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BY ATLANTIC CABLE.
CHALLENGE TO THE sNERrcAN RrFLIsxy-
GAMING TO BEAr TaEu

A CHALLENGE TO THE sNERIcAN RrFLiEKy-
GAMING TO BEAT TnEx.
BELFAST. July Col Gildersleeve to-
day received letters from the secretary of
the national rifle association. inviting the
Americans to shoot on the 18th inst at
Wimbledon against team of eight picked
from the United Kingdom. the range to be
l 200 yards, and each man to have 30 shots.
Col. Gildersleeve has replied declining the
proposition. lie says the Americans have
determined to adhere to their original plan
OF engaging in only one team match on this
side of the Atlantic. He thanks the secre-
tary for the invitation. letter of simi-
lar character has been sent to Mr. Parsons,
adiutant of the English eight in response to
his letter OF July 5:h, proposing a match
between the Americans and q team of eight
selected from four nationalities Of the
United Kingdom. For the present all team
matches are of and it i not likely that any
new ones will be made The Americans
will be at Wimbledon in the latter part Of
next week, and take part in shooting for
the Albert cup and other matches open to
all comers. The opinion gains ground here
that the English are AFRAID to meet the
Americans except on terms untavorahle to
the latter.
The AMERICAN HifLEMEN LEAVE IRELAND
FAREWELL BANQUET.
a farewell banquet was given to the
American team thi, afternoon. Mr. Robert
Thompson, prominent merchant. presided
and made a speech. wishing the Americans
every success. Mayor Lindsay entered near
the close of the banquet, and presented Col.
Glldersleeve with the cup won by him. The
Mayor said the citizens ot Belfast were glad
the cup was going To America Col. Gil
dersleeve returned thanks and declared he
should ever e0nsiter the cup his most i'm
portant trophy Alter further speeches and
tOasts the company ri-e and the visitors
proceeded to the pier 20 take the steamer
Tor Glasgow, escorted hy the mayor and Il
delegation OF citizen. Thousands of people
lined the docks and pi-r> To see them Off
and there was loud and hearty cheering a.
the vessel steamed out. rhe parry will visit
the Scotch lakes to-nDrrO~ and expect To
arrive in Edinburgh IN the evening.
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ago became a miser and there is a story
told of his returning from journey to find
his servants at a tea-paTty, and Just pre-
pairing to light fire in crate where he had
hidden gold and notes to large amount.
MOnsey died in his pinety-iifth year, and
eft his body to be dissected His fortune
more than sixteen thousand pounds-went
to his only daughter.
Talking of doctors fees, reminds US Of
Sir Ashley Cooper and his fifteen thousand
pounds year. His largest fee was thrown
him in an night cap by an old West India
patient. An operation had been perform
ed, and the two physicians had received
three hundred guineas each.
"But YOU sir, said the old man to Sir
Ashley. "shall have something better take
that - and he flung the night cap at Sir
Ashley
Sir replied Sir Ashley, III poke. the
afIront :" The cap contained draft for Il
thousand guineas.
Nor let Us, in this cluster of doctors of tine
olden times, forget that amiablc friend of
Pope-Garth. the enemy Of apothecaries,
whom he scarihed in his poem The Disnen-
sary." Arbuthnot is another of the old
physicians who was a friend Of Pope's. The
son of poor Scotch clergyman, Arbuthnot,
failing to get a living at Dorchester, came
to London, and turned doctor Grajually
his practice increased, and he was appointed
hysician-in-ordinary 10 Queen Anne. He
died at last of asthma and melancholy.
Perhaps no physician OF eminence was
ever so cruelty set upon by the wits as
Garth's abominatiOn. Sir Richard Black
more, conscientious but rather dull poet.
whom Dryden had condescended to maui.
That Sir Richard had once kept school
was the chief charge pressed home against
him. Nevertheless he seems to have been
a worthy man, whom William the III.
knighted, and made physician of the house
hold.
Among the last Of the clever but eccentric
class of doctors, was Scott, Of Bromley. who
flourshed within the present century.
Crowds flocked 10 him from London for his
advice, although aware that they might
meet with some unpleasant rebuff. Scott,
like some other shrewd physicians, trusted
more TO dletetics and general habits than
medicine for his cures. lie usually at a
glance saw what was wrong-oyerleeding
drinking, sedentary employment. late din
ners, snuff taking, and 50 on. In a few
words, he peremptorily ordered change in
these respects. \ gentleman having gone
to consult him, wa, told to dine early on
mutton chop, drink no more beer. and give
up taking snuff The injunction was hard.
and only to limited extent obeyed. The
patient some time afterwards returned to saw
that he was not getting well. Scott in an
instant detected the disohedience Of his or
ders. You still take snuff, SIR YES"
Then, 20 away and and die ; why trouble
me - This time the order was obeycd in
all its integrity. The patient got com plete-
ly well, and lived to be a nonagenarian.-
Cianjtrs JoilrR0l.
