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The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1867-08-13

DRINK, BUT REMEMBER. If you think
it is your duty to drink intoxicating liq-
our, by all means do 30. On no ac-
connt violate your conscientious convic-
tons, but while you raise the cup to
your lips, remember that this draught
represents the bread of some starving
brother; for the food of at least 5000,
900 is yearly grasped by the malster and
the distiller, and its nourishment de-
stroyed.
Remember that so long as you are in
health, these liquors are unnecessary:
1000 medical men have asserted it, and
hundreds of thousands Of teetallers
have proved it.
Remember that most people who act
as you do, injure their health and iniure
their lives by so doing
Remember that, not drunkenness
alone, but drinking, fills our iails, our
penitentiaries, our poor houses and our
lunatic asylums; employs our coroners
and our hangmen; and works mischief
incalculable on all ranks and both sexes,
OF which no human institution takes
cognizance.
Remember that drinking retards ed
ucation, industry. and every branch Of
political and social improvement.
Remember that multitudes yearly die
drunkard's death, and 60 to meet o
drunkards doom.
Remember that every year multitudes
fall from your moderate" ranks to re-
cruit the wasted army Of drunkards@ :
Remember that every drunkard once
tried to set the example you set; and on
trial, fell from his slippery ground into
the whirlpool Of intemperance.
Remember that If you sanction the
custom, You are answesable for its fruits.
Remember that the weak and tempt
ed ones look to you; and that, under
God, it depends on you whether they be
drunkards or sober men.
Remember that, "to him who know
eth to do good, and doeth it not, TO him
it is SIM" and that there is "a woe for
that man through whom offence cometh
to the little ones"
Remember that you cannot be neu-
trail, and there will be day when you
win be unable to plead ignorance.
Remember that all this weight Of re-
sponsibliity rests with you, as you
raise that cup, il you think it right; but
we envy not your conscience London
Temperance Star.
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1867-08-13

TnE NicKu. MlNTS Nov that our
specie circulation is based so largely on
nickel. il may bc interesting 10 the
reader to know something of the locali-
Is and character u the mines whence
tins mineral is taken. The few facts
quoted below with reference to them
are taken from Pennsylvania newspa-
per published in the vicinity Of the
mines. the largest Of which are situated
i'm that State Fourteen miles from
Lancaster" says the journal in question
'are the Crap mines and smelling works
These mines we're discovered many
years ago, and about the time Of the
Revolutionary war were worked for cop
per, bat were soon abandoned, the crude
machinery Of that period being i'll a
dapted 70 working them proftably -
Two generations had passed away, and
the circumstance had been forgotten,
when about fifteen years ago the mines
were reopened by company of capital
lists from Philadelphia, since which they
have been steadily worked. They were
reopened with the view obtaining cop
per, but the ore was soon discovered TO
be richer in nickel, more valuable
mineral, and since then they have been
worked for that metal exclusively, In
all about one hundred and fifty men
are employed at the mines and smelling
works.
The nickel produced by these mines
is nearly all used by the government in
the coinage OF its small pieces, in all of
which, from one penny up to the five
cent pieces, large admixture of the
metal is used.
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1867-08-13
What They Are Doing.

