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Semi-weekly interior journal., 1882-09-01
Female cOaTcts In France.

Every six months notice is cir
culated in the female penitentiaries Of
France calling upon all women who
feel inclined to go out to New Caledo-
mia and be married TO make an appli-
cation TO that effect through the Gov.
ernor. The matrimonial candidates
must be young and exempt from
physical infrmities. Girls under long
sentences readily catch at this method
Of escaping from the prison life. The
only moral qualification requisite is to
have behaved we'll at least two years
in the penitentiary. The selected can
didates have 10 sign engagements,
promising TO marry convicts and to
settle in New Caledonia for the re-
mainder Of their lives. On these condi.
tons the Government transports them,
gives them an outfit, and a ticket Of
leave when they land at Noumea.
Their marriages are arranged for them
by the Governor Of the colony, who
has selection Of well-behaved con.
victs ready for them to choose from,
and each girl may consult her own
fancy within certain limits, for the
proportion Of marriageable men to
women is about three TO one. II has
frequently happened that pretty girls
have been wooed by warders, free set.
tiers, or time-expired soldiers and sail
ors, instead of by conyicts. In such
eases the Governor can only assent to
marriage on condition that the fe-
male convict's free lover shall place
himself in the position Of ticket-Of-
leave man. and undertake never to
sleave the colony. The married eou
pies get huts and free grants Of land,
and all they can draw from it by their
own labor becQmes theirs. During five
years they are subjected TO the obliga
ton Of reporting themselves weekly at
the district police Office, and they are
forbidden 10 enter public houses, and
must not he found out of doors at
MY This probationary period be
Tag satisfactorily passed, they get
their full freedom, but subject always
10 the condition Of remaining in the
colony. To this rule the law has for
hidden that any exception shall be
made. On no account whatever must
convicts who have accepted grants Of
land and contracted administrative
marriages" as they are called, ever
return to France.
Semi-weekly interior journal., 1882-09-01

The verdict Of acquittal rendered
by the Jury in the Garland murder
case at Lunenburg Court.House yes.
terday is a gross miscarriage Of jus.
tice, which makes farce OF the trial
that has been going on there for ten
days and is well calculated to bring
discredit upon the administration Of
the law in that community. On the
facts proved in evidence and under the
law laid down by the Court, Garland
was clearly guilty of murder and
must have been so found by any hon
est, unbiased jury. But the jurors
in this case evidently paid no atten'
ton to either the evidence of the wit
nesses or the instructions OF the Judge.
Their verdict would have been little
less mockery had it been render.
ed fifteen minutes after they were EN-.
panelled instead OF fifteen minutes
after they retired. The crowd that
cheered the jury doubtless shared the
sentiments of the prisoners father
who impudently bOasted when the
verdict was announced that he only
blamed his son for not demanding a
retraction from Addison with shot
gun loaded with buckshot and shoot
ing him down in case of refusal. In
Lunenburg county the killing of Ad'
olson by Garland may be looked upon
as chivalry; in less barbarOus commu'
mites it will be setdOwn as cold blood.
ed murder. - N. Y. Herald.
Semi-weekly interior journal., 1882-09-01
An Io6deI's Views

The IconOclast, Of indianapolis, says
Evangelist Barnes is more Of an Inf !.
del than he is a Christian. He may
have Christian heart, but as sure as
there is a sun in the heavens, he has
an In6del head. Mr.. Barnes is
doing much to help the cause of Inf
deity. His sermons are Bible SER
mons; his doctrines are Bible doctrines.
We do hope he will succeed in showing
bis congregation what the Bible is, and
what it teaches. People in Indianap-
oils, church members, Christians, those
that believe in God, Christ and the re-
ligion Of the Bible, are ignorant of
what Bible doctrines really are. They
need a teacher. Mr.. Barnes is such
teacher. lie is more than a match
in intellect for the majority Of Cos
pei preachers" in this city. We hope
people will hear him. lie will make
more Infdels out of his hearers than
Christians. We welcome him to. this
city. He is paving the way for
thought. He will cause the people to
think, too, what the Bible really Is !;
and whenever they come to under
stand its doctrines as they should, they
will forsake their belief in il and the
dogmas of the church, and accept the
truth as Infdelity teaches it. We
again welcome Brother Barnes to In
dianapolis.
Semi-weekly interior journal., 1882-09-01
RabbeN at Kome.

