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Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1874-09-24

City life holds out attractions which
continually draw young men from their
rural homes into our large cities, where
the enemy of souls is ever on the alert to
allure them into sin by the multitude
nous devices and agencies which abound
in the city, and which are not suspected
by the unsophisticated until too late.
We desire to save all such from ruin,
and, in the furtherance OF this object,
wish to call the attention of clergymen,
parents and friends to our rooms and the
privileges which can be secured TO young
men, strangers coming into our city, that
they may have letters of introduction to
US. To become acquainted with proper
associates and mingle in good society
upon their first arrival in the city is
matter often of vital Importance.
We are prepared to introduce all young
men into any church of the denomination
which they have been accustomed to at
tend, where theJ>will be at home at once
and under good influences.
Our association is as vestibule to the
church, to receive and distribute the
strangers that come into our midst, and
we shall be pleased to meet every young
man that enters our city as a stranger.
Our reading-rooms are at No. 14S Mad
ison street, near La Sale, open every day
from 8 a. IN. to 10p m, having the princi-
pal papers and magazines on file, and q
wellselected library of $500 volumes.
Our boarding house list has upon it
nearly one hundred good Christian homes,
from which strangers can select free OF
charge.
We conduct the following meetings at
our rooms, to which all strangers are cor
daily invited, until they get settled In
their own church home:
MONDAY prayer-meeting daily for
forty-fve minutes; young mems prayer
meeting every Saturday evening; Gospel
meeting every Sunday evening; stran-
gers meeting every Monday evening,
when young men, strangers, can make
the acquaintance of members from the
different churches in the city, who will
be present as delegates from the respect
i've churches to look after them.
Our Employment Bureau is at No. las
Fifth avenue, in charge of Mr.. M. Hitch
cock, who has been the superintendent
of that branch of the work for several
years, and will do all that he can toward
finding young men employment. We
would, however, suggest to young men
not 10 come 10 Chicago for work, as there
are at the present time thousands OF per-
sons without employment.
But our latchstring is always out to
all strangers visiting the city, and We
cordially invite them TO call
In behalf OF young men,
w. W. VANARsDALE,
Supt. Young Mems Christian Association.
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1874-09-24
The War In Observation-Disclosures Of
the Kellogg Administration.

There was desperate fighting in New
Orleans on the 14th between armed
bodies of citizens and the Metropolitan
forces. Several persons On both sides
were killed or wounded. The following
is summary of the account of the af-
fair, as given by the Associated Press
dispatches of that date:
A mass meeting of citizens was held in
the forenoon in response to call signed
by fifty business men and firms of the
city. In this call it was declared that for
nearly two years the people had been 81
lent but indignant sufferers of outrage
after outrage heaped upon them by an
usurping government; that at last even
the right of the people to keep and bear
arms had been infringed in violation Of
the Federal Constitution; that the citi-
zens were therefore called upon to close
their places of business and assemble to-
gether, and, in tones loud enough to be
heard throughout the length and breadth
of the land, declare that you are of right,
ought to be, and mean to be free"
The called meeting assembled at IL
a. m. and q series of preambles and
resolutions were adopted, declaring that
at the election in November, 1872, John
McEnery was elected Governor by nearly
10000 majority, and ID. p. Penn Lieuten-
ant-Governor by majority OF $4,000;
that by fraud and violence Kellogg and
his defeated associates had seized the
executive chair and perpetnated their
official reign by other and continued
irregular, fraudulent and violent acts,
in the face of the report OF committee
of the United States Senate that
the existing State Government Of Louis
lana was an usurpation; that the acting
Governor had, under the Registration
act, passed for the purpose OF defeating
the popular will and with view of con-
trolling the result of the approaching
election, refused registration TO bona tide
citizens, who were denied redress before
the courts; that by false and Infamous
misrepresentation OF the feelings and
motives of the people he had received the
promise of Federal aid; that the whites
of Louisiana had no desire to deprive the
colored people of any rights TO which
they are entitled; that w. F. Kellogg is
mere usurper, and his government is
arbitrary, unjust and oppressive. and
could only be maintained through inter
| ference; that Kellogg's immediate abdi-
cation of Office be demanded, and com
| mittee of five should be appointed to
wait upon him with the resolutions and
| demand an immediate answer.
The committee called at the Executive
office at noon, and the Governor not be-
| ing present, were received by Brig. Gen.
Dibble, who conveyed the fact OF the
committees call to Gov. Kellogg, and
made reply in writing that the Governor
had directed him to say that he declined
| to receive any communication from the
committee, because he had definite
and accurate information that there
| were assembled in different parts OF
the city several large bodies OF
| armed men, who were met at the call
which convened the mass meeting repre-
sented by the committee; that he re-
| garded this state Of affairs as menace
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1874-09-24
Industrial.

