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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-11-26
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

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| I'm Minnesota there are ninety -four.
Episcopal churches, with eighty-threeI
,lergymen, 1904 communicates and
1862, 497 worth of church property.
The contributions last year amounted
to $87, 800.
Owing to critical health the Rev.
Joshua Kimber, Secretary of the Epis-
copal Board of Missions, has been
granted q six months'lleave of absence
and q thousand dollars with which to
pay the expenses of a trip to Europe.
The California Methodists have be-
gun to raise s.Haven memorial fund,
Of $40, 900 in memory of the late Bishop
Haven, who died in Oregon, for per-
fecting the library, cabinets, etc., of
the University of the Pacific. 3auU
b The Seventh-Day Baptists have ten
native families connected with their
mission in Shanghai, China The mis-
sionar.y force includes three missiona-
ries, two native Bible readers, and
Bible woman. Two day schools are
taught. -.,9.l5a '' ..l ,laHa,.aH III ai
President Seslye speaks with graft
tication of the success of the new sys-
tenn of self-government at Amherst.
The faculty agree that they have never
known year in which so much honest
work, with such healthy results, has
been done in the college. ~ 't
The English Wesleyans cherish as
a valuable relic the pocket Bible which
Mr.. Wesley carried with him in all his
journeys, and which is now handed
down to each President of the confer.
ence in succession, to be carried and
used by him during his year of office.
I Tho Rev. Sheldon Jackson, d. d.,
a Superintendent of Presbyterian Home
Missions, has just completed his third
tour of Alaska. He has established two
new missions, stationed three new mis-.
sionaries, made improvements in the
missionary buildings and travelled SOC
miles in canoes. 80
Protestant Episcopal Bishop Penick,
of Africa, says that four out of seven
white ministers will come back tc
America for their health this year, and
that sickness makes, the work of white
missionaries so irregular that the pro
portion of negro laborers must be in
creased till the whole work is turned
over to them. l-e,gt inss- ttls ,t...
The colored population of Lynch
burg, Va, are in a prosperous state if
the character of their church edifices is
any indication. They have. just dedi-
Gated new Baptist church which cost
$4,000. 1t is described as one of the
most spacious and elegant church edi
fees in the city, with tall spire that
can be seen from the peaks of Otter,
thirty miles distant. Ia .ssul n.iltf-
The visit of Mr.. M l.. Hallenbeck
to the Sandwich Islands on the invita-
ton of the Young Mems Christian AS
ISOLATION was attended by powerful re-
vivals wherever he went, both among
the white and the native churches, so
that an old missionary is reported to
have said that ''never since the great
revival among the natives in 1888 has
Hawaii seen anything like it. "3ga i-a
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-11-26
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PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.

Women BARRIERS should have pretty
mugs. y Chicago Inter- ocean. f.a ..
Sal AID is a nice girl to have at DIM
ner if she's well dressed. -Phtladelphi9l
Bulletin. y ''.s' t@fii ythtE'~' 91 ta3
Horse thieves are generally high,
strung individuals out in the territories.
VIZ Gpd Wisdone. ..g7} .t,4 .
The proverb says that Sc beauty is.
only skin deep" and it may be added
that at that you're sometimes making
very liberal allowance. = Boston Post. I
"A gamecock oughtto be good eat
ing. Does not the poet say ''the BRAY,
est are the tenderestP '-BoSto3 Cour-'
Ter. 81. -'' % ''''1"- "'''' 5''-[
lit is CARRYING things little too far
when bald-headed man attempts to
coyerthe top of his head with hair grown
away down on the side of his neck
Boston Times. ~ .' ''+
9ANow doth the small boy make raids
uponeevery orchard that is not fortified
by dog, and decide to join some Sun,
day-school, to be on deck for a Christ
mas present. -Puck.
Nothing like an honest quill. A st.
Louis paper starts an editorial with:
s'Our ancestors, the balloons of Africa"
etc. Don't you ever got lonesome to
see the old folk s?-DetroI Free Press.
ANY man who goes up in a balloon
or plays a fiddle may be called Pro-
lessor. but before he can receive the
title of LII. D. he must be acquainted
with the clerk of a country college,;
NJ Y. Picayune. -. g., ,..,,......, NJ,
We can't help entertaining severe
respect for the science that can instan-
taneously photograph flying horse.
but forces q man to sit for four eternal
minutes in front of camera, his head
braced into pitchfork, and his nerve.
less eyes staring relentlessly out into
the fathomless realms of the undefina-
BILE. Rocktond Courier. s44 .aI....G3
81 Inquirer what is genius?' This
is pretty hard question to answer. but
we have an idea that genius is some
thing that isn't $iraid to roll up its
sleeves and bend down to earnest and
careful work, and strain every nerve to
achieve the highest, results, of which it
is capable, while mediocrity is enjoying
itself at the theater or standing up at
the bar having a good time with the
boys. --SoDaerUiLIe ,JournGL.s u. nIoH
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-11-26
A Trio Of Boston Boys.

