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Year: 1878

Harris of the Methodist Episcopal Church
was invited to sing. He declined, but
told the following incident as illustrative
of his talent in that line During his
journey through Palestine, one evening
after he and Mr.. Spencer who occupied
the tent with him, had gone to bed, the
Bishop began humming a tune of the
olden time called New Durham. Mr..
Spencer joined in, and the two began
singing a verse of one of our familiar
hymns. Before the verse was finished
donkey outside of the tent brayed as on
ly donkey in the East can bray While
the hills of Judea were sending back the
echoes of this most extraordinary and
untimely performance of the donkey, the
Arab dragoman put his head inside the
tent and apologizing for his donkey said:
"Ha! you sing one tune he think he
know"
Year: 1878

Our Methodist brethren last week con-
sidered seriously how the spread Of per-
nicious and obscene literature for the
young was to be hindered, and the Epis-
eopalians lately, at a church congress,
took up the same question. We are glad
to see the churches going about some di-
rect practical work for the young. The
two bodies differed as to the cure, how
ever, for the remedy proposed by some Of
the most eminent churchmen was o sub
stitution Of vigorous but clean, pure fic-
ton for Gentleman Joe" and Boot
black Jim," and other similar dime in
vtations to perdition; while our Metho-
dist friends propose to do away with
story telling altogether, even by the
Sunday school teacher. They forget appa-
rently, our Sayior's mode of instruction.
The truth is that virtue is not naturally
repulsive to children nor vice attractive,
unless they are made SO by their teachers.
If boy would rather read the history Of
boot black full of slang, absurdity and
crime, rather than listen to his Sunday
school teacher, it is the fault of the
teacher. If he made the story of Christ
as real and alive as is the story of the
boot black, the boy would listen as eager
ly. The boy is hungry for the active
romance life with which the world before
him is full. He must go into the world.
Why should not Christian teachers let
him see it as it Is, fit their great truths 10
the incident, the action which will come
to him, instead Of doling out abstract
doctrine2


If any of our readers think we censure
without reason, let them examine the
international Lessons prepared by learn
ed divines, and in use in almost every
Sunday school in the country. They are,
as a rule, grounded on the history and
teachings of the Old Testament, which
are enforced by abstruse discussion, and
fantastic acrostical arrangement of vir-
tues and vices. 1t is Jesus who ought to
be made real to the generation who are
growing up, not the construction of the
second temple. Teach them the simple
story of Christ, His charity and His hero
ic self sacrifice, and after that, if there is
time, give them obscure dissertations on
Jewish history and religious refuses
TN Y Tribune
Year: 1878

All kinds of Real Estate bought and sold, and
all work incident to Real Estate Agency
promptly attended to.


Eza- If you want information concerning Real
Estate in Pike county, call and see me. Office
in the Court House, Waverly. 23may7Stf
Year: 1878

THE Shoe and Leather Reporter Is in
clined to believe that q decided change of
mind is taking place among the shoe mer-
chants of New England in regard to the ex.
pediency of letting their debtors who are in
default settle up on whatever terms they may
propose without any searching examination
of the statements they may present as the
basis of a composition, and goes on to say,
that the moment failure happens, the in
solvent party, however honest of purpose he
may be, is apt to place . much lower esti-
mate upon his effects of every kind than he
did when he was trying to persuade himself
or at any rate those who trusted him-that
he was able to pay his debts. Up to that
time he reckoned his goods as worth what
they cost, and his receivables at their face.
During the few days or weeks, as the case
may be, that he takes to prepare his inven-
tory, his views are very likely to undergo con-
siderable modification. He has been, in the
meantime, making no sales; his merchandise
is losing something Of its freshness; his Gus
toners are making their purchases elsewhere
and it is natural, on the whole, that he
should look somewhat despondingly upon
the situation OF affairs. This is reason
enough why the creditors, through an agent
or committee in whom they can confide,
should make 1t rule to acquaint themselves
with the precise condition Of every concern
against which they hold claims. The mo-
ment man stops payment his estate Is the
property Of the parties to whom he is in
debted, ,and it is for them to determine wheth-
er they can make the most out of 1t by allow
ing him to administer upon 1t or by dele
eating that function to an assignee Of their
own selection. On this point they cannot
arrive at iudcious conclusion until they
have made an investigation thorough enough
TO satisfy themselves which course will pro-
duce the best results. The debtor, being an
interested party, ought not to expect that his
appraisal should be accepted without review
and veri1cation. There is a one-sidedness
about that mode Of doing business that is
contrary to all established principles Of con-
Quoting negotiations between men, even
when they stand on a common plane Of
enualitv
Year: 1878

