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WILD WORK. A STUDY OF WESTERN LIFE. Based on Startling Incidents which have in the REI) RIVER Region of Louisiana'since the War. j stamping « thesmbienot v/o c/ ^ < j instant a thrill of joy throng Yon are the cause of all this trouble. Go. lit 1 pushed her from him, arid when she turned to her mother, who bad begun to cry, he sternly ordered her from the room. She went: her heart swelling with misery, but her eyes dry, her brain throbbing, active, ber purpose to save Caphdn Witehell unshaken. She would go to th:.- negro quarter and find some one that she might hire to take him the warning in time. She ran rapidly along the path that led to the quarter, situated at the loot , of the hill on which the dwelling house was , ; built. The night was clear; there was a glory of 1 f’ail SJJlT'eCt j stars overhead; later there would be a moon. It 1 was profoundly qui THE DRUGGISTS AGAIN. The “Christian Index and Baptist” objects to our article on the opening of drag stores on Sunday, that our plan of putting a card on the door bearing the street and number of the druggists’ residence, and thus meeting the needs of the sick, would keep the prescription- U3.Y 33. 33X3.'ST-<a_3Sr. [It is not claimed that all the minor incidents of this stoiy are true, or that events occurred exactlv in the order oi time they arc hex: given, but that the narrative outlines the actual his- ; tore of a noted career, and that the secret of the j culminating c itustrophe ta political tragedy) is j true as here given.] — CHAPTER X. Twilight was settling over the prospect oi rus- get fields and woods upon which Adelle looked ; as she sat by her window, having hardly cluing- ; ed her position since she watched from this i post, her brother and his companions riding | down the road an hour ago. The crimson streak , the sunset had left on the cloudless sky haddark- ened into a dusk red, almost the hue of the an- l tnmn woods with which it blended. The twilight was becoming gloomy in Adelle’s ! room, still she did not light her lamp or close j the w indow, out of which her eyes went in a far look that seemed to rest upon (he rim of a dis tant hill, melting into the faint radiance of the horizon Suddenly the line of her vision was broken. A head popped up above the window sill—a san- j dv haired,sallow faced head with abundant f reck- j les and two small ferret eyes. She started back, and the figure waved a deprecating hand. ‘Miss Dell, don’t be scared, it’s only me— ! Piper. I’ve got something to tell you. May I : come in?’ She recognized a waif, who had found lodge- j ment for two years past on Lanier’s piace, where j he did odd jobs about the house and yard, and i received victuals and clothes, and kind words or j cuffs Irom his employer, according as it suited j Lanier's capricious mood. His caprice could not effect Piper’s dog-like devotion to him, and the boy was as meek after receiving a sound j cursing, as though he had been listening to his j praises, though he was spiteful to the negroes, ! who disliked him and imposed upon him. Adelle had done him a service once, in re leasing him from a steel trap that had clamped him as be was robbing her father’s melon patch. She bound up his wound and kept bis secret. He never forgot it, and had more than once de clared that he would fight for her to the last drop of his blood: an assertion which Adelle, who had seen him take to his heels when assaulted by a turkey gobbler, had a right not to rely upon. ‘Come in,’ she said, feeling a presentiment that she would hear something connected with the uneasiness that had been weighing upon her since hearing Lanier’s her veins. She thought it was Derrick coming at last. Oh ! if he would only come ! She thought she might influence him if she could see him alone, she might work upon his feelings an 1 induce him to give up this wicked project; but to go there protection anyway, though I shouldn’t have dared to call you.’ She rode on; her father’s fields wore passed. The die was cast. She had set out on a strange, wild errand; it might save the life of the man she loved: it might cost her more than life. But she threw fear away from her as she rode, till Lanier’s house came in sight. It pat back some distance from the road lit a grove of oaks, but a broad walk led down to agate that opened almost 1 ist perpetually in trrtnsitu between the store and upon the road. What if Lanier or Derrick should his residence. Did it never occur to on- co- be sitting there on the fence, smoking their ei- ; f gars in the starlight, as they were fond of doing? em porarj th tt ail prescriptions are made by They would recognize the horse, the dog, and j physicians, and that if his point is well taken, the sound of a horse through these, herself. .She would have ridden ! it would keep the doctor in Ms ofii '3 all day hr off, sent for an around to avoid going near the house, but there j Sunday? We have seen physicians called out of Wtfi a broad ienced field on the other side ot the ! i , f . * road. There was nothing for her to do but to . ° ’ aL U on f ot '“ er hand, very many ride straight on at a quiet pace. She hardly i arues we have seen them sit through the whole breathed as she passed the gate, but no one | service without interruption. Thi The sound of a load laugh reached in pale distress whi'e the boy. tugging at the —to Lanier’s bense with Lanier and those other patch on his old jacket, delivered himself of 1 men, ali heated by drinking—to seek him there his information. ‘At what time to-night do they I would be madness; it. would only inflame his aim to make the attack ?’ ‘Late. After midnight, I think: jes before day. I heard Mr. Richard sav that was the time sleep was soundest and niggers was hardest to wake. They was fraid the darkies on the place j might interfere.’ ‘Then we will have time to warn him. Piper, | you will go, I know. Yon can ride my horse ; and I will pay you well, Piper. You know j where Captain Witehell lives. You were with j us the time we had the fish-fry on the Lake and ! camped near Captain Witchell’s place.’ •No ma’am I wasn’t. I had fever un ager. and never went. But if I knew where he lived, I dassent go there to-night.’ ‘Why ?’ ‘Why, Miss Dell, Mr. Ricbard’d miss me sure. He’d come upon me, cr he’d find out about me goin’, and he’d hang me then certain. ’Sides I wouldn’t go way there it night by myself for the biggest bag of money Captain Witchell’s got. I never could go about in the night. I’m scared to go back home now, close as ’ti3 and it not dark yet. I must go right away.’ ‘.Stop Piper. For my sake, I beg you to go I anger against her and strengthen his purpose. | She reached the quarter, a long row of log cabins in a grove of hickory trees. In the days J of slavery, they had all been occupied, but now, | with the exceptions of three or four, they had ; fallen into dilapidation- -the pigpens, theohick- | en coops, the little gar 3/11.3 that had been wont You will not be found out; nothing will hurt you; I will stand between you and harm. I will i and Mag and aunt Kate.’ write a note, and help you to get off' without j ‘When will they come back ?’ anyone flailing it out. And you shall have five j ‘Dey went ’bout sna down, can’t come home dollars, Piper.’ till day break, case dessf^ek so full it’s danger- ‘Miss Deli, I’d do it for the love of you with- j ous to cros3 it at night.’ out your money—rf I could. But I dassent. I| ‘Then you couldn’t go there after Willis for me?’ know Mr. Richard’ud find it out. He always! ‘To-night Law sake*' Miss Dell. It’s three finds out everything I do wrong. He’d run up j miles, and if the creek warnt up, Pd be trail! on me; and there’d be somethin’ worse’n that ; to go, any how. I never travel aboutany of scar on my head. He’d break every bone in my i nights tnout there’s men-iolks with me.’ skin I ongiiter be back home this minnet, to . ‘Would Silvy go?’ feed them horses. Miss Dell do yon want me to ' ‘Silvy’s sick a-bed, and you know Mag wouldn't carry any word to your brother?—somethin' you j stir a step out of de house at night to save life. words ami noting j J l0L ofeulf ? \Y r . e , her brother’s reckless looks and laughter. ' time, anu Adelle s The slim, lank figure sprang nimbly over the window sill. ‘Lock your door Miss Dell. I am afraid some body will see me. I come through the orchard; I knowed I could git to your window, by stoop in’ down as I rnn through the shrubbery, ’thout any them pry in’ niggers seein me.’ Adelle locked the door and came back to him. ‘Now Piper, what is it?’ ‘Promise me you wont let anybody know what I’m gom’ to tell you Miss Deil.’ ‘I can’t promise that until I know what it is I am to hear.’ ‘Well will you promise not to tell who told it to yon ?' ‘Y'es; I think I can promise that. Goon.’ ‘Well it’s jes this. There’s goin’ to be bloody doin’s. ’twixt now and sunrise, aDd I’m mighty sorry Mr. Richard and your brother Derrick's got a hand in it, for they’ll get hurted sure.’ ‘What do you mean? Oh! Piper tell meat once.’ ‘I will. You see I've noticed Mr. Richard’s been actin’ curus ever sence he come back from Malta. He’s all the time on the go, and nothin’ pleases him, and he’s fonder’n ever of Uringin’ me to my senses, as he calls slingin’ the tongs or the blacken bre.sk atter me. Tnen, I reckin, ‘tween him, and Mr. Derrick, I’ve had to till up the whisky bottle a dozen times. J coulil’nt make out what out. Two mor know that won’t let on about my havin’ told you anythin’, l'ou ’member your promise.’ ! sees sperits and gits scared outer her wits ‘Yes: there is something you must tell Der- j mightly sorry they’se all gone. What fer did rick for me. Tell him to come to me at once; ! you want Willis, Miss Deli?’ that I am sick; that I have just heard bad news j ‘To take a note to a friend away off, but I see and want him immediately. Tell him to come j I must try some other plan to get it carried, right away, Piper.’ ! Good night, Phillis.’ •I will certain, sure, Miss Dell,’ the boy said, j And baffled once more, but still resolute of as he jumped out of the window like a cat, and j pnrpose, she hurried back to the house, revolv- j took his way across the orchard. He meant to j ing in her mind what could be done. There j do as he said, but on reaching home, he was j seemed now but one alternative. She must her- , met by his irate master, who rated him roundly j self take the note to Oa.pt. Witehell, warning ] about having carried off’ the corncrib key, and j him of the attack that would be made that night. feed the horses at the proper J She ought not any how to trust a messenger less message was quite frightened j interested than herself. Such a one might prove out of his head. * " ' ‘ te ■ especially, were not . relied on. •No,' she said, as she crew near the house, T must go myself. At nine o'clock, father and , was there. I her ear as she passed, and, in the light that came through the windows, she caught sight of : dark figures standing and moving about on the gallery. She reached the end of the Leo, and j was about to urge her horse to a greater speed, when suddenly the animal started; the dog gave a sharp bark; she thought she heard a ru.-.tle in the woodsyxlose to her on the right. Site looked in that direction fearfully, but her eye could i not penetrate the gloom. She saw nothing— i unless—could that be some dark object hiding to exhibit rows of the inevitable long-legged col- behind the great oak tree close to the end of the lards, were no more; the shutterless doors gaped \ fence? wide, and the dirt chimneys had fallen. ‘On Bayard,’ she said low to her horse, and Into one of the cabins whose etilling smoke away he sped. Lanier’s farm was left behind, gave token ot habitation, Adelle entered. She j and she breathed more freelv. On and on—over found a negro woman patching a ragged gar- i hills, anil down iDto hollows threaded by ment, while she sang a hymn and rocked a baby 1 streams that babbled under the shadows. The to sleep with her toot upon the rocker of the loneliness of the road, the calmness of the night rude pine cradle. Anotuer child lay stretched began to give her courage. She ceased to stare belore the hearth asleep, his head nestled close j when a twig crackled under her horse’s feet, or sletping hound. The dog waked and j the night-prowling raccoon, skunk, or o’pos- sua rustled the fallen leaves of the wood. It grew late; the lights were out in the few farm houses she passed. The face of the coun try had altered; she was sure her journey was more than half ended; and yonder was a gib bons moon rising and gleaming through the trees. She struck a match and looked at her watch. Eleven o’clock. She had been an Lour and a half on the road. In less than an