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The Penn's Grove record., 1894-09-21
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Eastern and Middle
States.

In the collision between the steamer
Portia and the schooner Dora Nj.
French, of Bangor, Maine. off Vine
yard Haven Sound, Captain French
and three of the crew of the schooner
were drowned. The mate, jeremiah
Murphy, was saved.
The steamet Portia, from st. Johns,
Newfoundland, arrived at New York
with q party of scientists who sailed
sometime ago from Greenland on the
steamer Miranda, which ran into an
ice berg and was sunk. 3
Threatened with arrest for abusing his
family, Morris Cripple, formerly a sue
cessful New York salesman, took poi
son.
Mrs. Catherine A. Robinson, the
confidence OPERATOR" pleaded guilty
at Hartford, Connecticut, to swindling
students of Yale College, and was sen
fenced to two years imprisonment.
Three men started in a small boat
from Beaconsield, Canada, and, the
boat beng found bottom upward, it is
believed that all were drowned. 4
Another dry carbonic acid gas well
has been discovered at Saratoga, N. Y.
In a race at the Fair Grounds, at
Somerville, New Jersey, Robert Hulse,
a Jockey, was crushed to death under
his horse, which had fallen.
1t is feared that Cyrus Wicker, aged
IS years, a grandson of Ex-Governor
French, of Illinois, was drowned. He
went rowing in q small boat at Swamp
scott. Massachusetts, and has not since
been seen or heard of. The boat has
been found floating bottom upward a
considerable distance from where he
had embarked. B
In a terrific wind storm at Niagara
Falls, N. Y, Ringing Bros circus
tents collapsed.
Andrew Pogakatza and his wife
Johanna, killed themselves at their
home in Buffalo, N. Y. Poverty and
illness was the cause.
Charles Krebs, a prominent hard
ware merchant of Elizabeth, New Jer-
sey, in a fit of dependency, shot him
self in the head, and it is feared he
cannot live.
M. A. Bell, aged 40 years, of Cleve-
land, Ohio, committed suicide by shoot
ing in a hotel in New York city. He
left a despatch addressed to a relative
saying: II am dead. What shall be
done with my ~carcass?" 1
Grieyed because he was a helpless
burden on his daughters hands, Henry
Fritent, an aged New York tailor,
hanged himself.
At the fair in Walton, N. Y, Acre.
naut Allen plunged from his balloon
trapeze into the midst of a crowd, that
had left him too little room to ascend.
He and several spectators were badly
hurt.
Policeman Christian Otto, was found
lying dead at the foot of an electric
light pole in Elizabeth, New jersey.
1t is supposed he leaned against the
pole while it was charged with cleo
tricity, and was killed by the current
passing through his body. 2
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He Bit.

The old doctor and the old captain
we're fast friends, both inveteratS
jokers and both, despite their aagre-
gate six score years. rabid sportsmen.
Tho do tors frightful stammer did
not seem to impede the flow Of q
Joke, nor did the captains equatorial
firth lessen his agility.
One afternoon the old men set OuI
on a rabbit hunt AS they passed
through an orchard something sour.
ried into a burrow.
"Ar.r-wist-rabbitl" shouted thu
ioctor. 'L-l-let's p.pull him out "
And kneeling at the hole he thrust
his arm In up to the shoulder.
.'S-s-sayl" he remarked after q mo.
mcnt's fumbling, 'sc-c--wist-can't
a-quiue G-get h-him. Y-Y--hY-you
try 1t, John; y-y-wh-your arms
l-longer than m.m-wist-mine."
The captain knelt and thrust his
arm down. In an instantIhe was ex-
ecuting a war dance around the tree,
waving a bloody finger.
Observation-Disclosures! That'a
no rabbit; it's a .round-hog
"D-d-wist-d'd he bite you
J-'-John?" queried tho doctor
a~nxiously.
Bite? Blankety-blank! Don't
you SEQ he took of the whole end Oh
my 1nger?"
"Wh-wh-wh-why, that't t too
o b-wlst-bad," said the doctor,
taking his own hand from behind
him and showing a badly lacerated
thumb "H-he b-b-wlst--bit me-
too!"-Harper's Magazine.
The Penn's Grove record., 1894-09-21
NUMBER 8.

