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Nebraska advertiser., 1869-07-29

Prot. Morse, the famous inventor.
sustained o compound fracture Of the
leg bYSas fail &C his residence near
Poughkepsie SaAnrdAX aIallnH
Nebraska advertiser., 1869-07-29

The Phttsm0uth HerdId puts the
foaoRing question 70 che State Off
csrs. "Do the State Land Commis-
doncrs know where the b.. & M. road
orossest he1[issiodr river?' p From the
advertisement to sell State Lands and
Lots, the Herald thinks that the Com
missiOners ere not aware that there is
more than two places in NEBRASKA
one LincOln, the other Nebraska City.
Nebraska advertiser., 1869-07-29

The Prince Of Wales mas lately ven
$3.50 in betting on races,
Nebraska advertiser., 1869-07-29

Since 1861, VIM. II. Seward has
built one hundred and sixty houses in
Aubufns New York and sod them,
on easy terms, to men Of moderate
Nebraska advertiser., 1869-07-29

Mrs. HelmbOld, leader of the ton at
Long Branch, furnishes 0De-of the
b~uehuri0sities Of Ameriean society.
Nebraska advertiser., 1869-07-29

Col. John OAahOney. late FenlaR
Head Center, has wOnthe suit against
August BELMONT 70 recover so. Gee in
IN gold, belonging to the Fenian or
ganlzatiOn, and deposited in Belmont.
BANKING house
Nebraska advertiser., 1869-07-29

"Clouds,e a subject with which he is
familiar.
Nebraska advertiser., 1869-07-29

Brigham Young has recently mar
RED again. His new bride is Miss
FOllansbeei of Boston.
Nebraska advertiser., 1869-07-29

Robert FOOmbs practices law intef-
mittently at WashinefOn, Georgia,
and entertains a poor opinion Of man
kind.
Nebraska advertiser., 1869-07-29

The Princess Felicia. - Qears old
lately called on Eugenie. She walks
With head erect under the Outstreteb-
ed arm Of 3 tw0-year-Old baby, and
wears the garments made foP dolls.
Nebraska advertiser., 1869-07-29

Ex-President johnson was success
fully operated on, at Fayetteville,
TeRn4 on the 18th inst. for a cancer
on the Temple.
Nebraska advertiser., 1869-07-29

james Allen, Of Providence. IL to
tempt Providence for the 234fh tine.
by making his 234th balloon ascent.
Nebraska advertiser., 1869-07-29

One Of the Princess &C the Royal
Court Of Prussia, is a kleplOmaniao
She recently attempted to take her
own life in consequences of the 7 3
prOaches with which her royal rela-
tons overwhelmed her.
Nebraska advertiser., 1869-07-29

Anna Dickinson Is on the decline,
as far as marriage proposals are con-
cerned.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1869-05-28

was given to an insult, who also related
to us. An old soldier from Indiana.
whose appearance was extremely wretch
ed, attracted the attention of party of
Southern ladies, by whom he was passing.
They turned up their noses, and pointing
their fingers at him exclaimed, See that
ragged fellow ! good enough for him !
the vandal Yankee p The soldier sud-
denly stopping, threw back his shoulders,
and raising his weary head to defiant
attitude, shouted, as he struck his naked
breast, Yes, half naked, weary, sore
and sick; but thank God, loyal yet"
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1869-05-28
5fiscellanu
The Battlefields of the Rebellion

