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Year: 1871

We are happy to learn that there is a very hopeful
religious interest In Princeton College. A corre-
spondent or the Evangelist writes:-


Three months since, when the session was Just
opening; when the new students were arriving and
he old Initiated members were intensely interested
III electioneerlng for their respective halls; when
also the nights were made hideous to the new men,
by reason OF those old college rites which have de.
sccnded from class 10 Class you would hardly have
thought that so soon the scene would cnange ana
more serious and solemn thoughts would occupy
the same minds. But SO II is There was a pre-
who were present then gladly view the signs OF a
return OF the refreshing showers. DR.. Hall, Of New
York. was invited to come ana address the students.
lie was present with them on the evening OF the
25d OF November The chapel was filed. That
beautiful hymn, beginning .'saviour, visit THY
plantation was sung, aud then Or. McCosh
offered q iervent prayer. Following this was the
sermon OF DR.. Hail. The text was the first six
verses OF the third chapter or Revelation The dis
course was o faithful representation or the conu
and also an earnest appeal to those young men who
are yet without God. The Interest IN the work still
Year: 1871

METEoRIC ARTILLERY. On Tuesday evening
last just the first stars had made their appear
ance, brilliant meteorc display took place al
most in the zenith of the visible cele stal atmos
phere accompanied by repeated sounds like the
bursting of rockets in the air, followed by an
immense meteor, that shot off to the Northeast
for distance of some forty degrees, and burst
with grand display, leaving a bright belt in the
heavens which gradually faded away. At the
time heavy, black clouds hung over the Sieras
but all was calm and clear in the west, People
who saw this beautiful and startling sight ore
not done talking of it yet.
Year: 1871

STORE RoBpED.-On Sunday evening last, some
thieves got into the rear building of Houser' S
Dry Goods Store before bedtime, by means of a
false key, and stole and packed off one case of
shoes and three cases of boots, two of sewed and
one of miners boots, worth some $3.50. When
the clerks went to 60 to bed they discovered the
theft, and hunt for the thieves and property
was commenced. The thieves were tracked to
the alley way leading to General Hamilton's lot,
and there the boxes were opened and the boots
taken out but the shoes were left. The tracks
were followed on through Hamilton's lot and
out towards the railroad where parley or divis-
ion of spoils occurred and then again back TO-
wares Chinatown. On the next day, Mr..
Adrian, while out hunting caught Chinaman
near the place where the parley or division of
property was had with one new boot of those
stolen, and made him walk before his gun to
town boot in hand but this Chnaman ''no
sabe, and after being kept in Jail day or two
was discharged. The impression is that in diyid-
ing the plunder in the dark, this boot was left,
and this Chinaman had been sent back to get it
to fill out the pair. 1t seems to be almost n
possible to guard against these Chinese thieves,
and there are about fifty Of them here, more or
less, that should be made to take walk or climb
a tree and jump off at the end of rope. At
tempt to prosecute them and they will swarm into
court and swear each other clear.
Year: 1871

ATTEMPTED ROBBERY. On Tuesday last as
Mrs John Grannin, of CLIPPER Gap was coming
to Auburn on horseback at bend and lonely
place on the road Greaser jumped out of the
brush and caught the horse by the brd e and de-
manded her money, but just at the moment a
Chinese peddler trotted up around this bend and
the Greaser lie, go and took to the brush again
Mrs Grannin had some $25 with her which was
saved by this opportune appearance.
Year: 1871

Ar WoRK.-Assessor Boggs and Collector Cal
derwood are at work in this Township assessing
and collecting taxes. We have not seen any of
the forms of Assessors schedules gotten up by
the State Board of Equalization, and don't car
much if we never do, but it is just like Boggs to
stick one of them under our nose some Of these
davC
Year: 1871

PAID Us AVIsIr.-The pilgrim printer (Hazlet)
who makes the tour of the State every three
months, paid Auburn a visit this week. He was
finely dressed in the latest spring style, and says
thew make better beer in Auburn than in any
other pace in the State.
Year: 1871

