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child. She carefully wrapped IT up in a
waterproof clock, aud immediately upon
arriving at the hotel and being to a room
whore there was fire, she undressed the
little girl, and bad her thoroughly
warmed and put 10 bed.
In answer to the interogatories of Mr..
NELSON, the lady reluctantly gave her
name as Mrs. Dantord, wife of Hon.
Lorenzo Danford, of St. Clairsville, u,
the representative of the 10th OHIO
District in the present House of Repre-
sentatives at Washington. She said she
had come to Niagara for the purpose of
throwing herself and child over the falls,
but gave no reason for entertaining and
attempting TO carry out such a terrible
purpose She disclaimed any inten-
! ton of making second attempt upon
her life or upon the life OF her little
daughter. She objected strongly to hav-
ing her husband notified of her presence
here and of her suicidal attempt, but
finally yielded her consent, saying that
perhaps it would be "better for him to
! know all. :"
Telecrams were immediately sent TO
| Mr.. Daniord, at st. Clairsville, acquaint
Ing him with the fact of his wife and
child being at the International, and OF
the unsuccessful attempt TO commit sui
eide The telegraph operator at st.
Clairsville answered that Danford was
absent from home, that he had tele-
graphed himself Of the matter, and would
do all that was possible for him. A tel.
egram from Mr.. Danford himself, dated
ut Cadiz Junction, Ohio, has since been
received, saying that he had started for
Niagara Falls.
Both mother and child suffered from
nervous prostration after being taken to
the hotel, but the little girl has quite re-
covered from her fright, and Mrs. Dan
ford is quietly awaiting the arrival OF her
husband who Is expected tonight A
party OF residents of st. Clairsville, Mrs.
Danford's home, are at the hotel, and
| have sought an interview with Mrs. Dan
ford, with whom they are personally ac-
quainted, but without success. These nc
quaintances say that Mrs. Danford is a
lady O! exceptional character and of
great personal worth. OF her hus band
they say that he is n cultivated gentle
| man and kind husband and father; that
he was a widower with three children
when he married the present Mrs. d.,
and that the little girl now with his
wife is the sole fruit OF their union. The
only explanation of Mrs. Danford's con.
duct which they can conceive is based
upon supposed domestic trouble, though
there is not the faintest supposition OF
any criminal relations entering into the
matter. Mrs. Danford is lady Of by nc
means unprepossessing appearance, while
the little girl is quit, pref y. The child
apparently does not fully comprehend
the terrible nature OF yesterdays expert
ence.
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NJ OF I . II.

N ELECTION WILL BE HELD AT
n the usual places of voting III ONO
county, on the Second Tuesdayo of October,
eighteen hundred and seventy. SIX, To
wit: On the tenth day thereof Git being
the day OF the general electiOn) for the
purpose of choosing n Judge of the
Supreme Court of Appeals, TO fill Inc va
caIcy caused by the death OF James PAUL,
which vacancy was temporarily filled by
the appointment of Thomas Z. Green.
GEO, II. TlNGLE, ;. o. {.
SEpTEMBER |, 1876. Sep2
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FOR SALE

WE HAVE TWO VERY NI,p
w story brick tenement honn. IN0
twenty mn street, Tor sale. FUSS FUSS 90
nearly new aud In excellent rensiny are
contains ionr rooms and n klirha, Each
both nave good cellars. Any psrsr, AUD
string cheap dwelling hou e we'll IIiiS SS1, De.
IA call. For null particulars s mt do Vel
undersigned NJ their Office. \" pP,y 10 the
line street, Wheeling. ". Va. 'haP.
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Mrs. Danford'- Attempted Sale &c al
Niagara.


Niagara.
New York w orId, of Sunday.
Mrs Danford, wife of Lorenzo Dan
ford, Representative IN the present
Congress from the Fifteenth Ohio Dis
trict Jumped into Niagara river at Pros
pect Park last Tuesday afternoon, hav-
Ing her little four yesr-old daughter in
her arms ut the time. o. +. Wright, q
hackman, standing on the parspet at the
brink ofthe fall, caught her by the droSs
as she was being borne swiftly down,
and with the aid OF Mr.. l. Anthony,
from Sandusky, 0, managed to get both
mother and daughter ont of the water.
The mother resisted their efforts,
and, sfle- the rescue, reproachcd one of
the men that "shc and her child had not
been left alone" At the hotel she said
that her attempt at suicide had been de
liberate, but refused pcrsistently to give
any reason therefor. Visitors at the
Falls from Mrs. Dantords home say that
the husband and wife have so far rs they
know, lived happily together. MIR. Dam
ford is, they say, u very cultivated gen.
tleman and kind husband and father,
and his wife is "A ladyof uneXCeptionable
character. Mr. Dantord was telegraphed
OF the occurrence and promptly started
for the falls.
The Niagara Falls Gazette of WednCs-
dov furnishes the following particulars
in regard In the matter briefly alluded 10
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DIED:

HARRISON Tuesday, September 2Gth,
1876, at ! O'Clock, JAMES HARRIS, aged u
years and months.
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Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1876-08-02
Onr Friends in the Next Life.

The after-ife and world do not seem to us
TO be remote or mystical any more than any
earthly country is remote aud mystical be
cause it is beyond our sight. Nor do those
who have passed into the unseen seem TO
have gone far or be really separated from us.
The vision of spiritualized beings must. in
tine nature of things. be finer than the vision
OF material beings and while we cannot see
them doubtless their dear eyes constantly
behold us. And as to what some have sug-
gested that, if this were so. then would our
SHINING pain them, being beheld we would
say that this does not hold in reason; for
sure it is that they cannot be more sensitive
to our sinfulness than is God and il Gods
heart can bear the spectacle ID our trans
gressions, why should We think that those
less sensitive 10 wrong-doing than is lie
should not be brave enongh to bear the
sight They who are there are much wiser
than we who remain They see the end
from the beginning, and what consultations
they may have come to them from their
lofty view Of things we know not but we
may imagine that they are great and many.
We should not worry ourselves overmuch
touching such intricate questioning, but
rather rejoice that those who were dear TO
u.s. and in whose life we found Joy, are
actudily living ana IN state OF mex pres
sble happiness Nor does that distance
seem TO be too distant because of the fact
that il is being lessened daily, and the space
between us shortened. We know not how
soon, we may not tell the day or the hour,
when the gates shall open, and We be ad-
mitted where they are. But we cannot
doubt, if we believe in Christ and have faith
in immortality, that we shall come to them
some day-the day of Gods appointment
and put our arms around them and have
them with us forever, And this coming
together of those who have loved aud still
love, but have been for brief time apart !;
this reunion of souls that were as one, but
were separated and kept apart for a brief
space; this meeting and having and enjoy
ing those we crave and all that we have
crayed purely, men call death, and drape
the royal event with Grape and fill the gate
way OF mans final victory with lamenta-
tions. II we could be unselfsh enough TO
think less of what we lose and more of what
they gain, how different would the fashion
of our funerals be In my fathers house
are many mansions II it were not so,
would have told you."-The Goiien Rule.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1876-08-02
Don't Brighten the Children.

We have more than once seen woman
into whose hands child has been given 10
love and to rear, who never even once inag-
ined that when she screamed at the sight of
venturesome mouse, or the graceful spin
ming down of a spider, or a flash of lightning,
that she so shocked the nerves of her child,
and so deeply thrilled them, that they were
never fully at peace again. The scream
that she utters may leave no visible wound in
the body of her little one, but the hurt is
none the less severe, and the pain will re-
turn again and again TO it whenever it sees
the small and very likely harmless insect
which suggests 10 its mother the terror
which she transferred 10 her child. We
have seen mother gather her children into
a bed at midday, aud silently lie trembling
with dread of a lightning flash until she
made the young lives Of her family bur
den TO them when ever there was promise of a
summer Storm OF course there is danger
during an electric disturbance, but il is very
remote, and the number of those who con
tract fatal illness through carelessness
when their clothing has got wet in peaceful
rain Is ten times as great as OF those killed
by lightning, and yet mother is very neg
ligent OF this exposure She may tell her
children that the centre of the room, with
the windows and doors closed If there be no
chimney in the apartment, is safer place
than doorway or an open easement; but
she need not frighten them by manifest
hmidity. The time Of real danger she
should make one of very serious use 10 her
little ones, by showing them the value Of
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1876-08-02
Search for Wives.

