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Year: 1876

The discussion about the reading of
the Bible in the public schools will. it
is To be hoped. do this good. if no 9th
cr,-namely, draw attention to the sub
ject of Bible-reading in general The
Bible Is read altogether too much. OF
course, it is not read too much by peo-
pie who do not read it enough, or who
do not read it at all. or who know how
to read it IL great deal. and to editica-
ton. But there is not another good
book in the world with which SO many
Christian people bore themselves. and
bore their ncighbors. Some people read
and read the Bible till its beauties and
consultations have little or no effect up
on their minds and souls In fact, the
Bible has been made so trite, that only
by indirecti"n and at rare intervals are
We apt 10 get clear impressions of its
Incompatible wealth of poetry. passion.
and religion. We knew IL good soul
who used to read the Bible literally ION
his knees; who read it three times Il
day; who read the "euealogics with the
same steadinc>s of purpose as the Psalms
or the Beautitudes. and who confessed
that he got less good out of the book
than when he became Il kind of heather
and stopped reading it almost altogeth-
er. The experience of this person sug-
gests an intelligent middle course. which
we leave to the parsons to point out
The Old Cabinet: Scribner for .iprH.
Year: 1876

1t was Mr.. Lincoln who first applied
to the democratic party the biblical
aphorism that "A house divided against
itself cannot stand.' The application
is as appropriate to-day as when he
made it, and the prediction just as like
" to be true. The democratic party is
again a "house divided against itself"
torn by dissensions and harrassed by
differences which have been pressed
with so much hot blood that the pros
pect of reconciliation is as forlorn and
dismal as when slavery and secession
Year: 1876

a new trial has been granted to Capt.
Lull. recently convicted of an assault
on a convict III the state prison. 1t is
understood that the supeme court are
unanimously of the opinion that he was
justified in striking the prisoner
Year: 1876

ceived, the poor sick fellows were
carried back and forward each day
for week, or sometimes more, and
then frequently died before their
turn came. The chances were SO
slim for getting out that all parties
would commence collecting at the
gate early in the morning, and when
the gates were thrown open at 9
o'clock the struggle was to get out
side. and every man would start with
his burden Capt. Wurz would
stand at the gate with his revolver,
and curse and threaten, and some
times shoot into the midst of the
surgirg crowd Men were some
tines killed or wounded by his hand.
{ h. it was a heart-sickening scene
% witness, to sssshundreds~s&roor,
sick, dirty men urging their fiends
to get them through the gate at all
hazards, thinking that a little change
of air and some hope of medicine
would save their lives.


After they had got outside, and
waited patiently their turn for exam
ination, they would receive the reply,
ave are full to day." then be carried
back to their uninyiting quarters,
and die before their turn came
around againl


One poor fellow from Kentucky
was fortunate enough to get Though
the gates, and was taken and placed
in a small tent, that would only &C
two. In the morning
his companion was dead, and anoth-
er sick fellow was put in his place. |
He died also and during the time
that the Kentuckian was in that tent
sick, seventeen men died by the side
Of himl He said it seemed to him
that all the men were dying.


To be continued.
Year: 1876

The people of this country ought
never to elect another old bachelor
to the Presidency. Buchanan nearly
ruined us, and one such experiment
ought to suffice for a century. We
don't believe the people will try it
again in this great Centennial year
of the Republic.
Year: 1876

The nomination of Tilden is q
bitter pill to the Democracy here.
abouts. The majority of them are
almost as much disgusted as they
were with the nomination of Hayes
by the Republicans.
Year: 1876

A Wisconsin editor illustrates the
prevailing extravsgance of the people
of the present day by calling at
tention to the costly baby carriages
in use now, while, swhen he was a
baby, they hauled him around by
the hair of the head.
Year: 1876

What strange creatures girls are!
Offer them good wages to work for
you, and ten chances to one if the
mother can spare her girl. But
just propose matrimony, and see if
they don't jump at the chance of
working lifetime for their victuals
and clothes.
Year: 1876

When your time is out, don't wait till you have
chance TO come to town, or send the money by q
neghbor, but enclose it in letter at once and hand
it to your P NJ We ,ciH be responsible il the none,
is lost, from any poSt-offee in this county.


