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Christians should be cheerful. The
gospel is glad tidings "Behold bring
you glad tidings of great joy" was the
angelic announcement. Christ came to
fill the earth with joy. He did not ere.
ate sin, woe and death. His mission was
and is to remove them. He takes away
misery by removing its cause--.sin, Then
he fills the heart Of every believer with
a positive peace, which is ever increasing.
Yet there are mOpish and sad people
among the professed disciples of Christ
the destroyer of sin and its consequent
misery. Why is it2 The early disci-
pies were not SO. In every state they
were content. They took the spelling of
their goods, and even risked their liv.
joyfully. In everything they gave
thanks. Have Christians now less cause
for joy? None whatever. And yet
there are many who habitually wear long,
demure faces, and are continually groan-
ing and signing as if pressed with great
sorrow. They are apparently less happy
in the service of Him whose yoke is easy
10 bear, than when in bondage to sin,
And yet Christianity has not changed.
Its grounds of joy are the same as ever,
The Lord Jesus is the same perfect
Savior. The promises remain, and have
lost nothing os preciOusness. Grace is
as always. And the same sure, sweet
hope is for every true believer. II Chris
tians are unhappy it is because they
misapprehend the genius of the gospel,
or are inconsistent in their lives
Unhappy Christians misrepresent re-
ligion. They give the world the impress
sion that religion interferes with present
happiness. Thus men are confirmed in
unbeliet, and their conversion delayed or
hindered altogether. The world is in
pursuit of happiness and Christians owe
it to the world TO show that true happi-
ness is found in ChEist's service BE
happy Christians. The psalmist prayed,
" Restore unto me the Joy of Thy saliva
ton" "Then," he said, twill teach
transgressors Thy ways, and sinners will
he converted unto Thee" It's as though
he had said, Unless have the JOY of
savation sinners will be repelled instead
of won" DO not be satisfed without
Christian JOY. "Great peace have they
who know Thy name" "Happy is that
people whose God is the Lord" "Re
joice in the Lord always, and again | say
rejoice, Religious hteilgeaccr
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Lesson in Entomology.

One of the most interesting insects
that climb the morning glory vine and
lounge on the peach-tree leaf is the man
It's. His long, slender gresn body; his ex-
traordinary iorelegs with their tremen-
dous knees his head, which must be
confusion to all phrenoogists, are worth
hours of inspection. His skill in fly.
catching would delight the boys ii they
were to watch him. He reaches for fly
with his forelegs, and takes it up so
naturally that poor Floppy seems really
to belong to him-to have dropped out of
his pocket, as it were, at some time preyi-
Gus. He takes the fly between his knees,
turns it upon its back applies, himself to
its throat and then all is up with FlOppy.
Sometimes when those watching him
make n noise, he will turn his head to-
ward them suddenly, with look that
seems to express the greatest astonish-
ment, and to show them that he il aston
ished he drops the prey to the ground,
*here the ants, waiting for theiT mama,
Immediately seize the corpse and DIR z 1t
away, tugging as hlliputians might at
the body of dead giant. The mantis is
not frightened at.the interruption, and he
takes his loss very philosoPhicalIy, pro-
ceeding to clean his chops after the man
ner of cat, rubbing his big knees over
his face, and moving his head precisely as
pussy does hers. The cat, the bousefy
and the msntis very much resemble each
other in their toilet. After the mantis
has thus cleaned himself he moves on,
and in few minutes is helping himself
to more flies, Just as il he hadn't washed
himself at all.-LouisuHlc Courir.J0HHal.
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Thirty Chinese merchants in San
Francisco have united in an appeal to the
board Of education to have public schools
opened for the instruction Of Chinese youth.
The American home missionary society
reports its treasury to be "behind" to the
extent Of $4,000. About 400 missionaries are
dependent on the receipts for their support.
Bishop Simpsons long promised Cyclo.
Pedla of Methodism has got on to the ex.
tent Of one hundred and sixty royal octave
pages in print, and the whole book, which
will have 1000 pages, will be ready next
spng.
There is to be a southern educational
convention in Atlanta on the seventh of No.
yember for " the purpose of considering the
difficulties of the educational situation, and
OF deyising the most effective means Of sur.
mounting them, and establishing in every
southern state wise and efficient system Of
public education"
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was hauled to shore, and the anchor
brought aboard, and if the shore ad.
mltted, the order was given to "pole, "
II not, to Cordell" until point was
reached where they could use the warp
again. Sails were used whenever there
was favorable wind. Most of the
regulars" were provided with mast
and spread 300 to 400 feet of canvass.
