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Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1881-12-09
mFsmnIe ComplaInt.., >,

DR.. r. V. PIERCE, Buffalo. N. Y: Dear 81,
i was sick for six years, and could scarcely
walk about the house. My breath was short
and l suffered from pain in my breast and
stomach all the time; also from palpitation
and an internal fever, or burning sensation,
and experienced frequent smothering or
choking sensations. Ialso suffered from pain
low down across my bowels and in my back,
and was much reduced in flesh. have used
your Z" Golden Medical Discovery" and
"Favorite Prescription" and feel that am
well. Very respectfully,
DELILAu u. MCMILLAN, Arlington, Ga.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1881-12-09

There is a most disagreeable brig.
and prowling about in the neighbour
hood OF Smyrna. He is the chief OF u
band OF nine. who hsve committed
many atrocities, and is described as a
verltable savage beast Some in.
teresting details respecting the REQ
reations of Khakirdji have been
given by an unfortunate vlllager who
shocked the officials at the Leodikeui
railway station the other day by arriv-
ing there without either nose or ears.
having just escaped from the bandits
hands, after being subjected 10 this
horrible mu,iation
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1881-12-09

Queen Margaret, of Italy, with her
intelligent face, her sparkling eyes and
her magnificent attire, made brilliant
picture at the Opera House in Vienna.
Her dress was of purple velvet and silk,
and on her head. as beautiful and
naughty as a Queens should be, shone
diadem OF brilliants. Flowers of dia-
monds were interviewer with her hair;
her earrings were made of large pearls,
and long rows of the same hung round
her neck, covering her breast and de-
scending almost to her waist.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1881-12-09

"A colony of veteran soldiers from
Philadelphia, Norristown and Con-
shohccken, Pa. with their families,
numbering forty-six persons in all, will
shortly sail from the former port for
Texas, to settle on the Mexican side OF
the Rio Grande, where a fine tract OF
land has been secured for them.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1881-12-09

E. L. LowEREE, ESQ.,, cashier of the Gin
cinnati Southern Railroad, says the Cincin-
natl Enquirer, was cured by st. Jacobs Oil
of stubborn case of rheumatism, which
wouldn't yield to physicians treatment
BrOokiun Eagle.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1881-12-09

FoR weak lungs, splitting of blood, short
ness OF breath, consumption, night sweats
and all lingering coughs, DR.. Pierce's "Gold-
Medical Dl,covery' Is sovereign remedy.
Superior to cod liver oil. BY druggists.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1881-12-09

THE Albany IN. " Press and Rnickerbock-
er says: 1.-THE largest following we know Of
to-day is that Of st. Jacobs Oil; for where
st. jacobs OIL is, there rheumatism is not"
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1881-12-09

WHEN you squeeze young lady. II you
ever do, and she eXclams: "Ohl" do not
think she is at all displeased. 1t is only an
Involuntary action of the vocal organs-sim-
ply oh ing to the pressure.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1881-12-09

"DARN the newspapersl why can't they
leave such items out?" exclaimed hard up
undertaken, when he read an article warn
ing people not to indulge too freely in green
frIIi
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1881-12-09

"WILL you tell me-" asked an old gen.
tleman of lady, "what Mrs. -'s maiden
name wasp "Why, her maiden aim was
to get married, OF course" exclaimed the
lady.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1881-12-09

Cancers and other Tumors
are treated with unusual success by Worlds
Dispensary Medical Association, Buffalo, N.
Y. Send stamp for pamphlet.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1881-12-09

FRESHMAN: "Aciion and reaction are
equal and opposite. as, for instance, when a
cannon jumps as far backward as the ball
goes forward" Z"
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1881-12-09

THEODORE remarked, when Angelina's
father showed him off the doorstep, that the
old gentleman had considerable push about
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1881-12-09

"A good life is the best evidence of
intelligence and honesty.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1881-12-09
TORMENT, INDEED.

