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Year: 1877

The following sentiments expressed
by Daniel Webster near the time of
his death, though frequently quoted,
pay such tribute to the Christian re-
igion that we present them again:


especially that drawn from the vast
ness of the universe, in comparison
with the pparentinsignifcance of this
globe, has sometimes shaken my rea-
son for the faith which is in me; but
my heart has always assured and re-
assured me that the gospel of Jesus
Christ must be a divine reality. The
Sermon on the Mount cannot be q
merely human production. This be-
lief enters into the very depth of my
conscience. The whole history o.
man proves it. DANIEL WEBSTER"
Year: 1877

Cover thickly the grave


Where now sleeps the brave.
Who for country and home his noble lif,
gave.
Some sleep on the hillside, some sleep or
the plain;
Some are honored with marble, deep cut
with their name;


While others as brave,


Have no monument. save
The 'ceather ,corn board at the head ofthC
grave.
In the sea, the deep sea, hid away mid the
wrecks,
Full many grave the seaweed bedecks,
And the waves it is said


Rock them in their bed:
But e'en the sea by and by must give up
it's dead,
Bring beautiful flowers come hasten away
Let us show our gratitude here to-day
10 the venerable dead


For their country who bled
And stayed not for us their life-blood to
shed.
Should there happen, as may be, that some
lowly mound,
Hid away in some nook, should fail to be
found,


Let us on nature call,


That her blossoms may fall
And adorn it with beauty more profusely
than all.
Year: 1877

WANTED--A GooD CONSCIENCE
There is no article SO rare, none for
which the market price is so high, as
a good conscience; nothing for which,
in others, men are willing to pay such
good wages. We all want carpenters
that will put no green timbers and no
sappy boards in our houses, masons
who will mix no mortar with ill-slack-
ed lime, farmers who will put no this
ties and no stones in the center OF
Year: 1877

Sin is most terrible wound in hu-
man nature. Tho uirnlanaa of tl.u
poison is dreadful. The sting has
penetrated the aggregate of our hui
manity; the race is infamed by the
venom Of it. AS a gloomy back
ground sin clouds and darkens our
whole history. Sin is cumulative.
One sin opens the way for and makes
necessary another. The first sin is
the entrance on an evil path which
conducts to the pit. Once in this
way of death, how will you get out
Satan would persuade you that there
is no escape save by the commission
OF an additional transgression. If
you have DETAINED your neighbor or
taken his goods by unchristian meth
ods, he would have you believe that
only an untruth for this one can get
you out Of trouble. How many a
poor soul has stumbled on in this wav?
The foot once in, the whole course
seems inevitable. You seem to be
struggling in a network of evil, from
which escape is impossible. But it is
not so. Your sin should lead you to
the Lord Jesus. He only can break
its power; but He can, and He came
on purpose to save sinners. In your
distress and sense of sin, fly unto Him
who came as our great Rescuer in the
grand shipwreck of humanity.
Year: 1877

In DR.. Hollands life of Lincoln, we
find the following characteristic letter,
written by the martyred President.
Wishing to add our mite to the trib-
ute of honor to be paid to the noble
dead, on decoration day, we have made
it the subject for an attempt at
poetry.
Year: 1877

PRESIDENT HAYES AND THE ARMY.
The New York World takes exceptions
10 the Presidents deferring the meetingof
Congress. 1t says "The President has
issued his proclamation canvening the
houses of Congress sin anticipation of
the day fixed by law for their next meet
ing, " and calling upon them to assemble
at noon on the 18th day of October next
In this proclamation he gives his reasons
for thus convening Congress, and states
1t to be the fact that the FoIty-fourth
Congress finally adjourned "without
making the usual appropriation for the
support of the army for the fiscal year
ending June so, 1875" In these words
he plainly condemns his own action. Of
the ''year ending June 80, 1875" more
than one-quarter part will have expired
before the date fixed by him for action
by Congress upon the question Of making
or not making ''the usual appropriation
for the support CT the army" The Presi-
dent therefore calmly assumes the right
of keeping up the army for one-fourth of
year without the authority of the only
body which can legalize the support of
an army by the United States. 1t is a
matter Of common notoriety that be does
this for the political convenience of his
own Administration. But it is a pretty
serious question whether the people of
tAlS country can afford to allow an Ex-
ecutlve TO usurp in this way the constitu-
tlonal power of Congress to "ralse and
support armies" even for one-ouarter of
fiscal year the President himself hay-
ing explicitly stated that no appropriation
has been made for that purpose to cover
mat time. The question is whether any
army at all can be lawfully ''raised" or
supported in this country by the authori-
ty of the Executive alone, when Con-
sress, IN the exercise Of its own exclusive
ana absolute power to raise or not tn
rdlse, to support or not to support an
army, has deliberately chosen not to make
any appropriation for the support of am
army


