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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-03-19
TIE SLEEPER.

The fire is In q steadfast glow,
The curtains drawn against the night;
UPON the red couch soft and low
Between the fire and lamp alight
She rests half-sitting hat-recIining,
EncOmpasScd by the cosy shining,
Her ruby dress with lace trimmed white
Her left hand shades her drooping eyes
Against the feryOr OF the fire
The right upon her cincture lies
In languid grace be, ond desire,
a lilly fallen among roses
So pacidly her form rrposes,
1t scarcely secmeth TO rcspire
She is not surely all awake,
As yet she Is nor al -leepj
The eyes with lids half open take
a startled deprccating peep
OF quiz rrlng drOwsincSs, then slowly
The lids sink back, before she wholly
Resigns herself to sluuber deep.
The side-neck CLEANS so pure beneath
The under fringe of gossamer,
The tendrls OF whose tacry wreath
Tho softes; sigh suppressed would STIR,
The little pink-shell ear-rIm Pushes
With her young blOod's translucent bushes,
Nesting IN tTe,Ses warm as fur.
The contour of her cheek and chin
Is curved in one delicious line,
Pure as a vase of porcelain thin
Through which tender light may shine;
Her brow and bluc-vemed temple cleaning
Beneath the dusk OF hair Understanding
Are as virgins marble shrine.
VI.
The ear Il burning crimson fire,
The flush is Frightening on the face,
The lips partiAg 10 Suspire,
The hair grows restless in IFS place
As t4t.lI
The bosom with her deeper breathing
Swells and subsidies with ravishlng grace.
VII.
The hand slides softly to caress,
Unconscious, that ine-pencllled curve
Her lips contour and downlnrsS,"
Unbendiug with a sweet reserve;
A tender dal kncss that abashcs
Steals ont beneath the long dark lashes.
Whose sightless eyes make eyesight swervo.
VIII.
The hand OH chin and throat townships,
Then softly, softly on her breast
A dream comes futtering DER the lips,
And stirs the eyclds in their rest,
And makes their undershadows culver,
Aud like ripple on river
Glides through her breathing manifest.
TX.
feel an awe to read this dream
So clearly written in her smile;
A pleasant not passionate theme,
little love, a little guile;
] fear lest she shOGld speak, revealing
The secret of some maiden feeling
have right to hear the while.
X
The dream has passed without a word
OF all that lowered finely traced
The hand has slIpt down, gently stirred
To Join the other at her wast
Her breath from that light agitation
Has settled to its slow pulsationi
She is by deep sleep reembraced.
X.
Deep sleep, so holy in its calm,
SO helpless, yet so awful too;
Whose silence sheds as sweet q balm
AS ever sweetest voice could do;
Whose tranced eyes, unseen, nnseelng,
ShadOwel by pure love, thrill our being
With tender yearningS through and through.
XII.
Sweet sleep no hope, no fear, no strife;
The solemn sanctity of death,
With all the lOvelIest bloom of lifeJ
Eternal peace in mortal breath:
Pure sleep from which she will awaken
Refreshed as one who hath partaken
New strength, new hope, new love, new faith
JanuarV 1882. JAMES THOMSON.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-03-19

letter from the German Government asking
particulars about the state of the weather for
the first halt of December for the past two
years at Nashville, Chattanooga and Knoxville.
The Government proposes to send two parties
who will occupy positions east of the Missis-
slppl River, i'll order to observe the transit OF
Venus over the sun next December.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-03-19
CURRENT RELIGIOUS OPINION

