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Year: 1873

THE following is an extract from
the Thanksgiving Sermon delivered by
Rev. II. C. Morrison, in Louisville:


But to-day, continued the preacher
''all localities and provincial boundar-
les are lost, and We come together as a
representative of a brotherhood of
40,000,000 of souls, representing,
great nation. 1t is good for us some
times to blot out these provincial lines,
and come together in national and re-
ligious unity. 1t expands our souls
and makes us better and stronger in
faith, love and common manhood.


The blessings for which we come
to give thanks are of twO-fold ma
ture, viz; temporal and spiritual"
The minister here proceeded to enum-
crate the temporal blessings which we
all enjoy The blessings of peace
after four years war first, and then
the twin-sister Of peace, the blessings
of plenty. We have plenty in the
land. The present condition of broken
banks is a less calamity than a famine.
The old bank of nature, over which
God presides, is not suspended. 1t Is
as solvent to-day as at any period since
God created the universe, and is issuing
to US to-day our daily bread. There is
too much religion, too much charity,
too much bread in the land for any to
perish. While the people of this ma
tiOn have abundant causes TO be thank
full for temporal blessings, our spirit
ual welfare was far above our temporal
affairs in its importance and the abun-
dance and value of its blessings The
minister here pictured a bright and
glorious future for the progress and
spread of religion, and said there is no
prospect of crisis IN the business Of
salvation. The cry for the bread of
life was coming up from the four winds
Of the earth, and all heather nations
were fast coming under the power OF
the gospel. Kingdoms and powers
were giving us recognizance, and the
public press of the world is lifting its
voice in our behalf All this, he said
was the outcrOpping Of the coming uni
versal triumph of the church. There
never was a period, he said, wheE the
gospel was preached with more purity,
power and pungeney. The recent ses-
sion of the Evangelical Alliance was
like an assembly Of a penteeOstal com
pany. The church, he said, is steadily
advancing, spreading into a broader
compass and rising to higher elevation,
everything fulfilling the prophecy in
the text; that from the rising of the
sun to the going down Of the same, the
Lords name is to be praised, and the
reign of gospel peace to spread and
prevail over the nations till all the
kingdoms of this world shall become
the Kingdoms Of the Lord
Year: 1873

IT is an error to suppose that man
belongs to himself. No man does
He belongs to his wife, or his child
ren, or his creditors, or to society, in
some form or other. 1t IS for theiI
especial good and behalf that he lives
and works, and they kindly allow him
to retain a certain percentage of his
gains to administer to his own pleas,
ures or wants. He has his body, and
that is all, and even for that he is an
swerable to society In short, society
is the master and man is the servant
and it is entirely according as society
turns out a good or bad master. wheth-
er he turns out a good or bad ser
George augustus .Sata.
Year: 1873

A GOOD Old elder of church who
was given to extravagant exaggeratiOn,
was at last called to account for his
Offenses in that respect, and admonish-
ed not to give way to the besetting sin
in future. The good old man received
the admOnition meekly and earnestly
and said: Il know how prone | am
to this fault, my brethren, and IT has
given me tortures of pain; and night
after night | have shed barrels of tears
over it" The meeting adjourned in
silence.
Year: 1873

Inc fIllSOuEgu LedueT InlnKS tuls
case Of the inveteraCy Of political habits;
"When VIC a year or two ago had occa-
sion TO pay sum OF money to q Harris
burg lobbyist for ordinary newspaper
work, We were amazed to find that the
only way he could take it was to have it
enclosed in an envelope and left for him
on certain desk. He had been so long
used to getting his money in this sort OF
way that he would have lelt uncomlor-
Portable 10 have taken it in q Btraighttor-
ward and open manner.
Year: 1873

CHURCH Music IN New YORK. Music in a
New York church is not only an expensive
thing, but very troublesome one. The best
singers are Italian players, who come from the
boards as late as twelve o'clock on Saturday
night Their behaviour in some of the organ
lofts is about as reyerent as that which graces
the green room. The expense is very fearful
The music in one church that is run by WI all
street broker costs $4,000 year. Que church
imports basso from Boston. He leaves in the
Saturday night express, sings morning and al
ternoon, and returns to Boston on the Sunday
night express. He is kept in first class hotel
in the city, has all his expenses paid and $4,000
a year. 10 fashionable uptown church there
have been two choirs. Que run and paid for by
the church, occupying the chancel; the other
occupying the choir gallery, with quartette and
chorus, and run by wealthy gentleman who
paid all the expenses. Every one knew that
the thing could not last. The church might as
we'll have two rectors, one at each end. There
were iealousies, and rivalries, and collisions,
till the choir end rot the house had to give 10,
and the stock broker and his choir went out,
rupturing the society and so weakening it that
its life is dispaired of.


