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Year: 1872

Large Congregation and Fine Ser.


vice-SOme Plain Speaking About the


Fire in Fourteenth street-A Very Brief


Sermon. III


Grace church yesterday morning was exception
ably well filled with fashionable and well-dressed
congregation. Every seat was occupied and the
aisles were at their lower extremities blocked up
with Christmastide worshlppers The service was,
as usual at this church on the great holidays OF
the year, In exquisitely good taste, and
what with Its Yule decorations OF ever
green's and holly and flowers, and the
bright dresses OF the assembled congregation,
the scene was quite brilliant and imposing. The
piece de resistance OF the ceremony, however, was
OF course the music, and the anthems and hymns
were admirably rendered. At the close OF the
prayers DR.. Potter, in the OF his usual no.
tices OF church meetings, alluded to


THE DESTRUCTION OF GRACE CHAPEL
in terms OF strong Indignation. He said that he
could not but regard the conduct Of the propretors
only call an act Of incendiarism. More than a
month ago the civil authorities had warned
them that their premises were source Of
danger TO the surrounding property, and yet moth
ing had been done to remedy the evil. Things In
this city had, indeed, reached Q deplOrable pass
rights and lives ana property OF citizens was toll
Grated. One Of these nne days, perhaps, when
hall New York found itself in the street


HOMELESS AND UNsHELTERED,


q reform would be instituted. 1t was clear that
the Inspector OF Public Buildings and the Superin-
tendent OF the Fire Department should have power
to compel proprietors to protect themselves and
others against loss and ruin.


Dr. POtter's sermon was Of the briefest, taking
less than ten minutes In its delivery. Its point,
however, was very seasonable and appropriate.
This was the fact that Christmas, the birthday OF
Christ, was the childrens festival above all else,
and that it was our especial duty at this happy
season to provide for tho comfort and the happi-
ness OF the little ones.


THR GREAT FEATURE OF cHRIsT's TEACHING
was that he constantly urged us to cultivate the
spirit OF children. Obedience was greater than
achievement, ana the performance Of duty more
sublime than the indulgence OF will. And we could
not do better than resolve now to initiate the trust
ul disposition and the confidence in the royal law
OF love which marked the child.
Year: 1872

NOT TRUE-After much inquiry by our
reporter, it appears that the rumor that was on
the streets some weeks ago that "certain med
zeal man was assisted in his departure from a
certain residence by vigorous application Of
boot leather. for making dishonorable proposals
to lady, has no foundation in truth, and the
report must have arisen from a case which
occurred about the same time, in the eastern
section Of the city.
Year: 1872

THE new Republican organ at San Fran
cisco is snorting anti-R. II. and Goat Island
paper, but with these principles and Grants
record before it is certainly inconsistent in
going for Grant.
Year: 1872




REPUBLICAN STATE CONVENTION. This
Convention will be held in Sacramento onnext
Thursday. The election of delegates in the
country counties is going by default, not one
tenth of the former Republicans coming to
commit themselves by voting at the prima-
ries. Indeed, in many of the counties the
Central Committees assumed the power to
appoint delegates, thus violating the COM
mands of the State Committee, and deiraud-
ing the members of the party of all voice in
the matter. In San Francisco, however, a
warm fight is going on on the Goat Island
grab question, the enemies of the grab being
determined to send a solid delegation to Sac
ramento to demand that the State Conven
ton shall pass resolutions denouncins the
infamous scheme, and Sargent, Coghlan and
Houghton for favoring it, and rebuking the
Republican Senators who recently signed a
petition to Congress endorsing the swindle.
TO do this San Francisco must control and
use fully 100 country delegates. Whether
she can do this or not is questionable, seeing
that the question was not raised in the coun-
try counties, and that the monopoly will use
money freely. The object is to declare the
voice Of the party in this State against the
Goat Island grab, and to send delegates who
will threaten Grant with the loss of this State
if he refuses to pledge himself to veto the
bill if it passes Congress. This may have
some effect on Grant, seeing that he is iguo-
rant of his low standing in this State, but it
will really make no difference to him, as
California is against him in any event.
Year: 1872