q Professor Sawyer, the well-known
New York electrician, was formerly a
shorthand reporter on the staff Of the
Boston Post He invented and improved
telegraph instrument, and the royal
ties ongthe patent enable him to live in
ease and roll in luxury, Professor Bell,
now q, Washington millionaire, was
few years ago poor man. He livedin
Boston and Taught the blind atthe Per-
kins Institute onrthe Peninsula. He was
experimenting with the little instru-
ment which he afterward perfected.
and which is making him a bonanza
king of the first magnitude. Edison,
last but not leastiof the trio, was also a
Boston telegraph operator, and scores
of theet boysp on State Street remem-l
Der him as tireless seeker after better
things. He has them in scores, yes,
hundreds, Of inventions and improve
ments in his Fifth Avenue palace. He
is gaining fame and coming money. He
was u Bostonlad who first bottled elec.l
tricitys and three boston boys are max
ingIthel best and most wonderful uses
edo ,nsh
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-11-26

The bonnet, like bird may be perhaps
all of feathers on the outer part, or IL
may be all of pearls or jet, or have
plumes lifting aud softly folding above
like forms of clouds, or sometimes its
soft folds of white MORE antique or
plush may be held by the bodylof
frop or greenish lizard.-M Y. Graphic.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-11-26

is IA Kentucky paper says:i's We paw
nothing for the air we breathe. but I've
arc taxed for the waterwe drink The
amount realized from this source in
Kentucky must be upwards OF two dol
lars. if the tax is honestly collected. !
Chicago Tribune, ~ tno9 ,9l.ll'
Connecticut western news., 1881-05-18
\ Brides TrOusseau.

The people of Vienna read with great in- which the Belgian Princess Stephanie brought with her. It had been exhibited at the royal palace at Brussels, and the de- scriptoins of the fairy-ike materials, and the exquisite works of art in gold and silver embroidery and faces of marvellous delicacy, were most exciting. Amid all the bridal glories one table in the middle of the hall was heaped up with linen and household ladies. It may interest lady readers to know that the chemises are fringed with costly lace and with lovely bosoms of artis- tic workmanship. Then there were jackets, corsets, jupons, handkerchiefs, fchus, cravates, and other most charming objects necessary to the feminine toilet. Near these were costlier presents of dresses and iewel1y. The bridal dress was of the tra- ditional cloth of silver, richly ornamented with embroidery designs representing oak, laurel and rose branches, intertwined with bouquets of orange blossoms, the whole, both for design and harmony of color, forming robe such as connoisseurs de- clared was never seen before. The waist and arms were decorated with delicate sil- yer lace, the train of the same material as the robe and embroidered to match. It was four metres long and four wide. The bouquets and designs in high relief on the
 T . T Ja . I for over three months. The Queen of the Belgians wore dress at the wedding which was composed of azure velvet, the train, with rich silver embroidery, falling over a similarly embroidered underdress of dead blue satin. It was very tastefully decorated with silver lace, and the draping and ar engagements of this matchless robe were such as to send those who have seen it into ecstacies.
Connecticut western news., 1881-05-18
Silk Culture in Pennsylvania.

The Pennsylvania House of Repre- sentatives lately gave @ hearing to the Women's Silk Culture Association touch ing the aims of the association. Mrs. John Lucas, president of the associa- tion, said that its main object was to instruct the women and children of the working classes in the management of silk worms and the proper treatment of the cocoons for the production of silk, by means of which they would be pro- vided with light, agreeable and remu- nerative employment. The advan tages presented by this country for silk cul- ture were enlarged upon, as we'll as the great benefit that would accrue to all classes of society by the proper encour- agement and development of the silk industry. Several other lady officers of the association discussed the purposes, methods, and prospects of silk culture, hoping to give the legislators such 8 favorable impression of the operations of the society as to secure @ small ap- propriation for the enlargement of the work. At the conclusion of the ad- dresses the members examined the specimens of cocoons which the ladies had with them, one case of which was raised by Mrs. Taylor, mother of the late Bayard Taylor, who is eighty years of age.
Connecticut western news., 1881-05-18
The Russian Peasant.