The mingling and elevation Of races which has
taken place here is the most striking and hopeful
fact in cOntempoTaneOus history. 10 shut the door
against China at this late day Is not only TO intro
duce race leV' SlatlOI, which recent amendments
have endeavored 10 eXpunge from our statute BOOKS
but 10 sion the most effective missionary work and
10 close a door which the providence If God Las
opened for the widest Christian iniiueuce.-lIhs
Oh Istian Union.
We cannot at this time of day make fish OF ono
people and flesh of another. If the Port of New
York is to be kept open for the poor OF all lands, 50
must the Pacific ports be open. hls Is the American
idea Ii will be very hard TO maintain our princi-
pies as Il political power and still harder as Chris
ian people if we seek to prevent the Incoming OF
any who seek the hospitality OF our shores.-lThe
NeI-YoTk Observer.
The Governor OF New-York has respited a crrai-
nal condemned to die on Good Friday: The respite
was granted in avowed Difference 10 the sentiment
and feeling of Christians. This is as it should he,
and we hope the example thus set may revive tho
Old judicial respect for times and seasons whio,
seemed fast dying out The Churchman.
Some of the secular papers are making much Of
the fact that several recently detected thieves arc
church members But Is ii matter FOR wonder Ia
this day when religion Is respectable, that bad men
should seek TO wear It's cO!or and TO trade upon the
credit of its professionf When tho Christian name
Is passport to favor and men are trusted the nors
because they III the church. II is 10 be expected
that It's shelter and support will be sought by the
weak and the wicked. And how shall they be de-
tected Suppose the church establishes an inquest
at the gate, ana refuses 70 AUNT any VINO canhos
stand a searching examination. Hypocrtes often
make "a better show than the weak IN faith whom IL
is commanded to receive. A jury Of ministers. or
elders ycstry men experts cannot judge of the
state Of the heart. The bad processes 10 be the
best man, and gets in. The world reproaches the
church with being straight,lac and bigoted u u
refuses to admit afterw ard excludes man OF fair
character of whose piety 1t is In doubt. Therefore
IL comes to pass that the church Is under the
sure of the censorous If IL does not receive into
to slip up and bring upon ID still greater reproaoh
1t was always SO and always VIII DO so.-lThS New
York Observer.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-03-19
FRENCH LACE.

Cast on 3 stitches.
LIST row Knit 3, over, narrow, knt3, over, knit l,
over, knit 6.
I'd row Knit 6, over, knit 3, over, narrow knit 3,
over, narrow, knit l.
Sd row Knit g. over, narrow, narrow again, over,
knit 8, over, knit 6.
4th row Cast of t. knit l, over, narrow, KNIT 8,
narrow over, narrow, knit l, over narrow XIII l.
9th row Knit 8. over narrow knit l, over, mar
row, knit l. narrow, over, knit 3.
9th row Knit g. over, knit l, over, slip 2. knit !,
pass the slipped stitches the knitted one over
knit 4, over, narrow, knit l.
Begin LIST row.
Emma Estele Wetsel sends this lace, also SOM
pie. We think 1t very pretty
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-03-19
PILE DRIVING BY ELECTRICITY.

The successful application of electricity in
new fields OF labor continues 10 be recorded.
AT Hatfield Park, the seat Of the Marquis of
Salisbury, the piles to support a Golfer dam
across the River Lea have just been success
fully driven by the power of ater-wheel sit
uated at distance, which power was trans
connected with the pile-driver of ordinary
construction erected on a barge floating In the
river The machinery worked well, lifting a
monkey weighing about four hundred-welght
with ease and regularity. 1t is not stated how
far the power was transmitted. BY French
experiment, NJ. Deprez has succeeded in obtain
ing useful work after the current had passed
through forty mine miles of ordinary telegraph
wire.
THE APPROACHING TRANSIT OF VENUS.
According TO The Memphis Appeal Mr.. Bar
nard, the Nashville astronomer. has received
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-03-19

An English religious newspaper has been in
0uiring the opinions of number of prominent
persons regarding the facts revealed by the re-
Gently published statistics of church attendance
in England. Sir Stafford NOrthcOte is too busy
to enter into the matter Alr. Rankin, member
of Parliament, believes, in spite Of figures, that
attendance has increased and is likely to do so !;
Lord OranmOre traces the evil of scant atten-
dance to brOadness OF views on the part of the
clergy and Mr.. ThorOld Rogers, on the other
hand, thinks that Church Establishments, eccle
sastiCal quarrelsOmeness, and the dOgmatlc
stupidity of popular theology have much to do
with the matter. The Bishops of Winchester,
Bath and Wells, Gloucester and Bristol, and
Canon LiddOn either excuse themselves for not
expressing their opinions or refer to their pub
lished utterances on the subject. Mr. D. l..
Moody the reviyalist, intimdteS that he Is not
sufficiently well acquainted with the English
people to Obtrude his opinions. General
Booth, of the Salvation Army, considers that
week day census of church attendance would
be far more valuable than Sunday one. Mr..
w. :. Caine, another Member of Parliament,
declares that pew-rents and bad sermons are
the chief causes of sCant attendance. Mon
slgnor Capel says that early Masses are so fire.
Uuent in Catholic churches that the counting of
those present at eleven o'clock gives no idea of
the Catholic church attendance. The Bishop OF
Manchester suggests inquiries as to home visi-
tatIon the adaptation of preaching to the people,
the character and hours Of the services, and the
need for special missions. Mr. Craig, NJ. T.,
sends a long and trenChant letter. " Let those
who tcach,n he says, be true believers, and
live consistent lives. Then they would be will
ing to sell what they have and give 10 the poor,
rather than to live extravagantly on nice meats.
They would risk their health and lives for the
sake of souls, rather than seek 10y com forts TO
I a Ian ma, 10
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-03-19

