The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1869-08-06
MELMGRE NEWS.

EDITORS TRIBUNE II will droI
you. few items, which may interes
some of the many readers of the TRI
BUNE. l will give brief description
Of the place.
! This is a pleasant little town o.
about FIVE hundred inhabitants, il
about seven miles southeast oi
Tifin, and is located on the north
bank of Honey Greek. This village
has three dry goods stores, all of
which are doing hourishing busi-
ness, two groceries, whose proprie-
tors are live men, and are doing a
wholesale business in a retail way /;
also two wagon and carriage shops,
one cabinet shop, two blacksmith
shops, one cooper shop, tin shop, har-
ness shop, one tannery, one portable
saw mill, and steam Touring mill
which is nearly completed, one Odd
Fellow and one Masonic Lodge. three
churches, (Methodist, Presbyterian
aud United Brethren, } and Que hotel.
These include about all the leading
features of the place.
And now one word in reference to
the crops. The wheat crop is the
largest ever harvested in this section,
A person can look as far as the eye
can reach in every direction, and it is
seemingly one vast field of wheat, Gin
shock and in point of abundance it
is without precedent. Oats, barley
and rye crops will be equally as large
in proportion as the wheat crop, and
in addition to these crops the great
staple, corn, which was got in the
ground so late on account of the wet,
cold and backward Spring, promises
we'll.
Fruits of all kinds will be abund-
ant. Apples will be an average crop.
Peach, pear, plum and ounce trees
are almost breaking down with the
weight of their delicious fruits
Grapes, berries and other small fruits
will be abundant. With these
prospects before us, we can look for
ward to the coming of dreary winter
without a dread. How much more
pleasantly we can go into winter
quarters with our granaries and
cellars full of all these products of
our land, than we could with our
supplies cut short. How thankful
we ought to be to the Divine Ruler
of the universe for these bountiful
supplies.
By the by, must give you few
details of travelling affair of Seven
Day Adventists, who came into our
midst about six weeks ago. They
hold their nightly meetings in tent
on the commons. They have got few
persons to follow after them,
and believe that the millennium IN
is now near at hand. These
advents have done one good thing
They have been the cause of having
the neglected and dusty but time
honored Family Bible broughtinto use
by some. 1t is rather amusing to see
the few devoted ones who attend
their nightly gatherings, (after the
Elder has dismissed the congregation
form in line and march up to the
Preachers stand to receive their ra-
ton of tracts and also Sister Whites
Prophecies, which they have printed
for distribution among their follow
ers. And now in conclusion.
Let me say Just word of our last great seusa-
And think in that line it would beat all crea-
ton.
1t happened in this vay-one bright summer
There appeared in our town one Elder Van Horn.
A man OF much fame from the town Battle
Creek.
And they brought divine ''fxins," and they
pitched big tent,
And announced that we heather to teach ''they'd
been sent"
To hear what these marvellous men had to say,
And conhdingly thought not the genii of old
Had sgch treasures Of love-"but we were badly |
sOld,p
For the shades of Old Green never heard such
grammer
CommingIed with bOmbast and meaningless
clamor
OF twenty-three hundred days, and the dragon
and beast,
of Daniel, the Prophet, and Belshazer's great
feast,
Young Burrell discoursed with the air of a sage
While amid his good counsel, slyly took note |
He had followed the late style in the cut Of his
Then they grayely assert-Oh, wonderful story, |
That changing our Sabbath is the sure road to |
Sister Whites health reform dress then came in
And twas generally thought there was need of
repair.
In manners as well, this beth1nks nae of Burns,
The poet who sang amid Scotia's Wild ferns,
On the banks of sweet Alton: Oh, that some |
magic power
wolld grant US the gift We need most at this
hour.
To each see ourselves as we are locked on by men,
'Twould make boasted dself-righteousness searcer,
/ "ken."
With little less slang, and good deal less de-
hance,
In their motives of good we would have Put
more reliance.
But the uartyrdom claimed, and the great self
denial,
confess can't see very clear in the trial.
And in concord with others, "We" fervently pTaJ
Their second advent may not be this way.
More anon.
EDEN.
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