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The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1883-11-22
Ma rAetta Market.

kCorrectad Weekly by our Merchants,
fC@CTON-9 to II cents per pound
CORN SOILS per hushel.
MEAL-30.50 per bushal.
IIAY-S1. 35 TO $3.50
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-03-23
RELIGIOUS TOPICS.

We cannot contemplate without
alarm either alternative-of an I'M
trained ministry on the one hand, or
on the other a disastrous check in the
growth of American Christianity.
And yet one or the other is inevitable
unless there is speedily mighty re-
ligious awakening in our colleges,
which shall lead thousands of educat-
ed young men into the Christian min
istry. The time has come for college
officers and pastors and the press to
take the alarm and sound it, until it is
heard in every Christian home and
felt in every Christian heart. Parents
must consecrate their sons to the min
istry and train them for it. But the
demands which are pressing upon us
in the near future we must look to the
colleges to meet Rev. Josiah Strong.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-03-23

believe it all humbug, all manu-
featured thing on the part of the
priests who want to make their living
out of it, and so have cut loose from
the whole thing. / have very great
respect for the position of those per-
sons, and l do not wonder that they
are where they are. 1t is to such per-
sons 1 say that 1 am not here as a
priest, or that we have any pretensions
to divine calling any more than any
other man or woman. If we have
Gods truth to say we are Gods anoint-
ed if we have not Gods truth to say
we are no priests of his. I speak to
such persons with confidence. 1 ask
them to listen to what the free church
of America has to say to them; to
what the Unitarian church has to say
of life and its duties, of death, of
sorrow and of Joy, and of our practi-
cal religion in this world. We are
sure of your candor, and we ask you
to give us your attention"
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-03-23
Showed His Money.

John II. Won Dohlen, German gro
Ger in New York, changed SO note
for a stranger, and, in doing so display
ed large roll of money. Soon after
wards two young men entered the
store and said they had made bet as
to whose hat would hold the most
molasses.
dots holdings to me- said Dohlen.
81 know holdings aloud such pisi-
nesses."
But the young men were not to be
put off. They said they would pay
for the molasses. The grocer grum-
bled about the "voolishnesses" as he
took the hat they wanted him to fill
and went to the rear of the store.
AS he returned with it to the man who
held out his hands for it, he stepped
between the two. The one who took
the hat said:
"Well, how much does it hold?"
Before the astonished grocer could
answer he was seized from behind, and
at the same time the hatful Of mo-
lasses was clapped on his head and
pulled down over his eyes. Blinded
and bewildered, he could make no re-
sistance while his money was taken
from him, and when he got the hat off
and ran out on the sidewalk, dripping
with molasses, his dispoilers were gone.
He lost 1914 and the molasses.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-03-23

Immediately on hearing the cry
"Sail, o." the signal flags, Of which
there are eighteen, are brought to
deck, and the ensign is run up the
peak halliards; or, if not visible to the
other vessel there, they are displayed
from some conspicuous point. When
the other vessel comes near enough to
see our ensign through the glass, she
makes it known by pulling down her
ensign. We next raise the four flags
of pennants that denote the name of
our vessel, and when distinguished by
them they follow suit. The other flags
used denoting the letters were B. l..
d. C.-from Bombay, B. E. M.-for
Amsterdam, w. F. V.-seventy-six
days out; these were answered by us,
and then we asked him to report us;
he replied, V. j. W.-with pleasure
Anything can be said by the use OF
these flags.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-03-23
Make Your Life Clean.

A uniform and sincere conservation
ought to be the first aim Of every
church when there are signs of pos
sible, or actual, revival. Let the
church members become filled with
the Holy Spirits influence and power,
and there will be no trouble about
conversions. There may be more or
less than in some other year, but some,
if not many, there certainly will be.
When the world sees the disciples of
Jesus initiating in sober earnest, 1t
cannot resist the sight. To this end it
must be remembered that every
Christian needs to make his own life
spiritually clean and sweet and whole,
some through and through. a single
sin on the part of single Christian
may hinder the whole church from re-
ceiving Gods blessing. The failure tc
confess only one fault, or to repair
only one injury, or to fulfill only one
resolve, not only may hinder the per-
son concerned from the fullness OF
blessing which would otherwise have
been granted him, but also may pre-
vent the whole church from reaping its
harvest of divine favor and redeemed
souls. In true revival every
Christian strives to purge his heart OF
the last and least thing which i.
grievous in the sight of God and int
that heart thus emptied the Holy
Spirit enters, dwelling there and work
ing from that centre thenceforth a.
never before.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-03-23
Ancient Relies.

