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THE VERMONT CHRONICLE, FRIDAY, APRIL 7, 1882. remarks "Jesus has no sooner ascertained contribution to missionary objects $120. They i. i rr tt I ing many former pupils, whose embraces of joy I i i I i i I with a taste and a capacity for fun and I T7- a Ministers and Churches. nvtges.

Forty-Seventh Congress. Tuesday, March 28. In the senate an adverse report was made on the resolution to place Thomas L. Crittenden on the retired list of the army with the rank and pay of brigadier-general. The Morrill tariff commission bill was further debated "go and tell Jesus" of some fresh achievement in our spiritual life I The lesson story before us is so simple, so abounding in touches of nature, that the only suggestion than can be needed by the teacher is that it be made as graphic as possible.

This is the only miracle that is rela Embracing fine voices, full volumed, mellow and harmonious, no more truly enjoyable music has been rendered here than the serious, the gro tesque, and the rollicking minstrelsy of these college students. The visit of these young col- legiates has been a pleasant feature of the week. They are young gentlemen all, and Montpelier will be glad to see them again. Vt. Watchman.

The faculty of Dartmouth College has chosen the following students to compete for the prizes in oratory next commencement: From the senior class, C. F. Matthewson of St Johnsbury, R. P. Parker of Lake View, and E.

H. Smith of Tunbridge, Yt. from the junior class, E. L. Guliek of Hanover, N.

A. A. Maxwell of Wells, Maine, and H. T. Kincaid of Troy, Ohio; from the sophomore class, C.

L. Adams of Wil- liamstown, J. A. DeBoer of Albany, N. and Fletcher Ladd of Lancaster, N.

H. from the scientific department, L. E. Brown of Hanover, N. C.

S. Jackson of Danbury, N. and G. O. Nettleton of St.

Paul, Minn. Weekly News Summary. It is said that Jeff Davis has received $21,000 from the sale of his book. The other help in the Sagamore mills at Fall River have joined the striking spinners. It is estimated that in Arkansas alone there are 21,000 people destitute on account of the floods.

Sunflower yellow, elegantine pink, and pale sea green are three aesthetic colors in high vogue. Some of the English nobility and clergy are urging Moody and Sankey to spend a year in London. The Mormons have now six preaching places in London, and are sending out bodies of English girls to Utah. The small-pox continues to rage terribly in Cuba, 4,478 persons having died from the disease in Port au Prince. About 250 skilled workmen at Diebold's safe and lock factory, Canton, Ohio, struck Saturday against a reduction in wages.

It is rumored in Maine that the governor con templates calling a special meeting of the legisla ture for redistricting the state. Phcebe Cousins, woman suffrage advocate, has applied to the president to be appointed one of the commissioners to reorganize Utah. While two laborers were digging a drain in St Louis, last Friday, they unearthed an old earthen pot that contained $30,000 in gold coin, The widow of General Kilpatrick, a native of Peru, will live in this country. She is a Catholic, and a prime favorite with Mrs. General Sherman There was a reduction of $16,462,946.75 in the national debt last month.

The aggregate reduc tion since August 31 1865, has been $1,030,165,149. The appeal of the Jewish exiles from Russia is believed to be the first instance for centuries of pecuniary help being asked of Gentiles in behalf of Jews. The ladies' aid society of the Garfield memorial hospital was organized in Washington Wednes day, the 29th ult, with Mrs. Senator Windom as president. Pbofessob Wabden computes that the new comet will approach within 100,000 miles of the sun, nearer than any other recorded comet, except those of 1680, 1843 and 1880.

The bill of exceptions in the Guiteau case was signed last week by Judge Cox. The exceptions taken are to the non-admission of certain evidence and the rulings on points of law. It is said that the country is being flooded with counterfeit silver dollars so well executed as to deceive bank officers, and many of them find their way to the United States sub-treasuries. Walker hall, the finest of the Amherst college buildings, with all its valuable contents, was de stroyed by fire last week Wednesday night, in volving an estimated property loss of about $250,000. Mr.

Joyce, chairman of the committee on pen sions, has reported a bill to the house increasing the pension of soldiers and sailors who have lost an arm or leg in the United States service to $40 per month. Ex-Governor Moses of South Carolina was ar rested in New York on Wednesday of last week, charged with swindling a piano manufacturer out of $175. Various other swindling accusations are brought against him. All the hands in the bureau of engraving and printing in Washington employed on internal revenue stamps, numbering five hundred, mostly females, have been furloughed because the appropriation is exhausted. The house has passed a resolution providing for the publication of 90,000 copies of the advance census report on population; also the bill author izing the interior department to expend $15,000 a year for additional accommodations.

About half of the original strikers at Lawrence have accepted work in other cities. Meanwhile about $600 has been raised by those soliciting aid for the strikers, and offers of assistance are coming from many directions outside the city. There is no present prospect of a settlement of the strike. The great Jumbo has succumbed to the persua sions of his new owner, and fairly embarked for America. The Londoners have bee ime reconciled to their loss and are already somewhat ashamed of their tears and wrath, having been convinced that their old favorite is not so remarkable a beast as they had supposed, and the council of the Zoological Gardens say that Jumbo is so vicious and dangerous that they would have given him away rather than keep him, and that Barnum might have had him for nothing if he had been good at a bargain.

Is it possible that Mr. Bar num has allowed himself to be disgracefully swindled by a council of British showmen? Possibly Another Murder. wanton is ex cited over an affair which may prove to be a murder. The facts, condensed from the St Al bans Messenger, are as follows: On Saturday night Frank Loshna and George Mossey of Swan- ton went to St Armand. and procured liquor.

Starting back about midnight down the railroad track, they met three other men to whom they gave liquor. About three o'clock in the morning Loshua was found about a mile from the spot with both legs badly crashed by being ran over by freight train, and gashes in his head from which his brains were oozing. He was taken to Swan- ton, where he died. He was known to have had some money, but none was found in his pocket It was evident that the wounds on his head were not made by the train and that the blows were made with a sharp instrument Mos sey concealed himself till Monday morning, when he was arrested. His stories of the affair are contradictory, and public opinion at wanton is decidedly against him.

