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Jamestown alert., 1880-11-30

eu W TIluCe dleXduuef Oh bnlSarla, is
described by Krsunvy, the Croa tian pain
ter, as "the most charming creature I
ever met; well.trained, sweet and
blooming child, slender and agile as
roe, with deep, soulful eyes, full of
thought and power. She was the only
Montenegrin maiden I was allowed to
paint: but I did not regret my journey
from Warasdin, Notwithstanding the pc
cuniary loss it entailcd. When I showed
her the finished portrait, she asked, in
the simplest manner possible: and am
I really, thsn, so beautiful -
THE terribly destructive potato beetle,
(Dorypzora decem-lineata), against the
incursion of which even strong European
governments have engaged to battle, has
not yet succeeded in getting strong
foothold there, though some reports of a
few skirmish parties having been seen,
here and there, sometimes come to hand,
though of doubtful authenticity. But it
has by no means "given up the shIp;'
for naturalists well acquainted with them
have found them in some numbers the
past season on vessels crossing the ocean,
and they will doubtless soon step on the
inhospitable shores of the Old World.
>N>
ILLINOIS leads all the other States in
respect to the revenue it contributes to
the support of the government, the
amount contributed for the last fiscal year
being $23, 100000. Ohio comes next and
contributes $1s, 100000. New York State
paid SIG, ,O0O,0 900, Kentucky, $500, 900,
and Virginia, $780, 900, of which So
100000, was duty on tobacco. The en-
tire sum paid by all the Southern States,
including Maryland and Missouri
was $2s, 900, 900. The Northern, West
ern, and Pacific states paid $ss, ZOO, 900.
The greater portion of the internal-rev-
enue receipts is realized from the tax on
whiskey.
Jamestown alert., 1880-11-30
InmigratiOn Statistics.

The whole number of passengers ar
rived in the United States for the year
ending with June, 1880, was 534 465. or
these about $780, 900 were by land pass
age from Canada, Mexico, etc., and in
round numbers 435, 900 by sea, of whom
1000, or nearly 70 per cent, landed
at New York. Boston, Philadelphia, Bal
timore and San Francisco follow in Or
der of numbers.
The principal occupations Of the adult
immigrants arriving in 1879, as far as
known were Musicians, 34l clergy
men, 500; teachers, 203; artists, 40;
physicians, 1875; actors, Al architects,
As; chemists, 43 !; druggists, A; dent
lists, 81; editors and journalists, 81;
engineers (civiD, %; engravers, 81;
lawyers, 80; painters, 25; photogra-
pliers, %; sculptors, 43 }; surgeons, 16:
The whole number of "professionals
was 1872 males and III females. In
other business the larger number were:
Carpenters and joiners, 2,759; clerks,
1,724 miners, 2, 472 shoemakers, l, 119;
tailors, 1,O62 farmers, 81 $3.50; laborers,
36,S97 merchants and traders, 1861 ;
servants, 6,S04 (6,352 females). The
Jamestown alert., 1880-11-30

Mr.. STAaG, the portrait painter, has
just finished aportrait of Judge Richard
son, Of the Court of Claims at Washing
ton. The work was done under an order
from the Government, and is to be hung
IN the Treasury Department at Wash
inpfOn
Jamestown alert., 1880-11-30

THE population of Delaware is 49,
654. The males slightly exceed the
females in number. There are "A, ,153 Of
the former, and 72,O51 of the latter;
8,472 residents Of the State are foreign
born. There are 34.456 colored people
in the State. In 1870 the population of
Delaware was 125,015.
Jamestown alert., 1880-11-30

The number ofcandidates examined in
music during the last twelve months by
the various English examination bodies
is unusually large. Trinity College, Lon
don, heads the list, with 5000; the Uni
versity of Cambridge comes next, with
500; and the University of Oxford last,
with 2sl; the combined total being 1871
candidates,
Jamestown alert., 1880-11-30

The new French cabinet refuses to en-
force the religious decress according to
their letter and spirit. 1t seems dis
posed to enter into compromise with
the religious orders. The Gambettist
organs are urging the Ministry to an en-
torcement of the DEGREES, and threaten to
make their enforcement an issue at the
coming elections unless their advice is
acted on. The feeling against the en-
forcement is quite strong, as isevidenced
by the fact that the police commissioner
at Rennes have resigned rather than en-
torce them.
Jamestown alert., 1880-11-30
DEPARTMENTAL.
Annual Reports of tho Secretary of til,
Interior and Secretary of War.


