The Barrow Herald and Furness Advertiser. — 1883-04-21 (Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England)

THE SALVATION ARMY.  At the " May meeting " of the Salvation Army, held at Exeter Hall on Monday, "General " Booth, who presided, stated that the "army " had HOW 491 corps, with an income derived from them of £121,000. The rental of barracks entailed an expenditure of £21,000 a year; and the " army " had property of its own now worth £150,000, upon which there was a debt of £54,000. Monday's services were understood to be in part devotional, beginniug with a "holy living" or " holiness " function, and being intermingled with prayer from time to time. In these exercises General Booth, Mr. Herbert, and the Misses Booth, Major Howard, Major Edmonds, and others took part. A large part of the time was devoted to statements of experience, and those who came forward vied with each other in representing themselves as monsters of iniquity. Jane J ohnsou, a Yorkshire-woman, testified in her native dialect that she was 84 years of age, and had been 280 times in prison for drunkenness. "Irish Kitty " sang and spoke her praises of the Army. " Yorky," the champion light weight boxer, sang and danced on the platform, and declared that he had been guilty of every crime but murder, and he had intended to kill his wife. General Booth gloried in " Yorky." who, he said, had never been beaten except by Christ, and then he threw up the sponge. Beckworth, another champion boxer, and Big Ben from Otley, a jail bird and also a boxer, gave their testimony, us having been couyerted by the 'Army," and they each led the choruses as well as discoursed. "Hallelujah Maggie of Camberwell ;" two publicans from Luton, who, besides giving up the traffic, had spilled their beer in the streets when they joined the ranks; and, finally, as an answer to the Bishop of Oxford, two privates from the diocese, who were called up respectively as "Scraggy" and "Sticky," lifted up their voices for the "Army:" Not less remarkable than the sayings of the meetings —and some of them were certainly astounding—were the doings. The general's budget showed that £14,000 would be required for the coming year, and, nearly, if not quite, £lO,OOO was given or promised during the day. "Canaries." otherwise littla yellow pieces of paper to receive these pledges of support, were scattered about the room. In the morning and afternoon inclusive £7751 had been raised, and at night upwards of £2700 more. Mr. Richard Cory and another gentleman in South Wales sent each £lOO, au "Old Friend" £lOOO, while several amounts of £7OO, £5OO, £4OO, and £lOO were returned. At the close of the proceedings the "Army" marched from Exeter Hall through the Strand and Fleet-street, headed by their band and singing war songs. •  Further arrests have been male in Moscow in consequence, it is believed, of the strung revival of Nihilist intrigues in that city. . .  A boat containing nine persons was upset on the Thames, off Wandsworth, on Saturday evening, and two men, two women, and a lad were drowned.  Three bodies were reeovered on Saturday from the Baxterley Colliery, near Atherstone, where last May the explosion occurred whieu proved so disastrous to an exploring party. The hearing, before the Lord Chief Justice and a special jury, of the charge of blasphemous libel . brought by Sir Henry Tyler against Mr. Charles Bradlaugh, ended on Saturday in a verdict of not guilty. A t 4.,hester Assizes, on Tuesday, Patrick Carey was found guilty of the terrible murder of Thomas Earlam, with whom he had lodged at Smallwood, and of Earlaro's housekeep2r, Mary Moran, and was sentenced to death.  A deplorable calamity occurred in the Edgware Road, London, on Saturda; night. A fire broke out in the lower storey of a house which was let in tenements, and a young woman and her four children were burnt to death.  The Liberal students of Glasgow University have selected Mr. Fawcett, M.P., as their candidate for the office of Lord Rector, and Mr. Ruskin has been nominated by the members of the Independent Club. Mr. Fawcett has consented to stand. The Marquis of Bute is the Conservative nominee.  " General " Booth held a great meeting of the Salvation Army in Exeter Hall, on Monday, at which hedenied the charges which were brought against th- Army by several of the Bishops of the Southern Province. He said that it the Bishops did not withdraw their charges the Army would send a memorial with a million and a half of signatures to the Queen, as Sing her Majesty to see that right was done.