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Daily Republican., 1880-12-30
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FARM rho property koown as Tie
isx I'm Fl-m containing / g acres oi very
RNuctYs land, about " mites rom WI
mtngton, on the IIanc lEUsr pix opposite
OaI Hlll soh0h house. Possession March
s,h. Apply Ncrsonslly or by lst'er %
JUIsPH II IfkUBB.
92S, EleYunth 81, Phil sdbiphia, Pa.
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Daily Republican., 1880-12-30

A Murray Hill, New York, girl, has
had ono OF her shapely feet modeIsd
in marble aud has presented it as birth
lay present 70 her sthsnosd husband
for a paper weight. A St. Louis girl
did the same thing, but the III ssthettc
10 whom she is 10 le uuited hear .lss2-
ly utilized shs gits as & foundation tor
mis- new residence Chicago Tribuos.
PshAw! That's nothing. A Chicago
Girl had her heart modelled li!e-,i2s, IN
mud, and presented 1t to her leyer, and
he never found 1t until he scrapei his
thumb nail QUE day and picked At of
tbs point OF his psn.knitd. .--Syracnse
S.SniATd.
Boston beats that. A girl sent ker
head modelled in plaster OF Paris 30 hel
fellow, and one day it fell OF his watch
chain, and he found the ground cov-
cred with Grssk particles New York
C0muercial.
Daily Republican., 1880-12-30

-.oR sALE-NAHU UFAorunlNH BUs
EVtsas The to,ls, fixtures, good wiz
,ssss @ o, my be1ok SARA on hliiott avenue
sho I'm stlt,n about business, 80, Apply
Rann RN sn,' SS shipiay s,reet. Tor ns easy:
NonVUjs Llo SAN MuEL Met'L ARY IH
Daily Republican., 1880-12-30

T0OR RENT.-ThB CITY HOr'L STA
4 blos. Apply to THOI CURLY,
l22gln City bas works.
YNDR RENT. -hO0 &S FOR BENT. AP
ID ply lila King st. vi
Daily Republican., 1880-12-30

In E-HuU b ASD IOI,
ponis,s W. Fsar oenth suott, Win iMso
y, font lawn. in oonp ous no..o,eIc vr"ss ion Al
oil msoS,s m,S,s accommodating. Appiy 70
ehssi NfHSS Bi. IA OniLD,
Market St-
Daily Republican., 1880-12-30
s...M Hts1.

-,sAI.euK LXuH lNus, -thk -
IN0h 5yiek stor snd dSoIl'ng nortn
a. syt "a aud Van Burea s,re " ,,onsns ~
s.' stss Is we'll sultsl ,or Sas,ne ,ts 81 ,so sIty
sSau rsp.slyo os srs a sins Or paa saoa 'ussa isr
VIII 70 sg,s ~, nr,ya,e Gwoiiing. Appy 70
psaIuh Sl' gHJM h II. LALL1,
oOg Market Htraet.
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defeat which attended that fall and the
palpable recognition of the fact that in
dulgences which have sapped the foua-
dations of public virtue, on which re-
publican institutionsrest, must be checked
IN modern as they were in ancient re-
publics
In the Institutes of Menu, trans
lated by Sir William Jones, whose
statutes, founded on immemorial Gus
tom, preceded by generations the code
OF Moses, are the following precepts as
to the ethical aspects of dancing. Under
the laws relating the marriage fidelity
the dancer" is ranked as lone who has
violated the law of chastity" (iii., 1859;
Its tendency being further indicated by
the prohibition that no Brahmin gain
wealth by dancing or any art that ex-
cites sensualty.' 1t is this conviction,
existing. from time immemorial in
Aslatlc nations, as every observing
traveller in Western, Southern, or East
ern Asia finds, that guides the illusions
in the books of the Old Testament. such
as those Of Moses and Job, of Solomon
and Hosea; and it is not religious but
a moral conviction that guides faithful
teachers in the Christian Church. The
Greclan history Of convictions as to the
dance, found from the Odyssey of Homer
to the dialogue of Plato, which convic-
tons led to restraining laws, are ON
phaslzed by Cicero in the days when the
old Roman virtue that had sustained
the Republic was giving away to the
imperial necessity for a rule of force.
In his Grafton for Murena Cicero saws.
" No intelligent man dances, unless he
is insane; no one in solitude; dancing is
the last attendant of boisterous con
VITALITY, of lewd places, of excessive
etfemlnancy; it Is the extreme of all
vices To indicate the association which
was in the mind of Roman statesmen in
their laws against dancing Cicero uses
this language de Otiic l., 35):-" Liberis
dare operam is thing proper in itself.
but obscene in the outward expression %.
These convictions of the last Roman
statesman of the Republic are repeated as
the ground of laws still on the statute
book against dancing, when for two fol-
lowing centuries Lactonius Nero I2)
and Dio Cassius e. , wrote on Roman
morals. Intelligent Christian teachers,
finding those dangers to public morals
perpetuated in modern society, call at
tention, like the French nobleman. to
observed facts, not to traditional senti-
ment, as the ground of church objections
to dancing. G. w. SAMSON
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The Ethical Law of Dancing.