A UNION soldier out West writes to Gin
cnnati paper and wants to know how much
it will cost him to have his name stricken
from the rolls Of the Union army and placed
on the Confederate rolls. He says: ''Please
advise me as soon as possible as wish to put
in an application for some position before
this Congress adjourns, and know of no
better recommendation than to prove that I
served in the rebel army" The man should
wait If he can afford to. Should the Re-
publicans carry the next House they will re-
move the disabilities of Union soldiers.
Year: 1878

THE New York papers should have per-
suaded Mrs. Tilton to delay her confession.
They are writing up spring openings now
and are in no need of matter to fill their col
umns. The confession" should have been
saved for the dull time between the donning
Of the Easter bonnet and the appearance Of
the sea-Serpent.
Year: 1878

we 90 not read anonymous letters and comnuni-
cations The name and address Of the writer are in
all cases indispensable, not necessarily for publication
but as guaranty Of good faith.


We cannot undertake to return or preserve CON-
munications that are not used,
Year: 1878

THE debate over the Maryland resolution
re-opening the Presidential question is "nuch
ado about nothing, 1t is entitled to rs
much attention as the paper manifestoes Of
any other set of lunatics that get control Of a
state
Year: 1878

SENATOR CoNovER's experience with the
Democracy will serve to point a moral and
adorn a tale, provided the moral is deduced
and the tale founded upon deliberate in
gratitude. People who know him give
him credit for having voted for the admis-
sion Of BUTLER, of South Carolina, upon
convictions; Others do not. But it was to
have been expected that this service to the
Southern Bourbons would be rcquited by
at least tender regard for his personal
character in the Southern Democratic press
and the contrary is the fact The recent
groundless charges against him in connec-
ton with the Hot Springs appropriation
bill have been printed and reprinted the
length and breadth of that section with
comments something like the following,
which we extract from the Fredericksburg
(Na.) Recorder:


CoNovER Indignantly denies the charge,
which only makes the truth Of II more proba.
BILE. lie Is u Radical carpet-bagger Of the
kind that HAYES is so anxious TO restore to
power in the South by force Of the bayonet
and the deputy marshals: and though he did
vote to admit Senator BUTLER, of South Caro-.
lima, is generally mean enough to steal any.
thing he eau lay his hands on.
Year: 1878

AT the beginning of the present session
the Buffalo CoHricr was hopeful that the
Democrats in Congress would not allow
their opponents to get the start of them in
calling for a searching investigation of the
cipher dispatches and dispatchers. 1t was
OF the further opinion that only the cne-
mics of Mr. TILDES and the Democracy
will throw obstacles in the way of thor
ough showing up of this whole business.
How strange it Is that this sage advice has
not been followed. Is it Mr.. PorTAH who
plays the laggard?
Year: 1878

THE extraordinary speed with which the
naval appropriation bill was rushed through
the House last Tuesday cannot fail to at
tract attention. Its consideration in Com
mittee of the Whole and in the House did
not consume an hours time This must
either be accepted rs a compliment to the
Appropriation Committee or as positive
indication that the Democratic majority is
not inclined to attend to the details OF legis
lative duty. The Republican minority
was, of course, satisfied with the bill, for it
did not differ materially from the Depart
ment estimates.
Year: 1878

THE supplemental pages of this issue OF
THE NATIONAL REPrBLTCAN contain the
full text Of Senator BLAINE's remarkable
speech on the Southern Question in the
Senate yesterday, directory of the For
eign legations at the National Capital, and
large amount of advertising, to which es-
pecial attention is directed.
Year: 1878

have In the past made tie name Of Peters
burg among honest and patriotic men the
synonym for all that was diabolically bad
and vexatiously wicked" in politics. The
Post Is on the correct track now; but we
beg to remind II that It must expect to pay
the usual penalty. e., loss of influence, II
not Of patronage, among the Ku-Klux bal
lot-stuffing Democracy of "Hintonville." !"
II Is far too honest and manly in its utter
ances to suit tho Democracy. It ought to
be fully in the Republican fold, where con-
genial companionshp alone can be found.
Year: 1878

