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Year: 1869

CHRISTIAN LIFE is not only principle,
but growth, and the young Christian needs
to be led along the upward path II he be-
gins right, he is most likely, by Gods grace
to keep right. If be is taught to make
complete epnsecration-to follow principles,
and not impulses-he is most likely TO be
steadfast and immovable If he is warned
nov against fashion and worldliness and
greed, he is less likely to fall into the snares
ofthe tempter. Ina word, now at the start
is the time to commence life which shall
grow and abound in all that is necessary for
the honor, the usefulness, and the safety Of
the Christian course; and it may be depen-
ded upon that, in most cases, that course
viii be at the end very much as is DOW
begun.
Year: 1869

THE putting into the hands of the work
ing man imaginative literature is even a
more important advantage than the cheap
ening of scientific books The tendency of
mechanical employments is to exercise the
understanding alone; they afford no diet for
the fancy or the feelings They leave unfed
no small portion of the intellect They do
not enlarge the world of observation or e1-
perience They do not open any one of the
doors of history or biography The artisan,
ike the student, requires the hours Of leis
ure to stand in contrast with his daily en-
ployment a few will find recreation even
in severer studies, and will resort to it by
natural instinct to consider the many who
are used to be led rather than the few who
can guide themselves. And, for the many,
narrative, sometimes historical, but more
frequently imaginative, holds out greater
attractions than all the publications OF the
Useful knowledge Society, or than all the
excellent manuals of more recent date Of
mathematics, chemistry or natural history
Year: 1869

THERE are those who know not how to
judge of merit but by success, and who
therefore blame the leader of an enterprise
for defeat, when the fault was not in him,
but IN themselves, the instruments he
worked with.
Year: 1869

GoD requires that We should work out
our own salvation. He saves US by showing
US how TO save ourselves. 1t is true saliva
ton depends on his grace, but his grace is
proportioDed to our efforts.
Year: 1869

FAITH is as necessary to the soul as the
sun is TO the world; were it not for thess
bright, prolific lights, both the one and the
other must remain dark aud fruitless.--
Charles Howe.
Year: 1869

Il WISH l had your head, said lady
one day to a gentleman who had solved for
her knotty point. And wish | had
your heart, was the reply Well. said
she, since your head and my heart can
agree. 1 do not see why they should not go
into partnership And they did.
Year: 1869

PAST ExPERIENCE-We cannot see By
the light of yesterday, nor subsist upon
yesterday food. We need supplies every
moment. So long as we feel our weakness,
and lean upon an almighty arm, we are safe,
but no longer.
Year: 1869

By THE SPIRIT OF GoD men are in
structed 50 that it is not extravagant to say
that every thought that tends to struggle
away from the bondage of the flesh, every
heart-hunger, is a witness that the world
does not feed to satisfaction: that it does not
nourish the soul. 1t needs the bread that
comes from the hand Of God TO do that,
Every single yearning of the heart is in an
swer to some silent influence of God.
Year: 1869

In is better to have strength of principle
rhan OF mere muscle, but better yet to have
both, A man " ho is strong in intellect aud
instep is on the best terms with nature aud
the world
Year: 1869

a COUNTRY schoolmaster began one morn
ing the duties of the day with prayer, as
usual but after prayer he went up and ask
ed little boy why he had not shut his eyes
during prayer, when the boy sharply res
poR6ed


I've are instructed By the Bible to watch
as well as pray.
Year: 1869

A curious thing about New England is
the variety Of eccentric characters to be
found there. In almost every town there is
a farmer or mechanic who has addicted
himself to some kind of knowledge very re-
mote from his occupation. Here you end a
shoemaker in little shop (which he locks
when he goes to dinner or to the Lostoficc,
much to the Inconvenience of customers,
who has attained celebrity as q botanist. In
another village there may be a wheeiwright
who would sell his best coat for a rare shell;
and not far off farmer, who is a pretty
good geOlogist, and is forever peckiug away
at his innocent rocks. Again you will fud
a machinist who is enamored Of large pa
per copies Of standard works, and rejoices
in the possession of rarities in literature
which be cannot read. know an excellent
steel plate eugraver, who, besides being a
universal critic, is particularly convinced
that the entire railroad system of the world
is wrong-ties, rails, driving wheels, axles,
oil-bOxes, everytbing-and employs his lei
sure in inventing better devices


