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Year: 1878

THE editor of the Argonaut goes
strictly on the motto of "now you
see it, and now you don't" Until
the other day he was thoroughly
alive to the evils of Grantism. He
went SO far as to proclaim his be-
lief that the surest way to defeat
the Republican party would be for
that organization to declare for a
third term for Grant. For once
the editor of the Argonaut lighted
on a grave truth, but his volatile
nature has carried him away from
it before his foot was firmly planted
on solid ground. That journal is
mad on the subject of property. Its
voice bushes in obedient subser-
viency the very moment it comes
even obliquely to the consideration
of the sacred rights of the pos.
SCISSORS OF things mundane.
To it Grant looms up as
the champion of the rich. The
spectre of communism affrights it
not only from its common sense
but from its consistency as we'll. 1t
surrenders the jewel without q
struggle. These people seem to
forget that the moneyed class could
identity itself with Grant, that
Grant could Identify himself with
the moneyed class and the mon-
archists, and that both might come
to the ground with violence
which would lead them to moral
ize, in the "sweet by-and- by" on
what consummate fools they had
made of them selves. When Grant
allies himself to all the snobs of
the country, and the Republican
party prostitutes its grandiloquent-
ly announced mission into one OF
handmaiden to both. the conjoined
crowd might find itself select in its
own estimation but not numerous.
Even communism itself would be
preferable to such an appalling
combination of Whiskey, Custom
House and District of Columbia
Rings and Goldfish aristocracy.
Year: 1878

No pains or expense will be spared in
studying up these interests fully, and
furnishing accurate information thereon.
Another leading feature of the STAR
will be the furnishing of as great an
amount of scientific matter as ptssible.
and especially in publishing original
representative articles furnishing scien-
titic intelligence relating to the north
west. The design OF the publishers of
the STAR being to make it. as suOn as
the support will be sufficient ior a
specialist journal of that kind. the rep
rescn katiye
Year: 1878

They thought the last hypothesis
Did the most nearly suit the thing,
And regarded him as a member Of
The Car0lipa ring.
But whether he got debentures


Ora pay certificate,
Or sold gin at seventy dollars


A gallon to the State,
Or whether on the pay roll


He was host'in himself,
They were not quite decided.


All they knew was he had the pclf.
Year: 1878

The MEETING THIS EvENING.-1n accord
ance with the resolution Of the Board OF
Directors Of the Chamber Of Commerce
adopted ut their regular monthly meeting
held January 10th mass-meeting OF the
members Of the Richmond Chamber OF
Commerce will be held at the rooms Of the
Chamber this evening at O'Clock for the
purpose of considering the question OF the
State debt. In order that full and free
expression Of opinion may be obtained from
this representative body OF Richmond's
wealth and capital every member should be
punctual in attendance.
Year: 1878

THE METHODIST SUSDAY-SCHooL UNION


The following is the average attendance at
the Sabbath schools Of the Methodist Sum
day.School Union for December as reported
Mt the last meeting:
Year: 1878

all his dogs at his heels, he has been
seen to pick up objects and stand alb,
stractedly studying them until those
who saw him were tired of looking. On
the most unimportant objects around
him he would talk learnedly and with
interest. He was noted besides for his
mastery Of many trades. He was an
adept at painting, shoemaking. carpen-
tering, kalsomining, plastering and
sign painting, and he made gentlemen's
canes. He was sensitive and proud to
the last in being self dependent. To
offer him aims was to offend and hurt
him; but he would take ia provisions
three times the value of his services in
filing saw, patching shoe, riveting a
jack-knife or mending gun.


