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The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1880-01-23

Plow gear mt Harris's cheaper than
the cheapest.
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Our merchants report business very
good this week.
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Buy your saddlery and harness OF
VIM. Harris.
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Four horse wagon harness at Harris's
only $3s 90.
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IMPROVED PROPERTY FOR SALE,

One-fourtll square in Harris addition to
Monroe, with two neat cottages-choice
fruit and shrubbery. Will be sold sepa-
rately if desired.
Ono house will be for rent on first of
January, 1880, if not sold.
Apply to J: L. BosTICK, on the premises
or at the Railroad shop.
Monroe, La, December S, 1870. st
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DENTlsTRf'

IaInicss extraction Of teeth by tho aid
OF nitrous oxide gas, administered bv Dr.
d. Beatty, dentist of % years experience
and can refer to work of twenty wears
standing in Monroe. Office over Bank,
west room.
Monroe, La, Jan. 2, 1850. If
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The LIFE OF ALEXANDER DUFF, D. D., LII. D.
By George c. Smith, C. l. E., LII D. New
York A. c. Armstrong & Son.

HE LIFE OF ALEXANDER DUFF, d. D., LII. d.
By George c. Smith, C. l. E., LII D. New
York: A. c. Armstrong & Son.
Inc lie OF great man, in great period Of
the worlds history, is subject to command the
attention of every thoughtful mind The
interest with which we look upon such men is
natural and inevitable, even when we are deeply
conscious that, in their character and their work
evil was mixed up in large proportions with the
good, and when we find it difficult to discover
the provldential design which drew the features
OF their respective epochs But this natural feel
ing rises into something higher, if all can be as
sured that this period we contemplate was de-
signedly prepared for great results that the work
we admire was a work of unmixed good. and
the man whose actions we follow was an instru-
ment specially prepared by the hands of God q"
The readers of the Life and Epistles of St
Paul will recognize the quotation The same
words would very well introduce the history
contained in the two portly volumes named at
the head of this brief notice. The only excep-
ton necessary to be taken is as to the work of
an unlnspired man being an unmixed good
The period Of fifty years covered by the labors
OF DIR. Duff was manifestly designed by provi-
dence for great results; and he was as clearly
an instrument prepared by the hands of God.
Any intelligent reader will be charmed with
this work. To the Christian Church, however,
it is calculated to bring something more valuable
than transient qualification. If these volumes
were generally circulated and carefully read the
Church would feel strong impulse in the direc-
ton of Foreign Missions Dr. Duff was pre-
eminently missionary-a missionary to the
heather. He gave to India the ardor of first
love, the strength of mature manhood, and the
prayers and cOunsels of old age He awakened,
by the resistless force of his eloquence, the
churches in Great Britain and America to give
their sons and their money to the cause of mis-
sions. And he displayed in Scotland and in
India the greatest skill in organizing the mis-
sionary work. He firmly believed that the
work of missions was the great work of the
Church No temptation at home was strong
enough to divert him for day from his chosen
field. The pulpits of Edinburgh were pressed
upon him; and he was even wanted to succeed
DIR. Chalmers His friends would congratulate
him on such occasions. But he steadily main
tanned that, as a missionary, he held the highest
post IN the Church. w Y. II.
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Satan and Scripture.