SEEING DoUBLE.-Our neighbor has seen the
magnificent gold quartz slab taken from the
Greene mine and referred to by us last week. 1t
measured near two inches thick, one foot long,
three inches wide and weighed near eight
pounds. When our neighbor saw it, it had more
than doubled in size, being two inches thick one
foot long and seven inches wide, but had depre-
ciated in weight. Indeed, the rock he saw should
have had no gold in it, as quartz slab of that
size would weigh more than seren pounds with
out any gold in it. Guess our neghbor looked
at it through horn or glass, or the presence Of
so much gold magnifed his sight. We don't
want the impression to get out that the quartz
and gold from this mine is so devlish light in
proportion to its size.
Year: 1871

1 On AND Orr THE SrAGE-The opin-


ion that many people conceive of PLAYERS


being in private life the. characters they


represent on the stage, is very, strong.
Garriek, some years after he came on the
stage, received message by am elderly
looking gentlewoman, who told him
there was a certain lady of rank and for
tune who had great partiality for him,
and wanted to know whether he was
married or not. Garrick replied in the
negative; she seemed much pleased, and
said he should hear from her again.
Many months passed over without, his
hearing any further about it, At last he
met the woman accidentally in the street,


whom he interrogated about the delay of
her commission. At first she seemed to
shuttle off the question; but he insisted
upon knowing, and she confessed to him
that the lady having first seen him in
Granger, she was charmed with his air
and address; but soon AFTER he having
appeared as Sharp in The Lying Kalet,
she thought she saw so many mean. shift
ing qualities about him, that she could by
no means put either her person or fortune
into his possession SIS y .a' ''t d" -
Year: 1871

How wish clergymen would not try
to frighten people into heaven / can
never believe for one, that any good can
come of il. What is that love or obcdi-
ence worth which is enforced by terror
Ask yourselves, you who are parents.
Is not terror itself the parent Of subter.
fnye and silent rebellion ? When hear
these things as i sometimes do, | long to
whisper in that clergyman's ear, 'Oh,
speak to them of Gods infinite pity and
love, melt that Indifferent and careless
hearer by the untiriug patience with
which lie torgives and bears while the
recipient forgets and sins on If true
and glowing statement OF all this, low
ingly spoken, cannot move him, be sure
that words Of terror and denunclation
will fall to the gronnd. In fact, be-
lieve that not only do they make no i'm
preston on the class for whom they are
intended, 1nt often do infinite harm to
the conscience Of some over sensitive
person, who, shivering at a tame,
needs 10 bp led forward TO bask in the
warm sunshine OF 'Our Fathers love.


How often have s, en- young persons
who could be led, but never driven, into
the tight way, utterly turned aside by
such utterances.


Now, say this without any disre-
spect toward the preacher, or others Of
the same class. Do you suppose, that if
you held biudgeon over a mars head
and then told him he must love you, he
would be likely to do IL Wouldn't it
be much more likely TO rouse all his
antagonisn toward you ? Or If, for the
time being, you forced him to lie, what
would be bis state when the restraint
was removed ? Sunday is no Sunday to
me without go to church. 1t is because
| love to do so, and am comforted and
strengthened by it, :hat l feel sensitive
about having anything said that will
keep away those whom | want to see
there. Surely, then, even if they who
read this differ from me, my motives
being such, they will hardly condemn
Funny Fern.
Year: 1871

The Cincinnati Gazette has the follow
ing letter from Preble. County, Ohio: /
saw an account some time ago of artiti-
cial swarming, which do not think il
correct. 1t was as follows: Take
strong stock of bees and divide them
equally, bees, comb and all, and then SET
them apart" To this plan l will state
my objections. 1t is true u. queenless
stock will raise queen, but all the
comb that this stock builds will either
be drone comb or for storing honey,
which is great disadvantage. Now it
will be about from twelve to sixteen
days before the queen hatches Out, and
tIel four or five days more un il she
commences to lay. SO it will b, three
weeks before there is any thing done to-
wards replenishing the hive. The better
plan think, aud the one have practic.
ed for sometime, is as follows: Blow a
few whlffs Of smoke-that from punk
wood is the best--so as to drive them
up among the combs then carry this
hive away four or five rods and turn the
hive bottom end up; place it on the
'lorcing" box aud keep the two boxes
SO close that they can't get out to sting.
Now drive good swarm up by slightly
rapping againts the hive with stick.
AS soon as you carry this old stock
away, set an empty box on the old
stand to catch the returning bees that
come from the field. The swarm should
be made when the bees are in full fight.
Now take the old s ock and set them on
their old stand and let the bees that
have been at work all 90 into this,
which they will soon do. Then set this
stock to new stand not less than rod
away. Now get your young swarm
is done. Give the young swarm one
frame of brood if possible.
Year: 1871

