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ARCTIC EXPLORATION.

The second Greedy relief expedi-
ton has failed, One of the vessels
composing it has been lost in th ice,
and the other has returned to ST.
Johns, Newfoundland, bearing the
crews of both. Fortunately NO lives
were lost, though many peri!s were
encountered. 1t is hardly possible to
make any further effort to communi.
cate with Lieutenant Greely this sea-
son, 50 that if he still survives, he
must be left to work his own way
homeward.
The expedition headed by Lieu
tenant Greely was sent north by our
Government in 1881, under the plan
arranged by the international Geo
praphical Congress at Hamburg in
1879. Its object was t. establish a
station at Lady Franklin Bay. which
was to be one and the most northerly
of a chain OF international posts OF
observation. Under Greely we're Of
ficers of the Army, one acting sur.
.eon and naturalist, and eighteen
enlisted men. In 1882 Congress ap-
propriated $4,000 for the supply
and relief Of this party; but though
the expedition was quickly despatch
ed, it was compelled to return with
out reaching the station. 1t, how. vel
deposited stores in a manner whlcf
had been agreed upon with Greely ir
anticipation of such an exigecy. The
Congress at its last session made an
other appropriation for another relie
iexpedition. This consisted of tw,
vessels, the Proteus and the Yantic
Lieutenant Garlington. who hst
|charge of the expedition. sailed o1
1.-The Proteus, with several officers
1.-The vessel, which had been used 70
many years as sealer, and was bull
texpresslv for Arctic seas. was officer
led by Captain Pike, with a crew 4
twenty-five men. The Yantic, whic
Twas strengthened for the service. wa
loficered by Commander Wildes an
! q regular naval crew. The two yes
sells left st. Johns together on Jnr
29th. we'll supplied with coal, provi
ions, etc. The Proteus was to pus
'on 10 Lady Franklin Bay. or if sto
ped by ice, Lieutenant Garlingte
was to establish = int quarters
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Life Boat Cove, and with small
party push on by sledge along the
coast to meet Greely and his men,
who were expected to be coming
Southwark. The Yantic was not to
go so far as the Proteus, but to lin
ger some distance behind, so as to
afford. a means of exit in case of
need, remaining at a certain station
up to certain dates, and acting as a
tender in safe water.
While the Proteus, on July %. was
trying to force her way through
Smiths Sonnd IA narrow passage be.
tween Greenland. on the east, and
Ellesmore Land, on the west). she
was caught between two immense
foes of ice aa1 was crushed. Five
hours later she sank. Fortunately
the crew succeeded in saving three
boats, with large quantity of pro-
visions and other stores. They made
their way in a southeasterly direction
along the Greenland coast. After
facing various dangers and difficul>
ties, and enduring extreme hardships
they reached Cape York, Aug. 16,
only to find the Yantic gone. Pursu-
ing their dreary way along the coast
they finally reached Upernavic on
August oath, where the Yantic was
Istill in waiting. Thence the entire
Iexpedition sailed home. Both crews
are in good condition, and the death
of one man from apoplexy was the
only mortality. l.
This repeated failure to reach Lieu.
tenant Greely seems to bodc i'll for
his escape. Yet escape is not impos.
sible, even should he have to rely
solely on his own efforts. He is a.
bundantly supplied with food, and
when word was last received from
him he said there was plenty of game
Various caches Of provisions have
been placed by the relief expeditions
at intervals along the course he
would probably take. The first oi
these lie could reach in sixty days
march from Lady Franklin Fay. Tn
like De Long. lie is familiar with the
territory he must traverse
| His situation is serious indeed, but
it is not without hope.
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PULPIT ELooUENCE.
BY AMELIA B. WELBY.

