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Year: 1872

There are practices tolerated in relig-
ious congregations, which Christians who
are Jealous for the honor of their Masters
ter's house should utterly condemn. De-
corum is the handmade of devotional
feeling, and, foI this reason, the house of
God should never be disturbed by the
slightest approach to irreverence.


''It is a part of my religion" said a
pious old lady wnen asked why she went
early to church, ''It is a part of my relig-
ion not to interrupt the religion of
Others" and we believe if many a con-
gregation made it part of their religion
not to twist their necks almost out of Joint
to witness the entrance of every person
who passed up the aisle during service, it
would be better both for their necks and
their religion.


A gross abuse of religious decorum
sometimes needs harsh medicine as a rem
edy. We give that adopted by Henry
Clay Dean, who was one time captain OF
Congress. The anecdote is from the Pa
cifc Methodist:


"Being worried one afternoon by this
turning practice in his congregation, Mr..
Dean stopped in his sermon and said:


"'Now, you listen to me, and I'll tell
you who the people are as each one OF
them comes in


"He then went on with his discourse
until gentleman entered, when he bawl-
ed out like an usher, Deacon A, who
keeps a shop over the way,' and then went
on with his sermon. Presently another
man passed up the aisle, and his name,
residence and occupation were given; so
he continued for some time. At length
some one entered the door who was un-
known to Mr.. Dean, when he cried out,
"A little old man, with drab coat and an
old white hat; don't know him; look for
yourselves That congregation was cur
ed"
Year: 1872

'DEER tongue" is little plant which
is now attracting considerable attention
as an article for scenting tobacco and
wrappers for cigars, the leaves having a
strong vanilla odor. 1t grows abundantly
in the lower Southern States, and a
Southern paper is confident that it will
become an important commercial product
of that section of the country.
Year: 1872

"JoHN," of the New York Sun, thus
spreads the pinions of his truthfuluess
81 swallowed the second joint of the
starboard Goldfish ball, and 1 thought of
what a narrow escape l once had in a
foreign land. 1t was in New Jersey,
where had to wear an old iron crate
over my face of nights to keep the mus
quitoes from digging wells into my head.
One night awoke from deep trance
In my dreams thought l had married
Miss Amelia Spotted Tail. When i
awoke 1 found hadn't; but l found a
musquito at work at the CRATE whetting
his sucker on it preparatory to sampling
me, when swift Jersey justice came to
the rescue. The police rushed in and ar
rested him for opening a bar without a
license, and that saved me-"
Year: 1872

tongue, fastened from there, bowling like
mad, and accompanied to the gate by that
brass mounted shovel. He says he would
give everything on earth if he could shake
off the impression that mistake had
been made. e.-Danbury Ners.
Year: 1872

AN important decision has been rem
dered by the Supreme Court of Maryland
in regard to the religious belief of wit
nesses. The case in question was an
action for debt, where the defense made
objection to the witness on the ground Of
religious belief. The objection was
founded on the old common law rule, as
well as a provision in the State Constitu-
ton providing that belief in the exist
ence of God, with system OF future
reward and punishment, was the only
requisite. 1t was shown by direct testi-
mony to impeach the witness that, so far
as could be gathered from his expressions,
he came within both these limitations
In rebuttal it was shown that the witness
did not believe in a personal God, but
only in Supreme Spirit pervading ma
ture. The court held that the belief in a
personal God was not necessary, and that
the witness, by acknowledging merely
the existence of a Supreme Being or
Power, established his competency to
testify.
Year: 1872

lr is the custom with the colorcd
school teachers in Georgia to hindlc a
hunger Tor knowledge in the refractory
juvenile breast by eating up their lunch
cons when tho rccitations are poor.
Year: 1872

We have confidence in Captain Doughertys
character. We do not believe he would resort
to frauds, and, thus far, nobody has charged Or
intimated that he did, The Testimony before
the investigating" committee shows nothing
whatever against him. We are glad to be able
to say this, and we call attention to his manly
card, elsewhere, which avows his readiness to
submit to the action of those who now have arl-
thority over the matter.
Year: 1872

Mr.. Samuel Glen, an old citizen of
Indiana and u lifelong Democrat,
aud one of the two delegates from the
Ninth Congressional District Of tha,
State to the Louisville Convention
has returned from that city and pub
fishes card


