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RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

The United States Methodist Epis-
copal Church has ninety-seven confer
ences and includes $4,000 clergy and
1850, 900 members.
They are complaining in Texas that
all the professors for the State Univer-
sity are chosen from other States, and
that only the porters and bell-ringers
are taken from home. Chicago Jour
nal
Rev. James White was recently
installed minister of the Presbyterian
Church, Stonebridge, Monaghan, Ire
land, in succession to his father, who
presided over the congregation for
fifty-four years. The church was
founded nearly two hundred years ago
by Patrick Dunlop, from Kirkcowan,
Scotland.
Out of $50 Congregational churches
in Massachusetts,, 163 have responsive
reading in some form; in 100 the peo-
pie unite with the pastor in repeating
the Lords Prayer: in sixty-one there is
chanting in some form, generally the
"Glory be to the Father" and in ten
the Apostles Creed is repeated.-Bos-
ton Post.
The English Baptist Handbook for
the current year reports that while the
last ten years there has been a decrease
in the number of Baptist churches in En-
gland the number of scholars in Baptist
Sunday-schools has increased by about
100000 Its total number of scholars
now is 437, 1877 over against 304,S
church members.
"A missionary in Georgia writes:
"In five years have organized 231
Sunday-schools, with teachers and
scholars; visited and aided "a schools,
having 1859 teachers and scholars; de-
livered 1861 addresses; visited 6,385
families; distributed 3,401 Bibles and
Testaments, and other publications to
the value of 1902; Travelled 24,S90 miles
in my own conveyance. IN Y. Erdn'-
iner.
The librarian of the Young Mems
Christian Association in New York is
thus quoted: 1--WE are now keeping open
on Sunday afternoon and evening. and
the library at such times is well patron
lied. We give out no fiction, but re-
strict the reading to more substantial
matter, such as the Bible, history and
theological treatises There is demand
for light reading, but we do not respond
to il"
"A year ago, say the Congregation
aliSt, at the completion of fifty years
from the establishment Of the first Con-
gregational church in Australia, grand
jubilee was celebrated at Sidney, and
an effort was begun to raise a fund of
$4,000 for UNCONVENTIONAL purposes.
At the expiration of year 100000 has
already been secured. The money is to
be used in paying debts on churches, and
establishing fund for aged and infirm
minister's
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1884-11-22
THE HOOKING VALLEY STRIKERS

The Miners at New Straitsville in Pretty
Hard Straits, But Still Resolute-Relief
Measures, Present and Prospective-The
Case of the Miners Briefly Stated-Two
Much Work for Besgarly Pay.
NEW YORK, November II.
At meeting of the Central Labor
Union yesterday a communication was
read from Samuel T.. Davis, the secretary
of the Miners Relief Committee of the
Hooking Valley strikers, counter
signed by Mr.. C. Evans, President
of the Ohio Miners Amalgamated
Association, dated at New Straitsville,
o., in answer to an inquiry how aid was
distributed to the miners. Mr.. Davis
writes that on Wednesday number of
the five subcommittee met with gen.
eral committee at New Straitsville and
distributed seventy-tiye cents worth of
clothing, food, ETC., to each family. The
number of persons to be so aided is 5000.
No money is distributed to anybody. All
money received by the committee is used
to purchase provisions and clothing. The
men are not strikers, but have been
locked out because they refused to accept
a reduction of twenty cents per ton,
which is equal to sixty cents day. The
The average output a day is three
tons, which, by the reduction, is
reduced to Sl.5O, out of which must
come powder, oiling, smithing
and tools. The actual working time is
only half time, which reduces earnings to
scventy-hve cents day. The miners
claim that they should only work half
time at such trade, as it kills them off
fast. They have been locked out six
months, and are willing to stay out six
teen months more rather than sign the
iron-clad oath demanded of them. The
coal corporation can afford to pay the reg
ular prices, as the other COM
panies are doing so. The cor
poration has publicly declared that
it believes the Knights of Labor are at
the bottom of the trouble and that they
must destroy that organization. Upon
this communication the Central Labor
Union instructed the Secretary to ask the
various papers to open subscription lists
in aid of the Hooking Valley miners.
They headed the list with a $50 subscrip-
ton, and asked all organized and unor-
ganized shops to send their contributions
through the newspapers. The Cigar
Makers Progressive Union No. an
nounced that they have printed lists to
be sent to all the unions.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1884-11-22
WIT AND WISDOM.