To the Editor Of the Nc1o York Herald:
Your recent editorial allusion to the
ethical objections of Viscount de Brieux
Salnt-Laurent to dancing, brought out
in his recent pamphlet, is accompanied
by an indirect request for a statement
of the grounds on which the Chris
tan Church objects to this amusement
The fact Of such objection, taken for
granted by the editor, is illustrated bv
the appeal recently made by the Scotch
Church in Canada to Lord Lorne. as
Scottish Prince, that the dance be ex-
Guided at Court receptions. The expe-
Renee OF thirty years at Washington has
tested the fact that less formal remon-
sstrances have effected the same end, to a
large extent, in official receptions at our
national capital. The important fact to
note is that the objections to dancing
are ethical rather than religious, and
that the Jurist rather leads than follows
the divine; the churchmam learning
from the statesman in this opposition.
The Old and New Testaments and their
intelligent expounders treat the moral
evils OF dancing as they do other vices
against whose incipient stages the wis
(I9 OF Legislators has framed safeguards
There are four indulgences so ensnarinp
that they have been found, in all ages
among nations Of high civilization, to
lead on inevitably to an extreme which
ends IN an unreasoning intoxicaton.
These four -wine-drinking, the
dance, the theatre, and gaming all Of
which, down to our day, are classed to-
gether as requiring restrictive legisla-
ton. This legislation among the an
clients, and now in Asia, is prohibitory.
Against each in our day men associated
with the young have declared that they
tend inevitably to moral degeneracy. It
is a striking fact that as to each of these
four, French patriots have been. most
pronounced since the fall Of the second
Napoleon the humiliation Of national
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are three others-all republished by Messrs. A.
D. F. Randolph & Co.. 900 Broadway. They
breathe the very spiiit of devoted love to Christ
and to souls These last are prepared for chill
dren (for whom sire loved to work.. They are
simple little talks which must commend them
selves to any child's heart, and she laid them
down on the counterpane when the Master sud-
denly called saying to her sister, Tell them the
rest" Her Royal Commandments, and MINIS
try of Song, and Kings Servants, with many
other little works, have gone to forty, fifty and
sixty editions in England. When we come to
have her Life, which is promised, we will find
that Frances Havergal was as great worker in
her sphere as Sister DorG. M. j. ?.
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MISSIONS.