The objections raired by the World
seem sound and well laid. The precedent
IS dangerous one. But we have had so
many such precedents that the people
nave grown insensible to the danger tha.
may arise from them. Still we hope that
we are on the way to a return to the
constitution as it was formerly constrped Il
andto safer times. But it seems strange
that call should be issued at this earl,
day for ameeting Of Congress in October
Year: 1877

THE PAMPHLET LAws.-I. e. Grubb
Esq, Secretary of State, has been very
diligent, late and early, in his efforts to
get the laws, passed at the last session OF
the Legislature, printed and distributed
by the meeting of the May Term of the
Court of this county. They will be dis
,'ibuted tomorrow. As tue volume
makes about four hundred paqes, this is
very expeditions work and it is doubt
ful whether it would have been done
anywhere else in the same time. 1t GER
tainly could not have been done without
great sacrifice to the officer having it in
charge. This sacrifice the Secretary has
willingly made to meet the interest of the
State ard such people as required early
copies of the laws; as it required no small
share of the time he devotes TO his pri-
vate law practice, the sacrifice has not
been light. This expedition is certainly
very creditable to the Secretary and the
State Administration.
Year: 1877

1t now looks as if Russia had deter


mined to settle If possible once and for


ever the questions at issue between her


and the oppressor Of her Christian allies,


by wiping the Mohammedan power from


the map of Europe and thus realizing


also the great dream of Mrscovile am


bition. What resources Russia has to


maintain her naval power upon the Black


Sea are almost wholly unknown, for she


has carefully guarded the secret. But in


1870 she gave notice that she considered


the Treaty of Paris, which restricted her


armament, as no longer binding and


more than six years of unfettered pre-


paration may have produced force that


will surprise the world


Nothing but the presence Of such a


naval force to carry supplies across the


Black Sea to her advancing legions, on
its southern coast, is necessary to her
rapid and victorious march through Ash
attic Turkey to Constantinople. The
capital once taken, the appropriation of
the European provinces would be easy
enough, and the fall Of the eastern por-
tion OF the empire would almost certainly
follow.


Will the other nations consent to such
a sweeping conquest? The affirmative
answer seems possible now for the first
time in history. EI4gland if we judge
rightly after a most careful scrutiny of
the public indications, will only make
opposition enough to make sure OF her
own share of the booty. Egypt is anxious
for an English alliance, and has long
been maintained by English capital; if
England can therefore appropriate that
portion of the divided empire, she can
hope for nothing more. Austria will be
quite content with annexing the provinces
on her southern and eastern border
Persia will occupy Bagdad and extend
her whole border westward. Germany,
now the only rival in many respects to
the great Russian Empire, has her heart
set on extending her dominion to the sea
in another direction, and if allowed to
appropriate Holland, will abandon the
Turk to his fate. Nothing remains for
France but Palestine. To be mistress
OF the Holy Places, so sacre TO the who're
Christian world, and to bring Jerusalem
and its surroundings under the protection
of the Catholic Church, would tickle the |
national vanity and crafty large and |
party in the French Republic. |
This, and to be let alone of her old an
tagonist until she can match her In the |
field, will be all that she can exact
Journal Of Commerce.
Year: 1877

