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THE EAST.

At Yonkers, N. Y, on the Sd Patrick Cor
bett with a team and wagon was crossing
the Hudson river railroad tracks, when he
was struck by the southbound express. The
horses were killed, wagon demolished, and
Corbett thrown thirty feet into the air.
When he came down life was extinct.
The residence OF William Halleran, near
Union City, Pa, was destroyed by fire on
the 4tb. Two little boys, aged five and
three, had been shut up in the house by
their mother, who had gone on an errand
TO neighbor's, and were burned 10 death.
In the case OF the Texan (Holland,) for
the murder OF Davis, the ''sawdust" swind-
Ter, on trial in New York City, the jury on
the 9Th returned verdict Of not guilty.
The audience loudly applauded, and Hol-
land received much congratulation.
The schooner Virginia Dare, which left
Gloucester, Mass, December 4 for the
Grand Banks halibut grounds with crew
Of fourteen men, has been given up as lost.
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FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

The executors of the will of the late Don
Ferdinand, Duke Of Saxony, and titular
King of Portugal, have discovered in his
library remarkable collection of sup
pressed books and pamphlets. The collec-
tion numbers 5000 volumes and is believed
to contain copy Of every important piece
of forbidden literature printed in Europe
during the past twenty-five years.
Poundmaker and eleven other braves
were on the 5th liberated from the peniten-
tiary al Stony Mountain, Manitoba. They
will go West to their homes in charge of
Rev. Father Lacombe.
An earthquake occurred In the city OF
Cosenza, in Southern Italy, a few days ago.
The shock was SO severe that a number OF
houses were thrown down. One person was
killed and several were injured.
The financial report ON the Paris Exposi-
ton OF 1873 has been presented to the
French Chambers. 1t shows q deficit Of
80, 600, 900 francs.
The returns issued by the London board
of trade show that the imports, during the
month of February decreased G., 600 as
compared with those Of the corresponding
month last year, and that the exports de-
creased e470,0OO.
Paris dispatch of the 9TH says that
Abbess Malegue Casponce, while lining in
the hospital Of the Sisters of the Poor at
Peroignan, France, few days ago was at.
tackled and murdered by band of rufilans,
several Of whom have been arrested. Their
motive is supposed to have been robbery.
Eulalia, daughter of ex-Queen Isabella
OF Spain, was married on the 7th to her
cousin, Antonio, son Of Montpensier and
brother of the Countess of Paris. The
brides dover is Rl40,0OO besides $4,000 an
nually from the civil list. The Due de
Montpensier has settled R2,5OO annually on
her and R5,OOO on his son. The value of the
nresents is $40 600
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their tools andleft tho shops on the ptn.
The cause of the strike was refusal of the
firm to grant an advance Of twenty-five
per cent. in wages.
In the Circuit Court at Jefferson. O., on
the 9th Mrs. John Connors was awarded
verdict of $500 damages against the Lake
Shore & Michigan Southern railroad for
the loss of her husband, who was killed by
q freight train about year ago.
Mrs. Lucfetia Price, wife of prominent
horse dealer in Chicago, suicided on the 9th
by cutting her throat while temporarily
insane.
The loss by the burning of Ferdinand
Schumacher's extensive oat meal mills in
Akron, O., on the 9th was fully sl,OOO,OOO,
on which there was only about $129.0OO in
surance. Five buildings in all were burned,
including the elevator containing over
1900 bushels Of grain. About $50 hands
are thrown out of employment. a5
A German stranger, walking from Mingo
to Steubenville, o., on the night of the 9th
was waylaid by three tramps and robbed
of $125 in money, h is watch, chain and
overcoat. There is no clue to the thieves.
news was received at Tom bstone, A. T.,
on the 9TH that band Of thirty Apaches
had attacked a party Of travellers fifteen
miles southwest Of Nocosari, Sonora, Mex
ice, killing one Mexican and one American
ns5ped Zees. They then proceeded to
William Brong's mine, where they killed
two men, and after stealing eighty horses
belonging to settlers near San Pedro, es-
capped to the Sierra Madra Mountains.
Dolsey Phillips, young man living near
Greenville, o., was instantly killed on the
9th in the woods by tree falling upon
him as he drove under it with load of
wood.
Jefferson Boiling was taken to the peni-
tentiary from Newark, O.. ON the 9th.
Boiling is under sentence of death, to be
hanged June 25, for the murder of John
Douglas on October 5, 1885.
Everett S. Smith, financial secretary of
the Nashville Typographical Union, sui
cided on the 9th by shooting himself. He
left letter ascribing his woes to whisky,
and confessing that he was behind with
the funds of the Union.
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CONNECTIONS.
Toledo-With all lines ente ring tho city.
Fremont-with T.. u, & w. X. Il
Clyde-Wlth ]. ID. a W. X. X.
Bellevue--wlth N. Y. q. & st. L. X. II.
Monroevllle-with Il. a q. X. X.
wellington--Wit G., O., q. * !. Ry.
CrestOn with N. Y. p. u o. r. X.
orryille-With O., A. &C. X. II. and P. Ftw.
MassIiIcu.,wlthP p, FLw. &C. r. R. and c.,
T. v. q W. H. X.
Valley Junctlon-wlth Valley R.R.
Canal Doyer-wlth O. &c Z. II. r. and G., T,
v. * W. X. X.
Newcomerstown-w p, G. & st. l. X. H.
Chmbrbige-With ID. a. q, II. II. ta
Point Pleasant--with W. O. AZ M. R.R.
Marletta--With NJ. 40. X, H.
This road is now open through from Toledo
10 Bowerston, connecting with the Pennsyl.
vania System for all points East.
THROuOH CAN s.RvICE,
Between Toledo, Cambridge and Marietta.
and BOworston.
and Akron, Youngstown and
Pittsburgh. M I
Chicago, Akron, youngstown ard
Pittsburgh.
N. d. WOODF0RD, JAMES N. HALL,
6osl Manager. Gen1 Pass Agent
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WEST AND SOUTH.

