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Elk Governor Herschel Y. johnson, is Judge of
this circuit, and it would be hard to say whether
the whites or the blacks have the greatest respect
for his uprghtness of character, or repose the
implicit confidence in the fairness of his judgD ent
The practice of carrying pistols prevalent among
the young men in some parts of the South, and
which has been the cause of more trouble than
any other one thing, has been entirely broken up
in this judicial circuit Judge johnson. in his
charges to the grand jurieS has often announced
his determination Ito make pistols cheap" here by
destroying the demand for them, and he has sue
ceeded Recently two young men, who bad been
in no difficulty and had made no use Of their
weapons. but who had been seen carrying pistols
were indicted by the grand jury for violation of the
law of this State. One of them pleaded guilty, and
was fined $3.50 aud COSTS and the other was con-
victed and fined $500 and costs. Judge Johnson,
in pronouncng sentence in the last case, read the
young man lecture which neither he nor any one
else who heard it will forget as long as he lives
After impressng upon the man the enormity and
cowardice of the crime of which he had been found
guilty, he dwelt upon the folly of carrying con
cealed weapons. "When boy gets on his first
pair of galluses', said the judge lie thinks he
is getting to be a man but few years later, when
he gets whiskey in his belly, pistol in his pocket,
and the devil in his head he is full grown mar"
This sentence was delivered in such way as to
make the young man ashamed to hold up his head
in Judge Johnson's presence ever since -San-
derSUitle Ga J correspondence ~ Y. Tribune.
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ECT R Y
Presbyterian Church in tho United States.
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY.


The General Assembly will meet at st. Louis, Mo,
IN the third Thursday of May. 1875, at II A. NJ
CLERKS
REV JOSEPH R. WILSON. u. D., STATED oIERk'
REV WILLIAM BROWN. D. D, PERMANENT CLESK.
The Stated Clerk is the Treasurer of the
General Assembly.
TRUSTEES.
Hoy. JAMES HEMPHILL PREsrDEsr, Chester, s. G.
JOS. WILSON, VICE President, Charlotte N. q.
JESSE H. LINDSAY, Esq, SECRETARY and TRsAsuREs'
Greensboro, N. c..
sUSTENTATION.
REV. J. LEIGHTON WILSON, D. D., SECRETARY,
REV. RICHARD MoILwAINE, Coordinate sEcRE
TARY and TREASURER, COLUMBIA D. v.
FOREIGN MISSIONS.
Rev. J. LEIGHTON WILSON, D. D., SECRETARY
RIv RiCHaRD McILwAINE, Co ordinate sEcRErA
RY and TREASURER Columbia, b o.
PUBLICATION.
REV E. THOMPSON BAIRD, D. D., SECRETARY, Rich
@. GENNET, Esq, TREASURER, Richmond. Va.
EDUCATION.
REV. JNo. N. wADDELL ID. D., SECRETARY, Mem
JAMES ELDER, TREAsuaER, Memphis, Tenn.
Applications the Executive COMMITTEE for aid are
first 70 be to the anS & I'll h. er
warded by them to the Assembly Committees
COLLECTIONS.
The General Assembly has appointed the following col
ectons TO be taken up annually in all the churches
For Sustentation On the first Sabbath in January.
For Publication On the first Sabbath In March.
For Foreign Missions: On the first Sabbath in May.
For the Relief OF Disabled Ministers aud the Widows
and Orphans Of Deceased Minister'S On the first Sabbath
In July
For Evangelistic Work: On the first Sabbath in Sep.
TENDER.
For Education: On the first Sabbath in November.
In cases highly inconvenient take COL
econs these days. they shall be taken up as soon as
possible thereafter.
The Assembly recommends 10 the churches that they
adopt the apostolic plan of taking up NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
that thus collected be appropriated TO
the Objects or, when necessary local OBJ
ecs such proportion the church session may decide
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All Clocks 10 be Connected verrer has pro-
posed to the Project of the Seine to put all the
public clocks in Paris in electrical connection with
the standard clock of the Observatory. This clock
is placed in the vault of the Observatory, nearly
eighty feet under ground where it is free from all
surface vibrations and sensible changes of temper
AZURE. Its rate under these circumstances is re.
markably steady and its accuracy almost if not
quite unrivaled. its error hardly ever exceeding a
single second from one years end to the other.
The scheme is meeting with favorable reception,
and is shortly to be submitted to the municipal
council. If it is carried out. Paris will be more
accurately timed than any other city. in the world.
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CELLULoID is new chemical combina-
ton said to be indurated gun cotton and
camphor. 1t is coming into extensive use
for combs, cheap jewelry, harness trimmings,
knife handles, and like articles which have
hitherto been made of ivory, bone, coral and
hard rubber. Its substance is certainly Pc
culiar. A delcately formed finger ring can
not be broken by a heavy blow with ham,
mer, but when brought in contact with fire,
it ignites and burns as quickly as parlor
match. This is rather serious defect in
the article, which is handsome as ivory, and
can be manufactured of varied colors.
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The Vatican.

