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Year: 1879

truth than was Newton when he enunciated the
theory of gravitaton Whatever truths, hitherto hid
den she may in the Of ,ime grow conscious or
she holds that these were in her teach
ing, though before she did not know It's just as
gaytation was implied in many ascertained facts
that men knew well enough long before they knew
that it was implied in them. Thus far, then, the
Church of Rome essentially is the spiritual sense OF
humanity, speaking to men through its proper and
only possible organ It's intricate machinery, such
its systems of representation its methods Of vot-
ing, the appointment of its speaker, and the legal
formaties required in the recording of its DEGREES,
things accidental only or if they are necessary.
they are necessary only in a secondary way"


The present work. like the previous productions OF
the author, indicates excess of imagination over
ceaTness of insight and sOundness Of Judgment. HIS
fancy takes alarm at the portentOus shapes which are
dimy deserted through the mist Of image, ,insteadof
his patiently examining their proportions in the We
racy of sunlight. His description of modern science,
Inmany respects, must be regarded caricature OF
which the cOloTs have been supplied by the lnten-
sty of his fears rather than by the tranquil obser
yatiOn Of facts 1t is certain that the men Of science
of the present day not tncturcd with the spirit
of mbelief to the extent which is represented
by the author The successors of Faradsy and Agas-
siz who share their faith while they inherit their
y
in influence. The consciousness Of a spiritual life
has not passed away from a host of minds of pro-
fOundestthought, who find nothing i'll the disclosures
of science to shake their faith in the eternal ver
ties of reason and religion. Nor perhaps is the
present age more deserving the name Of an age of
mbehef than preceding ages. The eighteenth
century presented an example of denial and donbt,
Of pTofane scoffing and dissolute living 10 which
no parallel can now be found, but it was succeeded
by a moro passionate love of TRUTH higher
tone Of ethics, and a deeper sense of religion. If
the reign Of dogma has been weakened the
dominion Of q spiritual faith has gained fresh
power and won wider triumphs. Mr.. MallocEs
book accordingly, affords a curious example of TAX
ing part for the whole, of overlooking wide
circle Of social and human interests, of ignoring
large classes of profound and powerful thinkers, Of
taking for granted the death of religious faith, as
he witnesses the obsequies of certain temporary
forms. The dirge-like notes with which he accom-
panies the procession will not be accepted as the
music Of humanity, will the burial of the soul
be deemed the inevitable result OF The progress of
science.
Year: 1879

1t is said that an effort will soon be
made III City Council to have the street
market changed from King street to
Market street. Several Cuuncilmen are
siid 10 he favorable to the scheme, aud
also large number Of business men
along Market street.
Year: 1879

speed which are 10 come Of, should
spare day or two at last in visiting
the Dover fair.


Messrs. James 4 Webb, Of this
city have made arrangements 70 publish
thirty-two column paper in the inter
ssts Of the fair during its continuance,
fourteen Of which columns are TO b.
solid local and miscellaneous reading
matter, and eighteen columns will be
for the benefit and use Of advertise
ers. The editorial and local man
agemsnt Of the paper We are informed
10 TO be conducted by Il. II. Colclaser,
an experienced newspaper man and a
general correspondent Of the "Rvsry
Bsening." We predict that this fair
will b. the most extensive and finest Of
any ever held in Delaware. The Mid
dlstown Fair will commence one week
later, and will be Of no less impd stance
than the Dover Fair, but Of it we shall
have more to say in few days.
Year: 1879

The Democratic frauds In Delaware
are beginning to attract attention be-
yond the State. The Philadelphia
''Bulletin" in referring to the shame
less disregard of officers to the enforce
ment of tho laws and the open and
shameless frauds practiced at the re-
cent municipal election, says: "This


is pitiful indeed. Right at Mr.. Bay
ards very door Democratic repeater
is able to defy justice and to escape
punishment upon the ground that a
Republican citizen has no right to make
complaint against a member of the dom
inant party. This may be regarded as
the natural result of the system which
Year: 1879

denies to the Republicans Of the State
fair representation In the Legislature.
The Democrats, from long holding the
State under system which excludes
the Republicans from their right TO q
share Of the government, have at last
come TO believe that no Republican has
any right which Democrat is bound to
respect"
Year: 1879

