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The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1880-04-14
Make it Right.

There are few persons who are not
conscious Of having wronged their fell
low-men. They may dispute it, ques-
ton it, or deny it, but they know that
it is true nevertheless. The question
then rises, what should be done There
are many who know the wrong, but will
not admit it; there are others still who
both know and admit the wrong doing.
but who take no steps toward repairing
the mischief they have wrought, or undo
ing the wrong they have done.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1880-04-14

We had just been reading in Tie Cen
trol Presbyterian a very Just condemna-
ton Of the indecency Of the modern
dance when we turned to the last num-
Der Of Mature and read the report of Dr.
b. B. Tylor's anniversary address Janu-
airy 9th, before the Archaeological
Institute Speaking Of the orgies Of the
counting dance, which in primitive
races connected with the pairing Of the
sexes in the spring and autumn. DR.
Tylor says that the dances of the
modern ballroom, however refined and
eeremonious, show clear traces Of descent
from these ruder performances, not only
in form, but in actual purpose. "-Eade-
pendent.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1880-04-14

The Prudential Committee of the Amer
lean Board has wisely granted from the
Otis bequest $4,000 each to the Central
Turkish College at Aintab, the Armenian
College at Harpoot, and the Jaffna Col
lege in Ceylon.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1880-04-14
" The Burial of Moses. u

BY Nebos lonely mountain,
On this side Jordan's wave.
In vale in the land of Moab.
There lies a lonely grave,
And no man dug that sepulchre,
And no man saw it e'er,
For the "Sons of God" upturned the sod,
And laid the dead man there.
That was the grandest funeral
That ever passed on earth
ButHno man heard the trampling.
Or saw the train go forth.
Noiselessly as the daylight,
Comes when the night is done,
And the crimson streak on oceans cheek
Grows into the great sun.
Noiselessly as the spring-time
Her crown of virtue weaves
So, without sound of music
Or voice of them that wept,
Silently down from the mountains crown
The great procession swept
Perchance the bald old eagle.
On gray Beth-peo height,
Out of his rocky eyry
Looked on the wondrous sight;
Perchance the lion stalking,
Still shuns that hallowed spot;
For beast and bird have seen and heard
That which man knoweth not.
But when the warrior dieth,
His comrades in the war
With arms reversed, and muffled drum
Follow the funeral car
They shew the banners taken,
They tell his battles won,
And after him lead his masterless steed,
While peals the minute gun.
Amid the noblest of the land
Men lay the sage to rest,
And give the bard an honored place
With costly marble drest-
In the great minister transept,
Where lights like glory fall,
And the sweet choir sings, and the organ rings
Along the emblazoned wall.
This was the bravest warrior
That ever buckled sword
This, the most gifted poet
That ever breathed word
And never earth's philosopher,
Traced with his golden pen,
On the deathless page, truths half so sage.
AS he wrote down for men.
And had he not high honor?
The hillside for his pail,
To lie in state while angels wait,
With stars for tapers tall,
And tAe dark rock-pines like tossing plumes
Over his bier to wave,
And Gods own hand, in that lonely land,
10 lay him in the grave
In that deep grave without a name
Whence his uncofined clay
Shall break again-most wondrous thought
Before the Judgmentday,
And stand, with glory wrapped around,
On the hills he never trod,
AID speak of the strife that won our life
With the Incarnate Son of God.
- lonely tomb in Moab's landl
0 dark Beth peers hill
Speak to these curious hearts of ours,
And teach them to be still.
God hath His mysteries of grace,
Ways that we cannot tell
And hides them deep, like the secret sleep
OF him he loved so WE'LL
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1880-07-23
Beer IS Z Universal Beverage.