One in particular, the Cadmus, carried
malnsaiI, topsail. and topgallant sail.
Inc Cadmus made the run through the
Canadian reach thirty miles, in seven
hours, and on the same voyage, from
BIRDS Point (nOw Cairo) to the mouth of
the Tennessee, forty.fve miles, in day
hight, The masts were movable. The
multiplying steamboats,, with their
qulckened voyages. found a sufficiency
OF business to boon these boats in use
(towing them, lDl ,De building of them
was continued Oh the Ohio for some
time. In 1926 the steamboat Merchant
was built at Pittsburgh with her consort
"a model barge). The consort had a
cabin on the main deck extending fore
and aft, with forecastle and quarter
deck The Merchant carried the cargo
and fuel, the boats crew and deck passen-
gers, who were not allowed or the
consort, it being reserved exclusively for
cabin passegers In the same year the
Hercules. the first upper.cabin boat, was
built. This innovation was much Op.
posed, and it was generally predicted
that she would capsze with the weight
Of this " top-hamper," but on her trial
trip she behaved so well that she was
voted a success. and no more cabins on
deck were built.-N .. Dem0crat
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service are going to Observation-Disclosures Tboy
VIII be more or less similar to those Of the
German troops.
1t IS said that the judicial decision
sentencing Gamhettl to three months inn.
prlsoDment deprives him OF civil rights for
uVe yclrs thus depriying the republican
party OF France of one of its Oldest adyo.
Gates.
A letter from Latacunga, Peru, gives
an account of the eruption Of Cotopaxi' July
Z2th. The total loss Of life is estimated at
on" Thousand, More than two thousand
head OF cattle were DESTROYED.
a Paris dispatch shows how Gambetta
by taking advantage Of all his technical
nights can prevent Judgment against him
from becoming deiinit,ye until after the con.
hrma!ion OF his election as deputy, which
would protect him from Imprisonment.
Mexican troops are to replace the local
military on the Rio Orande, the latter being
SO hoStiie to the Americans that they cannot
be used to enforce the terms Of the treaty
between Mexico and the United States.
A Russian official dispatch from Pore.
din, Wednesday night. SAYS; "We cannon.
AIDED Pleyna from dOybreak Yesterday until
3 o'clock in the afternoon, when an assault
was made by our troops. BY evening three
Turkish redoubts had been taken by Gen.
Skobaioh, while Gen, Rodonolf had carried
the Gr'yica redoubt, Gen Rodionof was
wounded slightly, Adjutant Schlitar com.
mander Of the 18th infantry regiment, and
Gen. Dobrowolsly, chief OF the 3rd r0e
brigade, We're killed. Six Russian battaions
and one koumanian battalion took part in
the assault on the Griyica redoubt. We
captured two standards and five guns. our
loss in wounded alone exceeds five thousand
men. The number killed had not been AS.
certained. At daybreak to-day vigorous
artillery fire was recommended along the
whole line. Our troops are in front of the
Turkish Notifications, in the post ons taken
yesterday,
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THE RUSSIAN PROGRAMME.
Valuable Time LOst-The Campaign TO
Assume "a New Phase.

Valuable TIME LOat-The Campaign 10
Assume "a New Phase.
The Osmanli have fought well on the
defensive. viii their offensive move
ments be equally successful? / think
not. Their generals are losing much
valuable time. AT present their numer.
ical superiority over their adversary is
immense, but each day this advantage is
being diminished, and, should the grand
duke succeed in staving off general en-
gagement until the arrival Of all his re-
enforcements, the campaign may yet be
terminated by "a very unexpected coup
de theatre. The Turks will resist like
devils behind earthwOrks, however in
significant these may be, but they can
not maneuvcr in the open field, where
their deficiency in cavalry will make it.
self particularly felt, and whenever the
imprudence and want of sound military
experience Of their genetals shall risk
battle in the plain, their defeat Is GER
tain, although it will not be decisive, for
their lines OF retreat are, in the case Of
each OF their armies, admirably secured
But the campaign VIII assume a new
phase; other ell ments will enter into the
struggle, and, while Greek and Servian
fanatcism will vie in cruelty with the
fanaticism of the Moslem, the Russians
viii 20 Systematically to work, as with
their ignorance of the art o, war they
should have begun at the investment and
reduction of the forresses of the Danube.
