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Year: 1876

eousness and justice Of Cod and his alone Of III the
Iehsons IN the world proclaimed the benefits Of the
oay OF atonement In order 10 make converts Jews
mons whose doctrines they did not believe
and were then compelled TO pay for this unasked
privilege The Founder OF Christanity


NEvkR ABOLISHED JUDAISM,


but, on the contrary, fulfilled It's requirements. His
disciples did the And II Is fact that the foun-
dations Of the new doctrine were laid old Judaism,
and the old mother Church IN Jerusalem com
posed Of those who believed in the coming OF the
sah well OF those who believed that the Founder
OF Christianity He Dr. GOttheil thon referred to


late conference Of the Baptist ministers of this CITY
q newspaper paragraph OF whose proceedings had been
TO him. In that conference II declared TO DO
niquty for people TO 30 TO one church IN the morn
ing aud another in the evening Then the matter OF
teaching Sunday school children dscusso and the
kissing OF large young ladies by pastors was cepre
cated and then after dsposng OF those grave Subjects
II announced that next week tomorrow The con-
ference would take up the subject, ''How Shall We
Reach the Jews Yn He did not think the conference
hard up for a subject Now, those who are not
tneologians do not realize the whole onensiveness
How shall we reach the criminal classes, The
lower classes IL Is always applied to the degraded
masses and now IL comes to us:-How shall We reach
the Jowse Now they need not go to the dram shops
TO ind u.s. they need not look FOR in prison cells
We can and do read and though may not be able to
pronounce the English WELL said the Doctor they need
experience no difficulty In reaching Weare at our
homes, ami II any one calls We shall receive him
courteously. But is not this gross wrong 10 us
believe the jewish heart Is difficult reach and when
the Jewish minister opens the Bible you may not be
able 10 follow him but in what sense are any more
sinnersY asked Dr. Gothcil with energy aud spirit
IN what any sinners than all others2
Arc all the members OF Christian churches sansY But
II IL be question merely of changing our faith
shall simply say TO those gentlemen MOI AS long as
IL is question whether shall throw stones at the
graves OF martyred foreiathers and declare Aat
ness we have but answer TO give, and that will DO
given with emphasis
Year: 1876

he wrestea with the 'angei OF the Lord in prayer Z"
The experiment is worth trying.


II is hardly fair 10 insist upon roiterating and by
way OF argument what an antagonist denies hav-
Ing uttered The Rev DR.. Bright, who said awhile
ago, account OF his cose-communi0n views to be
affected with 'Bright's disease refuses faten the
statement that the whole body Of Christians except the
Baptists, organized muster against King Jesus
Such utterance can hardly be excused even by the
excitement OF extemporaneous speech The people OF
the thirteenth century would have repudated IT, and
under the glare OF nineteenth century
be a spiritual anomaly. We shall fight those
battles again; once won they forever. What
sectariansm may teach, the common OF the
community has an impression that If man is Chris
tan II doesn't make much difference what kind of
clothes he wears. Names nothing but heart is
everything. No matter what church you go to here so
long you 60 to heaven at last IL is not your
your ology, but your soul that will be saved. Let US
keen the peace. then
Year: 1876

There will be interesting exercises in tho public
schools tomorrow. By resolution of tho Board OF
Education the principals OF tho schools required,
on the school days before Fourth Of July and Washing
toms Birthday, assemble the pupils and read 10 them
the Declaration OF Independence or Washington Fare
well Address both They have also the privilege OF
adding such other exercises OF patriotic character
may bc deemed proper.
Year: 1876

A correspondent furnishes the
Cleveland Herald with the follow
ing rather graphic description Of
the only active volcano on the Is
land Of Japan, called Asamayama.
He says: ave climbed slowly and
toilsomely on as best We could, en-
tering at last the cloud of mist
about the mountains top and
finally achieving the summit.
Thence to the crater was about a
mile. The ground here was COM
paratively level, and we were soon
standing on the craters edge. Sui
phurous steam rising through
crevices in the rocks had given ua
warning of its proximity, and
when we at last reached its brink,
clouds of the same disagreeably
smelling mist rolled up before us
Exactly how deep the crater is no.
body knows, A large stone thrown
down it gives back no sound. Oc-
casionally the steam rolls partially
away and dlscloses for 2 second the
glare of the molten lava thousands
of feet below. The mountain gives
forth a dull, rambling sound like
the roar Of a large cataract, and
which can be heard on windy days
miles away, There have been no
violent efuptions fol many years,
although il seems as if one might
be expected any day, The mouth
of Tx crater Is about two miles
and half in circumference. All
the time that we we're OH the sum
nit of the mountain we were IN
the clouds, although beneath all
was bright in the full glory Of the
SIM
Year: 1876