Consolidation of Fairs. The directors of the State Agricultural Society met at Bellows Falls last week and acted upon the proposition of the Champlain Valley Fair Association for consolidating the two organizations and the erection of permanent buildings at Burlington for holding annual exhibitions in the interest of Vermont agriculture and industries. The committee of conference reported the terms of consolidation offered, which contemplate the formation of a joint stock association in which the State Agricultural Society shall take a proportionate interest and unite with the Champlain Fair Association in erecting the necessary buildings for holding annual fairs at Burlington. The directors voted to accept the proposed terms substantially as made, conditioned, however, on the subscribers to the -Champlain fair fond perfecting an organization. When this is done the directors are prepared to subscribe the necessary funds and locate the state fair at Burlington as proposed.

The consolida tion of the two organizations seems to be assured Meeting of Superintendents. The annual meeting of the superintendents of Washington county was held at Montpelier, April 4th. The superintendents present were as follows: Rev. L. Tenney, Barre; A.

L. Hewett, Berlin; Fred P. Gale, Cabot; J. B. Thompson, Fayston; Carrie Parker, Marsh field; V.

V. Vaughn, Middlesex; Rev. H. F. Hill, Montpelier; F.

E. Donahue, Moretown; I. P. Booth, Northfield; A. E.

Foss, Piainfield; S. Stanton, Roxbury; A. C. Ralph, Warren; Dr. W.

A. Jones, Waitsfield; S. D. Church, Waterbury. The following officers were elected: Z.

S. Stanton, president; F. E. Donahue, secretary; Committees On general questions, Messrs. Booth; on Arithmetic, Messrs.

Thompson, Vaughn, Miss Parker; on Grammar, Messrs. Church, Donahue and Booth; on Geography, Messrs. Hewett, Foss; on History and Civil Government, Messrs. Ralph, Stanton, Jones. Voted, that the winter examinations shall consist of five questions in each branch of studies, excepting Grammar, which will consist of one sentence for analysis and a paragraph for punctuation; and that the standard on the written examination must be seventy per cent for public and eighty-five per cent for private examination.

The following resolution was adopted: The oral examination of teachers, shall include exercises in reading, and questions on methods of teaching reading and penmanship; and that special mention be made by superintendents, in their annual reports, of such teachers as do the most effective work in teaching these branches of study without neglect of other subjects commonly taught in common schools. Hood's Sabsapabuxa is made of roots, herbs and barks. It gives tone to the stomach and makes the weak strong. I and welcome cheered her spirits and strength ened her hopes of a longer lease of life. But at home again, and too soon, it became evident that her malady was past all human skill or aid, and she, though racked with paroxysms of pain.

bore it with patient fortitude till God's will was done and her soul winged away to the arms of her loving Saviour, whom she so ardently loved and so long faithfully served. By careful investments of her earnings and economical life, she has been a most liberal contributor and supporter of beneficence, as the ledgers of different benevolent societies will attest. And her kindred and friends, who have been numbered among the elect for munificence, will with gratitude of heart exclaim, She has done all things well." Communicated by her affectionate brother, L. O. Stevens.

Coleman. Another prominent worker in the field of popular Biblical Literature has ceased from his labors. Rev. Lyman Coleman, Profes sor of Latin in Lafayette College at Easton, Penn sylvania, died at Easton, March 16, at the ripe age of eighty-six years. Though Dr.

Coleman's academic connections required him to spend much time in study and teaching the ancient classical literature, yet he showed marked preference for that literature which throws light upon Bible truth, Bible History, Geography and Antiquities. For many years he has given continued lectures to the students on Biblical and Physical Geog raphy. He was also Professor of Hebrew, con ducting classes in this study for the past fifteen years, until bis illness made it impossible for him to meet his classes. His principal published works are, "The Antiquities of the Christian Church," "The Apostolical and Primitive Church, An Historical Geography of the Bible," An cient Christianity Exemplified," Historical Text book and Atlas of Biblical Geography," and A Manual on Prelacy and Ritualism." All these have been republished in England. In connec tion with Dr.

Osborn of Oxford, Ohio, Dr. Cole man published a large wall-map of Palestine and the adjacent parts of Syria, which is still one of the best for college classes and large Sunday- schools. Domestic Secular News. Fifteen or twenty ladies voted at the late Bellows Falls school meeting. Steel rails will be laid on the Rutland road from Brandon to Middlebury, the coming season.

Db. C. Butler of Essex has been appointed state correspondent of the national board of health. The first cheese factory in the state was estab' lished in 1864 at West Pawlet and is still running. Frank Denno was lately instantly killed by being overturned while passing over a road in Cornwall.

Speaker J. L. Martin has lost his whole fam ily, consisting of his wife and three children, by death. Sterling P. Rounds, just nominated for public printer by President Arthur, is about fifty-five years of age and a native of Richford.

The slate companies at Fairhaven and Poultney are working on full time, and the shipments average five car-loads a day from each place. At a liquor raid at Middlebury lately seizure was made of four cases of lager, a barrel of al cohol and small quantities of 'gin and whiskey. Secretary of State George Nichols is quoted as saying that the appraisals of real estate may be made at any time between April 1st and the first Tuesday of July. E. M.

Sutton pleaded guilty in the city court at Burlington to five offences of liquor-selling and was fined $50 and costs, and $7 and costs for an assault upon his wife. Seventy-five genuine whistling quails have been received by General Ripley and Judge Everts from Texas, to be used in stocking the game preserve around Rutland. J. E. Marsh, an Enosburgh Falls lawyer, has been arrested at St.

Albans for misappropriation of money collected by him for parties in St Albans. He gave. bail. The mercurial ointment applied to kill lice has now caused the death of ten of the Holstein cat tle on "Houghton farm" at Putney and the remaining thirty are badly affected. The Burlington police lately made a descent upon a gang of burglars which has been infesting that city, and after a desperate fight secured eight of them, four men and four women.

At Barden's blacksmith shop in Wells, a spark from an anvil flew into a closet where powder was kept The explosion badly wrecked the building, but the two men at work escaped unhurt. Joel M. Haven of the Bates house at Rutland has recently put 140,000 trout in his pond at Shrewsbury. He pat 5,000 salmon in the pond list year and means to stock it with 1,000,000 more trout. Asa E.

Hovey, a native of Waterford, is the inventor of the system of propelling street cars by cable which has been for some years in nse in San Francisco, and which is being introduced in other cities. The St. Albans Messenger is informed that there are ten seines in use in the lake near Al-burgh, and that the average daily result of this wholesale fish slaughter is about thirty barrels, mostly pike. The May term of the United States circuit and district courts opens at Windsor, May 16 th, at two o'clock p. Judges Blatchford and Wheeler presiding.