Eight out of thirty cases of Babylo.
man antiquities recently forwarded to
the British museum have just been
opened and examined. Their contents
consist chiefly of tablets, in most cases
broken, and relating generally to trade
and property in land, slaves, etc.
Others relate chiefly to the King
Nebuchadnezzar, and serve to confirm
the Biblical impression of him as a
great king. A number of figures and
statuettes are also contained in the
cases, and from them It would seem
that the type of beauty in Babylon, as
in central Africa at the present day,
was decidedly inclined to embonpoint.
A number of silver articles are defac.
ed, as though intended for consign-
ment to the melting pot, but for some
reason or other they never reached it.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-03-23
Fire Escapes.

1.-TWO things are needed" said John
Decker to reporter, "to secure to the
public security against loss of life by
fire. The first is a common sense es-
cape, the second the universal adoption
of such an escape. For thirty years L
served as volunteer fireman, sitting
for eight years on the board of en-
gineers, and holding for five and half
years the position of chief of the de-
partment, and not few have been the
number of so-called fre-escapes brought
to my notice. have given the SUBJ
ject much time and study, and the re-
cent fires with the attending loss of life
have confirmed the opinion have held
for years in this matter. Balconies of
iron extending across the front, side or
back of building, the floors connected
by ladders Of iron, endless chains, por-
table ladders and towers and a folding
window-escape may all be well enough
as far as they go, but they do not go
far enough. Inmates of a burning
building intuitively make at once for
the stairs. A practical fire-escape, then,
should be constructed with this fact in
view. This to my mind can be done
in no better way than by building one
or more iron staircases enclosed by
some fireproof material and separated
from the building proper by hollow
wall. These stairways should connect
with every floor by automatic iron
doors, which should open from the hall
so that no impeachment to their being
readily opened might obtain. Thus.
upon an alarm of fire, the occupants Of
building could descend in safety
without fear Of falling or exposure,
which fear, I believe, has occasioned
the death of more than one person dur
ing the last year. If the building be
large one, then, two, three, or even
four of these fireproof staircases might
be built, each one of them commune
eating with every floor of the building.
When 1 was in the legislature the
question of fire escapes came up and
was the subject of much discussion,
but that was all that came of it. The
general adoption Of some such means
of escape by our hotels, theatres, apart
ment houses and large factories would
soon educate the people to knowledge
of the means at hand for escape in
times of danger, and would not dis
figure the buildings or call upon weak
women and little children to climb
hand over hand down swinging chain
or a hanging ladder. In my present
capacity as superintendent of fire
appliances for the Erie railway my
means for observation are numerous
and varied, and no one plan but this
suggests so many good features or such
likelihood of meeting the requirements
of the emergencies of fire, in theatre.
dwelling or hotel.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-03-23
Timely Hints.

Rev. DR.. Z. Z. Hale, addressing a
large assembly in the Boston theatre
on recent Sunday "There are peo-
pie who say there are no such thing as
a reign of God; that we are all like a
herd of cattle on the Texan prai-
ries or like flock of sheep on Col
orado ranch. Now, to do our work
properly in this business, we must
first of all keep the body pure,not yield
ing it to every appetite or exciting it
with stimulants. The marksman at
CreedmoOr, or even the man who plays
three-card monte, knows the value of
steady nerves, clear brain, and a
quick eye, steady for use when the
critical moment arrives. Every man
and woman in Boston knows, without
looking up textbooks or ethics, or
going into Court street to consult a
lawyer, what is right and when he or
she is doing wrong. Cherish an init
macy with God, and take the rule
which Christ gave, Follow me!
Follow him, and do it not as clock or
a LOGON olive, but do it as an immortal
being" At the end of the sermon DR..
Hale addressed a few plain words t.
his audience on the subject of these
meetings. He said : Looking around
| see that there are many here tonight
who are not regular church-goers.
You don't want to go into the churches
to hear us preach, but we want to
speak to you, and that is the reason we
have come here. We propose TO come
at least half way. We will come to
this theatre. and you will come. l
know perfectly well can see that ]
am speaking to persons who, having
been baptized and brought up in early
years in a certain communion, have
come, through the tendencies of the
ninteenth century and of free land
to distrust the church machinery, tC
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-03-23
Help the Living.

