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The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1889-12-29
THE GRIP.
The Disease still Spreading at all Points
The Doctors Badly Puzzled.

The Doctors Badly Puzzled.
, NEW YORK, December 2s.-rInhuenz,
seems 10 have become epidemic in Harlem
There are hundreds Of cases, mostly anon:
the lower classes. A dispatch ff0m New
brunswick to-day reports that therc are on,
hundred cases OF grippe" in that city
The physicians do not regard tlie disease
as dangerous. The disease has also ap
peared at Metuchen, South river and Mill
stone. Eighty-one members Of the Brook
lyn police force are sick to-day with the
grip"
100000 CASES IN NEW YORK.
II is estimated that not less than 100000
people are suffering from La Grippe in this
city. No deaths from the disease have as
yet been reported.
OVER HUNDRED CASES IN OswEGO.
OswEGO, y. ", December sS.-There are
over hundred leases Of "La Grippe" in
this city. General Manager Bowen Of the
the Rome. WatertOwn and Ogdensbure
Railroad said to United Press reporter to-
day that more than fifty employees of the
road are laid up with the affection. Freight
business in the yards is at a standstill. The
two train dispatchers are sick, and nearly
all the men employed in the yard are i'll.
THE GRIP IN DETROIT.
DETROIT Mich, December 2s.-The in
nuenza has come 10 Detroit TO stay. lnqui-
ries al the health office, the city physicians
Office, police headquarters and other centres
OF information About the sanitary condition
of the city. show that over 1900 people are
down with the disease. Fifty policemen.
more than half the city officers and their
assistants are laid up, and there is hardly
a store in the city whose clerical and
working force is not seriously crippled bV
the dreaded Russian distemper
The disease has in no case proved fatal as
yet. but seems TO be getting more violent
from day 10 day.
MADE INSANE BY THE DISEASE.
BOsTON, December 2S.-Last evening
Charles Gomez, a native Of Florida, aged
twenty-three, became insane from his suf-
ierlngs in severe attack Of LA Grippe
EPIZOOTICALLY INCLINED.
PHILADELPHIA, Pa. December est is
stated that there are fully $4,000 persons in
this city now being treated for influenza in
some form or other. The character Of the
epidemic, physicians say, is not productive
Of fatal consequences. All classes Of citi-
lens are numbered among the victims.
Mr. George W. Childs is recovering from
nm attack which kept him in doors for
several days.
INCREASING MORTALITY IN PARIS.
PARIS, December 2s.-rhe number Of
leaths from influenza is increasing, and the
Of the city are manifesting "A
)anicky feeling. The condition Of VI. DE
Minister Of War, has changedtor
he worse. Drs. Bronardel and Proust haye
'een attacked and are seriously i'll.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1889-12-29

THE Presbytery Of Pittsburg has been
having a lively time in discussing the
question Of revising the Confession Of
Faith. According to the Philadelphia
Press, the Presbytery voted against re-
vision, whsreupon a resolution was
offered requiring the ministers OF the
Prssbytery las soon as possible, TO
present to their several congregations
our belief as set forth in the West.
Minister Confession of Faith upon the
following, among other topics: That
God has from all eternity ordained
some Of bis creatures to damnation
shat elect infants alone are saved, and
that the Pope Of Rome is anti-Christ.
The resolution was offered by revis
ionist, and was resented by those op
posed to revision and finally laid on th'
table
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1889-12-29
THE F.ATh'ER OF HIS COUNTRY IN
4 NEW ROLE.

THE FATh'ER OF HIS COUNTRYIN
A NEW ROLE.
When George Washington was on
his way from New York to Cambridge
he stopped over night at Mr.. Bulls
Tavern, in Wethersfeld. Oliver ELS
worth. afterward' 3 Chief Justice of the
United States, who lived at Windsor,
where the family mansion can still be
seen from the passing trsin, sent mes
sage to Washington by his eldest son,
inviting him to dine with him the next
day.
Mr.. Bull, who appreciated the digni-
ty OF his position AS the host OF the
General, told the lad. very curtly, when
he presented himself, that he could not
see Washington.
But | have a letter for him, " said
the boy.
sWell, you can send it in to him.
But my father said was to deliver
it in person."
who is your father"
"Oliver Ellsworth
"Oh!-ah! J.! Well, I'll see II you can
20 in."
Washington received the boy with
dignity, but great cordiality. AS to the
invitation, the General said, Tell your
father, with my thanks, that cannot
wait till dinner to see him, bueI will
breakfast with him" This he did, and
made himself very agreeable to the
Ellsworth family. Among the Incl.
dents of his stay it isrelated that he
took the two younger children Of biz
host In his lap, one on each knee, and
sang to them the Derby RAM" Thi,
anecdote, we fancy, throws new light
on the human quality Of the Father Of
his Country. Harper 5 Magazine.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1889-12-29

