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MANASSAS BRANCH,

WARRENToN; Trains Nos. so, 81, 81, 55 IS and
81 connect daily to and from Warrenton
FRANKLIN DIVISfoN-Daily except SUNDAY
leave Rocky Mount Ills a. M. Arrive Frank
lin Junction 1913 IN. Leave Franklin June
ton 1880 p. m. Arrive at Rocky Mount 1880 D. M
CONGRATULATIONS leave Grange for
Gordonsv1lle $50 M, $3.50 p. NJ. daily and S:45
and LILO A. NJ. daily except SUNDAY Re-
turning, leave Gordonsville for Orange 6.55 :, M
3.35 z. M. daily, and 1910 A. NJ. So p NJ daily
except Sunday.
SLEEPING CAR SERVICE.
On trains Nos. so and 81, Pullman Buffet
Sleepers between New York and Atlanta
via. Danville.
On trains No. 50 and So Pullman Buffet Sleep
ers between Washington and New Orleans and
Washington and Augusta via DanvilIe.
On trains No. 81 and So Pullman SleeDers
between Washington and Louisville and Char
tottesyiile ana Cincinnati.
ON trains Nos. 81 and SO Pullman Buffet Sleep
ers between Washington and Memphis via.
Lynchburg.
On trains Nos. So and SIS Pullman Buffet
Sleepers between Washington and New Or
leans, via Lynchburg and kennesaw route
Through tickets on sale at the principal sta
tions to all points. For rates or information
apply to any agent of the Company, or to
j. S. B. THOMPSON, d. A.,
Alexandra, Va.
JAS. L. TAYLOR, G. P. a., Washington ID. c.
SOL HAAS, Traffic Manager. Richmond. Va
iune7
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SOUTHWARK. 409* 441* 44s*
pass or. Mixed Mfxaf
CONNECTIONS.

Train 40 connects at Harper's Ferry with
M. @rriving in Cincinnati at 7.45 a. NJ; St. Louis
att 30 p; M, Chicago at 40 p. m.
-. with train leaving at 1913 p M, arriving in
PITTSBURGH at $50 m. Also with train leav-
ing at II 30 p m arriving in Cincinnati at S 30
p, M st. Louis at a. m. and Chicago at :, 10
q, M - ~
Connects at Weverton with train arriving at
Hagerstown at $50 p. M, and at Washington
Junction with train arriving in Frederick at
AS p. m,
b. & o. Palace Sleeping cars run through to
Pittsburgh, Cincinnati. st. Louis and Chicago
All fast express trains run through to above
points without change of cars.
For rates, tickets, baggage checks, apply to
ROW, Travelling Passenger A ct, Staunton Va
W. M. CLEMENTS
CbAs. y; SCuLL, GEM Manager
Gen. Pass. Agt. mayI5
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BALTIMORE & OHIO RAILROAD.

baltimore & OHIO RAILROAD.
THE ONLY LINE RUNNING SOLID TRAINS
TO BALTIMORE via WASHINGTON
Come sting at Harpers Ferry for all points
West, northwest and Southwest.
Schedule in effect April GOTH 1887.
&Daily except Sunday.
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TESTIMONIAL.

