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Year: 1871

A little error of the eye, misguldance
OF the hand, a slip of the foot, startling
of horse, a sudden mist, or great
shower, or word undesignedly cast forth
in an army has turned the tide of victory
from one side to another, and thereby dis
posed of empires and whole nations. No
prince ever returns safe out of battle,
but may well remember how many blows
and bullets have gone by that might eaisly
have gone through him; and what little.
odd, unforeseen chances of death he has
seen turned aside, which, seemed in full
ready and direct career to have been post
ing to him. All which passages, if we do
not acknowledge to have been guided to
their respective ends and effects by the
conduct of superior and Divine hand
we do, by the same assertion, cashier all
Providence, strip the Almighty Of His no
blest prerogative, and make God, not the
governor, but the mere spectator of the
world. [Dr South.
Year: 1871

country; that the nearest in blood to him
would pass through loss and suffering to
honor; and that out of the dregs OF his
people the questloner would live to see
one rise who would become the leader of
his nation9 The writer can only say that
all that Mad'lle Lenormand predicted to
him nearly twenty years ago has been
fulfilled"


We may add by way of conclusion, that
Lenormand said, in 1912, that she would
live to complete her one hundred and
eighth year
Year: 1871

A bill has been introduced in the Ohio
Legislature to make the purchaser and
drinller Of Intoxicating liquors liable to
the same pans and penalties as are now
prescribed by law for the seller of such
liquors. The bill contains this princi pie:
that the man who outrages decency by
getting drunk is the real criminal in all
cases of drunkenness, and should be pun
nished therefor rs much at least as the
man who sold him the liquor, who at most
is only accessory to the crime.
Year: 1871

Father Edes, of the Dover Observer,
probably the only editor in the country
who never till last year, rode in railway
car, and for fifty years has been scarcely
outside his town limits, had, it seems, y,
quite an adventurous youth. Being ship
wrecked on voyage to Cuba gave him a
distaste for wandering, and he has qui-
city and steadily stuck to the printing
business ever since
Year: 1871

Improvement. The Police Justice has
caused the space in his court devoted to tho
accommodation of prisoners TO be neatly plank
ed around, so that all accused will hereafter
remain invisible until paraded for trial. The
arrangement is good one.
Year: 1871

Wedon't know what the reporter Of the
Enquirer calls "euthusiasm," but we certainlv
do know that the applause which greeted the
name OF }. Wilkes Booth, would have
sufficiently fiattered the vanity of any reason
able man. 1t was general with the small
audience present, and continued for several
seconds. We repeat it was improper to men
ton his name on the occasion in an honorable
connection, and it was wrong for the audience
to applaud it as they did when it was men
toned. or course, we don't for a moment
suppose that if there had been full and
iashionable audience present, they would have
joined in doing honor to bis name.
Year: 1871

The reports made by the San Francisco Labor
Exchange, from month to month, show that there
is great demand for laborers from the country,
but that the supply is extremely scarce. Not
because there no idle men in San Francisco,
but because they do not wish to leave the city.
The last report states that able-bodied men, well
adapted to country life and to labor on farms and
in the mines, will accept menial employ ment in
San Francisco as di8h-washers and scullions, in
preference to manly and independent labor in
the country at good wages.
Year: 1871

IT is mark of the unsuccessful man, that he
in, arably locks his stable door when the horse
has been stolen. This sort of wisdom never
thinks about bodily health until it is gone. But
just as much as any disease has become seated,
the power of the system to throw off is weakened
hence time all important. For dypepsa, all
diseases of the liver, stomach, skin and kidneys,
and all that begin in vitiated blood, do not wait
urtil the trouble is confirmed, but attack it by a
timely use of DR.. Walkers California Vinegar
Buers
Year: 1871

Boss TWEED has been elected to the State
Senate in New York by about 1000 majority
although it is claimed that thousands of fraudu-
lent votes were cast and that Tweeds name was
read from many tickets where it did not appear,
and his election will therefore be contested.
1t is also probable that should he succeed in OBJ
tanning an election certificate and endeavor to
take his seat in the Senate, that body will proceed
to expel him.
Year: 1871

DURING the late campaign in the State of New
York, the Tribune, fines and other leading Re
publican journals advocated the election of Ho-
ratio Seymour, ODonnovan Rosa and other
Democrats, thereby showing conclusively that
they are in earnest in the work of reform. 1t
was enough for them to know that the men were
honest and could be depended upon.
Year: 1871

young and lovely daughter of Brazilian nobleman in
Flo de Janero, acknowledging the receipt of of Muir
ray Lanmans Florida Water says: "Ths perfume is
MT to me- have long used it at the toilet and in the
bath and have always found only the agreeable
but also the most lasting and refreshing of Floral Waters