Light, which travels with
amazing velocity, required eight
minutes to reach the earth. Sound
would require fourteen years to
travel from the sun to the earth.
So that if We saw an explosion at
its surface, it would be fourteen
years before we could hear it. But
If we could place a rod of iron
from the earth to the sun and it
was struck with a hammer on one
end, the sound would reach the
other end in about eleven months.
But perhaps the most singular
illustration of the suns distance
was drawn from the human econo-
my. Sensation took certain time
to travel to the nerve centers and
if we could imagine a human in
faut with an arm long enough to
reach the sun, it wonld take $50
years for the sensation to reach him
after burning his fingers in other
words, he would be dead several
years before the sensation of burn
lag could reach him. The sums
distance was SO inconceiyable that
it was only by making such COM
parisons We could form any idea at
all Of it,
Year: 1876

New York Herald.l


1t is some consolation to believe
that the suferings of those who are
burned TO death within the walls of
a building are very brief and that
the end is painless. The combus-
tion generates large volumes of car
bonic acid gas, which, being heavier
than the atmospheric air, sinks to
the lower part of the building and
envelopes the people on the floor
before the flames reach them. As
soon as they are surrounded with
this deadly gas they become insensi-
bic, and are spared the excrutiating
torture suffered by persons burned
whore the air can freely circulate,
The relatives and friends of the
victims may spare themselves the
shuddering feeling that those whom
they lost gave up their lives in ex-
trome physical or mental agony.
Their capacity for suffering was
probably extinguished before the
flames reached them.
Year: 1876

A correspondent of Colnaaes Rural World
gives his experience with alfalfa as follows


have just finished cutting and getting in
my first crop of alfalfa, and ann very much
pleased with the result. SoWn one year ago,
the roots now penetrate the ground to the
depth of three feet. During the first sea-
sons growth, the smart-weeds grew six
feet high, and had to be cut and removed.
the ground having been very weedy and the
season very wet. Now, however, the alfalfa
has fully smothered the weeds and taken
possession of the ground, nothing being
seen at time of cutting but the mass of pur-
pie blossoms and green leaves. Not being
able to learn when to cut it, from any of the
numerous articles published in agricultural
papers about this grass, followed the rule
for other grasses, and cut while in full bloom;
and it has made a fine and very fragrant
hay. 1t is greedily devoured by all kinds Of
stock, and no injury has resulted from early
and pretty full feeds of it. The stems APP
pear tough, wiry and woody, and have not
pith like red clover; but find none of
them left, by either my mules, horses or
COWS. 1t certainly cures more readily than
red clover, and is less liable to heat.


By reason of an accident to my moving
machine, and the rainy weather. it is some
ten days since | began cutting the alfalfa,
and already the second crop is well started
where the cutting was begun, and the hands
Year: 1876

fear it will be ready to cut again by the time
they finish cutting some late timothy.


| had been unable to get any information
as to which cutting of alfalfa should be
threshed for seed, until l met an old Ger
man, who raised it in Germany, where they
run 1T through cutting box and mix it
with bran, etc., to tatten hogs upon. He
says | must leave a portion of the first
growth to stand and produce seed-that it
will grow and bloom and ripen seed for a
month OF two after it should be cut for hay,
before the seed lobes will be filled and ripe
for cutting.
Year: 1876

a u Il CULT URAL ITEMS.


The elm and apple trees of Jacksonville,
ILL.,, are being defoliated by the leaf worm.


The best things are, as rule, the cheapest
not only on the farm, but elsewhere.


The San Francisco Bulletin thinks Califor-
mia ought to be prosperous this year, since
the yield Of barley and wheat will exceed
that of any previous year by several thou
sand tons, and the mines are yielding their
hidden treasures in unparalleled quantities.


Though sweet potatoes are of tropical
origin, they have become SO well acclimated
that they may be raised to advantage any
where in Illinois, and fair crops have been
produced in Minnesota, Wisconsin and
Michigan. AS might be expected, those
grown far to the north are less sweet than
those grown in the south.