"MAPLEToN." NEAR HURcHvILLE, VA,
A pril Is, 1883.
W. H. Wolfe Esq. Agent Southern accident m
SurGnce Conlpdhy. StdnniQn Va:
Dear Sir,-Late in November last l received,
as you are aware, a very serious gums lot
wound in the left foot, which still disables me.
and. holding policy in the southern Accident
Insurance Company. which you represent,
made out and forwarded to the home office IN
Richmond my claim, running through Is weeks
up to the last of March. And in n Few days
thereafter received check for the full amount
OF the claim. $4,000.
beg therefore. along with this acknowledg-
meEt 10 return thanks Tor the promptness
ana interest manifested In my behalf, and to
say ttfat my experience with the Company
fully warrants noe. think. in cordially com
mending it to public confidence Tor RELIABILITY
and fair dealing.
Thanking yon for your personal concern. and
kindly consideration for me in my misfortune,
L remain Yours very truly,
RO. s, HAMILTON.
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NO makes close connection at Waynesboro
junction with e. d o. Ry. east and west bound
trains.
NO. has Pullman Buffet Sleeper from Mem
PMS and Chattanooga to New York without
change) via Roanoke, Hagerstown and Har-
risburg.
No. makes through connection via Shenan
doah junction and b. Il .. K. X. for Washing
Ton, anu Hagerstown with the Western Mary
land Railroad for baltimore, and C. " Railroad
for Harrisburg, Philadelphia and New York
o. HOWARD ROYER,
Gen. Pass. and Ticket Agent
David w. FLICkWlR. Roanoke, Va.
Superintendent, Roanoke, Va.
y M FUTTERER, Pass. Agt, Hagerstown, Md.
mayl7
r edmond & ALLEaHANY r.
Schedule of trains in effect June 2lst, 1888.
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mo. 3.l*No 10.
Accom-. Tn. Elk.
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try was success DIR. F. L. PATTON.
full, increasing the membership and en-
larging the activity Of that congregation.
In 1867 he was called to the PRESBYTERIAN
church of Nyack, N. Y, where he labored
four years with even more gratifying re-
suits. In this period he began to show
the tendencies which destined him for the
teachers chair rather than the pulpit. His
writings for the religious press and other
publications increased in number and at
tracted growing attention, while his min
isterial work assumed more and more
literary and pedagogic rather than ras-
toral character.
In 1871 he resigned his office in Nyack
to accept q two fold post, filling the pull
pit Of the well known South Presbyterian
church in Brooklyn, and the chair of
didactic theology in the Presbyterian theo-
logical seminary of Chicago, Ills. The
strain of this double duty was too great,
and after a few months he gave up his
pulpit ministration. In 1872 the honorary
upon him by the faculty and trustees of
Hanover college, Ind. In 1874 he resumed
ministerial labor as pastor-elect of the
jefferson Park church, Chicago, finding it
possible to serve as both pastor and pro-
fessor in the same community. In 1873
he was made pastor Of the church, and at
the same time was further honored by the
degree of ILL., D., conferred upon him by
the Wooster university, Ohio. The next
three years passed quietly, but were
marked by vast amount of labor in his
two offices and as q literary worker. He
had become so well known to the religious
world and the American press that in
1880 Il strong effort was made to bring
him to Princeton college. The effort was
renewed in 1881, and succeeded, when he
accepted the chair of the relations of phil
osophy and science to religion in the SEM
mary and of ethics in the college
proper. Here he has remained ever
since He is popular in both
the theologic and academic departments
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MAJ OF THE YELLOW RIVERS COURSE.
where, the most fertile-that lies between
the point where the great river emerges
from the high lands and its mouth is lia-
BILE to overflow: and as the southern leyee
was swept away for many miles, the low
est estimate is that 1000 square miles are
flooded, ten great cities and many villages
swept away, hundreds of thousands of
people drowned and many millions rem
dered homeless and starving In the face
of such calamities the occasional and linz
tied over1lows on the Mississippi seem
tritling On Oct. the Chinese govern
ment issued Il decree beginning with these
amazing words: eve have received a
memorial from CHI eng-fu reporting that
the Yellow river has burst its banks be-
low Cheng lc bon and has flooded ten
parishes, and requesting he himself and
the officers responsible for it's control
should be punished"' That appears to be
the way they do the ''civil service act" in
China. The government has sent relief,
both natives and foreigners in the sea
port cities have contributed literally, and
yet the misery is but slightly relieved.
Cold and hunger are Staying hundreds
who escaped the flood.
The Yellow river has been named
China's sorrow, and it's course isa puzzle.
Formed in the far west by many noun
tain streams, it flows out of China into
Mongolia, then turns to the south, re-
enters China proper and flows nearly
1000 miles to Fuchan, there turns
straight east and through the provinces Of
Honan, Chilli and Shantung to the sea.
But in Honan it leaves the highlands,
and thence eastward the plains are lower
and broader. Hence from time inlmemo-
rial the river has changed it's course at
intervals. 1t would flow in one channel
till the oldest men only could say that in
their fathers time there was mo such
river'' there, then suddenly tear out a
course directly across the old line, leaving
the latter dry land or stagnant lake. \
long era of quiet would give the people
confidence: the whole plain would be
thick set with towns, and then the mighty
food would change again. Even now
many maps represent the Yellow river
as flowing straight east from Fuchan to
the Yellow sea, and fifty or sixty years
ago it did run there; but on the latest
maps it turns north in eastern Honan and
runs through Shantung to the gulf Of
Pebble. In these two provinces and i'll
Chilli nearly all the damage was done.
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CAIPINETl