He spoke, and it seemed that his statue
like form
Expanded and glowed as his spirit grew
His tone SO impassioned, so melting his
air,
As, touched with compassion, he ende d
his PRAYER
His hands clasped above him, his blue
orbes upthrown,
| Still pleading for sins that were never
his own,
While that mouth where such sweetness
ineffable clung,
Still spoke, though expression had died
on his tongue.
O God! what emotions the speaker
awokc
A mortal, he seemed-yet deity spoke:
A man-yet so far from humanity riven,
On earth-yet so closely connected with
heaven
How oft in my fancy I've pictured him
As he stood in that triumph Of passion
and prayer,
With his eyes closed in rapture, their
transient eclipse
Made bright by the smile that illumined
his lips.
| There's charm in delivery, a magical
| art.
That thrills like kiss from the lip to the
heart:
IT'S the glance, the expression, the well
chosen word.
By whose magic the depths of the spirit
are stirred;
u
startlig pause,
The eyes sweet expression, that melts
| while it avs.
The lips soft persuasion--its musical
Oh such was the charm Of that eloquent
one.
The time is long past yet how clearly de
| fined
That bay, church and village float up or
my mind!
| see amid asure the moon in her pride
W it'll the sweet little trembler that sa,
by her side:
| hear the blue waves, as she wanders
along,
Leap up in their gladness and sing her q
song.
And tread in the pathway half worr
Ger the sod
By the feet that went up to the worship
of God.
The time is long past, yet what visions
see.
The past, the dim future, is the presen
to me:
am standing once more mid the heart
i stricken throng:
A vision floats up-'tis the theme Of my
All glorious and bright, like a spirit o
air.
The light Ikea halo encircling his hair
As | catch the same accents of sweet
ness and love,
He Whispers Of Jesus, and points III
above.
How sweet to my heart is the picture I'v
Its chain of bright fancies seemed almos
effaced,
Till memory, the fond one that sits O,
the soul.
Took up the frail links, and connecte,
the whole.
AS the dew to the blossom, the bud t
the bee,
As the scent to the rose, are thos memo
ries to me:
: Round the chords of my heart they hav
tremblingly clung,
And the echo it gives is the song ! hav
sung.
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THE BAD BOYS FATTEDCALF.
THE PRODIGAL son BUSINESS DOESN T
WORK, BUT HE TURNS UP A
WINNER ON HIS Pa.

"Hello got back again. have you?'
said the groceryman to the bad boy
as he came in the store looking tired
with his clothes soiled, and gener-
al appearance of having been sleep
ing in freight cars with cattle. Your
pa told me he expected you had run
away for good and that YOU might
not come back. Where have YOU
been?'
Chicago said the boy, as he took
|out toad stabber knife and proceed
edto take the ulster off OF smoked
herring. Been playing Prodigal
Son in two acts. But times have
changed since that yonng fellow in
the Bible went off on a tear and came
back and the old folks killed a young
COW for him to eat, and fell ON his
shirt collar and cried down the back
Of his neck. They didn't receive
prodigal sons that way in our ward.
They fiji prodigal sons coat tails full
of boots. and he cant find cold veal
enough in the house to make sand
wich.'
sIthought your folks were p.ous
and would be inclined to look over
anything said the groceryman, as
liescharged the herrings to the bad
bny's father. You don't mean to
teH me they went back on the teach
lings of the Good Book, and warmed
| your jaekct?'
You have guessed it the first time
said tire bad boy. This Prodigal
Son business is all right in theory,
but in practice it is a dead failure.
You see at Sunday-school she lesson
was about the Prodigal Son, and the
minister told US all about how the
Eboy took all the money he. could
scrape up and went away to a dis
tant country and painted the towns
red, and spent his money like coun-
tryman at circus, and he took in
all the sights, and got broke, and got
hungry and took a job at the stock
yards feeding pigs, and he was SO
hungry lie used to help the pigs eat
their rations, and finally he thought
of his home. where they had pie, and
he went home expecting to be fired
out, but his pa Wassticklcd to see him
and set up q free lunch of calf on the
half shell. and hugged the boy ano
made him feel bully. When we go'
home, pa and ma talked about the
, lesson, and pa said it was one of tht
; most touching things he had ever
heard, and told me to think OF IL ans
( it wonldsdo me good. Well, the mor'
0 / thought about it the more | fel
!. like trying the prodigal business on
4 | ard l told my chum about it, AM
D he said he hadn't had any vacation
}. and he would go off prodigaling wit
r me if would 60, and we could Sc
It the country and have a good tim
:. and come back and be received wit
I'll open arms. Well, we got ali on
h none together, and a brakeman Q
IS freight train, that goes to OF
d church, cause his wife sings in til
= choir, he hid aszia the scabeose, an
le I'VE went to Chicago. Q, my.-but Y
s. had q coed time. / never saw mont
iii wither the way it did with us. W
D. eat about twenty times day. Il
IN first two days, and then our apps
at titcs left US, because We didn't ha'
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COUNTY.

