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him to go home ut last. we went into his beau
tiiul hall, and there we met his wife and his
daughter, frightened almost to death. took
hin, upstairs, uudrcssed him, and put him to
wife and daughter! The two latter went into
an Institution Of charity; he died BY the violence
OF his own hand. When heard of it"-here
Mr.; Talmage drew himself up to his full height,
and raised his voice to piercing scream-"l
broke out into loud and unrestrained applause
But now, how are you going to spend YOUR
eycnfngs!" Afr. Talmage enumerated the diff
fe7ent methods OF spending an evening", and
mentioned & the opera, the theatre, the billiard
fanny. Plenty Of places to 20 to, but which: oh
God Of mercy! which!'' He continued: swell,
lguess III 60 to the theatre. Ny brother, will
that brighten you up3 Was ever q man i'm
proved or made happier OF more prosperous BY
guess I'll go to gambling-housc. Mark this,
rny brother, that all gamblers die poor. Whata
You say John Morrissey is a brilliant exception!
say to you that john Morrissey isn't dead yet.
I wish to God he was! Laughter anu applause.l
1nfamy. Halt! There are other gates of sin
through which. having entered, a man may
again return; but that gate has spring-lock on
1t from which no man can escape. Gods hottest
passed in through that gate! look through
caverns Of hcll!''
At this point Mr.. Talmage read the seventh
chapter OF Proverbs, from the sixth to the
tweuty-third verse inclusive.
Changing his manner then very suddenly, Mr..
Talmage became very cheerful, and advised the
drummer, on coming to q strange town, to 60
at once to the 7. n. c. A., where be would End
worthy companions, who would introduce him
into happy and pleasant Christian homes. He
then proceeded to the close Of his sermon. 80.
commercial traveler,'' he said, ~ pray for you
to-day the al1-sustaining grace of God. There
are two days when you need that greece. You
need 1t in the day Of your adversity to cheer
you, and you need it ii the day OF your pros
perity to check You, and keep you IRON evil aud
ali manner Of rollicking indugencies. And, yes,
there is another day when you will need it. I
see you on your last commercial crrand. The
train Of your earthly existence is nearing the
depot OF the grave. The bell rings, aud the
Eternityr Show your ticket now. Blessed
traveller are you if you have the red ticket,
washed in the blood Of the Lamb. For what
shall it profit man be gain the whole world
and lose his own soul .'''
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| were represented, to report . plan tt
the next Assembly. Ihes Committee has madt
rcpors, H'en sets 1ortn the tacts and different
views which are held in the Church. traces Out
the probable effects OF the different plans, aud
concludes: That wise decision cannot be
reached until the trcsoytcries shall 1ave care
itily eonsacfcd thc principles anu the tacts in.
! yolyc1 in any proposed change Our beloved
Church, since its reunion, has been going rom
| strength to strength. anu any radical change IN
the principle OF representation Oh which its
higher 1udfcatorv IS constituted should be made
with thu greatest caution. Other Presbyterian
ought to be taken into consideration in view OF
| anT proposed change In the basis Of represents
t1on-"
Christian missions emn1ov gu aoents II, con-
vert the 5ooo0U Jews IN Eurone. About $3.50
| M, ara ssncnt avorv rsor for tbts nurnnss ~.
dnn viz 20 MI Eus has tweIre ~, n,;ss;o,sr;cs
,, Wa2saw WI ri,h an M iews me nnl~ two
| Or three missionaries. nnd Ianrc towns
| in Austr;, Ronmania and R,;ss;, viii,
from 20, lH1 ia 500fW Jews ca:h. have Int one
| 1nissionarv earb> md in snme cases ARE wholly
,r;fI1out prn+ae+ant +aant,fn,, Tho c,rrtrj,s
with laree lavish non,,1.tions. md esnccia1Iy
destituts of missionary effort at nrosan.- ara
Amertca. wferc tl,e 7en,s arn increasing in nun.
hers ran1lv. Torthsrn fr;ra nn1 rsncc;ollv
Morocco: Arabia, and aboye ali, Russia, These
facts are nrintcd in rennrt liz The Rev. i.
Miller. secretarv ~ tI,c 3nn7on civ Mission
Mr.. Miller is not able to point to any ~ ycry re-
markabIe Instances Of success IN Rome. where
a mission has cyistad avcrv ye,r and hee, 4 cons
ducted With zea and abilfty ), there is not vet
sinple conycrt Pcrhana fha most anc"ossfni
work has been done IL London. where there
have been !. .3o5 bantistns.
n'''e '''n NV f;y'c cnnpcEr uapsaaln nao,r,z,rou
'rhe conrr,gatinn heTctnfnre rorsh;n5no fn
Owsley's HAL. Madison anti Rohey streets nm
der tia nastnraf,. al the Tev n n P.rnter
have urr1anizc1i themselves into a chnrct to he
known as Calvary Tahernac1e Chnrch. and the
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SUNDAY-SCHOOLS.

