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Year: 1875

Of the island An Intervention for
what President Grant calls in his Message
''the interests Of humanity itself ought to
be joint Intervention if il is TO have any
moral weight OF looks to the Endorsement Of
the public opinion of the world. 1t would
be absurd to say that the United States is
the only nation that has any concern in 'the
interests Of humanity itself The local
proximity Of Cuba - our shores GER
tainly gives US a title to take the
lead in such movement in the
interests of humanity but if humanity, and
not territorial aggrandizemento or other selfish
motive, prompts our efforts, we ought to de-
sire the aid and countenance ofother Powers.
Acting alone our motives would be open to
suspicion and our intervention would be inn
puted to motives quite different from desire
to protect "the interests Of humanity"
Besides, joint Intervention would not lead
to war as the separate interference of the
United States would be certain to do. If
the three great Powers named should com
bine with America their moral force would
not need to be strengthened by military or
naval array.


Next to our own government that Of Great
Britain has the deepest interest in the peace
and prosperity of the West India Islands.
She owns the large and fertile island of
Jamaica, which is nearer to Cuba than our
own State of Florida she owns the whole
Bermuda group and large proportion of the
other West India islands she has a larger
commerce with Mexico than any other
nation. Her interests in the West Indies
and the seas which surround them are
scarcely inferior to our own, and if we are
to intervene in Cuba ''in the interests of hu-
manity" England is the first Power to which
we should apply for cooperation. What
ever might be done by her consent and with
her aid would command the respect of the
world and be exempt from dishonoring i'm
putations Her cooperation would prove
to Spain and would satisfy other nations
that the Intervention was really in the inter-
ests Of commerce and humanity, and not
pretext for covering other designs. Hence
we shall be particularly chagrined to learn
that, if negotiations for a joint Intervention
have been under way, they should have
failed or be likely to fail If Presi-
dent Grant is sincere in his professions,
and if there is no present intention to
quire Cuba for the United States, our ma
tional honor would be best protected and war
most surely avoided by joint Intervention.
Year: 1875




By cable despatch we hear that some
American residents in Berlin have thought
fit to protest against the tone of the German
press in its comments on the case of the
steamer Mosel and the attempted crime of
Thompson. Crime does not happen to be of
any country; and if the German editors have
argued that there are some American kinds
Of crime, and that this frightful endeavor to
send ship to the bottom for gain is Of
character that is national with us, it would
be a great deal better for Americans
who may feel aggrieyed to answer
them rather than to protest with an
injured sense of patriotic pride. 1t is be-
lieved on substantial reasons that man
once attempted to blow up the British Par
Lament while in session, and all for gain
that would have been pitiful by comparison
with what the present rogue promised him
self Here is the very same crime, the un-
dertaking to kill some hundreds of persons
for personal qualification. But even in Berlin
they will scarcely argue that Guy Fawkes
was a Yankee, though they have some quaint
historical fancies. From time immemorial
men have killed other men, with motives
financial, fanatical, political, social or
amatory and though this crime departs
from the general category by its magnitude
by the number Of persons condemned it is
unfortunately not without its parallel in
that particular in the history Of every civil
lied people.
Year: 1875

CHRISTMAS HAS HAD ITS SHADOWS in the
Old World as well as in the New. A school
housoful Of villagers enjoying the great
festive occasion suddenly fell through the
flooring Of the building and eighty were
killed and 6fty more or less injured.
Year: 1875




The manly letter Of Captain Nicoll, which
we publish to-day, shows that, whatever
others may do, Princeton will stand boldly
up to her duty in the Rowing Association,
and do what she can to keep the weak kneed
from the Generalization which seems to
threaten some of them. 1t has been well
known for some time in rowing circles that
Yale and Harvard have been trying to cover
the unpleasant side Of their proposed with
drawal by urging Columbia and Princeton
to go along; but the resolute refusal Of the
latter, with the very plain words in her letter,
and the almost certain Endorsement Of her
course by Columbia, promise well for
American college rowing interests. Cap
tain Nicoll tells the boilers that in
running away in the year of all years,
when the world will come to look at us, they
are false alike to duty and courtesy. And
certainly, to join in an invitation to gentle
men to come three thousand miles to row,
and after they have considered and per-
haps acceded to your request to suddenly
turn and wholly ignore them, is, to put it
mildly, anything but fattering to our no
tions of good breeding. Nor does it better
it much if the rumor is true that Yale and
Harvard have already challenged Oxford and
Cambridge to separate race in eights. The
English university men should distinctly
understand that, if they whip both Harvard
and Yale, they have not beaten the best
American college oarsmen, by any means,
and that there are several crews here who
can do all that. One excellent course is open
to the visitors. Let them accept the chal-
lenge of the Rowing Association and decline
that of Harvard and Yale, stating their
ground that they prefer to row the
first college crew in America, not some third
or fifth rate one Then the result will de-
termine whether the famous British oarsnen
can beat us or not; otherwise it will not at all.