The decree reducing peasant rents in Rus sia and securing Government indemnifica- tion to the landlords has come not 0 whit too soon. For twenty years past the condi- ton of the freedmen who became small farmers in 1861 has been growing more and more deplorable. The stony and unproft- able soil of the north, worth barely forty cents the Russian acre, was in many cases sold for $1.25, and the loans contracted to discharge that debt have been increasing ever since. Even in the more fertile south, the monstrously defective system of Russian farming has combined with the crushing taxation of the last few years to beggar thousands. To these troubles has been add ed that of exorbitant usury, which is the curse of provincial Russia, and the fruits of which have just shown themselves in the outbreak against the Jews which is now con vulsing the Ukraine and Western Russia generally. Under such circumstances, the reform measure of Gen. Melikoff and M Abaza is a thing to be welcomed by all, all though it is certainly a curious irony of for tune which has committed the task of say ing Russia to the hands of an Armenian and @ Circassian.
Connecticut western news., 1881-05-18
4 BOYS LOVES. !

When am big will marry Kitty"
 But Kitty slapped me and ran away. 'ap' And while wept for myself, in pity ,s.f5.,. Imade up my mind would marry May.fs. For May was gentle and May was tender. Yet lightly she put my offer by c .. "I am engaged to Georgie Bender; .r. .r. Perhaps I'll take you if she should die, VI. Dy and by met Jennie Biatchell S... 'S .. Jennie was thirteen and was ten ..s,tmu usod to carry her books and satchel
 And made up my mind to marry Jen. But Jennie, her reign was quickly over, And Kate, my cousin, became my Fate said, "I'll propose, like brave, true lover, AS soon as ever graduate"
 Alas when took out my clean diploma, -uo The darling girl was about to start F On her wedding trip with young Will de Roma, And no one knew of my broken heart! At one-and-twenty again love found me,
 But the angel face and the meek blue eyes, And the threads of the golden hair that loved
 me, r.A. H. Went fading back into Paradise Hark into the house Lu, Kate and Harry, With shout and scamper from school have
 come, .,. .-...t ...rff.- And girl never had meant to marry . Is wife and mother within my home.
 r. .l MARY AINGE DE VERE.
Connecticut western news., 1881-05-18

Nobody am to blame except de Board of Public Works. Dey won't die, an dey haven't de deconcy to resign. If dar am any set of officials in New York, Detroit or any odder city who orter be impeached, it am de men who neglect de streets. Twenty good citizens wid de proper backbone could make change in @ week, but whar' am dose men? We stub ober bad walks, wade frew mud, swaller heaps of dust, an no one has de sand to head movement agin de in- competent, sluggish old moss-backs whose bizness it am to gin us clean city,"
 The hour for closing having arrived the Glee Club sang an ode to spring, the janitor reported half cord of wood on hand, and the meeting adjourned with rush for the water-pail. -.
Connecticut western news., 1881-05-18
A Story of the White Mountains.

In the latter part of the last century, maiden, whose Christian name of Nancy is all that has come down to us, was living in the little hamlet of Jefferson. She loved and was betrothed to young man of the farm. The wedding day was fixed, and the young couple were on the eve of setting out for Portsmouth, where their happiness was to be consummated at the altar. In her simple trustfulness, the young girl confided the small sum which constituted all her marriage portion to her lover. This man repaid her with the basest treachery. Seiz- ing his opportunity, he left the hamlet, without word of explanation or adieu.
 The deserted girl was one of those natures which can not sit quietly down under calam ity. She resolved to pursue her faithless lover. She was young, vigorous, intrepid. In vain her friends tried to turn her from her purpose. At night-fall she set out.
 A hundred years ago the route taken by this brave girl was not, as to-day, a thor oughfare which one may follow with his eyes shut It was only an obscure path, little travelled by day, deserted by night. For thirty miles there was not human habitation. It was midwinter. The forests were filled with wild beasts. But nothing could daunt the heroic spirit which animated poor Nancy.
 The girls hope was to overtake her lover at the usual camping-place in the Notch. She found the camp deserted, and the emi bers extinguished. Spurred on by hope or despair, she pushed on down the tremen- dous defle, fording the turbulent and frozen Saco, toiling through snow-drifts, and over rocks and fallen trees, until she sank ex- hausted on the margin of the brook which seemed perpetually bemoaning her sad fate.
 Here, cold and rigid as marble, under a canopy of evergreen, which the snow ten derly dropped over, they found her. She was wrapped in her cloak, and in the same attitude of repose as when she fell asleep on her nuptial couch of srow.-Harper's Magazine.
Connecticut western news., 1881-05-18
A Story of Farragut.

