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Year: 1877

Kingsley's muscles and senses were far more vigorous than the rest of his constitutions: looking only to his looking only at his temperament, he was filter for monk. His brain, or his personality, as we may choose to phrase it, was steadily on the side of the robust and active element, but was never impervious to the other. Hence all who were really intimate with him

 were struck by the union of the most exquisite tenderness with manliness that often seemed aggressive. Hence, too, his personal production for mys- tical writers, even when he felt bound to protest against what he thought their demoralizing quietism. Hence, too, one is tempted to guess, an impulse to complete his conversion by renOunc- ing his love, an impulse which may have been the stronger because the sense of unwOrthiness, which is to be found in all true lovers. was very strong in him. It is hard not to suspect some personal animOsity in his repro bation of ofthedepreciation ofwedded love for himwas the onedamning sin ofwhich asceticism. Another consequence of Kingsley's constitution was extreme intellectual impatiece. The importu-

 nate muscular energy which made mental application in itself penance, became comparatively manageable by by the help of tobacco, which he learned to prize at Cambridge, though we find that when he had long been a hard d-working country parson he conld not work at writing when the weather nterfered with energetic exercise. But

 the exuberant vitality asserted in itself in another way-he threw himself read fly into cumulative attitude, and con- demned before he understood. After reading ten lines of Palmer on tht Church, he was sure that the book was
Year: 1877

HIt appears that in the seventeenth cen- tury, when the city of New York was but little more than a village, there was for long time no system of light ing the streets. On dark nights, each citizen who ventured out of doors was expected to provide himself with lan- tern; and at long intervals one might see lighted lamp hung in front of the door of some wealthy citizen.

 It was not until 1897 that the alder men were charged to enforce the duty, "that every seventh householder, in the dark time of the moon, cause a lantern and a candle to be hung out of his window on pole, the expense to be divided among the seven families"

 This was probably considered an ex- cellent way of street lighting at the time. But what a change would one of the aldermen of 1897 find, could he now follow on some moonless night the double line of gas lamps extending from theBattery to Fordham, a distance of fifteen miles! Who would not like to accompany him as he silently passed over the well paved way, once so wild and swampy, and to see his astonished gaze as the long lines of lighted lamps revealed tall fronts of stately marble stores and brown stone houses; and on through the beautiful Central Park and-still further, over we'll made roads out into the open country beyond it. yet still within the city's limits7 Dc you think that the ancient alderman would recognize in the great new city the quiet village that he once knew and loved 9-jSt. Nicholas.
Year: 1877




Universalist Quarterly.l


The foe of American social life
is in the tendency to luxury and
effeminacy among the well-to do
young women of our American
cities and large towns. They do not
realize how this dreadful mania for
expensive pleasures, and life of
alternate idleness and amusement
is destroying their health ; abolish
ing true marriage feeding the
flame Of gross sensuality and in
temperance among young men, and
Saddening the hopes of the best pa
rents in the land. Some of them
never will know it in this world.
But most of them has no real pur-
pose to waste their lives in this
wretched way. And it is a high
crime in mothers, teachers, minis
terS of religion and the public press
to pander to this insanity. Thou
sands of good-hearted young girls
are sacrificed every year when
a little wise and loving guild
ance could save them. But we
feel that they should be tcld that
unless they change this life they
will pass away like the flowers of
June, and a more hardy and reso-
lutte class occupy their places.
American society will shed every
class of triAers, male or female, that
do not do its work, as the forest
sheds its withered leaves. Let them
awake from their dream Of special
indulgences; learn to live out of
doors; to build up their health to
cultivate more simple tastes of
dress, and more moderation in
pleasure; study domestic economy;
study social skill and tact; fit them
selves for the noblest positions ever
vet offered to their sex, and learn
that woman is the soul of American
life, not the tinsel on its garment.
Year: 1877

Judge Black is engaged in the
Vanderbilt will case in New York,
in which he is reported to have said;
Commodore Vanderbilt's bump of
acquisitiveness, as a phrenologist
would call it, was in chronic state
of Inflammation all the time. 1t
grew wonderfully. And he culti-
waited it, and under his cultivation
all the intellectual faculties that
ministered to the qualification of
that passion grew at the expense of
everything else. Morally and re-
ligiously his mind was a bowling
wilderness. He did not content
himself by worshipping Mammon
alone, though certainly he was a
very Jealous devotee of that mean.
est and least erect of the spirits
that fell, whose worship is most
sure to demoralize the mind, and
TO corrupt while it weakens the I'M
derstanding. When this is carried
Year: 1877