FARWEL1 HALL MEETING.
The Sunday school teachers held their regular
weekly meeting yesterday noon at Farwell Hall,
under the leadership Of Mr.. B. F. Jacobs. The
meeting WIS opened with the singing Of "What
Friend We Have in Jcsus,'' and Need Thee
ETery Hour" followed By prayer By the Rev.
= E & Wells.
Mr. Jacobs teen took up the Sunday school
lesson for to-day, as contained in I. Kings, xix,
s-lb: Elijah at Horcb,'' and asked if anybody
had any questions to PROFOUND.
eeEeral persons asked some yery unimportant
questions On the preceding seven verses, as we'll
Is on the verses contained in the lesson itself;
as for instance, "Thv did Eliiah wrap his face
IN the mantleE' "Did Elijah slay With the
same sword that Jehu slew With"
others asked questions of tolerable impor-
tanee. One question. 'sWhy did Jczebel notify
ELIJAH that she was going to take vengeance on
nlns' WIS answered as follows by business
NE msn in the audience: t''Cause she got SO
mad she couldn't keep her mouth shut0'
Laughter. It was also remarked BY one that
sod spoke more forcibly with the still small
foiee thzn with the thunder, the lightning, and
uhe earthquake, and By another that God, when
re thus spoke, no doubt had in His mind
vas to follow the age Of obedience to
ne tne law: BY Another, that the use OF the
Ss,i small voice was Tor the purpose OF iustitut.
ng comparison between the power Of God
ma tne power Of mau. To the question, why
M 20 ne wrap his face in his mantle!'' one replied
taat 1t vas his habit to do go; another, that be
Sas ashamed Of his conduct; another, that he
#1s looking for bright light
70 The latter reply, Mr.. Jacobs said: "He
gueht 70 have taken his mantle of in that Case"
t4sughter.l
several more answers we're given to this same
Raesson, and Mr. Jacobs summed up his Wis
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oom on this subject by SAYING: 's,Ye sec It Was
yhay ~ sscono edition Of the apron business in
Inc Garden OF Eden" [Laugllter.l
ut, IT. was also settled most cohclusively that the
nc had no answer to make: but nobody scemed
70 oe posted Us to whether Elijah went around
Sltnsnlng 1t, people with his own or Jehu's sword
"Aat oineFence 1t would make to tine victims is
aa4uestion which will doubtless be settled at q
future meeting.
=, After this season OF interviewing, as it we're,
the meeting was thrown open for remarks,
brother Morton wasn't surprised to see weak
ness developed IN anybody, Great men were
" hos piayed ior enough. Nobody could expect a
eo1ragenaent, and God would take away the
respondent spirit If His servants sought Him in
prayer.
Another brother said we ought to learn to
oosy God, speaking with the still, small voice,
and earthquake
Another said Elijah was good type of Christ
so Tar as he vent. But how utterly he failed
"Aen the thundcrbolts OF sin were about to de-
scend on his head! God desired to show His
Cnr1st, and redeem the world from sin.
Another brother asked the very practical
question, Are we to be numbered among the
1,ooo that have not bowed the knee to Baall'
Another brother said the lesson was intended
as an encouragement to weak Christians.
!. a man in the back part OF the room said he
Thought they ought to be more charitable to
Elijah, and not pitch into him quite 50 much.
Ae didn't see but that tho prophet was very
fair sort OF man, and he didn't want to sec his
character abused.
One brother observed that all these fine dis
crfminatioas would not Interest children, al
though they might be very good for n far-ad
,l Eancsd B.'ls elass: The practical part Of the
dost thou here!"-a question which should be
put to every Sunday-school scholar aud pressed
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RATIONALISM.