Then there are people who have odd
schemes of benevolence, such as that Of the
Massachusetts farmer who went to Palestine
to teach the Orientals the true system Of
agriculture, and was two years in finding
out that they wouldn't learnit There are
morose men and families who neither visit
nor are visited; and there is, occasionally, a
downright miser, of the ancient type, such
as we read of in old magazines and anecdote
books. There are men, too, Of an extreme
ecceutricity of opinion think there are
in Boston about dozen as complete, i'm
movable, if not malignant, Tories, as can be
found this side Of Constantinople-me who
plume themselves upon hating everything
that makes the glory of their age and coun-
try And, speaking of Boston-solid,
sensible Bostou-what other city ever ac-
compished feat so eccentric sthe produc-
ton Of those twin incongruities, George
Francis Train and the Count johannes =?
Year: 1869

THERE is a magistrate in a town in Indi-
ana named Helser. A clergyman in the
same place was called upon by young
couple not long since, who wished him to
join them in he holy bonds of matrimony.
BE asked the bridegroom a soldier by the
wayl for his marriage license The man 10
blue responded that he had been engaged
to the girl four years, and thought that
would do Clergyman thought not, aud
remarked, as the speediest way to obtain
license:


"YOu had better take your girl and 60
to Helser l''


You go to hell yourselfr' retorted the
angry veteran.


And seizing the bride by the arm, he
dragged her from the house, wondering
what manner of profane minister be had
met with.
Year: 1869

a FEW days ago the inhabitants Of
country town were6Iled with coDjectures at
the following sign, painted in large capitals
on the front Of a house recently fitted up
and repaired Mrs BroRn, Dealer in an
Sorts of Ladies. All was CONSERVATION.
Inquiry was set on foot as to whom this
Mrs. Brown might be, but no one could tell.
She was stranger in the etown. On the third
morning the mystery was uuraveled. The
house painter returned to finish his work,
and concluded by adding; and Gentle
man Wearing Apparel
Year: 1869

Application will be made at the nextsesson of the
New Jersey Legislature for an act to bank portion
of Dividing Creek, commencing at near the bridge.
and running about South -east.
Dividing Creek Cumberland Co., ID.
Year: 1869

A man named Clark was burnt to death
about seven miles from Purdy, few nights
ago, says the Bolivar (Tenn.) Bulletin 1t
seems that Clark and companion worc play
ing cards on the night of the fatal occurrence,
and had retired at rather late hour. Subse-
quently they were aroused from slumber by
the roaring of burning building, which had
token fire from some unknown cause, and
both rushed for point of safety. Clark In
his hurry, forgot some six or seven hundred
dollars which he had placed under the head
Of his bed, and, after getting clear Of the
dangers went back TO the room, for his smoney.
As he stepped into the room, the Aosr, which
had been burning from beneath sometime,
suddenly gave way and he was thus plunged
into lake of fire. His body was burned to
a crisp.
Year: 1869

The Sentiners editor wishes to create the
impression that Gen. Byron Latin, of Pitt,
never received commission as Brigadier
General in the Union army. 1t matters not
what commission he held in that army, or
whether he held any commission at all, if
he was IN that army that is sufficient to
secure for him the hatred of the Sentinel, its
editors and its party. But there is reason
for the ignorance of the Sentineps editor as
well as his n.alice--during the war he did
not get near enough to Gen, Latin to know
anything about his commission. AS the
late unpleasantness" is over, and as Gen.
Latin has laid aside his sword, if the editor
will call on Gen. L. at the Yarbrough House
he will exhibit to him his commission bear
ing on its face =" for gallant conduct on the
field"
Year: 1869

"IETTERs FROM THE PEOPLE" I'VE sur
render much of our editorial space this morn
ing to letters from the people, yet many have
to be deferred to future day.