Mr. GLADsrosrhas come out in favor
Of local option.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1889-12-29
100. 900 CAsFs In NEM YORK.

1t is estimated that not less than 100000
people are suffering from La Grippe in this
city. No deaths from the disease have as
yet been reported.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1889-12-29
WEATHER FORECASTS,

WksniNcToS, ID. C.. December 2s.--
lR IToJ Virginia and North Carolina.
u" itair. followed by light rain station
-nfS temperature, soutberly WINDS
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1889-12-29

lO-utN W
row will be
tai Saturda
New York c
hospitals, CO
and surgical
lection is div
of free work
ing year, on
Inc aims OF
the whole p,
|liefs and slla
and Christi.
|siGe 10y
bf helping
hospital ;
I'm the churcl
year, and in
trg saturda
}n,i ipnofessi'
made throug
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1889-12-29

STATE or THERMOMETERS.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1889-12-29
AN OFFICIAL STATEMENT.
ANXIETY IN RICHMOND.

The news of the wreck reached Richmond
in the afternoon, and caused great deal of
anxiety among those who had friends. or
thought they had on the train. 1t was the
yestbule train which was wrecked that left
Washington at $40 j. NJ, and connected
at Charlottesville with the train which left
Richmond at 9:li u. Nj. DT. Q. W. =.
Brock, of this city, was summoned 10 the
wreck, and left here yesterday morning at
II 20 O'Clock
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1889-12-29

SsooSD ADvExrlsrs In III spustsy
are grouped thug: New Ea&lan1, IA
900; Middle States. GOO; weo>esa
States, 5000; Northwest. ., ~; casnaa.
5000.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1889-12-29

OVER one hundred little children d
Fort Madison, Ia. are In tears. A burg.
lar broke into the Methodist Chuteh d
that place and stole from their little
mite jugs" every penny they had been
saving for Christmas. The total amount
taken was about 500.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1889-12-29
THE +. F. Y. WRECKED.
a SMASH-UP NEAR THE WHITE
SULPHUR SPRINGS.

Ten Persons Reported Killed and Twelve
wounded on "a Chesapeake and Obi,
Trsir%-Desaiis of the Disaster-Ansiety
In H'shmond.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1889-12-29

The French Congregation. psstdrs Of
New Englsnd have for med . pastoral
union. adopted an evangelical creed,
framed a .iturgical. service, organised .
publishing society, and entered tpoa
an active crusade among the French
Canadians.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1889-12-29

HARTFORD theological Seminary has
. woman in the class Of this year. 6hs
is the wife OF . member Of TIE elass.
and has entered upon q thoeough PEE
paration for foreign missioaasy sse-
vice.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1889-12-29
The TINE

kicnlliOliU
pamphlet II
points are
saws that j
has made
paid of tn
purchase Of
quired 7,l3i
nOnd and L
bonds Of III
quireS en0u
the Iiiclnlf
permanent
physical CO
been great,
the business
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1889-12-29

BY the will OF the late J. Warren
Merrill, CT Cambridge, Mas, the
American Baptist Missionary Upion
gets $4,000; the American Baptist
Home Mission Society gets $500; the
American Baptist Publication Society.
10000; Colby University, 10000;
Newton Theological Institution. S10,.
900; Conference Of Baptist Ministers
SO .0C0; Massachusetts, Baptist Conven.
ton. 50 900; Trustees OF Daniel White
Charity, $1,000; Brown University,
$4,000; VassarI IColloge. $40. 900.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1889-12-29

AT the recent general conveation Of
the Universalists, held at Lynn, Mahsa.
chusetts, the following resolution IVES
passed: THAT it 1.-THE Univsrssliss
Church. rests on. and bsIieves in the
historical veracity Of the New Tesla.
ment records OF the lfs--and works Of
our Lord Jesus Christ" Z
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1889-12-29

