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sanity, too, may have been Of a mild sort and
only temporary, brought about, not by any
lesion OF the brain, but by some malady
which reacted on his mind Still, the Off
spring OF such man are, at least, liable to
grave nervous disorders, and 1t may be wise
for him not to marry.
In the case submitted by this lady, how
ever, there seems to be an hereditary faint
Of insanity on both sides. Though 1t Is true
a man may have brother die in the insane
asylum, while he himself is sound enough in
mind, yet II their great aunt was also in
sane, the indications that there Is a tendency
to mental disease In the family are worth
consideration. Add to this the arrangement
Of the young ladys brother and also Of her
great aunt, and the case looks worse. Still,
the pair may marry, and their children, II
they have any, may be all right though
there Is great danger that they will not
be so.
1t is unqucstionably better that only
sound and healthy people should marry, but
there are few families In which tendencies
to disease of some sort do not exist. The
time has not yet arrived, II 1t shall ever ar
rive, when marriage will be regulated by
scientific principles. Just now it is usually
controlled by senttment chiefly, though
handsome men are apt to like handsome
women, and, other things being equal,
beauty and physical soundncss go together,
This is all the advice touching this matter
OF insanity we can give the Southern girl.
But she asks us also whether the circum-
stance that her lover lives temporarily in a
neighborhood where the people are mostly
uneducatcd, IL worth considering as a bar
to marriage. Certainly not, II she loves
him enough to marry him. wife must
share her husbands fortunes. His being a
Republican, too, while her family are DEM
ocrats, need not stand in the way of their
union. Probably his regular reading Of
her favorite paper, THE Sun, which she
could bring about, would eventually con-
vert him to right Views Of politics.
But two people who really inherit a ten
dcncy to insanity take u serious RESPONSE
blity II they marry.
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There is no phase Of love which does not
find presentation in the letters relating to
the tender passion addressed to The sun.
There is no difficulty which stands in the
way, or seems to stand in the way, of mar
riage that is not explained to us in the hope
that We will be able to remove the hateful
thing, and make smooth the path to the
wedding.
One OF the most serious questions thus
submitted is contained in the letter of a
Southern girl who seems to be well edu-
Gated, and possesses more than ordinary in
telligence. Shall family faint of insanity
act as "A bar TO matrmonyY This Is her
case which we summarize, inasmuch as she
asks that her letter be not published
She is engaged to a young lawyer, and
wishes to marry him, but one OF her rela-
tives warns her against taking the step
because there is insanity in the mans
family. His brother died in an insane
asylum, and his great aunt lost her mind.
A brother of hers was also partially affected
in the same way, though he married and has
children now living and married. She also
had n great aunt who became mentally de-
ranged.
1t is not easyto give advice In such case
but this Southern girl is wise in asking it,
and her relative reasonably fears the conse-
qucnces of the proposed marriage. A COM
petent physician, Informed as to the facts,
and knowing the pair and the antecedents
Of their families, might probably be con-
suited, though there is no class Of diseases
about which there Is 30 much ignorance or
uncertainty in the medical profession as
those which affect the mind
This much, however, is well established
that tendencies to insanity are transmissi-
BILE from generation to generation. with the
danger OF their aggravation. Where only
one OF married couple has the hereditary
faint, and the other is sound In mind and
body. their immediate offspring may not
show Its effects, though In some succeeding
generation IL may crop out; not, perhaps, In
acute insanity, but In vicious indulgence or
some eccdntrlcfy Of behavior. 1t may thus
have happened that the children Of our cor
respondents brother did not inherit, or APP
! pear TO inherit. his mental diseass. His in-
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NEW THEA TIRE PROJECTS,
Boucicauit to Manage the Grand Opera
Householder Changes.

Dion BOuccault is TO manage the Grand OPP
era House Tor the rest OF the season in partnership with
Poole ponnclly Encouraged by the recent successful
engagement there OF Lester Wallack, he Will continue
the low scale of prices His own aysare to be produced
beginning with the new year Ada Dyas and Katharine
Rogers have been engaged.
Henry French, the publisher Of plays has formed
new partnership with Manasor Abbey OF the Park Thea
tire Possibly The llous. OF narney recently success
iul in London. is 10 produced IN tins house. James
Lewis formerly OF DAILY fh avenue company l. soon
10 lOiu the company After suthern hts
be played by RAYMOND, Lolita. and Robson and Crane
Samuel Cuyle has Joined Joshua Hart in the manage
ment ct The Eagle Theatre. where pantomiic md bur
-que are to hold the stage as long as they prove profta
bic
Harry Miner has sold to his partner for $1,000 his
share IN the London Theatre, ana has leased the Amer
can, formerly llitchcocks
sheridan SHOOK has taken a new lease of Gilmorc's
Garden wherein the circus Is 10 last two longer
aud summer opera l. one ui the plans Tor the future
Manager Durand viii soon take his French comedy
COMPANY FROM the Twenty Third Street Theatre Tor a
short season III New Orleans
Maurice Grau has extensive project hand Within
airM weeks he VIII start for South America with Aimee
ana hcr opera houne troupe The length OF the tour in
do,d on It's financial success but II expected that 1t
A. A
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The Rev DIR. FREDERIC WILLIAM FARnAR,

