The Stanstead journal, 19 septembre 1889, jeudi 19 septembre 1889

[" of re 5, Established in 1845.The Stanstead Journal.L.R.ROBINSON, Publisher.Journal Building, Bock Island, Stanstead.U\".8.Address, Derby Line, Vt, -\u2014 Terms: Oue year, (advance payment), $1 00 If paid in «ix months, 1 25 At the end of the year, 150 Papers sent in single rappers have the number paid to on the label.Keep watch of the number, and pay befure the time expires, to save luss of papers.\u2014__ Job l\u2019rinting Of all descriptions, from a card to a poster, ently and promptly executed, at moderate prices.Commercial printing a specialty.\u2014_\u2014 \u2014be\u2014\u2014\u2014 Advertising Rates: 1 Square 1 week (02 lines), $1 00 \u201c each continuance, 25 i Halé-square 1 week (6 lines), 765 \u2018 ench continuance, 10 Transient advertising charged by the line, 10 centr for first insertion and 3 cents per line each subsequent insertion.One square one year, | Special rates to business advertisers by the year.No objectionable ad- vortisements received, and nothing but legitimate business advertising xolicited.7 00 Business Cards, Doctors.H.C.RUGG, M.D., O.M, Physician and Surgeon, Stanstead Plain, Que.Oftice one door South of the residence of C.C.Colby, Esq., M.P.Connected by Telephone.\u2019 Dr.T D WHITOHER, Becbe Plain, Vermont.Office at John Tinker\u2019s Post Oflice.Telephone connections.\u201c RALPH M.CANFIELD, M.D., L.R.C.P.(Lond.) Ofice at Residence, two doors south of the Convent, Stanstead Plain, P.Q.Connected by Telephone.C R JONES, M.D., C.M.Hatley, Que.JOHN W McDUFEEE, O,M., M.D Physician and Surgeon.Stanstead Plain.Que.Fost Office address, Derby Line.Vt.ERASTUS P, BALL, Veterinary Surgcon.Graduate of Montreal Veterinary College Office at LEE Farm, Rock Island, Que.Telegraph and United States Post Offiee address, Derby Line, Vt.\"Advocates.\u201cM F HACKETT, Advocate, Solicitor, &c¢.Stanstead Plain, Que, Will attend all courts in the District.lections a specialty.CHAS O BRIGHAM, Attorney at Law and Notary Public.Derby Live, Vt.Special attention paid to Collections.Prompt remittances made.H M HOVEY, ADVOCATE, Rock Island, Que.T.S.Post Office address, Derby Line, Vt, JOSEPH L TERRILL, ADVOCATE, Sherbrooke, Que.Will be at Stanstead every Monday fore avon.Will attend all courts without extra charge.C.M.Thomas, Registrar, will attend to my business in my absence.Address al} letters to Sherbrooke.Col Miscellaneous.7 ©.1.MOULTON, L.D.8, Dentist, Stanstead Plain, Que.E 8 MAZURETTE Nota y Public, Sianstead Plain, Que.THOMAS KIRE, Provincial Land Surveyor & Draftsman, Stanstead Plain.P.Q.Orders by mail promptly attended to.F.L, GIBSON, Piano Tuner, St, Johnsbury, Vermont.Orders taken at the JOURNAL Off.ce.H S HUNTER, HARNESS MAKER AND UIMOLSTERER.Undertaker, Supplies Furnished.Stanstead Plain, Que.L.H.RAND, NDERTAKER, Fitch Bdy.A com C/ plete a-sortment of fine funeral fur nishings always kept in stock.2214 D.C.LIBBY EEPS a goud nerortinent of Cuskets, A Cofling and Une ertuker's Supplies.all of which will be gold at low prices earse furnished shen required, Rock Island, Oct, 19, RT.HANEON EROS.Acconnipngs, Audltors, £c.2.VTR St, Jumes St.Montreal.Municipal, Government and Railroad Debentures and Bank Stock bought and sold.Special attention paid to the management of Trust and other Estates.NEW MARLBOR > HOTEL.American and European Plan.330 & 788 Warhinglon sércet, Corner of Harvard Street, MOST ON.W.A.YOUNG, Prey'r, = MACHINE JOB WORK HE FRONTIER AXLE COMPANY ste prepared 10 du all kindw of iron lepairs on wagons, carriages, agricultural implements of wll kinds, nnd in tact all Kinds of IRON JOB WORK The cele- Tied WOOLLEY PLOUGHS, MN Awo kizes kept in stock with repairs of lhe tame Alo Horse Spade Cultivators, Having first class workmen, sll our iron sork will Le done in w superior manner.Irn and Brel Axles of all tire ueual rizes kept in #tock, Call und vee for youpselves.¥ co.2269 THE FRONTIER AXL _ Rock Island, May 7th.etn.LUMBER FOR £ALE.D'HENSION lomber, all sizes, shin- 3 gle, Inth, clapboarde, matched lum- or fluor Lourde, &ec., for sale at the will J.H.MERRILL.Lilok Bay, May 18, 1680.wi Vel, be Sta XLIV.\u2014No.41.\u201cMr.Babcock, the Agent.\u201d BY THOMAS I's MONTFORD.As he came swinging up the path that led across the prairie from the Cross Roads store, Felix Skaggs presented a picture of utter despair.All about was peace and joy.The broad prairie spreading back for miles in every direction in one broad level plain, was green with the spring grass, while the evening breezes came up laden wilh the sweet scents of a thousand wild flowers.The surroundings were certainly all that one could ask, but Felix was blind to it and stumbled on with bis eyes cast down.: Mrs.Sknggs met her husband at the door of the little sod house, and in a trembling tone asked : \u2018\u2018Has it gone against us, Felix?\u201d \u201cYes,\u201d Le replied, \u2018\u2018it has.\u201d Felix threw his slouched wool hat down on the ground, and dropping himself on the door step, gave a deep drawn sigh and sat for several miv- utes with his face buried in his hands.It was quite a while hefore Mrs.Skaggs felt able to say anything more, but at last steadying her voice with an effort she said: \u201cWell, Felix, it\u2019s bad, but we musn\u2019t worry over it.It's a great misfortune to us, but it might have heen worse, now mightn\u2019t it?\u201d \u201cI don't know how it could well have been worse.Having to give up the claim after we've lived on it so long, and after we've worked and saved and improved it, ain't no trifling matter, I can tell you.\u201d \u201cNo, I know that, Felix.Its a bad loss to us, but we must bear up against it.\u201d Felix shook his head doubtingly and drawing a coarse, goiled sleeve across his face to wipe away the perspiration, went on : \u201cIt\u2019s easy to talk Tilly, but it ain°t easy to bear such losses as this.Ite- member the years we have lived here toiling and struggling against drougbts and pests, doing everything we could to get a home started.And, now, just when we begin to see the light, and begin to feel that our efforts are going to be rewarded, here comes this land grabber and takes it all away from us, and turns us out in the world with nothing.All gone, swept away at one sweep.\u201d *Reckon vou can\u2019t be mistaken, Felix ?\u201d \u201cNo; I wish 1 was.