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Sacramento daily record-union., 1882-01-26
sargent.s AppOIntment.

New YORK, January 25th.-The Posts
Washington correspondent says: 1t is re-
reported that Sargent will he appointed Sec
retary CT the Interior as soon as claim now
pending in the Interior Department, in which
he is party in interest, is decided.
Sacramento daily record-union., 1882-01-26
FOREIGN,

NEW YORK, January 25th-Midnight.- =
Temperature-Highest 81, lowest So. 1t is
now raining
Sacramento daily record-union., 1882-01-26

ROCHESTER, January 25th.-Four hundred
laborers have struck here for % per cent.
advance. Two thousand men are thrown out
of employment by the strike.
Sacramento daily record-union., 1882-01-26
Boys Blouse Suit !!

Am odd lot of CHILDREN'S s
so cents (Jess than
Also, an irregular lime of Ne1a'
b2'i7la7aaed PLA NTER HATS. 70 ca
Sacramento daily record-union., 1882-01-26
Destructive Fires.

WoONsoCKET (R. l. J, January 5th.-The
Woover and Providence depot and yards and
Block & Talcott's machine shop were burned
to-day. Loss, $50, 600; insurance, SIS, 600.
Sacramento daily record-union., 1882-01-26

nF Remember, it costs you nothing to reserve.
Box office open for the sale of reserved seats at
Theater, THURSDAY MORNING, at o'clock
Secure your seats early. j26.2t
Sacramento daily record-union., 1882-01-26

ALBANY, January 25th.-Tammany and
the other Democrats consulted this morning
The deadlock seems to be nearly over.
Jail Delivery.
DALLAS TEX J, January 25sh.-Two coun-
terfeiters, two train robbers and two State
prisoners broke Jail here yesterday. None
have been recaptured
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1882-11-02
Religious News and Notes.

The Southern Methodist church
papers are reporting conversions in
great numbers.
The pr,tas,,r, r,;eco,,aI bisbon ~
Wisconsin b,s igs,ci , ,,,s,or,1 1a,tar
,-.fl;.,,.,,..... 81. - Ia. ,,.
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grateful r.cogr.tio,s ~ INC abundant
harvest
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The German Lutheran churches OK
Southern Michigan and Northern Ohio
have established series Of annual
missionary festivals the hFst OF which
has been held IN Adrian, Mich, under
'le auspices oi ~, johns church.
Inc p'h''d lh"iaus nave Oecohle 80
wen elNllIzed 'ha' one OF 'he lady
missionaries IaOoflhg among 'hem
writes; NY STOCK oi pret'! ribbons Is
running low, and If you know Of any
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1882-11-02

rienced shock as though the ship
had struck reef. | sprang TO the
rail, but she appeared To be going
through the water the same as ever.
| felt the jar again. and the captains
head was thrust through the compan-
ionway to know what was the matter.
looked ut the compass and found her
on her course, and the man at the
wheel said she had not varied "A quarter
of point in IN hour, but admitted he
had felt the shock. BY this time ali
hands We're on deck. and it was unani-
mously agreed by all that it was reg
ular earthquake, or. more properly, II
seaquake.-CiHcinHati Enquirer.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1882-11-02
Hats In Churches.

Jewish congregations worship with
their heads covered; so do the Quakers,
although st. Paurs injunctions on the
matter are clearly condemnatory Of
the practice. The Puritans of the CON-
monwealth would seem to have kept
their hats on whether preaching or
being preached TO, since Pepys' notes
hearing a single clergyman exclaiming
against men wearing their hats in
the church, and a year afterward
(l662) writes: To the French church
in the Savoy. and there they have the
common prayer-book. read in French,
and which Inever saw before, themiE-
ster do preach with his hat off, sup
pose in further conformity with our
church" William III. rather scandal
zed his church-going subjects by fol-
owing Dutch custom, and keeping his
head covered in church, and when il
lid please him to doff his ponderous
hat during the service he invariably
aonned it as the preacher mounted the
pulpit stairs. When Bossuct, al the
age Of fourteen. treated the gay sinners
of the Hotel de Rembouinet to mid.
night sermon, Voltairc sat Il out with
his hat on, but uncoyering when the
boy preacher had finished. bowed low
before him, saying; " Sir. never heard
a man preach # once % early and 20
late. An the Year Round.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1882-11-02
PEARLS OF THOUGHT.

