THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



499 



Bees in a Religious Meeting. 



A correspondent of Farmers^ Home 

 Journal, in the following letter, tells 

 how a congregation was warmed and 

 sinners made active, lately, in Ken- 

 tucky, by a swarm of bees : 



" You may have read the story of 

 Sut. Lovingood's dad in a hornet's 

 nest, but that affair was not a circum- 

 stance to what took place at the 

 Methodist church in Lafayette, Ky., 

 on last Sunday. Your correspondent 

 was not present, and feels glad that 

 he was not, but has the facts from a 

 reliable gentleman who experienced 

 the quickening power from the busi- 

 ness end of a bee, which he thinks 

 would rival the eloquence of Beecher 

 or Spurgeon in stirring up a sleepy 

 congregation. 



" Rev. J. W. Bigham, the good 

 pastor and eloquent preacher, occu- 

 pied the pulpit. Whether or not he 

 needed any assistance in warming up 

 his congregation, as preachers like to 

 do, just before conference meeting, 

 he got it, in the form of a swarm of 

 angry bees. The atmosphere seemed 

 alive with the insects. They poured 

 into the house by wholesale, precipi- 

 tating a revival. Sleeping members 

 were aroused from their slumbers to 

 a shouting pitch, before the preacher 

 reached the point in his sermon where 

 the shouting should come in, and the 

 sermon was cut short. The spirit (or 

 rather the bee) soon pervaded the en- 

 tire congregation, and the ladies also 

 were quickened to a sense of the 

 awakening, losing all care for their 

 bangs and curls. Never did wor- 

 shipers assume a more humble at- 

 titude. All who could, crawled un- 

 der the pews, while those made ex- 

 cessively warm by an inspiring touch 

 from the sweet singers, continued in 

 the more lively exercise. Real solid 

 joy, however, did not take possession 

 of the congregation until the doors 

 and windows were all closed, and the 

 regular battle of bee-killing was over. 

 The bees were finally stopped out of 

 the house, when they commenced on 

 the horses and men out doors. A 

 number of horses broke loose and ran 

 away. Mr. John AV. Davidson had a 

 fine buggy torn to pieces by his horse 

 trying to escape from the bees. A 

 pair of tine bay horses, belonging to 

 Mr. Ed. Moses, standing to the breast 

 yoke with loose traces, and hitched 

 with very strong halters, were liter- 

 ally stung to death ; one of the horses 

 died on the spot in less than two 

 hours. Several horses were stung so 

 badly that they could not move from 

 the place when cut loose, ^lessrs. 

 Jolin Covington, Ed. Moses and 

 others were badly stung in trying to 

 rescue their Imrses. 



"Brother Bigham closed the ser- 

 vices by announcing that there would 

 be a meeting next Sunday at the 

 usual hour, provided the bees should 

 settle. The ladies, however, had to 

 remain in, with closed doors, until a 

 bolt of musquito goods was procured 

 for veils. One Uuly concluded she 

 could run the blockade— she was not 

 afraid of bees any way ; but she had 



never come in contact with a swarm 

 of missionary bees, and never knew 

 how beautifully she could perform, 

 until she met these red-hot ministers. 



The National Convention. 



Mr. C. F. Muth has sent us the 

 names of the members attending the 

 North American Bee-Keepers' Society 

 at Toronto last month. They are as 

 follows, and 101 in number : 



Canada.— W. F. Clarke, F. Mal- 

 comb. Rev. F. Allen, S. T. Pettitt, 

 .John Myers, S. C. :McNeil. .James D. 

 Long, S. Cornell, R. McKnight, R. 

 Harper, Mr. and Mrs. Robert H. 

 Myers, J. B. Hall, J. E. Schantz, .John 

 Baxter, Mrs. Vim. Bryce, Rev. AVm. 

 Blain, A. 04. AVillows, H. A. Russell. 

 W. Ellis, A. Crichton, H. Dobson, C, 



D. Corbin, A. D. Allen, S. Wood, O. 

 Snyder, A. Grove, E. Mullholland, A. 

 Douglas, O. B. Jones. W. H. Morri- 

 son, I. P. Blakeley, W. Nixon, H. 

 Lipsett, Rev. J. R. Black. J. Ander- 

 son, Mr. and Mrs. S. G. Holly, W. C. 

 Wells, AVm. Buglass, A. E. Gilpin, 

 Chas. T. B. Jones, W. G. Russells, 

 Mrs. W. G. Russells, Miss Edith Rus- 

 sells, Jacob Spence,Mrs. Jacob Spence. 

 In all, 47. 



New Yokk.— W. E. Clark, D. 

 Baker, J. C. Newman, T. Pierce, G. 

 W. House, J. E. Stanley, G. W. Stan- 

 ley R. Baker. D. A. Panueston, Mr. 

 arid Mrs. E. B. Ross, W. Y. Bosworth, 

 .Jr.. H. F. Gates, W. H. S. Grout, H. 

 S. Elkins, F. L. Smith, W. T. Fal- 

 coner, L. Whitford, C. Humphrey, 

 M. L. Spencer, S.L. Sleeper, L. Corey, 



E. C. Hubbard, J. H. Umplebv, Mr. 

 and Mrs. W. L. Coggshall, W. E. 

 Moulton, Ira C. Nicholi, Mr. and Mrs. 