\u2019Fhere\u2019s no chance for any mistake, Tilly; none in the world.Bert Hart was telling us at the store that the case had been decided and that the settlers would have to give up their claims or buy them over again from the land grabber.Bert was up to the land office yesterday, and so there can\u2019t he any mistake about it.Old Joyce has got the land and we bave got nothing.\u201d \u201cPerhaps we could buy it again.\u201d \u201cWhat! After it is stolen from us, go to work and buy it back! Never.\u201d \u201cWhen will we have to leave?\u201d \u201cI don\u2019t know.Old Joyce's agent will be at the Cross Roads to-morrrow to meet the settlers, and 1 reckon we'll find ont then all about it.\u201d For eight years the settlers in a certain section of Kansas had labored to improve their claims and build up hones, confident of their titles, aud little dreaming that the day was coming wien another claimant would appear to dispute their rights and thrust them from the land.Felix Skaggs and his wife had been among the most industrious and persevering of the pioneers, and had succeeded in saving up mouey enough to build them a neat house which was almost finished when the trouble came on them.For a long time the matter had Leeuw in litigation, and the settlers, feeling that they were in the right, were confident that the courts would decide in their favor.But Bert Harts information was correct, and the next day the people collected in at the Cross Roads\u2019 store to hear what the ngent had to say.Felix went over early and was standing on the platform when the agent came up.Mr.Babcock was the agent's name, and Felix was a little surprised when they met, for he bad expected to find the agent a very cross, sour, crahbbed old fellow, whereas lie proved to be ¢ very mild, affable gentlemen, quite willing to give information ou any point cou- nected with his business.\u201cNow, gentlemen,\u201d he said, addressing the crowd collectively, \u201cI have byt this one proposition to make.If you wish to retain your claims you can do so by paying me 83 per acre, and the terms can be arranged so as to give you ample time to pay out.\u201d \u201cBut if we don't wish to buy the land from you after we've owned it and improved it, then what?\u201d Hart asked, \u201cIf vou don't wish to buy it, of course you must move off and give possession.\u201d So it was settled, and as there was ho way around it the men left for their homes in anything but a plens- ant frame of mind.\u201cWhat's the news, Felix?\u2019 Mis, Skaggs asked when her husband returned.+ Nothing, only we have got to give up the claim.\u201d .\u2018Then there's no doirg anything with the agent?\u201d \u201cNot a thing, It's possession or 85 an acre with him, and with us ile possession.of course.\u201d During the next two wceks many personal appeals were made Lo the agent, and though he was wild and gracious in his replies, he showed no disposition to deviate from his first terns, \u201cI would be glad to aid you,\u201d he would say, *\u2018but under the cireum- stances I cannot vary from my rules.\u201d So in time the people, already sore, began to thiuk and speak of Mr.Babcock as a hard, uufecling man, whose whole object wne grind them down, Finally Felix wen) away 19 aces nstead Journal.ROCK ISLAND, (STANSTEAD) P.Q., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1889, gone Mrs.Skaggs became sick, and it was necessary to send for a doctor, Jennie Skaggs, the 12-year-old child, was sent over to the Cross Roads to ask some one to go from there.\u201cIts a long walk to the store, Jennie,\u201d the mother said as the child started off, \u201cbut you can find the way easily, and you needn\u2019t be in any hurry coming back, only so you reach home before night.\u201d Jeunie tripped away and in due time reached the Cross Roads, where she told her errand to the storekeeper and asked him to aid her in finding some one to go for the doctor.\u201cWhy, ves, I'll help vou, of course,\u201d said the storekeeper, *tbutl don\u2019t see unybody here just now as could go.There'll be some one here directly, though, and if vou want to go on back I'll attend to it for you and send as soon as possible.\u201d Jennie waited, however, fearing that the storekeeper might forget, and it was growing quite late when she departed for home; so late, in fact, that before she had gone half the distance darkness came on and she lost the road.While she was wandering about on the prairie she heard the clatter of horses\u2019 feet coming toward her, and waiting where she was a buggy drawn hy two dashing horses soon drew up.The driver caught a glimpse of the child\u2019s white dress and, halting, cried out: \u201cHello, Lere, what's the matter?\u201d \u201cPlease sir, I'm lost.\u201d \u201cLost, eh?\u201d the man replied in a mild, kind tone.**Well, now, that is bad.Where do you want to go, little girl?\u201d \u201cMy pa\u2019s name is Felix and I want to go home.know where he lives?\u201d \u201cIelix Skaggs?Um, why, no, I believe 1 don\u2019t.I haven't been here long, and I'm not much acquainted yet.\u201d \u201cWell, it's five miles from the Cross Roads on the road leading to the new coal mines.A little sod Louse with a new frame house almost completed.\u201d \u201cOh.that's it, is it?Well, I know the way there, and as it's a very little out of the way I'll take you home if you want to ride.Climb in.\u201d \u201cThank vou, sir, 1 shall be ever so glad, only I'm afraid it will put you to too much trouble.\u201d \u201cOk, it's no trouble.Just get in.\u201d For a little ways they went in si- fence and then the man asked suddenly : \u201cHow cane you to be out so late and so far away from home?\u201d \u201cMy mother is sick and I went over to the store to get some one Lo go for the doctor.\u201d \u201cWhere's your pa?\u201d \u201cMe\u2019s*Bone away to hunt a place to get a new home.\u201d Skaggs Do vou \u201cThen you are going to wove away?\u201d \u2018Yes, sir; we have io, but it's awful bad.Pa and ma both take it mighty hard, but the agent is too mean to let us stay, B80 we have to give up the place and everything.It\u2019s terribly bad.don\u2019t you think?\u201d \u201cYes, it is.Dut you may judge the agent wrong.I'm sure hie doesn\u2019t wish to turn vou out.He has his instructions, and he has to follow them, whether he likes to do it or not.