Little is known Of his history. Six
years ago he entered the empty cabin.
Before that be had lived in an old canal
boat on the shore Of Mile Creek. In
cendiaries burned the boat one day in
his absence, together with his tools and
a library that he had collected. He said
that two burglars who broke into the
boat and robbed him were sent to the
State prison for five years each. The
history of his life he would never tell,
although often pressed to do so. His
birthplace was in northern Vermont,
and he lived for years in Meriden and
New Haven, Conn. He had brother,
a ship-builder, in New Haven, to whom
the news of his death was sent. There
is gap in his history that he could
never fill. Suddenly he took to travel
ing, and at the time of the Seminole
war he was in Florida trapping, hunt
ing and fishing. Then he worked
westward to Texas, and came back in
time to go to Mexico in the Mexican
war. His wandering habits clung to
him afterward, and at the outbreak of
the war he entered the army of the Po-
tomac. On being pressed to live after
a more civilized fashion, he positively
refused. He was sick about week,
and refused all attempts to make him
comfortable. A sympathetic neighbor,
Mrs. Michael Welch, sent for County
Physician Case. He visited the old
man, left an order for medicine, and
did not see him again until two days
afterward. Then he recommended that
the hermit should be taken to the hos
pital. The old man refused to 90 after
the ambulance came, saying that the
physicians would kill him any way,
and that he wanted to die, if he must
die, where he had lived. Yet he would
not admit that death was overtaking
him. From Friday until Monday, the
day of his death, there was no fire in
his stove. Seeing that he was dying,
Mrs. Welch asked him if he did not
want a clergyman. In a feeble voice
the hermit replied: "No; I've lived
without them, and can die without
them"


"Don't you know that you're going
to meet your God?" asked the good
woman.


The old man nodded his head. His
dogs were then in the room, some by
his side, and seven pups at his bed g
head in a wooden box. His dark eyes
were clear and bright until death. lie
called over the names of his dogs Dick,
Dinah, Fanny, Flora and Jimmie, and
soon afterwards died.
Year: 1878

ers, and they chafed under the intOlera-
BILE disgrace of their inaction. But Sir
John Duckworth had been negotiating
during the whole of that fatal week.
at the end of which there was nothing
to be done but to get away as safely as
they best might. The wind had not
changed, and it did not change until
the first of March, and the further de-
lay thus caused gave time for charging
the forts at the Dardanelies with men
and ammunition. For thirty miles,
reckoning the windings Of the channel,
the ships run the gauntlet Of an inces-
SAINT fire, and such fire as was never
seen before. Stone balls weighing sew
en- and eight hundred pounds broke
the masts, crushed in the decks, snap
ped the rigging and dismayed the hearts
Of the sailors. The hills smoked from
end to end, and the roar of the artillery
rolled from side to side. In another
week, Sir John Duckworth declared in
his dispatch, any return would have
been impossible. The news of this sim
gular affair spread fast over Europe.
Year: 1878

The walrus has singular mode of
adapting his attack upon enemies to the
circumstances in which he is placed.
They can shiver ice from four to six
inches thick by rising from below and
striking it with their huge heads. An
exploring party near Navaya Zemla,
while walking ever field Of new ice,
noticed herd of walrusscs following
them under the ice. They presently
began operations, and broke the field
in pieces on all sides Of the party, which
barely escaped by running for the main
pack of ice near by.
Year: 1878

Under the blue OF the mid-AIay sky,
Under the shsdow Of beech and lime,
Watching cloud-shsllops drifting idly by
Free from the thrdldom of fate and lime
Lulled by the murmur OF breeze and stream,
Twitter Of songster, futter Of spray,
That swee ly blend with the waking dream,
And whisper one ma ,ical word alwAyi
Held by the spell Of an exquisite face,
"A voice that is dearer than all things dear,
All, but the world is fairy place


In the Jloom Of the heart, the May of the


year


Sitting alone in the waning light


In tue dead November's leaden dearth,
Watching the mists rise ghostly white,
And blend in the shadows, and quench the


earth;


Musins for ave on the might-have-been-
Sweet mIght-have-been that may not bel
The tender hopes and the fancies green
That faded and futtered from lfe's fair tree
Haunted always by a vanished face,
voice that is hushed in the midnight drear,
ALI, but the world is a weary place
In the gloom of the heart, the gray Of the


year.
Year: 1878

Under this head we desire to give short
sketch of the different manufacturing enter
prises of this community, and we shall feel in
debted to our friends for any information they
can give US on this subject


cox & BROS. CARRIAGE MANrTACToRY.


More than fifty years ago, Garret Cox, father
Of the members Of the present firm of Cox 4
Bro, commenced TIE wheelwright business in
MiddIetown, and ten years later commenced
in connection with his business, the manufac-
ture of carriages At a later period he took
his son, J. NJ. Cox, in business with him and
the firm became Cox g. Son, who we're sue
ceeded by the present firm in 1857.