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BATTLES Of the Revolution.

They began April 10, l775. They closed
Octo Der 10. l7ol-six years and six months
The British sent l3l coo soldier, and sailors
to this war. The Coloni.t> met them with
230 600 COntinentals and 81 900 militia
The British let loose Indians and equally
savage lessans- The Colonist> had for
allies the brave and cuuite"u- FrenchmeD.
The leading battles Of the war. thu>e par
tieularly worthy OF celebration are Concord
and Lexington, Bunker Hill. Long Island.
White Plains, Trenton, Bennington. sara
to.a, Monmouth. Kings Mountain, Cow
pens. Eutaw Springs, and Yorktown.
Lexington (frst -kirmish)-April ~.
I775.
Iieonderoga-slay 10. I775
Bunker Hill-Jnne l.. l775
Montreal ETHAN Allen taken )-Septem-
Der %. l775
St. Johns besieged and eaptured-No-
vember 3. l715.
Great Bridge. Va.-Deeernber, o. MS
Quebec (Mlntgomery killed. )-December
81. IT'S
B ,ston British led March II. I776
Fort Sullivan. Clarlestnn-June -, I776
Long lsland-August p. l176.
Harlem Plains-Septemb Is I776.
White Piains-Octoher -. l776.
Fort Observation-Disclosures I6, I776
TrentOI-December 20, l7.6
Prlnceton-January ). III.
Hubbudton-Jdly :. HI
BenningtOn-August 10, III.
randywine-September IL, III.
First battle at Bemis : Heights, Saratoga
September 10. III.
GermantOwn-October 1. HI.
Forts Clinton and Montgomery taken
October 6. III.
Second battle at Bemis's Heights. Sara
toga-October :. HI.
Surrender OF BurgOyne-Octoherl l3. III.
Fort Mercer-OetOoer -. HI.
Fort Mifilin-November l6, III.
MonmOuth-June ~ I77o
Wyoming-July 1. HIS
Quaker Hill. K. August %. I-7s
S+vannah-Deeember -. HIS
Kettle Creek, Ga.-February II. l779
Stony Point July l6. l779.
Savannah October 9. I779.
CharlestOwn (surrendeFed to British)
Nav l.. l7sO.
Kings Mountain-Octoher1, :, 1850
COwpens-January L.. ISL
Nnety-six (besieged) May and June.
l7Si.
Augusta (beSieged) MAY and June, ISL
Jsmestown-July .. ISL.
Eutaw Springs-September ;. ISL.
Yorktown (COrnwalli~ surrendertd)-
October 10 Isl
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The St. Al5ans Adrertis,r says Of the
ID n ,,,rdar inreSfIpatlOn

The St. Al5ans AdrertiS,r says Of the
Ball murder investigation:
A rumor was started soon alter the com
mission OF this eriHe-a an Intangible rumor
which no one could trace or follow. and
dressed in an hundred rms,-that George
Gregory Smith, of this place. was connect
ed with it n some way. No newspaper
dared To men tion II. no man dared to father
ir, but it crept along on the wings Of whls-
pers and came out in a new form every day,
and got a new foundation built a. sJon a.
the old one trmbled down
This rumor SEEMS, TO persons here who
are Acquainted with the circumstances oil
the ease and wifn the person 10 whom it re-
lxtes. to be both very silly and very mali
c,ous. but we DO not propose To pass upon
:, IN auv way Whether IL has any real
t,undation or not. it oug BIT TO be investiga-
al and we are under the Irupres-ion that
t,e Iaw, OF the State OF Vermont are 50
4, ,me that an accusation against any man
which any other man lranfs Investigated,
ean be Investigated promptly and legally.
and e;tn.,r pronounced we'll grounded and
pressed q. final determination, or found
nubble NC once and lIiied oH from the ac-
,.u-ed's far fame. Ss pnblIely AS It was put
there. This rumur. We are informed. mas
taken seron ir.id upon DIR. Branch ; mind'
and he Is es identity the leading spirit OF the
maven. n i,aux ursred last Wednesday and
ID the A sl-uvsdIey business Was EXPLODED
and di,i long ago, leaving nothing ous
convent sos ghost. the whole business :.
nrs.snt before the = Union InvsstisssinY
Socieev ~ composed Of all the tax-psysrs 70
fcn, sciool Districts. and the Vieuence
r.. mi, fse" inside ui it. Is to insHe AT.
