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Year: 1874

The spire of the Metropolitan NJ. E. church,
at the corner orc and Four-and-a-half streets
northwest, was put to severe test in with
standing the sweeping power Of the tornado.
Great care was taken in the erection OF this
steeple that the work should be done in the
most substantial manner, as its towering
height would expose it to all storms, and If
improperly constructed it might give way un-
der heavy pressure and dire calamity fol-
low. Notwithstanding the heavy timbers used
and the strong bracing given to it, still the
immense strength Of the gale has forced the
spire to slant In a southeasterly direction of
about six inches. No danger is apprehended,
as the braces and stays are as firmly imhedded
and strongly secured as they were previous to
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Year: 1874

The people residing on College Hill and those
in the northern portion of the city were de-
lighted Saturday evening, after the fierce
storm had subsided, by a magnificent display
Of fireworks IN front of the residence of Mr..
John w. Hogg, chief clerk Of the United
States navy. Owing to the high elevation Of
the position the display was visible in every
portion of the city, and was also witnessed
with much pleasure by those residing in va
rious parts of the District
Year: 1874

While the great majority were enjoying the
pleasures Of the day according to their several
tastes and desires, numbers who are contem-
plating a sojOurn in the grove for ten days
during the coming camp meeting were busily
inspecting the newly-arranged camp grounds,
as indicated by the stakes planted by the com
mittee some two weeks ago, and endeavoring
to locate their proposed homes in the woods.
The stakes show that the inner court has been
changed in shape from square to an octagon,
with radtating avenues entering upon 1t from
four opposite directions. Fronting upon these
avenues from either side are the tent-sites Of
the several churches. It has been determined
by the association that this change shall in no
way interfere with the drawing of locations
already made by the several stations. The
radiating avenues will be substituted for the
old ones, which were straight, and will be
assigned to the churches which held the origi-
nal avenues lying most contiguous. It is
thought that greater satisfaction will thus be
given than by going into the bother and uncer-
tainties Of a new deal. As far as heard from
this decision Of the committee has given gene
raj satisfaction.


After dinner meeting Of the committees of
the association was held in Bakers dining
court and the interests Of the approaching
'camp-meeting discussed, and several items Of
routine business transacted. /


In the new arrangement Of the camp every
effort has been made to get the greatest mum
Der of tent sites removed from low gro1nd,
which would render them undesirable in the
event Of wet weather, as was the case last
year. Strenuous efforts are being made to
secure the closing Of the county road running
through the northern portion Of the grove, at
least during the continuance of the camp, and
substituting the use Of the road opened by the
association north Of the grove limits and near
the spring. It is anticipated that the county
commissioners, at their meeting to be held to-
morrow, will further the interests and comfort
Of the camp-meeting by according the associa-
tion this courtesy. Every feature Of the com
ing camp, so far as reviewed by the committee
at It's meeting Saturday, was most promising
of satisfaction.


The afternoon was spent by the excursionists
in exploring the immense grove owned by the
association, and in the enjoyment Of social in
tercourse, which was enliyened by the excel
Year: 1874

else than the accomplishment of gay
round of pleasure.


While there is much more might
be said, by way of impressing on
your minds in this eventtul moment
the lessons so often taught in days
gone by, | cannot think of detaining
you and this audience longer.


You have said farewell, and now
while the cadence of that solemn word
is yet upon our ear, look forward from
this commencement to the great com
mencement for eternity, when the uni
verse shall be assembled to witness
the awards of that great day; that
day for which all others were made.
And remember that you are on trial
for the honors of that hour, eternal life
and blessedness forevermOre. And
the earnest desire Of your teacher is,
that, by a virtuous and useful life,
through the grace of God, you may
then be prepared to hear the welcome
applaudit, "Well done good and faith
full servant"
Year: 1874

GENERAL N. B. FORREsT.-Thc
Memphis Appeal says that General
Forrest, the brilliant confederate
cavalry leader, is now engaged in
hauling wood to that city, driving
the team himself That's the pluck
that not only makes successful leaders
of men in great enterprises, but gal.
lartly and successfully prosecutes tho
private industries by which men work
OFT their own prosperity in this
country. Forrest is no less q noble
man in his new occupation than he
was when gallantly charging at the
head OF bis troops in battle. Colum-
bus sam.