The STANDARD is the peoples organ, and
we are under many obligations to our friends
for their assistance in extending its circula-
ton and also for their letters. We feel much
encouraged in our efforts to publish paper
for the People, and request our friends to
continue to write and circulate the STAND
ARD. Now is the time to subscribe. Get
up clubs, Let US have short letters. Give
us any item of news in your neighborhood.
This is the way to help us. Push the column
Year: 1869

~ The early construction of a
Southern Pacific Railroad would


seem to be already assured. The
read just opened will not long
be a monopoly. Its construction


amid great difficulties, and the
influence it is existing upon the
region it traverses, are circum-


stances that will stimulate other
projects. As between the North
ern Pacific and the Southern Pa
citic routes, there can be no COM
parison-so manifestly superior is
the latter in its natural resources
and advantages, and so much
more direct and profitable in its
connection with the sea board
Climatic considerations are equal
ly in favor of the Southern line
as compared with that via Omaha
and Salt Lake. A second road,
therefore is a question of time
only; and with it's construction
will come profits and Importance
to tributary and connecting roads
which the Southern States, de-
spite their difficulties, are now
pushing forward.-IN. Y. Times.
Year: 1869

~ A young couple eloped
from Owingsyille, KY, lately, and
at a safe distance from home were
married. Soon after an officer
was sent in pursuit, and arriving
at the hotel where they were stop.
ping found them snug in bed. He
explained his errand, when the
young lady said, with a ringing
laugh: 'gTell ma it's too late--we
have been married SONS time, and
have been in bed half an hour
snuggle up, Will, and don't get
out of bed for him.
Year: 1869

from China may be imported that
way for curiosity. Possibly the
silks of China might stand this
costly transportation; but if they
all came by that route, the bust
ness would hardly be perceptible.


The only through business of
the road Of any great Importance,
will be the carrying of passengers.
And while the country on so large
a part of the line continues a vii.
derness, and, therefore, furnishes
little local business to the road,
we expect that it viii have to be
run at the expense of the national
government"


However, as our Cincinnati con-
temporary says, the work is grand
in all it's features; nothing has
been done on a small scale; it. is
grand in its magnitude, and grand
in its gigantic funds. Our feel
ings at the laying of its last rail
should be grand accordingly
baltimore Sam.
Year: 1869

A BRAVE WOMAN.-A Charleston
Is. CO. journal gives the following account
of a recent desperate encounter between
two burglars aud courageous lady in that
city:


On Tuesday morning between and 6
o'clock, while Mr.. and Mrs. George Martin,
living at No II Ann Street, were lying
in bed, Mrs. Martin, who happened to be
awake, saw two colored men enter the win
dow of her chamber from the piazza. Mrs.
Martin lay perfectly quiet, and tried to
rouse her husband, who was sound asleep.
One of tbe burglars remained in the cham
ber, while the other one went into the ad-
joining room. The one who remained in
the chamber went towards the bed, and
while he lowered the covering and felt un-
der the pillow, had large butchers knife
in his hand, which he held over Mr.. Mar
tin. When the burglar left the bed, he
placed the knife in his teeth, and walked
about the room, searching the drawers,
from which he took $35 in greenbacks and
S5 in gold, in one-dollar pieces. After
awhile he again approached the bedside
of Mr. Martin, and elevated the huge knife
over him. Mrs. Martin, with great cool
ness and courage, then jumped up and
seized an artillery sword near the bed, and
while the burglars arm was extended over
her sleeping husband, struck the burglar a
terrible blow which caused the knife to fall
from his grasp While he stopped to pick
up the knife she gave him cut on the
head, and as his face swung back she gave
him still another blow on the forehead
The burglar rushed at the heroic woman
and succeeded in giving her severe kick
in the side, breaking two of her ribs, which
caused her to faint and fall. This woke
Mr. Martin, who instantly leaped out of
bed, but only in time to see both of the
scoundrels Jump out of the window
Year: 1869

Established expressly to afford ths afflicted
sound and scientific Medical Aid, in the treatment
and cure of all Private and Chronic Diseases, Cases
of Secrecy and alb Sexual Disorders.
Year: 1869

Do you feel weak, debilitated, easily tred2


Does a little extra exertion produce palpita-


ton of the hearth Does your liver or your kid


neys, frequently get out Of order2 Do you have


spells OF short breathing, or dyspepsiaP Are your


bowels constpated2 Do you have spells Of fantng,


or rushes Of blood to the head? Is your memory i'm


paired? Is your mind constantly dwelling upon this


subject? Do you feel dull lstless, moping, tired OF


company, OF life? Do you wish to be left alone, 10


get away from everybody9 Does any little thing
make you start or jump2 Is your sleep broken or


restless? Is the lustre Of your eye as brant2 The
bloom on your cheek as'bright? Do you enjoy your


self in society well? Do you pursue your business


with the same energy? Do you feel as much con-
ndence in yourself? Are your spirits dull and nag


gng, given to fits Of melancholy If so do not lay
it to your liver or dyspepsia Have you restless
nights? Your back weak, your knees weak, and
fhave but little appetite and you attribute this TO
dyspepsia or liver complaint?


