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The Osceola times., 1885-10-24
Tenth Annual Congress OF the Episcopal
Church of the United states.

NEW HAVEN, Conn, October l5.-The
tenth annual Congress OF the Protestant
Episcopal Church of the United States
will be held in this city October goth 10
2Sd, In Carll's Operl-house. Much in-
terest is felt in this gathering By mem
bers of the Episcopal Church, and by
Christian people generally. A large num-
Der of distinguished clergymen and lay
men are to be in attendance, aud are TO
speak upon the many subjects marked
out for discussion. The Congress Is not
legislative body, being simply an asso-
,iaiiou for tn, voluntary discussion OF
questions looking toward the general
good of the church aud 10 Christian
progress. The writer's and speakers are
not delegates, but simply church mon
nigh or low, or RI ualist, as the case may
be, having a single object In view. No
votes on any subject under discussion
are taken.
There will be two sessions of the Con.
.ress, daily, at l0:30 a. m. and at 1880
p. m. and but ten minutes are allowed
TO each speaker or writer. No one can
speak twice on the same subject. Bishop
John Williams, of Connecticut, will pre-
side with Rev. q. ID. Wilde, ID. d., OF
New York, as General Secretary. The
list of writer's aud speakers includes
many Of the most prominent clergy OF
the Episcopal Church OF America.
Among the number are six or seven blsh.
ops, Archdcacous Farrar aud Vosey, OF
England, and several gentlemen well
known at the bar, on the beach, in the
army, and in private lie.
The Osceola times., 1885-10-24
LATE NEWS ITEMS

| IT Is stated that the vacancy in the co =
iege Of Cardinals created by Cardinal
McCloskey's death will hs filed by Arch
bishop Tascheraa of Quebec.
| 1T has been determined to hold the
next Irish National League OF Amer
lea at Chicago Wednesday, January y,
1886. This date is fixed to accommodate
Parnell, who has cabled President Egaa
that lac will attend the convention.
THE mystery surrounding the disappear
snoe Of Mrs. O'Mayls, Of Cleveland, Ohio,
seems to thicken. No reliable information
regardiig ig her whereabouts has yet been
received.
FERDINAND WARD was brought into the
Court Of Oyer and Tsrn,iner at New York
on the 10th. He was accompanied by his
attorneys, Gen. Tracy and Mr.. Burke
Cochrans.
In a bloody affair John Graham was
killed at Tupelo, Ark, on the 18th, by snell
Simons, a Is-year-old boy. The aght grew
out Of whisky and disagreement over
game Of cards.
WARREN ANDERSON, Of Marion, Ind,
was arrested at Memphis, Tenn, on the
10th on the charge Of having embezzlsd
$50 Of his employers money.
A TERRIBLE railroad accident occurred
on the Pennsylvania railroad on the lsth
Eight persons were killed and several
injured.
The Ssnate select committee ON interstate
commerce will meet in Memphis, Tesn., on
the 18th Of November.
THE Memphis, Selma and Brunswick roal
has been purchased by a syndicate, and
will be at once put through to completion.
WESLEY DEKNIGn was run over by .
train on the L., N. o. 4 7. Railroad at
Vicksburg, Miss, on the Goth, and was so
terribly crushed that there is no ihope Of
his recovery.
TuE Irish landlords have taken into con
sideration the distress prevailing In the
agricultural districts, owing to the low
20 per cent. OF the over due rents of their
tenants.
The registration OF Brooklyn, N. Y, was
completed on the 18th The total number
of voters enrolled Is nearly 10000 greater
than In any previous year except In 1854.
The Increase is more marked In the Reput-
lican wards.
on the evening Of the 20th while Mrs.
Romilly, of St. Vincent de Paul, O. tario,
accompanied by her two-yesr-old child,
was feeding her fowls, q large ld-headed
eagle swooped down and bore the little o, .
| OF. In its talons.
Rox. MALcoLn HAy, sx.First As laa n
| Postmastsr-0 0sasral, disd st Pittsbarg on
ths 9oth Of consumption.
The Osceola times., 1885-10-24
Lnrmnnlsma at the Snnfh.

