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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,.

Democrats On Roman), 1877 Republicans On
SMALL CAPs), 81; Independent Republicans Tin
HaLics) 3; Independent Reformers Gin ROMAN
CAPS) 8; to be elected /. Total. 292 Names of
members of the Forty third Congress are marked
Nv
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OREGON.
Lafayette Lane.

OREGON.
Lafayette Lane.
RHODE ISLAND.
1. %BENJAMIN I. EAGEs. 2. LATINER ". BAALoU.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
/. *JosEPH II. RAINEY. a. *ALEX s. WALLACE.
?. E. W. N. MACKEY. Is ROBERT SMALLs.
3. SOLOMON I. HoGE.
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The Last Walk to Bethany.

So ended that great discourse upon the
Mount of Olives, and the sun set, and He
arose and walked with His apostles the short
remaining road to Bethany. 1t was the last
time he ever would walk it upon earth; and
after the trials, the WEAKNESS, the awful
teachings, the terrible agitation of that
eventful day, how delicious to him must have
been that hour of twilight loneliness and
evening calm; how refreshing the peace and
affection which had surrounded him in that
quiet village and the holy home! Jesus did
not ike cities, and scarcely ever slept with
in their precincts. He shrank from their
congregated wickedneas, from their glaring
publicity, from their feverish excitement,
from their featureless mOnotoDy, with all the
natural and instructive dislike of delicate
minds. An Oriental city is always dirty;
the refuse is flung into the streets, there is
no pavement, the parlah dog is the sole Scav-
enger; beast and man joStle each other pro-
miscuously in the crowded thoroughfares.
And though the necessities of mis- work com
PEELED him to visit Jerusalem, and to preach
to the vast throngs from every cline and
country, who congregated at its yearly fe8-
tivals, yet he seems to have retired on every
public occasion beyond the gates, partly it
may be for safety-partly for poverty
partly because he loved the sweet home at
Bethany-partly, too, perhaps, because he
felt the peaceful JOY of treadiDg the grass
that groweth on the mountains, rather than
the city stones, and could hold gladder CON-
muaion with His Father in heaven under the
shadow of the olive trees, where, far from
all disturbing sights and sounds, ne could
watch the splendor of the sunset and the
falling of the dew.
The exquisite beauty of the Syvian even
ing, the tender colors of the spring and
flowers, the wadys around him paling into
solemn gray, the distant hills bathed in the
primrose light of sunset, the GOODNESS and
balm of the evening breeze after the burn
ing glare-what must these have been to
him to whose eye the world of nature was
an open book, on every page of which he
read his Fathers name And this was his
native land. Bethany was almost to him a
second Nazareth those whom he loved were
around him, and he was going to those whom
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BLACK WALNUT-0f all timber trees,
the black walnut is at the present time be-
lieyed to be the most profitable. Prices have
been so tempting that in many localities no
more of any consequence is to be found
Ohio and Indiana have of late years been
the great sources of supply. From these
States large quantities have been sent to the
furniture factories East. At the present
time Kentucky is shipping walnut timber
largely. While, however, the older States
are being depleted of this valuable wood,
the States that may be called timber-plant-
ing ones are rapidly coming up with sup
ply. 1t is found to grow with great rapidi-
ty in some of them and especially in Ne
braska. In this State several acres set out
within the last few years are already pro-
ducing nuts in abundance, and these, it is
said, have already paid the expense of plant
ing and care. Many people, in view Of the
growing scarcity of walnut, fear its disap-
pearance from market in short time. There
would be no alarm if the extensive Western
plantations were better known.
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Newton and Cowper.