-. LIES vexations do not generally come on one
IKE storm Descending tho mountain or like q
sections Of the world-gentiy, but every day.
One Of LIES discomforts Is presented herewith I:
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1881-12-09

Recommended by PhysIcians, Ministers and
Nurses. In fact by everybody who has given Il c
good trial
1t Never Fails to RriuG Relief.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1881-12-09

MANY Southern fruit trees are bear
ing second crops.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1881-12-09

NORWAY MUSIC ALBUM. ss nn,id g rostyy g; "a ;ss
Vikings OF the North. Wild and beautiful.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1881-12-09

GEMS OF ENGLISH SONG. g. go ID e d s'is' AZ
Tho new and most favorte collection.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1881-02-16

negro went through all those long def
nitions of creation, providence. fall
Christ's humiliation, eraltation, Offices.
eDectua< calling, justification, adoption,
Sancty'cataon, etc., with an exactness and
precision which was truly astonishing.
She pronounced those long, difficult words
with wonderful correctness, slight Afri-
can brogue now and then manifesting
itself In about half-dozen questions
OF the requirements. ETC., of the command
ments, and in one of the petitions, l had
to start her by telling her the first word.
With that exception 1 do not think she
omitted or misplaced a single important
word or phrase. cannot say with Club
ar DaU1S when he heard the little girl
repeat one OF the questions of the cate
chlsm, that she spoke so sweet, and she
looked so like an angel, that before 1
knowed it the tears was runnin' down
my cheek as big as buck-shot." But
do say never enjoyed hearing any one
reclte the catechism so much in all my
life Surely after this we will never
hear little boy or girl who can read
ever say, " can't" at is too hard"
There is something in this, too, that
ought TO put many parents to the blush
That little negro was taught the whole
of that catechism, word by word, bv
good Presbyterian lady who had taken
the little girl to raise her at the death
OF her mother. Every day, and some
times two or three times day, that
catechism had to be. said Christian
parent can you not do as much for your
oa0m child? This lady's husband, who,
by the way, is as good missionary Bap-
list as she is Presby terian, asked the
writer whether the Presbyterians had
any far where premium is given to
the tretest blue Presbyterian; being evil
IDENTIFY of the opinion that his wife would
carry of the prize; the correctness of
which L suppose none of us are inclined
to dispute, for if she does not deserve it
would like to hear through your columns
who does.
l fear the religious interests of ser
wants are too generally neglected in our
Christian families. Here are golden op-
portunities for working in a private way
for Christ. w. B. ARRowooD.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1881-02-16
For the Central Presbyterian.
Getting a Bible Under Difficult
ties

There is in the city of New York a
fund raised for the purpose Of encourag-
ing children in the study of the Shorter
Catechism, by giving gilt-edge, clasp
Bible to every one who recites it cor
rectly to q minister of the gospel. 1t is
to be regretted that the good old custom
of catechetical instruction is how entirely
neglected or indifferently attended to in
so many of our Presbyterian families.
Early impressions are the most lasting, &"
and parental instructions the most prom
Using. If parents are Indifferent as to
the religious instruction of their children,
leaving this most important work to the
Sabbath School, or going about it with
q GOODNESS and formality calculated to
inspire disgust rather than zeal and in
terest, what wonder if the children too
manifest the same spirit. Like priest,
like people" like parents, like children
The piety of the Church can never rise
higher than the piety of the family.
For the encouragement of parents and
children, wish to tell you what some of
the children In Giles county, Va, have
done. Within little overs year, eleven
children have recited the whole of the
Shorter Catechism to me for the above
Bible. Now it is no small task for a
child to memorize that catechism; and if
the Bible was the only reward it would
be well earned. One of the above was
little girl only about eight years old !;
and she learned it in little over three
months while going to school, and keep
ing up her other studies Two Of the
others who are only little older, did
the same thing.
There is another remarkable fact to
which wish to call the attention of the
little boys, and the big ones too. Of the
above eleven, ten are girls; and these ten
were all through before single boy claim
ed the prize. How do you account for
that boys? Do you surrender the palm
to the girls? Do the girls beat the boys
every where as badly as they have here
in Giles? I hope this will stir up the
boys. Do not allow the girls to beat you
ten to one.
But the most remarkable fact remains
yet to be told. One of the above noble
band is little negro girl only ten years
old, and very small for her age She
cannot read a word, And yet, that little
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1881-02-16

