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Year: 1877

The man who turns his back upon the
known ways Of righteousness loses, ac-
cording 10 the degree in which be does
so, the power to believe, and herewith
the power to return to those ways. He
who has never been born again thinks
that to believe on God Of grace Is q
very easy matter indeed. He does not
know what sin Is, and hence he cannot
understand what grace iss But after &
man has come to know what is meant
by sin, and what is implied in grace,
how hard does it become for him, aftef
some act of great unfsithfulness, to find
again strength to believe. Thus when
IL does occur that protesting Christians.
aho have once been enlightened, and
who have once tasted s'the good word
of God and the powers of the world to
come" fall away into carnal sin, or any
other heinous transgression, at no time
lnruch d case is the danger of total
apostasy far distant And why7 Be-
cause they lose the power to- believe
Tho,nrE
Year: 1877

They had discussion over at Miller's
the other day about bulls. Mr. Miller
said it was all nonsense to talk about
bulls being excited and made furious by
red rag. He said lie had an ugly tenn
pered Devon bull over in the field who
would take it like lamb if you should
shake the flags of all the nations in his
face. DR.. Robinson said Miller daren't
try it, and Miller bet Robinson that he
would So Miller went into the house
and loaded himself up with red fan
mel undershirt, and we all walked out to
the field. The bull was there, looking
calm as summer morning.


Miller climbed the fence and went to-
ward the animal, keeping the shirt be-
hind him. AS he came close to the bull
he suddenly produced the shirt and fir
ted it in the bulls face. The beast
jumped back yard or two in astonish-
ment, and kept his eye on Miller watch
ing the old verinillion garment vigor.
ously Then the bull shook his head
several times, as ii he declined to have
anything to do with the business, and
Miller turned toward US and put mis-
| thumb to his nose and made a signal OF
victory. Just then the idea. seemed to
strike the bull He put his head down
fand ran swiftly forward. Miller at first
thought there had been an earthquake


Ie was hurled up twenty feet and when
he came down he made another ascen.
sion. Upon his descent he thought he
would try to run, but q Devon Short
Horn was inserted in his trousers and
again he went up high enough to take 8
bird's-eye of the surrounding country
On the twenty fifth descent be fell ON
the other side of the fence from the
bull, and we picked him up His clothes
were in ribbons His nose was furled
and bloody, and his mouth was foil o
grass and mud.


We asked him how he felt, but be
said nothing We inquired concerning
the condition of his bones but he made
no reply We asked if his views about
bulls had undergone any change, but he
walked silently along, We wanted to
know how he enjoyed the scenery the
last time he went up, but he would moi
say, He merely went into the house
filed up both barrels of his gun with
old nails, and screws, and scraps of iron
and then he went out to interview that
bull. The animal was corpse in ten
minutes, and then Miller peeled his un.
dershrt and went up stairs to bed


We know what his views are now al
though he doesn't express them freely
-Aa1 Adeler.
Year: 1877

"I'll master it." said the ak, and his
blows tell heavily on the iron: but every
blow made his edge more blunt, till be
ceased to strike.


"Leave it to me-" said the saw. and
with his relentless teeth he worked back-
ward and forward on its surface, till they
were all worn down or broken then he
fell aside.


ala! hap said the hammer, 81 knew
you wouldn't succeed; '.l'll show you
the way" but at his first stroke, off few
his head, and the iron remained as be-
fore.


