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, 1877-09-30

It is matter Of general agreement among
representatives Of all branches Of trade in
this city that the business done by them
last week was gratifyingly large, and much
in excess of what they they had looked for
ward to. It did not need their assurances,
however, to prove to even the most indiffer-
ent observer that the season was an active
one. The crowds upon tho streets, the
throngs in sll the shops, wholesale and
retail, the attendance at the Exposition, con-
sisting chiefly Of country people, were good
enough indications that the day of better
things was at hand. The prosperity of the
great show on the lake shore is satisfactory
evidence Of the amount Of money which is
being spent in Chicago just now. The
price Of admission is but 25 cents, or half
what it was last year, and yet the receipts
last week were equal to those for
the same period in 1876. Nearly all
the visitors are from out of town,-the
city people waiting till the rush is over
and, after they have seen the show, they visit
the shops and make their purchases, and
they are heavier than they have been for
years. The TRIBUNE finds that its sales Of
papers havo largely increased, and it is neces-
sary for it to print over 1000 moro than
usual per day in order to supply this extra
demand. The commercial banks report that
their deposits are increasing, and that the
traces Of the savings bank panic are rapidly
The people of Chicago arc
elastic, and not given to despondency. They
do not cry long over their wounds, but take
heart Of grace and go to work again. They
are beginning to feel the influence of this
recent business revival, and will be prompt |
to take advantage of it, and make this the
busiest and most profitable season we have
had for Years
, 1877-09-30

4 prodiglous effort is being made by the
Committee appointed to investigate the
Patent Office fire to demonstrate that the
condagraton was the work of an incendiary.
and that the object was to destroy all evi-
oence OF certain frauds. As there is nothing
TO upset this theory but the fact that the
1lames originated in the dryest part of the
afyest building on the earth, it is possible
that hat the Committee will ignore the proba-
ol1'ty that the fire arose from the friction of
couple OF handsomely bound reports, and
present true bill against some ss sspszties m
known"
, 1877-09-30
& S0CIALISTIC SOPHISM.

Sunday is the day when the workingmen
of the cities have most time to give heed to
the discussions of the public questions in
which they take au interest, and conse-
quently it is Sunday that is generally chosen
by the Communistic leaders and socialist
demagogues to ventilate their vagaries. One
of these chaps, well known for his reckless
attacks on every principle that holds society
together in its commercial and political re-
lations, took advantage of meeting of
workingmen last Sunday to evolve the most
preposterous Of all the socialistic doctrines
that have come under our notice. In order
to emphasize the value Of organization, aud
to pander to the greed and imagination of
his hearers, he told them that combina
tion - is all TINT is necessary to secure labor
ing men any wages they choose to demand,
and that they might as well as not wear
the best Of clothes, smoke the best of cigars,
and enjoy princely fare, and pictures, and
silk dresses, and pianos, and ali the lu1uries
of life that they might Individually covet.
It was only for them to demand wealth and
take it. ssWith combination" he added,
" the hod-carrier may demand and get S. and
Sc day as well as 81 day."
The speaker knew very we'll that he was
telling n lie, and that ho WAS connseling
course sure to lead either to starvation or
plunder. But such sentiments find easy
credence among the ignorant people to
whom they are addressed, and it is on this
account that it is well to follow them out to
their logical results If the hod-carriers
should combine and succeed in obtaining Sc
day instead of 81, it is not within
reason to suppose that combination
would cease with them. If it did, then
the successful combination of the hod-
carriers would bring additional suffering upon
al other classes Of labor This combina-
ton alone for q skiold increase of wages
would probably double the cost Of building,
which would Immediately double rents and
add IN due proportion to the household ex-
penses of all workingmen, while their wages
remained the same as before But the sue
cessful example of the hod-carriers would
induce other classes Of laboring men SIM
LARRY to combine and exact sixfotd the waees
they had been receiving, The man who
earns So day would demand $18, and the
man who earns SIS q day would demand 800. |
and so on Those classes that should be |
powerless to combine, or neglect to do so, |
would be reduced to condition of slavery
for it would be equivalent to this in every !
case where the rate of wages re1nained |
the same, while the cost of every
thing consumed by the laborer, so paid, had
been increased skiold. Such workingmen,
then, as should ren2ain outside the general
combination would be worse off than the
negro slave before the War, for he had
master and owner whose interest prompted
him to koep the alave properly ted and
, 1877-09-30
CATHOLIC COLONIZATION.