AN OuTRAGE.-Th Examiner says; IL
is reported that twenty-three Senators nave
signed petition to Congress asking IL 10
give Goat Island to the Central Paci1c haii-
road for terminus. With malice. afore-
thought, twcnty-three Senators elected by
the people of California are determined, II
they can, to rob nearly one third OF the pop
ulatiop in this State of the commercial ad-
vantages for which they worked so hara
during the last twenty years or more. Oan
it be that their constituents will recognize
this as a representative act---as an act OF
theirs? No; we have a better opinion oil
the people of the interior than to believe
they have sold themselves body and soul to
this great railroad monopoly. Those Sen
ators have wantonly laid the plan for array
ing the city against the country. Their
names should be conspicuously displayed by
every newspaper in San Francisco, and this
act of treachery made to follow them in all
the windings of their political career"
Year: 1872

The LAND ORDER. We print in full on
our first page to-day the late order of Com
missioner Drummond, which will relieve land
applicants of fully one half Of the former
expense of proving its agricultural character
by taking the testimony before County Clerks
instead of travelling and taking witnesses long
distances to the United States land offices.
We referred TO the matter last week, and
now ask our subscribers who are Interested
in the matter, or expect to be, to peruse the
paper, or cut out and save the order. for fu-
ture reference. We will refer to the matter
more specifically in the future
Year: 1872

Fretting is both useless and unneces-
sary; it does no good and great deal of
harm; yet it is almost universal sin.
More or less We are all given to it. We
frot over almost everything. In summer
because it is too hot, and in winter be-
cause it is too cold; we fret when it rains
because it is wet, and when it doesn't
rain because it is dry; when We are siek
or when anybody else is sick. In short,
if anything or every thing doesn't 60 just
to suit our particular whims and fancies,
We have one grand general refugs--to
fret over it. | am afraid fretting is much
more common among women than among
men. We may as well own the truth.
my fair sisters, fit isn't altogether pleas
ant Perhaps it is because the little wOr-
ries and care and vexstions Of our daily
life harass our sensitive nerves more than
the more extended enterprises which gen
orally take the attention Of men. Great
wants develop great resources, but the
little wants and worries are hardly pro-
vided for, and like the nail which strikes
against the saw, they make not much of
a mark, but they turn the edges terribly.
/ think if we look upon all the little wor-
ries of one day as great, united worry.
self-eontrol to meet it would be developed.
But as they generally come only one or
two little things at time, they seem so
very little that We give way, and the
breach once made in the wall soon grows
larger. Now, l don't believe in the cant
that woman must always, under all and
any circumstances, wear smiling face
when her husband comes home, or that
she needs TO take her hands out OF the
dough, or drop the baby on the floor to
run and meet him at the door. But | do
belieye,-nay, know, for | have seen it
with my own eyes among my friends
that many woman has driven kind
husband away from her, awsy from his
home and its sacred influences, and caused
him to spend his time at billiard-tabIe
or in drinkipg-saloon, amid their pro-
fame influences, simply by her ceaseless
tretting over trifes which we're not worth
a word, much less the peace and happi-
ness Of home. | know that many
mother has turned her son against her
own sex, and made him dread and dis.
like the society of women, by her exam
pie, constantly set before him. know
thasmany a mother has brought up and
developed daughter just like herself,
who in her turn, would wreck and ruin
the comfort of another family circle.
And knowing all this, my sisters,-and
brothers, too if they need it,-I know
that we ought to set our faces like flint
against this useless, sinful, peace-destroy-
ing and Misunderstanding habit Of fretting.
Year: 1872

Never do evil that good may come.


Never vote for bad man to sustain
Sood principles.


Never drink moderately, expecting
thereby to encourage intemperance.


Never use by-words if you would be
agreeable in conversation.


Never eat when you are not hungry if
you would preserve good health.


Never speak contemptuously Of woman
kind if you would have the respect even
of men.


Never abuse one who has once been your
friend, if sbu would retain the friendship
Of anybody.
Never break an idol unless you can put
a God in its place.
Never stop to talk on the steps. nor in
the vestibule Of church, when going to
its service, if you would show respect for
the place or its religion.


Never play before your work is done,
nor spend money before you earn it. it
you ever mean to win success.