An honored father in the ministry
said on his dying bed, "Let no words
of eulogy be spoken over my poor re-
MAINS" Well and wisely said. The
time to speak the appreciative word.
to and Of the pastor, is while his hui
man heart clears its unspoken pain
and heaves it's secret sigh" But, too
often, not until God gives "sweet re-
lease from earth" do the "pews" APP
preciate the remarkable talents, the
devout piety, the vigilant watching
for souls which marked the ministry
of the departed one-now to them an
"angel in disguise" The toiler has
reached the shining shore. All tears
are wiped away. So, ye tardy ones
withhold your boon of words, though
they may be the richest that human
heart can dictate, or human lips car
frame.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-03-23

change. You see he was obliged to
go to the Turquoise district, on bust
ness, on the way back to Bonanza,
and you know | have often express
ed wish to see the camp, 50, as his
wife had been there several times,
and was a great crony of Mrs.
Whitcomb's, she said she had much
rather take my place with them, and
l got into the buggy with him and
Louise"
"And didn't you see any Indians?"
"Not one, and we didn't know there
was an outbreak until we got to Tur-
quoise. A messenger had just inform
ed the miners of it. We thought we
had better get back to Bonanza as
quickly as we could, and we kept our
eyes open on the way, can tell you.
But, as YOU see, we arrived here in
safety. George drove right to the
house and set me down."
She evidently had heard nothing OF
the massacre, so Myron broke the in
telligence to her, adding that it was
just possible that it might be some
other party, but not probable.
Nor was it. The next day the mu-
tilated bodies of the Whitcombs and
their friends were brought into Bonan-
"a. and the hearts of the populace
were filled with commiseration and in
dignation at the sad spectacle,--the
devilish work of the craftiest and
cruelest of savages. How long,-was
the appeal of every heart,-how long
must we endure this murderous race
in our midst? How long will they be
gathered together, in the heart of our
territory, clothed and nurtured, pro
vided with arms and ammunition, and
let loose upon the unsuspecting people,
only to be taken back and forgiven,
until the bloody tragedy is enacted
over again?
The casual change described by Retts
saved her life, and made George Nor.
cross an unhappy widower. Retta
had the supreme pleasure of seeing hel
husband boldly write down his unalter
able determination to abstain hence
forth from intoxicating drinks and the
gaming table. Myron never forgot
that terrible day when he woke to the
consciousness Of his peril, the day
when he believed that all that really
made life worth living had been talleI
from him. 1t was not an easy tasl
that he had set himself But thoughts
of the dear ones at home, and of til,
gift of God that was coming to him
kept him steadfast.
When their little son was born
Retta felt no shame for its father, ant
it's innocent young life proved an eff
fectual safeguard to the man VIII
found sobriety more pleasurable, ant
dissipation more repulsive, as tim
passed on
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-03-23
Surprised.

"Mother," said a lad, seriously, "I'm
surprised very much"
"Well, George, what is the matter ?"
"You said it was wrong to deceive,
didn't your"
eyes, George, very wrong"
"And wrong to swindle?"
eyes, very"
"Well, then, I'll have 20 tell you that
some unknown person has taken the
sweet goodies out of the preserve-jar
and filled it up with soar pickles"
And the unknown person ran out to
play.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-03-23
Haunted.