A newspaper correspondent writes that Farragut told him that when he sailed from New York for New Orleans it was supposed by all the Government authorities that his plan was to reduce Forts Jackson and Phillip, below the city, and that he was forced to take along for that purpose the gunboats which he did not want, as he never contemplated reducing the forts, but intended from the start to run by them, just as he did, but that he did not dare disclose that fact for fear the command would be given to another. He described to me in detail the battle from his own stand point, and he told me that in all his life he never went into fight without first going on his knees before his God to ask His protection in the conflict, and he added that he thought he had gone thu rough more dangers than any other living man, and had never received q scratch, except once, when, in the heat of 0 fight, he noticed that his hat was off, and putting up his hand for 1t was surprised to find that whatever had re- moved that had taken off the top of his scalp.
Connecticut western news., 1881-05-18
LOST, 4 BOY

He went from the old home hearthstone,
 Only two years ago, A laughing, frolicking fellow, .-...... z. It would do you good to know. .s.. .. Since then we have not seen him, ,..' And we say with nameless pain, .-y,,s .f The boy that we knew and loved so ,naE n, We shall never see again. ss aiira snursai One bearing the name. we gave him ,.l+ .l.
 Comes home to us to-day, s p,,54 -sf..3 .. But this is not the dear fellow s5 ~..ss t.#
 We kisse and sent away. -
 Tall as the nan,h he calls father,s s!anap
 With 8 mans look in his face, ,r, Is he who takes by the hearthstone
 s' The lost boys olden place. ''" '.@ '' '-7 haI 1t76T w4E 10 fIusq 7 I s.fs aa'.af. We miss the laugh that made music ,,s....s
 Wherever this lost boy went, -, This man has a smile most winsome,
 His eyes have grave intent; '''" ,' We knoM he is thinking and planning 9s !. B a. His way infhe world of men, uosIIsd0a | And we cannot help but love him, ,.f.i,,5is@l But long for our boy again. s.,,.----.....s... ... We are proud of this manly fellow '' 7s
 Who comes to take his place, i ,ss1s.s,e7 With hints of the vanished boyhood s..: is In his earnest, thoughtful face; rod And yet comes back the longing
 For the boy we henceforth must miss, Whom We sent away from the hearthstone
 Forever with kiss. tarf, : #
Connecticut western news., 1881-05-18
s ssesJ g.eae.4alt AsH-IoNlCC '|.|' |l|',''

"A Perfected Purifier OF the System.
 ToN1o.-" Increasing the strength, o6oiating the sfscts o debility, and restoring healthy tuctions." WEBSTER.
 For Indigestion, and Dyspepsia, the many forms of Liver Com plaint, Impure and Impoverished Blood, and Functional Derange- ments attendant upon Debility, and for Building up the weak, Ash- Tonic is doubtless the most prompt and certain remedy yet devised. In 1-2 lb. bottles, 75 cents; Six bottles, &. Accredited Physicians and Clergymen, who may desire to test the Tonic, will be supplied with not exceeding six bottles, at one-half the retail price, money to accom- pany the order. Sold by Druggists. and by D. B. Dewey & Co, 46 Dey St., N. Y. 1t
Connecticut western news., 1881-05-18

And thls is how it came about that while we were having frolic on the carpet with the children in Mrs. Howells room, we heard ring at the door, and Bridget hav- ing taken herself of somewhere, there was no help for it but for one of us to answer the summons.
 rsYou go, Katy" whispered I, in dismay. II cannot appear" ..,s.t
 Katy glanced serenely at her own frizzy head in the looking glass, gave a pull to her overskirt and touch to her collar, and opened the door. .r"5s
 Immediately afterwards was shocked by hearing her utter a genuine feminine scream and seeing her drop on the floor, and that 8 man, 8 perfect stranger to me, gathered her up in his arms and began raving over her in 8 manner that astonished me. He called her "his darling" and " his own Katy" and actually kissed her before could reach her. I Twas surprised at myself afterwards that I. hadn't ordered the gentleman out; but it never occurred at the time, and when Katy ( came to and sat up on the sofa and heard his speeches, she seemed so well pleased that left them and took the chil- dren up to our room, feeling bewildered all over. ..~,... 7s. E.s.N s--t ......
 What shall say further? Only that Katy lives in the pretty house in the town known as pr. Craigs residence, where we three s'factory girls l" have a home whenever we want 1t. And there are no liquors found on her sideboard nor at her table. ~as One dayI heard Arthur say, "You were silly child, Kate, to run away from me. I should have given up the point at last, l know" n..
 @a''But there would have been the splendid cellar and the ten thousand a year" " answered she. 1t would have been such temptation. We are safer as it is, dear" '+t J-tH .tHt .E ..t
Connecticut western news., 1881-05-18
ss CEN N1AuR u Lltlsf Ip ; Iinin1ent.