St. Louis, Sept. 13.-Thc negotiations which
have been in progress for two or three weeks past
between the Catholic Colonization Association, OF
this city, and the Central Branch Of the Union Pa
ci6c Railroad Company, for the purchase OF lands
On the line OF that road, have been concluded and
contracts executed IN due form. The land pur-
shased is in Pottawatomie County, Kan; amount,
- 900 acres 1t S3 60 per acre large colony will
be Immediately organized for settlement On this
lanu.-1ssociated Pres dlspdtch.s
The example thus set by portion of the
Catholic population Of st. Louis may be imi-
tated in a11 the large cities Of the country
with material advantage both to Catholic
emigrants and the general welfare. There
has always been decided tendency emong
the foreign Catholics who come to this coun-
try to aggregate in cities. The greatest por-
ton OF them are Irish, and at home they
were either farmers or agricultural laborers.
They come to America as land of freedom
and promise with the hope Of bettering their
condition. Perhaps it is natural that they
should turn first to city life, since their
wretched condition in their native land has
usually been associated with agricultural pur-
suits. But they ignore the fact that the
essential difference between the New and
the Old World consists in the e1panse
and fertility and cheapness of tillable
earth. The same amount Of enerpv
which, under the depressing conditions Of
Irish society, has yielded them scant living
and left only recollections Of abject poverty
and want, would give them good living and
secure individual independence in agricult-
urd pursuits in this country. The Irish
land-tenant and the American farmer labor
under very different surroundings, and their
mistake is in supposiue that the saua nur.
, 1877-09-30

er know anything about them, except that
they have killed JESUS and the saints Just as,
for the Persian Shiites, tho name of Arab is
synonymous with impious and unbeliever, be-
cause the Arabs were those who slew the most
eminent saints among the founders Of Islam. p"
"There is no longer here any question as to
justification by faith or works: The problem
IS carried beyond those simple terms. Ac-
qunintance with truth, knowledge these
are the essentials. Salvation comes by
gnosls, by initiation into certain secret mys-
teries. Understood thus, JESUS is no
longer prophet; understood thus, Chris
tianity is no longer sect of Judaism; it is
the religion of reason" RENAN dates the
era Of Christian philosophy and abstract
speculation from the appearance of tho
Johaunino writings. In the same period he
places the birth Of religions intolerance, tho
justification of which he finds in that de-
plorable sixth verse Of the fifteenth chap
ter:
II man abide not in Me, he is cast forth as Il
branch, unit is wfthercd: md men gather them,
and cast them in to the fire. and they are burned
This verse, RESAs says, kindled the fires
Of the Inquisition.
We have been ut the pains to make q syn
opsis of this remarkable article, not because
the views therein presented are at all funda-
mental or necessarily sound, but because the
writings Of such man on such subject
command attention RESAN has studied the
life of JESUS with painstaking fidelity, and
his histories Of the four Gospels are as
minute, if not as accurate, az any now ex-
tant. His judgment Of the Gospel Of ST.
JonN may be harsh and erroneous, but it is
not hasty or unsupported by shadow Of
evidence. 1t may well invite the attention
of Christian theologians and scholars learned
in ezegesis, whether within or without the
pale Of the Church.
, 1877-09-30

WIN IN artistic eye to effect, TWEED saves
me pudding and nuts OF his revelations nat71
the end, and proposes, when his testimony ;s
al H. to cruelty Attorney General FA1nca1n
~ producing the "confession repudiated
by tnat functionary some time ago. Mean
while, Big Six contents himself and the
Committee By telling whom he used to divide
his stolen money with, enumerating a for
mer Police Commissioner, m Assistant Sere-
tary OF State, and the Albany Ecening Jour-
nal Ho shows up this gang as a sort of
side dish, promising to fill in at last with
something worth while.
, 1877-09-30

