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Year: 1874

thus relieved from all worldly cares
the Enochite will have a single heart
to give to the Church, and at some fu-
ture day may hope to take a trip to
heaven by the easterly current.


The effect of this Order of Euoch
upon the poor dupes who bow the
knee to Brigham Young can be easily
comprehended. The man of property
gives up his all to begin with, and re-
nounces his right to acquire in the fu-
ture. The man who owns nothing
contributes the fruits of his labor. and
should he leave the order twenty years
from now he must do it without
cent which he can call his own.


In the constitution of this Order of
Enoch provision was made apparent
ly i'll good faith for the well-being of
the members. No money was to be ia
Ken from the treasury, unless by the
common voice and consent of the order
Brigham also introduces in his order
this clause.


And this shall be common voice and consent OF the
order that any man among you say unto the treas
urer, II nave nesd OF this to help me in my stew
ardship; If it be eve teents, If it be ten tai
ents, or twenty talents, or fifty, or hundred, the
treasurer shall Civ unto him the which he



and SO long as be Is in full fellowship and is faith
full, the treasurer shall hot withhold,


This all looks very fair, and is sue
ceeding admirably in quilting the more
credulOus of the faithful But does
any one who knows Brigham Young
believe that one penny upon which he
gets his grasp will ever leave it? This
whole scheme is very transparent to
those in whom blind devotion has not
blinded the action of common sense.
The Prophet inaugurated his proceed
ings in this matter far up in the coun-
try, where the reign OF ignorance is
perpetual, He well knew that here,
where some little knowledge exists
among his own people, and where the
detested Gentle is protected in free
dom of fspeech by United States mus
kets, his lite scheme would not work
well. 1t is doubtful if he will attempt
to Enochise the saints here. Ifhe does,
il will not be until he has provided
balloons for all the country people in
his dOmiuiOns. Then, when he has
amassed the wealth of which he is sure
in that region, he may make some
show of establishing the order in Salt
Lake if indeed he be not before that
time fugitive from the territory.


All through the country the people
are becoming EnOchized. It is aston
ishing how these poor simple people
flock around the vendors of heavenly
balloons.-N Y. World.
Year: 1874

of those persons who are entitled by
law to succeed to her movable estate
after her death. In default of and sub
ject to any such disposition, it shall be
dealt with as hereinafter provided.


Art. s. Her Imperial Highness re-
tains, moreover, possession of her pri-
vate capital. This capital, which, on
the 22d (lOth) day of January of the
present year, 1874, amounted. with the
interest, to 600,0 900 roubles, shall be
placed at the entire disposal of her I'M
perial Highness. If, either during her
life time or after her death, her Impe-
rial Highness shall not have disposed
of either the whole or part of this
capital it shall go to her children, if
she has any, in accordance with the
stipuiatiOns of article Is. N default
of children born of this marriage who
may be living or of their descendants
this capital shall be disposed of in
favor of those persons who are entitled
by law to succeed to the movable es-
tate of Her Ipperial Highness.


Art, 8. Nothing in articles 5, 6, Z,
and shall exclude or be deemed con-
trary to any arrangement which their
Royal and Imperial Highnesses may
mutually agree to for any contribu-
tiOn towards the expenses OF their joint
establishment, the idea of her Impe-
rial Highness sharing these expenses
out of her own income being in ac-
cordance with the spirit and meaning
of the present treaty.


Art. 10. There shall he only one
household for their Royal and Impe-
rial Highnesses. The establishment
of this household shall be formed ac-
cordirg to the usage and etiquette of
the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and ireland. Her Imperial Highness
shall be at liberty to appoint, with the
approval of her Majesty, the persons
who shall compose her personal estab-
lishment, inclusive of her chaplains
and any subordinate officers necessary
for the exercise of her religion; and to
dismiss and recall at her will the per-
sons so attached to her service. The
salaries of all such persons shall be
paid out of her Imperial Highness
separate property and income. 1t is
agreed that the debts and obligations
which may be incurred by His Royal
Highness and Her Imperial Highness
respectively, shall not be common to
both, but that each of the two consorts
shall be answerable separately for the
debts and obligations which he or she
may have separately incurred, without
liberty to resort to the other of them,
or to his or her property or revenue,
for contribution thereto: And that
His Royal Highness, and his repre-
sentatives after his decease, shall be
indemuified out of the separate proper
ty aud income of Her Imperial High
hess, against any debts or obligations
which may be separately incurred by
Her Imperial Highness, and for which
His Royal Highness may by the law
of England be held responsible or liza
BILE.
Year: 1874