Another church that had steady going music
caught the operatc fever 1t introduced what
Is known as the Mora Choir. For little while
the thing was great success. The church was
densely crowded, and the pew holders had to
go in through the vestry. AS usual, difficulty
arose between the minister and the leader. The
choir left, carrying a portion of the congrega--
ton. Congregational singing was then tried
and proved failure. A choir Of boys was 10
troduced, and that offended another party. Be.
fore the year was out the minister himself had
to leave. There are many congregations in New
York dying from 100 much choir.-Letter from
Nac York.
Year: 1873

BETTER THAN WHIsKEY.-"BiN
Arp writes "Gcntlcmcn, there is
one thing about drinking. | almost
wish every man was reformed drunk
ard. No man who hasn't drank H.
1uor knows what luxury cold water
is. l have got up in the night in
cold weather after had been sprccing
around, and gone to the well, burning
up with thirst, feeling like the gallows
and tho grave and the Internal regions
were too good formc, and when took up
the bucket in my hands, and with my
elbow trembling like had the shaking
ague, put the water to my lips, it was
the most delicious, satisfying, luxu-
rious draft that ever went down my
throat.


"I have stood there and drank un-
til could drink no more, and gone
back to bed thanking God for the pure,
innocent, and cooling beverage, and
cursing myself from my innost fol
ever touching the accurscd whiskcy.-
In my torture of mind and body
| have made VOWS and promises, and
broken them within day. But if
you want to know the luxury of cold
water, get drunk and keep at it until
you get on fire, and then try a bucket
full at the well in tho middle of the
night. You won't want a gourd full
you'll feel like the bucket amt big
enough, and when you begin to drink
an earthquake couldn't stop you. I
know Il hundred men who will swear to
the truth of what | say; but you sec
it's thing they don't mean to talk
about; it's too humiiating."
Year: 1873

1t was glorious evening in
July. All around spoke peace to
tho triod and tired spirit, and fill
cd it, with tho inoffablo calm
which sometimes como through
tho medium Of quiet and beautiful
Year: 1873

RccrSitmcnt Up 10 the Full Standard.


WASHINGTON, Nov. 26. 1873


There has been great activity In the Marine
Corps within the past two three days, and it is
understood chat large number of officers will be
ordered TO duty ia a day or two. Orders have been
given to recruit the Marine Corps up TO the fun
standard provided by law. When the vessels now
fitting out for active service are provided with
their fun complement OF marines there will be
none left at the navy yards The battalion TO be
sent to Key West will be for the purpose OF guard
ing public property there, and will be, with the
entire marine force OF the West India squadron,
under tho command OF LIoutenant Colonel Hay
wood. Captain Romey will command the guard OF
the Colorado, and Lieutenant Colonel Forney will
command the guard on the Minnesota. 1t is ru-
mored In naval circles that Admiral Porter VIII
command the West India squadron, but there Is no
onlcial knowledge OF this matter.
Year: 1873

To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD


Can we call ourselves Americans who stand by
and our fellow beings taken by barbarous set,
to and from cells OF Imprisonment, to public PARK
before multitude Of bloodthirsty cutthroats
and shot down like so many dogs' No; we are
neither Americans nor human who could stand by
and allow such an atrocitY to be committed. TN
the other nand we should show disposition to
resent their inhuman acts and swear we VIII not
leave stone unturned until we have ferreted
out the perpetrators OF this fendish outrage, and
strike out, but not in bitter revenge, Tor those
whose lives have been sacrificed and the families
that have been made destitute. for one, make IL
my earnest prayer that | may possess the opp0r-
tunity OF stepping upon Spanish soil and with God
giving me strength, help TO crush the outlaws OF
such a nation. II war be declared we Will fight
ike Americans and never give IL up until the
lives OF our citizens have been avenged and Spain
Is taught lesson BY the American nation.