Assessor Hubbell appears TO be in
even worse odor among the people Of
his own State than in other parts Of
the country where he is not less no.
torious but is known at longer range.
The democrats Of Michigan, who
have fused with the greenbackers, de-
clared in their State convention on
Wednesday that political assessments
or forced contributions from public
officers should be made felony by law"
This is proposition TO make Hub
bells business the same grade Of crime
as highway robbery. The convention
also denounced, "without distinction
of party, all who voted in Congress
for the iniquitous River and Harbor
billP-of whom Hubbell, Of course, is
one. As the democrats and green
hackers polled about forty.eight per
cent. of the total vote of Michigan in
1880, these resolutions Of the couven-
ton may be taken as voicing the sen.
timents of at least nearly one.half the
people of the State. And yet Hub
bell is spending the money forced out
Of the needy janitors and scrub wo-
men in the public service in trying to
get himself elected to represent that
people in the United States Senate. -
IN. Y. Herald.
Semi-weekly interior journal., 1882-09-01

, AT the present time railway car
riage painted inside with the Balmain
phosphorescent paint, is included in the
train which leaves Liverpool street sta
ton for Rotherhithe, via the Thames
Tunnel, at 11:S A. NJ. Although only
one.half of the available space of the
carriage is painted, the phosphorescent
light is quite sufficient to enable the
passengers to distinguish small objects
when passing through the. tunnel; and,
moreover, the light is. powerful enough
to enable person to read the indica-
ton of an ordinary watch. 1t is prob
able that the railway companies will
be enabled to effect considerable saw
ing in gas and oil by using the phos-
phOrescent paint.
Semi-weekly interior journal., 1882-09-01

The camp meeting at Easton, Pa,
was also the reverse of what it ought
to have been, as will be seen by the
following; "About one thousand
three hundred people of all sorts we're
assembled in the camp grounds and
around the hotel known as the Forest
House. A fight occurred between
parties from Easton and Odenwelder-.
ton, in which both we're badly bitten,
pummelled and kicked. Drunken
ness was theeause, Of the fight. Beer
and liquor we're freely dispensed at
the hotel. Men and women held rev.
elry m the swings and in the woods,
and their conduct would be bad on
any day. On Sunday it was just what
should not occur again under any cir
cumstances. The receipts from the
sale of liquor at the Forest House are
said to have been between $500 aud
$500.
Semi-weekly interior journal., 1882-09-01

The Rev. Mr.. Brand, of Oberlin,
Ohio, whose sermon about Druggist
Bronson, a sly rumseller, has led to a
suit for damages, wound up the dis
course by addressing Bronson thus I:
"Good men shall breathe free at thy
death and utter thanksgiving when
thou art gone. Men shall place thy
gravestone as a monument and testi-
mony that a plague is stayed; and as,
borne on the blast, thy guilty spirit
whistles toward the gates of hell, the
hideous shrieks Of those whom thou
hast destroyed shall pierce thee--hell's :
first welcome"
Semi-weekly interior journal., 1882-09-01

"The latest agony" says Jeems, sis
the way felt this morning. My wife
asked me for Xxx dollar bill-a
twenty you know and | cut the mat
ter short by telling her it could not be
did, for the simple reason that | had
only the matter of dollar or so in my
pocket. Il knew you'd tell me that
she said, and it's true too Aud as ]
looked up in amazement she added; Il
looked in your pocket last night; I've
got the twenty Oh, boys, how l felt!
but wha. could dor
Semi-weekly interior journal., 1882-09-01

Governor Blackburn says; "The
idea of calling me Governor by the
grace of God and yellow fever Why
| had my election assured before the
yellow fever. lost ten thousand
votes by being away at the time .
This is only another evidence of the
inordinate egotism of the old imbecile.
His best friends never claimed that he
had any other qualification for the
Office than his yellow-fever record. -
TOwensboro Messenger.
Semi-weekly interior journal., 1882-09-01

The CABBAGE WoRM.-Nearly
every farmer we talk with complains
terribly of the damage being done to
cabbagSyby worms. A few of our
friends have been using cayenne pep
per on their cabbage and claim to
have derived mcuh benefit thereby.
The pepper is put into little tin pep.
per,bOx aud late in the afternoon the
cabbage heads are given good sprink-
ling. Those who have tried the ex.
pertinent say that the wosms reverse
ends and scramble of at lively rate,
Semi-weekly interior journal., 1882-09-01

