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Arevival of great interest is in progress in

A revival of great interest is in progress in
the Presbyterian church in Fredonia, N Y.
Last Sabbath Dr. Talmage, of Brooklyn,
read the annual report of the Tabernacle church.
The total income was $26 1876 S3 the total cur
rent expenses, S25. 172 "a of which $1,000 was
for pastors salary, and 1852 OF for donations.
During the year 266 members were received
making total membership of 3,067.
The East Avenue Presbyterian church
Schenectady, N. Y. made vacant by the removal
of Rev. George Alexander to New York city,
has given call to the Rev. j. D. Paxton, son
of Dr. William M. Paxton, of Princeton Sem i
nary.
The Olivet Presbyterian church, Tween
ty-second and Mount Vernon streets, Philadel-
phia, Rev. l.. Y. Graham pastor, has been en- =
joying season of refreshing. On last Sabbath
January q, forty-nine persons united with tn g
church, and others are inquiring and will doubt
less consecrate themselves to Christ shortly.
The large audience-room was filled on the first
floor with communicates, many persons sitting
in the. aisles. Many of those received were
heads of families. The church has now a mem.
bership of between eight and nine hundred.
The Sabbath School is full to OVERLOOKING and
the large church is also filed. The present pas
tor has been in this church for more than twelve
vear9
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A Bad Pope

The following from the Catholic Standard will
be read with surprise:
correspondent, who signs himself "Sub.
criber, tells us that an in6del friend of his has
puzzled him by question in Church history.
Here Is the poser: What do YOU think Of
Papal Infallibility-in the case Of Pope Bendict
TX, who got his position by purchase at the
age OF nine years p Our subscriber saws he
- was completely at loss for an explanation :"
as he had no History of the Popes" at hand.
In the first place, we will tell him, and those
others OF our readers who may need the infor-
nation, that if he understood the meaning and
scope Of Papal Infallibility, he would not re-
qure to have such history, and that if he did
not understand it the book would not be of
much assistance to him, even in the case of the
ablest and best of the Popes It is only in pro.
nouncng cathcdrG decisions on questions Of
faith and morals that the Infsllibiiity of the
Pope is exercised and then he could not err
were he either nine, or even three or three
score years old for he is only the humble AGENT
and mouth piece of the Holy Ghost. This as a
point of doctrine is now taught to children in
every Catholic Sunday School
In the second place, there are two stateroents
implied in the "infdel's" question that even a
Philadelphia lawyer with all his proverbial in
genuity, would not be able TO prove. namely.
the age OF Theophylactus, Of the Counts of Tus-
culum, when he became Pope under the name
OF Benedict ~ and the use of money in secur-
ing the dignity for him Writers vary in Civ
ing his age, some saying he was nine some
twelve, some eighteen, and others even twenty
years old, at the time Of his accession, which
took place in. 1888 Whether he was forced
into the Office by his uncle, who was then polt-
zeal master of Rome makes no matter AZ regards
the validity Of his spiritual acts as Supreme
Pontii and still less as to Infalibility, for it so
happened that on no occasion during his Pom
thcate was its exercise required.
Admitting, indeed, that his conduct was AZ
deserving Of censure as his enemies would make
1t, the only point proved by this would be mat
God constantly watches over His Church and
preserves the faith from faint even when He
permits wicked men to thrust those Of their own
choice into the Chair Of Peter.
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Negroes are noted for their religious
eccentricitles. Here Is an instance that caps
the climax. At a communion service in an
African Baptist church in New Orleans. recent
ly, which lasted three hours twelve men were
designated to represent the twelve apostles. In
their effort to be literal it is fair to assume that
they whItewashed their faces.
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Fidelity to the Truth -

THE SERMON delivered before the svrod
Of Virginia by the Rev. DR.. Vaughan is now
ready for delivery. Only limited number Of
copies were printed. Price 20 cents single CO.
Ply three for so cents seven for 81.
Address JEFFERSONIAN PUB. CO..
W. H PRoUr, Manager
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M A r RIED

January 23d. at the Second Presbyterian
church. Richmond, by the Rev. Moses D. Hoge
ID: D., STUART D. CRAIG to JULIA T. Borr. both
of Richmond, Va. 'O'A
November 18th, 1883, by the Rev. WI Ro-
bins, assisted by the Rev ]. G. Dinwiddie, at
the residence Of DR.. D. P. Robertson, WILLIAM
+. WOOD, of Campbell, to Miss Mite J. ROB-
ERTsoN, of Appomattox Va
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hev. Nd. j. EVANS, Penmaenmawr, Wales.
In Catholic Presbyterian.
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CENTR A PRESBYTERIAN
FOR 1884,

Inc CENTRAL PRESBYTERIAN representative of
evangelical Christianity and of the principles of Presbyterian
Ohuchj
10 meet the wants OF Christian families
LII allows
gives fully hu
and contains also carefully religious Intelligence from
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o BIT UAR Y.