A TRUE AMERICAN.
Year: 1873

ed and drawn forth. From this stand
point this enterprise is invaluable TO
Texas, and IL becomes, as all her pro-
gressive statesmen have seen, her GER
tain avenue to prominence, position
and wealth. When VIC pass her west
orn border we arc more than half way
TO the Pacific. In our progress thitb-
CT, wo drive the frontier before us,
and gil your rich valleys and rolling
prairies with teeming population and
taxable values. The iron rail blunt,
the edge of the scalpng knife and the
war-whoop OF the savage is drowned
in the shrek of the locomotive. For
five hundred miles our employees must
take their lives in their hands, and
our investments are jeopardized by
the barbarous Indian. 70 stimulate
us to encounter these dangers, to pro-
duce these results, and in so doing TO
yield to those we represent a fair re-
turn for their money, we ask your
sympathy and encouragement. We
seek no special exemptions or exclu-
sive privileges, but we do ask toler-
ance and an open door to fair compe-
tition. Coming as many of us do
from the north, we do not disguise
our purpose to- make the Texas and
Pacific paying Investment. Nature
has endowed this line with rich min
eral wealth and genial climate. We
come to grasp the advantages these
afford and to try to bring good divi-
dends TO our stockholders, and mate
rial development to the regions we
traverse. We deprecate unfounded
prejudices; we ask to be tried by a
just and reasonable rule. Our enter
prise is as well yours as it is ours
If advancement in wealth and popu-
lation be worthless, then you may
rightly judge us severely; but so long
as labor, population and material pro
gress are the essential elements in
State and national prosperity, just so
long are those who try to produce
them entitled to be sustained, sup
ported and encouraged by all who
love the State and desire its growth.


In the construction of a great work,
with the energy and force that is in
dispensible TO success and economy,
as well as in the control and opera
tion of a new road, it will invariably
result that mistakes occur and indi.
viduals suffer, and if in the onward
progress of our work such have hap
pcned, or shall again happen, it will
not be the fault Of the management
Of either department ofthe enterprise
if they are not corrected. We shall
cndeavor to do the right if we fail
to do so, and you are hurt thereby,
inform us of your wrong and we will
apply the remedy.


With the earnest hope that the COM
pletlon of tho eastern branches of the
Texas and Pacific may bring TO your
city largely increased population and
business, and with assurances on the
part of the management of the road
of its determination to give every
practical facility to ease and cheap
ness of transportation, again tender
you my hearty congratulations.
Year: 1873

A Connecticut farmer, who set out
an elaborate scare crow in his straw
berry patch, was disgustcd to find that
a pair Of robins had built their nest
and were raising their young under
its hat.
Year: 1873

TWO nGST CLASS FIVE STORY WHITE MARBLE
Stores, near Broadway and New Post Office tree and
exchange for Lots Tenement Proper upon
lair basis PHALON 4 SLOAN,


81 East Seventeenth street.
Year: 1873

A photographer in Berlin has been
sent to the penitentiary for an ingenious
fraud which he las practiced on the
aristocracy of that city for several
months past. He pretended he 'could
make photographs of gentlemen so life
like that their dogs would be able to
recognize them. When these photo.
graphs were held up before the dogs of
the owners, the dogs would wag their
tails, and lick the pictures. The other
photographers of Berlin, who were un.
able to perform any thing similar,
watched their colleague, and finally dis.
covered his secret. 1t was very simple
proceeding. All he did was to cover the
photographs of the gentlemen with a
thin layer of lard, which the dogs, of
course, smelled, and then licked of.
Year: 1873

In Brazil they have very disagreeable
species of ants. They come in count
less numbers, frequently taking posses
sion and overrunning dwelling, when
in their track, driving the inmates there
from and destroying everything eatable
on the premises. When seen approach.
ing, they can only be stopped, or the
head of the column turned, by fire they
will succeed in passing every other bar.
rier. A traveller, alluding to them,
says "On ascending the Corcovardo we
discovered colony of them crossing the
roadway high up on the mountains.
They were comsing from above, cross
ing the road, and descending on the
other side. They came in a column
three or four inches wide, thick as they
could be packed. and rushing along with
great rapidity. How long they had been
passing before we saw them is Of course
unknown, but four hours later the
stream was undated and seemingly
exhaustless. We found it impossible TO
break the line without its being immedi.
ately reformed. They seemed to know
by instinct the direction taken by those
passed, and never deviated in the slight.
est from the proper route. The attempt
was also attended with some inconveni.
ence if great care was not taken, for
the stream never stopped lit kept pour
ing down, and in very short time yoI
found yourself surrounded, and in some
danger of being overrun if not captured
yourself. 1t is said they will remove
the flesh from the carcass of an OK or
horse in few hours, leaving the bones
perfectly polished.
Year: 1873

