Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-08-15
Salem, Columbiana Co., Ohio.

SUNDAY, ? P. NJ, Aug. II, 70.
Mr.. -HJUikan Il attended the first
Quaker meeting to-day that | ever
tended. | arrived at their place of wor-
ship at 10 80 A. NJ, and sat until within
Is minutes of eleven, when the Spirit
moved one of the brothers, and he arose
and spoke for 515 minutes quitting at
halt minute before eleven o'clock with
hese words There is an immortal seed
in man and, in course, woman too! Let
us be up and doing; let us work while
the day lasts, for the night cometh when
no man can laborr" Taking his seat we
all awaited as impatiently as one awaiting
a railway train which had become belated,
for further demonstrations, and after
waiting until 2215 minutes past eleven,
we saw one of the Elders-who was
seated on the raised seats, three in number,
in front of and facing the audience-slow-
ly cast his eyes to his left and as slowly
reach out bis right hand to his brother
seated on his eft; and at that moment a
rush was made for the outer doors, three
in number on the mems side of the meet
ing house-they do not call it church.
and after they had all gone out, general
'clemance" of the ladies side of the meet
ing house for their doors, three in mum
Der.
This house is about 100 feet long an6
60 wide and was built in 1915. There
partition in the center Of the room witt
sliding doors-these doors are closca
dunng quarterly meetings, now being
held,--the brethren seated on one side OF
the partition. and the ladies on the other
side and each attending strictly to their
own business-the men having nothing
To do with the business of the women, or
the women nothing to do with that of
| the brethren.
| Their meetings are exceedingly quiet
and liteless, the whole audience sitting
two whole hours and looking straight
down at the floor The women are all
neatly but cheaply dressed The young
ladies of the Quaker families compromise
the styles and dress about half way fash
iolable; but the elder ladies still adhere
to the old foggish style of dress, bonnet
of gray or black silk with long sideboards
protruding on either side, and frilled in
the back part of the head-a grayish dress
after the fashion of Mrs. Martha Wash
ington and gray shawl constitutes their
apparel save, of course, shoes, &C., &c
This sect are rapidly growing extinct
and it is belieled by our most learned
and observing inhabitants that in fifty
years hence, there will not be Quaker
in the State of Ohio
AT Toledo and Cleveland Ohio and
Pittsburg and Rochester Pa, found
business exceedingly lively. As much
smoke mud, noise, and dirt, and as MANY
half nude children plal ing in the blat h
pools of water. as dirty as pigs as usual in
the Iron city-(Pittsburgh) although. one
may say say as much against Pittsburgh
as be pleases, yet it is the greatest manu-
featuring city in the known world, and
city destined ere many years in our owl
estimation to be the acealtltiest in the land
Iron, steel, oil, coal, glass, and metals anc
its principal products-and the city day
has many firms whose credit is.unlimited
There is here to-day street Preacher
from Wooster, Ohio, one H. D. Miller
preaching to audiences standing, or sit
ting in the streets. He spoke at f01S A
NJ. to-day and at 2-:15 P NJ. and viii speak
again at 81 P. NJ. | heard his afternoons
discourse. 1t was very good one, ant
although Mr.. Miller's education is very
much limited, yet he is capable of doing
great good in the stress of our cities, a!
be is a travelling minister; His text to-
day was from John 2Jth chapter ard 31s'
verse: Dut THESE are written. that We
might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the
son of God; and that believing We might
have life through his name" Ladies az
we'll as gentlemen, could be seen in he
audience and good order was observed by
ALL
Salem will round up some fine figures
this fall for L. S. Grant. The Quakers
will mostly all vote for Grant The Col
ored people, Of which there are not few
viii vote here for .. S. Grant, and al
! there are no .s..lew haunts of debauchcry'
and ''crime" of course this city is Republi
can.
One DR.. Hardman- Greeley advocate