Such is, | think, the winter programme,
for even in the event Of a great victory
at the end Of August, the season is now
too lar advanced to hope for the prosecu-
ton of any regular operations beyond
the Balkans, where every pass except
that of the Shipka, is strongly hell by
the elite of the Turkish army. do not
look for the unfurling of the prophets
standard before the feast of the B4iram,
but if there be no British troops at Gal
lpoli at that time, and if the army Of
the Serdar-Ekrem should sustain crush
ing defeat, the situation Of foreigners
even at Constantinope will be terrible,
as neither merchants, consuls. nor EN-
bassadors will escape the massacre
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The French papers are devoting
some portions Of their scientific record
Just now to a terrible epidemic which
has broken out at the French penal
settlement Of Noumea, in New Gale
donia. a number of cattle having
been attacked with epidemic fever
under its influence rushed into the for
est where they perished entangled
amid the interlacing vines and close
tree trunks, The flies that fed on the
flesh OF these poor creatures returned
to the settlement where their bite
has proved invariably fatal to human
beings and animals alike. The sting
is said at first to cause no inConven-
ience, but a small pustule soon forms.
filled with a brownish watery fluid
which speedily assumes the form of a
hard inAamed swelling, accompanied
by intolerahle itching and intense dart
ing pains Death usually ensties in
from twenty-tour to forty-eight hours
after the appearance OF the pustule.
Every remedy possible has been tried,
lICluulHg apPllCaIlolls OI CduSJlC ana
by red-bot irons, but in
vain. The deaths from this source
already numbered over sixty on the
receipt of this last report, the evil be.
ing aggravated by the exceedingly
filthy condition of the slaughter honses
around Noumea, the refuse portions
IF the animals killed there being left
% decay unheeded. A prominent pork
Dutcher of the town, to whom remOn-
STRANGE had frequently and yainly been
addressed respecting the unclean con-
lition Of his sla1hter pen, was dyertaken
~ a swift and dreadful retributon; he
vas stuug by a he,h.hy from his own
garbage heap, while at work, and died in
.wenty.tour hours, This dreadful mode
If death is not unknown in France,
hough it has hitherto occurred in iSola-
ed cases only, For instance, the widow
II NJ. Laftte, the great wine-grower, was,
everal years ago, stung while walking in
me OF her own vineyards, and fell vic.
i'm tn tho afants of tho bi4a
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1877-09-22
About Babies,

The following paragraph will be read
with pleasure by all who own and love
babies. 1t is no less admirable as a de.
scription of a baby than as an example
OF a keen sense of proper place at which
to put a full stop
Did YOU ever watch dear little baby
waking from its morning nap? 1t is one
Of the prettiest sights in the world
There is crib with its small proportions
and snow-whte drapery that covers
something, outlined, round and plump
There is nothing to reveal what it is, not
the slightest movement of the pillowed
whiteness that is visible, no sound to in.
dcate the keenest actual life until the
hour hand of the clock that stands sen.
tinel, like yourself, has twice made its
circuit. Then there is a slight pulsirg
of the white drapery, pink, tremulous
hand, fair as a rosebud, is thrust out
and from the nest thus broken into ap-
pears a round, diminutive face, with wide
open eyes that have not much speculation
in them yet.
Soon, however, they cease to stare, and
become questioning, serious, as if won
dering what kind of world it is they open
upon; and the head lifts itself just a
little and two snow.whitc feet stand up
spasmodically, with simultaneous move
ment, each toe of which has an attendant
dimple. Bat the head is too hcsvy--it
falls back on the pillow with its own
sweet weight, the hair all damp and
golden-the cheeks peachy-the mouth
pouted as it the angels kissed it in its
dreams. A first lingering go.o.o comes
from its rosy depths, sweeter than any
birds song, for it has Il spirit tone, and
yet retains a thrill Of its native skies,
The chubby hands are lifted imploringly,
persuasively-the baby is awake and
ceases to be an angel.
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MINtELLANEOUS.

TAYLOR the acting president of the
Mormon church, is a most bitter and higoted
religious fanatic, Salt Lake dispatch says
Spencer the absconding president Of
the Chicago State Saving institution, Is re-
ported to have sailed from Quebec for Eu'
rope on the first.
Frank Leslie, the NewHork publisher,
has zone into bankruptcy. ause--uDior-
tunate real estate SpeculatIons lsyanous
publications will he continued without
change.
Sitting Bull is said to be encamped at
Paint Horse Buttes, one hundred and twenty
niles from Fort Walsh, on British territory,
and has no intention of going upon the war
path.
A Ben DeBar monument ASSOCIATION
has been organized in New lork city by the
theatrical managers and actors, for the pur'
nose of providing suitable monument Tor
the dead comedian.
