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Year: 1878

my wrath will give him a charge to
take the spoil and to take the prey and
to tread them down like mire in the
streets" Il will make thee a new sharp
threshing instrument having teeth"
might well be said of that communistic
agitator whom scores of thousands
! throng to hear and to whose direst sem
I timents they howl approval, Take heed
lest he "thresh the mountain" of wealth
and beat it small and make the hills as
chaff"


That which has been feared the most
| threatens the most-the annihilation of
wealth. The South wishes the national
debt Cancelled, unless it can be increased
to their advantage. The bondholder
wishes his title inviolate. The banks
demand protection. So does business
And 10! that is the very spot where we
are attacked There gather the hosts to
battle. Had Maine declared that still it
was human rights, and not finance, that
was in peril, she had saved finance no
less than human rights. But she an
nounced, through her chief citizen, that
it was a question of finance and her
long triumphant party, noble among the
noblest in its defense Of it's Idea, is we'll
nigh wrecked in the storm. The young
men Of to day will not tramp through
the streets and hurrah themselves hoarse
over finance. Those of Lincoln's and
Harrison S and Jacksons and Jefferson's s
did not. Bands do not play and torches
blaze for finance. Orators cannot pile up
oratory not even in Faneuil Hall, where
oratory naturally grows, any more than
on the unlettered stump over finance -
1t has no power to raise a spirit wthal
Human rights have. The political rights
of our fellow citizens have. The PROSTATE
rights of half the votes of half the nation
have. Arguments like Storrs and Nc.
Crary, narratives like Lees and Pember-
tons, have They are American; they
are human. By these this party must
arise and conquer, or go into returnless
oblivion. Awake thou that sleepest and
arise from the dead, and Christ shall give
thee light. Awake and do thy first
works, else l will come and remove thy
candlestick out of thy place" God means
the securing of universal liberty and fra,
ternity and equality to the oppressed and
despised of our land. He will have it
If those whom he has raised up for this
purpose refuse to obey him, then will he
reject them and give his vineyard unto
others. The wind is roaring through
turret and tree" Take heed, We soft
mouthed, slow paced, yielding, trucking
recalcitrating politicians, of whom He says
ye take away the right from the poor of
my people" or 1.-The light of Israel shall
be for fire and his Holy One for flame,
and it shall burn and devour his thorns
and briars in one day, and shall consume
the glory of his forests and of his fruitful
field, both soul and body" Awake,
arise, or be forever fallen I'
Year: 1878

1--WE propose in our church. a gentle


man recently remarked to one of our best


known and most useful evangelists. so to
organize our religious work that the Cos.
pei shall not merely be put within the
reach of everybody, but shall actually be
carried to everybody within our parish
| limits. IF you do that" was the reply,
you will do what no one church in five
thousand does"


Can that be true? If it be true, then
practically no church does it. Do none
of our churches take the word of life in
their hands and 90 to everybody in their
town or village and invite them person
ally to a fellowship with Christ and his
disciples If so, then our churches fall
very, very far short of their duty. Then
it is not strange that we hear of old
country towns in which the churches are
dying out and retain but two or three
male members | is not strange that those
who stand apart from our churches de-
clare that they have lost their power and
no longer take hold on the people; that
they may yet be social force, but are
not a religious force to make men fear
and love God and keep his command
ments.


But do not our churches work? Do
they not keep up their regular meetings?
Do they not invite in everybody Do
they not have their sociables and picnics?
Do they not raise money to pay off their
debts? Do they not make great efforts
to raise their pastors salaries Are not
their Sabbath schools made attractive by
pictures and fountains and feasts? All
true, sometimes; and all good very good;
but all this is not what the Church was
made for. This is not obeying the COM
oF Re g
whole nor the first part of what the
Church was organized for. The COM
maud is not, Draw; but, "GoP The
record is: "They went everywhere
preaching the Word" The story of the
great apostle is that he visited not merely
from city to CITY. but from house to
house. And thus the church grew and
was gloriied.