\u201d \u201cDo you know him?\u201d +Ye-¢s, to some extent.\u201d \u201cDo you think he is a good man?\u201d \u201cWell, I wouldn\u2019t like to say as to that, now, because none of us are as good as we might be.I'm sure, though, Mr.Babcock intends to do right, and his sympathies ave with the poor settlers, and if he could help them out of their trouble he would do it.\u201d \u201cThe people think he is bad and unfeeling.\u201d \u201cYes, I know, but they think wrong of him.He does not act for himself, but for another, and another man as agent might do worse than he does.\u201d \u201cYes, he might.poor pa and ma.\u201d \u201cWill they he quite poor?\u201d \u2018Yes sir.The wagon and lorses and the things in the house is all that will be left.\u201d \u201cPerhaps their friends would help thew to get started again.\u201d \u201cNo, sir, I think not.You see we haven't any friends out here, and pa has no parents, and mas father won't have anything to do with her any more.No there's nobody to help them.\u201d \u201cWhy won't your ma\u2019s father have anything io do with her?\u201d +1 oughtn't to tell you such things, ought 177 \u201cWell, it can't do any harm, and it may he thut [ can help them some wav.\u201d \u201cAh, 1 wish you could.\u201d \u201cPerhaps I can if I know ail about it.Do you know why your grandfather acts 80 bad toward your mother?\u201d \u201cNo, sir, only that he don't like pa, and when pa and ma married they came off to Kansas, and they never write back home apd never gel any letters.\u201d \u201cThat's too bad.rich?\u201d Yes, sir; ma says ie has lots of land and money and\u2014and\u2014every- thing.\u201d \u201cHum, hum ; too bad, too bad.\u201d *He\u2019s not a very good grandpa, is he?\u201d \u201cWell, I don't know.We could tell better about that if we were lo sce lim.Would you like to sce him?\u201d \u201cYes, sir, 1 suppose 1 would.\u201d \u201cWhy don't your ma write to him and tell him all about this trouble?He might belp lier.\u201d \u201cShe did speak about it and so did pa, but they said it wouldn't do any good, so they gave it up.\u201d Then there followed several minutes of silence, aud as the horses trotted leisurely a'ong, the man looked thoughtfully at the bottom of his buggy while the girl louked out across the prairle, forming in.aginar picthres in the darkness, \u2018Chey ha But it's bad for Is your grandpa almost reached Jennic\u2019s home when her companion raised his head, and shaking himself as if he had just awoke frow sleep, asked : \u2018Do vou know your uame ?\u201d \u201cYes, sir, it is Reuben Thaver.\u201d \u201c\u2018Wliat town does he live in?\" \u201cHe lives in Ohio, but I forget the town.\u201d *Cau\u2019t you remember it?\u201d \u201cI\u2019m afraid not.But I have it on a slip of paper here.Do you want it?\u201d \u201cYes, I do.to do with it\u201d \u2018\u2018T\u2014vou won*tnevertell, will you?\u201d \u201cIndeed 1 won't.\u201d \u201c1 was going to write to him and tell him everything, but I was afraid to write, and I didu\u2019t.\u201d \u2018Look here.I've thought up a little scheme.Can you keep a secret ?\u201d \u201cYes, sir; if I ought to, I can.\u201d \u201cWell, vou ought to this time and you must.Now we'll go in together and put up a little job upou your pa and ma.We'll write to Mr.What's- his-name\u2014your grandpa, I mean\u2014 we'll write to him and tell Lim all about this trouble, and [I'll bet you anything it turns out all right.If it don\u2019t why there won't he any harm done, and nobody but you and 1 will be disappointed.Now, what do you say to that?\u201d «+]J\u2014I don\u2019t know.it would be right?\u201d \u201cWhy, of course.There couldn\u2019t be any harm in it, could there!\u201d \u201cNo, sir, and I think it would be a good idea.\u201d \u201cThen I'll write the letter when I get back, und you must keep perfectly still about it.\u201d \u201cI will, and if it all comes around right pa and ma will be happy.Won- dey what the agent would think?\u201d \u201cWhy, he'd ce as glad as could be.\u201d The buggy rolled back across the prairie, and after Jennie had waited a few woments to listen to the clattering of the horses\u2019 feet, she went into the house.\u201cYou were so late, Jennie,\u201d the motber said, \u2018\u2018that I began to feel uneasy about you.I was afraid you had lost the way.\u201d Jennie then told about Ler experience of the might and her meeting with the stranger who brought her home.\u201cWhat was his name ?\u2019 the mother asked.\u201cOL, I never once thought to ask him.He was a good, kind man, though, and I wish he was the agent instead of Mr.Babcock, don\u2019t you, mother?\u201d \u20181 wish some one who has more heart than Mr.Babcock was agent.\u201d «The gentleman, said Mr.Babcock was pot to blame, though, and that the people judge Lim wrong.\u201d \u201cThat's all very well to say, but people whose homes are taken away don\u2019t see it so well.What does Mr.Babcock care if we are turned out of doors without a dollar in the world?People who are not robbed don\u2019t know.\u201d A week passed and, though the doctor\u2019s visits bad been regular, Mrs.Skaggs\u2019 condition had not improved, and the doctor thought it not likely to improve while her mind was so burdened with care and anxiety.Jennie had been kept close to the louse grandpa's What were you going Do you think and during all the week she had seen no wore of him.It was late in the afternoon of Sunday and the doctor had made his visit and departed.Jennie came out to the fence to watch him as he rode a moving object so distant as to he almost indiscernible.After a while the object passed out of sight behind a *\u2018rise,\u201d and when it came inlo view again, ten minutes later, she could distinctly see that it was a buggy.\u201cThe stranger, coming back,\u201d she thought, \u201c*and vow I shall know all about grandpa.Ab, if he writes a good letter, or says something gnod for ma, won't I be happy?There's two people in the buggy.Wonder who the other can be.\u201d Within a half hour the buggy drove up Ww the gate, and Jennie, still waiting, saw that she was right, and that the driver was indeed the man with whom she rode that night.Bul there was a stranger, too, a tali, plensant-lvoking man will gray hair and beard, and the horses had hardly stopped when he came tuwbling out, and, without wailing for bis cowpan- jon, tore away towards the house and entered without a word to any one.Jennie stood starving after the strange man and wondering at his actions when the other approached and takiug her in his arms kissed her, saying: \u201cOur little scheme splendidly, didn\u2019t it?