The Rev. DIR. FREDERIC WILLIAM FARRAR,
f. r. g.. whose two remarkable sermons on
Hell" recently delivered at Westminster Alb
hey, are printed elsewhere in this paper is
clergyman OF the Church OF England Of no little
reputation in his own country. Born in the
Fort. Bombay In 1881. he was graduated at
Trinity College. Cambridge, In 1854. after dis
tinguished university career. in which he gain
ed the Chanceor's medal for the best English
poem. and other prizes He has been successive
ly an Assistant Master at Harrow School, Hon
orary Chaplain 10 the Queen. Hulsean Lecturer
at the University Of Cambridge. and Master Of
Marlborough College. His latest preferment
was his appointment ms Canon OF Westminster.
He isl the author OF number OF works in fiction.
philology. and theology, hut is best known by
his Life OF Christ" which for several years
has been considered biography of undoubtcd
orthodoxy.
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What the Canon said Abou, Hell.

When DR.. FARRAR mounted the pulpit to
preach the first Of his now famous sermons
on He'll, he must have forescen that what he
was going TO say would stir up tumult of
controversy, criticism, and consure. A
canon OF Westminster in full tilt against
the dogma Of eternal punishment is spec
tacle that is not offered every day; ii was
sure to attract the attention Of the religious
and the irreligious alike.
1t would seem, however that these re-
markable discourses have created a greater
disturbance than their author had bargain
ed for or finds agreeable. At any rate, he
writes n hedging letter to a religious jour
nal, in which he complains that he has been
misrcpresented; he did not denounce the
doctrine of eternal punishment or demand
the leaving out Of the word eternal from
the revised English Bible; his object was to
prove that the word did not necessarily
denote endlessness,' and to Vindicate be-
lief in the possible salvation of sinners al
ter death which had not been forbidden by
the Church, and which had been held "both
by very eminent fathers and theologans,
and by some of the hottest OF the saints Of
COB"
the most authentic report of the sermons in
question that has yet been given to the
English public. In parts it is verbatim,
taken down from the preachers lips. Our
readers can Judge for themselves whether
there has been any serious misrepresenta-
ton In the case.
IL is true Canon FARRAR told his congre-
CATION that he could not preach UNIVERSAL
ism as certainty, though that doctrine
found support in many passages of Scrip
ture and also that he could not accept the
theory of the humiliation of the wicked; his
hope was that " the vast ma orit Y of the lost
would at length be found" But what had
gone before this somewhat unsatisfactory
explanation Of his personal thcology2 The
Canon had told his astonlshed hearers that
the question of the future state of the
wicked was not TO be settled by the
Scriptures alone, but that reason, con-
science, and experience whatever this
may mean-must have a direct voice in
the settlement He had accused the theo-
logians who teach the old-fashioncd ortho-
doX doctrine on the subject of ilingng dark
shadows over GODS light. He had declared
that every human being worthy of the dig
uilS VI q huiHoh p'iiS icNpil'u WIN lpui IL
ing from that sort Of teaching. He had
used in speaking of 1t such strong language
as horrible" "atrocious" "hideous incu-
bus" falsehood" and "blasphemy." II
repudiate," he had said, these crude and
CHASTITY travestics OF the holy and awful
will of COB" And he had added that not
one OF the three words, damnation,"" hell, 4"
everlasting" ought to stand any longer In
the English Bible
II Canon FARRAR believes In the doctrine
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nov GERN.fNY WiS SAVED.
valiant Attack OF ~ Chief OF Police upon nm
American Potato Hug.