give You himself, aud become you're
by the bond OF deepest sympathy and
affection, the rest are but worthless
boona So is it in the souls relation
with God. That after which, by q
mysterious and Unborn affinity, every
devout spirit yearns, 1t Is not Gods
gifts and bounties, but Himself. The
wealth of worlds would be to the
heart longing after Lefty a miserable
substitute for look OF love from
the Great Fathers eve any soul
thirsteth for God" is the language ir
which Scripture gives expression tt
this deep want OF U nature, and
points to the inefable satisfaction
provided for it "My soul thiTsteth
for God, for the living God" "As
the hart panteth after the water
brooks so,panteth my soul after Thee,
D God" II any mar love Me, My
Father will love him, and we will
come unto him. and make ouf abode
with him" ~ in them, and thou 10
Me, that they may be made perfect
10 one"
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Southern and West.
ern States.

Saved from hanging by a neighbor,
]. L. Taylor, of Ackley, Ia. says his
wife tried to kill him, but she denies it.
In a dispute e a COW, John Urich,
a Langley, ILL.,, miner, fatally shot
City Marshal Donaldson, and wounded
M. E. Tobias.
By an explosion of dynamite in a
sewer excavation at West Knoxville,
Tennessee, one man was killed and
one fatally injured.
]. A. Rawlin and wife were suffocated
by Illuminating gas in their bedroom at
Ravenswood, Illinois.
Thomas Cantwell was shot and in
stantly killed by Thomas Morgan, n
bartender in a saloon at Chicago. Can't
well had drawn a revolver and ordered
Morgan to hand over the money he
was counting.
Two children of E. s. Downs, of
Piedmont, Louisiana, have died from
drinking water from a poisoned well
and two more are not expected to live.
A discharged man servant has been
arrested on the charge OF poisoning the
we'll.
A mob set fire to the house Of Mat
thew Whaley, a witness against illicit
whiskey distillers, at OpelIka, Alabama,
and, when Whaley attempted to escape,
he was shot. 8 ,
Silver counterfeits are numerous in
Baltimore, and several arrests have
been made.
Holding up a stage near Congress,
Ariz.. two bandits got $500 worth of
booty.
By a fall from the eighth story Of
the Minneapolis Tribune building,
Frederick Budweiser and j. Under
were fatally hurt.
Van Buren, Triplet, of Chicago, and
Edward Mines, of Mt. Clements, Mich,
notorious bunco men, have been caught
at Dayton, o., where they knocked
down a chinaman and robbed him of
$500.
A tornado swent over the north end
of Memphis, Tennessee, demolishing
about a dozen dwellings,, overturning a
bridge and badly damaging the shops
OF the Louisville and Nashville Rail
road. One man was killed and one
injured. 4
Enoch Davis, wife murderer, will be
shot at Provo, Utah, as he prefers
shooting to hanging.
Chicago police scout the story that
are holding missing DIR.
.onklin, of Cassopolis, Mich, for a
A four-year sentence was imposed
on Rev. Pierce Anderson, who pleaded
as a horse thief at Hermana,
Mo.
The Penn's Grove record., 1894-09-21

