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with JOY when he first discovers the power
of walking. The higher the power the greater
the joy. But spiritual power is the highest
of all, and Christ has said unto US: "These
things things about the spiritual power that
bears much fruit, have | spoken unto you,
that my joy may remain in you, and that
your JOY may be full"
Standing in our lot in days of great op'
portuDities, and surrounded with abundant
agencies, let our aspiration he: ooh! for
power. Tile London Christian.
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CHESAPEAKE AND OHIO RAILROAD.-J
" and after DECEMBER 18th, 1874, passen-
ger trains will run as follows:
FROM RICHMOND.
8:15 A. NJ. MAIL TRAIN.-For Gordonsville,
Charlottesville, Staunton Covngton, and all inter.
mediate stations daily Except Sunday,) arriving at
Covington at 1920 P. NJ. This train connects at
Gordonsvile for Orange, Culpeper, Warrenton,
Manassas, Alexandria, Washington, and the North,
and at Charlottesville for Lynchburg, Bristol Knox
ville Chattanooga, and the South.
Ais P. M. ACCOMMODATIONS Gordons-
vile and all intermediate stations daily Except sun
day,) arriving at Gordonsville at Sl5 p M.
$40 P. M. CINCINNATI EXPRESSION Cor.
louisville, Charlottesville, Staunton, Goshen, Mill
boro,' Covington, White Sulphur, and all stations
west of White Sulphur daily Except Saturday, ar
irving at Huntington at 5:25 P. NJ. This train con-
meets at Gordonsvile for Washington, Baltimore,
and the North, and for Lynchburg, Bristol and the
South, and at Huntington with steamers Bostona
and Fleetwood for Cincinnati and all points West
and Southwest, arriving at Cincinnati at A. NJ.
Baggage checked through.
For through tickets, rates. and information, apply
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at the companys Office Broad street near Sixteenth.
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w. G. WICKHAM, Vice President
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AGRICULTURAL CoMPARIsoNs.-M a8sachu-
sets and New Jersey, comparedasogether,
show some remarkable facts. The area of
New Jersey is 200 square miles less than
that of Massachusetts,; yet it has 100000
more acres of improved land The cash
value of its farms is two and half times as
great and increasing 40 per cent. every ten
years, its farm products are one-third greater
and its orchard products are also about one
third greater; yet there is just as much poor,
worthless land in proportion to area in the
one State as in the other. The sandy pine
barrens of South Jersey and the hills and
rocks of Northern and Northwestern New
Jersey are just as unproductive and as great
in proportion to area as untillable portions
of the old Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
We can infer from this only two things:
either that agriculture in Massachusetts, is
not as profitable as in New Jersey or else
that farming is not fashionable, and too
many leave the land behind, to seek liveli.
hood in some lighter clerical employment.
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The Conference of the Evangelical Alliance
at Rome.

