, Thomas III. Cleland f., Charles n.
Foster, Joseph n. Clifford, George L. Little; Ell.
Sm.,a1 gers Hon JACOB rarrand Lewis G. Jackson
James NJ. Mckeady, Samuel II. Charlton.
Foreign Missions-Ministers Willie @. Craig,
Mraaoh:. Mm; r. Beatty, David J; Burrell. AugustIs
c: Cuthbert Hall, John p. Williamson; Elders
Charles d. Drake, j. Marshall Haul, Charles c.
kellogg, Walter L: Rankin. VIM. ]. Herdman.
Observation-Disclosures Robert w. Patterson.
VIM. Hogarth, Sam1 Miller, Thos A McCurdy.
Thos- j. Brown, David Winters, Thos DagRett
Geo 0. Little; Elders Geo. w. 3. Griffith, Chas.
G. Brown, Ferdinand Fairman, Edw'd B. Conk-
lin, James B: Lyon, Andrew j. Warner, Edward
w. c. Humphrey.
Publication Ministers L. Morrill, Miller. AMI
L. Armstrong, Ferdinand De w. Ward, Frederic
A. Shearer, Nathaniel p. Bailey, Chas F. Mus.
sey, VIM. L. Taylor, VIM. s. Franklin; Elders
Eugene i. Homer, W. Rees Craigshead, Abrar
nam L. Winnie, John Stewart.
church erecuon-Ministers Wilson Phraner.
James Lewis, George o. Little, Joseph C. Kel-
nyy,,c my, whitney G; Burchard, Levi Sternberg,
Jesse Cunningham, Horace HiIiman- iacoh -
M,s1s, MWSISI, James K Penfeld, Aaron a. Graves,
Theological seminar1es-Mfnisters Samuea I.
ralnei Edwin A. Bulkley, Harmon c. lRiggs,
7. White, Lewis o. Thompson, Godfrey Moery.
Elders stephen Alexander, James r. BOYD.
Robert B. M0wrey, VIM Brookfe John Al
Holmes, Joseph ID. Alexander, r. p. Davidson.
Ministerial Telief-MinistersJ j. Addison Henry.
Burt1s c. Megies, Thornton NJ Nfven, Chas Il
carr, "a E. LM Hezekiah Magin, John w. White, James
W. Stark, Lawrence NJ. Stevens, Elders Robert
T. Emnger, Horace Stillman, John p. Blair.
Luke Marvin, Virgil B. Bodine, John ri
Erwing, JacobA. Lansing.
FTeedmen-MfniSter John Jones' Samuel u.
B1rchard, Cornelius w. Wycon, Joseph +. q.
inson, Edwin r. Leach, CALVIN c. Herriofa: r.
ers John J. Coytngton, john n. Kuhn, John q.
Mclaughlin, Charles RobGEts, Thoe. Neredith.
j. Frank Dunwoody, Rob1t @. McCrea.