CARP1NET1
was of an old noble family in the Volscian
CITY Of Cora. The old palace where the
present pope was born is visited yearly by
many pilgrims. His mother died when he
was but years old, and Vincent, or Joa-
chin, as he was called, went with his
brother to the Jesuit college at Niterho,
where he soon showed remarkable pro-
ficiency in Greek and Latin. In 1S9o the
famous Roman College of .)usults was
revived; the religious orders were slowly
reinstated after the downfall OF Napoleon,
ard Joachim Pecci went there to flnish
lis education. He won the first prize Tor
prose composition, and was chosen. Ut tne
AGE of II, to deliver the class or;ition, bis
subject being Pagan Rome as CoH'parea
With Christian Rome" He wrote Latin
nrose and verse with great facility. In 1851
he decided to become priest ana en1efeo
the Gregorian university, at Whlcll, "
the age of %, he received his degree as
doctor of theology. Immediately after ne
was made one of the college, OF noole &C.
clesiastics in the immediate service OF the
pope, then Gregory XVI; and when inc
latter was succeeded by Plus VIZ, young
Pecci, at the age of ~, was made q 40
mestic prelate and charged With inc hhah-
c;al administration, On the Sd of Novem-
Der, 1887, he received the deaconslip at
the hands of Cardinal Odescalchi, the
pope's vicar general; and on the last day
of that year received the complete order
of the priesthood.
The next wear the pope made him gov
ernor of the province of Benvenuto, which
no soon cleared OF the smugglers and
brigands with which it was infested. He
was next made governor of Spoleto, and
did an equally great work there. The
Nanoleonic wars and French occupa-
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he lived for tea JOSEPH r. EoDwELL.
years, working his land and doing odd
jobs at shoemaking. Having taken Il pair
of oxen for 4 debt, he agreed to haul
granite from Pelham, n. H., to Law
renee, Mass, and this eventually led him
into the granite business. In 1852 he
formed copartnershp with Hon. Noses
Webster and worked quarries at the
mouth of Penobscot bay, hauling and
loading the granite himself
In 1906 he removed to Iallowell, where
he became connected with many enter
prises, through which he accumulated
large fortune In 1879 lie bought farm
and began the career of Il stock raiser,
and was supposed to have more means in
vested in land, stock and buildings than
any other man in the state.
Mr.. Bodwell was /, Republican, and
was q warm adEirer Of Mr.. Blaine, con
tributing largely to the Blaine campaign
in 1884. He had been member Of the
Maine legislature, and us Il member OF
the Republican National committee in
1884 had given Mr.. Blaine an active sup
port. In 1886 he WAS Dlane's candidate
for governor of his state and was elected.
In private life he was u model maa
He used his great wealth wisely, and is
said to have given away on al average
$40 every day.
BY the law of Maine tho president Of
the Maine senate becomes governor in
case of vacancy by death. This makes
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SCHOOL AND COLLEGE.

An unknown donor has givc:,, for the gen
eral expenses Of Amherst college. the sum OF
$4,000.
Rutgers college, at New Brunswick, n. j.,
is to have a school of electricity and an inn
proved scientific department, having received
$15,Ooo under the recent act of congress for
experimental stations 49,
Richard Benidge, of Ballynahinch castle,
Galway, 1re, has left 100000 to advance
education in economic and sanitary science
in Great Britain. Ireland is expressly ex-
cluded. and her need is greatest.
President Willets, of the Michigan Agri-
cultural college. says that more than so per
cent. of the graduates of that institution have
become farmers. If he is correctly reported
this is remarkable showing, not approached
by any other similar school in the country.
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SCHOOL OF SCIENCE, PRINCETON.
of Princeton, and bears the reputation OF
being the best informed and widest read
professor in that great university.
Beyond his ministerial and professional
work Dr. Patton has been very active
litterateur and journalist. Among his
writings are a volume on "Thc 1nspira-
ton of the Scriptures" !" published in Phila-
delphia in 1865, designed to meet the
doubts and questions inspired by the
latest discoveries of modern science; "a
Summary of Christian Doctrine" and
s'The Doctrine Of Future Retribution. "
He has also published over ], 600 magazine
and press articles. For a number Of years
he has been associate editor of The Pres
byterian Review and of The New Prince
ton Review, contributing to their columns
as we'll as managing these publications:
The ability, energy and wisdom displayed
by DR.. Patton, whether as clergyman,
professor, editor or writer, are evidence to
show that his elevation to the presidency
of Princeton college will certainly sustain
the high reputation of that institution OF
learning.
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Causes of Premature Death.

