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Year: 1875

IT is evident that the long continuance of
the revolt in the Herzegovina depends upon
the attitude of Servia and Montenegro. Lat
est advices are to the effect that these pow
ers will not interfere. Very likely their mu-
tual jealousies, and the desire of each to be
at the head Of the Sclayic revolt will prevent
either from rendering effectual and. The
number of insurgents in the field is not more
than three thousand, and they are only for
midable by reason of the strength of the
mountain passes.
Year: 1875

We do not read anonymous letters and cemmuni-
cations The maine and address of the writer are in
all Indispensable not necessarily for publication
but as aguaranty of good faith.


We cannot undertake to return or reserve commu-
nications that are not used.
Year: 1875

There seems to be an excellent opportuni-
ty for some Plimsoll to distinguish himself in
the vicinity of Lake Michigan. Old and un-
safe vessels are becoming altogether too
common on that great sheet of water.
Year: 1875

The subjoined ante-mortem statement OF James
Reilly who was Knocked down on the 10th ult. by q
paving stone thrown al him bya man named Joe
Farrell, who is still A. large and believed TO be in
Brooklyn, was taken BY Coroner Kesser al Bellevue
Hospital, yesterday


man named Joe Farrell struck me on the head with
a paving stone Ia Forty ninth street, near where
live on the 10th OF November The only reason I can
give for his assault that about hour BEFORE
had ordered him out Of the place where ! a
porter. Before he struck he was behaving in q dis
orderly manner lighting with boy, and, as l could
not tolerate such conduct, ordered him out Of my
store. He went out, but remained watching me, and
when he got an opportunity threw the stone al me
offered him no violence or proyocaton any time.
Cannot say what happened Immediately aftcrward
do not expect TO iron my wound. / am
twenty i've years old native Of Ireland
Year: 1875

freight train coming along the Eric Railway, near
Glen Rock, on Wednesday evening, met With an acct
dent in having one Of the trucks under a boK car
thrown from the track and the train ran distance Of
about two miles Hawthorne before II was stopped
and during that time the truck had between the
tracks the whole two miles on the frozen ground No
@----N was done and no one was injured.
Year: 1875

A LADY correspondent of the Philadel
phia EgentRg Post thus describes the mis-


taken idea of devotion which some moth
| ers cherish for their children: A sort of


selfabnegation which only has the tenden-
| cy to foster seltishness in those children:
There is well-knOwn principle in me-


chanics that no labor is ever lost; but 1t
| appears to me that this sort of overdone


devotion of mothers to their children
comes about as near being labor lost as


anything well can be, not to violate prin-
| ciple of physics. II is an injury to both


mother and children, and an injury to


other people, let me tell you. know one
| excessively devoted mother. have known
| several in my time; and | never saw one
| yet whose children did not look down on
| her as a drudge and nothing else never
| saw one whose children did not become
selfish men and women, utterly regardless


of the comforts and rights ofOther people,
especially of their own families. But


this mother was so devoted to her
children that she arose in the morn
! ing and made the fires all over the
| house, and let her grown sons lie in


bed till breakfast was ready, and then she


called them very tenderly and when they


came downstairs she did not exactly wash
| their faces for them, but she had soap,


water and towels all waiting for them, as


though they had all been princes of the
| blood and she kitchen scullion. And
| she made herself slave 10 them in every
thing else just the same. They regarded
| their mother as a drudge, born to wait


upon them; and by and by, when they


had families, they regarded their wives


and children in exactly the same light
| They expect their wives to creep meekIy
| about and drudge for them, Just as their


mother used to do. If the household of
one of them happens to be temporarily


without servant, his wife must rise first,
make the fires, prepare the breakfast, and


then gently awake the lord and master of


the premises.


There is a golden mean to be observed
in all things Children ought to be
brought up to wait upon themselves and


other people; to have regard for the rights


and comforts of others. A stupid, affec-
tiOnate drudge of mother is about the


last person ON earth to train model repub-


lican citizens.