\u201d *[\u2014is that hiw ?\u201d \u201cThat's your grandpa, aud he's going to help your pa and ma out, and\u2014\" «Mr.Babeock can\u2019t burt them, can he?You're so good and kind.\u201d \u201cDon\u2019t you think Mr.Babcock would bave done as much as 1 Lave done\u201d \u201cNo, sir, I'm sure he wouldu't.You seem tolike him, but I'm afraid vou don\u2019t kuow him as well as we do.\u201d He hasn't 1aken your howe from you?\u201d «Xo, he hasn't, and he hasu't taken yours of his own cheice.I know him quite well, little girl, and though he is not as good as he ought to be, he is far from the sort of man you think he is, and he's just as glad as you are at what has happened to you and your parents.Dou\u2019t you believe that?\u201d There was a twinkle in the mau\u2019s eyes and a swile lurking about his lips that excited the girl's suspicion, aud after she Lad looked at bim very bard for s mioute she threw her arms about his neck, saying: \u201cYou'ic Mr.Babcock gourezlf, I know you now, and that's who you are.worked out \u201cYes, I'm Mr.Babeack, and I do rejoice in your good fortune aud hope vou will always be happy in the old Ohio home.\u201d \u2014\u2014- -_-.- Heavy Storm on the Atlantic Coast.LIVES LOST AT DELAWARE BREAKWATER.Lewes, Del., September 11.\u2014The wind blew a gale all day yesterday and last night, and is still blowing.The tide is the highest since 1867.Telegraphic communication with the Breakwater is destroyed.The schooners Allen Covert, Henry M.Clarke, J.F.Becker, Byron M., Maud Seward, Norena, Gertrude Summers, and four unknown schooners are ashore.Both wooden piers have been destroyed.A three-masted schooner is ashore just outside the inner bar and is fast going to pieces with the crew of ten men clinging to the rigging.The lines which the life-saving crew have shot over her are tangled in such a manner as to make it impossible to send out the car.No human power can save the sailors.THE LIST OF WRECKS LENGTHENING.The schooner J.& L.Bryan eank up the bay last night.The mate and one colored seaman are the only survivors.The schooners Kate KE.Morse and Walter F.Parker have sunk at Fourteen Foot bank.The survivors of the Bryan think they ave the only saved of the three vessels.\u2018They came down the bay on a batch.The Bryan was coal laden.The barque Thomas Keiller, (Br.) from Philadelphia for London, appears to Le on the beach.The barque Atalanta, (Dan.) from Hamburg for Philadelphia, and the schooner Nettie Champion are ashore below the iron pier.At 3.30 p.m.the slorm is still raging.The seais up to the town and everything on the beach is submerged.WAVES IN SECOND STORY WINDOWS.SaLissurr, Md., September 11.\u2014 Reports of a startling character are coming in of the storm at Ocean City, Md., though the telegraph office there is unoccupied.The large columns supporting the porches at the hotels and cottages are washed away, the doors and windows are broken down and the furniture is floating about the beach.The seas last night were breaking to the second story of the Atlantic hotel and Congress hall, and huge waves were running through the hotels six feet decp.The furniture is floating in the rooms.The daucing pavilion at the Atlantic hotel is demolished, and the roofs of the several cottages and the porches are blown away.There is not a vestige of a bath house on the beach.The lifesaving station was damaged, and the.crew were prepared to desert it last night.A special train was sent over last night to rescue the dwellers on the beach.A RESCUING PARTY'S PERIL.The work was accomplished by a large number of stout men joining hands and wading through water waist deep.They brought the ladies to the cars one by one scated on their joined hands.In this way all were saved.It was a perilous undertaking and several times the rescuers were knocked down.Mr.Stokes, one of ; ; : rescui rty, w since the night she wet the stranger, ! the rescuing party, was washed out to sea, but an incoming wave threw : him back towards the beach and he away, and was still looking after him : when she saw awuy across the prairie was saved.The last occupants af the beach, who left last night, expected al} the cottages and portions of the hotels would be washed away.THE DAMAGE UNPRECEDENTED.PHILADELPHIA, September 11.\u2014 From Bay Head to Barnegat City, N.J., the damage by wina and wave has been unprecedented in the history of the coast.Between Sea Side Park and Berkely the railroad has been washed away su no trains can run.The handsome Berkeley Arms at Berkeley has been damaged, a portion of the roof being carried away.The new board walk was carried clean across the beach.Beach Haven, Barnegat, Loug Beach City, Harvey Cedars and otber points on Long Beach are inundated and the railroads in places washed away in many places.ALL COMMUNICATIONS CUT OFF.Holly Beach, Anglesesea, Sea Isle City, Ocean City and Avalon are unapproachable by rail.Along the Au- glesesea and Avalon branches of the West Jersey railroad the road is badly washed away and probably no rail communication can be bad for three or four days.Sea lsle City is the lowest point hlong the coast, and it is feared the damage there may be scri- ous.No trains have passed over either of these branch roads since Monday evening.At Manhattan the bridge has been damaged and fears ave felt for the safety of the draw tender, who is a prisoner in his frail house ou the bridge.lle cannot reach shore and no boat can reach him, as the sca is running too bigh.TAKING ADVANTAGE OF EBB TIDE.Supt.Dayton, of the West Jersey and Camden and Atlantic railways, to-night at Camden, stated that at ebb tide this afternoon gangs of men made their way from Pleasantville almost into Atlantic city over tle Camden and Atlantic railroad.Telegraphic communication was at the same time established to within a short distance of the water bound city.Halt a dozen shanties onthe beach at the extreme southern ead of the island were burned last night.The veport of the demolition of the board-walk is confirmed, and the booths, pavilions, and places of amusemeut located there were likewise destroyed.On the West Jersey road it will be three days before trains can be run over it between Pleasantville and Atlantic City.The Leading railroad is also in bad shape, ond some time must elapse before trains can too.ENTIRE HOTELS WASHED AWAY, Postmaster Chester, of Sea Isle City, to-day made his way to the mainland and reports things in very bad shape there.