Have you heard the news from Maines
How dam broke loose I'm Maine,
And the mass of water pent mp so long
The garnered results of the rain
And the brooks that come down to the plain
Burst through the barrier, costly and strong,
Not Stopping TO wait or to dkIly daily,
And rushed with resistless force
In straight and triumphant course,
All over and through the Penobscot valley?
How things are torn up in Maine,
And fearfully mixed in Mainei
The golden howl is broken at last,
And the power and prestige OF Blaine
Tbe republican hand and brain,
Like autumn leaves to the wind are cast,
And little Eugene sits down in sorrow,
And damlin is tearing he's hair,
Too crazy to pray or TO swear.


morrow.
Now, what was the matter in Maine?
The people were weary IN Maine
Of men of false hearts and hands unclean.
100 long mad they borne their pain,
lmplored and protested in vain,
And at last they determined to smash the ma


chine;
To suddenly break il and crush it, and scatter
The fragments so high and so low
That all of the neighbors should know
That storm of popular wrath was the matter.
The dam has been broken in Maine,
The waters burst forth in Maine,
The noise OF the roaring was heard afar;
And the autumn fields of grain
OF Hamlin ana Hale and Blaine


Were swept as If by the bosom of war.
Let this to The land be a sign and a token;
The word that is uttered Is said
let the dead be content to be dead,
And let the machine that is broken stay


New York Sun.
Year: 1878

The darkness falls, the wind is high,
Dense black clouds I'LL the western sky;


The storm will soon begin:
The thunders roar, the Iightnings flash,
hear the great round rain drops dash


Are all the children in?
They're coming softly 10 my side:
Their forms within my arms hide;


No other arms are sure;
The storm may rage with fury wild,
With trusting faith each little child


With mother feels secure.
But future days are drawing near;
They'll go from this warm shelter here


Out in the worlds wild din;
The rain will fell, the cold winds blow;
I'll sit alone and long to know


Are all the children in?
Will they have shelter then secure,
Where hearts are waiting, strong end sure,


And love Is true and tried?
Or will they find a broken reed,
when strength of heart they so much need,


To help them brave the tide?
Year: 1878

WV lOIk 6uu.I


The Maine election is an event OF immense
significance.


OF all the republican states, no other was
regarded as so fixed in Its allegiance as the
state of Maine. There the republican ma.
jority wss believed 10 be proof sg 4inst every
assault. Having made a speech or two to
his sdherents at home. Mr. Blaine thought
it safe for him to 60 and make speeches else
where. Yet the republican candidate for
governor fails of the election they were so
sure OF, while Eugene Hale is turned out of
congress to make place for workingman,
and the opposition in the legislature will no
longer appear as a body OF contemplate
strength and importance.


OF course this revolution is not all the eff
feet of any one cause The democrats have
voted with the nationals, with the green
hackers, and the rebellious republicans gen.
eraily. They felt that the first work TO be
done was the destruction of the republican
party. To knock it in the head any club could
be made us full.


The money question has played its part in
this surprising denouement. But this is not
the main power which has everthrown the
republican party. II that party had remained
faithful 10 liberty and to the practices of good
and honest government. il might have con-
tinued 10 rule for long period to comes But
for the dark corruption OF Grantism, culmi-
mating and outdoing itself in the electoral
fraud and in Hayes, nothing could have beat
ea the republicans OF Maine. They them
selves and their ircowardly failure to denounce
and repudiate the establishment ip the white
house of man not elected, have been the
foremost agents IN their own calamity.
Year: 1878

One of the most desirable eve nts in q
financial point of view that could possibly
occur in this country, takes place to day
! We refer to the national bankrupt law and
| the fact that this lie the date for it's goip 6
out of existence. We have no doubt that
such laws are Of real utility in probably all
| civilized countries, and that something OF
the kind is necessary here. Indeed sach q
law has always existed in this State in the
ehape of statutory provisions for re-
spite and the surrender of property, and
is to be found on the statute books of the
other States.


