Earlier text: The CommentaryIn "Dio Lewis's Nuggets" the following anecdote is told:— "General Zachary Taylor gave the weight of his example in favor of total abstinence. A traveler in the West met an emigrant on his way with his family to the fertile regions beyond the Mississippi. On the wagon was hung a huge jug with the bottom broken out. The emigrant was asked his reason for carrying that with him. 'Why,' he said, 'that is my Taylor jug.' 'And what is a Taylor jug?' inquired the friend. 'I had a son in General Taylor's army in Mexico,' said the emigrant, 'and the old General told him to carry his whisky jug with a hole in the bottom. Ever since that I have carried my jug that way, and I find it is the best invention I ever met with.'" Knowing What Needs to Be Done
"To know how to do the thing that wants to be done is often the only call one may receive." —There were in the German army 110 suicides during the first eight months of the present year. —Two fires in London on the 25th ult. destroyed property to the value of about a million of dollars. —A collision on the Thames, England, one day last week, resulted in the drowning of seven persons. —An incendiary fire at Pocahontas, Va., on the 27th ult., destroyed sixteen houses, including two hotels. —The chiefs of the Sobranje have decided to ask the Czar to name a candidate for the Bulgarian throne. —Advices from Braila, Roumania, say that feverish preparations for war are being made in Southern Russia. —More than 20,000,000 sheep are said to have died during the recent drought in the Argentine Republic. —The Bartholdi Statue of Liberty, in New York Harbor, was dedicated on the 28th ult. with imposing ceremonies. —Senor Juarez Celman has been installed as President of the Argentine Republic, and has appointed a Cabinet. —In St. Petersburg, the police can at any time enter any dwelling to search for Nihilists, and there is no habeas corpus. —Germany's exports to this country during the year ending September 1, were $20,000,000 in excess of the previous year. —On the 26th ult., an express messenger on the St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad in Missouri was robbed of over $81,000. —A boiler explosion in a Pennsylvania saw-mill, a few days since, severely, if not fatally, injured five men employed in the mill. —The report which was current last week that France would insist upon the withdrawal of the British from Egypt, is now denied. —Severe and prolonged shocks of earthquake occurred in Serinagur, Cashmere, recently. There were brilliant meteoric showers during the night. —There is some talk of a republic in Bulgaria; but such a consummation is not at all probable. A state of siege has been proclaimed at Sophia. —The statement is made that as many as 30,000 shawls are made annually in the Vale of Cashmere, which are worth, on an average, $1,000 apiece. —The type-writer was first patented in England in 1714, but it was not until 1867 that it was really made practicable. Many thousands are now in use. —The estimate of the expenses of the postal service for the next fiscal year aggregates $55,342,150, while the appropriation for the current fiscal year was $54,365,863. —A fifteen-year-old boy recently died in Oakland from diphtheria contracted by chewing gum which was given him by a companion who had just recovered from the disease. —It is said that hereafter Mormon emigrants will be landed at Philadelphia instead of at New York as heretofore. On the 27th ult., 307 new converts were landed at that port. —On the 26th ult., a "wild" engine collided with a passenger train at Pine Bluff, Wis. One man was killed and two others were fatally injured, while several were severely hurt. —The amount of land devoted to agriculture in Germany is 78,405,000 acres, or about 122,508 square miles. The holdings number 5,276,344, and average about fourteen acres each. —The question of the disestablishment of the Church of England, in Wales, is being called for; and the opinion is also expressed that disestablishment would be a good thing in England. —It is estimated by those who have made the subject a study, that the losses occasioned by insects injurious to agriculture in the United States reach the enormous sum of $400,000,000 every year. —The Moscow Gazette says that the project of connecting the White Sea and Lake Onega by means of a canal will be realized much sooner than was expected. The total cost of the work is estimated at 7,000,000 rubles. —There is war in East Africa between two of the native kings. A late report states that the king of Inhambara twice repulsed King Muzilla at the head of 30,000 men; and in the third attack the latter was defeated by 16,000 Portuguese and natives, under command of the Governor of Mozambique, assisted by European military and naval officers. —A German architect has contracted with the Japanese Government to erect at Tokio a large palace for the Imperial Parliament, a palace for the Ministry of Justice, and another for the police administration. —October 26, a party of Crow Indians, camped near Fort Custer, M. T., were attacked by a party of Sioux, and a fierce battle ensued, in which five of the Sioux were killed and several on both sides were wounded. The Crows were victorious. —The last steamer from Honolulu brings the news that the activity of Kilauea is steadily on the increase. A stream of molten lava thirty feet in width was flowing in one part of the crater, while several smaller fires can be seen in other places. —Some time since, the British invaded and conquered the kingdom of Burmah, and now that the people of that country are somewhat restive under foreign rule, it is announced that "the rebellious natives in Burmah are giving much trouble to the British troops." —An Eastern paper says: "The lesson of the great strike of the pork packers in Chicago, is the loss of $320,000 in wages to the men who struck, and the loss of employment to 2,000 of the strikers, whose places have been filled by men who were before unemployed." —October 27, the San Francisco Anarchists passed the following resolution, relative to the dynamiters now under sentence of