The Northwestern branch of the Woman's
Foreign Missionary Society Of the Methodist
Church held its regular quarterly
meeting on March 10 in Chicago.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-03-19

The Harrison revival" continues in Cincin-
natl, and is now entering upon its ninth week.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-03-19

The Welsh bishops have decided not to pro-
'ced for the present with the revision Of the
Welsh New Testament.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-03-19

The question of the use of tobacco among the
clergy came up in rather an unexpected way at
the meeting of the Baltimore Conference OF the
Methodist Episcopal Church last week. In the
course of some remarks addressed TO number
of candidates for admission to the ministry
Bishop Wiley asked them If they would re-
frain from the use of tobacco. One of the candl-
dates replied that he would not abstain from
its use but modified his reply and said that he
would endeaTor to do so another replied that
he would not promise TO abstain While TWO
answered that they would abstain. Some eX-
element over the replies was manifest III the
Conference, and. in the course OF the discussion
which ensued, the question was asked OF the
presiding Bishop what effect the answers given
by the candidates would have upon them. The
Bishop answered that that was Il question Tor
the Conference to decide. One clergyman
asked another how long ago 1t was that he Lad
stopped chewing tobacco, and received the
satisfactory answer: Twenty years" An
other appeared to consider that a promise to alb
stain from the use of tobacco was requisite lully
as much as an answer that the candidate would
accept the doctrine of itinerancy. Tins view,
MS NAV well be supposed, was not shared by
those members of the Conference that use to-
baccO. The debate was growing rather warm
when a call for the previous question on ac-
cepting the candidates put timely END TO the
discussion. The vote in favor of the candidate
who had said in the first instance THAT ne would
not abstain was very nearly unanimous, not
more than three votes being III the negative,
and the result was hailed with applause, not
only on the floor Of the house. but also In the
galleries, and 10y some few OF the women pres
ent
sThe first Congregational church of which
we have any account" says Inc Religious
Herald was that of which Robert Brown was
pastor in Norwich England. Its date was the
tya a m
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-03-19

The Rev. Phillips Brooks, of Boston, is I'M
derstoOd to have received more than 80, 600 for
the American Memorial window which is to be
placed in Westminster Abbey to the late Dean
Stanlpy
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-03-19

The visit of Mr. Moody and Mr. Sankey to
Edinburgh is to he COMMUNICATED by the erec-
tiCn of an evangclstc hall for the city. A suit.
able site, within little distance OF the house of
John Knox, has been secured
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-11-10
The Arts and Sciences.

There are already in England thirty
electric lighting companies with a capl-
tai Of $50, 100000. France has not SO
many companies, but has invested
nearly as much money in introducing
the new light.
Mr.. Werdermann, an Englishman,
has patented new incandescent lamp,
in which the vacuum, indispensable In
all other such lamps, is dispensed with,
and sicilicium is used in place of car.
bon, producing better results than il
carbon was employed.
High French Authorities have found
by experiments on animals that while
small doses Of arsenic seemed to DO
good at first. they resulted ultimately
in poverty of blood, and that post NOR
tenn disclosed in the liver, lungs and kid
neys the characteristics of fatty degen-
Grafton.
Mr.. E. Orton. in examining with a
microscope some fragments of The De-
voniSn and su ubcarboniferus black shales
of Ohio, found many of them covered
and filled with translucent disks, rang
ing from 1-1O0th to 1-200th of an inch in
their largest diameters. The disks have
decidedly resinous appearance, but
they yield only slowly, il at all to ordi-
nary solvents.
During Kiln-drying any diseased fer
ments and mold contained in the malt
are efectually destroyed, and presum-
ably certain empyreumatic substances
are formed, which act as antiseptics in
large degree. The ancient Egyptians
purified their drinking water with
roasted barley, which took away any
musty smell or taste, this action being
apparently due to similar causes.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-11-10
TELEGRAPH TICKS.
Important and Interesting Items
from the Wires During the Week.
WARRINGTON.

