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Year: 1877

need city missions, but not so much after tn


accepted style. We want devoted laymen


with souls wholly given to God, set on hi
righteousness, and the favor of God as the


supreme good. We want these men thor


oughly furnished for all good works, and


with the whole armour of God.


We want them in the work shop, behind
the counter, in the counting room, at the
bar, at the bed side, in buying and selling,
in keeping accounts, in constructing, in day
labor, in pleading causes, in ministering to
the sick, doing honest work, telling the
truth, revering the right, plying the suffer-
ing, ready to lose, to make any sacrifice, to
bear little or great losses, and suffer mortif-
cations where duty requires it.


We want men in every place by meek
and unaffected but immovable adherence to
duty and to right in the least transaction, the
most common place occurrence of every day
life, to advertise Christianity, to show forth
righteousness. The advertisers Of quack
medicines, the children of this world, teach
US lesson. On let US everywhere, in every
place see that God is ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
wherever we go We may honor Him and
make His name to be revered by some occa-
sional passer-by.


Let us apply the prophecy to our daily
matters and make it that the pots in the
Lords house shall be as the vessels before
the altar, and that on the bells of the horses
shall be written Holiness to the Lord.


While agreeing with the main drift of this ar
tice, and conceding all due importance to the sub
ect. the matter of street preaching is encompassed
with no small difficulties Mr.. Moody, whose prac
tical good sense none can dispute, does not favor
it in the modes commonly practiced. Better would
it be- unless in exceptional cases. for all Christians
to be diligent preachers in private way, and by
personal access to the wandering and neglected
classes, bring them to the house of God and if
necessary provide additional places for regular wor
ship.-CEN PRES
Year: 1877

ABIDE Your TIME-Every man must pa
tiently bide his time; not in idleness, in USE
less pastime or querulous detection, but in
constantly accomplishing bis task, that when
occasion com IS he may be equal to it. The
talent of success is nothing more than doing
we'll what you do, without thought of fame.
If that comes at all it will come because it is
deserved, and not because it is sought after.
1t is very indiscreet and troublesome ambi-
tion which cares 80 much what the world says
of US; to be always anxious about the effects
of what we do or say; to be always shouting
to hear the echoes of our voices.
Year: 1877

was mr.. Miller by Two Unknown Men.


A man by the name OF Miller last evening
stated to Corporal wilkinson that on the night Of
the 18Th inst. two men came to his residence, on
Philip street near Locust, and knocked at bis
door. He opened the door to see who was there
and found the two men sitting on the steps.


The two men asked him ii his name was Mil
Ter, and when they were answered in the affirm
ative they seized hold Of him and dragged him
into the street, stabbiDg him several times In the
face and head. Miller's Screams for assistance
caused his would-be assassins to let go Of him
and beat hasty retreat.


The unfortunate man 10 acquainted with the
two men that made the murderous assault upon
him, but does not know their names.


He will, to-day, make affi1svss against them
before Judge Smith, charging them with at
tempted assassination.


Miller says the assauit upon him was in conss-
quence Of an old grudge.
Year: 1877

Especial to the Democratl


EAST BUFFALO, July 20.-Orders have been
received at the shipping office of the Erie
railway to receive no stock for shipment East
to-day. The train men on reaching Hornells-
vile quietly quit the trains.
Year: 1877

The wires have been disarraaged for
two days owing to the storm east of us
Therefore, no ne VS. by telegraph could
be received, and the TRIBUNE goes to
press without that important feature Of
its columns.
Year: 1877

We received circular calling mass
state convention TO meet at Allegan yes
terday, of all persons favorable to the
construction of "a ship canal connecting
Lakes Michigan and Erie. This canal
has been pet project Of Henry Willis,
OF Battle Creek, for a number of years,
and it was expected that he would be
present and address the convention.
Congress is to be memorialized for an ap-
preparation of $4,000 tor a survey of
said canal route. The circular urges this
enterprise In behalf of the immense and
rapidly increasing commerce OF the west
ern states, which is so dangerous on the
upper lakes. Farmers are especially
urged to take hold of the enterprise. tor
1t is claimed their farms will be enhanced
In ivalue from 25 to 30 per cent. Che
boygan is too near the straits to look
very favorably OIL the enterprise even if
it was practicable, which we doubt.
This portion OF Michigan is well enough
satisfied with the route nature has pro-
vided.
Year: 1877

tain Nelson's house last night may as
easily be imagined as described.