Interior and Secretary of War.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 2l.-The annual report
of the Indian bureau for 1880 has been oom.
pleted. 1t exhibits continued, steady ad.
vancement towards civilization on the part Of
nearly all tho Indinn tribes, and very remarka-
BILE progress in many instances, especially
among the Ogallallas and Brule Sioux. In
Dakota and on the Pacific coast the Indiana
nre in u self-supporting condition. The mum.
ber Of Indians in the United States, exclusive
OF Alaska, is reported at 255, ,93S, all of whom,
except about 5000 are moro or less under the
direction and control of the agencies of the
government. The civilized Indians now in the
Territory number GO. $50 and tho uucivilized,
1880. There are, in round numbers, 25. 900
Indians il Dakota, $4,000 in New
Mexico. 81 900 in Montana, 17,G00 in
Arizona, and $4,000 in Washington
Territory, collected Mt Yokenla agency. The
demands upon the bureau by the Indians of a
large majority of the agencies for implements
with which to enable them to perform manual
labor are far beyond the means ut the disposal
of the department for that purpose. The de-
sire of the Indians to labor is steadily growing,
and largo numbers are willing and anxious to
engage in civilized pursuits and the improve
ment in their manner of putting in and caring
for crops raised shows the efforts of the past
five years are gradually beginning to show
themselves. It appears there are upwards of
5000 Indians in New York State and more than
$1,000 in the State of Michigan. The follow
ing table shows the substantial results of In
dian labor during the year by Indians exclusive
of the five civilized tribes Of the Indian terri
Jamestown alert., 1880-11-30

PRES. ANDREW D. WHITE, of Cornell
University, the United States minister to
Germany, is writing "Life of Thomas
Jetferson,' to form one of series of BIZ
ographies of the founders Of the American
Republic, to be published during the
coming winter. Professor Goldwin Smith
is 10 write "Lifc of George Washington"
for the same series.
WHEN Hans Christian Andersen, one
of whose dearest hopes, in going to
Sweden, had been to meet Frederika
Bremen, was presented to her, on the
deck of steamer, she had never heard of
him and was quite formal. He produced
one of his books, however, as she left him;
and after an hour or 80 she hurried back.
Il know you noo,'' said she, and thus
began lifelong friendship.
DIR. W. A. P. MARTIN, the distinguished
Oriental scholar and president of the
Imperial Tung Wen College, at Peking,
China, who recently sailed from the city
for Europe, holds commission from the
Chinese Government to visit both America
and Europe, and to report on their re-
spcctive educational systems. DR.. Martin
will be absent from China about two
years.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-05-08
Gems Of Thought.

IT is better to have a good con-
science and be censured than bad one
and be flattered
That was a good prayer of the old
deacon: Lord, make us willing to
run on little errands for Thee"
Good men have the fewest fears.
He has but one who fears to do wrong.
He has thousand who has overcome
that one.
In seeking aid for a Christian pur-
pose, seek the man more than the
money. If you get the man you get
the money, too.
The grand old Book of God still
stands; and this old earth, the more
its leaves are turned over and pom
dered, the more it will sustain and
illustrate the Sacred Word. Prof
Dana.
God makes the earth bloom with
roses that we may not be disconnected
with our sojourn here; He makes it
bear thorns that we may learn to look
for something better beyond.
Good intentions are at least the seed
of good actions; and every man ought
to sow them, and leave it to the soil
and season whether they come up or
no, or whether he or any others gather
the fruit.
1t requires more faith and courage to
say two words face to face with one
single sinner than from the pulpit to re-
buke two or three thousand persons,
ready to listen to everything, on condi-
ton of forgetting all.-BosSatet.
o the sure and beautiful payment of
the Almighty! Who ever came under
His wing in vainP Who ever lost by
trusting in Himp Who ever forsook the
Moab of this world for the true Israel,
and did not at last rejoice in the
changeP-Btshop Hall.
Gas the musician tightens the strain
on his viol strings, yet is careful not to
snap them asunder, but only to secure
a sweeter melody and better accord,
so," says Cawdray, "God through af-
Fiction makes His own children more
perfect instruments for His service here
and in the life to come"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-05-08
Pastor and People.