Died, January 4th. at the residence of her
mother, Mrs. Macca B. Price, of Charlotte Va
Miss CATHERINE B. PRICE in the 18th year of
her age.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1884-08-14
Buffalo Gnats Kill Hogs.

Great numbers of hogs have been
dying in West Tennessee during this
month. Many owners have lost all,
while others have lost one-half. It Aas
been noticed by close observers that
years when the buffalo gnats are bad an
unusual number of hogs die. During
last April the buffalo gnats were ex-
tremely bad. Horses that were not
CREASED with tar and grease of some
kind of gnat oil would die in a day,
and cows would suffer II smokes were
not made for them or they were not
CREASED with a preventive. Some
years these gnats do not appear at all.
1t has heretofore been thought that
buffalo gnats did not affect hogs, but
the unusual number dying after the
gnats have disappeared has led the
owners Of hogs TO investigate. Those
who provided their hogs with smokes
or kept them up. it seems, have lost
but very few, and this fact strengthens
the theory that the gnats arc doing the
deadly work. One strange thing about
1t is that the hogs do not die forthwith,
9s horses or cows, but month or two
dlapses before they die or get sick. A
raiser of hogs in the adjoining County
OF Lauderdale cut hogs head open
the other day and found largo num-
Der OF gnats In the head. This hog was
affected like all the others that have
been dying. -Louisville Post
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1884-08-14
THE CREAM OF THE NEWS.

Marquis Tseng, formerly Chinese minister
10 France, IN speaking OF the Frapco-Chiuese
lmoi oglio. has ridlculed the French threats,
and said that with the Madagascar and EEyI-
tian questions unsettled, France would never
dare TO 20 TO war with China.
The expenditures Of the postofilce depart
ment for the quarter ending March 81, lsS4,
we're over sll 6ZS $50, The receipts sl6, s49 Sos,
leaving deficiency Of s7S5 39l. In the Cur
responding qusrter OF 1854, there was surplus
OF 81, 2lg,S77. For the three qusrters Of the
last rscil Year That have been audited the de-
fciency aggregates ~, 100000. For the entire
year 1t Is estimated that II will approximate
S3W0,OC0.
A credit OF $4,000 has been voted by the
House Of Commons FOR The soudan expedition.
The Earl Of Northbrook, first lord Of the
admiralty has been sent TO Egypt TO examine
the financial condition Of that country.
Secretary Lincoln has notified the proper
officers that all intruders In the Indian Terri
tory must leave at once.
Ten deaths reported from Marseilles on the
stb.
The coroner's verdict holds the owners and
lessee Of the United states hotel in Washing
ton responsible for the accident.
Rumored that Postmaster General Gresham
is about TO resign.
For the fiscal year ending June 30, 500. S34
immigrants arrived In the United States, a de- :
crease OF e, 400 from the number arriving last
year.
3Tbe value OF exports OF domestic cattle, hogs
and beef, pork and dairy products for the six
mouths ending June 81, was $43. s37,4l9.
Fifteen deaths from cholera occurred in Mar
seilles on the 9th, aud ten At TUulon. An an
alyeis OF the water used for drinking purposes
In Narcotics revealed millions OF bacili or
cholera germs.
Henry Ward Beecher says lie will take the
stump In favor OF Cleveland
Yellow fever is raging in many parts OF
Mexico. In many districts csttls have been
attacked with form of the disease.
The Pennsylvania railroad depot ard build
ings IN Jersey city were burned TO the ground
on the night Of the 4th inst. The loss win
reach shout 100000. Several persons we're
seriously Injured, but none fatally.
The supervising inspector general Of steam
boats has notified inspectors that they must re-
fuse TO issue original or renew licenses to off,
cars OF steam vessels except upon satisfactory
evidence that applicants are citizens OF the
United States either by birth OF by natursl-
cation.
A part OF the walls OF the United States
hotel building In Washington fell the other
morning burying a number Of people In the
ruins. Three Of the servants of the house
were instantly killed. A number OF others
were seriously though not fatally injured.
Cholera IL on the Increase In Toulou owing
to the return OF fueitives. Eleven deaths oc-
Cured at harseillcs on the 9Th.
Fire broke out the other evening at Roach.
ehipyard, Chester, Pa. II miles from Philadel-
phia, DESTROYING build ngs and machinery val
ued ut t5yc,v0O. IL was reared that the flames
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1884-08-14