Where are the good things promised me
By this Old Year that's dyingY
And rat care how i'll he be


Who was so given 10 lyingT
A cozening youth. he sought my door,
And tarried till his locks were hoar:
A tar md foul, capricions guest,
Who sw ore 10 give me OF his best.


NLh pledged himself a true year;


But he was then-the New Year.
Where are the silver and the gold
Ere now should fill my wallet?
What mean these scanty clothes and old,
This attic room and palletY
The purse he dangled in my view
Betwixt his juggling hands slipped through.
lie found me poor, he left me poorer;
But now rich friend. and surer,


Awaits me in the New Year.
Where ere the poets bays he said
My tuneful song should gain me-
The wrea that was TO crown my head:
Tn applause that should sustain meY
Alaek round other brows than mine
] see the fresh won laurels twine:
Still for the musics sake sing;
The world may listen yet. and fling


Its garlands-in the New ear.
Where is the one dear face TO love
His golden mouths should bring me,
Whose smile a recompense should prove
For all the ills that sting me?
My heart still beats in loneliness:
There is no darling hand TO press;
But oh | dream we yet shall meet,
And I shall find her kisses sweet,


And win her in the New Year.
Where are the works in patience wrought:
The grace 10 love my neighbOr:
The sins left off; the wisdom taught
OF suffering and labor;
The fuller life the strength to wait;
The equal heart for either fate?
Well may / speed the parting guest.
AND take this stranger 10 my breast


Be thou indeed "A true year,


fair and welcome New Year


Edmund c. Sedman.
Year: 1873

A COUPLE of girls put a bullfrog into
the hired mans bed to see if they
couldn't make him talk. Davie threw
il out of the window and never said a
single word. Soon after he put half
bushel of chestnut burrs into the girls
bed. About the time he thought they
would make the least shadow, Davie
went to the door and ratified the latch
furiously. Out went the candle and in
went the girls; but they did not stick,
though the burrs did. Calling on them,
he begged them to keep quiet, for he
only wanted to know if they had seen
anything of that pesky bullfrog. He'd
give two dollars to find it.
Year: 1873

edge, and did everything in their
power to arrest the flying boat,
: but past them she went like a bullet
from 4 rifle, and was out Of sight
in 4 moment. The conductor
then ordered the engineer to put
! on full head of steam and follow
us rapidly as possible, which he
did, constantly sounding the alarm
Of danger. He did not get an
other glimpse Of the boat, but the
alarm brought the employees at
: Beaver Creek Station to the look
out, and quickly making a slip
moose they sought to throw it ov-
cr the bow of the boat as she came
under the bridge. This they sue
ceeded in doing, but could no more
hold it than they could have held
:. thunderJO!t; and over Beaver
| Crccl; falls she went with the
speed ofIightning. The falls are
about thirty feet high, and ut the
foot arc 4 number Of large bould-
crs, but the Velocity Of the boat
was such that it cleared them
easily, and struck the water some
twenty feet beyond.


From here no one saw the boat.
or its living freight. until it reached
i point one hundred miles below
Denver. Through Golden into
the Platte river, and under the
Denver bridges she went, unno-
ticcd, nor slackencd her pace un-
until she lodged in a drift at the
distance below Denver above men
toned. The Platte does not run
very rapidly, but the boat had &C
quired such 4 wonderful speed in
its descent from the mountains
that it far outrode the cGrrent. A
Mr. Walsh, who lives on a farm
near tho drift where the boat
lodged, discovered the boys still
in the boat, which was near
ly full Of water, and took them TO
his home. They were restored to
their overjoyed parents the fol-
lowing evening, after having &C.
complished the most penlous jour
ncy in tho quickest time ever be-
fore made by any human being
who escaped alive. The distance
travelled was one hundred and
forty miles in two hours. but
how it was ever done, or how
the boat escaped being dashed to
pieces upon some Of the huge
boulders or rocky cliffs which
everywhere intercept the course
Of Clear crock, is nothing short Of
4 providcntial miracle. Probably
not again in a thousand years
could the journey be made with
the best appliances and by the
most skillful mariners.
Year: 1873




AND FORTY MILES IN TWO HOURS.