Most of those who die between 25 anu 60,
unless they die by accident, die by some in
discretion. 1t is the over indulgence of appe-
tito, or the neglect Of food when needed, or
the overstrain Of business, or exposure to
changes of temperature without correspond
ing change of clothing Most people of
these ages are conscious Of the error after it
has been made, or others are conscious OF it
for them. Without undue captiousness we
can note changed conditions, and adapt our
selves thereto Multitudes die prelnaturely
by reason of an indiscretion which might
have been easily avoided. It is intelligent
caution that saves sickness, and this caution
ought to be in possession and exercise before
middle life. 1t is so much easier to prevent
serious sickness than it is to secure recovery
from it. Hence it is that so many that are
deficient in vigor in early life outlive the
vigorous and the careless. Necessity COM
pels them to study their changing conditions
of health, and so teaches them the benefits Of
adaptiveness to conditions and circumstances
.-Independent
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ways digniied and his language notice
ably plain and to the point. His parents
were Irish, and his features showed traces
of that stock; from them he inherited a
sound and rugged body, and his death at
So must be regarded as premature-main-
ly due, the physicians think, to bad air in
the treasury building, though his first
symptoms were apoplectic.
AS secretary of the treasury Mr.. Man
ming announced q policy as bold and COM
prchcnsivc as that of Alexander Hanil-
ton was thought to be when first pre-
sentcd. He proposed, in brief, to stop the
coinage of silver dollars at once and use
the surplus revenue to pay off the green
backs. These paid and destroyed, he
would have had the currency of this coun-
try consist chiefly of coin and coin certifi-
Gates, the National bank notes to remain
temporarily, as the bonds could not be
paid for a few years. The president
warmly seconded these propositions, but
congress did not adopt them. Neverthe-
less, Mr.. Manning's reputation as finan-
cier was SO raised that when it was an
nounced that he was to be president of the
Western National bank applications were
soon made for 81, OOO, 600 worth of the
stock. Two facts attest his success-the
universal regret.at his leaving the treas
ury, though comparatively unknown as a
financier when he entered it, and the
anxiety Of capitalists to have him take
charge of their investments.
A cut is given with this article of the
house occupied by Mr.. Manning at Wash
ington during his term as secretary of
! the treasury 1t is now occupied by the
Count de NitEievicZ
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MIR. MANNING'S WASHINGTON HOME.
governor, after the stormiest convention
for many years, and nominated John
Kelly, which gave the state that year to
the Republicans and had much to do with
the Democratic defeat of 1880. But in
short time the strife was composed, and
since the defeatof Hancock Democratic vic
tories in New York have been plenty. In the
national convention of 1880 Mr.. Manning
was the recognized exponent of Mr.. Til
denis views, and though he did not quite
heal the breach that year, he laid the
foundation for the great victory of 1882
and the election of Mr.. Cleveland in 1884,
He received the place of secretary of the
treasury without solicitation and entered
on its duties with conscientious devotion.
On March 49, 1886, he was attacked with
dizziness in his Office and was for months
under the care Of physicians. June he
placed his resignation in the hands of the
president, but the latter declined to receive.
it and urged the>secretary to take long
vacation. Feb. "A, 1887, the secretary
sent in his resignation and the president
accepted it with regrets in highly COM
plimentary letter. After travelling abroad
some months for his health, and expert
encing some improvement, he again en-
tered business as president Of the Western
National Bank of New York; but tho
gain proved temporary and he soon retired
to Albany, as it now appears, to die.
Mr.. Manning married Miss Mary Little
in 1853; she died in 1882, leaving two sons
and two daughters. Nov 10, 1884, he
married Miss Mary Marguerite Fryer, of
Albany, who was prominent in Washing
ton society at the beginning of this admin
istration. His oldest son, James Hilton
Manning, is managing editor of The Ar
gus, and the other, Frederick Clinton
Manning, is an active business man of
Albany; but neither Of them inherit in
anu deQrea whataynr their fafher,s faste
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WONDERFUL CAREER,
Sc
f1oW THE LATE DANIEL MANNING
GOT ON IN LIFE.