Publish your joys, but conceal your
sorrows
Much learning shows how little NOR
tai knows.
Experience and wisdom are the best
fortune-tellers.
Vain glory is a flower which never
comes to fruit.
The seed of our punishment is sown
at the same time we commit sin.
Faith steps in to our aid when our
boasted reason and knowledge fail.
While you look too much on others
gardens, you will neglect your own.
Crimes sometimes shock us too
much vices almost always too little.
Character is higher than intellect.
\ great soul will be strong to live rs
well aS strong TO think.
Perfect Ignorance is quiet, perfect
knowledge is quiet not SO the transi-
tion from the former to the latter.
From the manner in which praise
and blame are dealt out in this world
an honest man ought to coyct defama-
tion.
II We practice goodness not for the
sake of its own intrinsic excellence. but
for the sake of gaining some advantage
by it, We may be cunning, but we are
not good.
Nothing so increases reverence for
others rs great sorrow to ones self.
1t teaches one the depths of human
nature. In happiness we are shallow
and deem others so.
He who bctrays anothcr's secret.
because he has quarrclcd with him.
was never worthy Of the name Of
friend a breach Of kindness will not
justify a breach Of trust.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1882-11-02
PRAYERS.

Every prayer is wish, but wishes
are not prayers. In the heart Of every
prayer Is a sense Of need, but sense
Of need is not prayer Prayer Is asking
for felt need not asking the Uni
verse, but God. No one can intelli-
gently ask who does not believe that
he can and may be heard. No one can
perscycringly ask who thinks that ask
ing will bring nothing. Persons who
believe that the whole influence of
prayer is simply the effect Of their own
thoughts upon themselves. never pray.
They cannot pray. The mouth may
utter right words the heart Is not in
them. Some prayers are not prayers,
for those who say them do not really
wish for the things they mention. But
the difficulty with most prayers is that
there is no grasp Of the idea Of Cod
there is no asking. ASK and ye shall
receive. ."-Christiqn AduocGte
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1882-11-02
Hlndoo Habits.

A Hindoo writing to the Herald of
Health about the hygienic habits Of
his people. tells Of their personal
habits Of cleanliness and the import
ance they place upon the publication
of the body. This is all very well. but
he says nothing Of their careless way
Of cleaning house for we have been
informed 10y a physician who resided
among them that their houses and
everything about them are sIovenly
kept and even positively filthy.-Dr.
Foote's Health Monthly.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1882-11-02
MORAL AND RELIGIOUS.
CsInzs.

The man who gives, in order that he
may be considered liberal, erects for
himself pedestal, not Of honor, but
Of contempt. upon which ne stands in
self-glory and in popular derislon. The
man who gives, in order that he may
benefit his kind, weayes for himself An
invisible crown. whose glory will be
unfading through eternity; perhaps
recognized only when this pcrishabls
being shall assume the glory Of iInmor-
tality.-PresJyteriaH ObSeTUer.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1882-11-02
SOmnambuliSm In Dogs.

There is something peculiar about
somnambulism when considered from a
scientific and philosophical standpoint.
The sleep-walkor, it will be found.
still retains dim idea. even while hc
IS asleep. of the condition of affairs
when he went to sleep. For instance.
if he leaves his clothes in a certain
part Of the room on retiring, be- know.
when he rise, just whore 70 hud them.
even in the dark. This is a question
which opens mp wonderful field for
physiological AMI mental research
When young and gjddy we became
somnambul.st. aud excited great
deal Of curiosity hy our strlug" freaks
during sleep. and this one ques-
tion Of the slumbrring mind
and its memory Of facts cv-
isting prior to sleep was the
most remarkable thing about it all 20
rs. We puzzled over that q good deal
At night we wouli retire TO rest. and
the next thing We would know We
would wake mp in the middle Of a
contiguous melon patch, and there
would be two pr three other somnam-
bulists there in the same patch and as
much surprised "a We were. still
there is the same truth staring us in
the face. Every somnambulist there
had through his sleep retained in his
semi-conscious state a perfect recollec-
tion Of where every article Of his
clothing was and how to get out Of the
upstairs window without waking the
old people.
By-and-bye the owner Of the melon
patch procured, at great expense. a
large, humorous bulldog. who was also
somnambulist. lie walked in his
sleep a good deal, This is why we
quit. We didn't propose 10 descend
to tine level of the brute creation. We
lust said, If a bulldog wants to somnam,
he can 10 so and we will leave the
field to him.
We made this resolution one night
just after we had plugged a water
melon. While STOPPING over in the
act. we felt pang Of conscience and
heard our suspenders break.
Perhaps the casual reader has never
sat down on buzz saw and felt him
self gradually fading away. If so he
does not know what it is to form the
acquaintance Of somnambuliat bull
dog in the prime Of life.
After that somnambulism didn't
have such a run in our family for
while. Weneyer slept so sound that
We didn't remember places and objects
that had made an impression on us
prior to slumber, and that Is why we
esy that there is something in this
matter that scientists would do well
70 look into.-BW Nye.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1882-11-02