Where do men usually discover the women
who afterwards become their wives is the
question we have occasionally heard dis
cussed, and the result it invariably comes to
is worth mentioning to our Young lady read
ers. Chance has much TO do in the affair
but then there are important governing cir
cumstances. 1t is certain that few men
make a selection from bathrooms or any
other place of public gaiety; and nearly as
few are influenced by what may be called
showing off in streets, or by any allurements
of dress. Our conviction is that ninety-nine
hundredths of all the fnery with which the
women decorate, or load their persons, go for
nothing, as far as husband catching is con-
cerned. Where and how, then, do men find
their wives In the quiet homes of their
parents or guardians -at the firesde where
the domestic graces and feelings are alone
demonstrated. These are the charms which
most surely attract the high as well as the
humble. Against these all the finery and
airs in the world sink into insignifcance.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1876-08-02
Plain Preaching.

\ gentleman was speaking the other day
OF minister whose church he had been at
tending, and remarked 81 liked him bet
ter than any one whom have heard in the
city. lie was the only man who ever made
me feel uncomfortable, and ! wish | had
heard him more frequently" There seems
TO be almost a contradiction in such words,
but they were honestly spoken, aud revealed
what was the real feeling of the person who
used them. lie liked the preacher who had
made him uncomfortable. and wished he had
heard him oftener that he might have been
more uncomfortable. Such a remark is a
direct rebuke to those who preach smooth
things, as also to all who insist constantly on
declaring love and goodness, while denying
the usefulness of setting forth the law and
the duty of men under and in regard to it.
II is also a reproof to all who, from any i'm
proper disposition, fail to make known the
full demands of the gospel, and press upon
men the obligation Of holy life.-1He
Lutheran
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1876-08-02
The Time 10 Marry.


Few things in our social life are more
serions than the reluctance of youug people
TO marry because they cannot at once set up
expensive and stylish housekeeping They
wish to begin where their fathers left of,
aud instead of the economical expenditure
anh the modest household, which are the
surest and wisest way 10 wealth. they refuse
10 marry at all hence years of unsettled,
uneasy, unblest single life, sometimes lead
lug. 20 vice, sometimes 10 unhappiness,
always 10 loss both Of manly completeness
Of character and OF the truest and highest
good Of life. When for reasons of selfish
prudence, man will not marry until the verge
of middle life, he inverts the laws of nature
and the purposes of God his children are
born at an incongruous period of life, when
he is less qualified 10 mould their charac-
ter, and when their settlement la life may
be seriously damaged by his loss. lie sui
fers, they suffer, society suffers. The moral
and religious aspects of this question of late
marriages are becoming so largely charac-
teristic of our social life, on these false and
selfish grounds of social economy that So
ciety, as whole aud religious life, in par
ticular, are seriously damaged If man
has gained a position that enables him TO
marry with ordinary prudence, let him
marry, and let not the prudence be pressed
too hard young love, if true and godly, will
make early struggle wholesome and Joyous
If he has found woman who will make
him happy, let him take her to a modest
home, the loving wife Of his youth. HIS
life will be better for it, and his fortunes
tOO.-Dr. AN0n.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1876-08-02
God Everywhere.

II wake in the night ! am stll with
Him. | have liberty 10 pour ont my awed
thoughts 10 Him in still aud fearless reyer-
ence, and my gentle thoughts in confidential
love- aud my troubled thoughts in my prayer
and my gladstone thoughts in the songs of
the Spirit. If ! wish IL, when ! travel,
travel in divine society when walk in the
midst of trouble, lie revives me when
droop in the valley Of the shadow Of death,
lie comforts me when ! am engaged in no
defined acts of devotion-when not voice
is whispered nor a look reflected" Tender
thoughts within me burn, 10 feel Friend is
nigh When | 20 out into the solitudes Of
nature, | feel around me a thinking, silent
life, aud "all the air is love" Surely God
is in this place. | hear His voice IN the
song Of the winds and in the chime Of the
waters. The earth rocks TO His tread in the
tempest at His smile the wilderness
breaks forth into singing" When I return
10 my home, He who made " the desert re-
joice," makes " the solitary place glad" |
can find Him anywhere, at all times and
find Him as my Friend. In the workshop,
in the loft, al hung with cobwebs, behind
the screen Of the shaded lane, can find a
" holy of holies +" and solitude Of spirit,
where ! can find no solitude Of place, Is Of
ten 10 me "none other than the house Of
God, aud the gate Of heayen."--C Stanford.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1876-08-02
Brought Back 10 God.