FAILURE OF THE RUSSIAN CAMPAIGN,
After successive phases Of victory and de-
feat, the contending armies in Bulgaria have
at last settled down into that apathetic and
Inactive condition which, at this advanced
state of the season, shows that the campaign
Of 1877 is virtually at an end. Looking the
Whole campaign over, from the time the
Russians crossed the Pruth in April last to
the present, it must be admitted, though the
Russians still 1aaintain a footing in Bulgaria,
that they have been Defeated. Not to have
driven the Turks back is tantamount to a
defeat. The Russians should have been at
this time south of the Balkan Mountains,
with their base at Tirnova and their advance
at Adrianople. In reality, they are on the
line of the Danube still, with their base at
Bucharest and their advance at Plevna, while
their campaign in Armenia has been SO dis
astrous and SO badly managed that the Turks
have drawn from their Asiatic forces to
make good their European losses with the
utmost impunity. Meanwhile the snow is
falling at: Schipka. The rains are
descending in Bulgaria. The rivers are
swollen The roads are growing impossible
by reason of mud, and every day transpor-
tation grows more difficult. Dysentery and
fevers have set in, and all Northern Bulgaria
is one vast hospital. The vcst army Of the
Muscovite is stranded, after losing thousands
upon thousands in the trenches of Plevna,
Tirnova, and Schipka, and the Mussulman
still holds his position in the almost inpree-
nable redoubts Of the former place, in the
strongholds Of the Quadrilateral, and along
the formidable slopes of the Balkans, The
Russian soldiers have fought with the cour-
age of heroes, but almost every time as a
forlorn hope. The Turkish soldiers, how
ever, have fought equally we'll; and, if the
Turkish officers have made errors of DELAY.
they have been more than offset by the er-
rors OF management Of the Russian officers
md now it remains as the result of SIX
months fighting that the Turks hold all their
original positions, excepting those immedi-
ately on the river in the vicinity Of Sistova
aud Nikopolis- The Russians, in campaign
of half year, have simply succeeded in
rosslng the Danube and in losing several
thousand men, while the Turks still retain
he four fortresses Of the Quadri1ateral,
:utting off the force in the Dobrudscha
marshes. and the three armies of Osuay
oasha, SU1EnAs Pasha, and A1EuEMEr ALI !
maintain their strategic positions. The
Russians must now commence their prepara-
ions for hibernation in Northern Bulgaria,
'ut. even to accomplish this, must be pre-
, 1877-09-30

AUSTIN holds that the term s'intcrnationa1
law" is an abuse OF language, inasmuch as
law properly so-called Is command given By .
political superior and sanctioned By penalty
conditions which are not fulfilled in the case OF
so~called international Law. Prof. B1RKnEcK, Of
Cambridge, has lately attempted to coptrovert
this position. He claims that "T1crc
are certain rules, admitted on all hands
to be laws in the fullest sense Of the
word, which have not been imposed by political
superior" This is, however, plain begging Of
the question The rules which he cites, such
as those regulating the descent Of the crown IN
certain countries, and those defining the rela-
tious between the States and the United States,
are not admitted to be laws Tin the fullest
sense OF the tern,." The obscurity hanging
over these "rules'' have led to some ol the
greatest wars known in history merely because
they were not commands given hy = colitical
superior and sanctioned by penalties.
, 1877-09-30

The Hungarian plot discovered by the Aus
trim authorities appears to have been
a scheme OF considerable magnitude.
Turkish sympathizers in Transylvania
had made the initial arrangements
looking to the raising of a legion
to number 5000 men, which, together
with Il Turkish corps assigned to that duty.
were to make an attempt to destroy the
Ioumanian railways. The Hungarian Gen
eral K1AfkA is said to have been ons of the
leaders.
, 1877-09-30

told Sheriff KERN that he was supporter of
HEsNG, and had sold out to the foe. There
upon the Sheriff Of Cook County slapped his
traducer in the face, and the meeting tenn
pestuously adjourned. The party of Reform,
Honesty, Economy, cCAFFnE1, and HOLDEN
Is not harmonious, and is trying thus early
to find excuses for its certain defeat in No
, 1877-09-30

Speaking Of pensions, an exchange Observes
that 1.-THE Fnglish pcnsion-roll is apparently
shortening, and the days OF generosity in this
respect are long past The Lord-Chancellors,
who may be thrown out Of office any time BY
party revolution, arc in that event dropped
upon cushion OF $500 a year. An e1-
Speaker OF the Commons has 81, ,O00 year, hut
the Commons keep one man for Speaker as
long as possible, and there is only one ex-ol1tio.
Cabinet Ministers may draw 1900 wear, eut
do NOT, generally, II they arc men Of wealth:
a dozen ex-Ambassadors have allowances, anu
some servants OF Tast Royalty, even one o1
George Ills. OF the pensions awarded tof
, 1877-09-30

It is to be hoped that the son to Mexico J"
faction will be gratifcd with the intelligence
that vast and vigorous army of 100 men
have marched into the SISTER Republic in
pursuit of horse-thieyes. While this army is
on that business, by the way, they might
perhaps accomplish much good by q we'll
conducted campaign against the "On to
MEXICO" faction
, 1877-09-30
SOCIETY MEETINGS.