An genealogical crank has discover
ed that the name of turnpike comes
from having n pike hung across road
way so that no one could pass without
turning it. Toll-roads were instituted
about 500 years ago, the first one being
built in England by monk whose self
appointed work was to guard the shrine
of ST. Anthony, on Highgate Hill. Not
having much to do he carted dirt from
the top of the hill and filled up deep
hollow. In doing this he expended all
his fortune. but the King came to the
rescue, and published decree address
ed to our well-beloved William Philip
pi. in which, after approving the mo-
tives which induced him to benefit our
people passing through the highway
between Highgate and Smithfield, in
many places VIGOROUSLY miry and deep.
he authorized him to set up bar and
take toll, so that he might keep the
road in order and himself in comfort
and dignity.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1884-08-14
Mrs. McCarthy's Philosophy.

An ould tom cat an biseekle wul
came up fornist We afore yez beknownst
to it, but haythen Chinase washer
man goes beyont yez like shadow,
he do.
Wan foine nuss girl ladin' two kids
wild the two hands av her wul kape
more honest paple behint her on the
strate than funeral wild forty hacks
an wagonful of swate flowers, so she
wul.
The cloods drap their rain an the
sun may hide hisself ahint 'em, but
whin the pawn stones of the strate
bees white an'dhry loike there wul bees
a picnic the neixt day, or me name
isn't Bridget.
Me bye, Danyel, bees pollytishuner.
he bees, an SEE he wul be in fur hevin'
an orfis after bit. growed him
meself an'hev KEEP him till since, an
diyil thing have he got, barrin' q
headache, till yit, an no loikes av it.
IT'S the last drop av beer is the swat
est, an poor people wild small cans
know the taste nv it best.
Chairs wild rockers wul do for the
rich. but people rs works sit down 10
rest. 49, BOS on Globe.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1884-08-14

and child were found two feet under
the ground in digging cellar at Sec
ond ward residence in Lapeer. The
find caused great excitement, as 1t gave
evidence of having been buried hastily,
and the bodies. which were in rough
board coffin, were packed in lime. IL
is conjectured that the remains were
those of woman of questionable char
acter, who frequently visited the house
and mysteriously disappeared about
two years ago. The authorities are in
vestigating.
Prof. Douglass. of the state university,
it is said, produces amateur cyclones
at will. He does it by suspending q
large copper plate by silken cords. This
plate is charged heavily win electricity,
which hangs down like bag under
meath, and is rendered visible by
the use of arsenious gas,
which gives q green color. The forma-
tion is miniature cyclone, as perfect
as any started in the clouds. 1t Is fun
mel shaped, and whirls around rapidly.
Passing this plate over table the five
cent cyclone snatches up copper cents,
pens, pith balls, and other objects and
scatters them on all des.-Hillsdale
Leader
Henry A. Conant, secretary of state.
has Just issued a tabulate6 statement of
the population of the state in 1884 and
1880. The table is complete except for
the counties of Isle Royal and
Untonagon, and the township of Burt in
Schoolcraft county, from which the
census returns for 1884 have not yet
been received. The totals for 1884 are
the results of the first count of The pop
ulation as shown by the schedules re-
turned TO the secretary's office by CEN
sus enumerators, and are still subject
TO corrections. The population of June
l. 1854, of all the counties named in the
table was 1,S50,925. The population in
1870 of Isle Royal and Ontonagon was
1920. If there has been neither in
crease nor decrease in these counties
the population of the state June l..
1884, exclusive of Burt, in Schoolcraft
county, was 1858, 545, an Increase OF
2l6,608 compared with 1880. The
township of Burt was not organized
until 1882.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1884-08-14
business Gambling.