We stood on the haunted island,
We stood by the haunted bay;
The stars were all over the skylnnd.
But the moon had lotered away.
The lights OF the fisher-boats glimmered,
The beacon glowed steady and red,
The calm sea icily shimmered
Like the eye of one who is dead.
Then, all alone on the ocean,
The ghost OF the island came
The ghost OF vessel in motion,
The ghost OF q vessel of flame.
1t shone with vaporous brightness
A glamour of tremulous rays;
IL was not fire, but the whiteness
OF ghost of a persisted blaze.
We watched it with all our vision,
We watched it doubling and dumb;
We had heard OF the thing with derision,
But we surely beheld it come.
We saw 1t glide DER the water,
a phantom of rallid fire;
We saw it tumble and totter
To rum, and then flash higher.
Again and again to leeward
Its CHASTITY rigging fell DER;
AT last far away to seaward,
1t foundereo and rose no more.
We had watched it with all our vision,
We had watched it with eye and glass;
And gone were doubt and dcrision,
For surely we saw it pass.
Through many q winter and summeH
AS the sons of the island know,
The CLEAN of this ghustIy conner
Has prophesied storm and WOO
The ghost of n great three-master
Which went in the DAYS of yore
To fell and fiery disaster
Right of the Block Island shore.
j. ". DeForest.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-03-23
Repentance.

Retta Richardson turned from the
one window Of her little sitting-room
with sigh.
A dusty, cobbly street, lined with
small, low, implanted frame houses,
guiltless of the slightest attempt
toward ornament,-structur appear
ing but half finished to one accustomed
to eastern architecture. Beyond the
street, more dirt, more cobble stones,
more Liliputian houses, then along,
wide stretch of barren mesa, extending
far out to the horizon line, and broken
by rugged mountain range that rose
precipitously from the surface of the
plain, some ten miles away. Ten miles,
although it did not look half that dis
lance, m the clear, rarefied atmosphere
of southern Arizona; and many more
miles the eye scanned in vain for
glimpse of beauty,-for one tree to re-
iieve the monotony, for a tiny rivulet
or sparkling lake. Bare, dust-color-
ed mesa, distant mountains, and deep
blue sky over all these, formed the
panorama.
But this unprepossessing exterior
was not the cause of Retta's sigh, al
though she had been thinking of the
dear old home in New England.
The little room in which she stood,
though cheaply furnished, was cosy
apartment, with its tasteful arrange
ment and pretty devices. The sigh
issued again from her lips as she look
ed toward a lounge at one side, where
on the greatest ornament of all reclin-
ed,-a handsome man,-her husband,
her own. Tall and athletic in figure,
nobly modelled in feature, his wavy
brown locks carelessly lying upon the
neatly embroidered pillow, his large,
dark eyes closed in slumber. A pic
ture to fill a fond wifes heart with
joyous pride, yet tears gathered in
Retta's eyes as she gazed, and she bit
her lips in an attempt to control her
emotions.
A loud breathing came from under
the heavy moustache, unlike the respi.
ration of natural slumber. Retta' s
cherished husband was drunk, and not
for the first time. She could bear sep
aration from the loved relation, Danish
ment from congenial scenes. and the
privations and annoyances of frontier
life; but this browning grievance was
almost more than she could endure.
She had, at first, hopefully imagined
that she could influence Myron to over
come the temptations; but she had
tried every means in her power. an(
they had proved Of no avail.
The next morning, when Myron ha(
recovered from the designations of tn,
previous day, a day set aside by thu
rougher elements of the population fol
excessive indulgence,-the holy Sab
bath,--Retta tried once more to rea
son with him. Not argumentatively
not harshly, but gently. lovingly, fer
vently.
He swallowed his strong coffee thi
morning with clouded brow, scarcel
vouching word to Retta, who sa
opposite him, the same pretty, blue
eyed little woman who had once capt
yated his heart, and who had been chez
ished as the apple of his eye before tn
demon drink became her rival.
you'll be home to dinner at fiy'
won't you, Myron?" pleaded Rett;
knowing that it was useless to ask hir
to come to lunch, for it had been som
months now since he had asserted thf
the pressure of his business require
Daily Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1876-1884, 1883-07-18
Bitten by a rarantula.


