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WASHINGTON NOTES.

A sample of the counterfeit Bland
silver dollar which is being extensively cir
culated, especially in the West, has been re-
ceived in Washington. The coin Is very
heavily plated, ressts acid tests unless
deeply cut before applied, has a ring SINH
lar TO the genuine, and is of the exact
weight The officers of the Secret Service
Department consider the coun erfet one of
the most dangerous that has yet appeared
s. w. Dorsey has arrived in Wash
ington TO be present Mt the commencement
OF his new tria. Ex-senator Spencer, who
is wanted as IA Government witness in tn
star-route cases, cannot be found, and the
counsel have addressed a second letter on
the sub, ect TO President Arthur.
Acting Secretary of the Interior JOS
Ign h decided that the atutes restrict a
contest against prior timber culture entry
to one who seeks to enter it under the
Homestead and Timber Culture laws In
the absence of an application there is no
right of contest
Mr.. Roeser, of the General Land Of
flee, has prepared map of the United States
which shows over 1900 places in the West
not heretofore appear ng.
A glazier at Washington, in whose
putty-box lodged one of the bullets fred at
President Garfield by Guiteau, has petitioned
the Board of Audit to give him position as
Waterman
John l.. Sullivan drew large crowd
to his entertainment in Wash ngton For a
volunteer contestant he secured 10 dun
Rensseler, VIII )m he knocked down ell ven
times in ninety seconds. When the victim
again tried to rise the police interfered
1t has been decided by Secretary Lin
coin to recommend in his annual report that
no River and Harbor bill be passed by Con-
gress this winter, as there will remain out of
the enormous appropriation made at the last
session as much money as can be judiciously
expended during the ensuing year.
1t has been rumored of late that JUS
tice Bradley was to resign his seat on the
Supreme bench to make room for Secretary
Folger, who in turn would leave n warm
place for Conkling. Justice Bradley says
there is no truth in the story as far as his
intentions are concerned
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MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGs.

Work has been commenced on
street-car line for Monterey, Mexico =
The net earnings of the Union Pacific
road for the first nine months or the year
are officially reported as SIC, 49l, 1888, an in
crease OF eSi3957 over the same period in
1881
Gen. Grant has contributed to the
North American Rtvtc1 lengthy article on
the case of Fitz John Porter, recommending
that he should be declared by Congress to
have been convicted on mist testimony,
which would make him a Major General of
volunteers
The Collector of Customs at Toronto
seized and confiscated consignment OF the
works of Tom Paine, imported by book
seller of that city, on the score of their
heretical character
The Montreal Board of Trade will
petition the Canadian Government to abolish
all canal tolls at the opening of navigation
next year, and it is believed that the request
wi be granted.
Seven persons were killed in the City
of Mexico by the collapse of the roof OF an
old dwelling.
An electric storm, which electricians
say is the worst that has occurred in years,
existed in a wide stretch of territory in the
United States d Canada on the 18th of No
vember In some citi the instruments
were worked without battery, and in the
Milwaukee Western Union office the current
was so strong as to keep an electric lamp
burning The teeg raphc service was re-
tarded to an extent hitherto unprecedented.
The storm was still more remarkable from
the fact that in the greater portion of the
district distu bed the weather was rainy and
muggy The same storm prevailed throu h
out Great Britain and the Continent
The new iron steamship II. j. Jewett
made the run from Buffalo to Milwaukee,
$50 miles, in two days fourteen hours and
fifteen minutes, an average Of nearly four
teen miles per hour.
During the recent iron strikes the
nail manufacturers Of Wheeling set on foot
q plan to dispense with the labor OF over
5000 pudd,ers. Frank J. Herndon has now
been sent TO PITTSBURGH to secure equip
ments for Bessemer works of the first class
and in time each nail MIL will daily receive
its allotment of steel plate, and puddled
iron will be largely thing OF the past. If
the scheme succeeds, it viii revolutionizo
the iron manufacturing business of the
country
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FOREIGN NEWS.