MAYOR ALLMoND has appointed Isaac
M. Pardee to wear The locust and the
blue in place of John Payne removed.
The Mayor could scarcely have made q
better selection and We accept the ap-
pointment as an earnest effort on his
part TO stimulate and encourage the
NORA sentiment Of the community, and
We hope that Mr.. Pardee in his official
conduct will never disappoint the high
expectations entertained Of him by his
friends. A few more changes of this
kind will make the police force some.
where near what it ought to be.
Year: 1879

THE Republican party has made two
kinds of courts for the trial OF political
prisoners in the United States. guilty of
offences against the election laws. That
party no longer allows men to be tried
by drawn jury for an offence against
the election lswss- lot Bit of it, The
men who are charged with illegal voting
or with asking a negro to vote the Dem
oeratie ticket, or with voting without
tax receipt, are no longer tried by the
jury of the county if the Republican
party can help it. They are scooped up
by an order from a District Attorney
and tried by an u. S. Court, where the
juries are always political-not drawn at
all, but summoned-and summoned to
convict Democrats and clear Republi-
cans. Hence every poor Democrat who
happens to be charged with political
offence through the malice Of some ne
gro or negroes party man,. is compelled
in many districts to secure the services
of some Republican lawyer to assist in
his case, otherwise there is little hope OF
any other than a verdict Of guilty. This
is especially unfair and scandalously
anti-republican.
Year: 1879

Truth is like gold in the gulches,


Oft buried deep under the sod,
While often the tender-foot searches
For gold on the face of;he elod.
The color is found on the surface.


But. If you would find richer stock,
Go down whore large nuggets are buried,
Go down till you find the bedrock.
Many people examine the surface,
And penetrate never within,
But the outside is slick as a beaver,
The heart often dyed deep in sin.
Hence lives are but base contradictions,
And hearts are oft pining in sorrow;
To-day what may seem quite angelic,
AS crime may be looked on to morrow.
Truth, then, is scattered and buried,
1t is mixed with the gold in the glen:
Go wash all the dirt from these nuggets
And find if you can honest men,
For truth that is pure and unvarnished
Is worthy the search of the wise;
Compare it with nuggets and diamonds,
Pure truth is by far the best prize.
Ono miner, perhaps, in million,


Will pick up fortune to-day,
While others may toll for a lifetime,
Yet delve In the very same way,
And yet It's by toiling we find them-
These nuggets we so much desire,
IT'S only by working unccasing


We manage to climb up still higher.
And yet truth may sparkle like diamonds,
But somo men will cast it aside,
And, instead, they will treasure tho mica,
And say to the truth, Let her slide.'
But truth is the old rock of ages


Upon which our forefathers stood.
Without it there must be corruption,
And with ii our lives must be good.
Demand then, in candidates, honor
And uprightness- truthful at least.
Men who will not bow down to clamor
Nor weaken before the vile beast.
NJ en-, su ch as these times are demanding;
NJ en-, who cannot be hoodwinked.
Trot them out for the coming election,
If our good men are not all extinct.


Weekly Alta.
Year: 1879

A CATS COSTLY LEGs.-In India four
men bought a quantity of cotton in CO.
partnership. That the rats might not
injure it they bought cat, and agreed
that each should own one of its legs.
Each leg was then adorned with beads
and other ornaments by its owner. The
c't accdently injured one of its legs, and
the owner wound rag around it, soaked
in oil. The cat accidently set the rag on
fire. and, being in great pain, rushed
among the cotton bales, where she bad
been accustomed TO hunt rats. The cot
ton was totally burned. The other three
partners brought suit against the owner
OF the invalid leg to recover the value Of
their cotton, and the Judge decided that
as the injured leg could not be dsed, the
cat carr led the fire to the cotton with her
three remaining legs. They only were
capable, and their owners were required
to compensate the owner Of the injured
leg for his share of loss.
Year: 1879

A writer on Australian life relates the
following story in the Boston CONNER
ciaL Butietin: One evening on return Of
the miners to camp there was a terrible
outcry from one of the tents. Scores Of
miners rushed in a body to the place
whence the cry issued and found a miner
bending over his mate, who having been
sick had not gone out that day. The sick
man was dead, with a dagger in his heart,
ard the box on which he lay for a bed
showed evidence of having been broken
aud rihed OF it contents. The body was
still warm, showing that the deed had
but recently been perpetrated. The min
ers Immediately scattered in pursuit for
for the murderer or murderers. An hour
later man was brought in-one Of the
most vllainous looking characters | ever
beheld. His pockets were filed with gold
which was identified by the surviving
mate as the property Of himself and his
dead comrade.


