The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1867-11-07

ter me affairs oil The craft AMI boastlng
among their membership the wisest aud
best of the day, outwardly attest the hold
the order has on the public heart, while in
every scheme of philanthropy and i'm
proyement of humanity which the gener-
Gus, undetermined men of our city inaugu-
rate, and they are many, leading masons
are~found at the head and the:r success
tcstiiies that the illumination of the three
great lights is in many heart
The opera has always been great
amusement here, simply as an amusement,
for the gratiGc. ton of that love for music
with which Chicago people are so gifted
and the display Of fashions. in whicll the
ladies' take such pride, but what will it
now become since the church has taken it
mp and endorsed it as a powerful moral
agency! Last uient. Rev. II. l.. Collier.
pastor of tic Church of Messiah. preached
a sermon upon "moral influence of the op-
era in which he left nothing more to be
said in is favor by its most ardent sup
pOrters, while his references to the COM
rany now here constitutes an advertisement
of the highest class. | am very fond Of
music, uscl to play an instrument (tl.c
jewsharpl myself, but confess that fail
ed to see the same moral power in 4" La
TdrjUtd," "La Furortu," "Don Giovan-
M and few more operas than I do in
most plays upon the theatrical stage. When
the first named of the operas which have
mentioned, was witnessed on the stage as
Camille" and people really understood
what it all was, simply the misadventures
of IA tocette, it required all the geniu. of a
Matilda Heron to make it ''go down" with
popular Appreciation Well its no business
of mine. Bro. Hatfield will. no doubt.
''go for" Bro Collier, soon enough lie
warts sensational subjects and here is a
chance for him
Tomorrow Our county election will come
off, and extraordinary efforts are being
made by both parties, The county Of
Cook has such a bad republican record
that the democrats cherish little hope of
electing any of their ticket except Judge
Wilson. He has been, and is, a republi-
can, bit his party threw him overheard at
the late election on the plea that he was
too old for service. The democrats took
mp his name and what with their votes and
those of his many personal friends among
the republicans, his chances certainly are
good.
Messrs. S. Stevenson & Co., of No. Is
Dearborn street, have recently imported
from Germany Il machine for the manufac-
ture of cigars, which is destined to work
as decided a change in labor as any Of the
the great labor-saving machines now in use
in other manufactures. 1t consists Of an
for cutting filters and lay
lng iHeil III DUNES III Jccu pluuiHS
chairs" in which these filters are put in
binders" and an infinite number Of
moulds in which the cigars are pressed to
perfect and uniform shape. The putting
on of wrappers is done BY hand. To tend
the machine and keep up with it thirty
FIVE boys or 9 rls, and twenty skillful fin
i.hers are required. and they can produce
daily 10000 to - 900. or in an emcrgcn-
cy over 80, 900 cigars, as many as could be
made by an hundred skilled workmen in
the old method. The chief advantages of
the machine are saving of over orc half
in wages and one sixth of the stock, ma
king much more perfect and beautiful CT
CARS than can be made by hand, and hav
ing them ready for market as soon as
made, they being formed of dry tobacco.
ANY information concerning the machine
can be obtained from Mestrs Stephenson
& Co, who propose manufacturing dupli-
Gates of it at no distant day Six weeks
steady trial have proven the cigar making
machine grand success. &.