The Shakers at Enfield, n. H., have
lost four girls lately by marriage, and are
irving to prevent further defamation ny
having one of the husbands prosecuted for
abduction.
Spencer, the defaulting president OF
tbe Chicago savings bank, which went under
with several millions of the hard earnings OF
the moor working people, has been tracked
to Enyland, where, it is expected, he will be
arrested and brought back
A California paper describes the
lotost thing out" as a new horse shoe made
ant of three thlcknesses Of rawhide, COM
nressed together by heavy pressure. IL is
iaid N lost longer, weighs only onetourth as
,,ucb nc the commen shoes, never splits the
hoof, and has no bad influence on the looV'
If is so elastic that the horses step is never
uncertain.
Exneriments with electric lights lately
tool Mace at Cronstadt, The apparatus was
G~od on hoard the Peter the Great, and was
81 sucb intensity that small print could ne
road on A vessel moored four cables OH. ~
;s contemplated to furnish all the iorts Ut
Cronstadt with this light
The apostIcs of the mormon church at
Solt lake have arranged that quorum OF ,I
onostles next in order to the presl9enE si"l'
assnme r control of the church. John iaylGr,
tbe first of the apostles. is now virtually tue
head of the Mormon church
A San Francisco dispatch of the l4th
saws Fung PAX, prominent Ohinese l1gr, If,,
SfyI chant leaves for IIorg Kong to-day by the the
steamer City of Pekin. lie goes 70 carry
ont a request made by Colbe, ana enuorsel c!.a
bv Chinese companies, to visit the alstT,cts n|1i
from whence his people immigrate 10 u.ait Ealt,
fopnia ifp for the purpose of checking or limit
inc inc any further immigration.
A circular was issued BY the apostles s
of the Mormon church at Salt Lake s,On on .nG the
10Th H. saving that lhey held meeting ana IA
waited upon the Lord who blessed tsEa them ohn oRn
IeVSaiea .nv snstaned AS acting president of the
twsIVe, t%sIVe and quorum Of the twelve apostles
" S"t, the authority of the church, D. W. l9ung,
H. II III H. Wells and & F Cannon are osmsS ordfTsa fSSt
assist president Taylor Ut II i s5a oa%ea nj oaints int
Vst I,,e t"I, ha faithful in building temples ana
| .,,,,;rU tithinp,
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TIE NEED Or LEVEES.
Nine Million DOlIaH Lost Last Icar for
Want Of Them Figures and Facts
for COnETrEsmPn.

The St. Louis Republican says APP
proximate estimates of the cotton
crop for the year ending September
|, 1871 show falling off OF
214,OOO bales from the proceeding
ycar-the figures being, for the year
ending September J, 1876, 4699,OOO
bales for the year ending September !,
1877. 4,425,Ooo bales 1t Is further esti-
mated that 230, 600 bales OF the deficiency
was the result OF the oyerHows in the
lower Mississippi and Its tributaries in
the spring and summer Of 1876, and of
this 81 900 bales are apportioned to the
lower Mississippi, $4,000 bales of the
Arkansas, and 81 600 bales to the WashiLa
making $4,000 bales, together lost by
high water on these three rivers, Estl-
mating cotton at ten cents pound, and
45O pounds to the bale, the loss was as
follows 81, 600 bales on the lower Mis-
sissippi So, 5,365,OOO $4,000 bales on the
Arkansas, Sl4S5 600; $1,000 bales on the
Washita, S3,OO5,OOO; total, $500, 5,OOO.--
nearly S9OOO,0OO lost to the country by
inundations that effective leyees would
have prevented. The expenditure of
half this sum would probably provide
the three rivers named with the Ievees
needed to protect the plantations from
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Praying and Flowing for Raln'

A very interesting ceremony quite
novel in character, was held on the 29th
uIt., at lndore, at which all the tolksot the
town, from the Maharajah down to the
humblest peasant, Joined together. Early
in the morning the whole town, led BY
his highness and the royal family, wended
their way to a village called Bangunga,
two miles off from Indere, where they
were to pass the whole day, it being
strictly enioined that no one should light
his kitchen fire, but enjoy general PIC
mic in the fields. Men, women and chill
dren all were there to the number IT IS
said, OF $4,000 persens, The gathering
was to invoke the gods by prayers and
pooiahs to send down rain, After the
pooiahs were over, the Maharajah took q
pIow in his own hands and titled p0r'
ton of the grounds, and her highnesss the the
Wabsrspi who played the part OF the
neasant wife, waited on her iord IN tao
fields with his daily meal wrapped up in
the folds of her cloth. The gods were
really moved by such pathetic scene,
for Immediately afterward showers came
down, and the crewd dispersed amid great
reioicings. - Times Of Iad'a.
