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Year: 1874

The Henry Ward Bc<r Plymouth


The Rev. Henry Ward Beecher uttered from
his pulpit yesterday his usual frank comments upon the
observable faults and virtues of lfe and the
tendencies to good evil choosing this time for his
the welLknown verse in Romans, xiv: "Let not him
that eateth despse him that eateh not nor him that
eateth not judge him that eateth," &c.


The duty Of despisng, said the pastor is a very I'M
porant one, the doctrine Of despsing Is one very little
preached and the dangers Of despisng very little
understood There need Of this special njunc-
tion In the text but little acquaintance with human
life, and little reflection upon what men observe con.
tinually will show that nothing ls more common than
species Of contempt people who don't do what we do
and dont Ike what we like, and like what we dislike
and that there is kind OF egotsm In which Is all
and which becomes only the rule Of their
own hfs NE, but sar Pesrpetnay the lndsment which
Of hating 1t is the sense of looking down upon
ignorance as unworthy therefore 1t Is kind Of con-
tempt scornul feeling, feeling not merely that the
thing is bad, but that tits so bad that must give
expression to 1t in way that shall sgmaiae it, make
ncts OF this world continually obliged to take
sides II for example We read OF the landing Of helpless
and ignorant emgrants on shores, aud know there
are vampires ready and waiting to sieze upon and rob
them, filled with anger and indignation. 3d. too


II YOU hover around the Tombs and see what shysers
do continually how men pise their ways and the
hemselves In other words. where selnshness and
everybody In society will despse the manner and the
men ,


with hating but now they overcome 1t by kindness and
benevOlencc, ana with the open palm. Consider the
dangers OF de spisiug, OF repuRnance We seldom ASK
ourselves what sprang from, how far It should be
used what its functions, and hating and
despising without anaiy zing it, We think we love a
man for duty's sake, when really hate despise
him. We do not sufficiently understand ourselves.
Aversion from evil may be a dynamic influence I'm the
educaton Of children. but In degree II may
ward others from evil child may do wrong or an
indiscreet act, and " tut tut y may check
III get out OF the room, but II shout horror
Of evil. What chd do you throw lighted match In
the powderi our terrible indignation OF aDhorrenoe not
only checks the child but impresses him with the
full sense OF the great wrong he IL dong
So then our aversion to evil Is promoter OF good
IN that sese. but III general personal aud has not
Year: 1874

| met her-shc was thin and old.


She stopped and trod with tottering feet ;
Her locks were gray that once were gold,


Her voice was harsh that once was sweet
Her cheeks were sunken and her eyes,


Robbed of their grlsh light of joy,
Were dim IL felt strange surprise


That had loved her when boy.
But yet something in her air


Restored me to my youthful prime;
My heart grew young and seemed to wear
The impress of that long lost time
took her shaking hand in mine


Its touch awoke world of joy
I kissed her with reverend sigh,


For had loved her when boy
Year: 1874

The Whitehall Times says that
while man and wife Of that town
were discussing the chances of his
having a second wife, the present rib
remarked: "Well, your second wife
shan't have my clothes to put on airs
with, for every dud Of them shall be
burned when I die !" (which leaves
me to infer" said the cruel husband
with sardonic grin, "that you prob.
ably intend taking them with you"
Year: 1874

UNDUE VIoLEScE.-In seizing some property
fer rent, yesterday ia house on East Third
street County Constable resorted 10 much un-
due violence. The carpets were rudeiy torn up
,om the floor, coffee pot roughly emptied in
the street, and the stove removed while it was
yet hot The amount of rent due was $l3
The lady Of the house was alone, her husband
being away Of work.
Year: 1874