Tell us: Has your church so organized
its work that every person within the
limits of its local influence has the Gospel
Carried to him? We would like to know
how many such churches there are. We
should like to know the story of a church
in which the roll is kept lot merely of
its members and families, but of its non
memb bers. We should like to hear how
they receive the faithful message as
brought to them. We should be glad to
tell the story how such a church visits
the outskirts, the hamlets and homes
that know no Sabbath; how it reports
their Individual condition and history,
and sends not the pastor alone to visit
and advise with them. but to each one
the brother or sister in the church who
can best reach their hearts. Have we
many such churches? Is there more
than one in five thousand If not, why
do our churches complain of their cold
ness and death Again, what says the
Record of the Church in the days of its
first lover They went everywhere
preaching the Word" And, once more,
how was it that St. Paul could take the
elders of the Church in Ephesus to record
that he was pure from the blood of all
men?' 1t was because be could testify
unto them that he had taught them both
publicly and from house to house"
Year: 1878

"For the earnest expectation of the creature
Waiting for the manifestation of the sons OF
iod.'-L Rom. viii 10.
Thy creatures suffer, o Most High!
And yet thy sons rejoice;
Thy birds sing on to dying men


With clear, eXulting voice;
Thy sunbeams dance among the flowers
That veil our dead from sight,
And sorrow lays harmless hand
On ever-fresh delight.
o sacred Unity of Love!


This life and death behind,
Attracting heart aloof from heart
And mind at war with mind.
To the worn spirit grieved for thee
AT every passing jar,
How touching in their fearless tone,
How sweet thy concords are!
If out of depths that sin has made,
And would have filled with woe,
We hear above creations groan,
Her music soft and low,
1t is that lovely things on earth
The atOning truth declare
The hallelujah of thy heaven


Receives an answer there.
Thou hast a spring of endless health,
With issues great and wide,
In the free heart that dares to live
Because thy Christ has died;
An element of bliss divine


That passes mortal bound,
And worships with the heavenly host
AT every joyful sound.
When through the haunting shades of death
We take our hallOWed way,
And see in resurrection dawn


The place where Jesus lay,
Still love to love in quest of him
The word of comfort gives;
Still angels watching at his grave
Bear witness that he lives.
A gloom may gather as we go,


And sound and sight grow dim;
But day has risen on the paths
That lead his frienis to him.
All through the duiI decline of sense
And even while we die,
His triumph finds the listening ear
And fills the expecting eye.
We follow him, and earth shines on,
From our faint gaze set free ;
Her psalms, that call no more on us,
Pursue their praise of thee.
While thou, on our eternal life
Through all decay intent,
Art keeping for the day of power
Thy human instrument.
Then may our silence in thy hand,
Mid sickness and distress,
Take part in that ascending hymn
Which serves thee none the less;
Till the whole Church's bridal joy,
Unblemished and complete,
Shall win a blessed universe
To its Redeemer's feet.
Year: 1878

An intelligent and sensitive journal
imparts this bit OF delicate and useful
information to is fourteen million read
ers; at is not polite to bite corn from
the cob in presence OF people who have
false teeth"
Year: 1878

The WEATHER WE WANT.-Whek we need
in this country is kind of weather that y ont
ruin the peach crop-s kind that, with all ou:
infinite variety, We do not now seem to have.
Very aoon after Christmas the peach crop be.
gins to be ruined, and it continues to be ruined
Gith monotonous persistence until the last
peach has been landed in the market. 1s ia
useless to talk about repesling the resumption
act while the peach crop is being ruined every
few minutes.
Year: 1878

A jolly medical student in Berlin, who
had finished his studies and was about
to begin to practice, invited his friends
to banquet and got very drunk with
them. After the carousal he stumbled
home IN uproarious excitement, and,
when lie reached his lodging, he threw
up his window and leaned out in order
to breathe the cold winter air. After a
short time he was struck with violent
prickiDg and smart;ng III the eyes. He
closed the window anG vent TO bed.
When he woke tbs next morning he
found the room in darkness, and con-
cluded that it must be still night. He
tried in vain to fall asleep again. After
awhile bis landlady knocked at the door
and asked if he was Iii, as he was lying
so late in bed. % What do you mean 2"
asked he. "Sir,' exclaimed the woman.
It has been clear daylight these two
hours" "Oh p cried he, with mighty
oath, 81 is it possible that I became blind
last nighti" His surmise was true.
He had lost the power of vision while
trying to chill himself into seberness at
the open window. This frishtsul dis
covery SO wrought upon the young doc
tor that lie fell into violent fever,
which carried him off in the following
week.
Year: 1878

