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II Of0CESE OF HARRISBUR0.--OnS fuo0efAy
morning, June 10Th, at the Church of the
county, Bishop Shanahan conferred Minor
Orders on Messrs. Charles j. Kenny and
William L. Pope. The following morning
the same gentlemen received Subdeacon-
IN sunday morning., at st. Patrick g
Church, Harrisburg, the Bishop, attended
by Revs. II. J. Barry and G. A. Kopperna-
gel, elevated the same Rev. gentlemen to
the dignity Of the priesthood. r"
ARcnpIocEsE OF NEW YoRK.-Dedica.
Cd, the Most Rev. Archbishop dedicated to
| the service of Almighty God, under the
! invocation of the Immaculate Conception
OF the Blessed Virgin Mary, the new church
lately erected at Port Jervis, Orange
County, New York, and on the same day
he administered the Sacrament of Confir-
nation, in the new Church, to 800 persons.
persons.-N. Y. Tablet.
Collection for the Holy Father.-Arch-
bishop McC1oskey having ordered O general
collection to be made throughout the do
cese on the 4th of June, for the Pope, the
$50 % have been collected. st. Paul's
Church, 59th street, gave $l7OO and
Pontihcal bond with coupons amounting to
$50 francs. st. Francis Xavier contributed
$ls4O, and the Church Of the Holy Re-
deemer S1sO6 65. These were the largest
gave each over $1,000.
Death of Mrs. Mcl[aster.-The Freeman's
Journal of the 18th inst is in mourning in
consequence of the death of the wife of
Jas. A. McMaster, it's able editor and pro-
prietor, which occurred on the 5th inst.
ARCHDIOCESE OF BALrIMoRE.-Death of
a Good Christian.-Died, on the 5th inst,
at the Academy of the Visitation, Park
street, Teresa Mahoney {colored), aged
about seveDty-one years. This good and
faithful old servant was known to many of
our readers, and to them eulogy Of her
virtues is useless, for they witnessed them.
In 1889 Aunt Teresa, after having remained
at Mount st. Mary's, Emmettsburg, for two
years, became an inmate of the Academy
of the Sisters Of the Visitation, where COM
menced that long, humble career of faithful
service which won for her the esteem and
confidence of her employers and the nu
merous students and friends of the institu-
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TErchdn9e,

Bishop Loughlin, of Brooklyn, not ap-
proving of Societies attending public reli-
gious ceremonies with bands of music, has
declined to attend the cornerstone laying
of new church If certain societies pro:
coed in body headed by band. Several
societies have declined to attend, but the
action of that Bishop is generally APP
proved by the people.
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A dabbler in literature and the fine arts,
who prided himself on his language, came
upon youngster, a few days since, sitting
upon the bank of a river angling for gud-
geons, and thus addressed him "Adoles-
cence, art thou not endeavoring to entice
the funny tribe to engulf into their denticu-
lated mouths a barbed hook, upon whose
KNo.r said the bow, 0I'm fshin'."
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The longest and most eloquent dispatch
sent to the Holy Father on the occasion of
his Jubilee was sent by the Bishop of
Philadelphia. In some instances sixteen
words made up the congratulations.
Bishop Wood used two hundred. 1t will
be admitted that in matters of this nature
things look best and are best when done
with q liberal handy. 7. ST Peter.
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An old Scotch lady was told that her
minister used notes. She disbelieved it.
Said one, "Go into the gallery and see."
She did so, and saw the written sermon.
After the luckless preacher had concluded
his reading on the last page, he said, "But
I will not enlarge. The old woman cried
out from her lofty position, I" Ye Gamma, ye
cauna for your papers give OUT
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Gardening FOR LApIEs.-Mabe up your
beds carly in the III ,rniug Seg buttons on
your husbands shirts: do not rake APP any
grievances protect the young aud tender
branches of your family; plant u smile of
good temper in your face, and carefully
root ont all angry feelings, and expect a
good crop of happiness.
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An idler boosted to a farmer of his an
Gent family, laying much stress upon
his having descended from an illustrious
man who lived several generations ago.
:! So much the worse for You, ".replied the
farmer, " for we find the older the seed the
poorer the crop.n
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When we have practiced good actions
awhile they become easy, and when they
are easy we begin to take pleasure in them,
and when they please US we do them fro
quently, and by frequency of acts they
grow into n habit.
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IT PAYS TO ADyERTIsE.-The Rochester
Union, in commenting upon the value of
printers ink, says:
We have kept the run of parties who use
the papers in this city for advertising for
the last twenty years, and know whereof
we speak !: and say distinctly that we have
never known party to fail in business if
he attended to his business, advertised ju-
diciously, and had the goods and the prices
to back up his advertisement. =
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A DRAMAE1c- DEATH.-Guicche,t the bri-
gand of Arezzo, Italy, was shot recently
by the Kings carbineers. He was, it is
said, the terror, but also the boast of the
neighborhood and, no less from admira-
ton than from fear, he was always sure as
long as he could elude the bioodhounds of
the law, of supper and a lodging.