I went to Louisville as delegate
honestly believing that the convention
was called for tho furtherance OF
sound Democratic principles. Inter.
course with the managers Of that
affair at Louisville has satisfied me
that it was instigatcd and managed
by men wholly for selfish purposes
and to secure the ro-eleotion Of Gen
eral Grant,
Year: 1872




Mr.. Greeley, in discussing the col
ored question at Louisville, Septem-
Der 23d, said "Fellow citizens, if
our movement should prevail, as I
trust it will prevail, We will sweep
away all this refuse of,lics in three
months. We will say to the colored
men: We proifer you nothing except
the protection of the laws-,he same
for you as for us. You have Your
living to earn as we'll as we have.
You will have to use all your atili.
ties, all your energies all your faculties,
and make the most of them you can.
The laws DO not favor you. They will
thoroughly protect you, and in three
months, if VIC succeed, the colored
people will be so disabused that some
men can never deceive them again
never again. But suppose We fail,
and we may fail, if tho. colored
men did not believe that the power
was against us, that money if they
did not realize that the treasury, the
army and the one hundred thousand
Office holders we're all banded against
US, in force which, they believe,
We cannot overcome they certainly
would not be so unive rsally hostile to
us. Why, they think we cannot sue
ceed and they want to be upon the
winning side. That is part of it,
but they are also dcludcd in regard
to our purposes. We say We are not
your enemies, we will not he your
oppressors though you have done us
injustice, we will try, rs we'll rs we
can. to have your children educated
and enlightened, so that the mistakes
YOU have made cannot be made over
and over again.
Year: 1872

LOCAL PAPERs-0f local papers an ex-
change aptly and truthfully says: They
enhance the value of property; they ben
eft particularly merchants and real estate
owners thrice the amount yearly they pay
for their support. There is nothing would
do town more harm than to be without
its newspaper. You need not think the
publisher of newspaper can run it for
your benefit, and pay the expenses out OF
his own pocket. Give your own paper a
good advertising patronage and subscrip-
tion list, and you may have such paper
as you wish.
Year: 1872

Having attained the age Of sweet six
teen and desiring to make as good an
appearance as possible, the JOURNAL en-
Sers upon Its Seventeenth Year in "new
dress " and new form. As will be OBJ
served the paper now contains twenty
eight columns of matter instead Of twen-
ty-four, as heretofore. Although the pa
per, in the aggregate, is no larger than
formerly, stil by the adoption Of small
er size Of type, the four additional col
umns will be reserved for reading mat
ter, and the general appearance thereby
greatly improved. The hearty support
which has always been awarded by the
people Of this county to the TRINITY
JOURNAL warrants this change, and we
hope, with the additional space at our
command, to make the JOURNAL more
interesting and raise it higher in the es-
teem Of is patrons than ever before. To
this end, we invite the cooperation OF
our friends in the different sections of the
county, and ask them to keep US post
cd upon all items of news, occurring
in their respective localities. Let us hear
from you occasionally, and rest assured
that you will hear from us weekly.
Year: 1872

REFERRING to the demise of our late
cotemporary, the Yreka Union says:
" The Trinity Press has ceased publica-
ton. While we regret the demise of a
co-laborer in the Democratic vineyard,
we must express our opinion that it was
bad policy to start Democratic paper in
county which had just barely gone Dem
ocratic by small majority, and in which
the litigant organ was a Republican pa
per, an old established journal which had
always been conducted with marked abil-
ity. Its publishers have our good wishes
for better success in their next undertak-
ing in the paper line"
Year: 1872

SMALLPOX BY MAIL.-A young la
dy now i'll with smallpox in Wheeling,
West Virginia, says the hteIligenccr, re-
ceived letter from n sister in Pittsburg,
who wrote that she was then sick with the
smallpox. Exactly eleven days after the
letter was received, the young lady who
received it was taken with the disease
She was not exposed to it in any other
way,and there seems to be no doubt the
contagion was communicated by the let.
ter
Year: 1872

ABSENT MINDED people are funny
Sir isaac Newton want his servant to
c.rry out stove that was getting too hot.
A fellow stole his dinner before his eyes,
and he aiterward thou; hit he had eaten it
because he saw the dishes empty A
Scotch professor walked into the middle Of
horse pond while pendering on final
causes Ben franklin punched down the
fire with the finger of young lazy sitting
at his side. and severely burned the lily.
white poker A gentleman in Troy receiv.
ed letter in the dark used the letter to
light "a lamp. and looked about for it to
read. Pere Gr,trY. one day in Paris,
thinking he had left. his watch. at home,
took it out Of his pocket to see ii he had
time 10 q, back alter it. Neander, the
church hisor an, used to 90 his lectures in
his nighi cap aud night gown, and some
times walked i, the gutter. But all those
cases do not equal that Of man who takes
paper year after year and always forgets
to lay for it.
Year: 1872