A. Spence writes to the Minneapolis Seati-
mel in favor of the cultivation of the sugar
beet He says: The worst season | have
seen here we could grow five hundred bush
els per acre OH 1srrrta IN see1l cultivation. and
have now been here six summers. would
like to have contract of raising them one
season with another at $3 per ton, not to be
delivered over three miles away; and know
that there are others who would do the same


The Kansas City Price Current has advices
from western Missouri Kansas, and south
western Nebraska, which say the winter
wheat crop is in splendid condition and
promises an extraordinary yield Oh largely
increased acreage.


A number of Eastern capitalists have pur-
chased 1000 acres Of land on Maple river, in
Dakota Territory, on the line of the North
ern Pacific railroad. They intend to make a
great wheat farm of it, and propose to break
and sow 1,7OO acres this year.


There never has been time when the ex-
port of grain from Boston was so large MS at
present. One firm is loading nine vessels
with corn, comprising 100000 bushels, for
Europe, and the total amount of corn being
loaded for the foreign market is 100000
bushels. A vessel has been recently char
tered to load with through freight of oats
from the west, and there is brisk demand
for corn Oh foreign account.


The st. Louis Republican says: Nearly
all the advices from this State concur in the
opinion that we shall have a fine wheat crop.
1t looks best in the southeast and in the cen-
trail parts of the State, but it looks and prom
ises well everywhere. 1t stands thick on
the ground, it is of a dark green color, and
is already beginning to head out in the lower
counties. Farmers, with choice fields, are
predicting that they will make from thirty
to forty bushels per acre.


A letter received in this city from Hong
Kong, China, last week, states that the rice
crop in China is a partial failure, and that
the Chinese are now importing wheat in the
berry from San Francisco, for the first time,
in consequence. China has heretofore taken
flour from California. If there should be
really large deficiency in the Chinese crop.
the fact would make u great difference in the
quantity of wheat California would have to
send to Europe.-Kansas Farmer.


The Florida orange crop for the present
season is twenty-five millions, worth on an
Year: 1876

A BERLIN dispatch OF yesterday ssys
that the powers have agreed 10 request
the Porte to sccede to a suspension Of
hostilities. Turkey is resolved to grant
only a short srmistics for the purpose Of
accelerating the settlement Of the terms
of neaaa
Year: 1876

We present to the readers OF the
DEMocRAr. this Sunday morning, n ear
tOon almost poetic in its terribly truth
full illustration OF the political and
social condition or Louisiana The pic
ture represents swamp filled with the
most loathsome serpents; among them
we recognize Kellogg, Ludeling. Pack
ard. and the negro Antoine. and others
Of the viperous wretches who are
shifting the beauty OF our State with
death. Above this swamp Of Radicalism
and standing on Its very verge,
is female figure represent
ing Louisiana the deviish spirit
Of the Republican party. in the person
of Grant, is behind her endeavoring to
force her at the point Of the bayonet
down into the midst Of the reptiles be
low, while descending. like an angel OF
hope, is seen the spirit Of Democracy
extending to the struggling woman a
helping hand. This picture speaks for
itself. and we commend it to every citi-
zen of Louisiana. IL. in November, the
spirit Of Democracy shall fail to wrest
Louisiana from her perilous position.
she will become, for all time, the prey
OF the vile and venomous reptiles who
are seeking to wrap their loathsome
coils about her wretched and struggling
form.
Year: 1876

From the Sedalia Bazool


Monday evening, as the train bound
east in charge OF Conductor Durham
stopped here for supper, we noticed
Young woman attired In deep mourning
alight from one Of the passenger coaches
and walk down the platform, attended
by q gentleman. She held o handker-
chief to her eyes, and, with her head
resting upon the shoulder OF her escort,
her body quivered with emotion, as the
hot tears ran down her face. We did not
suspect the cause OF her grief until she
passed the baggage master leaning
against his ear. As she did so, she
lifted up her head, and with the tears
still streaming down her pale face, she
said, i'm q tremulous voice: please do
not pile anything on my little onesp'
and then, giving up afresh to the in
tensest grief, she sank her head on the
shoulder Of the gentleman, and passed
back to the coach from which.she came.
AS soon as she was gone from sight,
we stepped up to the baggageman and
inquired the cause Of the lady's action.
He thereupon told US that only three
weeks ago she had passed up the road
with a family Of three little children.
She and they were, at that time, enjoy
ing good health, and were happy In one
another's love. They were beautiful
children and the mother idoliZed them.
Having reached their point OF destina-
ton In the western portion OF Kansas.
they were suddenly taken sick, and the
three little ones died within a few days
OF one another and there was nothing
left to the mother but to bear their
corpses .back to her home in the East,
and 50 they were In the car.
Year: 1876

EEcart.