THE PLYMOUTH CHURCH F1oHr still pro-
gresses with the pastor leading his forces,
Year: 1875




We beseeeh you, beloved brethren,
make your homes the sanetuaries of God.
Let nothing destroy your family altars.
Bring tho morning and the evening sac
rifiee. Let your children grow up taught
it the work, and familiar with the voice
of prayer and praise. Cultivate hearth
stone religion. Assert your rightful aU-
thOrity as parents to restrain your child
rem from evil ways. Teach them the
fear Of the Lord, which is the beginning
of wisdom Show them the great salts
faction which you yourselves have in the
service of God. Let them see the relig-
ion Of our Lord Jesus Christ on the lips
and in the lives. of those whom they most
love and reverence, in all the beauty OF
holinsss, in all the charm Of a radiant
and hopeful piety, and in all the power
of n joyful and triumphant faith DO
not be content simply with teaching ia
your household the truths of the gospel,
nor, indeed, with the fullest exemplifi
cation in life and conduct of the excel
lency of ChTist's service. EUdngeiize
your children. Bring them to Christ.
Expect not merely that they may grow
up to become Christians, but that they
may now, in their earliest years Of ae-
eOuntability, be Christians Have ID
church in your own house. And if its
living head will embOsOm himself in the
heart ofa child, see that no rebuke comes.
to your lips, that no distrust springs up
in your breast, and that no doubt de-
strOys your faith, but welcome the Holy
Spirit to its most beautiful and Joyous
work, remembering that as the fragrance
of the flower is garnered in the bud, so
the strength and glory of the life is born
of simplicity and purity Of our ehilG-
hoods faith In no way, dear brethren,
can you be such helpers in the gospel for
us, as in the diligent maintenance Of a
practical home piety, bringing up your
children in the nurture and admonitiOn
of the Lord, and showing forth daily IL
works of meekness and piety the doe
trines and principles of the gospel which
we preach. Nor can your reward, in any
other way, be so rich and full; for faIni-
ly piety restores the Eden loveliness, and
is, at once, the promise and the foretaste
Of the new earth and heaven. Pastoral
address IF Central Mem York CoRfeT-
ence.
Year: 1875

FOUR WOMEN MADE WIDOWS BY THE
DEATH OF oNE HUsBANn.-Gn Saturday
last Mr.. Louis Walker died at West Lib
erty, leaving q widow. Previous to his
death he expressed an earnest wish that
if he died he might be buried at his old
home, a short distance south OF Beving-
ton, which is eighteen miles from Des
Moines, OH the Winterest road. With n
heartful of love and affection, and
weighted with sorrow and desolajion, the
widow placed tie body Of the late hus
band in &, casket and started to obey his
last request. Arriving at Bevington, in
duiry was made of residents as to the To-
eality where the body was to be buried,
the widow being an entire stranger
to every body. She was asked whose
body it was, when it was discoyesed that
the deceased was the lawful husband of
the daughter OF the owner of the prem
ises where he requested to be buried, and
who was then residing at her fathers.
OF these facts the widow was ignorant,
and the certain knowledge OF the scene
which must follow the meeting of the two
wives of one husband, under such cir
eumstanees, induced some OF the citizens
to inform wife No. of the fact She
was at first astounded, then mortified and
indignant at the base deception which
had been practiced upon her. She in
structed the citizen ID take the body to
the residence of wife No. l, and the
first knowledge wife No. l had of the
matter was the arrival of the body at her
residence. Since her departure it has
been discovered that Walker has also n
wife in Missouri, another in Ohio, and
perhaps others elsewhere.-DeS M0ines
(IOlrd) Journal.
Year: 1875

The doctrine of bodily insurreetion


Is opposed to both common sense and


scientific knowledge, and utterly repug-


nant to the finer spiritual instincts of


man. Whatever value it might have had


in the religious life of past generations is


now entirely outgrown, and it is time this


crude, materalistie conception were reIe-
gated to the lumber room of Christian


antiquities, to take its place with other


faithful and grotesque relies of supersti


tious ages. Nature herself is the severest


critic and contradiction of such a theory.