THERE are 664 churches in Phila.
ielphia.
THE Twelfth Baptist Congress is
TO held at Detroit, Nov. 1915.
MORE than 100, 900 Presbyterian
women are organi ed for home mis-,
sion work.
TIE Reformed Church, known "a
the Oldside Covenanter, now has
9,7S7 communicates.
TnIRTY-FIvE languages or dialects
nave been mastered by the Christian
workers In Western Africa
JAVA, out Of a population of 20,
ooo, 600, has only 20, 600 native
Christians and thirty missionaries.
SOUTHERN Presbyterian chu chea
added 1908 members to the list Of
communIcants, making the grand to
tai of 1875, ISL.
NEARLY 1000 South Dakota 1h
Hans assisted at a solemn high mass
At a Catholic Congress held near
Pierre recently.
ALONG the west coast of Africa
there are now 225 churcnes, 49,
converts, 100, 900 adherents 300
schools, and 40, 900 pubils
FIVE HUNDRED MILLION people
now have opportunities OF studying
the Bible In regions which knew
almost nothing of it 100 years ago.
TIE Young Women's Christian
Association has a membership Of
about 20, 900, with ffty-two city and
255 college organizations. 1t started
In 1885.
EARLY IN the approaching fall
ground will be broken for the nrst Of
the buildings of the Methodist Uni
versity which will be erected at
Washington, D. c.
AT the opening Of the present cen.
Jury it is claimed that but twenty
four translstions of the Bible were
In existence. To-day there are ninety
entire and $50 partial ones.
NAZARETH, the home OF u Saw.
lor, now contains about :, 600 inhabi'
tants and thirty or more drinking
shops. Much good is expected from
a Y. NJ. G. A. recently started
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Cable Sparks.

The provincial elections in Spain re-
suited in a Government victory.
The Dutch artillery has destroyed
three towns on the island of Lomhok.
General Booth, the Salvation Army
commander, left Liverpool for America.
Hundreds viewed the body of the
Comte of Paris lying in state in his
London residence.
In opening the Congress of Asso-
clated Chambers of Commerce, Sir Al
bert X. Rollit predicted IL trade revival
On the charge of trying to shoot his
mistress, Sidney A. Bennett, an Ameri-
can lawyer, was held in $4,000 bail at
London. 3
The new issue of Panama Canal stock
Is expected to carry on the work for Is
months.
The Sultan of Turkey and the
Khedive of Egypt are said to be on far
from friendly terms.
Dutch and French Spectators are
again trying to corner the tin market,
having bought $1,000 tons.
incubation with DR.. Haffkine's
cholera virus failed to save soldiers dur,
ing the epidemic at Lucknow. 4
A hurricane and flood almost de-
stroyed Gaia, Spain.
Coffee on German East African
plantation has been eaten up by bugs.
Premier Crispi's organ in Rome says
that he has made no advances to the
Pope.
The German East African garrison
at Kllwa has attacked and routed hos
tile natives.
The Khedive's advisers, Ali Cheriff
and General Hassan Wacyf, have been
convicted of purchasing slave girls. 8
The Sultan of Morocco is reported
dangerously i'll.
Twelve persons were killed i'll the
railway wreck between Noyan and
Chauny, France.
Nine. Ismert, a young woman from
the frontier district of France, has been
arrested at Metz as a spy.
Roman police captured one of four
Anarchists who were posting a mani
festo neal the University of Marien.
The Saxon authorities have begun
a campaign against the spirit mediums
and societies of Sp~iritualists, on the
ground that they do mental and physl-
cal injury. l
The Penn's Grove record., 1894-09-21

Don't forget to say Good morn
ing !" and say 1t cheerfully, and with
a smile' 1t will d0\you good. and do
your friends good. There's a kind
inspiration in every good morning"
heartily spoken that helps to make
hope fresher and work lighter. 1t
seems really to make the morning
good, and to he a prophecy of a good
day to come after It And If this be
true Of GOOD morning." 1t is also OF
kind, heartsome greetings; they cheer
the discouraged, rest the tired one,
somehow make the wheels OF lie run
more smoothly. Be liberal with them
then, and let no morning pass how.
yer dark and gloomy it may be, that
you 60 not help at least to brighten
by your smiles and cheerful words--
Every Thursday.
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PENNSYLVANIA Items