The four largest European cities
have together S.2S3,000 inhabitants
London having 3.s32.440, Paris 1925
600, Berlin l.222.000 and Vienna
100000. London has more in
habitants than All Switzerland Of the
kingdom of saxony.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1882-11-02

Chicago people brag that they pay
three per cent more for fruit than any
other people. But we don't believe
they get any more stomach-ache out Of
It than the rest Of US.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1882-10-26
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

THERE was terrible railway disaster
at North Adams, Mass. on the 21st. Some
thirty workmen were horribly scalded and
otherwise injured by the explosion Of a To-
connective boiler. The victims were in a
caboose, going to work, and there was a
collision near the Hoosac tunnel, in conse-
quence of dense fog. Eight or ten of the
sufferers were not expected to recover.
THREE men have been arrested in
New York for blackmailing Walter Malley,
der Of Jennie Cramer.
Mrs. D. BROWN, of Salisbury, N. c.,
was fatally injured by a fractions cow the
other day.
Two sons of D. S. Baird, of Fitzroy
Harbor, Ontario, were drowned on the 21st
by the capsizing Of canoe.
A FREIGHT train on the Louisville 6
Nashville road ran into some cattle near
shepherdsville, KY, the other day, and
went into cornfeld. George Minot, en-
gineer, was killed under the engine, and
Charles Cameron, brakeman, was fatally
injured.
THOMAS DoNoHoE, aged 55, was
killed by j. j. Caldon, his son-in-law, in 3
New York tenement the other night.
ADMIRAL II. 7. PURYIANCE, dis
tinguished retired officer of the United
States Navy, died at Baltimore, Nd, Oct. 81.
The remains OF Hon. John D. Defrees, late
Public Printer, were inferred in Crown Hill
Cemetery, Indianapolis, on the same day.
TIE suit of Charles A. Strout against
seven students of Bowdoin College, for haz-
ing, resulted in a verdict Of 81, 500 dam
ages.
THE two-hundredth anniversary of the
landing of William Penn at Chester, Pa,
was celebrated on the 22d with appropriate
ceremonies.
In railroad wreck near Southport,
Conn.,, on the 22d, Thomas Martin, brake
man, was killed and two other traiEmen
were badly injured.
JAMES RIGDoN, a respected farmer,
was murdered near his home in Freestone
County, Texas, a few days ago, and his
body was concealed in the carcass of cow.
Wolves aud buzzards had been feasting on
the remains.
The spinners at the Mechanics MIL,
Fall River, Mass, have struck for higher
wages.
ARABI's lawyer says the defense of
Egypt was ordered by the Khedive.
JOHN THoRP, an iron-molder, was
knocked down with a sand-bag by Daniel
Fisher, a stahlemsn, near the Union Depot
In Kansas City. Mo-, the other night, and
died the next day. Fisher says ne was
drunk at the time, but the police know him
to be bad man and think it case Of high
way robbery.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1882-10-26
PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.