\u2018I'he sea wall has heen destroyed.About fifteen houses have heen washed away, including the Newland house, the Star house and the Shakespeare hotel.The Continental hotel, the largest there, is all right.\u2018The Excursion house, which is on the ocean front, and the Surf Louse are in danger of destruction tonight.Chester does not report any luss of life.The Townsend Iulet bridge, an important structure, is reported washed off.Many miles of railroad tracks have been carried away by the high water on the coast and weeks will be required tô place the lines where they were before the storm.SANDY HOOK MADE AN ISLAND.SEABRIGHT, N.J., September 11.\u2014 Last night was a night of terror here.The surf thundered away on the east side and on the west, the water in the Shrewsbury river rapidly overflowed into the streets, flooding the houses and stores.The sea cut a new inlet into the Shrewsbury river north of Seabright, near where there was an inlet 100 years ago, tearing away the Sandy Hook tracks of the Central and again making Sandy Hook an island.A number of cottages were wrecked.Several bodies have been floating in the surf, but no one could recover them.Ali the cottagers north of here have vacated their honses, and arc at the hotels here and at Red Bank and Long Branch.The Valencia club boat house, the largest and fluest at the Elysian Fields, Hoboken, succumbed to the violence of the gale this morning and not a veslige of it remains.Sixteen boats belonging to the club and six boats owned by private persons were destroyed.Sixteen yaclits of the Jersey City Yacht Club were sunk during the night.At the Harlem club's anchorage veslerday over thirty vachts were seen.Quly one remains to-day.Of the others some are sunk, others are cast high and dry far up iu its yard, and what are left are scattered along the Harlem and East rivers.The other clubs also had several yachts carried away.UNEASY ABOUT SHIPPING.There is a great uneasiness felt by members of the Maritime exchange for the safety of vessels.Only four vessels have come up to quarantine since last night.Nothing las yet been heard from the big ocean racer, Teutonic.Along the Battery wall the waves dashed far into the park tbis morning.The iron railing surrounding the wall alongside of the dock commissioners\u2019 building at pier IA was carried away while the docks at Castle Garden was completely washed.The custom bouse quarters at the end of the immigrant dock was filled with water and the landing agent's oflice and the adjoining building were submerged.Tle rainfall this morning was sixty-one hundredths of an inch.MANY PILOTS CARRIED TO SEA.Nine pilots were carried away today on steamers they were directing outward.\u2018They could not meet any pilot boat to take them off on account of the storm.Most of the steamers were bound for Europe.Had desth dealt destruction to every guest at ali the hotels on Coney Island the panic and confusion that would prevail there could hardly present a more terrible scene than was pictured to the eye from the Oriental hotel to the end of West Brighton.A ROAR LIKE NIAGARA.The roar of the ocean as the mountainous waves fell could be heard at Sheepshead bay as plainly as the roar of Niagara is heard at the hotels in the village near the cliffs.The island fairly trembled as the wind swept like a cyclone over the raging waters.It grew iu velocity as the tide began to set in.Yesterday, ahont 5 o'clock, the waves struck the bulkheads as if an invisible battering ram that reached from one end of the stand to the other had been dashed behind them with full force.A TERRIFIC SCENE.Men, women and children huddled together in the hallways, and as the wind screeched over the roofs and the huge timbers trembled, not a few of the more timid wept and prayed.It was a night that no man, woman or child that experienced it will ever forget.As lide rose in the morning the wind grew into a gale that lifted men off their feet ou the pathways until, no longer able to fuce the hurricane, they took refuge in whatever building seemed far cuough away from the sea to be out of danger.Doors were bound, windows nailed and every precaution taken to keep the flerce wind from gaining an entrance.It was al limes 8 question of life or death to run the risk of letting (Le cyclone euter, for whenever it entered it was certain to make an exit even through stone walls.OLD OCRAN\u2019S TERRIFIC CHARGE.To the very threshold of the Oriental, the Manhattan and the Brighton, the huge sen swept on, aud over-top- ping the waves were huge beams and planks, aud even coucrete slabs and rods of iron.Over and over again as quickly as it receded, the terrific charge of the long column of waves followed in mighty ridges, uccasion- ally breaking here and there where it encountered one of the great bulkheads.At every plunge it made towards the hotels it tore timbers into à thousand pieces.\"I'he storm was merciless at Brighton.The huge mountains of water surged over the logwars and wound the wire fences inlo rolls which were pitched and tossed as if they were balls light as cotton.OVER THE ROOFS.Their first great viclim wae the bathing pavilion, which bad stood out near the hoiel on lie elrivelied log WIIOLE NUMBER, 2278.a little after six in the morning when it was struck.Aun idea of the height of the billows can be realized when it is stated that they broke cleau over the roof as they dashed against it.The building swayed to and fro like a giant waking out of his sleep, and then, as again and again it was battered, it began to rock like a tremendous cradle.Suddenly there was a crash, and torn into a thousand pieces it disappeared beneath the waves, only to be tossed in the shape of hundre of loads of split kindling wood on the beach.VERY NEARLY A TRAGEDY.The Shelter house, about half a mile above West Brighton, came near being the scene of a tragedy.W.F.Murray, his mother, wife and three children who occupicd it, were awakened