OIL CITY, Dec. IA young man in this
city. whose father is "a resident OF Munster.
province OF Alsace, Germany one day in Sep
tcnbcr last sent his parent copy Of Frank Les-
lies illustrated Weekly. and enclosed an envelope
containing a potato bug. merely as IL curiosity.
Tho young man thought nothing more Of the
matter until he recently received Munster
paper which shows the decided sensation cree
atod 10y the bug on the other side Of the ATTAIN
tie. and the deplorahlc fate which our German
friends mctcd ont to IL. The article in the Nun
stcr paper, trtus.nt ii. * a. follows:
To Illustrate tAe punishable, damnabe, reckless man
n'r OF handling the Colorado hug IA America. we win
state the following lsc certain ciuIrn al town
who hasa son IN Snrh America, received an Amcro
la"r from hun ph"lemn- IT, 70 HE surprise what I'D
L' hMl' snall tnNclgpe, winch, upon oleiuns he
found 90 contain some Mind 90 an insect yin. upon hls
uh ~ icrl when g. his great ,utpu,e. tie tue began
g. fun at"und. say aud happy. NJ nothing had happen
nev The scntIcnan' NOT tlowins What 10 makc ~ il
took II tu the dru.slst Mr. neU who pronounced II
m-ntcd IT, gemiienan Tor nj. ihoratS in s,ins nim
such present The druggist with an eye 10 business.
In town came 10 see the great American won
daer' commenting ON he subject and Inspecting
s't who di rne business during the exhibition
q ne ,ol rated potato d,s,foyer But 20 his sorrow.
the ue OF Police, not wishing to trust such AN nior-
Killed immcd'7icy any IN is N, nee Which had to he
done III. show. tia, nowiih, Standing ali The prtcau
nom taken by The authorities, especially al Il ,'a.
sized into tN, country at any time Lotus he careful and
,9eh every thns imported from the oiner side of the
SCOT hs dropped Of the Ialer ana been scattered
cur n,ids II mi-ht have hscn female and in that
e'cnt u uld unt uhcdlN have laid hundreds or thou,
sand, oi asit IL sand that they do The escape o
our "r5mins community has indeed been mrSenloas
lcssne - ~ epicted above Is enormous.
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New Orleans and the Export Grain Trade.

Rink the fact NJ we may n great change
Is cominc ovcr this country in rognrd Ia its
modes Of TRANSFORMATION. and citios rise and
fall as the influences of this change upou
their business i nrouitious ar adverse
Orleans which had almost comnlet.lv
lost its former commanding nosition and
passed into dccadeuce l. about 10 stem Ia
the front again a. connection with any
and all other American ports for the expor-
tation OF Western grain and nroducc The
distance from the West to New York is ahout
the same as to New Orleans: but inasmuch
rs for five months In the year the lakes and
canals are closed, II is claimed that the nat
ural advantages for reaching New Orleans
are vastly superior to those for reaching
New York The climatic disadvantages OF
the New York route during the rigors OF
winter are strongly set forth as compared
with rallroading south Of Cairo at the same
season Of the year The New Orleans. St
Louis and Chicago Railroad has furnished
ample facilities for handling grain econom-
ically and expeditiously at New Orleans: its
track has been carried along the river front
down to the elevator. The neonle and nross
of New Orleans seem ouite confidont that
the bulk of the export trade in the stanle
productions of the Mlssissippi valley will
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1877-12-23