The time for noting cases for trial will expire April 26th. Assays are making of the gold and silver ores on the shores of Lake Champlain and a shaft will be sunk to work the mines. It is said that surface gravel from the Benson mine has yielded $55 to $75 per ton. Db. H.

A. Ingham of Vergennes, the owner of well-known patent medicine, has just graduated at the age of sixty-one years from the eclectic medical college of New York. He has become very wealthy from the sale of his medicines. A. B.

Valentine has offered to endow the Bennington high school with $20,000, provided the fund shall only be used for school purposes, that the school shall always be free to actual residents and that the needy shall be supplied with books, etc. A hearing has been had in Burlington before Judge Powers of the bill of exceptions in the celebrated highway case of Melendy vs. Bradford. The bill of exceptions has been settled and the case will be heard at the general term of the supreme court J. B.

Henderson, conductor on the Burlington Lamoille railroad, was severely hurt last week near Jericho by being thrown from the train by a sudden jolt. He was thrown down an embankment thirty feet high, but escaped without broken bones. The junior exhibition at Middlebury college took place Tuesday evening, the 28th, in Academy hall. The audience was large and the applause frequent and hearty. The speakers did credit to themselves and to their instructors, and the exhibition was in every way a success.

At St. Albans last week Edward Church met with a severe accident in the railroad yard. While helping to make up a train he stepped off the top of a caboose which was in motion. The fall on the frozen ground broke his collar bone and three ribs, besides inflicting bad bruises. Burglars entered the residence of Mrs.

Governor John S. Robinson at Center Bennington Thursday night, and took $95 and a draft for $400 from the pantaloons of Reuben F. Staniford, Mrs. Robinson's brother. Mr.

Staniford was visiting on hia way to Virginia from his home in Burlington. The name of McLerans post-office has been changed to East Barnet. The following postmasters have been appointed: Anson B. Hoyt, Danville; Charles T. Birchard, East Shoreham; David T.

Packard, Leicester; Herbert G. Wheat, Putney; Mary W. Voodry, South Walden; Horatio N. Hix, Whitingham. The engine of the mail train which left wanton Tuesday morning of last week via St Johnsbury Lake Champlain railway jumped the track near Cambridge while running twenty-five miles an hour.

The engine went into the ditch and was almost totally demolished. The mail and one passenger car left the track. The engineer was the only person injured. He was held by the foot forty minutes before he could be released. Fred E.

Smith hag been appointed committee for Washington and Lamoille counties to receive contributions from the citizens of those counties to the Garfield monument fund of the society of the army of the Cumberland. An earnest appeal is made to each individual citizen that they will with other patriotic citizens of the state make some contribution, as generous as circumstances will allow, in response to the appeal of the comrades of our late president The attendance this term of Randolph Normal school is unusually large, twenty more than ever before in the history of the school. The follow-is the summary: Aggregate attendance, one hundred eighty-seven; second course, twenty-three; A class, thirty-two; class, thirty-six; class, forty-three; class fifty-three; number of Vermont towns represented, fifty-five; number of Vermont counties represented, nine. The next quarter opens Monday, April 17th. The concert by the Amherst Glee Club, Satarday evening, was a very enjoyable entertainment and was highly appreciated by the audience.

This club is made up of bright young college boy I a published a bright little paper called the Tallow Dip Rev. Henry A. Hazen of Auburndale, Massachusetts, presented the cause of Foreign Missions to the Congregational church in a very interesting manner. New Ipswich. A correspondent writes: "Dafly afternoon and evening meetings are being held at the Congregational chnrch, commencing March 30.

They may continue two or three days, or longer, in April. The meetings are conducted by Brother Bryant of Gardner, Massachusetts, who was here with Mr. Foleer a few weeks since. The interest is most favorable and seems increasing. Warner.

A pleasant meeting of the Sunday- school scholars and their friends recently occurred in the Conereeational church. The choir was present and sang with fine effect several se lect pieces. The gathering was for the purpose of enlisting the sympathy of the children in the cause of total abstinence. A beautiful represen tation of the wine cup, drawn by the Superinten dent, B. C.

Flanders, with its attendant redness of eyes, babblings, contentions, sorrow and woe, the whole surmounted by the hissing serpent, was held up as a warning to young and old. The effect, it is to be hoped, will be good. Remarks were made by the superintendent, Rev. Mr. Foss, A.

P. Davis, P. C. Wheeler, and John W. Clement.

Miscellaneous. Moody and Sankey are drawing multitudes again in Glasgow, the city of their first great suc cess in revivalism. The venerable Rev. Frederick Upham, D.D., preached his sixty-first anniversary sermon in the Methodist church, Middleborough, Massachusetts, March 19th. Rev.

N. J. Burton, D.D., of Hartford, has been selected as the next lecturer in the Lyman Beecher course before the Yale Divinity School ia New Haven. A Memorial church is in process of erection in Edinburgh, Scotland, to be known as the Guth rie Memorial Church," in honor of the great preacher who made the pulpit he occupied so famous in all lands. These are in New Hampshire 510 Evangelical churches, so called.

These are divided as fol lows Congregational, 187 Methoiist, 119 Free-will Baptist, 117 Baptist 81 Episcopal, 27; Presbyterian, 6. Archdeacon Kirkbt, the first missionary to preach the Gospel within the Arctic Circle, has labored for twenty-seven years among the Indians of the extreme north of the continent. He has traveled on foot almost from ocean to ocean We rejoice in the evidences of favor which we note from time attending the life and ministry of our Rev. Brother E. H.

Byington. Though gone out from us, he is still in spirit present with us, This is the latest that we have seen respecting him and his field. The Methodist church is working op the meas ure for a commemorative centennial meeting of the introduction of Methodism in the United States, to be held in 1884. The proposition has already been endorsed by delegates of the prominent Methodist churches in America. The Chautauqua Foreign Missionary Institute invites all friends of Missions, foreign and Home, in every denomination and from every land, to its fourth annual gathering, in the beautiful grove beside Like Chautauqua, a little west of the city of Buffalo, from July 29 to August 3.

Rev. Db. Obvdlle Dewey, a prominent Unita rian clergyman, died at Sheffield, Massachusetts, March 21, being eighty-eight years of age, lacking one week. Since 1862 he has lived in retirement, but was widely known and esteemed for his earlier labors with the pen and in the pulpit of a third of a century ago. The fine library building erected at Monson by Mrs.