THE taking Of testimony in the So teldo
mu rder case at Washington began Mon
day.
Col. X. q. ISGGRsoLL expects as his
guest later in the season, Miss Farrell, of
Peoria, Ill.
GIN. BRADY is in Canada at his mills,
which are furnishing sineEs of war for
the coming fight in the star-route cases.
The effect Of decision of the interior
department is 10 throw open to home
stead pre-emption valuable mineral and
timber land originally included in grants
to railroad companies in the peninsula o.
Michigan.
MRS. SoTELDo has written a letter to
District Attorney Corkhill, praying that
any further proceedings against her
brother-in-law, who WAS acquitted on
the charge Of murder Friday last, be
abandoned and the matter whicn has en-
shrouded their lives in grief be no longer
kept before the public.
The deaths in the District of Columbia
during the year were 4751, an xcess over
the total last year of 435, or al the rate
Of "a per thousand Of The population.
OF the deaths 1858 were white and 22l8
colored, showing ali annual death rate of
1871 per 1000 per annum for the white,
34.5S for the colored and 2l.2$ for the
total population.
In the last two days 100000 of 81
per cent. bonds have been received at the
treasury to be exchanged into 3 per
cents. 1t is thought that the total amount
Of extended 5's exchanged for 3's will
reach $780, 900, leaving but about $780,
600, 600 Of exchanged Is outstanding.
The report of the Surgeon-General Of
the Army shows that among white troops
the total number of cases of all kinds
taken on the sick list the past year was
34,880. being at the rate Of 679-1000 per
1000 of mean strength. Among colored
troops 4o99, or 100000 per 1000 of
meaa strength. There were 2l8 deaths
among white troops, % among colored and
among Indian troops.
COMMISSIONER LoRING. of the agrioul-
tural bureau, offered $4,000 in prizes for
essays upon various branches of husband
ry. desiging to pay the prizes from the
appropriation for experiments in best
sugar and sorghum culture; but Comp
troller Lawrence. of the treasury de-
partment, has warned the commissioner
that the intended diversion OF money
without the authority of congress would
be Illegal.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-11-10
Chicago n arket.

CHICAGO, Nov. s.-Flour-Quiet and un-
changed. Wheat-lpastive and lower; regular
92A for seller November; "a y for seller Decem-
Der ,92% for seller the year; 941 a95 for seller
january l.OoH for seller May; Ne. Chicago
spring, e2x for seller cash; rest same as reg
ular. No. Chicago spring, Sly; No. red
winter, s. for seller cash; 95a S96 for seller
November; No winter, 91h; rejected So. Corn
Demand active, prices advanced; 73x for seller
cash; 6s% G6sH for seller November; 62I ass
for seller December; 62X for sellsr the year;
81. q So for seller January; 55I a Sc for seller
May rejected, 6S. osts-Quiet; 3448S41 for
seller cash; "a for seller November S9A for
seller December the year, and January; S5Z
for seller May; rejected, 3ld3la. Rye
Steady 56H. Barley-Higher; So. Flax Seed
Dull; Ll5H 91.1S. Pork-Lower; 20. 5oa
2l.oO for seller cash; l9.2o@ls.22H for seller
November; 1s.SOa 1887 for seller December
and the year; 1s.52S 9ls.55 for seller Janu-
ary; ls55gls.57h for seller February; 1s.so&
1885 for seller May. Lard-Lower; 1l.47 IA II. SO
for seller cash; 11.27h9ll.So for seller No
vember; 1l.l2h hdII.15 for seller December, the
year and January; 1l.l58u.1 for seller
Fsbraary; ll.S2h 6l1.s5 for seller May. Bulk
Meats--In fair ,mand; shoulders, T.5O;
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-11-10

The willof Miss Barbara Scott,
wretched old woman who inherited
several fortunes and increased them
by every means which her misery in
stincts could devise, has been upheld
by the superior court in Montreal.
McGill university gets $4,000, and va
rious hospitals, churches, and chsrit-
able institutions receive the rest. For
years before her death she lived isolst-
ed in the old family mansion in the
suburbs of the city, uutil the dirt and
filth became SO intolerasle that the
board of health was forced to interfere.
She refused oven to employ female
domestic, but allowed an old man to
visit the house daily to do chores. She
died without any attendant, and, when
the executors took possession, thou
sands of dollars were found rolled up in
scraps of old paper. Not the least
remnant of food was discovered in the
house, and the doctors thought she
starved herself to death. The relatives,
who were practically ignored tried to
break the will on the ground of insani-
ty, but the court held that the testatrix
was of imposing mind though eccentric.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-11-10
FOREIGN.