IT'S APPEARANCE AMONG THE NEW 1oRK JEWS
Springfield Republican,.
New York has new departure in the religious
line. Prof. Felix Adler is lecturing on Sunday
mornings at Standard Hall, pretty audience
room on Broadway, near Forty-second street,
which will seat 600 persons. he is rational
istic blossom ont Of tough, hard Jewish stock,
Was educated in Germany, and had all the Juda-
ism taken out Of him there, came home to shock
is old friends by his loss Of traditional religion,
and got Professorslip at Cornell, where he
has few pupils and little to do. But there are
cultivated Jews here who have outgrown the
they have invited the scholarly Professor to
come here and tell them the truth about re-
lision as he understands it. Yesterday the hall
was full OF people, tWo-thirds Of whom were
men, aud two-thirds Of the faces had Jewish
features At quarter after II the door was
locked, and the choir sung to the music Of Il
well-payet1 organ. Then Prof Adler rose, a
man Of about 35, rather below medium size,
lace OF marked intellectual sensibility, with fine
features aud fine nervous aud sensitive tenn
perament- he laid his manuscript on the desk,
but never looked at it again, stood with his arm
resting on the desk, most Of the time, in an
easy attitude, and without the least attempt at
oratory, IN musical, strikinglv reycrent and
modest voice, delivered lecture Of great force
OF thought and felicity of dict,on.
His subject was the inspiration of tho Bible.
which he claimed WAS an unsupported dogma
that had done incalculablc harm. The Bible as
natural product Of the human mind is one of
the worlds great classics, most precious leg
acy; but as an infallb]e authority in intellect
aud morals Is clog aud curse. He made
broad distinction between the Bible as it is in
itself and what the theolog;ans think about aud
claim for It, and, while lie rcyered the book, he
natural and impossible sanctity. Think of this
to an audience nf .feKst Ypt hie
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THE NEW FAIRIES.


nandelIon. twjnk1{ns
Deen down in the clover.
Where bccs and butterdies.
Tossing In the South wind
Your head 30 light and airy,
Tell me- II ''once on 4 time"
4on were not fairy,
And danced in gfee
Beside the rocks,
With spritcs who called Jou
"Go1dilocks
ABOVE tnJ mossy oed.
AM eooes5 eon1css
Lie Iuta-saS yen
Under the locust-tree.
In shady corner.
Grows blue Violet
With Springs grace upon hen.
Two peoples, flaming rcd,
Haughtily do scorn her,
She can forgive It them
Meekness doth adorn her.
In the green cups OF her leaves
DeWdrops hide from Summers hea&
And we think perhaps they are
Classy slippers on the feet
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CALENDAR FOR THE WEEK.

EF1SCoPAL~
Feb. 95-Secoud Sunday in Lent
Feb. 26-Eleventh Day Of Lent.
Feb. 97-Twe1fth Day OF Lent.
FEB. :8-ThirteeDth Day Of Lent
.H0rcA Fourteenth Day Of Lent.
Iareh 2-Fifteenth Day OF Lent.
March 3-Sfxteeuth Day OF Lent.
CATHOLIC
FEB. o+Second Sunday in Lent
Ft5. 26-St. Peter Damiau, B. c. D. Cfrom Feb
23).
FEB. 27-Feri1-
Eco. 28-Feria-
March 1-Feria. -.As.
4Ndrch 2-The Holy Lance snd Nain
Nureh ~Fefja
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-08-04
GEN. IL. ,. HilI's War Horse.
McMinnville New Era.

Gen. HIPS noted horse, Sidney,
died at this place ON the Dist inst,
after reaching the good old age of
twenty-three years. The General
had him decently buried, and is pre-
pairing to have tombstOnes erected at
his grave with the following inscrip-
ton:
Albert Sidney Johnson; a noble,
gallant, faithful and true horse, after
bearing his rider and master, B. j.
Hill, through fOrty-seven battles,
receiving three severe wounds, and
surviving them through many years
of usefulness, died July 2lst, 1877,
in the 24th year of his age"
Gen. Hill began his campaign as
Colonel of the 5th Confederate Reg
iment, under Gen. Albert Sidney
johnson, in 1861, at Bowling Green,
KY, and that gallant officer was his
beau ideal of a General until he fell
at Shiloh.
At Bowling Green, Miss Myra
Smart, on behalf the ladies of Nc
MinnVille, presented to the 9th Reg
iment large and beautiful banner,
which was received by Maj. George
S. Deakins, on the part of the regi-
ment. Gen. Breckenridge and other
prominent officers were present and
delivered addresses on the occasion.
Gen. Breckenridge rode from his
headquarters to the grounds where
the flag presentation took place, on
the horse Sidney, and pronounced
him the best horse he had ever rid
den. This the owner of the horse
took as a high compliment, as Gen.
Breckenridge was so distinguished
an officer, and from one of the finest
stock countries in the world.
At the close of the war the gall
liant Fifth Confederates presented to
Gen. Hill their banner, bullet rid
den, tattered and torn, but never
dishonOred. Gen. Hill has preserv-
ed it carefully, and says it will be
exhibited on the 5th of September,
1878, when he intends to have a re-
union of his regiment at McMinn-
Vile, and a grand barbecue at
" Camp Smart, }" in honor of the an
niversary of the day of their enlist
ment.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-08-04
Remembered Kindness.