The most Powerful, Penetrating and Pain-relieving remedy ever devised by man. It soothes Pain, it allays inflammation, 1t heals Wounds, and it cures
 ISM.-~------- Sciatica, Lumbago, s ScaIdss Burns, Stiff. Joints, Cuts, Swelly 1ngs, Frost bites, Quinsey, Salt Rheum, IIchs Sprains, Calls, and Lameness from any cause Suf- ferers from s 14yA
 PAIN IN THE BACKsA Fever Sores, Eruptions, Broken Breasts, contracted Cords, Neu-, ralgia, Palsy or dislocated 1imbss and owners of horses, planters, me- chanics, merchants and professional men everywhere, unite in saying, that
 CENTAUR LINIMENT brings relief when all other Liri- ments. Oils, Extracts and Embroca. tions have failed.
Connecticut western news., 1881-05-18

A DREAM DID Ir.-Stock to the amount of $1O,O00 has been sold for a mining company at Lebanon, Po., on the strength of mans dream that there was gold at 8 certain point and clair voyant's assurance that the dream was trustworthy. .
Connecticut western news., 1881-05-18
ROMANCE OF A GLOVE.

.a' Does it please yous Katy ?'aJi4s{ v.E !
 'Oh, it is splendid could not have suited myself half so well had I been left to choose. S-s-i ; ST ." .S
 But you have not seen the wins celia, yet. It is a treasure of its 4kind. Let's go down again" 'etr ahnJ fo sia 4tf te
 They went down, the stairs together, he talking gayly, she with troubled look on her face. After duly ,admiring the place she put timid hand on his arm and said {: '' But, Arthur, dear, let's have no wine in it."
 "Why?" he asked in surpriaeG [Ty sS
 Because Ihave resolved if am ever the mistress, of house there shall, be no liquors kept in it no social glasses for friends ~ ~a>S
 'Why, Katy, you are unreasonable. ! did not know you carried your temperance opinions so far as that riof course, I shall keep wine in my house and entertain my friends with it, too. ? Igsi7 iaig"4E
 She raised her face appealingly. F @Ss
 ; t'Arthur r she said, in a tone d voick which he knew how to interpret.
 Arthur's brow grew clouded e#
 "But you cannot fear for me-" he said. with half-ofended pride o' s ... '' - '''
 ''I must fear for you, Arthur, if you be gin as he did. And I fear for others be. sides-for the sons and husbands and fathers who may learn at our cheerful board to love the poison that shall slay them"
 They went up the steps again and sat on a sofa in the dining for @ few mo- ments, while Katy put on her hat and drew on her gloves.
 The argument was kept up. It is un. necessary that we should repeat all that was said on both sides It ended at last as simi- lar discussions have ended before. Neither was willing to yield-Katy, because she felt that her whole future happiness might be involved in it; Arthur, because he thought it would be giving way to a woman's whims, and would sacrifice too much of his populari- ty with his friends. 4a #.t, t.avt
 He had bought this house, paid for it and furnished it handsomely, and in few weeks was to bring Katy as it's mistress. All the afternoon they had been looking over it to- gether, happy as two birds with a newly finished nest. But when Arthur closed the door and put the key in his pocket, in the chill, waning light of the December after noon, and gave Katy his arm to see her home, it was all "broken up" between them, and notice, TO Let" was put over the door of the pretty house the very next morning. -.s -,.' It was the most foolish thing to do; but then lovers can always find something tc quarrel about. a4 ..s .a> .s, g-..' "a They parted with cool "Good evening. 7 She went up to Ter room to cry he went home hurt and angry, but secretly resolving to see her again and give her chance to say that she was in the wrong But that chance never came. When he called again, she had left town, and he could find no trace ot her ..-.. .r- --.....'-. v
Connecticut western news., 1881-05-18
Astoria -aspo... m

035 cents. A Mothers remedy for sleepless and irritable Children. The Recipe of Old D-. Pitcher, Free from Morphine, and not Narcotic. Formula published with each bottle. For Flatulency, assimilating the food, Sour Stomach, Feverishness, Worms, and Disor- dered Bowels, Castoria has the larg- est sale of any article dispensed by Druggists. .s.5.t -.., :.... .r |,s..