We are prone to think Of beer as con.
fined, in respect to manufacture, to
Europe and the United States. But
many kinds Of beer are made in other
countries indeed, It is q far more gen
eral drink than is commonly supposed:
In South America the natives prepared
and drank beer obtained from corn
'(maize), and called chica, long before
the Spaniards had gained foothold
there. The corn is moistened with
water, allowed to sprout partially, and
then dried in the sun. The malt SO pre-
pared is bruised, treated with warm
water, and set aside until fermentation
has ceased. In the valleys of the Sierra
corn malt primitive and unpleasant) is
chewed by the natives, and the chewed
morsel put in jars with hot water, when
fermentation becomes more rapid. The
chica beer is also produced from barley,
rice, peas, manico, pines and grapes.
The Grim Tartars make beer from millet
seed and name it bouza. The same seed
is employed in Likkim, on the northern
slopes Of the Lower Himalayas, and
yields beer known as murwa. The Rus
slams prepare beer from rye and call it
quaas. The Arabians, Abyssinians and
many African tribes compound beer Of
tef and millet seed The Tartars have
mild beer made of mares or camel's
milk fermented. The Arabians use the
milk to produce their lebau, and the
Turks the youart. In the Orkneys and
some parts of Ireland buttermilk is per-
mitted to stand until it ferments and is
then drunk. The South Sea islanders
make from the Intoxicating
long pepper, and enjoy it greatly. Thus
we see that beer, under many names and
prepared in many ways, is well-nigh a
universal beverage. York Times.
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1880-07-23
Wall Street, New York.

Across the island Of New York, in
1855, a wall made Of stone and earth.
and cannon mounted, was built to keep
off the savages. Along by that wall q
street was laid out, and, as the street
followed the line Of the wall, it was ap-
propriately. called Wall street. It is
narrow, it is short it is unarchitectural,
and yet it's history is unique. Except
ing Lombard street, London, it is the
mightiest street on this planet. There
the Government Of the United States
was born. There Washington held his
levees. There Mrs. Adams and Caldwell,
and Knox, and other brilliant women Of
the Revolution displayed their charms.
There Witherspoon and Jonathan Ed
wards and George Whitefeld sometimes
preached. There DR.. Mason chided
Alexander Hamilton for writing the
Constitution of the United States with
out any God in it. There negroes were
sold in the slave mart. There criminals
were harnessed to wheelbarrows, and,
like beasts Of burden, compelled to draw.
Of were dashed through the street be-
hind carts to which they were fastened.
There fortunes have come to coronation
or burial, since the day when reckless
spectators, in powdered hair and silver
shoe-buckles, lodged Dugan, the Gov
ernor General of his Majesty, clear
down to yesterday at 3 o'clock.
The history of Wall street is to a Ger
tain extent the financial, commercial.
agricultural, mining, literary, artistic,
moral, and religious history Of this coun-
Try. Only a few blocks long, it has
reached from the Canadas to the Gulf Of
Mexico, from San Francisco to Bangor.
There are the best men in this country,
and there are the worst. Everything,
from answering integrity to tip-top
scoundrelism- every thing from heaven
born charity to b1oodless Shylockism.
DR.. Ialuage. -
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1880-07-23
The. sRoil Bengol Taeeer.,,

These are Little Johnny's observa-
tons on the Roll Bengol1 Tagger," as
communicated to the San. francisco -Ar!
gO1a0,lt: 80. IN S!i..s...; t....,s.ff
+af "One time there was a man who had
g tagger, and the tagger it was sho,
and the man he tuke the money for to
get in. The man he had q big paper
naild onto the tagger's den, and the
paper it said, the paper did: The Roll
1Bengol Tagger, sometimes called the
Monnerk Of the Jungle. 1Handstof. No
Techin the Tagger! The monnerk of
the jungle it was always layin down
with its nose tween its poz, and the foxes
wich had paid for to get in they was mad
cos it wudent wock, and rore like dissent
thunder. But the sho man he said :
That's oil rite when Z git the new cage
done, but this is the same cage which
the ofde teller broke out Of In Oregon,
time he ct up the seventeen men and
their families. Then the foxes they
would oil stand back and took in wispers
while the tagger slep. But one dayia
Teller witch was drunk he tuke to punch
in the tagger with the masthead Of his
umbreller, wich stampeded the oddience
wild, and the Wimmin foxes they stud
onto chairs and hollered like it was q
mouse, but the drunk chap he KEEP job
bin the monnerk Of the Jungle crewel.
Pretty sumo the monnerk itbellered offle
and rggled, hut the Teller KEEP aIpokin
like he was fireman to q steam engin.
Bimeby the monnerk it jumped onto its
Z hine feetsf and shucked itself out Of. its
skin and roied up its sleefs and spiit on
to It's hands andispoke up and red: 6
Sbedam III II can't Jest whollip the pea
green stufin out so' the gum-i1asted ga-
loot Wichs has ssbena proddin this ere
tAggerY And HE oddience thay.vsssa
stonish r.
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1880-07-23
A Detectives Ruse.

