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Fun. in Kentucky.
B-ooHlyn Eagle Aei ter.

B-oOBlyn Eagle let ter.
Daring the campaign which resulted in
Elackburn's election, James Marshal, of
kentucky, stumped the district against
the regular Democratic nominee. Black
burn and Marshall travelled together.
One would speak and the other reply to
him. Marshall was as eloquent as Black
burn, and the contest between them was
interesting. Blaekbnrn's favorite theme,
when addressing an audience, was finance.
At one Of the meetings, after Blackburn
had discussed the financial question for
an hour Marshall arose and interrupted
the speaker. Turning to the audience
he saids Gentlemen, MIR. Blackburn
has wearied you with his talk about
finance. l wish to tell all within reach
of my voice that .he knows as little OF
the boundless depths OF that subject as a
duck on the ocean knows of the unta
thomable distance of the water beneathe
IF this remark did not succeed in dis
committing the orator Marshall would
again interrupt him and say: "My
friends, 1 wish to call your attention to
the iaw-bone of the gentleman who has
been speaking. do it to relieve the
anxiety which some of Jon must feel to
know how he is able to talk so uninter-
estingly for such an extreme length OF
time. Gentlemen, can assure you that
if Samson had been possessed OF the Jaw
bone Of my distinguished friend, during
the celebrated contest with the enemies
Of Israel, there would not have been 3
single Philis.ine left" If the stories
told here are true, the incidents which
occurred during Blackburn's last cam
paign must have been extremely funny
Some. of the most entertaining yarns that
baye-.been related in Washington this
winter are descriptive Of experiences in
the last congressional campaign in Ker
| lucky.
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Re., and Aaparen. H.ppines..

u we should look under the skirt of
the prosperous and prevailing tyrant,
we should find even in the days of his
Joys such ALLOYS and abstements of his
pleasure as nay serve to, represent him
presently miserable, beside his &nal in
felicities. For l have ssen young and
healthful person warm and rudy under
poor and thin garment, when at the
same time an old rich person had been
cold and paralytic under load of sables
and the skins of foxes. 1t is the body
that raaRes the clothes warm, not the
clothes the body and the spirit of man
makes felicity AID content, not any
spois of q rich fortune wrapt about s
sickIy and uneasy soul. ApOlloruosd
was traitor and tyrant, and the world
wondered to see bad man have so good
fortune, but knew not that ne nour'
ished scorpions in his breast, and that hi'
liver and his heart were eaten up with
specters and images of death. Hi
thoughts were full of Interruptions, hi
dreams of illusions; his fancy was abused
with real troubles and fantastic images
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The Colorado Desert.

For what purpose God made the Col
oTado desert is one of those mysteries
which have SO far proved past finding
out--so utterly barren, so apparently
worthless, SO dresry and desolate, so
scOTched with blazing sun, SO blistered
with burning winds. The rocky hills
that Sound il are more forbiddirg than
the d2eary deeolation of the sand plains.
The hills are absolutely destitute of
verdure-treeless, soilless, colorless.
Through the center Of she plain, and
parallel with the railrosd, runs raoun
tain range of shifting sand, like SLOWS
piled upin banks; drifting and moving
with the Winds. The plain is not entire
ly destitute of vegetation, but the vege-
tation is IS worthless as the sand in
which it grows. There runs midway
between San Bernszdino and Yuma one
small, beautiful stream Of clear sweet
water, properly named the " White
Water" but along its pe5bly margin
there grows not flower, shrub, nor tree.
This beautiful stream in the desert sug-
gests the irrcyerent reflection that this
part of creation Is a badly planned and
executed wors, refecting but little credi
upon the divine mechanic wao spake It
int existence, The mountains should
have been clothed in primal forests ; the
plains should kaYe been grassy meadows.
Along the hilisides should be leaping
cascades of sparkling water brooks
winding amid 1owers and grassy banks,
= fruitful land, where fat kline, lowing
herds, bleating focks, and singing birds,
ning!ing their voices with the thanks
giving of well-ied humanity, should be
= constant psalm of alteration to Hiza
who must ever lack an altar in the desert
Of, Colorado.
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Sunday Heading.
God Rnoweih Best.