The man who "Dreamt i Dwelt In
Marble Halls" has opened marble
quarry there, and is doing thriving
business in getting out grave stones
The author of Garry me back TO Old
Virginia" has opened livery stable,
and is carried back in his own convey
ance whenever he wants to be.
The man who sang Il am Lonely
since my Mother Died" is Mt quite SO
lonley now. The old man married a.
gain, and his mother-in-law makes it
lively enough for him.
The author of "Life on the Ocean
Wave" is gratifying his taste for the sea
by tending saw-mill He will be ON
the water.
The one who gave the "Old Folks at
Home" to the world has recently taken
them to the poor-house, us they were
getting troublesome
The author Of "Shells of the Ocean
is in the clam business.
The man who wanted to ''kiss him
for his Mother" attempted to kiss his
mother for him the other day, and she
gave him walloping for himself
The one who walled SO plaintively
"Do they miss me at Home ?, was mIos-
ed the other day, together with q
neighbor's wife. He is missed by wife
and seven children.
The author of ''Three Blind Mice
has started menagerie with them.
The man who wrote Give o'clock in
the Morning" found that no saloons
were open at that early hour where he
could get his bitters so he lies abed
rather later now.
"Give me cot in the Valley / Love"
has got cot in the Inhrmary. Meiu
colt
The man who sighed 'Take me Home
to Die" took DR. Keer's System Reno
vator, and is now fine old Irish gem
tleman.,'
"Meet me by Moonlight Alone" has
left off meal and taken to drink.
The author Of "Roll on, Silver Moon
has opened ball alley. Silver moon
can't roll on his alley without paying
for it.
The disconsolate one who wrote
Have you seen my Maggie ?" has heard
of her. Another fellow informs him,
through the music store, that Maggie &
by my side"
I'D offer thee this hand Of mine
has been sued for breach of promise.
"Ohl Susanna" has settled with her
at length, and don't o,oe Susanna any
more.
The author Of sold Arm Chair" is
still in the second hand furniture bust
ness.
The one who pleaded ''Rock me to
Sleep, Mother, Rock me to Sleep has
been gratified. His mother, yielding to
his repeated solicitations, picked up a
rock and rocked him to sleep He has
MT woke up yet
The one who asked "Who will care
for Mother now ?" has finally consented
to take care Of the old woman himself
as no one else seemed inclined to.
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1867-08-13

Those two observing men, one OF
whom said that he had always noticed
when he lived through the month Of
May he lived through the year, and the
other OF whom said at wedding that
he had remarked that more women
than men had been married that year,
were neither of them Irishmen.
Old Deacon Converse, of Hartford,
was provided with an enormously long
handle to his countenance. One day
When he passed around the contribution
box, everybody seemed to be possessed
of an uncomfortable desire to laugh
when they saw him. 1t seems that in
the morning, having bruised his nose,
he put on piece of sticking plaster,
1t dropped off, and he picked up what
he supposed was the plaster, and stuck
it on again. But alas he made mis-
take, for instead of the plaster, it was a
piece of paper such as manufacturers Of
spool cotton paste on one end of every
spool, and which read, warranted to
hold out 200 yards.
The one who pleaded "Rock me to
sleep, mother, rock me to Sleep" has at
length been gratifed. His mother,
yielding to his repeated solicitations,
picked up rock and rocked him to
sleep. He hasn't woke up yet"
An exclusively y-dressed young gentle
man, after buying another seal to dangle
about his delicate person, said to the
jeweler that HE would alb, like to have
ah, something engraved on it ah, to de-
note what he was" Certainly, GER
tainly. ! will cut cipher on it, said
the tradesman.
Mrs. Partington reading an account
Of a railroad accident, was much sur
prised to learn that the engine had been
driven off the track by one of the
switches. "She should not thought,
she said, "that the great iron engine
would mind such a little thing as a
switch" Eyes but YOU must remember,
mamma, said Ike, gravely, "the loco
motive has tender behind"
A lawyer who was sometimes forget
ful, having been engaged to plead the
case Of an offender, began by SAYING: II
know the prisoner at the bar, and he
bears the character of being most con-
sumate and impudent scoundrel." Here
somebody whispered 10 him that the
prisoner was his client when he imme-
diately continued: "But what great and
good man ever lived who was not cal
umniated by his contemporaries 2"
John tells a story Of Thompson and
Rogers two married bucks Of New York
who wandered home late one night,
stopped ut what Thompson supposed
was his residence, but which his com
panion insisted was his own house
Thompson rang the bell Justify. when a
window was opened and lady inauir-
ed what was wanted. Madam" !" inquir-
ed Mr. T.. "isnt this Mr.. T-Tholnp-
sons house n NO" replied the lady.
''lhis is the residence Of Mr.. Rogers. ~
well, exclaimed Thompson, Mrs. T
T-Thompson--beg your pardon-Alrs
Rogers. won't you just step down to the
door and pick out Rogers, for Thomp-
son wants 70 60 homef 2"
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1867-08-13