A few years since gentleman from Eng
land brought letter OF introduction to
gentleman in America. The stranger was
Of accomplished mind and manners, but in
sentiment an infdel. The gentleman to
whom he brought the letter of introduction,
and his lady, were active Christian philan-
thropists They invited the stranger 10
make their house his home, and treated him
with every possible attention. Upon the
evening of his arrival Just before the usual
hour for retiring, the gentleman, knowing
the peculiarity Of his guests sentiments, OBJ
served to him that the hour had arrived in
which they usually attended family prayers
that he should be happy TO have him remain
and unite with them; or, ii he preferred, he
could retire. The gentleman intimated that
it would give him pleasure TO remain.
chapter of the Bible was read, and the fam
iy all knelt in prayer, the stranger with the
rest. In few days the stranger left this
hospitable dwelling, and embarked on board
a ship for foreign land. In the course Of
three or four years, however, the providence
of God again led the stranger to the same
dwelling But, oh, how changed He came
the happy Christian, the humble man of piety
and PRAYER. In the course of the evenings
conversation he remarked that when he, on
the first evening Of his previous visit, knelt
with them in family prayer it was the first
time for many years that he had bowed 10
his Maker. This act brought 10 his mind
such a crowd of recollections, it so yiyidly
reminded him of parents prayers, which
he had heard at home, that it completely
absorbed his attention. His emotion was so
great, that he did not hear one syllable Of
the prayer which was uttered, from its com
mencement TO its close. But God made this
the instrument Of leading him from the
dreamy wild of infdelity to the peace and
ioy of piety. His parents had long before
gone TO their rest but the prayers they had
offered for and with their son had left an in
1uence which could not die,-Seiecied
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VOL. 71.-3642. NO. 42.[
light cast upon them by this womau's brave

light cast upon them by this womans brave
words
Take your protection, if you will" she
went on, after waiting in vain for reply.
Proclaim yourselves traitors aud towards,
false 10 your country and your God, but
horrible will be the judgment YOU will bring
upon your heads aud the heads Of those
that love YOU. tell you that England will
never conquer ! know IL and feel 10 in
every fibre Of my heart Has God led us so
Tar To desert ms now win lie, who led
our fathers across the stormy winter sea,
torsake the children who have put their
trust in Him For me. stay with my
country, and my hand shall never touch the
hand, nor my heart cleave 10 the heart Of
him who shames her..
She flashed upon her husband gaze
which dazzled him like sudden lightning.
Isaac. We have lived together for twenty
years, and for all Of them have been true
aud loving wife 10 you. But am the child
OF God and Of my country, and if YOU do
this shameful thing, will never again own
you for my husband
MY dear wife" cried the husband
aghast, Won do not know what Won are
saying. Leave me for such thing as this Z"
" For such thing as thisl She cried,
scornfully. What greater cause could there
be | married a good man and true,
faithful friend and a loyal Christian gentle
man, and IL needs no divorce 10 sever me
from q traitor aud coward. II you take
your protection, you lose your wife, and IL
lose my husband and my home"
With the last words the thrilling voice
broke suddenly with a pathetic fall and
film crept over the proud blue eyes. Per
haps this little touch moved her hearers a.
deeply as her brave, scornful words. They
were not all towards at heart, only touched
by the dread finger Of panic, which, now and
them will paralyze the hravest. Some had
struggled long against it, and only half
yielded at last And some there were to
whom old traditions had never quite lost
their power, whose superstitious consciences
had never become quite reconciled 10 the
stigma OF rebel, though reason and Judgment
both told them, that borne for the cause for
which they bore It, It was title Of nobility.
The words Of the little woman had gone
straight TO each heart, be its handspring
what it might Gradually the dropping
heads We're raised. and the eyes grew bright
with manliness and resolution. Before they
lett the house that night, they had sworn a
solemn oath 10 stand by the cause they had
adopted and the land of their birth, through
good or evil, aud to spurn the offers of their
tyrants aud foes as the deadliest insults.
Some of the names of those who met in
that secret council were known afterwards
among those who fought their countrys bat
ties most nobly who died upon the field of
honor. or reioiced with pure hearts when the
day of triumph came at last The name of
the little woman figured ON no heroic roll,
but was She the less a heroine