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Year: 1879

on for 400 extra copies shows that that county
at least feels an interest in Christianity which
can calmly assert such terrible doctrines ABOUT
God, and which can boldly commit the whole
Presbyterian Church to the FORMULATION OF
ideas more false than anything In all Pagantsn


1t is probable that the Wooster Presbytery Is
made up Of men who belong to the last century,
and who still feel that the best use that can be
made OF the natural uan Is to burn him long
and ardently; but tho. fact that Dr.. Taylor,
President OF Wooster University. was once To-
Gated In Cincinnati would indicate TINT some
members OF the Court had been to town and to
market, and had been exposed to the forms and
influences OF civilization. 1t is well known
tint some parts Of Ohio, and 1ndiaua, and
Pennsylvania are as slow to part with opinions
as they are to acquire them. and 1t NAV be that
the Presbyterian world in those hillSof Central
Ohio are still deeply in love with the idea that
perfect God can sWeet1y and most Justly tor
1ncnr millions because some one man disobeyed
a command about fruit before they we're born;
and that to saTe lew Of these By plan which
could jnst as easf1v and as justly have saved ali
else than in the midst OF this Wooster Prcsby-
terry it would be assumed il men were going to
bt saved regardless Of character, that such
salvation coming from God would include all.
And away from the peculiar logic that encom-
generally believed that II men are elected to
Heaven regardless Of character, then the fall of
Adam should never have stood in the way Of
aDybody's bliss, for II ones own deeds work no
harm, we certainly should not be deeply injured
BY the deeds OF another and very remote party.
II character is nothing, what harm then in
Adams fail?


Quite number OF men once eminent in the
New School Presbyterian Church have confessed
to the feeling that in tic union they yielded to
diplomatlsts and professional theologians in-
stead Of yielding to the. spirit of broader fet-
lowship. They complain that the New School
has no longer any newspaper and no emblems
Of its former greatness; that they are under the
yoke again Of the Old Schoolism which ruled In
the early part OF the century. It is evident that
their complaints are we'll founded, but they
merit no compassion, for if their freedom Of
thought is imperiled or already injured there
remaius to them the escape sought and found
BY the Rev. Mr.. Alcott. Congregatona1ism is
ready for new men il they BIZ truly Christian
men. No new division Of the Presbyterian
Church is needed. Let the uroad Christians IN
that pulpit who 40 not wish to teach that God
elects men to death for His own good pleasure,
and that He sent His Son to die for few souls,
step down and out and seek fields Of toll and
liberty among the Congregationallsts, or Meth
odists, or Episcopaliaus, or in lonely field OF
toll under no master but God. The more AL
colts the land produces the better, for what the
age needs is sincere men, and bold men, and
humane Christian men.
Year: 1879

From the t.'Paul Dispatch.


At the Indiana Institute for the
Deaf and Dumb, at Indianapolis, there
took place on Saturday of last week a
most interesting experiment. This
was test of the new audiphone, con-
veying sounds to the auditory nerve
through the medium of the teeth. A
class ofgirls, from twelve to eighteen
years old, entirely deaf and dumb,
were provided with audiphones, and
cabinet organ was brought in use for
the first time in the history of the in
stitution. A bright girl of ten or
twelve years was the first to whom the
test was applied. She had not heard
her own voice or distinguished sounds
for number Of years, says the Jour-
nal, and was regarded as stone deaf
and speechless. She had not listened
more than a minute when her features
lighted up with a smile that told the
whole story. Several other children
listened with like result, all being able
to distinguish some sound, and mcst
Of them following the different sounds
of the scale. Several deaf mutes also
noticed the difference between differ
ent letters of the alphabet. Only one,
an adult, whose auditory nerve seemed
to be quite destroyed, failed to hear
at all. A young lady who had not ut
tsred an Ineligible word since she
was quite young, was induced to speak.
She had been listening, with the aid
of her audiphone, to others talking,
but when asked to say something her:
self was very reluctant. Eventually,
however, she was induced to make the
effort, and although she spoke quite
low, being nervous and afraid to talk
loud, she heard her own voice dis
tinct ly. The joy which the young
lady felt at this glad discovery can be
imagined better than it can be de-
scribed. Mr.. Richard s. Rhodes, the
inventor, was present to superintend
the test.
Year: 1879