Did you ever think that those bold, def
! ant, energetic, perseverng, successful business
men are always those who are in per-
4 feet health? !? You never hear such men COM
plain Of being melancholy of nervousness, of pal
pitation of the heart. They are never afraid they
Fcannot succeed in business; they don't become sad
and discouraged they are always polite and plea
SAINT in the company Of ladies, and lock you and
them right in the facenone Of your downcast looks
1or any other meanness about them.


How many men, from badly cured diseases, have
brought about that state Of weakness that has re-
duced the general system so much as to induce al
most every other disease-idiocy, lunacy, paralysis,
spnal affections suicide and almost every other form


OF disease which humanity is heir to- and the real


cause of the trouble scarcely ever suspected and
have doctored for all but the right one.


These diseases require the use Of Duretc.
Year: 1869

each State to prepare a Constitution
and Bylaws for the Convention. to
be reported on at the next meeting,
| and that the standing committee shall


hold over. The report was adopted.
Year: 1869

CHICAGO, July 2l-kbout l o'clock this
afternoon a large wooden building, corner
of West Randolph and Sheldon streets, fell


with q terrible crash. Some forty men
were employed in and about the building,
lrlt only three or four were buried in the
ruins. and all have been eXtricated with
ont serious hurts, with the single exception
of man named Southerland, whom it is
feared is fatally injured. The building
was formerly market house, and was be
inc transformed into a dwelling. The aC~
cident was caused by the unworkmanlIke
manner in which the job was being done
Year: 1869

The long continued drought in the
middle and upper sections of the State is
causing deep anxiety to the farmers, and
all our advices agree in reporting that the
corn crop will be largely reduced in
both quantity and quality. We are in1
formed that along the line of railroad
between KingVille and Wilmington, n.
c., distance of one hundred and seven-
ty miles, there is not an acre of corn
which is not seriously injured. But the
weather which is unfavOrable to corn will
improve the quality of upland cotton, and
will give US an early crop, if not so large
in quantity as was at one time expected.
In the low country the rice is suffering
for want of rain. The small streams
are so salty that the fields cannot be
flooded, but long continued showers will
enable the planters to make an average
crop. From the sea islands the cotton
reports are highly favorable, and there
is every reason to expect a better crop
of long cotton than we have had for
many years. The caterpillar now can
do no harm. Our great foe is powerless


Charleston Ne1oS, July 10.
Year: 1869

Seat yourself at a table. Attach a
piece of metal (say shilling) to thread.
Having placed your elbow on table,
hold the thread between the points Of
the thumb and forefnger, and allow the
shilling to hang in the centre of glass
tumbler. The pulse will Immediately
cause the shilling to vibrate like a pendu~
Ium, and the vibrations will increase
until the shilling strikes the sides of the
glass and suppose the time Of the expe-
riment be at the hour Of seven, or half
past seven, the pendulum will strike the
glass seven times, and then lose its mo-
mentum and return to the centre if you
hold the thread a sufficient length of
time, the effect will be repeated but
not until sufficient length of time has
elapsed to convince you that the experi~
ment is complete. We need not add that
the thread must be held with a steady
hand, otherwish the vibrating motion


would be counteracted. At whatever hour
of the day or night the experiment is
made, the coincidence will be the same.
Year: 1869

TO CLEAR Room OF MOsQUITOEs.-A
writer in a South Carolina paper says:
81 have tried the following, and find it
works like charm. Take of gum cam
phor piece about oneothird the size Of
an egg, and evapOrate it by placing it in
a tin vessel, holding it over a lamp or
candle, taking care that it does not ignite.
The smoke will soon fill the room, and
expel the mosquitoes. One night | was
terribly annoyed by them, when thought
of and tried the above, after which l
never saw or heard them. that night, and
next morning there was not one to be
found in the room, though the windows
had been left open all night.
Year: 1869