THREE THOUSAND STARVING PRISONERS.
A PATRIOTIC DRUMMER BoY.-LoY-
AL YEr.-A NEGRO PRAYER MEETING.
TRACES OF SHERMAN s GREAT MARCH.
The last letter of the Boston Traveller s
correspondent, Russell, who is visiting the
battle fields of the South, is dated at
Macon, Ga, April 26th. We copy the
following interesting portion of it:
Four years ago last Thursday guard
of rebel soldiers with three thousand
tamished Union prisoners from Ander-
sonsville, finding that they were not safe
from raids while Sherman was marching
to the sea, came down to the Union
outposts, about thirty miles from Jack
sonville, and sent letter to the COM
manding general of the department and
of the post, asking that the prisoners
might be received within the federal lines,
as the rebels dare not release such body
inside of their own picket posts. Long
and impatiently waited both guard and
guarded for the answer that would per-
NIT the sick, sore and ragged sufferers to
marchint the town where food and cloth
ing in plenty awaited their coming. The
guards, fearing capture by some stray
band of Federal cavalry, cursed and
foamed while the emaciated veterans lost
faith in humanity as they lay starving on
the naked ground. No one imagined
but that the order when it did come
would admit them at once, for no other
course would be Christian or human
Conceive, if you can, then, the surprise
sorrow, anguish and indignation caused
by the answer that was finally sent, which
stated that, as the commanding general
had no " orders" from the War Depart
ment to receive prisoners or other par
ties through his lines, they could not bt
received, and the rebel guard must marcl
away with them at once.
Oh to risk ones life for the nation
to endure the horrors of thousand deaths
in prison like that at Andersonville
and to be joltd about the country Oh
open freight cars, naked, sick and starv
ing until every joint and bone was be
numbed, and every muscle the seat o.
cutting pains, and then, just when they
had reached a place of refuge, and al
most within sight of the bales of cloth
ing and piles of commissary stores, to b.
rejected by their own comrades in arms
forsaken by their own friends, and re
manded to fearful death by starvation
and exposure, oh it was too cruel.
Just four years ago to day, the rebe
guard, cut off from all official correspon
denee with their commanding general
who was attempting to impede Sherman
march, brought the whole brigade o
martyrs down as far as the railroad tract
was open, and there dumped" them of
the train, telling them that they mus
get into the federal lines somehow o
die there in the woods. Between thi
time and their first application for ad
mittanee, however, many brave veter
an and good citizen joined the ranks o
martyrs in heaven. When they came il
sight the picket post, the seminal suppos
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1869-05-28
Definitions of Bible Terms.

A days journey was thirty-three and
one fifth miles.
A Sabbath days journey was about an
English mile.
Ezekiel's reed was eleven feet nearly.
A cubit is % inches nearly.
A hands breadth is equal to three and
five eighth inches.
A fingers breadth is equal to one inch.
A shekel of silver was about fifty cts.
A shekel of gold was $500.
A talent of silver was $53S.32.
A talent of gold was s13.SO9.
A piece of silver or denny, was 13
cents.
A farthing was 3 cents.
A gerah was cent.
A mite was cent.
An epha, or bath, contained seven GAL
Ions and five pints.
A bin was one gallon and two pints.
A frkin was seven pints.
An omer was six pints.
A cab was three pints.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1869-05-28
Life's Answer.
BY THE DEAN OF CANTERBURY.

BY THE DEAN OF CANTERBURY.
know not if the dark or bright
Shall be my lot;
If that wherein my hopes delight
Be best, or not.
1t may be mine to drag for years
Tolls heavy chain:
Or day and night my meat be tears
On bed of pain.
Dear faces may surround my hearth
With smiles and glee;
Or | may dwell alone, and mirth
BE strange to me.
My bark is waited to the strand
By breath divine;
And on the helm there rests hand
Other than mine.
One who has known in storms to sail,
| have on board;
Above the raying of the gale,
l hear my Lord.
He holds US when the billows smite-
| shall not fall,
If sharp, It's short if long, tits light;
he tempers all.
Safe to the land. safe to the land
The end is this;
And then with Him go hand in hand,
Ear into bliss.
-MdcmilldR's Moathlg.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1869-05-28

A PATIENT DEvoTEE.-Deacon b., OF
Ohio, very pious man, was noted for
his long prayers, especially in his family.
One Monday morning the Deacon and
his wife were alone, and as was his GUS
tom, after breakfast a prayer was offer
ed. There being an unusual amount of
work that day, the Deacon's prayer was
short, and seizing his hat and milk pail,
he started for the barn. His wife being
deaf did not notice his absence, but sup
posed him to be still engaged in prayer.
On his return from milking. he was sur
prised to find her still kneeling. He
stepped up to her and shouted " Amen
when she Immediately arose and went
about her work as if nothing had hap
pened.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1869-05-28