In Their newspapers.
New York World


Eight of them have united to
purchase the right to shoot over a
small suburban farm. On the eve
of the opening of the season a
happy thought comes into the head
of one of the lessees, and he writes
seven anonymous letters to his sew
en- partners, urging each, as he val
ues the honor of his family, and if
he would thwart a heartless Sc
ducer, to be at an Indicated spot in
the Bois next day at l pm, and
keep an eye on his wife. Next day
be has pleasant days shooting all
to himself.
Year: 1877

A lady in our neighborhood who had
suffered for over three months the most
extreme torture by violent cough, has
become completely cured by DR.. Bull s
Cough Syrup. For sale in every drug
store.
Year: 1877

to a very great extent, unquestion-
ably its victim cannot be considered
a sane man. The love of money in
time amounts to a mania" If that
be so, what a lot of maniacs we
have in this country.
Year: 1877

a great deal might be written in re-
gard TO the long delay that occurred yes.
terday morning between the discovery OF
the fire in the Grant House stables and
the appearance OF an engine on the
ground. 1t is, Of course, an easy matter
to find fault with the Department, but as
long rs people have to run around town
and wake up the tiremen, it does not seem
as ii We could hope for any very prompt
assistance from the Fire Department in
cases ci emergency at night time. The
defect is in our system, or in other words
in the fact that those who have charge oi
the engines sleep at their homes and not
at the Hose houses, and that there is no
speedy means Of communicating an alarm
OF fire to said Hose houses. 1t is easy to
see that these two drawbacks are the weak
spots in our Fire Department, and that
they must always make it inefficient.
Year: 1877

was being drawn from Milwaukee to
Chicago. The reason for adopting this
unusual course was that a speedy deci.
sion was desired from the Judge, and as
his engagements compelled him to pro.
coed to Chicago shortly after the argument
commenced at Milwaukee, the opposing
lawyers agreed to accompany him on
the trip, and continue their discussion
while the train was progressing with
its usual rapidity. The matter under
consideration related to railway litiga
tion, and there was, therefore, pee uliar
propriety in this instance in having one
Of the commodious cars Of the present
day converted into temporary temple OF
Justice.
Year: 1877

BIDDDEFoRp, Me, March SO.-Under
the pressure Of the ice and water in the
Saco river, B. c. Jordan's saw mill with
valuable machinery, was swept away at
the Salmon falls last evening. Another
mill ofthe same party, is partly under
mined andit is thought that it will also
so, in which case it Is feared that 1t will
carry away the dam and cause n great
destruction along the river.
Year: 1877

These gentlemen, the prOprietors of
the Grant House, have the warm and
active sympathies Of all our people in the
misfortune that fell upon them yesterday
morning. Every body is glad to know
this misfortune is greatly mitigated by
the amount OF their insurance, and all
join in hopeing that it will not be long
until the Grant House will rise from its
ashes, and become again like its prede.
cessor, one Of the popular institutions Of
Wheeling.
Year: 1877

PARIS, March 3O.-The report on pub.
lie worship estimates has been read before
the Finance Committee, it sets forth the
necessity OF enforcing the obedience OF
the Clergy to civil law, and declares ii
high time to bring the Clergy back to
strict observance Of the Concordat.
Year: 1877

Secretary John Bright has written to
Gen. Eaton, Commissioner Of Education,
that there Is great and universal satisfac.
ton here at the settlement OF your Presi.
dental difficulty, and the good sense Of
your people is admitted and admired on
this side Of the Atlantic.
Year: 1877

Nowhere else is such diversity of pros
duction practicable as in the State OF
Texas, nor is there to be found coun-
try possessing more natural resources
within her own borders, nor one that can
be made more nearly self-sustaining.
Nowhere else can as good land, in as
large quantities, as near to good mar
kets, be had at as low prices-lands upon
which can be successfully grown almost
every product known to the markets OF
the world.
Year: 1877