The question is whether these local laws
are su ufficient in the premises, or whether a
universal system for the whole country is
desirable. The most ready comment on
that question is that every body is delight
ed at the repeal of the general bankrupt
law, while nobody in this State found fault
with the working of our local insolvent
law or appeared to desire it's repeal.


1t is hardly worth while now to go into
an analysis of this condition of things,
because the odious bankrupt law is dead,
and this generation of thinking men will
have to pass away before any politician
will have the hardihood to moot the quest
ion of its resurrection. Still, for the ben
eft of future generations, fitting epitaph
should now be placed on it's tomb, and
every organ of public opinion ought to
add word to the overwhelming testimony
to it's infamy. Let US see.


The bankrupt law has made rascality res
pectable it has brought the Federal judici-
ary into contempt as "fence" for thieves !;
it has been chief agent in the general cor,
ruption in business circles; it has been a
prime factor in the destruction of credit
and in establishing the consequent paraly
sis of business; it has violated the laws of
economy even more f1agrantly than those
of honesty, and proved itself the most
wasteful process by which hsgitious sell
fshness ever grew rich upon q general
ruin.


We might cay much more, but that is
enough to put on its Tombstone from one
paper.
Year: 1878

political position is of course wrong, be-
cause it is unjust and illegal, but their re-
fusal to go further in the path of displea-
sure is q proof that along with the wrong
there is plenty of kindness and generosity.


The fact is that people everywhere are
q compound of good and evil. A philoso-
pher must not be SUI prsed or chsgriued to
find their bad qualities 10 operation and
especially he must not go SO far as to con-
clude therefrom that they have no good
ones. The North has shown a woful lack
of magnanimity in its treatment of
the South the South has shown q woful
lack of judgment in its estimate of North
ern character. That character is not
wholly bad by any means; on the contrary,
notwithstanding their magnanimity fail
ure, there is q great deal of staunch ster-
ling good about our Northern countrymen,
them. as witness their generous sympathy
to day.
Year: 1878

If any thirg can bind people together,
it is the interchange of kind Offices when
occasions present themselves. There may
be rivalries of trade, there are rivalries
even in families there may be sectional
jealousies, there are jealousies between
brothers there may be bitter feeling and
strong language, what household does not
witness the same thing at it's own freside .
but the unity of the household, the unity of
the kindred, the unity of the country may
exist notwithstanding. There is unity
whenever there is community of sympa-
thy notwithstanding and apart from the
jarripgs of human infirmities.


Perhaps the quickest and surest way to
test eympathy is by an appeal to the purse.
If the response is favorable the sympathy
is found to be of an active and effectual
kid. It is bankable paper instead of
bland smiles and sounding phrases. Now,
in presence Of the dire calamity which has
befallen several of our Southern States, this
practical, tangible, active sympathy is the
kind which we find prevailing among our
Northern brethren. If money and provi-
stone, or even luxuries, could stay the
march of the destroyer, there would not be
another victim. Even numbers of volun-
teers offer to come down in person and
nurse the unfortunate, forgetting in the
warmth of their sympathy that they would
only be in the way, as they would coon have
to be nursed Themselves. Still it shows that
there are good people and generous people
and noble ones too, every where.


There is moral to be drawn from this,
reaching farther and wider than the pres.
ent epidemic visitation, fearful as it is
There is lesson to be learned from it in
the great ard universal science of charity
The Northern people have treated us harsh.
ly in political matters, and, therefore, we ol
the South are prone to think of them all al
bitter, revengeful and upgenerous. Yet il
! truth we find their hearts open to the
meanings of our fever patients and theiI
hands generous of relief to our stricken
families who would be hungry otherwise
That lie, they may be willing to zee politi.
cal oppression annoying us to a certain ex.
tent, as q just retribution according to theil
views, and yet not willing that personal
an fferings should sfIlict our people. Their
Year: 1878

L VIZ SsAChBsu "a thO A0Wp AO9NAbe


nothing but it's ashes as the cement Of


society.