Sergt. Ballentine, the well-known
English lawyer. is coming to the United
States on n lecturing tour
The Parliamentary committee inves-
tigating the imprisonment for contempt Of
+ Dwyer Grey, the Dublin editor, reported
that Judge lawson simply did his duty.
During performance of Tennysons
new drama in a London thelter the Marquis
OF Queensbury twice arose and pr tested
agsin't a travesty on the sentiments o. tree
thinkers
The report of the Irish Land Com
mission says agreements for fair rents be-
tween landlord and tenant are increasing,
while an indisposition TO purchase holdings
Is evident, although many landowners are
willing to sell The arrears clause OF the act
IL not being taken advantage OF by tenants
to any considerable extent
In the trial of Arab Pasha, at Cairo,
Suleman Daoud confessed to having ordered
the burning of Alexandria on peremptory
command of Arab Pasha, who afterward
sent instructions to fire more places, and also
ordered him to take soldiers TO RAM eh Pal
ace and kill the Khedive.
The jury at Dublin in the case of
Patrick Joyce, tried for the murder of the
Joyce family, returned verdict of guilty,
and Judge Barry sentenced the prisoner to
be hanged Dec. Is
Kossuth denounces anti-Jewish agita-
ton in Hungary as shame and disgrace to
democratic principles.
The Russian newspapers have been
forbidden to make any al usion regarding
the construction of military railroads, or the
movement of troops near the Russo Turkish
frontier.
Mr.. Gladstone limited in the House
of Commons that the Government would
propose a grant of money to the naval and
military forces which participated in. the
war in Egypt
The printing business has been par
alyzed in Vienna owing to q strike of the
compositors, who demanded an advance Of
80 per cent in wages Eighteen leading
establishments refused the demand and
closed their offices.
A dynamite explosion in Wales caused
the death o. two men and thr gir.s, and
wounded seven other persons
A teacher and eight pupils were
burned to death at Groom, FIR nee, in a fire
which destroyed the Council buildings, post
Office and schools
The Spanish Finance Minister says
the revenues of the untry have increased,
no ,withstandng that the crop yield was
NEARER.
Mr.. Gladstone has decided to disre-
gard tradition and make two offices instead
of one out OF the positions of First Lord of
the Treasury and Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer. He has announced his in enton to
relinquish the latter position within short
time and appoint another incumbent, in or
der that the duties may be more thoroughly
performed an the new arrangement seems
to give general satisfaction.
As the troops ordered from Egypt to
the Soudan are deserving in large parties or
ders have been issued to forward the arms
and ammunition separately from the SOL
diers
The relations between Prussia and
the Vatican have become strained by the
nomination of Herr Henschke as n member
of the superior ecclesiastical tribunal. 1t Is
taken az an indication that Germany intends
to greatly reduce her concessions
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100 feet high. The tallest specimen
measured-a tulip tree-was 100 feet In
hight, and individuals of ten other spe-
cies exceeded $50 feet. MIR. Ridgway
states that the numerous small prairies-
which were common in the Wabash
basin at the time of it's first settlement.
have been transformed into woodland,
and the area of the forest has gre atty
increased of late years. Extensive
woods of oak and hickory more than
eighty feet high and wi l. trunks nearly
two feet through are now growing on
what was open pr irie within the mem
DRY of some of the present owners OF
the land. Chicago Tribune.
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marufrom South Carolina, who was n seated
at the last session by the Republicans of The
House, has sent the following sarcastic
gresham who was reelected in the Seventh
Virginia district by a majority of only
about go:
To Hon. John Paul, Harrisonburg. Va:
Ihave been reelected by 5000 majority. Hope
TO meet you In Washington this winter and re-
turn COMPLIMENTS DIBBIE
Dibble was unseated last session by Mr.
Pauls vote. Az that gentlemans seat In the
next House will be contested by Judge
O'Ferral, Democrat Mr.. Dibble expects to
return the compliment to Paul
Congressman Kasson says the fight
for the Speakership will be OF the Kilkenny
kind and Carlisle stands the best show.
Hon. w. d. Kelley. of Pennsylvania,
called upon President Arthur the other y,
and urged him to advocate in his message a
sweeping reduction In internal-revenue
taxes He also visited Commissioner Raum
and discussed the propriety OF abolishing the
Internal Revenue Bureau
The following telegram was sent to
Gov Butler, on the authority OF Chalners,
by the editor Of the Grenada (Miss) Sentinet:
@To Ben Butler: Fort Pillow Chalmers to
Beast Butler, greeting. Both in. Shake"
The official returns in Pennsylvania
show plurality Of 40, 95s for Pattison, the
Democratic candidate for Governor, and
about 80, coo for Elliot, the Democratic can
didate for Congressman at Large.
Governor-elect Pattison, Of Pennsyl-
vania, deprecates any pageantry or demon
stration on the day of his Inauguration, and
is determined, as far as lies in his power, to
take the oath and assume his duties without
any expenditure on the part OF the State or
its citizens
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Tall Trees Of the Wabash.

