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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-07-25
CURRENT RELIGIOUS OPINION
CLOSING CHURCHES IN SUMNER
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During the past fifteen or twenty years a condi-
ton of affairs has arisen IN Protestant Churches ia
the large cities of this country with regard 20 the
maintenance of the public worship of God in the
months of July and August, which not only bodies
no good, nut is fraught with evil IL began IN the
action of of great reputation, whose churches
had lttlJ cohesive principle except the popu-
lariy OF their pastors These pastors are practlc-
ally law unto themselves; ldOllzed by the people.
they went ami came they pleased. And as ths
congregation could not be kept together by q
stranger the practice grew up OF closing the church
while the pastor absent on his vacation. There
were few To oppose it. because the leading men
and their families generally absent lroIn the
city at watering places, their country seats, or
travelling in Europe From these larger churches
the custom spread downward until in various
forms il has become a fashion with the fecber
societies and their comparatively Unknown pastors;
The evils OF wholly closing the churches are beyond
computation Ii is a most unfeeling, inhuman' ana
Christian policy for It says 70 the poor the IN
firm. the aged those who are kept IN the city ny
sickness of friends who cannot be proved. the null
titude who have nowhere to go. those whose bust
ness is the OF property, or OF interests which
cannot be neglected: 4" We are going away for q
good time yOu get along as best you can; 80 To
church, if you find one, or stay az home a. you
please
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-07-25
THE RISE IN PRICES IN PARIS
lLrs. Hooper in The Ph.Lndelphia Telearnph.

Mrs. Hooper in The Philadelphia Telegraph.
Even dresses have advanced IN price within these
last few years. Time when you could buy
charming and stylish costumes for young girls at
81 and - each IN the Spring, and from SlO 20 SO
for the Winter. Such purchases would be lmpOs
sibe now at these prices. The Bon Marche used TO
offer elaborate and well-made dresses of en-
broldered batiste for SIG, gotten up 70 order.
Now very ordinary costume In wash-materlals
costs there SIS. Silks have advanced i'll price, while
deterlOrating in quality Ii Is 10 longer posi- ble
az il was. 20 find fairly good dressnaker who
will make up ones own material for SlO ana III IA
dress Board has risen at the small boarding houses
as well rs at the large hotels. II Is not possible now
To obtain even tOerable accommodation under 10
francs SD a day. lime was when or francs was
all that was demanded for small but fairly com
Portable room and plain. wholesome. abundant fare
All that has followed the first-class dinner for
francs and other institutions Of The Paris OF the
past into the realms of the impossible. And IN
spite of all the new houses that being erected in
every direction. rents have risen feartuy. and are
still rising good dppdrftment with three bed
rooms in a central location, was formerly to be mad
for about $500 a year. Now the same styie or
dwelling is unattanable under $500 to 81 900.
Meats have risen from 3 to > cents on the pound,
those being the Exhibition prices, from which
there is receding. 1t is imposs bic now to buy q
good sized chicken under from 81 so to 81 shad
costs nearly, II not quite much III shad season as
does the fowl aforesaid 80, IN view or all these eX-
actions and extOrtiOns, 1t Is no wonder that the
American colony is growing small by degrees and
beautifully less" 30 that It's existence viii some
day become one of the Partisan traditions OF the
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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-07-25
CROCHET EDGlNG-NO. !.

Make chain of 10 stitches,
LIST row Miss 3, treble in 4th chain stitch :
l chain, miss l, l treble in next chain stitcb, re-
peat from times. Then make chain and
treble in 1st stitch of chain
% row Turn, 3 chains treble in last hole made.
chain, l treble in next hole, repeat from 8
times
Sd row: Turn. 3 chain l treble IN last hole
made chain, 1 treble III next hole, chain treble
in next hole, l cham treble in next hole. chain.
/ treble in the last of the treble stitches. chain,
l treble in the first of the treble stitches.
Repeat from 81 row until the required length is
made.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-07-25
CROCHET EDGING-No. Q.