While arranging for the funeral Of her
child, which was found dead in bed on the
Sd, Mrs. s. NJ. Mcbride dropped dead at her
fathers residence in Coitsville, o.
The Mississippi Legislature on the 9Th
rejected bill for the repeal of the law for
bidding any State officer or legislator from
accepting railroad pass.
In the case Of the Northern Pacific rail
road against the Manitoba, involving
s4,0O0OOO, the United States Circuit Court
at st. Paul, Mimi, has decided in favor OF
the Northern Pacific. The two roads cross
near Glyndon, Mimi, and their contro-
versy was as TO the ownership Of 10000
acres Of land near that point.
The light house on Sand Point, Escanhba,
Mich, was destroyed by fire on the 9TH.
Mrs. Mary @. Turner, aged sixty-nine, who
has had charge Of the structure since It's
erection in 1868, perished in the flames.
The origin of the fire is mystery.
A fire at Montgomery, Ala, ON the 9th,
destroyed the Alabama cotton warehouse.
Between 1900 and 1000 bales Of cotton were
burned, entailing loss not less than $780,
900. .,..l
A general strike OF shopmen on the Gould
southwestern system Of railroads was in
augurated on the 9th by the Knights Of
Labor. About 5000 Knights are employed
en- the different roads OF the system, and
serious consequences are anticipated. The
cause OF the trouble is reported to be the
action Of the officials OF the Texas Pacific
road in discharging the foreman Of the
shops at Marshall Tex, for actively en-
gaging in organizing Knights Of Labor
Assembly at that place.
Arthur l.. Meckaye has been granted a
divorce from his wife, Maude Miller-Mac-
kaye-McCormack, the daughter Of the
poet, Joaquin Miller. The case will be re-
called as Of interest recently in Chicago.
One thousand men employed In the wagon
and carriage factories Of the Studebaker
Brothers, at South Bend, Ind, laid dovp
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The Sinner and the silver Box.