There was no mistake about the mat
ter. Tho bags in which the dust were
contained were marked with the joint
names of the mates, and the identity of
the nuggets the surviving mate swore to.
This was sufficient to establish the guilt
of the accused. Some were for hanging
him on the spot. but the law abiding por-
tion of the community being in the ma
jority insisted upon his having a fair
trial. lie was remanded for the night
and a guard placed over him.


Next morning he was missing. How
he had alluded the guards they knew not,
but that he had escaped there ceuld be no
doubt. What was worse he carried off
the gold with him, which had been placed
in safe keeping in the prison with him to
be used as testimony against him.


1t WAS deemed idle TO pursue him, but
n description of the murderer was drawn
up and circulated and reward offered
for his capture, dead or alive. A week
passed away without any tidings being
heard of the fugitive. AT the end of that
time native came into camp, and leav-
ing letter for the presiding magistrate.
disappeared us suddenly as he came. The
letter was curt, but it was to the point


Mr.. MAGISTRATE :-Jem Bell (the
murdered man) was once matey of
mine. He was good man. You will
find Bill Grimes, his murderer, at the
head OF Dead Horse gully have kept
the gold for the reward.
Year: 1879

aud 1t is calculated that some four
and twenty thousand fighting men
are still afoot, while arms given up
do not include many serviceable
rifles.


A Tribune correspondent says:
"Sir Garnet went out with one
hand tied. The other he has since
tied himself In his overzeal to com.
ply with the exigencies of those
who sent him. He was to smooth
the path to an autumn dissolution,
and 1t looks at this moment as Ii
the dissolution must, after all, be
postponed"
Year: 1879

On the docket of the supreme
court of tho United States there are
now 800 cases, enough, it is ssti-
mated to occupy the attention Of
the court three years, without tax.
ing into consideration the new bust.
ness constantly coming up.
Year: 1879

While in Roane county on Tuesday,
We noticed some as fine corn as we
have ever seen, and we learn that not.
Withstanding the drouth there will be
almost an average crop in that county.
Roane is favored with considerable
rlVer.bOttOm land and the corn along
the river is certainly good.
Year: 1879

As was visiting school, not long ago.
the teacher gave me parcel of writing
books to examine. In one of the copies
noticed slight mistake. 1t consisted in
but single letter. The copy was designed
TO be thus "Good that comes too late is
good for nothing" The mistake was in the
little word too, which was written with
single o, whereas it being an adverb in that
connection, there should have been two, as
above. On calling the attention of the
teacher to it, she at once recognized the
error but it was too late, for the whole page
had been written, and all the way down the
mistake had been copied. 1t appeared in
every line from top to bottom. was thus
forcibly reminded of the influence of ex-
ample. A bad example in parent is often
copied by the children. They do as the
parent has done. All their lives long, from
childhood up to old age, they copy his mis-
takes. Aud serious ones they oftentimes
are. The mistake in the copy, to which we
have alluded, was trivial. No harm could
result. But when parent exhibits in his
daily life some great fault, and the child
copies it into his own life, the results are
often greatly injurious. They prove to tn
serious harm of the child. Aud oftentimes
the fault is copied, not by one generation
merely, but by several. II descends TO
children's children. No parent therefore
can look too carefully to his example. He
should strive to be what his children should
be, and what their best good, both for this
world, and the world to come, requires that
they should be-
Year: 1879

We do not realize the Importance of
moments. Only let us consider those two
sayings of God about them, :" In a moment
shall they die" and, ave shall all be
changed in moment" and we shall think


less lightly of them. Eternal issues may
hang upon any one of them, but it has come
and gone before we can even think about it.
Nothing seems less within the possibility of
our own keeping, yet nothing is more incu.
sive of all other keeping Therefore let us
ask him to keep them for us. Are they not
the tiny joints of the harness through which
the darts of temptation pierce usY Only
give us time, we think, and we should not
could pray and resist, and the devil would
flee from US But he comes all in mo.
menti and in moment--an unguarded,
Year: 1879