R-comradcs attention.! You arr hereby notified that
II hsii II sa:lrssd eapi - siate.si o. oet she
tas Comrades cordially n.iisd;; -, 1-c
JouS MORAN. Adjutant. @'~''@N'
Lodges 4o cssso 5ssqe:ssa
nac{ "a. q 1he LodsS, ~ 70 n 'f to mse[
f. g. Sed u IL tx
sens ssn!Ss oe II so .0 for I
'e fe' '''tF '5e JoaS g. aGErns Secretary.
aas gsa57 Mne s
srees Visitors coFata'7 Invited nX Z oTes5 19s3 9f
EN-. TUCKER sec'y. ''
AZ. &c: IS I'd % xs ss htEs.4 ;aS Com
mGntGation next Wednesday excninE PCT: >. At $50
ss ;sxs HsS sFse Aa HaK K HtfeFs9 % so7
coR1NTnIAH CHAPTER no. es. r. A. NJ
sree,. Convocatton MONDAY evening. OCT !. at 7so
erdsS ss* "o'S INT '1a Il ckkwFoEb s6stdt' ~
ststsa 6o9S,ye wsSae::y ID s;;nias
Knights are eoHrteoas'y 'nV'i;d Il :S,s;
10. DlcKERsoS. Recorder.
APOLLO cOMMASDE1.Y. NO. ], KNIGHTS TEN
TLAl:-specta Conca:c Al Asylum. - TO 7S Monroe
81, Tuesday evening next. Oct. =. The Order
II the Temple Will he conferred. Visitors always vel
j. r. DUNLOP Eecordcr
CHICAGO CHAPTER, No. IT.. r. 4. M.-Rcgu1ar
Convucation Of Chicago Chapter. No. III. will held
their rooms No l34 Twruty street. Wednes.
day evening. Oct. 3. at 7;30 O'Clock. Work tho
Mark peETre. Per or1cr Of E. r. TOBEY. II. P.
ELI SMITH. SECRETARY.
VAN RENSSELAER,. GRAND LODGE or PER
FICTION will tnld Regular Assembly on Thursday
evening next. WDTk the 18th l.Ercv lsy oT4cr uf
JOHN NNE1LL, r.. r.. c.. NJ.
EuGoODALE4 Grand Sec
CHICAGO COMMANDEEY, Nh. H. K T.-Atten-
tioa Sir Knights. Stated Conc!are Monday evening,
4,ct. for work r. r. Order Visiting Sir Knights
sourtcously invited By orlrr uf
JAS. E. MEG1NS. Rec 49, ~
CHICAGO LODGE. No 437. 4. F. and A. M.-Regr-
5ar communication Monday. 0ct. i. o'clock p. m.
The dispatch OF bus'n:ss xnd work 4 full attendance
u members Is requested ny "rler Of tEe =. N:
NATHAN HEFTER, Sec
blair LODGE, NO. 39a A. F. and 4. A.-There
FIJI hc regular communication at Masonic Hail. n
A0nrpe- st.. commencing At =. O'clock. Work VI. NJ.
Degree Visiting brethren cordially Invited i! order
, 1877-09-30

The Democrntic Central Committee met
yesterday evening to try TO make arrange
ments for holding the County Convention.
The little gathering was marked by those
sweetnesses which are always found where
2aeding Democrats assemble. Mr.. KxsHx
, 1877-09-30

That distinguished statesman, Mr.. Boz
TooMDs, is en route for Boston, to consult an
oculist Tabout the very eres which he once
said would serve him when he called the roll
Of his slaves at the foot Of Bunker Hill Mon
r1rnar+
, 1877-09-30

1t the New York Gold Exchange on Sat
urday greenbacks ruled at 97@97i.
, 1877-09-30

LAFAYETTE CHATTER. No. . r. A. M.-Ha1l, 20
Honroe-tt ;-spccai Consoca.fon Monday evening OCT
grccs- Visitors cordially iuTtcd BY order OF II. +.
#. il. REID. II. p.
, 1877-09-30

.: G: CREGIEE LODGE. No. GAS, A. r. and 4. NJ
mantc.31on aeaI ano Wc2nrta.v eeninc sef
O'Clock sharp. Third Degree, Visiting Brethren
daily invited. By order JAMES KEATS, W.M.
John GlNQCHIU. sec.
, 1877-09-30

]. o. o. F.-An LODGES In Chicago arc requested to
send representatives with certificates OF their election
under real Of The Lodgc. represented meet
3pE Of ths Commute: ot ts Eo,Tl Ut General elicf
evening, Oct. l. ut 7:3D oc'ock for the purpose of
adopting constitution and bylaws. and electlug o-
ceE>- Per order IF The Committee.
JOHN .. MURPHY, Secretary.
, 1877-09-30