There is nothing in life more grand or
heroic than to lose ones life in trying to
save that of another. Moral grandeur can


reach no more sublime height than to
give ones life to save another's life When
1t comes to be ones duty to die for others
one ought not TO hesitate a moment.
But that is something very different from
one individual being slave to another


while both are living. Such self-sacrifice


amounts simplyto committing suicide by
| inches without doing the other person any
good. The longer l live the more appar-
ent it becomes to my mind that the Creator
never intended one person to be born for
drudge to another. Self-sacrifce is good
thing till it reaches the point of engender-
ing selishness in the person sacrificed to,
then it ought to stop.
Year: 1875

The followingis is the platform adopted by
the recent National Greenback Mass Con-
Vention, in session at Detroit:


ResoEUed, l. That the people owe to the Govern
ment at all times and in all emergencies a loan Of
money adequate to its needs, at rate of interest
so low as to be the least possible burden, and to
offer the least possible compensation TO private
enterprise.


2 The Government owes to the people an sbso-
lutey safe and uniform currency, adapted to their
varying needs, in amount and OF value not mate
rally different from that of other civilized nations.


3. That the providing Of currency for the peo.
pie is an attribute OF sovereignty. and we demand
that the Government of the United States shall per
form this duty in such manner as to furnish the
public an amount Of currency adequate to the bust
meas requirements Of the country and independent
of the action of banks other private corpora
tions.


4. That we are neither repudiationists nor inha-
tionists, but the friends of safe, sound and reli
able currency; that we propose to redeem the
greenback circulation of the United States at the
pleasure Of the holders thereof, in bonds Of the
United States bearing low rate of interest con
vertible at the pleasure OF the holders into green
backs, thus redeeming the original promise OF the
Government when 1t nrst issued greenbacks, to
fund them when desired into interest-payine
bonds.


5. That we are in favor of the issue of United
States certificates bonds bearing interest not tC
equal to the whole Government debt, said bondl
or certificates being changeable and interchangea
bic with greenbacks at par on demand.


D. That the legal money OF the country shoul0
be endowed with the power to pay all debts public
and private, except that portion OF the bonded in
debtedness specifically made payable in coin.


e. That as the enactment OF the last Congress
providing for a resumption Of specie payments II
1879 is impracticable and impossible OF execution
and disastrous in its effects upon the business o
the country, we demand its immediate and uncon
ditional repeal.


g. That the plan OF Government currency pro
posed by this con yention would, in our opinion
tend to render our Government and people inde
Ggaan all Of m
plicAtions and not subject hereafter as heretofore
TO the disturbing control or influence Of fOreigl
countries.


o. That we recommend the organization o
Grsenback Clubs in every State of the Union 70
the purpose Of carrying out the principles AM
measures set forth in the foregoing resolutions.
Year: 1875

mother used to roast the meat in an old
fashioned Dutch tin oven, and the piece
was always done to turn-the last turn
of the revolving-spit. Those days were
forever gone. But he might and ought to
get such green apple pie with new cheese
as his mother used to give him. AT
length the long-suffering wife arose in her
wrath, upset the table, sending the dishes
and their contents crashing TO the carpet
strided over to her astounded husband
gave him box on the ear which knocked
him off his chair, and remarked: " There's
a clip over the head for you, such as your
mother used to give you when you was
boy, gol dern yer" Thereafter there was
domestic peace and quiet in that house,
with never even an allusion to the mater
nal cookery and comforts of the bygone
days.-N. Y. World.
Year: 1875

VERY few, probably, of the thousands
who throw old shoes after bridal parties
as they are leaving home know anything
of the origin of the custom. Like almost
all of our common customs, its origin is
ancient, and can be traced TO Bible times
1t was then the custom for the brother of
a childless man TO marry his widow, or at
least he had the refusal of her. III he
chose to reject her the ceremony was pub
lie, and consisted in her loosing his shoe
from his foot and splitting in his face.
His giving up the shoe was symbol OF
his abandoning all dominion over her and
her splitting in his face was an assertion
of independence. There was an Affair OF
this kind between Ruth and BoaZ. In
some parts of the East it was custom To
carry a slipper before a newly married
coupleas token of the brides subjection.
The custom as it exists with us is very
old in England and Scotland. The usual
saying is that it is thrown for luck, and
that is the idea in this country, but origi-
nally it meant a remuneration of authority
over the bride by the parents. 1t was for
meTly custom among the Germans for
the bride when she was conducted TO her bed
chamber, TO take off her shoe and throw
it among the guests. Whoever got it in
the struggle TO obtain it received it as an
omen that he or she would soon be hap
PLY married. Train, in his history OF the
Isle of Man." says: ;" On the bridegroom
leaving his house it was customary to
throw an old shoe after him, and in like
manner an old shoe after the bride on
leaving her home To proceed to church, in
order to insure good luck 10 each respect
lively, and if by stratagem either OF the
brides shoes could be taken of by any
inspector on her way from church 1t had
10 be ransomed by the bridegroom" In
Kent, England, after the couple have
started on their tour, the single ladies are
drawn up in one row and the bachelors IN
another. An old shoe is then thrown as
far as possible, and the ladies run lor IL
the successful one being supposed 10 De
the first female who viii get married She
then throws the shoe at the gentlemen,
and the one who is hit by i is deemed
To he the first male who VIII enter INTO
wedloek. Generally it is considered the
older the shoe the better.-PhitGdetphfd


