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Smyrna times., 1876-07-12

Always the idea of unbrollcn quiet broods
around the grave. 1t is 4 port where the
storms of life never beat, and the forms that
have been tossed on the chatting waves lie
quiet forevermsre. There the child nestles
as peacefully as ever it lay in its mothers
arms, and the workman's hands lay still by
his side, and the thinkers brain is pillowed
in silent mystory, and the poor girls
broken heart is stepped in balm that
extracts its secret woe, and is in the keep
ing of charity that covers all blame
CkdDlain.
Smyrna times., 1876-07-12

PARTISG.-Men seldom appear so
humane, or in position so advantageous
to their humanity, as when they part.
How few friends are there who endure a
protracted separation without some abate-
ment of warmth, or meet, by appointment,
without some accidental discontents; but
none in any degree entitled to that charac-
ter, ever part without much regret Even
the cheerful and social are not always
exempt from those momentary perturba-
tions with which selfishness chills the pulse,
or controyersary overheats it. The needle
will oscillate little from the just point oi
its affections, and though its popularity il
never lost, it is seldom steady. Yet even
the petulant, the irritable, and the more
generous of the resentful, lose all unfriend
illness as they pass away from each other
signing at conversation which, perhaps
they may have mutually desired. The las
shake of the hand is sufficient to dissipat'
hundred grievances. There are then M
reproaches which we can recall beside
those against ourselves.
Il
Smyrna times., 1876-07-12
Murdered by Her Brother,

In Philadelphia, on Thursday last, about
noon, Morris Springfield stabbed to death
his sister Alice in disreputable house in
st. Mary street kept by Lizzie Irons. Some
time ago Alice became acquainted with one
Harry Simmons, and their relations became
of the most intimate kind. 1t is alleged,
and the mother supports the assertion, that
the two were regularly married. Whether
or not their marital life was of the most
pleasant character cannot at present be
ascertained, but Alice was gradually looked
upon as being by no means stringent in her
ideas of morality. She left her husband,
and, at length, descended so low that she
was willing to be harbored in one of the
most notorious Of the many dens that
befoul Alaska street.
Morris, the elder son, was employed in
Harrisons boiler works, and was always
known as an honest, Woodworking, sober
young man--his own mother is the author.
ity of character-and was never known to
have committed any deed or violence.
W I'LL IllC lhtSiloioii1 ~ 10 SuppOsStii VI ildk-
ing a strong appeal to his sister to change
her mode Of life, he visited on Thursday
about noon the house in Alaska street.
What occurred between the brother and
sister cannot be definitely ascertained, but,
from the few facts already cleaned, it is
supposed that Morris entreaties were
greeted by the girl with curses and jeers.
Driven to madness by his failures and the
prospect OF future shame, he suddenly
drew penknife from his pocket and stab
bed his sister again and again. Eight
wounds in all were inflicted in her breast,
producing the most intense agony which
found vent in hcartrending shrieks as she
was being removed to the Pennsylvania
Hospital, where she died from hemmor
rhage. Young Springfield was arrested.
Smyrna times., 1876-07-12

Those who worship gold in a world SO
corrupt as this we live in, have at least one
thing to plead in defense of their idolatry
the power Of their idol. 1t is true that
like other idols, it can neither move, sec,
hear, feel, nor understand, but unlike
other idols, it has often communicated all
these powers to those who have them not,
and annihilated them in those who had.
This idol can boast of two pecuIiarities; it
is worshiped in all climates without 4
single temple, and by all classes without a
single hypocritc.-Colon.
Smyrna times., 1876-07-12

Gaze not on beauty too much, lest it
blast thee nor too long, lest it blind thee;
nor too near, lest it burn thee. If thou
like it, it deceives thee; if thou love it, it
disturbs thee; if thou hunt after it, it
destroys thee. If virtue accompany it, it
is the hearts paradise; ifvice associate it,
it is the souls purgatory. 1t is the wise
mans bonfire, and the FOOLS furnace
Ogarlcs
Smyrna times., 1876-07-12
WHOLE NO. l,1O1.