The London Athsneum publishes a letter
from John Newton to Lady Hesketh, a kins-
woman and intimate friend of the poet Cow
per. 1t has never been published before,
and the closing part especially, will be IN
terestipg to all who know anything of these
two eminent Christian men. Newton says:
"When l think of your kindness and res
OlutiOn, in shutting yourself up SO long at
Weston, with Mr.. Cowper and Mrs. Unwin,
l am willing to give place to your Ladyship;
but excepting yourself and my late dear
Mrs. COwper, cannot readily believe that
any one of his family had a more cordial
affection for him while living, or has more
tender regard for his memory now he is gone,
than myself. l always paced him first in
the list Of my many friends; for more than
twelve years We we're seldom separate seven
hours at time, except while be waited at
Cambridge upon bis brother; for when 1
went abroad he always went with me. The
first six years | account among the happiest
of my life, the latter six we're no less dis
tressibg. Yet was no less, but rather
more constantly with him by day and by
night. Yon may depend, Madam, that l
shall do what l sep to prevent any other
publication; yet shall not wonder if some
busy, well.meaning, but ill-informed writer,
should take it up; and to prevent the i'll
impression such publication might make, is
one motive to me for undertaking it.
think with pleasure of the wonderful
transition my dear friend experienced on
the 18th of April. Then he suddenly
passed from Despair to Glory; from being
harrasSed by the black temptations of the
powers of darkness to the Congratulations
of Angels and the Spirits of Just Men
made perfect. In an instant his groans
were changed into songs of praise. If such
friend as Lady Hesketh would not forsake
him in his distress, much less would his Lord
and Saviour, whom he loved and served to
the utmost of his power. He loved the
Saviour while unseen, he now sees Him as
lie is; he is like Him, and will be with Him
forever. 1t is the prayer of my heart for
your Ladyship and myself, that we may be
preserved through life from the agonies
which he felt, and that we may depart hence
resting upon the Atonement and Mediation
which was Mr.. Cowper's only ground OF
hope and source of joy, so long as he was
master of his own thoughts Then we shall
stand with him beside the Throne and join
with him in songs of everlasting praise to
Him who loved US, and redeemed US to God
by His own blood. | heartily commend
you, my dear Madam, to His gracious care,
guidance, and support, praying that you
may be fully reconciled to His wise and
holy will, and possess, thrO' Him, that peace
which passeth all understanding, which the
world can neither give nor take away! l
am, very sincerely, your Lady8hip's affec-
tionate and obliged Servant,
"JoHN NEWTON.
"No. 6 Coleman-street Buildings,
90 October, 1890.
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Tell-Tale Lips.

have observed that lips become more or
less contracted in the course of years in pro-
portion as they are accustomed to express
good humOr and generosity, or peeVishness
and a contracted mind. Remark the effect
which moment of ill-temper and grudging-
ness has upon the lips, and judge what
may be expected from an habitual series of
such movements. Remark the reverence
and make similar Judgment. The mouth
is the frankest part of the face; it can't in
the least conceal its sensations. We can
neither hide ill-temper with it, nor good; We
may affect what We please, but affection will
not help US. In wrong cause it will only
make our observers resent the endeavor to
impose on them. The mouth is the seat of
one class of emotions, as the eyes are of an
other; or, rather, it expresses the same emo
tons, but in greater detail, and with more
irrepressible tendency to be in motion. 1t
is the region of smiles and dimpleS, and of
trembling tenderness; of sharp sorrow, or
a full breathing joy, of candor, of reserve,
of anxious care, or liberal sympathy. The
mouth out of its many sensibilitieS, may be
fancied throwing up one great expression
into the eye-sS many lights in city reflect
a broad lustre into the heavens,-Leigh Hunt.
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Questions for Dairymen.
ing.

Every dairyman should have a printed
list of questions posted in some suitable
place on his premises, where his family and
those in his employ, as we'll as his visitors,
will have an opportunity to read frequently.
We give some Of them, but the list could be
greatly extended:
Do your COWS feed 10 sWamps and on bog
gy lands?
Have you good, sweet running water con-
venient for stock, and is it abundant and
permanent in hot, dry weather?
Have you shade trees i9 yolnfHSs ture, or
while lei lying down to res 4 in the
hot, broiling sun!
Do you use dogs and stones to hurry up
the COWS from pasture at milking time, thus
overheating their blood and bruising their
udders?
Do you cleanse the udders of the cows be-
fore milking, by washing their teats with
their own milk, and practice further econo-
my by allowing the droppings to 60 into the
milk-pail?
Do you enjoin upon your mixers to wash
their hands thoroughly before sitting down to
milk, or do you think that uncleanliness in
this respect is not important for milk that is
to be treated for buttermaking?
When your COW makes misstep while be-
ing MIXED, do you allow your mixers to
kick her with heavy boots, or to pound her
over the back and sides with heavy stool,
accompanied by sundry profane remarks ad-
dressed to the COW to teach her manners?
Is the air about your mik-barn or milk
house reeking with the foul emanations of
the pig sty, the manure or other pestiferous
odors?
Good, fresh, clean water, and in abun-
dance, is one of the most important requi-
sites for mich COWS, and it should be in
places, where stock will not be
required to travel long distances to Stake
their thirst. If springs and running streams
cannot be had, good we'll, with windmill
and pump, makes an efficient substitute
WIZARDS Practical Butter Book.
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ECONOMIC VALUE OF THE SUNFLowER.-
The common suufower is native OF trop-
ical America, and here sometimes attains
the extraordinary height, for an annual
plant, of twenty feet. It thrives in nearly
every region of the habitable globe. In the
south of Europe aud in the northwest prov
inces of India it is cultivated to consider
able extent. in the latter country, suDfower
plantations are said to have very beneficial
effect in promoting the healthfulness of re-
gions infested by mslarious fevers. The
seeds are valued as food for cattle AID pou
try, and an oil may be expressed from theu
which is scarcely inferior to olive oil. One
acre of good land will produce about ff,Y
bushels of seed, bushel yielding q gallon
of oil The seeds are also used like almonds
for making soothing emulsions, and in some
parts of Europe food for infants is prepared
from them. In tropical America the Indians
make bread of them. The leaves are used
as fodder for cattle, and the stalks, when
burned, yield large quantities of potash.
Popular Science Monthly.
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Americans in Africa.