The work of fan.making in Japan
gives employment to many hundred
thousand people, whose wages amount
to about two or three cents a day.
The number of people out of work
in Hartford, Conn, IL so large that the
city is obliged to restrict itself to mar.
ried men principally in giving employ
ment.
The Nashua On. H. Gdzette says
there Is large surplus OF laborers in that
city, and the application for work at the
different shops and mills is very frequent,
men offering to work for their board.
The tobacco growers Of Connecticut
are fast recovering from the detection
caused by the inferiority of their product
last year and the dullness Of the trade
for several months past. The prospects
for this years crop are excellent in nearly
all parts of the State as regards both
quantity and quality, and the harvesting
has begun in good earnest. The failure
of the crops in many parts OF the South
and West enhances the hope of selling
this years yield 10 advantage.
Mention is made of a burner In use
in Canada, by which the residuum of
crude petroleum is employed, instead of
wood or coal, in brick kilns. BY means
of u simple CONFERENCE.-The precise
mechanism of which Is not explained
the nozzle of the burner Is made to
throw the flame directly downward at
the first firing, and, after burning the
head, as il is termed, this nozzle Is re-
placed by straight one, the change
being effected in few moments. The
flame is thereby thrown into the arch any
required distance, burning the whole
kiln from one end, and doing it in much
less time than by the old method. The
rate of consumption in this operation is
not stated, nor is any estimate given Of
the comparative economy of the process.
An account given in London journal
of the production of the world-renowned
Russian sheet and plate iron at the i'm
periai iron works Of that country shows
the manufacture of that article TO be en-
tirely simple, instead of complicated and
mysterious, as commonly supposed. 1t
appears that the rollers used are not
formed in the lathe, but cast at once
with the requisite smoothness and regu-
larity in molds rubbed over with graphite.
While the plates are being rolled the
edges are Kept free from gaps by pairing
them with large shears; they are then
placed in layers Of from ten to twenty on
a moving bench, which passes them to
and fro under q hammer of sixteen hun.
dred pounds weight, and both sides are
alternately exposed to its action-the
scales that are continually produced on
the surface being carefully brushed off.
The parings are mixed with charcoal and
converted into bar iron.
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1874-09-24
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.
Personal and Literary.

A. T. Stewards advertising bin ag-
gregates about $500, 600 year.
Book publishing is very dull this sea-
Boston and New York publishers.
Mrs. Stonewall Jackson resides in
Charlotte, N. G. She is quite young, be-
tween twenty five and thirty, of medium
height and pleasing.
Women sometimes get high, but Mrs.
Roster tops them all She has climbed
to the summit of Popocatapatl, the great
est altitude ever attained by woman.
Rosa Bonheur is fifty-two years old,
and unmarried. She rejoices with sub
dued JOY that no man has ever been able
to divide her pure and unseltish love for
cattle.
1t was the mother of Lord Dufferin,
Governor. General of Canada, who wrote
the plaintive Lament of the Irish Emf
grant, beginning with the line, Pm
sitting on the stile, Mary"
Mr.. Amidon has been made a notary
public in Massachusetts,. When he has
finished his arduous work for the day he
puts his name into the form of an inter-
rogation, answers himself in the affirma-
1--WE, ana goes 10 supper.
DIR. Charles f. Matlack, Quaker,
who is said to have been the first, and
for time the only, homeopathic physi-
clan in Pennsylvania, died at German
town recently, aged seventy-six years.
1T took Bret Harte an entire night to
write his latest story, John Oakhurst,"
and he received only $500 for it, 1t is
such little things as this that discourage
young men from adopting literature as a
profession.
Hon. Louis Leebohm, the photog-
rapher of the expedition that left Day
ton, Ohio, to observe the transit of
Venus in South America, has died at
Bahia, Brazil, of yellow fever. His home
was at Dayton.
Bret Harte is said to be sufferer
from chronic complaint that is by no
means uncommon. He cannot keep
money. He has no bad habits, and yet
money melts away as soon as he touches
it. His work commands higher price
than that of any writer OF the day.
Citizen Jones, of Rockingham
County, Va, was believed to be the old
est man in the world at the time Of his
death, few weeks ago He was called
Sam. He was of mixed Indian and
negro blood, and his memory of events
in the last century was fresh to the end
of his life. He was 13a years old, &C
cording to the authenticated legends of
the bailiwick.
When Gen. Custer set out on his
long march into the UNEMPLOYED recesses
of the Black Hills he ordered his dinner
TO be served for him on the 31st of Au.
gust, on his return. He actually got
back twenty-four hours before he agreed
to, thereby surprising the feat of Jules
Verne's mythical hero, who engaged to
make the worlds circuit and return to
the London Reform Club before the close
of the eighticth day.
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1874-09-24
Miscellaneous.