OOO hnoNCAAA DteA-
Some time, when all Hie's lessons have been
learned,
Ard sun and stars fOrevermore have set,
The things which our weak judgments here have
spurned
The things Ger which we grieved with lashes
wet
Will fash before US out of LIES dark night,
AS stars shine most in deeper nts of blue;
And we shall see how all Gods plans we're right,
q md how what seemed reproof was love most
true.
And we shall see low, while we frovn and sigh.
Coils plans go on as best Tor you and me,
How, when we called, He needed net our cry,
Because His wisdom to the end could see.
And even prudent parents disallOw
Too much of sweet to craving babyhood,
So God, perhaps is keeping from us now
Lies sweetest things, because it seemeth good
And if sometimes commingled with life's wine,
We find the wormwooi, and rebel and shrink,
Be sure wiser Hand than yours or mine
Pours out this potion for our lips to drink.
And if some friead we love is lying low,
Where human kisses cannot reach his face
o, do not blame the loving Father so,
But wear your sorrow with obedient grace
and you shall shortly know that heightened breath
Is not the sweetest gift God sends his FRIEND
And that sometimes the sable pail Of death
COnceals the fairest boon dis love can send,
If we could push ajar the gates OF life,
And stand within, and all Gods workings see,
We could interpret all this doubt and strife,
And for each mystery could find key.
But not to-day. Then be content, poor heart
Gods plans, like lilies pure and white untold;
We must not tear the close-shut leaves apart
Time will reveal the ealyxes of gold.
And if through patient toll we reach the land,
Where tired feet with sandals loose may rest,
When we shall clearly know and understand
think that we will say: God knew the best"
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imagining that he saw the Scythians
faying him alive, his daughters like pill
lalsof fire dancing round about csldron
in which himself was boiling, and that
his heart accused itself to be the cause
of all fhese evils.
Does not he drink more sweetly that
takes his beverage in an esrthern vessel,
than he that looks and searches into
his golden chslices for fear of poison,
and looks pale at every sudden noise,
and sleeps in armor, and trusts nobody,
and does not trust God for his safety,
but does greater wickedness only to es>
cape while unpublished for his former
crimes? "Aure bibitur venenum :" (poi-
son is drunk from golden vessels"), No
man goes shout TO poison a poor mans
pitcher, nor lay plots to forage his little
garden made for the hospital of two
beehives, and the feasting of few Py-
thagorean herboesters. They that adj
mire the happiness of prosperous, pre-
vailing tyrant, know not the felicities
that dwell in innocen- hearts, and poor
cottages, aud small farms.
Can q man bind q thought with
chains, or carry imaginstions in the palm
of his hand? Can the beauty of the
pescock's train, or the ostrich plume, be
delicious to the palate and the throat I?
Does the hand intermeddle with the
joys of the heart ?-or darkness, that
hides the naked, make him warm -? sDOes
the body live, as does the spirit or can
the body of Christ be like to common
food? Indeed, the sun shines upon the
good and the bad f; and the vines give
to the drunkard as well as the sober
man pirates have fair winds and a calm
sea at the same time when the Just
and peaceful merchantmen hath them.
But although the things of this world
are common to good snd bad, yet sacra-
ments and spiritual joys, the food of the
soul, and the blessing of Christ, are the
peculiar right of saints Christian.
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A Clever Rogue.

A gentleman OF great experience in
the commercial world cashe3 q check
at a London oank Tor G1, 100, taking the
whole in 9100 notes. He was only 3
Jew yards from the bank when q person
resem bling a clerk, bare headed and
with a pen behind his ear, touched him
on the shsulder, saying: Beg your
pardon, siG; will you allow me just to
take the number of the notes again =?
| won't keep you a minute" The
gentleman, taken off his guard, handed
the notes over to the supposed clerk,
whom be followed into the bank. After
giving the former time to reach the top
end and return, he met the gentleman
at the door, saying, "Pleass walk this
way that gentleman will attend to you
in a minute" pointing TO a clerk who
was deeply engaged. Five minutes
elapsed before the gentleman could
draw the clerks attention to his case,
and he was thunderstruck to find that
this officer knew nothing about it.
The other clerks were Intercepted, and
they were equally in the dark. OF
course, no time WAS lost in going to the
Bank of England, but too late; ths
clever rogue had been before them,
and obtained gold for the notes.
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Now Curran was, WoEsted.