THE NEW BOARD OF HEALTH, we fear
is not likely to give as much attention to
the interest of the city as the Old one|
There was evidently too much small
political trickery displayed in the foima.
tion of the new Board and its early Or
ganization. MIR. Thatcher, who represent
ed the Seventh ward in the old Boare
- ould have been retained out of respect
for the service he rendered the city in his
efforts to have the Brandywine water free
from the poisonous chemicals which were
emptied into it at the mills up that stream.
he discharged his duty faithfully and did a
good work in stopping this. Through his
efforts Measrs. Jessup & Meore have
been induced to put in a sewer through
which the horrid stuff that has heretofore
been emptied into the water we drink,
will be carried below the first dam and
emptied into the old race on the north
side of the Brandywine. 1t is hoped the
new Board will see that this work will
be carried out to the letter.
Year: 1877

= CAUGHT AT LAsT.-Our special des-
patch from the Indian country brings the
most welcome news that has come from
the prairies for years. That most able
and dangerous chief Crazy Horse has
come in to the reservation with his enor-
nous band Of twelve hundred warriors
under five chiefs besides Crazy Horse him
self. Wha apprehension, labor and sufi:
ering is saved the army and the borderers
by this surrender no Eastern man can
imagine; what the saving in money is to
country which spends somewhere in
the neighborhood Of million dollars for
every Indian it kills on the field may be
estimated without much trouble.
Year: 1877

OIL by any one of either sex in any part
OF the country who is willing to work stead


ly at the employment that we furnish, 200
per week in your own town. You need not
be away from your home at night. You can
give YOUR whole time to the work, or only
Your spare moments. We have agents who
are making over $40 per day. All who en-


gage at once can make money fast. AT the
present time money cannot be made 50 easily
and rapidly at any other business. 1t costs
nothing TO try the business Terms and 20
outfit free. Address at once, II. HALLErT x
Co., Portland, Maine. l6o-om!
Year: 1877

An interesting exhibition Of the abilities
of trained bear was given in New York
few days ago. The animal is one of four
owned by couple of French nomads,
who call themselves the brothers Adrian
They have taught him TO dance, to exer-
else in the military fashion, and to wrestle
in the Greco o-Roman style. The skill dis
played by the bear in wrestling is indeed
remarkable. He was, however, altogether
too ardent to encourage novices to engage
with linn. His antagonist yesterday was
a 1.-THE young Frenchman whom Bruin
gripped in exceedingly human and humane
fashion, and overthrow him three separate
times. Having placed the man on his back
the bear each time deliberately pressed his
shoulders aud hips on the ground SO as to
cause fair fall. Having affected this,
however, he wanted to roll his antagonist
around, and had to be coaxed away from
him with a CLUB The owner of the bear
offers to give $500 to any professional wrest-
ler who will vanquish the animal, guaran-
teeing that the beast will not hurt him
with his claws, and will wrestle fairly. The
bear is of Pyrennean origin. and about
twenty years old. He is grizzly in name,
but is not SO grizzly now as he is said to
have been short time ago, as his coat of
fur is undergoing change in accordance


with the season. t.s+ ..e t
Year: 1877

There is a river i'm the ocean. I'm the
severest drouths it never fails, and in the
mightiest food it never overfows. It's
banks and its bottom are of cold water
while its current is of warm. The Gulf of
Mexico is its fountain, and it's mouth is in
the Arctic seas. It is the gulf str SAM.
There is in the world no other SO majestic
flow of water. It's current is more swift
than the Mississippi or the Amazon, and
it's volume more than 1000 times greater.
Its waters, SO far as the Carolina coasts
are indigo blue. They are so distinctly
marked that the common sea water can be
traced with the eye. Often one-half the
vessel may be seen floating in the. Gulf
stream waters while the other half is in the
common water of the sea, SO sharp is the
line and want of affinity between these
waters: and such, too, the reluctance, so to
speak, on the part of those of the Gulf
stream to mingle with the common waters
of the sea. I'm addition to these there is
another peculiar fact. The fishermen ON
the coast of Norway are supplied with
wood from the tropics by the Gulf stream.
Think of thu Arctic fishermen burning up
on their hearths the palms of Hayti, the
mahogany of Honduras and the precious
woods of the Amazon and the Oorinoco.
Year: 1877

/ F


Steal" said the old man, in accents Of
intense scorn. Steal, why, you would be
| astonished to find how large proportion


of the travelling public are Internal thieves.