Never shine in borrowed plumags il
you ever expect to have any plumes Of
your own.


Never fret unless you want to shorten
your life and destroy your peace.


Never let your tongue 60 before your
thoughts.
Year: 1872

social lie. You are thousand times
happier in your dutiful seslusion than
any fashion.Ioving wife. or slave to ex-
ternal appearances can ever be-"


II love my husband. and / live for
him. Rosa leaned closer to the manly
form by her side. 81 understood whom
we married that he was liie-toiler; that
our home would be established and sus-
tanned by the work of his hands; and |
understood ss well that | was not his
superior, but only his equal, and lift was
right aud honorable for him to work, it
could be 70 less right and honorable for
me. Was / to sit idle, and have ser
want to wait on mo, when his was lot of
toilp No-no-no had my part TO
perform rs we'll IS he, and l Am perform
ing It to the best of my ability


You are true woman, q wise wo-
man, u good woman" said Mr. Blair with
ardor; "and you will be as happy as you
deserve to be. thought Henry fool 10
marry on twelve hundred dollars, and
told him so. But take back my words.
II such women as you were plentiful,
We could all marry, aud find our salaries
ample. Goodnight, and may God bless
you n





And the bachelor clerk, who could not
AFFORD to marry on two thousand q year,
went to his lonely home-lonely, though
peopled thickly-and sitting down in his
desolato chamber, dreamed over the
sweet picture of domestic felicity he had
seen. and sighed for like sweet hiding
place from the world and all its false
protection and show.
Year: 1872

The Washington Star says: Few
people know ,and thousands do not know,
that by placing a glass fruit jar on fold
ed towel, thoroughly soaked in cold
water, the fruit can be poured in boiling
hot, with no more danger Of breaking
than with tin can.
Year: 1872

q Vomiting snakes was one Ofthe mat
ters discussed at the late meeting Of
the Vermont Medical Society, when
H. ID. Bradford, Of Northfield, made q
detailed statement of case which he
had thoroughly Investigated, having
procured the snakes that were said to
have been vomited, and presented
them before the society. The man had
no knowledge of having swallowed
any such thing, nor was khe suspicious
at any time that his stomach contained
any such animals; but he remembers
that while at work he was in the habit
of drinking from some pools In his
pasture, which he made for that pur-


pose by scraping out with his hands,


q depression in which the water might


collect. His peculiar symptoms began


on the 8th of May last, were repeated


in juno and again on July 80, when he


yomited two snakes six inches long.


They were yomited in his own home


and in the presence of his own family


SO there can be no mistake about the


fact of their having been elected from


the mans stomach. The reptiles are a
species Of water snakes, which propo-
gate in Just such localities as the man
describes, and probably when the pa
rent snake uttered her warning cry of
approaching danger to her young,
they mistook the open mouth Of the
drinking man for that of their mother,


and found their grave in place oftheir
place of safety were elected dead.
Year: 1872

In the south of New Jersey, some
years ago, there travelled over some of
the hardest counties, q good, faithful
hard working brother named james
Moor, as he was familiarly called. A
true loyal Methodist, plain, pointed,
aud sharp, in all his preaching and ex-
hortations.


He had been laboring year on one
Of his circuits, and before leaving for
his new field, he gave his people, who
dearly loved him, his farewell SER
mon.


At its close he said:


"My dear brethren this is my last
address to you. am going from You
and you may never hear the voice of
James Moor again.


"Amen,!" came loudly from the seat
before him.


He looked at the man with a little
surprise, but thinking it was mistake
went on.


'sMy days on earth will soon be
numbered. lam an old man, aud you
may not only never hear the voice OF
James Moor but never see his face
again.
"Amen,!" was shouted from the
same place more vigorously than be
fore.


There was no mistaking the design
now. The preacher looked at the man
he knew him to be a hard grinding
man, stingy and merciless to the
poor.