Currsn once raet his match in a pert,
liaen-eyed son Of the sod; who acted IS
hos.ler at a large stable, and who was up
81 witness in a case OF dispute in the
matter of horse-5rade.- Curran much
desired to break down tns credibility of
this witness, and thought TO do it by
making the mar contradict himself-by.
sangling him up in q net work of adreitIy
framed questiOrs-but all TO no avail.
The hostler was companion to sam
Weller. His good common sense, and
his equanimity and g90d nature were
not to be overturned. By and by Cur
TAT, in towering wrath, oelched forth, as
not another counsel woald have dared to
do in the presence of the court:
"Sirrah, you, are incOrrigibleE The
trnth is not to De got Som you, for it is
ret in you. 1 see the villain in your
face p'
"I faith, yea honos," said the witness
with the utmost simplicity of truth and
honesty, "mV face must be moity clane
and shinin' indade if it can reflect like
thatP"
For once il. his lie the grest bsrrister
was fioored by simple witness. He
could not recover from that repsrtee,
and the case went against hiLa.
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Selected pootty-
rlsr euAmnEK OWE TEE GATE.

TIE CHAMBER ONER THE SANH'
Ell Il. W. LoHeFELLow.
Is 90 far HON thee
Thou can't nc longer see
In'tbe CHAMBER ore tue gate
That old nan desolaie- ~
Weeping and wailing sore
81 Fer bis SON. no is 90 i'eref
o Absslom, my son
Hit 20 lonS $50
Ihst CRY q hurnsu woe
From the walled city came
Calling On his dear name,
That il has died away ri ..
IN TIE Oh. ance q to-day?
N.r o AbSaloun, my sonl
There Is no far nor near,
there = neither there nor here,
There ia neither soon nor late
In that chamber over the gate
nor any long ago
Io-that cry Of human woe.
o Absaiom, nay son
From the ages that are past
The voice comes like q blast
Over seas that wreck ana drown,
Over tumult Of traffic and town;
And from ages yet to be
Comesthe echoes hack to me,
o Absslorn, my son
somewhere at every hour
The watchmsn on the tower
Looks FORTH ard sees the feet
Approach Of the hurrying feet
OF messengers that bear
The tidings Of despair,
Absalom, my sonl
BE goes forth from the door
Who shall return no more.
With him.our JOY DEPARTS
The light goes ont in our hearts,
in the chamber over the gate
We sit disconsolate,
O'Absaom, my son
That tits common grief
Bringeth but slight relief;
Ours is the bitterest loss,
Ours is the heaviest cross;
And forever the cry viii be,
4" Would God had died for thee,
y Absalom, my son !"
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zBnae nee of ReIigieD,

People talk about religion 5eing a
restraint lpon men. In some senses, it
is restraint. But this is not its chief
idea. There ere in men certain 6estruc,
tive neutrality-suspicious., sppetites and
inordinate affections, which need the
curb; and religion operates as 4 curb
and reins .hein in. But It has other and
larger uses th2n this. Fosters anu cords
and gags 10 not repfes3- it. It plants
more thar it uprOots. When TIE, work
Of correction IS ended il has only Just
begun its operations in she soul, opera
tions which will.continua in force etern-
ally. Negatives do not express religious
duty. We love to think that religious
lie meara' the growth Of all faealties,
and not 2. slow strangulation OF them.
Religion 10 more cramps man than
wings dc 6 bird, or fins do a fish Piety
is not ship at anchor on level sea it
is ship in motion, with every sail set
and swelling with wind, and tie waters
around i crested with white Christ
ianity makes q man active, vibrant,
tense. Great injury has been done
religion, by teaching people to regard it
as mild form OF slavery, in which peo.
pie consent to be tied up that they may
not hlrt themselves or others. But
there Is no such religion as this, at least
in the New Testament. The gospel
Christ taught is a gospel of liberty. 1t
is ssimulant to mans energies, not 8
narcotic. 1t makes him a doer, not. 3
heansr.- Wayland Hoyt.
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"A teacher of primary class inSun>
day-school was recently considerably set
back when she asked her little flock one
of the questions from the Lesson Leaf
How would you feel if you could new
er 90 to church T' A small boy piped
out, "Bully." Why, Jimmy, what
do you mean by such an answer p
gasped the teacher. "That's what my
uncle said when / asked him to give me
the answer" said the boy, and I guess
| he's right, don't your
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-05-15