1t may not be generally known that there
are now no less then FIVE expeditions, all
under the command of Americans, engaged
in exploring shat undiscovered country
whence the Nile derives its origin. From
Mr.. Stanley, the discoverer of Livingstone,
and the leader of one Of these exploring
parties, letters have recently been received,
dated May 18th, stating that he had made
survey Of thousand miles of the shore
line of the Victoria Niyanza in forty-eight
days, and after completing the survey would
proceed to the Albert Niyanza. The ex-
plorations of Mr.. Stanley confirm the state
ments of Capt. Spoke, who discovered the
Victoria Lake, and described it as vast in
land sea. From this inexhaustible reservoir,
lying directly under the equator, it is now
almost certain the Nile derives its waters,
which are said to "give vitality to over thirty
millions of people from the Mediterranean to
the equator, and without which Egypt would
become an arid waste.
Starting Oh the southeastern coast, Mr..
Stanley, after a journey full of adventure
and danger for 72O miles, and occupying 1O3
days, reached the shore Of this vast lake,
with the loss of 126 out of the 800 men
with whom he started. Here his expedition
encountered that Of General Gordon, which
having proceeded up the Nile, is exploring
the country about the lakes. Three other
parties led by Coils. Long, Purdy, and Coils
ton respectively, are exploring the country
west of the Nile. These American officers are
at the head of expeditions fitted out by the
Khedive of Egypt for the exploration of the
whole Nile region, with view to certain i'm
provements in the navigation of that famous
river.
1t is gratifying to find Americans acting
80 prominent part in opening to the knowl-
edge of the world the long unknown interior
of Africa. To gain and communicate this
knowledge the devoted Livingstone offered
up his life, in the hope that Christians at
home would send along each newly opened
pathway the blessings of civilization and
christianity. The lesson Of his heroic life
and martyrs death should not be forgotten.
If to crafty thirst for knowledge, or to
open new avenues for commerce, men will
expend money and risk life itself, shall not
Christians remember the condition of the be-
nighted inhabitants of Africa, in regard to
whose degradation and wretchedness all ex-
plorers give a concurrent testimony? If
there is a vast region to be explored by men
Of science, there is also g continent to be
won by the herald of the Cross.
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Identifying Homes.

"Tbe identifying of homes would have a
tendency to check the growing vagabOndism
of our people. Warner says that it is no
wonder that people move from one fireplace
less house to another without regret, but it
is certainly no wonder that they move from
one unlovely, sOulless farm to another with
restless longing. If we wish to become at
tached to place we must make it part of
ourselves.
The influence of agreeable surroundings
on the minds of children, too, cannot be
overestimated. The memory of some tree
on the old homestead often fingers in the
mind even to old age. 10 my own expert
ence, the lofty pines that swung in the moon
light before my chamber window have never
lost their mystic charm. An old pasture,
decorated with groups of spreading young
pines interspersed with sunny grass spots
where the cattle loved to feed, is yet as plain
ly seen by the minds eye, as when l called
Co bOs, in bOyhood. Let the farmer make
his home beautiful, and if possible, introduce
that highest form of beauty, the picturesque
Let him preserve natures charms and add
to them. The memory of home which ex-
presses the best qualities of the mind and
heart will live forever in the mind of the
child -.Selected.
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4unsehnla &uras.
Ten Minutes to Live.

On board an English steamer, little rag
ged boy, aged nine years, was discovered the
fourth day out from Liverpool to New
York and carried before the first mate whose
duty it was to deal with such cases.
When questioned as to his object in being
slowed away and whobrought him on board,
the boy, vino had beautiful sunny face,
and ewes that looked like the very mirror of
truth, replied that his step-father did it be-
cause he could not afford to keep him nor to
pay his passage to Halifax, where he had
an aunt who was we'll of, and to whose home
he was going.
The mate did not believe the story, in
spite of the winning face and truthful &C
cents of the boy. He had seen too much
of stOwaEays to be easily deceived by them
he said, and it was bis firm conviction the
boy had been brought on board and provided
With food by the sailors, The fellow was
very roughly handled in consequence.
Day by day he was questioned and re-
questioned, but always with the same result.
He did not know sailor on board, and MS
father alone had seoreeted him and given
him food which he ate.
At last the mate, waaried by the boy sper-
sistenoe in the same story, and perhaps a
little anxious to ineulpate the sailors, seized
and dragged him on the fore deck, told him
that unless he told the truth in ten minutes
from that time, ne would hang him from the
yard arm.
He then made him sit down under it on
the deck. All around him were the passen
GERS and sailors of the MILDLY watch, and in
front Of him stood the memorable mate with
his chronometer in his hand and the officers
of the ship BY his side.
1t was the finest sight, said orr informant,
that ever beheld, to see the pale, proud, SCR
rowful face Of that noble boy, his head erect,
his beautiful eyes bright through the tears
that sufTu8ed them. When eight minutes
had fed, the mate told him he had but two
minutes to live, and advised him to speak
the truth and save his life; but he replied
with the utmost simplicity and sincerity, by
asking if he might pray.
The mate said nothing but nodded his head
and turned pale as ghost, and shook with
trembling Ike reed shaken by the wind.
And then all eyes turned on him, the brave
and noble little fellOw-the poor boy whom
society owned not, and whose own step father
could not care for him-there he knels with
olasped hands and eyes turned up to heaven,
while he repeated audibly the Lords prayer,
and prayed the Lord Jesus to take him to
heaven.
Our informant adds that there then &C.
Cured a scene as Of pontecOst. SObs broke
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The Wrong Signal.