Summit Timcsl


ON visit last week to our Southern
metropolis, New Orleans, we had the
pleasure Of being entertained in that
kindly bomc-likc style, which every son
and daughter Of Adam will prefer TO any
other. Received on our arrival from the
night train Mt the office by a very hand
some and polite young gentleman, who,
duly approaching our age. consigned us
to No. IL. first floor. This happened to
be Immediately opposite room which
we had the pleasure Of occupying during
was crowded with Southern men, women
and children from the attic to the base
ment. and had the reputation with
Southerners of Confederate Headquar-
ters. but with the Federals of Rebel
Den. Whata crowd of memories, sweet
and bitter. forced themselves with the
distinctness Of the present on our sober
night thoughts We saw again with
perfect distnctness u scene of the
deepest heart tribute to our late
Confederate President, Mr.. Jefferson
Davis, which we had witnessed. The
scene was so yividly reproduced, that
we experienced at this distance of time
the same great buildings Of the
heart which at the time moved the
crowded throng in the large parlor to
tears. In the spring of 1866, Mrs.
Davis arrived, without notice and
quietly retired to the green parlor,
fitted up for her special use. The large
Year: 1876




They tell Of Burlington woman
who, when her husband came home
drunk, waited till he went to sleep, then
took his only pair of pants from him
and made them over into pair for their
tweIve-year old boy, working nearly all
night to finish them. The husband
awoke about the middle Of the fore
noon, ready to eat breakfast and start
out for another drink, but when last
seen was wrapped in an old skirt, and
had promised to join the reformed
mems club.
Year: 1876

some minutes no sound to disturb the
rcawakened anguish Of buried hopes,
except the sob Of the ladies and the
choking cough Of the gentlemen pres
ent. Many were so disturbed as TO be
compelled to retire TO their secret closets
to give vent 10 their pent up emotions.
Year: 1876

A student who failed to pass in his
Greek history examination, repudiated
with scorn the insinuation that he was
not prepared. He had crammed him
self, he said, so tight that he couldn't It
get 1t out again.
Year: 1876

A rural editor just returned from the
Centennial enthuses and says, "The
American eagle is a gifted bird" We
should rather use the word talon ted in
this New York CONNER
ciaI Advertiser
Year: 1876

SAN Francisco, April 26.-Don Pedro
and party arrived this evening at Pleasan-
ton, forty miles from the city. His car
was detached from the train, put behind
another engine and rushed over the road
hall an hour ahead of the overland train.
The object was to avoid any demonstra-
ton en- his arrival and was perfect sue
cess. The party passed through Oakland
without attracting attention, crossed the
bay and arriving at the wharf took the
carriages to the Palace Hotel. where they
entered without a half dozen people
knowing that they had arrived On the
arrival of the regular train at Oakland a
great crowd was in attendance with bands
playing and colors flying, while Dom Pedro
was already ensconced in his apartments
at the Palace Hotel.
Year: 1876

About SO large New York shipping
firms say that if the East river bridge is
pushed to completion it will cause incal
culable damage to the commerce of that
port and New England, las it would prevent
all large vessels from going up the East
river and through the sound. They say
the height st the piers is to be only lis
anC in the centre but l35 feet, while the
spars of brigs and barks average over
200 feet in heirht; fer that matter, indeed,
they declare it would not be safe for
vessels Of even three hundred tons to
attempt to pass under it.
Year: 1876

Boston, April 96.-The Republican
state convention met in fremont Temple
to-day, and Aanson W Beard, of
Boston, was chosen temporary chairman.