Give me an eye to others failiDgs blind
Miss Smiths new bonnet's quite a fright behind
Wake in me charity for the suffering poor
(There comes the contribution box once moreD
Take from my soul all feelings covetous-
Ill have a shawl like that, or make fuss
Let love for all my kind my spirit stir
(Save Mrs. Jon,s III never speak to her y
Let me in truths fair pages take delight
Ill read that other novel through tonight y
Make me contented with my earthly state
Il wish I'd III lrried rich but it's too late
Give me heart of faith in all my kind
Miss Browns as big hypocrite youu find y
Help me to see myself as others see
(rhis dress is quite becoming unto meD
I wonder if they think these curls real y
Make my heart of humility the fount-
(I'm glad, am our pews near the front y
Fill me with pat ence and strength to wait
Il know he'll preach till our dinners lateD
Take from my heart each grain of self-conceit-
In sure that gentleman must think me sweet
Let sanity visions be my daily food


Il wonder what they'll have for dinner good y
Let not my feet ache on the road to light
Nobody knows how these shoes pinch and bite
In this world teach me to deserve the next
Church out Charles, do you recollect the text
Nashville American.
Year: 1878

There are two animated barometers in
Sacramento, CAL, that have proved
trustworthy, even where artificial in
struments have failed. One of them is
catfish, which is kept in a water
trough. No matter how clear the
weather may be, this fish always, before
storm, makes it point to swim about
with his head below the water and his
tail above. When the rain begins to
fall he goes cut Of sight until tae weather
changes. The other is couple Of frogs
under the foor of the police off which
have never yet been seen by any Of the
officers, but who presaSe storm several
hours in advance Of tie barometrical in
dication, by S., rios of peculiarly dis
corSant croaks. No matter how clear
and bright the night, the police officers
then make it point to prepare for a
storm, AMI the warning has never proved
in vain.
Year: 1878

Mr.. Hunters Dog bill passed the
House without a dissenting voice. This
bill allows owners to value their dogs at
500, and to pay to the Commissioner
the tax on that amount, which is ST for
the first dog, and 50 cents for all others.
After the dog is so listed for taxation
he becomes as much personal property
as q COW or horse. OF course no one
is compelled to pay the tax; it is purely
voluntary. Tt will have the effect of
stopping the stealing of valuable dogs,
and stolen dog will be as rare as n
stolen horse This tax will place some
thousand dollars in the State treasury.
-Lynchbtrq Virgi7aidn
Year: 1878

The amount of gold on hand in the
treasury of the United States, in addi-
ton to that called for by the coin certi-
fcates, at the beginning of each month
of the present administration, wasas fol-
Year: 1878

Henry Dickson, thirty -four years old. has for
Some time been engaged with Tracy Titus opera
pany During their appearance in this city at the st.
James Theatre. he has been singing in the chorus.
and he was to leave with them last night
for Providence. Dickson has been somewhat
despondent Of late and is supposed to have been in
very stratened circumstances. This is believed to
have been his motive for taking dose of morphine
yesterday, while the company were prcpar-
ing for their trip. Word of the suicidal
attempt was brought to the Twenty first
precinct police station and ambulance
was despatched for Dickson which took him to
Bellevue Hospital. There he subjected to a
course treatment which makes his recovery very
probable. Dickson has been living in furnished
apartment No. 36 East Thirtysecond street; but
his neighbors knew little of him and only remarked
his woebegone appearance.
Year: 1878