II is the fascination of business gam
bling that, apparently, it offers greater
scope TO brains than do the ordinary
games OF chance. Operations on
Change require, for any degree of sue
cess beyond occasional luck, knowledge
of corporate transactions, the accumu-
lation and coordination of other trust
worthy information, and nicely of
Judgment beyond the reach of any hut
the keenest business intellects. Aud
here again, rs in following the gam
bling systems ut Monaco, confidence
and knowledge may be dangerous
things. Nothing but unfair advantage
wins steadily in selling ''long" or SELL
ing ''short" or dealing in cultures.
OF course, stock exchanges and produce
exchanges are useful adjuncts of honest
commerce, and bankers and brokers
are necessary to the operations of ex-
change. But, one year taken with an
other, the true interests of exchanges
and bankers and brokers, like the in
terests of society in general. will be
found to lie in the way of real trading.
Fictitious trading demoralizes COM
merce with fictitious prices, and is the
cause of extravagance, recklessness and
low business morality. When the gam
bling transactions exceed the honest
Investments more than twenty fold, as
some have estimated, it is impossible
to have a sound condition of business.
And when stocks suffer, as recently. q
depreciation of two thousand millions
of dollars mainly because of gambling
influences, stocks which are real prop
erty dissipate only less rapidly than
those which were merely water" and
therefore disappeared like vapor.
Probably the most culpable. because
the most responsible, of the men who
have stimulated the gambling mania
are the bankers who supply the capital
without which these transactions could
not be carried through the exchange
under guise of transfers of stock. These
men know very well that the business
would be regarded by them asimmoral
and unsound if the profits were not so
captivating. Said one of them to q
new firm of brokers, whose account he
was taking: Whatever you do, don't
LAY down on your bank"--in other
words: when the day of disaster over
takes you. protect your financial part
ner by laying down on somebody
else" OF greater significance is the
fact that conservative" bankers and
brokers, who are eager to help others
into the mazes OF Wall street prefer TO
have their customers think il is rule
Of the firm never to gamble on its own
Topics Of The Time" in Ae
Auquss CcntUry.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1884-08-14
Bounced,

Gen. Hatch visited Pdyne's camp at Rock
Falls, In the Indian Territory, en- the 9th inst,
and read to him the Presidents proclamation.
A great crowd assembled and the officers ere
showered with vile epithets. Payne was given
until the next Jay 10 leave the territory.
Early on the morning OF the 9Th two squad
rons Of cavalry appeared at The boomers camp
and arrested the whole community and TOOK
cnsrRe OF the printing office. All women aud
children and men who were new offenders
were escorted TO the Kansas line
together with their personal prop
erty. Six Old offenders named ID. l. Payne,
j, B. Cooper, d. q. Greenhouse, T. w. Eckle-
berger, John McGrew and 3. L. Mosley were
loaded into six mule wagons and started under
escort for Fort smith, Ark, 800 miles distant.
The printing Office and other buildings includ-
inc two boarding houses, drug store, cigar
store and restaurant sDd some cheap dwellings
were then burned to the ground, and the last
vsstige OF Rock Falls has disappeared.
Payne threatened 10 cut the throat Of the
first man who attempted TO arrest him, but one
colored soldier marched him about camp for
an hour.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1884-08-14
Shipping a Baby as Freight.

When the Mexico sailed from Victo-
ria on her last trip to San Francisco
she carried live Indian baby, which
had been shipped as freight to lead
ing society belle of San Francisco. who
Is an enthusiast In the collection of In
dian curios. The Victoria Times gives
this account of the affair:
1t seems, so the story goes. that she
wrote to a young man here to send her
an Indian understanding so unique
as to excite the envy of all of her
friends. The young man purchased q
papoose from its mother. but was for
some time at loss how to forward it
He finally put the child and a fivo gall
Ion can of milk into box Just large
enough to prevent the youngster from
being tumbled around by the action of
the vessel, and fitted the box up with
padding and bedding. To the can he
attached a tube, from which the baby
can help himself to milk whenever he
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1884-08-14
MOST HORRIBLE CRUELTY.
An All Hut Incredible Crime Commit-
ted 90 Crafty Hatred horn Of Jeal-
Ousy.

A very peculiar and horrible case OF cruelty
and crime has been disclosed In Franklin, Pa /,
creating intense excitement and open threats
OF violence are heard on every hand. col
ored man named johnson conceived a violent
hatred, born OF jealousy, against another Ne
gro named Banks. He determined to use bis
wife as an instrument by means Of which TO
punish his hated aud imaginary rival. He
commanded her TO go before a
city official and prefer charge
OF assault against Banks. Upon her refusal
to comply, he cruelty beat Der with a club.
Wher che still refused, he plated together two
hickory switches, forced her to remove all her
clothing and beat her with this whip until the
blood ran down her limbs In streams. Not even
then did she agree to make the charge until he
had punished her in manner still more cruel,
and too horrible to mention. Fidally, by threat
ening her life, he accomplished his foul design.
Banks was incarcerated To await trial. A little
girl who had witnessed part OF the cruel treat
ment told the story to gentleman, who, upon
investigation, had johnson arrested. Johnsons
wife on belt assured OF prot, elton by the
Ulcers, told the whole story. johnson Is now
in jail and Banks has been released