II costs something 10 be a true Chris
uan. Lat that never be forgotten To
be mere nominal Christian, and 20 to
church. is cheap and easy work But to
hear Christ's voice, and follow Christ
and believein Christ, aud confess Christ.
requires much self-denial II will cost
us our sins, aud our self righteousness,
and our ease and our worldinoss.
Nothing teaches patience like a gar
don. You may go around and watch
the opening bud from day TO day, but it
takes it's own time, and you cannotnrge
it on faster than it viii. II forced, il is
only torn in pieces All the best results
OF a garden, like those fife, are slowly
but regularly progressive, affording
rreat pleasuse to those who can take
pride in IL.
While ten men watch for chances, one
man makes chances, and while ten wait
for something 20 turn up, one turns
something up: 50, while ten fail, one
succeeds and is called man Of luck or
fayoTitc of fortune. There is no luck
like pluck. and fortune most iayors
those who are most indifferent TO for
tune.
A mans pride, II he has no other
motive, ought 10 keep him from getting
drunk. The treatment which he Is liable
70 receive while be is ia this state ought
10 deter him from it. Every blookhead
ran laugh ht him, every cowardly calf
ran abuse him, and every designing vil-
ian can impose on him.
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1867-08-13

A miner at Pixies Peak took his gun
and strayed short distance from the
camp and shot cub, not observing at
the same time the old bear who was
near at hand, and ready to ayenge the
death Of her offspring. The hunter APP
preached his game with an exulting air,
glowing in his success, and anticipating
the astonishmont Of his companions to
see him march into their midst with an
ample supply Of tender bear meat, when
70 his surprise be saw large bear
bounding toward him, very much deter
mined to demolish him al one meal
Our hero dropped his gun and started
of like frightened deer down the hill.
His companions saw him coming, tear
ing, through the brush, and sung out to
him, What's the matterg" "Gi ri "a
GIT your ready for shot, he
stammered, almost out Of breath; "Tm
bringin' her right into canpl"
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1867-08-13

Nor DEEP ENoUdH FOR PRAYER-A
good story istold Of some raftsmen who
were canght in the late big blow ON the
Mississippi; by which 80 many crafts
were swamped and so many steamboats,
lost their sky higgins The craft was
just emerging from Lake Pepin as the
squall came In an instant it was pitch
ed and writhing as if smddenly dropped
into Charybdis, while the waves broke
over her with tremendous uproar, and
expecting instant destruction, one of the
raftsmen dropped on his knees and
commenced praying with vim equal
to the emergency Happening to open
his eyes, in an instant he observed his
companion not engaged in prayer, but
pushing pole in the water at the side
of the raft.
What's TINT yer doing, Mike ?" said
he; get down on your knees now, for
there isn't a minute between us and
purgatory !"
BE aisy, Pat" said the other as he
continued to punch away with his pole;
"be aisy, now: what's the use of pray
ing when a feller can tech bottom, with
pole ?"
Mike is a pretty good specimen Of a
large class of Christians who prefer to
omit prayers as long as they can ''tech
bottom.
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1867-08-13

INACTIVITY or CHRISTIANS One Of the
|aos, frequent causes Of spiritual de-
preston is simple inactivity. II Is
quite remarkable to observe how the
discharge Of single duty has operated
70 dispel long dreary despondency.
once knew most intelligent and con-
|pcientionS lady who was sorely afflicted
|ssth religious melancholy. She nursed
per fears, read troatises on religious ex-
|scrience To ind some remedy for her
Repression, ard came to the conclusion
hat she had committed the unpardop-
Bile rim. Her family told me she was
aost exemplary in her hfe and gave
Eood evidence Of Bible pie,y. | quite
sionished her by telling her that il was
|er duty 10 come ont at once and con
ass Christ, and then take hold of her
|ork as = church membaE She deter
aincd 10 do ~: she came Whore the
.sicors u the church s'in weakness. and
n, and much trcinbling; passed 50
cellent examination, and stood up on
be next Sunday and made her cove
ant with the Lord For ten wears she
ad been ylctam u morbid naelan-
aolys bTit sinoe The day wlcn She ''took
? her bed and walked she has been s
srene. cheerful disciple Boether.
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1867-08-13