Times.
Year: 1875

"A Pennsylvania man was bitten by a
rattlesnake the other day and he bound a
cabbage-head on the spot and worked a
speedy cure. He now wants the cabbage
head given a conspicuous place on the
State seal
Year: 1875

THE funeral of the late Bank President
Ralston took place at San Francisco on
the Both ult., and was largely attended, at
least 10000 people being present. The
ceremonies were Of the most Imposing and
impressive character.
Year: 1875

depths of her heart there was lying a
great store of love and tenderness,
latent now, but waiting for some
other loving heart to develop, and
thus to change the whole weary
blank Of her life course, by the sun
light Of happy affection,


Ned Snyder was familiarly known
as "the fool" In some respects the
epithet was quite appropriate, for
while he had sufficient intelligence to
be Of much service in the bakery and
even mental balance as to puzzle the
most astute philosopher as to his
degree of mental soundness and ac-
countability. Ned, too, had been
adopted by Mr.. Towner, just as he
would have taken horse for its keep
ing. Itwould be handy to have such
q boy about the establishment, there
was always something for him to do,
and there were always fragments
enough left after the 80 or 40 board
ers had finished their meals to give
the fool a royal repast. AT first life
had not many pleasures for Ned; but
as his sphere OF usefulness began to
develop and he sometimes talked
about "paeking up his dudsP and
going to sea-4for Ned had a way Of
talking whatever came into his mind


he began to receive better clothes
and occasionally little presents and
spare half days, till his lot really in
comparison became quite enyiable.
+ Lu had always been kind to him.
out Of the kindness of her heart, and
many favor she had taken pains to
bestow upon him, because she pitied
his forlorn condition. Generally at
the table she could manage to pro-
cure for him nicer piece of meat,
or some little delicacy which had
never been intended for him, and
this she delighted to do, even though
he soon came to look upon such
favors as a matter of course, and to
scold and growl if they were not
bestowed. Yet, after all, Ned did
not mean to be ungrateful, and as he
could think of no other way of re-
paying LUIS kindness, he had grown
l T : 1
Year: 1875

Tho teacher Of Z district school in
Mansfield, is in the habit Of seking his
scholars to define tho words which
they arc given TO spell, The boy who
had 10 wrestle with the word "ulcer"
stated with a great deal of confidence
that IL was President Grants first
name What grand vista Of posi-
bilitics stretches out before that boy
Year: 1875

throughout the world. When this spirit be


comes intensified and universal, or nearly 80


it will we think constitute the Millennium


for all we need is such degree of love tt


God and the souls of men as to make com


plete and cheerful conservation of all we have


and are to the service of God, and the angela


can do nothing more. We hope some begin


to see the path of duty, especially our for.