by the noise of crashing timbers that followed the thunderous beating of tlie great waves on the shore.They found the lower part of the louse already filled with water, the front steps and greater sections of the verauda had already been wrenched away.The house trembled like a leaf as each shock of thie waves on the beach sent the water up over it in seething foam aod coveloped everything in a dark dense mist.The women rushed about screaming and panic-stricken.With indomitable coolness Murray first barricaded the front doors and then, quieting the fears of the women and children, conveyed them through the back door to a place of safety.Twenty minutes afterward the edifice fell in a shapeless mass of wooden fragments.ALL THE CREW LOST.Among other damage reported at Rockaway was the loss of a two-mast- ed schooner which was wrecked in Goose channel.No one had seen any sailors from it, and the belief was that the crew of the vessel must bave been lost.The Idlewild club house, owned by Jolin H.Sutphin, was soaked to the second story.Dr.C.H.Belden\u2019s club house on Jamaica bay was carried away.The clu house of the Undine clab was inundated.Drift and Discussion.The question of revising thie Presbyterian confession of faill continues to be mildly agitated in the denominational press.Prof.Shedd presents this week in the Evangelist an array of reasons why there should be no chauge in the course of which he says: The revision of a denominational creed is a rare occurrence in ecclesiastical bis- tory.Commonly a denomination remains from first to last upon the base that was laid for it in the beginning by its fathers aud founders.And when revision does occur, it is seldom in the direction of fullness and precision.Usually the alteration is in favor of vague aud looser statements.Even slight changes are apt to be followed by greater ones.The disposition to revise and alte: needs watching.In an age when the general drift of the unregenerate world is away from the strong statements of the Hebrew prophets, of Christ and his inspired Apostles, it is of the utmost importance that the regenerate church in all its denozrainations, should stand firm in the old paths, and hold fast to that \u2018Word of God which is sharper than a two-edged sword, piercing even to tbe dividing assunder of soul and spirit.\u201d Editor Field of the Evangelist, however, is not convinced by Prof.Shedd\u2019s reasoning.For what does it all amount to?he inquires.Simply this: That 200 years ago a company of men met in England to frame a confession of faith.They were good men, pious men, and learned men ; and they sat for years brooding over the work which they bad in Land ; as the 1csult of which long deliberation they agreed upon this form of doctrine; aod heuce it is sssuming a great deal to think that we are wiser than they, and can improve upon what they did with so much prayer sod pains.Very truc ; but the same argument would forbid any revision, not only now, but hereafter.If we learned nothing in 200 years, we shall not in 2000; so that we are estopped forever from trying to see the things of God more clearly, or to express them more plainly.*\u2018But if you once begin you will pot know where to stop.\u201d \u2018That, too, is an objection which will hold as good at the cnd of the 20th century as of the 18th.We must not touch a single sentence.Is nol this virtually assuming a sort of infalibility for our system of doctrine?The Ro- manists have an infallible pope and we bave an infallible creed! But we are told that the confession is broad and liberal enough to hold all sorts of Calvinists.Is it then constructed on the principle of some of our political platforms, which are so adroitly framed as to mean one thing in one place, aod quite a different thing iu another?Of these we are accustomed to say that they are framed \u2018\u2018with intent to deceive.\u201d But surely we do not mean to made such à humilitating confession in regard to the symbols of our Christiau faith ! The number of Indian childreu educated by each of the leadiog denominations toward which government contributes per capita support is summarized by a church periodical.Under the care of Presbyterians are 877 children, under Congregationalists 232, under the Friends 257, while several other denominations instruct fiom 13 to 48 apiece.But the astounding fact disclosed, exclaims the Congregationalist,-is that 2098 are being educated ia Romau Catholic schools.It should be said, it continues, that the Presbyterians can account for 2441 children in their schools, for ouly about 400 of whom does the government extend any help.We presume that each evangelical denomination is doing much more than the above figures would iudicate.At the same time it is also possible that the activity of the Roman Catholics upon the Indian reservations is not by any means summed np in even tliess slart log iatintiony view pf the fast that more than twice as many children are being educated in Catholic schools at the expense of the government as are in the schools of all the other denominations combined, we trust we shall not be accused of bigotry if we politely ask ** Why.\u201d Rev.Dr.Charles 5S.Robinson has an article by way of comment aod mild criticism in the New York Observer on the character of the 50 American hymns voted the \u2018\u2018best\u201d by several hundred readers of that paper.It would be easy, says Dr.Robinson, to suggest 10 or 20 real hymns\u2014stars of first wagnitude\u2014not one of which appears in this list.But many would exclaim, \u2018We do not know them, they are never sung.\u201d \u2018There is no one thing which has done more to clebase the popular conception of song as an instrument of worship in this country \u2014no one thing which has hindered growth in devotional thought and taste in composition both of music and hymns \u2014thaa the introduction into the sedateness and grandeur of public worship on the Lord\u2019s day of these new religious ballads like *¢Almost persuaded\u201d and \u2018Pull for the shore.\u201d I do oot say that hymns addressed to sinners are out of the pale of charity.But when the camp-meet- ing styles comes up from the rinks and hippodromes into the lecture- rooms and sanctuaries, it speedily displaces that which is far better.The venerabie American Bibla s0- ciely of New York has just made its 73d avoual report.Its record asa distrbutor of the scriptures to the nations of the earth is a striking one.