One Of the now winter sensations In Paris
is family Of EsqumauX who camp out in the
Jardin discrimination and promise 10 travel
with dog slodges as soon rs they find snow.
There is no great difficulty in getting either
dogs or sledges at Paris but good deal. some
times. in getting snow. for Paris snow is usually
rain. Perhaps. at worst the Esquimaux might
use moonlight. which looks rather snowy.
These EsluimauX. 10y the way, have been used
to point joke on Gen. GRANT. of whom the
Pays says: Mr.. GRANT. the taciturn indi-
vidual, has left Paris, having comprchended. nj
last. that he had formidable rivals in the Esqui-
mauX for the attention Of Partisan idlers.'
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To THE EDITOR OF The SuN-SU; Ihave
carefully reai the letters Of your spondcnts ON the
sled question Tony mind they have mixed things
w that shah take it favor II you Will reprint the
mournul, heart stirring lines, illl ol lathos Asst
stands now don't know whether Bartholomew Killed
tho woolpeckcr o. Artcmus the bumbcbees or Jane the
sadnir nrs, with ms, her, on their sled did
mus ana Jane Oh RhrthOlumrw's sled run AGAINST Bar.
lhoumew ami knock him down the hole in tie Aronud
nnd leave Inn bul1ing nioncf Al this tage o tie can,
uoN,fsN ulnk Bartholomew Is only fooiu. Artt mus
ana Jane ana mat he IS lying IN amhu, Ion uou hchnd
aipmust"ne WITH goul sto. OF balls Lotus hear
rom our Immortal poet who his obituary pearls so
i"N49hil 10 al duhlrlls ana loNlns public. SkATON
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OF eternal punishment he takes q very
strange way Of expressing his belief. II he
does not believe in 1t, what business has he
In the pulpit OF q Church that has embodied
in her litany prayer for deliverance from
everlasting damnation, and declares in her
creed OF those who do not believe that with
out doubt they shall perish everlastingly2
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In Arkansas, few days since, n man was
brought out TO be hanged. The rope broke. or
slipped throwing him to the ground He was
again taken up to the scaffod. and tasted sec
ond time the horrors Of hanging. In Maryland
and in our own State. last Friday, and in Ohio
a week earlier. the same wrctched bungling
was witnessed. Thus, within ten days at wide
ly different points, quadrupe testimony has
been given to the wrctchcd incompetoncy Of
hangmcn for their trade, or else the uniiiness
OF hanging as mode OF public execution. We
talk Of the barbarity of the Chinese headsman
but his sharp sword is n civilized instrument
compared with our Angle Saxon rope.
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HAYES talked commonplace yesterday to
an audience that included four heads Of col
leges, and also inspected the curiosties In our
new museum But among all these. there was
no curiosity comparable in interest with the
man who carries on his brow the brand OF
Fraud first triumphant in American history.
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1t is pleasant to hear that Brother CON-
LY's health has been improved by his trip to
the Sandwich Islands. and that little DICK Nc
CoRMIcK expects to recruit his strength in
Paris, but would it not be better for the Traudu-
lent Administration to establish u Hotel dos
1nyalides at home, than 10 quarter its sick pen
sioncrs on the foreign service?
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1877-12-23

Annual statements Of life insurance COM
panics will probably receive this winter an
amount Of serious contemplation and study
from the officers. by whose oaths their contents
are 10 be verified. never bestowed upon such
documents before.
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II Won't Suit ConkIing.



The ST. Louis GiObe- Democrat puts this ticket
into the fi,d with que snun mark 'fnr President In
1870 Ulysses Grant Of Illinois Tor Vice President RIOS
coo Conkhng Of New York. Iivw would that doi' II
Wont buit C0nkAug,
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1877-12-23

When the war began il was advertised as
war for the redress and protection OF the
Christians in Turkey. AS 1t approaches its close
1t turns out to have been war for the aggran-
dizement Of Russia.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1877-12-23

The influence of nearly three hundred
Christian congregations In the City OF Churches
seems Intellectual to soften the hard hearts or
reform the morals Of her politicians,
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1877-12-23

One dead body was taken from the Barclay
street ruins yesterday the third found to date.
At this writing eight OF the employees are still
yniaaipU
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1877-12-23

Is the story Of JONAH in the whales belly
to be accepted as literally true9 MAJOR WHIT
TIE, at Lawrence, Mass. maintains that 1t must
be. and the question is exciting much and di-
verse discussion among the Congregationali-ts.
who were pcrplexed enough already on the
suhicct of hell
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1877-12-23

The vast region of ALASKA, for which the
United States paid t725oOoo, is now virtually
owned and controlled 10y the Alaska CONNER
cal Company-lIuTCHINsoN, Kohl & Co. This
corporation seems to be on us intimate terms
with the Treasury Department to-day as when
BOUTWELL, held the place now filed by Honest
JOHN SHERMAN. Any official report or action
affecting the interests Of the company is tele-
Graphed to their headquarters from Washing
ton long before the general public are allowed
to know anythin. about il, This fact can be OK
planned only on the theory that the corporation
has its agents and friends very near the private
desk OF tho Secretary Of the Treasury. The
monopoly is one of the most valuable in the
world. and is fully as exclusive as and far moro
profitable than that enjoyed by the Russian
American Company before the ccssion.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1877-12-23

The ollcors q a Cincinnati bank sue four
gamblers for bank money gamblcd away in
their rooms by the banks teller and book
keeper, and We hope they may win. But the
laws loopholcs are numerous rs well rs mex
plicabe in these days The suit gains addi-
tionai interest from the fact that the loss OF the
money compelled the bank 10 suspend.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1877-12-23

The Board Of Managers Of the American
Bible Society do not seem anxious TO save the
$4,000 that their committee has demonstrated
may be saved by printing their books 10y private
contract
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1877-07-20
WEYBRUGF.
Rye is being cut. Its good crop