When a woman wants to get rid OF
her husband for an hour, she sends him
up stairs TO get something from the
pocket of one of her dresses.
The PLAGUE mania is over, and the
next craze will be the ornamentation of
broom-handles and stove-legs. A stove
leg bearing q Swiss view saves two per
cent. in fuel.-Detr0t Free Press.
-''Violet, dearest, do you play that
tune often?'' asked Hugh Montressor of
his affianced. eyes, pet, and when we
are married I'll play it all the time. ;"
himself to death.
"A lawyer recently lost bride in a
peculiar way. He appeared at the we'd
ding, but on being called to the cere7
mony, from sheer force of habit protest.
demanded delay. And so the bride got
mad and shipped him.-BoSt0n Tran
script.
-''Do you like candy, map asked a
little Austin boy of his mother. ''No,
my son, it makes me deathly sick" 81
am so glad to hear it. You are the kind
of woman can trust to hold my candy
for me until I'm done playing. "-TeTGs
Slttt'sgs.
They say if you hold your thumb
tightly over the muzzle of gun you
may fire the gun and the bullet WON'T
be made to hit your thumb. We accept
the truth of this statement at once. We
don't propose to try the experiment just
to crafty an ephemeral curiosity.
ton Post.
Little Phil, bright five-year-old, is
afraid of thunder. During the receIM
hot spell his mother would remark: ''Oi
for rain One day when she said it,
Phil thus addressed her: 80, mamma,
will tell you why it don't rain. When
[ say my prayers 1 des say, Please
don't pay any 'tention to what mamma
says, COS I'm 'fraid of thunder.-'1ur
Continent.
-Jenk1nson is having his fortnight
of. As he was leaving the house the
other morning, Mrs. J. presented her
lips for the customary parting kiss; but
Jenkinson, the brute, turned on his heel
with the remark: 'tNOt this morning,
'Tilda; I'm on my vacation, you know
Evidently Jenkinson is bound to get all
the recreation possible out of his vaca-
tion.-Bostors Transcript.
AT one of the stations on the Erie
Railway lives New York book-keepe :,
who is fond of green food. A gentle
man recently presented him with pine
apple, which he gleefully took home,
The next day the gentleman asked him
how he liked it. 'sWell," said he, 1--WE
boiled it for two hours with a chunk OF
corned beef, but I can't say it was as
good as cabbage. - ourier-Journdl.
An undoubted alibi: .'And you say
that you are innocent of the charge of
stealing a rooster from Mr.. Jones?''
asked an Arkansaw Judge of meek
looking prisoner. eyes, Sir, am inno-
cent; as innocent as a child" "You
are confident that you did not steal the
rooster from Mr.. Jonesp'' Eyes, sir;
and I can prove it. ''How can you
prove it?'' 81 can prove that I didn't
steal Mr.. Jones' rooster, Judge, because
stole two hens from Mr.. Graston the
same night, and Jones lives five miles
from Graston's," THE proof is coz
elusive" said the Judge. Discharge
the prisoner, ''-ArkGnsG11 4rGgsler.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1882-10-26
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.


There are now in South Carolina
S,057 free schools, instructing 81, 339
white and Y, 119 colored children
Detroit Post
DIR. Newman Smythe, after passing
a rigid examination as to his orthodoxy,
has been Installed pastor of the Center
Church, New Haven, the pulpit occupied
for hfty years by DR.. Leonard Bacon
NJ 7. Times.
I'm the SanitGriG1s, DR.. Bell takes
the ground that the most common con-
ditions that depress and stunt the in
tellect of school children are bad school
house construction, criminal crowding,
exposure to soil emanations and bad
ventilation.
The Unitarian Conference held its
session at Saratoga, N. Y, recently.
There were 600 delegates present and
! an attendance of over 1000. A resolu-
! ton was adopted to raise the sum of
$4,000 annually, for the next two years,
for the American Unitarian Association.
An effort is also being made to raise the
sum of 100000 for the endowment of
the proposed Wade Theological School
at Cleveland, Ohio. Mr.. Wade has
pledged the association $500, 900 under
certain conditions. Christian Union.
The Sandwich Islands are following
the example set them by Japan in the
matter of educating their young men,,
There arrived in New York recently six
young Hawaiians sent over by their Cow
eminent to receive a foreign education.
One is to remain in California, another
will attempt to enter Yale College, three
go to Glasgow as apprentices in cele-
hJsqf or h
ishment, and the other will study medi-
cine and surveying in England.
AT the school of the mobiles in To-
kio, Japan, is a physical map of that
country 800 or 400 feet long, in the
court behind the school-building. This
map, or model. is made of turf and rock
and is bordered with pebbles, which look
at a little distance so much like water
Every inlet, river and mountain is re-
produced in this model with fidelity to
detail which is simply wonderful. Lat
itude and longitude are indicated by tel
egraph wires, and tablets show the posi-
ton of the cities. Ingenious devices
are employed in illustrating botanical
studies Also The Workman.
Following is the opinion of the edi1
tor of the London Truth in regard to
the education of children: ''The school
hours ought to be shortened. Ali the
work should be done in school, in alter
nate hours for study and repetition.
There should be no evening preparation
at home, and no child ought be taught
anything but to tell the truth, and say
If you please and No, thank you,'
much before seven years of age. Two
years later he would, l venture to pre-
dict, be a far better scholar than the av-
erage nine-year-old victim of the School
Board, and he would furthermore have
at least the chance of being q fine,
healthy, happy and well-grown urchin.''
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1882-10-26