Last summer, as 1 one day wandered


through an old cemetery in the German


city of Hanover, ehaneed upon most


impressive testimony to this fact. 1t
was the grave of lady of rank. who
had been laid to rest there more than n
century ago. Above it rose a huge.
sandstone sarcophagus, black with age
and exposure, on which was craven her
name, her title, and the date OF her birth
and death. Upon the stone platform
beneath was this notable inscription
evidently inspired by a belief of the
resurrection of the body-'sThis grave
has been bought for eternity, and is
never to be opened" Thus secured
against irreverent intrusion the noole
lady lay molding for a century, awaiting
her summons to renewed life.


But in the course of the year a little
seed dropped into a creviee between the
stones of the platform. Sheltered there
from wind and storm, nourished by rain
and sunshine, it sprouted and grew Wig
orous birch tree


In Its need for more room it pried the
stones asunder more and more, and sent
its roots deep down into the grave be-
low; while as it grew upward in its Iusty
young life, it raised little by little the
heavy weight above it, fitting the huge
sarcophagus over on to its edge. When
| saw it, the monument tottering to its
fall, the open grave yawning beneath,
while over all the birch tree triumphantly
waved its branches, as if in derision of
that injunction still legible on the erumb-
ling stone beneath, ''This grave has
been bought Tor eternity, and is never
to be opened"


What a commentary on the doctrine of
the bodily resurrection What satire
on the assumption that amid all the vi
cissitudes of tiIue and the decays and
of matter, the bodily
is exceptionally persistent and
preserving its material identity, will re-
appear in space and time WendIe.
Year: 1875

OLD BILL ALLEN is one of those relics
of past generation who has fingered
beyond his time, and who has been pre-
sented to the world as a statesman sim
ply because he is old The Democrats
conclude that man who was in Con
gress forty.years ago must be a statesman,
because he was on the stage of action
when the country had statesmen to boast
of. Yet the creature never was anything
but demagogue of the meanest kind,
and he is a worse demagogue now than
he was forty years ago.
Year: 1875

II we were faultless, weshOuld not be
so much annoyed by the defects OF those
with whom we associate. IL we were to
acknowledge honestly that We have not
virtue enough to bear patiently with our
neighbor's weakness, we should show
our own imperfeetion, and this alarms
our vanity.
Year: 1875

of the testimony had not yet been writ


ten out by the reporter.
/ II Is due the Chairman to say that his


signing the main report was an inadver-


tane- on his part, as he claimed, and as


his action in the House showed.


There We're many curious incidents


connected with this business that it would


be interesting to trace, but want Of
space forbidS. One thing must be stat
ed, however. The Committee was eramp-


ed for time TO make thorough examin-


alton. The adjournment resolution had


been adopted. \ movement was made


to have the term extended few days to
enable it to complete, and a resolution


was adopted in the House to that end,


but it was defeated in the Senate, for the
reason that the Democratic party aUould
be injured by continuation. Mr.. Con-
verse testified in the Committee that he
had said and believed the Wood county
investigation would hurt the Democrat
ie party!


The scenes Oh the floor of the House
in the expiring hours of the session, in
point of degradation and indeceney,
beggar description. Liar, seoundrel,
thief, periurer, bribe-taker, were some
of the epithets which members applied
to each other in debate. Once the
Speaker was informed by a member
from the floor that he had no more
business in the chair than any other
lOGfer.