HE Methodist has an excellent arti-
Gle on contracts between churches and
pastors. 1t asks Whether the Meth
odist grocer has equitably any better
right to collect by law the bill due him
by q Methodist pastor than the minister
has to collect, by the same means, the
contracted sum for his services" This
question applies to grocers and pastors
in all the churches. The church at the
beginning of the year, or at the call of
the pastor, agrees to give him certain
salary. The year passes and he only
receives part of his due. Should he sue
or urgently demand what is Justly his
right he is censured, and yet he is ex-
pected to settle up his accounts and paw
every cent he owes before he leaves
town. The church should deal with the
pastor as its members expect him to
deal with them, honestly and squarely.-
And the minister's salary should not 90
unpaid until the close of the year, thus
making him credit pauper for every
thing his family needs. He cannot
preach as he should when he owes a
dozen or more people before him, and
is reminded when he looks into their
faces that they have dunned him
number of times for little bills. Every
man is slave when in debt, and es-
pecially is minister bound hand and
foot when in debt to the people before
him. With all his bills paid, p decent
suit upon his back and some money in
his pocket, he is great deal more of a
manly minister than he would other
wise be There was much sound philos-
ophy in the reasoning of that minister
who, when his pocket-book was empty.
borrowed five dollars on Saturday and
paid it back on Monday, as he said he
could always preach better with some
money in his pocket.
The pew should have some respect
and regard for the rights of the pulpit.
The people should treat the pastor as
they expect him to deal with them.
Many minister is just what his people
make him, andit might be told what
he is by knowing what they are. If
they give him generous support of
money and encouragement, he will
grow in strength and glow with heart
felt enthusiasm for their happiness and
welfare. Let the same measure of ms
tice and generosity be given to the pas
tor as he is expected to give the church
-CtTiSttd's Statesman
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-05-08
PrOtracted SIumber.

A REMARKABLE case of prCtracted
slumber has developed in the person of
Nathan G. Vrooman, who resides short
distance from Schenectady, on the New
York Central and Hudson River Rail-
road. Mr.. Vrooman has been known
as q sober, Industrious man. He is
about thirty-fve years old, and the sup
port of widowed sister. He is I'M
married, and was for long time in the
employ of the Central Hudson as
track-hand. Six years ago he received
sunstroke, and since has complained
considerably of dizziness. On the 10Th
of February he was compelled to leave
his work and take to his bed on account
of pains in his head. He at once fell
asleep, and could be aroused only with
difficulty. He slept peacefully, and his
breath was not labored, as is the case
in certain diseases of the brain. For
three weeks and two days he slumbered
almost necessarily. When he awakened
he was morose and disinclined to talk.
He refused to give any information con.
corning his feelings, and desired above
all things to be allowed to sleep. His
appetite was good, and he ate on alter
nate days enough to sustain life in his
inactive state. As soon as he concluded
eating he would relapse into sleep. At
no time did he show symptoms of fever,
inflammation, delirium, or any material
increase of the temperature of the body;
nor did his condition indicate paralysis.
After sleeping for twenty-three days
almost continually, one morning he sud-
denly woke and became communicative.
His appetite was voracious; and it was
thought that, after Yegaining his
strength, as he was quite weak, he
would be able to return to his work.
Ten days later he was again attacked
with sleepiness, and now lies in his bed
fast asleep. He exhibits no fever, but
refuses to take food. When he is
awakened, he plaintively pleads to be
left alone. The only answers to ques-
tons that he vouchsafes are simply
/" Yes and "No." For two weeks he
has not tasted food, and yet there is no
material change in his condition. The
physicians in this section regard the
case as a wonderful one, and can give
no explanation of it.-Cor. N. Y. Times.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-05-08