hour more her mission would be accomplished, or it would have failed. If nothing happened, she would be in time; he would be saved. But what of her return ? Might she not meet Lanier and the others on. her way back? She would not think of it. When she heard them coming, she couid rideout into the woods imtil they passed. She would not let the thought of it disturb her yet. The night was cool, the air crisp and bracing, the skies brightening over head, her horse still in excellent wind. Upon each height he ascended, ids mistress mereit'ul- seemea to ai ways better than stay ing away from church entirely, because, perhaps, now and .m u one might be kept in transitu on account of (h« calls of patients. The idea of a doctor sit ting down in hi::, office all day Sunday waiting for some one to call him. is 'ridiculous. More than that, it is sinful, rim case of the drug gist is of kindred nature and guilt. tor 1878 re- inorease of barked, the woman looked up and saw Adelle, rose and curtesied: 1 ‘Where is your husband, Phillis?’ ‘Gone over de creek to de sugar biliu on Dr. Winstcr’s place, Miss Deli.’ •Where is Ben, and Mties and Harry ?’ ‘Gone dare too. Ebery hand on dis place gone, wimmin and all, cept me and sis Silvy, She was born wid acaul over her head, and she ) ]y slackened his speed. Once she was resting - . •’ I him for a moment on the crest of of a hill, when j she saw him prick forward his ears and seem to The British Baptist Hand-Book ports a membership ot 2711 93d a r 4,039. It is said of the (1,000,000 Catholics in the United States, i 237,000 are Germans. These are served by 1,373 priests. Charlotte Maria Tucker, author of the “A. L. O. E.” books, is now laboring in India, at her own charges, as a missionary. Thirty years ago there were only three native Christians in the whole Empire of China—now there are thirteen thousand. The Bible Flower Mission in London, Eng land, has distributed 224,13'! bouquets ot dow ers, each with a Scripture text attached. A csleyan missionary in South Africa writes ot a remarkable revival in Natal and I’ondoland. The whole country is aroused. ; The oldest living minister of the Presbyterian Church is said to be Rev. Noah M. Wells, of j Erie, Mich., who will be 95 next July. ■ A large colony of English swallows live in tae J ivy on the First Baptist Church, Macon, Ga., j and make the air vocal with their ceaseless ! twittering. Rev. Benjamin Griffith, D. D., has for some | weeks been iii and laid aside from his activity j in the interests of the American Baptist Publi- ! cation Society. ! The Seamen's and Landsmen’s Aid Society, S of Philadelphia, during 1877, gave out 18,853 j papers, 15, lot) tracts, and 6UO books, and visited j 580 vessels. ! During the past year, according to a report listen. She herself listened and heard a sound | from Rev. Daniel Rogers, Baptist missionary to i. When it. came to his reeollec- j treacherous, or he might*, ‘.tooslow;or tie might j but more faintly tion, he was afraid to deliver it to Derrick, lest > take too little heed hi.«£w te his way. Negroes i like that of a horse gallopingon the road far behind. Was she, pursued ? or were they comiug already to do their work of death ? Again she listened. Yes, unmistakably site beard that sound, like the quick, steady strokes of horse’s hoofs upon the hard earth. Off she started again, putting Bayard upon his best mettle. Away, through strips of denser wood, into deeper hollows, past richer fields white with opening cotton, stopping OQly once to listen for that sound and hearing it again, tist Lanier should find out what it was and suspect him of having eavesdropped and given inform ation. Meanwhile Adelle waited with agonized impa- tience for ber 1 (h G -onto. She force'’, her self to sit down to the early tea and to eat a few mouthfuls and talk with her mother as usual. Her father seemed in better humor than be hail been for sometime. He even said to her at the table: (TO BE CONTINUED.) liELJG10 I S DEPARTMENT. mother will be in bed; m saddle Bayard and get away withe -t ai>;. „l.,’ I . an” ride L. t the lake in two hours, ori two and a half at most. | But oh! if 1 should be seen or. the way—if ij should be found out—what would become of j me ? what would be said of me ? My reputation | would be lost forever. And if some negro or ; Xon-Sffctarian —! Churches Creeds. ad ;t!! ‘Come in after a while and read me a chapter J lawless tramp should attack me in the deep of Livingston’s Life. The print is too flue for my eyes.’ The thought came to her: ‘I will tell him. It is possible, he may use his influence to prevent this crime. He never would restrain Derrick in anything he did against the Radicals. Now, it will be worse, j since he thinks he has a fresh cause of hate to j Captain Witehell. But I must, I will tell him. j woods and ionely places I will have to pass j through—spring out and grasp my bridle rein, j and drag me from the horse, as I have heard so | often of their doing. Oh! I cau’t risk it; I can't j go! But can I not risk something, sacrifice something to save a life—to save his life? I | will. I will disguise myself in some of Derrick’s j clothes; that will guard against the worst dan ger. Capt. Witehell wili not know me; I will The International Sunday School Convention. This great body is to meet in our midst soon. It is possible that some of us do not appreciate ( the Cherokee Indians, over 145 baptisms took place in the churches. Dr. Murdock, Secretary of the American Bap- Missionarv Union, says the receipts to a I January 1, LS78, have been $88,(138, against ' $79,913 last year for the same time. In Rome the Ultramontane party of action is ! deeply wounded by the conciliatory tendencies ot the new Pope, and is already organizing re sistance. The late William H. Brown, of Alaska, Mich., has left a bequest of five thousand dollars to the American Baptist Missionary Union, to be used for the purposes of the Union, as specified in the act ot incorporation thereof. Three ex-priests are now ministers in the Presbyterian. Church, Canada Thr- - others hate recently renounced Romanism, and two more have written, expressing the desire to en ter the service of the same church, thus making eight in all. Henry 5 arley, whose work has been greatly blessed during the last four months, at Mel- fully its magnitude and significance. It is a j bourne, is about leaving for Tasmania. Th If Derrick docs not come in fifteen minutes I i send the note in to him. He will not even see will tell my father and implore him to prevent this wicked murder.’ She went out on the piazza and walked up and down, stopping often to listen if she could hear the tramp of an approaching horse. But no such sound came to her strained ear. The clock struck eight. She turned and went into her father’s room. She found him comfortably was to pay, but las’night it come j settled in his favorite arm chair, smoking his e fellows come, and .utter eatin’ j Turkish pipe—Mahmoud—that he always emp- me. But I mast hurry—hurry; it must be near ly nine o’clock. I hear father locking the front door.’ She met him in the hall as she passed on to her room. He looked .bard at her, but did not speak. She heard him lock the back door and go back into his room. When she heard the click of the bolt, she opened her own door and slipped out and stole across the entry to Der rick’s room, where she possessed herself of supper and emptyin’ the bottle twice, they set ' tied of tobacco before going to bed. Her mother I <iiir k su ^ 1 ot clothes belonging to him, that hung aakin’ I was nodding softly over the stocking she had lu closet. Returning across the hall, she j beenkuitting. took down the stable key that hung on ‘Wake up mother !’ said the old gentleman w ail. Once more in her room, she secured the touching her cap strings,‘here’s Adelle going to door, and wrote as legibly as her trembiin^ read us something about Livingston’s tribula- hand would allow, a note that ran in this wise: tions in the land of apes and snakes, hyenas and Africans—the last—the worst beasts of all. And a fire, boon’s twas burnin’, Mr. Richard told me to go out and go to bed, and then he locKed the door. That put me up to listenin,’ and what does I do but go in the next room and get down on my hands and knees by the partition where there was a crack in the plasterin twixt the chimney anil the wall, and put. my j a nice lime he had trying to Christianize these ear to the crack and hear every word they was talkin’ about. 1 did.’ ‘What did you hear?’ • Why, them four is goin’ to-night with masts over ther faces to Captain Witchell’s house on the lake, and take him and Devene and hang ’em high to a tree. That’s it; I heard Mr. Richard tell the whole plan to them others, they j had sent for to come and go with ’em. He. said j Captain Witehell wouldn’t fight fair, and didn’t j deserve to have a white man fight fair with him 1 nohow; and so they’d just take law in ther own ! hands and give him the hangin’ he's been earn- j in’ for these many months, and Devene with j him; and ’twould be a good riddance for the j country and a right and just act. That’s how j they put it.’ ‘ Why did you not come aDd tell me of this j at ouce?’ ‘ Well, ’twas in the night theD, nigh on to ten j o’clock, and I aimed to come nex’ rnornin. Bui what must Air. Richard do but set me the big- ges’ kind o’ task o’tbrashin’ peas, and I’ve been hard at it all day; jest got through when they rides up, and I gets Bob 10 take the bosses to water and pull the saddles off, while I run over here as fast as my legs would carry me. I come to you bekase I thought the squire would inter fere if he knew what was goin’ on; or you might work on your brother and get him to give it up. It’s no use tryin’ with t’other one. Air. Richard is dead bent on devilment. J see it gatberin in him ever so long. See that Iresh sear on my head? He give rue that day belore yesterday for just little or nothin’ (gave me a vest, good as new, nex’ day to smooth over my teeiin’s,) but I declare I thought he was going to kill me, his eye flashed sc. It done the same last night; I seen it through the crack, when one of the men laughed and said: ‘you’re so hot after Witehell Lanier bekase be cut you out.’ You ought to seen Air. Richard jump at him, and your bro ther had to part ’em an’ make peace, and then he said to the fellow: ‘Never do you dare to ’hide to my sister in such connection j,agin. She's got nothin’to do with this affair. We re going’ to rid the country of a blood-sucker— with a cuss word ia between. Miss Dell — that’s all. To be sure one of the many scores I’ve got against him is his presumin’to speak to ( mv sister, but that's my business, anil no—’ •Stop Piper,’ interrupted Adeile, who listened annibals! I wish every yankee and radical was there in the middle of Ujiji. They’d have their fill of their sweet pets then.’ This was an unfortunate beginning, Adelle’s hopes sank almost to zero, but she had deter mined to make a trial. ‘Father,’she said, ‘there are other barbarians beside the Africans, and other people who com mit crimes beside the radicals. What would you think of a party of men falling upon a help less man in his sleep, dragging him out of bed and hanging him to a tree without judge or jury—would not that be a crime.’ ‘It depends upon who the man might be that was hanged. If he was some carpet-bagging tyrant stained with sins and wroDgs against the people, who had no other way of redress than by punishing him themselves, because law and justice had ceased to be, then I say let him hang, and write on his gallows sic semper tyrannis. But what are you driving at? Some particular case I suppose from your pointed question. What is it ?’ Tt is this, father. Captain Witehell is to be fallen upon to-night and murdered, and mv brother and Lanier wiil be tne chief assassina tors ?’ ‘How do you know that?’ ‘I know’ it, I need not tell you how I heard it, but ii came direct—’ T don’t believe it.’ Tt is true father. Derrick came this after noon and got his gun and pistols. Oh, father send for him; go to him forbid his doing such a crime,' ‘i’ll do nothing of the kind. Derrick’s of age and can take care of himself. If there’s anything in this big mare’s neat-thatyou have discovered, it’s odIv that the boys want to tar aud feather the rascal and he deserves that and hanging be sides.’ ‘Is it possible that you would be willing to let my brother commit a murder?’ ‘Alurder, indeed ! Do you call freeing the land from a radical vampire a murder?’ ‘Father, listen to me. Only let me tell you what Captain Witehell has done for Derrick. Last September, he ’ ‘Silence, and go away from me Adelle, I am sick of that villain’s namq you shall not call it Capt. Witch ell: An attack will be made on you to-nigut. Four men will come, between midnight and day, for the purpose of taking your life. Guard against them, but avoid blood shed. For the sake of the friend who warns you, kill no one of them. It would be best to leave the house secretly and take refuge in some unsuspected place. To do this, would be a wise precaution against violence. A Tbue Friend. D^rDfev”wi dres ®5 d . kerrelf in 1 un i ver sa!land individual sympathies are not Derrick s clothes that fit her sufficiently well, rp, . , , „ buckled a strong belt around her, in which she j cblUed b - y them ’ The numberless hearts ot thrust a little repeating pistol that her mother i Christianity are not being welded together by had worn as a means of protection during the ! high commission smiths, with their bellows of troublous days of the civil war, threw j words and hammering of pens, but they are be- vast Sunday School council composed of mem bers from all of the religious denominations, commonly called orthodox. They meet and discuss ways and means, modes and plans for the promotion of the Sunday school work. One prominent feature of this work, will be to ar- i range for the next four years, the international | lesson subjects, whereby the Sunday School J children of every clime and name study the | same portion of scripture on the same day. What a grand spectacle! The angels must view it with rapturous delight. The sons of men must be thrilled with the magnitude of the unan imity. This point is one of iuterest, both in its pect as an expression of unseen forces, and a generator of invisible influences. In the first aspect it suggests the thought, that among Christains there is more unity and | concord than is generally supposed by sceptics ( or pious croakers. It is not a unity of form, I and is all the better for that. It may result in ! that outward appearance after awhile; but we j insist there is greater vital unity now existing \ and animating Christian hearts than is indica- j ted by the diversity of their creeds, and the vari- j ety of their politics. Their great theologic lea-! dersmay quarrel anil bicker, but their great j the boats. sands in the turmer piace have professed to le- ceive Christ, and many believers have been greatly strengthened by his ministry. A mission school is sustained in Madrid. Spain, in spite of much opposition on the part of the Roman Catholics and the civil anthori- j ties. There are now 255 children on the list, j Of the ten Catholic Archbishops in the Uni- j ted States, four are Irish; of the 56 living bish- ! op» -9 are of the same nationality; of th? 5 200 priests no less than 3,000 belong to the Irish j race. Rev. Gervase Smith, of the British Wesleyan j Conference, who is visiting Australia, reports | that Methodism in Australia has 320 ministers, j 1,988 churches, and 319,19!) attendance on wor- I ship, as the result of sixty-five years’ work. I The entire publishing interests of the Pub- i lication Committee of the Southern Presbyte rian Church, have been removed from Rich mond, Va., to St. Louis, AIo., except the Sun day-school paper, which is to go out from Rich mond. Alinnesota has more Lutherans among its population tuan of any other name or confes sion. The number of Lutherans there is 75,000 nearly all Germans and Scandinavians. There is but one English Lutheran church in the state. English workers are starting special Sunday and day schools for children living on canal boats—perhaps the most neglected part of the population. The schools are established at the loading places and regular stopping places of around her a black Spanish talma and fastened it securely by its tasseled cords. Her long hair, she bound up loosely and tucked under a velvet riding cap of her own, from which she had torn the plume, that like a man’s 0 ‘.p. Pnttir stable key into her pocket, she approached the open window and after listening intently for Rev. Job M. Baker, a superannuated member of North Texas Conference, and one of the oldest preachers in Texas, died the 5th ult. He was, in many respects, a remarkable man. A preach er over sixty years. melted iuto oce universal love by .he * * h "‘ U “* ence of the Holy Ghost. This simultaneons study of the same subjeet it mignt look more j by ali the