\u2018There were printed during the year 843,225 Bibles ; 525,450 Testatments ; 125,420 scripture portions, aod 353 volumes for the blind; making a total of 99,448.This total with what it received from abroad, made tbe final total, 1,453,357 volumes.There were distributed from the Bible louse, 1,005,774, and 434,681 from foreign depots.Among the chief issues abroad were these: At Constaoti- nople, 5000 Bibles and 4000 Testaments in Armenian, and 23,000 portions in Armeno-Turkish; at Beirut, 16,000 Testaments and 42,000 portions in Arabic; at Shanghai, 3200 Testaments and 25,000 portions in Wenli ; 3000 Testaments and 190,500 portions in Mandarin; 6600 portions Shanghai colloquial, and 9000 portions Cantou colloquial ; and at Foochow, 1000 portions in Foocuow colloquial; making in all 238,300 volumes; at Bangkok, 25000 portions in Siamese were distributed, at Yokohama, 2092 Bibles, 27,408 Tostaments, and 31,650 portions in Japauese; at Breman, 5000 Bibles and 23,185 Testaments in German, and at Lodiana, Iudia, 1000 portions in Gurwukhi.The income of the society from all sources amounted to $499,823, while the expenditures in the manufacturing department reached $405,733, and the disbursements to foreign agencies and various foreign missionary societies, amounted to $161,439.Que who keeps abreast in the movements in modern thoughts and life, as revealed through the questions with which men\u2019s minds are busy, cauoot help being struck with the growing prominence which distinctively religious subjects are securing.No better single illustration of this can be had than the space which the most influential periodicals are devoting to discussions relaling to the interests of the Christian faith.The fact that professedly secular publications of the very highest grades are yielding their pages month after month to long and serious articles of the theological or religious type is profoundly siguifi- cant.\u2014[The Coogregationalist.Because of the lack of moral training the government schools of Indix are said by the Christian Intelligencer to send forth young wen insubordinate headstrong and without a sense of moral obligation.At a great representative meeting of Moslems it was, after deliberation, resolved that, in ali places where they had no schools of their own, the young men of their community should be sent to missionary schools.This was by vote of 170 to 30.Many wost respectable Hindus are of the same mind.This story of Spurgeon was told by a London paper recently : \u2014 At the Metropoli'an taberaacie on Sunday cvening Rev.C.H.Spur- geou, in referring to the belief of Christians, said that some time agu he became doubtful and sad at heart, and began to wonder if he really possessed what he preached to others.He went down into the country, and found himself in a Methodist chapel, the preacher on the occasion being an engineer.During the delivery of the sermon the tears rolled down his (Mr.Spurgeon\u2019s) checks, and he was moved with deep emotion.At the conclusion of the service he went and thanked the preacher, who at once asked who the inquirer was, and after being iuformed, the engineer's face flushed, and he said, Oh, it was one of your sermons tbat I preached.\u201d Mr.Spurgeon said, *\u2018Yes, I know it was.\u201d The speaker, continuing, said he felt quite right after hearing the sermon, and was relieved to think that the sermon had had such an effect upon him, and he hoped his words had the same influence un others.He thought it was by the most remarkable providence of God that he should have heard one of his own sermons preached.\u2014[Springfield Republican.\u2014_ 0 A sea captain who is the most wreckless is the one who ought to receive the biggest pay.\u201cAlthough I'm stuck up I am not proud,\u201d said the fly as he crawled out of the molasses pitcher.It is not putting things ia tho right place that bothers a man so much as finding the right place after he has put things in it.She\u2014What does a Chicaman call his sweetheart, I wonder?Ho =\"Dovsy,\u201d 1 : Ÿ nr do spas pipes gi A i » rN «© > re aie SE ipsa, Te a A Ra aa fide £458 aes peak - LT NE = asx 5 14 te.awe =r HR ne The Stanstead Journal.THURSDAY, BEPTEMBER 19, 1889.There was a $25,000 fire at Medina, N.Y.on Saturday.It is reported that Gen.Warner, of the G.A.R.will succeed Mr.Tanner as Commissioner of Pensions.One Napoleon Michael, of Scotts- town, died on the 9th inst.by getting choked with a piece of rare beef.Hon.Loveland Munson, of Manchester, Vt., has been appointed a Judge of the Supreme Court in place of Judge Veasey, resigned.The new United States iron cruiser, Baltimore made a successful tris! trip last week, and is said to have exhibited a speed of 20 knots an hour.A big strike in the Connelsville coal region has ended and 9000 men employed by the Rochester and Pittsburg Coal and Iron Company resumed work on Monday.The new valuation 10ll of the city of Sherbrooke shows an increase of valuation of 880,000, and the Council reduced the annual assessment one mill on the dollar.On our third page to-day will be found a striking and instructive illustration of the comparative worth of the various kinds of baking powders pow in the market.The local newspapers of the Enst- ern Townships are talking of organ- izizing a press association.What will they do for a Forbes ?\u2014[ Express & Standard.Haven'twe a T.L.Q.7?Mr.W.Sawyer, of Sawyerville, ex-M.P.P.for Compton County and Mrs.Sawyer, celebrated their golden wedding Sept.10th, when they and their friends spent a very pleasant evening.J.8.Caswell, of East Montpelier, Vt., slot and killed Geo.Gould in a fit of jealons rage, both men heing enamored of the same woman.Cas- well claims that he was drunk when he did the shooting.A fire in Beauharnois, Que., on Sunday worning destroyed property estimated at $35,000.Like most Canadian villages the fire-fighting ap- partus was of the most primitive character.The fire burned itself.\u2018The Springficld Republican says a prize fight between two Massachusetts ¢\u201c\u2018sluggers\u201d took place on Vermont soil on Sunday, the 8th.The Newport Express invites \u201cCol.