THE Petersburg INDEX AND AP-
PEAL says, "better' far better eat
crusts and rinds for year or two
longer, than omit to provide by in
creased taxation, to pay the whole
interest on the public debt" To
what extent the privileged bond>
holder is to join us in thus eating
of crusts and rinds, we are not
informed by the l. & A. 1t looks
TO to rs very much as though we
had a privileged class once more in
the State. That class is the bond~
holders class, which asks that we
shall pay, and he gather the tax
that we shall eat crusts and rinds,
While he eats the fat of the land
We are quite aware that the Fund
ing Bill has wrought, and is work
ing this great oppression in our
State, aud we sec little chance for
Telief If this iniquity must pre-
vail, the bondholder will be spared
the depreciation which has Overta-
ken all other investments, and he
will be, as he has been, spared from
the payment of taxes.


Ofone thing we feel sure-that
he has no moral right to collect the
whole of this debt moro rapidly
than the people can pay it. Yet
he is doing it. When the people
of Virginia groan and murmur, no
one need deny that they suffer We
do know that in this. County,
people are most terribly burdened
with taxation. 1t is great error
to suppose that overlaxaton, will
rot break down the financial pride OF
any people, and in its stead, set mp
that last resort of mankind, the
will to rebel against it. We pre-
sumo we had better call State
convention.
Year: 1874

When a friend dies and is buried
there's an end of hun. We miss him
for space of our daily existence we
mourn for him by degrees that be-
come mercifully less We cling to the
blessed hope that we shall be reunited
in some more perfect sphere; but, so
far as this earth is concerned, there's
an end of him. However near and
dear he vas the time arrives when he
does not form a part of our daily
thought; he ceases to be even an
abstraction. We go no more with
flowers and tears into the quiet ceme-
terry only the rain and the SNOW
fakes fall there; VIC leave it for the
fingers of spring to deck the neg
lected mound


But when our friend varishes un-
accOuntablJ in the midst of crowded
city. or goes off on a sea voyage and
is never heard of again his memory
bzs singular tenacity. He mas he
to ali intents and purposes dead to
US, but we have not lost I,lin. The
ring Of the door bell at midnight may
be his ring the approaching foot
step may be his foo;step; thc uncE-
pected letter with foreigu pastage
stamp may be f;om his band, lie
haunts Us as the deaJ never can.


The woman HhuSe husband Ciel
last night may marry again within a
lustre OF months. Do you suppose a
day passes b, when the woman whose
husband disappeared mysteriousiy
ten years ago does not think of him !
There are moments when the OPEN
ing of door must startle her.
There is no real absence but death,
-AHaAtic MOpthiy.
Year: 1874

In our last issue we gave the
particulars Cf the murder of Col
lcctor David Goode, III Fulkerson
Township, Scott county, Va. The
dying man dictated the following
message to his Countrymen, and il
is TO be hoped that his slayer will be
overtaken and brought to justice.
We are told that Hensley was in
the Mexican war, and that he stole
a sick soldiers parole and came
home on it. His muJder of poor
David Goode seems to have been
a ciabolical outrage without even
show of provocation. The blood of
this excellent young man now cries
from the ground for justice to over
take and seize his slayer, that he
may be made an example to evil
doers in the future. At least a
hundred of the indignant citizens of
Scott left their avocations and went
in pursuit Of the demon.