Make a chain of stitches and join the ends, thus
making loop.
LIST row Five chain. 8 treble in the loop formed
by the chain, 2 cham, 3 more treble in loop.
% row Turn, 9 treble in loop formed by the 2
chain chain 8 more treble in loop, then JOIN with
l double crochet to the loop formed by the chain
first
THIS completes the scallOp. Make the other scallops
the same, only make the three treble stitches in
the loop formed by the last chain in the preced-
ing scallop
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-07-25

Referring to the passage " Ms Is tne cow
VIII the crumbled horn III the poem OF tne nouse LA
JacR built a correspondent asks WHAT Is crnmoea
horn e. We not know exactly, but suspect ~ ~ soe
sort OF a mix ed drink Boston Comnefca' puIie'
"It's not the phisky a man drinks that
makes lin dizzy" said OFaherty, Dut US luAh AT
the bartinders diamond through the bottom ~ inc 'u
bers be g0TraV
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-07-25

dynamite having missed fire. second hole was
pierced at 80 ctm. and parallel and charged
with 4OOgr. of gum, IN the hope of causing ex-
posion of the first charge az IN ordinary
DYNAMITE but only the second charge went OF &.
The insensibiity of the guIa is thus demon
otrotad
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-07-25
MIR. BEECHER's CREED.

Firm me Ner York Obssr.er
Henry Ward Beecher took crcasIon on the Fourth
of July to preach a sermon which might well be
called his &" Declaration of Independence IL was
pub shed in the daily papers, and by some OF them
was regarded Renunciat ON OF Christianity.
On the It'll of July he preached a sermon contain
ing his Confession of Faith, statement of the
gious doctrines which he holds. called out by the
newspaper criticisms Of his Fourth OF July dis
course In this second sermon he does not deny
that he made the statements reported ~ his in his
first but he processes many things very Scriptgrai
and true with many others that are not in mar
mony with the Church 90 which Mr. lieecher be
longs nor any other Church of which We have
knowledge. But il is in sympathy with that form
of religion which rejects the cardinal tea of the
of sin.
THE PROPER OBSERVA ZION OF THE FOURTH
From The Chicago Adudnee.
But ara careful enough To make the best and
fullest use of our great festival OF patriotism
There are no gifts so precious that they may nst
be lost by caTelessness opportunities 10 Vana'ls
that they may not be frittered away by neglect.
well used it will be badly used lt would be an un-
speakabe calamity should 10 be allowed 10
degenerate into a mere and meaningless Holiday
and be perverted INTO occasions Tor dissipation. III
is to be feared tl at in many places There - grow
ing apathy in this matter. some say IL - an old
those who plan and manage and so they abandon
the noble uses of the day. The held Is lgnobly
surrendered TO shooting matches. horse racing.
tro-cracKcrs and the saloons, with their almost
inevitable Accomplishments OF gambling. drunken
ness and profane and vulgar language. IL is well
with that community where the Christian people
are ever on the alert and eager and efficient in
seia.ne every opportunity that comes for giving
the right turn 10 tho popular sentiment and is
tittest publlc expression.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-07-25
WEATHERING OF STONES.

In 4 paper read by Professor Gekie, before
the Royal Society of Edinburgh, the author
records the results of certain observations on
the weathering of tOmbstOnes and monuments
in graveyards, with view of measuring ap-
prOximately the rate at which atmospheric
degradation takes place under natural con-
ditiOns. The cacareOus rocks (marbles
and limestOnes) as might be eX-
pected, yield quickly as a rule tn atmOs-
pheric agents. In some cases slabs have been
worn down a quarter of an inch in less than a
century by the superficial solution of rain con-
tanning carbOnic and sulphuric acids; in others
they are found to have been disintegrated in
ternally, that the very substance of the
marble crumbles away ; and In third series
of cases. where the slabs have been inserted
IN a framework Of solid stone, the expan-
sion of the slabs has caused outward cur
vature and ultimate fracture. In sandst0nes
the effects are more varied. Where the stone
is haggy or distinctly bedded. and the lamlna-
ton is exposed TO the action of the rain, or
where the rock Is not of homogeneous COM
position, the destruction has been very rapid
the flakes scaling of and leaving raw bare
surface. Slabs of treestOne and other uniam-
mated sand rocks Professor Gelkie, however,
finds to be so enduring that the sharp
ness of the cut letters is scarcely blunted in
the slightest degree after Il century's ex-
posture.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-07-25
FLOODING THE ALGERINE DESERTS.