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TIE WAR.

Prince Gortschakot' has declined all
mediation,
The Russians in Asia Minor are con.
tinnC their themselves to a defensive atti.
iudc,
Nicsics surrendered on the 9th. The
garrison and inhabitants Withdrew to Cat,
schko,
Further accounts of horrible atrocities
have been sent ont by Russian and Turkish
authorities,
On the sixth Iiyoub Pasha's corps de-
lcated the twelfth Russian corps, which re-,
crossed the lom in disorder, abandoning
their fortified positions near Kechowa. The
Ru'siaDs lost 5000 killed and wounded.
A Russian official bulletin, dated Pore
din, ii, says, We made no further attacks but
hombarded the Turkish Notifications and
the town of Pleyna at short range Towards
four p IN. the town began to burn,and two *.
plosions were observed within the fortifca.
tions. The Turks made little reply to our fire,
and directed all their Efforts against our left
wing, which threatens theirrear at this point
General Skabeloh' repulsed five furious at,
tacks, but was compelled in the evening, af-
ter the sixth attack, to eyaCuate the fOrtiii.
cations, which he captured Tuesday, Dur.
ing Wednesday night our troops entrenched
themselves in their positions,
The experienced military correspond
ents of the Times and Daily News, after wit.
Messing the attack on Tuesday, arrive at the
conclusion that Pleyna must be taken by
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Wherever the heavy burdens press,
there is some opportunity to show the
kindness of Christian spirit, Familiar
with our own griefs, we may be slow to
notice those of our neiFhbors and friends
Yet there is no way by which we can so
surely and ettectually tighten our own
burdens as by trying to help those who
are bowed and bent and weighted down
with cares and troubles, 1t is not neces'
sary to 90 among the outcast and neg
lected to find breaking backs and aching
hearts, There is no greater mistake
than in supposing that favorable sur
roundings secure immunity from the
pangs and pains which rend the soul
Sorrow will find its way into marble
mansions "a surely as it may into a
tenement house. The man who i,diliEent
in business may encounter sore distress,
and feel the utmost vexAton of spirit,
as well as the perplexed lahorer whose
bread has become uncertain. The
fashionable woman, arraycd in all the
splendor of art, is no stranger to the woes
which come alike to all. She may hide
but cannot silence them. There is then
ever place, the livelong day, for the
exercise OF intelligent. tender, respectful
sympathy. The cOmmOnest forms OF
salutation are really expressions OF heart,
interest in the welfare of tho,c whom we
greet. Good by, is the prayer, Good
be with you" GLOW are you?" is more
than verbal formslity, for it implies a
community of feeling. The hsnd-shake
that has heart in it is meant to feel the
heart of another. To be kind, pitiful,
polite, gentle and courteous, is to dc
much to seothe the raven down O.
darkness sbadowing a proud but wounded
soul; much toward undoing the heavy
burdens which, under one form OF
another, are making weary the spirits o
men. Church Union.
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EIrht for Life With A Mad pog.

A fearful encounter with mad dog
occurred inl Bridgewater, n. H., on
Thursday last On the afternoon OF
that day large mastiff entered the
house OF Widow iIuckins and sprang at
the throat OF a young woman, daugh.
ter OF Mrs. lIuckins Sha threw up her
ann and the dog bit her in the right
hand. The mother, who was in another
room, hastened to her assistance, when the
dog .prang at her. biting her in the same
way, The dog then ran down the road
to the house of Gilman Fletcher. Here
a small pet dog was tied in front OF the
house. The mastitf sprang upon him
and killed him. Mr. Fletcher, who was
the only one at home, raised window
to ascertain what the trouble was, when
the dog bit him in the LETT arm, making
An ugly wound. Mr.. Fletcher then
seized pair of large tongs and stepped
to the door, when the dog sprahg at his
throat. A blow from the tongs shocked
him back, but he instantly rallied and
made another spring, with the same re.
suit. Thus the fight continued for a
long time, the dog becoming more inid.
rated at every blow, when finally he
succeeded in driving his fangs into
Fletchers right arm, tearing the flesh
into threads. 1t was now Il fight for life,
and by desperate effort the dog was given
blow that partially stunned him.
This was promptly followed up and the
dog soon dispatched.