eign missionaries who have left all for Christ;


but the most of us are like the blind man


who with one touch of Christ could only see
men as trees walking. Before Christ came
into the world there was general expectation
of his advent as the time approached, not
only among the Jews, but such other nations
as had been taught by them. Why then
may we not expect his mighty power in the
year 1000? For some of the wisest men
have said, "The seventh chiliad or 1000
years from the creation of the world, is to
be kind of Sabbath" But we do not sup
pose that all of Adams pace epen then will
be converted for we are told that afterwards
"Satan will be loosed for a little season, to
deceive the nations" Some suppose Christ
will appear on earth personally and reign as
a King, but that would be useless, as he
could only be in one place at time; but in
more important sense he says, "Lo, [ am
with you always, even unto the end of the
world"


g. TIE increasing attention to the rising
race is of God, and is happy presage of q
mighty revolution in the Church. People
converted late in life are too apt to fall back
imperceptibly into old habits and lose their
first love. By thus postponing the main
matter, and reversing the order of nature,
they are too weak and wavering for the great
work. There was wisdom in the sentiment
once uttered by DR.. j. H. Rice in an ad-
dress before the American Bible Society.
He said, "Should any one ask me why the
Millennium does not come, | would answer,
because Christians will not let it come
God will never impress upon the heather
world the image which the Church now pre-
sents." But we now begin to hope the
Church is getting up to higher standard of
spirituality, and the next generation will be
ahead of this. And we hope and believe
the mission churches after proper training
will be an Improvement upon the old stock.
Our ardent brethren abroad should see to it
that every converted child vii! shine as a
light in the world. The evangelical prophet
Isaiah in speaking of that glorious day says,
f" There shall be no more thence an infant of
days, nor an old man that hath not filled his
days: for the child shall die an hundred
years old" SENEx.
Year: 1875

1. We should not make it a gloomy day.
An honest effort to keep it holy, is liable thus
to degeneration. Being conscious of sin
men find it not always easy to avoid an as
sociation of sadness with whatever brings
God near to them. But surely those whose
sins are pardoned may be delivered from this
natural tendency. The Christian Sabbath
offers to Christian hearts the privilege, and
favorable opportunity of access to God, not
in terrors of His holiness, but in the plenti-
tude of His grace, which Christ has made
consistent with His holiness Christ having
died and risen again, coming forth from the
sepulchre "radiant in immortal bloom" our
triumphant champion, our glorious deliverer,
ready to ascend and lead our way into the
heavenly mansions, which he claims as his
own, is the principal object of contemplation
on His own day" the Lords day" We
should cultivate the habit of directing our
minds to cheerful viewS-to the privileges,
the joys, the blessed and glorious hopes of
Christianity, on this day. Thus We make it
truly day of rest.


2 Still we should carefully preserve its
sacredness. The effort to make the day
cheerful quite as easily degenerates into
levity, as the effort to keep it holy into
gloomy austerity. This difficulty diminishes
with every increase of spirituality. The
nearer to God we live, the more free we be-
come from carnal dispositions; the more
heavenly minded we become, just so much
less liable do we become TO seek pleasure in
what is earthly, and 80 much more suscepti.
Bile to spiritual and sabbatic JOY. Oar eff.
fort should not be the mere negative one, to
restrain ourselves; there should be positive
planning and arrangement to keep ourselve;
occupied with studies or exercises sufficiently
varied to prevent fatigue, and pleasantly and
usefully engaging our minde.-Pres5yterian
| at Work.
Year: 1875

A short word; shorter thing. Soon ut
tered sooner gone. "Now!" A grain Of
sand on boundless plain. A tiny ripple on
measureless ocean! Over that ocean We
are sailing but the only part of it we pos
sess is that on which our vessel at this mo-
ment floats. From the stern we look back
wards and watch the ships wake in the
waters; but how short distance it reaches,
and how soon every trace disappears We
see also some landmarks farther off, and then
the horizon closes the view; but beyond,
that ocean still rolls far, far away. Memory
contemplates the few years of our individual
life history shows us dim outline of noun
tains science tells us that still farther back
out of sight, stretches that vast sea; reason
assures us that, like space, it hath no boun-
dary but all that We possess Of it is repre-
sented by this small word-Now! The past,
for action, is ours no longer. The future
may never become present; it is not ours
until it does. The only part of time we can
use is this very moment-Now
Year: 1875