Bad water has caused an epidemic
Of typhoid fever at Pottsville.
q. W. Wilson has been appointed
postmaster at Millbank, vice s. r.
Grace, removed.
United States Pension Agent w. B,
| Stone was arrested at Harrisburg, for
taking extortionate fees.
At a Sheriff's sale in York, the Edi-
son Company bought for $4,000 the
Westinghouse Electric Light plant.
St. Glars Borough Council has
granted rights Of way to the Pottsville
Traction Company's trolley line. The
line will extend over Broad Mountain
| to Gilberton. 8
Easton's new 49,, 900 High School
building was dedicated.
An aged Johnstown woman, Anna
Marburg, ended her life by inhaling
gas.
Caught by a belt in the Spring Grove
Paper Mill, York, BenjaminMyers was
| squeezed to death.
On the ground that he killed Frank
Bagnola in self-defense, john Tahapey,
Jr., was acquitted at Pottsville.
A little SON of Hugh Dunkle, near
Hamburg, vas perhaps fatally mangled
by a dog.
Mrs, Patrick Campbell. of Port Gin
tan, is dying of the effects of a snake
bite. ,
For fishing with II other men on
his own farm, in Clay township, Ian
caster County, Isaac Eberly was ar
rested. They had seined five bushels
of fish at a haul.
Harrisburg fire engines are now al
lowed to go only one mile beyond the
city limits.
A third burglary has been saddled
upon Frank Boyd and Samuel Gordon,
of Philadelphia, who are now in Ian
caster Jail. 5
John P. Roberts, whose home is No.
221 Pine street. Philadelphia, was kill
ed by a train at Pittsburg.
An explosion IN the West q Roll
ing Mills, Lebanon, demolished a pud-
die furnance and seriously injured
Patrick Murray.
Burglars dynamited the safe in Lun-
dy's jewelry store, at Shutdown, Ly.
coming County, and skle several hum
bred dollars worth of witches.
Not being able to get out of the
Smoky City after the Grand Army En-
campment was over George Conway, of
North Conway. n. H., cut his throat
and may not recover.
Jonas Smoker, 60 rs old, was
killed by a train near GdFdonvlle,
James Patton, aged 81 yea' COM
mitted suicide :. his 70" elber-
ton,
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Arthur Bentz, a ~slx.year-old boyof
Lebanon, Penn, died from the effects
of swallowing a tadpole, which his
little companions had forced into his
mouth.
Wisconsin has an alleged black CT
which divides his time between catching
woodchucks and playing shephed. He
an drive the sheep better than any Dig
in the State.
The most extensive mines are those
Of Saxony. The galleries have l23
miles of length.
-Silversmiths used to bind books
in the ancient days, and when a book
was 80 valuable as to be likely to
be stolen u blacksmith was called IN TO
chain it to the wall.
The roo bulb of every hair has FIVE
or six small white ii 'aments, which ale
to the bulb what the roots of an onion
are to that We vegetable. the means Of col
lecting and bringing to 1t the proper
nourisEment.
The brain of man Is the mosthighiy
conyo.uted of that of any animal in
the world. The lower the animal in
the scale Of intelligence the smoother
the hi ain.
The royal library of N~ebuchadncz-
Ear, recently unearthed Mt Bnbyl n,
c ntains innumerable tax lists nnl
records of taxes paid and unpaid.
Coal tar yields sixteen shades of
blue, the same number of yellow tints,
twelve of orange, nine OF violet, and
numerous other co'ors and sha les.
Robert n. Lees OF Duluth,
MINI, boasts of having remained in
the hot room of a Turkish bath 1T
. tcr9s -aturs 1872 degrees, for three
hoursy
-1nere are $40. 600 acres under + a
cultivation in British India.
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The twinkling OF the stars iore5o l"s
bad weather, because it shows thFt
there are aerial currents of different
temperatures, thus probably indicating
atmospheric disturbances.
Some people call the stor ny petrol
tho clamp bird 1t Is so oily that
the fisherman of st. Kiida stick u vic [
in the mouth Of a dead specimen, lii bit
it. AID it burns for au hour.