This word is often used, but there are
many who do not understand its import
The term refers to collection of buildings
on one of the seven hills of Rome, which
covers space of 1900 feet in length, and
1000 feet in breadth. 1t is built on the
spot once occupied by the garden of cruel
Nero. 1t owes its origin to the Bishop OF
Rome, who, in the early part of the sixth
century erected an humble residence on its
site. About the year 1160, Pope Eugenius
rebuilt it on magnificent scale. Innocent
H., few years afterwards, gave it up as
lodging to Peter H., King Of Arragon. In
1905. Clement v, at the instigation of the
King of France, removed the Papal See from
Rome to Avignon, when the Vatican remained
in condition of obscurity and neglect for
more than 70 years.
But soon after the return of the Pontifcal
Court to Rome, an event, which had been 80
earnestly prayed for by poor Petrarch, and
which finally took place in 1876, the Vatican
was put into state of repair, again enlarged,
and it was thenceforth considered as the
regular palace and residence of the Popes,
who, one after another, added fresh buildings
to it, and gradually encircled it with anti
quities, statues, pictures and books, until it
became the richest depository in the world
The library of the Vatican was commenced
1,400 years ago. 1t contains &c, 600 manu-
scripts, among which are some by Pliny, St.
Thomas, St. Charles Borromeo, and many
Hebrew, Syrian, Arabian, and Armenian
Bibles.
The whole of the immense buildings COM
posing the Vatican are filled with statues
found beneath the ruins of ancient Rome {;
with paintings by the masters, and with Gu
rious medals and antiquities Of almost every
description.
When it is known that there have been
exhumed more than 10000 statues from the
ruined temples and palaces of Rome, the
reader can form some idea of the richness of
the Vatican. II. will ever be held in venera-
ton by the ST dent, the artist, and the schol-
ar. Rafael and Michael Angelo are en-
throned there, and their throne will be as en-
during as the love of beauty and genius in
the hearts of their worshiperS.
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Office 10. 1915 Main street, nearly opposite
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PAYMENTS may be made to local agents wherever
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Summer Food.
The Christian Advocate says:

The Christian Advocate says:
GA large portion of American people in
the rural districts, even when surrounded by
an abundance of the real Injuries of life, do
not know how to use the products of the field
and garden for their comfort and health. 1t
is truly surprising, when travelling through
the most wealthy sections of many of the
Northern and Eastern States, to witness how
superlatively poor and mean a great many
wealthy families live from day to day and
from year to year. The most desplcable
poverty is found among those families which
are land poor'-hsve such large farms that
they dress the poorest, ard set the meanest
table Of any class of citizens. Thirty years
ago l was stopping in one of the wealthiest
counties of the Empire State, and the daily
food of every family was pork, potatoes and
poor white bread. During few years past
1 have frequently spent few days with well
TODD farmers, and in almost every instance
pork and potatoes and poor white bread con-
stituted the principal articles for food. Fur
change they would have potatoes, white
bread, and pork.
During the grain harvest, l happened to
be at the residence of wealthy farmer, who
had several youthful sons and two or three
young men employed by the month, all of
whom were in delicate health. Their princi
pal articles of food every day were potatoes,
pork and white bread-seldom anything else.
The proprietor is a hard worker, but ailing
and sick half the time. During the hot
weather, when field laborers require gener-
Gus supply of plain and palatable food, all
their plates were filled at every meal with
the same repulsive pork, potatoes and poor
white bread. The result was, the young
men could not perform half days work
during the working hours and many days
they could not do any thing, simply because
they were not supplied with suitable food
They complained of dyspepsia, and were
constantly dosing with this nostrum, and that,
when all their ills proceeded from want of
suitable food for young persons in hot and
sultry weather. Pork and potatoes and poor
bread could not supply the natural waste of
their bodies and give them strength. 1t is
emphatically true that not one half the peo-
pie know how to prepare suitable food for
their families, even when the best materials
are within their reach, especially in hot
weather"
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CONCERNING the difficulty of managing
small churches, Mr.. Sturgeon says: "They
are like those canoes on the Thames; you
must not sit that way or the other, or do
this thing or that thing, lest you should be
upset. happen to have a church like big
steam boat, and whether I walk here or there,
my weight will not upset it.
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WHEN the Breton mariner puts to sea, his
prayer is, "Keep me, my God ! my boat is
so small, and thy ocean is so wide!' Does
not this beautiful prayer truly express the
condition of each Of US?
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like him, that never dare trust him without
my prayers-Sir T. Brown.
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The Minimum Christian.

"Sing me the songs that to me were so dear
Long, long ago long, long ago."
The star. (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1874-1875, 1875-01-08
VIEWS FROM THE OLD WORLD.

PARIS, Jan. Sizing Alfonso's sister,
the Countess OF Girgenti, accompanied
him to Spain.
Specie in the Bank OF France decreased
4,SG5, 600 trandoEluring the past week.
President McMahOn has informed the
Council OF Ministers that he declines to
accept their designations until he has
succeeded in forming a Cabinet out OF
the new majority OF the Assembly.
LONDON, Jan. S.-The London Globe
says correspondence is in progress be.
tween the Governments Of England and
the United States in relation to some
territory in British North America which
England claims, but has never formally
annexed to her dominions.
Rt. Rev. Mr.. Vaughn, Roman Catholic
Bishop of Stafford, accompanied by sew
eral priests, has sailed on the steamer
/ Oceanic for New York. He goes to pro-
mote missions among the negroes OF the
Southern States.
LONDON, Jan. S.-A Times dispatch
from Berlin says negotiations have beer
opened between the Berlin and Bruins.
wick Governments with view to the
settlement of the Brunswick succession
There is little doubt that the Prussiar
dynasty will waive its claim II the
Crown Prince of Hanover consents to &C
knowledge the present Constitution o.
the Empire.
A Paris correspondent of the Daily
News telegraphs that Alfonso declared
| to Prince Hohenlohe, the German EN-
bassader, that be would be as liberal ant
as little clerical in his policy as it Is pos
sible tor the King of Spain to be.
The star. (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1874-1875, 1875-01-08