Carrie R. Dale in honor of her father, the late Horatio Lyon, was dedicated Tuesday evening, the exercises being held in the Congrega tional church. Rev. E. H.

Byington, pastor of the chnrch, gave the dedicatory address. The building, with the ground, cost $35,000. The Congregational Publishing Society of Bos ton has issued the Rev. R. R.

Meredith's admirable Notes on the International Sunday-school Lessons for the second quarter, April to June. These expositions of the lessons are meeting with very general favor among the teachers, and are certainly among the best published. Price thirty cents. Besides the efforts of the young men at Bur lington, St. Albms and St Johnsbury, Vermont, several other Young Men's Christian Associations have been of late making efforts to secure buildings.

At Poughkeepsie, New York, the Association has purchased a $50,000 building. At Lowell, Massachusetts, the Association has secured about for this object Attention has been called by several news papers to the fact that the Andover Seminary has recently called three professors in succession from Presbyterian Churches, viz. the Rev. Doc tors Gulliver, Tucker and Newman Smyth but it should be added that they are all Congrega-tionalist9 in their birth, education, theory of polity, and in the major part of their church service; and in calling them to Andover Congregational ism is but reclaiming her own and the Seminary promoting her own alumni, who have been loaned for a little time to perform needed service in Presbyterian churches. The South Congregational church in Spring field, Massachusetts, celebrated its fortieth anni versary on Sunday, the 2Gth ult.

In the morning Rev. Dr. S. G. Buckingham reviewed its history in a sermon of great interest heard by a large congregation.

In the evening a union service of the Congregational churches was held, and President Porter of Yale College, who was the first pastor of the church, preached, taking First Timothy 5, 6, as a text, and noting the changes in Theological and Practical Christianity during the last forty years. The house was filled to its utmost capacity. The following points noted by the Religious Herald give the drift of President Porter's discourse: "I call your attention to the following evidences of a change for the better in the speculative and practical opinions of Christendom and the Christian church: (1) More ra tional and elevated views prevail in respect to Christianity itself, as adapted to man's moral needs and conditions. (2) The church has learned to form a more rational estimate of theological creeds and systems, and has made most important progress in toleration and charity. (3) The church has been taught by the discipline of the last forty years to fix its faith more strongly and conclusively on the person of Christ.

(4) That the progress and power of the Gospel depend on the personal force of each individual believer. (5) The church has learned much in respect to its opportunities and duties as a social force and in respect to social influence and reform. (6) The last forty years give us the assurance of the final triumph of the kingdom of God." Obituaries. Noble. The Congregational church in Benson lately suffered the loss of Deacon L.

S. Noble. He died on the 22d ult, having been faithful to his trust in the church for many years. He leaves widow and two sons. His funeral was attended on the afternoon of the 25th, at the Congregational chnrch, Rev.

G. G. Lyon preaching from the text, The memory of the just is blessed." Nobcboss. Rev. Austin Norcross of Derby, Vermont, died March 11.

In "him the Baptist society loses an active and efficient member, Derby Academy an energetic an enthusiastic officer, and the village a loved and respected citizen. Truly godly man has gone home. The St Johnsbury Caledonian says of him: He believed with all his might, mind, soul and strength the Lord Jesus Christ as the Saviour of the world. As a minister of the glorious Gospel of Christ, he failed not to declare the whole counsel of God. Like our Divine Master, he desired to seek and to save them that are lost He sympathized with angels in joy over one sinner that His name is among the worthies who have served the Baptist churches of Northern Vermont Ainger, Godding, Ide, Harvey, Davidson, Grow, Greene, Denison, Mitchell, Baldwin, Rider Downs, and many others who like Paul, have kept the faith, fought the fight, finished their course, and received their crown." Ingaixs.

Mrs. Augusta Stevens, wife of Rev Ros man Ingalls, died in Gibson, Pennsylvania, March 31, 1882. Mrs. Ingalls was born at East Hard wick, Vermont, November 16th, 1816. At the age of fifteen years she united with the Con gregational Chnrch.

She received a thorough academic education, and spent many years of her busy life as a teacher. She was an earnest and devoted educator, and preferred the children and youth for her pnpils, as she regarded them more susceptible of virtuous influences and mould of character than maturer age and wanting fixed moral and intellectual culture. A large circle of pupils, now mature men and women, born and reared in Vermont, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania and Iowa, where so many years she so arduously labored for the intellectual, social and moral development of their immortal minds, will call up the pleasant and happy days spent under the care and guidance of her pleasant and faithful ministrations. With impaired and delicate health, she a few years since made it her home with sisters at this place, and September 1, 1881, became the wife of Rev. Mr.

Ingalls. In July last, in quest of improved health, she and her husband leisurely made numerous visits among friends and relatives in New York, Vermont and Msssarhnserta, yisit- a that there are five loaves and two fishes than he is satisfied. He commands them to make the multitude sit down. Just inougn he had said 'I have what I want tne meal is ready; let them be seated!" By companies upon the green grass. John al so speaks of there being much grass in the place.

This corresponds to his statement that the Passover was near (vi 4) and fixes tne time of this miracle as early in April, when these slopes were clothed with all the flowery beauty of opening Spring. Com panies might be translated social parties, and suggests a pleasant picnic scene. The disciple who gives this report was evidently impressed with the pleasantness and beauty of the scene; for the word translated ranks signifies garden beds. In giving these di rections, Jesus here "takes care that his banquet shall be conducted with an order worthy of the God who gives it." Verse 40. By hundreds and by fifties.

This would be convenient for distributing, and show the number almost at a glance. Fifty such companies would make an im posing show arranged in this orderly manner they would cover at least four or five acres of ground, and then the ranks would have to be compact and the spaces between narrow. The arrangement one commentator makes two longer rows of one hundred, a shorter one of fifty, and the fourth side open like the ancient tables, would be simply ab surd for the room it would take. Scarcely any arrangement would bring all within range of the voice of Jesus. 41.

And looking up to heaven, he blessed, and brake the loaves. The word blessed here has for its object not the loaves, but God. He gave thanks and brake the So also John, when he had given thanks." Luke, however, says he blessed them, meaning the loaves, which implies a kind of sacramental consecration The description recalls the Last Supper, of which this miracle is a premonition." And he gave to his disciples to set before them, The word gave is in the tense of con tinued action, was giving that is, he gave until all were satisfied. It was, as al ways with the ministers of Jesus, all they gave they received from him. It does not become us to pry into the unrevealed mystery of the manner or time of the increase.

God moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform." And the two fishes divided he among them alL John says, they distributed the loaves likewise also, of the fishes as much as they would implying, perhaps, that all did not partake of them. None of the evangelists speak of the fish being broken, though they are not distinguished from the bread in that act by Luke. The mention of the distribution of the fishes is one of the many marks of the greater exactness of this Gospel. Verse 42. And they did all eat and were filled.

The language in the Synoptical Gos pels is here the same, except that Luke omits the word all." Verse 43. And they took up broken pieces, twelve basketuls. Not the refuse, but the broken bread which was not needed. This was the designed evidence to all of the abundance of the provision, and a lesson taught the disciples that none of God's good gifts should be wasted. The variety of ex pressions used by the different Evangelists in telling of this gathering is quite remarkable but the word baskets is the same in all.

They were such as travelers used, and may have been the same which the apostles carried on their recent tour. Thus Jesus, thoueh never working miracles to supply his own need or that of his followers', availed himself of this to furnish a supply for their immediate wants. Verse 44. And they thai ate the loaves were five thousand men. The last word is emphatic, and implies that women and children were present.

They would remain by themselves according to Oriental customs. We have no means of forming an opinion as to the number of them on this occasion. This miracle, perhaps, more than any other except the kindred one which soon followed, is calculated to make a deep impression upon the thoughtful mind. It presents Jesus not only as full of tenderness and compassion, but in the calm exercise of power to relieve all distresses and satisfy every want. While the multitude were too full of anticipations of a splendid earthly kingdom to learn the deeper lesson which he intended to teach them, we may hope there were at least a few whose hearts were touched by the "many things" which he taught them, and were led to partake of the "bread which came down from heaven." To the mind at all disposed to be skeptical in regard to the reality of the miracles of the New Testament, there is here presented but one alternative either to deny the truth of this account, attested as it is by four independent writers who could not have been mistaken in the facts, and thus virtually reject the whole Gospel narrative or accept this as a real exercise of supernatural power.

No explanation or supposition will avail. "Either this was a miracle or the Evangelists have wilfully falsified." Hints for Primary Teachers. There are two ways of loving little children. There are those who profess great fondness for children, but whose love for them goes no deeper than it might for a playful kitten whose insight beyond the surface goes no farther in one case than in the other. Such persons are not yet qualified for Primary Sunday-School teachers though in some cases it may be only thoughtlessness that causes the deficiency.

The Sunday- School teacher of children, more than any one else except the parent, needs to have a keen appreciation of the limitless possibili ties of childhood, and a love for children akin to that wherewith Jesus loved them, and a sympathy which reaches out anxiously into their future lives. We should ever feel that tenderness for them which our beloved poet felt, who has just gone, the laureate of the American home and heart, when he wrote little feet! that such long years Most wander on through hopes and fears, Most ache and bleed beneath your load nearer to the wayside inn, Where toil shall cease and rest begin, Am weary, thinking of your road." Prompted by such thoughts we shall seek from week to week to prepare our lessons for the children with reference not only to their present wants but to their future needs and it will sometimes happen that a lesson which seems barren of present interest to the children may be presented to them as something which they will find helpful in coming years, for it is no unkindoess to children to tell them that their lives can never be all Who of us but wishes that his early visions of life had been a little more rational, for so one might be spared some of the bitter disappointments of life. Our last lesson closed with the coming of the disciples of John to Jesus, to tell him of the calamity that bad befallen them in the death of their master. It seems to have been about this time that Jesus' disciples returned from their tour through Jilee, and reported to Jesus the result of their work. Let the children learn from this that they need not wait for trouble in order to have something to tell Jesus, for he is interested in whatever rightfully interests them and he is especially interested when, like the twelve, they have been doing special work for him, such as overcoming some easily besetting sin, or trying to be helpful to others.

What an incective it would be to all of us, if we had formed the habit of trying so to live every day that at night we might be able to Vermont. Peachah. Rev. S. S.

Martyn of New Haven, Connecticut, has ministered for two Sabbaths past. Westminster. Rev. John L. Sewall began his year's labor with the Congregational church last Sunday.

Windsor. Rev. Mr. Worth of St. Louis, Mis souri, supplied the pulpit at the Old South last Sabbath.

Pittoford. Mr. Henry Kingman has acted as janitor of the Congregational church for twenty- two years last Sabbath. Bbattlebobo. Five persons were added to the Congregational church by confession and one by letter at the communion in March.

Thetfobd. Rev. Mr. Brickett, having aceepted the invitation to minister to the Congregational church, is moving into the parsonage. West Randouh.

Rev. S. W. Dike of Royal- ton exchanged pulpits with Rev. V.

M. Hardy on Sunday. V. M. Hardy will soon give his European lecture.

Cabot. Easter Sunday is to be observed next Sunday at the Congregational church. Easter sermon in the morning by the pastor: Sabbath- School concert in the afternoon. The Montpklieb Association will meet at the chapel of Bethany church on Tnesday, April 25, at ten o'clock a. m.

Text for Plan of Sermon by all the members, Luke xxii 15. East Habdwick. There was to be a meeting in the Congregational church on Friday to see if the church will unite with the pastor, Rev. C. E.

Gordon, in calling a council to advise in regard to existing difficulties. Bradford. The Congregational church has projected a church paper, to be under the control and editorial direction of its pastor. Its name will be The Household of Faith. It will be issued monthly, at a subscription price of twenty-five cents a year.

Sharon. A vote was taken at a meeting of Baptist church and society to change the time of the preaching service from one o'clock p. to forty-five minutes past ten A. M. Sabbath-school immediately after the service.

To come into effect the first Sabbath in May. West Topsham. The last quarterly meeting in this conference year was held here last Sunday. The presiding elder, Rev. Church Tabor, preached an excellent sermon from Psalms lxxxiv: 11, after which the communion service was had, members of other churches uniting in the service.

Stowe. Though without a pastor since the Rev. J. 6. Hale left, in October last, the Congre gational church and society have not suspended nor capitulated.