If all would realize that cruelty is
as bitter to others as it is to themselves,
there would be less of it practiced.
To be happy the passion must be
cheerful and gay, not gloomy and mel
ancholy; propensity to hope and joy
is real riches; one to fear and sorrow,
real poverty.-Hunae.
There is nothing impossible to the
determined spirit" says philosopher.
Evidently that philosopher never tried
to reach up behind his shoulder to get
hold of the end of broken suspender.
-S0merUiUe Journal.
-" What's the price of this two-foot
rule" asked carpenters boy in
hardware store, one morning. Thirty
six cents" was the reply. "Well, it's
too high. Why, l can get much
longer two-foot rule for half that"
Have you any good reason why
you won't believe the witnessP" asked
the Justice. Eyes, sir" isn't he hon
est in money matters9" Eyes, sir"
Doesn't he pay his bills and keep his
promisesP' Eyes, sir" ''Then what
is itp' "He's fisherman. IN Y.
Graphic.
you can do anything, if you have
patience" said an uncle who had made
fortune to his nephew, who had nearly
spent one. "Water may be carried in
sieve, if you only wait" 'How
longP" asked the penitent spendthrift.
It'll it freezes" was the cold reply
~ Y. Independent.
On one of the first very warm days
little girl with a pretty but close sun
bonnet on went out to ''pick flowers"
Her curly hair was clinging close to her
pink, sweaty little forehead as she came
in, clutching in her rosy fingers a few
''innocents," two or three half-grown
violets, and some short grass. She
threw off her sun-bonnet, and said:
"Oh, mamma, it's dwefful warm. fink
it's mos time to pick fans. "-Harper's
Bazaar.
PA" said a Boston urchin of
S.. couldn't Daniel Webster knock out
ton father did not look surprised, as
perhaps New York father would, but
said: mot much, my lad" WAS
Dan an n. g. slugger, pap" Daniel
Webster wasn't slugger at all, my
boy. What are you talking about?"
''He was a slugger! What did that
man you were talking with call him the
great expounder' for, thenP" - ET-
change.
FL love your daughter, sir" said a
bashful swain to his steady company's
parent before he had mentioned the
subject to the girl. I'm glad to hear
you say So, was the old gentleman 5
response. "Good; give me your hand
on THAR exclaimed the pleasure-seek-
er. ''Well, hadn't you better ask my
daughter for hers first?" was the wise
suggestion. The young man decided
that he had, and Immediately sought
the girl to see if he would suitor.-
YonEers Statesman.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1884-11-22
HE MAIL SERVICE.

what IL Costs 10 Transport Uncle Sans
Mails-ImportRnt Suggestions and Rec
ommendations-The Estimates for tho
Next Fiscal Year.
WASHINGTON, d. c., November II.
Second Assistant Postmaster-General
Lyman, in his annual report just sub
aitted to the Postmaster-General, says:
There were in operation at the close Of
the fiscal year ended June 80, 1884, IL, 729
star routes, aggregating 227,779 miles at
a costof S5,0s9,9 4l; 1873 railroad routes,
aggregating l17,l60 miles at cost of
Sl5,0l2,603, and III steamboat routes
aggregating 1851 miles at a cost of
$500, 573. At the close of the fiscal year
more star route service was in operation
than indicated by an average for the five
years next preceding, andj was per-
formed at diminished cost. The aver
age cost per mile during the earlier
period was 1900 cents per mile,
against 1S-l00 per mile in 1888 and
1884.
Mr.. Lyman devotes considerable space
to the question of railroad rates, ques-
ton which he says has been before the
public from the beginning of the service.
For thirty years this great problem was
passed over in blind and cropping way,
and it was not until 1873 that defined
and intelligent basis was prescribed for
gauging the compensation. Eleven years
have elapsed since the adoption of that
basis. In this period over $4,000 miles
of road have been added to the system;
the amount of mail matter carried has
increased in a still greater ratio; and the
care, efficiency and accuracy with which
the mails are handled and distributed
have reached a degree of excellence approx
mating perfection. tits not astonishing
therefore, he says, that the methods of
compensation adopted when the great
work of distribution transit was in the
experimental stages are not adapted to the
present requirements of the public SER
vice. The rates of compensation recon-
mended by the Committee of Department
officials recently appointed to devise an
improved plan for gauging the pay for
carrying the mails on railroad routes, in
his judgment, are fair and reasonable.
The object sought is the improvement of
the present concededly insufficient and
imperfect laws. The opposition to the
committees plan so far has been only of
an obtrusive character, for nothing def
ullc has Decn prOpOSeu Ill lJS pace 10 Su-
persede the present Objectionable system.
This in effect, serves to perpetuate old
errors, involving among other things the
serious consequence for the current year
of the expenditure of more than half
million dollars of public money unneces-
. sarily. For these reasons he submits and
urges the passage of bill by Congress
embodying the recommendations of the
committee for the readjustment of COM
pensation for the transportation of mails
on railroad routes.
Mr.. Lyman's estimates for the needs of
the service for the year ending June 80,
1856, are as follows: Railroad service,
$l5,684, POS; Star-route service, $5,900,-
600: steamboat service, S6l5,0O0. Total,
SOP, l99,205.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1884-11-22
IT'S SETTLED,