The other day in place of a recipe a
newspaper published the following no.
tice: I'VE sincerely trust that our
readers will forgive US. Yesterday in
giving q recipe for the chilblains, we
inadvertently stated that the remedy
was to be taken internally. 1t is, on
the contrary, for external application.
We hope that Providence has re-
strained the hands of our beloved SUBJ
scribers, for every one who drank of
this compound is dead by this time.
We present in advance our coincidence
to the bereaved families.
Year: 1879

A. number Of our Democratic ex>
changes declared that we were very
much in error last summer when we
declared that the action of the Demo-
Gratis in Congress was "unfortunate
and unwise, and detrimental to the in
terests of the Democratic party"
The St. Cloud Times even went so far
as to say that no intelligent Democrat,
even in our own county, believed any
such thing. We would be pleased to
know what the editors of these papers
think about it now.
Year: 1879

From the Anoka Union.


And now it is said that all the rub
Der hose belonging to our fire depart
ment is rotten and almost worthless.
Two sections burst while IN service
last Thursday, under very light
pressure. A critical examination
should be had, and If the hose prove
to be unfit for fire purposes, measures
should be instituted for the purchase
Of new.


The steamer filled the fire cistern on
court house square last week Thurs
day afternoon, but it was unable to
stand the immense pressure, hence a
leakage of three feet in about twenty
hours. 1t was pumped dry by the
steamer Friday afternoon, since when
it has been repaired. Two big cracks
on the bottom were discovered.
Year: 1879

From tho Detroit Record.


The :Northern Pacific Railroad
Company propose fencing in their en-
tire line of road with barbed wire
fencing. A car load of barbed wire
arrived here this week, and on We'd
nesday three car loads of posts were
received. This fence will no doubt
prevent the killing Of a great many
cattle by the cars.


g. Barrell's new residence, on the
hill cast of the school house, is one Of
the largest and best looking residences
in town.
Year: 1879

The late king Of Burmah had dur
ing his life time fifty-three recognized
wives, by whom he had snug little
family of ITO children. He would
have been valuable acquisition to the
Mormon Institution In Utah, The
contemplation Of the savage monarch 8
brilliant success as family man would
be enough to make Brigham Young
fairly writhe in his coffin inenvY,
Year: 1879

Experiments recently made on the
Lake Shore railroad prove that petro>
leum can be successfully used as fuel
for locomotives with great saving Of
money, besides doing away with
smoke and cinders
Year: 1879

The British government made Il breach
in the Chinese wall with artillery that the
opium trade might be forced within its con-
fines at the point of the bayonet. This,
base as its motive was and questionable as
were the means used, opened the door to
whatever of civilization within that Empire
that has followed. 1t was through this
opening that this Government found ACCESS
to the Chinese millions for the purpose Of
inoculating them with civilization, the
Christian religion, and the principles Of
freedom and justice which are claimed for
this young Republic. We gained the conf
dence of the Empire to an extent that has
not been accomplished by any other nation
on the earth. Indeed, so much enamored
were the Chinese with our Ambassador at
that court that he was borne off into their
full confidence and adopted as their own.
No other nation has received such a
mark of esteem from that wall
bound people, We have also a
treaty of peace, confidence, and friendly re-
lation with the Chinese, that is regarded of
great advantage and value to this Govern
ment, commercially and otherwise. This
treaty has been relgiously respected by the
Chinese, and under its provisions fraction
ofthe Chinese population have sought place
and livelihood among us. OF course their
habits OF thought and action and their
modes Of life are not in accord with our
own habits and customs; neither could
they be expected to throw off all the innu-
ences of early education, habit, and train
| ing at once and become at an early period
of their living among us thoroughly Amer
| icanized. They have conlormed to our
modes of life very slowly, and hence that
has been made the justification for theil
Punishment from our shores, with slight
exceptions, by legal enactment,