accept his love, R0x;e. You did not
know how full OF awe and fear my heart
was. The more glad twas that / could
love him, the less blind l was to all the
dangers thst hung over us both. was
not so hareh as to think that my weak
hand alone could avert them. There
was only this, Royie; it was the only
human hand thst was nerved to try. l
knew in my heart that l did right. 1
knew you had ceased to feel pain in
regard to Robert. l knew it was not
jealousy that led you to give me that
warning when you heard we were
engaged. would five to be drunk
ards wife, you said. knew it might
be true, but it did not shake me then
and since it has come true, Roxie, if all
were to be done over again [ think
could not act differently. l only want
you to feel that my marrying him was
not-as you thought then--just a blind
surrender to what knew was foolish
and wrong.
1 was better than your On, no my
way was open when yours was barred
that was all. You needed to marry a
strong, perfect man like Adam Mayhem.
You could work freely with him. But
if I had married such an one, so great
and self~sustained, 1 should have not
lived freely. There's strange coward
ice in me, Roxie. never dsrediuse my
life much except where felt very
great need of it. Robert needed it.
The daily gazette., 1879-08-27

THE Baltimore Gdzette SAYS MIR.
De Young has for some years been
public adventurer only less disreputable
than Kalloch because never compelled
to play the hypocrte. With a news
paper and some money at his back he
has undertaken to make himself "the
boss" Of the Pacific Slope. year ago
he was leader among the Hoodlums.
lie wanted TO compel the capitalists of
California to recognize him and placate
him. Proper influence being brought 10
bear he RANGED himself ON the side OF
wealth aud responsibility and went to
making war on his old friends, the allep.
ed Workingm"n. When the disreputa a.
BILE Kalloch was nominated for Mayor he
made his boasts that he would drive hin
Off the ticket. Kalloch refused to b,
driven and then the journalistic pirat,
began his work.
The daily gazette., 1879-08-27
,SHERIFF'S SALES
HEKiFr's SALE.

-
> by virtue vi writ OF Leyarl Facias
o me directed, Will Dc exposed " Pubiic
sale AT the
'.AFAYErTE HOTEL, sii Shipiey ST.,
tepi by John ]. DJugherty, In the city OF
Wilmington, New Castle Couuty, Della
ware, On
WEDN ESDAY,
The eth Day of Anslst, A. d., 1879,
Az o'clo X Il. NJ,
The following described ReaI Estate viz
All thai certain LOT or piece of land stu
ate In the city ot Wilmington and b, una
81 and descri bed as follows, that is 10 say /:
beginning for the same oH The northeily
-ide of Eighth street. at the dis Ance OF
.i6 feet Inches from the corner formed
by the interseci ion Of the northerly side OF
Eighth street with The cas- erly side OF Wal.
nut street, thence oilherly passing
through the m lid G OF the nine incn gable
eld wa dividing this from Thos. Aliens
bi, messuage, and by his land - feet 10
an n ley feet wide, theuee along the
sOutberly SIDE Of sad alley ~ feet to "A
corner stake, thence suutheriy parallel
with VI inut street by iani of George e.
NaId pas ing through TIE middle oi he
inch gable end W n dividing u is from
said George c. Nard's metsuage eighty
'eet TO the said northerly side oi Eighth
street thence wester y along aid side oi
said street IA feel 10 the place of b .ginning
Seized ana taken IN execution H the
| property of ANN 81. SmIlh, surviving
| VI. his wife and Henry Finney, {. b., and
10 be sod by JOHN PYLE, sheriff.
| Shtrif's Office, New Castle. August i
1
The daily gazette., 1879-08-27
A New Picture Of Secretary she rnlan

THIS has been ;,henou email summer.
The g'lest IN ~ mountains have hardly
pnt out their wood fires in July before
they are Compelled to light them in Al :
gu .. Il in has poured down IN deiua-
an. qua ties, but there has been no
ticeabie absence OF thunder AMI light
ming. The people NJ the seisiie already
feel the preinonitions of autumn, aud IL
may be- said that however warm the days
nj nights may be, the summer Is viz
tually gone,
As an Illustration of the hentits derived
from n high protective tariff, IL may be
Noted that Powers * Weighman the
Quinine manufacturers, who for 50 many
years enjoyed monopoly Of the drug,
used to put upon he market 700 600
ounces annually. Their profit was 81
;ents an ounce, $40 900 year IL wonli
beiu'er.siug now 10 learn what was,the
firms usual contribution To tho Repubii-
can campaign funds.
Mr.. kalloch does not appear to have
b SOL a. submissive as NJ. DIXON OF VA
zoo. When DE Young tire 4teLed to at
tack his private character If he did not
retire from The canvass for the Mayor OF
= IN Francisco, he simply relalialed by
An at ack AZ brutal as that with which he
was threatened. To he sure he was shot
and shot In the back, a. Mr.. Dixon was
but IL he dies, he can die claiming that
he isn't successfully bull lozed.
The Delaware Lackawanpa and West
eru Railroad Company announce that
thew will sell at public auction 81, 600 tons
of Sci anton coal tomorrow, at II u'clock
| noon, at No. " EXchauge place New
York.
The daily gazette., 1879-08-27