In 1859, Cox Bro commenced the manu-
facture Of carriages on more extensive scale
than formerly with the expectation of estab-
fishing large southern trade at Galveston,
Texas, where they opened branch salesroom
in charge of an agent, and in the winter of the
above named year shipped large number of
carriages and lot of harness to that point.
Owing to the breaking out Of our civil war,
shortly afterward, communication was cut off
between the firm and their Texas agent, and
the shipment of carriages and harness was, to
the firm, total loss.


Since the war Cox L Bro have relied more
upon near trade and made no effort to find a
foreign market for their carriages. Owing to
the great depression of business and scarcity
Of money for several years, this branch of in
dustry has been exceedingly dull, but this sea-
son the Messrs Cox are pushing their business
and are now running full force of hands on
full time, and expect to turn out as many, if
not more carriges than during any previous
year.


A carriage of their manufacture took first
premium at the first annual fair of the Penin-
sula Agricultural and Pathological Associa-
ton and also carried off FIRST honors at the an
nual fair of 1877.


The carriages manufactured by this firm are
celebrated both for finish and durability, they
having always made it rule to turn out only
first-class work


If the trade Of the present season will justify
It. the Messrs. Cox will probably make some
Year: 1878

In a communication last week from ''Young
Bachelor we find the appeal to our newly
elected commissioners, ''Give US improvements
and tax Us accordingly" Now let each tax
payer specify some one improvement which
would either remove a nuisance or add decid-
edly to the health or comfort of numbers OF
our citizens, and we may confidently hope
that offensive exhalations and disgusting offal
will disappear from our public thoroughfares.
Among these the occupants of stores and other
buildings from Maxwelrs Hotel down towards
the Presbyterian Church, feel that they have q
right to complain. Notwithstanding their
daily efforts to keep the cutters clean in this
locality. there is an ever fresh accumulation of
waste water with its accompanying refuse ma
terial from the hotel. Even at this season the
scum of decomposed matter in front of the open
lot threatens miasma. During the hot weather
it often becomes so loathsome and disgusting
that persons cross the street to avoid inhaling
it, In times past petitions have been sent to
our commissioners by the neighborhood that
drain might be made for this waste water in
the rear of the hotel. All the other dwelling
houses have this provision made by drainage
in their back yards. Through your paper may
MT We Who suffer most from this nuisance,
petition for its removal.


A BELIEVER IN THE LAWS OF HEALTH.
Year: 1878

AN ASTONISHING FACT A large proportion
of the American people are to-day dying from
the effects of Dyspepsia or disordered liver.
The result Of these diseases upon the masses
of intelligent and valuable people is most
alarming. making life actually a burden in
stead of a pleasant existence Of enjoyment
and usefulness as ii ought to be. There is no
good reason for this, if you will only throw
aside prejudice and skepticism, take the ad-
vice of Druggists and your friends, and try
one bottle of Green's August Flower. Your
speedy relief is certain. Millions of bot
ties of this medicine have been given away
to try its virtues, with satisfactory results IN
every case. You can buy sample bottle for
10 cents to try. Three doses will relieve the
worst case Positively sold BY all Druggists
on the Western Continent.
Year: 1878

important improvements in their factory, and
will no doubt increase their facilities for the
production of fine carriages of all kinds. They
will also seek a wider market this season than
they hare during any year since the war, and
their special aim win be to turn out good and
durable carriages at moderate prices but no
clap-trap vehicles put up to sell alone.
Year: 1878

Before the regular business of the propose make
things brisk by Of occasional sales organized
pendous SCALE and coupled with attractions elaborate char
The rush for the advance Bargains and First Fresh
Goods will stimulate business only the Grand Depot but
Year: 1878

This procedure robs God in withholding


from him worship by s.giving in thai


place where we have chosen and coVenanted


to worship Him, and to support mutually


with our brethren, according to His appoint


ment and command, in which aims giving is


as much worship as prayer, and always asso-


ciated Herewith. In its divorcement from


prayer the fruitlessness Of much prayer is


also explained. God usually tests the sim


cerity of our prayers by our sacrifices, and


the most incisive test is the money question,


as related to the church. Christ knew where


to probe when he would convince the young


ruler of the iDsincerity of his very loud pro-


fessions of admiration, sentiment, and enthu-
siasm, which he was trying to pass current
on the Master as loyalty to God. Bot it
may be said in reply that these people may
be giving the equivalent in the churches
where they worship in their vacations. This
hardly needs contradiction. The facts are
all against it. AS general thing they neitb-
er give money nor their presence at these
churches, and the evidences are abundant in
the starveling character of the churches in
these places of summer resort and what is
worse, as it fares with the worship of aims
giving, so with the prayers, for prayer meet
ings in these places are as thin as wakes, and
twice as mournful.