VEST POCKET on TIE LEFT SIDE-A young
man from one of the suburban districts
was in ono Of our tailor shops getting
measured for vest the other afternoon.
"Married or mmaried?" questioned tho
merchant, after taking down the number.
Unmarried, said the young man with
Il blush.
Inside pocket on the left side, then,
observed the tailor, as if to himself, making
4 memorandum to that effect After u
moments pause the young man from the
suburbs was prompted to ask:
"What docs my being married or unmar.
ried make with the inside pocket OF my
vest?n
"Ah, my dear sir," observed the tailor,
with bland smile, q" all the difference
possible as you must sec Being Unmarried
you want the pocket on the left side, 50 as
to bring the young lady'a picture next 20
your heart
But don't tho married mon also want
his wife's picture next to his hcart?" quer
led the anxious youth.
POSSIBLY there IS an instance OF that
kind" said the tailor, arching his eyebrows,
but | never heard Of it.''-lH.u3J Uor1H
LITTLE THINGs.--Littlc villages arc
nearer to being atoms of shattered para
disc than anything we know of; and little
fortunes bring the most content, and little
hopes the least disappointments.
Little words are sweetest to hear; little
charities fly further, and stay longest on
the wing; little lakes the stillost, little
hearts the fullest, and little farms the best
titled.
Little books are the most read, and little
songs most loved. And when nature would
mako anything especially rare and Lcauti-
ful, she makes it little; little pearls, little
diamonds, little dews.
Everybody (says writcr) o calls that
little they love best on earth. We once
heard q good sort of a man speak of his
little wife, and VIC fancicd that she must be
a perfect little bijou Of q wife. We saw
her and she weighed two hundred and ten
f pounds; we were surprised. But then il
was no joke; the man meant il. lie coulC
put his wife in his heart"
Smyrna times., 1876-07-12

Who is there who, at autumn, does not
feel his mind impressed with a sentiment
of melancholy? Or who is able to resist
that current of thought, which, from such
appearances of decay, so naturally leads
to the solemn imagination of that inevita,
BILE fate which is to bring on alike tho
decay of life, of empire, and of nature
itself?-s&r 4, AHSon.
Smyrna times., 1876-07-12

When the Gauls laid waste Romo, they
found the Senators clothed in ther robes,
and seated in stern tranquility in their
curule chairs in this manner they suffered
death, without any resistance or supplica-
ton. Such conduct was, in them, applau-
ded as magnanimous and noble; in the
hapless Indians it was reyiled as both
obstinate and sullen. How truly are we
the dupes Of show and circumstances How
different is virtue clothed in purple and
enthroned in state, from virtue, naked and
destitute, and perishing obscurely in a
Wilderness Washington Irving.
Smyrna times., 1876-07-12

In visit, day or two since, to the
penitcntiary at Allegheny city, Miss d. L.
Dix, the American Florence Nightingale,
made an address to the prisoners in which
she related an incident in which she was
herself an actor. 1t occurred many years
ago, in the wilder portion Of the State of
Tennessee. She had, as she says, con-
siderable amount with her, and though
warned of the danger in travelling in GER
tain districts without an armed escort, she
utterly refused to allow her driver and
guide to retain his pistol, Notwithstanding
his remOnstrances and entreaties to the
of the road. True enough, as they came
to a small clearing i'll a swampy tract
where there was much fallen and burned
timber, man met them suddenly, pre-
senting his pistol and demanding her
money or her life. She Instantly came to
the front and asked if he was not ashamed
to attack n woman and in such circum-
stances. But he was resolute and said he
must have her money, as he was destitute
and in dire need. She was equally deter
mined, kept on talking to him of the
wrong, impropriety and unmanlness of his
course, when suddenly dropping his eyes
and his pistol, he cried out /" My God ]
have heard that voice before" and imme-
diately began to apologize for his conduct,
telling her that he had met her in the State
Prison at Trenton, or in the eastern peni.
tentiary Of Pennsylvania. He refused to
take a cent, but she finally insisted on his
taking some money, not as gift, but as a
sum she wanted to invest with him, to be
used, after he had found work and relief,
in helping others equally unfortunate.
Smyrna times., 1876-07-12