So S%;,n ~ The rather novel aud psculi.e
shs,. :, n The scene at the murder ana n
Investigated"
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In lis last letter to the New York Herdid
on the condition Of the South, Mr. Charles
Nordhoif says that no Thoughtful man can
examine the history Of the last ten yelrs in
the South, as he may hear it on the spot and
from all sides, without bein. convinced that
it was absolutely necessary /, the security of
the blacks and the permanent rcace of tie
Southern communities to give the negro, ig-
moran Toor and helpless as he was, every
poliucal right and privilege which any
other citizen enjoys That be should vote
and that he should be capable Of holding
Office was necessary, Mr Norchof declares,
TO make him personally secure. and. what IS
Of more Importance, to convert lin from a
freedman into a free man. The vote las
given him, adds Mr. NoIdhon, what nothing
les could give-a substantive existence. 1t
has made him part Of tie state. Where
ever, As in Arkansas, the political settlement
nears completion and the color line i broken,
his political equality viii help-slowly, out
certainly, make him 81 respectable per-
son. In this view, it i said. many South
ern Democrats concur. while many others,
ii is sufficiently clear. wish the negro to vote
only when he votes the white mans tick
ct. and would prefer that he should rot
vote anyway.
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The WONDERS OF TYroGRsrnY. This l. the
era of newspaper revolutions. Composing
with machine has been for some time sue
eessiully in operation at the Iimcs Office. 1t
is an idea which Mr. Walter inherits from
hi father, and ideas which are thus Inherit
ed are held with great tenacity. Mr. Dar-
win's notions about selections were par
entail legacy realized by the labor of two gen
erations, and iu=t such another is Mr.. Wal
ter's composing by machinery. The elder Mr..
Walter composed 4 few books and the Times
newspaper for some time by machinery. and
there is at this moment in the London lib
rary copy of HarrisoH's s Hisf0ryof Conn
merce, on the title page of which you may
read, Printed by the Geographic process,
by John Walter" \ very much improved
system Of this kind i again at work in the
Times Office, and experiments are actually
being made. the result of which, if success
fUl, will be the simultaneous composition of
the Times in London and every other great
town in the kingdom. The theory of the
process is perfectly sound, and it is this -
The external form of the composing machine
exactly resembles that of piano. and the
compositor. by touching a key, drops a type
into its proper place. The new move is to
add electricity to the process. and by means
of wires to Manchester, Liverpool. Birming-
ham, &c, to compose at both at the same
time. This is actually already done with
Morse'- alphabet, but it is done still more
exactly on the Stock Exchange, where there
is telegraph machine which communicates
with the office of every stakeholder in Lon
don. and minute by minute informs them of
the fluctuations in price To move type
at the end of wire three hundred miles
long, instead of needle, is merely ques-
ton of electric power, and it is to this point
of power that the experiments of the sdrdns
of the Times are now directed.-London
Court Journal.
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HAT Hired Glrl.
TIE CLERGYMAN S RECEPTION oN HIS INITIAL
CALL N Ills NEw PARISH.

TIE CLERGYMAN's RECEPTION oN HIS INITIAL
CALM Ills NEw PARISH
From the Detroit Free Press.
When she came TO work for the family ON
Congress street, the lady of the house sat
down and told her that agents, book ped
dlerS, hat-rack men, picture sellers. ash buy
ers ragmen, and all that class of people.
must be met at the front door and c0ldly re-
pulsed, and Sarah said she'd repulSc EN- if
she had to break every broomstick in De-
troit.
And she did. She threw the door open
wide, hlutfed right up to en- and when -he
got through, the checklist agent was only
too glad to leave. 1t got 50 after while
that pedilers marked that house, and the
door bell never rang except for company.
The other day as the lady ofthe house
was enjoying a nap. and Sarah was wiping
of the spoons, the bell rang. She hlstened
eyes encountered slim man. dressed in
black and wearing white neck tie. lie
was the new minister. and he was going
round to get acquainted with the members
OF his flock but Sarah wasn't expected to
know this.
"Ah-um-is Mrs-ah-''
Git - exclaimed Sarah, pointing to the
gate.