There Is story Of brigand who went.
TO confession, as Spanish brigands do, and
who seeing q little silver box in the sleeve
Of the priest, relapsed and stole it. ~ ac-
cuse myself, father" said he Immediately,
'of having stolen box" "Well, my son,
you must restore IT," "Would you like IL,
fatheri" "IS no." replied the confessor,
offended at the suggestion. "The thing
ls," resumed the penitent, "that have
offered It to It's owner, and he has refused
IT," "Oh! then In that case, my son, you
have done all that is necessary, and may
keep IL with clear conscience"
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The Ingenuity OF the Omce-seeker.
Washington Letter.1

A good story is told on an officer seeker.
Said one OF them: "A man can't stay long
In Washington without becoming an In
'ventor." "Why, how do you make that
outl You have been here over month";"
said somebody, "and you have not in-
vented any thing" "Thst's all You
know about IT," swell, I'd just like to
have you tell me what you have invented"
"well, sir, hadn't been here a month be.
fore invented . plan for fastening paper
collar 10 an undershirt.D
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An Old Canary bird.
IKcnnebec tMc.) Journal. /

hennehec (Me.) journal
Mr.. J. w. Harlow relates that his pet
canary bird "Ned," gave up the ghost one
day last week, at the ripe age Of twenty
three years, and had he survived until the
4th Of March would bave been twenty
four. The bird had always been the prop
erty of Mr.. Harlow, and the gentleman
can give many anecdotes of the wonder
full sagacity OF the pet. "Ned" annually
accompanied Mr.. Harlow TO the seashore,
and the Whit Of sea air which the canary
obtained may account for the great age
which he reached.
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A Good wife For some Man.

A kind act was noted in Lewiston Fri.
day afternoon. An elderly lady was
making her way through the slippery
walks without rubbers and with only thin
shoes, when she slipped and fell Two
young girls Just behind, assisted her to
rise. and one OF them took of her own rub
bers and compelled the old lady to wear
them, having found out that she was una.
BILE 10 buy pair for herself.
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"A Committee on the Protection Of

"A Committee on the Protection Of
North American Birds has been ap-
pointed by tho American 'Ornitholo-
gists Union, which win gather all pos
slble information on the destruction and
protection Of birds; win difuse infor-
nation respecting their slaughter for
millinery purposes and their wanton
killing for sport; will endeayor to form
societies for their protection, and try
TO secure the enforcement Of bird pro-
tective statutes, without interfering in
the protection Of game by protective
associations formed for that purpose
~ Y. Times.
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A GA RID

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The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1886-09-18
TRIAL BY ORDEAL.

The ordeal trial prevailed in France
from before the time of Charlemagne
down to the eleventh century. The
ancient Germans, too, were in the habit
of resorting to divination; and their su-
perstitious notions, writes Mr.. Gibson,
led them to invent many methods of
purgation or trial now unknown to law.
1t should be added, also, that the Ger
mans were specially tardy in throwing
off this relic of barbarism for, at a
period when most vulgar ordeaIs were
failing into disuse, the mobiles of South
ern Germany established the water or
deal as the mode of deciding doubtful
claims on fiefs and in Northern Ger
many it was instituted for the settle
ment of conflicting titles on land. In
deed, as recently as the commencement
of the present century, the populace of
Hela, near Dantzic, twice plunged into
the sea an old woman, reputed to be a
sorceress, who, on persistently rising
to the surface, was pronounced guilty
and beaten to death. Grotius mentions
many instances of water ordeal in
Bithynia, Sardinia, and other coun-
tries, having been in use in Iceland
from very early period. In the prim-
tive jurisprudence of Russia, ordeal by
boiling water was eDjoined in cases of
minor Importance, and in the eleventh
century we find burning iron ordered
"where the matter at stake amounted
to more than half grivna of gold" A
curious survival of ordeal superstition
still prevails, to very large extent, in
Southern Russia. When a theft is
committed in household the servants
are summoned together and sorceress
is sent for. Should no confession be
made by the guilty party, the sorceress
rolls up as many little balls of bread as
there are suspected persons present.
She then takes one of these balls, and,
addressing the nearest servant, uses
this formula: ''If you have committed
the theft the ball will sink to the bot
tom of the vase; but if you are limo
cent it will float ON the water" The
accuracy of this trial, however, is sell
dom tested, as the guilty person invari-
ably confesses before his turn arrives to
undergo the ordeal. Chambers Jour
nal.
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"THE PULPIT