Objects close to the eye shut out much
larger obectS on the horizon, and splendors
born only of the earth eclipse the stars.
So man sometimes covers up the entire
disk of eternity with dollar, and quenches
transcendent glories with little shining
DUST Chapn.
Smyrna times., 1876-07-12

The monthly statement of the national
debt for June shows a further reduction of
three million eight hundred and eighty
one thousand three hundred and thirty
seven dollars.
Smyrna times., 1876-07-12

Judge Davis, who was spoken of for the
Democratic nomination at st. Louis, has
announced his intention to support Hayes
and Wheeler, and hopes for their success.
Smyrna times., 1876-07-12

A judge, in sentencinga man to death,
observed: "Prisoner at the bar, you will
soon have to appear before another and
perhaps better judge"
Smyrna times., 1876-07-12

MARRIED IN SPITE OF THEM.-The parents
Of young man in Baltimore tried to pre-
vent him marrying young woman they
dislikcd, by hiding his clothes when he was
in bed, the night before the wedding was
to come off. But he got married in spite
Of them. They might have known, the
Hayre de Grace Republican thinks, that q
night shirt was all the clothes he needed.
Smyrna times., 1876-07-12

President Porter of Yale College desires
that some one would give that institution
half dozen billiard tables to put in CaHiope
Hall.
Smyrna times., 1876-07-12

this is the answer to be given to every
human soul from whom the cry comes,
"We would see Jesus" There are two
systems in our day which prevert and hide
this great truth; one is superstition, the
other rationalism or false liberalism. Ra-
tionalism eliminates the atonement from
the Gospel, takes away the efficacy of the
blood of Christ, and is the popular theology
which fills churches from Chicago to
Brooklyn, which tells of Christ of mans
own invention, which dwells on his human
itarianism, his ethics and the incarnation of
his manhood.
When the teachers of this theology tell
us of the fatherhood of God, and that he
will not punish his children, they forget
that we have an advocate with the Father,
and that Jesus himself says: mo man
can come to the Father but by Me-" Then
there is the churchly system which brings
the church between Christ and the soul,
which says, "hear the church, submit to
the church, be confirmed and baptized and
partake of the Lords Supper and all will
be well with you," forgetting that no man
should come to church unless he comes tc
Christ, and that baptism is only an outward
sign of conservation. No system is more
destructive than this, placing instead o.
Christ church with priesthood, with
altars and ceremonies, and candles, anc
flowers, and vestmcnts, and music. We
should not deprecate the church but place
Christ above it, hide everything else, anC
crown him as king and ruler, and if W.
have thus seen him rs the Lamb of God
the Saviour of the world, we can cling t.
him, knowing that we are redeemed ant
that he is indeed your friend and brother
SOUTHERNERs IN THE UNION ARMY.--In
notice of the address of Gen. d. II. Hill
before the Mecklenburg IN. C.) IIistorico
J Society, the Baltimore San attributes t
him the following curious statements abou
the number of Southern soldiers in tn
Union Army during the war of the rebe
lion: " Even in the late civil war the Pres
dent of the United States was Southern
born man, and the first Commander i
Chief, whose plan for the subsequent eol
) duct OF the war was probably that whic
was finally successfully acted on, was
Virginian. Next to Grant and Sherman
whose leading military conceptions wer
: perhaps, derived from Gen. Scott, the mo
I successful Union Generals were Souther
men, viz: Thomas, Candy, Blair, Syke
Ord, Getty, Anderson, Alexander, Nelso
: &c. Gen. Hill declares that the stubbol
e resistance Of Gen. Thomas at Chikamau!
I and the refusal of Andrew Johnson to gi,
9 up Nashville, as Buell. directed, dug ii
e grave of the Confederacy. Farragut,
y Tennessee, rose to the highest rank in Il
y Navy. The naval forces at Hatteras we
e under command of Goldsborough, of Mar
n land. Gen. Hill is Of opinion that Il
W South furnished as many troops to Il
G Union Army as did the populous Mort
d At any rate there were no better troops
? the Union service. Missouri gave lOS,7 Z
e soldiers to the United States, KentucI
Is $4,000, and Maryland 1890. 9th
t. Southern States contributed in greater
j less degree. In all there were 400, 600 natl,
l. born Southerners in the Union seryi,
Is This does not include the 250000 neg
S, troops"
~
Smyrna times., 1876-07-12

