The morning call., 1892-11-13
ACROSS THE BAY.
Harris Church to Become
a Saloon.
THE REV. JOHN GRAY'S RAZOR.
An Old Man Killed by the Train-Ciose
of the Successful Floral Ex-
flibitiOn.

The church OF Rev. Dr. ]. II. W. Harris
Sundays.
The pastor has gone back into the retail
watch business and is doing lucrative
trade.
Last summer when the st. MichaeI's and
All Angels Episcopal Church was without
leader. he slipped into Golden Gate and
began to act as lay reader.
His personal magnetism took at first, and
he had large flock, bnt soon Bishop
Nichols sent Thomas Il. G. Kidd as the
accredited lay reader of the church.
Trouble began Immediately. DIR. Harris
insisted on continuing TO officiate, but he
became so unpopular with the congregation
that lie was compelled to gi We way.
tie constructed an opposition chapel,
which he named the Church of the Holy
Cross. His services were independent of
the Episcopal rites, and everything went
swimmingly as first. but finally his congre-
gallon f0rs0Ok him.
He erected his building at his own ex-
pense, going in debt for it. When his con.
gregation began to dwindie away he went
lecturlng, expecting to raise money, but
the financial returns fell hopelesSly short of
his hopes. Last week there W as a meeting
OF his creditors, and the church passed from
his hands.
uo HOIob came yesterday. an enter
priSIng saloon-keeper purchased the church
ana viii reopen 1t as a serving place for
liquors, making 1t bigger opposition than
ever to the original mission.
But the ex-pastOr is doing an honest
business as a seller of watches.
The floral show ended last night with
crowded attendance. There was an excel
lent musical programme by the Fifth Regi-
ment band. The cost of the EXHIBIT has
been about $1,000. but the receipts have
BEEN large, and 1t has met with so much
success that it will probably become an an
nual feature OF Oakland.
The physicians of the Board of Health
have made 81 critical examination of All
Lem, the Chinaman, and have concluded
that his disease Is not leprosy, but aggra-
waited rheumatism. His cOuntTymen will
send him back to China.
The Rev. NJ. Coyle of Iowa has accepted
call 10 the Centennial Pres byterian Church
of Twenty third avenue. He is a brother
to Rev. john Coyle of the First Pres byterian
Church, and recently refused the assistant
past0rate under his brother because of an
lll-feeling regarding the removal of G. w.
Armes, the Sunday-school SUPERINTENDENT,
TO make room for an assistant pastor.
Rev. John w. Gray. the colored pastor of
the EbeneZer Baptist Church, has been re-
pudiated by the conference of his church
ali because of the little dispute in the con-
gregatiOn one day. when he drew razor
on an elder who had started to brain him
with a chair. He rtfus' to be dOwned and
has called a convention of other dissatisfied
pastors 10 meet in Oakland next Wednes-
day in order to organize an independent
association.
The Republican County Committee held
solemn meeting yesterday to arrange for
paying its campaign debts. Joseph john
stone, Charles Mantlen and w. H. Church
were appOii ted committee to see about
carrying back the banner to Los Angeles
County, which is now the banner Republi-
can county Of the State.
An old man. about 20 years old, was killed
last evening at the Webster-street bridge by
the narrow-gauge train. He was very deaf,
front of the engine. His neck was broken
and ne died instantly. He has been watch
man on the schooner Sacramento at Whites
shipyardS, and was known simply as ''the
old man." This was the schooner on which
the opera "PiDafOre" was sung some FIVE
months ago. and he was identified by Miss
Dahl, young lady who took part in the
opera and who lives near the landing She
suspected that he might have been the
victim reported killed, when she missed the
familiar light he always kept shining at the
masthead. he had been staying alone on
the schooner, and had left TO get provisions
RumoTs were current before the election
that ID. w. Martin, the Republican candi-
date for Sheriff, was not a citizen of the
United States. 1t was claimed that there
were papers in existence to prove that he
was born in Canada, but these, il they ex-
listed, we're not male use OF by his political
enemies. He has written a letter denying
the rumOrS, and saying that the authority
for the place of his birth is his own mother,
and referring to the claims that there are
dispatches in existence from ner to the con-
trary he says: That may be, but If so. they
are sent from heaven. where she has been
an angel since | was 9 years OF age-over
thirty years ago"