UNAPPRECIATED HERoIsM.- The other
day when Dave Humphreys dam, on
Gold Canon below Silver City, broke, a
Silver City milkman, in emulation of
Collins Graves, mounted fiery jackass
and rode all the way down to Dayton to
warn the inhabitants to look out for their
furniture. But he got no credit for what
he did. When the Daytonites saw the
bit of swell in the channel Of the canyon,
and saw the bare-headed disseminator of
the lacteal fluid come Sheridanizing along
down its banks-his hair and the ears of
his steed streaming back on the breeze
they merely supposed that the mans
milk-cart had capsized in the stream
somewhere above and that he was trying
TO head off the contents of his cans before
they should join the waters of the Carson
and become too weak for the Washoe
market Vrginta Enterprise.
Year: 1874

SAvAGEs SINGING HYMNs.-The fact
that Watts hymns have been translated
into the Choctaw language and have be-
come favorites with the braves, is perhaps
not generally known, but it is neverthe-
less fact. 1t is very affecting to think
Of a noble red man sitting upon fence
and singing I" How doth the little busy
bee," while he watches his wife carry
home couple of bushels of potatoes
upon each shoulder, and wondering if he
couldn't swap that squaw for jug of ro-
bust rum. And it is even more touching
TO imagine the dusky son of the forest
chanting, " want to be an angel" while
he dances around white man who is
pinned to the ground with stake be-
tween his ribs and bonfire on his bo-
som. There is something majestic about
the Indian. He not only has a poetic
and musical language, he not only spurns
idolatry, but he has immortal longngs
and weakness for snatching other peo-
ple's hair.
Year: 1874

GLUE AS A HEALING AGENT.-A cor
respondent says /: 81 have used glue
for this purpose for the past twenty-five
years, mostly in the cabinet shop, and
never employed anything else. | have
received many severe cuts and bruises,
and never lost any time to speak Of
Often piece Of thin cloth is sufficient
after glung over the wound. l use the
best imported glue. never took a cold
in wound yet, and it is the most speedy
healing agent | ever employed. Last
Autumn an acquaintance Of mine came
in the shop, with his hand bundled up.
He had received a severe cold in it, and
it was badly infamed. / spread a glue
plaster over the wound, and bound a
moistened cloth over it to keep the glue
from becoming dry. In one week his
hand was entirely WELL"
Year: 1874

THE Chronicle remarks "if half of
what is alleged concerning the marvellous
excellence of fish as 'brain-food is true,
there is a prospect that at no distant day
the American people will become indis-
putably the smartest people in creation
Fish culture is at present attracting a
vast deal of serious attention all over the
United States" We are a nation of
hobbyites, and we are now running the
fnny tribe for all they are worth, and a
little more. Everything is fshy.
Year: 1874

A GOOD story is told of the ex-rebel
General Forrest, as follows Being under
the hands of oolored barber, the latter
discovered who his customer was, and
informed him that he had brother who
fought at Fort Pillow. "Ah," said the
General. "and where is he now ?" He
was killed there" was the reply. The
General was only half shaved, but quick
ly and quietly he slid out of that chair,
paid for whole shave and sought some
other shop. In reply to the curious gaze
of friends whom he met on the way, he
said, 81 like to have only one-half Of my
face shaved at time"
Year: 1874

AN amusing story is told in ,Scyfbner's
Mog0si'le ofa verdant youth who went to
buy the practice Of a village Doctor The
doctor said his patients were SO numerous
that he could not remember them all,
but his horse knew them and always
stopped at their doors. The next day the
country doctor drove his customer through
the town and, as he said, the horse stop
ped at nearly every door. The bargain
was concluded and the money paid. The
purchaser remained in town and for sew
eral days wondered why patients came.
lie ceased to wonder, however, when he


found his predecessor had borrowed his
milkman's horse in showing him around.
Year: 1874

THE San Jose Putriot kindly gives no.
tice that " If the young couple on Third
street, who were supporting a gate be-
tween them last evening, while traficing
in bites, will either remove the lamp
from the background or let down the
window shade, the touching spectacle
will be Of little interest to parties loung-
ing in the shade across the way"
Year: 1874

