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Year: 1872

Love God and serve him.


Lord, direct, control, suggest, this day,


All design, or do, or say;


That all my powers, with all their might,


In thy sole glory may unite.


We all have direct relation towards
God, and cannot in any way avoid its
responsibility.


Some professors of religion are much
more ready to fight for Christianity
than they are to live according to its
precepts. .,ts..


A man that hath anything i'm the
world so dear to him that he cannot
spare it for Christ if he calls for it, Is no
true Christian.


He that has inherited the love of
God, what has the world more to give
him? What can the world reach to
take from him? He has the chief
thing already.


God never fails, never changes, and
we have simply to depart from iniquity,
and cling TO him. We are to do what
is right, and, following it diligently,
leave results to him.


may be ever so rich, ever so finely
educated, ever SO handsome, ever so
much admired, and yet the day is
coming when l shall die. What then
will these profit me? Think of these
things, think of them.


If with a double burden the Lord
supplies double strength, it is exact
ly the same to our experience as if
with half, the burden he left us half the
strength. To all alleged difficulties
there is one simple answer-He 0iUeth
more grace.


All things are now ready the Lord
has promised; the fountain is open
the pure river of the water of life, clear
as crystal, is proceeding out of the
throne OF God and the Lamb; you are
called to its banks, and with you it
rests to drink and "be filed with the
Spirit"


The difference between receiUing the
Spirit and being filled with the Spirit,
is difference not of kind, but of de-
gree. In the one case, the light of
heaven has reached the dark chamber,
disturbed night, but leaving some OBJ
scurity and some deep shadows. In
the other that light has filled the whole
chamber, and made every corner
bright.
Year: 1872

At o funeral lately there stood in the
house of the defunct an old-fashioned
clock, which, when it finished the an
nouncement of the meridian hour, was
made to play tune. The officiating
minister was in the midst of his sermon
when, noon having arrived, the clock
commenced striking twelve. In very
solemn tone he impressed upon his
hearers the inevitable fight of time /;
but the exhortation was evidently inef-
fecsive. as the clock instantly followed
with the CHEEKY old notes of "Take
your time, Miss Lucy"
Year: 1872

Mr.. NJ, gentleman having a horse
that bolted and broke his wife's neck, a
neighboring squire told him he wished
to purchase it for his wife to ride.
No. said the other, al will not sell it
L intend to marry again myself"


A Hartford Comm paper wants
people to believe that married couple
was recently to be seen in that town
with fifteen children, of whom the old
est was only sixteen years cid. This
Won do. We know too much of New
Engiand's vital statistics to have a
boarding school palmed off on us under
false pretences.
Year: 1872

HAVE You ENEMIES Go straight
and don't mind them. If they get in
your way, walk around them regard
less of their spite. A man who has no
enemies is seldom good for anything !;
he is made of that kind of material
which is so easily worked that every
one has hand in it. A sterling
character is one who thinks for him
self, and speaks what he thinks; he is
always sure to have enemies. They
are as necessary to him as fresh air,
they keep him alive and active. A
celebrated character, who was sur
rounded by enemies, used to remark !:
"They are sparks, which if you do not
blow, will go out themselves" "Livc
down prejudice" was the Iron Dukes
motto. Let this be your feeling while
endeavOring to live down the scandal
of those who are bitter against you. If
you stop to dispute, you do as they
desire, and open the way for more
abuse. Let the poor fellow talk-there
will be reaction if you perform but
your duty, and hundreds who were
once alienated from you will flock to
sou and acknowledge their error.
Year: 1872

Experienced miners know very well
that silver mines of much value are
only found in mountainous regions
where the indications to the geOlOgist
are beyond doubt. Volcanic agencies
have in some remote period been ex-
erted on gigantic scale. Thus in
Mexico and the rich silver leads of
Utah, the evidences of an upheaval
force that elevated extensive ranges of
frightfully ragged mountain ridges
from profound depths, are so possible
as to be admitted at sight, even by
those who have no scientific qualifica-
tons for guiding them to that conclu-
sion.