Superior Court Clerk and Probate
Judge-John I. Gregory.
Inferior Court--Geo. T. Simmons.
Register Of Deeds. nj. Grizzard.
Solicitor-A. j. Burton.
Sheriff.. J Lewis.
Coroner III Jenkins.
Treasurer. ID. Browning.
Co. Supt. Pub. lnstruction-D G Clark.
Keeper of the Poor House-John Ponton.
Commissioners-Chalrman Aa on Pres
colt, Sterling Johnson, DR.. W. R.
Wood, John A. Morfeet, and NJ
Whitehead.
Superior Court-Every third MONDAY
IN March and September.
Inferior COurt-Eyery third Monday il
February, May. August and November
Judge of Mferior Court-T. N. Hill.
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MOUNTED AND MASKED.
A Mob taxes a Negro from Jail in
Rockingham and Hangs him
to Tree-.A Brutal Out
rage on a Five Year
Old White Girl
Avenge 3D..

Night before last the Jail at Rock
ingham, Richmond county, was sur
rounded by party of mounted men.
all masked. who forced the jailor to
give up the keys, when they took a
colored boy named Archie Johnston
from one of the cells and rode off
with him. Yesterday morning John.
ston's body was found dangling from
tree in the woods near Mason's
Cross Roads, between Laurel Hill
and Lauringburg. Johnston had
been hanged by the mob for rape
committed upon young white child,
about one week ago. The circum-
stances as we learn them are about
as follows: About one week ago, the
prisoner, negro boy about 20 years
OF age, met a little five year old
daughter of Mr.. Mason in the road
near her fathers house, and no one
being near, he assaulted her in a
most fiendish manner. The little
child suffered intensely from his
treatment and her parents discover
ing her condition and questioning
her, were acquainted with the facts OF
the brutal outrage. Search was at
once instituted tor Johnston who was
captured, and though the impulse was
strong upon his captors to string hlm
up to the nearest tree, they finally
decided to take him to Jail ana let
the law deal with him according to
regular form. Johnston was accor-
dinghy taken to Rockingham and con
fined in the jail at that place. News
of the outrage was not long in spread.
ing throughout the country and natu
rally enough the indignation Of the
people knew no bounds. Thursday
night a large body of men assembled
near Rockingham. All were mount
ed and each man wore a mask. On
arriving ut the Jail, one of their mum
Der knocked ut the door and walked
jailor Dan Morrison, who inquired
what was wanted The reply was
that party was outside with a pris
oner whom they wanted to put in
Jail, and the jailor forthwith opened
the door. On seeing the masked
faces around him, he realized what il
meant. and when asked for the cell
keys refused to give them up, reply
ing that he would die first. No
you WON'T" said one of the number
as they pressed around and overpow
cred him, while several OF the party
proceeded to search for the keys and
found them. They then unlocked
Johnston's cell, dragged the prisoner
out and putting him on horse drove
away. The lynching party proceeded
in the direction of Mason's Cross
Roads, where the crime was commit
ted end on arriving at the spot, the
rope was tied around Johnston's mech
and he was swung up to II tree. Til
mob then quietly dispersed to theil
homes, leaving the body of the chlle
ravisher dangling from the limb.
The little victim Of the outrage i!
in critical condition. The coroner
of Richmond county was yesterday
evening notified of the finding of thu
body Of the lynehed negro, and pro-
ceeded to the spot for the purpose o
holding an inquest. So quietly ant
orderly did the party 60 about thci
work of vengeance that cot one o
them is known.
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TiLDEN INTERVIEWED.
WHY SIDNEY DILLON WAS LOCKED uF
IN THE ioMes.
Conveyed to Gramercy Park in g
Keely Motor-TiIden declares
He Won't Run Again etc.
ToMBs, N. Z, Sept. /, 1888

ToMBs, N. T., Sept. I. 1889. :
Dear Friend Cruikshanks
You will probably be surprised to
hear from me at this point. but will
explain. Yesterday morning about
10 o'clock, Gov. Ireland, Senator
Coke. Andrew Fay and myself were
sitting in the shade of the fig tree in
front of ihe Undertaker's, enjoying
the nectar Of the watermelon, and the
milk Of the cocoanut while the dulcet
notes Of the guinea hen vibrated on
the air, and the fragrance of the mag
nolia was waited on the tropical
Js'eeze at 10 cents watt. We were
discussing the campaign of
b lsa4. when the canopy Of Heaven
sseemed clouded for a moment. and as
Ire looked up we saw Mr.. Keely with
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GENERAL DIRECTOR I
CHURCHES /:

Baptist-J. D. Huffman. D. D., Pastor.
Services every Sunday at II O'Clock, A.
NJ, and at Z, ?. NJ. Also on Saturday
before the first Sunday at l. O'Clock, A.
NJ. Prayer Meeting every Wednesday
night. Sunday School on Sabbath morn
ing.
Primitive Baptist-Eld. Andrew Moore,
Pastor. Services every third s turday
and Sunday morning.
Methodist-Rev. G. W. Byrd, Pastor.
Services at O'Clock, P. NJ. on the second
and fourth Sundays. Sunday School on
Sabbath morning.
Epscopal-Rev. H. G. Hilton, Rector.
Services every first, second and third
Sundays at log O'Clock, A. NJ. Sunday
School every Sabbath morning.
Meeting Of Bible class on Thursday
night at the residence OF Mr.P. E. Smith
Baptist-(colored.) George Norwood
Pastor. Services every second Sunda,
atli o'clock, A. NJ. and Z, P. M. Sun
day School on Sabbath morning.
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The New England Fathers.

The character of the New England
fathers was well defined in poem by
Allen G.. Spooner, delivered before the
New England Club thirty-seven years
ago. Herewith is an extract relative to
Sabbaths and the Quakers:
On Sunday his house was still as a mouse
The highways almost - quiet;
The Church warden stout caught the boy who
was out
And gave him the stocks and low diet
The duty then, for beast, wife and men,
Was I'll Dor six days out of seven:
On the seventh, In the best Of their topgery
drcst,
To work harder to get into Heaven
Foul weather or fair, they were constant IN
prayer,
But 10 hrift all the time kept squirt;
And In matters Of trade, when a bargain was
made,
Their faces were set like flint
Innov tions in ith thy opposed unto death;
At the carts tail they DRAGGED the poor On ker;
With derision and jeers, they cropped heretics'
ears,
And felt they were serving their Maker.
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enough to show that contraction of
125 feet in the suns diameter in q year
would amount, for all the heat il gives
off to the earth, 10 such a small frac-
ton that we could not notice is. We
have been observing the sun with ac-
curacy for not 1000 years-not even
$50 years-and if it had been shrinking
at that rate for the past /, 800 years we
could not have detected it. OF course,
if that theory is true, the sur is doomed.
Prof. Newcombs calculation is that we
can get along very well for 1000, 900 or
5000, 900 years, and that the conditions
of life in the solar system must begin
ultimately-of course within that period
to change; and reckoning backward
we find that if-this is tremendous
five find, say, that if the suns
heat has been produced that way from
the beginning of the system, or during
the time of its reduction from the size
of the orbit of Neptune down to it's
present bulk, then it has been giving
off its present supply of heat not more
than about $4,000, 900 years, and the
present material dispensation of things
would be limited in that way to some
thing between 10000, 900 and 10000
600 years. The biologists don't like
that They want more time-some of
them do--and don't know but what
they will have it.-Prof. Young.
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Let us now turn critical eve upon
the male costume. One of the most
obvious things about mans everyday
dress is it's ugliness. 1 say his everyday
costume, because, when on pleasure he
Ii bent, he may wear pretty much what
he likes; and, as matter of fact, when
footbaHing, boating, bicycling, cricket
ing, walking. or otherwise enjoying
himself, he does adopt dress which is
both sensible and picturesque. 1t is
only when he wishes to make an inn
preston, when he is on business, or
paying call, or going to worship, or
performing some other conventionality,
that he considers it absolutely neces-
sary to be particularly inartistic and
uncomfortable. Our Sunday best, our
go-to-meeting clothes, are those most
open to ridicule, unless it may be our
evening dress. Contemplate for mo-
ment q man on his way to worship. He
Is walking illustration of the doctrine
of evolution. Were his hat, his coat, or
his trousers created? No, they were
evolved. His hat his tophat - his
chimney-top, his stoye-pipe-is but the
carcass upon which his ancestors were
wont to display ribbons and knots, and
other gauds In itself it is both ugly
and uncomfortable. In winter it proves
vast roof upon which rain and snow
may collect in order to be better dis
charged upon the shrinking form be-
meath, or otherwise it has to be pro-
tected by an expensive umbrella. We
first buy an expensive hat to protect O
too often worthless head, and then
we buy an umbrella to protect the hat.
In summer it becomes less roof than
an oven, in which the head is slowly
baked. Whether off or on, it is an on
cumbrance. When off, the question is
what to do with it; when on, the ques-
ton is how to do without it. And yet
there is nothing so absolutely q symbol
of civilization as the top-hat-a fact
which furnishes some food for rehec-
ton to the philosopher.
The coat has several of what, / be-
Geve, are called "rudimentary organs.
Just as in the human skeleton, the few
useless end bones of the spine are held
by science to prove that man once had
tail, so the buttons at the back of a
mans coat have their tale Few people
know why they invariably appear. L
once asked fashionable tailor what
was their use. He replied, ITO mark
the waist" They are often put too low
down to serve this purpose; but why
should man want his waist marking !?
And if he wants it marking in one coat,
why not in another? As matter of fact,
the only reason for the existence of
these two buttons is that they are q
survival from the time when men but
toned back the long flaps of their coats
in order to walk more freely. We have
no flaps now; then why keep the but
tons? Another rudimentary organ may
be found at the end of the sleeve. There
is always cuff marked, generally by a
double row of stitches, which perform
no useful service, unless it be to remind
us that our grandfathers had facings to
their sleeves, and that those little but
tons at the end were of real use when
the sleeve was tight at the wrist
WeSt End Gazette.
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to me in the same words the same
promise"
"This is getting very embarrassing. :"
muttered the Eternal Father, very
embarrassing. My representatives on
earth act in very thoughtless manner
sometimes. But you, Madame, who are
saying nothing, speak, it is for you to
decide"
"In your infinite goodness, Seigneur,"
she replied, "you will allow me to make
on arrangement to become the wife of
NJ. de Lericourt, who is over there in
that little cloud, and who has been
making signs to me for the last fifteen
minutes
1 turned my head and 1 perceived
Lericourt, who, in his little cloud ut
the left of us, was making the most ex-
pressive and gallant gestures. Yet an
other friend, Lericourt! This charm
ing woman was, repeat, called to con-
tribute to the happiness of her friends
both in this world and the next.
why did you not say SO Immediate
ly?" answered the Eternal Father.
''This will harmonic everything. Make
your arrangements with Monsieur de
Lericourt. What l wish for is that you
may be happy in Paradise, since you
have been a good Christian.
And here below awoke with start,
so realistic did this discourse seem on
the part of the Eternal Father.-Fronl
the French.
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Heat BY Contraction.

