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Year: 1872




In the year 1913, during the Mil
lerite excitement, in the unusually
quiet town of Durham, "Aunt Sally
-" who would weigh nigh unto
200 pounds, came to the conclusion
that she was bound ''to go up" and
one evening in the meeting, in the
midst of a warm season of exhorta-
ton, she arose and said:


sob? brethren and sisters, bless
the Lord? I'll soon get away from
this wicked world; Pm going to meet
the Lord in a few days. My faith is
powerful strong. Oh yes, powerful
strong it is. So strong" continued
the lady extending her arms and
motioning them like bird on the
wing, "that it does seem if 1 could
fly right away now and meet the
Lord in the air"


The minister, who was a great en-
thusiast, on going up to her encour-
aged her by exclaiming:


"Try, sister, try; perhaps you can
fly if your faith is only strong
enough"


She was standing near window
which was raised on account of the
oppressive heat, for it was summer.
With her handkerchief in one hand
and her fan in the other, she mount
ed the seat and then to the top of
the pew, and gave a leap into the
air, expecting to ascend heayenward,
But the law of gravitation was too
much for her faith and the gravity
of the audience. Down she came
with an enormous and not very an
gelic grunt, shaking the whole house
with the conclusion.


She arose, folded her wings, and
with great meekness snesked back
into the seat, evidently disappointed.


The next evening some Of the
young folks asked her:


aunt Sally, why didn't you fly
last night, when you tried so hardY'


Il couldn't get the right fopP
was the meek and conclusive an
swer.
Year: 1872

How many kiss has been given
how many a curse-how many a ca
lress-hoW many a loOk-how many a
kind word-how many soul lost
how many a loved one lowered into
a narrow chamber-nOW many babe
has gone from earth to heaven-how
many a little crib or cradle stands
silent now which last Saturday night
held the rarest treasure of the heart.


A week is life. A week is a his
tory. 1t makes events of sorrow and
gladness, of which people never
heard. Go home to your family.
man of business! Go home to your
family erring wanderer! Go home
to the chair that awaits you, wrong
ed waif on life's breakers! Go home
to those you love man of toll, and
give one night to the joys and COM
lforts fast flying by.


Leave your books OF complex fig
ures-your dingy office-your busy
lshopi Rest with those you love,
for heaven only knows what the next
Saturday night may bring you!
Forget the world of care and battles
of life which have furrowed the
week. Draw close around the fam
lily hearth! Saturday night has
awaited your coming sadness, in
tears and in silence. Go home to
those you love, and as you bask in
the loved presence and meet to re-
turn the embrace of your hearts
pets, strive to be better man and
bless heaven for giving his children
so dear a stepping stone in the river
to the eternal, as Saturday night.
Year: 1872

Nine-tenths of the alleged inhu-
manity of mankind is owing to their
being deceived. If people are sure
of an accident or a calamity, crowds
hasten to relieve it. By veracity we
charm in conversation; by sincerity
we influence opinion; by trust
worthiness we render friends
loving and secure, add to the gener-
al confidence of men in men, and by
thus strengthening the foundations
Of society, acquire the right to an
analogous personal sense of worth
and firmness. Truth gives sense OF
security TO the feeble man, as lying
does of insecurity to the strongest
The true man has but one answer to
give to interrogators, one story tC
tell them, nobody's face to fear.
Year: 1872