Here is a man who has held the
highest positions, who is not ashame
to do that which his hands find to do.
How many young men in this city
have the courage to banl wood, and
sell it for living? And yet General
Forrest is beyond any one who is
ashamed to do any honest work for
bis living. Such men are invincible.
Montgomery Ledger.
Year: 1874

Our readers are doubtless aware
that white leagues are being formed
all over Louisiana. We are glad to
notice this fact for several reasons
We bclive it is the only way for the
intelligent property holders to regain
governments. control of the negro
ridden States. At any rate it is q
new move, and one which discards the
old persuasion, kind words policy
Of the past, which invariably brought
defeat. and inaugurates instead the
argument Of the virtue of hard
missiles we'll thrown. White people
hire negroes, bribe them with the
promise of one-half or three-:ourths
of the Offices, and degrade themselves
by acting the lie of social equality
with them, it puffs them up in their
own importance, and they march
straight to the polling-places and vote
solidly against the best interests of
the States in which they live. In
proof OF this we point to Arkansas,
Mississippi, Louisiana and South
Carolina. See the work of the ne
groes, aided by corrupt white men in
these States, and answer US, if you
can, as to the mild persuasive policy
We ring the fact in your ears that it
is failure, and if you rely on it you
place support on a treacherous snare
that will always defeat you in the
future as it has in the past. You
must depend on white people-on
Vicksburger.
Year: 1874

A DARKY gives the following reason
why the colored race is superior to the
white: "All men are made of clay,
and like the meerschaum pipe, they
are more valuable when highly color
ed"
Year: 1874

TO farmers wanting first-class machinery
can offer the following machines with full
confidence that they will give entire satis-
faction--to:wit:


The LITTLE CHAMPION Self Rake Reaper
cutting six feet wide and the liehtest
draught of any reaper in the'market.


The GAMHARr HARVESTER the most com.
plete Of any harvester made heretofore. It
is so arranged that the binders sit down
while doing their work The Sickle Bar is
made Of Wrought Iron and by simple de-
vice can be raised or lowered so that will
cut the worst tangled grain as easy as the
best reapers can do it.


The MEADOW KING MOWER for lieltness
Of draught, simplicity and durability, stands
without rival.


1 have also superior Horse RAKE and
other Machinery and Implements which l
would be pleased to show any who desire to
purchase, all Of which am prepared to
sell on terms as favorable as any others
to cash buyers or clubs can offer ,peaial
inducements.


Call and examine these machines before
ordering elsewhere


An THOS. WILKINSON.
Year: 1874

err more of which are sold and used in
this County and State than Of any other
style Of Mower. These machines are war
ranted to cut grass and grain in any con-
dition and on any kind of ground that a
pair Of horses can be driven over. Farm
ers are invited to call at my Reaper yard
and see my sample machines.


s E. w. BROOKS
Year: 1874

A MYSTERIOUS DEATH Frank
Rogers, young man about twenty three
years Of age, in the employ Foot & Sterling
of this city, was in apparently good health
on the morning of the 4th. During the
whole Of the forenoon he clerked in the
store, and at noon he took dinner Us usual
at his boarding. place. The afternoon was
kept as holiday, and about two or three
o'clock Frank went to his room in the build
ing and was seen no more, until the morn
ing of the fifth, when he was found by his
room mate lying on the bed dead. He was
laying in an easy position, natural as though
in sleep one arm was thrown out across
the bed and the other lay along close to the
edge of the bed by his side; the least strug-
gle would have thrown this hand off the
bed He evidently died without struggle.
1t is impossible to know the cause that
brought death. The physicians give it as
their opinion that it was apoplexy coming
so suddenly as to cause an instantaneous
cessation of the vital forces. Mr.. Rogers
had been in our city, some two months hav-
ing having come from Pennsylvania, where
his parents live. Mr.. Foot telegraphed to
his father, and received an answer to bury
the body, SO that it could be removed the
coming winter.
Year: 1874