They keep up the services, realizing that the life is in the body of Christ, yet de siring no less the leader and head. Castleton. Brother M. B. Dewey and fam ily having been for fifteen years most efficient members of the Congregational church in this place, but soon to remove to Fairhaven, the mem bers of the church and society in Castleton present them with a beautiful silver tea set costing between thirty and forty dollars.

Marlboro. This town has "a small resusci tated church in the midst of a hard field," but they that are for it are more than they that be against it." Their hope and their strength is in God. They ask the prayers of their brethren of the neighboring churches that they lay hold on strength, and be themselves strong in the Lord. Orange. Sickness is prevailing to a large ex tent among the people lung difficulties among adults and cankerrash among the children.

But two or three children have been present in Brother Small's Sabbath-school for the last three Sabbaths, and not more than half the usual congregation. They are very grateful that no case has yet proved fatal. Post Mills. The church and society have unanimously asked Rev. J.

C. McCollom to re main with them as their pastor another The people are very well united, and the services of the sanctuary are very well attended and appreciated. Rev. Dr. Caldwell has been with us since November, and we have enjoyed a feast of fine things from his lips.

Rutland. The Rutland Ministers' meeting was held at the Bates House on Monday last. Reports of last Sabbath morning Bermons and reports of work preceded the dinner. After this came the essay by Rev. D.

E. Post, on the question, How Many Preaching Services for the Sabbath," followed by a lively discussion. The essay next month is to be by Rev. Walter Rice, on "The Times and Seasons of Special Religious Effort." Manchester. Rev.

M. L. Severance of Mid-dlebury has accepted the invitation of the trustees of Burr Burton Seminary to become principal of that institution. Burr Burton has long had a first-class reputation as a classical fitting school, and the rank it has held under the care of such distinguished educators as Rev. J.

D. Wickham, D.D., and Professor William A. Burnham, is to be maintained, if we may judge from the character and ability of the principal elect. Mr. Severance will take charge of the institution at the close of the present term, or early in July.

Nobth Bennington. The annual election of officers in the Congregational Sunday-school took place on Sunday, April 2. They are: Superintendent, Henry D. Hall; Assistant Superintendent, J. Y.

Breckenridge; Secretary, Hiland Hall, 2d; Treasurer, E. M. Henry; Librarian, Rollin Blakeley; Assistant Librarian, J. A. Ward ell; Chorister, B.

T. Henry; Organist, H. F. Lamb; Assistant Organist, Florence Towsley. The report of the secretary showed an increase in the size of the school, a larger average attendance and a generally encouraging condition of the school.

Burlington. The annual meeting of the Young Men's Christian Association was held at their hall Tuesday night. The association adopted a new constitution and set of by-laws, rendered necessary by the new work which the association has undertaken. The officers chosen are: President, W. H.

Lang; Vice-President, W. A. Crom-bie; Secretaryi S. D. Hodge; Treasurer, W.

J. Van Patten; Directors, G. H. Perkins, F. S.

Pease, D. W. Robinson, L. B. Lord, V.

G. Barbour, E. W. Smith, N. K.

Brown, E. A. Davis, J. L. Yale, W.

H. S. Whitcomb. The attendance at the rooms, since the last opening, last Wednesday night, has been very gratifying, averaging over eighty each day in the reading room and twenty in the boys' room. New Haven.

Rev. Mr. Sargent has been prevented from preaching for two weeks, on account of a throat and lung affection. March 19th service was conducted by the deacons, Deacon J. C.

Wilder reading a sermon. On Sunday, the 26th, just at the opening of service, Rev. Mr. Eendrick of Alton, Illinois, a relative of Hon. William P.

Nash, in whose family he was visiting, arrived at church with Mr. Nash, and kindly consented to occupy the desk, giving an able and instructive extemporaneous discourse from the last clause of First Timothy iii: 15, the subject being the relation of the Church to the truth. The two leading divisions of the topic were: first, the Church is, and must be the custodian and defender of the truth in this world second, the Church, being the great and abiding substructure upon which the truth is founded and builded, it follows that the obligation rests upon the Church to proclaim the truth at all times and without ceasing. The speaker held the closest attention of his hearers, and after service the remarks were made that those who stay away from deacons' meetings," sometimes miss it" Mr. Kendrick was a classmate of Rev.

S. Enowlton and an instructor of Rev. Mr. Sargent New Hampshire. Lebanon.

It has been decided to reseat the Congregational church, put in new furnaces and replace the decaying foundation timbers. Goffstown. The first meeting-house in Goff s-town was built in 1768. It stood near where the schoolhouse at the Center now stands, and was taken down in 1869. Keene.

The Second Congregational society has voted to engage Rev. E. S. Gould of Providence to preach for them a year, but it is thought that he will not accept the offer. Gbeat Falls.

The Congregational Church is still without a pastor Rev. P. W. Perry, formerly of the Freewill Baptist Church of this place, has just removed from Jackson to Dowa-giac, Michigan. Winchester.

In this corner of the State the Fellowship meetings have been quite successful. The churches nniting for this purpose are Winchester, Hinsdale, Northfield, and Ber-nardston. They have entered upon their second series of meetings. Dover. It will be two hundred and fifty years next summer since the first church edifice was built in this place.

The Congregational Chnrch here will celebrate the great anniversary, and it is hoped that the State Association will meet here to join in the memorial service. Laconia. A ministers' Conference has recently been started of the evangelical pastors of Laconia and vicinity. Regular meetings are to be held on the first Monday morning of each month, at which essays and free discussions will be enjoyed, "our object being fraternal acquaintance and mutual help in the Master's cause." The second meeting of this conference was to be held April 3d. Newport.

The Newport workers, Miss Josephine Richards, President, held a fair which proved very aeeeaafaL They will give their a a In Newport, March 28, by Rev. E. P. Wild, Dr. LEWIS M.

PALMER and NELLIE B. PROUTY. In Gonldsvllle, March 2S, by Rev. J. F.

Buzzell, CHA8. BENEDICT and EMMA WINTER, both of Gouldavllle. Tn East Brookfleld, March 18, by Rev. William Gay, WILLIAM H. RICHARDSON and MARY WHEATLEV.

In Montpelier, March 22, by Rev. D. E. Miller, HOSEA N. BROWN and 80PHKONIA MAICHIA, both of Berlin.

In Calais, March 26, by Rev. Orln Davis, SOLOMON J. CAMERON and DELLA J. HAMBLET.bothof Worcester. Is Bethel, March 29, by Rev.