The Chevalier Ernst Won Hesse Wartegg, who
has recently visited the southern parts Of
Algiers aud Tunis is not in favor or the French
project for turning the Mediterranean loose INTO
The interior of Africa. Neither the geological
formation be says, nor any other sign, indicates
the former Connection between the so-caled
" submarine BASIN IN Southern lunls and
AIgieTs and the sea, and he believes that 1t
never was connected with the Mediterranean.
According to bis observations, the submarine
basin in the interior approaches the coast only at
a distance OF about seventy miles, and the canal
to be constructed across the lstbmus would
have 10 be- therefore, of that length. / he cost of
such work. llvalling the Suez Canal III magnl-
tude would never be III proportion to the beneht
derived, which latter Is entirely doubtful. No
thorough investigation of the region, he asserts
was ever made, and its results would never be
certain, a. the constant vlbl alton or the All IN
this hot climate and the receptions caused by
frequent tdtd mOrg0RdS render scientific
measurements very doubtful. If the connection
between the two basins were TO be established,
some of the most fOm lshlng cities 1 the Schott
IegiDn, like ToOseI and Nephta, would be
submel ged by the floods, and most probably
all the large date-tree forests or the DJerld
DESTROYED by the change OF climate and the
moron spd moisture
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-07-25

MARRIAGES IN ENGLAND.-A bill introduced
a fortnight ago by Mr.. Bennerhassett in the
House of Commons provides for marriages
being celebrated in chapels without the
presence of registrar According to this
scheme. where q building has been used for
year by more than twenty hOusehoders as their
usual place of public religious worship, the
proprietors or trustees may obtain from the
superintendent registrar of the district authority
for their lawful minister TO solemnize
marriages in the building without the presence
of n registrar Thereupon the minister may,
at any time within three months after the
superintendent registrar has issued his certificate
or license for a marriage, soemnize the
marriage according To any form or ceremony
which he may think fit TO adopt the only
restrictions being that the parties are 10 disavow
their knowledge of any lawful impeachment
and are each to make declaration as to taking
the other as lawful welded husband or
wife. The register of the marriages would be
kept by the minister who would four times a
yeaI deliver copies of it To the supern-
teudent registrar. During the interval
between death, retirement or deposition
of the authorized minister and the
appointment Of successor, the register
would be kept by marriage committee"
Provision is made for compromising the present
registrars by giving them two-thlrds OF the
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-03-25
CABLEGRAMS.

DISTRESS in the famine districts is
deepening, says Dublin cablegram of
the 10Th. Grants of money by the Man.
sion House committee exceed receipts.
A PARIS cablegram of the 10Th says
communication has been received from
Hartmann, who acknowledges he was
chosen by the nihilist committee to as
sassinate the czar, and giving detailed
account of his attempt at Moscow.
Hartmann concludes by saying that he
intends TO emigrate to America in few
days.
THE representative of the Herald at st.
Petersburg sends the following under
date of March Goth: l am in position
to state that Russia will decline to hold
communications with the new Chinese
ambassador until the government has
ratified the Kuldia treaty, and / am also
informed that the Chinese are already
making inrOads into Russian territory.
The imbroglio grows daily more cOmpli-
| Gated. There is, indeed no p art of China
from which grave news is not daily
brought, to trouble the ministry of the
Gar, and to induce the belief that the
course of Russian encroachment in Cen.
tral Asia is at last TO suffer a serious
check.
The Herald representative at Shanghai
sends the following intelligence which
was received on the 18th: I hear, on the
best authority, that the Pekin authorities
have condemned Chung How, the late
ambassador to Russia, to death. He was
originally suspended on the preteXt that
he had returned without imperial per
mission. The six boards and the nine
courts and other judicial bodies at Pekin
were Instructed to inquire into his con-
duct while conducting the mission, and
particularly into the question whether
any part Of the 100000 teals, to the
payment Of which he pledged the i'm
perial treasury, had found their way in
to his own pocket. His stipulations
were recited by the board and held by
them to be unpatriotic and prejudicial
10 the dignity of China.
THE New York Herald, of the 17th,
published the following telegram from
It's correspondent in China: There are
grave complications between China and
Russia. The Gar will certainly resent
the severe punishment of the envoy. In
deed, it is scarcely possible to exaggerate
the gravity of the situation. A sudden
warlike spirit seems to have gained pos
session of the Chinese people. On all
sides there are symptoms OF coming
struggle, before which all the wars of the
empire will fade into insignifcance. The
green banner army is being trained in
the principles of European tactics.
Their spears and matchlocks are being
replaced by rifles. The bamboo lances
of the cavalry are giving place to the
orthodox sabers of British troopers A
general inspection has been ordered by
the war minister, the accounts of the
war department overhauled, and the de-
fenses of the coast strengthened. A
number of foreign drifl-masters have
been brought to Tiertsin, which is the
principal garrison town of the empire.
Preparations are being already made for
calling out the irregular volunteers,
crisis Of the state.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-03-25