In this we apprehend that our Govern
ment has not exercised the most scrupulous
respect for its treaty obligations 1t has
violated them in hasty and indscreet
manner, without previous notice to The
Chinese government, and without full JUS
| tifcation for the act. Ii would seem that
in this performance we have been guided
more by considerations of expediency than
of right, and have adopted more our policy
Of dealing with our Indian treaties than
with foreign Powers We think this
proceeding without parallel in our for
eign affairs, except perhaps with Powers
where we have been seeking OCCASION fol
the disruption of Our friendly relations,


OF course it has become habit with thi


Government to treat with the Indian tribe


under a confidence on their part, and to Sc


cure advantages that were to be gathered
| through violation of good faith. Under th'
Year: 1879

precedent thus established, this violation of
our treaty stipulations with the Chinese
has no doubt been encouraged and accom-
plishcd, not very largely to our credit.
Now we care nothing for the Chinese as u
people, for though they have come among
us they are not of us, They do not assim-
ilate in any satisfactory manner to our
habits customs or opinions, socially, politi-
cally, or religiously, and hence are not to
be coveted as citizens, or even as residents,
but they have come among US under the
invitation that we have extended to all the
nations of the earth TO make this Govern
ment their asylum and this country their
own by adoption-taking up the race of
life in common with us and pushing for
ward American industry and enterprise
under common effort, occupying the
plane of American liberality and equality.
The Chinese are, no doubt, entitled to less
respect than any other foreigners, for the
reason that they do not so readily adopt
this country as their homes or yield so
gracefully to our nationalities. In view
of all this what and all that we object
to in this behalf is that our exclusion or
banishmeut of them may be regarded as
precipitate and unseemly and in violation
of our sacred treaty obligations. The same
end might have been reached perhaps more
gracefully
Year: 1879

THE Mexican fever seems to have spread
the length Of the Mississippi Valley, and
from Minnesota to Louisiana the good peo-
pie Of that section are wide awake to the
necessity and advantage of increased COM
mercial relations with our sister Republic


But it would appear after due reflection
that the remainder of the United States Is
also interested in this question. The natural
channel of traffic between the two countries
is down the Mississippi River and across the
Gulf; but the contributions of products and
manufactures 10 that traffic cannot be con-
fined TO the valley of that great river any
more than the consumption Of Mexican
products received in return can become the
exclusive privilege Of any particular see
tion The truth is the interchange of com
modities between the two countries will be
a matter Of slow growth, dependent largely
Year: 1879

THE Republican party is even now re-
iieved from all material responsibility as re-
CARDS the legislative conduct of affairs but
after the 4th Of March next the Democracy
will be compelled to assume every particle
of it, Two years of blundering, bigoted
partisanship in legislative affairs will then
follow in the natural course Of things, from
which the people will derive effective admo-
nitions regarding the future.
Year: 1879

GENERAL ARTHUR, who was removed
from the New York custom-house, still
lives. He has been unanimously chosen as
chairman of the Republican central COM
mittee of the city Of New York, and is very
jealous in behalf Of the Republican cause.
The General will continue to contend for
principle-"fodder or no fodder
Year: 1879

THE Chicago Tribune, in referring to the
loaded condition of the appropriation bills,
has come to the deliberate conclusion that
the people are liable to be reconciled to the
failure of all these bills, for the country
might as well be swamped one way as an
other.
Year: 1879

In the North, as an exchange remarks
the old-fashioned habit remains of respect
Ing majOrities. This fact is offered rs an
answer to the CotTier-JournarSi inquiry why
no negro is ever sent from that section to
CONGRESS
Year: 1879

II is gratifying to witness the firmness OF
the Republicans in the House in resisting
the revolutionary measures Of the Demo-
Gratis. The ex-Confederates have seized upon
this expedent to force the minority of the
House to submit to agross wrong or furnish
an excuse for an extra session. The repeal
of the election laws will be resisted to the
last ditch, and, should the appropriation
bill to which that repeal is annexed finally
fail, it may not involve the absolute ne
cessity for an extra session of Congress, for
the machine of Government may learn to
practice economy under short appropria-
tions, or even without any appropriations,
for period, rather than expose the struc-
ture of the Government to corruption such
as the opponents of the election laws seek
to introduce into our system of elections.
We therefore venture the opinion that the
President will not call an extra session of
Congress should the appropriation bill in
question fail under the circumstances.
Year: 1879