CHATTANOOGA, TEyv., October TO-
Yesterday Jno Morgan, the noted Nor.
mon elder who is in charge of the South
err quarters OF the church, said that tie
constant agitation of the question in thc
South has given their cause fresh i'm
petus and has made many hundred OF
converts. There has been such a demand
Tor elders that he has found it necessary
10 send north for thirty, who will arrive
in Chattanooga to-day. There are now
sixty elders engaged in proselyting in the
Souib, aud when the recruits arrive there
will be nearly hundred. Elder Morgan
says there ID greater demand IN Tennes.
~ thsa tn any ether 6tate.
The Osceola times., 1885-10-24
The knights of Labor.

HAMILTON, ONT., October l5.-Thc
Assembly of the Knights of Labor closed,
TO meet In Richmond, Va, next year, on
The first Monday in October. The amount
oi business done in nine days was i'm
mense. This Assembly win be noted
Tor harmony and close attention TO bust
ness. The bJycotting of the New York
Tribune and Toronto Maj was indorscd,
and assisted immigration" the admis-
sion OF pau9crs AMI criminals on this
continent IRON abroad, were condemned.
Lecturers will be employed to discuss
public questions In the interest OF labor
The Osceola times., 1885-10-24
RELIGIOUS NEWS.

Aunus, Meeting of the American Board OF
NJ sslons-Report OF the Secretary out
lining the Work of the Society AID some
ofIts Results for the Past Quarter OF
Century.
RosTov. Mass, October l5.-At yes
terday's meeting of the American Board
,f Missions, Rev. L X Alden, ID. d.,
Home Secretary, reported that during
be quarter century Just en- iedt, ne mum
Der of ordained missionaries mas ue-
creased ten per cent, from 100 IN lopV
to l5l in 1885. During the sevenly-Ave
wears of existence the Amer can Board
has sent out 500 ordained missionaries,
II whom 50 were physicians, IS physl-
clans uuordaiued, l4i other male attend
ants, making Il total of 76S men. Dur
ing the same period they have sent out
.0s0 women, 30s of whom were un-
married-a total force OF l,s6G. ms
gives as the annual average for the whole
period. about 2j missionaries and assist
ant missonarics-l0 men, oil wnom
were ordained, and 10 women.
Rev. A. G. Clark, ID Senior For
sgn Secretary, made the following re-
port for he twenty-five years Just endcu I;
Of lC6 missionaries on The roll III looV,
afty-tno still remain and have rendered
an average service OF thirly-four years
Eighty whose names are starred nave
served an average OF twenty-eight years,
though seven OF them lived in this couh-
nv for years after retiring from the mis-
,ionary field. The remaining thirty-four,
20 far as known, are still living, some IN
honored old age, resting from their
Tolls, and some actively engaged In the
ministry.
An interesting feature Of the foreign
work during the past twenty-five years Is
the engagement OF work for women. In
1850 there were twenty two women con
lec,cd with the different missions. A
| few of the wives OF missionaries were al
! tempting 10 do something for their sex,
but no systematic work had been organ
I'd. Now there are l0l women with the
iiffereut missions in charge OF forty sem
inaries or engaged Ia field work. The
number of young men erjoying the ad'
yantages of higher Christian education
under the immediate care OF cultured
women from this country amounts 10
learly 400, while probably ten
| times as many more are reached
| in their homes by missionary ladies',
and by the large number ol
| Bible women working under their super
vision. In twenty-five years there has
been an advance in churches from los to
| 2g2; Of church members from $500 10
over go, 900; OF pupils in common schools
from S, 900 10 $4,000; OF native pastors
from 27 to l47, not 10 speak of the
| growth OF large and efficient body oi
native preachers and teachers, acting as
laborers In the eyangclization OF their
people.
BY a singular coincidence there has
oeen on the average q five fold increase
during the twenty five years In the az
,regatc Of results in the following lincs
| Of effort. In the breadth OF the Held
counting towns, cities, and islands ac
.ually occupied; in the number OF church
members; of pastors, Of high schools
,eminaries aud colleges, and In the con-
| rbuiions of native Christians toward
the support OF the own institutions.
The Osceola times., 1885-10-24
a Frightened Community