"Shall / try I" asked the soft, small
lame. But they all despised the flame !;
but he curled gently around the iron, n,and
embraced it, and never left it till it melt
ed under his irresistible influence. There
are hearts hard enough to resist the force
OF wrath, the malice of persecution, and
the fury of pride; SO as to make their
acts recoil ON their adversaries; but there
is power stronger than any of these,
and hard indeed is that heart that can
resist love.
Year: 1877

An English paper gives the following
clue to the Interpretation of dreams -
To dream of millstone round your
neck, is a sign of what you may expect
If you get an extrsvsgant wife. To see
spples in dream, betokens a wedding,
because where you End apples you may
reasonably expect to find pears To
dream that you are lame, is token that
you will get in a hobhle When young
lady dreams of coffin, it betokens that
she should instantly discontinue lacing
her stays tightly. and always go warmly
and thickly shod in wet weather. II
You dream of a clock, it is token that
you will gain. credit--that is. tick To
dream OF a fire, is sign that if you are
wise, you will see that the lights in your
house are out before you 60 TO bed To
dream that your ncss is red at the tip,
is an intimation that you had better
leave off brandy and water. To dream
of walking barefooted, denotes Jour.
ney that you will make bootlsss.
Year: 1877

Seven Massachusetts sewing machine
agents and fourteen book agents invaded
this county one day last week.


The Governor was Immediately urged
to send troops, but be said he had nc
military at his command, but be would
send down couple of lightning, rod
men and a chrome man, who would talk
the invaders to death.


Then Burlington just got up aud went
over the river and hid in the woods un
til the sound of carnage died away


And as the pale moon rose up slowly
and calmly she looked down and saw the
cold corpses of seven sewing machine
agents and two lightning.rod men, while
the only living creature that roamed The
awful field was deaf chrome man, il
the wild fierce delirium of the lock, jaw.
Year: 1877

The poorest girls in the world are
those who have never been taught to
work. There are thousands Of them
They have been taught to despise labor
and depend on others for, living, and
are perfectly helpless. The most for
lorn and miserable women on earth be.
long to this class. 1t belongs to women
TO protect their daughters from this de-
plorable condition. They do them a
great wrong if they neglect it. Every
daughter should be taught to earn her
own living The rich as we'll as the
POOR require this treatment.
Year: 1877

John Cough tells thrilling story Of
a drunkard he tried to reform; how he
talked to the poor man nearly two hours,
and then the man went out and cut his
throat. We think we see the moral, but
as it isn't probably the one Mr.. Cough
is in the habit of using,we will not make
it public ic-Hd,ckeye.
Year: 1877

Charles Collins, civil engineer of the
Lake Shore road, on which the Ashta-
bula calamity occurred, was found deatl
in his house, having evidently COM
mitted. suicide by shooting. He was be-
fore the investigating committee of the
Legislature few days ago, and was
closely questioned regarding the acci-
dent and lack of care which might per-
haps have prevented it, and this, coupled
with the fuct that public opinion would
not be satisfied of his innocence, it is be-
Geved led to the rash act. He had ap-
peared very Respondent previous to and
Immediately succeeding the examina-
ton, and had been missing since the


day following. 1t is supposed that in
stead of going to Ashtabula to join his
family, who were visiting there, he re-
paired to his house, and fell to brooding
over the terrible affair. He had passed
the ordeal of the examination by the
coroner and the Legislative committee


with great satisfaction to all his friends,


the members of the Legislative COM
mittee entirely generating him in pri-
vate. But he was unable to withstand
fears that the general public would not
SO decide. The deed was evidently COM
mitted on the day succeeding the exami-
nation. Mr.. Collins was highly respect


ed as an engineer and a gentleman, and
enjoyed the complete confidence of Com
modore Vanderbilt. He had been in the
position since the consolidation. He was
a graduate of the Troy POLYTECHNIC In
stitute, and former chief engineer of the
Boston and Albany road.
Year: 1877