Subscribers outside of the county should send
money orders, when practicable, where the amount
is 81 or more. An order costs but 10 cents, which
the subscriber NAV deduct from the amount sent
Year: 1876

Every Business man should use neatly printed
Bill Heads and Statements. We can furnish them
nearly as cheap as you can buy the blank paper
$3.50.


All other Printing in proportion, at the


sep1Stf NEWS OFFICE.
Year: 1876

Typhoid fever, small poX anu Kln0reu
diseases are the product of animal and
vegetable poison, arising mainly from the
want of drainage or ventilation. No ply
sician will for moment dispute this state
ment. Vital statistics show the close
relation which unpaved streets, which sur
face drainage, bears to typhoid, scarlet,
and kindred fevers. The fecculent mat
ter, garbage, and kitchen slops which
are sent down the western slopes bounding
Walnut street, grilled and festered in the
sun Of July and August, until the street has
become miasma retort, pouring out its
poison all around. An unpaved street in
q city is such source Of disease as to be a
public nuisance demanding abatement. To
pave Walnut or any other street is pub
lie duty resting upon the City Council, and
in its performance they are accountable to
the whole body Of the citizens, and it is
uncivic to hold that their sole response
bility is to the people who live upon the
street. Many of the French street man
sions, backing upon Walnut street, think
it is convenient receptacle for their gar
bage and surface seweage; they percolate
into the soft earth Of the street, and as
surely as harvest follows seed time, just as
certainly does the exhalations from the
street give to rich and poor alike a full
crop Of specific poison, which breeds dis
ease and death. The remedy is to pave,
and if Council were wise and brave, cul-
vert the street into the tide waters Of the
two rivers; the men who now clamor
for poison bed, would bless
them for their courage and con-
sideration. For the doing Of this,


The Republican, and Non-descript press
have opened in full chorus-and what is
the refrain "a JOB" "a job''-not even a
puny argument against its necessity, or its
wisdom. II there is any man in Council
who deserves commentator it is plain
honest William McMenamin for pushing
this matter to practical commencement.
By the way he and his partner Mr.. Nc
Closkey have done more to give comfort
able homes, to our mechanics, and thus
lay deep and enduring the foundation OF
our manufacturing prosperity, than all
their revilers put together. We abhor
littleness, especially the meanness which
twits the member from the Sixth Ward, as
the member for Donegal and calls
attention to his pronunciation Of "Gentle-
men," God knows his English is as good
as the quartette made of sputter, squeak,
snivel, and bastard cockney Of his Knockers.
The Council is on the right tract, go on
and don't be deferred by the artillery O.
the Evening Press, their guns are no.
shotted, and their dummies simply amas'
the judicious citizen with their stage
thunder. You are conservators of the pub
licweal, you are trustees for the general good
go on pave your street, and the homes
fair-minded citizens of all parties, vii
approve your course.
Year: 1876

The 'sNorth American" and kindred
Jacobin sheets are unhappy over Arch
Bishop Purcelps address to the people Of
the United States on the attitude Of the
Catholic Church towards the public
school question. It is just what those
religious political journals did not want.
It has snapped the string Of sectarian
Year: 1876

by speeches that te unity Of Germany could be obtained
but by blood aud iron.