The ethereal blue color of the sky is
due to minute particles Of matter which
float insthe air. Were these particles
removed, the sky would be dead black.
1t is fact IN optics that exceedingly
fine portions of matter disperse or scat
ter the blue rays of light, coarser por-
tions scatter red rays, and still coarser
portions scatter all the rays, making
white light. An atmosphere is full of
aqueous vspor, the particles of which
diffuse white light in all directions
When these particles are enlarged they
become visible in the form of clouds
The vapor particles of the white clouds
are supposed to be finer and lighter than
those of the dark clouds. That
the diffusion Of light in our atmosphere,
the blue coloring of the sky and the
colors. of the clouds, are due to the
presence Of matter floating in the air,
has been conclusively proven by Tyn-
dali On passing a beam Of sunlight
through glass tube, the beam is rem
dered brilliantly visible by the reflection
of light from the dust particles floating
in the air contained in the tube. But on
removing the dust particles, which is
done by filtering the air by cotton wool
or causing the air to pass over fame,
the beam Of light is no longer visible in
the tube.
Year: 1874

And when she had opened it, she saw the
child and, behold, the babe wept. And she
had compassion on him, and said This is one
Of the Hebrews ehildren.-Ex. II 6-5.


The babe wept. " Man that is born of
woman is of few days and full of trouble"
Well for Moses that it was not Pharaoh's
sou instead of daughter that discovered the
child. Thank God for the interest in every
true womans heart in little children. In
it see the wisdom and goodness of God,
who provides for his little ones not simply
care but love. Let the weeping babe teach
me to shun sin to-day, for it has touched
every human eye with tears, and not spared
even the face of the innocent child. Let the
plying princess teach me gratitude for all
things, comely, useful, delightful, which are
spared from the wreck.


Then said his sister to Pharaoh's daughter
Shall 60 and call to thee a nurse of the He
brew women, that she may nurse the child for
thee?


And Pharaoh's daughter said to her, Go.
And the maid went and called the child s
mother.


Jochebed in her simple schemes, helped
by Israel's God, is more than a match for
Pharaoh aud all his minions. God hath
chosen the weak things of the world to con-
found the things that are mighty, and the
things that are not, to bring to naught them
that are By faith she hid, in faith she
exposed, and now for faith she receives
Lord increase my faith. Help me to walk
this day by faith and not by sight; thus
may be joined with the blessed company Of
them of whom the world was not worthy,
that may have the inspiration of that
great cloud Of witnesses and the blessing OF
lin who will not suffer the smallest faith
of the weakest Of his children to go unre-
warded.
Year: 1874

There are few so self-enwrapped that they
have net known the pleasure Of social
chat but not every one has tasted the ex-
quiste sweetness of social silence. We do
not, however, envy those who have not, for
we think it proof that they are strangers
to true, heartfelt friendship.


With people for whom we have that kind
of ordinary care, by some called affection
or esteem, we put ourselves on our best be-.
hayor, and strive that the audible inter.
change of thought shall be so constant as to
prevent weariness.


But when those meet whose minds are in
unison, and whose hearts beat responsive,
their silence is oftentimes the strongest evi-
dence of their enjoyment of each others
presence. In the words Of Fenelon, they
say nothing; they are content to be together
without anything to say And this, so far
from resulting in either tedium or disgust,
is full of the serenest happiness.


There is touch of deep feeling, hardly
to be looked for, from Horace Walpoe which
illustrates our meaning, On the loss Of
his friend Chute he writes And him
loved to have here, as our friendship was so
entire, and we knew one another so en-.
tirely, that he alone was never the least
restraint to me. We passed many hours
without saying a syllable to each other, for
we were above ceremony"


The truth is that, when between two there
is deep sense of sympathy which is founded
in true love, there is often more real COM
munion in silence than in speech. Remem-
Der the couplet


And when a wife is we'll In reach.