souls growth in Christ-like gentleness.
Some of us have known girls, beauti-
full, noble and generous, lowered with
wopdrous charms of mind and person,
and we have seen them entering wom-
anhood, as we might have watched a
Queen at her coronation. They have
gone on few years, the admired and
beloved treasures of their own kindred,
or the idolized wives of men worthy of
them. But, alas for the unfulfilled
promise OF the imperial poisoning!
These commonplace, vain and capri
cious women should not have been the
ripened fruit of buds and bloom so fair.
1t is idle to charge the change upon
lack of health. or home care, or any
superficial cause. The trouble is
deeper. Nobody stands still in this
world. Those who do not advance,
retrograde; and the brilliant, fascinat-
ing and elegant girl of twenty, unless
she lead narrow, selfish and too in
Prospective life, should not remain sta
tionWy. She should become the gra-
cious, dignifed and lovable woman of
forty; the sanity, pure and almost
heavenly woman of sixty.
1HoTo are GnOSe WHO reverence SOr-
row as Gods great educator, and think
that grand characters are disciplined
only by the sharp strokes of adversely.
This is but partial truth. Sorrow is
one of Gods ministers. So is Joy. So
is faith. So is tender household love.
So is prosperity. The peach grows
mellow in the sun. The rose takes on
its crimson tint and emits its sweetest
fragrance under June's skies. Trouble,
rightly accepted, brings forth the peace
able fruit of righteousness. Sometimes.
if resisted, it hardens and brushes. We
are not to dictate to our Father. We
are to be sure that He knows best, and
that whatever He sends He sends in
love. And as He has placed us in a
wide and weary world, with something
to do for Him, every day it behooves us
to see to it that we live not narrowly,
nor niggardly, nor grudgingly, but with
liberal hands, and eyes looking trust
fully up to Hmm. E. SangSter, IN s.
S. Times.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-05-08
"PERHAPS."

IN woodland ways now strangled with the
snow
The blue, sweet violets will soon be spring
ing,
The golden headed aconites will blow,
And in the meadows robins shall be sing
ing.
Then from the streets into the fields I'll go;
And my heart answered me, " Perhaps!"
Or, if not then, when strawberries are red,
And flag flowers stand among the blowing
PUSHES,
When roses bloom, and in the trees o'erhead
There is a dreamy melody of thrushes,
My feet again the messy turf shall tread;
And my heart answered me, Perhapsi"
Or, better still, I'll sail the windy sea,
Full of large music, billow to billow singing,
And Ia mid broken lights and sea drift free,
Hearing in dreams of land the ships bells
ringing
Yes, oceanward, when summer comes, I'll
fee;
And my heart answered me, "Perhapsp
o heart, / said, thine is the weariest way:
Why wilt thou ever disenchant To morrow?
Time is'so niggardly with each To day,
Surely tits well from future days to borrow.
Art thou afraid such drafts will be to pay?
And my heart answered me, "Perhapsp
Then mid mans fretfuE dwellings, dim and
low,
I'll dream of peace, eternal flowers unfad-
ing,
And of that tideless sea whose happy flow
Keeps not IT., q note Of sorrow or upbraiding-
some day III find that Happy Land, 1 know;
And my Heart answered, " Thou shalt gop'
-Hdrper'S Weekly.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-05-08
The Rush to the Colorado Mining Dis.
tricts.

A CITY full of people, and its hotels
crowded, private residences filled and
tenementrooms nearly all occupied, with
arush of building on nearly every vacant
square within the corporate limits, new
hotels taking convenient positions in
every quarter, with cottages and hand
some dwellings spreading out beyond
the confines of the city. taken altogether,
are good beginners for the openins
season. The splendid weather which
has prevailed all winter. and thus far
into the spring may prove delusion
and snare to many hopeful, adven-
turous spirit, at least for the next thirty
days. 1t is quite likely that many have
already been impressed that they are
little too fresh for start. While it
continues warm, calm, and serene down
here, it still storms and SHOWS on the
mountains, and reports come in of snow
in many of the mining districts from
three to five feet deep. A change of
weather just now would overtake many
thousand pilgrims on their way to the
Gunnison and San Juan districts, to
Leadville, TO breckenridge, and other
attractive sections, while an army of
prospectors and Adventures of every
description is organizing, with a daily
accession of recruits from the States,
for a raid into the Indian reservation,
which is said to be the richest mineral
section of Colorado. Men with guns on
their shoulder, revolvers in their belts,
and full equipments strapped around
their person, may be seen any day wan
dering through the streets of Denver. /
learned by inquiries of these persons
that they were coming here to start for
the Indian reservation. "We don't
care," said one of these fellows, s'what
action the Government takes, or wheth-
er the Indians go or stay; we are going
to work, and we will go in sufficient
numbers to clean out all the Utes that
offer any resistance" A great number
whose first intention was to go to the
Gunnison have determined to pass on to
the reservation. A paper was circulat-
ed yesterday for the signatures of such
Denverites as intend going to the Gun
nison District during the spring and
summer, and over 500 names were Sc
cured. These are men chiefly engaged
in business here. This is but handful
compared with the transient population,
who are coming and going with their
steps bent in that direction, and but a
drop in the bucket compared with the
great multitude that's coming .-DenCer
Cor. Louisville Coatrier-JoWTaa0J.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-05-08