FAYETTEVILLE, N. C., October ls.-
Excitement in Beaufort County over the
earthquake that has rent chasm of un.
known depth in Longaire Township cou-
tinues undated. 1t Is near the shiloh
Church. The fssure extends directly
across the public road nea: the church.
It is two inches in width and about one
hundred yards in length, and appears TO
be steadily widening at the rate OF about
a quarter of an inch day. Some of the
people have become frightened aud are
moving away from the place, fearing serl.
Gus consequences.
The Osceola times., 1885-10-24
The Result OF High Rents.

WASHINGTON, ID. c., october lS,-oon'
g. essmen are not arriving here In cohslu'
cradle numbers, aud there are only apou'
twenty who are in for the winter. There
will be more boarding during the comlne
season, as the house rent is so hish 'na'
members aud Senators find Housekeeping
very expensive. Congress convenes De.
cember sth and 1t is generally conceue'
that the Senate will be engaged eNc'u'
sively upon executive business untii 'he
holidays, hence members will not senei,
ally reach the city until about the ISL "
december
The Osceola times., 1885-10-24
A Free-to-Ail R1c,.

NEW York, October l5.-Coliec'o'
Hedden OF the Custom-house has re'
ceived instructions from Washington W
throw open TO all citizens the compeu,
tive examination for the wcianersh,p
made vacant by tho suspension OF o'ei.
ling, whose appointment by the Coliec'o.
in pace OF Bacon, removed, csuseu u
great deal OF discussion some time aso.
The mugwumps have held that only sae
foreman aud assistant weighers we'e
eligible to compete for the place. ~
would have excluded Sterling, but Soue'
the Presidents order he can now con.'
pete for the position which ke sa~
briefly hsld.
The Osceola times., 1885-10-24
Not On the Programme.

BLOOMINGTON, III, October l4.-Las;
evening quite.a sensation occurred upon
the stage OF Duuley Theater, In this city.
At the end OF the thlid act of "Vir.
ginius,' which was being rendered by the
Fred Watde Company, Miss Mittens Will
let (Mrs. Henry Avcling), in the role of
Virginia, dashed before the curtain, aud
n very excited state of mind, an
aounced that she would retire from the
ast. She had been biulaly assaulted by
ler manager, Robert S. Hudson. who had
snnck her behind The scenes. Later she
appeared before the footllghss aud ofrere I
ssort Of 90 apology. The plav ai,erwar
proceeded.
The Osceola times., 1885-10-24
WIsCELLANEOCS.

THE Rockford stock farm. near Cedar
Rapids, ia., had closing out sale on the
18th, previous to changing hands. The
amount realized was S22, 30
UNION men surroun led the boarding :
house OF the Kirby Carpenter Company
at Menominee. Mica, on the 18th, and pre-
vented he non. Union men from going to
work.
SraoxG influence is being brought to
bear on the Creek Indians, by the Chero.
KEGS, adverse to the selling to the Gov
ernment of their interests in Oklahoma.
THE hopes entertained in London of a
peaceful settlement OF the Roumelian
question have been shattered by a dis
patch stating that the conferences has for
mally declared that the Por disavows
the union OF Bulgaria aud Roumela.
ADvIcEs received AZ III, Post.otiice De-
partment on the lith indicated a general
washout OF railroads in Georgia, and in.
terruption of mails, through heavy rains.
Florida and Cuban mails were delayed,
but it was hoped that arrangements could
be made TO get the mails through without
serious delay.
On the night OF tae 18Th another high
tide swept over Rockaway Beach, N. Y,
doing much damage. A portion o; the
pier was carried away.
A PARTY boring for water in Kossuth
County, Iowa, struck natural ga, well at
depth of forty.eisht feet. The gas took
fire from lantern aud sent up sixty
fool flame with roaring noise and emit
ting an odor like gasoline.
IHE Porte. in a circular 10 the powers,
says the armament OF Greecs is msnacs
10 peace.
A PETITION has been numes onsly signed
q Stockton. Cal-., In which the signsrs
pledge ths1sslvss 10 dr.vs out The Chi
~ ~ ~ lawful rrssas within thelr
The Osceola times., 1885-10-24
A TERRIBLE SMASH.