WASHINGTON Dec !. 1879
THE NATIONAL LABOR REFORM PATTY AND WHAT


IT PROPOSES


The session Of the National Executive Committee
of the national labor reform party commencing to-
morrow will be attended by representatives, from
about twenty States. Dr.. Sturgeon, the chair
of the committee is not here. Mr..
+. r. Devices, of Pottsyiue, the chair
man Of the Pcnnsylvanis National Executive
Committee. will act in his place. As mentioned ir
the HEau.p's despatch last nisht informal
sion OF the committee held last night but there
such ineagre attendance that nothing was done
that would serve forecast OF the prospective
suits of the session. Tho committee will not act
without the advice of Mcssrs William y. Kelly and
Benjamin +. Butler neither OF whom was in the
city al the time of the first meeting. II is scd that
among other things to bo done address to The
country will he issued in which will be elaborate
review of the legislation Of Congress touching the
finance and labor questions; also that the action OF
the New York bankers in regard to the Ban dollar.
which the national committeeman say has been
practically demonctized by that action. will be the
subject of resolution. and this resolution will
probably be Incorporated in the address If 1t
is issued. There is diversity of senti-
ment among the members o. the committee,
which is doubtless to extent attributable
to ignorance OF the questions with which they are
dealing. 1t is understood, however, that General
Butler, though not member OF the committee will
have the most to say in the selection of policy for
the party in Congress and before the people.


THE SOUTH CAROLINA CONGRESSIONAL ELEC-


TIoNs-A DEMOCRATS. REASONS FOR THE


CHANGE IN THE NEGRO VOTE.


Congressman Eyns, Of South Carolina, in CONVEX
saton with Congressman Foster. of Ohio. to-day, gave
ss a reason why there was little opposition tn
the democratic nominees for Congress il his State At
the last Congressional election among the colored
voters the fact that the colored have learned
from experience that they not well off to-
day when they were slaves. aud inasmuch
the carpetbag politicians representing the rcpubli
can party have had almost unlimited control Of
the state government for tho past ten years they
have concluded that ii to the domination Of the
republican party that they their Impoverished
condition. He aided that the republican party must
have had some confidence in the good sense of the
black race or the right Of suffrage ought never to
have been given them. They have exercised their
powers of observation to the extent of condemning
by their support Of democratic nominees fo- Con-
gress the claim that the republicans their bes.
friends.
Year: 1878

sular and Diplomatic bill. the Navy and the Indian
bills. aud nc hopes to pass them all through the
House before the Christmas holidays


The bill transferring the Indian Bureau TO the War
Department win probably form part of the Army BILL
and will give rise to extended debate


LoDBy.


There present an unusually large and vsred lobby
whose hopes raised by the fact that 80 large a
number Of members have failed of reelection. and
supposed this account to be reckless and favor
able to ''thc old flag and an appropriation"
Year: 1878

We are frequently asked if the
bill remonetizing silver will DO us
any good, aud requested to state
in what way it can be Of any bene-
fit to the people.


Primarily we will state that it
puts more money in circulation.


The case may be easily illustra~
ted by supposing that wheat had
been the only legal tender for debt,
The effect would have been to
mske wheat very dear, and of
course scarce. As the sole instru-
ment of power, it would be sought,
held snd hoarded. Of course the
pnce would have advanced.


If at this juncture q law had
been passed making corn legal
tender likewise, it is easy to see
that wheat would heve been met
in competition by corn, and the
price Of wheat would neceess-
rily have declined, corn wonld
nave advanced, and there would
have been less temptation to hoard
wheat and more stimuloue to part
with corn.


So with coin currency. Prior
to the passage of the silver bill!
those who held gold possessed a
monopoly of financial power, and
comparatively speaking could en-
force their own terms Property
declined as gold ruled high. Sill
yer had no standard uses except
for manufacturing purposes. At
present gold must come down and
meet silver on q common level,
and the creditor cannot exact of
the debtor more than the value of
his claim.


But facts are better than theo>
rics. Prior to the passage of the
Silver Bill, gold commanded pre-
miam of ten to twelve per cent.
To-day it rules st from halt to
one per cent. Then to pay a dol
lar debt required q dollar and ten
cents. Now we can do that thing
with q dollar and one cent.
Year: 1878

Among the rising young men Of
Virginia, may be mentioned Sena-
tor John Psul, of Rockingham
Never before in political lite it was
expected he would be unable for
at least half his term to take any
conspicuous stand in the Senate.
But from the very first he exhibit~
ed rare acquaintance with the
great question Of the State debt.
There was no old member of that
body, who did not hesitate to cross
words with him. We reckon him
among the vigorous minds and
bold politicians of Virginia, and
predic. for him a brilliant career.
On the State debt he is exactly
right.
Year: 1878

The bill revising the criminal laws
which makes I76 pages Of printed or
226 of Ms matter, having received the
sanction Of the two houses, will to-day
or io-morrow be ready for the sigma
tuTe Of the Governor, and there is ev-
cry reason to suppose that he will
cheerfu!ly give 1t.


