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Year: 1874

The lecture-r0Om of Plymouth Church was
well filed yesterday morning by a congregation who
seemed to be deeply interested in the discourse of the
Rev. Dr. Robinson OF Troy who preached upon the sub
ect Of the Loneliness OF Christ It's Evidences Causes
and Application" In the prayer which preceded the
sen0n DR.. Robinson prayed that Gods blessing might
rest upon Plymouth Church. where so many storm
tossed souls had found peace and that glory OF the
past whom compared with the future might be ms tho
twilight TO the brightness of MONDAY Ho also prayed
that Gods Spirit might sustain the pastor In the hour
Of his trial; that 1t would hasten the time when the
clouds that now enveloped him should be lifted and
that the Holy Dove Of Peace should descend and quiet
the disturbed elements that the glory of God sboud
alone be felt among the followers of Christ Tho preacher
selected the following as his text: "And when the
evening come, He was there alone"-Matth,v
xiv, %.


The life OF Christ, said he presented an infpte variety
OF emotions. or all lives His alone was perfection
Naturats assert that amid the variety OF leaves in the
forest and field single leaf is actually perfect and all
human lives more less imperfect. In Jesus how
the ideal Of perfection Is reaHzed Yet withal no
read the life Of Jesus Christ with any measure
Of sympathy, but must become OF His terrible
loneliness. He Is accorded seeking the stiffness OF
the woods aud tho mountains. Although there IA no
passage which speaks plainly Of His loneliness there
several hints, which, as the reader grows In SYM
pathy with tho Divine Lord, impress him with this
peculiar fact The intent, therefore, OF the discourse
would show the evidences and OF this lone


ness and apply the lesson to the good Of the human
soul. In the chapter from which the text had been
taken Christ Is recorded having been surrounded by
thousands whom he had fed; but Ho had sent them
all away 1t might perhaps have been the confu-
had fevered Him, and He desired tho solitude He
even sent away His Disciples, and went up into the
mountain to pray alone Aud He not alone for
He was In communion with His Father Then again
after the TransHguration when He found disciples
sufficient faith, HIS remark. How long shall
suffer youf' the cry OF lonely soul. In this
there a similarity with the cry OF the prophets,
when they felt their loneliness Again there times
when the dtscipes held back from askiDg His cues.
Year: 1874

Indians Running Off Stock Along the
Line Of the RailrOad-Bodyo OF MUIR
dered Man Found on tho Track.


NORTH PLATTE, Neb, Sept H. 1874.


Between this place and Willow Island horses
have been mysteriously disappearing lately While
out searching to-day sheriff Struthers saw num-
ber Of Indians running of with stock one mile
east Of Brady Island. A Western Union Tel
egraph repairer also states that he saw SIX
Sioux Indians crossing the railroad going north
within o quarter OF O mile OF where he was at
work. The section men at East Brady report tnat
firing was distinctly heard around the curve
near where they were at work. The three +. M.
train ran over an unknown man at the same
place. The train was stopped, and II was found
that there was u bullet hole in the back or the
body. The section men 1t West Bradv also repors
seeing Indians,
Year: 1874

The following record will show the changes In
the temperature Tor the past twenty-iour hours,
in comparison with the corresponding day OF last
year, as indicated by the Thermometer at Hudnuts
Pharmacy, HERALD Building
Year: 1874

The new comet lately discovered by
Professor Swift is likely to be an OBJ
iect of great popular as well as sclen-
tific interest. It is steadily approach
ing the earth, and with an opera glass
IL can be seen as a Ducleus hazy mass
with bright point little on one side.
With a good telescope the tail is very
clearly defined. 1t is now situated, at
one o'clock in the morning, directly be-
meath the pole star, and about twenty
Ave degrees from it, and is just visible
TO the naked eye. So directly is 1t
moving toward the earth that it seems
to stand still. During the latter part
of July and beginning of August, when
il will be nearest the earth, it w
doubtless be a conspicuous and beaut>
ful object. as it will then be two hun
dred and forty-fve times as bright as at
the time of discovery, while now 1t Is
only five and one-half times as bright.
II is many years since any comet mas
been near enough or bright enough to
attract the attention of the public IL
any marked degree, and we may there
fore expect to enjoy very decided as
Economical sensation during the ap
preaching heated term. Pro. Swift II
not. as might be inferred from the var1
ous announcements which have beer
made. the first discoverer of this comet
| tt was first seen at Marseilles, France