That worlds conference of Evangelical
Protestant Christians will be held in the city
of Rome, the centre of the Papacy, is too
good to believe. Yet the project is seriously
contemplated, and an invitation has been
sent from the Italian branch of the Alliance
to the British branch to hold the next great
meeting there. The British Alliance is con-
sideriDg the invitation fayorably, but the
decision can only be had by the consent of
the various Branch Alliances in Europe and
America.
The arguments in favor of the meeting at
Rome are very cogent. 1t will be a demon
stration of the establishment of religious IL
berty in the capital of Italy, which will
quicken the pulse of every lover of freedom
in the world. 1t will be accepted, too, as a
logical consequence of the fall of the tempo
raj power, and there is no reason why the
logical consequences of that great event
should not be fully realized. 1t will give
an impulse to the cause of Professionalism
throug hout Southern Europe, where Pro-
testantism has been for more than two hun
dred years under the ban. 1t will afford the
little band of Protestants in Italy the en-.
couragement which will come from their
closer association with the representatives Of
the Reformed faith from all parts of the
world.
On the other hand the difficulties in the
way are formidable. There will be wanting
to the Conference, if held at Rome, that
great force of sympathy which comes from q
meeting held in the midst of Protestant
population. Although the people of Rome
are anti-Papal, they are not necessarily anti
Catholic; certainly not Protestant. The
Romans are hostile to the temporal power,
but they are not opposed to the spiritual
headship of the Pope over the Church. The
Papacy has given all its Importance to the
great city for centuries, and the Roman
knows that fact right well. He may be Gu,
rious about Professionalism, but interested in
it he certainly is not. Rome too at certain
seasons is an unhealthy city, and has proved
the grave of many an invader. This diff
Guilty could, however, be overcome by fixing
upon time for the conference when it would
be entirely safe for strangers to be there
Still, Notwithstanding the drawbacks, the
conception is inspiring, and we may well re.
joice in the prospect of holding general
conference of Evangelical Christians in the
city which has so long done its utmost to
overthrow the Protestant faith.-MethOdist.
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ONE OF THE METHODS adopted by the au-
thorities of Paris for the encouragement of
birds in the parks of that city, is the manu-
facture of artificial nests, so cunniDgly con-
structed that each variety of bird will recog-
nize its home at once, and suppose it to be
the vacated mansion of bird family just
moved out These nests are made by wo-
men, and L'Ilustration says, " they make
them for the thievish and quarrelsome spar
row." the titmouse, the warbler, the king
fisher, the chafinch. cuckoo, blackbird, mag
pie and others. Three thousand of these
nests have been put up, the plan having been
suggested by professor of the Jardin des
Plantes.-Galary for December.
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WHEN che causes of the panic of 1873
are investigated more minutely, we shall pro-
baby find that we are not only investing in
ordinately in railroads of slow return, but
also that many of the railroads were abso-
lutely useless and perhaps will never return
profit. This was largely the character of
recent enterprises in the East, where parallel
roads have been built with reckless disre-
gard of the inevitable waste in setting two
agents to do the work which one can do,
while other roads have been laid through
regions where there was absolutely nothing
to develop. A writer in The Railroad Ga
zette discovers that 68 per cent. of the $780,
10000 of bonds on which interest has de-
faulted represents roads which will not de-
velop and stimulate agricultural production.
The southern part of Michigan, for instance,
has been covered with network of roads
in few years; but the country was we'll
settled before and fails to respond with any
great increase in production. New England
is full of such cases, where only the slow
growth of manufactures or the doubtful ad.
Vantages of a Through line" are the only
possible basis of return. In short, rail
roads will not always develop their own busi-
ness, but are quite liable to be dead failures
and sheer loss.-Springfeld Republican.
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Con GIVES feed to every bird, but He
does not bring it to the nest in Ike manner
He gives US our daily bread, but by means
Of our daily work.
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ACCORDING to the Egyptian correspondent
of the Journal de8 Debats, Europe is threat
ened with the visitation of terrible scourge,
forgotten for centuries past. This is none
other than the black death, which depopu-
lated Florence in olden times, and which
Boccaccio rendered famous in his Decameron.
The pestilence is spreading rapidly in the
neigbborhood of Medina and Mecca, it's chief
feature the dreaded plague spot, which, once
it appears, is almost universally fatal. The
Egyptian Government is exerting itself to
the utmost to prevent the spread of the con-
tagion; but unfortunately the Ramadan is
at hand, when thousands of Mu8sulman pill
grims flock to the shrine of Mecca, and it is
feared that they will not only help to spread
the contagion there, but also bring it back
with them to Europe.
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EVERYTHING that is false--false to our
selves, false TO others, false to God-Binds
round or the end aud strikes the author
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TNURNIP SEED.-Fresh and genuine-and sure
to come true to name.
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RED TOP, WHITE GLOBE,
EARLY WHITE, FLAT DUTCH.
FLAVORLNG SEEDS of all kinds.
PALMER TURPIN,
No. 1925 Main street. Richmond. Va.
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- !. - = : 80 - % =
The Place Of Woman.

Onelof the principal features of the
middle ages is the ecogpition of the
fact that Christ stiahity ylassighedto TO woman
i u new place in the social order of the
world very different from what it had
been before. The deep respect accorded
by that epoch to womanscould not but
exercise most powerful and beneficial
infiuence on hnmanityi;i for when man,
confident in his physical force, :reigna
alone, We can never expect to see real
human culture develop, ITSELF, There
NOW aroge anew kind OF 'wofshipof the
Beautiful, and of female beauty in par
ticular, and TINT in a afhigh 6r and more
refined sense- than had been tho <saae
With the shoa ghSissls;sIhnT YoElSaM The
Greeks, the Romans, and the Irabians
had bestowed praise on woman, an roo,
.essery TO tbsir. har asless, tut they
treated her only as an Inferior, and even
as slave. The Christian world set be-
fore itself "a new ideal. What man now
strives for is, that the lady whose affeo.
tions he ;endeavors to win should Eecog-
nize his personal worth that she shouldi
prefer him to other suitors that she
should love him because she honors and
esteems him. Such demand is based
upon the supposiSion that man consid;.
ers woman as his equal nay, that he
looks up to her rs superior being the
endeayors hesmakes to deserve the favor
of her he loves and to become worthy
of her, reacts on his own conduct. Love.
raises him above all that is common and
vulgar; it becomes with him the main
spring of every. noble action he can
henoeforth neither do or. say anything
of which he would feol ashamed before
seized the full significance of this lofty
conception of woman and of her place
IN life !; with themilove was nothing but
the spontaneous homage of strength to
beauty; they introduced $ new social
usagesi and more elevated system of
ethics among the inhabitants of South
ern Europe, and at the same time, com-
municated to them that reverential re
,speot which raises woman, though nat
urally weak, above the common level of
humanity.
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cleopatra To-Day.