America, though new country, is not


by any means free from the presence Of


this fatal agency. There is plenty Of Ipf-


deity here, and plenty of contempt for all


law and all authority. Sometimes it is


clad in velvets and fine linen, occupying


leading pulpit in the metropolis or a


chair in the national Senate sometimes


in the rags of tramp it applies the torch


to an inhospitable barn or murders the
| family of the absent master sometimes


in the blouse of the workingman, it incites
! riots, wrecks railroads, and from the steps


of the capitol appeals to the laboring


masses to take all law into their own hands.
High and low are infidel, and high and
low are perfectly willing to violate the law
without compunction in pursuance of
their own whims. We speak of the civil
law, for they recognize no such thing as
the moral law.


Now what relation has Kearneyi ism to
to this question. Kearney personally does
not seem to have any policy except to get
control of the public Offices. He wants all
men without capital to spool their issues"
in one general alliance against capitalists
and property holders. He wants but one
issue-labOr rersus property. Therefore
Workingmen's party, National party,
Communist party, Molly Mcguire party
and all other parties and factions must,
according to him, drop their minor anita
gonisms, ignore for the moment their
points of disagreement, or, rs he phrases
it, spool their issues," and fuse together
in one common cause of war upon capital.
This is Kearneyism properly speaking,
and this is what has carried California.
1t is the merging of all minor Issues in
one grand combination of the laboring
voters. Such q combination can carry any
State, and hold it too, as long as it can
keep together itself.


But what beyond that? Kearney per
sistently cries out "capture the StAte;" but
after the State is captured, what then AS
to that, Kearney is mum. The working
men shall fill the Offices that's all. After
that Kearneys mission is over. He pro-
poses nothing at all beyond it. Let them
but carry the day and capture the Offices,
then the spool" is broken up; Communism
may legislate for the torch, Greenbackism
may hoist it's rag money flag, Conservative
labor may draft bill to put all railways
and all other works in the hands of the
government, and even "brother" Tramp
may get in a representative pledged to re-
peal the vagrant law.





hands gleefully over the mess of stat tutory
absurdity with its harvest of litigation
good citizens will be obliged to thin out the
knights of the torch, by the free use of
shot guns, and we'll meaning Catholic la
borers will feel very much ashamed that
they were ever carried away by the camp
meeting magnetism of fellow whom
even the venerable Archbishop Purcell had |
to call ga foul mouthed blackguard."
Year: 1878

In previous issues since the epidemic COM
menced this year it has been our very sad duty
to chronicle the death of one Sister of Charity,
two members of the Congregation of the Most
Holy Redeemer (Redemptorists} and one of the
Congregation sof the Missions (Lazarists).
1t is now our painful task to add to this
list of heroic dead the names of those who
have fallen during the past disastrous
week, the victims at once of their own
self-sacrifcDg zeal and of the dreadful
scourge now in our midst. We deeply regret
our inability to give appropriate notices of the
deceased. We have tried to secure such infor-
nation concerning each one as we thought
would prove of interest but the fAot is
Priests and Sisters are too busy administering
to the sick who surround them on every hand,
to spare the time necessary to give even the bar
est outlines of biographical sketch of those
who have gone to their reward. From such
data as we could gather, we have prepared the
following brief notices.
Year: 1878

decision before the Secretary of the Treasury
last week which enabled him to givs effect ts
the declaration of the President, that no
employee Of the government should be re-
moved except for cause. 1t seems that the
collector of customs at n certain port of
the State of New York decided to remove one
OF his clerks who had been in Office for six
years, and had an excellent record for eff
cheney, etc. and was also Union soldier In
the late war, while the person recon amended
to fill the position Is ignorant Of the duties OF
the office and WAS not In the army.


The reasons assigned for the removal OF 5he
old clerk are so frivolous that the Secretary
declined to approve the new appointment, or
the removal Of the old clerk unless better
reasons could be assigned. They have sever
al cases OF this kind now under consideration
and the one that gives the President the most
concern is that of Gen. Anderson, of New
Orleans.
Year: 1878

WASHINGTON, April There is rumOr
current tonight that Gen. Shields has been
induced to write letter withdrawing his
name as candidate for the Doorkeepershp
of the House, thus relieving the majority
from the necessity of moving to strike out his
name and insert that Of Field, or of rejecting
him by n vote on Butler's resolution