Three Trains In u Promlsruous Wreck on
the Pennsylvania Ralroad-Four Persons
Known to Have Been Killed aud Others
wounded - Fears That Other Victims
Are In Che Debris.
NEW YORK. October Is-A disastrous
accident occurred last night on the Penn =.
sylvania Railroad just west OF the Hack
eusack Bridge. An emlgrant train,
which left Jersey City at 7;i5 O'Clock,
was run into by the Southern Express
train, which left the station at 9:05,
knocking four cars of the la tier across
the track of the Lehigh Valley Road.
Shortly afterwards Lehigh Valley
train, eastward bound, came laundering
along and dashed into the wreck.
The wreck is the most frlgbtfu
one on the road in years
Four persons are known to be killed
and three wounded, but 1t is believed thai
there are other dead bodies under the
debris. Information OF the acc dent was
telegraphed to Jersey City, and several
physicians were summoned and sent to
the wreck The bodies OF two women a
boy and man were recovered. The man
and one of the women were decapitated.
Their names could not be ascertalncd.
ALI the killed and wounded except one
| we're on the emigrant train.
THE WOUNDED AND KILLED.
Among the killed and wounded were.
Eulina Arneas, Norwegian, aged thirty
hve years. Marinus Klinger, Norwegian,
lged eighteen; Christmas Rolsted, Nor
wegian, thirty years Of age.
Stuart Bowers, fireman OF the Lehlgh
Valley train, aged thirty years.
Louis Ubenroth, conductor OF the eml
| grant train, right arm broken.
An unknown Norwegian woman and
baby; the woman is badly hurt about The
lead and body; the baby has both legs
md one arm broken.
Owen Halle, engineer OF the Lehigb
Valley train, was taken to Newark. The
extent of his Injuries has not been
learned. AS far as learned none of the
passengers on the Western Express
were seriously injured. The pas
sengers on the Lehlgb Val.
| ley train were brought 10 Jer
sey City on relief train sent to the
scene. At midnight the fog was still pre-.
| vailing on the meadows, and 1t Is feared
others will be found beneath the debris
The full extent of the disaster will not
be known until morning.
The Osceola times., 1885-10-24


States Land District, have been removed,
and their places wi ! be filed by Demo-
Gratis.
Richard Fletcher, Little Rock cotton
merchant to whom the office of Inspector
of Grain was rendered by Attorney Gen.
eral Garland, has declined. The head
quarters of the office are at Caldwell, kas.,
and the pay ten dollars n day while on
actual duty.
The cotton fields are looking bare.
Advices from Morrillton say that the
reason Wash Kelly was discharged by the
Grand Jury was because the principal
witness against him was disqualified.
Kelly was arrested Tor the murder of John
Farmer In 1878. Farmer was assas sinat
I'd while asleep in bed.
The colored farmers OF the State have
lust perfected an organization copied
after the Wheelers, known as the Broth
ers of the Rising Star. There are several
prosperous colored farmers in Arkansas,
and an order tending TO simplify and
systematize their labor can no but do
great good to their race.
Little Rock claims to have nearly com.
pleted the finest opera.house in the South.
The Brothers OF Freedom and TIL State
Wheeler organizations met in Joint con.
ven ion on the 13,h at Conway, Faulkner
County, for the purpose OF devising means
Tor obtaining better prices for their farm
products and also casting about in the in
terest Of the pending State judicial elec-
ton which takes place November 10th.
This s ats will undoubtedly be well rep
resented at the New Orleans Exposition,
and our citizens Of all classes owe It to
themselves to make the exhibit one that
they may take just pride In. and that
they cad point out to their neighbors with
out fsar q adverse criticism.
R&csipes Of coteon show . satisfactory
yiela -nst paints.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1885-06-20