Captain Nelson desires to ''thank Cap.
tain Drew and his crew from the bottom
of his heart" They were the means en-
ployed to save him, but he insists that
God sent them.


L A tug and pump went out last night
TO the Great West, and it is thought that
she can be rescued. The crew lost every
thing except the clothes they wore. The
Great West is owned by Capt. Nelson,
and is his all. She is full canal size, rate
B 2, and Is valued at $4,000.


The tug Rebel picked the Black Maria
up some distance off the harbor and tow
ed her i'm.


1t must be mentioned in this connec-
toin that Justice Haines pulled out to
the wreck of the Great West from Forty
second street, his determination being to
save the crew. When he arrived at the
wreck the men had been taken of, but
his HOnor's gallantry must be credited
all the same. Tally one for Justice
Haines.


That the tugs and the life.station keep
er allowed the Great West to drift by
Chicago in full sight will be wondered at
not little.
Year: 1877

The Contract Completed for this
SeasOn--What has been Accom-.
Plished-Two Miles Of Dredging.
Messrs. Carkin, Stickney g. Cram, the
contractors for our harbor improvements,
expect to complete their contract to-day.
They commenced on the work during the


latter part OF August, and since then have
been steadily engaged with but little loss
of time from breakagcs or other causes.
The improvements made this season have
been of the greatest Importance TO Che
boygan. In addition to cutting off the
east bank of the river, which WAS of so
much benefit to the Inside harbOr, they
have do.,e two miles of dredging. An
entire new cut has been dredged through
to the lake, the central part of the chan
mel has been thoroughly scraped, adding
to the depth of the channel, SO that now
at the lowest stage of water thirteen or
thirteen and one-half feet can be carried
in or out by proper observance of the
the ranges. The channel at the narrow.
est point is 160 feet i'm width, thus afford
ing plenty of room for entering or leaving
this port. Mr.. Stickney has given his
whole attention during the time the
dredges have been working to the work.
and has done everything in his power to
carry out the instructions of Col. Dur
yea, the engineer in charge, and the man
ner in which the work has been done
this season cannot fail to give the highest
satisfaction to all. Messrs. Carkin &
Stickney. ard the present firm of Carkin,
Stickney & Cram, have done all the
work that has been done ON the improve
ment of the harbor. with the exception of
one appropriation worked out by Messrs


E. Il. Williams & Co. They have always
manifested desire to do the work in the
best manner possible, and in such way
as would be of the greatest benefit to the
harbOr. When they commenced the
work the channel was one Of devious
ways and so shallow that none but crafts
of light draught could make al entrance.
The completion of the present appropri-
alton gives channel through which the
largest of the lake vessels can enter the
harbOr. Great credit is due Colonel
Durvea and Messrs. Carkin, Stickney s.
Cram for the endeavOrs they have put
forth the present season to use the ap-
preparation in a manner to benefit the
inte aests of the port to the greatest ex-
tent. The utmost harmony has prevailed
in the prosecution of the work, and it has
resulted in the satisfactory manner in
which the work has been done. In fact
all in charge of the Improvement, from
Colonel HARDWOOD, Of the engineer corps,
who has charge Of this harbor, in addi-
tion to several other improvements on
the lakes. down to the contractors for
doing the work, seem to have spared no
effort to make the best of the appropria-
ton this season, and we think the c,ti-
zens of Cheboygan can congratulate
themselves that the work has been in
such trustworthy hands throughout.


