Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1884-01-15
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Tbs FcKfIE AMERICAS REVIEW Tor January
presents u table of contents possessingsin tho
highest degree the chsFapter OF contemporary
human interest First. the opposite sides Of [GL,
question of 80 Ecclesiastical Control in Utahb
are set forth by two representative nIGu. whose
competence for the performance of the task
undertaken by them respectively admits of no
doubt, viz: President John Taylor. the Official
head OF the Mormon Church. and the Hon. I'll
IL. Murray. Governor Of the Tcrritoryof Ctnh
Senator John 1. Mitchell writes of tIlU '"Trib-
ulations OF the American Dollar" In MI are
ticlc entitled Theological Rc-np just1ncnts"
the Rev. DIR. j. II. RylhncsInsists upon the no
ccssity of eliminating frOui the formularics Of
belief and from the current teachings of tho
churches whether Ia the pulpit or in tlIu Sun.
day school, all doctrines and all slntcmcnta of
supposed facts which have been discredlted BY
the advance OF cXegctlcul scholarship, aud by
the progress of natural SCIENCE Senator Henry
w. Blair, taking for LIS thGue . Alcohol IN
Politics" declares Ills belief tliat another irfe1
prcsslble conflict is ut hand. and nd vOC0teB tho
snbmihtion TO the people Of M amendment 70
tho United States Constitlition pfUiiibf fting the
manufacture, sale aud Importation of intOxs
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lI4HPER's NEW MONTHLY MAOAzIHE.-Th6
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contains: Portrait of John q. Whittier, from
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Sp0fLord. wit!Itcn Illustrations, by Harry FsunI
Al .hCnlDuC, l---COIlElunCCF OOIBO1l1
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Clipper Service. q. W. Sheldon, with fourteen
Illustrations EnrnarCd. poem. Maurice
Thompson: The Birth Of a Nation, I. w. Higt
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| William G.. Prime. with portrait What was
Seen by Juan HclduZ iu Saltillo, story, Th0u.
A. Janivcr; judith Shakespeare. novel, L.
William Black, with ten illustrations, byAbbcyI
| Hidden History. RUSe hawthorne LuthrOp
| Natures Serial Story. lie. j.. Roe, With I'VE
| Illustrations City Athletics. II. Z. Bunncr
| Cnssy's ChristIHus-bOE, story, working girl.
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BAL. OU's MAOAzISE t6r January is splen-
did number and contains the commencement
of Mr.. william II. ThOIncs' beS yarn, - On
Land and Sea, or California in the Years 1S33
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THE WEST Va. SCHOOL Journal for De-
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