1t seems that silver Is thrown up
from vast depth in the earth, where,
from the quantity cOmmingled with
rocks in condition of liquefactiOn, the
quantity from which that ON the sur
face was derived must be in great
abundance in its primitive state below.


Scarcely more than superficial
scratchings characterize silver mining
in the West. The deeper the excava-
tions, the richer will probably be the
product. For thousands of years to
come, those bold, hard, bleak Utah
mountains will be scenes of human in
dustry and skill in pursuit of that
which will make commerce thrive over
the whole world.
Year: 1872

England was alarmed week or two
ago on account of sensational report
which told of a steady and great in
crease in English herds. Enthusiasm
people formed q solemn league and
covenant, by which they bound them
selves to eat no veal henceforth and
forever
Year: 1872

do its friends object to Mr.. ALT4HER's
amendment 1t Is exactly what they


have promised US all the time. Bat
they do object to 1t, and the inference
Is conclusiye that they do not mean to put
any money into . bridge, and therefore
do not intend to come into the city by that
bridge at oil. If It Is their purpose to
come into the city at all, then, It must be
by entering into an alliance with the B.


q o. r t. Co., and using their bridge
and track on this side Of the river, Either
that, or they have no purpose OF crossing
the river at all. Unless they first give
security that they will cross, the legisa-
tive act does not allow the subscription
to be made. Nor would our people be
satisded-especially those in the northern
part Of the city-to subscribe 50 large a
sum simply to have the cars oI another
railway brought to the depot OF
the B. s. o. Co. Vid Bellaire, making
Bellaire the real, while Wheeling
would be the nominal, terminus.


Yet we are told that many months ago
the President Of the Second Branch of
Council declared that he didn't see why
the road might not just as well cross by
the BellAire bridge as on a bridge built
for the purpose. In view Of similar
declarations by others, and the now
apparent purpose OF the W. 6 L. E. Com.
pauy to put nothing into bridge, there is
something more than suspicion that the
expending Of our subscription on the line
Of the road udthe crossing at BellGire are
parts Of the w. & L. E. programme, and
that the long. headed JOHN W. GARRETT
is not wholly disconnected Herewith.
The friends OF the Bridge ought to de.
mand the ALTNYER Amendment or
nothing. ta-' 60 yErE
Year: 1872

Which meets at Dover. on the llth instant. to
choose six Delegates to the Democratic National
Convention, will be composed of fifty delegates
from each county. unless il decides to admit an
increased number from Wilmington. Meetings
have been called in the various wards Of the city,
and one delegate will be chosen from each. There
are ten wards. and a demand will be made OH the
Convention for the admission Of ten delegates
Should this reasonable request be scceded to, the
representation of New Castle County will thereby
he raised from SO to 55


The old five wards have been obliterated and
1t becomes difficult matter to choose delegates
IRON them. and the custom Of choosing one from
each ward has existed so long that there seems no
other easy mode OF getting at the matter fairly.


We hope the Convention will not hesitate to
assign seats to the ten delegates from Wilmington
and put them on an equality with other dele
gates. We believe this Is necessary to the har.
mony OF the party, and we are sure our friends
from the rural districts do not desire to invite
strife and ill-feeling over small a matter.
Year: 1872

nFALL THE GREAT CURIOSITIEs
which attracted the most attention at Tho
Mechanics Fair are the wonderful improve.
ments which are now attached to the well-knovn
WHEELER & WILSON SEWING MACHINE
without the completion of the others. This il
the only Family Sewing Machine with the new
Silent Feed Motion. 1t makes one thousand
button holes per day, on linen, cotton or woolen
goods. 1t sews on the binding of dress with.
ont previous basting, in four minutes and wbls
sewing on one tuck, makes the line OF marks for
another; gathers and sews on at the same time.
hens silk or wooden goods with equal facility.
cords and braids with surprising quickness.
makes articles for mems as well as womens
wear takes two thousand stitches per minute
which is fifteen hundred stitches more than any
other lock stitch can make