They steal the bed-clothing, pillows, boot
jacks, soap, soap-dishes-everythi in


fact, they can carry off. Everybody steals


soap. We expect that and don't kick.
| You'd be surprised to hear that-a noted


Indiana politician makes the practice of
putting the soap into his valise every time


he pays his bill. He doesn't seem to use


much Of it himself, but I think he takes it


home to the children. The first thing to
| be done when fellow comes to the Office to
| pay his bill is to send the porter up to his


room to see if anything is missing. When


a fellow comes down with his valise in his
| hand we are unusually suspicious. The


only way to get even with the thieves is to
| keep a thief account. Whenever anything
| is missed charge it up at a fair value and
| the next time I catch thief in the act I


make him pay the entire amount or go to
jail. One day nice looking fellow came
down with a valise IN his hand and inquired


the amount of his bill. The minute saw
him knew he had stolen something SO !


rang the bell and gave the porter the wink.


I pottered about the books while the porter


was gone, and I could see that he was get


ting uneasy. He had a notion to bolt, but
just then the porter came down and saw
by his eye that something was missing. /
jumped over the counter and grabbed the


rascal by the throat. Open that valise you


thief, says I. He got very white about the


gills, and began to beg. When the valise


was opened sure enough there was new


bed-spread for which had paid So. 'Bill,'


says I, bring me the thief account


footed it up and it amounted to just $56.
.You pay that said I, sor go to jail He


thought it was very hard to have to pay for
other mems stealings, but ON the whole con-
cluded that 1t was cheaper than to go to


the penitentiary. Compounding felony?


Well, yes, it did have that complexion.


But maybe it nipped thief in the bud.
uo SlIlo ctio SouO1aiiy AouCob, ohOuSA ouCC


in while we catch one of them. One time
| there was an Internal tree peddler stopping
| with us, and he had black satin vest sto-


len. I paid him $5 for it. He described it


very accurately. There was yellow spot


on the collar, where he had dropped some
acid on it, and his name in full was written
on the leather with which it was bound at
| the bottom. suspected the girl Mary.
| We watched her for week or two, and con-


cluded we were mistaken, when one day
fellow came in with black satin. and there


was round yellow spot on the collar. 1t


was Mary's sweetheart. collared him,


jerked up his vest, and found the name of
the tree peddler on the leather He owned


up that Mary had stolen thevest and given
| il to him. At that time the thief account


was only 81, and SO he got off cheap"
Year: 1877

CHANGE OF AIR.-An occasional change
Of air may be said to be- almost necessary
totthe well being Of every man. Every
workman must leave his workshop, the
student his library and the lawyer his


Office, or sooner or later his health will pay
the penalty; and this no matter, how. great


his temperance In eating or drinking; no
matter how vigorously and regularly he
uses hls limbs; no matter how open and
dry and free from impurity the air may be
in the place In which he 10 employed. In
the slightest case of impaired health, the
sleeping in tho suburbs of the town in
which the life is chiefly spent, or even
spending few hours of detached days in
some accessible rural district at a few miles
distaace from the dwelling, may help to
restore the healthy balance of the bodily
functions, and maintain the bodily machine
in fit state for its duties; or in cases of
someWh at more urgency, or of, somewhat
more. aggravated character, afewd days once
or twice year may suffice to adjust or re-
store the due economy Of the system,
Year: 1877

The glory Of summer has gone blythe
beautiful greenness has become withered
and dead. We're this all-were there no
associations of moral desolation-of faded
hopes--of hearts whitening in the bosoms
of the living-connected with the decay
ing scenery around us we would notindulge
in moments melancholy. The season of
flowers will come again-the streams will
flow gracefully as before-tEe trees will
again toss their cumbrous heads of green
ness to the sunIight-and by mossy stone
and winding rivulet the coming blossoms
will start up at the bidding of their guar
dian. But the human heart has no change
like that OF nature. It has no returning
spring-time. Once blighted in its honr OF
freshness and it bears forever the mark or
the spoiler. The dews Of affection may
fall. and the gentle rain of sympathy be
iayished upon it--but the stone root Of
blighted feeling will never again waken IN
I'd life-nor the crushed flowers Of hope
blossom with their wonton beauty.
Year: 1877