THE son of an Emir had red hair, Of
which he was ashamed and wished to
dye it. But his father said, "Nay, my
son, rather behave in such manner that
all fathers should wish their sons had red
hair.u
Year: 1874

Has made the most astonishing cures ; SO quick
so rapid are the changes the body underg0es
under the influence of this truly wonderful
medicine, that


Every Day am Increase in Flesh and


weight is Seen and Felt.
THE GREAT BLOOD PURIFIER.
Year: 1874

The following in substance, has been
repeated many times, and is as ''truo as
preaching:"


Many an unwise parent works hard and
lives sparingly all his lie for the pur-
pose of leaving enough to give bis child>
ren a start in the world, as it is called.
Setting young man iafoat with money
left him by his relatives, is like tying q
bladder under the arms of one who caa,
not swim; ten chances to one he will
lose his bladder and go to the bottom.
Teach him to swim, and he will not need
bladders. Give your child sound edu>
cation. See to it that his morals are pure,
his mind cultivated, and bis whole natur
made subservant to the laws which gov,
ern man, and you have given him what
will be of more value than the wealth Of
the Indies, You have given him 4 start
which no misfortune can deprive him Of.
The enrlieryOu teach him to depend upon
his resources and the blessings of God,
the better.
Year: 1874

expressive term, good If we are "living
epistles'--if we live ourselves right
straight'out, precisely as we are, we can
have none but good records to, be read Of
as by "all men, We shall never be
afraid of being talked about, scaudalized
or slandered, for we shall feel that we
have only done that which we are willing
to lace, and consequently as we have moth.
ing to be kept back, nothing we care to
hide-we are not averse that all the
world should talk about us, aud that
which we have thought, said or done in,
deed we rather prefer this notoriety of
our records to that Of having our lights
hidden unde, a bushel. If bad mans
society is demoralizing to others, surely
that Of a good one is the reverse, ard if it
be talked over and "read of all men," 50
much the better for all concerned.


If we are business men, dependent upon
the custom of others for living; let US
never make sharp bargain; never tako a
thing for less than its real worth, with
the idea we are making anything by the
operation. Those who wish something for
nothing, are not truly honest, and cannot
live SO that they are willing to be "read
of all men, If We live by speculating,
by cverreaching by tricks and frauds, or
by making or selling, or raising a thing
which is of an injury to the world, or
even of no real benefit to it, We are not
making good records. We are not pre-
pared to be read Of all men" and we
are always dreading that some one whose
good opinion we desire, will hear of some
thing to our detriment. Better clean
heart, clean conscience and clean rec
ord, all the way through our lives; than
aught else the world can give. Let us be
ever striving to become living epistles"
and then we shall gladly be "known and
read Of all men,"


E. D. S.
Snowville, Pulaski Co., Va. July 27 1874
Year: 1874

We need but this simple. plain motto,
to keep us ever in the straight and narrow
way, five only heed its teaching. For if
We do openly and abOye-bOara, all that
we do do, we shall be very sure to DO on.
ly that which we think vii stand the crit,
icism Of the world. Ii we live out that
which We wish all men to read" Of US,
We shall live honestly, wisely anl yirta-
ouslY, for it is tie real desire Of US all 10
be called by that plain, Old,sashiOned, yet
Year: 1874

laws to his bosom and Is going to try to
make them an ;sssic' In The next ses-
sion of congress.


One more aspect. Of this interesting
subject and We are done. The Arkansas
Republican convention confcsscs that its
party is in minority in the state, and
that it can succeed only by fraud. Hence
it declines to make nominations, declines
TO go into the canvass. declines to help
itself. and calls upon "a loyal congress
to come and help it, We thank the Re
publicans of Arkansas for the 'cvrdid
confess to which their desperation has
driven them. For once they have mad
verten,ly given aid to the cause OF reform
by writing an unanswcrable indictment
against themselves.
Year: 1874