When a person has suffered the
untold ngonies of rheumatism and
neuralgia twenty-five years, when
physicians have failed, and when a
liniment cures at one application,
the fact ought to cause thinking peo-
pie to pause and consider II bottle
of it ought not to be in immediate
readiness in every household for The
instant cure of the aches and pains
that affiict mankind. Such was the
evidence of G. NJ. Sanders, of Madi-
son, Ala. and there are volumes Of
other testimonials Of like. character
to certify that sAIaus6eld's Magic
Arnicas Liuiment' is the best, the par
excellence of all pain killers. Sold
by druggists. and prepared by the
Mansfield Medicine Co., Memphis,
Tenn.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1885-06-20

The Louisiana Legislature passed
this law in reference to the printing
bill, aud clerks and sheriff costs
OF sales under twelve months bond:
whenever the sheriff of any of the
parishes OF this State shall advertise
any property to be sold on twelve
months bond he shall, in the printed
advertisement of said sale, notify the
public out of the price of adjadica-
ton the purchaser shall have to de-
duct and pay, in cash, the amount of
printing, the sheriff's and clerks fees,
and the sheriff shall, as near as pos
sible, specify what the said costs and
taxes amount to-"
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1885-06-20

Some excitement has been created
in Cairo. Egypt, among the English
residents by the arrival of Coptic
merchant from Khartoum. He
states he witnessed the capture OF
khartoum, and Immediately after the
massacre of the garrison the Mahdi
demanded the head of Gen. Gordon
for trophy, but bis warriors provided
the head OF the Austrian coneul, Mr..
Harsel. When the mistake was dis
covered a second search was made
for Gen. Gordon, but they we're un-
able to find any trace of him. There
were found the bodies of several
other Europeans, but no documents
were found on their clothes to show
any of them was Gordon. The Copt
says that it is possible Gen. Gordon,
seeing all was lost, escaped south.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1885-06-20

In bravado yonng man placed
the muzzle of bis fowling piece under
, the water and fred the charge. The
result was the bursting of The barrel
near the breech, and the mutilation
of bis hand. Another placed and
held the muzxle of his gun square
against piece of plate window glass
and fired the charge-powder and
bullet. The glass was shattered, SO
was the gun barrel Another in
stance was that of an experimenter
who bad heard that candle could
be fred from the barrel of gun
through an inch board. He drove a
candle into the muzzle of the gun,
fired, and the explosion split the
barrel almost it's entire length, and
did not even drive the candle from
the muzzle. Still another burst OF u
gun barrel was caused by the use Of
wet grass as q wad, we'll rammed
down over charge of shot But
perhaps one OF the most singular ex-
hibitions in this line was Colts
navy revolver, which some years ago
was sent to the factory in Hartford,
Conn. This was before the adoption
OF these pistols to the metallic car
tridges, and it is probable that in
loading with open powder and ball
only small amount OF powder got
into the chambers, and the bullet
was not propelled with sufficient
Force to drive it from the mnxzle; at
east it did not go ont. but lodged.
Az the shooter did not know whether
he bullet escaped or not. be kept on
iring until the barrel burst or buleed.
md when it was sawed in two Ionei-
udinally there were found fourteen
bullets wedged one into the other,
Ind SO much upset" by the hammer
ng OF the successive explosions of
he powder charges that some Of
hem were not less than one inch in
liameter, fattened dies instead of
onical bullets-Ex
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1885-06-20
TRUTH BEFORE FAVOR.