Last Saturday Frenchman by the
name of Mitchell. employed by Mr..
Sauve at his ranch about FIVE miles
from this place was bitten by tar
antula. Mr.. Mitchell was engaged
in pitching hay into wagon at the
time, and It is supposed that he took
up the taraBtula from off the grouno
in fork full Of hay. and when he
raised the hay up over his head for
the purpose Of pitching it into the
wagon, the tarantula fell of the hay
into the inside Of his shirt, which was
unbuttoned in front at the time Mr..
Mitchell felt something crawling on the
inside Of his shirt, but before he could
get his hand 10 to find out what II was,
the tarantula had bitten him twice ON
the left side. the bites being about six
inches apart. Mitchell Immediately
stripped of his shirt, and succeeded in
killing his dangerous intruder without
being nipped again In less than
fifteen seconds from the time
that he was bitten his whole side
turned as black as a piece of coal and
he was unable to walk. His companions,
who were working with him at the time.
carried him to the house, couple OF
hundred yards distant, and applied
brandy rs restorative, internally and
externally, and succeeded in saving the
mans life The bite OF tarantula is
known to be as deadly as that of a
rattlesnake, and that the effects Of the
poison are the same in both cases.
Daily Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1876-1884, 1883-07-18
Mackay in Paris.


fcable to the Carson Appeal
PARIS, June 26.-The round of arnuse-
ments VIII CHI Mr.. Mackay is providing
for the American colony since his re-
turn from the fetes at Moscow are tho
all-eclipsing topics Of the hour. At the
ball given last Saturday Mr.. Mackay
hired the King OF Sweden to dance with
the American ladies', paying him a
thousand dollars an hour for the work.
About midnight he struck for higher
wages. and Mr.. Mackay stood the raise
with true American sang froid. By
o'clock the king was completely blown
with his social exercises and taken from
the room in fainting condition. Mr..
Mackay offered to pay all his funeral
expenses If he died, which generous
offer made him many friends among the
Swedes. The Prince of Wales tele-
graphed for an invitation to the ball, bur
the American millionaire, remarking
that Wales Consolidated was good
short, declined to issue an invite.
When his little bon mot was
translated in the morning journals
the city was convulsed with laughter.
Several descendants OF the Bonaparte
family who attempted TO climb in the
windows Of the ballroom were thrown
into the basin Of the fountain by Mr..
MaclsAy, who stands over six feet in his
socks, and is called the ''stfong man OF
Nevada I" This graceful act OF courtesy
to the Straight Repubs of the Empire is
well appreciated. Although Mr.. Mackay
danced until daylight and went of shift
at six o'clock, be whipped two editors Of
the royalist faction before breakfast for
publishing an incorrect description Of
some OF the dresses worn at the blowout
When the bodies Ct the editors were
borne away in an ambulance to The Hos
pital DIES Invalides the crowds applauded
ia the streets.
The only accident which MARRIED the
harmony Of the grand ball was when the
eldest daughter Of Count de Chambord
fell into ono OF tho tanks Of champagne,
which had carelessly been left in the
corridor. and was drowned. The tank
held 900 gallons, ard the body was not
discovered until the floor managers had
drunk the tank nearly dry
Daily Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1876-1884, 1883-07-18

The Company are at work on two
more artesian wells. A depth Of one
hundred and fifteen feet has been reach
ed. with a good prospect Of striking a
flow soon.
The building boom continues in
Pomona. Life and prosperity prevail.
Money is plentiful and happiness is
depicted on the face OF the mechanic
and merchant. The Spectator smiles
serenely and the farmer wears broad
grin. Come and see us.
The several brick blocks that are now
under course of construction in Pomona
have an assuring effect on old and new
residents, but these are only CON-
mencement Of many to follow.
Mr.. Earle has completed the pipe for
carrying the Cienega water to the res
ervoir, and has removed his camp to the
San Antonio for the purpose Of finishing
up the lower portion Of that line Of pipe.
The water system Of this valley when
completed will be one Of the most perfect
in the State. There will be no wasteage
as all the water will be carried in pipe.