"Be content with what you have," as
the rat said to the trap when he left his tail
in it.
Smyrna times., 1876-07-12

The New England journal Of Education
notes the following conclusions of a teacher:
al have found it to be a universal fact,
without exception, that those scholars of
both sexes, and of all ages, who have access
to newspapers at home, when compared
with those who have not, are: |. Better
readers, excellent in pronunciation, and
consequently read more understandingly.
2. They are better spellers, and define
words with ease and accuracy. 3. They
obtain practical knowledge of geography in
almost half the time it requires of others,
as the newspapers have made them ac-
quainted with the location of the important
places of nations, their government, and
the doings on the globe. 4. They are
better grammarians, for, having become so
familiar with every variety of style in the
newspaper, from the commonplace adver
tisement to the finished and classical ora
ton of the statesman, they more readily
comprehend the meaning of the text, and
constantly analyze its construction with
accuracy. 5. They write better compost.
tions, using better language, containing more
thoughts, more clearly and more correctly
expressed. 6. Those young men who have
for years been readers of newspapers are
always taking the lead in the debating
societies, exhibiting a more extensive
knowledge upon q greater variety Of sub
jects, and expressing their views with
greater fuency, clearness, and correctness"
| -
BosToN Boy ON FIsH.-Fish lives in the
Atlantic Ocean, Buzzard's Bay and some in
Charles River. When they are small they
are Goldfish, herrin, and sich; when they
grow up they are whales. Whales is very
useful, they sometimes swaller whole shiI
and all the crew. The fat of whales il
billed out, and made inter kerosene for gas
light. Their bones is made inter whale
bone for ivory pianner keys and dominoes
also for horn handles for jaclx-knives.
wish whale would swaller my school anC
all the teachers. Fish is always eat Friday
/ hate fish; there is two many bones t
pick out when you eat EN-. ruther eat
paper of pins fried in lard. A whale coult
lick oil the boys in the Harvard Gramma
SCHOOL, Could lick thunder out of EN- anC
make 'em look sick, and don't you forgi
it.
Smyrna times., 1876-07-12

It is kind Of happiness to know up to
what point we can be happy.
, 1876-06-28

from the vicinity Of tho 1Ialttcd Street N. F.
Church In I1Alstea street has, expecting to he
conveyed through 10 tho northern terminus of the
llne at Harrison esect. Iafn VIVA ponr!ng down In
torrents. Fares wore handed tho driver md nc
tcptcd by him without worl. On reaching tho
Company a stahlot ncnr Maxwell tttcet-ahout ono
third Of the distance 10 ho travctrci-n halt was
made, and tho passengers were thrn. for tho htst
slime, informed TINT the ataee went no further.
Protest was unarniltpE; ia IL thb driver nnlo An,
tWtrs "lf y1u aunt choose 10 get mt. I'll
atLvo you into tho stahlc." III the height "
tho storm three women. one with. baby IN
hrme, homa othos ratscnEcff. nnd the sub
fcsitcFe+ wete thus compelled u tehve
tho stage, milo or ,nnre troIn their destination.
All rgna!ted in bosly tu the Cnlnpanye o!cc hard
hy, md there deandcd 10 l'r taken IN to Hafrlrun
stscet. or tltst fhrrs be refunded. Neither demand
mot With compliance, and. having no alternative.
after time The party emerged up6n tho street.
Aeante the cHaclyHn to shift fur themsclsea ~ best
they might.
Il is not necessary to comment upon suct
wrong and m tni!gnity combined. Your core.
Rpondcns cnntent thesnto ives with asking you, ~
the o.!itor of n mast influential ncwt}mptr, to
give this flmpo statement at fncta tho wIdo pub.
llcfty oi ynnr columns believing that fuch EXPO.
snrc will serve to teach tho Stage Company nctl
cd lrrfoh nnl tend TO conserve the interests Of the
travelling public. GUSTAV knr1i,
FEnD o. HAEMASx,
Jona II. MrELLtn
CHARLEY Hlanr,
s. +. MAssErr.
, 1876-06-28