a man was wanted by the police, says
the London Sporting and Dramatic
NeaUs, and his skill in the arts of "mak-
ing up" and lodging his would-be
captors was SO considerable that, for
long time, he escaped detection. At
length clever detective was put on his
track, and first Of all he began to in
quire about his associates. One of the
most intimate of them was, it appeared,
certain young woman, and about her
he first of all found out everything. He
had reason to suspect that she was &C.
quainted with the fugitive's hiding place
So the first thing to be done was to fol-
low her one Saturday afternoon, when
she was free from her employment. An
innocent young detective in the guise of
carpenter, was told off to watch, and
endeayored to strike up an acquaintance,
IN which design he was not very success
full, though he ascertained that Kingston
was her destination that afternoon. To
/ Kingston he went, and traced her to a
house occupied by an old man, about
whom the neighbors knew no more than
that he was an old man. He was an
elderly invalid. never went to the door,
never went out. saw nobody; and how
was he to be caught and examined?
There was nothing known about him to
justify the police IN entering the house,
and the detective walked round the place,
in company With the carpenter, wonder
ing what to do next. At the back of the
house was garden, in which was a ken
mel containing big dog, or rather not
containing him, for he was lying out in
the sun at the end of his chain. No
sign of life was visible in the house.
"Jump over the wall and kick that dog:
then hide behind the summer-house.
said the detective to the carpenter
In moment the young man was over
the wall, and the dog was bowling from
the effects of a kick in the ribs. Neigh
boring dogs joined in the chorus, and at
the window appeared the old gentleman.
No one was about; the dog continued to
howl, and mcautiously the owner came
down the garden to see what was the
matter. Beneath the well-made gray
wig the detectives keen eyes recognized
the object of his search, and in q mo-
ment the arrest was made.
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1880-07-23
Why Uncle Phil Broke the Sabbath.


There are great many people, in their
religion, that remind meof ''Uncle Phil, "
q pious old darby Of the old times in
Texas.
Well, Phil was fervent Christian,
with great gift of prayer. He attend
ed all the Saturday night prayer-meet-
ings on the neighboring plantations, and
could pray louder and longer than any
of the brethren. But Phil had one weak
ness, he dearly loved money, and, differ
emit from the negro generally, loved to
hoard it.
+ Near by us lived man who, not troub-
led by any scruples, would pay Phil a
dollar to work in his fields on Sunday.
One Sunday night Phil came home after
/ dark. Iaccosted him with:
"Where have you been, Phil?"
ooh, jest knocking about, massa.''
''You have been working for Miller"
.'Well, you see, massa, the old fellow
is in weeds, and he jest showed me a sill
yer dollar and I jest couldn't stand it."
"Ain't you afraid the devil will get
you for breaking the Sabbath"
Phil scratched his head a minute and
said:
II guess the Lord Il 'scuse me, massa. :"
'No. He says, remember the Sab.
bath day and keep it holy" =
Phil went off looking pretty sober,
and it was not long before I heard his
voice in fervent prayer back of the barn,
SO I thought I would slip down near
enough to hear.
ooh, Lord!' I heard him say, II have
this day ripped and feared, cussed and
sweared ct them COMPOUNDED oxen of Mil.
ler's and jest broke the Sabbath day.
Oh, Lord, please forgive me please for.
I give me, for You knows Use nothing but
miserable heather anyhow. II You'll
jest forgive me this time I'll never do il
again as long as I live, 'cepten he gives
| me 50. 50a day."
! At this point I was obliged to beat q
shasty retreat, but I am thinking that
| poor Phil isn't the only $3.50 Christian
| in this world -
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1880-07-23
About the Meeker Indian Massacre.

A July 18th telegram from Cheyenne
says: G. F. Dresser, friend Of the late NJ. c.
Meeker, agent of the Utes, had just returned
from the scene OF the september massacre at
White river. He reinterred the remains OF
Meeker and eight employees, including his two
sons, which had been hastily buried by Mer.
rit's command. Dresser found q chain about
four feet long around the neck of Meeker'sre-
mains, proving the story true that the Utes
had dragged the body about the agency after
the massacre. The remains were much de.
composed. Colorow, with other head men
and Douglas daughter came into the agency
last week to trade. On inquiring persistently
he said they lived on ponies last winter and
were very hungry and peaceful now. i Colorow
said he and other chiefs were going imme.
dlately to the Uncompahga Commissioners,
He knew not the whereabouts Of Persume and
johnson. ~ - .'.---
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1880-07-23
Col. Dahlgren,s Death.