A DEAnArlc ScfNg II CmUncR. The
beauty, fashion and wealth Of Roman
Crtholc Liverpool have received q tre-
mendous public snnbbing from DR.
Goss, their bishop II appears that S.
Georges Industrial Schools il that city
have been mismanagcd--chieay thro
want of funds ani have got into Diff
culties. and that the Bishop Of Liver
pool has taken them in hand, raised
money at his own risk 10 set them right
again and opened collecting boxes in
the Liverpool chapols for thier relief ~
Ia the largest aud best attended Of
these chapels four thousand of the
faithful have been hearing mass every
Sunday during the SIX weeks OF Lent,
and have passed by these boxes every
time they entered and every time they
left their place Of worship. But when
the Bishop opened the boxes on Easter
Sunday, confident that their contents
would be sufficient to free the St.
Georges Schools from all debts. he
found TO his astonishment and grief
that they contained but los I'd, where
upon he preached a sermon TO his
wealthy flock that seems to have made
their ears tingle. 1t concluded in the
following words:
Il had hoped to have complimented
you to-day on your good deeds, to have
praised your charity to the poor, and
to have parted from you with my bless
ing. But how can my lips speak ben
ison on those who have treated Christ's
poor as you have done-who have
closed your hands against the needy
and have shut your ears to the wall Of
the hungry From you Iappeal to the
Great God Of Heaven, whose image ye
behold erucifed upon that cross, and
who will come in power and majesty TO
Judge you-befoe whom every short
coming will be revealed, and who will
tell you to depart Because / was
hungry and you gave me not to eat; l
was thirsty and You gave me not to
drink; sick and in prison and you visit
ed me not; and in vain will be your re-
monstrance, Lord, when did we see
Thee hungry and gave Thee not to eat /;
thirsty, and gave Thee not to drink; !;
sick and in prison and visited Thee
mott As long as you did it not to cne
of these my loved ones, ye did it not to
me. Depart
The Bishop delivered the first part of
his sermon in oolloquial tone Of re-
monstrance. But when he began to
speak of the poor, DR.. Goss's voice grad
ually swelled into full level tone. The
attention of his hearers visibly quick
ened under the influence of the speaker
to point OF breathless expectancy and
when the Bishop had arrived at the ex-
preston Depart" his voice was reso-
nant with such rhetoric force that the
congregation seemed to wither under
the word. His lordship loft the pulpit
without pronouncing the usual blessing
to the congregation.
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1867-08-13
The Undiscovered Country.

Could We bui know
Ths land that 1ds our dsrk uncertain tFavel.
Where ise those happier bills and meadows low
Al, Il beynnd the SPIRITS Hnpst caYil,
Aught efihst oaUniry could wo surely kaow,
Who would nos 20
Night we bat Lear
The lowering aueels high imagined chorui,
Or catch. beiifHes with wakeful eyes ana clear
One radiant vista of tic realm before U.s.
With ore rap, matneni given 10 see and hear,
Al, who would fear 7
We're we quite snre
To fra tAs peerless friene who left Hs lonely,
Or there BY some celestial streams as pure,
10 fAEe IL eyes That here were lovely only
his ussry maFsal coil, we're we quite sure,
Who easld endure
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1867-08-13

PArHos The following peroration to
an eloquent harangue, addressed by
lawyer, in Ohio, to jury, is a rare
specimen Of climacteric sublimity:-
And now the shades Of night had
shrouded the earth in darkness. All
nature lay wrapped in solemn thought,
when those defendant rufians came
rushing, like mighty torrent from the
hills, down upon the abodes Of peace
broke open the plaintiffs door-seper-
ated the weeping mother from her
screeching infant--and took away my
clients rife, gentlemen Of the jary, for
which we charge ffteen doliEe
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1867-08-13

The hopeless man is dead to society;
and The man who seeks nothing better
than what is at present, is dead TO ae-
ton. II is our duty not only TO at
tempt something better. but il is our
life, our energy, 70 believe in IFS posi-
bility or Attainsbility by some means or
other.
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1867-08-13

In selecting the cvorscers q Harvard
College from different denominations. a
Methodist complained tha, his church
was not represented eBut is not --
Methodist 2" some one asked. ''No,
be Is hackslider, the Methodist ropli-
ed "All right: tho backslidors are
very numerous, and ought 10 be repre-
sented in the Board, was the response.
Many years since. in California. old
Judge c. kept q little dead fall. a.
they call rum mill out there, few
miles above Marysville. and made fire.
quont trips to San Francisco, TO deposit
his hard earned savings. and lay in
fresh stock. One night he sat up late,
imbibed much, and assisted at little
game Of draw" An hour aftergoing TO
bed he awoke, aud, to his horror, saw
robber staring at him through window
near the foot of his berth. Judge lodged
back robber lodged back Judge peep
ed; robber peeped. Judge put hand
under pillow, drew out Navy" and
fred through a looking glass the
trade price Of which was an even $25.
The robber did not again appear; the
Judge did not treat perhaps
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1867-08-13