An Arkanasas local soliloquizcs thusly
"Some OF our exchanges are publ hing as
a curious item statement to the , fleet
that "a horse in Iowa pulled the plug out
of the hunghoe of barrel We do not
see anything extraordinary in the occur
renee. Now, if the horse had pulled the
barrel out of a buaghole and slaked his
thirst with the plug, or if the barrel had
punel the bunsf,le out of the plug and
and slaked its thirst with the h,rse, or il
the plug had pulled the horse out of the
barrel and slaked. its thirst with the bung
hale, or if the bnnghole had pulled the
thirst out of the horse and slaked the plug
with the barrel, orif.tho barrel had pu'ad
the horse out of TIE buugh lie and plugged
its thirst with a slake. it. might be worth
while to make seme fuss over it."
Year: 1872

There's beautiful face in the silent air,


Which follows and near,
With smiling eyes d dark brown hair.
With voiceess lips. yet with breath Of prayer


That feel but cahnot hear.
The dimpled hand and ringlet of gold


Lie low in a marble sleep;
I stretch my hand for a clasp of old,
But the empty air is strangely cold.


And my vigils alone keep.
There's sinless brow with n radiant crown,


And a cross laid down in the dust
There's smile where never a shade comes now
Aud tears n" more from thnse dear eyes flow,


So sweet in their innocent trust.
Ah,'wel and Summer is come again,


Singing her same old songs;
But. oh il sounds like n sob of pain,
As it 40 is m the sunshin and the rain,.


Ger the hearts OF the worlds great throng
There's beautiful region above the skies,


And long to reach its shore,
For know shall find my treasure there,
The laughing eyes and dark brown hair,


OF the loved one gone befure.
Year: 1872

Itake leave to inform eur saloon keepers and the
public at large that the new installation for the
manufacture Of Lager and Ale on ahe ICB AND
COOL AIR PRINCIPLE is now in full operation.
can furnish the public with an article inferior to
none manufactured in the West or East, and supe-
rior to any beer manufactured here, and at rate
much cheaper than the imported lager from abroad.
Facts will prove the truth ofmy assertion.


Orders 6lled with all necessary caretuiness and
promptness and particular attention is paid to the
shipping for country customers. Come and try
and you viii be satisfied in all and every respect.


aut6 I'm
Year: 1872

Passengers may go out on Sunday excur-
sion tickets as far as Magnolia on the train
that leaves at twenty-five minutes before
eight o'clock tomorrow morning, and re-
turns to the city about ten o'clock at night
Among the pine trees at the little towns on
the route the solitude is delightful and
men may enjoy themselves communing
with natl1rA
Year: 1872

ELECTION OF LIBERAL DELEGATEs.-The
ward elections yesterday for delegates to
the Liberal nominating convention passed
off tolerably quiet; only an occasional
knock-down. At late hour last night few
polls had not finished counting the tickets.
When they completed the counting it was
too late for our paper. All of them will be
returned by noon to-day.
Year: 1872

The following is statement of the out
standing principal of the national debt at
the close Of each financial year since 1857,
taken from the report of the Secretary of
the Treasury, December A, 1871, pdge thir-
Year: 1872




GENTLEMEN: Upon mature deliberation, it
seems fit that l should give to your letter of
the 10th inst. some further and fuller re-
sponse than the few unprecedented words
in which / acknowledged and accepted your
nomination at our meeting on the 18th.