Nowhere in the whole of Eastern
America have as many large specimens
of as many species of trees been record
ed as Mr. Ridgway found in the Lower
Wabash valley. Nearly all the largest
and most valuable broadleaved trees
are there found associated to iether,
and in a single square mile of woods
seventy-five species of trees, nearly all
or the first class, were tabulated, being
nearly as many as grow on the whole
European continent. BY actual meas
urement thirty-iour species were found
to occasionally exceed 100 feet in he ght,
while seventeen others, although
not measured, were apparently at least
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CHALMERS VS.. MANNING.
The Governor Of Mississippi VIII Certify tn
the Latte = Election-Chsimersv Vigorous

The Governor Of Mississippi Will Certify tn
the Latte - Election-Chaimersv Vigorous
ly Protests.
Telegram from Jackson, Miss.l
Consider able interest Is taken In the cleo
ton matter of Chalmers and Manning, late
candidates for Congress in the Second Mis-
sIssippi district Secretary of State Myers to-
day canvassed the votes, and decided In.
Mannings favor The case occupied the
gre ter part OF the day. Gen. Chalmers was
present, and was aided by Col Mug emit Of the
Jackson bar, in representing his interests.
Immediately upon the rendering OF the de-
cision the Governor issued the certihcat0 to-
Van III. Manning. As IL has been generally
conceded that chalmers was elected by
handsome majority it has occasion nine
days wonder. The case turned upon the
vote OF Ia county. The certificate from
the County Bo I'd OF Commissioners of Elec-
ton declared that Van FL Manning
had received 1.166 votes and j. X Chal-
mers Az As appears from the foregoing
tai y-sheets this was duly and officially
signed, but On the reverse side OF the GER
tificate was the taiy-sdeet where u Il
Cnambes," appeare credited with Az
votes. This Ia ly sheet was in different
handwriting, aud was not officially signed
Mr. Myers he'd that the tally sheet was
bet er evidence of the intention OF the Com
by Gen Chalmers that ii this was true, II the
tally sheet was necessary, the votes or Tip
pah, Union, and De s ito counties should be
thr wn Out a. there was none inclosed,
which would st II give him ms shortly The
Secretary of tate held differently, giving
the AZ votes of Tat county 10 y. L.
On mble S." and none to Chalmers. and us
tainlng the returns in the other counties
TIE vote, az officially announced, re Ids:
Manning, S,749; Chalmers. s, 257; Chambless,
4 .. a. MnnninO'l
Chalmers. 4y2. Gen. Chalmers sued out an
Injunction from the Circuit curt enjolning
the Secretary of State from giving ce. tiff
cate of election TO Manning, also manda-
mus from the same court, both of which
were dsregnrdel. He will at once en- er
upon vigorous contest Proof was offered
but no admitted that there was no such
candidate as j. II. Chambl~ss" 1t is the
opinion of the bar here and other eminent
visiting lawyers that the decision OF the SEQ
rotary of State is correct and that the Cir
cult Judges Interference was without au-
thorty or law
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ANOTHER FEARFUL ENCOUNTER
A School Boys Accomplishments.

A boy enters school at 6 and at
tends five hours day ten months in
the year for eight years. At the end of
that time, if he is able to keep up with
the procession, he will have read five
reading books mot counting unneces-
sary changes), ascertained a few of the
difficulties of English photography, COM
pleted most of the ordinary school
arithmetic, learned little grammar
and geography, very little about COM
position, committed and recited few
selections of prose or verse, and will
have acquired poor handwriting.
These are the solids of his education.-
Chicago Herald.
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POLITICAL POINTS.

A strong opposition to Senator
Plumbs re election is develop ny in Kansas
The election of Gen. Francis A.
Walker as Senator from Massachusetts, is
warmly urged by Charles Francis Adams, Jr
The Democrats of Dallas, Texas, paid
81 COO in 1876 for n challenge banner, which
was awarded to Georgia for the largest ma
jority. In 1889 it was taken by Texas, and
it is now in possession of James b. mpson,
of Dallas, who will doubtless be instructed
TO forward 1t to New York.
Gov. Colquitt, of Georgia, has been
elected United States Senator for the long
term Pope Barrow was chosen IA Ben Hilrs
successor, defeating the dead Senator's son
by seven votes
Mr.. Dibble, Democratic Congress-
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Three negroes were killed by an ex-
plosion In McGehee's ginning mill, near
Montgomery, Ala
The Congressional committee APP
pointed TO investigate the needs of the MIS-
sissippi river are slowly vending their way
down the father # waters, and Capt John
Cowden Is fol owing in their wake 1t Is
understood that the Commissioners regard
an attempt to improve the channel as use
less Examinations were made of the work
OF the Government force at Island No. 80, at
Osceola bar, and the plant ut Plum point
Ben Harris and Henderson Fox pulled
revolvers on each other in n quarrel in
Brethitt county. Ky, and both were killed
w. Fl. Cunningham, a workman in
the rolling mills at Birmingham, Ala, leaped
head foremost into the blast furnace, and
was instantly consumed
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A DREADFUL SCENE.
Rival Lovers Turn a Church Festival Into
aPandemoniuin.