IL was now beginning 70 get dark, and
we wanted some rest ana somstnlng to
eat, and crossing creek we matted IN
an oid neld, Where Col. Dahigfen TOOK a
short nap. we We're soon moving again,
ana mao not marched ABOVE halt mile,
when the advance was stopped by
an obstruction in the road. Lieut..
Merritt rode back and met the Colonel
and asked for more men. The Colonel,
Maj. Cook, myself and ten or twenty
men rode rapidly to the front, and upon
arriving at the trees that were across the
road we were met BY an order to snrren-
sder, both parties demanding q surrender
at the same time Col. Dahlgren then
leyeled ~ = revolver g, ct the person who
seemed to be the officer n command OF
the Confederates, but his pistol missed
fire. In an instant volley was poured
into our left Hank the whole length OF
our line, and SO close that the flashes
almost reached our horses. This caused
stampede, as every horse IN our com
mana turned and broke down the
road: After gong lew yards we
checked up and crossed fence on
our right, and formed on the top OF
r1dge Q few rods from the road. We
now began to look who was missing, and
found the Colonel was not on hand.
This number OF us were aware of be-
fore, having seen him fall of his horse
by the light of the flash Of the guns.
Maj. Cooke was not on horseback, for
when we reached the ridge his horse fell
at the same lire that killed the Colonel.
In tact, there was only one volley not
shot ared atterWard nor man to be
seen. We We're allowed to form IN the
nelq IN peace, andhad We GUIDE we
mlgnt sun nave reacnea houcester
fomt' on zen. butiers INES put we
were now enurely without any knowi-
eage o. !ne surroundings; the men a.
most deao 3or steep ana OUT OF ammnnl,
tlon tne norses apo1t Piayed OUT ana
every one more OF less demorailzed.
ana was II strange! we aad been IN
the saddle Tor seVenty,slx hours with
OUT malt long enough TO get any sleep.
A counch was now held TO determine
what should he done, NOR We d3d not IN,
tend 10 give up. Ii Vas hnally agreed
upon 10 1asten the hoAses IN hollow
square by fastening the SAVERS into the
ground, and then every one Try to make
ms escape, Inc COMMISSIONED omcefs
MAJ. cooke, Lieut. merritt ana my,
se1,togetner with four scouts ana
gu1aes' were 70 go IN party: we m
tenaed 10 cross me country, gong north,
ana strike me haPpanannock river oe-
low FREDERICKSBURG ana get one OF our
PleKet Doats' -,
we le1t the men ana horses ana crept
IKE cats 70 the WOODS lthe same We had
ambushed irony and through the bushet
about mile, when it began to break
day, March 3. We hid In pine thicket
all day, and at dark set out. 1 had with
me compass and a good Typographical
map of that part of Virginia. which en-
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1880-07-23
Creation Fire.

AsBradford, Pa, telegram OF July 10,
Says: Tank soa Belonging to The Acme oil
company. about one. third up the Kansas
branch near McKasney, Nss struck BY light
ming early this morning and is burning fnri-
onsly. Tank Nos31, about hundred feet down
the strssm,is in dsage The superlntendents
are now With 9 gang Of men digeine and aiso
damming the stream to save more tanks.
Some 900 barrel tanks are now burning
near Custer City. They were also struck by
lightning last night. Both Of them belong to
the united pipe lines. Later: At II O'Clock
tonight one Of the huge iron tanks st Custer
had been burned, and the other was at the
boiling over point. Water Is being pumped
in and the oil drawn off and burned on the
surface Of the stream. It now looks Is
other property and djoining tanks were safe.
The burning tank at Kansas branch has al
most spent Its fury, and it Is thought the FIRE
viii be confined to iits present limits. The
loss up to the present from the storm IN Brad.
ford region win reach $ll6O00. IS;
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1880-07-23
Mount Vernon,