The surrender Of the eight hour
strike is but hollow and short
lived truce. They have all given un-
der protest written or oral, and with
no expectation that the arrangement
will last long. Those who have
yielded most submissively have
frankly told their hands that the
new terms are only an experiment,
and that it would be sure to fail;
and the next fall or winter, or when
ever slack work or hard times come,
the concession would have to be re-
considered The strikers themselves
begin to realize this and are already
anxious for the future. The success.
of the strike, so far as it has been a
success, has depended wholly on
the present advantage the men en-
lioy. Building work and work Of
many other kinds is in good demand
at this particular season; and the
employers, being taken by surprise,
and not being able to stand a loss
from suspension of their business,
have been forced to surrender. 1t
1t is a fair question whether they
will not all lose money by the
abridgment of the labor period and
the increase in wages; but had they
suspended, they would undoubtedly
have lost more. The moment
tight pinch comes there will be
perfect certainty of large loss by
keeping the shops open, and of less
lloss by closing them, and the latter
will be done unless the Workmen
will stand q lengthening of hours or
a decrease of wages. Then it will
be the employers turn TO make
these peremptory demands, which
at present emanate only from the
hands at the instigation of the
union. This will not be retaliation,
nor anything looking like it; but it
will be a return to a more normal
state of things than the present 1t
will be forced upon the employers to
save themselves-the only alterna-
tive being to suspend work-and let
the consequences fall on those who
have invited them. Probably the
latter will then be glad enough to
make some compromise on matters
where they now refuse to do so. The
collapse of the union power will al
so be hastened, as we remarked the
other day, by the resistance among
the workingmen themselves to the
intolerable rule that no union man
shall earn money more than eight
hours a day. We predicted, from
theory alone, the failure of that ty-
rannical regulation, and it is the
opinion of sagacious employers that
lit will cause the downfall of the un-
lion ifthere were no destructive agen-
cy within its bosom. Threats and
violence may coerce men to observe
it for the time being, butin the long
run they viii surely refuse to do so,
t-N. Y. Journal Of Commerce
Year: 1872

work in his mine again, but he was
| now more secretive than ever. He


built himself q stone house, where


each window was IN embrasure,


pointing out of which was fixed a


loaded musket, and the only man who
ever got enough into Toms conf
dence to examine the house
says that there was also n fixed
! mnsket enfilading the doorway. He
told this person that he WAS
having an iron house made for
himself that he thought would he
more secure. In general it was
but little, and only to mere children,
that Tom ever spoke. And there
came q day some two years ago, when
Tom found it necessary to go to a
house where he is likely to be perma-
nently safe. Two brothers, almost
as uncouth as Tom himself, came
lowering about the dying man. He
asked the priest to bring lawyer,
and when this was effected, said:
"If you will send them out" point
ing to his brothers, 81 will tell ALL"
But the brothers wonll not go out Of
the house, and Tom died MS mute as he
had lived. Application to the proper
authorities in New York recovered
Toms gold, which he had been too
much frightened to apply for after his
escape. The brothers left not one
stone of the house upon another, and
they found about $4,000 in gold hid
den, in and around it. Out Of Toms
cave they took, III addition, it is be-
lieved, ore Of not less than 800, 600.
They divided their treasures as they
found gold or gold ore, by dealing out
coin or bills as it it was cards at po-
ker, one to each alternately. What
there is left Of Tom kelly's real
estate looks like the debris of an
earthquake.
Year: 1872

ity. A few favored hanging, but the
great majority were adverse to that
extreme punishment and desired inn
prisonment for life, where the remorse
of conscience in a felon's cell would
be a greater punishment than subject
ing her to the gallows and martyrdom !;
while yet few, q very few, believed
her morally right. These latter were
Of the women's rights and free loving
class-adulterous females of her own
kind, plying their vocation covertly
under the guise Of responsibility, and
matrons, likewise false to their marital
VOWS.


The attempt to get up the usual
sensation scene ut the termination Of
such cases was Il failure. The jury
men shook hands with the prisoner
and cried, but at the same moment
she was affecting a frst-class swoon,
and left her counsel to do the agree
able in receiving the congratulations
of her friends.


The reporters put sufficient coloring
to the scene by Il slight draft on their
fertile imaginations to make IN affect
ing finale to their reports and Justify
a liberal display of headlines.


The prisoner, after her acquittal,
was conveyed to her quarters at the
county Jail, where she desires to re-
main for safety ~ from "public vio-
lence Judging the public by herself.
AS yet, the commissioners on luna
cy have taken no action toward CON-
hitting her to the insane asylum.