There countetes and buyers should always ask for
and be they get the Florida Water prepared by
man & Kemp, New York. 564
Year: 1871

SEVERAL Of the leading papers, says the Marys
vile Appeal, are urging that the Legislature
make short, sharp work of the Senatorial fight
The suggestion is good one. When they meet
it will be no very difficult matter to determine
who is the strongest man, and it will then be-
come the duty of members to try and end the
contest at once instead Of tearing him down for
the benefit of somebody else. An unusual
amount of regular legislative business is to be
transacted this Winter, and the sooner it is taken
in hand the better. 1t is pretty certain thing
however that but little else will be done until
after the Senatorial FIGHT has been disposed Of
Year: 1871

The Union gives currency to report that GER
tain Democrats will urge the election of Thomas
II. Selby as Senator, with the hope that a sufI-
cient number of the Republican members may be
induced to join the Democratic members to se-
cure his election. We do not believe that there
is any truth in this report, still the Republicans
would do well to watch closely all Of those can
didates who endorsed by the Democracy
The enemies of the Republican party do not en-
dorse and urge the election of certain Republi-
cans without a motive.
Year: 1871

4 TRAVELLING SIDEWALK Is the latest
and most curious of the various devices for
securing rapid transit which have been call
cd forth by the imperative demand in large
cities for some means of travelling quickly
from point to point. The inventor of this
novel design is Albert Spear, and his plan
contemplates moving sidewalk, which
shall be in perpetual motion, carrying pc
destrians at the rate of 10 miles an hour q
speed which they can increase by their


whole power of independent locomotion.
1t is proposed TO have series of pillars l.
long the outer verge of the curbstoncs, riS-
ing to the height of the second story of or
dnary buildings. The space between the
tops of these pillars and the buildings adja


cent is TO Le a sidewalk, onc-half of which
is to be movable and the other half sta
tionary. This is to be reached at every
corner by n stairway. On the inner or sta
tionary walk pedestrians can pass back
and forth at their leisure, entering the
stores and offices, which might then occu-
py the second story of the building, and he
entered Immediately from the street. The
other half of the walk, made of sort of lat


tice work and moving on small trucks
which are beneath the surface and altogeth-
er concealed from view, is to be propelled
at the rate of 10 miles an hour by engines
beneath the surface of the ground at such


intervals as may be necessary to secure the
requisite power. The sidewalk is to be
moved by friction rollers, worked upon by
shafts which pass up through the upright
pillars, and on one side of the street passes
up, and on the other side down, continu-
ally, night and day. On this moving road
way pedestrians may stand or occupy the
| numerous chairs and settees provided, and
be travelling toward their destination at the
rate of 10 miles an hour, or, if SO. inclined,


can walk at full speed in the same drec-
tion, thereby adding four or five miles an
hour TO their rate of progress. The machn-
| cry will work with very little noise, and
| that will be continuous and therefore scarce
| ly noticeable there will be no danger of
accident, and the contrivance can be put
| up in any street, long or short, where it


may be required. 1t is said that an at
| tempt is to be made very soon in New
| York to demonstrate the feasibility of this


scheme, probably on Chambers street
| from Pavonia ferry to Broadway. Whether
| ii proves successful or not, the project il


very curious and ingenious, and willthcrc-


fore attract no small degree af attention.
Year: 1871




Take two or three leaves of red cabbage,
cut into small bits, nut them into basin
and pour a pint of boiling water on them
let 1t stand an hour, then pour off the liq-
uor into "A decanter. 1t will be of fine
blue color. Then take three wine-glasses
into one put six drops of solution of soda,
into second the same quantity of alum,
and let the third glass remain empty. The
glasses may be prepared before and the
few drops of the colorless liquids which
have been put in them will not be noticed.
Fill up the glasses from the decanter, and
the liquid poured into the glass contain
ing the acid will quickly become beluti-
ful red, that in the glass containing the So
da will be fine green, that poured into
the empty one will remain unchanged
BY adding little vinegar to the green it
will change to red.
Year: 1871

Mr.. Colfax, Vice President of the Uni


ted States, addressed a crowded asscmb,
on the subject of Temperance at Wash


ington on Sunday afternoon, Feb. 9TH. A
number of members of Congress were
present to listen to his impressive remarks
After reading of the Scriptures, prayer
was offered by Rev. DR.. Newman, chap
lain of the Senate.


