Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1877-03-15
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young man to do anything of the
kind, and sent out royal officers in
any number to prevent the match.
And the young man is under orders
to either give up bis mad design or
come home. And Alexis swears in
unexceptionable Russian, that bis
imperial father may go to blazes,
and that he will follow the dictates
OF his own heart, which he claims is
his personal property and not part
of the great Russian Empire. He has
a dozen or two millions in bis own
right, and he rather fancies the no.
ton of settling down as quiet gen
tleman in America, and lodging the
cares OF royalty. If the Grand DIXIE
is as stubborn as the rest of the fam
ily, he will do it. He is q good deal
of Democrat, and cares very little
for the forms of royalty. The at
tendants that his state imposes up.
on him are irksome to him, and he
enjoys nothing SO much as bis lib-
erty.
Talmage.
No man who ever made religion
business does so much that might be
called advertising of himself as the
eminent sensationalist who sails un,
der the name of L. Dewitt Talmsge.
He had built for him church that
looked more like theater than any.
thing else, and ne fitted it up solely
for effect. He is long, cadaverous
man, with a sepulehral voice aud
birthstone manner and he got up
his place of meeting with view
solely TO its fitness for him. He has
the best organist and cornet>player
in the city TO lead the congregation
al singing, and as five Thousand
voices are appraised the effect is won
derful Talmage aims constantly at
sensation. Just now he is preaching
t the different professions, and his
sermons, as be calls them, are singu,
lar mixtures CT palhos, cant, and
what in any one else's mouth would
be blasphemy. Last Sunday he
preached to the insurance people,
aod what do you think of these as
sample bricks:
eff did not think that God in
stituted the life insurance organise
tione, | would not take mp your time
aud my own on the Sabbath morn
ing in discoursing on the subject.
Life insurance provides for our tami-
lies when we are gone.
81 we do not pay the premium We
have no right to expect mercy; we
ire worse than infdels. After the
certificate OF death has been made
NJ, and tho thirty insurance days
have passed, aud the officer of the
company has paid down the hard
cash that officer aid the company
arc performing religious rite. "Set
thy house in order" In our day
that would mean make your will. Do
not deceive your heirs with railroad
stock or Jay Cooks Northern Rail.
way bonds; do not deceive them
with deeds of Western lands that
never will yield any crop, but fevers
or second mortgages on property
that wont pay the first,
x x
"There is coming oonhagration,
compared with which that of Chica-
go 10 1871, or that of Boston 10 1872,
or that of New York in 1887 or 1892,
| have forgotten which, is as moth.
ing. Brooklyn on fire, New York on
FIRE, Vienna on fire, Canton on fire,
st. Petersburg on fire, Paris on fire,
london on fire, the Andes on fire,
the Apprentices on fire, the Himala-
yes on firel And what will be pc
emilia: about that day will be that
the waters with which we put out
great fires will itself take fame The
Ohio and Hudson, the Mississippi and
trembling Niagara shall with red
tongues lick the heavens. The geos
logical heats in the center of the
earth will burn out toward the
circumference, and this world will BIO
living coal, the living coal falling
into ashes, the ashes scattered by the
breath of the last hurricane, and all
that will be left of this glorious
planet will be flakes of ashes falling
on other worlds. Oh, on that day
will you be fire-proof, or will you be
total loss? Will you be rescued or
will you be consumed? When this
worli in it's baptismal font Of the
sea shall blaze, will you so out on
the fire escape of the Lords deliver
ance? OBJ, on that day, for which
all other days were made, may it be
found that this life insurance man
had paid-up policy, and that this
fire insurance man had given him,
instead of the debris of consumed
world, house not made with hands,
eternal in the heavens.
Aud after this turgidity he stands
f r a moment, as if overcome by his
feelings, looking slyly out of his left
eye to note the effect upon the
throng, and with ''let as pray" ut
tiers what he calls prayer, which is
very like his sermon, and as bias
phemous. Still this humor draws
more people every Sunday than
Beecher, or any other preacher in
the two cities. Curious thing human
nature.
Business.
Business is somewhat better, and
shows signes of permanent improves
mont Buyers from all parts OF the
country are here, and, | am happy
to say, are purchasing freely.
PIETR0.