The Importance Of careful punctua-
tion can not be insisted on too urgently.
Here are few instances which illustrate
it Wanted, young man to take
charge of a pair Of norses of religious
turn of mind "a child was run over
by a wagon three years old and cross
eyed with pantalets which never spoke
afterwards Lost, an enameled laly's
gold watch and charms
Year: 1871

WARS IN A NAME Pin an eastern
town there is q woman who is exceeding
ly deaf, and her affiiction has caused an
extremely unpleasant mistake, of which
her infant child is the victim. She took
the babe to church the other day to have
him baptized. While she was waiting
in the vestibule, she thought she would
keep him quiet by feeding him from a
bottle of milk While the child was
still taking his nourishment the mother
was summoned to the church by the an
nouncement that the minister was ready.
In her agitation she drew the bottle
from the child's mouth hurriealy, when
the gum nozzle came off and part of
the milk was spilled III the child's new
clothes. When the clergyman took the
child in his.arms he looked down upon
it and asked the mother what name
should be given it, She with her mind
troubled with the accident, thought he
was asking how the clothes became
soiled, so she answered


Nozzle came off,


Rather surprised, he asked again for
the name, and she, thinking he did not
understand her, bawled out


Nozzle came of, / say


Whereupon the astonished divine pour
ed water on the child's head saying:


'Nozzle-came-of, Ferguson, l baptize
thee,' etc.


What this woman wants to know is,
whether the legislature, or something,
cart nave that child's name changed to
Henry, or Luculus, or William, or some
Year: 1871

The potato bugs now ravaging some of the
Western States, particularly Indiana Ohio
and Michigan, seem TO be quite as much at
home upon the water as upon the land. The
surface of Lake Michigan, paper from Crosse
Point reports, has been literally alive with
them. The bugs often fly considerable dis
tance, and float easily upon the surface of the
water. They arc evidently bound to make
raid upon Canada, and it Will prove more dis
astrous than any Fenan raid has eyer been.
The curious instinct which prompts them to
travel eastward does not find itsef thwarted
by large bodies of water; they float across
and resume their journey on the other side.
1t would be interesting to know for what
great purpose these bugs started out on their
trip from the Rocky Mountains eastward, and
why they have been so frightfully prolific on
the way. 1t now seems probable that the en-
tire potato crop of Michigan will be failure
this wear
Year: 1871

We are glad that the debates in the


Senate indicate good deal more de-
cision in the matter of dealing with
the armed assassins who are now de-


vastating the South. 1t Is time that


the Republicans in Congress acted


with due regard to their own re-
sponsibilities. The party they repre-
sent il charged with the duty of pre-
serving the government, and main


tanning its authority in all our States
and territories. In acquitting itself
of this responsibility it must take no
counsel and stand in no dread Of its
political enemies. The Democratic
party In the South is under the con-
troll of men who are at heart us hostile
to the Union and its government as
they were on the day Fort Sumpter
was fred upon. They are as cruelty
intolerant aswhen they hung aboli-
tionists for daring even to think ad-
versely to their institution--or as
when they shot men in cold blood for
being true to the United States gov
ernment. 1t Is not in their hearts to
be obedient on principle to the gov
ernment. There are perhaps, In the
party at the South, men Of better dis
positions and whose opposition is
characterized with greater modera-
ton. But the extremists-the men
Of rash couDsels, always bear sway.
They control the ultimate action Of
the party, when once the more mod
crate have smOOthed the way to
power. Hence it Is impossible to take
any steps looking towards the supres-
sion Of political lawlessness at the
South which they will not bitterly
oppose and resist. The Northern
Democracy will not dare to refuse co.
operation with their Southern allies,
for without their help the Democratic
party has no hope Of ever getting
control Of the national government.
1t is, therefore, necessary for us as
party, to mature just, constitutional
and effective measures for the suppress
sion Of lawlessness, even to theextent
Of putting districts rayaged by the
ISu Klux under martial law, and
holding them In order by the strong
hand of military power. 1t may be
said that we must proceed cautiously,
as our people look jeal0usly on all at
teinpts to maintain order by the mill
itary power OF the genera! Govern
ment. The Government has more to
Year: 1871

| SAnguine hopes for restlSeatHti0n OF
the "lost cause" The Press says:


About II o'clock a brass band ap.


peared ON Alabama street, in front


of the hotel, accompanied by crowd


of 200 or 800 people. The band dis
coursed "The Bonnie Blue Flag"
and on the cessation of the music,


loud calls were made for "Davis,"


"Davis." In answer to the call, the
chief of the fallen Confederacy ap-
peared on the balcony, and addressed
the crowd for about ten minutes in a
strain of impressive eloquence which
told with powerful effect upon his
hearers. He commenced by compli-
menting, in general terms, the
people of Alabama. He said he had
always loved them, and now felt
that he could rest in peace with them
forever. They were bone of his bone
and flesh of his flesh. Alabama and


his own State of Mississippi were yet


one in principle as they once had


been in territory. Their people had


sent forth their sons to battle on the


same fields for their rights as States.


But, asked the speaker with bitter


emphasis, are they States now: Yet,


proceeding in an exultant tone, he


declared that State sovereignty, al


though defeated in the late struggle,


will ultimately triumph; its day of
success might not come in his time,
Ibut he would live and die in the
belief that it would surely triumph.
tlle declared that no people on earth
had ever suffered as had the Southern
people since the surrender of the
Southern armies, and he loved them
for the fortitude with which they


had borne the oppression heaped
upon them. lie had always been
willing to give his life for his people,
and now, if any Yankee power


wanted his blood to atone for any
action of the Southern people, they
could take il. On him the Govern
ment had done its worst, and for
himself he did not care, but for the
sake of the people whom he loved, 1,
he would forbear to express more
fully the feelings Of his heart. lie
never had asked pardon for what he
had done, and never would, for he


felt that ne had done no wrong. Mr..
Davis concluded amid the applause
|EY the crowd, WHICH lad loud1y
cheered the salient points of his
speech. AS he retired the band


struck up "Dixie."
Year: 1871

to the creed Of the Rev. Mr.. Sabine, are
all doomed to be d-dashed. Not long
after George Holland died, the Rev. Mr..
Walsh, an old city missionary died Of
starvation in New York. He left no
wife to perish in the same way, but
he did leave four children, who
would have starved but for. the
crusts which their father gave them
at the sacrifice of his own life. Now
let us see if the surviving ministers Of
the city, whose salvation is secured be-
yond all peradventure, whether buried
from the aristocratic Church Of the
Atonement or the humble little church
around the corner, will raise fund for
the support and education of the children
of the Rev. Mr.. Walsh. The Rev. Mr..
Sabine, with his eight or ten thousand
dollars year, might contribute a nickel
or two, and we are quite sure that the
Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, with his
twenty-thousand-dollar salary, could
spare ten or fifteen cents for the pur-
pose. We are not quite sure of it either,
for we know that the corypheii of the
naked dramatic gospel cannot afford to
squander their ten-cent shlnplasters
upon the famished orphans Of their
brethren who are foolish enough to die
of starvation in the very midst of
churches that pay the highest mar
ket price for pastors who teach that
there is no hell for him who pays his
spiritual adviser munifcently and votes
the Radical ticket early and often. But
If the Rev. Mr.. Sabine and the Rev. Mr.


Beecher have no money to invest in such
an improbable enterprise as the support
and education Of the orphan children of
a brother minister who preferred to
starve to death rather than beg his bread
from those he had endeayored, in his
younger and better days, to lead by the
still waters of life--and we have no rea-
son to suppose that they haye-they can
at least call upon better men to con-
tribute something to fund for that pur-
pose. Let them do this-and do it at
once-and we will guarantee that Joseph
Jefferson, Edwin Booth, Lester Wallack
and the other leading actors Of New
York will themselves contribute literally.
Year: 1871

/


A writer in the Cincinnati Gazette
tells of a recent visit behind the scenes
in one of the theaters in that city, and
relates the following incident:


An affecting incident occurred at
the National few days ago One of
the public favorites, just as the curtain
rose, received a telegram that his mother
lay dying in Philadelphia. The poor fell
low broke down, sobbed like child, and
around him hung his associates ia silent,
fearful sympathy. But the public had
paid their admission-the performance
must go on; and with herosm not often
paralleled, he rose, wiped the tears from
his face, and appeared before the
footlights Little did the audience
think, as they shook with laughter
at his broad caricature, and Numbered
out a vehement encore, of the agony he
was enduring. Could they have stood
at the wings and seen the CHASTITY
look of suffering that swept over his face
as he left the stage, they would have
realized what their amusement cost that
night. But again and again was he re-
called, and as he left the scene for the
last time, another telegram announced
to him that all was over. Still the mex
orable public must receive their quid
pro quo, and so through the pantomime s
weary length he had to drag himself, ap-
parently the gayest of the gay, while
the keenest and bitterest of earthly sor-
rows was piercing his heart and many a
mute pressure of the hand bore evidence
of the kindly sympathy of those about
him.


The writer labors to correct the popu-
lar impression that the majority of act
ors and actresses are immoral, and in
conclusion says;


81 have only word for the reader.
Frown as unsparingly as you will on vice
and immortality whenever or wherever
found; but, ! pray you, by our common
humanity, let your mantle of charity be
large enough to cover the stage as a
whole, and believe that there, as every
where else in life, are found earnest, de-
voted, ambitious men and women, among
whom the average morality is certainly
as high as elsewhere in the world, and
who will appreciate your action all the
more because of the unjust cloud Of cen
sure under which they have heretofore
labored. ="
Year: 1871

How infamous in Republic should
the party be held that confers upon its
candidate for President the power in
time of peace to suspend the writ of ha-
beas corpus, and declare martial law over
the whole or any part of the country at
his own will and pleasure, he to be the
sole Judge of the time, occasion and ne
cessity. Grant has been put in posses
sion Of despotic powers with the army
and navy placed at his control to enforce
his DEGREES; and all for tue purpose of
enabling him to re elect himself. 1t is o
crime against the principles Of Ameri-
can liberty that should receive universal
execration. A grosser insult could not
have been offered to the people of the
United States. A stronger proof that
the spirit of 1776 no longer animates
American citizens it would be impossible
to present than the passage of the Force
bill comforting upon the President the
powers Of a despot, and the people rest
ing in sapineness, and not calling the
perpetrators of the outrage to summary
punishment.
Year: 1871

One of the great faults in modern
manners is the habit of undue and i'm
proper familiarity. Some Of the clever
est of men fall into the way of squeez-
ing hands in the most violent manner, of
shaping even their seniors On the back
and in other rude modes emphasizing
their familiarity and assuming a close
proximity of person quite uncomforta
BILE to persons Of good breeding and
taste. Others again have an offensive
and familiar habit of using personalities.
displaying knowledge Of intimate and
strictly private matters which one would
scarcely care to have known to ones
particular friends, much less the subject
of rude and unmannerly conversation
by comparative strangers.
Year: 1871

General Leggett, the new Commiss-
ioner of Patents, has placed in charge
of special examiner the Improvement
in machinery for using electricity as a
motive power. for which caveats are now
being filed. A New Jersey inventor
claims that the power can be by his in,
vention Indefinitely multiplied without
increasing the size of the battery or
the strength Of the current He has
here a two horse power engine, run by
a single cup battery, the expense being
no greater than the cost of battery in
country telegraph Office.
Year: 1871

The blushing face is an index of an
aesthetic feeling which none but the
thoughtful and sensitive possess. The
very climax Of iniquity is the power to
violate the decent courtesies and pro-
prieties of life, without revealing sense
of shame in the suffusion of the coun-
tenance. No brute, natural or moral, is
capable of blushing. 1t is one of the
inalienable characteristics of rational,
and sentimental, and minded being.
Inordinate, blushing is a most uncom-
Portable ailment, and the evidence of ex-
treme senstiveness.
Year: 1871

EElf Congress has the right to sus-
pend the writ of habeas corpus, tbs q
right that they cannot constitutionally
delegate to any other authority. Hence
If the Constitution was in existence, and
was at all regarded, the attempted COM
ferring of that power upon the Presi-
dent at his discretion would he held hv
the Courts to be null and void, This goes
to the core of tha ku Klux bill