S. A. Parker, ALAN'SON O. SMITH of Strafford and MAHALA C. BALDWIN of Oro-ton, N.

H. In Tnnbrldge, March 26, at the residence of Dr. E. J. Fish, by Rev.

S. E. B. Perkins, EDWARD H. 8PILLER of West Fairlee and BESSIE daughter of the late George H.

Lyman of Chelsea. tenths. In Calais, Feb. 23, LOUISA A. BLISS, 78 years.

In Piainfield, March 29, JOSEPH SCOTT, 78 years. In Barre, March 25, MARY WHITTIER, 6 months. In Peacham, March 24, AMY WHEELER, 17 years. In Windsor, March 17, Mrs. C.

K. HUNTER, 78 years. In Bethel, March 24, SOLOMON WILLIAMS, 92 years. In Johnson, March 27, CLARISSA L. FLATT, 74 years.

In Morristown, Feb. 24, OERIAL TRE8COTT, 78 years. In Marshneld. March 23, SAMUEL MEADER, 77 years. In Corinth, March 26, Hon.

THOMAS WASON, 82 yean. In GaysvUle, March 26, HENRY J. LEONARD, S5 yean. In St. Johnsbury, March 22, RICHABD SMITH, 65 years.

In Quechee, March 19, Mrs. WILLIAM SHORT, 64 years. In Stowe, March 22, Mrs. ERASTUS EDGERTON, 61 yrs. In Walden, March 23, STEPHEN V.

MEADER, 12 years. In Cambridge, March 28, Mrs. RUSSELL D. HAWLEY, 72 years. In Brookfleld, March 30, Mrs.

ANN E. (ADAMS AL-VORD, 64 years. In Brookfleld, March 28, of consumption, ANN AYAI VORD, 65 years. In Wolcott, March 30, of pneumonia, MARTHA A GUYEB, 15 years. In Peterboro.

March 25. Mrs. LAURA BEAVER, formerly of Washington, 50 years. In Marshneld. March 28.

FORREST O. PARKER. 7 vrs. 8 months, and 9 days. New Hampshire papers please copy, In Strafford.

March 31. FREEMAN WALKER. 75 years. Mr. Walker was a good citizen, and for 50 yearsan esteemed member of the Congregational church.

Boston Produce Market. EGGS. Northern and eastern are sellinff at 17l7Jo dozen. A good demand is expected until after Easter. POTATOES.

Eastern Rose are sell in at S1.10&1.15. and Northern at ProlUlc8 command d3(c. and Jack- BOna 7530c oushel. CHEESE. We notice more inquiry and a firmer feeline with a slight advance in prices.

Sales of choice factory have been at13l8o lb, and medium at 1612o. Holders are asking 14c at the close. There is no regular price for common cheese. MAPLE SUGAR AND STROP. The receipts of sonar are unusually small for the season and prices are higher.

Choice in simll cakes is selling at 13153 lb; in large cakes and tubs, at 1012c. New miple syrup will command gallon of 11 lb. BUTTER. The market is almost entirely out of choice butter, and the small receipts do not more than half meet the demand. Dealers say they never knew the time before when it was so hard to get good butter, and from present appearances there will not be much relief for a few weeks more.

It is almost impossible to get consignments from the west, as the production there is engaged ahead at higher onces man tnose curreni nere. ine weeKiy receipts com-nz from New York state and Vermont are also engaged ahead, so that parties who depend upon getting supplied from the regular receipts here, are in a bad fix. Soma lots of medium western which were held here under limits have been ordered back to Chicago because the price there is higher than here. The stock of all kinds is running very low and we shall soon be cleaned out entirely. New northern dairy will readily command 35Uc lb, If choice; and fresh-made western creamery is closely sold up at 4245c lb.

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Brooks fc Son, AGENTS, South Main Montpelier, Vt and finally passed without amendment by a vote of thirty-eight to fifteen. A hill almost identical in terms to the Morrill bill was discussed in the house, Mr. Kasson of Iowa speaking in favor of the measure and Mr. Carlisle opposing it Wednesday, March 29. In the senate the In dian appropriation bill was read, and the committee amendments, with one or two exceptions (on which votes were reserved), were agreed to in committee of the whole.

Mr. Pugh of Alabama introduced resolutions declaring it to be the sense of congress that an immediate revision of the tar iff should be made. Mr. Pendleton reported favor ably, with amendments, the bill originated by him, to regulate the civil service The princi pal portion of the house session was devoted to discussion of the tariff commission bill, Messrs. Carlisle of Kentucky, Speer of Georgia and Rus sell of Massachusetts making speeches.

The bill granting a pension of $5,000 a year each to the widows of ex-Presidents Garfield, Polk and Tyler was passed. Thursday, March 30. The debate on the In dian appropriation bill was continued in the sen ate, Mr. Hoar advocating his amendment appro priating $2,000,000 for the education of all Indian children (except those of the five civilized tribes) west of the Mississippi river, at $200 each per annum. Mr.

Plumb opposed the amendment and Mr. Hoar announced that at Friday's session he would modify his amendment by reducing the appropriation to $500,000. The bill for placing ex-Quartermaster-General Meigs on the retired list of the army with the rank and emoluments of a major-general was passed In the house a bill was reported from the pensions committee increasing the pension of soldiers and sailors who have lost an arm or a leg in the service to $40 a month A resolution was passed providing for printing 90,000 copies of the first volume of the census report containing the statistics of population. The senate bill for reducing the license fee of officers of steam vessels was also passed The tariff commission bill was again discussed: Messrs. Dunnell and Hewitt being the principal speakers.

Friday, March 31. The Indian appropriation bill was passed by the senate, an amendment having first been adopted giving an additional $250,000 for the education of Indian youth west of the Mississippi, as proposed by Senator Hoar, Bills for the erection of public buildings at va rious places were passed, and an adjournment was taken until Monday The house took up the army appropriation bill, and Mr. Butter worth ex plained its provisions. An additional $100,000 was appropriated for the relief of the sufferers by the southwestern floods. Saturday, April 1.

The senate was not in session. house made considerable progress on the army appropriation bill, and passed the bill to facilitate the payment of dividends to cred itors of the Freedmen's saving and trust company Monday, April 3. A bill was introduced in the senate defining the rights of American citizens abroad. The bill granting the St Louis San Francisco railroad company the right of way through the Indian Territory was considered, but no action was reached. The bill for the conver sion or redemption of ten dollar refunding cer tificates was passed, and a bill was introduced authorizing the construction of war vessels for the United States.