IL j. NJ. s.
Year: 1872

The letter in which Father Hya-
cinthe explains his marriage consists
principally Of an argument against
perpetual VOWS of celibncy. He had
no thought of marriage when he loft
his convent in 1869. The passion
which has now changed his whole life
seems to have sprung up when, in his
subsequent poverty and loneliness, he
found the support OF u noble and holy
affection, II sublime Devotion Surely,
he exclaims, I should not recognize
the blessing which God has given me
were to hesitate in seeking for it
the conservation Of marriage" And
why should he mott III leaving his
conxent he had made a practical pro-
test against perTe Tetnal lani.atics svaasIxs !
in order to make his protest against
perpetual VOWS of cc1ibacy effectual
and logical he must take wife. No
man, he urges, has the moral right to
bind himself to abstain forever from
what may become duty. "lf may
here speak my whole mind,' he says,
"there is not q single case in which
the Church should prohibit marriage
to its pastors, but there are a thousand
where it ought to command them to
marry" Celibacy may he a holy and
glorious exception; but Father Hya-
cinthe does not consider himself one
of the exceptions; marriage has come
home to him "as one of those laws of
the moral government Of the world
which can not be set aside without
overturning the fabric of life and run
ming counter to the will of God" Fa-
ther Hyacintlle makes the surprising
statement that in answer to q question
whether the clergy might marry"
tone of the most learned and pious
bishops of tile Roman Church" wrote
to him, "Such q step is always per-
missible, often necessary, and some
times a sacred duty" But he does not
tell us who the bishop wa~


Here comes the difficulty, however.
which many men like Father Hya-
cinthe have experienced before. They
rebel against one point of faith Or dis
cipline in the Roman Catholic system,
but are unwilling to give up the rest;
yet that system is SO completely round
ed that no ono can logically accept
Catholicism rs whole without accept
ing every part Of it. "I intend to re-
main a Catholic and a priest,' says
Father Hyacinthe. Well, it is part,
and a very important part, Of Catholic
doctrine, that Church has power to de-
fine heresy and to cut off offenders
from her communion, and the Church
pronounces Father Hyacinthe to be
hereto and excommunicate. How is
he going to stay in the Church if the
Church will not have him9


1t is hard to SEQ more than one
course for men in his position. They
must call themselves what they are
Protcstants. They must initiate Ln-
ther, not only in marrying, but in
rejecting at once the whole system
which forbade them to marry. The
alternative is to adopt the course of
the "Old Catholics" but what that is
to be, no one can yet tell. The last
rumor was that English Episcopalians
were considering ways and means for
opening relations with them.
Year: 1872

Never bent your wife, save with q
poker, stove leg or like trifling weii-
pom. This rule will not apply to moth
ers-in-law. Man is justified in treat
ing them with all possible cruelty.
Year: 1872

It really requires moro delicacy of
touch, a better acquaintance with the
inner emotions Of the heart, and
grander pathos of sentiment to make
u declaration Of love than it does to
put up u stove.
Year: 1872

From the Troy N. Y.) Press.l


Some 2 years ago young man resi-
ding in this city married one ofthe fair
daughters Of Troy. One child, little
girl, was the issue Of the marriage.
Trouble came between the man ana
wife very soon. aud about two months
ago he got divorce on the ground OF
adultery. but the wife had the custody
Of the child. After the separation the
wife took the child and went to living
with another man and his wife. About
three weeks ago the husband got pos
session OF the child. without the wife 5
knowledge, aud took the little girl out
to Rochester to live with his lthe hus-
band's) aunt. He remained there with
the child. The wife at length learned
where the child was secreted, and her
friends furnished her with money to so
after her. By mistake she left the cars
eight miles this side of Rochester, and
went on foot to that city, where, from
directions given her, she found the
house where the child was secreted, In
the suburbs. As she came to the house
she saw her husband playing In the
yarQ with the CnlIu. oue IHl loE tHe
little girl, and the husband seeing her
approach, caught up the child and ran.
The wife pursued, and tainted three
times while in pursuit, the last time
so as not to be able to move. Some
twenty Of the neighbors had Joined in
the pursuit. and some Of them now told
the husband he must stop. He drew n
revolver and said he would shoot any
one that came near him. Finally he
agreed to take the child back to the
house, and did so, the wife accompany
ing him. Then it was arranged that
they should come to Troy together,
and bring the child with them. The
wife was pleased with this arrange
ment. On the way out. the husband
said he would 60 back and the wife
might take the child, but he would not
live with her. He went out OF the car
and pretended to leave the train. The
loving wife thereupou tainted again
BY and BY the husband, who had only
gone into reer car, came In, aud an,
other courtship began. They arrived
here In due time. and were married
aud now are as happy rs two ntti'
doves,
Year: 1872

