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Year: 1878

Te prevent any nlisapprehenslon,
we would state that the New ADeri-
can Sewing Machine is not contra
band of war. During the contest be-
tween Russia and Turkey, the Com
pany and its Agents will maintain an
armed neutrality, and sell to both
belligerants, or any one else, offering
at the same time, such Liberal dis
counts for cash as must eventually
bring about pacific treaty.
Year: 1878

Happy is the man who has little
home and little angel in it OF Sat-
urday nigh,-a house, no matter how
little, provided it will hold two or so !;
no matter how humbly furnished.
provided there is hope in it, Let tho
winds blow-clOsc the curtains.
What if they are plain calico, with
out border, tassel or any such thing.
Let the rain come down-heap up tho
fire. No matter if you haven't q can-
die to bless yourself with. for what u
beautiful glowing coal makes rem
dcring cloudless, shedding a sunset
through the room-just light enough
to talk by. net loud, as in the high
ways; not rapid. AS in the hurrying
world; but softly. slowly, Whispering.
with pauscs between, for the storm.
without and the thoughts within to
iill up with. Then wheel up the sofa
around by the fire, 90 matter if tho
sofa is q settee. uncushiOned at that.
if so be it is just light enough for two
and a half in it. How sweetly tho
music of silver bells for the time to
come falls on the listening heart then!
How mOurnfully swell the chimes Of
1.-The days that are no more"
Year: 1878

Upon the church doors and walls
can be seen language unfit for decent
minds.


1t has reached our ears that some
of the Hymn books are replete with
vulgarity.


No gentleman will desecrate the
House Of God. aud none but q brute
would shock the modesty of lady,
or young girls, as the case may be.


These miscreants will soon he
found out, and if rumour be true they
are known. aud repetition of such
acts will cause them TO test the fare
of Mr.. Turnage for awhile.-Cnio'
Record.


You must have q hard lot up there,
Brother Palmer. None Of our young
men and bows, we believe, arc quite
so depraved; though We have some
what to complain of, for some o.
them do sometimes write on the fly
leaves and margins of the song books
and they or others will sometime.
talk in church during worship; al
Of which is very wrong, though we
think this is the result of thOughtless.
ness more than real wickedness.
Year: 1878

We learned yesterday from a gen.
tleman who has just returned from u
trip to Panolo county. Texas, that at
Sunny Point, in that county. on Mon
day, two children, one an infant aud
the other about two years of age,
were killed and eaten by sow. It.
appears that the parents left the
children at the house in the care of u
girl six or seven years Of uge, and
while the girl was playing in the yard
the SOW entered the house and seized
the infant lying in cradle and
dragged it out and killed it. The
screams Of the infant brought the girl
to its assistance Not being able to
rescue the child from the bog, she RON
to the field where the parents were
ct work and reported what had oc-
cured. But before they could reach
the house the sagacious animal had
killed the infant and ate its brains out
and had attacked and eaten of leg
and arm Of the oldest child. The lat
ter lived some five or six hours after
the horrible occurrencc-Shrereport
| Times.
Year: 1878

A Texas correspondent of the
Southern Farmer says:


Ill had q Gotten field taken pris-
oner by the Bermuda grass while l
was trying to prevent it. l would val
ue it more highly than any cotton
field in Texas. A hundred acres of
cotton does not yield but very little
after the expense of tillage aud gath
ering is paid but do know that a
field of Bermuda needs no cultivation
and no gathering that cannot readily
be done by flock of sheep or herd OF
cows aud calves. The rain and SUM-
shine costs nothing. 1t makes the
grass grow, and the cows and calves
do not charge anything for gathering
it. There is really clear profit from
the grass crop, but on the cotton sid.
of the question there isn't euougb lef
after paying expenses to talk about.
Year: 1878

Referring to the terrible number Of
suicides in San Francisco Of late, a
contribution of the News Letter ad-
verts to the tendency Of one suicide
to make many. The writer thinks
that were those who feel Sd dow1cast
by misfortune as to make away with
themselves to remember how many
now prosperous people have been
through similar trials, but courage
ously bore up under them, they, too.
would take heart. But men at such
times are apt to look only at their
own failure. The poet Cowper who
twice resolved on selfdestructiOn
wrote:


Beware Of desperate steps; the darkest day.