Bat granting the claim that their contri
buttons do actually go to the churches in the
places of their transient stay, it robs the
church in which is their membership, or over
burdens those compelled to stay at home, or
compels the faithful to pay their own and the
delinquents' portions too, which is urjast and
an offence to God, or it robs the minister, in
whose call was no stipulation about giving up
pews in vacation. 1t probably deprives him
from getting any rest, or if he does he is
worried out of all rest at the sure prospect of
deficiency at the end of years time; a ter
ror which would becloud preachers mar
riage-day, or if he does not go away he has
the prospect Of starving at home, unless there
are more faithful people to consider his need,
and make up the Deficiencies of these pew
scalpers.


If the church is in debt, which is usually
the case, the debt must accumulate, or the
faithful must pay this also for the people who
eave their obligations in the camphor chest
with their winter clothes, while their precious
bodies are being rejuvenated at the sea side
Or mountain-top. But what is to become of
The multitudes? Of the ten who have to
'tay at home to the one that goes, the truth
might as well be told; many of those that
stay adopt the policy of those who are away,
and give nothing. The church is practically
abolished in Observation-Disclosures.
Year: 1878

never thought that Virginia divines were


we'll suited to the meridian of New England,


and nv impression is that he stsid there but


a short time. We passed rapidly through


the place in 1919, and we were struck by the


neatness of its appearance. Noah Webster


at one time resided in the place, and Mrs.


Sigouruey spent in it much of her life. Her
husband spoke rather cOntemptuOusly OF the
four hundred dollars per annum which she
earned by her pen. But four hundred dol
lars in ten years would amount to four thou
sand dollars, and that SUN would stop good
many chinks in the business of housekeep-
ing. It would serve at least for pin money.
BE became pastor of the Second Presbyte-
risn church in Alexandris, aud that city at
one time was highly social place. 10 this
day we recall with delight the meetings OF
Presbytery which frequently took place
among its cordial inhabitants. They were
always glad to give US warm Welcome
The town is situated on g kind of Bowling
Green-it has fine harbOr, and its hospi-
tslity is prOverbial.


Gulielmus Walton finally retired to his
farm, which lay, we believe, near the Shen
andOsh river, though its exact position We
are not able to give. He endeavOred to es
tablish on the place kind of theological
seminary, by uniting the labor of his pupils
with the cultivation of the farm. His inten-
tions were entirely pure. We have never
heard what amount of students he obtained,
or what success attended his Efforts but he
evidently aimed at the accomplishment of
evangelical results. One of his pupils told
me that the labors were rather too severe in
fitting themselves in this way for the work
of the ministry. He was probably thinking
of the theological school which Doddridge had
established at Northampton in connection
with his classical academy, or it may be he
was thinking of Calvin's school of the Pro-
phets at Geneva. But his health began to
fail, and we presume that the classes were
dismissed to try other expedientS in reaching
the ministry. Whilst leading this farm life
the pupils must have become Injured to the
tread of herds coming to andgOing from the
river, and to the sound of the bOatman'S
horn which has made the banks of the Shen-
sndosh the most poetical part of Virginia.
Year: 1878

An aged servant of God, who lived in a
poor and lonely cottage, always showed 30
much wisdom and sense when any one asked
him for his advice about anything, that the
people round about thought he must be q
very learned man.


A very great scholar who went one day to
see him, and was astonished at the wise words
he heard from his lips, said


"How is it, my good friend, that l don't
see library, or any collection of bOoke at
allin your cottage? l don't even see the
smallest bookshelf. And yet you have been
able to teach me, who am thought to be SO
learned myself, much never knew before. Z"


"Sir," replied the old man, Il have, it is
true, but very smsH collection of books
in fact, have only free, but they are the
three best man n have. They are the
wonderful works Of God, which I can always
look at, and whZas how me how great and
good He is. The sun, the moon, the stars,
the earth, the trees; the law of God written
in my own conscience, telling me what I
ought to do and what / ought not to do; and
most of ell, the soord Of God, the Bible. The
works of God are spread out all round me in
earth and sky; they are as great book
always open. Conscience is never silent
teacher, unless we stop it's voice ourselves by
refusing to listen to it.