Beg pardon. but ia like to See->ee-''
"Meander ," she shouted, looking around
for weapon. We don't want any d)ur
sifters here 30
lou are mistaken" hererliei, smiling
blandly. Il called to
Don't want anything to keep moths
away-hP,' She exclaimed, getting red in
the face
"Is the lazy in ~ he inquired, trying to
look over Sarah's head
"les, the lady in, and | IN in, and You re
out - she snapped. And now don't
want to stand here talking to a ay-trap agent
any longer. Come, lift your boots -
q" m not an agent" he said. trying to
smile. I'm the new
YES, know yoI-you re the new man
with patent Nat iron but we don t want
any, and you'd better 20 before call the
dog -
"Win you give the lady my card anI say
that called -
mo, l won't. We're bored to death
with cards and handbils and circulars.
Come, | can't stand here ali dav."
"Didn'tTou know that was a minister ?''
he asked As he backed Off
NO, nor don't know it now you look
like the man who sold the woman next door
dollar chrome for eighteen Shillings -
Bot here is my card
Il don't care for cards. | tell you If YOU
leave that gate open III heave flower pot
at You 80
Il will call again, he said, as he went
through the gate
at won t DO you any good - she shout
ed after him 1--WE don't want no prepared
food for infants-no piano music-no stuffed
birds | know the policeman on this beat,
and If You come around here again he'll soon
find out whether You are confidence man
or yagrant 80
And she took unusual care &c lock the
door.
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An ASKcDorE OF Mr.. BEEcHER.-Re Religious
history is full of illustrations of such phe-
nomena. The best men have accused them
selves as the worst. and their agonizing pro-
testations of guilt and despair for very in
considerable acts, or for nothing at all but
the accusations of their own imaginations,
would be infinitely ludicrous if they were
not profoundly pathetic. There is an in
stance of this kind. which has been related
to US on excellent uthority, in Mr.. Beecher's
own career When the late war began, a
young man, the only son of a widow, who
had been fascinated by Mr.. Beecher's preach
ing, was moved by his patriotic exhortations
and influence to enlist. and he was present
ly killed in battle. His body was brought
home, and Mr.. Beecher, going to the house,
led the mother to the coffin and said to her
that there lay her son before her, dead ;
that the young man. the hope of her life and
the stay Of her age, had been murdered
cruelty murdered, and that he, Beecher, was
the assassin. And thereupon he broke out
into so passionate paroxysm Of self-accusa-
ton and reproach that the mother became
his consoler. instead of receiving consolation
from him.-Harpr's Weekly.
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Milwaukee has post-mortem scandal
case of the first water. On Saturday last,
the body Of Burr kneelaDd, respectable
young fellow Of 25, of the firm Of Flint L
Kneeland, was found in the river. As his
friends were removing the body for burial, a
young woman of unsavory character stepped
up, and, showing certificate of marriage,
claimed the remains. and, Of course, her
share in the 100000 and more property
which young Kneeland left behind him. His
unequal union was the probable cause Of the
suicide.
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POLITICAL.

Three independent papers in Ohio have
within week inserted the names of the
Republican candidates at the head Of their
editorial columns.
1t is stated that the anti-Monopolist party
in Minnesota shows an unbroken front since
Mr.. Ignatius Donnelly has had his shirts
made to open in the back.
The Iowa Republican convention nomi-
mated Samuel j. Kirkwood for COVER
nor, and adopted resolutions fayoring a
return to specie payment; approving the
efforts of the government to punish
fraud ; opposing a third term, and express
ing belief that President Grants letter
fairly removes that issue from our politics
indorsing free education ana the present
system of pubic schools, and approving the
national administration
The Providence Journal, in an editorial on
Gen. Sherman's Centennial speech says:
at Is Just as well that We understand
each other. The North has assumed that
the South has abandoned any hope or desire
10 sever the | MON. On its part the North
has stretched forth its hand in honest fra
ternal feeling, saying Let bygones be by
cones But it has not, it never will, 81
lently submit to the implication that upon
proper occasion it. or any man in it. may
not refer to the difference between patriot
ism and treason"
The cusSed fools of our side are getting
ready to throw away all our chances again,
said a despondent Democrat, who had been
reading the Ohio Democratic inllltion plat
form. 1--WE ought to have been in power
eight years ago but this seemed chance
We couldn't lose-and it is going
The model fence->traddIing Of the season
has been done by the Iowa Democracy. who
resolved in favor Of specie payments when
ever they could be restored without injury
to anybody, but "in the meantime a sufficient
supply Of the national currency for business
purposes, and opposition to the present ma
tional banking laws
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Special despatch to the Free Press and Times.
The Hall Murder rInvestigati0n.

The Hall Murder investigation.