death in Chicago: "Resolved, That should the condemned men not receive a new and just trial, we shall regard it as an attempt on the part of Government to force us into the horrors of a forcible revolution." —General Kaulbars, the Russian military agent, has addressed a note to the Bulgarian Foreign Minister, in which he says: "In view of the arrival at Varna of Government emissaries, who are spreading reports that the presence of the Russian gunboats there is without importance, I am compelled to inform you that those gunboats will vigorously affirm their importance if events render it necessary." —The most horrible railroad accident which ever took place in the Northwest occurred thirteen miles east of Portage, Wis., on the 27th ult. An express train, running at a high rate of speed, struck an open switch and ran into a freight train, which had just been side-tracked to allow the express to pass. All the passengers in the sleepers got out uninjured, except for slight bruises; but in one day-coach thirteen persons were pinned in and literally burned to death. The total number killed was twenty-two. Many others were injured." CLARK.—Died in Oakland, Cal., October 24, at the residence of her son-in-law, B. R. Nordyke, Mrs. Nancy Clark, aged 74 years, 6 months, and 27 days. Her death was caused by typhoid fever, from the effects of which she was not able to recover, owing to the weakness incident to old age. She had formerly been a member of the M. E. Church, but for the last year and a half she had been a conscientious observer of the Sabbath of the Lord. Owing to extreme deafness she rarely attended church, but she was a diligent reader of the Bible and of religious publications. Her whole life indicated that she was a sincere lover of the Lord. Funeral remarks by the writer to the bereaved family and sympathizing friends. W. OAKLAND.—House of worship, northeast corner of Clay and Thirteenth Streets. Sabbath-school every Sabbath at 9:30 A. M. Preaching at 11. Prayer and missionary meeting every Tuesday evening at 7:30. Seats free. SAN FRANCISCO.—House of worship, 914 Laguna Street, between McAllister and Tyler. Sabbath-school every Sabbath at 9:45, and preaching at 11 A. M.; also preaching every Sunday evening at 7:30. Classes in the English, German, and Scandinavian languages. Prayer and missionary meeting every Wednesday evening at 7:45. Mission Reading-rooms at the church. EAST PORTLAND (Or.)—House of worship on G Street, between Tenth and Eleventh. Sabbath-school every Sabbath (Saturday), followed by services. Preaching or Bible-reading Sunday evening. Prayer-meeting Wednesday evening. The public is cordially invited. Free public reading-room, corner of L and Fifth Streets. —It is stated that there are over 100,000 colored Baptists in Mississippi. —It is said that 40,000 copies of the Hebrew New Testament have been circulated among the Jews in Hungary. —Some little idea of what Roman Catholicism will do for a country may be gained from the fact that in Spain over seventy-five per cent. of the population can neither read nor write. —The French missionaries, in the service of the Massachusetts Home Missionary Society, propose to publish a paper for the benefit of the 300,000 French people in New England. The society approves the plan. —Details have recently been received in London of the massacre of native Christians in Uganda, Africa. Many Christians were tortured, mutilated, and speared, and thirty-two were burned alive. The massacre began in June, and was directly due to the refusal of a Christian lad, acting as the king's page, to commit an abominable crime. —Professor Egbert Smyth has told the Congregational Council that the Andover professors do not teach future probation "as a doctrine but simply as a dogma." This explanation is no doubt very satisfactory to the professors, but it remains to be seen how much weight it will have with the Board of Visitors before which they must answer for their teaching. —In a recent Russian letter to the New York Observer, Rev. Gideon Draper, D. D., says: "The established Greek Church is not of native growth. . . . It is foreign. . . . This religion, transplanted from Constantinople, is lifeless and cold. The extremely religious people cry for bread and receive a stone. Gentle-mannered, affectionate, teachable, they are the sad victims of religious ignorance and superstition." —The Baptist Quarterly says that "the case is yet to be recorded wherein a Baptist council has advised the ordination of a candidate who frankly professed his belief in a probation after death." Notwithstanding this fact, however, the Baptists are not altogether free from the taint of the New Theology, for one of their most recently settled pastors in Boston, "is understood," says the Congregationalist, "to stand with the new departure men." —What a "liberal"-hearted Christian Cardinal Gibbons is! In a letter to the Independent, he says: "In all this broad land there is no one who longs for truly Christian union more than I do; no one who would labor more earnestly to bring about so happy a result." But then he says that the requisites for Christian union can be found only in the Catholic Church as it was when Luther went out from it, and as it is to-day. The Pope is also a believer in "Christian union." —At the Episcopalian convention recently held in Chicago, a resolution was offered with the design of changing the name of that body from Protestant Episcopal to American Catholic. There were 134 votes in favor of the change, and only 94 against it; but as two-thirds of the votes were necessary for the passage of the resolution, the change will not be made at present. The Mirror thinks it scandalous that the Episcopalians should desire to appropriate the Catholic name, but it seems to us very fitting. Why should the name "Protestant" be retained by those who have ceased to protest? —The Yaqui Indians in Mexico are again on the war-path. —The wheat harvest in Russia, is said to be a complete failure this year. —The French Senate has passed a bill for the sale of the crown jewels. —Mrs. A. T. 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