General Tom Ewing made a sDeech
to large assemblage of people last
evening, on the occasion of a serenade
in which he denounced the Eastern
press with bi,terest emphasis, ami
spoke of his perfect faith in the pass
age of the Specie Resumption Repeal
bill by the Senate and its approval by
the President.
Year: 1877

THERE is no doubt but that the Cen
eral Episcopal. Convention In session at
Boston will confirm the action Of the
Virginia Diocesan Convention at Staun-
ton, and erect West Virginia into a sepa-
rate diocese. The House OF Deputies
passed Judge Thompson's bill to that
effect unanimously yesterday.
Year: 1877

1t now appears that there is to be n
vote all round at Steubenville as to who
shall be Postmaster. The Gazette Of yester.
day evening announces in doublcleadcd
editorial that the Postmaster General al
Washington has been communicated with
by the Secretary Of the Democratic Coun.
" Committee in reference 10 the elec.
ton ordered by the Republican City
Committee for the 18th, and that he
ia, replied to the following effect:


"Thc order was not authorized by the
PostoiIice Department, nor by the Presi-
dent, nor upon consultation with them.
AZ the notice for the election was not
officially ordered or authorized, the result
would Of course not be binding upon the
Department, nor upon the President.
The Department recognizes the right Of
the patrons Of that Postoiiice to hold an
election IL they are disposed to do 80
upon their own motion, and il report
Of the result Of such an election should
be forwarded to the department it would
he considered in case Of vacancy or
change there.


On the strength Of this letter from The
Postmaster. General, the Chairman Of the
"Democratic City Central Committee" at
SteubenSiIIe appears in print with
rival notice to that OF the Chairman Of the
Republican Committee, setting forth that
on Saturday next, the 18th, there will
he an election for Postmaster Of the city
OfSIeubenvilIe "aI which all pltrons Of
the ice,Iirrespective Of party, race or
color mark the vNstueSs oil Democratic
liberality these days. will be entitled to
vote"


"ln case no candidate receives u ma.
jOrity OF all the votes cast, there will be
second election held on Saturday Oct.
2Olh, at the same hours and at the same
places, the candidates being the two high.
eat candidates at the previous election"


We presume that next Saturday will
be lively day at SteubcnvilIe. The
great rivalry will be to poll as many votes
as possible at the competitive voting
places. The Democracy have opened
wide the doors and called on the vox
pOpnli 10 roll in freely without fear OF
interruption. They interpret the Post
master Generals letter as encouraging
them 10 give expression to their prefer.
ence, and while it will bear that interpre.
tation it is about as guarded a docu.
ment as we have read for some time.


The wise thing for the Democracy to
do is to pick out the very fittest Rcpubli.
can they can find in Steubcnville for the
Office, and let the people Of that city, as
well as the Department at Washington
zee that they are not after anything in
the nature Of partisan victory, but sim.
ply desirous to get capable officer who
will be acceptable to all classes of patrons.
Year: 1877

The claws" introduced at Odd Fellows
Hall calling for special provisions relative
to country parishes or regulations affecting
iurOrs, sheriffs, clerks, holidays, landlords,
tenants and corporations Except in the par
ish of Orleans" would create confusion if
there was any chance of making them
operative. There is a great deal of this
sort Of legislation now on the statute book.
A little more will leave Orleans without 9
single provision in common with the rest of
the State. Here one now has the choice as
plaintiff of i've justices and four inferior
courts to sue in and may be summoned into
any Of them as defendant; he can vote for
the clerk of the Second Judicial District,
but must be summoned as q Juror in the
first, but is in doubt as to either if he lives
in the extreme upper wards. Out of this
parish the jurisdiction of 8 justice is very
different from within it. Many other more
or less important exceptions exist, but the
tendency to crazy legislation shows that
g man will have to get q special act
passed to determine his locality before he
can be party to suit or q witness, make
q lease or draw draft, give bond or &C.
eept bill, determine lease or preserve
his rights as tenant or owner, pay his taxes
or go to iail
Year: 1877