MlSStIIuutOuSs
"A gentleman said, when pretty
girl trod on his toes, that he had received
the stamp of beauty.
1t is a greater virtue to forgive one
injury than to do many courtesies, be-
cause it is harder. Many a man will do
for another that will not suffer for him.
When the Arkansas census-taker
next goes around he will find Peter Day
ton missing from earth. The old man
found package and threw it on the fire
to see if it was powder or sand. ltwasn't
sand.
More than one-fourth of all the peo-
pie of Upper Canada, at the last census,
reported themselves as Methodists. More
than half of all the church buildings are
Methodist.
The man who is heartless enough to
offer to share his tooth-b brush with any
woman, and then basely to desert her, is
unfit to live. He is only suited for first
class sign in front of tobacconist's
store.
An aeronaut writes to the London
Times complai ming that his balloon was
shot at no less than three times during q
recent ascent from London, and offers
reward of f100 for the apprehension of
the persons who fired the shots.
The Jews of Moldavia and the
Ukraine prepare from honey sort Of
sugar, which is solid and as white as
snow, which they send to the distilleries
at Dantzic. They expose the honey to
frost for three weeks, where neither sun
nor snow can reach 1t, and in vessel
which is a bad conductor of caloric, by
which process the honey becomes clear
and hard, like sugar.
The characteristic of the umbrella is
its power of changing shapes. You can
have bran new silk with an ivory or
rosewood handle at any public gather
ing; within three hours ii will turn itself
into light blue or faded brown cot
ton somewhat less in size than circus
tent, with handle like a telegraph pole
and five fractional ribs.
ALI plants require to be potted tightly,
for If the soil is left loosely about their
roots the plant often dies. When the
roses have been well trimmed and potted,
soak the pots in water for few moments,
letting the soil become thoroughly wet;
then place them in cool, shady location,
and let them remain there until there Is
danger Of hard frost.
Many people look upon money paid
out for advertising as spent and gone,
| but shrewder business men view 1t in its
proper light. They regard it as merely
an investment from which large and
regular returns are certain to be gained.
And not for one year or two, alone, but
as long as thNy continue in business.
Nor are they &er mistaken in this calcu-
lation. No investment man will make
will pay as certainly and largely as the
money paid for advertising in newspapers
of large and good circulation. 1t generr
| ally yields, when judiciously used, from
100 to 1000 per cent. This is the testi-
mony of all who have fairly and thorough
ly tested the principle. The sun is not
more necessary to ripening the grain
than publicity to man who has anything
he wants the public to buy.
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1874-09-24

of church offerings in the diocese has
been 1861, 1886. "a During the year pre-
vious the Bishop had consecrated five
churches and one hospital and confirmed
54S persons.
The annual address of the Protestant
Episcopal Bishop of Texas to the Dioce-
san Convention states the following
facts: During the conventional year the
Bishop baptized eighteen white adults
and seventy-seven white children, a total
of ninety-five; and confirmed 900 white
persons and two colored persons, total
of 292. One church building had been
consecrated, eighty visitations had been
made, ia addresses delivered and 14O
sermons preached. Five lay leaders
had been licensed, making twenty-one
now at work. The diocesan clergy now
numbered thirty-three (twenty-seven
presbyters and six deacons), and the gen.
eral progress of the church continues to
be steady and decided The number of
parishes is now about forty, though some
have only nominal existence, and there
are now more than thirty missionary
stations.
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1874-09-24

The Pittsburgh Adoocote says: AT
the late commencement graduate OF
Allegheny College, measuring six feet
six inches and three-quarters, guaranteed
to give the college $1,000 when 1t shall
graduate taller man than himself"
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1874-09-24

To KEEP AWAY BEDBUGs.--Dilnte oil
Of sassafras with water, sprinkle the
sheets with II and the bugs will leave in
hurry. Oil of pennyroyal is also excel
lent. 1t leaves yellow stain, but that
can be removed in the wash. Equally
good for mosquitoes.-COr. Western Rural.
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1874-09-24

