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Year: 1876

The CHRISTIANITY OF THE FUTURE.-The
last body has been racked, the last heart
broken for religious belief. The state demands
only peaceable citlzeus-the guilt of too much
belief or too little it leaves to be determined at
the bar of God. To what shape of Chris
tianity have we come? Not fully to any
form has our age come, but with slow
and sure footsteps it is drawing near a
religion of character. The pageantry of the
barbaric ages, the curious questions of the
schoolmen. the mysteries of the old creeds
rivaling the mysteries of Eleusis, the bloody
struggles for temporal power, have all been
turned aside or hurled into oblivion, that the
human heart might begin to see itself in the
great mirror of Jesus Christ. At last the
world draws near the truth that Christianity is
not an external architecture. or art. or scarlet
robe; is not speculation; is not a military
conquest; but it is washing white of self in
The words, BLESSED are they that do His COM
mandments, that they may have right to the
tree of life, and may enter in through the
gates into the city," are words that betray the
genius OF the coming religion. II our hearts
are not too sanguine, we are standing upon the
borders of an age that will hold a religion of
principle, not of form, not of curious or COM
plex dogma, but of those deep principles that
make man. 1t is becoming daily more and
more evident that what God demanded all
through the Old and New Testaments was an
obedience of his law, the purity of human life /;
evident in all the reflections of reason, that
religion must lie in the inner life and now it
has become evident BY the condition of society,
that what is demanded is a religion of virtue


-DdUid SDinq
Year: 1876

The stories of fraudulent exposures in the
Treasury Department are old ones which
have been disproved again and again. They
have probably been revived by some one who
desires TO take trip to Washington at the
public expense. The Democrats are ready to
believe the yarns, for they think it easy to
steal vast amounts from the Treasury and
they cannot understand how any man can
possibly resist the temptation. The truth is
that under the system of checks and safe
guards in use it is impossible for fraud to con-
tinue without discovery any length Of time.
Year: 1876

THE Democratic inquisitors have made
themselves a laughing stock for the who le
country. The committee on expenditures
in the Interior Department heard not long
since OF man who knew of wrong things
done by President Grant which would bring
upon him eternal infamy. The man was
summoned and the committee examined him
some hours before they discovered that he
was lunatic. Then they dismissed him in
haste. He is not the first lunatic who has
appeared before these investigating commit
tees, but he is the first one whose madness
they have rec 1gnized.
Year: 1876

Taking into consideration the character of its
vouchers, the history of its cures and the immense
increasing demand, VEGETINE may be fairly en-
titled the leading medicine of the age.


For scrotula in the blood VEGETINE is an in
fallible remedy, and no person need suffer from
humors. ulcers and all diseases arising from impure
blood, If VEGETINE is used according to directions
There is not a case of scrofula in existence that
VEGFTINE will not cure, provided, however. the
vital functions have not lost their power of action
all that may be said to the contrary notwithstanding


VEGETINE is pleasant to the taste, mild in its in


uence, and absolute in its action disease as the
following unquestiOnable evidence will show.
Year: 1876

The Great Unknown will have no chance
at Cincinnati. The Republicans will nomi-
nate not only representative man, but
man OF national reputation. They do not
propose to fight from behind cover. Besides,
there are so many Great Unknowns that 1t is
impossible for all of them to be accommodate
ed.-IndianGpolis Journal


As was anticipated the infamous attempt
to blacken the character of the President, in
order to make Democratic capital, has utterly
failed. A thorough investigation proved that
the money was lesitlmately expended, and
that no stain rests upon the president. The
men who deliberately made public the gross
Year: 1876

EVERY regular attache of the PRESS is furnished
with Card certificate countersigned by Stanley T
Pullen, Editor. All railway, steamboat and hotel
managers will confer favor upon us by demanding
credentials OF every person claiming to represent our
journal.
Year: 1876

We do not read anonymous letters and communi-
cations The name and address of the writer are in
all cases Indispensable not necessarily for publication
but as guaranty of good faith.


