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National Republican., 1880-03-29
sr. PAuL's LUrnERAN cnuRcH.


st. Paul's English Lutheran Sunday school
had one Of its most magnificent cmblematic
celebrations 50 characteristic Of it's enterprise
and the enthusiasm of its superintendent,
Mr. J.. ID. Alden, last night in the church,
corner OF Eleventh and II streets, northwest.
Not only the main room, but tho gallery of the
church wcs crowded as usual with the many
friends of the school and the congregation,
Notwithstanding the disagrcoable rainy
weather. The exercises, especially tho sing
ing, were performed in most excellent man
ner, aud were presided over by tho supern.
tondcnt assisted by DR.. DOmer, the pastor Of
the church The programme was as follows
Hymn, "Come, we that lUvo the Lord"
prayer; infant class exercises, consisting of
singing aud biblical recitation, carried
out by the littlo ones in manner
most Croditabe to the teacher and
the school, Easter lessor, including the sing.
ing Of tho hymns, ~ will Sing of my Re-
deemcr," "Our Saviour Is Riscn," "rhe Prize Is
/ Set Before Us" and a charmngly executed solo
| by little Oracle Fox entitled, MY Song shall be
of Jesus Upon entering, the appearance Of
the front part of the church was Btrikngly
beautiful. Tho decorations consisted of
gillpd arch covered with evergreen and sur.
mounted by a crown of glittoring jets Of gas.
light. Benoath this lowered q cross, which
was also of evergreen. II was so constructed
thut each class was to contribute 10 its hulsh.
ing in the shape of a bouquet Of flowers, from
each of which stood out letter Of gold After
all the offerings were mado the cross presented
q most striking and magnificent appearance,
being covered entirely with flowers, forming
tho motto, "Our Saviour is Risen." Above
the cross the words Grown Him Lord of
All" showed out with great briliancy. After
| this, byn neat arrangement, the cross suddenly
changed into an anchor, around the lower part
of wblch was the inscription, "Allelula."
! Tho report of tho secretary showed an
increase in the collections for the first
quarter OF the preceding year OF over $3i,
aud m increase in the average attend
unco of twenty scholars Floral contributions
were then unsparingly made by the classes.
aud included some lovely presentations to
| Mr. Alden and Dr. D0mer who responded
with appropriate remarks.
The exercises were then closed amid the
unanimous congratulations of all in attend.
ance This was probably the best Of this series
of omblematio holiday celebrations that has
vet been held, and much credit Is duo TO
/ AIessrs. Fox, Mankiu, Parker, Sohafer, aud
| Misses Laie Domer, Chauncey Della Domer,
! Mrs. Onperman, Mrs. Parker, Mrs. Domor and
Others. beside those already named, for the
success OF the enterprise
National Republican., 1880-03-29
THE TELEPHONE

has been introduced into THE NATIONAL RE-
PUBLICAN Office and can be used in making
orders for advertisements, subscriptions or job
work.
National Republican., 1880-03-29

job Lot solid silver Watches
Mt $3.50. Jacobs Bros, 1929 Pennsylvania
avenue,
National Republican., 1880-03-29

julius LANsDURGHs Famous Low Prices
and great variety.
National Republican., 1880-03-29
TestI,nnnInI 10 Evn JIon,Iorson.

THE LARGEST VARIETY or BOYS CLOTH.
ING FOR SPRING WEAR EISEMAN BROS,
CORER 7lH AND T..
National Republican., 1880-03-29
s35 Solid Gold Watches.
Now Advertisements.

Gents American stom.winders; elegant cases.
r. Harris s. CO.. i35 Seventh street.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1880-12-02
A Touching Story.

One rarely meets a bit of more
touching romance than is found in
the following story, that comes from
Wales: "Years ago some Welsh mi
ners, in exploring an old pit that
had long been closed, found the
body of q young man dressed in a
fashion long out of date. The pecu-
liar action of the air in the mine
had been such as to preserve the
body so perfectly that it appeared
asleep rather than dead. The mi
ncrs were puzzled at this circum-
stance; no one in the district had
been missed within their remem-
brance, and at last it was resolved
to bring the Oldest inhabitant-an
old lady long past her elghtieth year
who had lived single in the village
the whole of her life. On being
brought into the presence of the
body a strange scene occurred; the
old lady fell on the corpse, kissed
and addressed it by every term of
loving endearment, couched in the
language of by gone generation.
He was her only love; she waited
for him during her long life; she
knew that he had not forsaken her.
The old woman and the young man
had been betrothed sixty years be-
fore. The lover had disappeared
mysteriously, and she had kept
faithful during the long interval.
Time had stood still with the dead
man, but had left its mark ON the
living woman. The miners who
were present were rough set, but
very gently and with fearful eyes
they removed the old lady to her
house, and the same night her faith
ful spirit rejoined that of her long
lost lover.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1880-12-02
Mountains in the Ocean.

