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Death of Bishop Wiley at FoOchow,
China.

The members OF the Methodist Epis-
copal Church in the United States. and
especially in this city. will be greatly
shocked at the announcement of the
death of Bishop Isaac W. Wiley, which
sad event tonk place 81 Foschow, China.
on Friday iass. 81
Bishop Wiley left Cincinnati on the
i5thsof last July for the purpose of or
ganizing Methodist Conference IN Ja-
pan and to attend the annual sessions
of conference already constituted in
China. He had b mself been a mission
AIRY IN China for a number of years. q,
Bishop Wiley had accomplished the
object of his visit 10 Japan. and was ou
his way to attend the meeting of thr,
Foochow Conference, when first attacks
ed with what Later seemed likely ~ de
yelop into tumoI in the stomach.
Bishop Wiley was born at LewistowR,
Pa. March 20, ISIS. He Joined the church
when only ten years old. and was llcens-
ed to exhort when eighteen. and a year
later TO preach. As result of too much
exertion during a revival meeting in
which he had iabored day ami night for
six months, his throat became seriously
affected. and he was compelled to aban
don the ministry. He at once hogan
study ing medicine. and 10 1916 graduas
ted from the University of New York
He practiced this profession four
years, aud in 1850 joined the Philadel-
pha Conference. though not 10 enter the
active ministerial work. There bring a
special dem nd for medical missionaries,
Dr. Wiley was sent to Foochow, China.
r{the city where he died,) where be re-
mained five years. Upon bis return to
America. he entered the Newark Con-
ference. and was actively engaged in the
pastoral work until elected to the Presi-
dency Of the Pennington Seminary On.
J. In 1858. He occupied that position
until 1864. when the General Conferences
unanimously elected him editer of the
Ladies Repository, published by the
agents of the Methodist Book Concern in
this city, H
In this official capacity. in 1877, be
in China aud Japan His bUok, entitled
China and Japan" is largely the result
IF this visit Ii is an exceedingly inter-
esting aud instructive volume.
Bishop Willy is the third Methodist
Bishop who died in foreign land. The
filsr Was the first Bishup elected by the
American Methodist Church-Thomas
Coke. w ho died on shipboard and found
his dual resting place in the Indian
Oc-an. The sreopd was Cal, in Kings
ley, who died at Beirut, Syria, and is
buried in the foreign cemetery at that
place. simple monument marking his
grave. Bishop Kingsley was returning
from dn episcopal visit to China and In
dia, when taken suddenly ill and died in
y few hours.-Cn. Com. Gazette.
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Teach Yolnr Bows.

Te - our bn,s That true lady ma,
b fon'.d In calico quite as frequently as
in velvet.
Teach them that common school ed
ucatioI with common sense is far better
than college education without it.
Teach them that one good, honest
trade, well mastered, is worth a dozen
beggaTly professions
Teach them that honesty is the best
policy; that il is better to be poor than
to be rich on the profits of 'crooked
whisky" ETC.. and point your precept by
the example of those who are suffering
the torments of the doomed.
Teach them to respect their elders and
themselves.
Teach them that God is no respecter
of sex, and that when He gave the sew
enth commandment He meant it for
them as well as their sisters.
Teach them that it is better to be an
honest man seven days in the week than
to be a religious (?) man one day and
villain six days.
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1855.
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A. Muddy Campaign.