And Grover Cleveland VIII he President OF
the United States for Four Years From
the Fourth of March Next-Mr. Blaine
Gracefully Accepts His Defeat - The
Causes Which Led to IL.
NEW YORK, November IL.
The Tribune contains the following edi-
torial: "The official count is so near
over that there can no longer be a doubt
about the result. Governor Cleveland is
elected President by plurality of little
over | 100 in vote of nearly 100000 in
this State. On the morning after election
we believed there was plurality a few
hundred smaller than this on the other
side, and were subsequently con-
firmed in that belief by the
confident statements received by
the committees as to errors and worse in
the count in Albany, Ulster, Sullivan,
New York, Kings and other counties.
The Albany fraud proved to affect
only county Office, where it reversed
the result, and in the other cases the
boards of canyassers have made only
small reductions. In this city an ex-
aggerated idea of the number of defec-
tive ballots improperly rejected seems
to have been adopted because of the occa-
sional report, 'thirty-six Detective"
when the inspectors really meant
"one defective, with thirty-six
names on it," Elsewhere many
still think Butler votes were counted for
Cleveland, but, with the ballots de-
stroyed, the canvassers did not establish
it. Until the New York and Brooklyn fig
ures were developed we thought there
was reason to believe that the plurality
would not go above 500 either way.
Though over double that, it is still very
small vote on which such momentous
consequences hang. We profoundly re-
greet the result, but it is the duty of every
good citizen to accept it, and to give to
the President-elect the respect the Office
demands.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1884-11-22
An Unohristian Act.

TORONTO, ONT, November Is.
At Thorn Hill, little village nine miles
north of Toronto, on Sunday, Duncan
McCague, a respected Catholic resident
of Newton Crook, nearly eighty years old,
proceeded to Thorn Hill in the morning,
accompanied by his daughter, as was
their wont for over quarter of CEN
fury, to attend the Catholic Church. On
entering they were surprised to find their
pew barricaded with piece of board
nailed across. Mr.. McCague proceeded
to remove it, but Rev. Father Egan, who
was to officiate, proceeded to eject
the old man from the church, using con-
siderable violence. After severe strug-
gle the priest succeeded in dragging Mr..
McCague to the door, when he threw
him with such violence on the threshold
of the church as to fracture his right
thigh, and infiict other serious injuries.
The congregation was so surprised that
they neglected to rescue Mr.. McCague.
Mr.. McCague was Immediately taken
home and his limb set. He now lies
In precarious condition, and
1t is feared he may not
recover. He is well known to many resi-
dents OF the country, and Toronto, and
has the sympathy of the entire community.
1t appears that poor Catholic whose
pew was directly behind Mr.. McCague's
was backward in paying its rental and ac-
cordingly lost it. McCague told him that
he could have the use of his pew until he
paid for the other. His arrangement did
not meet with the approval of the priest,
who took the above means OF showing his
disapprobation..
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1884-11-22
TOO PHUNNY.