At the executive session the commercial treaties recently negotiated with Ron-mania and Servia were ratified Eighty-one bills and resolutions were introduced in the house. After considerable discussion the motion xl Mr, Crapo to suspend the rules and adopt a resolution making the bill to extend the corporate existence of national banking associations a continuing special order for the 15th instant was rejected by a vote of one hundred twenty-two to eighty-seven not the necessary two-thirds to suspend the rules. The bill to amend the internal revenue laws was passed, as was also a bill authorizing the postmaster-general to readjust the salaries of postmasters of the third, fourth and fifth classes whose salaries have not heretofore been read justed. wzintBB Motices. The components of Dr.

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can positively say it has done more good than all the other medicines I have taken, since nay sickness." ted by all the evangelists. Hence, by study ing the four accounts, one may obtain a variety of details, such as would not be found in one or two narrations of an event. We see Jesus first moved with compassion toward his weary apostles; and, while he sought by passing quietly across the northern part of the lake to provide for them needed rest and refreshment, let the children in im agination be spectators of that strange race of. the multitude by land around the head of the lake, resulting in the arrival of the mul titude in advance of Jesus and his disciples And then, when the day's work was over and Jesus said to his disciples, "Give ye them to eat," there is scarcely a child who cannot comprehend somewhat the consterna tion that at first seized them especially if you explain to them that in those days it would have taken an ordinary day-laborer nearly eight months to have earned the two hundred pennyworth here spoken of. Do not forget to point out to the children the orderly manner in which Jesus arranged the multitudes on the green grass for they should know that he is not unmindful of small things, that he likes order and dis likes confusion.

It will be useless to attempt to explain the manner in which the multiplication of the food occurred. We cannot even in our thoughts bridge over the gulf between not being and being this can be done only by divine omnipotence. When the repast was over and all were satisfied, Jesus said, Gather up the frag ments that remain, that nothing be lost;" and there was a whole basket full for each of the doubting twelve. Any miserly spirit that is inclined to take comfort from this command of Jesus should be reminded of the munificence that had preceded it, but for those whose worldly circumstances necessitate a rigid and distasteful economy, it is often comforting to remember that Jesus himself took part of the same," submitting himself to all the limitations of earth, to the end that he might be made like unto his brethren." Yankee Enterprise. The people of Arkansas and northern Lou isiana are excited by the report that a Boston company has bought several plantations, twelve thousand acres in all, in Chicot county, Arkansas, at a cost of $230,000, and has spent fifty thousand dollars in imple ments and supplies, and that the same com pany intends to buy twenty thousand acres more on the Louisiana side of the river.

The plantations are on high lands not af fected by the overflow. The New Orleans Picayune is much interested in the plans of the new company, regarding its operations as the beginning of a new and better system of agriculture for the south. The planters now, it says, with scarcely any exceptions, are "carried by merchants in New Orleans, who advance them money on the next crop before their advances of the year before are settled by the sale of the last one. But these Boston men will not do their business in that way. Not a dollar will be advanced on its crops, not a lien will lie on its property." There will be co-operative service, schools, churches and protection.

The laborers will never know want." The plan seems to be to famish the land, implements and supplies to colored laborers, receiving from them one hundred pounds of cotton or ten dollars an acre yearly, and the Picayune estimates that a fall crop would give the company more than thirty per cent on its investment, and forty par cent of a full crop, if the company received nothing for its supplies, and made a reduction of rent for the shortness of the crop, would still yield fourteen per cent. Death of General Hurlbut. South America has been fatal to the lives as well as to the reputation of diplomats during the past year. First General Kilpatrick passed away at Santiago, during the early days of the development of the Chili-Peru imbroglio, and now comes the intelligence of the death at Lima of Mr. Hurlbut, minister to Peru, but lately recalled.

He is reported to have died suddenly of heart disease, March 28 th. Mr. Hurlbut was a soldier in the late war, in which he attained the rank of Major- General of volunteers. He was minister resident to Colombia during Grant's second term, had served two terms in congress, and last spring was appointed by President Garfield minister to Peru. His name has been unfavorably associated with our South American diplomatic relations, in conse quence of which he had been recalled by President Arthur.

In a letter to the chairman of the committee on foreign affairs of the house of representatives, under date of February 27, he expressed his intention of leaving shortly for home, in order, if desired, to give his testimony before that committee in the investigation relating to the South American controversy. Mr. Hurlbut was a lawyer by profession and was sixty-seven years of age. The Star Route Prosecutions. Ar-before the criminal guments were begun court of the District of Columbia, Friday, to quash the indictments against the accused star route parties on the ground that the Maryland statute of 1722, requiring a direct order of the court before a case could go to the grand jury for indictment, had not been complied with.

The arguments were con cluded on Satarday, and Judge Wylie noti fied counsel that he would give them two or three days' notice of the announcement of his decision. The prohibitory bill was defeated in the Massachusetts house of representatives on Friday last by a tie vote. Mr. Speaker Noyes has been counted upon as a staunch prohibitionist, and yet when he had it in his power to pass the bill by his casting vote, he refused to vote, and so the bill was lost. Whereupon the friends of prohibition are very greatly incensed, and apparently not without reason.

Somebody has discovered that Easter will be observed this year on the anniversary of the day on which the resurrection really occurred. The only real doubt now about the year of that great event is whether it was A. D. 29 or 30. If the latter, the Paschal full moon fell that year on Thursday, April 6th, the crucifixion would be next day, April 7th, and the resurrection April 9 th.

Congress has before it three bills to es tablish a uniform system of bankruptcy. Action is being taken by the different busi ness organizations of the country in favor of one or another of these bills. The Lowell bill, which is the most complete and probably the most satisfactory, is being generally endorsed by the boards of trade and exchanges of the country. The Ohio legislature has passed the bill for taxing saloons from $100 to $300 a year each, and Cincinnati is especially happy in the prospect of an addition of something like $500,000 annually to its revenue. There is a constitutional provision against licensing saloons, and heretofore nothing whatever has been realized from them.

The British government, at the request of President Arthur, has granted a respite of two weeks to Dr. Lamson, now under sentence of death for causing the death of his brother-in-law, a student at me cienneim House school, Wimbledon. Tbgktixb will cleuue scrotal from the sys- Trytt..