A YOUNG japanese lady, bslopsisg 70
one of the highest families In the
Mlkado's empire, who has recently tssa
much admired in the society Of ~
Bavarian capital. Munich, hss taksn he
veil to enter nunusry 10 Germany.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1889-12-29

The negroes Of Brszil not only'esESy
heavg burdens like . piano on their
heads. but when taking o letter 70 w.
postofiice will place 1t on top Of thslf
heads, and then put . stone on it ~
keep it in its place.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1889-12-29

AsusNrIFIs congress for the study
Of questions concerning alcoholism, ,..un.
der the presidency Of ". Leon Say. the
economist and State Minister, wss bsld
at "a Grenelle street, Paris, on JAY
29th, 30lh and 3lst.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1889-12-29

~ me divorce suit Of Captaia O'shea IN wh,cp
-, n'''s stuart Powell Is implicated. is be-
' 'F 'he friends of the Irish l,aser 10 b,
f.ieF political move.-Mr. Gladstone,
'-''s'u birthday occurs 10. day. lie has re-.
49, Fast number Of presents and rernem.
K,,'., nom We my people all over the
l..,'s1-,''"' -- william O'Brien is going on q
I'-''"s 'ouf Ia advocacy Of the lenants
op,.." Eoe'---ihe Provisional Government
,ss..- ~ h's sddresscd note 10 the Europssu
'Nphaiieslly deplonng the readiness
.'''p' 10 credit rumors lniinleal TO tbs
e..' '7s,'n' The number Of d, eth, from
e''@1a Ia Paris are increasing.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1889-12-29
TIE GRIP IN DETROIT.
MADE INSANE BY THE DISEASE.

BOSTON, December 2S.-Last evening
Charles Gomez, native Of Florida, aged
twenty-three, became insane from his suf-
ierings in a severe attack Of "La Grippe"
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1889-11-01

ever beard Of getting through such a sea as
that'' How did thsy get through
it, Did they go backg No. Did they
90 10 the right; No. Did they go to
the lefts No. They went forward in
the strength Of the Lord Almighty: and that
is the way we mean 10 get through the Red
Sen. By going forward But saws some one
IF we should build larger church. would
you be able with your voice 10 fll IT," Why,
| have been wearing myself out for the last
sixteen years in trying b keep my voice in.
Give me room where | can preach the glories
Of Christ and the grandeurs Of heaven.
Forward We have to march on, breaking
down all bridges behind us, making retreat
impossible. Throw away your linapsack if it
impedes your march. Keep your sword arm
free Strike for Christ and His kingdom
while You may No people ever had better
mission than you are sent ON. Prove your
selves worthy. III l am not At 20
be your leader, set mo aside The bright
est goal on earth that ! can think
of is country parsonage amidst the mount
aims. But am not afraid 10 lead YOU. ]
have some dollars; they are at your disposal
| have good physical health; il is yours as
long as it lasts. ! have enthusiasm of soul;
will not keep it back from your service
have some faith in God, and I shall direct il
toward the rebuilding Of our new spiritual
house. Come on, then. will lead you.
Come on, We aged men, no t yet passed over
Jordan Give us one more lift before you go
into the promised land. You men in middle
life, harness all your business faculties to
this enterprise, Young man, put the fire of
your soul into this work Let women conse-
crate their responsiveness and persistence to
this cause, and they will be preparing bene-
dlctions for their dying hour and everlasting
rewards; and if Satan really did burn that
Tabernacle down, as some people say he did,
he viii find it the poorest job he ever under.
took.
Good-by, old Tabernacle put my fingers
to my lips and throw a kiss to the departed
church In the last day, may we be able to
meet the songs there sung, and the prayers
there offered, and the sermons there preached.
Good-by, old place, where some of us first
felt the Gospel peace, and others heard the
last message ere they fed away into the skies
Good-by, Brooklyn Tabernacle of 1873! But
welcome our new church. Il seeit as plainly
as though it were already builtD Your
gates wider, your songs more triumphant,
your ingatherings more glorious Rise out
OF the ashes and greet our waiting vision
Burst ON our souls, oh day of our church's
resurrection BY your affairs may we be pre-
pared for the hour when the fire shall try
every mans work of what sort it is. We'll
come, Brooklyn Tabernacle Of 1901
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1889-11-01
Pension Statistics,