Live ill Tomorrow, will have passed away.
And it is q wholesome reflection.
Year: 1878

We learn that on Saturday after
noon last, a man, at least in form, at
tackled and beat poor defenceleSS
young woman of ,cnteel exterior,
and pretty face, almost to death. He
was out in hack riding in company
with her, and we learn from some la
dies who saw them, that the man had
bis coat off aud was lying down on
the seat, the woman was vel!cd.
From the information we get one eye
of the woman is gone, her face hog
ribly mnlilated aud part of her skull
mashed in, all of which was done by
this brute with his pistol. He claims
that be did not know what he was DO
ing, aud we are told that tie woman
does not wish to appear against him
provided she RECEIVERS. Ii such be the
case we ask is there manhood enough
left 10 our city to see that the fellow
does not get oil scot free. How
would coat of tar and feathers tit
him? He who would lay his hand
on woman save iu kinndcss, is brute
and unworthy the name of man."


The brutality of the act is without
excuse, the fair name of our city is at
stake, aud the fellow should not go
unwhipped by justice. One kemper
county affair is enough for our State
for decade; but iu justice to our peo.
pie it is necessary to say that this
brutal attack was performed by a tolal
stranger in our midst and who halls
from Washington city. We did not
learn his name, and don't want to-
Vichsburg Express.
Year: 1878

1t is interesting and beneficial at
this time to consider the connection
between contraction of the currency
of a great people, and Communism,
or, more properly speaking, to note
the effect that the financial blunders
of the Radical Administrations have
had. 1t cannot he denied that when
currency was abundant employment
was also abundant, and there was not
the least dread of labor riots or o.
Communism. Persons may point to
the fact that the Communistic upris-
ings in the Old World have sprung
from far different cause than lessen
ing of the circulating medium, or the
means Of commercial exchange among
men. They may point to the fact
that these uprisings have sprung from
a tyraunical abuse of governmental
power, or on the other hand, from
unstable government. In either case,
Communism has sprung directly from
the same cause, namely: Discomfort
This cause may be produced in many
different ways. Oppression, want of
sufficient protection by law, want of
employment, employment too poorly
paid, enforced idleness in q land Of
plenty, government partially admins
tered so as to make the rich richer
and the poor poorer, are all potent
producers of discomfort Nearly all
of these causes have been produced
by the financial course the late Ad-
ministrations have pursued. Day by
day, week by week, month by month,
and year by year, the volume of cur
rency has been steadily contracted,
until enterprise and confidence that
give employment to labor have almost
ceased to exist. No one can estimate
the number of the citizens of the
United States who have been thrown
out of employment. IAN idle brain
is the devils workshop" There are
hundreds of thousands of idle brains
in this country, and the DEVILS work
is being done 10 a way that is truly
alarming. 1t makes one sick to read
the long smoothly and powerfully
written papers on the danger of Con
munism, labor riots, etc, while the
men who have the power in theil
hands to remove the cause refuse to
do it, but remorselessly pursue 6
course that must daily add to the
ranks of the idle army. These writer's
philosophers and statesmen will hnt
out before long that men with empty
bellies and starving families care moth
ing for smooth periods, wise disserta
tions, and Government, no matter how
beautiful its theory may be, that al
lows them to starve to death 10 q lant
of plenty. Shakespeare said that 81
man who has no music in his soul i


fit for stra,agems and spoils." Recen
events in this country prove tha
hungry men with starving families
are fit for Communism and revolution


A few days ago ten thousand Com
munists paraded in the streets of 5,
Louis others in Illinois, Ohio AM
Pennsylvania are arming, yet n


relief is offered by the blind and dea
men at Washington. Let them a
once change the financial policy of tb
Government, and let them at ono
give labor to as many as can be em
ployed on needed National enterprise;
Let them take measures to restore col
fdence and enterprise and to remov
idlcness and discomfort. or anothe
year will not pass without an upri'
ing that will cost much precious bloc
aud treasure in its suppression