CH1NA.-At'a communion service re-
Gently held at Hanchow, two boys from
Mr.. Painters school, and one girl from
MIR. Randolph's We're received to mem
bershlp in the church. There were nine
applicants for admission, but only three
were received, the others being deferred
to a future MSSioaayaJ- (SoutT-
ern Presby terian)
Mr.. Davis pleads with great earnest
ness for the $1,000 with which to pur.
chase the new lot at Soochow. He says:
Gould you not make special appeal to
the Synod of North Carolina? / have
written about the case to the North
Carolina Presbyterian, and it seems to
me that special appeal to the SYNOD
would bring forth the needed $1,000
without lessening the usual contributions
of their churches. III.
MExIoo-Senor Carrero, the native
evangelist, who was recently sent from
Matamoras to establish new station at
Victoria, in Eastern Mexico, writes that
although the leadingpadr had denounced
hlm on his arrival, and all who should
speak to him or have anything at all to
do with him, nevertheless there were
eighty or ninety persons to attend his
hrst religious service, of whom there
were at least twenty women, and that
the utmost decorum prevailed throughout
the service.-Lb.
BRAz1L.-CAMPINAs INsTITUTE.-Th
were seventy-fve pupils in the Campinas
Institute March 9Th, and others were ex-
Pected to join Mr.. Boyle, since his re-
moval to Moggy Mirim, has received ten
persons at Penha, and two at Moggy-
Mirlm, besides baptizing a number of
children at both places.-Z6.
THE JAPANESE New TESTAMENT
The Rev R. S. Maclay Of Yokohama.
writes You doubtless will be gratifed
to learn that the committee which has
been engaged in translating the New
Testament into the japanese language, has
at length completed its labore. A care
ful revision which will now be given to
the entire manuscript so as to prepare a
clean copy from which to print the
standard edition of the work. The work
of translation and revision was formally
commenced by the committee in 1874
and was completed December 2 1879
To those prepared to appreciate the
momentous Importance of the work on
which the committee had been so long
engaged it will not appear strange that
to the members Of the committee the
completion Of the work was an event Of
great interest. The reading Of the last
verse of the approved translation by Mr..
Matsuyama the faithful Japanese assist
ant, was finished at 1139 A. NJ, Deem
Der 2, 1879, after which, at the suqges-
ton Of the Rev. D. O. Greene, DR. j. c..
Hepburn, the senior member Of the COM
mlttee and Mr.. Matsuyama, Ted the com
mittee in devout Thanksgiving to AL
mighty God for his distinguishing mercy
IN having brought the committee to the
termination Of It's labors-Bble S3c,cf1
Record
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srUMBLINe sroNEsi on. HNDERAxcEs mo- BE.

STUMBLING STONES OR, HINDERANcEs TO Be
LIEvING. By w. II. NJ. II. Aitken, M. A.,
Late incumbent of Christ Church, Everton.
Published by A. ID. F. Randolph & Co., New
York. For sale by Presbyterian Publi3hing
Company, j. l.. Shotwell, agent 1901 Main
street, Richmond Va. Price 81.
The author is minister of the Established
Church of England, and showsin this work how
many of the stumbling Stones or Hinderances
to believing" which he had met with in his
work as an evangelist. may be removed. 1t is
Intended both for the use of ministers who may
encounter similar obstacles in their work, and
for those who may be perplexed with difficulties
in embracing the great salvation of the gospel.
He presents many of these difficulties in the
very words of those who stumble or halt, and
for the most part deals with them in a very wise
and practical way.
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MAGAZINES.