MARKS OF A GENTLEMAN.-No man
Is a gentleman, who. without provoca-
tion, would treat with incivility the
humblest Of his species. 1t is vulgarity
for witch no accomplishment OF dress
or address can ever atone. Show US
the man whc tries to make every one
round him happy aud whose greatest
solicitude Is never to give any onehse
to any one, and we will show yon a
gentleman by nature and species,
though he may never have worn SUIT
of broadcloth, nor never heard OF 4
lexicon. We are proud to say, for the
honor of the species, there are many
men In every throb Of whose heart
there Is a solicitude for the welfare OF
mankind, and whose very breath Is
perfumed with kindness.
Year: 1872

1t is evident, says the w World. that Mr.
Boutwell,, in his speech delivered in
Greensborough, North Carolina, ali the
18th ult, has essayed to strike the key
note of the Radical campaign during the
Presidential canvass. In that speech be
distinctly avowed that il is the purpose
and policy Of the party with which he
acts and for which he speaks to resist
the impulse now melting the men Of the
North and the South to ''clasp hands
across the bloody chasm' made by our
late civil war. TO this effect he spoke
as follows, according TO the report of his
remark as found in the New York
Times:


ave are advised to clasp hands across
the bloody chasm made by the war. 1
protest against this adDice. The doctrine
it contains has been the curse Of the
country from the first, and it brought
the South to the brink of ruin. When
the Constitution was formed, and even
before the Constitution was formed, there
was chasm wide and deep between the
free and slave States. Often our fathers
shook hands as brothers and friends
over this chasm, and said 'We will look
into it no more-we will be to each 9th.
er as though it were not But all in
vain. These efforts failed. Your efforts
will fail"
Year: 1872

A party of ladies have started from
Portland for two hundred mile tramp
around the White Mountains. Verify,
the women are moving as well as the
world.


The modern Faro has found its Red
Sea in San Francisco, in the shape of a
black-eyed girl who wins 81 900 night,
ly, and has broken several banks in the
city.


A Michigan woman recently put her
infant child into tub of water. then
stuffed a feather bed over it! and sur.
mounted the whole with herself. Sic
transit child


Picnics in Pennsylvania wind up with
what is called the Dolly Warden march
the young ladies standing in row and
the young men passing along the line
and kissing each good night
Year: 1872

How THE NIAGARA SUSPENSION BRIDGE
STANDS THE TEST OF TME.-It is some
twenty years since the great wire
suspension bridge was built over the
Niagara River. The question of its
safety has recently been agitated, and
critical investigation has accordingly
been made by the Chief Engineer and
Directors of the Great Western Rail-
way. The caps on the towers covering
the cables have been removed, and the
cables found as perfect in all respects
as ever they were. Butmost important
of all, the anchorage of the cables were
thoroughly inspected. The masonry
over one of them was removed for about
twelve feet, or below where the wires
are attached to the anchor-chains. A
portion of the cable is embedded I'M
wlter-lme cemelt. For twenty years.
it has been there and yet on removing it
and rubbing the paint off the wires, the
latter were found as bright and perfect
as when placed there the cement hav-
ing preserved the wire and anchor chain
intact. The examination was made
in the presence of competent engineers,
who have expressed themselves asabove
to the directors of the bridge company,
Year: 1872

n@ DR.. Letheby, one of the highest


European authorities on tho sanitary


relations of water, considers water of
moderate hardness preferable to very


soft water for domestic purposes.


About six grains Of carbonate of lime
per gallon is desirable. He finds that
the death-rate is less in cities supplied
with moderately hard water than in
those supplied with soft water. It is a
familiar fact that it is great adyant-
age, in making tea or coffee, to use
water of about FIVE degrees Of hard
ness; that is, containing about five
grains of carbonate Of lime or ita eqm-
valent in tbs gallon. The fine favor Of
tea made with water possessing this
quality is due to the fact that the car
Donate OF lime prevents the water from
6ssolving the as.ringent matter con-
tained in the tea without interfering with
the extraction of the theme and the
other desirable constituents Of the Leaf.
Year: 1872

Growth Of Olympia and Tumwater in 1879.