DINNER AND TEA TRAITs.-You never
hear ole woman invite another out TO
dinner, any more than you ever hear one
man ask another to come and take tea
with him. No! it would seem that
woman's hearts melted and softened over
the tea cup, and that mems flew open TO
each other with the table cloth. Who is
there to explain it?. 1t takes several
knives and forks to dig into a mans
secret nature, whereas the simple key of
the tea caddy will unlock woman's
heart at any time.
Year: 1869

value to the country. Thsy see hat hs wua


give unity to the peninsula, and that hence


forward Spaniards and Portuguese will not


only be friends, but brothers. The peninsula


ought to be unit There is no longer any
good reason why it should not. IF Spaniards
resolve that by this means it shall be unit
Napoleon will have no good reason to hinder
the result. Dom Ferdinand on the Spanish
throne viii be just as reasonable neighbor
as the son Of Victor Emanuel could be ex-
pected to be. Much as we believe Napoleon
is watching the progress of events, we are un-
willing to think that he win in any way thwart
the honest wishes of the Spanish people. In
spite, therefore, Of the fever of the Church and
the nervous excitement of the Carlists, we are
in good hope that Spain viii work herself out of
all this trouble in manner which will compel
the admiration of the world. We can see no
good in the triumph of Montpensier. He is
only small edition of Louis Philippe. But
we can discover much good in the triumph Of
Prince Ferdinand. It rests with Spain to do
the wise thing. We must wait to see whether
she will do IL.
Year: 1869

1t In the Convention, in consideration Of landing


In Texas any given number Of psapers
from British almshouses and fugitiyes from


British justice. Heavy grants to lobbymen and
legislative jobbers is not the way to induce the
healthy immigration which Texas needs, nor
is a State Convention, which was called many
months since for reconstruction purposes, the
proper body to legislate away the credit and
the lands of the State. This usurpation Of
authority, for jobbing purposes cannot stand
before the investigation which it will inevitably
encounter from the people of Texas and from
the new Congress under the purer admins
tration which is coming in with General Grant.
Year: 1869

The United States fve-twenties, which are
the barometer Of our national securities abroad,
continue to rise steadily in the markets Of
Europe. They have gone up in London to 77s,
which is the highest point yet reached.
There has been gradual Improvement going
on since the result of the Presidential election
was known, which shows that the European
capitalists have confidence in the stability and
credit of our government. We notice this not
because we are surprised at it, but as evidence
Of better sense and more enlarged views among
the financial men of Europe with regard TO
this country To us, indeed, it has been sur
prising that United States six per cent gold in
terest bearing bonds should have remained SO
long nearly twenty per cent below British three
per cent consols Our credit ought to be az
good as that of England, or better for we have
more resources, more means and surer pros
pect of paying the debt. The five-twenties, to
approach the market value of consols, reck-
oning the difference of interest, ought to be as
as high as $50 at least Considering the credit
of the government and the means of paying
both the interest and principal these Ameri
can securities are far cheaper than any
others in the world. They must go up, and
probably will continue to rise gradually from
this time forward as they have been rising the
last month or so. 1t is to be hoped our own
citizens viii get all they can while the price is
low, and hold them till they reach something
like their maximum value. We do not wish to
see the bulk of the debt go abroad at anything
like the present market price, because for
every hundred millions paid for it now by
Europeans two hundred millions or there
abouts will be returned to them by us when
we come to liquidate the debt. Besides, we
do not wish to see an enormous and perpetual
drain of specie every year to pay the'interest
to foreigners. In natural wealth and resources
this is the richest country on the globe, and it
will soon be the richest in realized or accumu-
lated capital. Why, then, should we be 80
deeply in debt to foreigners? A debtor ma
ton has its nose always to the grindstone, and
foreign creditors continually drain it of the
profits of industry. If we hold the bulk of the
debt at home and increase our productions
and exports 80 as to have the balance of trade
incline this way the exchanges will be in our
favor, and New York will become what Lon
don is-the money centre of the world. In all
our financial policy this should be the object
kept in view.
Year: 1869

VERY GooD-The passage Of the bill In the
popular branch Of Congress-yeas 90, nays 81
for an air line railroad between New York
and Washington. Let the Senate do likewise,
without loss Of time, and then, should Presi-
dent johnson veto the bill on the old Southern
fallacies Of State sovereignty, we have no doubt
it will be SO strengthened as to pass easily In
both houses over the veto. The people Of
New York have paid taxes enough to Camden
and Amboy and to Maryland for the privilege
Of going to and returning from Washington.