on the 18th of April.
Year: 1874

1 find the desire of audiences to be
audiences only becoming an entirely
pestilea character of the age. Every
body wants to hear-nobody to read,
nobo ly to think to be excited for an
hour-and, if possible, amused; to get
the knowledge it has cost man half
his life to gather, first sweetened up to
make it palatable, and then kneaded
into the smallest possible pills, and to
swallow it homeopathically and be wise
this is the passionate desire and hope
of the multitude of the day. 1t is not to
be done. A living comment quietly
given to a class on book they are
earnestly reading-this kind OF lecture
is eternally necessary and wholesome ;
your notwithstanding smooth-dow-
ny-curry and strawberry ice and : mix
punch-altogether lecture is an entirely
pestilent and abominable vanity and
the miserable death of poor Dickens,


when he might have been writing blessed


books till he was eighty but ffol' the


pestiferous demand of the mob, is


very solemn warning to us all, II w
would take it.
Year: 1874

The next neighbors to the Dismal


Swamp want its name changed, so that
they can sell their real estate; Inc
SuffcSk Herald says that people write
that the country must be dreary and
gloomy, indeed, and they fear that they
could not always live under Iog-tney
must have some sunshine. How little
do they imagine that instead OF DIS
NAL, dreary, foggy wilderness, the
swamp in question is now clothed WIZ VIII,
a beautiful foliage. The graceful
cypress, the stately juniper, the yeiiow,
Jasmine and climbing woodbine, sweel
honeysuckle and fragrant laurel, are Oh
Year: 1874

feathered it well to strike an antagonist
or reach the popular heart.


Lincoln's messages were just careless
enough here and there to give novelty
and power to those quaint turns of q
sentence where his outward thought
seemed to have gone inward, and
educed those pathetic and melancholy
some said neutrality-suspicious. or
phrases, which heightened the mystery
of the man.


Andrew Johnson never wrote a mes
sage showing other than tumultuous
and turgid mind.
Year: 1874

THE deer az well as the buffalo need
the protection of law, or they will soon
be exterminated in the Northwestern
States. 1t is estimated that from two
to four hundred men are encamped along
the line of the st. Paul and Pacific
Branch Railroad, Minnesota, engaged
in killing deer for market One man is
said to have slain fifty in month, by
lurking in runways, and shooting the
animals when they came to drink. The
same slaughter is going on along the
lines of other Western roads.
Year: 1874

TIE New YEARS BAG.-Make 4
large bag of thin white paper or silver
paper, fill it with sugar plums, and tie
n string around the top, to keep it fast.
Then suspend it from the ceiling, or
from large door frame, and provide a
long-light stick. Each child is blind
folded in turn, and the stick put into
his or her hand. She is then led
within reach of the bag, and told to
strike it. If she succeeds in her aim
and tears a hole in it, the sugar plums
are scattered on the floor, and the little
ones scramble for them but it is by no
means easy to strike Il suspended object
blindfolded ; generally many attempts
are made unsuccessfully. Each child
is allowed three trials. The maker of
the bag can put in it tiny books, pin
cushions, or any little toy, with the
sugar plums. This bag would add to a
child's party; it is often used at birth
day parties. An older person should al
ways superintend, for some children
would be greedy or rude.
Year: 1874

The distinction which luxury and
corruption are making between the
people and their Representatives was
illustrated in Washington on Saturday
last. William Crutchfield, represen-
tative from Tennessee, walked to the
door of Congress in the honest attire of
a farmer, but that attire was viewed
with suspicion by the doorkeeper, who
declined to let Crutchfeld in until he
had been identified as belonging to the
ranks of broadcloth and forward pay
Year: 1874

Charles Warren Stoddard writes to
the San Francisco Chronicle "It has


become custom to speak of the Ital-
ians as "lazy" or " shjftless," and to
apply to them several other unpleasant


epithets; I am afraid l have indulged


in this pernicious habit myself, and


here, before it is too late, wish to do


what I can to rectify the error. Proba-


bly, in no country in the world are the


people more universally industrious.