h is forenoon in a northern suburb of
this city, says ST. Louis telegram of the
18th. Conrad Hieman. who lives on the
corner of Broadway and Wright streets
with his wife and six children, has been
drinking heavily for some time past, and
last night had an attack of delirium tre-
mems; to day, while his wife was prepar-
ing breakfast, Hieman called for her
from an adjoining room, and she entered
in response to the call, when he assault.
ed her with large knife, driving the
blade through the lungs of the infant in
Mrs. Hieman's arms. He then struck
another blow, burying the knife in the
heart of his wife, killing her almost in
stantly. A brother of Hieman attempt
ed to seize the maniac murderer, and re-
ceiVed severe stab in the back, dis
abling him. Hieman then broke away
and ran towards the river, since when he
has not been seen.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-03-25
FIRES AND CASUALTIES.

4 FIRE at HaIrisville. r. l., on the
Goth, destroyed Tinkham & Farrell's
wooden mills loss $4,000. Fully in
sured.
A DISPATCH from Halle Saxony, of the
10th inst, states that in collision be-
tween two passenger trains at that place
seven passengers were killed and many
wounded.
A FIRE at Mendoza, Ill, says a dis
patch of the 18th. destroyed the Chicago
Ivory Button factory, together with the
adjoining soda factory and two dwellings,
ance $1,000.
THE house of the Good Shepherd, a
Catholic Orphan Asylum and house of
Commitment for women, at st. Paul
Mimi, burned at o'clock On the morn
of the 21st. The upper story was used as
a dormitory, and twenty-five children
were asleep there. Through the efforts
of the Lady Superior all got out without
injury. The building is wholly destroy
ed. Value, $4,000; insured for $4,000;
furniture covered by insurance.
DURING the progress of an entertain
ment given by the public school in a
public hall at Lincoln, Pa, says a dis
patch of the 22nd, at which about 500
persons were present, part Of the floor
gave way, precipitating between 100 and
$50 persons to the floor below. Many es-
capped by jumping out of the windows,
which are about twelve feet from the
ground. About thirty persons were in
jured, some severely Among the latter
are Mrs. Jacob Konigmacher, and Miss
Alice Bowman, Ada Springer, Ada Mil
Ter, Laura Erb, and Christie Bingaman,
During the confusion the scholars rushed
on the stage, overturning two coal-oil
lamps, one of which exploded, setting
fire to the carpet, but the fire was extin
guished before any serious damage was
done. 1t is not yet certain that all the
injured will recover.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-03-25
GENERAL NOTES.

THE lower mouse of the Connecticut
legislature On the nth, by vote of 100
to SO. passed the bill for female suffrage
on license matters.
THE republican state convention of
Louisiana will meet at New Orleans on
the oath Of May, says dispatch of the
18th inst.
THE senate of Connecticut rejected a
bill on the Goth inst, which provided
for giving the right of suffrage to
women in the matter of liquor license.
THE parade of Irish societies in New
York city, on the 18th, was very slim
compared with the demonstrations in
previous years. In st. Louis the process.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-03-25
Chicago Market.