The BRITISH QUARTERLY REVIEW for April
Contents:
/. Planets, Moons, and Meteorites. 2. Winck.
elmann. 3. The Profession of an Architect
4 The English System Of Penal Servitude
D. The Revolutionary Movement in Russia.
.: Circumstantlal Evidence. 7. The Political
Situation. g. Contemporary Literature
The YRe1N1As for May. A mining. indus
trial, and scientific journal devoted to the de
yeloPment OF Virginia and West Virginia Pub
lished monthly in stanton, va. bv Major
Jed. Hotchkiss
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The AGE-TENrPTATIoN OF AMERICAN CHRISTIANS;
and Chrsts Own Method of Gaining the Vic
tory and the Kingdom. A. D. f. Randolph
& Co. For sale by Presbyterian Publishing
Company j. L. Shotwell agent, 1901 Main
street, Richmond, Va Price $l.25
This is an anonymous volume but is of more
value than the most of those which are published
with the name of the author 1t presents in a
clear light the temptations to which American
Christians and Churches are exposed to harmo
nize Christianity and the world, by the perver-
sion of religion to the popular belief of men,
rather than by the conversion of men to real
Christianity.
The eighth chapter american Christianity
its present Age Temptation" reminds one of
Wilberforce's " Practical View" and is timely
warning against spurious liberalism which
would conciliate men to Christianity by con
forming its teachings and its requirements to their
tastes and wishes. 1t does not go to the oppo-
site extreme Of presenting religion in an obnox-
ious and repellent way to any who are willing
to receive the truth as it is in Jesus.
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If God hath made this world so fair.
Where sin and death abound;
How beautiful beyond compare,
viii paradise be found
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A SHORT LIFE OF CHARLES DICKENS WITH Sc
LEcTIoNs FROM HIS LETTERS BY Charles II
Jones. New York D. Appleton & Co. 1880.
One of the New Handy Volume Series Price
80 cents
This is an extremely well-written and agreea-
BILE biography, in small compass, of the great
novelist. 1t gives us good insight into his
methods of writing, his pains taking industry,
and his own estimate of his work, as also into
his unhappy domestic life 1t shows him also an
intense hater of everything American. But
those who wish to understand Dickens would do
well to buy the work, for it is an excellent BIZ
ography.
For sale at $40 Broad street, Richmond, by
Carlton Mccarthy
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1880-05-12

The SAvIoUR's CONVERTS. What we Owe to
them, and How we may Aid them BY the
Rev. William Scribner, author of Pray for
the Holy Spirit" etc. New York: Charles
Scribner's Sons, 1880.
The object of this excellent little book is
mainly to deepen the interest which all Chris
tians take in converts and to incite to increased
efforts designed for their benefit 1t is a clear,
evangelical, practical treatise, useful as guide
to mature Christians in their dealings with con-
verts, and useful to the young convert who de-
sires light and help in the new life on which he
has entered. We hope it will be widely crcu-
lated
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1880-05-12

ELEMENTARY PRINCIPLES OF SCIENTIFIC AGRI
CULTURE. By N. T. Lupton, LII. D., Profess
8or of Chemistry in Vanderbilt University.
Nashville, Tenn. New York D. Appleton
Co. Received through Carlton Mccarthy.
SO Broad street. Richmond.
This Is handsome little science primer of
LOG pages. Price so cents. It is just the sort
of thing for those who desire an insight into the
elementary principles of scientific agriculture.
We should think it would prove very interest.
ing to our farmers.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1880-05-12

We have received from l. K. Funk Il Co.. 10
Dey street, New York. Rowland Hill His
Life, Anecdotes, and Pulpit Sayings" By Yer
non ). Charlesworth, with an Introduction by
@. H. Sturgeon. Price 10 cents
From the same publishers we have received
volume II Of knights Popular History of Eng
land Complete in eight volumes). Price 30
cents
Our thanks are due to Hon. Joseph E. John
ston for the Report Of the Postmaster. General
for 1879-SO.
CATALOGUE Of Davidson College for 1879 30
is also received
Litchfield enquirer., 1880-07-22
Plymouth Sketches No. 365.