There vera no proceedings 1T tho Trustecs'
meeting yesterday on accounted the lack Of quo
rum. Noxt Tuesday being tho Fourth Of July,
there will probably Be no meeting; hence ths aEst
mscung iux July will bs an important ono Thls
long vacation wilt give tho Viase Fathers another
opportunity 10 90 to the Centennial.
Among the recent arrivals At the Hyde Park
Ilou's arc A. u. Doc. Walter Wright. Mrs. Il.
nIsssl D. J. Il!nekley, s. J.. Medill. Mn. sydney
Ayo's ana ,,daughtet, y. g. Lyon, sna
JahL lfindlTi1lo, Chicago: r. II. Charpell,
Wl!neste, MI; H.: ". Montgomery. William
Smith, New iufk; J. L0eb, SAD Francisco; r. II.
fast oseoining fashionable resott. Sunday alter
NOON two guns were heard on ths lake, and, in .
few minutes the pretty little steamer Msmio hove
In afRht, followed Ia few lninutea by the yacht
Fto!c. Aoth boats hove 10 % tho middle hotel
p!essAnd tho parties came ashors; Afies . short
Ao}onrn and 4ol,e cllAmpxgno thcy lett. but thesc
being no wind, the Frei!s Vas lett In the elurch.
Monday tho Annie Louise Carr put In AL appeas.
anec. The facilities for landsns ettl hatbhr!Ag
hcee render Hyde Park popuLAs boating poInt.
l.Aat sunday night couple Of policemen heard
some loud taking In ths toums over Hicns rcsAuE.
ant. Onlces Hogan atAltsd 10 20 up.etaiTa and
aemol,h ths offending parties. Just before open.
Ing tbs door he remarked 10 bis companion thAt he
W0ala ks TO hoaue& Wiaos out o1 t1s doas. orsous-
, 1876-06-28
DECLINE IN GOODS,

AtEfHHN2 DH NdERpilii S3HEEEs
About = o'clock ycsserdny morning, ~ ncnrly Al
can bc arcerta(nrd, the upper floors Of the five
story brick building Nos. Ii md II Randolph
street, occupied by Reid, Murdoch i Fischer,
Wholesale groccts, gave way and prccfpitated the
weight Of goods upon them to the luurs briuw,
which AZ oncn Gasc way to Tho pressure md dumped
At least fh Of the cni!so stock Into tho bhss-
cnt causing loss to tho gfocera Uf loast DU0
and loss to thu OWNERS Of the building, brown
BEoh., Of 81, coo additional. For nome time paat
tho nsn has had a very large surplus stock. and
mich Of this was st0rcd npon the upper.ttoors out
OF tho way. Frevions to storing It., however, they
had asked The advice OF VI W-,Noringson, tho
architect Of the building, md another nrchtcct TO-
gurdIng the bafcty Of tho structure, and both
agreeing that It was perfectly nccuro, tho nrsu
had no he.itaue, In using 1t to
tho entire weight wls not o. great that Of tho
stack which was at1rcd tn the hafno last fall,
but the tlrm r think that the euiding w9a weakened
was noro tho result ot tho ssraIn last year than the
weight of ths dtack In store at thu time Il cnse'i In
SrstGrtay. no definite reason fur the collapse
could be found, nnd It IL fmpos-bc to stato which
one Of the Two upper floors lcil first
All TINT can be Nscertalnrd abont the catastrnpho
Ia what can be ttcn ffom the lawcr loor, anil thn
exhibits about 4uxio fcct Of he two upper loors
basement and gronltd noots,, leaving .aa'a u
1aaes ees Iii ~ seea ate &c 3 o. sSa
n Ill., viii BE- ne lo.s rs psobaSy moi u more s ths n
the dangerous Character Of tlo ru!n., tho l1m en,
porasiiy abandoned tho nto.e. and ret up In nuw
qnartc!r uoxt door east, and late tn tho Afternoon
place, 50 that theLs bnsiness would sut1cE no to-
lay. Hy avery oppurtuns chance, u oil their IN
ss hs tss II Tho
seclfr
, 1876-06-28
LORD DUFFERlN.
1fc Glvcs Uttcrnnoo to aon,o Vtcws which
VIII Find Much Favor in Many Quar-