There is touch of pathos about doing
even the simplest thing :" for the last time"
1t is not alone kissing the dead that gives
US this strange pain. You feel it when you
have looked your last time upon some scene
you have loved-when you stand in some
quiet city street, where you know that you
will never stand again. The actor, playing
his part for the last time the singer, whose
voice is cracked hopelessly, and who after
this once will never stand before the sea of
upturned faces, disputing the plaudits with
fresher voices and fairer forms; the minis
ter who has preached his last sermon-these
pll know the hidden bitterness of the two
words, "never again" How they come to
us on our birthdays, as we grow older
Never again young, always nearer and nearer
to the very last-the end of which is uni.
versal, d" the last thing which shall follow all
last things, and will turn them, let us hope,
from pains to joys We put away our boy
ish toys with an old heart-ache. We are
too old to walk any longer on our stilts--too
tall to play marbles on the sidewalks. Yet
there was pang when we thought we had
played with our merry thoughts for the last
time, and life's serious grown-up work was
waiting for us. Now we do not want the


lost toys back. Life has other and larger
paythings for us. May it not be that these,
too, shall seem in the light of some far-oif
days as the 5oyish games seem to our man
hood, and we shall learn that death is but
the opening of the gate into the new land Of
nromiaa
Year: 1879

If the enumeration could be made to-day,
on what proportion of the teachers desks in
Vermont would be found a good newspaper,
magazine, educational journal, or any other
book or periodical except those absolutely
needed to go through the set exercises of
the day2 How cheering the prospect be
fore schoolroom full of children to look
forward to the day and know exactly what
is to be the programme, from morning till
night, to-day, tomorrow, next day and the
day after


Suppose all the teachers or all the people
of Washington county could be called to-
gether every morning for five years to read
aud listen to "The English on Aggressions, /"
"Marullus to the Romans" The Downfall
of Poland" or similar selections How
many tardy marks would there be the sec
ond morning How many would stay
away the third


Now do children tire of rut and sameness
more or less easily than grown people :?
Teachers wonder that the class seems listless.
Parents think it "nonsense and with
some reason-to change readers "once in
five years." and this remark is usually sup
plemented with a free rehearsal of what
was true when they were young. We admit
that their argument is far from being with
out foundation. But how is it ? parents,
teachers, when you sit down for half
hours entertainment Do you take up an
old school reader, or the last newspaper ?
II your theory be true, we should to-day be
reading comments on "Washington's Fare
we'll Address," or " The Fall of the Pember-
ton Mills !" but instead the wires bring us
intelligence fresh from the four quarters of
the globe, and yesterday 5 parliament doings
are discussed at this mornings breakfast
table.


How eager the children would be TO get a
Whit of the freshness which is upon every
breeze from the busy world about them
How long before we recognize that scholars
are active, inquisitiye human beings, and
that their education can best be accomplished
by natural rather than artificial methods 2
Year: 1879

A correspondent Mt Louisville says: "scvera
weeks since Capt. Drake, chief of the night
police of this city, while passing vacant lot at
the corner of Spring and High streets, saw what
he thought was man lying on the grass. He
approached it, when the object vanished. One
week later the same operation was repeated.


People began to talk about it. Night before
last a crowd Of about forty visited the spot, and
saw what they are willing to swear was child


which, at their approach, rose into the
air and vanished. Excitement now rose to
lever heat, and last night, between the hours of
and IL, not less than 800 people, white and
black, rich and poor, visited the spot to see the
strange apparition, but it did not make its ap-
pearance. When the sun rose this morning
Year: 1879

GLASS sleepers for railroads is the
latest thing in that line in England.
The glass Is toughened by process dis
coved by Frederick siemens, of Dresden,
the cost per ton being about the same as
that OF cast iron, but there are three
times as many slecpcrs in a ton. sr
Year: 1879

TIE representatives of the grain in
New York have adopted resolution
postponing the substitution of the
GENITAL for the bushel measurement in
all transactions. from the first of Octo-
Der until New Years Day.
Year: 1879

IN these days legs are more profitable
than brains. Eleven thousand people
paid dollar each to witness the start of
the Ashley belt match at the Madison
Square Garden in New York. The
total receipts were simp'y enormous.
Year: 1879