and, above all, the will" To my mind
this language means that the soul in re-
generation is active, and in full-orbed
energy, bringing to bear upon the act
(for regeneration is not work. of regen-
Grafton all its energies concurrently, and
shares in its own regeneration, or in the
production of that effect which is COM
monty called the new life: or, in other
words, it is bald synergism. True, the
apostle says: "Work out your own sat-
cation; but he does not say: Reqenerate
yourselves. Sound Calvinism teaches
that in regeneration, the soul is passive
the recipient of power. Calvin, as
quoted by Hengstenburg, says: IN, sum-
ma, ne debttenaus Spaa1tu Del nos ref,,qi
&C fe'1 nos nouos homines, qalannvis a0ends
m,odus nos lateat." DR.. II. quotes this
approvingly In connection with similar
statement of Auton: 1.-The regenerate
knows that he is changed, but he knows
not how the change took place." Thorn
well says: Previously to the operation
OF the Spirit, the man was dead; he could
perform no spiritual action at all.
Again: "Hence the utter and absolute
impossibility of transferring himself from
state of depravity to that of holiness.
lie must be BORN again. The new nature
must be impaired, and as it tends to God.
it must come from God" DIR. Dabney,
having been "bold and rash" enough to
define regeneration, says "To such a.
change the human will is utterly !.
Irrelevant; because it goes back of.the
will. Turretin says: " Comversio habit
'tal's seq posStva fit per ha6italuns super
natatral'aena a'y'tSiomena a Spir1tu Samcto.
Actatahs zero sea- aetna per 6onoyum as
forum ha6lt~1m erercitiuns quo actus
toea, Ell pereate'ataoe ct damtaer o. Dec, ct alb
honaame eIacau1atatr. Per alluna homo rem
oUdt~r ct co'aUertatur q Dec. Per astama
homo a Deo TeraovatabS ct conversus con-
uert@ Sc dd Deatn1, ct actatS agit. lila
meI'us regeneratio dscitur quaa Sc ha6et
ad MEDIUM 7aOUCe natlUitatis qeta homo re-
tormatur ad anaagi,aena Oeato11s saei. Zsta
zero co1'Oerslo q1ia i,scludit honl,,is assius
operatlonem.
DR.. Dick says: ain opposition to ell
the notifications of error upon this sub
lect, we affirm, that conversion is effected
by the Almighty grace of God; that, al
though man does not concur in it, he is in
the first instance passive, and his concur
renee is the consequence of supernatural
power communicated to him; and that
he does not come to God till he is effec-
tually called by the operations of the
Holy Spirit in his soul"
Others might be quoted to the same
effect Your correspondents argument
or exhortation to preach the human ele-
ment of regeneration, in the light of
what has been said, needs no reply. HUI
man duties have a more substantial basis
in the command of Christ than in con-
gruous action, and higher motive than
to beget again ones self-even the love
of lost soul to its divine Saviour. Of
course men must read the Bible, attend
preaching, and seek grace and, when
they have been born again, must live
godly lives: but that is not regeneration.
AS the natural man lives out his nature
in SHINING, so the spiritual man must live
out his nature in holy living.
G. w. H.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1881-02-16
One Pair of Stockings.

one Pair OF stockings.
An old woman sat by her bright freside,
Swaying thoughtfully to and fro.
In an ancient chair whose creaky craw
Told a tale of long ago;
While down by her side on the kitchen floor
Stood basket of worsted balls-a score
Then she spoke of the time when the basket there
Was filled to the very brim.
And now there remained of the goodly pile
But single pair-for him.
Then wonder not at the dimmed eyesight,
There's but one pair of stockings to mend to-
night.
For each empty nook in the basket old,
By the hearth there's an empty seat;
And miss the shadows from on the wall
And the patter of many feet
lis for this that tear gathered over my sight
At the one pair of stockings to mend to. night
IT'S said that far through the forest wild
And over the mountains bold,
Was a land whose rivers and darkening caves,
Were gemmed with the rarest gold
Then my first born turned from the oaken door,
And 1 knew the shadows were only four:
Another went forth on the foaming waves
And diminished the basket store
But his feet grew cold-so weary and cold
They'll never be warm any more
And this nook in its emptiness seemeth to me
To give forth no voice but the moan of the sea.
Two others have gone towards the setting sun,
And made them home in its light,
And fairy fingers have taken their share
Tomend by the freside bright;
Some other basket their garments fill,
But mine Oh mine is emptier still.
Another-the dearest-the fairest-the best
Was taken by angels away,
And clad in garment that waxed not old,
In a land of continual day;
Oh wonder no more at the dimmed eye-sight,
While mend the one pair of stockings to night.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1881-02-16
For the Central Presbyterian.
Intemperance, not to be Regu-
lated.