= correspondent who has been to tho
. British museum writes: "Fnll OF
= strange speculations and sober thoughts
: paused at last before this case con-,
q tanning the, mummy sof Egypt's royal
2 firt, sCleopatra.t The esoft light of the
!, English twilight was falling through
2 the dingy windows and chasing long
shadows around Che cases and into the
s dark kcorners. TheSsight.seers had ex-
: hausted themselves and Withdrawn and.
sEthe apartment was deserted and silent
s~as the tombs, and I was MI alone with
my reveries and the dead. Before me
2 was,tlier short, ,dnmpyI figure OF the
queen, the flash of whose eye and the
q witchery Of whose smile had intoxicated
tho mighty Caesar, and nnnerved the
brawny arm Of Marc Antony She was
iSgranped athousand times in linen bands
and seemed bundled up to keep the
s3oold air .font. On the outer. covering,
WASH portrait Of the woman as she ap,
Sl cared in life. The colors were nearly
is.as brightaas when put there.ra ,The
checks wore fnllnnd rosy, the hair dark,
assthe ravens wing, and there was
q look Of sineffabio gisoo i'm eytface,
Z Dlrahing with nm expression that be-.
7spolse.a Knowledge Of her heauty' and
power as woman rather than that of
queefl. . Thero were tho charms
before me that had seduced score of
Orangeburg times. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1872-1875, 1874-07-30
A' Test tCase

In 1859 the Louisiana national bank
shipped by the Southern Express com
pany gs New Orleans SIS, ,528 to the.
bank iofia aRentr1ky and SO, 600 te the,
Plantefs natioHaL bank. The money
was delivered by the. Southern EXPRESS
company es sHnfaholt tot comrlets the
transpo ortation, and the laet named COM
pany was bringingit to Louisville on the
cars of4he louisville and Nashville rail-,
road when, at Budd's creek, in Tennessee.
trestle gave way while the train was
passing over it. This precipitated the
express and other cars ia the bed Of the
creek, The cars caught fire from the en-
gine, and all express matter, including
the money mentioned above, was burned.
In the receipt taken by the Louisiana
national bank for the two Louisville
banks there were various printed condi.
tlons, among which, was a condision that
the express company was not to be liza
BILE forloss occasioned by the damages
of railroad transportation OF, by fire.
Various interesting questions arose in
the case, bnt the most important one
decided was that if the express agent
was not himself guilty of negligence in
caring for the money, If the express
company was not itself guilty of negli-
gence in selecting the Louisville and
Nashville railroad las the vehicle with
which to complete the transportation,
then the express company was not liable
to the banks, although the falling of
the trestle and the consequent fire may
have been the result of negligence on
the part Of the louisville and Nashville
railroad company .sss,t,gl, ~
For the banks it was contended that
the Adams Express, company having
nndertak aken to complete the transporta-
tion to Louisville, it would have been
Responsible for any negligence of its
ownfemplo yes whereby the money was
lost, and was necessarily responsible for
tile negligence of the Louisville and
Nashville railroad company, whose cars
it employed TO do what it was bound to
do, VIZ to complete the transpo, tation
to L1nisyill le;s that the loss occasioned
as stated was not to be deemed a loss by
the dangers Of railroad transportation
within the meaning of tho reoeipt, un.
less it appeared that the loss could not
have been avoided by proper diligence
on the part of the railroad employees.
But Judge Ballard has ruled otherwise.
The case, we learn, will probably go
to the Supreme Court of the United
States.-LoatisUille Commercial,
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Thackeray on Female Society.

1t is better for you to pass an evens,
ing once or twice week in q lady's
drawing room, even though the CONVEX.
sation is slow, and you know the girls
song by heart, than IN Il club, tavern,
or the pit of theatre. All amusements
of tyouth, to which 1irttlous women are
not admitted, relygon it. are deleterious
in their nature. All men who avoid
female society have dull perceptions
and are stupid, or, have gross tastes,
and revolt against what is pure. Your
club swaggerers, who are sucking the
butts of billiard cues all night, call
female society insipid. Poetry is unin-
Spring tosaa yokel'; - beauty has no
scharins fora blind man; music does not
please n poor beast who does not know
one tune from another but rs pure
epicure is hardly. ever tired of water,
sancey, and brown bread and butter, T
protest I can Sit for a whole night talk.
ing, with we'll regulated, kindly wo-
man about her girl Fanny IorS her boy,
Frank, and like the evenings entertain,
ment. SQnepfs fstbeggreat ben etits man
may derive from woman's society, is
that heEis bound to- sbesrespeetfg to her.,
'rhe habit is of great good 70 Your NOR
al men, depend upon it. Our educa-,
'tion makes of us the most eminently
selfish men in the world. We fight for
onfselyAs,g wa push 4for Goins6y yesa. we
yawn for ourselves, we light our pipes,
and we say we won't go out, we prefer
ourselves and our case; aud the great
est good that .comes' to man from wo-
mans society is that he has to think of
somebody to whom he is bound to be
constantly attentive and respectful.