Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1881-02-24

L.ber y News.
En-. NOKIHwEsT - The remains Of Mrs.
Chas. J.. Martha, and known As daughter
ofMr. John Neff, OF this neighborhood
for many years, now deceasedl, was
brought here tor interment from Toledo,
where she died of consumption lew days
since. large attendance at the funeral
gave the true expression OF the high es-
TEEN in which she was held by the cid
neighbors OF her girlhood. The funeral
services were held in the NJ. +. Church
/ here, conducted by the pastor, Rev. +. ).
Durham. The last writes were pro-
nounced at the tomb about five miles
away, in the immediate vicinity Of her
youth, where she was preceded by two
children. father and one brother, leaving
only lonely mother OF her fathers family
to mourn her departure. The deceased de-
parted this life, Luoyed up by the precious
promises to the faithful who hold out to
the end. and her life has ever been consist
ent with that profession as daughter, wife
and mother, as far as the knowledge of
your correspondent extends. She leaves
two children, boy and girl, who will he
provided for by father and friends.
/ While husband il stricken down with gricl'
| This world lonely, empty place;
/ let him seek that pure relief,
| Found only at the throne Of grace.
| The great food has been loss 10 the
whole country, which is millions OF dol
! lars poorer than before it came. Add this
great destruction to the daily fires all over
the land: steamboat, railroad and all other
| disasters from year to year, what recuper-
| ative powers must exist to march triumph
phantly forward without seeming halt,
and yet the loss is no less the same, and
general prosperity and progress retarded
in proportionatn degree, in reaching that
greatness destined for it If the sun con-
tinues to shine, the rains fall, spring time
puts forth its buds and blossoms, the
summer mature, and autumn harvests the
golden crop of untold millions of acres
already yielding surplus for foreign
shores, and millions more, now vast
plane and wilderness, susceptible Of being
changed from this chaotic state, nto farms,
cities and villages DER this broad domain,
where thousands are fiocking with cheer
full hearts and willing hands to perform
the work. With this fattering outlook
with the iron horse snorting and plunginG
his way across the continent from shore tc
shore: oft great waters and home made
lightning flashing the news all over thu
land, to every village and hamlet by scien
tific art and skillful hands, and actually
talking with natural voices, miles away
the eclectric light almost superseding th'
suns rays of day, to extinguish the dark
ness of night. With the boundless Goa
fields, lead and iron, without enumeration
the precious metals abounding in tn
rocks, gulches and canyons of the Rock.
mountains, through vast extent OF coun
try, new fields of untold richness opened
r I'M without cessation. The morning sun
: onward march is but just rising above tn
horizon, warming with new life AM
! growth the light OF scientific truth, peer
3 ing into the dark crevices of the minds @
men, pressing them forward step by stel
y to new and turtherlight from year to yea
2 and century to century, rising upon high
!, er plane of thought and action, each SUE
, ceeding generation; starting where the ott
a er left the work, climbing higher and higf
# er, nearer and nearer to the great etern;
b throne of truth, where nothing new, notf
i ing gained, nothing lost; principle in
mutable, without beginning, without ent
the same, yesterday, to-day and foreve
WATCHMAN.