1t is fashionable to make fun of the
very idea of Satan And even. MANY
who admit the presence and malion
force OF evil IN the world, as hostile to,
and IN perpetual conflict with, good, are
excessively reluctant to admit also that
there is any devil-a personal powerful
agent at work trying to tempt men and to
thwart God.
1T seems to be a sufficient answer to all
such doubts-we mean sufficient to the
minds OF those who accept the New les
lament as of unquestionable inspiration
that 1T is clear that our Lord under
stood Satan to be personal agent of
evil, and treated him as such. No
amount of explanation can make rea-
sonable any other rendering of the mar
rative of the Gospels, or reduce to mere
meaningless figures Of rhetoric its sharp
and circumstantial averments.
Accepting the narrative of the tempta-
ton of our Lord by this great tempter,
as the chronicle of events which actually
happened in form and manner as re
counted, one is struck at once with the
knowledge which Satan has of the Scrip
lures, and the adroitness with which he
lays hold of texts as plausible to his pur-
pose. 1t is an inference which is both
natural and simple, that if Satan quoted
Scripture thus skillfully to the Master,
he may be in the habit also of quoting it
with quite as much skill (and usually with
more success) to his children. 1t is easy
to suspect his hand in muftitudes of those
perversiOns of the Word by which the
Romish Church seeks to gloss over such
OF It's dogmas as are unevangelical and
dangerous; and may we not fear his in
terpreting in multitudes of those sharp
teXtual reasonings which sever the saints
into sects, when they ought to be one in
the oneness Of a common Saviour and the
unity OF common salvation? The Bible
itself tells US that Satan preached the
first Universalist sermon that ever was
and there are indications not infreduent
that he has neither changed his theology
nor his course of conduct since that effort.
Let good people then specially be on
their guard against the perversion-
the manipulating and wire-drawing-of
Scripture. The Bible was written for
common people, and the great rule of its
Interpretation is that it means what it
says.
Furthermore, let good people also
learn by Christ's example to fight fire
with fire, and subvert Satans Scripture
by antagonist Scripture applied in the
genuine spirit of its intent Congreqa-
tiOuuHst.
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Napoleon in Society.

Simple and even easy, as he was in
private life, he showed himself to little
advantage IN the great world. 1t is DIFF
hcult to imagine any thing more awkward
than Napoleon's manner in drawing
room. The pains which he took to cor
rect the faults of his nature and educa-
ton only served to make his deficiencies
more evident. | am satisfied that he
would have made great sacrifices to add
to has height and give dignity to his ap-
pearance, which became more common in
proportion as his em6Onpoint increased.
lie walked by preference on tip-toe. His
costumes were. studied to form con
trast by comparison with the circle which
surrounded him, either by their extreme
simplicity or their extreme magnihcence.
1t IS certain that he made Talma come
to teach hlm particular attitudes. He
showed much favor to this actor. and his
affection was greatly founded on the like
ness which really existed between them.
He liked very much to see Talma on the
stage; it might be said, in fact that he
saw himself reproduced. Out of his
mouth there never came one graceful or
even a we'll turned speech to woman,
although the effort to make one was often
expressed on his face and in the sound of
his voice. He spoke to ladies only of
then dress, Of which he declared himself
a severe Judge; or perhaps, of the num-
Der of their children; and one of his
usual questions was if they had nursed
their children themselves question
which he commonly made in terms sell
dom used in good society He sometimes
tried to inaict upon them questions on the
private relations Of society, which gave
to has conversations more the character
OF misplaced admonitions- misplaced at
least, as to the choice of place and man
ner-than that of polite drawing-room
conversations. This want of say0irviyre
more than once exposed him to repartees
winch he was not able to return. Prince
MettGmich'8 Memoirs.
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or private dealings, or family arrange
ment' to little words, and looks, and
tones; little benevolences, or forbearances.
or tenderness; little self-denials, and self
restraints, and self-forgetfulness, little
plans OF quiet kindness and thoughtful
consideration for others, to punct9ality,
and method and true aim in the order
ing OF each day-these are the active
developments Of "a holy life, the rich and
DIVINE mosaics of which it is composed
What makes yon green hill so beautiful?
Not the outstanding peak or stately elm,
but the bright sward which clothes it's
slopes, composed of innumerable blades of
slender grass 1t is of small things that
great life is made up, and he who will
acknowledge no life as great, save that
wheel which is built up of great things, will find
little m Bible characters to admire or copy.
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MAGAZINES.
The NINETEENTH CENTURY for March George
Munroe, New York Contents:

The N1NETEEYTH CENTURY for March. GEORGE
Munroe New York Contents
l. England as a Naval Power. 2. The Com.
mon Sense of Home Rule by Justin Mccarthy
M. P. 3 Sham Admiration in Literature
4 Newspaper Correspondents in the Field
.; The Next Reform Bill, by Henry Fawcett,
M. I. 8. Burns and B6ranger 7. The Proper
Use OF City Churches. s. Irish Land Agitation.
g. God and Nature, by the Bishop of Carlisle.
10. Recent Science. / Russia and England
by, Right Hon. w r. Gladstone Also Splen-
did Misery, by Miss Braddon
THE CONTEMPORARY REVIEW for March. Con-
tents
J.. Mysteries of Administration in Turkey
2 Sequel to the Pedigree of Man" 3 The
Duration of Pariaments T. The Pillar Of
fralse. .. Bureaucracy in Germany and Aus
ira Hungary 6. The Vernacular Press in In
da. Z. Hellenic and Christian Views of Beauty
s. Ministerial Misstatements on the Afghan
Question, by the Duke of Argyll 8. Contem-
porary Books
The EARNEST WORKER for AnriI Prh
ished monthly by the Presbyterian Committee
OF publication, Richmond, Va The expositions
OF the lessons for this quarter are bv the Rev
Dr. William Brown, Fredericksburg Va There
IS Pre- Review " by Rev +. C..Gordon. Of
Savannah, Ga.
The SOUTHERN H1sToRfcAL SocrErY PApERs for
April Contents
History Of Lanes North Carolina Brigade bv
Brgadier-General James II Lane-N65 The
Confederate Flag; Prison Life at Fort McHenrv.
by Rev. DR.. /. d. Witherspoon late Chaplain
OF the Forty Second Mississippi Regiment
per No. 3 Gettysburg Report Of Brigadier
General J. A. Walker Report Of Brigadier
General J. NJ. Jones The Battle of S6iIob-
Report Of J.. D. Sandidge, Inspector General
Louisiana DivfrfCp. 4
Losses at Slaughter's Mountain ("Cedar Run'0
by Col. William Allan Battle of Pleasant Hiii
An Error Corrected, by General II 2. Bee
Richard Kirkland, the Humane Hero of Fred
erlcksburgr by Gen. j. b Kershaw Editorial
Paragraphs Literary Notices.
SoNGs OF PRAISE A Selection of Standard
hymns and Tunes forSunday Schools &c. New
York A. D. F. Randolph &Co.
The MISSIONARY HERALD for April is inter.
esting as usual, and always welcome at this
office
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WIDE AWAKE for April. D. Lothrop & Co.,
Boston, publishers. Contents
Billy's Hound The True Story of Storm
Brothers for Sale; Concord Picnic Days; The
Mice and the Egg Songs of Spring; Five Little
Peppers; Our American Artists; Jamie, the Gen
tIeman; Nursery Tiles; A Ride on Centaur
Baby Talk, &c, &c.
ST. NICHOLAS for April. Contents:
Jack and Gill, chaps 8 and 10 A Dead City :;
Bell Buoy The Majors Big Stories; Ma
poleon and the Young Egyptian; Among the
Lakes Jack int e-Pulpit &c. &c.
The VIRoNIAs for March Published in
Staunton, by Major Jed Hotchkss The present
number opens with an article on The Mineral Re-
sources of Page Valley, by Fred. Prime, Jr, late
Assistant Geologist OF Pennsylvania Another
article is on The Silurian Formation of Vir-
ginia, by Prof Campbell, of Washington and
Lee University Reprinted from 1merica@
Journal of Science
LITrELL's LIVING AGE for the weeks ending
March Goth and 9th
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Good Authoritv-

The Independent, in one of its better
moments. says:
" Professor Ezra Abbot, of the Har-
ward Divinity School, the most competent
scholar in America in the matter Of Bib
heal criticism, gives it as his Judgment.
after the most thorough study of the Ger
man, Dutch and English critical writer's
and of the patristic authorities, that the
objections made to the Johannean author
ship of the Fourth Gospel have no valid
ity. There is no higher authority on this
subject in America than Professor Abbot.
There IS no more competent scholar in
Germany. He is candid, and not pre-
ludlced by dogmatic considerations. Sim
ply the literary considerations, the his
torlcaI evidences, convince him that John.
the beloved disciple, wrote the Fourth
Gospel. 1t is equally certain, settled now
by the best authority, that a number of
the so-called Pauline Epistles must have
been written by Paul. This even Ration
allsm now has to concede. Now what
follows? 1t follows that the latest and
best criticism now decides (what was said
a few years ago to be doubtful) that Chris
tlanlty as it has come down to MS is the
Christianity of Christ and His disciples.
Our Christianity is not mythical growth
OF centuries, but is fact.
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A Holy Life.

