Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-10-30
MANY PEKsuNs URuwsEu.
A Disastrous storm on tho coast Of Lower
California


uaiiIornis,
The steamer New woern, from Guayruas.
Tuesday, brings news of disastrous
storms on the coast of Lower CalifUruis.
The steamer Estado de Sonora, which LETT
Mezstian on September 29 with nineteen
passengers and crew of thirty els hit, is
| believed to have been 10 { with all OF
board. The steamer was Mexican
| coaster of 700 tons owned by Don Joaquin
Redo and is insured for $4,000 The
American steamer Dora is believed to b.
| lost. Another storm occurred October !
and continued three days. Twenty houses
! at Cape st. Lucas we're destroyed. A
great number of cattle were killed Niue
Mexican coasters were lost, each having
from three TO five persous on board. All
persisted excepting one sailor aud a boy.
| The storm was the most violent seen in
| these parts,
The schooner Dora, out of all the small
| coasters Is the only one heard of. A smsl.
| sloop, name unknown, bad five souls op
| board, two of whom were saved--a young
boy, the son of Mr.. Green, manager AT
Cape st. Lucas, aud sailor. The latter
held the boy xteen hours in b Is arms 10
the water. OF nine schoouers lost four
were the San Pablo, the Pedro the Cisus
and the Antonio. The names of the
| OLueE uNS are uuhHb"n.
| l secretary hcCullOou on legal Tenders
The following extract from a lette,
written by Hugh McCulloch recently il
| regard to the decision OF the suprem,
court on legal tenders will be read with
especial interest since that gentlem IA.
appointment to be secretary Of the treas
uTy:
No one can read the debates in the con
vention by which the constitution wa
formed without perCeiviug how anxinni
the statesmen of that day were that Con
gress should not, even by implication, b.
clothed with power to make anything bu
gold and silver money, or the debates iu
the Senate and House whom the legal ten
der acts OF 1872 were under consideration
without being struck by the manifest re-
Instance with which their advocates sus
tanned them, even as a war measure in
great financial emergency. The book il
especially interesting ana valuable in visr
of the recent decision of the supreme
court, which unsettles what, up to thai
decision, had been regarded by the bes
legal minds of the country as established
law, and opens wide the door for one o.
the greatest oslamities that can befall
nation-unlimited issues Of government
notes, no matter how deprecated thel
may be- with the legal attributes of coin
pi,iocs on the parwiuisn Theory.
The Presbyt rian synod of South Caro-
lima, at Green lila, has been engaged
several days 1. the discussion of tn,
Darwinian theory Of evolution. TIT
issue aross from the fact that DR.
Woodrow, professor in ths Columb bl,
theological seminary, with the Rvowec
purpose Of fortfyiDg the young ministers
in scientific knowledge, had set forth
the theory of evolution in loo.
ture, expressing his own belief iu it
in modified form, and declaring it not
inconsistent with snriptural teaching. The
discussion of Dr.. WoodIow's position wa:
warm and spirited, most of tho leading
divines of the synod participating
The settlement of the qussti ou
was reached last evening by the
adoption of the following resolution
"Rssolved, that in the opinion OF the
synod the teaching of evolution In the
theological seminary at Columbia, except
In purely expository manner, with 40
intention of intoxicating its truth, is hereby
disapproyed This was carried-yeas 80
nays 40.