There is another kind Of literature in
which there is danger, and that is the daily
newspaper. | think that the newspaper
sprang up as a casual thing.-a thing unde-
termined; but the newspaper is becoming
one of the great institutions of modern
civilization, and it's experience has been as
human character has been, to come up
through mistakes and blunderg. Ali we
can ask of these great peripatetie legisla-
tors of public opinion is, that they should
conform to disclosures of right as they 60
along. I think that they are conforming
gradually to the expert ence of the world and
going through the process of evolution TO-
ward more perfect state. Formerly the
regnant idea of newspaper was news, and
that whatever was news should 60 in, but
there is news that springs from the top Of
head, from the intellectual faculties, and
news which comes from the physical indus
tries of life as the result of the will, and
news which springs from the strife of the
passions, in which Quarrels and all sorts of
strife are developed There is news which
springs from the affections and news which
springs from the appe!ites, and news which
springs from everything, in their highest
forms, in their intermediate forms, and in
their lowest forms. There are many of
our great Journals that are steadily every
year sorting their news, refusing to put in
as news very startling things, but which
are below the equatorial line of propriety.
If the newspaper of to-day is at fault, the
fault is with you. DO not blame the edi-
tor altogether, although his blame is some
thing; but you that take that paper, be-
cause you like to see what il in it;.you that
don't like to let it 60 into your families,
but will read it at your place of business;
you that disdain the man thsE conducts it,
and would not touch him-you it is that
gives the power to the newspaper. What
would you think of the man that would
take his nightly rideon muck cart, and
should keep opening the lid and smelling
the garbage; but here this picking and pry-
ing and stewing in the duppings of men's
passions and apretiteS goes ea day after
day, and you like it; you talk about it and
denounce the man that puts it before you.
Is this manly? If this 1ghte When the
market fails the goods won't be manafae-
tured any longer.
Year: 1877

A CLOCK THAT Strikes THIRTEEN
The Duke Of Brldgewater was very fond of
watching his men at work, especially when
any enterprise vas on foot. When they
were boring for coal at WorsIey, the Duke
came every morning and looked on for a


long time. The men did not like to leave
off work while he remained there, and they
became dissatisfied at having to. work SO
long beyond the hour at which the bell
rang that Brindley had difficulty in get
ting sufficient number of hands to con-
tinue the boring. On inquiry he found out
the cause and com municated it to the
Duke, who from that time made it point
of Immediately walking off when the bell
ang-returning when the men had re-
sumed work, and remaining with them
until six o'clock. He observed, however,
that though the men dropped work prompt
ly as the bell rang when he was not by,
they were not nearly SO punctual in re-
suming work-some struggling in many
minntes after time. He asked to know the
reason, and the mems excuse was that they
could always hear the clock when it struck
twelve, but could not SO readily hear it.
when it only struck one. On hearing this
the Duke had the mechanism Of the clock
altered SO as TO make it strike thirteen at
one o'clock it continues to do to
this day. t44 -S 38& Es
Year: 1877

HALJ dozen or so of the editors of
the Chicago Inter. Ocean have Federal
offices, aud yet that paper is rolling
around under the feet OF the President
irving to trip him up and floor him on
his Southern policy.
Year: 1877

TNFoRMATI N at hand shows that the
leading Savings Banks, and Insurance Com
panies of New York, will soon reduce the
interest on loan from seven to six per cent.
This reduction means loss Of $500, 600 =
year to one corporation, and it certainly
wonld never have been agreed upon by the
able financiers in charge of the institutions
mentioned, unless from sheer necessity.
they demand the best of security for loans,
and in the present condition of finances,
With large amounts of surplus capital ac-
cumulating in business centres and lying
Idle, they find they cannot loan their sur
plus capital at the ra es Of interest which
they have recently obtained. This action
on the part of the monied institutions
shows that the careful observers at their
head believe there is to be no spasmodic
business revival, no flush times but that
the recovery from the present depre ession
will be slow and tedions.
Year: 1877

+" Which is the most valuable
experience or instinct9 2" was the
subject up for discussion at q
country debating society lately.
One member said experience
teaches us to back up to hot
stove when we are cold. but when
our coat tails catch fire instinct Is
boss.