This wonderful machine has no shuttle to
thread five or six times before starting which ia
a great saving of time. 1t is positive fact that
WHEELER & WILSON'S FAMILY SEWING
MACHINES will do all the same kind of work
that the other machines now on sale will do
will make the same single thread locp-stitch that
rayels out very conveniently, because you can
sew with one yard of thread all day long, sew.
inc it in again and so on-all right, and very
convenient; but you will find that the same
WHEELER e. WILSON FAMILY SEWING
MACHINE that does all these wonderful things.
makes also the only straight, solid lock stitch
which cannot be raveled; perfectly safe to walk
to church with clothing made with this stitch
also this machine will make the three thread EN-.
brodery stitch, which is the loop-stitch and lock
stitch combined. The AMERICAN INSTITUTE
New York, reports. This machine makes thief
Year: 1872

These Machines are specially adapted for the
use of farmers, being able to sew grain sacks and
heavy clothing with the same facility as the usu
al family work-making more durable seam
not liable to ravel, as is the case of the loop or
chain stitch
Year: 1872

tears gathered in her eyes, and misted


her sight. She had loved this dead
man very tenderly-more, perhaps,
as she might have loved q favorite
brother, than IS women usually love
their husbands-but still with depth
and pathos that could not but rush
back over her when she gazed thus
on tho shadow Of the face that was
forever gone from earth. "My poor
darlingl-my poor gallant boyp she
thought, weeping softly, and wiping
away the tears as the fell. HE loved
me- very dearly, and I can never
prove my love for him II can never
repay the tenderness he gave me-"
She said this half aloud, and she had
scarcely finished saying it, when she
was startled. Were ereyes bewitch-
cd, or did the face bear q likeness to
Rose which she had never noticed in
it before2 People spoke of the re-
semblance, she knew; but she. had
never been able to discover it until
now. Now suddenly 1t flashed upon
her. Those violet eyes, looking up at
her, were strangely soft and wistful
for mans and how like they were,
in form andFtint. to those she had
seen gazing into Kennon's face that
night! Those lips, so softly curved
and clearly cut, wore Roses own
smile-the smile half arch, half sweet.
which she so we'll remembered. Then
it came back to her, like a forgotten
dream, how the dead brother loved
the little sister who hadfbeen bis pet
and darling, how tenderly he spoke
of her, and how often he wished that
Alice could see and know her. "You
would be able to do her so much
good" he had said; and now-it was
no wonder Alice closed the, case with
sharp pang, and turned away,
Was it good she was about to this
sister of her dead husband?


fro BE CONTINUED. y y.
VI
Year: 1872

THE Paris papers have recently an
nounced that N. Henri ROchefort had be-
come the object of special favor on the part
of the government, who are unwilling to
see the sentence of council Of war carried
out vigorously against the old editor Of the
Ldnterne, which sentence was transporta-
ton. In reply to questions of various
deputies upon the matter, the government
has explained that NJ. Henri Rocbefort is
still stopping at Fort Bayard, because he is
at present laboring under a severe heart
disease, which renders it impossible for him
to undertake any long voyage but az the
evident peril of bis life.
Year: 1872

THE San Francisco Bulletin states that a
manufacturer of bird cages and other ware
in that city, short time since thought to
enlarge his revenue by substituting Chinese
cheap labor for the white wOrkmen he had
in his employ. The Mongols did well
enough at $la day for short time, until the


mastered the business, when the whole
party resigned and set up for themselves,
and are now "bearing" the bird cage mar
ket at fearful rate. The author of this
enlargement of their sphere of their enter
prise is prone to believe we are ruined by
Chinese cheap labor" I.s ID i-
Year: 1872

It is dull, likewise hot. Hard time
to fill paper. Nobody does anything.
The same man comes in town. every
day with load Of hay, asks seven dol
lars for it in the morning and sells it
at sunaown for three. The milk wagons
clatter you out of your morning nap
and the ice men leave chunks of skat-
ing at your door to half melt before
you get up and take it in. The old
women that sell radishes raise and vend
more and more fiery article as the
days get hotter and their onions would
draw tears from tobacco sign and
spoil the breath of the South wind.