A young man who had been appointed,
along with others, to keep order at Coun-
ty Fair, found that the liquor sold on
the ground more than counteracted the
efforts of the police, and retired in dis
gust. When demonstrated with by the
managers for allowing ladies and respec-
table people to be annoyed and driven
away by the exhibitions of drunkenness
in the crowd, he told them that if they
wanted him to suppress the effects of the
sale Of liquor, they must suppress the
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1881-02-16
For the Central Presbyterian.
Cruising in Search of Hesperian
Isles.


With favoring winds, Ger sunlit seas,
We sailed for the Hesperides,
The land where golden apples grow;
But that, ah that was long ago
How far since then, the Ocean streams
Have swept us from that land of dreams,
That land of fiction and of truth,
The lost Atlantis of our youth
Whittier, all, whittier? Are not these
The tempest haunted Hebrides,
Where sea gulls scream and breakers roar,
And wreck and sea weed line the shore?
Ultima Thule Utmost Islel
Here in thy harbors for a while
We lower our sails; while we rest
From the unending, endless quest"
LonQtelloaO, 1880.
These beautiful classic lines wildly
disclose the experience of a fellow man
who has made ife's voyage, and contain
a wholesome lesson for the young
And ye that have sailed the middle
sea, have passed the strait at 40, and
have felt 1.-THE Ocean streams" making
for you paths you dreamed not of before,
each here will find picture of your own
life. This, with other following next,
may comfort and becalm your restless
spirit, if, perchance, it learns to see the
things the poet saw.
The Interpretation of these lines may
be outlined simply thus The first two
stanzas give in rapid views favored
birth, happy childhood with its daz-
cling hopes, and fctior3, and its inno-
cence, and truth Then passing over
middle life one backward look reveals all
these left far behind. The third verges
on old age, with tremors, pains, and
angry threats of dissolution. The fourth
brings up at three-score years and ten
tasks are relinquished; he Gains himself
and rests awhile till fitted with better
vessel for wider flight. While this is
probably all that most will see, or was in :
tended, yet the voyage of human life is
never aimless; an obi ect may be supplied
therefore, the outline filled in, the view
enlarged. And all in strict agreement
with our consciousness of truth.
The ancients spoke of certain islands
far out in the great Ocean westward be-
yond the Mediterranean, seen perhaps at
long distance by some drifting mariner.
Together they were called the ".Hespe-
rides" the westward isles, from Hesperus,
Jne evening SCar. One OF CneSe was named
At5onti8. They have been supposed to
be the Canaries, by some, by others to be
land still further westward. They were
the desire of adventurous spirits, the song
Of poets, the vague object Of hope of the
ignorant and credulous multitude of that
day. Here were the Elysian fields where
glory dwelt.
This is the allusion of the poet in the
lines above. Doubtless man has always
since the loss Of Eden family hoped to
find some better place or thing in this sad
world. The immortal spirit instinctively
recognizes the evils surrounding it as un-
natural, the good as insufficient. 1t
reaches out after something better
Therefore man perpetually goes about
in search Of new surroundings search
Of something more powerful, lofty, and
thrilling, which the spirit wants. OF
course the fable Of these Isles, where all
our longings may be satisfied, no longer
excites the minds Of men. But every one
in his own way after some new fiction he
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1881-02-16
(TESAL PRESBYTE.ISIAN.- February Is

sale itself. To regulate drinking, so that
it may go to certain extent, but no
further, is about as hard as to regulate
confagratlon. The only way is to regu-
late it out of existence. w. E. B.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1881-02-25
NUMBER Z.