Here is the dying message of the
murdered man:
Year: 1874

or it may mean nothing at all. He
said that whenever he tried to do
anything for the South some buSybody
in that part of the country would
forthwith mail him scrap Of news
paper telling what somebody or other
at the South had said about him.
He was beginning to think that it
would be a good thing for the country
if three or four of the Republican
editors of the South were banged
He actually could not cross the floor
of the House of Representatives To
talk to Young. of Georgia, without
people remarking that Batter is
getting too inmate with the id
rebels" The conversation termed
on the prospect Of getting the black
voters interested in reform. when one
of the delegates deSpondlngly assur-
ell he General u a he had made
twenty three speeches in the reform
canvass to meetings OF his fellow
citizens. Every speech had been
lCSSihSd Will NpClICiOuS uClhOhStid-
tionS of Of applause and sympathy:
but when the polls were opened not
five reform niggers could be found
anywhere. "Ah," slyly replied the
Essex statesman, II see how it is.
1t all because you gentlemen will
insist on spelling niger with two
g's," The visit was not time lost by
any meats. Butler is a power here,
and | think he will do what he can
for US, always provided that it does
not clash in any way With the in>
terests of B. f b.


S. Louis Republican.


1t was a strange spectacle, these
once naughty but now humbled citi-
zens of State of heroic history
coming as petitioners and almost as
suppliants to the President of the
United States, as supplicants were ac~
customed to approach the throne OF
an ancient king, and asking for
delivernnce from the barbac despOtism
of their former slaves. 1t was a
scene that might we'll have rekindled
whatever emotions of fratcrnal feel
ing still exist in the breasts Of the
conquerors for their conquered cOun-
trymen. 1t was one, too, in which
tie mal who stands pre>eminent
among the conquerors, and whose
sword more than any other dealt the
decisive blow OF su5jugatiOn, might
have been expected to forget himself
in manly sympathy for his van
quished victims.
Year: 1874

Parton, in his lecture on the Pilgrim
Fathers. tells how they We're saved from
famine by an Indian. He says the women
and children of the Pilgrims, besides doing
their full share of the hard work of the
colony, supplied the men with motive, re-
ware and restraint. In beginning theil
new strugg for life. their capital stock
was ten bushels of Indian corn, stolen
from an Indian hiding place on Cape Cod
Ten bushels of corn, 1t was their life. 81
far IL we can see or they could see. they
must have persisted without the supply o
stolen seed But what could English wea.
vers and farmers do with Indian corn, o.
the culture of which they know nothing
and which would not grow in their sandy
soil. They had made another acquisition
50 important that we cannot see how they
could have survived without it. The
plague which had swept that coast so bare
of inhabitants, that there was no Indian
within ten miles of them, had spared one
man. because he was absent at the time il
London. He was one of fourteen Indian,
who had been stolen, some Years before b,
an English captain. who sold them IN Eu-
rope. ut twenty pounds a man, into slavery
This one SqulntO, as the Pilgrims called
him. had fallen to Il master in Cheapside
London. with whom he had learned Eng.
lish. and the ways of the English people
He had been sent back to hi, native shore
and had come with Samoset, in this frs
spring. to visit the settlers in his old home
He liked them; he was in his native place
he cast his lot with them, and spent the
rest of his days in their sacrifice. What :
possession to men situated as they We're:
He knew how to make corn grow in the
sand Into that sheltered cove of theirs
ut the mouth of the brook that flows from
the Ellington Sea, shoals of small. fat
herring like fish come in the spring tC
spawn in fresh water. Eight hundred bar
rels of them have been taken in one sea
son there. Squanto told them to plant
three or four of those fish in each hill Of
corn; and they raised such crop from
their ten bushels of seed that they had
enough corn to give every person peck Il
week till next harvest. They must have
raised between six and seven hundred
bushels. Squanto knew all the sources Of
food in that region-every fishing ground
every eel-bed, every clam beach. every
haunt of deer and fowl and the places fire,
quented by crabs and Holsters He gave
them, in fact, the knowledge of this locali
ty which his tribe accumulated by ages o
occupation; and the only knowledge of i
which he possessed was of just the kind
they must have had or starved
Year: 1874

CUsTOMs IN FINLAND.-One of the Gus
toms of Finland is for the members OF
every family to take a hot bath once a week
in the water of stepped leaves The leave,
are gathered in the woods and stepped in a
large kettle. and this kind of bath Is es-
teemed a delightful luxury.