The Elmira advertiser thus expresses
it's opinion of ballet dancers, incidental
to a description of a recent performance
in that city: But the ballet was the
most attractive part of the entertain
ment, and it was the best one ever given
in Elmira. If it is said that our people
are hardly up to the finest kind of music,
how much more can it be said that they
are not up to the ballet. They didn't
seem to appreciate it. Some most grace
full and beautiful dancing was allowed to
pass without murmur, while the athlet-
ic Jumps of the master of the ballet, his
gymnastic turns and evolutions, were en-
cored. Four of the principal ladies
were decidedly beautiful in their dane
ing, and looked pretty, except for their
white skirts that didn't reach to the
knee. Their dresses were the only ones
out of character, and out of harmony
with the play. The remainder of the
troupe wore graceful, neat, and not
immodest costume that was Assyrian,
that gave their limbs freedom of action,
and withal was very pretty. If there is
ali ungraceful and ridiculous costume for
a woman, it is the usual ballet girls
dress, the white gauze skirts, that are of
no possible use, either for protection OF
attraction. They had much better be
left off entirely. A woman thus &C
coutered looks like hen with all her
feathers plucked off except rim around
the center of her body, and becomes
rather an object for laughter and ridi-
cule than for admiration.
Year: 1877

Among the stories told about the late
Commodore Vanderbilt is the following,
related by an old resident OF Staten
Island: ,


During the warm and closely contested
Presidential campaign of 1874, when
James K. Polk and Henry Clay were
running as the respective candidates OF
the Democratic and Wing parties, there
was great enthusiasm and intense excite
ment on Staten Island relative to the
issue. Commodore Vanderbilt, who was
then in his prime, took great interest
in the fight, and was an ardent supporter
of Henry Clay, for whose success ne ex-
erted himself with all the vigor for
which he was so well noted. He was
among the foremost in getting up meet
ings and professions, and organized and
commanded magnificent troop OF horse
men composed Of about 500 of the finest
men in the Wing party on the island.
When the grand Clay and Frellnghuysen
procession took place in New York Com.
modore Vanderbilt and his troop OF
horsemen occupied very conspicuous
position in it, drew encomiums from oil
who saw them, and were greatly cheered.
The commodore, especially, presented, an
imposing appearance on account OF his
magnificent physique. At that time
Yankee" Sullivan kept barroom IN
Chatham street, just opposite City Hall
park. He was in his barroom with
gang of roughs as Commodore Wander
bits troop passed by, and hearing the
applause and noting the fine appearance
OF the commodore, he thought it a fine
opportunity of exhibiting to his friends
how he could "take the commodore
down." and rushing out he seized the
reins of his horse and tried to compel
him to alight. The horse reared, the
commodore cut Sullivan across the back
with his whip, and then, leaping to the
ground, so badly beat him that his
friends took him away in nearly sense
less condition. Commodore Vanderbilt
remounted and proceeded, and was not
molested again that day. AS every one
knows, Clay was defeated. The result
was, SO far as Commodore Vanderbilt
was concerned, that he went out of poll.
tics, and ever after kept entirely clear OF
party strife.
Year: 1877

At one time she was Mt q camp meet
ing, and mob of young rlltfians were
determined to break up the meeting.
She, at first, hid herself, from fear, but
afterward said to herself:


"What shall I rlm away and hide
from the devil-me, servant of the liv-
ing God? Have I not faith enough to
90 out and quell that mob, when know
It is written: 'One shall chase q thou
sand, and two put ten thousand to
fight?' I'll 60 to the rescue, and the
Lord will 90 with me to protect zoe"


She went out into the open field.
among the wild and reckless mob, and
commenced to sing in the most fervid
manner and with powerful voice
1t was early in the morning, it was early in the


morning,


Just at the break of day,


When He rose, when He rose, when He rose,


And went to Heaven on cloud.


Soon the crowd surrounded her, arm
ed with clubs and sticks. AS she ceased,
one spoke up: =,


"Sing on, old woman nobody shall
hurt YOU" Another said: "Talk to us,
old woman Another: "Pray, old
woman, and tell MS your experience y