Having again been remiss in lily correspond
ancc, and will briefly 80 back a few steps.
On Sunday, June 9th, the Rev. Mr.. Hill
| LARD of the LIST Congregational church exchang-
ed with the Rev. Mr.. Griggs of Terryvilc
On Wednesday, the 3Oth, and Thursday
July LIST, our Center schools closed.
On Saturday, the 3rd, the Band of Hope,
with others, gathered on the Park; but the
weather being somewhat unpleasant, the pre-
vioasly arranged plan for going to One Pine
grove was given up, and in its stead music and
| addresses (by Rev MIR. Hllard and George
Langdon Esq were listened to in the Con
gregational lecture room; after which pro-
cession was formed and marched about the
village, headed 10y a portion of the Wolcott,
Drum Band. Subsequently bountifu sup
ply of refreshments were served in the Town
Hall.
On Sunday, the 4th, the Rev. Mr. Gill.
land of St. Peters read-more especially for
| the Sunday school children-a short printed
sermon (by the Rev. DR.. John N Norton) on
the character of George Washington.
On Monday, the 9th, party of our
young people made an excursion to Bantam
Lake.
Some two weeks since son of Mr.. Rcu.
| ben j. Thayer was badly injured by falling
from a cherry tree. ..
On Thursday evening. the 18th, the young
| people of st. Peters parish held Lawn Fes-
| tival on the Park. The Thouaston cornet
band was present and furnished music liberal
in quantity and most excellent in quality. a
| clear sum of thirty or forty dollars resulted
from the joyful occasion.
On Sunday, the 18th, the Rev. Mr.. Hill
lard exchanged with the Rev. M. Stats of
| Bristol. In the evening the latter delivered a
temperance discourse here.
-Lucius Langdon and wife, and Mr.. Ar
| thur Langdon, have returned from trip to the
| West.
MIR. A. B. Curtiss proprietor of the
| ''Quiet House, has been very unwell, but is
now somewhat improved.
of fruits small and large there is plenti.
full supply.
| "A few cases Of measles have occurred,
yet general health prevails. PLYMorHEAN.
July 10Th. 1880.
Litchfield enquirer., 1880-07-22
Naugatuck Railroad.

0tommencing May Sd, 1880, trains will leave
~ LITCHFIELD STATION as follows
$50 A. M.-Freight Train, with Passenger Accommo-
dation
62s A. M.-Passenger train for Bridgeport-through
a car attached to this train for New Haven.
Through car for New York arriving at
Grand Central Depot at 1924 a This
train connects at Waterbury for Hartford.
1916 P. M.-Freight train for Waterbury and Bridge
port.
143 P. M.-Passenger train for Bridgeport-through
Gar attached for New Haven-connects
- at Bridgeport with Boston Express for
New York.
5.18 P. MINK train, Passenger from Waterbury,
connects at Waterbury for Watertown, at
Ansonia for New Haven, at Bridgeport
f=+ with Limited Express for New York also
with Steamer Bridgeport. Saturdays ex-
copied.
Trains leave New York, Grand Central Depot, for
Ltchheld, at sos m, and at 400 p. through
and by Limited Express.
Trains leave New Haven, from New Haven & Derby
b. r. Depot. at 1000 m $50 p. m.
Trains leave Litchield for Winsted, at 900 and
1850 a. m. 1915 4.2O and 744 p. m.
WATERBURY WATERFOWL R, R.
Trains leave Watertown at $40 a. M, and 1850 p m.
connecting with passenger trains to New York.
Leave Waterbury at II 20 a. m. and .05 p. M, on
arrival of trains from New York.
Stages to and from Litcheld connect with all trains
at Litchfeld Station.
Stage for Bethlehem and Morris leaves Water
town dsily.
Stages tor Woodbury. Harwinton, Otis Colebrook,
and Goshen connect with 1000 a. m. train from
Bridgeport.
GEO. W. BEAcH, Superintendent
Bridgeport Maya, 1885,
d. @. KILBoURNE, Station Agent, Lftchheld.
Litchfield enquirer., 1880-07-22
HarWlnton.
No army WORMS here yet.