Geology teaches that the CONT
ncnts of our world were once be
meath the ocean. 1t is natural,
therefore, to suppose that there are
Inequalities in the bottom of the
ocean, like those on the land,
The recent deep sea-soundings
confirm this opinion, and reveal
mountains and hills, valleys and
tablelands. The greatest depth
reached in sounding is $4,000 feet,
which exceeds the height of the
loftiest mountain in the Himalayas.
Some of the mountains in the
sea are sleeper and more abrupt
than any on the land. In the Brit
| ish Channel the depth changes with
in ten miles from 600 feet to l2,00C
feet, and it is very common, within
a few miles of the coast of CONT
nents and islands, for the depth t.
change suddenly from a few hun
dred feet to many thousands. II
other cases, as in a large part of tn
bed of the Atlantic between Europ
and the United States, there ar
plateus extending hundreds o
miles with very slight undulations
We shall soon know the shape of tn
ocean floor almost as well as tn
learth's surface.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1880-12-02
Entertaining ComDany.

The whole philosophy of hospi-
tality is summed up by Emmerson
in the following; Il pray you, o ex-
cellent wife, not to cumber yourself
and me to get rich dinner for this
man or this woman, who has alight-
ed at ouI gate, nor bed chamber
made ready at too great cost.
These things, If they are curious in,
they can get for dollar at the vii
lage. But let this stranger see, if
he will, in your looks, i'll your ac-
cent and behavior, your heart and
carneStness, your thought and will,
what ha cannot buy ct any price, at
aaY village or city, and which he
may we'll travel fifty miles and dine
spariugiy and sleep hard, in order
to behold. Certainly let the board
he spread and the bed dressed for
| the trayeer, but let not the empha-
sis Of hospitality be ia these things.
Honor to the house when they are
simple to the verge of hardship, SO
that the intellect is awake and sees
the laws OF the universe, the soCl
worships truth and love, honor and
courtesy flow into all deeds" One
of the greatest comforts of having
a home should be that in it we have
place for friends and strangers
rooms, more than supply the needs
of the family, and extra ''lcavcs" to
the extension table. The secret OF
true hospitality, as Emerson has
stated, is in it coming from the heart.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1880-12-02
italian Emigrants for the South

The Italian peasant, especial!
from the Northern provinces, is in
dustrious. patient, saving and order
ly. Next to the Germans and Irish
he makes the best immigrant and
supplies the best foreign population
to South America, particularly
Beunos Ayres and Brazil. There is
very large flow if these emigrants
from Genoa and Marseilles. They
are driven out by the heavy taxes
on land, industry and the necessa-
ries of life which are imposed by
the italian system. The Italian
peasant pays eight times as much
tax per capita as the French, while
his average earnings are oaly a lit
tie more than half as great. This
system of taxation, which Cavour
pronounced to be "radically false,
radically unjust, the most oppres
i've of all taxes" is driving out the
Italian peasants a large numbers.
The Southern States could secure a
population of these by proper effort,
and they would make valuable ad
ditionS to the population.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1880-12-02
Cotton Factories.

Capital invested in cotton facto-
ries here will pay from five to fifteen
per cent. more than in the East OF
in England, and for these among
other reasons:
|. The moisture Of our climate is
an advantage, which has to be over
come in the East by artificial
means.
,. The compression of cotton for
distant shipment Injuries the staple
and hence our factories can produce
q better article of goods.
3. The freight and insurance to
distant localities are saved.
4. The mildness of our climate
and the fertility of our soil render
living cheaper for operatives.
5. Profits made by middle men
and many other costs and commits
sions are saved by the manufacture
and the sale of the goods here.
These are but few of the advanta-
ees we possess over the East. And
indeed. it must be evident to any
one, that, possessing the labor and
capital, cur cotton grown al our
doors can be more cheaply manu-
factured here than at points many
hundreds of miles distant. This
has been shown to be true by the
exDerience of South Carolina, Geor-
ola. Alabama and North Carolina,
where the cotton factories have yiel-
ded enormous profits and establish.
ed the great fact that the cities OF
the South which grows the cotton,
are the proper seats for its manu-
facturc,
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1880-12-02
t&e eGireside,
Poetry of Words.