We copy from the Pacific Tribune the
following excellent article, showing
the progress made by this place and
Tumwater, in the erection of new build
ings, the past year:


From time to time we have atirded
to the improvements in progress in our
midst and vicinity, without detailing in
any instance the growth of Olympia for
a stated period. This we propose to do
now. We have been at some pains to
procure complete list of oil the build
ings erected in Olympia during the year
1872, with the names of the proprietors
or builders, and exhibit the result in
the table below. This showing is in
the highest degree gratifying, and can
not fail to surprise some of our citizens,
who have not realized the rate at which
our city has grown. Here is the list:
Year: 1872

While number of the above build
ings cost three or four thousand dollars
each, the average cost of all is about
one thousand dollars each; thus making
the entire sum expended in improve
ments during the year not far from
$50, 1000. Several Of the buildings emu
merated are yet in course of erection,
but will be nearly or quite finished be-
fore the close of the year.


To the foregoing we append list Of
the buildings erected during the same
period in the thriving town Of
Year: 1872

81 Never, upon any account, en-
dorse a note for friend, unless he gives
you ample security, or you can afford
to pay it should your friend fail to.
More men have been ruined by endors-
ing for others than in any other way.
Many of the best business men, now-a-
days, refuse to endorse for any one, and
this is by far the best plan.
Year: 1872

MANY A TRUE WORD Spoken IN
JEsT.-What if certain number of the
Legislature was tight Saturday night; was
that any reason why the telegraph should
tell his wife of it? Not a bit of it. 1t
happened thusly:


The session Of Saturday having closed a
little late, ye member thought he would
dine at Ger6t's, before leaving via the Pc
tersburg train. He succeeded in reaching
the depot just in time to see the train grace
fully gliding across the bridge. Knowing
the anxiety that would be felt at home if he
failed to appear on time, he telegraphed his
wife, 81 am left will be over in the morn
ing"


Imagine his surprise when, on meeting
his usually affectionate wife, he found her
in tears, sad and distressed, because the
telegraph had made him say, 81 am tight !;
will be over in the morning." An expla-
nation was made, but knowing the hus-
bands weakness, the devoted wife required
proof, which it was impossible for him to
furnish. A scene ensued, for which we
think the telegraph should pay to the tune
of thousand or two.
Year: 1872

a GOOD NEWS FOR LOVERS OF THE
DRAMA.-The owners of Assembly Hall
have wisely determined to so arrange the in
terror of the building as to fit it for theatre
cal purposes. -...


We Know of no movement likely to cre-
ate such general satisfaction among our cit
izens who take pleasure in theatrical mat
ters.


1t will not be sufficient to complete me-
nessary stage arrangements, but the seats
must be made comfortable and so arranged
as to give fair and uninterrupted view of
all that passes in front. This must not be
neglected. AS at present arranged, those
who are in the rear of the building are
compelled to stretch their necks 10 dis
tressing extent to see what is going on in
front. Let the comfort of the audience be
consulted, and We feel safe in asserting that
Assembly Hall will be the place of Rich
mond, and its owners literally repaid for
all expense incurred.
Year: 1872

The SPIRIT OF THE HoUsE.--A bill,
asking an appropriation OF $500, with an
annuity of 5000, to purchase additional
books for the law library at Staunton,
came up in the House this morning. AL
though the appropriation asked for was
small, the vote showed clearly the determi-
nation of the majority not to increase the
public debt. The bill was defeated by q
large majority, but was recommitted to its
proper committee, more as matter of
courtesy to the Speaker (who is the patron
of the bilD than from any disposition to
vote the appropriation.


We think the people have every reason
to believe there is no disposition in the
House to increase the debt, and that the
funding bill will be killed by this same
spirit.
Year: 1872

INTERESTING LECTURE AT THE CAP
IToL To-NIGHT.-" The Boy Orator of
the South" wonderful prodigy, will de-
liver an address to the citizens of Richmond
tonight, in the Hall of the House of Dele
gates. The object of this remarkable
youth is a very laudable one, and appeals
directly to the christians and friends of the
temperance cause. His oratorical powers
are said to be most wonderful, and his lee
ture intensely interesting. The education
of himself and little sister is the aim and
object of his efforts. Let the charitable at
tend.
Year: 1872

New BUILDING AssoCIATIoN.-The
Mechanics Union at its meeting on Thurs
day night last, organized building asso-
ciation, composed of and for the benefit of
its members. Application will be made to
the Legislature in few days for a charter
for the association. We are glad to be able
to record their action on the part of our
working men, as it is step toward the
realization of practical results from their
combination.