Rye is being cut. tits good crop.
-Haying goes on slowly on account
OF the frequent showers.
Mr.. Smith and wife, of Wisconsin,
are visiting at Mr.. Gordon spriggs.
Mr.. Henry Boies has a new heavy
farm wagon to sell. A good bargain.
Mr.. Fred Kingsley who has been
suffering nom enlargement of the heart
for some time, is much worse.
BERTHE, son of Mr.. George Cobb,
has been quite sick with peculiar dis.
ease, resembling somewhat the scarlet
fever. He is now better.
Mr.. Willis |. Twitchell, 4 graduate
OF Middlebury college, at the last COM
mencement has obtained situation In
the school at Warren, Mass. He gets
five dollars day. Mr.. Twitchell has
taught successfully quite number of
terms while at college, and no doubt
will give satisfaction in this new field OF
operations. We bespeak for him sue
cess.
The Sabbath school concert nj the
ID. 4. church was very good one.
Inc hurry OF the season Gas the super
intendent remarked), had prevented In
a measure the usual amount of rehears-
ing, but the parts were we'll sustained
by the younger ones. The subject of
the concert was the Psalms. The solos
and duets were fairly rendered, as was
also q quartette by Messrs. Stewart and
Hprlbut, Mrs. Ayres and Hurlbut.
The audience was large. We noticed
among them Miss LucyJ. Ryder of sab
bath school renown, late Of the Poultney
Institute.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1877-07-20
County News.
VERGENNES.

Coal is selling at the low price Of
1876 per ton.
The steamer Curlew bearing a large
party of prominent citizens ofVergen-
mes, went to Burlington Tuesday for her
annual inspection.
Mr.. John Dalrymple of this city
had the misfortune, Monday, TO fall from
load of -four. His left shoulder was
dislocated and his collar bone broken.
The Reform Club and W. G.. T. Z.
picnic which was to have been held at
Thompson's Point Thursday, was post
poned until Friday, on account of the
weather.
Several Sunday school picnics, en-
bracing very large attendances, have
been held at Basin Harbor, this season,
from Panton, Vergennes, Burlington,
and elsewhere.
Gen. Sidney NJ. Southland has closed
out business, and retired. The sherifrs
officer took charge of the store Saturday
night, and Mr.. Ii. p. Fisher opened up
as proprietor, on Tuesday morning. The
sale was made, somehow, in the mean
time.
Some ninety ladies and gentlemen
of Essex, N. Y, came over on the Cur
lew, Wednesday evening. They took
supper at the Stevens House, and the
Essex band which came with them, SER
enaded the Franklin House. The party
returned about nine o'clock.
The shipments from the Vergennes
station for the week ending july 10, in
clude the following: 702 boxes ofhorse
nails; 8 cars cattle; 20,l07 pounds but
ter; 220 bundles chair seats; 40 rolls of
leather. There have been also forty
tons of horse nails shipped by water.
Thursday of last week, three BOYS
of the Reform School escaped by taking
a boat and making for the New York
side of the lake. Superintendent Fair
banks left Vergennes to search for them
Friday evening, and returned with
them on Sunday evening, having over
taken them near Franklin Falls, N. Y.
The boat and oars were returned also.
y DIR. n. Towsley of Panton was Sc
verely kicked and seriously injured by
a colt at his residence Wednesday eve
ming. He was knocked down BY the
AZ ~ Cioht Jul tilc NlClOus dululdl uOt
satisfied, kept kicking him after he was
down until lie was completely covered
with bruises, and 1t was feared he may
have received internal injuries. One
bone was broken but no other bones.
DR.. VIM. s. Hopkins of Vergennes is
attending him, and Thursday night he
was reported better.
Last Friday afternoon as Mr.. Geo.
McCue of Middlebury, driver of Swiney
y Sargent's tin cart, stopped at the res
idence of Mr.. II. p. Fisher, on Green
street, he found it necessary to remove
the headstall from his horse for some
purpose, and the horse became fright
ened at some bags of paper and hastily
started. Mr.. McCue was unable to STOP
him at once, without tho bits in his
mouth, and perceiving that the heavy
wheels of the wagon would strike Mr..
Fishers three-year-old daughter stand
ing close by, threw himself down TO
protect the little girl, and allowed the
wheels TO strike himself instead. She
was only slightly hurt, but he was Sc
verely bruised, though he received no
permanent injury. This brave act de-
serves mention.