Did not burn brightly this morning,
and as consequence, one Of the Cover
nor's aid-de- Camps, the Auditor, and a
member of City Council went down in
the cellar to give the furnace a raking
and see If something could not be done,
and fortunate to state they succeeded
in raising steam. Had they failed, the
Treasurer made suggestion as to the
propriety of sending tor the Mayor and
President of City Council to have help
ed them out, and should the fire not
have burned he thought of telegraph
ing Cor the Governor and his staff to
come up and see what the difficulty
was. He is willing to have official dig
nitaries to attend to his fires especially
when it is volunteered with will and
he never refuses any aid. He would
lust as soon have the President of the
United States the zar Of all the Russians
or the Pope of Rome to make his fires
as not,
Year: 1879

Woman wants but little here below, but
wants that little in the fashion.


A Chicago verdict "we find him guilty,
but not very guilty"


81 study two pleas" remarked the judge
when the case was left to his decision.


'Sx into four once, you can't make it," as
the shoemaker mildly suggested to a lady GUS
toner.


1t is not always possible to keep from hav-
ing mud thrown at you but you can always
keep from throwing it at Others


All the signers of the Declaration of Inde-
pendence signed their names with quill pens
except one he signed his Witherspoon.


The Cincinnati Enquirer makes the follow
ing correction: 'For it's poor mule that
won't work both ways, in yesterdays issue,
please read it's poor rule &c"


Many man spends money enough on
single vice to bring up two children and give
each of them handsome dowry.


Every one ought to be busy, but no one
ought TO be so busy that he can't do his work
we'll An overworked man is like a certain
plow of which we have heard which turned
up great deal more than it could turn over.


A little 3-year-old girl who had been accus-
toned to see her father use envelopes for his
correspondence, asked him, when he mailed a
lot of postal cards, why he sent his letters
away bareheaded.


An old judge told young lawyer that he
would do well to pick some of the feathers
from the wings of his imagination and stick
them into the tail of his judgment.


Lord annint him with the lie of Patmos :"
was the somewhat questionable blessing hurl-
ed at the freshly pastor of "A neighbor-
ing church by an earnest member praying for
the welfare of the new minister.


The other day while young swell was
asleep, some friends, for a joke, shaved of
one side Of his mustache. He has been in the
most distressing CONSERVATION ever since,
because he cannot discover which side it was.


It is said of Sir Isaac Newton's nephew,
who was a clergyman, that he always refused
a marriage fee, saying in a tone of pleasantly,
go your way, poor children, l have done
you mischief enough already without taking
your money"


When little Thomas stoops to toy with ber-
ries, jam and jelly cake, no art can soothe
the chastened boy-no nostrum ease his
stomach-ache. And if the gripping pains defy
the medicines prescribed to foil, his parents
will do well to try the limped, liquid castor
~;
Year: 1879

that the goods have been brought to their
present state Of perfection


heard a good story which convinced me
that we have patriotic dealers in our midst
An enthusiastic merchant, who evidently
knew more of wool than he did of history,
was recommending piece of American goods
to a customer. Holding it up and looking Mt
it ndmiringly he said, "There sir, there's an
American Bannockburn, and tell you it's just
as good piece as ever old Bannockburn him
self made" 1t is evident as a school boy he
hadn't declaimed 'Scots wha hae wi Wal
lace bled, or if he had, did not associate the
bloody field of Bannockburn made famous by
Robert Bruce, with the cloth that is made at
the mills by that name at Stirling, only three
miles away.


But, Scoth, or American, which you will,
they are all made into iaunty business suits,
and spring and summer ulsters, which are the
incest and most comfortable travelling gar
ments that gentleman can wear. did
mean to tell you more about the styles, but
instead have given you lecture in which
patriotism and economy are very much mixed.
| must add this, that where you hear chronic
grumblers finding fault with prices and talk
ing about "before the war" please remember
that you can buy suit for ten or twelve dol
lars less than you could even six years ago
and when you buy a suit ready made for from
SIS to S25, or have one made to order from
92i to So, you are getting it as cheap as you
can to have it upon honor in every way, to
have the man who sells it to you able to pay
his bills dollar for dollar, and the women who
make it paid SO they can live honest lives, and
not starve to death while holding their honor.
think the knowledge worth paying for, don't
you? SALLIE Joy WHITE.
Year: 1879