We cannot undertake to return OF reserve commu-
uications that are not used.
Year: 1876

and the sound of girl singing in
her house. I con SEQ the blood on
my hands, and hear the gravel under
my feet us I ran away. I got some
money by the job, but l took no
comfort in it. I've never taken any
since. A woman, young and pretty,
and doing no harm to me"


"What is tho matter? Help !!
help Great heavens, how you
look |"


heard him cry this out, rs lost
consciousness. Tho truth had come
to me ut last. l knew it had, be-
fore he told the tale to others and
owned that the scene of this terrible
story WAS tho parsonage ut NJ
before they lifted the stono from
the old well, and found in the miro
at it's bottom the broad wedding
ring which proved that what else
lay there, was all that was left of
my beloved wife.
Year: 1876

The meeting in Sumter to give
expression to public opinion upon
the election Of Moses and Whipper,
was q rousing affair. It was large,
ly attended by tho best people of
tie county and was characterized
by great enthusiasm md unanimity.
Several of tho leading men made
speeches, the burden Of all being
that Gov. Chamberlain must be en-,
dorscd and sustained in what he has
done about the judges conamissions
and that Mosessmust be prevented
from ever desecrating with his
foul presence tho court house OF
Sumter--peaceably if possible,
forcibly if necessary. Though
there must have been 1000 negroes
in the town, nothing was said or
dono by them to justify the whites
in using force to protect their meet
ing-for which the latter were
fully prepared. Hurrah for the
Game Cock County!
Year: 1876

To the Editor of the dorristown Gazette:


The theory of the Republican
party was and is, a strong central
government, and to this end. hold
and have held. that whatever rights
were reserved to the States under
the Federal compact, must be elm
mated from the Constitution. AS a
consequence of this view, usurpa-
tion of power. and unwarranted
stretches Of power have been fire.
quent. of late. Encroachments have
been made upon the liberty of the
citizen, as well as upon the reserved
rights of the States. The late con.
stitutional amendments have been
and are construed to justify any
law interfering with the local affairs
of the States. that Congress may
see proper to enact. The President
has made and unmade governors
and other State officers az pleasure,
regardless of the will of the people
of those States. as expressed through
the ballot box, and these usurpations
have been sustained by the party.
Is this stretch of power consistent
with true Republicanism? Would
the people have submitted to it un-
der the earlier Presidents? Will
you keep in power set of men who
manifest SO little regard for the lib
erty Of the citizen, and constitution
al restrictions? If you do, you are
unworthy to enjoy the liberty your
fathers fought to win.
Year: 1876

SAVANNAH, September 15.-The to,
tai number of interments to day was
thirty one; yellow fever interments,
twenty seven. Over one half of the
colored population are depending up>
on the charity of the whites, and the
amount of destitution is increasing
There were seventeen deaths among
the cclored people in two days.
Year: 1876

A FIENDIsH TRIcK.-Last night some
malignant wretch shot at horse belong
ing to John Shool, which was pasturing
in the Quickstep adams street, base
ball grounds, and the ball broke one of
the animals hind legs, rendering it
necessary to kill him this morning, Mr..
Shool will give $50 to find out who did
the cowardly deed.
Year: 1876


Make me no vows of oonstancy, dear friend,
To love me, though die, thy whole life long
And love no other till thy days shall end, -


Nay, il were rash and wrong.
II thou canst love another, be il so;
would not reach out ofmy quiet grave
To bind thy heart if IL should choose to go;-


Love should not be a slave.
Ny placid ghost, trust will walk serene
In clearer light than glides those earthly morns,
Above the jealousies and envies keen


Which SOW this life with thorns.
Thou wouldst not feel my shadowy caress,
II, after death, my soul should lnger here
Mems hearts crave tangible, close tenderness;


Loves presence, warm and near
It would not make me sleep more peacefully
That thou vert wasting all thy life in woe
For my poor sake what love thou hast for me,


Bestow it ere go
Carve not upon stone when am dead
The praises which renorseess nourners give
To woman's grave-a tardy recompense-


But speak them while live.
Heap not the heavy marble on my head
To shut away the sunshine and the dew;
Let small blooms grow there, and let grasses wave


And rain-drops filter through.
Thou wilt meet many fairer and more gay
Than 1 I; but trust me, thou canst never find
One who will love and serve thee night and day


With more single mind
Forget me when die The violets
Above my rest will blossom just blue,
Nor miss thy tears; cen Natures self forgets;