The widow Of a Baptist deacon,
who died four years ago, said to the
editor Of Richmond paper few
days since; "The great mistake ofmy
husbands life was leaving 5000, 900
to his children. My eldest son had
not been in possession of his portion
six months before he had acquired in
temperate habits, and to-day, wrecked
in health, no morals, he hasn't dol
lar left of the thousands his father
left him. My daughter married an
immoral man, who has spent her por-
ton, and now her life is sad and drea-
ry. 1t would have been a thousand
times better had my husband devoted
his means more largely to education
and christianity"
Semi-weekly interior journal., 1882-09-01

The LABoRING CLASS. Again we
hear the cry os the demagogue and
orator preaching about the laboring
class. Who are the laboriug classes,
and why is there a line drawn, and
why is human society divided up into
classesl We know Of no laboring
class, no common people, no aristocra'
cy in this country, Men are born free
and are Just what they makeof them
selves. One man may become bald
headed by carrying hod, another by
studying into the hidden mysteries OF
nature; labor, in each case, is the
cause, and one is just as much labor
er as the other. We are all laborers
toiling for ourselves and for each 9th
er. Regulate education, society and
morality and wealth will be evenly
distributed among the people.-LWy-
andOtte Republican.
Semi-weekly interior journal., 1882-09-01

The beauty who cut such a shine at
Long Branch last year, and who was
courted by wealthy Cuban, has mar
ried him. They and are under the
same hotel roof. He is most ceremo-
neous toward his bride. You would
suppose from seeing them together,
that they were mere acquaintance.
They have separate bed rooms, after
the fashion of his country, and l am
told that he never intrudes into her
apartment without first ceremoneously
asking for an invitation.-(Clara
Belle.
Semi-weekly interior journal., 1882-09-01

The homely women here surpass all
outside rivals by the dead weight of
their ugliness, and each hundred
pounds Of them makes the sight so
much more aggravating. Ia no 9th.
er place can one see so much shapeless
and shaking mountains of flesh grid
ed into caricatnre outline of Paris
dress, and those fat women parade
the porches and sweep through. the
parlors as complacentlya as any of their
bony rivals. They come ostensibly to
drink of the waters, which are sup.
posed to reduce the bulk and relieve
what the hand book of the Springs
calls "engorged circulation. - Sara
toga Letter.
Semi-weekly interior journal., 1882-09-01

ain all his life Ben Hill never did
a more graceful thing" said General
Evans in his funeral oration.over the
late Senator from Georgia, "than
when he made his last visit to the por-
trait Of his mother, which hung in
one Of his rooms. When President
Garfield placed his manly arm AROUND
his venerable mother in the presence
of the vast multitudes that Witnessed
his Inauguration, and kissed her with
lips fresh from pronouncing the obIi-
cation Of the Presidential office, he
drew unto himself the warm heart OF
American motherhood forever So
when the great Senator went as a
child to gaze upon his mothers pict-
ured face, and murmured, Il will
soon see her. he left the sons of this
State and the Union lesson Of lilial
love they should never forget. The
portrait shows dear, old, good face,
well traced with marks of intelligence.
The wrinkles are there, the stoop Of
age. and other signs of failing life.
Long since she went away. But the
wasted statesman became a boy again
in feeling, gazed With true, adoring
love upon the aportrait, and then
above the faded picture looked with
eyes that saw Home and Heaven and
Mother, all in one vision of transcen-
dent glory"
Semi-weekly interior journal., 1882-09-01

The first sentence under the new
whipping post law in Maryland was
pronounced on negro wiie-beater
the other day, the sentence being
that the offender receive thirty lashes.
"Fore de Lord, Judge" pleaded the
criminal, give me seven years in jail.
A motion for new trial, which was
male, will stay the execution Of the
sentence for several days.
Semi-weekly interior journal., 1882-09-01

The Willimantic Comm Linen
Company has posted the following
notice in its mills; mo person now
in the employ of the Willimantic
Linen Company will be continued in
their service after July 4, 1888, un-
less they can both read and write.
And ON and after this no person will
be hired by the company who cannot
both read aud write"
Semi-weekly interior journal., 1882-09-01

"UncIe Sam" said a colOred boy to
black Samuel, a negro who used to bot
tom chairs for Colonel Sandy Faulk-
ner, "whar ye gwine?" "Gwine fish
in; why yer AK meS" "Did you
know that Aunt Tidy is deadl" eco
on, chile Is dat fack? Yer doan
mean to say dat my wife is deads"
"Yes, sah." "When she diel" 'Dis
mornin." oval, Use sorry want
darl Tell 'em to 60 on an make de
'rangement, dat I'll be back agin lie
funeral. Use done dug worms foI
bait now. Wish I'd knowed it sooner.
Il Arkansaw Traveller.
Semi-weekly interior journal., 1882-09-01