Begging, the most disagreeable feature


of their civilization, is also the most OBJ


strusive, yet there may be some excuse
for this. Begging is kind of industry;


the vast multitude of lame, halt, and


blind in Italy cannot work the people
are for the most part miserably poor


where nearly every able-bodied man,


woman, and child is employed in some
sort of industry there is nothing left


for some of the willing hands to do. In


Naples, the city of the LGzz0TO1ai, who


are the embodiment of all that is pro-


vokingly amiable and hopelessly indo-


lent, nearly every woman one meets of
the poorer class is either spinning with


an antique, primitive distaff, or knitting,


or busying herself about something
the men are off at work even the chill


dren are occupied in some way. have
seen a youngster of six years running at
the heels of a donkey nearly as small as
his driver and beating the beast with an
enthusiasm worthy of a better cause,


while his little brother, three or four
years his senior, skrieked at the top of


his lungs a catalogue of the wares these
little itinerant merchants had to sell.
There was lately work Of excavation
going on in the neighborhood of my
hotel at Naples, and the whole work
was done by company of ten or
dozen boys, the eldest of whom could
not have been more than sixteen years
of age. All along the road to Castella,
mare women are in the field doing mems
work women hoe the potatoes and reap
the grain with sickles women draw
water from the shallow wells with their
buckets hooked to old fashioned cranes.
! have seen them at work by the hour
dipping water and pouring it into the
trenches that feed the cutters in their
gardens. This seems to be the only |
method of irrigation known to them, |
and it is very slow and fatiguing work. |
In all the factories you find large pro-
portion of young boys. The little girls |
knit. string beads, sell flowers, and bun
dies of grass )r fodder and one might |
almost say with truth that the Italians !
are the most industrious people in the |
world. IF the children have been de- |
MED schooling in books, they have all |
learned how to make themselves useful, |
and are therefore comparatively inde |
pendent at the age of twelve"
Year: 1874

1t is now understood that Alex. l..
Stewart has altogether relinquished the
idea of devoting the great iron build
ing in Fourth avenue, begun several
years ago, and long under roof, TO its
original purpose of a working women's
home. He is said to have discovered
the plan to be impracticable, for work
ing-women would not enter it under
such restrictions as are necessary. He
tried to induce the women in his retail
establishment to agree to go there, when
the building should be completed, and
they fatty refused. He is reported to
be bitterly disappointed at the result,
because the home was a benevolent
scheme he had long cherished. The
building, with the real estate, has cost
him half a million dollars. Nothing
has been done on it for months, the cause
being mysterious, since everybody knows
Stewart has abundance of money 70 go
on with the work if so inclined. He is
now at a loss what TO put the structure
to. He thinks Of finishing it end rent
ing it as a hotel, but the location is not
favorable. The stories are unfounded
that he had abandoned the undertaking
for the reason that it would not pay him
as we'll as he had thought. His inten-
tion was to charge only a nominal price
to the women-iust enough to preserve
their feeling of independence. As the
home was the only benevolent scheme
Mr.. Stewart has ever embarked in, its
failure is considered particularly unfor-
tunate. e.-NeW York Telegram.
Year: 1874

"What is there more beautiful than
road ?" asks George Sand in "Con-
suelo," that delightful story of happy
life, wandering at the roads will. A
road is the symbol and image of an ac-
tive and varied existence. The free
path seems to fleet on and hide itself in
the woods, inviting and alluring the
way-farer to follow its windings and
penetrate its mysteries. It is nobody's
property no one can close il, or narrow
it. The sky seems always open in front
of the traveller by road, and as far as
the view extends it is land of liberty.
This is perhaps the charm of the life of
the tramp; read always has the air of
leading to some place where fortune
may await the wanderer, or where new
beauties will display themselves to the
eye of the artist GA merry heart goes
all the day" on the road, but it re-
quires the spirits of extreme youth to
have a merry heart in a train.
Year: 1874

The Midland railway company, whose


rails run from London through Bed.
fordshire, Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire.


