Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1881-03-25
LATE EASTERN NEWS.
Characteristic Of Beecher,

Ward Beecher announced yesterday.
says the Times, that revival meetings
each afternoon and evening during
the week would be continued, but
the evening service will he prayer in
stead of preaching. CT desire to
give notice. he continued, d" that l
cannot attend to secular business at
the close OF these week day services,
and l might as we'll say right here
that have sold my interest in navy
yard premises, in the New York Gus
tom House, i'll New York and Brook
lyn postoflices, in the Treasury De-
prrtment, in the Postofiice Depart
ment and almost every Department
at Washington, and a letter from me
to those places will be of to use
whatever. Applicants will please
take notice of these transfers of pro-
perty. During the sermon Beecher
said that liberalism and national
preaching were fixing rutlled shirts
and putting cologne on men who
were rotten within. If there is one
thing l consider thoroughly indecent,
continued Beecher, it is the way in
which criminals are cossetted and
carrie out of life. When murder
er is to. be hanged, women send flow
ers to him and would kiss an ulcer
for his sake. Priests run to him,
and philanthropists hurry after them.
He is going to die. Are not one
hundred thousand persons dying all
around, and there is nobody to run
to them There is no sympathy for
them, but if a monster is to die for
foul murder, the flood gates Of SYM
pathy reopened, and the newspapers
tell how he died trusting in Jesus.
Faugh! What mischief that thief on
the cross did. Can q man who has
crept to the gallows through com.
mon sewers, at the last moment,
just before the last effort to obtain
pardon. suddenly blossom out into
fervent religious life? 1 don't be.
lieve it.
Cheap Sewing Machines.
ST. LOUIS March 21.-Judge Treat
Of the U. S. court to-day decided that
the Singer sewing machine patents
having expired, that anybody can
manufacture the machines.
Severe Weather in IIlinois.
CHICAGO, March 10. Another
"worst storm of the season" set in
early this morning, and up to this
hour (noon) snow has been falling
rapidly, SO that it lies three to foul
inches on level. A fierce wind &C
csmpanied it, but so solid was thu
snow that it did not drift perceptibly
and the wet and solid mass lies or
the streets and pavements like sc
much ice.
BLOOMINGTON, ILL. March 20.-Ar
excursion party from Canada, gotter
up by the Grand Trunk Railroad
and consisting of $50 persons in 20
coaches aud with 65 cars of baggage
stock and freight. bound for Mantle
ba, have been blockaded by snow al
the stock yards since Saturday morn
ing.
Snow I'm Kansas and Missouri.
There was heavy snow fall in Kan
sas and western Missouri yesterday
and last night.
ST.. LOUIS, March 19.-Consider
able snow has fallen, but melted as
it fell.
Snow storm Mt milwaukee.
MILWAUKEE, March ia terrible
snow storm ragged since an early hou,
this morning; the worst of the season
because of the snow being heavy
with moisture and accompanied by q
very high wind. Wires down in
places and trains are certain to be
blockaded.
The storm Of to-day is the worst OF
the entire season. A very high wind
prevails and snow is veryheavy. All
railroad trains are blockaded, street
car lines and business generally sus-
pended.
At St. Louis and Throughout Missouri.
ST.. LOUIS, March 19.-The heavi.
est snow storm of the Winter pre-
vailed here all day, with a strong
driving wind from the west, but the
snow melted as fast as it fell. The
streets tonight are filled with slush
in some places several inches deep.
Dispatches from different parts of
the State say that the heaviest snow
of the season has fallen since last
night especially north of the Missouri
river. The average depth of the snow
is over foot, but in some places it
is two feet deep. Railroad travel is
good deal impeded and business is
suffering, but no trains are reported
abandoned. The snow will probaly
disappear in two or three days, and
freshets in small streams may be ex-
pected.
The state of California; made her
last trip to Portland in fifty hours.