So she talked and sung and prayed
until the subdued and convicted mob
quietly dispersed, and the exercises of
the camp meeting proceeded peacefully
to the close.
Year: 1877

was crossing a bridge over a wide
but shallow stream, in lonely place,
and accidentally fell off. When I say
shallow, mean for such wide body of
water. Isaw nobody near me and could
not swim a stroke. I knew how deep
the water was, and gave myself up for
lost. The quickness of the senses when
sudden death seems impending has fire.
quently been noted, but still, without
experience, no one can realize it. 1t is
rs if ones whole life were spread out in
a panorama before him, every portion of
which was visible at once. Every min
ute detail of things long forgotten, and
which when they happened were 80 tri-
fling that they apparently made no i'm
preston On the memory, stand out in
sharp and bold outline. I remembered,
for instance, games of marbles played
when I was boy, and futile attempt I
once made to transmute "commoney "
into "white alley" by roasting it in
the fire. I remembered how the marble
bllrsted in the operation, and how piece
of itstruck and cut the cheek of the boy
who had begrliled me into the expert
ment, and the satisfaction I experienced
at the retributive justice. 1t seemed as
if everything I had ever done, suffered,
or thought, was presented to my memory
at single fash.


Then struck the water, when sound,
which [ have since learned to iken to
the roar Of Niagara, burst on my ears
and stunned me with it's overwhelming
volume. remembered brief instant
of struggling and clutching, and then a
sense of sinking sinking-sinking- -
until I had reached depth of thousands
of fathoms. I neither suffered pain nor
felt alarmed, but had vague feeling
of being irresistibly borne to some cat
astrophe, the climax to which would be
terrible. Suddenly I found myself pos
sessed of the power of floating or watt
ing myself along by mere volition. With
q delicious feeling of lang1lid Incidence I
suffered myself to float about-not in
the water, but in the air-skimming over
the surface of the ground in whatever
direction I chose, hither and thither, as
wayward fancy led. I was conscious
that it was new power, and I exulted
in it's possession and reasoned on it's
nature. found that my body was as
light as the air in Which it moved, and
imagined that a thistle down would feel
as did, if possessed of consciousness.
Then I was in the water again, and
everything around me had roseate hue,
which speedily changed to green, then
to violet, and finally to utter darkness,
aud then all was blank.


AS I subsequently learned, some men
in skiff half mile away had seen me
fall into the water and hurried to my
assistance, but I had disappeared long
before they reached the spot. Many
minutes elapsed before they found me,
and full half an hour afterward before
the physicians, who had been summoned,
arrived. They pronounced Inc dead, and
that they made any attempt to resusci-
tate me was due solely to the persistence
of an intimate friend of mine who had
accompanied them.
Year: 1877

Sweet hour of prayer, sweet hour OF prayer,
That calls ME from world Of care,
And bids me at my Fathers throne
Makes all my wants and wishes known;
In seasons Of distress and grief,
My soul has often found relief,
And oft escaped the tempter's snare,
By thy return, sweet hour Of prayer.
Sweet hour of prayer, sweet hour OF prayer,
May thy consolation share,


Till from Mount Pisgahs lofty height,
I view my home and take my fight;
This robe of flesh Ill drop, and rise
To seize the everlasting prize,
And shout, while passing through the air,
Farewell. farewell, sweet hour of prayer.
Year: 1877

The Lake Shore railroad company, it
is said, will contest suits for damages on
account of the Ashtabula disaster. claim
ing that the breaking Of the bridge was
can act of God," for which they cannot
be held responsible. They will endeavor
to prove that the bridge was ordinarily
safe, and that cold weather weakened it.
Should they be defeated, the amount of
judgments would amount to about half a
million dollars.
Year: 1877

been liberated and that her majesty the
queen has presented him with sum OF
money sufficient to prevent him for the
rest of his days from again falling into
misery"


We never heard of Dubois after this,
and it is pleasant to think that at last he
found rest, peace and comfort


That is the story of FRANCOIS Dubois,
hero and galley slave, as it is written in
the police archives, the army records and
the Gazette des Tribunaur, how the
blind fury Of the law hunted him for
forty years, and to the verge of the grave,
for an otfense which he never committed!
Year: 1877

THANAToPsIs.- Thieves broke into the room
of William Cullen Bryant last week, and in the
love of garmenture got away with the poets
clothes, and if he could have held communion
with their visible forms for about five minutes
he would have spoken a varied language to them.
But they wrapped the drapery of his things
around them and went off with the innumerable
caravan that keeps itself shadowy in the day
time Burlington Hdtckeye.
Year: 1877

Tho following record win show tho changes In tho
temperature for tho past twenty four hours In com.
parson with the corresponding date year as ipd
Gated by the thermometer at Hudnut's pharmacy,
HERALD Building:-
Year: 1877

EX-SECRETARY BRISTOW N TOWN.