Ficksburg Herald.
Year: 1878

A great many mistake religious sem
timent for religious life. Because
they are touched by religious truth
they fancy they are religious. Be-
cause they are susceptible to religion
they think they have it. An im2res.
sion is to them the same as if they
obeyed it; to appreciate right is tho
same as though they did the right.
Weeping over book Of martyrs, they
almost think it as heroic as though
they died at the stake themselves.
They come to take what God has
planted in them as a substitute for =
practical Christian life.
Year: 1878

development of science and philos-
ply to teach that there is one
grand law Of the universe to which
all are subject and from which it is
highly impossible that any special
departure will be made. 1t is not
thus that Providence deals with us.
The rain falls alike on the Just and
unjust, and were it within the
problems of the Divine Mind to
cure one poor woman of consump-
ton or one poor man of infamma-
tory rheumatism, the same favor
would be extended to all; or, were
it intended as grand demonstra-
ton of power, and a convincing ar
gument in favor of Immortality or
any doctrine of the church, it would
not come through any doubtful
channel or be open to the jibes Of
the newspaper reporters and the
jeers of the commonalty. 1t is not
thus that He works who holds the
world in the hollow of His hand,
and writes His greatness upon the
scroll Of the heavens. Indeed, all
such nonsense as this at Mauch
Chunk is the reverse Of any proof
of Divine interposition; it proves
merely how much there is yet to
overcome of ignorance in the hu-
man mind. There is q lower as
well as an upper realm of thought,
and when such stories as these are
palmed off and greedily swallowed.
a loud call is made for the school


master. It is not a case for thu
churches to handle, but for tha


broad catholicity of science which
ought to be able to solve every ques


ton relating to the body, It's dis


eases, and their cure.
Year: 1878

DR.. Wilson, a prominent English
physician, says in a recent paper in
the Lancet:


For the active, outdoor laborer
and artisan, an early breakfast be-
fore work, midday dinner, with
an interval Of rest, and supper af.
ter the days work is over have long
been proved by experience to be the
most conducive to health. For the
business man a later breakfast, a
midday luncheon aud a late dinner
after the days work is over, is the
best arrangement. For literary men
who write more in the evening than
during the day, an early dinner and
light supper will be found to be
the most advantageous for steady
work. Idlers, to enjoy life, if they
possibly can, should dine early if
they intend to spend the evening at
the theaters and the like; but il
they accept dinner invitations freely
they should be careful not to eat
too much at the midday meal. The
breakfast hourshould be determined
in great measure by the hour of
rising, but in any case food should
be partaken of before the material
business Of the day is commenced,
Those who like to take a "consti-
tutional" before breakfast would
find their appetite whetted and
their work made all the more en-
IjOyable if they took a little milk OF
caf-au. .lait, with bread or biscuit,
before starting. Work done before
breakfast is always irksome and fa-
tiguing, and on that account is very
badly done. The last meal should
be sufficiently late for the whole
not to be absorbed before retiring
to rest. TO a person in health three
meals a day ought to be quite suf
ficient, and the practice of continu
ally taking something" is sure tt
bring on indigestion.
Year: 1878

Philadelphia Times


Down by the West India wharf
the other morning crowds of men
gathered around the corners and
on the sidewalk discussing the loss
Of the Metropolis. Apart from the
crowd, against the wall of build
ing, stood three men-one tall
individual, with brown mustache
and chin-whiskers, and dressed, as
were his companions, like wharfng-
ers. The tall man was talking
rapidly and excitedly, and aiding
articulation by sundry motions of
finger and thumb. 1t was John
Hannipg, wharf commissioner, first
| Junk man, and, by his own account,
at one time in his life "a case"


cit was terrible" said John, his
small, steely blue eyes swapping
with excitement. "Suppose YOU or
had gone on that boat. Where
would we be now? Those men that
went on it could not forsee the
danger ahead. And those that in
tended to go, but didn't; what a
narrow escape they had. A man
named Hotferon-a rolling.mill
man, out of work-took a notion
he'd 90 to Brazil. His wife didn't
want him to go, nor did his chill
dren. HeiIeron wouldn't listen to
reason. His wife and children
pleaded, but in vain. HefferOn got
angry at them standing in his way,
and all their pleading only made
his resolution stronger. His neigh.
bors reasoned with him for his
wife's sake, but he turned a deaf
ear to all. When the Metropolis
was about to leave, HelIeron was on
board with his trunk. Even then
his wife did not give up, but went
aboard, with her children. With
tears they again besought him not to
go. His neighbors also still fol
lowed and reasoned with him. But
it did no good. They mightas vel
have spoken to a rock. Everybody
that went on board to say goodbye
had left the boat, and Hefferon',
wife and children stood on the
wharf crying. A few moments be
fore the boat pulled off a friend OF
Hefferon's ran aboard and asked
him to come off and take a 'beer


