The Press., 1888-10-18

A series of murders is agitating the Lon- don populace and troubling fhe detectives beyond anything in recent years. They occur in hard locality through which Whitechapel street tTaverses as it's main artery. The victims are all women of the dissolute class, and the uiarks of the nlur- deler are such That bear .Ilt the inference that they are mll committed i'y one hand. Six of these murders have heen c ,mmitte,i, and theories as to the probability of the murderer being all iIlsaue religious faumt. c who imagiues mseif commissioned by divine power to rid tho world of vice, or as to his being some one who has been vic timiZtld by the class he selects for his veII- geance are discussed in all the great Eng fish dai,i..s. The ttrrur which reigns throughout that section of the city is sorne- thing worthy the pensof A Dickens. All night long, crowds cf mis. rAble wOmen roam about the str. els. At , in the morn- ing, hundreds of them will still be seen creeping from one dark Corner to another, for, though filled with ,errur and keeping together as much as ih'ssilile, they must have bread, and nb,v" Hil they must have gin. To get it each continns tn take her chance of murder with the th' .usandr ,h wretched creatures arouud her. Tue neces. sity of avoiding the police drives the m into dark corners convenient for murder, and the man whD has been butchering them need not lack easy victims if his shvagery is not dampened by fs.af. The state of af- fairs is the most remarkable ever brought about by individual crime.
 The American Missio,lnry Association will hold its furty -sc cond annual meeting in Providence Oct 23 25. This missionary body is 6 national organization and draws it's support from chris,IAil peuple in every state and territory in the union. Its mis- sions are in the United States i'll the south among the negroes, and amoug the white people, tspt cially of the mountain regions i'll the west among tue Indians <; and in the Pacific states among the Chi Enese.
 Its obi, Ct is to give rue christian schools, colleges and churches to these races at our own doors. In our country three Jourths of the nations illiteracy ia in the south. Forty per cent of the whole population of the south cannot refd. Of the 2,O0O, 1000 ill terate voters in our country 1,5OO,- ative southern states, 800, ,000 Negro pupils same race.
 Among more than 2.OO0, 900 mountain whites Ill the south, ill the heart of our country, one half cannot r' 4d This home mission work is vast and iAcrc aeingly urgent.
 The annual gatherings uf this great so ciety bring representative men from al parts of the country and the PEovidenc, meeting promises to be one of the nCsI interesting ever held.
 The tale is to the effect that Dr. Olivt Wendell Holmes and the venerable Dr. Peabody, of Cambridge, once had an ap pointment to see statue of Eurydice Dr. Holmes arrived first, and when few moments his frieud drove up in cab, he greeted him with the very obvious pun
 "Ah. you rid, sec.
 Dr. Peabody WAS wonderfully pleased with this sally, and on his return home at tempted to repeat it for the benefit of hii family.
 "Dr. Holmes was extremely witty this afternoon, he said. "We went to see the Eurydice, and when I drove up he said just as quick as flash, 'Ah, Doctor, 8, ( you came i'll a buggy"
 do not vouch for the story, but tell the tale as it was told to me.