The annual report for the fiscal year
1889 of the commissioner of pensions
has been submitted to Secretary Noble.
The following summary shows the more
important details of the work of the
bureau during the fiscal year: There
were at the close of the last fiscal year
4S9, 1895 pensioners, and there have been
added to the rolls during the
past year 81, 921 new pensioners,
while the names of 1854,
whose pensions have been previously
dropped, were restored to the rolls, max
ing an aggregate of SO, 675 pensioners
added during the year; 16, so were
dropped for various causes, leaving net
increase to the rolls of 81, 1873. The av-
erage of each pension at the close of the
year is shown to be S131.69 The
amount paid for pensions was $S8, 275. :
113. The total amount dlsbursed by the
agents for all purposes was $50, 1871, 968.
Amount paid as fees to attorneys, 81,
1868, 5S5. There was discussed
$14,515 for the payment of ar
rears of pensions in cases where the
original pension was granted prior to
January 25, 1889, and the date of com
mencement of pension was subsequent
to discharge or death. The following
shows the number on the rolls of each
agency on June 30, 1899; Columbus,
40, 500; indianapolis, Al, SOC; Chicago,
al, 0O4; Topeka, $3.50; Washington,
30, $50; Des Moines, 1886; Buffalo,
28, $50 Boston, %, 636; Philadelphia, 81 :
els Milwaukee 26, 1874; NewYork "a, 316;
Detroit, 24,1G3; Pittsburg, 1896;
Knoxville, 3,111; Concord, 14,1O9;
Louisville, 1897; Augusta 13, 913; San
Francisco, 1888. In the aggregate,
], 24s, 146 pension claims have been filed
since 1861, and in the same period 789
121 have been allowed. The amounts
distributed on account of pensions since
1851 has been $t,O52, 218, 413. The
issue of certificates during the year shows
a grand total of 145, 1913; of this number
81, 921 were original certificates.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1889-11-01
Pride GOeth Before a Fall.

Therecent military sham fight at Alder
shot interested the German Emperor very
much. He rose in the middle of the night,
in order to be on the field in time, and,
favored by brilliant weather, he had as
good an experience of England's little
army as one could wish. The ludicrous
part of the days business happened,
however, Just as the fight ended and the
march past began. A German admiral,
attached to the London embassy, essayed
to make his obe1sance to his master from
horseback, and came up at smart can
ter for that purpose, cmulating his mill
tary brother who preceded him. He
pulled his horse up short, described a
graceful parabola over the animals head
and sat down on his cooked hat that had
reached the ground before him. There
was roar of laughter from thousands
of spectators. The Emperor tried hard
to preserve his gravity, but the sight of
the fat sailor sitting on the peak of his
own hat was too much, and William
finally laughed loudest of all He made
amends, however, by riding up to the
displaced horseman and shaking hands,
while he expressed the hope that the
admiral was not hurt.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1889-11-01
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

