The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-12-06

Enoch Arden case. The latest one Is at
Allegheny, Penn. Charles Patterson, 81,
was married there twenty-nine
years ago to wealthy young woman
of Meadville. At the opening OF
the war Patterson enlisted, and was in the
service during the entire war. At its close
he came back. and for a
time lived happily with his family.
Then he disappeared and for years
his whereabouts were unknown. In the
meantime Patterson's brother, Thomas,
fell in love with the pretty, rich wife.
She waited twenty-five years and
married him. Last Thursday, Thanks
giving day, their happiness was dis
turbed by the return of the missing hus-
band. He was old, gray, and bent with
years. Fortune had not favored him.
But he did not stay. After short con-
ference with his wife, he went his way
never to return.
The famous evangelist, Dwight L.
Moody, is soon to pay visit to this city,
and is still laboring as hard as ever in his
life's work. He is q wonderful worker
and probably no man in America has done
moro to bring others TO Christianity than
he. i remember the first time j ever
heard Mr.. Moody preach, some fifteen or
eighteen years ago in Boston. big
tabernacle had been built for him at the
South end, and accompanied by Ira ID.
Sankey, and assisted by every Protestant
evangelical clergyman in that vicinity, he
carried on his labors there. 1t was time
of great religious excitement, and
thousands were converted by his eloquent
words and the magnificent singing OF Mr..
Sankey. Anextra force of police had to
be detailed in order to hold in check the
crowds that desired entrance into the
tabernacle, $50 great was the desire to see and
hear these two men. Among those who
came to assist in the great revival
was old Uncle John Vassar, so we'll known
and loved by the Baptists of generation
ago. He was known oil over the United
States as Uncle John Vassar, and was q
member of the celebrated Vassar family
of Poughkeepsie. Uncle John was at
that time and for many years previ-
Gus a Baptist colporteur, carrying the
gospel OF His Master through the noun
tain regions of Pennsylvania and into
remote sections OF the country. He was a
bluff, hearty old man, not very well edu-
Gated but diamond in the rough. He
became converted while working in the
big Vassar brewery where the Vassars
accumulated their vast wealth, and as he
expressed it after his conversion he
dropped his work then because she
couldn't see heaven through the
bung hole of beer BARREL"
He was an uncle OF John Guy vassar, the
literateur and traveller and cousin of the
founder OF Vassar college. At the time of
the Moody and Sankey meetings in Boston,
the Boston Times was then daily paper.
Its editor, whose name / will not call, as
he is well known in Providence, or was a
dozen or twenty years ago, was very ir-
religious sort of man and ridiculed in
every sort of way the big revival. He
had habit of printing cartoons
illustrating the events at the revivals
and he pictured Uncle John, who was very
short and quite stout. as trying to look
through beer barrel towards
heaven. His comments and car
toons were extremely sacriligious and this
attempt of his to lampoon SO great a
religious awalfing killed his paper and
finally drove him out of the newspaper
business. When the tabernacle was torn
down the bricks were sold at a small sum
as souvenirs of the great revivals. Moody
and Sankey have long since parted COM
pany, but each is still employed in his
noble work.
The electric car service last night was
pretty nearly paralyzed, especially on the
Edgewood and Pawtuxet line. The cars
ran, but at very irregular intervals, and
waiting for them was very fer from pleas
ant.
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Mr.. and Mrs. II. T.. Rich OF Westerly
have returned home from weeks visit
with friends in this city.
Miss Beth Peck of this city has been the
guest of Mrs. ID. w. Miner OF Westerly
for few days.
Mr.. Fred Campbell OF this city called on
his Westerly friends Monday.
Mr.. Charles BurdiclS of this city visited
with his parents in Shamrock last week.
Mr.. Pardon Brown of this city is visit
ing his daughter, Mrs. Edwin A. Kenyon,
of Carolina.
Mrs. Joseph Smith OF this city is visit
ing relatives in Arkwright.
Mrs Helen g. Sweet has closed her house
for the winter, and returned to this city.
Mr.. s. III. Vaughan and wife, who have
long been residents of Wexford, have
come to spend the winter with their
daughter her and husband, Mr.. and Mrs.
William Gregory, of this city.
Mrs. John l.. Barton of this city is
visiting friends in phcnix.
Miss Emma Barber OF this city is the
guest of her aunt in Artic.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Matteson of this
city visited Mrs. o. L. Kinne OF Arctic the
past week.
Mrs. Charles Barker and Mrs. G. b.
Maxson OF Westerly are visiting friends
in this city.
Senator Aldrich is one Of the two Re-
publicans chosen on the tariff committee
in the senate, but unfortunately for
Rhode Island her distinguished son is in
the minority and will probably have no
opportunity TO protect the big industries
of his native state, which for 50 many
years he has so we'll and so ably cham