The language of Madagascar is
fertile in poetical expressions.
Many of its single words are freight
ened with poetry. One of the native
names Of the island is "The land in
the midst of the moving waters"
The sun, which for one-half the
year is blaze Of uneloud-
ed light, is called the "eye of day"
a river is mother Of waters" and
the capital the "mother of towns" d"
Those who dwell on the wooded
plains are "the people under the
leaves" The word for glory and
honor means "the flower of the
grass AS the grasses are as beau
tiful as they are transitory,the word
suggests both the beauty and the
brevity of that which depends upon
the caprice of despot.
The long-horned cattle are the
largest and most formidable ami
mails on the island, therefore the
army is known as "the horns of the
kingdom
The symbol is used as the Bible
uses it, to denote strength, power
and confidence.
Our word hypocrisy means Sun
der the mask" and refers to the
mask worn by an actor in the Gre
elan theatre. The Madagascar
word for hypocrisy means "becom-
ing good by spreading mat"
The clay floor of the house is COW
cred by mat. which when dirty is
not removed, but covered by a clean
one. Often there is a layer of four
or five rotten mats on the floor, each
one dirtier than the one above it.
When stranger enters the house,
fresh mat is spread for him to sit
down upon, and all looks neat and
clean. But underneath Is all sorts
of filth. The house has become
clean by spreading a mat" The
man who is all clean outside and all
foul within, is a hvpocrite who has
become good by spreading mat.
Christianity is known as "the
praying an Expression which re-
calls that sign that Saul had become
q Christian, Behold he prayethm
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1880-12-02
The Worlds Railroads.

The lines Of railroads in the five
divisions of the earth cost, in round
numbers SIG, 900, 1000, and would
according to Baron Kolb, reach eight
times around the globe, although il
is but little over half century since
the first railroad worked by steam
was opened between Darlington and
Stockton, September 27, 1925, and
between Manchester and Liverpool,
September Is, 1880. 1t is shown
that in France, previous to the exis-
tence of railroads there was one pas
senger in every $4,000 killed, and
one out of $4,000 wounded; whereas
between 1885 and 1875 there was
but one in 5,17S,800 killed, and one
in 550,I50 wounded, so that we may
infer that the tendency to accidents
is yearly diminishing. Railroad
travelling in England is attended
with greater risk than any other
country in Europe. A French sta
tistician observes that if person
we're to live continually in rail
road carriage and spend all his
time in railroad travelling the chan
ces in favor of his dying from a
railroad accident would not occur
until he was $50 years old.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1880-12-02

Misfellany.
About Authors.

The time and effort spent on va
rious litetary productions have diff
fered with different authors.
Johnson said he calculated, when
writing for q magazine, that if he
wrote but one page day he would
at the end of ten years have written
folio volumes. "When man
writes" said he, "from his own mind
he writes rapidly. The greatest
part of writer's time is spent in
reading. A man must turn oyes
half q library to write one book"
Prescott said he composed many
chapter Of "l'erdinand and Isabel
la" while galloping over the hills, or
wandering among the chestnut
shades of his fayorite walk in au-
tumn.
Thirty and forty pages of print
were an ordinary mornings work
for Walter Scott. He once said to a
friend: "When l once get the paper
before me it commonly runs of pref
ty easily" With so much facility
did he write that he had a novel q
poem and reviews for quarterlies on
hand at the same time.
One Of the largest and best of By
ron's poems was written in ten sit
tings, and in two days aaother was
completed.
In fourteen years Baxter wrote
and published sixty volumes.
Pope says: "To take more pains
and employ more time cannot fail tc
produce more complete pieces"
The first six book of the Eneid
were written in seven years; the last
six in four years. This poem was
left unfinished, and at his death
Virgil wished it destroyed; but Au-
gastus placed it ia the hands of Va
rius and Plautus, who corrected it
and gave it to the world.
David Livingston says: "Those
who have never carried a book
through the press can form no idea
of the amount of toll it involves.
The process has increased my re
spect for authors and authoresses a
thousand-fold. / think | would
rather cross the African continent
again than undertake to write an-
other book.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1880-12-02