The Raleigh IN. c. News tells
the following gratifying story "In
one of the h0tly contested fights i'm
Virginia during the war, a Federal
officer fell wounded in front OF the
Confederate breastworks. While
lying there wounded and crying
piteously for water, a Confederate
soldier (James Moore, Of Burke
county, North Carolina,) declared
his intention of supplying him with
drink. The bullets were flying
thick from both sides, and MOore's
friends endeavOred to persuade him
from such q hazardous enterprise.
Despite remOnstrance and danger,
however, Moore leaped the breast
work, canteen i'm hand, reached his
wounded enemy, and gave him
drink. The Federal, under sense
of gratitude for the timely service,
took out his gold watch and offered
it to his beneiactOr, but il was re-
fused. The officer then asked the
name of the man who had braved
so much to succOr him the name
was given and Moore returned un-
hurt TO his position behind the emr
bankment. They saw nothing more
of each other. Moore was subse-
quently wounded and lost limb in
one of the engagements in Virginia,
and returned to his home i'm Burke
county. A few days ago he received
a communication from the Federal
soldier to whom he had given the
'cup Of cold water ON the occasion
alluded to, announcing that he had
settled on him the sum Of SIG, 200, to
be paid in four equal annual Install
ments of 81, 800 each. Investigation
has established the fact that there Is
no deception i'm the matter"
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-08-04
THE STONEWALL BRIGADE.
An Incident of the Battle OF Man
assas-The Historic SOubriquet.
Colonel Kyd Douglas in the PHILADELPHIA
Weekly Times


Colonel Kyd Douglas in the Philadelphia
Weekly Times.
The General formed his brigade
along the crest of the hill near the
Henry House, the men lying down
behind the brow of it, in support of
the two pieces of artillery placed in
position to play upon the advancing
foe.
General Bee, his brigade being
crushed and scattered, rode up to
General Jackson, and with the ex-
citement and modification of an un-
tried but heroic soldier, reported
that the enemy were beating him
back.
Very well, General, it can't be
helped" replied Jackson.
"But how do you expect to stop
them ?"
Well give them the bayonet !"
was the answer, briefly.
Gen. Bee wheeled his horse and
galloped back to his command. As
he did so, General Jackson said to
Lieutenant Lee of his staff:
"Tell the Colonel of this brigade
that the enemy are advancing; that
when their heads are seen above the
hill, let the whole line rise, move
forward with a shout, and trust to
the bayOnet. lam tired Of this long
range york."
In the storm which followed Bees
return to his command, he was on
foot, his horse shot from under him.
With the fury of despair he strobe
among his men, tried to hold them
against the torrent which beat upon
them and finally, in voice which
rival the roar of battle, he cried out
"Oh, men, there are Jackson and
his Virginians standing behind
you like stone lCaUg" Uttering
these words of martial baptism, Bee
fell dead upon the field, and left be-
hind him fame which will follow
that of Jackson as shadow.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-08-04
WHOLE NO. 2,297.

tiny of usurpation and fraud, these
disturbances, which are the logical
consequence of the policy Of his
party, have come upon the country
and upon his Administration That
is the long and the short of it, and
the intelligent workpeople of Louis
vile, who heard the debates last
fall, comprehend the case and the
issue. Relief will not come until
there is radical change of party
and policy. 1t can never come un-
der man like John Sherman.
Meanwhile we must get on as we
may, doing what we can to help
one another, bearing and forbearing,
and hoping steadily, persistently for
the best.
1t is a long lane that has no turn
ing. Maybe, after all, the darkest
hour is just before day. Anyhow,
rioting and fretting will help no one,
and must be abandoned by every
body who has not made up his mind
to go to the devil in a hand-basket.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-08-04
Wise NIuXins.