From -Recollections Of a Privsts,' : 10
the December Centnry. we quote the
following: mo country can beat Vrr
ginis road for mud We struck it thick.
Ii was knee deep. 1t was verify heavy
marching The foet sank very insidi-
ously into the mud. and reluctantly came
out again; it had to be cosxed, and while
you were persuading your reluctant left,
the willing right was sinking into
unknown depths; it czue out Of the
mud like the noise of suction pump
when the water is exhausted.
THE order was given, Route step !;
we climbed the banks Of the road in
search Of firm earth. bat it couldn't be
found, 60 we went on pumping away ma.
king about one foot in depth to two 10
advance. Our feet seemingly weighed
twenty pounds each. We carried num-
ber six iuto the unknown depths OF mud,
bit it crme ozt a number twelve. elong,
ated. yellow. and nasty; il had lost It's
fair proportions. sRd would be mistaken
for anything but foot, If not attached
to a leg. Ii seemed impossible thst we
should ever be able to find our. feet in
their primitive condition again. Occa>
sionally a boot or shoe would be left iD
the mud, and it would take an exploring
expeditien to fnd 1t. Oh. that disgust>
log, sticking mudI Wad Riler declared
that IL Virginia was once in the Union,
she was now in the mud, A big Irish
ieomrade. jim 0'Brien, facetiously took
up the drcleRsion, of mud, mud, mud
lder, murder,-pplling a fsOt out at each
variation for emphasis. JACK Z. declared
| it weald be imp ssible 70 dislodee an en-
ea stuck in the mud as we were. = 4
q"Fhe army resenioled, more than any
thing else, d congregation of flies ma
king a pilgrimage tErOugh5 molasses
The boys called their feet spontOns.
.mud-heaks., soil-excayators. and other
names not quite SO polite. When we
halted t1 rest by the wayside, our feet
were in The way of ourselves and eyery.
body else Keep your mud hooks out OF
ny way. .5a se your pontdons for aneth.
er bridgp. Nwsre heard on all sides. tniIl-
gled wiIt, all the reckless. profane. and
lQnaint kes cn;nmoB To the army, ami
wIirh are not for priut.
| "ThA mud ~xs in constant league
With the enemy; an effi ient ally In de.
{. nsivs warwsrr :. equivalent 10 rein,
furcenents uf " eats thousapd Infantry.
TO r~aiiz- Ihs situxlipn. sprrad lar q
font deep all D yer yo,ir- back yaid. and
then Ir, tu walk trr"uyh IL, particular
ly is this experiment Recommended Ia
tiIos- CITIZENS who were constantly
Swing, why dnesn't the army mover
1t tonk the military valor all out of a
man. Auv one would think. from read.
ing tie Nurl bern newspapers, that we
soldiers had mscadamized rvads to
Charge over at the enemy. II would
have pl, ased US much tehave seen those
On to Richmond fellows put over a
dve-mile course 10 the Virginia mud
loaded with a forty-ponnd KNAPP sack
sixty rounds Of cartridges, and haver-
sacks filed with four days rations."
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Fort DoneIson Ready for Battle.

"
From Gen. Lew Wallace's illustrated
account of the battle Of Fort Donelson,
we quote the following: The 9Th of
February, 1892, dawned darkly after a
thunder storm. Pacing the parapets of
the work on the hill above the inlet
formed by the junction of Hicknan's
Greek and the Cumberland River. sem
tinel, in the serviceable butternut jeans
uniform of the Confederate army of the
West, might that day have have survey
ed Fort D ,nelson almost ready for bat>
tie. In fact. very little was afterward
done to it. There were the two water
batteries sunk in the northern face of
the bluff, about thirty feet above the
river in the lower battery nine thirty
two pounder guns aud one tea-inch Coz
lumbiad, andin the upper another Co.
lumbiad bored and rif1ed as 81 pennder,
and two 80 carronades. These guns lay
between the embrasures, 10 snug revet-
lment OF sand in coffee sacks, fianked
Satisfaction of the sentry could have
been nowise diminished at seeing the
water lying deep in the creek; more
perfect ditch against assault could not
have been constructed. The fort itself
was of good profile. and admirably
adapted to the ridge it crowned. Around
it, on the landward side, ran the rifle
pits, continuous but irregular line of
logs, covered with yellow clay. From
Hickman's Creek they extended far
around to the little run just outside the
town on the south. If the sentry thought
the pits looked shallow, he was salaced
to zee that they followed the coping of
the ascents. 20 or 50 feet in height, up
which a foe must charge, and that,
where they we're weakest. they were
strengthened by trees felled outwardly
in front of them. 50 that the interlacing
limbs and branches seemed mpassable
by men undersf fire. AAtpoints inside the
out works, on the inner slopes of the
hills. deiended thus frGm view of All en-
emv as we'll a. from his shot. lay the
huts an: lg houses of the garrison.
Here An therr greaps of later eeInrls,
lshivering in -lh-ir. wet blankets. weie
vi@ii4s Ia Il hivou,c 8" cheerl~ss that not
even morning fir-s could relieve it. a
little music would hav.i helped their
sinking spirits. but there was none.
Even picturesque Effects of gay uniforms
WAS Sn,ing. In hnr. the Conf. derate
sentiael On III. ranpsr,s that morn nP.
TAXI ci4 the wis..les seem, knew tn,
j 'lIs r.,ilicking picnic days-of the Wal
wtr- ov-r.'
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