THE CINCINNATI
By TELEGRAPH


Nnu; ORLEANS. Jan. S.-The colored
State officers, Antoine Brown and Des-
londe refuse to become parties to COM
promise or TO arbitrate The result OF the
election of 1872.
Gen. Sheridan says Admiral Mulaney
was instructedsto support him II neces-
sary, but he regards the CRISIS as pasl
and does not look for any trouble In the
future. He has been served with notice
OF the suits against him for trespass.
Kellogg has forwarded to Senators
Morton and Frelinghuysen threatening
documents purpoltlng to come from
members Of the White League, be ring
skull and cross bones, and conveying
warning and threats against him ana the
negroes. The force OF United states
troops in the .State-house has been
slightly increased. The city is quiet and
the people gloomy and desponaent.
Acting Attorney General DtDble 1s
preparing a pamphlet on the situation
for publication. He considers the. State
ary one, and that the only solution is FOL
Congress to provide government.
1t fs believed the White League lead
ers will be arrested before Saturday
night by process issued from the United
States District Court, and that the troops
will assist in making the arrests.
1t is expected that the movement will
be general thoughout the States. 1t II
now supposed that Sheridan had secret
peremptUry orders when he came here
to break up the White League at all haz
ards.
The duel between Warmoth and Jew
ell, of the Bulletin, has been indefinitely
postponed.
The star. (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1874-1875, 1875-01-08

WOODS THEATER. = This evening the
citizens of Cincinnati will attest their
appreciation of Mrs. MacauIey's high
talents as an actress in grand compli-
mentary benefit. The event promises to-
be an appropriate testimonial on the part
of the audience to her great personal and
professional merits, and the programme
announced is OF unusual excellence.
The charming comedy, Old Heads and
Young Hearts, will be presented with q
splendid cast. including Mrs. Macauley
as Lady Alice, Miss Maeder as Kate
Rocket, Mr.. b. Macauley as Tom Coke,
Mr.. Powers as Llttleton Coke, and MIR.
Wood as Lord Roebuck. No expense or
trouble has been spared by the manage
ment. to render the occasion a most agree
able one.
The Orphans Dramatic Festival at
Robinson's Opera-house will be contin-
ued this evening by the reproduction of
the original Irish drama, ''Scarlet and
Green" with an entire change of cast.
Some of our most eminent citizens. in-
cluding DR.. Maley and Hon. Jimmy
Fitzgerald, will appear in the several
parts, which, no doubt, will thus be ably
/ Sustained.
The star. (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1874-1875, 1875-01-08
OrQanixdtiOss.

INDrANApoLIs, Jan. s.-The Legisla-
ture met yesterday, both houses prompt
ly organizing. The Senate by the else
tion Of John Overmyer, Republican, of
Jennings county, as Principal Secretary;
w. H. Smith, Republican, Of Cass county,
as Assistant Secretary; and y. II. Men
nifee, Independent, as principal Door,
keeper, The Republicans and Indepen-
dents in the Senate compromised on q
division of the offices.
In the House Hon. David Turpie, DEM
ocrat, of Marion, was elected Speaker by
a strict party vote of six majority over
the Republican and independents nomi-
nees. In the organization of the House
the vote stood: Democrats, 81: Republic
cans, 25; Independents only II votes on
Joint ballot, and leaves a clear Demo-
cratic majority Of eight ON joint ballot.
Several bills Of minor Importance were
introduced, but no business OF general
interest transacted.
The message OF Gov. Hendricks will be
received to-day.
The star. (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1874-1875, 1875-01-08

WASH NGToN, Jan. 8.--The President
will to-day transmit to Congress spe-
cial message on the louisiana situation.
1t will cover all the action Of the General
Government since Kellogg's requisition
for troops in September last, including
copies OF the correspondence, military
orders, Instructions, &c.
1t will also define the present status OF
the State Government, and will impera-
lively urge upon Congress the necessity
OF taking action to determine the status
of the State finally, or to sustain the
President in recognizing the Kellogg
Government.
The President may possibly recon.
mend q salution by new election. He
may or may not refer to the secret armed
organizations. The fact will be discov-
cred that there have been no new in.
structions in regard to the use of troops
issued to the commander of the depart.
ment in which Louisiana is situated
and that Kellogg made his call on Emory
last Monday by virtue Of the requIsition
he madein September, and that no or.
ders were issued from Washington ol
from Sheridan in regard thereto. Sheri.
dan did not take command until Monday
night.