Mr.. Beecher has had various oppor-
tunities afforded him for characteristic
utterances during his visit to England.
On Thursday. July s, he preached for
DIR. Joseph Parker at the City Temple,
in London. In beginning his sermon
he stood upon a platform under the
pulpit. instead of in the pulpit itself,
speaking besides in a very low voice.
AT once there were cries throughout
the house of ''Pulpit!' "Can't hear I"
from the audience. Beecher said:
eff you will make less noise you will
hear me before l get through. AS to
the pulpit l think about it as Daniel
Webster did; he regarded the contin-
uance of religion in this world, in spite
of pulpits, to be one of the signs of its
divinity. l suppose pulpits were orig
inally framed after the apocalyptic Wis
ion of candlestick, and ministers have
been too much like wax candles in can
dlesticks, hard and stiff, with very lit
tie light. No man would ever under
take to plead for the life of a fellow
man out of pulpit. No man would
undertake to go before crowd for votes
and be perched up on the top end of
candlestick. When a man is in earnest
in preaching he ought to preach from
the top of his head to his toe. 1t is not
the voice alone; it is the man informed
with his subject that breaches"
The pulpit as a symbol might per-
haps to advantage be dwelt upon at
greater length than is here possible.
To a certain extent it isolates the
preacher. 1t takes him out of the con-
gregation and places him apart and
above, as one who in the service is to
have conspicuous place, and who is to
be looked to and listened to otherwise
than could be the case with any one not
like himself ''called" to fill that very
place. The pulpit is far from being a
mere convenience, and it is not alto
gether matter of choice with the
preacher or with the congregation
whether there shall be pulpit or no.
1t is apostolic to magnify" the preach
er's "ofIlce," and if there were left
amongst us more of that reverence for
this office, and for the man who worth
lily fills it, which in Mr.. Beecher's young
days still survived out of Puritan times
and habits, that were a good thing.
The pulpit, too, has symbolically place
and function entirely its own. 1t is
not professors chair. it is not an ora
torical rOstrum, it is not a judges bench,
least of all is it an auctioneer's block.
1t represents an Office to which no man
may rightfully aspire save as called of
God, and in which he stands and speaks
as Gods ambassador Standard.
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THE REAL HELL.

The old doctrine was equivalent to
asserting that God would keep alive
the souls he had created that he might
torment them forever-in other words,
that he would perpetuate the evil he
was said to hate. Christ told US to
love our enemies because God loved his
enemies, he loved ENJOYABLE and unlov-
ing men. If God hated and tormented
his enemies, there was reason why we
should love ours. To treat with con-
tempt the old horrible idea of everlast-
ing punishment was not to deny the in
evitable and natural law of retribution
that all men suffered the natural con-
sequence Of wrong doing. Just be-
cause he did not believe in an unreal
and unnatural hell he did not believe
in real and natural one. God was a
consuming fire, but only to the combus-
tible material-the wood and hay and
stubble of evil, but not the gold and sill
yer of goodness and truth. And this
process was far from pleasant to those
exercised thereby Wrongdoing and
punishment were just as inevitably and
invariably related to each other as seed
was to fruit. This consuming, purify
ing love of God was no weak, vascillat-
ing love, but love both wise and
strong. Its purpose was not to make
us suffer, but to make us pure and no
BILE and true. The hearts and consciences
of men did not revolt against punish
ment, but only against that which was
unnecessary, unjust, unimproving. The
right heart and conscience demanded
punishment, was not satisfied to be let
off. BY the operation Of simple law we
were in pain or pie ,sure, light or dark
ness, heaven or hell. He'll was simply
bad sowing, bad reaping; heaven good
sowing, good reaping. He'll was every
where, heaven everywhere. Many could
exclaim, like Millions Satan, 'Misera-
BILE me ! whichever way l fly is hell
myself am hell" Let us never stifie
the cries of our injured better selves.
Let us strive more and more for that
sensitiveness which shall make us
culver and bleed at wrongdoing. Thank
God, it was never too late to mend, and
he would not limit that glorious posi-
bility to this life. AS God lived we
might be sure that evil and suffering
will not last forever. There was no
such thing as fixedness in this life or in
any other. God would punish his er-
ring children as true and loving father,
not to harden and Supply their souls,
but to quicken their latent powers, and
make them pure aud true and noble,
until not one soul would remain hostile
or alien to him.-Rev. Hilary BygraUe.
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CAN WE THINK TOO WELL OF GOD,