any thing was wrong with the castle
clock. Things went on from bad
to worse. The sun rose at one in the
morning and set at eleven. The fnlI
moon rose in the middle of the aftor-
noon, and the stars ran wild without
the slightest regard to any thing. The
universe was breaking to pieces and
the entire Solar System was out of order
In despair, the Schlossburgers sent q
committee of one to Nuremburp for
help. Several wise men lived there
astrologers, astronomers and clock-
makers. The committee laid the case
before some of these learned men. and
one of them offered to go to Scbloss-
burg and see if the Solar System could
be fixed. The committee and the
learned man arrived at Schlossburo
about noon; but really at six O'clock
Didn't the castle clock point squarelv
at six, with the little hand down and
the big hand upP Any body could see
it was six O'Clock, and yet the sun was
high overhead. Clearly, the sun was
out of order.
The entire population, including Hans
and all the boys and girls, assembled on
the green to welcome the committee and
the learned man Nuremburg. He
looked at the clock and then at the sun:
and so did all the people. The priest
suggested that perhaps the angels had
forgotten to oil the wheels of the sun.
and that the Judgment Day was near.
The learned man laughed; but all the
people shuddered. Then the wise man
ont 81 ~
placed them on flat rock, thai I
village boys had used as a table ~
which to play jack-stones. He adjrastd
the dial by the compass, and looked at
the sun, and then at the clock, and then
at the sun again. There was solemn
silence among all the people, for they
felt sure something wonderful was about
to happen.
The learned man looked at the clock.
1t was ten minutes past six. Then he
said, with solemn air:
''The clock is six hours slow. 1t must
be losing several minutes day. Shorten
the pendulum.'
"Then the Solar System is safeP"
said the priest.
yes, quite SO. Let the clock be set
at JWelVe."
The people gave three cheers; and
Hams father ran up in the tower, and
turned the hands back to twelve before
all the people. Hans, who knew how it
all happened, was terribly frightened;
but, as it was dinner-time, instead of
supper-time, of course there was the
whole afternoon to play. 1t was clear
gain, too; for he had one afternoon al
ready that day. This the children
found quite consoIng; and, as they had
crossed thumbs, they would never tell
and Hans was safe.
The Schlossburgers gave the learned
man a grand dinner at the townhall,
and congratulated each other on the con-
tinued safety of the Solar System
Charles Barnard, IN N. Y. Independent.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-05-08
Religious.
THE PERFECT DEATH. !


Disco Mort.
WHERE shall we learn to die?
Go, gaze with steadfast eye
On dark Gethsemane,
Or darker Calvary,
Where, thro' each lingering hour,
The Lord of grace and power,
Most lowly and most High,
Has taught the Christian how to die.
When in the olive shade,
His long last prayer He prayed;
When on the Cross to Heaven
His parting spirit was given,
He showed that to fulfill
The Fathers gracious Will,
Not asking how or why,
Alone prepares the soul to die.
No word of angry strife,
No anxious Cry for life;
By sc5f and torture torn
He speaks not scorn for scorn;
Calmly forgiving those
Who deem themselves His foes,
In silent majesty
He points the way at peace to die.
Delighting to the last
In memories of the past:
Glad at the parting meal
In lowly tasks to kneel;
Still yearning to the end
For mother and for friend;
His great humility
Loves in such acts of love to die.
Beyond His depth of woes
A wider thought arose,
Along His path of gloom
Thought for His country's doom,
Athwart all pain and grief,
Thought for the contrite thief
The far-stretched sympathy
Lives on when all besides shall die.
Berert, nut not alone,
The world is still His own;
The realm of deathless truth
Still breathes immortal youth;
Sure, though in shud' dring dread,
That all is finished.
With purpose fixed and high
The Friend of all mankind must die.
Oil by those weary hours
OF slowly-ebbing powers,
By those deep lessons heard
In each expiring word,
By that unfailing love
Lifting the soul above,
When our last end is nigh,
So teach us, Lord, with Thee to die!
Dean Stanley, in McMildn's Mdgdzfne.