Justice was over and over again suspended
by the dread of his anger; and tempting
fused by one official after another in defer
ence to his mandates. The mode of his
capture was in keeping with the remainder
of his eventful history. Three of his pur-
suers took refuge one evening with poor
and aged couple, and their suspicious were
at once aroused by seeing before them the
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was warranted by the peasants condition.
The supper was preparing for Guicche, and
the facts was extorted from the temporz-
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the solitary bravo, who soon came along,
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The following lines are supposed to have
been written by an editor who was insane
for certainly no sane man could dream any
thing SO improbable
had q dream the other night,
When every hing still
I dreamed that each subscriber
Came up and PAID his bill
Each wore q look of honesty
And emiles were round each eye,
And 10 they handed the stamps
They yelled - How's that for high.
Erchdn9e.
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Let that man who never forgives, remember
that he breaks the only bridge over which he
himself can enter Heaven.
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According to the last census; there are only
25S Jews in all Ireland, and not q single one in
Connaught.
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SINGULAR PHYSIOLOGICAL FAcT.-There
was young lady some years since, daugh-
ter, of Joseph Bartlett of Nottingham, who
was mute. She was literally educated at
Mr.. Foster, also deaf mute. The fruit
of this marriage was six children, all of
whom can hear and talk like SO many
blackbirds. They were recently at Not
tiugham, and even the youngest, a girl
eighteen months old, could articulate even
more readily than most children of her age.
What is more amusing and interesting is
the little child, thus early, can use the
deaf and dumb alphabet readily and talks
with her mother, telling what she wants to
eat, drink, or wear, and whether her head
aches or throat is sore. indeed, all the
children are possessed of more than ordin-
DEPENDENT
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Including Divdends
The above statement is just true and correct tra-s
crlpt from the books OF the company
THOMAS ANDERSON, Secretary. fteS'uen''
STATE LoUnrASA
Parrish Of Orleans-City Of New Orleans
Sworn to and subscribed before me- this twenty.6st
day of January, 1871
ANDREW HERO, Jr Notary Public
The Board Of Directors have resolved to nav six per
cent interest the outstanding Certificates Of Profit,
on and after the second Monday February 1871 also
hty per cent on the balance Of the scrip year
1871 and they have further declared dividend OF ten
per cent on the net earned Participating Premiums
the year ending December 81 1870 which
will be issued and the day Of March next
THOMAS SLOO, President
JOHN G. GAINES, Vice Presiden-
THOMAS ANDERSON. Secretary
DIRECTORS:
John q. Gaines, z. j. Hart, b. Biscoe
Henry RenShaw, /. n. Marks. W. e Seymour
J. Wefs. +. S. Venabes, w A Kenr
Richard Flower, Hugh Wilson. Thomas Sloo.
iaa01y
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Se1 Prout.. 3l3,O36 90
The Company have the following Assets estimated n.
the lowest market cash values. viz:
4"S nsohaaIed ana Railroad City bonds s33s435 o.
AZ 49, S ~ $3.50 on
2S SoEsr ssi CeH1 oohos- 1850 Is
$500 r II " re 1900
n ~ 1t,1eS - .vuisia!ts oonos..-.- 5000
SCI, St,r ~ ~ xaSsoGlat1on. 900 o.
So Sar ~ - S.s pgnt S9n $4,000 o.
3so Si,aro Ti DALE 81 Gonlslana. $4,000
S3S Sharos n.oI ,Sauk VI Aouisana'..- 1900
Gu Shares Crescent City Bank ...... 500 ~ ~
SH SLar H Nuis,aHa eta5e 1ah $500 o.
,6 Shar 20 Mt De- anu 1raHers rank. 1900 o.
SLa cl icIectIon Colhpany-... l50O o.
r o,. SienantS oank- 3a5 O.,
oas on ". 1869
III W 12450
..; ~ $500
StatP n C osaer insurance companies 1881 g.
800 800 3457 %
,t M IN course OF collection g. o.
o' y" ii1i"' 63,ss6 81
iotai -----.----.-.--------- .s77i,e6is e.
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INSURANCE COMPANIES.
MERCHANTS MUTUAL INSURANCE co
OF NEW ORLEANS.

.ne company puoisn the 1oho"ins s'a.emon':
anSndSG nnsarned premiums OF the previous year
On Marine Ri:ks.. iossos g!