He then continued his address:
L a. - : Il IL 49,
have done your duty, who honored
Him with your Substance, who have
been kind 10 the poor; and
pausing and looking the intruder
straight in the eye, and pointing to him
with his finger


"AIav his curse rest on those who
have cheated the Lord, and ground tht
poor under his heels. Say amen te
To that brother"


The shot told lie was not inter
rupted again.
Year: 1872

The election of Governor Hawley to
Congress from Connecticut is source
of much congratulation throughout the
country. He is man oil. brilliant rep
utation as q soldier, writer, speaker
and politician, and is representative
of the best American politics. Con-
necticut is to be congratulated upon
her admirable choice.
Year: 1872

With the overwhelming rebuke of
his own State and of the nation at
large resting upon him, he can do no
less than retire from his post in the
Senate, and give place to some one
who win faithfully reflect the public
sentiment of Massachusetts,. Fairness
and common decency require of Mr..
Sumner to promptly resign"
Year: 1872

The Troy Press Democratic, draws
these lessons from the campaign: First,
never say anything against political
opponent, for you don't know how
soon he may be your candidate for
President. Second, never denonnce an
entire party for the sins Of small
fraction of it, for by doing SO you may
spoil your tidal wave."
Year: 1872

e MlnoIR or A DoG.--On Saturday, Ns-
polcon, John Wilson's old circus dog,
died in this city, at the advanced age OF
% years. Dogs die daily that deserve
no particular mention, but Napoleon
merits as fair share OF honorable refer
cuce as any dog that ever lived or died
in this city. One fact alone will prove
it. He accomplished in his lifetime
more than thousands Of men do in theirs,
be saved three persons from drowning,
at the risk OF losing his own life Ma
poleon knew all about the circus, and
was never better pleased than when wit
Messing or participating in the sports OF
the snwdust arena. When he reached
the years of doghood, he became subject
TO FITS, re5u ting from precipitation OF
blood to his oyerwrought brain. He be-
came his own physician, and instead OF
rcsor'ing, as men similarly afflicted some
times do, to stimulating drinks, which
aggravatc their malady, he tried cold wa


ter Whenever he felt an attack coming
on, Napoleon would start for bucket OF
water, or trough plunge his head into
the water, and hold it there as long as he
could hold his breath. This generally
had the effect Which he desired AS age
advanced he became deaf and blind, and
hi, limbs were still ana almost useless.
The last attack killed him Napoleon
was travelled dog. He came to this
city from New Orleans when but youth.
and soon engaged with Wilson's circus.
With that he visited nearly every county
and town in the State. He also visited
Australia and China. and became flavor.
tie Of men wherever he went, for he was
honest and true Yesterday, Napoleon
wss buried on a hill at the corner OF
Powell and Sacramento streets, in tho
presence Of very large company ofmen
who had known and respected him a
gentleman read sketch of his life. and
when they all went away, fresh flowers
and wreaths lay on Napoleons grave
San Froaciseo BuiistR,
Year: 1872

A TOUCHING INCIDENT.-ln speaking
Of the food which was so disastrous in
several sections of Virginia, the Lynch.
burg papers send the following sad event
A mother and several little children were
making their escape from a narrow neck
of land, which lies between the river and
the canal, when they were amazed to find
that the bridge was already gone, and
that their only hope was to cling on to
the abutment of the bridge until the
angry waves should subsidc. But as
they stood there clnging to the abutment
the waters continued to rise higher and
higher, while in the deep darkness they
could hear the crashing Of trees amld
tho thunders of bridge timbers that wore
wildly dashing all around them. They
had been in this desperate condition fol
some time, when the little girl felt tha
her strength was gone, and with wilc
shrek of terror she exclaimed "Kis'
me, mother, for l cant hold on any
longer p And with the warm pressure
of that mothers lips upon her cheeks
she was swept away and was ssen nc
more.
Year: 1872

If you want GROCERIES at what
they arc worth, call on W s. Cooper at
the Novelty Cash Store. Don't believe
what others say, but call it is no trou
Bile to show goods. l was told by u lady
that merchant said my goods were very
inferior, but after examining chem she
bought, and said she would cali again.
Year: 1872

The farmers have commenced harvest
ing. We understand that around Au.
burn considerably moro than a half crop
will be realized much better than was
expected. Farther east the yield will be
greater. Corn is looking we'll, and
tho farmers generally are looking more
cheerful than they were short time back
This is good news.
Year: 1872

f>uUOT HtTdtu


Many persons in the different parts Of
the county have expressed a wish to see
that portion Of the law for Township or
ganization which is necessary to put in
operation such organization. hope,
therefore, you will publish the following,
being the lot article Of said law.