THERE are several sides to the fnan-
cial question, but every man who is able
TO evolve o theory is ready to swear that
he has the only right one, and that the
other felIowsare following deIusions.
Year: 1879

The poor of England who desire to
reach this couatry, But whose means are
too limited to pay their way ac,essA the
Atlantic, have adopted a system of
a pooling their issues making Up a
common fund from which the passage
money is taken by those who are lucky
enough to draw prize number CThe
plan is very popular, as by diminishing
the number of laborers, it hasa tendency
to advance the price of labor. Fer this
reason many subscribe to the fund who
do not wish. to leave the old country.
Year: 1879

PATERSON N j.. PUT ON SHORT ALLOWANCE.


Tho Passaic Water Company. which supplies the
city Of Paterson with Passaic River water. has not


fed its patrons to be as saving as possible in the use
of tho now very scarce fluid. Though the steam
pumps of the company have been working every
possible moment tho past three weeks. still
the water in the three reservoirs is steadily
sinking and will bc exhausted. 1t is calcu-
lated that the Fire Department, in of q
large fire. would exhaust the supply of water on
hand in a few hours The question of an adequate
water supply for the city is OF private franchises
against public veal. aud will probably DO the sub
jcct OF litigation There is enough in the
sale River at all times to supply the city it not
cut of short distance above the water
pany's works for industrial purposes. The So
coty for the Promotion OF Useful Manufac-
apsrv s"pss own apd GRANTED


watershed of tho Passaic River including a sources


and excepting only 80 much as may fiow the
western end OF their dam which is aside for the
OF the water company. Usually there Is an i'm
Inensc volume of water flowing over this dam but
in times OF unusual drought, ~ at present,
the quantity is insufficient TO the demand


This year tho drought is unprecedented. the river
never having been ss low at present. In conse-
a great deal more. II has been their custom during
the past three weeks to accumulate as much water
ar possible in the night time by closing all thor
sluices and gateways, then In the morning there IN
sufficient water hand to supply tho mills do
pending on IL TOT mouVc power Ior scvcrai
hours aftcr which the process of accumulation
must be repeated In this way embargo Ia laid
on tho silk and cotton industries of Paterson the
mills along the raccway can hardly run one-fourth
Of the time. This is especially unfortunate ut the
present time. O the silk business has never been
as good 1t Is now. As far as the city water sup
ply Is concerned, II ~ thought probable that should
the Society for the Promotion OF Useful Manufac-
lures continue obstinate injunction will issue
the Court Of Chancery restraining tho society
from cutting OF the water supply. This would nat
urally result In the closing OF oil the
mills and factories depending for power on
Year: 1879

the river hut it would insure plentiful supply
of water. The citizens of Paterson becoming
very indignant ut the present state of affairs, and
threats of taking possession of the socetys prop
erty and opening the sluices by violence have been
freely uttered. 1t is believed. however. that the
rain of the past two days will bring relief to the
suffering populace and may avert the threatened
LEGAL or illegal collision. tu
Year: 1879

Why HE GOT oRY.-There is mad
lawyer in Dayton. Ohio. He had in his
Office young man, who was reading un-
der him, who was not so wrapped up in
his studies that he did not notice that q
young and pretty woman often came to
take counsel with the lawyer, and that
the consultations were always held in
the private room. The young mans cur
iOsity was excited, and by judiciously
using the keyhole he discovered that the
lawyer devoted most of the time in at
tempting to persuade the lady TO marry
him, But she was wealthy, and could
not be persuaded that his motives were
not mercenary. When next the fair
client called the lawyer was out, and the
youth, dropped easily into the lawyers
line OF argument, proposed and pleaded
so eloquenty that he won his first suit.
If the lawyer had not attempted to whip
his more fortunate young rival, the story
perhaps would not have leaked out.
Year: 1879

A MAN went home the other even ing
and found his house locked mp. Getting
in at the window with considerable diff
Guilty, be found on the table note from
his wife: II have gone out; you will
find the door-key on one side of the door
gte0u
Year: 1879

The New Orleans Picayune advocates
the introduction into general use of a
statesman's chin gauge, an instrument,
on the Same plan, to be worn in the mouth
TO make exact measurement of all tongue
and jaw movements during twenty-four
hoers. Statesmen showing the highest
CAB record to be re elected.