Christian teachers and pupils will j in ole Inili ig Urn note and the j to increment this largely diffused spirit of | wl!d tnt:>e! i love and unity. By filling their minds with the moment, noislessly dropped herself down to J same theme at the same time wili be originated the soft pick beds a few feet below. The stable was almost back of the house. She reached it, unlocked the door, and going in soon found,[despite the partial darkness, bridle and saddle banging in their acoustomed place, a community 7 of thought which will eventuate an external unity such as will fulfill the to improve his health. Elder .John Jumper's church among the Sem- ans, have sent a missionary to the bes at their own expense. The contribution-' of the Protestant Episco pal Church in the United States, reached last year the magnificent sum of $6,834,268. and put them on her pet. horse, Bayard. ‘You and I have work to do to-night, old fel low,’she whispered in his ear as she led him j from the stable. She dared not take him out to the road by the ordinary outlet. It ran too near the house on the side on which her father’s room was situated. So she led him through a gate on the other side ol the house into the orchard and across it, till by letting down a low fence, she had him close 10 the road, fifty yards past the house. There, in a little thicket of pine saplings, she mounted into the saddle and rode slowly until she descended the hill and the house was out of sight. Then she quick ened her horse’s gait and rode on with a firm pace through the silenee. In the first deep-shad owed hollow, she caught her breath in fear, for she heard steps behind her. She looked and saw nothing, ’till, on mounting the unshaded crest of the fiili.shesawa dark object trotting be hind her. •Nero,’she called, anil a pleased whine an swered her, as the dog ran forward to to the side in ruy presence again. If Derrick gets into any , of the horse. difficulty about him, you may biaino younseif. j 'I am glad you came old boy, you are some The California Girl.—As regards the beauty most sanguine and prayerful expectations of i ° f tiie ladies 1 “ e ® n uft *' ve beantj '’. 1 tho faithful ' * j never saw anything lure it. These Spanish girls, when they are beautiful, they are exquisitely so, with a form and face that a Hebe might envy; a complexion of a mellow brownish tint, pearly teeth—aud such eyes ! O, shades of Jupiter 1 Such piercing, flashing, dazzling orbs, that the diamond in the sunlight almost pales alongside. And then they possess luxuriant tresses of hair ! As black as tlie raven your own Poe speaks of in his beautiful poem. But with all this sur passing lovliness, there is to my mind one great drawback—they are as a class not over-indus trious. The climate, perhaps, may have some thing to do with that. the faithful When we revert to the facts, that the great Presbyterian Christians have lately held a Pan- Presbyterian assembly, that the great Aletho- dist branches of Christianity have, within the last few years, come closer together, that a Pan- ADglican counsel is now on foot, that anew Pope sits in the chair of St. Peter, that Alohome- danism is waning in Europe, that the last few years have witnessed Alissionary enterprises of a magnitude such as the world never saw be fore, we must be struck with the idea that our times are remarkable, and that we are on the verge of great and wide-spread religious phe nomena. Never were the prospects of Chris tianity more hopefnl or her future more propi tious. Angel of Aleroy, swift be thy flight o’er earth and sea, irresistible thy progress, univer sal thy triumphs! “TUI Urn war-drum throbs no longer, and the battle lbi<us ar furled; In the pari lament of man, the Federation of the world.” Wm. H. Alay, who is visiting Selma. Alabama, sent A. W. Mitchell, of Eikton, a box contain ing fifty partridges, part of the result of a day’s gunning in the South. The birds were in a fair condition, considering their long jonrney. ‘Alftmma, where do the cows g9t the milk ?’ asked Willie, looking up from the foaming pan of milk which ho had been intently regarding. ‘Where do you get your tears?’ was the answer. After a thoughtful silence he again broko out:^/ ‘Mamma, do"the cows have to be spanked ?’ Jjj