before he left, for old acquaintance
sake. Seeing the saloon was near
Hefferon did not object. While
they were in the saloon another
friend ran aboard and got his trunk
of. When Hetferon came out the
steamer was gone. He had nc
money to hire IL boat to oyertake
her, and his friends would not loan
him any. All he could do Was to
rage and boil over on the wharf.
Hefferon is at home, alive and well,
but had he not accepted that invi-
tation to take a drink he might now
be lying stark and dead on The Cur
rituck beach. Some would say that
it was chance that saved him, but
| call it special providence.
Year: 1878

Corruption in our national affairs has
the same effect on the government that
a severe cough or cold has upon the hu-
man system Political reform 10 the
former and DR.. Bulls Cough Syrup in


the latter case will remedy the evils.
All the druggists sell it for 25c bottle.
Year: 1878

Twenty Thousand People
old and young, every week. It's just to say
that the patrons of the WESTERN
METHODIST belong to the best class oil
community.


We desire our business mon to make a nOto
Of tho above facts before completing their
advertising arrangements for the coming
season.


We use our best efforts to keep our columns
free of all irregular and irresponsible adver-
Using; for many good people seeing an ad-
vertisement in a paper, especially their
church paper, take it as guarantee of re-
sponsibility. Such confidence should not 10
abused when 1t can be helped. We want,
therefore.
Year: 1878

OUR GRAIN YIRLp.-A few years since it
was the custom with the merchants and
traders Of Portland and San Francisco to de.
cry this country, and refer to it as a sandy
desert, doomed to eternal desolation. Now
they go off on the other tack and overrate it.
As an illustration, they talk of the country
east OF the mountains marketing, this year,
ten million bushels of wheat. This Is simply
absurd. We have THE land to produce four
times ten million bushels; but it is not oc.
cupied, and the people to cultivate the land
are not here. 1t is quite sure that the yield
of this season will be greatly in excess of
that of last year, and possibly will foot up
between two and three million bushels. Thi
estimate doubles the figures of last year, and
certainly speaks well for the progress already
made. With the immigration now coming
i'll, We may calculate, with favorable season,
in 1879 TO market ten million bushels, and
after that year it IS safe to say that the Co.
lumbia River valley will take rank as the
greatest grain producing district in the Uni
ted States. Just now our friends abroad
are placing their figures too high, but in
year Ut two from date we will justify their
widest estimates.
Year: 1878

MITcHELLs STRIHERs.-It is very evident


that the custom house ring intend, if they
possibly can either by fair or foul means, to
control the republican county conventions,
and that the nominees viii be secretly pledg-
ed to vote for Mitchell for United States
senator, if they are elected. There is very
considerable faction of the republican party
who are hostile to Mitchell, but they are
without the organization necessary TO sue
cessfully compete with Mitchell's well drill
ed retainers, and, consequently will be bull
dosed into the support of the men dictated
by the custom house managers. The start
ing of little thumb-papers all over the state
is conclusive evidence of the fact, and shows
that the muchly- senator is at his
old tricks. Our friends in Eastern Oregon
should keep their eyes peeled, and see to it
that not a single Mitchell man is returned
to the legislature From the first Mitchell
was fraud, and his second election would
be disgrace to the people of Oregon. A
time server and a trickster, he is the last
man to represent a state that has many
favors to ask at the hands of democratic
congress.
Year: 1878

A SUGGESTIoN-A few evenings since the
editor attended meeting, called for the pur-
pose of considering question that Just now
a,itates the public mind We were present
simply as a spectator, and mainly for the pur,
pose of learning the views of those who had


astepped to the 'front.'" and led off IN the asl-
tation OF question Of very considerable ini-
portance. The parties who inaugurated the
movement very properly took the lead but
what to us was surprising, was the manifest
ignorance displayed by these would-be mould,
ers Of public opinion Not one OF them had
even read the Law regulating the question I'm
der consideration, and after they had theH
Say" the audience knew no more than they
did at the start. 1t was the old story o'
.sblind leaders of the blind" The moral We
wish to draw from this is, that before man
starts out to instruct the public, he should hrs'
inform himself.
Year: 1878