There are 600 beasts, 1891 birds
and 800 rep'iles in the Lon,lon zool0g-
zeal gardens.
Australian provincial officials keep
POISONED grain in their tflices for the
peneft of farmers who wish to destroy
small birds.
-Camels Sre being imported into
Aut,-alia fos Sc in the gold field.
The water ms has risen twelve
inches all around e Gulf of Mezic1
since 1850.
The greatest . : eaters in the world
are the JapaE.- The eating OF peat
is noarly entirely confined to the ficI,
and even they use 1t sparipgly.
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A Chester trolley car seriously in
jured baby Mary Doran, of No. 32l
franklin street.
A draught of carbolic acid, taken In
mistake for gin, killed Thomas B.
Young, a Wellsboro restaurant keeper.
Charged with breaking into freight
cars, John Robert Corly, John Henne.
gan, Hugh Hennessy, Wilbert Cory
and John z. Hopkins were arrested at
Nanticoke.
Tired of life and wishing his wife
to get $4,000 insurance or his life,
Hugh McMurray, a Grand Army man
of Findlay, o., shot himself fatally at
Pittsburg. 2
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Painter Peter Baltzer and Bricklayer
John Palmblad were drowned by the
upsetting of their boat in Cut Off Lake,
Neb.
Millionaire Jose de Lavega, OF santa
Cruz, willed 5000. 900 to found an asyi-
um for the blind, dumb, lame, paraiyt-
ic and aged.
The convicted wife-murderer, Frank
A. Kurtz, cut his wrist with glass in
Chicago Jail, but failed to bleed to
death.
Banker G. N. Henson was acquitted
at Chattanooga, Tenn, though he had
killed ]. B. Writ, betrayer OF Mrs.
Henson. D
The families of e. B. Fitch and g.
w. Allen, of Tampa, Fla, were pois-
oned by eating ice cream, and some OF
them may die.
Seventeen mutinous artillerymen,
who objected because Illinois did not
pay them for service during the Pull
man strike at Chicago, will be dishonor-
ably discharged.
The children, one aged 8 and the
other 6 years, were burned to death at
Kewanee, Illinois, by a fire which was
caused by pouring oil into a heated
stove. The neither of the children
was severely burned and the house was
destroyed.
At Ruddell's Mills, near Paris, Ken
lucky, Ben Duvall shot and MORALLY
wounded Ed. Faulkner, a neighbor.
The trouble was begun when Duvall
challenged Faulkner's vote at the pri-
mary election.
Joe Smith, a West Indian negro was
found under a wharf at Savannah,
Georgia, with his throat cut. Before
he died he stated that he had been
assaulted and thrown overheard by two
men unknown to him. l
A locomotive struck and killed Mrs.
Elizabeth Beck and badly injured Mrs.
Sarah Weber in a carriage at Cleve-
land.
Burned-out inhabitants Of Inflated
Hinckley, MINI, are rapidly rebuild
ing the town.
William Blanford, a Clinton Qnd.)
forger for $50, 900, has been captured
after a two-years' chase.
An unknown man under arrest in
Chicago has confessed that hemurdered
Frank Cummings, whose body was
found in the canal.
Captain G. Boldt is supposed to have
fallen overheard from his barge, the
Mabel Phillips, and been drowned at
Newport News, Va.
Walter Walling, a well-known boy
cyclist, was impaled on the handle-bar
of his wheel and killed in collision with
a carriage at Fort Wayne, Ind.
Henry c. Jones, of Texas, says that
Robert Ray Hamilton IS yet alive, and
has been seen in a demented condition
wandering with Mexican Indians.
Under the accusation that Livery
man E. A. We'll embezzled $4,000 from
Mr.. Russell, his partner in Chicago, the
former has disappeared, and is prob.
ably a suicide.
Disappointed in his suit for the hand
of Mrs. Mabel Colvin, a pretty grass
widow, at Portland, Ore, ]. w. Stane-
gels shot her to death and then killed
himself.
Mlschievous boys in Cleveland ran
an empty car down hill so that it col
lided with an electric cal and fatally
injured Conductor William Charring-
ton and Motorman John Wielatz. 2
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Sixty Dollars a Ranr.