CHICAGO coMMASDEEY, NJ. 10 K T.-~Atten-
1ct. l. work IN H. r. Order Visiting Sir Knights
sourtcously invited, By or.lcr Of
JN0. Il. sASBoRN. E C.
JAS. E. AEG1NS. Rec
, 1877-09-30

GEN GEORGE a. CUSTER POST. NO. ~ G. 4.
K-comrsdes. attention: You arr hereby noti0ed that
meet hereafter "Wednesday evening at O'Clock.
in ball in arvad Chapel 7l3 stAtc-s On Oct. J. the
Post will be visited By the state Commander and Adju-
7an and By Inenler Of the National Council. Visit
tng comrades cordially invited
+. Z. VIERLING, Commander.
, 1877-09-30

CHICAGO LODGE. No 49, 4. F. and A. M.-Reeu-
!ar Communication Monday oc i. O'clock p. for
The dispatch Of business and Work. 4 full attendance
II members Is requested. Hy "r,ler OF tic " ii.
NATHAN HEFTER See
, 1877-09-30

C0R1NTHIAN CHAPTER. no. 6s, r. A. M-
SPECIAL ConrocAtton Monday evening. Oct l. 7:3o
O'Clock Work on the r.. and n T, " Degrees. By
order. J. 4. CRAWFORD. II. 2.
, 1877-11-04

4 GENTS -yASTED-MALE or FEMALE: 81 pFR
IL day pro It, Apply at :Room II Mccormick Block
, 1877-11-04

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miscellaneous.
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position and influence preferred i y. Tribune office
w hsir s1 store. al Lssraoes.st' a. AAeh AM
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ss'afnsns Tans oies sicse commission allowed Address Al
| WTASTED-GIRLsT 70 ASs0ET PICKLES; ONLY
" those who have worked Ia DIckle factories neco
apply: Come carly Monday morning. i. L. FRl5s.
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The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1872-1881, 1877-08-31


CHATTER L-She stood beside the
altar with wreath Of orange buds up.
on her head-upon her back the rich.
est kind Of duds.
Her lover stood beside her, with
white kids and dickey clean; the last
was twenty-one years old, the first was
seventeen.
The parsons job was over, every
one had kissed the bride, and wished
the young pair happiness, and laugh.
ed, and danced AMI cried.
The festive scene was ended, the last
words had been said, the happy maid
had simmered down, the last guests
had fed.
CHAPTER n.-She stood beside the
wash.tub, with her red hands in the
suds, while at her slip-shod feet there
lay pile of dirty duds.
Her husband stood beside her, the
crossest man alive; he was twent v nine
and she was twenty-five.
The heavy wash was over. and the
clothes hung up TO dry, and Thomas
had stuck his finger in the dirty ba.
by's eye.
Tom had been scolded, and supper
made upon crust Of bread; and the
happy wife and husband went grumb.
ling of to bed.
The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1872-1881, 1877-08-31

Miss Corisande was born only two
years earlier than her brother Tom.
When Tom was ten years old she glo.
ried because she was twelve. When
Tom was known to he fourteen she
confessed sweet sixteen. When Tom
proudly boasted of eighteen she iimid'
" acknowledged herself past nine.
teen. When he came home from col
lege, with a moustache and vote,
and had u party in honor of his twen'
ty-first birthday, she said to her
friends: "What boyish fellow he is;
who would think he was only a year
younger than /" And when Tom de-
clared he was twenty-five and old
enough to get married, she said: "Do
you know, feel savagely jealous to
think of Tom getting married. But
then, ! suppose, twins are always more
attached to each other than other
brothers and sisters" And two years
later, at Toms wedding, she said, with
girlish vivacity, to the wedding guests:
"Dear old Tom! to see him married
tonight, and then think how, when
he was only five years old, they brought
him in to see me, his baby sister. /
wonder if he thinks of it to-nights'
The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1872-1881, 1877-08-31

There is watch ina Swiss museum
only three-sixteenths Of an inch in d.
ameter, inser>ed in the top of pencil.
case. Its little dial not only indicates
hours, minutes and seconds, but also
days Of the month. 1t is a relic of
the time when watches were inserted
in snufi-bsxes, shirt-studs, breast-pinS,
and fnger-rings. Some were fantas-
tic-oval, octangular, cruciform, or in
shape of pearls, melons, tulips, etc.