Lancashire and Yorkshire to Scotland,


was the first last year to attach third
| class c 5rriages to all its trains, the con-


sequence of which is thaHths receipts


from third-class traffic have risen enor-


monsly but, on the other hand, the sec.
ond-clasa have considerably decreased,
SO the company is about to try great
scheme, no less than the abolition of
second class carriages and the reduction
of first class fares. This, at first sight,
seems a great boon to the travelling
community, bot on looking into it it is
found to be virtually the abolition of
the first class. The people who have
been accustomed to ride. second class
Will now be compelled tosiSffsS the supe-
rior carriages, more especially as they
can do so at a comparatively small in
crease of expense, and thus the great
boon of first-class travel, the space, the
quieS, and the freedom from intrusion,
will be entirely done away with. Equal
ity is nowhere more out of place than in
travelling, and so long as extra comforts
and luxuries can be had by paying fer
them there will be plenty only too will
ing to secure them. The introduction
of drawing room cars on the American
lines and the great use made of these
cars by the wealthier portion of the
travelling public is a proof of this, It
is to be hoped that our other railway
companies will not follow the lead of
the Midland, but if they do it will in
evitably lead to the introduction of
palace cars or their equivalent.


Another alteration in our railway
management is the establishment on the
Metropolitan railway of carriages for
"ladies only" This is an adoption of
the danes 8eaILe8 idea with which we
are all familiar on continental railways,
and is said to have been necessitated by
the behavior of men who make it
practice of travelling by the under
ground line for the purpose of offering
offensive familiarities to women. It is
not probable that the plan will succeed
here, for the underground trains scarce
ly stop more than q minute at each
station, and there is enormous difficulty
in selecting the carriages of the class
for which you have ticket, so great is
the tbrong and confusion the selection
of special compartment will therefore
be almost impossible. One will be curl
GUS to see the style of ladies who avail
themselves of the new regulation. In
the carriages for danes Se1iles in France
never recollect seeing any but the
oldest, the plainest and the most unin-
viting of the sex.-L0ndOn Cor. N. Y.
Herald.
Year: 1874

Some years ago, when cannibalism
was in vogue among the South Sea Is
landers, an English man-of-war put into
one of the FIJI group. Among the party
who went ashore was an assistant surgeon
named Ben JonsOn-a fat and per.
verse person, Who was always quarreling
with a young midshipman named Man.
ners. There were two boats and aH
the surgeon, who had wandered off
from the party when they landed, had
not rejoined them when they were
ready to return to the ship, they put off
without him, but left one OF the boats
so that he might follow. The captain
was annoyed and q little alarmed at
their temperance without Jonson, and
instantly dispatched a boats crew,
under Manners, in search OF the missing
officer. They found his body in the
midst of a number of savages who were
just preparing to devour him, but who
fed ot the sight of the sailors. The
poor fellow was not half cooked. A
grave was soon made for the underdone
remains of the unfortunate Jonson,
while Manners set up board TO mark
thr spot, upon which he managed TO cut
a single sentence with his penkDife un-
observed. The captain was shocked on
hearing of the dreadful occurrence, and
determined TO go ashore and take a last
look at the resting-place Of the ill-star-
red officer but when he got a glimpse
of the epitaph or inscription on the
board he was constrained to turn away
to hide his face from all present for
there, in large letters and deeply cut,
stood the sentence, 40 rale Ben JON
son z"
Year: 1874

The New York correspondent of the
Boston Journal writes: "One can
count on his ten fingers the heavy mer-
chants that have stood unmoved dur
ing 6 quarter of a century. The heav-
lest houses topple down and the richest
men pass out of sight. But there is a
class of men who maintain uninter-
rupted prosperity. These are men
who began small, had a specially, al
ways sold the exact article they pro-
fessed, kept grubbing on from year to
year, and waited for fortune till she
chose to appear. One of the heaviest
paper houses in New York WAS begun by
a man who was a rag-picker. He be-
gun in the smallest possible way.
When he had only small basketful he
assorted them fairly and honestly. He
soon got the confidence of the trade.
His rags were always the quality that
he represented and he walked over the
course, always making progress, always
making money. In his immense ware
house to-day buyers are sure to find
when they get home the exact article
that they purchased. Some years ago
man set up little cigar store. His
speciality was that he would not keep a
domestic cigar on his shelves. The ar
ticle that he sold was invariably good,
and he made fortune. There are half a
dozen old caterers in New York. They
are fifty and sixty years old. Two or
three of them are in cellars or in small
rooms. The floor is sanded the seats
are without backs the tables are with
out cloths the head of the house waits
on his customers; coat of, white apron
around his waist. the perspiration on
his forehead ; he broils and stews and
fries for his customers. Everything
about the room is just as it was thirty
years ago. In these little dens from
twelve to two one cannot sit or stand
for the crowd. The first merchants of
New York fill the place. Chops, beef
steaks, hams, English mutton, are spe-
cialties. The man who waits on these
clerks and merchants could buy a
house on Fifth avenue and live in it if
he wanted to-"
Year: 1874

arrived in Pittsburg was a respectable
hospital, where they cured the tempo.
rarily insane. He thinks his reason was
partially dethroned by his effort to
comprehend how that brakeman could
have the face to ask him FOR another
dollar because of the trouble IIoonnis
gave him during the night.
Year: 1874