The Republican State Committee of
Louisiana met yesterda, in New Orleans
and decided to hold Sta Convention
in that city on the 10th Of October, to
nominate r, gu or Stale ticket. A les-
ola ion approving If &c eral Grant TO
next President was, after discussion,
withdrawn. 4
The daily gazette., 1879-08-27
Surveying SIOOp Ashore.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 26.-rhe Signal
Corps Station, Lewes, Del, reports to
the Chief Signal Officer, at 10 10 a. H.,
as follows "The sloop Mary Agnes, oi
Philadelphia, engaged in survey ing in
Delaware Bay, came ashore on Iewe
u, ach this morning. Crew saved.n
The daily gazette., 1879-08-27

iHE Democratic Council ticket Is
perhaps the best that has been put III
nomination in Wilmington f r mum
her OF years, and taking them on the
whole we never felt more fully sat'sned
With the character and standing OF the
men, nor more fully certain that the
Democrats would carry al the Demo-
cratic wards with increased majoritles.
The daily gazette., 1879-08-27

THE Republican is very much inter-
ested in the Democratic candidates fol
President of the City Council aud City
Treasurer. IL speaks Of these gentle
men in commendable praise, as it could
not truthfully do otherwise. But il
thinks Mr.. Sh Tpley is not rich enough,
nor old enough, nor long enough resi-
dent Of the city to be chosen to so re-
sponsible a position. The Democrats,
however, W no nominated him by unani-
nous vote, numbering three times as
many as was Civ to the Republican
candidate, think otherwise. Since the
Republican admits the ability and fitness
Of Senator Sharpley, these weak ohjec
tions amount to very little. l, how
ever, makes gross mistake in calling
him the repres -ntalive of BrandywiDe
Hundred il the Stale Senate. He is not
the represen, alive OF any Hundred, but
of the whole county, though he was Sc
lected by party rule four years ago as ID
.andidate chosen In that Hundred. Mr.
Sharpley is now approaching the prime
of life; has many qualities commenting
him 10 public favor; the experience OF
four years as State Senator and been
number of years practicing the law at
tie b r of our State. He is strictly sober
and industrious, and faithful Demo
cat; but as politician is OF so mild
chara ter that few wtuld ever know lie
took any interest in politics at all. W.
believe his judgment is good, and do not
believe he could be led to do iDjusl ice IL
any one because Of political prejudice
In fact we do not think the Democrat!
could have done any better, and that Mr.
Sharpley will make All excellent pre-
siding officer. No better than Mr.. l. CHI
tenstein, We are ready at once TO grant
but as Mr. Lichtenstein's party is in tn
minority we believe Mr.. Sharpley will
be elected, as we have stated by yer,
, handsome ajority. OF cour,e of thi
, we are mt sur. 1t is however due Il
Mr. Sharpley that every Democratic vot
be given him.
5 In regard to NJ. Guthrie, our candi
. date for City Treasurer, the Repubticd
+ has none of these frivolous objections I
Il urge. He is an older resident, is now
J, member of the City Council, and a
d Chairman OF the Finance Comnitte
e for the past year has shown knowlede
b of the financial all ,irs of the city, tha
d proving that the voters who nominate
a him were not mistaken in supposiI
l. him TO be the right man for the lespoI
ID sible position. Mr.. Guthrie should r
j. ceive every Democratic vote. There is I
IN safe and good reason why he should nc
ly We sincerely believe he will be elect.
ID by what will be termed large and ss
rs isfactory Minority. But at the san
We time we have no objection to raj
of against his opponent. Had he not be-
se faithful officer, we should not La
ST withheld the information from the res
lst eis of the GAZETTE. We would nu
as pre- fer to have al such contests decid
his by the strength of party politics than
nd be compelled to seek To expose triA
Ter. defects in mems characters to influer
wv votes against them.