That your Convention saw fit to confer its
highest honor on one who had been pointed
ly opposed to your party in the earnest, and
sometimes angry, controversies of the las
forty years Is essentially noteworthy That
many of you originally preferred that the
Liberal Republicans should present another
candidate for President, and would more
readily have united with us In the support OF
Adams or Trumbull, Davis or Brown, is well
known. owe my adoption at Baltimore
wholly to the fact that l had already been
nominated at Cincinnati, and that a con-
centration of forces on any new ticket
had been proved impracticable. Gratihed
as l am at your concurrence in the Gin
cinnati nomination, certain as / am that
you would not have thus concurred had you
not deemed me upright and capable, find
nothing In the circumstance calculated to In
fame vanity or nourish self-conceit. But
that your Convention saw fit in adopting the
Cincinnati ticket to reaffirm the Cincinnati
| platform, is source OF profound satisfac
| tion. That body was constrained to take
this important step by no party necessity
real or supposed. 1t might have accepted
the candidates of the Liberal Republicans
upon grounds entirely its own, or ii might
have presented them as the first Whig Ma
tional Convention did Harrison and Tyler
without adopting any platform whatever
That it chose to plant itself deliberately, b,
vote nearly unanimous, upon the fulles'
aud cleArest enunciation OF principles
which are at once incontestibly Re
publican and emphatieally Democratic
gives trustworthy assurance that new
and more auspicious era Is dawning upon oul
long distracted country. Some Of the bes
years and best efforts of my life were de
voted to a struggle against chattel slavery
a struggle none the less earnest or arliuoui
! because respect for constitutional obliga
Year: 1872

"A reporter on Western paper,
speaking of certain fair creature, re-
marked that the profusion and color of
her hair would lead one to look upon it
as though it was spun by nimble fingers
of the easy hours, as they glided through
the bright June days, whose many sunny
rays of the light had been caught in the
meshes, and were content TO go no furth-
er. This is better than saying the girls
hair was red.
Year: 1872

1T is an interesting fact, not generally
known, that the "sign language" of all
Indians is the same, or nearly the same;
so that If man meets another, belonging
to different tribe, he is able to converse
with him by means of sigls, much in the
same manner that deaf and dumb people
converse with one another.
Year: 1872

~ In almost every State it would be easy
to find many more Democrats who support
Grant than there are Republicans in the
Greeley ranks. The Pittsburgh Commercial
says names of distinguished Democrats might
be given who prefer another term of Grant
to an experiment with Greeley, and that
large number of the rank and file will initiate
| their example.
Year: 1872

sB-A clergyman writes to the New York
Times as follows at may be Of use and
satisfaction to you to know the fol-
lowing political facts: On the ques-
ton of Grant VS.. Greeley l have yet
to find minister of any denomination
who is out for Greeley. / have taken a
deal of trouble to find out the sentiments OF
large number of these men with whom
am acquainted, living in New York, New
Jersey and Connecticut, and nearly every
one is pronounced in his sentiments for
| Grant,
Year: 1872

The reply Of Earl Granville to the note
of the United States government on the
question Of the submission Of the claim Of
the United States for consequential DANA
ges to the Geneva conference has been re-
ceived by the Secretary Of State. 1t was
probably read to the Cabinet at the meet
ing yesterday, though an answer to the
same cannot be ready for many days. This
second message, as has been stated, is quite
an elaborate document, and in the main is
understood to be in the nature of a reply to
the positions maintainedb by the Secretary Oh
the direct question as to whether the treaty
covered the submission of the claim for in
direct damages. 1t does not, il is believed,
absolutely refuse to agree to all arbitration
Oh this issue, but the impression is left very
strong by indrection that without further
negotiation England will not go before the
Geneva board on the case as made up by
the United States. 1t is not impossible that
this negOt iatiOn may be at once entered
uDOn,
Year: 1872

Medical experience proves that, n cllrOn-
ic diseases, the greater number Of deaths
occur just before dawn. This is emil
nently true Of brain diseases, and Of all
those related cases where death results
from an exhaustion Of the vital power,
through overwOrk, excessive excitement,
or nervous prOstratiOn. 1t is at the hour
of ) o'clock in the morning that the life
torch is at its lowest cbb, and sue
cumbs most readily to the assault Of
epilepsy, or paralysis, or Of the fatal
lethargy that comes in those viyidly
beautiful picture dreams, for which
medical science has yet found no name,
and of which it has taken 10 sufficient cog
nizancc. Nine tenths Of those who die iii
this way expire i'll their sleep. In many
such cases if a friend were at hand to
waken the sleeper when the attack comes
on, or if he were to be awakened By some
accidental noise, lie might, by the use of u
few simple precautions, pTolong his life for
many years; for the shock which proves
fatal to the man wrapped in deep sleep
when the system is passive and relaxed,
would be victOriously repelied were
it armed with all its waking ener-
gies. Men who do brain work, and
who are on the shady side of forty, should
be on their guard against this insidious ell
emy. They should beware Of 3 o'clock, a.
III. for it is perilous hour. Do you find
Yourself unable to sleep when you retire
for the night, exhausted with your days
work? DO you, in vain, turn from one
side to the other? Does your brain per-
sist in working when you would feign
have rest? Do old saws and scraps of
rhyme repeat themselves in your memory
with wearisome iteration, defying your ut
most efforts to silence them? Then, say
to you, beware You will be sure to sleep
at last. 1t is only question of time for
sooner or later, nature will assert her
rights
Year: 1872