Feveredand Sick Per
sons refreshed and
Bed Sores prevent
ed by bathing with
Darbys Fluid.
Impure Air made
harrlcss and purified.
for sore Throat Il Is a
sure cure.
Contagion destroyed.
For Frosted Feet,
Chi1blains, Piles,
Chafings, etc.
rheumatism cured.
Soft White Complex
ions secured by its use.
Ship Fever prevented.
To purify the Breath,
Cleanse the Teeth,
Il can't be surpassed.
Catarrh relieved and
cured.
Erysipclas cured.
Burnsrclievcdinstantly
Sears prevented.
Dysentery cured.
Wounds healed rapidly.
Scurvy cured
An Antidlote for Animal
or Vegetable Poisons,
Stings, etc.
| used the Fluid during
our present ailiotion with
Scarlet Fever with de-
cided advantage. Il is
indispensable TO the sick
room. WM. y. SAND
FORD, Eyrie, Ala.
Semi-weekly interior journal., 1882-09-01

According to answers given by
candidates for school teach
ers places, there had been twenty-five
Presidents of the United States, the
word "man" was "maskaline noun,
and the three divisions Of the Federal
Government were "the monarchisl,
aud democratic.
Semi-weekly interior journal., 1882-09-01

An addition has been made to the
list of long bridges in the bridge of
the Pensacola and Atlantic Railroad
across Escambia Bay, Florida. IL is
FIVE miles and a quarter long, and was
opened for use August 10.
Semi-weekly interior journal., 1882-09-01

An English chemist, who had been
called upon to analyze several socks
and stockings ofa red color, which
had been fouud to cause great irrita.
tion to the skin OF the wearers, discov.
ed the cause of the trouble in the tin
salt used as a mordant in fixing the
dye. He succeeeded- in obtaining
over twenty-five grains Of tin in the
form of the dioxide. When acted up.
on by acid perspiratiOn the tin oxide
forms an exceedingly irritating COM
pound.
Semi-weekly interior journal., 1882-09-01

Fashion is making monkeys Of us
all. Some of those wasp.wast ed, spi'
der-leggel, cigarette suckers, under a
big cart.wheel straw hat, look like a
hoisted Chinese umbrella with the
handle split.-[Courier-Journal.
Semi-weekly interior journal., 1882-09-01

A St. Louis girl, sixteen years old,
pretty as a picture, and having voice
as soft as currant jelly. can split the
panel ofa common pine door with one
blow of her 6st.
Semi-weekly interior journal., 1882-09-01
Long and Shon Sermons.


long and Short Sermons
Much has been said and written in
regard TO the proper length Of a ser
mon, but il is one Of those matters
about which il is impossible TO lay
down any rule that will apply 20 all
cases. The common error has been
in attempting to apply fixed gauge
10 all cases and all circumstances.
Some sermons would be too long if the
delivery consumed only ten minutes,
and others would be short IL they Gil.
cd up an hour. There are some occa.
sions ON which a very brief address
would be far more appropriate and ef-
fective than an extended discourse,
however able the discourse might be.
There is not sufficient adaptation Of
sermons 10 the congregations to which,
and especially TO the occasions on
which they are preached. Nearly
every preacher has his own limit, to
which he rigidly confines himself by
a certain number Of pages or by his
watch. With some il is thirty min.
utes; with more il is forty; while with
few il is a full hour.
There Is no good reason for making
every sermon precisely so long, wbeth-
er man has any thing TO say or not
II would add a pleasing aud, we doubt
not, a profitable variety il ministers
would give up the stereotype habit OF
being governed by the clock instead Of
the fow OF ideas, and occasionally
stop even before the half hour is up;
or II they would improve the occa
sions when their hearts are sglow aud
their minds active, and detain their
congregations a little longer at such
times. To average a certain length
Of time would be much better than to
preserve one uniform length Of dis
course ON any and all occasions.
The complaints that are made Of
sermons as being too long spring often
from want of interest in the great
themes of the gospel on the part of
hearers. Many go to church to be en-
tertained with something new, or to
pass away the time, and almost any
sermon in which the old gospel is
preached would be too long for them.
But the fault is not always with the
hearer. Sermons, il must be confess
ed, sometimes do not have much in
them. They are not well digested by
the preacher as a pre- requisite to their
being digested by the hearer. They
are too often filed with repetitions Of
the same ideas--sometimes in the
same words. Aud then preachers are
not always interested in their own ser
mons, and when they are not, how
can they expect their hearers to bei
They must not rely on the eternal in
terest Of the great themes on which
they speak. The most solemn truths
are sometimes uttered in listless
spirit and in a perfunctory manner.
We have heard ministers preach on
the most important realities OF life
aud eternity who manifested no more
solemnity or earnestness Of feeling
than if they were discoursing on some
dry topic connected with science. Such
sermons are always too long, whether
the weather be cold or hot.
There is something in this subject
worthy Of the serious consideration of
all preachers of the gospel who would
secure the attention Of their hearers
and win them TO Christ and build
them up in the faith and practice of
the word of God.-[New York OBJ
server.
Semi-weekly interior journal., 1882-09-01