ST.. ALBANs, VT, July s.-The adjourned
meeting of the union investigation society
on the scene Of the Ball murder. this after
noon, had an attendance of $50. 1t was
voted to circulate subscription to raise
funds to buy a monument for Miss Bali S
grave. after which the meeting adjourned.
sine die. Invitations to attend had been
sent to two parties. One replied respect
fully BY letter, the other paid no stten-
tion. and the whole affair was very much
like fzzle.
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MR BEEcHER's INNocENcE-WHAT HIS
NEPuEw THINKS ABOUT Ir.-Suppose now
you take it for granted that Mr.. Beccher
has tried. as bard AS a sincere Christian
man could try, to initiate the wonderful
Leader, whose great discourse has never yet
been lived up to, end whose unexempliiie
precepts are the strongest proofs to-day OF
the truth. the need. the vitality of the New
Testament revelation. Do not let US assume
cowardice, insensibilitv, moral defect, be-
cause we would not have done as he did.
Are we trying. YOU and l. Mr. Editor, to
really return good for evil, according to
that heart-utterance of the whole teachings
of Christ? | confess. for my part. am not
good enough don't and | won't. But Mr..
Beecher does try, and we. his friends. see
better than the Indifferent and the hostile
what he has go. for it. know very well.
OF nv personal knowledge. that be has been
urged for years to turn and fight and hu
manly speaking. We who urged hun. were
right anout it, But, Mr.. Editor wicked or
good | believe in God Almighty and i'm
mortality, and | dare not say Mr.. Beecher
will have been wrong when he Is dead. for
seeking, in the city Of Tweed and Woodruff,
and The Herald and The Sun. TO actually
do the fifth chapter of Matthew. especially
verse A But | say unto YOU. love your
enemies, bless them that curse yOa. do good
to them that hate you, and pruy Tor them
which despitefully use you and persecute
you" With this key in mind, and with
that other wise one. the law not to resist
directly. but to 90 on doing good and with
the parallel memory of Paul'> strange As
sertion of his peculiar and exceptional wick
edness, you can ga Christian and charitable
principles, find reasons. even discoursgngly
good and noble. ior Mr.. Beecher's silence
and his sense OF guilt as responsible for the
downfall of family and they will equally
explain the silence which be will preserve
about the parallel case of the charges of
Henry c. Bowen f. B. Perkins, IN Bos-
ton Advertiser.
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ME. BEECHER To Ills CnURH-Fur YOU in
part the prosperity OF this community has
become duty. There have gone out aliena-
tlons between household and household.
Let no word of bitterness from any of You
increase them. Let your influence he
rather now for bringing together the gap
ing wounds that they may be healed. Above
all, add no single word that shall break up
the harmony of churches. Throw nothing
in the road chat shall not ma 5e 4 return to
concord and happiness easy and natural.
Don't believe that men are all bad because
you have seen some of their weaknesses,
and, 1t may be, of their sins. Don't believe
that your duty Is discharged when you be-
come like ShiIaei.
OF all thesaints that know of, the stone
throwing saints are the most unworthy.
Wher David fled out Of Jerusalem, across
the Jordan, Shimei ran along the side of the
hill and cursed him up and down. lie had
a natural sense of just ice. If he had been
retuked, be would haze said he believed in
calling things by their right names And
ne enforced his argument by most en- mphatic
punctuation Of stone : But he was the first
man to come sneak ing back when David
came back into the city, and fawnec upon
hlm. beseech you, don't be Shimeis.
Take some OF the other saints. There are
enough stone-thrcwing saints in editorial
chairs and in pulpits, and en- ,ugh men who
know ho'S to throw stones, everywhere
else; your little hands were never made for
such work K. If they ash. you for stone,
give them bread if they ask You for sc0I-
plons. give them an eg';-and a good one.
henf.er IN every place search Tor a
chance to show that the renewed temper OF
your mind throug Christ is better than the
natural temper Frid1y Er ming Talk.
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curious case was on tiial in the Marine
Court of New York last week. 1t was an
action for libel brought by Daniel {. Bird
sail, member of the bar Of that city against
Stephen II. Alden, for saying that Birdsall
had caused the ruin Of his (Alden's) 5augh-
ter, Mrs. TRULY. Mrs. Truby testified that
she was divorced from her husband Her
father. the defendant, also testified that he
was divorced from his wife. The son of the
defendant testified that he was disorc. ID from
his wife. mother son was forced TO admit
that me was divorced from his wife. while
another witness for the defence Admitted
that She was divorced from her hus band
How many more nismated couples were
concerned, did not appear. the string of
confessions was interrupted by adjourn .ment
of the court.