! The death of Chas. T. Howard
Louisiana's Lottery King, has beer
the occasion of much gush on the
part OF some of the State papers
His demise was laid before the read
ers OF the CHRONICLE last week in a
three line notice, and that was all we
should have had to say on the subject
if his good deeds and qualities had
not been harped upon adj nauseam.
He has laid the stone upon his grave
with his own hands: there lei it rest.
Let not gifts of money obtained by
questionable means blind our moral
perception. The spirit that prompt
ed his gifts is matter between him
and his God. That his success in
life was built upon the losses and
weakness of others there is no deny
ing, and that his example has been
productive of evil is patent to every
serious thinker. Virtue is the only
nobility" and it is criminal for the
press, which should be guardian of
the public morals, to ignore the fact.
The truth is MIR. Howard was Door
in the midst OF wealth. With all his
money there we're hundreds Of fami-
lies in New Orleans into which he
would not be admitted upon terms
OF social equality. He was good
gambler. and that is all that can be |
said about him. Like other men of
his calling, he was liberal and some-
times did kindly deed, but through |
it all cropped out that selfishness and |
avaricious greed that would benefit
self at the expense of another. This
writer was one among twenty-five
other men (the most of whom had
amiiies dependent upon them made
% feel the power of this money ty-
ant in his greed for gain. OF all
'he men who worked for poor "Dan"
3yerly on the New Orleans Bulletin |
II the stormy days OF 1874 and rs,
here is not one who is willing to
'estow any more fulsome adulation
n the deceased than, Charley Ho,o-
rd is dead; let ham rest" Some of {
hose old comps" could relate sur 1
rising disclosures; but the man is {
cad, and, with that charity the craft &
ever ready to bestow, they say let s
rs faults be buried with him. Flaunt
OF his death as public calamity.
,atet anguis in herba. 1t
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Sentiment.

! The Selma public schools bad al
"Alabama Day" Miss Nellie Gibbs
one of the teachers, had written tc
Mr.. Jefferson Davis asking him te
send some sentiment for the children
aud this is what be wrote:
BxAuvoIR, MISS, May 9. 1885.
Dear Madam--Accept my sincere
thanks for your letter Of the I'd inst
1t is gratifying to me to know that,
like true daughter of the South,
you are teaching your children to
love the principles which their ances-
tors embodied in our fundamental
law, and for which their sons sacri-
feed everything but honor. The
worse fate that could befaIl us would
be that posterity should fail to honor
the men who gave their all that the
South might retain the freedom and
equality the revolutionary fathers
left to them. $3.50. B
In compliance with your request
the attempt has been made, though
| feel unsuccessfully. to send you
something for your children, which
you will please find on the next page.
Believe me with sincere regard.
Yours faithfully,
JEFFERSON DAVIS.
For my Young country women: Be /
ye slow to anger. swift to forgive.
and hold fast the charity that raises
The lowly, with the self-respect that
stoops not to the naughty.
JEFFERSON DAVIS.
The grand old man has given in
Four lines whole book on life.-l
Montgomery Gala. Advertiser.
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We are glad to learn the beautiful
little statuettes prepared by the CON-
mittee OF the statue of Liberty are
being subscribed for throughout the
length and breadth of our country.
This is as it should be, for it is the
noble gift of France to the United
States. Every lover'of liberty should
subscribe 81, which, if sent to Rich
ard Butler, secretary, 80 Mercer
street, New York, will secure one of
these artistic statuettes, being fac
simile of Bartholdi's great work
Let the good work go on until every
home in the land shall possess this
proof OF ownership in the grandest
work Of modern times
"LiBERTY ENLIeHTENrNa THE WoRLp."