Another custom is, whenever girl
wishes to leave the country, she has to 20
first to her clergyman, and partake Of the
sacrament, and procure a letter of recon-
mcndaton from him, after examination, n
certificate of good health; then TO an Off
Ger of the government, from whom she
procures a certificate of permission to re-
main absent certain specified number of
years. This certificate, costs her sum
equal to about four pounds in our curren-
CIV. If she returns promptly at the end OF
the time prescribed. all is well; but if not
her name is erased from the book in which
it has been entered, and she is considered
as having violated her contract with the
government, and she loses her citizenship
forever.


The inhabitants of Finland dig very
deep pits in the EARTH in which hey entral
wild beasts in the winter. They cover
these excavations over with boughs, which
conceal them from sight, and the unsus-
pecting wolf, or bear, stepping upon the
boughs finds himself precipitated to thu
bottom of the pit. Sometimes goose il
fastened to the middle of the covering as
a bait for beasts. An anecdote is related
of blind old woman who happened upon
one of these pitfalls, and tumbled in
| She went down and down, until finally she
Year: 1874

During q long period, the friends of
temperance have been contending with the
Iouor traffic. by way of temporizing in
efficient legislation, by attempts at regula-
tion and license. by prohibition-still, the
deadly scourge exists. 1t has set at defiance
the efforts of men, and the power of law.
In the GOOD providence of God, the Chris
tian ladies of our country have risen up to
crapple with this giant foe. 1t must be
acknowledged that the women engage in
This GOOD enterprise with some real and
important advantages; they have keener
SENSE of the evils against which they con-
tend; they have more of love and falth,
and simpler trust in God they can WELD
the instruments to be employed in this
work more effectively than men. 1t has
been said that this is an inappropriate
sphere for the'laborsfof women. l would
ask, who is more deeply and seriously af-
fected by the vice of intemperance than
the female portion of the community?
Woman is destined by the order of nature,
and by the customs of society, to life of
comparative seclusion and obscurity; she
i not abroad in the pursuits of wealth and
onbition-in the game of war and politics.
No her pleasures and her sorrows are those
of the fireside. This deadly vice poisons
the fountain of her earthly happiness; by
invading the temple of domestic peace, by
breaking in upon the privacy and tranquil
itv of the family circle, it rObs that circle,
with a ruthless hand, of all its charms, and
converts it into Il den of horror. Should
not woman engage in this enterprise? Is
there not enough to arouse her to the most
Jealous. determined action? Think of the
hrart-broken wife, crushed beneath sOr-
rows that defy description. Contemplate
the widowed mother of an only son. She
once fsndlv cherished the hope that he
would be the stay and solace of her declin-
inr wears: but the deadly cup is held out
TO him. he sips, and thus crosses the thresh-
hold Of death; he has commenced the
druukard's career, and soon the awful con-
virtion sinks and settles in the mothers
heart that her son Is lost. Numerous are
the painful pictures drawn by intemper-
ance. Look upon the dark, deep current
of crime that is rolling through our coun-
try; this mighty torrent takes its rise in
intemperance. Each public journal sets
before Us some fresh example of its horrid
effects. To-day, perhaps, we read of an
awful suicide, occasioned by strong drink
tomorrow we may read Of n drunken
husband. who, in a moment of frenzy, cuts
down with an axe, the wife of his bosom,
with a babe clinging to her breast. for
bear; the hand would tire and the heart
sicken before the horrid catalogue of crime,
perpetrated through intemperance, was
half completed. l heartily rejoice in view
Of the noble effort inaugurated by the
ladies' of Montpelier. As a citizen of the
state. and one who has often been a So
iourner ut the capital. it is a source OF
pride and pleasure. May heaven crown
this Christian movement with glorious
success. H. +


PrOctur>ville. Vi
Year: 1874

during the fire. Since then the officers of
the bank have been investigating the mat
ter, their suspicious having been aroused
by the discovery that notes had been paid
and the money received not accounted for.
On Thursday evening they were in the
bank; Wright went in, but soon left. At
ter they left Wright went into the bank,
took what money there was in the safe.
amounting to some four thousand dollars,
as near as can be learned from depositors
and left in the night train going South.