The following interesting details
about the construction of the new
railroad from Meridian to New Or
leans arc taken from the New Or
leans States:
The trust deed Of the New Or
and Northwestern Railroad Compa-
nv, in favor of Messrs. E. ID. Ran
doiph ard Fred Taylor, OF New
York. recorded in the mortgage
office few days since, was designed
to place 5000 mortgage bonds OF
81 coo each on the English market.
According to contract the stock
holders Of the road, mostly North
crn capitalists, are to build and put
il in good running order in two
wears from the first of November
1850.
The main idea in building this
new road is to get q short line t(
New York, aad to that end q sur
vcv had already been made of thu
proposed route to Meridian, wher'
connections will be made with tn
Alabama Southern road. Tha
lime reaches Chattanooga and ther
the second connection is made, Will
the Cincinnati Southern. On reach
inc Cinncinnati the remainder 0
the journey will be made over on
Of the numerous lines leading fror
that point to New York.
By this route the distance to b
travelled between New Orleans an
New York will be reduced by som
seventysflve miles and a saving Q
| from two to three hours made.
The proposed bridge over LAX
Pontchartrain will be twenty mile
in length, end laid with doubl
steel tracks. This piece OF wor
will be in itself truly wonderful.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1880-12-02
Receipt for Making a Live Town
/. Sell your bui ding lots at reas.

l. Sell your Du1 dlnS loIS AZ reao-
enable prices.
3. If you can afford to do so, do
nate building lot for some large
business enterprise and thereby en-
hance the value of town property.
3. Induce business men to locate
in your own town.
4. Patronize the business men OF
your own town.
5. Always sum up your expense.
when you visit places outside Of
your own town to buy goods.
6. Speak well of worthy public
enterprise.
7. If anything should be under
taken that may be Of benefit to th'
town do not speak ill of it to other!
because you happen to be preju
diced against it.
8 Speak well to strangers OF you
town and people.
9. If you have surplus money d
not invest it in far-off speculations
but give youself and your town tn
benefit of it by establishing som
profitable factory.
10. Encourage your newspaper
by subscribing for, advertising il
and paying for it.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1880-12-02
1iferaw.


Yes, | must add another year,
To those that have passed Ger me;
And can | find one beam to cheer
The DAYS that rise before me-
Ten years ago in fancy's glass,
saw bright visions smiling;
Vain shadows were they all, alasl
Nv trusting heart baguiling.
/ thought that love his fragrance shed
In pure and fond proiusion;
Like summer dews upon my head,
And hailed the glad Illusion.
But there has been fearful change;
The bonds OF love are broken,
Warm hearts have since grown cold an,
strange,
The VOWS forgot the spoken.
And / had hopes that shone as bright,
As shines the sun at morning;
| gazed with rapture on the sight,
My heart all perils seornlng;
They're faded like the canlered flower
That perishes ers blooming;
They were bright. clouds at sunrise hour,
A tempest darksore-dooming
I've tried with floods Of sparkling Wine
To calm the throes OF sorrow;
And here | could solace fnd,S
If there were no tomorrow.
Those "dead-sea" joys that spriug from
crime;
The temptings of ambition,
Will in sure and fated time
Bring hours of deep contrition.
Could | recall the bitter tears,
For others woes I've tasted
Could recall the many years
That foolishly | have wasted
Farewell then all We visions bright,
Ye fancied joys OF feeling;
Adieu to loves delusive light,
Your requiem is pleading.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1880-12-02
HOaU Watches are Maze.

HOaC Watches are Maze.
1t will be apparent to any one, who will
examine SOLID GOLD WATCH, that aside
from the necessary thickness for engray-
ing and polishing, large proportion OF
the precious metal used, is needed only TO
sliffen and hold the engraved portions in
place, and supply the necessary solidlty
and strength. The surplus gold is actually
needless SO far az utility and beauty are
concerned. In James Boss Patent Gold
Watch Cases, this waste of precious metal
is overcome, and the same solidity and
strength produced at from one-third to
one half of the usual cost of solid cases.
This process is of the most simple nature,
as follows: plate of nickle composition
metal, specially adapted to the purpose,
has two plates of solid gold soldefed one
on each side. The three are then passed
between polished steel rollers, and the re-
suit is strip of heavily plated compost
ton, from which the cases, backs, centres.
bezels, ETC., are cut and shaped by suitable
dies and formers, The gold inthesc cases
is sufficiently thick to admit of all kinds
of chasing, engraving and enameiling; the
engraved cases have been carried until
worn perfectly smooth by tune and use
without removing the gold. They are foi
saIe bv all jewellers. and each case Is war
ranted by Special Certificate.
For sale in Brookhaven by A. Staffier,
and all jewlers, ask for illustrated catalo
cue, and to see warrant 'eh>lZe'Vr.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1880-12-02