NEW YORK, August H.-Judge DonoAue
this morning gave judgment in the case of
striker II. j. Danohue- He says the acts COM
planned OF were not denied, and IL WAS noex-
case to allege the prisoner was not aware the
railroad was in the hands OF officers of the
court. A similar plea might be made In a
petty larceny case that the thief did not
know the property belonged TO the person
mentioned in the Indictment After point
ing out the gravity of the offense, the court
says IL should be borne In mtnd that the Of
fenses are such that the prisoner may be In
dicted for them. Therefore, he allows the
prisoner 10 be discharged at the expiration OF
30 days from the arrest, which Will be next
Wednesday.
Year: 1877

ORhENBkIEk WHITE bULPHU SPR s,
w. VA, August I1.-Gen. Wade Hampton
was serenaded last night by the volunteer
companies in camp here. He responded I'm
a patriotic speech, In the course Of which he
said he was willing to pledge the people OF
The north that If equality In the enforcement
government in the north and south, the peo-
pie OF South Carolina would prove as brave,
honest and loyal In defence Of the govern
ment and constitution of the United states
as any people OF this republic. When be said
constitution he meant all OF the amend ments
and all they implied. He said We did not
need a large standing army, but each state
must rely upon its volunteer soldiery for de-
fepse. They were then the custodians OF our
peace.


The rerorts sent from here Of the strike of
the pegro walters were greatly exaggerated.
Year: 1877

AN IMPORTANT MovEMkNr-Informs
ton re aches us Of an important movement
on The part OF certain leading Hebrews OF the
joint stock company for the purchase OF the
Beoford Springs property, which would be
owned and managed by Hebrews, and made
national resort for people OF that race. II Is
erable favor among those Interested. aud
that al the same time that the springs are for
sale, nucleus for the purchase money he
q quarter of q million Of dollau.lCsnsoW
land llfd.l Neus.
Year: 1877

Shut BUT eOLvENT.-Tne excitement In
Brooklyn, N. Y, over the suspension OF the
Long Island savings bank continues, not
the bank IL perfectly solvent, and that the
shutting down under the sixty day rule is in
order to avoid needless sacrifice of securities
Year: 1877

PAY OF CADET MIDsHIP Sec
retary OF the Navy will 5000 issue an order
fixing the pay of coast midshipmen who have
finished their academic course and are un
dergoing their two years course of iustruC-
ton at sea before graduating. Tue naval
appropriation bill passed at the last session
of Congress provides that the pay OF ca let
midsbipmen while serving at sea in other
than practice ships shall not exceed $3.50 per
annum. The class which finished the acads-
mic course I'm June last numbers forty three
members. Some of them have already be- n
ordered TO sea, and others will be or Ter, d
soon.
Year: 1877

B9~The architect who discovers a
plan whereby a double house may be
built so that you can hear all that is said
next door, without the people in the
adjoining house being able to hear a
word uttered in your side, will have no
reason to complain of a stagnation in
business.
Year: 1877

~ Clover is the worst crop that can
be sown in an orchard. The roots pen
citrate into the subsoil, and suck out all
the moisture. Clover is much more in
furious to an orchard than grass.
Year: 1877

| which will be that in some localities at
least, no man can hope to win Office un-
less he has money enough - buy the
idle voters On the other hand great
injustice may be worked against deserv-
ing citizens. We can readily imagine
q case OF a worthy man, endowed with
the highest moral and mental faculties,
who may become the victim of
misfortune, losing his property
and physically disabled from earn
ing money. Yet this man, because he
would be too proud and too honorable to
permit another to pay his capitstion tax
ss Q compensation for his vote, would be
deprived of what is the dearest right of
every Americsn-his right of suffrage.
We are always willing to deprecate that
species of demagoguery which is always
crying out in behalf OF the poor man ard
complaining of the extortion of the rich;
yet we do think that if our organic law is
to be changed and to embody principles
SO repugnant to our American ideas OF
republicsnism, the subject should be
discussed in all its bearings, not
only as to immediate results
but as 10 what effect it may have as q
precedent for the future. 1t Is nothing
more or less than prescription, and if
one class OF the community can be dis
francbised of political power to-day, why
not another class be disfranchised in the
future, and SO on until the majority
shall at last perpetuate its power by
wholesale disfrar chsement of the mi
nority. Property needs all the protec-
tion aud safeguards which it can legiti.
mately secure, but when we commence
to protect the right of property by
sacrifice of personal rights, We have
furnished fuel to start the volcanic fires
of q communism which will sooner or
ster destroy us.
Year: 1877

For finding the interest on any princip al
for any number of days. The answer in
each case being in cents, separate the two
right hand figures of the answer to express it
in dollars and cents


Four per cent.-Multiply by the number
of days and divide by seventy-two.