ANOTHER ENLARGEMENT--Mess Schwa-
bacher Bros. already have the largest store
house in the territory, and yet such Is the eH-
tent of their business they are compelled to
to have more room. To do this they have ar
ranged to add second story over their present
building The upper story viii be finished to
correspond with the first story. and when com
Melted thev will have building that will com
mare with the many mercantile palaces fol
which San Francisco Is famed
Year: 1878

DISEASED SHEEP are being sold In the
Portland market, greatly to the damage o.
the health and peace of mind OF the people
Of the town. Let the butchers send east o.
the mountains where they can secure thou
sands of "mutton sheep" in good condition
and at prices that will justify their shipment
below. With proper care, sheep IN this
country are healthy, and the price for "mut
ton sheep" always rules low.
Year: 1878

JAMES SPARKS, the young man who was shot
IN the course of a squatter row at Dayton, is
still alive and it is expected>will recover. He
was shot twice-one in the face and the second
N the neck. At the time of the shooting he
Was left for dead, but by careful attention his
;,fa was saved.
Year: 1878

New YoRK. Oct. president Hayes arrived
In this city this morning By the early express
train from Washington. he went Immediately
and then went out driving. On his re, urn he
attended meeting Of the trustees Of the Pea
body educational fund.
Year: 1878

A GRAND Fourth of July ball will be given at the Cosmopolitan House on the evening of the FOurth. Music and dancing, an excellent supper and a grand display oi fireworks will be the main features Of

 the entertainment. A handsome pavilion

 sixty feet long by thirty wide has been erected in the east yard, with canvass roof

 and floor, making cool and comfortable

 ballroom. No pains will be spared to

 make the guests comfortable and the en-

 tertainment joyous one. Invitations

 will be extended in time to enable the ladies to prepare their usual elaborate toilets and we feel assured the affair will be a brilliant success.
Year: 1878

The Washington correspondent Of
the New Orleans Times thinks there is
no doubt that Hayes will veto the Sill.
yer Bill, but in regard 10 the bill be.
coming a law Notwithstanding a veto,
Says though there have been stories
current that the veto might be sustained,
It may be accepted as true that the bill
will become a law. No matter what
efforts are made for its defeat, there is
not the slightest chance for believing
that the tide can be arrested now.
has gona too far"
Year: 1878

Summer tourists when sailing over
our inland waters are always delighted


with the islands they observe in their
passage, and often express a strong
desire to land upon them. In accom-
panying parties of friends upon the
steamer through our lake, 1 have fire.
quently been asked why no provision
was made for landing passengers on any


of the islands, and furnishing them
shelter and the means of boating, fish
ing, and otherwise recreating them
selves according to their liking. have
been compelled to say | did not know
yet l have guessed that it is because
those engaged in the trade of entertain
ing summer visitors here are not as
completely masters of their art as they
would find it for their interest to be.
We have about Newport many beauti-
full drives, but the roads are generally
very bad. We have, in the Clyde River
Falls, as beautiful cataract as any in
New England, but it is practically in
accessible to teams, and no efforts are
made to call the attention of visitors to
them. A hotel keeper who had, him.
self, a taste for natural beauty, and
knew how ardently it is sought after by
many who travel for pleasure, would
see here mine of profit. So it is with
the no less romantic falls of the Missis-
quoi between North and South Troy


No genuine effort has yet been made to
develope the attractiveness OF Jay Peak,
Year: 1878

which strikes the needle with great
force, explodes the cap and sends buck
shot or ball in an upward direction.
The grave rObber, STOPPING over his
work, is liable to be shot with deadly
effect. Under the most favorable cir
cumstances to him he is likely to be
powerfully impressed with a sense of
danger and to vacate the premises with
despatch. The tOrpedoes will not be
very expensive, and several of them
may be placed in the same coffin, so
that the resurrectionist will have no
assurance when one explOdes that the
danger is over. Should the article
come into general use the knowledge of
its existence will have a restraining in
fiuence, and it will do its work without
many fatal cases. --.-.l