Ike's last trick was to throw Mrs. Par
tington's old gaiter in the alley, and call
the old lady down from the third floor
to see an alley gator.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1869-05-28
Fling out the banner of the Free
While we were marching through Georpio

Surely blighting curse came upon
the people. Slavery was rooted out with
fire and its traces washed away in blood.
But the cotton and the corn have be-
gen to grow. Here and there shanty
is in progress of construction, and soon
this same tract of land, under a free la
Dor system, will BLOSSOMS as the rose. +"
and few years hence, war and its hor-
rors will live only in history.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1869-05-28
POLICIES WRITTEN IN THE

Any amount and every class of Insurance required
can be placed at this Office in the best Companies.
and at as low rates at agency in the country.
Expiration Notices Promptly Given.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1869-05-28

In diving to the bottom of pleasure
we bring up more gravel thrn pearls.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1869-05-28

passed is hideous ruin. Old chimneys,
once belonging to the mansions of plant
ers or the quarters of negroes, stand sur
rounded by weeds and wild shrubs. Old
posts and here and there broken rail is
all that is left of the fences. The great
forests Of pine and oak show the ruinous
effects which followed the sword, and the
negroes plant cotton between the dead
and leaf'ess trees, where before the war
was wild and impossible thicket. The
blackened remains of bridges, trestle
work, and railroad ties, are piled all
along the roadside, while here and there
line of breastworks and "Jeff Davis
neck ties" in the shape of bars of rail-
road iron doubled around tree, are still
to be seen.
DREADFUL TALES
the people told us about the march, and
say that when for miles and miles around
the sky was red at night with the flames
of burning buildings and forests, and the
air filled with smoke by day, and when
they heard the booming guns and felt
the heavy pieces. they thought the day
of judgment had come at last. Many
relate how the ruthless soldiery came in
to their parlors and stabbed their horses
there; how they drove the women and
children out of the houses and occupied
them as quarters; how they broke up
all they could find and then set ev-
cry building on fire; how they came in
the night and awakened the family, po-
litely informing them that their house
and barns was ON fire, and leaving them
to escape without clothing, and in some
cases were burned to death how the
soldiers stole or destroyed everything,
and the impoverished people were oblig-
ed to walk forty miles for meal to eat,
mot even cow, horse or pig being left;
how the men, and in some cases the wom-
en-, who attempted to save their build
ings, or valuables, were shot dead at
their own thresholds; how the women
were ravished and their jewelry and
clothes torn from them, and in some in
stances their hair cut off short and car
ried away; how the silver handles were
torn from the coffin of a corpse that
awaited burial and set the house on fire,
and many, many tales too sickening
and disgusting to be repeated or too hid.
eous to be thought Of without chills o.
horror. We will not say that we believe
all or even half the stories they told us
But alas the proof shows us of acts Of
henious barbarity, preclude denial, and
show the worst side of war. We NAV
say that the ruins and ashes we saw and
the tales with which the people filled oul
heads, destroyed all the poetry we used
to see in
Fling out the banner of the Free
While we were marching through Georgia."
Surely blighting curse came upor
the people. Slavery was rooted out with
fire and its traces washed away in blood
But the cotton and the corn have be
gen to grow. Here and there a shant,
is in progress of construction, and soor
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1869-08-05

result in no disastrous alarm TO the CANNES
of Plymouth. In olden times the igno>
rant and superstitious observers of eclipses
thought they portended evil and were in
great fear and trepidation until the sun
had assumed its wonted brightness. They
had no knowledge of the causes of the
phenomena and never had the coming
eclipses announced to them as We have.
The world is getting wiser If not better
Those who desire to hear a view of such
portions OF The sun as can be seen during
the eclipse, can do so by looking through
smoked glass. A small piece of clear
glass held over lighted lamp or candle q
few moments will become sufficiently
opaque to enable one to look at the SUI.
We hope all of our readers will have fine
and instructive view ofihe eclipse-which
will occur in the afternoon.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1869-08-05
THE ECLIPSE OF THE SUN
Saturday, August 7th 1860.