While in conversation with an old
bachelor, a few days ago, he related
to me q dream he had had, and l
became very much interested. 1t
may be well TO say that this friend
Of mine had lived in single blessed
ness for upwards of forty years,
never once entertaining a matri-
monial idea for a single moment.
Indeed, he fairly abhored the sight
of a woman, and would dodge
around three or four blocks rather
than face q pretty girl. And he


would often demonstrate with me be-


cause | was in the habit of saying
many things so much in favor OF
the fairer sex.


had occasion to visit him one
day, and when l arrived at his
place of abode, | was not a little
surprised at finding him in the rear
of his cabin, seated upon a block OF
wood, with his face buried in his
hands, and his elbows upon his
knees. He needed not my ap-
proach, until / spoke to him, and
then he started up and gazed at me


with q maniatic glare in his eye. ]
spoke kindly to him, and extended
my hand. He arose to his feet
grasped me by the hand, and in
tones which convinced me he was
laboring under great agony, he
pleaded:


"Con, Con; oh, what shall / do
What shall / do ?"


l was dumfounded. / knew not
what to say, or how to say it. l at
last asked him to reveal to me the
great cause of his affliction. He
looked me straight in the eye, and
said that the night before he had
horiid and fearful dream, and it so
worked on his mind that he was
nearly crazed. He said:


81 thought | was married to a
widow with thirteen children-five
pairs of wins, and triplets-that
she had red hair, and a tongue as
long as q State of Maine sleigh,
which seemed to hang on % swivle,
md there was nothing under the
sun capable of stopping its rattle"


At this juncture he became COM
pletcly exhausted, and I helped
him into the house, where / talked
to him for more than two hours,
telling him to give no heed to the
dream, that it was caused by over
work the day before, and restless
night. He seemed much consoled,
md when left him, he was quite
cheerful.


Two weeks after he was married
% q handsome little woman of two
hundred and eighty pounds weight,
With a capital of about thirty
and he was evidently
happy.
Year: 1874

Faster 4! faster ! Dobbin, my boy!


Faster over the sparkling snow!
What with my love and the frosty air,
and my heart are all aglow.
Haste for II pair of dear, dark eyes


Are watching for me tonight, know;
A moments pause for us both, old boy,
Then over the roads again Wen go.
Three of us then, you know, of course
Two in the sleigh and you, my boy.
But mark, old pony, you mustn't hear
The words 1 say in my hearts wild joy.
Toss your name as you bear US on,


And ring your bells on the frosty air !
What should staid old horse like you
For lovers and all their nonsense care
What if our hand by chance, you know,
Under the bufEalo-robc should meet
l wonder who would the wiser be,


As we went dashing along the street
So faster and faster, Dobbin my boy,


Faster, over the sparkling snow
What with love and the frosty air,


and my heart ure all aglow.
Year: 1874

~ The question as to whether women are ell
igible to the office of County Superintendent, is
now in way to be settled. A woman was cleo
ted in Coffey County. The gentleman whom she
defeated, has brought action to get the certfi-
cate of election, on the ground that the votes cast
for the woman were void. He proposes, if he
fails in the lower Courts, to take it to the Su-
preme Court. We are glad this action has been
taken-not that we are opposed to woman
holding the Office, but that We want 1t decided
by the highest legal tribunal, whether those of
us who contended that women were not eligible
to office in this State were right or wrong. 1t
has been deferred thus long, because no man
could be found who had the backbone to contest
with woman for the Office for which she defeat
ed him.
Year: 1874

II The independent" papers are already
sick of the mischief they have aided in perpetra-
ting. The Chicago Tribune has returned to the
Republican fold, and it is rumored that the New
York Tribune bounded by Horace Greeley will
follow suit. A great many people will do the
same thing before the next election
Year: 1874

Y Hon. p p Elder, of Franklin County, will
be candidate for Speaker of the House. His
qualifications for the place are excellent. He has
had much Legislative experience; and as Lien
tenant-Govcrnor, he presided over the State Sem
ate during two sessions in an able manner
Year: 1874

u Auditor Wilder, after engaging in a sneak,
ing conspiracy to defeat the wishes of bis party
and Of the people of the State, writes letter to
Mr.. Smith, the candidate who ran in opposition
to him, thanking him for the high-toned and
honorable manner in which he conducted the
canvass!
Year: 1874