"What has happened?" said Mr.. Hamil-
ton to his son, who entered the room in
haste, and with the air of one who has some
interesting news to communicate.
GA freight train has run off the track
aud killed man, said Joseph.
GLOW did that happen?" said Mr.. Ham
ilton.
1.-The Waterman gave the wrong signal.
The engineer said if he had given the right
signal, the accident would not have occur
red"
Making the wrong signal cost man his
life. There is another sense in which wrong
Signals sometimes occasion the loss of life
of life spiritual. The preacher who fails to
declare the way of salvation, as it is laid
down in Gods Word, who teaches that all
men shall be saved, or who teaches that men
may secure salvation by their own works
gives the wrong signal. In consequen
men take the wrong track, and go to pN
dition.
The private Christian, whose reputable
standing in the Church and in society give
influence to his example, purSues course Of
conduct utterly inconsistent with the injunc'
ton, "be not conformed to this world.
The young Christian is led to practice q
similar course; by degrees he loses hi;
spirituality, and becomes one of those who
have a name to live, but are dead The
holding out of the wrong signal led to the
disaster.
A protesting Christian exposes himself tc
temptation. He has power to resist the
temptation and escapes unframed. One Of
less power is led to follow his example, and
falls into sin. To him his predecessor haC
given the signal that there was no danger
there. He gave the wrong signal.
We are constantly giving signals to oul
fellow men-siguals which will direct theil
Journey to eternity. How careful should
we be at all times to avoid giving the wrong
signal
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&c T O & Y
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY.
OF THE
Presbyterian Church in the United States


The General Assembly will meet at Savannah, Ga,
on the third Thursday of May 1876 at II A. NJ.
CLERKS
Rev JOSEPH Il. WILSON, d. D., STATED CLBRK,
REV WILLIAM BROWN. D. d, PERMANENT CIEaK.
The Stated Clerk is Ex oRpIcrO the Treasurer of the
General Assembly.
TRUSTEES
Hox. JAMES HEMPHILI. President, Chester 5. @
Rev. JOHN DOUGLAS, VICE PREsIDssr, Charlotte,
JESSE H. LINDSAY, Esq, SECRETARY and TREASURES,
Greensboro, N. @.
susTENTATIoN.
Rev. J LEIGHTON WILSON, d. D., SECRETARY,
REV RICHARD McILwAINE, Coordinate sxcEE
rAKr and TREASURER, Box 33l, Baltimore, Nd
FOREIGN MISSIONS
REV J. LEIGHTON WILSON, d. D., SECRETARY,
RLv RICHARD McILwAINE, Coordinate szoRErA.
BY and TREASURER, Box $751; Baltimore, Nd
PUBLICATION.
REV E. THOMPSON BAIRD, D. d. SECRETARY, Rich
q. GENNET, Esq, TREASURER, Richmond. Va.
EDUCATION.
Rev. JNo. NJ wADDELL, u. D., SECRETARY, Mem
A. F. DoD, TREASURER, Memphis. Tenn.
Applications to the Executive Committee for aid are
first referred the appropriate Presbyteral Exec
uve Committees for their approval and are 10 be for
warded by them to the Assemblys Committees.
COLLECTIONS.
The General Assembly has appointed the following
lectons 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 and the Widows
and Orphans Of Deceased Minister'S On the first Sabbath
in July
For Eyangelistic Work: On the first Sabbath in Sep
TENDER.
For Education On the first Sabbath in November.
where is highly inconvenient to take coll
lectons these days. they shall be taken up
possible thereafter.
The Assembly recommends to the churches that they
adopt the apostolic plan of taking up weekly collections
the amounts thus collected be appropriated
above named Objects when necessary local OBJ