We hope that during this winter Con-
gress will make sufficient appropriation
to complete the Improvement, and that
it will be used in as faithful q manner,
for the good of the harbor, as has been
the appropriation this season.
Year: 1877

The latest event in the round of Partisan
hospitalities to General Grant-the dinner,
ball and reception chronicled in our col
umns to-day-apparently takes the lead OF all
others III brilliant extravagance of display.
Evidently the reporter is at loss for hy-
perboles Of descriptive style that may do
full justice to the pomp, splendor and SPAR
kle of the occasion. In the dinners and
other festivals organized by the genii Tor
the benefit Of Aladdin and persons Of that
sort it is q characteristic and even common
place feature that things are done regard
less Of expense There is no occasion to
stint Il single point because all the supplies
and splendors that are ordinarily obtained
by tremendous draughts Oh the banker are
here subject to snap OF the finger on the
part of the handy demon. Gold mines
are open to supply plates and noun
tains Of rubies are turned into cups,
and all regions of the earth, near or remote,
are ransackcd for their glories of goounlaa-
disc But when all that humanity can pos
sibly desire is put on the table or in the
hall on these wonderfully easy terms it is
astonishing how little humanity finds itself
able to desire beyond finely appointed
splendid dinner and a happily organized
reception Of well bred people. On that side
we find that imagination is exhausted in
the effort to conceive and contrive new
effects sooner than the caterers are ex-
hausted in doing the behests Of imagination
In Mrs. Mackay's entertainment OF General
Grant, as chronicled by the cable, we get in
this respect the same impression as from
the "Arabian Nights" story.
Year: 1877

One of the really lively, pleasant and
entertaining parts of the proceedings Of
Congress is likely to be done away with, to
be reformed out of existence This part OF
every important debate that is now endan-
gered by some prosy fellow whose slunbers
have been disturbed, or some soulless MEM
Der whose favorite corn has been too sharply
touched, is the exercise OF the pages These
lively Switches of humanity have been
accustomed to have foot races, tilts and
scrambling matches on the floor, to the
infinite amusement Of the galleries and to
the improvement of the picturesque effect
and phantasmagorc confusion of the
scene of Congress assembled. At the
magic clap of members hands twenty
pages would start from one spot and
rush to do that members will
rush with the impetuosity and splendid
emulation of racers on the course, and with
the same indifference to obstacles. Or If
the pages were around loose when the clap
was heard they went for it with such bril-
liant variety of trajectory as is seen only in
the spectacle of the November meteors when
they scribbe themselves on the great black
board of the autumn night. But now, alas
this fine fun is to come to an end. Mem
bers are to have electric buttons on their
tables, and these are to communicate with
the underlined backgrounds OF the Congress
sional world and when q button is touched
n single page is to loosen himself from
the mass and launch out to that member
and get his order, and do it in quiet,
decorous, commonplace way. Thus it
is that the color and the glory OF
life are taken out of it by progress
sive changes, as if it were only a piece
of French calico too often washed. But
as the members have now learned that
it is possible to apply electricity to these
purposes, when will they learn that it may
be applied to save time and simplify other
operations as important as this? Will they
ever consider that the yeas and nays may be
taken by telegraph operated by a simple
button on each members desk and announc-
ing the result instantaneously on the wall OF
the House? This would stop iilibustering
that kind Of mental scrambling- as eflectu-
ally as the other button will stop the
scrambling of the boys.
Year: 1877