The ame dirty children get run over
by the same wagons every day and
spanked in the same spot by their angry
mammas. The same men meet you on
your way to dinner and in the same
Respondent tone remark ''its hot


So one day is like another and we
wait with anxiety to announce even a
fall Of the mercur y.--lowa City Press.
Year: 1872

EDIroH PLAIN DEALEE.-1t is mat
ter Of public notoriety that the voters
and tax payers are sick and tired of
the Court House ring, and want new
blood and new faces, with the hope Of
a change for the better, we'll knowing
that reform under present rule is en-
tirely out of the question. The school
money will be allowed to accumulate
from January to July, and when men
in need Of one two or three hundred
dollars apply to the Auditor, ARE coldly
told there is no money on 'haud. The
school money will continue to be used
as fund for pets, to aid in re-electlng
the incumbent and straw men taken as
surety on stay bonds at the bidding Of
the Auditor who runs the Board Of
Supervisors.


The law requiring the Treasurer to
appoint his deputy and proceed to col
lect the taxes out of the personal
property will continue a dead letter
and the taxes be hammered out of the
land for the benefit Of the tax ring.


The man who the business men say
never was fit for the place is to be re-
elected Clerk of the Courts, and wild
confusion reign for two years longer in
the Clerks Office, presided over by
half blind stone man, without q men,
ory.


While the Recorder, the man who
belongs to no clique and minds his own
business and does it promptly, accurat-.
ly and well, is to give place to sue
cessor. w. II. Patterson has no ac-
cusers and is only charged with indust-
ry, economy, fidelity and success.


We believe in rotation in Office and
we believe in fair play and plain talk,
and we say without fear Of contradict
ion that if any man in the Court House
is fit to be reelected, William Fl. Pat
terson l., that man.


When we say this we say nothing
for or against William White, Of the
Howard Go. Times who is named for
the Office. The Times is in hands that
promise well and the voters may think
it good policy to be liberal to the Times
man, but it only remains for me to say,
we have had our say and shall be
content.


HOWARD.
Year: 1872

The New York Times has been
throwing mud at the Hon. Robert B.
Roosevelt, editor of the Citizen, and
member from one of the New York City
districts. Mr.. Roosevelt s offence is in
supporting the Liberal movement,
whereas the Times counted on his sup
port of Grant. In reply to the Times
he tells how he happened to espouse
Liberalism. Il went to Washington
a little over a year ago. he says, "a
friend of Grant. l had never written
Or uttered one word against him, while
l had both written and uttered many
in his favor. If have changed, it il
simply because I have seen the necess-
ity Of great reforms; because I found
corruption where I did not expect it,
and rottenness in only too many branch
es of the government, and because the
time has come when something must
be done to stem the downward lido in
the National politics.
Year: 1872

When days red light is lost in night,


As waking thoughts are lost in dreams
And fancies fit in wanton fight


As fre-fies glisten o,er the streams.
And all the perfumes of the flowers


Have turned to nectar all the air,
What would you do in those sweet hours


What would you do if were there?
In greenwood shade meath starry shine,


When singing to the midnight breeze,
You breathe the scent-life of the pine


And seek wild coverts mid the trees;
Wild heart, whose life is all in night!


Strange dreamer in the leafy lair,
What would you-far from others sight!
What would you do if were there?
Full was the noon and high the sea


In hours when you and were born;
Blood-red the sky cleaned wondrously


Upon US in the early morn
1t BODIES great hearts and bloody death;


But what for that would either care
If when we drew the parting breath


'Twere hand in hand together there!
l see the full moon overhead,


l here the rustic of the pines;
see thee live who once vast dead,


l hear thee singing by the vines,
IT'S myself-for we are one,


One thought alone and everywhere,
One Night, one Day-one Self, one Sun,


For we are all-forever there.
Year: 1872

ed affair public, and so we kept our
own counsel.