The general scope Of the bill was set
forth ia the report Of the committee
men who prepared it, and who said {:
The bill will speak for itself I'm
perfection may attach to, and errors
may have crept into it unObserved by
the committee; but the committee feel
satisfied that most of the changes
made in existing laws are salutary,
and will commend themselves to the
favor of the General Assembly. Re-
trenchment in the matter of criminal
charges has constituted one of the
main objects sought to be accomp plish-
ed, while at the same time the legal
rights of parties accused of crime have
been sedulousIy guarded. IT is believ-
ed by the committee that the effect Of
this revision will to very considera-
BILE extent reduce the expenditures Of
the State for criminal charges, and
tend to check the OvercrOwding of the
penitentiary by reducing the number
of offences punishable by confinement
therein
Year: 1878

TREASURER GILFILLAN left for New York
last evening to join Secretary Sherman.
There is but little doubt that the Secretary
visit Is connected with the early resumption OF
specie payments.
Year: 1878

THE REMOVAL of the President and his fam
lily to Soldiers Home was completed this morn
ing. The President will come in TO the White
House every morning to attend to his exec
utiye dutieS
Year: 1878

1.-THE TUG FORTUNE left Annapolis yester-
day afternoon for this city with the Sloop- of
war Dale in tow. The Dale, which is used as
a stationary practice ship for the cadet mid
shipmen, will be repaired at the navy yard
here.
Year: 1878

The ourt of Assizes in Valoh
Russia, had the case presented of a
boy of nine who had murdered his
mother. The latter, since the re-
cent death of her husband, had
permitted herself to form an inti-
macy with government func-
iionary, which her son became
aware of, and by which he was
deeply mortified. He brooded over
his mothers conduct and begged
her to change her course. The
mother laughed, and without fur.
ther listening told him not to med
die with matters that concerned
not his age. The boy resolved on her
death, and dug a grave for her.
One night he entered her room
with a hatchet, and, after contem-
plating the sleeping woman, and
pray. z for her, fell asleep him
self. His mother found him in
the morning with the hatchet by
his side. She questioned him with
alarm regarding the hatchet. He
gave satisfactory excuse, and
rene wed his supple tions for
a cessation of her bad conduct. She
told him TO hold his tongue. On
the night following he killed her as
she sleDt with single blow of the
hatchet, and dragged her to the
grave he had prepared. A search
was made by the police, and the
freshly stirred earth with which
the boy had filled the cavity ex-
cited suspicion. The body wns
found and the boy was arrested.
Year: 1878

A philosophic barber, who has
more than once contributed to the
wisdom of these columns, relates
to us a test which we think comes
very near being infalllble. He
was talking about the facility with
which experts cleared great for.
gers and thieves, and said it was
different with a case in his neigh
borhood. A young darkey broke
open an old darkey's trunk and
stole some money from it. He was
found out, and some friends inter-
ceded with the old man for the
youngster, saying that he was
crazy. "Crazy! the devilW said
the old man; "if he had broke open
my trunk and put some money
thar, L might have thought So"
He whaled the boy.
Year: 1878

A Boston man has vest that
Fanny Fern made with her own
hands. And we will bet hundred
dollars that 1t never did and never
will fit any man in this wide, wide
world; that they can't tell by its
shape whether 1t was originally
made for fat woman or a lean
man; for man with sway back,
or man with hump on his back
like camel. Woman, heaven
bless her, is the light of our homes,
but when she tries to make a mans
vest the angels weep. And when
she makes pair of pantaloons for
him. the immortal gods just hold
their sides and run away out into
the woods and roll on the grass
and howl.