So ended the 61st General Assembly of |
the State of Ohio-the Legislature of |
Economy, RETRENCHIENT and RE-
FORMr'


Here is what the Democratic organ, the
Cincinnati Enquirer, thought of it on
the day after its adjournment:


ga number of statesmen were killed |
at Columbus last Monday when thoss
Wood county bribers were ''exonerat-
ed"


eve trust that all the members of the
Ohio Legislature will reach home in
safely, and that few of them will ever
find the way back to Columbus"


''The Ohio Legislature refused to
adopt any measure to relieve the Sn-
preme Court by providing for the ap-
pOintment OF a commission or otherwise.
The Supreme Court is seven years behind
with its work, and the failure of the
Legislature to afford relief, practically
to n denial of justice. This is
one of the sins of omission charged up to
the late Legislature, and will serve to
set the people to thinking more earnest
ly of the necessity of sending men of
force, character and integrity to the
Legislature.


There are n number af matters vet
That might be instructively inquired into,
both state and local, as illustrative of
The ''rcform' tendency of the Democrat
ic party. The reformation in affairs at
under Democratic manage
ment, particularly in the Water Works
Department, would form n very interest
ing chapter; but to this collection of
facts there must be an end.
Year: 1875

THE Washington correspondent Of
the Cincinnati Commercial says the
struggle with the Sioux diplomats is
only a question of time. IF the means
row operating do not accomplish the
purpose, there are powerful arguments
IN reserve thas viii be brought to bear
by the ring That cannot fail to produce
the desired effect
Year: 1875

As GRANT seems to banker after his
old life position Of General Of the Army,
which he claims was created for his
especial benefit, it has been suggested
that perhaps he wants Sherman to run
for President, if he could only step
into his shoes.
Year: 1875

WASHINGTON, June S.-The President
had a council with the IndianS at the IN
terror Department to-day. The press and
ali outsiders were excluded. The Com
missioner gives the following synopsis Of
the interview:


The President explained the agreement
that had been drawn relinquishing the right
to hunt in Nebraska. and rsserving to them
the country north Of the EiobTaia River.
Outside Of their reservation all the country
north Of the North Platte is considered as
unceded territory. By this they give up
portions Of this country and retain the part
where the Red Cloud and Spotted Tail
agencies are located. BE said the twenty
five thousand dollors were presents and not
to be given in money. He offered to al
low them to name the person to receive the
money and buy such things as they wanted,
if the person named was a proper person
TO receive it. He expressed his desire to
see them well provided for during his term
Of office, and asked them again to consider
the question Of removing TO the Indian
Territory.
Year: 1875

said the Government. was asking too much.
A certain portion Of their country had never
been ceded, and be wanted to know when
they were TO be paid for That. he alluded to
the section which they intended 10 retain.
He declined to sign this agreement, and
said be would go home to his people and
send word back what he would do.


He was told the money would lapse in
70 the treasury June so, and he asked if
some one here could hold it until they
could return TO their country and send
word back what his people would do.


Much further conversation followed upon
the subject, and the President was finally
compelled to leave, the Indians having de-
clined to sign the agreement.
Year: 1875

Exchange.


NEW ORLEANS, June 2.-The Commit
tee on Information and Statistics Of the
New Orleans Cotton Exchange, TO whom
had been entrusted the duty Of compiling a
national cotton crop report, made up from
the returns of the various Exchanges ap-
pointed by the National Exchange, submit
the following for the month of May:
Year: 1875

1t is said that silk which has become
wrinlled may be made to appear like new
by sponging the surface with weak solu-
ton of gum arabic or white glue, and
ironing on the wrong side.
Year: 1875

The Guibord case has aroused all Canada,
and receives large share of attention from
the press of the United States. The text
of Bishop Bourgeois letter to the Montreal
Gazette contains this passage: " Measures
had been taken that if the body they were
attempting to bury in the cemetery had
been so inferred, in defiance of the laws OF
the Church, the place where it lay should
be Immediately interdicted, and looked
upon henceforth as a cursed spot, to be
held in execration." The remains of the
wife of Guibord, who died in the COM
munion of the Church, already repose in
this lot. VIII the bishop interdict her
resting place too? or will he limit his male
diction to one half, quarter, or eighth of
the Guibord inclosure? The papers of the
Dominion are very determined in their
condemnation of the bishops proceedings
The British american Presbyterian says ::
"Though it should take the whole military
force of the Dominion or the empire, and
though it should involve the sacrifice of
thousands of lives, the supremacy of law
must be vindicated, and mob violence
stamped out And this will be done with
out the whole force of the Dominion being
needed, and without the sacrifice of thou
sands or even hundreds of lives. A few of
the rascaldom of Montreal may, however,
have to be shot down, and if this is unhap-
PLY necessary, no doubt it will be done in
due time The issue is a very simple one,
and we hope it will be settled in manner
so short, sharp, and decisive as will deter
even the ignorant and fanatical canaiYc ot
Montreal from any desire to have it unsettled
for long time to come"
Year: 1875

Ifyou are man of business, and
should You advertise, and tina.
liber lily, the probability is that you
will retire with a competency.