But while 1 live, be true.
Year: 1876

To make black paper, take lamp
black mixed with cold lard. Red
paper, venetian red mixed with
lard. Blue paper, Prussian blue
mixed with lard. Green paper,
chrome green mixed with lard. Mix
the above ingredient to a thick
paste and apply to the paper with
a rag. Then take flannel rag and
rub until all the color ceases to
come off. These sheets alternated
with writing paper and written on
with a solid pen produce two or
three copies Of a letter at once.
Year: 1876

The following assets and securities of the
Bond Street Savings Bank have been deposited by the
receiver in the United States Trust Company TINS
schedule differs somewhat from the statement heretofore
made by the trustees nasmuch the assets are placed
in the schedule par instead Of at cost and market
value. Al the securities and assets, however were
found 20 10 in accordance with the statement OF the
Year: 1876

The sum OF Tuesdays elections is the gain
Of by the Democrats and possible victory IN
a third Win tue assurance that III TINS last any kcpub
MAJORITY which appear ON tho Official count
Will be so Insignificant rs Ia amount Ia defeat. or
three states not has heretofore been considered
Democratic In Presidential year. West Virginia aud
Indiana therefore clear gain for the Reform party


what this gam means may be understood when II Is con
sdered that te national success OF the Democrats re
qures the possession Of only OF these States, while
tine either Indiana Ohio Is In effect the defeat OF
Hayes and Wheeler. The result, then, Is the victory
Year: 1876

That Norwich man who courted his
wife fifty years before he married her,
was prudent fellow. Fifty years takes
the strength out of most any arm, and
makes it convenient for a woman to get
down on her knees and urge the head OF
the house to come out from under the
bed and talk the matter over.-Bridge-
port Standard.
Year: 1876




1t is leap year, and if the tidy
girl, with red cheeks feels a palpi-
tation of the heart for some worthy
young man, would it be any harm
to call upon his father and speak
about the weather, the bad roads,
the hard times and the bad state OF
society, and then remark:


"Mr. Quincy, Ihsve an affection
for your son George, and think !
could soon learn to love him"


Quincy would look at her from
the corner of his eye, and she would
continue:


81 can wash, bake, cut over
clothes, sew, play the piano, man
age a servant, do embroidery, sing,
speak good grammar and make a
home happy"


Quincy would look over the cor
ner of his other eye, and she would
go on:


i" l hear that he is home nights,
is saving, we'll educated, sensible,
has no bad habits, and is just the
kind of a.husband / want. / don't
expect any money with him, but
will do my share Of the work, plan
ming and saving to help him secure
a home and q bank book. With
your permission l should like to
pay my addresses to him.


Mr.. Quincy would tell her to go
ahead, if he were a sensible man;
and would there be anything wrong
about it?
Year: 1876

dow down, as if at home. But the
heating by steam is not universal,
and occasionally the traveller is put
into cold car and cohsoled only
with a foot-warmer, a tube filed
with hot water, which speedily
cools, and in the process seems ia
abstract all the natural heat from
the feet and legs Of the passenger
Year: 1876

The reduction in the price OF iron, eff
fected by the new revenue tariff, should
the bill now before the House of Repre-
sentatives pass and become n law, will
have direct effect upon many of the
manufactures of Wilmington. 1t will
permanently reduce the price of iron,
enabling ships, engines and machinery
to be built more cheaply. Cars, car
wheels, carriages, carts and all kinds of
vehicles, will be correspondingly effected
by it in price. And as matter of course
more of all these articles will be sole to
the South and other parts of the coun-
try. Every tool that is used on the
farm has been largely increased by the
prohibitory tariff that has been in exist
ence for the last ten or twelve years.


In 1876 a tremendous howl went up
from the Protectionists when the Reve-
nue. tariff bill of that year was passed.
The North american, Tribune and other
high tariff Wing papers declared the
country would be ruined in year--that
the law would not produce revenue
enough to carry on the government, and
that "Sir Robert Waller" was the most
ignorant and reckless fuancier that ever
existed, and that he and President Polk
had been bought by British gold.


But in spite of all predictions, trade
revived and the succeeding six or eight
years were the most bright and prosper.
ha I'D In,To,I 20
there being no money to carry on the
government, at the end of the first
year "Sir Robert Walker" sent a report
from the Treasury showing that all the
costs of the government had been met
all the old floating debts paid, and his
exchequer still contained sir millions oj
gold that he did not know what to dc
with.