HEARING that his pastor intended to
preach on the recognition OF friends in
heaven, a parishioner suggested that he
should preach on the recognition OF
friends on earth, since he had beer Sit
ting in his pew twenty years without Le-
ing recognized by the occupant Of the
next
, 1874-02-08

and admirable things lts accomplished and YER
satile author has written. It's exquisite point,
and wit, and feeling touch the popular heart,
and commend i. universally. But the artist has
not been able to iilustrato the poet. He has
not causht the character or the circumstance
which the lines SO graphically deLneatc. The
poetry, tho pathos the strength and simplicity,
OF the Yankee nature have escaped nun: Will
out knowing his antecedents, one would be sure
ho is unfamiliar with the life and spirit OF New
England. Something of his i'll success may be
owing to the style Of wit he has undertaken,-
tho silhouette, which, limited to mere outline
severely tests the power of the arauShtsnsn.
The publishers have doue thar .act we'll.
, 1874-02-08

Edmund about in tho London 4th<neurs.
I'Espasne Of Baron Ch. navllher is the worthy
pendant Of the Rome" OF IL. FRANCIS Messa; sao
The book Of Al. Dav1lior is enriched by 3oo
engrayings. after designs by GustaSe pore.
Yon know Dorc. He is at le asst az popular III
Top1on ns in Paris. To me, who have never
lost sight of him since he was scrawllp5 MS
first sketches on exerclse ooohs ~ ~ cs";,, Nv
seem among lis best productions, among those
IN which he Ia absolutely himself. 1t has been
at orco the good ard the evil 1or1une u tnt'
stranee genius to f1aye succeeded TOO soon. az
was still rhetorique when fMnpoa' tnc t,uof
c,r:catures Of the labors Of Hercules. ll.o pup
IL found in it such c1eyerness, such good Aumor,
and such astonishing facility with tue Psnct'
that they adopted tho child-and one SAW, n
credible prodigy, IN artist o. ~, -. dalut noro
haIl nothing but SUCCESS, aud success OF more
than one sort for nature has been bonht11u
to him. He played the VIOLIN Ake iauIearo
Of the Conseryatoire ho sang VIII oeau1'lus
t1,o ann1auso of Rossini he WAS % great IN
athlete as the most muscular undergraduate OF
n1fnrd or Cambridge. Els genial aud Loyal
character disarmed envy, while bis private n1e
nnder his mothers roof wins universal osseetu'
n ana word, over since his 25sh year, his me-
nnin1,e in its character, has been one long tr'-
Tmph. cheorcd by an lncessant toll. nappy, easy,
and corlsnt do, source. We FTencnmea are
afvlcd caprici0us, yet VIC have never tlled OF hls
n5rte. n.,r we have novor even shown ourselves
"oiSs a.;s!ad ~ and We have never found that tile
e,,thor produces enough. Publishers Of prints,
journals Of books baye not doF b 6ne ana
esar oeazo eepn finish design on wood while the
mess ensc- waiting st the door.
RnoIn3 In ,s1oTtnno is that this rupia production
under nd pressure since he began his stmdsa
has not Lett him time to complete rus sLuo!es
I;. na make croat masters, The public expected
Tasy 2tnsF aa under unsoP a2s say
hnTe no. left him the tne sas This i,
e. s Gs sE aEs:s: ssa ?sas I'd
sRs'ln 70 1,sre @ ve don's 6nd Michael Angelo OK
Dore eitho1.
, 1874-02-08

american EookselleT's Guide for FebruAs7'
Auerlcan Scrs Company, Ecw York.
National Bee Journal for Jaonary. Alea e.
leu S. Tuppcr. UcBMciucs, T.. ;
Ause,ica,t Zee journal foc February. Anerl'
can Publishing Company, Chicago =, -
Dland ( Co., Ee,Y York and Chicago.
L,tn,Jeruan's Gaane for Ja1lrasy- H. ..
Dow, Bay City, Iich. Dill, |.
Tuice Of .nGsonry for February Bailey d
inland Mor1iiv Magazine for January t.
Smith l. Co., St. Louis 7no,,;.t,
Chicago Teacher for February. Jeremiah
IMuois schooEmcster for February; Aafon
Cove and Edwin C. Hewet., Normal; IL. ~.
yatioual dqricuUu. 1T and Zee you7''a1 1os
January. q. /. K1ng Co, Hew York.
, 1874-02-08
IS =. ET.,3