In all probability, fyOu have an
intelligent boy, and place him at
the printing business, he will grow
to be ii worthy and honored citizen


The probabilities are, that per
son who continually bo,rows- a
newspaper, wouid he guilty oil
something meaner-if he would not
be found out.


If you want to subscribe for a pa
per, send the subscription price tC
the editor, with your name and ad
dress, and the probability is that ii
will nOt he refused.


IfyOu have a favored newspaper
and wish to surprise the editor in
all agreeable way, get mp sub
scriptiOn, forward the money, and
the probability is, that you will re
ccive many thanks.


1t yOu are deSirOuS of cOmmuni-
eating any news tC the editor, write
it intelligenfly and legibly on one
side of the paper, and the probabili-
ties are, if it is worthy. it will Ie
ceive the light of day in print
American Newspaper Reporter.
Year: 1875

Printers are naturally in for a
Joke. They a1e proverbially fond
of fnn; but to look at them you
wouldn't think it. Here is Il good
joke 'printer man" played on his
follow lodger in Pottsville: A GER
tain insurance man in town, who
boards at The same hotel with one
of the night compositOrs of the
Journal, in order 10 save the subs
criptiOn price to newspaper, enter
ed ihto an arrangement with the
printer to get the news as soon AS
he got up. The printer was to
write out ii brief sketch of all the
important news and stick ii under
the.insurance mans door.


A few mornings since the latter
got up, dressed himself, excepting
one boot and stocking and his coat
when he cspied the paper under
the door. He picked it up and
read as follows: "Grant asSassinat-
Ell. Country in an uproar. Mrs.
Sartoris and MIS-. Grant carried of
by masked kidnappers while in
sensible. A member of the Cabinet
supposed to be the assassin. $780,
900 reward offered by Congress-
Without completing his toilet he
rushed out of the room and walked
UP several boarders, told them of the
great news and scared them out OF
their wits. We leave to our rea-
ders TO conjecture, if they can, the
disgust of the whole party when
they found out how they had been
sold. The insurance man has
sworn to subscribe to a daily paper.
Year: 1875

A family in Florida lost little
boy and advertised a liberal reward
for his return. A week after, an
alligator crawled up from the bayou
and expired, at the parents door.
The iligator was cut open, and in
its stomach was found pair of
boots heels; bunch of red hair: a
jack knife, and dime novel with
the missing boys name on the fly
leaf. The adver tisement did it.
Year: 1875

Farmers should be alive to the
solution of the great problem OF
..hard times" This can be worked
out in great measure by planting
early potatoes and vegetable OF
of every kind by sowing grain of


various kinds for feeding work
stock; by attending closely to their
milk cows and poultry yards, anil,
more than all by a determination to
apply themselves TO the work before
them, resolved to bring success
and plenty ont of disaster and want
Year: 1875

We cannot stop either to listen 10 the
buzzing or to brush away the swarm of
literary mosquitoes journalism attracts to
Washington. Morris it right that Washing
ton be held responsible for all the follies
and blunders committed here in the name
of journalism almost every day. The mis-
fortune of the journalism of to-day is its low
tone, its love of the sensational and its al
most total disregard of those promptings of
truth and justice which should guide and
control it. The immense amount of Jour-
nalistic trash and flunkyism, indicating hero
worship, bestowed by the American press
on the statue of StoDewall jackson, Just
dedicated with military honors at Rich.
mond, will forcibly illustrate what we say


So as the gift of Englishmen was i'll
timed and in very bad taste, Americans
we make no distinction between North and
South-sre very naturally and very prop
erly sensitive about foreigners interfering
in their political affairs. Washington FORE
saw what would be the mischievous effect
pf il and warned the people against it, and
his words of warning were directed more
noiutedIy at the British than any other
Government. The war of 1912 and the
pretensions of the British Government on