He Began the Battle a Route Boy in
Nawspaper Office, Then He Cot to Be
Manager, and Finally Filled Cabinet
sl1inister's Chair.
Daniel Manning, who died on the day
before Christmas, was born Aug. 1G, 1881,
being the second son of a baker in Albany,
NY. The father died when Daniel was
qHite young, leaving three sons and q
daughter. OF these, Hon John B. Man
ming, once mayor of Buffalo, N. Y, and
now q wealthy citizen, and the daughter
survive. As soon as old enough, Daniel
began work on The Albany Atlas, which
time became The Argus; and on this
he, successively filed every position
from route carrier to head Of the corpora
tion. He had an excellent faculty for
making acquaintance and quietly get
ting information without seeming to do
so, and soon became valuable aid
to the paper in its long and heated
warfare with Thurlow Weed and The
Journal. When reporting the legislatures
proceedings he soon acquired wide repu-
tation. In 1865 he became editor, asso-
ciated with William Cassidy: soon after
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DANIEL MANNING. heated cOntro-
versy between the two factions of the New
York Democracy Mr.. Manning acted with
Samuel j. Tilden, Horatio Seymour, John
7. Hoffman and their allies against the
Tammany wing; and in 1S113-4 naturally
came into close alliance with Mr.. Tilden.
The election of the latter us governor i'll
1874 practically made Mr.. Manning the
party leader in matters outside of official
action; and in 1876 The Argus was a val
uable ally of Governor Tilden in his war
upon the ''Canal ring" In 1876 he be-
came member of the Democratic state
committee; in 1879 he became secretary
of the committee, with Daniel S. Lamont
as clerk, and from 1881 till 1885 he
was chairman of the state committee, only
rcsigning the place to become secretary
of the United States treasury. It was from
1879 to 1884 that he did his most skillful
work as a party manager. The situation
was very gloomy for tho Democrats, as
the Tammany and anti ti-Tammany warfare
threatened complete disruption of the
party. In 1879 Tammany defiantly bolted
the nomination of Lucius Robinson for
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ton OF Italy had lefC the country
in such disordered condition that
the next thirty years were consumed
in restoring order; but the peninsula
was literally infested by secret societies,
and the conflicts between these and the
various local governments, one side grow
ing more severe as the other grew more
desperate, make the whole history of the
country till the rise of Muncini, Cavour
and Garibaldi, and the final success Of
Sardinia and the Piedmontese King Vic
tor Emmanuel in organizing United Italy.
When but 33 years old Mgr. Pecci was
did SO great a work for his church that
the pope made him bishop Of Perugia.
There he remained for thirty-one years,
and the barest enumeration of his labors
for education, charity and social purity
would make too long an article for our
purpose. He was promoted to arch
bishop and then to cardinal, and on the
death of Plus TX came the last possible
bn the 19th q February, 1878, the
sixtyfour cardinals assembled in the his
toric chapel of election in Rome. Over
each seat was canopy, four seats We're
draped in green to represent the cardinals
created by Plus TX, and the rest were in
purple. On the altar stood a large chalice
and paten. One by one the cardinals ad
vanced, laid their votes reverently on the
paten, and raising that dropped the ballot
into the chalicc Then the scrutinizers
counted the votes and the count was read
aloud three times. The ballots were then
burned and the smoke rising into the
clear air announced to the vast multitude
outside that there was vet no election.
Two-thirds were required to elect. On
the first ballot Cardinal Pecci received %,
on the second 80; then all eyes turned
toward him. He trembled SO violently that
the pen fell from his hands, then, pale as
death, bowed his face on his hands while
the tears streamed from his eyes. The
third ballot gave him A votes. Then the
master of ceremonies and accompanying
officials approached his seat with the
question:
''Do you accept the election economically
made of you as supreme pontiff of the
Catholic church,
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THE CHINESE FLOODS.

Terrible History of the Yellow River.
The Celestia1s' Sorrow.
The awful floods of Sentemher and Qc-
tober in northeastern China, caused by
the Hoang Ho, or Yellow river, breaking
its banks, give one a vivid impression of
the precarious tenure millions of those peo-
pie have upon their lives and dwellings.
ALI the low country-in China as else
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AFTER THE EXPLOSION.

tendant upon this most singular disas-
ter. It appears tha. the Mu-
nicipal Gas company OF the clty
had been in the habit of receiving naptha
from the Vacuum Oil company "a bramch
OF the StanlartD every few days. me
two establishments are several mics apait
and the naphtha was piped from one 70
the other. III some manner oFeah ~
CURED in the pipe. !, 400 gallons OF napn,na
escaped into the sewers OF the &c. city; so4ar some
one cropped spark and then the aisaster s.e,,
came We give Il cut OF the N"snlnsv n. w..
mill from a photograph taken tne next
nanrninr.