REVELATION OF THE JUST JUDGMENT OF
GoD.-And thus it would be to all, were it
not that it is also the revelation of Jesus
Christ; therefore it is day of grace, all
light and blessednesa to them who are in
him, because they shall appear in him, and
if he be glorious, they shall not be inglori-
GUS and ashamed Indeed, were our secret
sins then to be set before our own eyes in
their most affrightful vissge, and to be set
open to the view of angels and men, and to
the eye of divine justice, and we left alone
so revealed, who is there that could gather
any comfort and would not rather have their
thoughts filled with horror at the remem-
brance and expectation of that day? And
thus, indeed, all unbeieying and ungodly
men may look upon it and find it terrible;
but to those who are shadowed under the
robe of righteous jesus, yea, who are made
one with him and shall partake of his glory
"in his appearing" it is the sweetest, the
most comfortable thought that their souls
can be entertained and possessed withal, to
remember the glorious revelation of their
Redeemer.-Leighton.
Year: 1875

thing" and handed out his contribution
Those two short speeches at once brought
a good part of two hundred dollars, and the
object was secured. And now behold what
has come of that contribution, as the means
of bringing our brother Kslopothakes where
he could, as he nobly did, support himself,
(by teaching and prepare for his present
work Oar present entrance into Mace
donia is one result of it.


Any thing for our present object can, of
course, come through the ordinary channels,
and be counted as an addition to Foreign
Mission collections.


I have so filled up my paper that must
omit something of interest. But let me
say that while the modern evangelical Greek
Church of Christ may never assume the
name Presbyterian" better not, | think
yet ga rose by any other name smells as
,sSssSl,. apd,;SIGe only embrace our oppor-


d now, We shall be able


sGscially value of our


gAssistianity quite thor


no this revived Christianity of Mace
donia and Greece, just as far as it may be
spread. 1t is glorious opportunity for us,
in every point of view. And who can help
feeling some enthusiasm at this idea Of be-
ginning our work on spot SO consecrated
by old and sacred associations as this? l
think it will probably not be long before we
shall once more have, if it be with a small
number at first, Church of the Thessa
lonians." l think too they are going to be
much of the stamp with the Thessalonica be-
levers of old. (See l ThesS. i: 4-8, &c)
May God bless you, dear brethren, and
those to whom you minister, with the most
abundant gifts of His grace!


Most faithfully and truly,


G. w. LEYBURN.
Year: 1875

HOME is next to heaven. And the home
that is we'll ordered, comely, pure and bright,
is thus heavenly by the agency of woman's 8
heart and woman's hand. No school can
teach the science of housekeeping.
Year: 1875

A New York pictorial publishes an
ILLUSTRATION of "Comin' Thro' the Rye'
ami blunlers into what We presume
is through popular misconception of
the ditty, giving laddie and lassie
meeting and kissing in field of grain.
The lines


Ifa addie meet lassie


Comm thro' the rye,


and especially the other couplet:


A. the lads they smile on me


When comm thro' the rye.
seem to imply that traversing the rye
was an habitual or common thing,
hut what in the name of the Royal
Agricultural Society could be the OBJ
ject in trampling down Il crop of grain?
The song perhaps suggests harvest
scene where both sexes as is the GUS
tom in Great Britain;. are at work
reaping, and where they could come
and go through the field indee |, but
not through the rye itself, so as to
meet and kiss In it. The truth is, the
rye in this case is no more grain than
Rye Beach is, it being the name of a
small shallow stream near Ayr, in
Scotland, which, having neither
bridge or ferry; was forded by the peo-
pie going to and from the market,
custom allowing lat to steal kiss
from any lass Of his acquaintance
whom he met in mid stream. Our co.
temporary will see that this is the
true explanation If he will refer to
Burns original ballad, In which the
first verse refers to the lass wetting
her clothes in the stream.


Jennie is q wat puir body;


Jenny's seldom dry;


She drdg'it a. h r pe.icoatie,
Comm thro' the rye.
Year: 1875

The auditing, executive and committee of ar
raugcmcnS from the State Board Of Agricul-
ture were in session in this city on Tuesday and
Wednesday. The object of the meeting was the
letting of booths and ground privileges for
stands during the coming fair Owing to the
heavy rain on Tuesday the committees adjourn
ed until Wednesday, when they proceeded to the
grounds and entered upon the disposal Of priv
ilcges. Repts to the amount Of over $4,000 were
disposed OF and the remainder was left with W.
j, Neeley for disposal


From the disposition manifested at the time
of sale, it was announced by the committee that
the prospect for a profitable fair was never bet
ter, and acting upon their present convictions
they will add to their arrangements such addi-
tonal facilities as will insure a complete success
in all respects