A holy life is made up of multitude
OF small things. 1t is the little things
of the hour, and not the great things of
the age. that fills up life like that of
Paul or John, like that of Rutherford. or
Brainard or Martyr. Little words. not
eloquent speeches for sermons, little
deeds, not miracles, nor battles, nor one
great heroic act or martyrdom, make up
the true Christian life. The little con
slant sunbeam not the lightning; the
waters Of Shiloah that 90 softly" in
their meek mission of refreshment not
the waters Of the river, great and
many, rushing down in torrents, noise
and force, are the true symbols of holy
life. The avoidance Of little inconsis-
tencles, little weaknesses, little follies lit
tie lndlscretions and imprudences, little
tolbles, little indulgences Of self and of the
flesh, little acts Of Incidence. or indecis-
ION or cowardice, little equivocations or
alterations from high Integrity, little
touches Of shabbiness and meanness lit
tie acts Of covetousness and penurious-
ness, little exhibitions of worldliness and
gayety, little indiferences to the feelings
or wishes Of others, little outbreaks Of
temper, or crossness, or selfshness or
vanity. The avoidance of such little
things as these goes far to make up at
least the negative beauty of a holy life
And then attention to the little duties of
the day and hour, in public transactions,
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The CRAYFIsH. An Introduction to the Study
of Zoology. By I. II. Huxley, f. RS With
81 Illustrations New York D. Appleton
& Co.
A beautiful and charming little volume. The
young naturalist who masters this little book
will have the key to his whole subject We
have been struck with the transparent clearness
of the style The author remarks in his preface,
that what he has aimed at in this little book is
" to show how the careful study of one of the
cemmonest and most insignificant of animals,
leads us, step by step, from every day knowledge
to the widest generalizations and the most diff
cult problems of zoology" OF course Mr.. Hux-
ley gives us the pedigree of the crayfish, and
takes occasion to make an excursus on evolution.
The animals ancestors, he conjectures, lived in
the sea, and began life in the present shape in
the early tertiary, back of which he traces them
to the Mesozoic strata, and derives them from a
primitive Astacomorphous form The reader.
however, may accept only so much of this specu.
lation as he pleases.
Received through West, Johnston & Co.. Rich
mond
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ing marvellous tumble of barbarism and civil
ization. As there are very few undiscovered and
n-written-of corners upon this well-explored
planet of ours, this book will give the reader
that much sought after experience new sensa-
tlon NJ. J. p
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Egyptian Glass-workers

On the walls of the Benz Hassan tombs
the figures of glass blowers with blow
pipes, marvers, crucible, and furnace. still
show as freshly as when placed there bv
the artists of Osirtasen |, some $500
years before the Christian era, and among
countless other relics, such as vases, bot
ties, cups, snd bugles found in the Val
ley OF the Nile, a necklace bead discov-
cred at Ihsbes bears the name Of Queen
Ramake, wife Of Thothmes II, who
reigned about the date of the Jewish
Exodus In the sacred colleges Of Thebes
and Memphis the systematic pursuit of
science and constant investigation of the
mysteries of nature were objects of the
closest attention. The colossal works
OF architecture and soul pture with which
the country IS studded could only have
been executed by people among whom
the mechanical arts were highly adj
vanced and though the fragility Of glass
renders it especially liable to utter de-
struction, there exists ample evidence in
the specimens now enshrined in orr
museums that It's manufacture was car
RED out to a degree of perfection that
modern science has hitherto vainlv
sought to rival. The glass works Of
Alexandria were especially renowned
for their vases with blue and white
grounds and festoons Of colored glass,
and their products were exported to
Rome down to the days of AurehaD.
Classic authors inform us that the Egvp-
tlans were famous for initiating gems IN
colored glass, and bracelets. earrings
ard trlnkets Of the purest gold set with
these paste gems have been Forthcoming
to confirm this statement. Other speci3
mems show that they could not only Gid
and engrave glass and fuse it into colored
mosaics, but that they possessed the art
OF iusng gold in glass 50 as to unite-an
art until now looked upon as being as ut
tIerly lost as that of tempering copper to
the hardness Of the finest steel. which
the Egyptians also practiced Hence
glass thus instudded with granulated
gold has been hitherto regarded as one
OF the rarest and most curious relic. Of
antiquity-We University Wuql.lue
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is safety, anything short of that is danger.
This seems to us to be the great lesson
Of the crisis in Congregationalism, and if
the lesson shall be learned the price paid
will not have been too dear Examiner.
and Chronicle
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lr was a grand tribute to a grand and
well-rounded character, when the wife OF
Gen Havelock, in answer to the question
what is he doing? replied
do not know what he is DOING
do know he is trusting in God and doing
his duty
And when we have learned how to do
that in every position, high or low and
under all circumstances, prosperous or
adverse we shall have gained the secret
Of making the lowliest life sublime. is
not every life 50, that is luminous with
the truth2 ] have finished the work
Thou gavest me to do?"
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1880-08-25
HARTFORD KENTUCKY, AUGUST % 1880.