CHICAGO, March 22.-Flour-Quiet and weak.
western spring, 5.O995 rs; Minnesota,
5.50a7JOO. Wheat-Active but lower; No. 2
red winter, 1.19A No. Chicago spring,
1.16A A@116H for seller cash; 1.155s01.t5A for
seller April 1.161s seller Mays rejected, S91 G9O;
Corn--Aciive but lower and panicky. closing firm
fresh, 354, regular, 3314 seller cash for April;
37A for seller May and June; sales, $500
3SI for seller May; rejected, 81. Oats-Heavy
and lower at 2S for seller cash and April
312s for seller May. Rye-Dull and lower at
7c(L13. Barley-Easier. Pork--Actiye butt lower
aud panicky; 1O3O9lo.35 for seller cash; 10 3a1a
010 IS for seller April; 10.47HQ10 so for sell
Ter May; 1000 for seller June. Lard-Active
but lower; 6.S7Hs for seller cash; e S7H@6 so
for seller April; 6.95@6.97h for seller May.
Close. Wheat.--Easier, declined AG5sc. Corn.
Firm, advanced &c. Oats.-Firmer, advanced
sc. Pork.-Dull, weak and lower; ,0.2J bid for
seller April; 10 35 for seller May. Lard.-EaSler,
declined 2%@5, Hogs-Receipts, $4,000; ship
ments, 1900: dull and weak, closing at 5010c
lower for common to mixed packing, .20d 35
choice heavy, 4.4O 14.SO. light, 4.20a4.s0. Cattle
Receipts, 200; shipments, 1,00l, quiet and
easy, not qu0tably lower; shipping, 4. 0O@5.25
butchers 2.OC@3 so, stockers' and feeders
at OC@41 10. Sheep-Receipts, 200; shipments
So; slow and generally unchanged at 5.40l6.3TH
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-03-25
CRIME.

MARTIN POWER, living at 300 West
Fulton street, Chicago, in a fit of des-
pondency, on the 17lh inst, fatally shot
his wife and then fired two shots into his
own head causing instant death.
THE governor of Pennsylvania on the
Goth signed warrants for the execution
on May 18th, of Henry Wise, Irael
Brandt and Josiah Hummel, for the MUIR
der of Robarre.
PARsON, known as the Avon murderer,
was hanged at Rochester, n. Y, on the
10Th. He protested his innocence, de-
claring that Withey was killed by Mrs.
Wlthey. His last hours were spent in
terrible mental agony.
JOHN SAMITT, aged II, has been SEN
fenced to death at Canton, o., for mur-
der, says telegram of the 10Th. Two
other lads of the same age await eXecu.
ton in the same county for the same
crime.
AN old suit IN the district court OF
Columbia, ir which John W. Wright
was charged with an assault with intent
to kill Columbus Delano, eX-secretary oil
the interior, was decided on the Goth
inst, Wright, is found guilty of an assault
Two men named McCloud and
Coombs have recently had printed large
number of bogus shares represented tC
| be certificates of stock in Chicago ele
waited railway and have taken them out
to dispose of them. The capital stock oi
the company is represented at two mil
| lion dollars. In point Of fact no such
organization exists, says Chicago tele.
gram of the 18th
JOHN G. WYCHAFF, second clerk on
the steamer Hard Cash, lying at Mem
| phis, fatally shot Lewis Taylor, colored
drayman, on the 18th inst. The difficul.
| ty arose from the refusal Of the draymar
| to sign a receipt for some cotton which
he had removed.
| SOME two months since, says JOlIe
| Ill, special ofthe 18th, John Williams
one of the Braidwood rioters, was liber
ated from the county Jail alter having
served his sentence. While still incar
cerated, however, he formed plan tC
| liberate the other prisoners when once
he should get out. He took advantage
of his first days liberty to secure two
small files and hide them in the soles o.
| his shoes. Next he comitted laTencJ
at Lockport and thus secured admission
| TO the jail. The whole plan, howeve
| fell through, for the Sheriff found the
! implements and took them from him
This morning William pleaded guilty
and was sentenced to the county jai
for sixty days.
AT an early hour on the morning ofth'
18th inst, VIM. Shuttleworth, painter
residing in Irwin Block, Memphis, wa
aroused by a noise in his room. ID
seized pistol and fired at an object II
the corner of his room which proved Il
be burglar. The thief ran down stair
followed by Shuttleworth, who fired TIVE
more shots. Nothing more was heart
OF the burglar until nearly noon, wheI
the police learned that a young man hail
ing from Bowling Green, KY, was suffer
ing from pistol shot at his boarding
place, about six blocks from Shuttle
worth's. The young man proved 10 bs
the burglar in question, and was sho
through the breast. He received fata
wound. His name was Joe Castillo.
A MOST horrible tragedy occurred earl,