A Calcutta Tea Company's Absconofns
Agent, Who Had Committed Heavy
Iorgeries, Arrested in Louisville, KY,
and Awaiting Extradition.
LOUISVILLE, KY, November II.
Robert Bryce McPhun, Scotchman of
noble birth, went to Calcutta five years
ago as the agent of the Halta Tea Com
pany. He was broker and Spectator
outside and lived high. About two years
ago he forged the paper of the tea COM
pany for 100000 and disposed of it to
George Dickson, the Superintendent of
the Bank of Bengal in Calcutta, for $685.
900. The larger part of this he squan-
dered, and just before the forgery was
discovered eighteen months since, he fed
to Colorado, where he dropped the rest
in mining operations. He then came to
Louisville where he engaged several cap
italists in schemes for money-making.
-Four or five months since Dickson's
younger brother, who was in the
Calcutta Bank, came Ito visit
friends in Louisville, where his father
had been wealthy tea merchant. He met
McPhun, who had assumed the name of
Bryce, face to face on the street.
Charged with the forgery, McPhun at
first denied his identity, but this proving
useless confessed and promised to devote
the rest of his life to making restitution.
He gave young Dickson deeds to property
in Calcutta. These, on Dickson's arrival
in India proved to be worthless, and Geo.
Dickson telegraphed Detective Bligh, in
this city to arrest McPhun. This was re-
fused unless an officer would come from
India for him, Bligh kept McPhnn under
surveillance, and Saturday Sergeant
Webb of the Calcutta police arrived, and
the forger was yesterday lodged in jail
where he awaits extradition.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1884-11-22
PATRlClAN PEDESTRIANS.
The Latest Fashionable Sensation at New
port.

port.
NEWPORT, II. l., November Is.
A heightened walking match took place
here yesterday and was witnessed by
large and fashionable assembly. The
contestants were John Whipple, son-in-
law of the late Governor Swami, OF
Maryland, and Charles M. Oelrichs,
brother-in-law of Theo. A Havemeyer,
the Austrian Consul-General at New
York. The course was from the Cliff
House down Bellevue avenue, then to
and around Ocean View and back to the
starting point, distance of ten and three
fifths miles. Whipple was allowed five
minutes start, but was obliged to walk
heel and toe, while Oelrichs had a "go-as-
you-please." Oelrichs won easily, his
time being one hour, thirty-seven and a
half minutes, beating Whipple twelve and
a half minutes. The referees were Isaac
Bell, Jr., Russell Forsyth and Charles
Binninger. The race was for 500 a side,
Walter l.. Kane backing Whipple, Oel-
richs backed himself.
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THE CAUSES OF BLArNE's pErEAT.

ST. PAUL, MINI, November 16.
Theodore Roosevelt, of New York passed
through st. Paul yesterday, en- route to
his cattle ranches on the Little Missouri,
where he will remain until the holidays.
Interviewed on Presidential politics, he
said:
"Sorry? Of course / am sorry. sup
pose Cleveland is elected-at least, the
chances in his favor are as several to one.
My friends and myself worked hard,
earnestly and honestly for Mr.. Blaine,
and, as you'll see, we held New York city
to all that could be expected of it. We
held it, in fact, to the Garfield figures of
$780,"
"What caused the defeat?"
"a combination of untowardness. If
the Conkling wing of the Stalwarts had
been true, if Burchard's terrible allitera-
ton had not been sprung upon us so late
in the campaign, if that soap dinner at
Delmonico's had not come off, or if the
Prohibitionists had been as honest and
conscientious as they claimed-in brief, if
any one of these opposing factors had
been eliminated, Mr.. Blaine would have
won"
81 am glad Roscoe Conkling-that fat
III OuO VI
the Republican party at last. He has
worked enough even from within, dear
knows. His Stalwart followers-not the
main body of the Stalwarts, they were
true as steel--got a chance at Blaine and
used it to glorify personal animosi-
ties. Conkling is as practically dead
politically as ever. The Prohibitionists
wanted a chance for revenge against the
Republicans, and took it. st. John, L
haven't haven't a shade of doubt, was
bought by the Democratic Committee be-
fore the campaign had waXed to heat
DIR. BurchaTd cost us thousands of votes,
in that his utterance stopped and turned
the other way many who were tend
ing Blaineward, and would have
voted for him had the three RS not
been spoken. That second Delmonico's
dinner, although the private gentlemen
who first conceived it were honest
enough, was fatal mistake, and lost us
thousands. The Republican Central
Committee was not responsible for this
blunder. OF course it was little hard
on us in New York TO nominate Mr..
Blaine at all, and am inclined to
give the New York Independents,
or majority of them, credit for con-
scientiousness. l don't know whether
Cleveland will recognize by high official
place the services the Independents
rendered him or not, but am inclined to
think so. Are they still Republicans
That is hard question to answer, and I'll
have to give it up. They are moi
very valuable to the party at any rate
l decline to believe that all the Independ
ents were conservatives, however, and
need only cite one case to show they were
not. In Massachusetts the Independents
actuated by jealousy, and in spirit O
revenge for fancied wrongs, deliberately
defeated Henry Cabot Lodge, agains
whom they could urge nothing, and fol
whom almost everything good can be said
and for whom did they vote and work
For Loverick, Greenbacker and an ex
bar-keeper. If that be conscientiousnesl
In politics I'll have none OF it.h
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ACCEPTS HIS DEFEAT.
BOSTON, MASS, Noveml