Our town is brimlul Of visitors and
has been for II week. Mrs. Gardiner, OF
Elizabethtown, is visiting her SOILS, q.
II. and II. =. Gardiner.
Mrs. Richards, of Hardin county, de
parted for home yesterday, after II short
visit to her daughter, Mrs. q. III Gar,li-
ner.
Misses Lou and Belle Smith, of Mum
fnrdvillc, are visiting their uncle, NIT.
=. Gardiner.
Misses Lizzie and Halle Lewis, of
Hardin county, and Miss lricilla Owen,
of breckenridge ARE visiting Mrs. Foster
lleyser; and there are quite II number
of other young ladies visiting different
families in town, but have been unable
To procure their NAMES or place of resi-
dcncc.
We were right glad Ia meet and take
10y the hand again our genial young
friend, Rev. Clay Roberts, of Glasgow,
on lat sunday. Mr.. Roberts has been
attending the Baptist Theological SEM
mary, at Louisville, for Il time; hut we
were sorry To learn that he is in very
lead health, at this time, 81 that he is
not able To preach.
Pho BoNo PUELICo.
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gcstiOns from those not ON the spot and
not rs fully acquainted with the facts
Us himself He desired, too, to be free
to act, ~ he had the eventual greater
responsibility, and so the matter was
governed rs between him and myself.
A. have been writing thus freely to
you | may still further unbOsom myself
by stating that / have not thought it
lawful or wise to Use federal troops in
such matters as have transpired east of
the Mississippi within the last few
mOnths-save 50 far as they may be
brought into action under the article of
the constitution which eOmtemplates
meeting armed resistance, or invasion
of a State, more powerful than the
State authorities can subdue by the or
binary processes-and then only when
requested by the legislature, or, if il
could not be convened i'm session, by
the Governor, and when the President
of the United States interveDes in that
matter it is IA state of war, not peace.
The army is laboring under disadvan-
tagtS, and has been used unlawfully at
times in the Judgment Of the people lin
mine certainly, and We have lost IA
great deal of the kindly feeling which
the community ut large once felt for
us. at is time to stop and unload"
Officers i'm command of troops often
find il difficult to act wisely and safely
when superiOrs i'm authority have ditler-
ent views Of the laws from theirs, and
when legislation has sanctioned action
seemingly i'm conflict with the funda-
mental law, and they generally defer
to the known judgment of their supe-
riors. Yet the superior officers of the
army are 81 regarded i'm such great
crises, and are held to such responsible
ity, especially those ut or near the head
Of il, that il is necessary On such mo
mentous occasions to dare to determine
for themselves what is lawful and what
is not lawful under our system, u The
military authorities should be invoked,
IL might possibly be the ease in such eX-
ceptiOnal times when there exist such Ill
vergent views rs to the correct result.
The army will suffer from its past ac-
ton if II has acted wrongfully. Our
regular army has little hold upon the
affections of the people Of to-day, ana
its superior officers should certainly, as
fair rs lies ia their power, legally and
with righteous intent aim To defend the
right, which to us is THE LAW and the
institutions which they represent. IL
is II well-meaning institution, and il
would be well if it should have an OPP
portunity to be recognized rs u bulwarS
in the support of the rights of the peo-
pie and of TIE LAW. L am truly yours,
WINFIELD ). HANCOCK.
To General w. Il. sherman, Command
ing Army of the United States, Wash
ington, ID. T..