VI H1Ser HisAs' sososo .
| ro+., p,.,.;u,n. q, N, oeo 9,
Net earned prem,nm. Mo-, ,s-, Ara Can 8,
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On Fire Risks. 400 ,,o a.
On Marine Risks. .......... g. go 81
| doaal. SSH ,sl2 9!
| Rainsnrance. ona -. ao'oSi ~
| miums. ao o.a n
| Total ;.-----...-....e 64s, 1886 30
Profit sss, -0- a,
| The company have the the following assets.
Real estate s11o es, II
S Sy, oonSs =; 254,t50 90
Notes secured by MORTGAGE an o3S en-
Notes secured by pledge. IO3 500 30
Premi"ms IN co - S1aS5 -
State bonds. observation-disclosures. 500 90
STOCK Of yalette Dry Dock Company.---..- 1880 90
Stock of Marine Drv DncI aud Shi ava s'oo W
Company .......--.. ........... i 3 700 90
MORTGAGE Honds San mo- &c ;.; go 90
| Mortgage Bonds Turner's Association .... 1000 90
Stock Opera House associa Ws S SSS 20 20
| Afr -
all outstanding scrips of the
1s company: ;:-sc...;-...-.;::: 7a,745 90
on nssi premiums on MayI sss 80, a.
The above statement is just and correct trans
C. W. MOTT, Secretary! P roUhcHr' President.
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participating premium. for the year ending May 81 1877.
for which certificates win be issued and after
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forest on all outstanding Scrip Of the csnpa n cent
r,src-ors.
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Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1871-11-16

"rihgs,' however backed by ignorant
voters, will disappear at once before
their rausc,l might like mist before
the sun
New York is now more or less
alive 10 lie fact tba, the character
of every respectable citizen is com
promised by the shamclessmrss ot its
government. Penpt. naturally think
that cit, governed b. rogurs is not
an honest city. Talk as much as yon
please about "lhe ignorant Irish
vote" j, is still felt that this igno.
rance would be enlightened, or neu
ralzed. or forced into dccrnry, il
the intelligent m-n had that horror
OF dishonesty, that mobile rage
against ostemtatinus fraud and com
pIaccnt iniamy, which should di.tin
guish high-minded citizens ot y great
municipality. The Ring is held to
gether BY The cohesive force oi pub
nc pIundrr' !, can only be broken
~ the cohesive TO, &c OF public integ
rny. As long a. this integrity is
careless, or cowarsliy, or hrsitaling
ihs reputation OF every good man i,
New York is boldly STONED H.
is considered 10 have vague prefer
cnce Tor honesty over dishonesty. bnt
mo force u make his virture efficient
II The present raid on the Ring fails
every ci,izea OF New York will be
tisgracet.- Every Saturday.
Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1871-11-16

was evidently prrson who liked 10
sail about and did MT care much tor
consequences.
Perhaps it is not an open thing
wh-rh her Columbus did good thing
in firs, coming over here, one that we
ought to celebrate with sa.utes and
dinners. The Indians never thanked
hm, for one party. The Africans
had small ground to be graIlfied tor
the market he opened for them.
Here arc two continents that bad no
use for him. He led Spain into a
dance ut great expectations which
cnhe,l in her gorgeous ruin. lie in
trodncpa Tobacco into Europe and
laid the foundation Tor more tracts.
and nervous diseases than the Ro
mans had in thousand years. He
introduced the potato into Ireland,
Indirectly; and that caused such a
rapid increase OF population that the
great famine WAS the result, and an
enormous emigration 10 New \ ok
-hencn Tweed and Hall and the
constituency Of the Ring. Colum-
bus is really responsible tor New
York He is responsible for our
whole tremendous experiment " De
mocracy, open 10 ali comers, the best
;hree m FIVE TO win. We cannot yr,
ell how it is coming out, what With
the foreigners and the communists
and The women-it Is a great stage
on which comedy and tragedy in
one piece are being played, with what
denouement We can not Yet say. Ii 1t
comes out well we ought 10 erect 2
monument to Christopher as high A.
tn. one a, Washington expects to
e, an'I We presume 1t is well to fire
"a salute occasionally TO keep the ar-
cient mariner in mind while we are
trying our great experiment. And
this reminds us that he ought 10
have had a naval salute.
There is something almost heroic
in the idea OF firing oft guns tor a
man who has been stone deal for
about four centuries. 1t must have
la | a lively AMI fesliveso mi IN Bos
ton, when the meaning oi the salute
was explained. No one could hear
those great guns without quicker
beating OF the heart in gratitude 70
the great dl>coverer. who had made
Boston possible. We are trying to
.'reaIize' to ourselves the importance
OF the 18th al October as an aHniyer
>aiy OF our potentlal existence. Ii
aEv one wants to see how VIVID is
The gratitude to Columbus. let him
start out among our business houses
with u subscription paper to raise
money tcr powder to be exploded In
his honor. Aud yet Columbus MAS
a wellmeaning man, and If he did
not discover perfect continent, he
found the only one that was lett -
Hartford CoaraH..
Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1871-11-16
So Much fpr Christopher.

II was certainly time that some.
thing should be done Tor the memory
of Christopher Columbus. II is TO
be hoped that the thirty seven guns
fired off Tor him Thursday in Boston
We're some Satisfaction TO him. They
were discharged by countrymen oil
his, WHO are justly proud that he
should have been able after a search
OF only few weeks To find a land
where the hand-organ had never been
heard. The Italians rs a people have
not proti,ea much by this discovery,
not SO much indeed rs the Spaniard,
who got reputation by it which
even now Silds their decay. That
Columbus was born in Gvuoa en,i.
ties the Italians to celebrate the
great achievement OF his l,ie, though
why they should discharge exactly
thirty seven guns we do not know
Columbus did not discover tie Unit.
ed States; that we partly found our,
selves, bought aud gouycd the Mex.
leans out of He did not even ap
pear TO know that there WAS q cont
nent here. He discovered the Yves,
Indies, which he thought were III.
East, and ten guns would be enough
tor them. l; is probable that he did
however, open the way to the discov
cry OF the New World. 1t he hat
waitel, however, somebody els,
would have discovered it, perhaps
some Englishman, and then We nigh
have been spared all the old Frencl
and Spanish wars. Columbus 10
Spanlards into the new world. Al,
their civilization has uniformly bcel
curse TO it, 1t he had brouy!l
Italians, who neither ut that tim
showed, nor slnce have shown. mus
incllnalion TO como we should hav
had the opera, and made it payin
institution by this time. Co.umbu
Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1871-11-16
Our National Hymn.
The familiar hymn, beginning !;

The familiar hymn, beginning;
"My country lis OF thee
was written by Rev. S. +. Smith, D.
D., Bapti-, clergyman, now liy NJ
in Newton, near Boston. d.. Smith
gra,loa,cl from Harvard College IN
the year 1899. in the same class with
DR.. .. w. Holmes. the poet. Dr.
Holmes in his poem The Boys Z
written tor one OF the reunions "f
the class, thus wittily aiiu!es TO DR.
Smith aud his famous hymn:
There SITS u young fei low OF excellent pith,
Fate tried 10 CONCEAL him by naming him
Smith:
But he sAou ed sosg for the brave and
the tree:
Jus, read on his medal, My country, of
thee.''
An old friend of DR. Smith lately
wrote To hIm about his patriotic
lay mn, aud his reply, which We gi e
below, WAS copied INTO The Boston
Transcript.
On- day. | think in the month OF
February, 81 or b, N turn!ny over
the leaves OF one o! some music
books, l tell i'll with the tune God
Save the kiny'-thouyh l did not
know 1t at that time to be the Eng
lisi national air. at once wro,.. o
patriotic hymn, in the same measure
and spirit. and soon after gave it 10
MIR. Lowell Mason. together with
other pieces. and thought no more OF
1t. On the next Fourth OF July, |
found that the piece was brought ont
tor the first time at chillrehs cele.
b:a:ion OF the day in Park Street
Church, Boston. This MAS the be.
ginning OF It's course. II gradually
found its way Into music books i.r
chil.lrcn, and into the pubic schools
III various places, and thus, cannut
but tliuk, may have had an influence
in -iutus,ny into many childish hearts
love ot CO .ntiy, which prepared
them To battle Tor the right, the true
and the good, when the time OF peril
to our Institutions and our country
came.
have often remarked that il had
supposed the piece would have been
SO popular, should have iaAen more
paius TO perfect it. YES Gays some
one, "and thus perhaps YOU would
have spoiled It, 1t has Won its way,
most unexpectedly TO myself, into
she hearts OF the people. l have
heard most gratifying narratives OF
the places where, aud the cireum.
stances under which. 1t has served AS
the expression Of heartfelt love OF
conntry.-in schools, III hu.s, on
Western prairies, in churches, OF the
eve OF battle, and in soldiers hospit-
ais. Inrver designed il tor nation
al hymn; l never supposed | WAS
writing one. | never offered 1t ior
pubic acceptance as such. But it
the people MtH sing it, am sure |
cannot help it. ! thank God that he
ever led me, such Is IL is, to write it.
1t is my cheerful contribution 70 the
cause OF PATRIOTISM, anu the manner
IN which It has been received is an
abundant compensation.
Very sincerely yours,
s. h. Smith.