THE Irish national conference at
Dublin opened with nearly eight hundred
delegates in attendance: Parnell and DaVitt
were greeted by wild cheers. Almost all the
extreme Irish members Of Parliament were
present. Parnell was called to the chair and
Brennan and Sexton chosen secretaries. A
letter from Treasurer Egan, at Paris, con-
Veying his resignation, stated that funds Of
the Land League amounting to s244, $50 had
passed through his hands, the sum remain
ing being E32, 900. A vote of confidence was
passed. Numerous letters and kilograms
from the United States were read. The
scheme for the establishment of an Irish ma
tiOnal league was adopted. Davitt declared
that until the land stolen from the people
was restored there could be no final settle
nent Of the land question:
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1882-10-26

Mr.. JOHN A. COCKERILL, editor of
the st. Louis Post Dispatch, has been re-
leased from custody on furnishing bonds to
the amount of SO, 900 to answer charge of
murder in the second degree. In swearing
out a warrant which was intended merely
to hold the accused for ajudieial investiga-
ton, and not to decide the justice or injus-
tice of the cause, the Prosecuting Attorney
has only done the duty required of him by
law. Judge Cady will hear the case on No
vember 2, when the accused may be held for
murder in the degree charged, the. degree
may be reduced to manslaughter, or the
prisoner may be acquitted. This decision
will be the first judicial determination of the
real merits of the case.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1882-10-26

A DISPATCH was recently sent from
Chicago stating that three lives were lost on
Lake Michigan through ruling by the Su-
pervising Inspector of Steam Vessels that
tugs must not take passengers on board, I'M
der penalty Of $500. The Inspector says
that no regulation ever made by the depart
ment could be tortured into prohibition of
saving life, the only restriction being as to
equipments for the safety of passengers.
Chicago tugmen are said to have boosted
that they would suffer people to drown.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1882-10-26

REPORTS to the Canadian Govern
ment indicate an uprising of the Indians
on CaradOc Reserve, in the Northwest Ter
ritories, who have formally decided not to
lease to the whites any portion of their
lands. General Crook, in a conference with
four hundred chiefs and head men of the
Apaches, at San Carries, forbade them to
leave the reservation without papers, and
ordered them to stop manufacturing liquor.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1882-10-26

Three thousand dollars had been
spent to educate her in music, Latin,
French and drawing. and yet she wrote:
- Send six yards of played goods by
bearer. ''-Detroit Free Press.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1882-10-26

IGNATIO L. VILLAsTA, Chief Justice
of the Mexican Supreme Court, was pro-
claimed Vice President under the recent
constitutional amendment. He promptly
resigned, on the ground that his political
relations interfere with his judicial duties.
He has been Governor, Congressman, and
Cabinet Minister.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1882-10-26

IN an interview at Kansas City, Mo-,
the other day, ex-senator Dorsey sharply
criticised the Government officials connected
with the star route cases, and reiterated the
statement that he had never defrauded the
country of one cent
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1882-10-26

ADVICEs from Panama say matters
on the south coast have a more pacific ten
dency than for long time past, and the
pressure brought to bear on the govern
ments or people of Peru and Bolivia is hay-
ing marked effect.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1882-10-26

THE President has suspended Jona-
than Diggs, Indian Agent at Colorado River
Agency, and appointed John w. Clark his
successor. McGillicuddy, of the Mescalero
Agency, rendered his resignation, but the
Secretary of the Interior declined to accept
it, pending the result of the investigation
now in progress.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1882-10-26

AsBURY University, at Greencastle,
Ind, is to receive an endowment of 81 900, :
600 from Hon. w. G. DePauw, on condition
that it assume his name and comply with
some pecuniary requirements.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1882-10-26

A QUARANTINE against all Southern
points has been established at Bagdad, at
the mouth of the Rio Grande, ostensiblY to
prevent the spread of cholera from the Mex
lean States
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1882-10-26

THE Secretary of War has submitted
to the Judge-Adyocate General for his opin-
ion the question whether persistent refusal
on the part of an officer Of the army to pay
just debts does not make him liable to trial
by court martial upon charges unbecoming
an officer and a gentleman.