WE REMEMBER the old story of a cele-
brated temperance lecturer taking a sot
around with him, to serve as 4 frightful
example of the evils of intemperance.
Upon :. similar principle, we are glad to
see that Judge Moore has exchanged
circuits with . Judge" Watts. 1t would
be we'll for g Greasy Sam" to ride every
circuit in North Carolina, in order that the
people might have an example of a speci-
men Radical Judge. We could desire no
better g campaign document We may
Judge of the impression EGreasy Sam - is
making in the Albemarle country from the
following correspondence of the Norfolk
T'irginidn:


'Ihave Just returned from Martin County
Court, held i'll the quaint old town of Will
liamston, and have thought it might be of
some interest to your readers to learn what
is going on, and especially to give you
some idea of how our courts are conducted.
There was one case that deserves special
mention. 4 negro Of very bad character,
as the sequel will show, was tried for lar
ceny and convicted, and when the Judge,
or " Greasy SAM" Gas he is familiarly
called) ordered the negro to stand up and
receive his sentence, he Che Judge) di-
gressed very much and gave him perfect
homily OH the sinfulness of such course
and wound up by sending him to the peni-
tentary for three years, whereupon the
negro replied, l don't care if you do send
me to the penitentiary, l will meet you in
hell and fight it out with you there.
The Greasy Sam ordered him off to
Jail, and it required several to execute the
order, as he resisted the Sheriff. 1 feel,
from the looks of things generally, the
Greasy Sam and negro were both pretty
drunk. Greasy Sam certainly was the
night before. How is that for high
Year: 1872

The Washington correspondent of the
Baltimore San says:


The cOnglomeration offree tea and coffee,
pig iron protection, abolition of gas and
income taxes, known as the Senate tariff
bill, passed on Thursday last, was received
by the House Monday. The Ways and
Means committee at their meeting this
morning unanimously, decided to move to
lay this bill on the table, on the ground
that it covered the entire question of reve-
nue., excise as well as customs, and was,
therefore, a violation Of that clause Of the
constitution which requires all bills relat-
ing to revenue to originate i'll the House.
A motion will be made tomorrow to lay
the bill on the table, and will doubtless
carry by large majority. Members very
generally believe that the Senate has no
power, under the pretence Of amending Il
bill abOlishing the duty on coal and salt, TO
revise the entire subject of internal taxa
ton and customs.
Year: 1872

The incidents of little romance are
thus given in a dispatch from Boston:


'In boarding house in this city, Oh
Friday, the wife of Thomas Williams, a
mechanic, whom she had labored to sup
port and nurse during a long and incura-
ble illness, died in his preseuce from an
overdose of laudanum, .aken to quiet her
nerves and procure rest. The husband
was unable to render aid or call for assist
ance, and died himself next day. Mrs.
Williams is said to have married against
the consent Of her parents, who are people
of wealth, living in Newport, and who cast
her off; but while both were dying a letter
was on the way Offering the assistance too
long withhelp. The bodies were taken to
NeWpOrt for burial"
Year: 1872

The London Spectator says &c "Itappears
that there arc still people who believe in
the Tichborne claimant to the extent of
$4,000, for after some delay bail to that
amount has been offered for his appear
ance on his trial for perjury. For the re-
manning $4,000 he will enter into his own
recognizances. This provision of bail is a
curious incident in the case, but less
curious than the undoubted fact there are
still men, wholly uninterested in the
matter, who believe firmly that he is Sir
Roger TichbOrne."
Year: 1872

Plenty of experts for some purposes are
to be had in San Francisco. In the course
of recent trial in that city, growing out of
gambling transaction, the judge asked '.if
there was any one in the room who could
show how "a cold deck was 'wrllng in in a
game of poker" Extraordinary to relate,
twO-thirds Of the spectators rushed for the
witness-stand but at this moment an Off
Ger Of the court informed the Judge sthat
he had a whole dock in lis nockef,,