Some pieces of tin, supposed to have
been from the binding of the ledger, have
been found in the stove. Mr.. Hale re-
membors that Wright had very hot fire
in the stove on the day of the fire. and
kept stirring it, and it is supposed that it
was burned at that time


1t is now understood that for some time
the directors have not been satisfied with
Wright, but the cashier had the most i'm
plicil confidence in him.


1t was remarked by one of the saloon
keepers of the village, before the fire. that
Wright was spending considerable money
The institution has been in operations but a
few years, and we think Wright has beer
teller from the start He went to Brad
ford from Oxford, N. H., where his father
resides. The elder Wright is a drover,
and much esteemed citizen. The son
was member of the Congregational
Church at Oxford, and has been a teacher
of class of Young men. in the Sabbath
school ut Bradford. A few weeks since
he was in Boston, and, calling upon one o
his former pupils, he gave him a quantity
of good advice, 1t is reported that he
was engaged to be married to most esti
mable lady, and among his near relative,
are several well-knOwn and much-esteem
ed gentlemen of Boston.


AS he was arrested before he had an OPP
portunity to eXpend much of the money
taken, it is hoped that the bank will no
suffer 4 large loss.
Year: 1874

THE BROAD LAKE OrEN.-The strong
west wind of last night broke up the ice
in the Broad Lake, and drove it into the
bays on the eastern shore. Daylight, this
morning, showed our Bay mostly filled
with drift ice, and a white barrier extend
ing across the mouth, beyond which the
broad, blue water was dancing and flashing
in the sunlight north and south, us far as
the eye could see; and it was a cheerful
spectacle to behold. This is an unusually
early opening Last year the Broad Lake
opened the morning of April 24th, and the
Williams went to Port Kent in the after
noon. In 70. the Williams made her first
trip on the 23d of April. In forty years
past the ice has held till after the 10th of
April oftener than it has broken up before
that time. In 1S47 the ice held till the first
of May. The first trips of the ferry boats
across the lake averaged about the 10Th OF
April.-F'ree Press. 27tt.
Year: 1874

WHAT A PLANT DID.-A little plant
was given to sick girl. and in trying to
take care of it. the family made changes
in their way of living. First. they cleaned
the window that more light might come to
its leaves; then when not too cold, they
would open the window SO that fresh air
might help the plant to grow strong; and
thus purified their own lungs as well. Next,
the clean window made the rest of the
room look so untidy. that they used to
wash the floor and walls. and arrange the
furniture more neatly. They led the faith
er of the family to try and mend a broken
chair or two. which kept him at home
several evenings. After the work was
lone he still stayed at home instead of
spending his leisure in the bar-room; and


he money thus saved went to buy comforts
for them all. And then. as their home
grew attractive, the whole FIRMLY loved it
md each other better than before, and
grew healthier and happier with their
flowers. Thus, the little plant brought a
moral as well as physical blessing,
Year: 1874

LIVEIN LIGIIr.-Light is one of the
most active agencies in enliveninr and
beautifving a home We all know the
value Of sunlight as a health giving agent
to the physical system. and it is no less so
to our moral and spiritual natures. We
absorb light, and it nourishcs us with
strange power. We are more active un-
der its influence. can think better and
work more vigorously.


Let us take the airiest, choicest, and sun
niest room in the house for our living
room-the workshop where brain and
body are built up an renewed. And let
us there have a bay window, no matter
how plain the structure, through which
the good twin-angels of nature-sunlight
and pure air-can freely enter.


This window shall be the poem of the
house. 1t shall give freedom and scope
for eve and mind We can hang no pic
ture on our walls that can compare with
the living and ever changing pictures
which God sh4ll paint for US through our
ample window Rosy dawns, golden
hearted sunsets, the tender green and
tint of spring, the glow of summer, the
pomp of autumn, the white of winter,
storm and shine, glimmer and glOom-all
these we can have aed enjoy while we sit
in our sheltered room as the year rolls
on.


Even in the gloomy house, where walls
and furniture are dingy and brown, you
have but to take down the heavy curtains,
open wide the window, hang brackets on
either side, set tiowerpots on the brackets
and vines in the pots, and let the warm
sun stream freely in, to bring health to
our bodies and JOY to our souls.-HearHl
and Home.