 C. Favill. In all. 30. 



Ohio.- (\ F. Muth, A. I. Root, G. 

 W. Freeman. F. Whiteside, Dr. H. 

 Besse, Miss May Besse. In all. 6. 



Michigan.— Prof. A. J. Cook. Dr. 

 C. E. Rulisou, R. S. "Taylor, Wm. 

 Moorhouse, W. Harmer. In all, .5. 



Texas.— Judge Andrews. 



Kentucky.— AV, C. Pelham. 



Georgia.— Dr. and Mrs. J. P.^H. 

 Brown. 



COLOK.\DO.— W. L. Porter. 



Florida.— W. S. Hart. 



Massachusetts.— S. M. Locke. 



North Carolina.— G. E. Boggs. 



Iowa. — Mr.and Mrs.O.O.Poppleton. 



Illinois.— Dr. C. C. Miller. 



Pennsylvania.— C. J. Haight, J. 

 McGonnell. 



The life members, having paid $10 

 each for such membership, are D. A. 

 Jones and Thos. G. Newman. 



There are several honorary members 

 of the Society, and among them the 

 Rev. L. L. Langstroth. The names 

 of the others may be gleaned from 

 former reports. 



In iHSO-sl, the list of members con- 

 tained 105 names. 



Honey and Beeswax Market. 



1^" Articles for publication must be 

 written on a separate piece of paper 

 from items of business. 



OFFICE OF AMKKICAN BKB JOURNAL, > 



Monday. 10 a. m., Oct. 8, 1883. i 



The following are the latest quota- 

 tions for honey and beeswax received 

 up to this hour : 



CINCINNATI. 



HONEY— Our prices are 7@9c. fore.-ttracted.and 

 HffOlfic. for comb honey on arrival. 



BEESWAX -Arrivals of beeswax are good at 

 25{s2sc., and the demand is fair. 



CHAS. F. Muth. 



NEW YORK. 



HONEY—White clover and basswood In 1 and 2 

 !b. sections, 17^21c. Dark and second quality, 

 14(§.15c. ; extracted white clover in kegs and bar- 

 rels, 9((ilOc.; dark, 8c. 



BEESWAX-Prlme yellow, 27®29c. 



H. K. & F. B. ThDRBEH & Co. 



CHICAGO. 



HONEY— Comb honey has sold freely for the 

 past two weeks, and slocks are at present low, lib. 

 sections of white conib are bringing iHc; IH to 2 

 lb, sections of same quality. UJ(ij>17c. ; various sized 

 sections of white corah, l-?tg»li5c. Extracted honey 

 from 8(0,10 cts, per pound, according to body and 

 flavor, 



BEESWAX- Yellow. 32a33c,; dark, 25c,; me- 

 dium, 30c, 



R, A, BURNETT. 161 South Water St. 



SAN FRANCISCO. 



HONE Y— There is a fair Jobbing trade. Offerings 

 are not large. Choice qualities command extreme 

 figures. White to extra white comb, Itiigi^oc.: dark 

 to good, ln(<ui:}i^c.; Extracted, choice to extra 

 white, H(i(i9^e. : dark and candied, 6^@73tfc, 



BEBSWA.X-Wholesale, 27@2Sc, 



STEARNS s SMITH, 423 Front Street. 



ST, LODI8. 



HONEY — Quiet. Salahle at appended figures, 

 but generally held higher. Strained and extracted 

 at 6M'«"c, : comb at 14c, 



BEESWAX— Ready salable at25®2Sc. for prime. 

 W. T. ANDERSON & Co,. 104 N. 3d Street. 



CLEVELAND. 



HONE Y— Comes very slowly and sells as fast as 

 it comes at 18(ail9c, for best white in 1 lb, sections, 

 and 17(f918c, for 2 lb, sections. Second quality is 

 very slow. Extracted usually sells very slowly in 

 our market. 



BEESWAX-None in Market, 



A, c, Kendel, 115 Ontario Street. 



BOSTON. 



HONEY— We quote our market at 18@20c. for 

 1 lb. white clover; 18®20c, for 2 lb, white clover. 

 Extracted, Hf7$\i>c. 



BEESWAX— We have none to quote, 



BLAKE Si RIPLEY, 57 Chatham Street, 



KANSAS CITY. MO. 



HONEY— A large part of the local crop in this 

 section has been marketed, though considerable 

 remains yet in the hands of producers. Very little 

 California honey in this market this season, except 

 extracted, which IS in fair supply at loi/olic. for 

 choice new, and SViSilnc, for dark or candled. 

 Choice bright comb 2 lb, sections, 18«j^l9c.: 1 lb. 

 secti'>ns, iy@2oc. Demand is fair for the better 

 grades, 



JEROME TWICHELL, .^3fi Delaware Street. 



1^ Tne next regular meeting of 

 the Mahoning Valley Bee-Keepers' 

 Association will be held at Newton 

 Falls, O., on the first Saturday of 

 November, 1S.S3. L. Carson, Pres. 



E. W. Turner, ^'ec. 



1^ The Bee-Keepers' Association 

 of Central Illinois will hold its next 

 meeting on Wednesday, Oct. 10, at 10 

 a. m., at i20.5 South Main street, city of 

 Blooniington. All interested, in this 

 and adjoining counties, are invited 

 to attend. 



J. L. WoLCOTT, Pres. 



James Poindexter, Sec. ' 