"A !iohnIBLE SroRY.-Ominssvillc,
n.y.. Februory s.--Onc Of the most horrible.
accidents that ever happened was the burnin,>
.! george Pieratt, an aged bachelor, about
.o years ol'!, who lived in this County with
MS sister, Mrs Goodpastcr, about five miles
from. this city For several months the l.,
n.y. Mrs G"odpnstcr has been paralzcd and
unable To leave her bed, or eve n turn over
with' ut assistance, while her brother. Mr..
ilcrra't, was old, feeble and crippl.d.-
Last Thursday hight Mr.. Pierntt had rot.
ten III his wood Tor the night and mornin.-
a"' was about I" retire. lie picked up a
PACK inS To put 1t on the fire. an in 80 do
'"S '"ii with 1t, and was unable to rise or
Sct out OF the fire. Mrs. Goodpaster. saw
h''h iai', but owing to hr inirmitics was
uhaoie to do anything toward relieving him
nr t9 make amy al -...--.h..--.-...iI-i1,-u
good At lnsss@by almo5f sup6r rkuS,s,i ar;
forts, she got out cf bed TO her brother, who
was then dead, and pulled him out Of tho
nre anu on the hearth, and in some way cot
pack to and into bed but upon getting in
Tel she was SO completely exhausted that
she was utterly unable to turn over. and
happening to get in so that she faced the
v'"O VI 'hc hcaTtn, she was COM
pe!!od to lie in that position until | o o'clock
yesterday morning. Nothing was known of
the horrible death in this household or tho
terrible night ofuntold torture the aged Sis
ter mad been compelled tc pass in the house
perfectly helpless, until her son, SAINT Good.
Pastcr, who lives about mile distant, hay-
ing done his chores, walked over. little
dreaming OF the sight that would meet his
eyes When he stepped into the door tho
most horrible and blood curdling seen, met
his view his mother lying with wide dis.
tented and wild looking eyes riveted on her
-, - ~ -.A-->.uary,r- 1u-
front of the dying cmbers, stiff and starL
10 death, badly burned. and With his eyes
torn out, his nose, checks, cars, hands and
neck horribly mutilatcd and eaten by the
cats Mrs. Goodpastcr is some years more
advanced than her brother, and being COM
PEELED to pass such Il fearful night has so
shocked hor system that sho now lies in a
very critical condition, and even if she re.
covers her usual infirm health it is hardly
thought she can wholly recover her mind,
which seoms about gone. She remained
sensible long enough to tell her son all
about the death of her brother, aud said
she thought he was seized with fit of ap-
oplexy, or something of the kind whlo
picking up the wood, and was dead when he
fell over.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1881-02-25
by. Read the following table

WHAT Is WHIsKEY BRINGING p
"What is whiskcy bringing ?" asked a
dealer, Of that article one day. He meant
to ask, how much is it selling for?
A gentleman who heard tho remark took
it in different sense from that.
"What is whiskey bringing" do you
ask PIN tell you. 1t is bringing men to
prison and to the gallows, and it is bringing
women to poverty and want"
There never was truer answer than
this.
1t is estimated that It sends to prison
every year one hundred thousand men and
women.
Twenty thousand children are sent to
the poor house annually by drink.
Three hundred murders are caused by
intemperance every year.
Two hundred thousand children are made
orphans every year by this dreadful evil
aud sixty FIVE thousand are killed by intem
perance every year iu this country.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1881-02-25
FLOOD AND STORM NOTES.

Tho food Is subsidng in New Orleans,
but there is terrible suffering among the
poor. Trains on the Chicago, St. Louis
and New Orleans railroad cannot proceed
further than Magnolia on account OF wash
out. Tho settlements at Pass Nanohal aud
Milnesburg have been abandoned on account
Of The food.
A terrible snow-storm ragged al day Sat
urday in the West and Northwest, and did
not abate until night. Trains are blocked
everywhere, and railroad travel impeded
A mass. meeting is 10 be held tonight in
New Orleans to devise ways and means to
avert the threatened disaster OF the break
ing of the levees by the food in the Missis-
sippi.
Some of the drifts Of snow in Iowa are
higher than the telegraph poles
A train at Mountain Lake, Iowa, has
been blockaded in the snow ten days.
Four hundred thousand bushels of grain
for foreign shipment via New Orleans is
detained at St. Louis in consequence OF the
foods and storms.
The freshet in the Rappahannock River
reached the heighth of fifteen feet above
the low-water mark. Some cribbing and
lumber belonging to the contractor for the
river impro yement were carried off, ant
the steamboat warehouse was under watel
to the second story. There have beer
neither mails nor through trains since Fri
day night.