A GooD WAR-HoRsE AT club-din-
ner with party Of Nantucket people
not long ago, one Of the guests remark
ed that Nantucket horses were celebra-
ted for their general worthlessness, i'm
becility and marvellous slowness. He
said that citizen sold one to cavalry
officer during the war, and warranted
him to be good war horse. The sol
dier came back afterwards in a tower
ing passion, and said he had been swim
died.
"As how p said the Nantucketer.
why, there's not bit of go in him j;
and yet you warranted him as good
war-horse"
"Yes, l did, and by George, he is q
good war-horse; he'd sooner die than
run 7"
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1867-08-13

MopEL CoMrosITIoN.-Th Esser Safes
man says a boy in South Danvers wrote
the following composition upon his ma
tive town, which it thinks is very good
for n schoolboy:
"South Danvers is in the United
States. 1t is bounded by Salem and
reaches to Middleton. Its principal
river il Goldthwaite's brook, which
empties into Salem Harbor. Its prin-
cipal lake is the mill pond, which is dry
in the summer. Its principal produc-
tions are leather, onions, the South
Church and George Peabody. South
Danvers has many religious sects, a.
mong which are the Orthodox, who
worship their minister, the Spiritualists
who worship everything, and the Unita-
rians, who worship nothing"
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1867-08-13

We have no more right, wantoniy or
canselossly. 70 wound the minds than
10 wound the bodies Of our fellow boz
ings; and in many instances the former
Is the more cruel Of the two.
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1867-08-13

Die when yon will, yUa need hot wear
A. hsaYen,s court. form more fair.
Than Eeauty here On earth bath given,
Keen bat he loveiYook We See
Tbs g0tge We hssr--and yuu will be
Al angsl rtsds rsa5e ipf Heayea"
lMooEE
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1867-08-13

The man who sang Il am lonely since
my mother died" Isn't quite 80 lonely
now. The old man married again, and
his stepinother makes it lively enough
for him.
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1867-08-13

COY Il SWIFT,
" Manufacturers and Dealers 10
nOOTS AM - SHOES,
Door east 81 Drug Store.
MANCHESTER, ....t..... .s..............vT.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1867-08-30
NEW JERSEY INTELLIGENCE.
Jersey City.


CrAsGx OF PERJURY AGAINST PoLrcs OrrCEs On Tues
day last Mr. Terence 0Ncl OF this city. arrested
by officer Joseph Smith, the charge Of Interfering
with him the discharge Of his duty. and held bali
before the Grand Jury. Mr.. 0'Neill who,
the day In question, apparently taken by SURPRISE
Il, report says quiet and inonensvs Citizen and
possessed Of considerable properly. He denied the
charge ana distinctly stated no neither thought or
nor spoke TO the oicer during the day which the
latter swore the offence was committed Accordingly he
took yesterday for the apprehension Of
Smith charge o. perjury, and had him arrested and
held 10 bail In $500 TO answer the complaint.
ANOTHER ACCIDENT AT a KxRosESE FACTORY. Henry
Cross an employee In the kerosene oil refinery OF Mr.
verplanck. on Provost street. the same establishment
where q man was injured last Saturday, badly
scalded in the right arm on Tuesday he 10 recovering
aud able to resume work.
suIcmE OF LAD-Ernest sternberg, sixteen years Of
age, and employed in gold brokers' oce Wall street
committed suicide at his residence night before last
He was subject spells Of violent headache which caused
such suffering as 70 often prompt him 10 say he
would kill himself another attack wednesday.
while again suffering from the cause he went 70
his ROOM lay down the bed, and, producing single
barreed pistol discharged at his right temple. Half
OF the skull blown away scattering the brains on
the wall and around the ROOM and causing death in
simultaneously Tho Coroner notified and held an In
quest when verdict in accordance with the facts was
returned By the Jury.