Mr.. Mast has adhered to Grant so tenaciousy
through thick and thin, making him appear always
heroic and great, IN spite Of mis- biunders and his
obstinate persistency in weak and bad appoint
ments, that the public had begun to suspect the
artist OF toadying disposition, and TO Deleve
that 1t was as impossible for him to see anything
wrong In the object OF his admiration as for the
fallioiity In the appointing power. But 1t seems
The Richardson promotion" and the shepherd
appointment were the last feather; they broke the
back of the most faithful and devoted camel; and,
so to day. under the artists pencil, Grant Is no
hero, but very maudlln person covering before
an angry Columbia.
Year: 1874

The subjoined resolution, offered by Alderman
Ropes at special meeting Of the Bridge Commit.
tee, in opposition to the resolution pledging
Brooklyn to contribute more money, will be pre-
sented TO the Common Council on Monday neXt:-


Resolved That the provisions OF the third section Of
act entitled act TO amend an act TO incorporate
the New York Bridge Company, passed June D. 1874 be
and the same are hereby accepted, and the financial
oters Of the city hereby authorized and directed
TO issue bonds and make the which by said
section the city authorized to issue and make when
have duly appointed and organized according to
the provisions thereof; and whenever the city OF New
York SHALL by due of law authorize the of
bonds to the extent named in said act
Year: 1874

IN Heleus, Montana, J. r. Boyes
& So. joyfully advertise that they have
received from New York 833 Bibles,
which they will sell At cost to those
who are able to pay for them, and give
sway to those Who are not. In the
same newspaper We find an exteuded see
count of "the first genuine ooek.6ght
that ever took place in Helena
Year: 1874

New issues give rise to new parties, just
as natural as the change of subject causes a
change of division in the family circle. New
parties arise from new issues as naturally as
the issues themselves arise from the constant
changes that take place in the development
of country. it is essential to the exist
ence of any party that it shall be unit
on some issue Of sufficient Importance to
serve as a base of action. When a party
ceases to be a unit pro or con on the ques-
ton of greatest importance to the people, it
becomes poweress for good, and it may be
safely said "it has served out its term of
usefulness, The question of African slav-
cry and the rights of shareholders, on which
the Democratic party was a unit, and which
held it together as a mighty power in the
land, no longer exists. The party is left to
grapple with new and live issues, and on
those issues it is found there is a lack Of
unity. The same may be said of the Re-
publican party The issues which brought
it into existence have been settled. New
issues present themselves, and on these is
sues the Republican party also lacks unity,
and therefore is poweress for good. AS the
settlement of these old questions which
formed the ground work for, and kept in exist
ence the two old parties, have gradually been
conceded, another question has been crowd
ing itself upon the people until to-day fool
can see it is to be the ruling issue Oh which
the action of parties must be based until its
satisfactory disposition. We refer TO the
overshadowing evil of aggregated capital,
manifest in railroad, land, , and other monopo-
lies. This question of monopoes must be
met, and met fairly, and as neither of the
old parties are in condition to meet it there
must be a party that will. Then, we have
arrived at a stage when new party is de-
manded, and when the exigenc es of the
times demands a new party 1t will arise IN
spite of all that may be said to the contrary.
Why neither of the old parties is prepared
to meet it is because each is divided in its
own house on the issue. In each there is a
strong anti-monopoly element, and in each
an element in sympathy with the monopolies.
Is it not natural that those holding similar
views on this question will assimilate And
when the factions from each come together,
will they not form new party? Then is it
not the most natural thing in the world iaaf
under such circumstances new parties should
arise ? That great and ruling party under
the circumstances must of natural conse-
quence spring from the old ones to meet the
living issues of the day, is inevitable.