In London yesterday, in a little Bromp-
ton church, there was wedding of such
state and style that the word fashionable"
limps far behind proper application to
the case, and the blaze OF diamonds was
such as might almost have dispelled for
time one Of the first class fogs that so CON-
monty get the better of November days in
that great metropolis. In this city also
there was a wedding in high life
and although the occasion might be thought
tempting for comparison Of the varieties
OF high life, as presented in the wealthy
cities of Great Britain and Greater Britain,
the comparison would necessarily lose its
point and favor by the simplest considera-
ton OF the necessary differences presented
by the structure of society in democ-
Tacy on one hand and an ancient aristoc-
racy on the other. Both of these dazzling
weddings are fully reported in our columns
this morning and the occasion ut least fitly
exhibits the ubiquity and universally
of the newspaper OF the time, which gath
ers up its record Of events in Madison
avenue church or in the Brompton
oratory, and presents in the same
impression the picture of events that
were separated by the Atlantic--as
though one should put. on the same string
pearls from Ceylon and diamonds from
Brazil. At the marriage of Mr.. Vanderbilts
daughter our city society sparlSled in the
heyday of happy festival. Women OF une-
qualled beauty, men of talent and great
intellectual vigor, and wealth practically
without limit-these are the elements Of
such an occasion with us, and these
are also the elements in London Of
such great social occasions as yester-
day put the West End agog, although
it must be said that the emphasis
on these elements respectively differs in the
two cities. But London carries the palm
and puts us down. rs it were, in virtue of
vanity dearer than diamonds to the female
hcart--and not without masculine admira-
ton also the timehonored glory Of family
names and family history This to what we
have comparable to it, is like very DID, warm
Madeira to new cider. Fancy bridegroom
who gives to his bride, rs the Duke of Nor
folk did yesterday, necklace that was worn
by Mary Queen Of Scots, and this not as u
mere treasure Of bric-a-brac, but as on heir
loom Of his family
Year: 1877

Excise Commissioners. Three years ago he
renewed the lease of his premises for q
long period. and, relying on the con-
tinued protection of the law, he has
taken advantage of the state of the mar
ket, from time to time, to make purchases
until he has accumulated stock of liquors
worth thirty thousand dollars. All at once
the Court of Appeals makes an Unexpected
decision that the law by which he supposed
his business protected is void, but void
only because the Legislature failed to ex-
press its real intention. Is it right that he
should forfeit his investment which this
law, as officially expounded for many years.
invited him to make? Is it equitable to
confiscate private property because the
law on which he relied for protection
was so clumsily drawn that it did
not express its own meaning? Is it just to
destroy his business without fair warning!
Let the Excise law be made as stringent or MS
prohbitiye as public morals require, but let
fair notice be given when great changes are
made and a reasonable opportunity be
afforded to those whom the law has encour-
aged to embark in that business to retire
without ruinous losses.


If the law is to remain in its present un-
satisfactory and unintended condition it
ought to be impartially enforced. There
should be no odious favoritism In
the execution of an unpopular statute.
Under the law Of 1857 the Excise
Commissioners have no more author
ity to grant licenses to restaurants
than to liquor saloons. Restaurants do not
come within the letter. although they may
within the spirit, of the law Of 1857. They
are not inns, as defined by that statute, be-
cause they do not keep accommodations Tor
dodgers. From Delmonico's down through
all the descending grades these eating
houses supply prohibited fluids to such OF
their customers as desire them A large
proportion of our business men take their
midday meal at such places and would
be subjected to discomfort il deprived
of their customary beverages. But
the law as it stands no more per-
mits them to be licensed than it
does an ordinary grogshop. Yet they are
not intermeddled with, which is an addi-
tional illustration that the authorities do
not feel strictly bound to enforce the law in
all cases simply because it is law. It is the
duty of the Legislature to amend the Excise
law as soon as possible after it assemblies,
and to put it on such footing that it can be
impartially executed without any favoritism
or any discrimination between different
classes of transgressors.
Year: 1877

Fox HUNTING is evidently destined to become
one Of our most popular amuscments. The at
tendance ut the meeting yesterday was un-
usually large, and there was quite u spirited
dash across u pretty fair country. The ladies
who were present were well in ut the close.
Year: 1877

and won her while serving his coun-
try here in a diplomatic capacity.
She is a superb blonde; her rosy
complexion and golden hair set off
by sparkling black eyes. In a
proscenium box she can usually be
seen when the theater is accessible,
apparently unconscious of every
body except the handsome actor
whom she deyours with eager and
greedy attention. She leans from
this box to see him, and when he
seems for the moment to forget her
presence she utters little appeal
ing cough. Altogether it is too
much, far too much for the gravity
of a respectable New York audi
ence, and people have begun to
throng the theater to see a play not
put down on the bill. 1t is said
that the handsome actor receives
numerous billets.doux from his
charming prosecutor, with bouquets
and other presents, all of which,
like a model husband and yirtuous
actor, he, of course, hands over to
his wife. But one would like to
have the German husbands version
of the affair translated into idIom-
attic English.
Year: 1877