The war with Mexico came on the next
year, and the country was put to extra
ordinary expense. The war by lane
and by sea was carried on successfully
Every division of our Army, land ther,
were five we think,) was successful
There was not battle lost. TIE city o
Mexico was occupied and the whole couu
try conquer ed California and New Mex
ico purchased and paid for, and in fou
years the whole of the war debt paid
all this was accomplished under TART
which the DeJatcare Republican declare,
would ruin the country.


The same paper under the direction G
the Wing leaders declared tAat Califor
MIA would lot produce scanty living
and was so worthless that it was nc
worth having. But what were the re
suits? Why ask such a question:
it not enough that the fact is historici
TINT the vast country on the Pacif
Coast was secured to the country by tn
Democratic Party, in the face of til
strongest opposition and the most d,
termined protests of the old Abolition
ists and the old Wings. among whom ma
be classed the very men who no
oppose the passage of Revenue tariff
Year: 1876

There is quite a healthy public SEN
tiuent growing in favor of doing
away with the reading of the Bible
in public schools. The Rev. DR..
Butler, at the recent Church Congress
in Philadelphia, said he was strongly
in favor of abandoning the irrevr-
rent farce and desecration of the per-
functionary reading of the Bible in
our public schools" He said truly
that thousands Of our citizens feel
that this would he the right thing to
do, and yet are unwilling to yield the
point bccaus, it would seem like a
surrender To Romisb dictalion" He
likened these citizens to Falstatf
They do not choose to be virtuous
on compulSlou." There are few peo-
pie who attach any great importance
TO school Bib e reading 1t is never
anvlhing more than perfunctoriIy per-
formed, and often the practice is either
tarciai or obviously irrevcrent. The
Chicago Board Of Education have
abolished the reading of the Bible in
the schools, and are about TO revise
the singing books in Use in order to
eXpurgate them of all verse in which
religion is referred to. In Pbiladel-
phia the Hewbrew ministers have
addressed note to the School Board
ohjectiDg to the use of Francie Way
lands Elements of Moral Science
among the school text books. This
work expresses Professor Wayland's
peculiar religious views inasmuch as
it recognizes the Trinity and incul-
Gates a belief 10 Jesus ChIist as one
of The Godhead. There are manv
Protestant denominations who object
to this work on these grounds. Thus
we see that to have religion at all,
somebody's toes must be stepped on,
and it is more in accordance With the
spirit Of our institutions to make
public education purely secular.
When this is done our public school
system will he unassailable.
Year: 1876

An enormous glass cyIindrical shade or
cover for a statue, which is 10 he exhibited at
the Centennial, was recently made in Som
ervile, Massachusetts. 1t was made by the
following process: a long hollow iron tube
was inserted into the pot OF molten glass, aud
by caieIuI manipulation about seventy five
pounds oi the latter was caused To adhere 10
to the tube. This was lhtn taken to a wooden
mold of semicircuar form, in which it was
rolled d few tunes by three men, and thus
brought To white heat. 1t was then taken
IL a wnoden cylinder placed beneath the floor
OF the factory; aud alter it was placed there
IN, the work Of fasnioning the cylinder to its
proper proportion was begun, which was
done by blowing through the iron tube aud
into the body of the glass; while at the same
time TWO men raised and lowered the glowing
cylinder gently but quickly until it came
forth finished, and measured five feet in
height and seveny.tour in,hes in circum.
ference.
Year: 1876

Never yet did there exist q full faith
in the Divine Word 10y whom light
MS we'll as Immortality, was brough.
into the world) which did not expand
the intellect while it purified the heart
which did not multiply tho aims
and objects of the understanding,
while it fixed and simplilied those Of
the desires aud passiuus,
Year: 1876

/ confess, said faithful servant of
God, that | seldom hear the bell toll
for one that is dead, but conscience
asks me, what hast thou done for the
saving of that soul before it left the
body! There is one more gone into
eternity, and what didst thou do to
prepare him for it, and what testimony
must he give the Judge concerning
thoo2
Year: 1876

crime and corruption, and society will never
do Is duty To Itself unril it makes every sus
prctrd M IN who l. CONSCIOUS that there l. room
tor suspicion against himself wish that he
might ernI- rate, OF seek relief in shp-knot
or a pistol >hut.
Year: 1876

