Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1889-08-16
Entered a Fiery Furnace.

resulted IN the enactment OF a learnt trag-
/ edy. For some time past an old negro,
named Tobias Jackson, has been proclaim
ing himself as Daniel the Prophet, and DO
/ ing all kinds Of singular, wild and queer
things. The darkies in this section are IL
norant and superstitious. and Jaekson'S
actions and the great powers which he
claimed to have been invested with, awed
/ the supplemented negroes.
/ Saturday last Jackson persuaded three
young negro men that they We're represen-
tatives of Shadlach. Meshach and Abedue-
20. the three children of faith who entered
| the fiery furnace of Nebuchadnezzar, and
that they could enter it and pass, through
without the smell of fire.
The three negroes, calling themselves
| the children of Israel" under the in
fuence of their new prophet, deliberately
entered the gate of the cupola of the fur
mace and rushed headlong into the white
! heat of the melting iron. When they fail
| ed to come out the prophet proclaimed
/ that he saw them rising in the air with
! the smoke of the furnace, attended by an
gels. and that they would revisit the earth
again next Sunday.
| The negroes propose to meet at church
next Sunday and pray. awaiting the des-
| cent of the three children of Israel. The
mother of one of them. when asked about
the matter said: Il feel just as sure my
boy is in heaven as if I'd been there and
seen him. jackson, the prophet commend
ed him to walk into the fiery furnace, and
he was 'beeged ter obey him.
THE acquittal Of Flemon in South Caro-
lima, last Saturday, will give Northern
people a better opinion Of Southern justice.
THE Maybrick case was the sensation of
England last week. 1t seems to be the
general opinion that Mrs. Maybrick is a
very bad woman. but as her husband was
an arsenic eater it is not believed that she
poisoned him. Had she not gone on the
witness stand herself, she would probably
have been acquitted.
A LANSING, Michigan, clergyman invest
ed in lottery tickets and won $1,000, and it
is said his church people are ''diSpleased. y
They should be more than ''dispieaSed.' y
They should be mad clean through, and
they should take that minister by the neck
and fire him clean out of the church. \
minister who deals in lottery tickets has no
right to preside over the spiritual welfare
of a congregation. He is serving the devil
when he aids and abets lottery scheme
the worst form Of swindling.
A BOOM has already set in along the bor-
ders of thesSioux reservation in Dakota,
which will be opened for settlement, and
a repitition of the success in oklahoma
may be expected The eleven million
acres in this reservation will afford homes
for many thousands of ambitious men, and
the sudden influx of settlers will give the
new State boom which will place her in
u position in the family of States.
\ REMARKABLE instance of long contin
ned service in the employment of single
concern is furnished in the case of Smith
B. Freeman, who died recently on Staten
Island at the age of 50 years, after having
been continuously employed by the Staten
Island dyeing establishment since its or
ganization in 1919, period of 20 years.
Now let Mississippi how'll The Presi-
dent has given the postoffice at Hazel
hurst. Miss, to Clara Matthews, daughter
of j. F. Matthews, who was murdered at
that place because he insisted upon voting
a Republican ticket after the Democrats
had ordered him to stay away from the
polls Miss Matthews succeeds in the of
flee the man who presided over a meeting
which passed resolutions ju-tifying the as
sasSination, and who was appointed to the
office by Cleveland. Truly there is justice
in the land yet!
As the official returns show, the exports
of domestic merchandise from the United
during the fiscal year ended June 80, 1889,
amounted invalue to $742, 900, 600 in round
figures-a gain of about SAG, 100000 upon
the exports of 1883. The value of imports
of merchandise amounted in 1889 to $40
0OO. 600 against 1924, ,000, 600 in 1888. The
increase in exports was chiefly in cotton,
beef, pork, dairy products, animals, Indian
corn, petroleum and manufactures. There
was decrease in the exports of wheat,
flour, cotton goods and few other ar
ticles
A VERY doubtful story comes from
Egypt, which purports to explain why the
=. Ii, tho E'Uvntian
troops with so small force, yet with such
surprising confidence. The story is to the
effect that a wide spread plot existed, in
which the Egy ptian troops were to resort
to treachery and 90 over to the derviShes
in a body instead of opposing them. The
reception which the dervishes met with is
sufficient to dscredit the story, for they
were slaughtered like sheep.
THE Canadian seal fishing schooner,
Black Diamond, recently seized in Behring
Sea by the United States cutter, Rush, now
turns up at Victoria, instead of having
been taken to Alaska, as was supposed.
Until an official report is made public, the
matter will not be clearly understood As
the Rush put only one man on the Black
Diamond, it looks as though the seizure
was merely for the purpose of stopping
further depredations, and not for the pur-
pose of enforcing any penalty against the
schooner. The plan proved effective, If
such was its purpose, for the Black Dia-
mond took speedy leave of the forbidden
sea and got back into Canadian waters as
quickly as possible.
PEOPLE have been wondering what has
been causing the unusual rain fall this
summer Some of the Democratic press
have laid the blame on the new admins
tration. Meteorologists have told Us OF
high barometcrs and low barOmeterS. As
tronomers. have pointed to the freckled face
of the sun as possible cause. Now, how
ever, they have a new story which may ac-
count for or be an accompanying phenom-
enon. \ day or two ago one of our East
ern star gazcrs discovered a new comet
sweeping this way, and the news was her
aided abroad. The great Lick telescope