\u201d Forbes to see about it and stir up the Governor.Caledonia County, Vt., now has five newspapers, a new one having been started by Mr.John Harris, formerly of the Burlington Clipper.Harris is a racy writer, and the new venture will probably fill a long felt want.Bamberger, Bloom & Co's.big dry goods and notion store at Louisville, was burned Sunday night.Four firemen were killed and two are missing.Loss estimated at $750,000.\u2018The Chicago Exposition was damaged by fire Saturday night to the amount of $75,000.The trial of Donald Morrison, the Lake Megantic outlaw, is set for the first week in Oclober.There are three charges against him,\u2014arson, shooting at a woman, and murder.It bas been reported that the principal witnesses against him have left the country.Four men moose hunting near Ship Harbor, thirty oue miles East of Halifax, named Taylor, Armand, Mitchell anp Webber, and became separated.During the afternoon Taylor aud Armand saw the bushes moving and thinkiug it was a moose.flred, killing Mitchell and Webber almost instant- y.John L.Sullivan, pugilist, ct vete- ra, is out with a letter, announcing his willingness to be sent to Congress.He probably considers himself as \u201cgood a man\u201d as John Morrisey, who once represented a New York constituency in Congress, and kept himself in spending money by running a fashionable *\u2018hell\u201d at the Capital.Don\u2019t believe the stories of men going over Ningara Falls and coming out alive.There is a man who boasts of having done this feat, but he is an Annanias and Saphira liar.Two fools have passed the rapids below the falls this season and were not allowed to drown by the boatmeu below, as they would have done if left alone.A.G.Woodward, Esq., Ceroner, held an inquest at Ascot on the body of Philip C.Lowell, and after hearing the evidence, the jury rendered a verdict that he come to bis death by neglecting the proper treatment of poeumonia and objecting to medical assistance, trusting to a higher power for aid.Lowell left nine motherlese children, Judge Sicott died at St.Hyacinthe 8 few days since, aged 77 years.The administration of justice seems to have a tendency to leogthen the lives of ite administrators.Judge Sicotte entered public life 1852, and soon he- came known as a rising man, He was à member of three administrations | the last being the Sandfeld Maci-ns | md-Sicotte, ftom which he retired in 889 by scoeptiog » judgesbip.It is eaid the Manitobo government will cut the knot of the double language problem by the simple expedient of failing to insert in the Provincial estimates an item for printing procecdings and statutes in French.In this way they believe no opportuni- will be given the Federal authorities for interference in case any French members of tho Dominion Parliament move the matter.The great strike in England has virtually ended, tle employers having consented to raise the pay of the men to sixpence an hour, to commence the first of November.The adjusl- ment was brought about through tLe influence of Cardinal Manning and the English Archbishop of London, as both these high church dignitaries feared an emeute that would lead to riot and bloodshed.It would seem that the jirice agreed upon is note excessive, even from an European standpoint.\u2018Two weeks have been consumed in the Cronin murder trial in trying to get a jury without the first juror being selected.The trouble is in the law.The day has gone by when twelve intelligent men can be found in a case of this kind who bave not read about it and consequently formed an opinion.If a jury can be found who cannot read, and never have heard the facts in the Cronin case in Chicago, the worse for Chicago.The fact is the judicial systeimn needs reformation.Either the bench should have the power of passing judgment vith the law and evidence before them, or the debarring of intelligent jurymen cease.The new Protestant Insane Hospital now in the process of completion in Verdun, near Montreal, is a plain but capacious structure with all the modern improvements and resources which experience has taught the need of for the purposes required.All the walls are of stone lined with brick.The roofs are covered with slate on (Le sloping and galvanized iron on the flat parts.The institution is intended to do away with the farming out of patients as has been practiced to some extent in this Province.It will depend for support upon Municipal and individual donations from the benevolent.The peasion list of the United States contained the names of 345,125 persons on the pay list June 30th last.Up to the present time the number is about 400,000.Last year there was paid in pensions the sum of $88,275,000, and at that rate the United States will pay in a few years more than the cost of the civil war.The war ended twenty-five years ago, and yet there is persistent effort being made for 8 *\u2018service pension,\u201d that is every man sworn into the service, even for one day, shall have a pension, or if since dead, Lis widow and children.This it is said, would require more than 8100,000,900 a year, including as it would.the vast army of deserters and skulkers who never \u2018went to the front.\u201d \u2018The Government of the United States has been very liberal in providing for their soldiers, but it should be just ns well generous.The recent interview of the U.S.Senate committee on the relations of that country with Canada, with the business men of Boston and other parts of New England, brings out strongly the fact that they consider commercial relations, and railway connections through Canadian railways, of the most vital importance to them.While being in favor of commercial union, they are fuliy aware that it canuot be obtained, nor a union tariff system.But they do understand and favor reciprocity which can be obtained by the United States taking the initiative movement.When the old reciprocity treaty was abrogated by Congress, the Parliament of Canada adopted a resolution now on its statute books, tendering reciprocity in the exchange of the productions of coutries, whenever the Congress of the United States should take action in favor of such an act.The initiative must be taken by the United States as they wiped out the former treaty under which reciprocity existed.Under that system we believe, both countries prospered and the advantages were mutual.A restoration of an equitable system now would be found equally valuable.