Helmholz suggested some time ago
that the heat of the sun might be kept
up by the slow contraction of its mass.
When / drop stone it makes no diff
ference whether it drops in one second
or in ton seconds or on an inclined
plane; in passing from here to the floor
it, stoppago will produce just SO much
heat and no more and no less. Sup
pose the suns surface is contracted,
then every portion of it's mass goes in
toward the center number Of feet. A
pound there passing ten feet toward
the center will produce very consid
cradle amount of enorgy. 1t is easy
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tho plumbers have met a. n congress-,
In their rich robes of purple and gold:
Tie aggrc ate wealth Of these craftsmen
La rcckOneu i'm millions untold
And en- effiuent plumber addressed them:
Ylle chamber was soemnly still,
Whom hc asked why their auiid should not Al
WAYS
De 1 aid for voncocting bin.
He rcclqred that his bills were so lengthy
That his outlay or paper was great,
That hi cicik was kept busy till midnight
Inv nting now bills on a slate.
Fhat the making mp Of fresh items
Was too much for a head made OF wood;
That the public should pay Tor trained BRAIN
work,
And the meeting resolved that 10 should
And now, ~ tho cold of the winter
Makes breaks for the pipe members skin.
Az bur. hers must look fsr this 1t m:
give dollars for work on the bill.
-boS' osl advertiser.
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The word "masher,' applied in the
States to a fast-going, champagne-sup-
per-ordering, pink-domino-frequenting,
burlesque-extravaganza admiring young
man, has found it's way into London,
and G.. A. Sala has given some atten-
tion to the derivation of the word. He
thinks that il may he derived from ma
chere. The Toronto Mail begs to sug-
gest that il comes from phrase in a
play written To- Beaumont and Fletcher.
mashed in love-" where mashed is used
as al alteration of tho word meshed.