"A perplexed schneider, who had
made a garment for a youth and found
himself unable to dispose of the sur
plus fullness which appeared when try
ing it on the young candidate, declared
vociferously ode coat is goot. Is
no fault of de coat, De poy is too
thin"
Year: 1874

ranged on brass triangle in the wiz
dow but the mist had coated the glass
with its moist breath, and he could only
distinguish a vague shadow. Then
taking bold resolution, he turned on
his heels, and walked deliberately
toward the 9a8thof of the Double
headed Eagle.
Year: 1874

LADY HURT.-Mrs. Sarah A. Walton. Keen
ing boarding house at South West corner Of
Third and Shipley streets on Saturday last was
precipitated down range OF steps into vault
by the heel OF her shoe catching on the upper
step. She was very much bruised and hurt but
fortunately no bones we're broken.
Year: 1874

few Of our colored friends. Allow me to
say single word to them as | conclude. L
have shown under what auspices-und
what Influences you first received your
emancipation. From that point you have
gone on clothed with the ballot-that
mighty instrument in the hands Of free
people. You have been clothed with all
the emoluments-all the privileges Of citi-
zenship. You have now become a part and
parcel Of our great commonwealth. l need
not say to you that the same means and ap-
pliances that will advance other men, will
advance and build Up your in
terests. Those homely, every day
Questionable virtues-thOSe things that
have brought up so many Of your neighbOrs
from the humble walks of life until they
stand among the first Of your citizens,
these same virtues will elevate you and
your children. (Applause.)


"Say what you will about it, gentlemen;
talk about it as we may, worldly pelf and
all that sort of thing, this thing Of wealth,
this thing of property goes great ways IN
this world. The man who has SlO,OOO
viii be as. much respected as any other
man, unless it is he who has $4,000.
(LAughter.) Let me say, therefore, be
honest, be industrious, be economical, and
by those homely, everyday practices
that have been taught us from our
boyhOod, let every man, in every
condition of life build up his fortune and
secure to himself in the evening Of life that
competency which will make him comfor-
table and respected during the residue of
his days. [Applause.l


.Fellow-citizens, my appointments call
me away TO distant point tomorrow, and
| will close. l thank you for the immense
attendance l see here, for the attention you
have given me, for the support you gave
me two years ago, and for the support you
will give me ON the Sd day of November
next. Good night" Prolonged ap-
plauSe.l
Year: 1874

A brooklyn Church Dropped from


the Rolls by the Baptist Association


NEW YORs, Oct. 21.-At the session OF
the Long Island Baptist Association TINS
morning, the committee appointed on Lee
Avenue church, reported substantially that
it had become practically an open or 1ree
communion Church, and that as they (the
committee) held that restricted commu-
Mon was essential to the integrity and
preservation of the Baptist church at large,
and further, that each religious body has a
right TO protect themselves from anything
that would prevent its harmony and des-
troy its distinctive character, and in view
of these principles the committee advised
the adoption of a resolution that the name
of the Lee Avenue Church be dropped from
the minutes of The association, and that all
correspondence with that church be drop
ned until said church shall be in harmony
upon the question of communion and have
returned to the attitude 1t was understood
If occupied when it was received into the
relations of the association.


The report caused a great deal OF discus
efon, and all the subsequent proceedings
uutil a final result was reached, were at
tended with much confusion, marked by
laughter, applause, Kisses, and cries OF ap-
probation aud dissent. After hot debate,
fbe report was adopted by ia TO "A.


Rev. John Smith, pastor OF Lee Church,
made a short, but impressive, speech,
stating that the church would continue IN
its present attitude. He then, in behalf oil
himself and his church, bid the Association
farewell