NO army WORMS here yet.
The may crop steadily improves.
MIR. Geo. E. Taft, who has tauht the
Baskerville school for several seasons, has re-
turned to town with his family.
Miss Jennie H.. Middlebrook, of Bridge
port, and n graduate of Miss Burlingame's
school of that city, is rusticating with her
cous ms here
Henry D. Reynolds has got another son,
and Chas. Olmsted, ditto.
The new editor of the Wocottville Reg
lister is is Harwinton man.
Two owners of dogs who failed to get
their ours registered have been prosecuted by
our selectmen and have paid fines and costs to
the tune of some eleven dollars each Some
other delinquents will soon be made to toe the
mark also.
The man who struck Orville BARRIERS
housekeeper was captured by the Waterbury
police and brought up here by member of
the force. last Saturday, and taken to the
county boarding house to await trial by the
Superior court.
Mr.. Chas Castle is in . decline from con-
sumption. -..-..,.. .,... rr.s-
We were in error when we stated that
LIST district school taught by Miss Hattie
Smith, of Litch6eld, had closed, for it was
opened again. last week, after weeks vaca-
tion LG.
Litchfield enquirer., 1880-07-22
WESTERN CORRESPONDENCE.
LYONS IulY 1880

LYONS July II, 1880.
ED. ENo.-It Is not my purpose to occupy
much of your valuable space with politics, but
the following in substance from the Albany
Evening Journal is 50 strangely cenfirmatory
of the statements ON this subject, in my last,
and to my mind is such an important factor
in this contest, feel inclined to send it.
When the House of Representatives became
Democratic, a bill passed, sending Southern
Claims TO the amount of 1924 DOC, 600 to the
Court of Claims for adjudication, but it was
squelched by the Republican Senate The
reason it has not been received since, ia simply
because it was known that it could not escape
the Presidential veto and that it would only
alarm the North and tell powerfully against
them in this presidential campaign. But let
them get their President and full control of
the Government, and the 1924. 900, 600 would
be only drop in the bucket of the trumped
up claims that would have to be paid. l
think with you that the country will survive
Democratic Administration, as it did the last,
but it does not seem to me the time has cone
tuC CAPOiiu1Cu9 OSCi dS0lu, III
of great prosperity and peace; and expect
the country will come to the same conclusion
before the End, of November.
Barnum's ''only and greatest show on Earth
exhibited here yesterday. Miss Mary Patrick,
the returned missionary, who has been spend
ing vacation at her home, here, after eight
years service in Turkey, met his ''tatooed
Greek" land conversed with him in his native
language; he was much pleased to find per-
son who could converse with him in Greek.
She returns to her work in Constantinople in
about two weeks. .
The weather for week back has been ex-
tremely hot, the thermometer reaching 1929
in the shade. An old farmer got his piety
mixed in remarking on the heat 1t was id
hot. last night, but corn was growing all the
time, thank God" The water has fallen to a
good boating stage and business on the river
is booming. Wheat in this section is poor,
bat corn, our principle staple, is coming on
splendidly.
These are the days when census returns are
in order: Clinton, 9,O6S; Lyons, 4,O92; Full
ton, 1894. The three "Cluster Cities within
radius of three or four miles aggregate
over Is, OO0 Al
Litchfield enquirer., 1880-07-22
w atert0wn.

E. M. Smith, census enumeration, says we
have 1896 inhabitants.
Saturdays shower probably caught more
hay out over the Sabbath than is very often
the case and rumor says that some of it was
taken care of the next day, if it was Sunday,
and by some too who occupy front seats in the
Congregational chuch.
Hamilton Black, aged 81 years, son of
James Black, died Monday night of consump-
ton. The funeral was largely attended from
the Methodist church. Wednesday afternoon.
The remarks of Rev. S. T. Smith were listen
ed too with marked attention aud the large
concourse of surrounding friends that follow
ed the remains to the grave, showed the esteem
in which the young man was held in the
town.
The wife of DR.. Allyn. NJ. Hungerferd
was buried, Friday. Rev. Mr.. Croft officiated
assisted by Rev. Mr.. Freeland, a former Pas
tor of the Congregational church.
The Congregational Sunday school will
picnic at High Rock Grove some time in Au-
gust. r.