TELEGRAM from Charlotte, N. CT
A terrible affair occurred Mt n church fes-
tival in CASTOR county, last night by which
Thomas Garibaldi, young farmer, was
murdered outright, and Robert Mapes, n
youth, was seriously shot in the face. Carl
bald and young Mapes were walking with a
young woman for whose hand Garbaldi and
Ru us Magll were rival claimants. Magill and
Garbaldi hate each other TIE girl seemed
dispo oil on this 'ocas on to smile upon
Garbald, and NJ pes who was his frien :,
had 1 u Understood, o st d pu licl, t at
G;rbal ii ha 'ucceeded, all of winch was
offensive to MALL, who finally eqan to
show some tempe. The ri snubbed him
t vice, and wnen g Jeff her he was in su h a
r ge t. AZ re walked over ice-cream tables
and ostled the lady waiter, regardless
OF their indignant protests Finally he
| Thought Garibaldi ant Mapes were
90 Lois erous, going up. them aid if
hey di nos behave themselves re would
| pu them out IN g they r seated and
| terrible ne ensued Ma es drew n pfs OF
and sho Magi /, re hui Q go Ig over hi.
head and fortunately over the heads If the
crowd agl drew his revolver, and TAX
ing deliber re aim, fred i'm Mapes' tao, he
bullet strih CHIN ul, in the aw and shatter-
irg it r IN SIDE TO side Inc Young woman,
he innocent cause of The sffray, swooned
Gar baldi, beng un rmed at, empted
to escape. The scene in the building was
fearful, and, panic ensuing, men and
women trampled upon each other In the
jostle Magill lost his pistol Still intent on
vengeance, he pursued Garibaldi out Of the
house, and picking up heavy shovel from
the fireplace he beat out the brains of his
fleeing rival Mapes' injuries are regarded
as serious
ANOTHER FEARFUL ENCOUNTER
dispatch from Forest City, N. O., says !:
serious conflict occurred near here to-day
between two part es of the most prominent
citizens Of the oounty. During the fight
Ba mes King shot William Sutti,., the latter
in turn nearly blowinS off the top OF Kings
head with shotgun II d ed soon after
Gaitherfront then shot KIM twice In the
body. John Hairell dangerously wounded
Wi,liom SntfIa
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South.

IT is ST I'll that the Delaware and
Maryland ship canal will be completed with
out Government aid by European CAPT
talsts
Yellow fever has disappeared from
Pensacola and Brownsville
The steamer Hankow sailed from New
Orleans for Liverpool with a cargo of S,7l3
bales of cotton, the largest that ever left
that port
Charles Hewey, Jr., an Arkansas
merchant, quarreled with two brothers
named Butter at Texarkana, and, when they
followed him with deadly intent, shot them
both dead They were buried in one grave
At GAINESVILLE, Ga, Joseph Cole
gave circus elephant a chew of tobacco,
which so enraged the beat that it killed
Cole by n blow with it's trunk
Three sisters in Butler, KY, named
Phillips, were married at the same altar, in
the presence of 100 guests.
The sentence of Mary Booth, the IA.
year-old negress, convicted of pc soning
two persons in April last, was committed by
the Governor of Virginia to imprisonmentfor
life
Richard Schumeyer died at Parkers-
burg, W. Va, at the ripe age Of ITO years.
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A NAN in South Mentor, Ohio, who
recently celebrated his l02d birthday,
is SAID TO have attended always to his
own business
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A Call to Nankin.