BOSTON, MASS, November 16.
special to the Herald from Augusta
says:
Mr.. Blaine regards the official count in
New York as practically settling the
Presidential question. Mr.. Blaine, it is
stated on the best authority, received this
afternoon a telegram from New York an
nouncing the completion of the official
canvass of that city, and informing him
that the plurality for Cleveland in
that State would be l,l37. The same
authority states that Mr.. Blaine accepts
the result very cheerfully, and has no re-
grets growing out of his connection with
the campaign. He feels that he made
good fight, and he gracefully bows 10 the
verdict of the American people. He
believes the Republican party will
prove true to its grand past
and will increase in strength
with coming years. He expects that in
1888 it will be called back into power
Mr.. Blaine leaves for Washington the
middle of next week, where he and his
family will spend the winter.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1884-11-22
LYNCH LAW.
A Kansas Town Marshal In a Fit OF Over
Exuberance Shoots a Man, Deies Arrest
and Becomes a Subject of Lynch Law.


WICHITA, KAs., November II.
A shocking murder, followed quickly by
summary justice in the way of lynching,
took place in Belle Plaine,a small town in
Sumner County, about thirty miles south
of this city, on Friday. About eleven
O'Clock, after political Publication,
crowd assembled in billiard room and
got warmed up over the situation. John
Walden, the Town Marshal, became very
abusive, and, hourishing his revolver
about, said that he could clean out the
house and run the town. This created
great deal of excitement, and in the
melee Walden shot into the crowd, in-
stantly killing young man named Crouch.
He then defied arrest, and threatened to
kill any one who approached, The Mayor,
assisted by several bystanders, arrested
him, and he was lodged in the County
Jail. About two O'Clock in the morning
mob broke into the jail, took Walden
out and hanged him TO a rafter of the
house where he did the killing.
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Washington Notes


W WASHINGTON. June III. ,ro.i
dent has signed the act fxino the r,tn
OF postage ON mail matter of thn sen.
3' 0nu tiaSh When sent by persons other
| \ cable dispatch received from Ion.
/ uoh TINS afternoon, states that in tLn
hTItiHh mouse OF commons to-day. under
lorcl2n secretary stated that rcnrrsn,,t.-
h"hN touching the duty of friendly pow
cfN III regard to dynamite had been nd
dressed To- TINS government, but that no
f'PlN had been received. This dispatch
wa, shown Secretary Frclinghuysrnt TO-
hl%ht ana ne Naid 1t seemed to refer
l" frprthtatlOnN touching re-
cent outragcS, but that the state
department had not received any
thing ON the sub jcct from the British
government. Since the commission ON
the recent dynamite outragcs am
required 10y Secretary Frclinghu, sen to
buy for the government certain rirhts
which it Is understood the Nicaraupiun
government has conceded for the CON
strurtOn of an Uutcr-uccanic cnnul
2'U.UoO, not 200 900 us heretofore re-
ported. 1t j., embraced in the pendinU
report ON the consular and diplomatic
Bill attached to it by the senate com
hijtcc ON appropriations and reported
yesterday. IT was this paragraph that
was under discussion in the secret SOS
Slon OF she senate this afternoon. 40
action was taken.
The house committee ON elections. in
the contested election case of Camn-
bcll -. Morris. of the seventh Ohio dis
lrlct. 10y It vote OF : to T. aUrrrI tn rn-
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lWlLNpElrHIA, Jmc no. 4 tu-du\ =,
session OF the grand lodge OF Orange
men 'b" GRAND treasurer denied tnat
tn. "ri"r in ftt-bw- had decided not
I" .upnort Blaine Tor president
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Al 'Cnoo.s OF medlc,ac ngrre tnat BEN
sons Cap,cine Porous l,t,,er !, the he. I
external rcmedy known pc.
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iHEEE are fifteen institutions i'm
Chattanooga which have - ,5oo.ooA in
vested in manufacturing enterprises
atone.
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Boss Alpaca coats! Boys Alpaca
'o1t~' at Levine Bros, at Levine Bros.
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GROUP, WHOOPlNG COUGh aIc abc
nrhits Immediately relieve. ,.Is:
shiloh Cure. Pr 80 by ,''"
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