Six per cent.-Multiply by the number of
days, separate the right hand figure, and di.
vide by six.


Eight per cent-Multiply by the number of
days, and divide by forty y-fve.


Nine per cent-Multiply by the number of
days, separate the right hand figure, and d.
vide by four.


Ten per cent.-Multiply by the number of
days, and divide by thirty-fve.


Twelve per cent.-Multiply by the number
of days, separate the right hand figure, and
divide by three.


Fifteen per cent.-Multiply by the number
of days and divide by twenty-four.


Eighteen per cent.-Multiply by the num-
Der of days, separate the right hand figure,
and divide by two.


Twenty per Multiply by the number
of days, and divide by eighteen.
Year: 1877

About three years ago gentleman OF this
city went East On a visit to his old home. one
Of his brothers there had bright and beautl-
full little son, not yet two years OF age. The
boy-little Benny-soon became strongly at
tached to his ''Uncle Ben, from Washoe, y
whose namesake he was. Uncle Ben often
took the little fellow in his arms in the sum-
mer evenings, and, seated in the porch, talked
him to sleep. AT such times he would point
out the evening star, telling the boy that far,
far away, just under that star, was his home.
The child would look long at the star, then
for as long gaze up in the face of his Uncle,
as though thinking on what bright and
beautiful place his home must be. At last
the day came when Uncle Ben was to leave
for his home in the far West. Little Benny
knew this as well as any one about the house,
and, with both eyes and ears, was on the
alert. He would not allow his uncle to be q
minute out of his sight. Several attempts on
the part of Uncle Ben to steal away resulted
in such fits of crying that he was obliged to
return and soothe the child. However, the
child, wcaiied with crying and watching, at
last fell asleep in his uncle's arms. When he
awoke Uncle Ben was far away. Long the
boy looked for his uncle, and often called his
name. Many times of evenings lie was found
gazing earnestly at the brighter star that stood
as guard over his uncle's home. AS he
grew, his love of the star deepened, and he
talked more and more of it and his uncle,
both so far away at the edge of the sky. Even
when three years had passed, and Benny was
nearly five years old, his belief in the story
told him by his uncle continued. Poor boy !
another year was never added to his age. 1t
was his fate to die fearful death. BY &C.
cident he was scalded over nearly his whole
body, and lived but four hours. He seemed
to read in the faces of the dear ones about
him that he must soon die. He bore his pain
manfully, only uttering an occasional moan.
AS the shades of evening deepened he was
seen to turn his face anxiously towards the
window of his room. At last he asked: ''1s
it there-the starr" He was told that the star
was there and shining brightly. Feebly he
said: "I'ake me to the window He was
carried to the window A smile lighted up
his face as he said ''Ah, there it is! Now
can find the way to Uncle Ben-I can see his
STAR" He closed his eyes as though wearied.
The smile faded out of his face. One moan,
as he was laid on his bed, and the light of his
life had gone out and up to meet and mingle
with that of the star he so long had watched
and loved Virginia Enterprise.
Year: 1877

A very simple relief for neuralgia is to boil
a small handful of lobelia in half a pint of
water till the strength is out of the herb, then
strain it off and add teaspoonful of fine
salt Wiring cloths out of the liquid, as hot
as possible, and spread it over the part affec-
ted. 1t acts like charm. Change the cloths
as soon as cold till the pain is all gone; then
cover the place with soft, dry covering till
all perspiration is over, so as to prevent TAX
ing cold. Rheumatism can often be relieved
by application to the painful parts of cloths
wet in a weak solution of sal soda in water.
If there is inflammation in the joints the cure
is very qnick. The wash needs to be luke
warm
Year: 1877

The Princess Mercedes, to whom the King
of Spain is paying court, exacts from her
admirer all the little attentions that the bellies
of Seville and Granada are accustomed to.
One of his duties is to sing to the tinkle of q
guitar under her balcony at night; and on
these occasions he is accompanied by the
Duke de Sexto, who stands at distance un-
observed. The marriage will probably take
place next February.