Whence Mount Vernon derived its
name is told by the New York Times
It says:
The unfortunate Duke Of Monmouth
had private secretary named Vernon,
a prudent, sensible man of business,
who, after the Dukes death, found ia
vor in influential quarters, and under
William IT.. became Secretary of State.
(: He left son, Edward, born 1884, who,
greatly against his fathers wishes, en-
tered the navy, and, serving with early
distinction, rose to the rank of Admiral.
In 1922 he was returned to the House
OF Commons, and having in July, 1879,
declared there that Porto Bello might
be reduced with six sail of the line, and
he would stake his life and reputation
on the success Of the expedition, he was
sent with squadron to do it, succeeded,
and gave his men $40, 900, which had
Just arrived to pay his troops.
On returning home he received the
thanks Of both houses and the freedom
OF the city of London. From that time,
however, his star declined.
An expedition to Carthagena, made
two years later, signally failed.
1t was in the land force at Carthagena
that Lawrence Washington, Georges
eldest brother by fourteen years, had
served, and, apparently, he esteemed
Vernon, as he gave his name to his home
on the Potomac, and procured Mid
shipman's appointment for George, but
his mothers interposition ultimately pre-.
vented the boys awaiting himself of it,
albeit she at first consented.
Vernon's popularity was so great that
his unlucky expedition does not seem to
have affected it, as he was actually elect
ed to Parliament for three places at once
on his return.
Probably his known hostility to the
Government had much to. do with this.
In 1745 he was detailed to watch the
North sea, in view of a movement of
the Pretender's adherents. :: ,<''
:; The next year q serious squabble
arose between him and the Government,
resultingin his producing two pamphlets,
which so exasperated the authorities
that, by the Kings express command,
he was struck off the list of Admirals.
He died in 1857, at his seat in Suffolk,
and, Notwithstanding his disgrace, a
handsome monument was erected in
Westminster Abbey. 49,. ,|
1t was Vernon who brought into use
the custom of mixing water with the ra-
ton Of rum, which got the name Of grog
from his habit of wearing a grogram
waistcoat, and hence his nickname of
cold Grog." :
Altogether, the man who invented
nrn1t ID h,,rio1 oh Tvoo%,,,;re%or Ah1o,,~
commemorated by Smollet, and gave a
name to Washington's home, must be
regarded as no ordinary person. +
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1880-07-23
HoMa Town Got . Queer Name

What's IN name? a good deal, we
are told, and how came Tombstone, Ari-
IONA, to have such 8 name twas not
borrowed or stolen from any. other place
on the globe, nor ever suggested by
novel or gazetteer. The story goes, and
il is true, that two young men, brothers,
when about 10 start from Tuscon on q
prospecting tour in the Dragon mount
aims, Sonora, or somewhere else, were
#adyised to give up the undertaking, for
Sc they persisted they would find neither
mine nor for tunes, but q tombatouss' 2
instead The boys brayely babe good
BY 70 their friends though emphattically
warned that they would newer come back
Eaiye. The pFospectors went odE. md.
following g that blind txaiil . already IL
ierred Is, came to this plain md ma5e
their camp. On 1ooliing shout tlhsusaw
. ledge q ora cropping ont several feet,
MI marked and rich with the pfecious
metals. 6 We have found our tomb
stones z they exclaimed, md no other
na1ne would do 81 DIR The S1anp.
The town has adop fh0na1as yllliiui.
not poetiina lsOr clarliica Is cestiniy
"a snluaale toula tune. tn q
80 baeoa5aed. II tn 3 leo -
rod taer & ii d. 1(aii1ao IA
MI e q, 0o0, 90.
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1880-07-23
Mine Explosion In England.

A London telegram Of July Is, says
an explosion occurred at Lab on that morn.
Ing in the London and sonth Wales colliery
company's new black vein pit, at Risca, six
miles from Newport. The shock was very VI.
olent. 1t is supposed that one hundred and
nineteen men were in the pit at the time, and
there is scarcely a probability that any win
be saved. One body has heen. found at the
bottom Of the shaft Ventilation has been re-
stored in the mine with view to exploring for
bodies. The pit il $50 yards deep. An ex.
plosion In the same mine in 1850 killed 145
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1880-07-23
ASsassinated.

A dispatch from Hillsboro, Mo-, says
while Andrew Wilson, young farmer, living
on Big River, was driving along the road to
Dry Creek, July 16, accompanied by young
lady named Schultz, they were fired upon by
some unknown person concealed in the brush.
The ball passed through the upper part Of
Miss schultz's chest, killing her, then penetrat-
ed Wilson's head inficting a mortal wound.
No clue to the murderer
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1880-07-23
Pardon of Criminals.

President Grevy, of France has grant
cd pardons and examinations OF sentences to
more than 800 common law criminals in
home and colonial prisons. The minister
Of marine has ordered large transport ship
to be Immediately prepared to bring home
three hundred and four amnestled communists
from New Caledonia. About $50 communists
living IN different parts OF Europe will be en-
Titled "a return ! az + Z Z - HI =;