If some are refined, like gold, in
the furnace of aflliction, there are
many more that, like chat, are con-
sumed in it. Sorrow when it is ex-
cessive, takes away fervoT from
plenty, vigor flom action, health
from the reason and repose from the
conscience.
1t will afford sweeter happiness IN
the hour of death to have wiped one
tear from the check of sorrow, than
to have ruled an empire, to have con-
CURED millions, or to have enslaved
the entire world.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1880-12-02

New Orleans is giving many en-
couraging signs of increased COM
mercial activity this season. The
Louisville and Nashville road NOV
ed out of New Otleans, east and
west, during the month of October,
ten million pounds Of freight, as
against four thousand seven hun
dred pounds during the same month
of last year, an increase of over one
hundred per cent. The same road
had moved into New Orleans, up te
the first instant, more cotton from
Nashville and Tennessee than was
brought in over the road during thu
entire last year.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1880-12-02
curiosities of the Voice.

DR.. Delannay, in a paper read re-
Gently before the French Academy
of Medicine, gives some details on
the history and limits of the human
voice, which he obtained after much
patient research. According to the
doctor, the primitive inhabitants OF
Europe were all tenors, their des
cendants of the present day are
baritones. and their grandsons will
have semibass voices. Looking at
different races he calls attert:on to
the feet that inferior races, such
as the negroes, etc, have higher
voices than the white men. The
voice has also q tendency to deepen
with age--the tenor of l6 bee coming
the baritone at %, and bass at 35.
Fair complexioned people have
higher voice than the dark skinned,
the former being usually sopranos
or tenors, the latter contraltos or
BASES.
Tenors, says the doctor. are slen-
derly built and thin; basses are
stoutly made and corpulent. This
may be so, as rule, but one is in
clined to think there are more ex-
ceptions to it than are necessary to
prove the rule. The same remark
applies to the assertion that
thoughtful, intelligent men have
always deep toned voice; whereas
trihers and frivolous persons have
soft, weak voices. The tones Of the
voice are perceptibly higher, he
points out, before than after meal,
which is the reason why tenors dine
early in order that the voice may
not suffer. 1t was almost super
fuous for him to remind his learned
audience that singers who were
prudent eschewed strong drinks
and spurious liquors, especially
tenors, for the basses can eat and
drink generally with impunity.
The South, says the doctor, fur
nishes the tenors, the north the
basses; in proof of which he adds
that the majority of French tenors
in vogue come from the south of
France, while the basses belong t.
the northern department.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1880-12-02
Effect of Fright on the Hair.

The Gazette des Hopitaux gave
an account, lately, of singular case
of complete alopecia. A girl, age
seventeen, who had laways enjoyed
good health, lad, one day, a mar
row escape from being crushed by
the floor giving way beneath her
She was very much frightened, and
the same night began to complain OF
headache and chills; the next morn
| ing she felt restless, and had itch
ing of the scalp; during the few
following days she steadily I'M
proved, with the exception oil tne
itching. One day in combing hel
hair. She noticed that it came out II
| great quantities; three days late
She was perfectly bald. Her gen
eral health was good, but her heat
continued bald, and was still 81
when seen two years later by th'
reporter.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1880-12-02

Alexander Mouton, Ex-Governor
Of Louisiana, is the oldest United
States Senator now living, having
served in that body under the ad-
ministration of General jackson
Although an octogenarian he retains
his faculties, mental and physical, in
a remarkable degree, except his Wis
| ion, which is somewhat impaired.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1880-12-02

Every one cannot be beautiful,
but everyone can be sweet-temper-
ed, and a sweet temper gives love-
illness to the face more attractive in
the long run than even beauty.
Have a smile and kind word for
all, and you will soon be more ad-
mired-nay, loved-than mere beau
| ty, Sweet temper is to be to the
household what sunshine IS 10 the
trees and flowers.