THERE is growing in Pochuck,
Vernon township, Sussex County,
Del, an apple tree which bears both
sour and sweet apples. Not only
this, but sour and sweet apples grow
on the limbe. and some of the apples
are both sour and sweet. One can
pick an apple and find it intensely
sour, then pick another from next to
it and find it exceedingly sweet;
still another can be picked from tho
same limb and it will be both soul;
and sweet-one half sweet, and the
other sour. Over a quarter of q
century ago, one William Babb,
now deceased, in experimenting,
took a bud from an apple tree which
bore greetings and another from a
tree which bore sweet apples. Cut.
ting them in half, lie placed the sour
and sweet halves together, and.
budding them to the tree, the
above has been the result. Some of
the apples are entirely green in
color, while others have yellowish
cast.
Year: 1876

To the Editor of the Morristown Gazette:
The original of the poem | enclose
was found on a Confederate battle
ground, and was written by Confeder-
ate soldier on Confederate note. 1
think it worthy a place in any paper.
Several persons have asked me for a
copy is one reason why thought it had
better be published.


Very respectfully,


I. w WnRTH
Year: 1876

THE country will be startled at the in
consistency of the Democratic record in the
House yesterday. Colorado had the door
slammed Ii her face for lack of official in
formation. A committee was raised to go
to each of the States of South Carolina,
Florida and Louisiana, from which the
House had no official information Of fraud,
to see if some could not be found in regard
to an election with which the House had
positively nothing at all to do. The ap-
pointmento of electors is purely State affair.
1t is SO made by the Constitution. The
trouble is that Colorado voted for Hayes
and Wheeler, and the House does not wish
to be informed of the fact, and the other
States, it knows, will so vote if not pre-
vented by some violent and revolutionary
movement. The people will not fail to
note these facts.
Year: 1876

There has been a great deal of super


iuous ink used in befogging the plain
duty of the two Houses Of Congress in re-
gard to the count of the votes Of the
Electoral Colleges. The trainers Of the
Constitution undoubtedly knew exactly
what they meant by the language used in
that instrument upon this subject. No
one will deny this proposition. Beyond
any and all argument lies the potency Of
the acts of the very convention which
framed the words about which so great
contention now exists: "The President of
/" the Senate shall, in the presence of the
" Senate and House of Representatives,


"open all the certificates, and the votes
" shall then be counted" 1t Il perfectly
natural to reason that the identical men
who wrote this paragraph knew exactly
what they meant by 1t, and how they in
tended it should be construed. Let their
actions speak as to who counts and shall
forever count the vote for President under
the provision which they inserted in the
Constitution. Monday, September II,
1857, the convention which framed the
Year: 1876

ALEXANDER II. STEPHENS took the mod
flied oath yesterday, amid profound silence in
the House. he sat in his seat when he de-
clared that he would never take up arms
against the Government of the United States
and always protect 1t against the onslaughts
Of an invading fee, whether foreign or do
mestic. With hiS hat on and his thin hand
raised trembling in the air he swore allegiance
to the National Government. Allegiance to
the Government means something In these
days. Devotion to the Union Of States and
perpetuation of our republican institutions is
the prime virtue of the patriot In this hour of
national peril. Alexander H. Stephens is
great man, and may his words Of warning and
his pleas for moderation and calmness have
mighty weight in the council chamber Of the
nation. We must have oil on the troubled
waters, for If the. storm bursts that is now
brewing, our splendid fabric of Government
will soon I ass away.
Year: 1876

TEE Democratic party have deceived them
selves If they believe that the Republican
party will submit to being bullied out of the
Presidency. They demand what is right, and
the party that was powerful enough to pre-
serve the Union in tact is still potent to secure
their just demands. The Republican party is
not made of the stuff that will be slapped in
the face and sit sneakingly down and pout 1t
0,1f
Year: 1876

IT wAs;an evil day for the Democraey in
the House yes terday. That Colorado scheme
and dark-handed strategy viii be baified by
an cpenly-expressed public opinion in less
than forty eight hours. A prominent member
Of the De mocraiic party speaking in reference
to the measure said: "That the Democratic
party by the action of Its House in majority
had placed that Territory as the bright Cen
tennial silver star State in the splendid con-
stellation of our Union, and all the powers of
partisan sehemers and internal darkness can
not drag it out" That is truth, and they
dare not drag It out.