Less known is the hardly less tragic declaration
that the struggle between the revolution and
counter-revolution not TO be decided by
Parliamentary debates. "The decision will come
from God only, from the God of Battles when ho
shall let fall from his hand the iron dice of Des
tiny There passage in of his private letters
equally grim: After all, there is nothing but
hypocrisy and trickeTy on the earth. and when this
mask of flesh has once fallen, the wise man aud the
fool must look very much alike difficult il must be
70 tell an Austrian from Prussisn when their
skeletons have been well cleaned That ought
to cure us Of too fanatcal patriotism"
He gets his illustrations. like Socrates, from
the homeliest objects. The Presidency of the
Council was in doubt. They cannot decide, writes
Bismarck, what cover oput on the Government pot
The territorial mafonnaton of Prussia before her
annexations made plain TO every capacity when
be said she had not belly enough-toward Casse and
Nassau, and one shoulder out Of ioiHt-on the Hano
yer side. He stopped az nothing when his wit led
the way. The Chamber of Lords at Berlin he de-
clared 70 be composed Of respectable periwigs the
Chamber Of Deputies of perwigs also, only not re-
spectacle; while one August Parsonage was the
most respectable OF all, but the most of periwig!
Nothing could surpass his description OF the policy
Of the French Emperor getting Nice and Savoy
from Italy III return Tor his services IN 1922 ana
seeking lbut not gettingl similar acquisitions from
Prussia in return for his neutrality in lS66-as Ia
po'iique he pour-bore which will hardly be more in
telliGhe if ! translate it.


These are but sample nuggets, nor are they
samples Of more than the lighter half of the book.
The impression il VIII leave The reader who comes
to il without prcpossessons win probably be quite
unlike that which its author intended. For, what
ever may DE said of the means Prince Bismarck
sometimes employed the more you read about him,
the more you are forced to believe in the utter sin
ccrity Of the man. THE only man. cried Carlyle
once IN his vehement burning way. the only man
appointed by God 10 be His viceEerent here earth
in these days, and knowing he wns 50 appointed,
and bent with his whole soul on doing and able to
do Gods work That said in 1866; II 1t were
true then il j, certainly not less true nov.
Year: 1876

INDIANA PoLITIcs.-A movement
has been inaugurated in Indiana which
may possibly upset the calculations OF
politicians, not only as to the result Of
of the Presidential election in that
State. but also in the Onion. This
movement is Independent of either of
the two parties, bat is possible an en-
terlng- wedge which may tear either
or both asunder. The currency is the
only question which the convention
touches. It's platform demands the
repeal of the resumption act the with
drawal of all bank notes and their re.
placement by treasury notes; that
the Government hereafter issue all the
currency used; that these Treasury
notes shall hereaftere be legal tender
for all debts, public and private, in
cluding payment Of fduties on imports,
but excepting such bonds as are made
payable IN gold by the law creating
them.
Year: 1876

A Russian OFFICER is to reorganlze
the Khedive's army. The great pow
ers Of the Old World have all become
suddenly anxious concerning the at
fairs of the Egyptian ruler If they
are all quite disinterested Egypt mag
truly boast that she has a great many
powerfuI friends.
Year: 1876

From the Presidents declarations
it appears that he will not remove a
man while under fire; ;" but it also
appears that if nan who is under
fire wishes TO run sway the President
will help him aud endeayor to cover
his retreat. So long as allegations
are made against an officer OF NAL
feasance or misconduct in Official
Legations which seem merely to re.
quire that the person implicated
should get out ofotfice and give place
to one who will perform It's duties
with more regard 10 the public inter-
ests-then the President Is solicitous
with regard to The side Of the case
that concerns the mans honor. He
will sustain hin, have faith III him
and otherwise assist him TO answer
the allegations rom the standpoint OF
a man in positisn-which is certainly
better than n, standpoint of a man


dismissed, and therefore, under quasi
condemnation. There is, in that view
of the case, a rotiOn the people appre-
ciates the more, because it not merely
gives the man chance to explain
from iigh ground, but puts him under
the obligation to do so.