Not silence separates, but Speech
Year: 1874

There are great many persons who are
endeavoring to live all their lives long by
seemipgs, by pretenses by appearing to be
what they are not Our cities are full of
such men who live in perpetual masquer-
ade Of folly. They seek to gain adyan.
tage without giving an equivalent for it.
They want wealth without earning it, either
by skill or labor They want place without
deserving it by reason either Of service or
righteousness. They wantreputation with
out possessing the qualities from which alone
it can spring. They want all the fruit Of
good character, without the trouble Of build.
ing up such character by patient continu-
ance in well-doing There are multitudes
Of young men who forsake honorable and
remunerative employments, aud come to
New York, with the fatal notion that some
how or other, with smartness, with dexter
ity, with alertness, with shrewdness, with
genius, with impudence or with craft, they
can reap success, without going through the
regular course of plodding industry-with-
out applying honest means to ends. They
are desirous of living by their wits, as it is
said. But they will reap just what they
SOW. They are a great class, and they
stand on different degrees Of long scale,
aiming at different things. A man who
undertakes to gain illusory advantage will
gain just ilusory advantage. A man who
thinks he can contravene a great natural
law, and reap another kind of fruit than
that which naturally belongs to the seed
which he has sown, will be one of the vast
number who have been dashed to pieces on
this rock Of stumbling and offence. And
yet how do you find them degenerating into
bitterness, and envyings, and complaints
and jealousies, and talking about this poor,
miserable world, where merit is not appre.
ciated Merit2 1t is a quality that they
have no acquaintance with. They are the
vermin of society. They are attempting to
reap where they have not sown. They are
attempting to carry of hooors that do not
belong to them. Honesty does not mean
simply not cheating your neighbor You
are not an honest man if you want that
which you do not earn, or that which you
do not deserve. No man who asks or seek:
more than he can render an equivalent for
either by service or in any other way, is
honest
Year: 1874

Lord Derby said good thing, when he
wrote Whether am happy or unhappy
is not my chief affair; what most and first
concerns me is to find my work in life, to
recognize it, and to do it," The "pursuit
of happiness is an old phrase, but delu-
sive one. We are told that we all have q
right to pursue this object Of all mems de-
sire-yes, and We have all right to chase
shadows, but shall we ever catch them 2
Butterflies and blessings have swift wings
to cvade us, when we pursue them with
too anxious haste. 1t is a question whether
any man who looked upon his own happi-
ness as his chief end in life has ever attained
it. Happiness is not plant which grows
by care, by digging about it, and watering
it. If you find it at all, it is by chance
a blossom by the way, whose unexpected
fragrance makes you pause to think how
sweet it is. Work for noble ends-for
mans good and Gods glory-and in your
work you shall find joy. But work for
yourself alone-for fame, or pleasure, or


individual prosperity ty--and your disappoint-
ment is sure. You can never be crowned
with so full measure Of success as will sat-
isfy you-the something beyond will elude
and torment you forever. An old German
philosopher finds the secret Of all Joy in re-
nunciation. When you learn to do with
out superauities, then any fresh acquisition
becomes luxury, and you are gladdened
by it before you know it. When to work
is the end, and to enjoy the accident. We
shall find heart's.ease in every hedge
row.
Year: 1874

There is much said and written about
reform in woman's dress, and it is to be
hoped that the day is not far distant when
women shall be comfortably and sensibly
dressed, and becomingly, too-which few
are at present The prosperity Of our peo-
pie has been too great for their good, until
the love Of money and display has become
the ruling passion. A reform Of great
magnitude is needed-not in dress alone,
but in everything pertaining to family ex-
penses.


A woman of moderate fortune, who is
satisfied with nothing short of the same
style of living and dressing as her rich
neighbor enjoys, when it can only be kept
up by sham and pretense, is despised by
her own class, aud only tolerated by those
she tries to initiate Many a woman Of


limited means, but unlimited pride and am.
bitiou, only maintains a show of style aud
wealth by doing, unaided, all her house.
work, all her dress.making and plain sewing
for herself and family-which includes no
end Of turning, trimming and cutting over
her old garments, and perhaps tending a
fretful baby at the same time have
known many woman to do all this, and
more, that she might dress stylishly, and
give her girls a piano and music, and call
herself one Of the upper class in society.
The rich woman strives to out-dress and
out-do her sisters in folly, and grows
wrinkled and old in devising new and un-
heard-of means Of display. She abandons
her home aud goes to the beach aud the
mountains. She frequents the theater and
ballroom, not because she cares for these
things but she must keep up with her set,
and at forty or fifty years Of age, when our
English sisters are rosy and in their prime,
she is faded, nervous, worn-out woman !;
a wilted flower. Her husband is stranger
TO his family, so absorbed in business is he,
making money for his family to spend, and
many dark crime of forgery, theft, or
murder, even, might he traced more or less
directly to some woman's extravaganza.
What time or strength, can such women as
| have spoken Of, have for self.cuture and
Improvement? How can they be intelli-
gent and cOngenial companions for their
husbands and friends, or true mothers to
their children? How can they be Chris
tians, but in name-for the Word says
" Ye cannot serve God and mammon."