THE bridge progresses gradually. The

 piles are now driven for three piefs, leaving 2

 but two more to be tackled The first two

 are already in the hands of the carpenters

 who have sawed off the Heads and begun

 to lay the timbers. Every precaution is

 taken to place and dive the piles with per-

 feet accuraeys An engineer stands con-

 stantly Un the bank with transit, watching every blow of the pile driver and giving mo- tite of any deviation of the pile from a true perpendicular, while the boss driver pays the same attention to plumb bob suspend ed from the top of the macHine. In spite of all care, when the piles are driven and released from the grasp of the machine, they spring off at an angle and usually lean alittle up stream. On this bank eterything has been prepared for putting in the turn table on which the draw is to swlng. A pit has been excavated in which will be built a cement foundation, and gang of men will be put to work on it next week. An amount of heavy timber has been delivered on this side of the river. The site of the turntable is surrounded by heavy iron wheels and rollers, clamps and irons straight and crooked beyond explana- nation by reporter.
Year: 1877

TIE Carga Muchacho district is now stepping to the front again. Late work by Van Arsdale & Co. has made fine develop ments of rich ore. Ten tons are sacked and ready for shipment. One hundred tons will be shipped to San Francisco and worked. The result will determine the erection of machinery. The gold is not coarse, but it is very generally dissemin. ated all through the quartz. Were the mines situated anywhere else the owners would be justified in putting up a mill tonce. But as they lie out on the California desert at some little distance from wood and water the proprietors want to be abso- lutely sure of its yield before going to any great expense.
Year: 1877

An idea is entertained, by the Board ol Supervisors, of building a county hospital In the present state of the county finances this proposition should be discussed with care. From all parts of California come murmurs against the terrible expense of public hospitals. They are always fruitful sources Of unnecessary expenditure. If indigent sick are here in such numbers as to require building for their accommoda- ton, it is possible that one can be rented for less money than the interest on the cost of one erected by the county. Yuma IS poor enough to practice economy.
Year: 1877

MT. H. S. Fitzgerald proposes to resign his position as Supervisor at the next meeting of the Board. This intention was formed some time ago and was induced by the unpleasant scenes occurring at several sessions of the Board. As Mir. Saniter re- signed for the same reason, Fitzgerald was persuaded to " grin and bear it" until all business then pending was disposed of. The lastvacancy was filled by appointment of Mir. A. Lorette, on the ground that he was candidate for the office at the last election and boiled a tie vote with Mir. Geo. w. Blair. The same course of Teasonino requires that the coming vacancy be filled by appointment of Mir. Blair
Year: 1877

Last saturday there was a terrific chat tering among the Chinese railroad laborers in camp on the bank of the river, which is at that point quite deep and swift. A Chinaman had fallen into the water and his head just missed every grab that was made for it as the current swept him along Finally his queue was clutched by an em- p1eyee at the quartermaster's depot and the drowning creature was dragged ashore. Jubilee among the celestials.
Year: 1877

GLOBE CITY is now accessible by another hte; see advertisement. Full informa. h can be obtained at Yuma at any time telegraphing to Silver City. It is a grat. Ing sign of progress in that section and hope the new line will do we'll. Shry-

 & Hise are among the enterprising

 Fens who are building that new country
Year: 1877

ONE of the engineers of the force building

 the bridge had a close call on Sunday. He drank great quantities of ice water until he was taken with congestive chills and fell into comatose condition. Vigorous rub bing for hours and sktIful treatment re- stored ham.