But it appears that the President
takes different view when the case
is the other way; for when the charges
against a man are of such nature
that his vacation of office is not a sat
iSfaction to justice, but an escape finn
it, when the charges require an exam
ination while the man is in office, and
bis dismissal from office and exclusion
fr ON all other offices are seen to be
the principal penalties that the law
can impose; when his abandonment of
Office enables him to slilt ltthrough the
fingers Of the law-then the President
who would sustain a man in office
against accusations, does not require
his man TO remain in office and face
accusations. On the contrary, he not
only permits his man TO run, but takes
time by the forelOck to give him an
early start, and becomes the accom-
plice of his fliglt.


From both points Of view therefore,
it a ppears that the President takes a
far llveHer interest in the fortunes
and welfare of his men in Office than
in the efficient administration of the
public service. If the public interest
requires that rogue shall be removed
from office the President keeps him
there, under cover of an epigram that
seems to involve a principle; and
when this principle itself is depended
upon in another case to hold a man
where justice can get him, behold,
the principle has evaporated, TIE
man Is gone and the President is as.
sisting his escape. But the President
/ is a man who ISLANDS by his friends u
and what friends ~. Y. Herald.
Year: 1876




The ridiculous excitement here
some time ago, in which copper
coins of a certain description and
date were accredited a fictitious
value, because, as was asserted,
perceptible percentage of gold was
alloyed with the baser metal, is
somewhat analogous in it's general
features to the absurd and fallacious
value which was many years ago, in
the old country, attributed to the
Queen Anne farthing.


A lady of Yorkshire, having lost
a farthing Of the above description,
which from some circumstance OF
other had become valuable to her,
offered a large reward for its recov-
cry The news of this reward
spreading throughout the kingdom,
impaired to the Queen Anne farth-
ing ridiculously enormous value,
and in consequence the coins were
held in high esteem, and were much
sought after in every part Of the
United Kingdom and the Colonies.


The popular belief had been for
many years that there were only
three of these coins struck off, and
that the die broke on striking the
third. Two of these, it is said, are
in the British museum; and it was
further said an immense fortune
would be acquired by him who
should discover the third.


The actual fact of the matter was
that there were eight different va
rieties of farthings struck off in
Anne's time, but only one variety
was in common circulation, and
even these are now by no means
rare. There was also a small medal
or token of brass, about the size Of
the farthing, but somewhat thin
ner. This bore the date I'LL, and
caused equally as much frrlitless
trouble and vexation as the farthing
itself, as we shall proceed to relate.


Under a mistaken notion Of the
value of the Queen Anne farthing,
and laboring under the delusion
that this brass token was the coin
in question, hundreds of poor per-
sons have left their shops and fields
to travel to London, with the idea
of getting large sum of money by
the sale Of one ofthese coins.


One poor laborer and his wife
went toiling on foot from Yorkshire
to London, with one of the brass
counters, in the hope of making
their fortune by it, and succeeded
only in finding the bit of brass al
most worthless. Another started
from Bedfordshire, with a real, but
common, farthing of Anne's time
for the same purpose, and with the
{ same result.


In the Numismatic Journal, Of
! the year 1886, we are told that, in
the summer of that year, poor fel-
) low travelled with one from Exeter
to London, at considerable expense
) thinking to make an immense for
= tune by the disposal Of it. lie wa'
offered shilling for it,


, A publican, having procured on'
g of the brass tokens, placed it in hi
: window as the real farthing o
:, Queen Anne. Credulous persons
: far and nearcame to view the "grea
+ curiosity" and the publican persis-
9 ted in making the thing conduciv
: to the advantage of his house, not
r withstandipg a distinguished med
Year: 1876

1t is important that at the close of every
Sustentation year, careful effort shall be
made by the Chairmen of the Presbyterial
Committees to advance the interests of this
cause in the year to come. The law of this
department of the Cburchs work ought to
be progress, and no brother, upon whom any
part of its responsibility is devolved, ought
to be satisfied unless he can see advance
made from year to year within the bounds
of his own PreSbytery. 1t is by steady,
onward movement in all the different parts,
that assured advancement is to be attained
in the whole Church, and it therefore be
hooves each individual to do his work we'll,
and to bring that portion of the church CON-
mitted to his care to fuller measure of
duty. There are two or three things to
which special attention should be given:


1st. An effort ought to be made to induce
every church which has hitherto been receiv-
ing aid from the Sustentation Fund, to in
crease the support accorded its pastor, and
wherever it is practicable, to undertake his
whole support. There is great danger lest
the churches should become habituated to a
dependent, eleemosynsry spirit, and be will
ling to receive aid after they are able to
maintain the Gospel for themselves. This is

of course vicious-being injurious to the
Christian character aud attainment of the
Church needessly aided, and unjust to other
feeble churches which require aid, and are
thus wrongfully deprived of it. No congre-
CATION ought to be assisted, unless in the
honest judgment of the Presbyterial Com
mittee, it "has done all that could be rea.
sonably expected of it to raise sufficient
salary" This rule is imperative, and makes
the annual effort to increase the liberslity oi
congregations in the support of their minis
ters essential.


2. The proper grouping of churches SO as
to form self-sustaining charges, and with tht
further view of giving as large a number o.
churches as possible some portion of gospe
ordinances, is another object which should
be pressed. The number of our ministry il
inadequate to supply our vacancies, and it il
necessary that PreSbyteries should make tn
wiseSt disposition possible of the ministerial
force at their command, so that as few
churches as may be shall be left destitute o
regular means of grace. This is found I
delicate question to deal with in some places
but the delicscy of the matter consists gene
rally in reluctance to resist claims whicl
are unreasonable and unjust. There doe
not appear to be any ground for Pfesby
terry aiding one or two churches in the sup
port of their minister, when there are othe
Year: 1876

MS higher duties. Or, (2) if the editor who's


case we are considering shall resolve upoi


conducting paper to which be shall devote


his entire time, he can find no ground of de-


fence unless be can assure himself not, in.


deed that he is, in the strict sense en- "eyan-


gelist," but in wide view of the meaning Of


this descriptive term, is doing an eUangelastic


work. Well, the view of this work would have


to be very wide indeed-so wide as to pass


quite beyond both the spirit and language of


our b Iok in the passage where it is defined !:


that is, "to preach the gospel, administer
sealing ordinances, and organize churches in
frontier or destitute settlements" Is not
editing religious newspaper, however, a
preaching of the gospel" at least? Sup


pose it is, an ordained minister is set apart
to do more than this; he must be in a
position where he can administer the sacra-
ments as we'll, and this to those who are
presbyterially put under his pastoral care


The editor whose leading work it is to pub
lish religious journal, must, therefore, con-
tent himself, under the pressure of his ordi-
nation VOWS, with believing that he is, at
any rate, issuing what is tantamount to SER
mons from week to week, and thus at least
is dischargng the great effi,e to which he
was solemnly set apart. To certain extent
this is true; but assuredly not to the extent,
not even in the sense, demanded by presby-
terial "laying on of hands. Such news
paper is means of usefulness, undoubtedly,
and in some instances of much and marked
usefulness, and ought to be conducted always
by one or more in whom the Church at large
has reason to place confidence. 1t is de-
signed-as is implied in the word used to
designate ito discriminate religious intel
ligence; and also for the discussion, if need
be, of church polity and evangelical doc
trine; for the defence of Christian faith,
and for spiritual enlightenment in a great
variety of points that involve Christian prac-
tice. But it is not preaching the gospel, in
any proper meaning of these words as they
apply to the Office of such an ordained min
lister as that which our form of government
contemplates. We do not doubt, however,
that there are brethren who now make it
their chief business to furnish the religious
public with readable newspapers, whose use-
fulness is perhaps greater than it might be
if they were in the regular work of the min
istry, either as fixed preachers or peripatetic
evangelists; and on this ground-on this
alone-would we wish them God speed
A. c. Presbyterian, of Nov. Is.