JAY GOULD has been offered $50 900 to write
his memoirs.
SENATOR SHERMAN, of Ohio, reads no book
until 1t is a year old.
EMPRESS FREDERICK, of Germany, will
spend the winter in Italy.
SENATOR CHANDLER. Of New Hampshire, is
regaining his health at Carlsbad
PRIVATE SECRETARY HALFoRD has decided
to form Bible class in Washington
SETH Low, ex-Mayor of BROOKLYN, has been
elected President of Columbia College.
GOVERNOR BIGGs, of Delaware, realized
large profits on his peach crop this year.
IT is announced that King Leopold of Bel
GUM, contemplates trip to the Congo in
Africa.
Mr., GLADSTONE has been chopping down
many trees at HaTarden of late, with all his
old vigor,
GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN says New York
city cannot secure the worlds fair without
his assistance.
TUEY GwoX Wing, the new Chinese Minis
ter to this country, is a good-looking man.
about fifty years of age.
EMPEROR WILLIAM, of Germany, spends
most of his leasure time studying political
geography Or talking about war.
VIcE-PREsIDENT MORTON is one of the in.
corporators of an extensive coaI-mining
company now formed to work in West w
Sinia
Mrs. FRANCES HoDGsoN BURNETT was
earning small salary as a school teacher
down in Tennessee when she wrote her first
stories.
AMANDA M. DOUGLAS, the writer, has
written two novels a year for the past sixteen
years. Her pen has supported q family of
four persons
WILLIAM WALDORF AsToR is a man Of
strong literary and artistic tastes, and if he
had not been millionaire's son he would
probably have been an artist.
CLAUS SPRECKELs, the sugar manufac-
turer, has removed most of his personal prop
erty from San Francisco and will make his
home henceforth at Philadelphia, Penn.
RUSSELL SAGE is an enthusiastic chess
player. After solving the problems of the
bulls and bears and puts and calls on Wall
street, he goes home to solve problems on the
chess board.
SENATORS Berry, Butler and Hampton
and Representatives Henderson, Brown and
Boothman, were the one-legged members of
the last Congress. The only one-armed men
were General Hooker of Mississippi, and
Congressman Oates, of Alabama.
MAYOR GRANT, of New York city, is a
middle-sized, prosperous-loolling, pleasant
hammered man, with full beard and ten
dency to grow fat, He is six-and-thirty,
and lately expressed desire to lay his hand
on the gentleman who started the Exhibition
boom.
ANDREW CARNEGIE, the big iron master,
has appointed a committee of prominent
Pittsburg citizens to select suitable site i'll
that city that he may buy it and erect thereon
a free library, which is TO cost $3.50, 600. The
building, it Is said, will eclipse anything of
the kind in America.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1889-11-01
CLIPPINGS

Mrs. Oscar Wilde is one of the most
popular female orators in England.
George Bancroft is devoting all his
time to biography of President Polk.
Edgar Fawcett, the American novel
list, is very little man, with very big
head.
Cardinal Gibbons claims. a Catholic
population for the United States of
about 100000
Clemenceau, the famous French states
man, taught a country school in Con
necticut for twenty years,
Mrs. John W. Macksy, the California
bonanza kings wife, has a set of sap
phires valued at $500, 900.
A statement that the order of Foresters
was the wealthiest friendly society in the
world, possessing capital of 60, s21, 1863,
is contradicted by another that the Man
chester Unity of Odd Fellows has CAPT.
tai of Sc, sos, 1856.
The expressive word booze is de.
rived from 'bouza,' an intoxicant made
hum oCINlo Will hOulC JOWGllhl
astringents added. Bouza is the favor.
ito drink of the nomadic tribes of Tar
tary.
The first lighthouse on this continent
Of which there is any record was built at
the entrance of B ston harbor in 17t6,
at the expense Of the Colony of Massa-
chusetts Bay. 1t was supported by d
lighthouse due of one pence per ton or
all vessels passing.
At the congress of the advocates Of
cremation held in Vienna, the statement
was brought out that there exist at pres,
ent throughout the worlG so crematories,
most of which are in the United States,
90 in Italy, and one each in Germany
(Gotha), England, France, and Switzer
land.
The reason it is more difficult tt
breathe on mountain top than at it,
foot, is because of the raritietl condition
of the air at great heights. The lung.
expand as fully as ever, but when in tho
rare atmosphere, only One-half of the
amount of air is breathed, and the ac
becomes oppressive and often painful.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1889-11-01

Two or three weeks of iudicio1s manage
nent now TO assist the pullets in forming
their first crop Of eggs 50 to speak, will make
a vast difference in the product of eggs dur
ing the next ftur months. A few dollars
properly spent on the flock now, will return
to you many fold increase in eggs. Mr.. E.
r. Stuart, Of Lancaster N. H., says: II had
twelve fine Plymouth Rock pullets The
early Matched ones commenced laying in the
fall; when cold weather came on they
stopped laying while the rest had not begun
to lay. then commenced using Sheridan's
Powder, advertised to make hens lay. In
ten days one pullet commenced TO lay, In
fourteen days three more began, and in just
one month from the time | began using the
Sheridan's Powder, the twelve were laying.
For so cents in stamps, l. S. johnson & Co.,
% Custom House Street, Boston, Mass, will
send by mail, two 25 cent packs five packs for
81; or, for 81. 90, % pound can of Powder
postpaid; six cans for IS. express prepaid les
timonials sent free. For cents a copy OF
the best Poultry paper sent prepaid. The
paper one year and a can of powder for 81. 50