The people livi ng on OF near line run,
ming through the United States from s. z.
to N. w. touching Newbern, N. c. Louis
vile, KY. Springfield, Ills, can next Sat,
urday. witness what is usually styled a
total ecplise ofthe sun. In Marshall coun.
ty the eclipse will only be partial but will
doubtless be sufficiently interesting to at
tract general attention, provided the weath>
er be favorable. Solar eclipses of the
sun, are from about two to five in number
every year, yisable from different parts of
the earth, and are called total, annular,
or partial, according to the portions of
the suns disk being hidden by the inter.
vening moon The sun is luminous
globe (marked by black spots having q
penumbral fringe OF uniform shade on
their edges and is sss,sf2 miles in di,
ameter. 1t is i,4l5,225 times larger than
the earth, though of inferior density. To
The earth's inhabitants the eclipse of the
sun is caused by the moon passing be-
tween the sun and the earth. Ifit passes
directly between, the eclipse is total" If
only on one side or edge, or through our
''inab'' it is partial.
The moon being much smaller than the
| earth, and of course very much smaller
than the sun. cannot shut off frum the
former all the light of the latter and there
fore a so-called ''totar' eclipse does not
produce total darkness in all the earth,
for the suns rays from its outer edge
though impeded in some degree by the
penumbra, gives some light If an eclipse
occurs when the moon is at q great dis
lance from the earth persons In the Gen.
ter ct the penumbra can see ring of the
sun that seems to surround the moon.
This IL the snnular (ring) eclipse. A
photograph OF the great eclipse of 1860,
taken In Spain. showed there was still more
light upon the earth than a full moon af-
fords. At other places the darkness was
SO great that thermometers could not be
read. BY way OF parenthesis we might
rsmark that the murcury In the thermcm>
tor will fall appreciably during the eclipse
Eclipses of the sun b. the STARS Venus
and Mucury are called transIts, occasion
little illumination of light and are of as.
tronimical utility. Eclipscs OF the Stars
} and planets by the moon are termed oc
culations and have a value ike that o.
, Solar eclipses. That is solar eclipses and
oceulation affords means oftesting calcu
lations Of the moons motions and of de
termining the longitude of places on tn,
earth. Astronomers by these calculation
ascertain the precise time of eclipses, tran
D sits and OCCUPATIONS and to then are W,
Indebted for on faith in the comm
eclipse.
One of the most singular optical effect
caused by total eclipse. is the occasions
u issuing OF rose: colored flames from th
: sun during this phase. The emotions G
- the brute creations scnetimes arc vcr
singular, some animals LvinciAg great iei
others pleasure. May the coming eclipl
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1869-08-05

ed full OF English speaking people in to-
ken OF their appreciation of;he noble work
of those who have put up such a neat
church......Tbe Advance, the orthodox
Congregational paper of Chicago, dislikes
the name Protestant" and publishes
vigorous editorial against the use of tho
name...... The New York Evangelist, a
New School Presbyterian pape states
that one-fOurth or one third of the minis>
tiers of the New and Old school Presby-
terian Churches are without places of
stated employment, and that about the
same proportion of their Churches are va
CAN'T The Christian Advocate, Meth
0dist paper, states that the vote on Lay
Delegation is too light to decide anything.
The Advocate holds that the whole sub
ject is virtually handed over to the minis
tiers TO decide......One of the missionary
societies of the Church in England receiv-
ed last year Sl00,r0 gold from its mission
fields. During the year ii increased its
native ordaired clergymen thirty per cent
and has been able to Withdraw from sew
enty seven stations, leaving the work with
native converts. ..... Tennyson thus speaks
of prayer, "More things are wrought by
prayer than this world dreams of-where-
fore let thy voice rise like fountain for
me night aid day
"For so the whole round earth Is every way
Bound by gold chains about the feet of God"
The bible is In the hands Of 100000
Fijians, and about the same number Of
Fijians are regular attendants at Church,
and they arc quite well supplied with
Sunday and Parish schools. a The trou-
bles in the Episcopal Church is the SEN
sational leading of certain articles in some
of the secular papers every little while.
The heading is suggestive of what Burke
once sand about Church troubles "a few
grassloppers in the hedge will fill with
noise the field where herd of oxen are
feeding silently. Thirty years ago a
young woman named Rassalana was led
through the streets of the capital of Mad
asascar, the first Christian martyr, follow
ed hy hooting crowd. Last year at the
coronation of the new queen of that island
which contains five millions and q half of
population and an area larger than Eng
land and Ireland and France combined,
in the presence of 3O0,O of her subjects
she discarded every veshge of the old
heather religion, and on the canopy over
her throne was incribed the "Gloria in
EXcelsis."
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1869-08-05
CHURCH ITEMS.
Sy TIE REv. wn. LUsK, N.