Mr.. John McDonnugh, the New
Orleans millionaire, has engraved
on his tomb a series Of maxims,
which hehad prescribed as the rules
for his guidance through life, and to
which his success was mainly at-
tributable: Remember always that
labor is one of the conditions OF our
existence. Time is gold; throw
not minute away, but place each
to account. DO unto all men as you
would be done by. Never cOvet
what is not your own. Never think
any matter 50 trifiing as not to de
serve notice. Never give out that
which does not first come in Never
spend but to produce. Let the great
est order regulate the transactions Of
your life. Study i'm the course of
fife to do the egreatestamOunto ofgood.
Deprive yourself of nothing neces-
sary to your comfort, but live in an
honorable simplicity and frugality.
Labor, then, to the last moment OF
your existence"
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-08-04

The Chinese are very initiative.
The Cinnamon in California having
seen something of the Christian
method of dealing with heresy, con-
cluded to try the virtue of that
method on a pagan. The Rev.
SWang Bung in the course of pol
emical discussion with aneighboring
China person, characterized the lat
ter's JOss-Or Deity asa hOrse-thief.
Of course this was Celestial blasphe-
my and measures We're at once taken
to discipline the pig-tailed theolo-
gian. He was hauled up before the
ineffable synod of the Buddhist
church, proof of his heterOdOX utter
ance was taken and he was chal-
lenged to produce from the Buddhist
literature of the last three million
years a single authentic record of a
horse-thieVing JOSS. All he could
produce was a dim tradition that in
prehistoric ages JOSS had helped
faithful Cinnamon to steal horses
from "Outside barbarians." This
failed to meet the case, and amid a
! fusiIade of fire-crackers and bombs
the council suspended Swang Bung
from the ministry. AS the celestial
moderator observed: eli! vi! Chi
naman church alice same Melica
man church! Swang Bung toe
muchee chin-chin. Makee Bung
hunt him hole"
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-08-04
GREEN b. RAUM, Commit
THE "STRIKE."
Some Facts in the Case OF the Hat
tImOrc a. Ohio Rnilrond.

tImOre a Ohio RailrORd.
The facts i'm the case of the Balti-
more a. Ohio road appear TO be these:
The company paid its firemen 81 -,
and its brakemen 81 per day. The
road reduced their pay to 81 40 and
81 80. The men accepted the new
rates, and the road was operated as
usual, when n further reduction OF
ten per cent. was made. Those IA
miliar with the operations of the
road aver that the men can not make
full time, averaging about twenty
days per month. The nature OF
their business is such that they are
compelled to pay for meals ut vari-
Gus points on the line. For years
the price of meals have averaged
twenty-five cents per meal.
The price Of day boarding Is COM
monty fixed at that rate. IL will be
seen that a man compelled to pay
for a single meal each day as he Is
absent from his home, provided he
average twenty days in the month,
pays S., leaving him $22 TO pay his
bill at his regular place Of abode,
and provide himself with clothes.
The circumstances would be altered
were the men able to make full time,
but il is asserted that they can not
do this. Not one man I'm hundred,
il the statements Of the wOrkmen
can be relied upon, has employment
twenty-six days i'm the month, and
very many estimate the average
number Of days Of employment at
much less than twenty. This state
ment we are not prepared 10 credit.
The company may be able TO pre-
sent some figures that will put an
other phase on the question, howev-
Pittsburgh Chronicle.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-08-04
what a Court says About Extrava-
Rnut Funerals.

The practice Of impOvorishing the
estates of decedents by means OF inn
posing and extravagant funerals, Is
severely criticised In recent Opin-
ion delivered by Judge Rheme, OF
the orphans court, of LuZerne cOun-
ty, Pennsylvania. In case In which
the personal estate Of the deceased
was proved to be but S5Sl 81, an adj
minfstrator sought TO have the
court allow the sum of $l39 40 for
the expenses Of burial, which was
one-fourth OF the whole personal es-
tate. This allowance Judge Rheme
refused to grant, and, i'm his decision,
after saying that "pOmpOus process
si0ns of great length, glistening sii-
Ver-plated caSkets and carved mar
BILE monuments are unnecessary for
christian burial" he sums up his
view of the law Of the subject In the
following words "Such paradeS rs
are called fine funerals may grati-
fy the vanity OF the living, but no
respect for the dead demands them,
and when n decedent's estate Is linn
tied, and his debts are not paid, or
where he leaves family Of helpless
children, the expenses Of such buri-
ais will not be allowed out Of his c9-
tate. Those who contract fOrand en-
10y such luxuries must pay for them
themselves.