Resolutions approving the energy and
courage Of Sec'y Bristow, and associat-
ing the name of Blaine with the Office of
president were tabled


A resolution was unanimously adopted
that the delegates to the national conven-
ton be unpledged, but requiring them to
work and vote for candidates whose char
acter gave unquestionable assurance that
they will be faithful and jealous to main
tain equal rights, to bring about resump-
tion of specie payments at date not later
than that already fixed by law and to effect
thorough and radical reform of civil ser
vice to the end that the administration OF
public affairs may be characterized by eff
cheney, economy and purity.
Year: 1876

WASHINGTON, April 26.-The house
committee on the Pacific railroad, to-day,
came to favorable conclusion on the sen
ate bill giving eight years additional time
to the Northern Pacific railroad company,
to construct and complete their road
Year: 1876

We uow hope that the executive COM
mttee of the Old Settlers S9ciety will
either appoint historians and take
measure to secure their services and
have the work con- pletcd, or call meeting
of citizens to take action iu regard to the
matters. There are too many interesting
facts connected with Rock Island county
to allow the matter to go by default.
Year: 1876

IfyOu would learn to bow, watch
a mean man when he talks TO 8
gentleman Of wealth. A narrow
minded man can no more stand
upright in the presence of a mo-
ney- bag, man than he can throw
q somersault over the moon.
Year: 1876

A brain attains its highest utility, as
distinguished from its highest devel-
Opment, observes a medical cOntem-
porary, when it cannot only absorb
from others and direct its own further
evOlutions, but can also organize and
regulate the working of other brains
under its own superintendent andcon-
troll. This power it is which enables the
rising merchant or manufacturer to
utilize other brains, either to use them
for purposes of comparative mental
drudgery, or to perform higher work
under the immediate superintendent
of the ruling brain. By such means the
single brain can multiply its work in
definitely by q well selected series of
other brains under its self, a few brains
of comparative high order regulating
the working of numerous brains of a
lower order, which perform the purely
mechanical mental work. Such is the
organization of "a first-rate business In
full working order.
Year: 1876

In a current number of the Orerldnd
a California geOlOgist reviews the ge-
illogical evidence of the antiquity of a
human settlement near the present
town of Cherokee, in that state, and es-
Inmates the age of that most ancient
of discovered towns to be not less than
10000 years! The data for all such
calculations are necessarily uncertain,
as they are derived from the present
rates of erosion; still. from the changes
that have taken place since the piOn-
eers of prehistoric California left
their traces on its ancient seashore,
there can be no doubt that thousands
of centuries must have come and
gone.


The traces in question are numerous
Year: 1876

Mrs. Lane wrote to her friend, Mrs.
Darling a month afterward, "and it
works charmingly. Mr.. Lane seems to
love his home as well as your husband
does his now, and We are all thousand
fold happier. l feel as if our friends
enjoy coming to see US great deal
better than they used to, too. 1 assure
you we shall never go back to the old
way of living. We are much happier
now than when we thought we must
save everything to show off when COM
pany comes"
Year: 1876

TAKE COUNSEL WITH IOUKsELF-
Young men cannot estimate too highly the
advice of parents and friends. 1t affords
them the benefit of eNperience,andi is given
from sincere solicitudc for their welfare
1t should be remembered and weighed and
acted upon.


But, after all, every man has his own
Individual existence; he has bis own ii1.
to live, for which he alone is accountable
lie should derive all the benefit he can
from the counsel of those older and wiser
than himself Then he SHOULD sit down
and mediate by himself. and make up his
own mind as to the course he wishes to
pursue in the world. Having done tl, he
should enter upon the execution Of his
plans with IL d d,termination to accomp p!ish
what he undertakes without reference to
the opinions Of others. No man is of any
real account in the world unes, he is
something in and of himself No man
possesses real strength if he cannot. after
having heard all the oilers have to say,
resolve. and resolve firmly, what to do,
and carry his resolution into effect. Take
counsel of others; profit by their expert
ence and wisdom; but, above all. take
counsel with yourself; make up your own
mind what to do in this world and do 1t
-.NeW Iorb LedJer.
Year: 1876

According to the doctrine of the Catho-
lie Church, the unchristian character oi
the priest made no difference to the mem
Der in so rar as the efficiency of the sacra.
ment was concerned but it would be hard
to make Protestants accept such a view.
Such q council as had been called would
have about as much effect as n brush OF
feathers in clearing out mine The re
quest from the church in Andoyer to Ply
mouth Church was perfectly proper, and
the Council went out of its woy to deal
with the matter. The Council had no
more right to deal with the matter than il
had to conduct the trial Of Gen. Babcock.