Plymouth Is becoming quite . place fer
pleasant resort In the summer. Various
states furnish representatives. Chicago
has her fair daughters here and Kentucky
her genial fellowships-ard even the
''slnnv days and orange blossoms of for
of Louisiana lend their charms for q sea-
son. All come to q place
"Cool the cave where Clio dweIls,
Where Hellicon's fresh fountain wells.
And from the cfy's restless heat
At noontide find calm retreat"
MARTIN II. RICE and family Of this
place we are sorry, to say, are about to re-
move to Indianapolis. Plymouth, and st.
Thomas Church in particular, wilhlose a
family worthy the kindcst welcome of
Indianapolis and the Church In that city.
1--WE welcome home our enterprising
fellow citizen and ''iiye Sunday School
man." II. G. Thayer. Among his many
interesting visits ''down East" he was
present ct the official visit of Bishop Hun
tington to the Onondaga tribe OF Indians
in New York state. and last sunday he
highly entertained the Sunday School oil
st. Thomas Church by a description oil
the confirmation services among the In.
dians......T The English sermon, at the ded
icaiion OF Sc, JONAS Uutheran) Church
In this place next Sunday, will be preach
ed at 3p- N, The church should be crowd
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1869-08-05
THE SOLAR ECLIPSE.

THE Eclipse of the sun which will oc>
cur on next Saturday will be one of mark
ed interest, from the fact that it will be
Wis iblc, throughout the United States, and
greater in magnitude than is often seen.
Upon the 9TH OF August, the moon in pass
ing between the earth and sunlwiil throw
her great shadow over the whole of the
North American continent. This shadow
will be about $50 miles in BREADTH and
will sweep across our country atIthe rate
of 1000 miles per hour. There has been
three cclipscs of the sun which have been
total during the prcsent.ccntury. The last
cue appearing in 1897. No other eclipse
of this kind win visit this country during
the 10Th century. The scientific men of
the CO untry are preparing to take obser-
vations, and.the navy Department. of Wash>
ington has appointed observers along the
line OF the eclipse through North Ameri>
ca The Lutheran Observer, in sp eaking
OF it says that ''the total eclipse OF the sun
will take place on the 18th Of August nex::,
the only one since 1884 which could be
observed in any considerable portion of
the country, and no other total eclipse
will be visable in America during the pres
ent century. As partial eclipse 1t viii;
be visible over all the northern parts OF
this continent, while the path of the umbra
In which the eclipse will be total, is about
l43 miles in breadth, entering the United
States near the origin of Milk River. Ion
itude 80 deg. w. thence through the south
west corner of Minnesota, and dia gonally
through Iowa, crossing the Mississippi
River near burlington, Iowa; thence
through Illinois, north of Springfield
crossing the Chic River near Louisville
KY, thence through the southwest cor.
OF West Virginia, and through North Car
DINA, south of Raleigh, and thence Il
Newborn. entering the Atlantic north O
Beaufort, N. c., ending at sunset in til,
ocean, in latitude BE- deg. Is min. sec N.
and longitude 9 deg. SO min. 6 sec. Z
Along the line above described the cclips
| will be total, and at all other places i
the United States only partial, Along tn
Atlantic coast, in the United States, th
7 eclipse ends at about sunset. Ii Wasl
ington City the umbra commences at 5 !