Clear creek is a miniature river
that runs through the canon Of
the same name. 1t descends upon
4 down grade Of four hundred feet
per mile, with here and there .
fall over q rocky precipice fifteen
or twenty feet in height. Large
bouldcrs, forty and fifty feet in
diameter, and Weighing thousands
oftons impede it's dashing progress
every two or three hundred yards,
while its curves are SO sharp and
so frequent that the stream can
nowhere be seen for q distance of q
thousand feet. Granite cliffs, two or
three miles high, project over it
on either side, and give a frightful,
romantic and dangerous appear
;.nco to the rushing torrent be-
meath.


Just below Black Hawk, on the
side Of the strcam,a a small reservoir
has been constructed in which is
kept an ordinary sliiff. Last Sunday
two little sons of Martin +. Walk
er, aged respectively ten and
twelve years, got into the boat,
and were splashing the water with
4 stick, when the tastenings gave
way and the boat went drifting
towards the rapidly running cur
rent. The little boys soon dis
covered their danger, but were
powcrlcss to avert it; so they
clutchcd hold of the side Of the
boat, and with pallid countcnances
awaited their doom. Soon the
boat was caught by the current and
began descending at Il fearful rate.
Over Black Hawk rapids they
went like an arrow, clearing a
distance Of sixty feet at a single
dash. Lighting again on the tor
rent surface, the boat seemed TO
have gained q new impetus, and
shot by the boulders and around
the rocky points with the CELEBRITY
Of a sunbeam.


At a distance Of about six miles
below the starting point, Conduc-
tor Gibbons, who was standing on
the rear Platform Of the down G..
C. train, saw the boat coming and
Immediately stopped the train.
All hands repaired to the waters
Year: 1873

to cast off the man she believed
to be 4 villain. She made ample
atOnement for those moments OF
doubt, for she is now his wife and
will love him the better because
She sinned against him for an
hour.


The stolen property WAS nearly
all recovered and returned to
bank. Dana w;ts sent to Sing
Sing, where he was found dead in
his cell six months after the pris-
on closed behind him. Whether
he died by his own hand or con-
tlicliuy passions Of his own heart,
no man knows.
Year: 1873

The Washington Telescope, for the
building Of which Congress made an appro-
priation Of $4,000 some years ago, Is now
being mounted at the National Obseryato-
ry in Washington The instrument rests
on pier Of stone and brick work extend
ing eighteen feet below the surface, and
the pier is capped by single block Of
sandstone, weighing about two tons. On
this stone rests heavy iron casting weigh
ing one and a quarter tons, and this sup
ports the instrument. Although the weight
of the moving parts is about four tons, the
immense mass can be moved by slight
pressure Of the hand. The length Of the
instrument is thirty-two and half feet.
and the telescope tube is of sheet steel,
riveted together The important part Of
the instrument, the object glass, is twenty
six inches in diameter, and was made in
England, at cost of $1,000. The tele-
scope is splendidly mounted for all move
ments, and the size of the object glass win
relieve the observer from the effects Of
disturbances, which, with
smaller glasses, are extremely troublesome.
Year: 1873

fresh, breezy, bright, instructive paper /;
and there is very few who can afford not
to let their children have good times in
the household while childhood lasts. When
the final interest is apportioned It win be
those who have spent most wisely who will
have the largest dividends Hearth and
Holae
Year: 1873

THg CITY IN THE HANDS OF THE FEDERAL TRoors.


MATAMORos, Dec. 22.-Throughout the city
to-day the stores and public buildings were generally
closed and business suspended owing TO the unsettled
state OF feeling growing out of the fighting which
occurred yesterday.


Ghe Government troops patroed the streets and
occupied the plaza last night and to-day, and main
tanned strict order and security 1t is believed
that Cortina will endeavor TO DO installed
as Mayor by the st Of January at which time the term
Of the present city officials expires and should the
effort now being made 70 compromise the matter not
succeed serious fighting s likely to follow.