People who listened TO the banging
of the big guns down at Fort Warren
last week while the FIRST Regiment
marksmen were firing at IL sheet
strung up on a raft may be interested
to know that every bang cost the State
Just $50. The target was two and oue-
half miles from the gun, an | it took a
1S0-pound shot just ten seconlsby the
watch to make the trip. Boston
Globe.
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Parental love Is one OF the strong
est, hollest sentiments that has ave
stirred the human heart The voices
Of children a call a father from the
corners of the earth, and the great,
overpowering desire to see his chill.
dren's face will bring a father from
the very brink of the grave back to
life, The right sort of a man, with
a houseful OF children, is not only
safe from temptations of the world,
but comparatively Indifferent to the
cares and burdens Of life. SO long as
his dear ones are In health and he
"a provide for them. One OF the
most pernicious tendencies OF modern
civilization Is that which finds mani.
festation in regarding a large family
as something to be avoided andlooked
down upon, something pertaining to
and characteristic OF the common
people. 1t Is a tendency to be de.
plored as unworthy the consideration
OF Christian men and women, and tc
meet with the earnest opposition
from every lover of q little child. And
it must be remembered that He who
made Christianity loved children and
revealed that love by words and &C
tiOna.
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BULLETS FIRED THROUGH CARS

SCORES OF PASSENGERS ON A TRAIN TERRI
FIEDBY sCoUNDREIS.
Lebanon, Pa.-Scores of passengers
on the train passing Cleona were terri
fed by two scoundrels, who fired le-
yolvers through the car windows. A
number of bullets whizzed through the
car, but no one was struck. The de.
speradoes escaped on a freight train. l
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The sour's Relation with God.

The happiness of this mysteriou,
nature Of ours is never to DO found
merely in the possession OF CCdt
gifts, the work Of His hand, or the
bounties Of His providence. The soul
can find Its true satisfaction only in
rising beyond the gifts. and claiming
the Gtyer as It's own. When you
coyet the friendship or love Of a fe(-
bowman, IL does not satisfy you that
he bestows upon YoG only outward
yifts-his money his property, his
books-what cares a loving, longing
heart for thes9y Unless the man
give Ilp something T0Is than these
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II is not as much work to take
care, and good care, too, OF ten acres
OF orchard as it is to take care OF ten
acres OF corn, and the income will be
far greater. Ten acres Of orchard
would contain about i've hundred
trees, and a barrel TO a tree when
the trees come we'll into bcsfing II
only a moderate yield. Five hun
dred barrels at 81 per barrel woult
be 5000. or $50 Der AGRA
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TIE Board Of Health Of Orange,
n. j., asks citizens to refrain from
kissing, as conjunction of the lips Is
likely to transmit thu, at disease.
The request, 1t is safe to say, will
not he needed. People who are in
the kissing business are not ia it foI
'hcir health.
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SERMONS FOR SUNDAY
PREACHED THROUGH VARIOUS
CLEVER PENS.

Look Ever Upward-Psrenta1 Love o HoiS
Simultaneously "Good Morning Cheer.
fully-"As the Hart Panteth After the
Water Brooks"
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Skip One

0 one susceptible
of generous emo
ti0ns will regard
the efforts Of the
REV. A. C Dixon
of III city Of
Brooklyn, wit
feelings other than
those which &C
company the wish
that a worthy en-
deavor may be
crowned with sue
Q s As a minis
ter of God seeking
q haryaaf, Of anulS