VERSES. By Il. T., Author Of ~ Bits Of Talk and
.4Ests of Travel" Boston Roberts Brothers.
It is but two or threop years since sketch Of
foreign travel, dated at Rome, and signed With
the initials IS Il. H." WAS printed iu the 4Ao''io
Monthly. The signature WAS new. This WIS tho
first time it had appeared among the magazines.
The spirit Of the sketch Was as novel AZ the
signature. It Was singularly bright, and free,
md gay, with q captivating dash Of courage,
, 1874-02-08
n,o1Eell,s ~ Cour1in,.s,

THE CoU3TIE'. By JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL. T.
lrs.ra.cd BY W1SsLow HOMER. Boston: James Z.
Osgotd / Co.
The publishers exercised wise choice when
tuey selected - The Couxtin'" for the text OF an
illuminated volume. Il is perhaps the best
known rad most admired Of ali tbs many good
, 1874-02-08

INFANT DIET. Dy \. Jloon1, II. D., Professor Ut
Diseases of Chi!urcu, College Of Physicians and
Surgeons, New York. Now York: G. 2. Putn2na
Eous.
An essay read before the Public Health AS
socintion Of New York, to communicate the
result Of DR.. Jacobi's observation critically
directed to tho feeding of infants and con-
cluding with fcw brief and iatelligiblo rules
that ehould DO understood and prac:iced by
nurses and mothers. These rules arc given
under three divisions, relating to periods Of
infant life both in health aud sickness and
are, in themselves, sufficiently useful and ex-
plcit to recommend the little volume OF whirh
they form but a minor part to an adoption Is
nursery text book
, 1874-02-08

L5ine, Covetousness, Id1eness. Pride, Evil
Conscience, and Quarrels. They are Lessons,
too, Of Obedience, Patience. and Faithfr1ness.
Anoug the innumerable stories told i'll lllustra-
ton Of good pteccpt,- the following occurs Under
the lsaf for curing Lying:
little newsboy, to sell hia papers, told lie. Ths
matter came up for conversation in class in s.inda
school. s'Woud you tell lie for th1ea cent asked
a teacher OK one Of her boys "So, na'a 'an," az
swerctl Diet very promptly tFor dollar =" +" No,
maam." .4Fo- thousand doiiass?" Hero Dick wa7
staggered. \ thousand dollars looked like such very
big sum. Oh Whit lo:s OF things he could buy with
thousand dollar3! While he thinking ahous j.,
and trying up his mind whe;ler it would pay u tell
lie for thousand dollars, boy behind hin cried ont
mark this boys ansvcr ard do not forget It. Be-
cause, rna'ar." sid he, the liz sticks. Wnen tse
Thousand dollars all gene, and the good things
bought With them arc all gone tie liz is there ell tina
sa,Qa."
, 1874-02-08
lob.


THE ARGUMENT OF THE BOOK OF JOB IN
FOLDED. Bv WILLIAM HENRY GREEN, L. D. l'To-
fesaor in Princeton Theological Seminary Nav
York Hcsert Catte- + Bro.h=rr.
A comprehensive Wow OF the Book OF Job, do
signed to exhibit its plan by an analysis OF its
contents. It is studied without reference to age
or authorship, but simply as an inspired book of
consolation.
The hsppiness Of Job; his temptor; his af-
Fiction; his friends; his tziunlphs; md tie
answer Of the Lord "oss: Of The whirl'Eind," "
are in turn considered; aud lastly the place
held by this history Of ! life iu the scheme OF
Holy Scripture. 'No book OF the Bible, says
tho author in his summary Of the virtues OF
this ancient story Of Tral and Triumph, ''stands
apart by itself. or can bs fully understood it 1t
j. only studied separately aud in its isolation.
Il is part OF gradually pfolded revelation
1t belongs to wel-ordcrcd system. It is a
link in chain. It is j member OF I'll organism.
It is what it is not for itself alouo it has bean
shaped with reference to tho position that it il
to occupy, sud tho function it hiss to perform III
the plan OF tho WHOLE"
, 1874-02-08
nora1 Lessons

rEAyrs FROM THE TREE oF LIFE r ths hev.
IIcuAlp SEw1os, D. .. Ne" 1of1: 1oeef'
C.rter L BTotlerz.
The name Of DR.. Newton, VINO 1ot s''en.S
years has boen preaching to children ana m1N-
ing books of the eeFuaons' Is p1sspo1. s,. ~ na
mediate favor. To say that the present so'1nio
is characteristic, is its best introduction, Inc
simplicity, tho loving splnt, Inc oserno"lpg
fund Of anecdote, that made b4o!e nonaefs
aad ssNA.uro's Wondera faVor1tes OF the
child's library. are recognized iu'1y IN tnese
Leaves. The Bible ia compared to ireo OF
Lie, aud its leaSes Of healing are sppheo 70