Mrs. Melrose, in spite of my convic-
tion that she had heen an active party
in the conspiracy against Mrs Spencer s
life, | could not help pitying. Such a
miserable, worn and haggard face as
hers | have never seen; and when they
buried DR.. Spencer she was confined to
to her chamber with brain fever.


l attended her in her illness, but al
though, she recovered her health, she
never was herself again. She was a
harmless maniac whose delight was in
gathering flowers and decorating the
doctors grave with them.


She is living still, and still gathers
flowers and lays them Oh that grave,
singing to herself meanwhile sort of
low incantation, which no one ever
pretends to. understand.


Not until Mrs. Spencer had been
many days my wife; and the faithful
Mrs. Hurd slept under the violets, did
Alicia ever know the perGdy of her
former husband.


And when I told her, after the first
shock was over, she crept into my arms
and whispered:


"But if it had not been for James
crime I should not have found you,
Herbert. So good sometimes does come
out of evil"
Year: 1872

All the administration papers are in
structed to say There are few or no
Greely men hereabouts - and yet all
the administration papers manifest the
utmost fear Of the Greelv ticket.
Year: 1872

Of all earthly undertakings, none
paws better than the broo1ing over
an ungainlv boy. What shall be done
with him Love HIM as none but a
mother can love. His destiny Is in
your hands. Bear with him. Take
an interest in his affairs; win and re
spect his confidence. Go to his bed
side at night with a kiss, and bles-
sing, and whisper a prayer. He may
pretend slumber, but he will tell his
wife of it, with tears in his eyes, years
after YOU have gone to your reward.


When he sees that You are less Of
Tended with his bovish rudeness and
follies, than with the slightest want
of integrity that you are proud OF HIM,
content with him, he will make the
mothers great heart of love Il resting
place. Let the spirit of adventure
take him tae world over, he will never
forget whose pride and idol he was
"in every ones way, and of no use.
If the mothers of our land must en-
gage in politics, God bless the boys
from nine to sixteen They are
fricndless indeed They have lost
the only being capable of steering
their bark safely through the quick
sand, rocks and shoals that lie in the
way from boyhood up to virtuous,
glorious manhood.
Year: 1872

are poor. The young man defends
himself and says, i am not so poor as
vou take me to be- Even sensible
neople Weld to the temptation of the
devil and are ashamed to acknowledge
that they work.
Year: 1872

seA~ 4 Lravcnwurth editor doesnt t
now spend time in Watching the little
busy wasp that gathered lint in his
>anctnm to make its nest lie came
in one day and did not observe that
the wasp was sitting in his chair.
Year: 1872

Yesterday q motion was made In the United
States Circuit Court, before Judges Shipman and
Benedict, on the part Of the defendant In the case
Of George W. Bowen vs. Nelson, otherwise known
as the branch Of the Jumel will case, to strike
special jury to try the cause. After some discus
sion counsel on both sides agreed to have the
jury specially struck at period as near the com.
nencement OF the trial as possible, and the Court
reserved Its decision to whether the jury should
be selected from the Clerks list or from list to
be newly empanelled.


Another hearing was had yesterday before Judge
Sedgwick, OF the Superior Court, in the Rose
AcCabe lunacy case. Two additional witnesses
were examined-a sister OF Miss McCabe and the
physician-in-chief at the Blackwell's Island Lu-
natic Asylum Some Of the testimony, as will be
seen by the report below, was both interesting and
important, and particularly that of the Doctor as
showing the method pursued at his institution in
studying the mental idiosyncrases of patients with
Q view to arriving at q conclusion as to their
condition OF mind.


Application was made yesterday before Judge
Fancher, holding Supreme Court Chambers, for the
commitment to prison OF Comptroller Green for
contempt OF court in falling to comply with one Of
Its orders. This order in the form OF peremp-
tory mandamus previously granted directing pay
one OF the messengers of the Board OF Supervisors
After quite an argument in the matter the Court
took the papers, reserving his decision.