A JOKE AT THE EXPENSE OF G, F, Awhile
debate was in progress in the United States
Senate not many days ago on a public health
measure to prevent the introduction of epi-
demic diseases at Southern ports, a substitute
for the pending bill was privately circulated
in the Senate Chamber, creating much amuse-
ment 1t proposed that well-known Mass
achusetts statesman, noted for the frigidity
of his manners, be requested TO pass the sum
mer at the quarantine station at the mouth of
the Mississippi, and to board all vessels ar
irving from infected ports, as his presence
could but produce such fall in temperature
as would destroy the germs of the epidemic.
Year: 1879

that blade of grass could not be over


come by that inadel philosopher. So
it stands as the foundation of the


christian religion. 1t is the support


of the truth of God, which is more
weighty than the granite hills of
earth. 1t is the only power that can


restrain the minds of men. The dun
geon cell may secure the body, but
the mind can rur out over the hills in
its chariot Of thought. Distance may
dim the eye, dealen the ear, and ST.
lence the tongue. But the mind with
its eye can see through the dim vista
Of years that have gone; with its ear
it can hear the thunders that have
died away on the wings of the dis
tance; with its tongue it can gossip
with the loved ones Of yore, or hold
sweet communion with angels
The mind though thus powerful, the
mystery contained in mustard seed
can chain it to the earth like thing
without life. The mind, though it
can ride over the hills and mountains
in its swift chariot, the mystery con-
tanned in the creation Of things, can
break its chariot wheels, and lay to
earth its dragon steed. WILD BILL.
Year: 1879



 In his third Yale lecture Bishop Simpson advises the young men wh" are entering the ministry to avoid all stimulants, and in connection with this advise gives bit of information which is not generally known: "l would scarcely suppose that any one who feels himself called t0 the minis try will countenance their use; yet kind friends will sometimes suggest that you are weak, your nerves are tremulous, you have been out in the cold, you need lillle stimulant, ahd they will urge the taking Of little wine or brandy betOre preaching. These friends will tell you that the most distinguished ministers are in the habit of using them; and l regret to say that in many churches both wine and brandy are there kept in the vestTy for the Use of the minister, both befure and afIer preaching" He fur ther says: " have known some young ministers who have used few drops of parsgoric or opium to give them strength for the pulpit 1 sm glad to say that I have known but few such cases; but l must add that these were led in the end to either physical or moral ruin" And in passing he fires s shot at the clerical cigar: |" 1 sup pose there is a sort of enjoyment con nrcIed with it, for l have seen men sit for an hour smoking, with their feet upon table, professIng t" be studying. I have DO doubt they had visions of greatness and glory; but prolonged observation shows that their lives usually ended with their cigars, in smoke"
Year: 1879

SENATOR BLAINE has lately been paying marked attention to the United States Navy showing up some of the beauties of that monstrosily. That institution has about ODe commission ed officer to every three men. When you farther take into account that the army hss about one commissioned of icer 10 every nine men, you begin to realize the situation. These two in- stitutiOns should receive immediate legislation. The official list of the navy should be reduced two-thirds, while the official list of the army should meet the same reduction and an equal addition be made to it's rank and file.
Year: 1879

REFERRING to Senator Blaine's effort to overhaul the United States Navy, the San Francisco Stock Report says

 This ls move in the right direction and though il Comes late, II is better late than never. If there ever was d craft staggering along under too much weight aloft it Is the United States Navy. While the policy has been for several years to reduce the number of sesmeu, nothing has ever been attem [. ed in the way of reduction of the list of office s. We have now one of. ticer 10 cry two and half enlisted men. and out of the $7,50OO LOO expend ed for the pay of the Navy" the officers get over $6,00O,000. This is s pretty heavy load fnr Ihe Ship of State to carry on it's quarter deck. and. un less the cargo is more evenly stnwed the craft is in danger of going down b, the stein n.
Year: 1879

A FAvoRITE actress appeared in an entirely new role 8 few evenings ago She rolled off the stage and c eated \ sensation in the orchestra. She re fused To respond to loud calls for an encnre.-NorrislOwn Herald.