+. WING.


Sec. l. At any generl election that
may be holden in the several counties in
this state, the qualified voters in any
county may vote for or against township
organization, as provided by this act.


Sec. 2. Tho County Court, on peti
tisn Of one hundred legal voters Of said
county, shall cause to bo submitted to the
voters Of the county the question Of town.
ship organization under this act by ballot,
to be written or printed, "for township
organization, or r"against township organ.
ization," to bo canvassed and returned in
like manner as votes for state aud county
officers


Sec. 3 The Clerk of the County
Court shall cause an abstract Of the re-
turns of said election to be made out and
certified as in elections for state and
county officers, record the same at length
upon the records OF the County Court OF
the county and shall certify tho sane to
the Secretary of State.


Sec. 4. If It shall appear by the re-
turns Of said election that majority o1
the legal voters of the county voting al
said election arc for township organlza
ton, then the county SO voting in favor
Of its adoption shall tc governed by and
subject to the provisions Of this act or
and after the 6rss Tuesday Of April mex
succeeding.


Sec 5. The County Court may, at it!
next session after the election, proceed
to divide the county into townships
conforming as near as population auc
streams will admit to tho size Of eongres
sional surveyed townships.


Sec. 6. Townships shall be named il
accordance with the expressed wish O.
the inhabitants of the township; other
wise the County Court shall designate
townships.


Sec. The Clerk Of the County Cour
shall thereupon make out notice for eact
township, designating a suitable place
for the holding of the first township
meeting in such township, which shall b'
holden on the 6rst Tuesday in April mex
thereafter, and shall deliver such notice
to the Sheriff of the county, who shal
cause the same to be posted in not les
than three Of the most public places ii
the township and not less than fftee'
days before the first Tuesday in April.


Sec g. The County Clerk shall With
thirty days after the County Court ha
divided the county into townships, trans
nit by mail to the Secretary Of State
who shall keep record Of the same, a
abstract Of such division, giving tn
bounds Of such townships, the names dss
ignated, and said County Clerk shall re
cord in book kept for that purpose
description Of each township as fully
in such report to the Secretary OF State
Year: 1872

KEEP A HoRsE.@The Christian Registe,
gives the following advice |:


l love horse as family adjunct, as
supplement to the nursery. He saves
more than he costs. He is the third es-
tate in the household-better to your
wife than an extra servant, better to
yourself than the club. I love him be-
cause of the real domestic pleasure to
which he contributes, the cheap and
pure. the rational and healthy delight,
he makes possible for the aches, the
blues, the troubles, the doctors bills he
drives away for the smiles that come to
the children. and the relief to the good
wife as they jog along the pleasant
country roads. | believe in family
horse as the oonnter irritant of domestic
life. A drive smooths down asperlties
of the brain and body, and its result is
healthier than a sermon or pill. If a
man of worried or exciting life, or one
whose wife has young children, would
introduce charm into his establish
ment, lift worry and fret, and make life
oil round drawer living, and truer
pleasure. let him go buy horse. I
know all about the economies of it. 1t
is the cheapest indulgence a man can
have, and it blesses the most. 1t did
not cost me as much to keep q horse as
it does many man for cigars. Many a
wife's superhuons dress cost more
Parties and theatres cost more. Give
up these, give up fashionable travel and
summer board, and equip yourself with
o proper domestic establish ment, go
from business to make wife and children
happy by ride, and you will save mon
ey on it, save health by it, secure and
multiply happiness. Even where one is
obliged to submit to the prices of city
board, it would be an economy, while
one in the suburbs or in the country, by
a little prudence, will find that he can
save money-if the thing must be Put
on mercantile basis-by giving up per-
sonal, pet indulgences, considering the
welfare and happiness of the whole ra-
ther than the selfish qualification of the
one. No one thing is more quickly ad-
duced against man or supposed sur
er indication of extravaganza or insipi-
ent dissipation, than the owning OF a
horse, while it is, indeed, the source of
the cheapest aud most enduring benefits.
Let every father and mother give up
useless costs and try it.