1t is saying of a Methodist divine,
DIR. Adam Clarke, 1--WE can never think
too well of God"
The fear is often expressed by those
who are but little acquainted with our
Unitarian views, that we may overdo
in our representations Of the mercy and
goodness of God, and thus lose sight of
his attribute of justice. But can we
think too worthily of God? Exalt his
mercy as much as we may, can we go
beyond the teachings of Scripture,
where we are told that "the mercy Of
the Lord is from everlasting to ever
lasting?" Exalt his goodness as much
as we may, can We go beyond the teach
ings of Scripture, where we are told
that goodness and mercy shall follow
US all the days of our life," and that
God is "goOd unto all, and his tender
mercies are over all his works?"
We do not forget that God is just.
But what is justice? Is it hatred ? Is
it revenge? Is it a vindictiye passion
in the bosom of DeityP Human justice
is stern and relentless. Very seldom
is it tempered with mercy. But Gods
justice is always merciful. 1t is strict
and pure, and will be certainly exercised
on all who do wrong. Nor can any
escape its impartial awards. But what
have we to fear from the Justice of Godp
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What has any man to fear? We can
not suppose that justice will go beyond
the sinners deserts. That would be
revenge. We are satisfied to believe
that God is just. And it is because we
believe that God is just, that we have
such an exalted opinion of his character.
While he is of purer eyes than to be-
hold iniquity, while he will by no means
clear the guilty, He, at the same time,
has commended his love to us, in that,
while we were yet sinners, Christ died
for us.
And Of whom do we speak when we
talk about God Not of one who is
like unto man-weak, short-sighted,
ignorant, imperfect. mol When we
speak of God, we speak of the "High
and Lofty One that inhabiteth Eter-
nity"-of Him who is "the King Of
kings and the Lord of lords !" and yet,
who is 1.-THE Father of the spirits of all
fiesh," ''a just God, and a Saviour"
And "his ways are not as our ways, nei-
ther are his thoughts as our thoughts. :"
Being far above us, in the purity of his
character, and the perfection of his at
tributes, it is not possible for us to go
SO far in our conceptions of Deity, as
to outrun the possibilities of his being,
or to ascribe to him more of mercy and
love than he actually possesses.
The danger lies not here, but, on the
other hand, in degrading G cd in think
ing unworthily of him; in bringing
him down to the level of man. We
judge him from a false human stand
ard; and hence it is that doctrines are
preached abhorrent to the soul, and
which rob his character Of all its love-
illness. We would never forget that
God is just; neither would we forget
that God is merciful. We would hold
these out, not as antagonistic elements
of character, but as working together
in perfect harmony. And hence it is
that we believe as we do, that the love
of God in Jesus Christ, joined to his
mercy, his justice, his truth, will lead
him to work, until ''every knee shall
bow, and every tongue shall confess
that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory
of God the Father. "-Christian Life.
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THREE INTERESTING PARAGRAPHS.
Saul, Sheol, OF He'll.

The idea that "sheol" is a place of
endless suffering, is rendered transpa-
rently ridiculous, from the fact, that
the first king of Israel was named Saul.
corruption of "sheol." And the
great apostle to the Gentiles, being a
Hebrew, also was named Saul, or
"Sheol." 1t would surely shock any
Christian to have child named shell, y
Saul, or "sheol," at this day, in view of
what some now attach to this word i;
but in olden times, it was not so, be-
cause the Jews did not attach to ''sheol''
the idea of endless woe. See Cruden's
Concordance, page 716, on the word
Saul.
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The Vengeance Of Eternal Fire.

Mcknight, a distinguished Presbyte-
rian divine in his day, translates the
reference to the Sodomites as follows:
Gas Sodom and Gomorrah are set forth
as an example, having undergone the
punishment of puros aionia, an eternal
fire." This clearly shows that eternal
had passed come to an end. Mcknight
farther says, speaking of everlasting,
that "those who understand this word
in limited sense, when applied to
punishment, put no forced construction
upon it."
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A True Statement,

"a thing that cannot be prayed for
should not be voted for" Rev. J. B.
HdsDthorn, d. d.
F.. We agree with the gentleman en-
tirely, and as he cannot pray for the
truth Of the doctrine Of endless tor
ment, he should no longer sanction or
upholdit. Will he and other ministers
pause and reflect seriously on their
subject Why persist in upholding
that which no good man can pray for !?
-Unirersolist Herald.