"But these two books would fall short Of
teaching US the truest wisdom if we had not
the blessed word of Con to make that known
to US which We can learn in no other way
For in the Bible we read how God made the
heavens and the earth, and all these glorious
things we see around us. He teaches Ut
there also how man sinned, and how the Lore
Jesus Christ redeemed us with His blood
In that book we read what that blessed Sa
viour did and suffered for US, and what HI
commanded and promised 1t tells US, too
how the Holy Spirit is promised to all Wh'
seek Him. Conscience can, indeed, shOw ii
our SINS, but it is Gods word alone which
teaches how they can be forgiven, and ho7
we can be saved from them.


"Thus, without library or human teach
ers. the three books of Conscience, God
Works, and Gods Word, will, if explained
J by the Holy Spirit, make man truly wise.
Year: 1878

Do NOT WAIT FOR FEELING.-Whilst you
cannot feel too keenly, do not wait for feel
ing. No sorrow for the past can be too poig
nant; but do not wait for that sorrow. If
the prodigsl had not arisen till he was salts
fed with his own repentance, he would have
died in the far country. The tears which do
not flow from the gaunt eyes of famine will
come unbidden at the feast of fat things |;
and the fountains of the great deep, which
freeze in the winter of remoteness and es.
arrangement, will break up and brim over in
the sunshine of mercy. The word which you
take, be it what it may" Father, have
sinned, and am no more worthy to be called
Thy son." "Take away mine iniquity, and
receive me graciously whatever the word
may be, let it be true one, and swifter than
your return will be the footsteps of forthcom-
ing pardon; and great as may be your own
Joy in rescuing and restoring grace, no less
will be the joy in heaven over your repent
ance.-Reu James Hamilton, d. d.
Year: 1878

A correspondent of the South. Western


Presbyterian, writing of the meeting of the


Presbytery of New Orleans at the Centre.


vile church, of which Rev. DR.. G. NJ. A.


kinson has just taken charge, tells this re.


markable and touching incident:


And we know that all will rejoice with us


to hear that six were added to the member


ship of our little church. Three had been


gathered into the fold in other places, and


after being "as sheep without q shepherd"


for years, have again found home with the


people of God. Three were admitted on


profession of faith. One was the young wife,
only two months married; another was q
young girl resching the verge of womsnhood;
and the third, an old man, who has we'll high
reached the ahotted age of three-score years
and ten-al of them children of the Cove
nant, who had been baptized in infancy. In
the case of the old man, | think there is no
doubt but that his being baptized in infancy
had much to do in bringing him to God in
his old age; for he charged it against him
self as great wrong he had been guilty of,
that he had not taken upon himself, years
ago, the responsibilities his parents assumed
for him at his baptism. He was deeply SEN
sible Of Gods goodness and mercy in saving
him, amid 80 many dangers, to seek the SIS.
viour near the end of life. When your read
ers hear that he was once crushed under
falling tree, and had both thighs broken, bis
collar bone broken, bis arm dislocated and,
after suffering for months, got out on crutch-
es, only to fall and break both thigh bone,s
second time; and finally, getting up again
from the grave as it were, had three ribs
broken by the kick of mule-they can have
some appreciation of the old mans ground Of
thsnkfulness to God that He watched over
him, while yet ga stranger wandering from
the fold" To me, there was another inter-
esting incident in the old mans admission.
Being very deaf, he had found no pleasure in
attending church; yet he was regular and
earnest in searching the Scriptures, and in
this quiet way came to knowledge of the
Lord. His desire to connect himself with
the church was an agreeable surprise to his
brother, ruling elder; and when they EN-.
braced each other, and the brother expressed
bis thankfulness to God that they were
brothers not only after the flesh, but in the
spirit of the Lord Jesus, ! shall not forget
the old mans earnest look, and the tone in
which be said: "Well, you know how we
we're raised !" There is profound sermon
in these simple words.