My sisters, whether rich or poor, you can
all be true women, and such society needs
now, if ever. Let each be true to her con.
science and do her duty, as a steward of
this worlds goods, accountable for all she
receives, whether much or little; and let
folly take care of itself
Year: 1874







1t i, little singular to reflect upon that
there should not be in existence fully ap.
propriste marriage service for the uses Of
either the church or the world. The Epis.
copal service - that most halowed by
churcaly associations and most full of ex-
cclencies-has yet egregious faults. Bad
taste, bad grammar, aud perjury may have
their places; but marriage service would
not seem to be the place for them. 81 take
thee to be my welded wife Tor husband) .
to have and to hold is an awkwardness
for which only long inculcated reverence
could feel so MUCH rhetorical respect as not
to mar matrimonial ecstasy. It'll death
us do part " is dislocation in which the
most devout church woman must feel pang.
The inquiry who giveth this woman to be
married to this man ?" is, to say the least
Of it, an anachronism. 81 pronounce you
man and wife favors somewhat of the
tenement house patois, as Of a couple hence.
forth to say, " My man is abroad, to-day"
or My woman is getting dinner" With
all my worldly goods | thee endow" is a
fiction so stupendous as to be more amusing
than impressive. "Do you promise to
obey him and serve him The woman
shall say, l will" Herein We have the
spectacle of a priest at the alter Offering
the most solemn aud binding of VOWS to a
woman who has not the least intention Of
keeping it, who will not keep it, if she has;
and who ought not to keep it, whether she
has or not. The church service was writ
ten in bygoue age, for bygone type OF
society. Its real beauties cannot save it
intact to the future. The marriage to be
will demand pledge for which there is
neither speech nor language.
Year: 1874

If people would only keep little Of
the suavity which they waste on strangers
for the home circle, how much more charm
ing life would be! When among our ac-
quaintances, many of us are always agree.
able and obliging, while we are grumpy and
glum to those who are nearest to us. 1t
doesn't seem worth while to converse around
the family table. This is all wrong. A
certain pleasant freedom from restraint
makes home happier; but carelessness, and
lazy indulgence in untidy ways, will
break the charm entirely, and make home a
place to eat and sleep in, but nothing else.
Year: 1874

MY FIELD.
| will not wrong thee, y, To-day,
with idle longing for Tomorrow
But patient plOw my field, and SOW
The seed Of faith In every furrow.
En0ngh for me the loving light
That meets the clouds repelnnt edges
The still unfolding, bud by bud,
OfGod's most sweet and holy pledges.
! breathe Ills breath my life is Ms
Tho hand lie nerves knows no dciraudIug
The Lord will make this ioyless waste
Wave with the wheat Of liis fewardlng
OF His rewafdingl Yes and yet
Not mine a single blade or Kernel
The seed Is His, the quickeuing His
The care, unchanging and eternal
His, too the harvest song shall be,
When lie who blest the barren furrOw
Shall thrust His shining sickle in.
And reap my little field, tomorrow.
Year: 1874

An enthusiastic young man in attend
ance on the outside of the Methodist church.
Sunday evening, with an umbrella, solicited
the pleasure Of seeing young lady, new
acquaintance, home. The alacrity of her
acceptance fairly intoxicated him with de.
light, but he sobered up some on learning
that her fathers house was in the Boggs
district, about two miles out Of town, aud
about mile aud half further than civil
engineer would care to 20 ip the dark.
The young man reached home about mid
night, having burst out the sides of a pair
of fne boots, and turned one ankle eleven
times. The next day he shipped his UNI
brella to his mother in Minnesota.
Year: 1874

The successful sale of stalls i'll the market
house at Sd and King realizes its proprietor a
handsome sum, in addition to his annual rental,
and it fixes two things with tolerable certainty
first, that the farmers markets will remain To-
Gated on King street; and second, that the city
market house on 4th street is rapidly on the
road to disuse and demolition. If it we're down,
and the grade Of the hill at West street were
somewhat reduced, what magnificent avenue
Fourth street would make