1fc Glvca Uttcrnnoo to aomo y1cws which
VIII Find Much Tnvnr in Many Quar-
tcrb+
Specioi Mspatca to 7ns 7sttans,
QuEHnc, June 27.-Lord anu Indy Dnf1crin md
suite wcro present at tho female Normal School,
and were presented with adarcta by the pupils.
In the COURSE of characteristic speech his Excel
lency strongly deprecated the practice in this co.
Try Of abiding 10 young Indies by their pet nalncs
IN newspapers, by cnhuat acqnaiutanccA, and in
prizo lists. 1t seemed monstrons sacEllego that
tho tender, 3oeing nomenclature OF tho hros!ae
should be ban'llea about at random In tho mouth Of
every empty-hended Tom. Dick, anu Harry.
In tho uniiod States. before her marriage, htsH
Grant, daughter Of the occupant Of thu moAt august
position In the world, generally referred to in
tho newspapers a. i" "NallIn. ns though parasra::
phlst. lad been her piayfc'lowa from infancy. md
even Lazy DuGcs!n ms become .Kato" In the u.
egant phraseo1o3y Ut 4 Cnttcd States magazine.
1hIf pfactica was not without nfEni'cancs when re-
gatdc4 a. q ntsionn! characteristic Women GU
and noble hearted Us any in thc, world: and sats
arc onlcial dacumcntt, aud young lndtcs should DO
entered In their full Christian names and not in
ntckNAnEA.
, 1876-06-28
THE FOURTH.

FNooH1MHH or THE TItlsT REGIMENT.
The full arrangements for tho proposed encamr-
meut OF the First Regiment l. s. g. at Madison,
from tic I'd 10 tbs 9Th OF July, hare been COM
pIeted. aud The command wifi leave this city Sat
uray night Of thts week 1T 1o30 O'Clock, BY special
train, over th6chieAga q Northwestern Railroad.
During Sunday ths usual camp "details will be oh.
served, including the Ceremony Of guard mounting
II O'clock religious services nj 1880, and iresa-
parade kt anndown. Monday night reception
Will be tendered tho regiment In The Capitol su!!h.
ing. GAgsds1 afternoon thu comptt!tton'lrsli Will
take place. ard viii be participated In, IN addition
Of the best. ir!iisd Stats militia companies. All
the companies of ths F1tat hasr been under cor.
finuous dill! nearly every night during thu pat
thEee WasEA, aud tho regiment at tAe present linn
IL Ia better condition, In military sense, thxa
1t any preyioua tn,e In It's history, End tho com.
Tbs following usdezs wore promulgated last
sycn[ng:
.culcAao, Junc 20, 1870
"Gsne1sl Orders. No. IS.
''in aceafd.acs WIKI The reeommendst'9n OF The
iusmters Of thu regiment In .egmsatsl mestinK
assembled, that this command 50 Into camp oil
Instruction n Madison, Via. from the I'd to tha
9Th of July, 1875, tho necessary pern,ls:
march mar Sl.hia H. 81 s,..s u Wisconsin to1 III M
purpose having been cordially ytssm., aud the
headquarters that no publsc foto Or celebration
in contemplation. this regiment win hasetishls y
full dsess 1t ths hrmorJ, Nos. III, III, ~! 11d
march thsnee 70 ths dspotof the chicago : Ne1t...
western RA!lFoAd, And proceed BY special tsaln u
thS psAtA Of entampulsnt.
''Tfaasps<tasaon viii ~ &stalshsd bJ IL Gagt'