Fx-Secretary Bristow was at the Breyoort
House yesterday his way home from Saratoga, where
he has been spending few days Ho said 70 TRIBUNE
representative that he wholly ont Of public life, and
felt desire to return to it. He wanted Office, ap-
pointve electoral aud took interest in current
politics than any private citizen lie did not even care
express his opinions political subjects believing 1t
unwsc for man who intended TO devote himself entirely
10 the profession OF the law to allow himself 10 figure in
the newspapers as political oracle Gen BrislOW Will
take the stump in Onto elsewhere this ran; ana IL
was evident decided aversion he expressed to
public ife 1t would require issues absorbing
and important than any before the people TO draw
him the of politics again. He i in excellent
health and his friends will be glad 10 learn that he has
large and lucrative law practice.
Year: 1877

BosrON, Aug. 2S.-ln a recent interview with
a Globe correspondent, Senator Justin 5. Morrill, Of Yer


mont said in regard to the Presidents Southern policy


MY opinion is that large majority of the people
disposed to treat the Presidents policy fairly that it
may have a full opportunity TO be tested both by TIE
people in the South and the people in the North" The
trial of the cOncatory policy, he said, is iney
TABLE not by the Republican party by the
Democratic party" In regard 10 Civil Service
Reform, the Senator said there had never been
any abuses in Vermont. " II for minute"
he said it was thought that any official arTogated TO
himself power the distribution of official patronage
or places II would have been almost fatal TO him. Our
people don't like to be dictated to by OcehOlder hay
ing a mind OF their own" In Vermont he thinks the
Presidents order to Office holders will have much
effect the party machinery. The correspondent be-


eyes Senator Morrill, will be OF the strongest sup
pOrters OF President Hayes when Congress meets.
Year: 1877

LONDON, Tuesday, Aug. 2S, 1877


In telegram from Vienna the correspondent Of
Tie Times says that trustworthy information EN-
abes him TO state positively, that in the most
influential quarters of Russian Poland any Polish
agitation or movement intended to take advantage
of the difficulties in which Russia might find herself
would be regarded as a most fatal step TO the inter
ess Of Poland. There is Of course a small set which
has been very active since the Eastern complication,
and above all since the war began but it is alto
gether unin6uential Those who may really be
looked upon as leaders in Poland have spoken out
plainly so as to leave illusion in the minds of
either the Austrian Poles, who have lately adopteda
tone very hostile to Russia, or of enthusiastic for
eincrs The Poles in Russia trust to the force of
circumsanc which. they are convinced, must
bring about a reaction in their favor. They think
themselves quite competent to direct their own af-
fairs, and will not allow any else, not the
Poles dwelling outside Of Russia to speak act in
their name.
Year: 1877

It is certainly one of the most extensive tracts. in an almost level position and suitable condition for pleasant fan ming, that know of this side est farms apparently just as proftably productive as when cleared offorests fifty or hundred years ago.
Year: 1877

BAYARD made manly speech in the
Senate yesterday, in response to BLAINE
and in support of what is understood as
being HAYES future Southern policy.
He said that BLAISk's cry for further
sectional aggression fell on his ear like a
fire bell at midnight, and he earn
estly hoped it would not be
heard by the President and his consti,u-
tiopal advisers. The Delaware Senator
has the right and the sentiment of the
people OF the nation with him; but from
Radical party standpoint BLAINE has
decidedly the better OF the HAYES swim
dlers. He is right when he declares that
if PACKARD 10 not the legal Governor Of
Louisiana and KELLoaa Senator, HANS
is usurper IN the White House.