THE Bey of TuHis is very ill and not
expected to live.
THE Mexican press views with disfavor
any reciprocity treaty with the United
States.
TIE Swiss Federal Council denies that
there are any anarchist committees in that
country.
AN ordinance is before the German
huudesrath prohibiting the importation of
American pork or sausage.
AN English officsr will command the
expedition against the False Prophet in
the Soudan.
CoCCAPILLER, the agitator elected to
the Italian chamber of deputies, was I'M
til recently circus rider, and bears a bad
character.
ARARI PAsHA asserts that since the IN
tervention of the British consul his treat
ment has been materially changed for the
better.
By the collapse of the floor at Hanley,
Eng, on which was congregsted the Sal
walton Army, mauy members were seri-
ously injured.
ton against the False Prophet are pro-
hHu HSI-
man and amuestied off GERS have rendered
their services.
HERR BKBEL, the German socialist, has
commenced to serve n term OF three
months in prison at Lsipsic, for using the
press to express his sentiments in regard
TO the government.
Coat owners of West Lsncashir re ad-
vanced miners wages 10 per cant. Thi
action practically ends the dispute in
Lancashire. Coal owners of South York
shire offer coliiers an advance of 5 per
cent. TO avert a strike.
TROOPS occupy all the strategic points
in Lyons, prepared to act at the first ap-
pearance of trouble. Ii any more e1plo-
sions occur, the city will be placed under
marital law. A quantity of dynamite has
been seized by the police.
The newspaper org an of the socialists
in France publishes the progrs mme of
the party, which falls little short of the
scheme premulg sted by Jack Cade. 1t
aims at the destruction of property rights
and the redistribution of wealth.
In the debate on the rules of procedure
in the British parliament. the premier
denied that the cloture was intended to
interfere with the right of free speech.
Mr.. Gladstone said that the procedure
rules would not be made the subjec, of
an appeal TO the constit uenSies. A divi-
sion will be taken uson the question Of
the cloture.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-11-10
FIRES AND CASUALTIES.
FIRE at Hull. Ont, opposite Ottawa,
nstrOyed properly valued at $500. 600.

FIRK at Hull. Ont, opposite Ottawa,
destroyed property valued at 100000.
FIVE business places at Shreveport, La,
valued at SlO8. 600. were swept away by
fire Tuesday.
L.. NJ. VANCE, prominent farmer
Franklin county, Ark, was accidentally
killed by a runaway team Thursday.
VIM. PoRCUTKAU, superintendent of the
Gunnell Mine at Central City. Col, was
attacked by huge bear and frightfully
mangled.
THk death by apoplexy of Rear Adj
miral Cha. III. Poor is announced in
dispatch from Washington. He entered
the navy in Sa7.
JosEPL BUHM, a young Detroit man.
got drunk while out hunting and acci-
dentally discharged his gun, the load en-
tering his breast. He lived an hour.
THE storm in Scott county, Iowa, Mon
day afternoon, was more destructive than
first reports indicated, the damage being
variousIy estimated from 100000 to $780,
600. On Lake Michigan some loss was
inf icted upon shipping,
BY loaded coal-car breaking loose and
running with great speed down an in
clined plane at Il mine near WilliaInsport,
Pa, three men who were on the car were
killed and two seriously injured.
THE Lake Shore fast train from Chi
cago, while passing through Cleveland
early Sunday morning, killed John
Gibbs, An employe of the Whipple manu-
featuring company, who was walking on
the track.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-11-10

The first purchase of California red
wood timber lands for eastern account
by Buffalo syndicate during the past
summer hes created demand among
local capitalists, who have recently
bought about seven thousand acres on
Eel'river, Humboldt county, known AS
the Ralst0n tract. The price paid is re.
ported at 100000 This syndicate pro.
poses to build a railway from the tract
to tide-wster y: Humboldt bay, dis
tance of some twenty miles. Prominent
lumber men of Chicago and Detroit
have had representatives in California
at various times during the past year,
with view of ultimately using red
wood for fnising work in place of white
pine.