A lady of our acquaintance, living
in Lewis county, is perhaps the only
one in the State who can say, as she
did the other day: "Arise, my daugh-
ter, go to your daughter, for your
daughters daughter has got daugh-
err Maysville Bulletin. This goes
to prove, what every true Corn'crack-
er stoutly maintsins, that Kentucky
women can beat the world in every
thing.
Semi-weekly interior journal., 1882-09-01

"Fools make feasts, and wise lnen
eat them" Find out whether il is
the tools or the feasts that the wise
men eat.-T Padman.
Semi-weekly interior journal., 1882-09-01

Senator Hills physicians say that
the cancer which killed him was
caused by tobacco. He had a habit
Of holding a cigar almost constantly
in bis mouth, and keeping the nico-
tine coated cad against the LETT side of
his tongue.
Semi-weekly interior journal., 1882-09-01

Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tenn.
| testify 10 the most excellent qualities Of Prof
Darbys Prophylactc Fluid. As disinfectant and
detergcnt i is both theoretically and practically
superior 70 any preparation with which am ac-
quainted.-N. 7. LUTON, Prof Chemistry
Darbys Fluid Is Recommended by
Hon. ALEXANDER II. SrKPHESs, Of Georgia
ReT. CHAs. =. DEENs, D.D., Church Of the
Strangers, N. ":
Jos. LKCesrK. Columbia. Prof University. sc.
Rev. A. BArrLE, Prof. Mercer University;
Kew. Cno. =. PfERcE, Bishop NJ. Z. Church.
INDISPENSABLE TO EvERY HOME.
Perfectly harmless. Used internally or
externally for Man or Beast.
The Fluid has been thoroughly tested. and we
have abundant evidence that il has done everything
here claimed. tor fuller information get Of your
j. III. ZEILIN 4 CO.,
Man acturing Chemists. PHILADELPHIA.
Semi-weekly interior journal., 1882-09-01

A physician falls into fit while
making round of visits, and is car
ried into a drug store. ."Send for
DIR, x" says somebody, "No, no,
not for him." says the dying man fee
bly,, at the mention of his rivals
name; "if-he brought me around II
would advertise himl l prefer "a
die. French Paper.
Semi-weekly interior journal., 1882-09-01
|Diphtheria
Prevented.


The physicians here
use Darbys Fluid very
successfully in the treat
ment of Diphtheria.
A. SroLLENwERCK,
Greensboro, Ala.
letter dried up.
Cholera prevented
Ulcers purified and
healed.
In cases ofDeath il
should be used about
the corpse - IL will
prevent any unpleas-
ant smell.
The eminentP Ply
sician, j. MARION
SIMS, NJ. d., New
York, says: 81 am
convinced Prof Darbys
Prophylactic Fluid is a
valuable disinfectant.
Semi-weekly interior journal., 1882-09-01

A Jersey milkman milks his COW
from door to door. This is enough 10
bring tears to the eyes Of the hardest
hearted hydant.
Semi-weekly interior journal., 1882-09-01
SMALLPOX
and
PITTING Of Small
Pox PREVENTED

Amcmbcr ofmy fam
ily was taken with
Small pox. | used the
Fluid the patient was
not dclirious, was not
piucd. and was about
the house again In three
weeks, and no others
had IL. - W. PARK
rVgp9 philaslelnhia
Semi-weekly interior journal., 1882-09-01
Eradicates
MALARIA.

all Contagious Diseases. Persons waiting on
the Sick should use Il freely. Scarlet Fever has
never been known 10 spread where the Fluid was
used. Yellow Fever has been cured with Il after
black yoinit had taken place. The worst
Semi-weekly interior journal., 1882-09-01
DARBYS
PR0PHYLACTIC
FLUID.
FLUID.
A Household Article for Universal
Family Use.

For Scarlet and
Typhoid Fevers,
Diphtheria, sail
walton, liberated
soreThroat, Small
Pox, Measles. and