MeSSrs. E'dstorS-The July Mission
arg says: 1.-THE Mission is unanimous in
recommending the city of Nankin-the
second city in Importance in the empire
-as the most suitable place for commenc-
ing the proposed new mission in China. ;"
The call is presented to some of our
younger pastors to leave their present
charges and go to preach unto this "g great
city, wherein are more than six-score
thousand persons that cannot discern be-
tween their right hand and their left
hand" A call to Louisville, Nashville,
or Mobile would be prayerfully consid-
cred. Large churches pledge the salary
5000, Mexicans, for a married man, or
about $500 in our currency.
In your present charge you preach on
the Sabbath in Nankin, daily. Here,
to many gospel-hardened there, you lift
the first voice. Here, it is often difficult
to obtain hearers; there, congregations
everywhere and at all hours. Here
Others have labored; there, you do not
build upon other mems foundations.
In the April, 1875, number of The
Missionary, our Committee was urged to
open mission in this city. 1t is stu
ateu on the 4ang-tse, 200 miles above
Shanghai, and steamers daily pass. The
wall is forty miles around and in places
seventy feet high; only the upper half
of the city is occupied. The streets are
wider than in other Chinese cities. The
country around is rolling; the mountains
Just outside the gates. Itis a great COM
mercial centre and so grand place for
colportage. Situated on the great aorta,
tapped by the network of rivers, lakes,
and canals, the venous system of the king
dom, Nankin, is the base for itinera4t
operations.
DR.. Williams, the author of the mid
die Kingdom and of " The Chinese Die
tionarry, says of its language: "The
Mandarin ought perhaps not to be called
d1alect, but rather to be spoken of as
the Chinese spoken language" "It is
understood generallyin Is Of the 18 pro
vinces. In this wide range the Man
kin is probably most used and described
as the speech everywhere understood.
The Baltimore Committee will rejoice
to receive an application from any min
lster into whose heart the Lord puts
desire to go. H. G, D,
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Home Missions.
How to Obtain Means for their Supporto

REV. r. NJ ILWAINE, D. D., SECRETARY.
This is a very important inquiry in
view OF the immense work now thrust
upon the church, and the scant means at
hand to foster it. We need to discover
a way by which the entire membership
of our congregations may be reached, and
the whole Church be brought to generous
cooperation. The old system Of annual
collections alone has been found INSULT
cient. While they have been the chief
source of supply, they have failed to
reach the majority of the people, and to
enlist their sympathy and benefcence.
Something is wanted, not only to supple
ment, but to give energy and scope to
these collections. Our people require in
formation, encouragement, instruction,
and impulse. 1t will not suffice to men
ton this matter in their hearing once a
year, or even to make single strong
annual appeal in it's behalf. The reli-
gious destiny of our land for the future
the immortal interests of tens of thou
sands now living, and of millions yet un-
born, and the ultimate evangelization of
the world through agencies from this
country, are suspended upon the present
conduct Of this work. 1t must not, there
fore, be left to draw it's slow length along
as it may be able to do by the inadequate
supply Of a yearly collection, but must
be made to rest upon the hearts and con-
sciences Of the people all the time, so as
to enlist their sympathies, prayers, and
oenelicence. 1t was with this object dis
tlnctly in view that the last General AS
sembly recommend that
The Monthly Concert of Prayer
shall hereafter be held in the interests of
missions in broad and comprehensive
sense, including missions in our own
land as well as in other parts Of the
world. In the discussion which preceded
the adoption OF this resolution, it was
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In one of the prisons he ended an ad-
dress by warm appeal to all to become
Christians. He had hardly ended when
one man, expressing the feelings of every
other one present, no doubt, said: "We
are very much obliged to you for your
sympathy and kind words, etc, but we
are all Christians in here" Of course it
would not have done for us to get into
discussion as the permission was only for
him to speak.
Just as we turned out of the court, Mr..
MILLER requested that some one leave the
text with them, 1.-The blood of Jesus
Christ cleanseth from all SIM" The text
was hardly finished before some one an
swered: Every Lent we drink the blood
of Jesus and eat his body, so we are all
right" This man meant exactly what
he said, for the Greek Church believe
most firmly in opus operatxna.
athens, April Goth, 1882.
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Salonica Church.
PETERsBURG Va. July II.

PETERSBURG, VA, July II, 1882.
NesSrs. Editors Your urgent appeal
for aid to build church at Salonica
Greece, is bearing fruit. 1t has stirred
up our young people of the Second Pres
byterian church of Petersburg, and
aroused the desire to put few bricks in
that building; [ presume at least 800
worth. Let our missionary brethren
take courage, they shall be supported
by Sabbath School workers. w. II. T.