Mr.. Colfax said he knew very well
when he accepted the invitation to speak
that he could say nothing new upon the
old story Of woe. Yet he felt il duty
to stand before an audience so impressive
in its numbers and in its weight and char
acter, in the capital of the nation and to
give them the reason for the faith that is
in him. (Applause.) He never stood be-
fore his fellow citizens to speak to them of
all the horrors that this enemy Of the hu-
man race brings upon its victims without
feeling sad. In our land there are today
100000 more of its citizens engaged in
manufacturing and selling intoxicating Ii
quors than there are in preaching and
teaching in all religions and in all sects in
our country Our 40, 900, 900 of people
pay SO 600 600 per year for the sup
port Of God ministers and one thousand
millions of dollars per year to put into
their mouths an enemy to steal away their
brains and embittor their lives. Was it
strange that these facts made him sad /?


Only few days since he heard at the
Capitol of an old friend of his boyhood
days who migrated to another State and
occupied fine social position there, who
during this winter had marched down the
downward pathway to a drunkard's grave.
If he could impress it upon the minds Of
his hearers as palpably as it Appeared to
him, it seemed to him that none would
leave the hall without resolving to tram
pie for ever under their feet the intoxica.
ting cup. If they could have pass before
Year: 1871

"And then shall they see the Son of Man com


ing in cloud with power and great glory


Luke q: ~.


The government Of God is an economy
Of compensation and retribution. Oul
present human condition is full of disor
dcrs and inequalities There must come
period ofadjustment. Wisdom and good
ness must ultimately triumph. Depressed
and suffering virtue must be rewarded
and vice, too often successful and prosper.
Gus, must be appropriately punished This
doctrine so accordant with reason, is plais.
ly taught by revelation. 1t pefvades the
whole volume Of Holy Scripture. We
meet with it IN many forms-in narrative,
argument, prophecy, simile and parable,
explicit statement and identical allusion,
the simplest records Of prose and the sub
limest strains of poetry. But where is to
be the scene of adjustment? In this or
some other world? Surely, the remedy
should be applied where the evil prevails.
Here, if anywhere, shall be enacted the
Judgement Of the living and the dead
Here, if anywhere, shall be realized the
retrlbution of nature and of man The
vague imagination that the inhabitants Of
the earth are to be transferred to some
other sphere, and there dealt with accor-
ding to their deeds, is neither rational nor
scriptural.


A wise and p owerful monarch has a
distant province in rebellion, wasted with
anarchy ravaged by cruelty, and wretched
through rampant crime. What will he
do? He is just, but he Is also kind and
forbcaring. He looks with mingled indig-
nation and sorrow upon the miserable in
surgents. What will he do? Will he
commission an overwhelming force to
transport the whole population, obedient
and rebellious, to the mother countoy for
judicial proceedings, and then lay waste
the territory. and leave it perpetual
desolation Nay, he will correct and re-
claim; he will subduc and deliver. He
Year: 1871

The Brooklyn Board Of Aldermen met yesterday
aiterueon. communication was received from
Mayor Kalbne,sch in which he vetoes the resolution
OF the Board empowering the Metropolitan Gasght
Company from laying pipes In the various streets Of
the city from the fact that they give no security as
to their furnishing gas. The communication was
placed on ie.


STREET NUMBERING.


Alderman MCGROARTY offered the folloUing:--
Resolved, That the Street Commissioner be and he is
hereby authorized and directed TO appoint proper and
peient person. who shall be required all
numbers continued up in violation of the ordinance Of the
Common Council to DO removed by the person owning or
having charge OF the and put up the number
adopted by the Common Council, and In default OF the
Counsel for prosecution.


Resolved, That the person appointed shall receive
salary of eighty dollars month be paid ont OF The
fund raised for the numbering OF streets.


No further business of Inpoytance was transacted.
Year: 1871

The Rev. DR.. Merle D'Aubigne tells
how the riches of divine grace reached
his heart:


Wewere studying the Epistle to the
Ephesians, and had got TO the end OF
the third chapter. When we read the
two last verses, ''Now unto him who
is able to do exceeding abundantly
above all that we ask or think, accord
ing to the power that worketh in US,
unto him be glory" etc, this expires
sion fell upon my soul as a revelation
from God. "He can do by his power" +"
I said to myself, ''above all we ask,
above allp' A full trust in Christ for
the work to be done within my poor
heart now filed my soul we all three
knelt down; and although had new
er fully confided my inward struggles
to my friends, the prayer of Rieu was
filled with such admirable faith as he
would have uttered had he known all
nv wants. When I arose at that inn-
room at Kiel, 1 felt as if my Swings
were renewed as the wings of eagles. y
From that time forward [ eOmpre-
hended that all my own efforts were
of no avail; that Christ is able to dc
all by his ''power that wOrketh in u.s.
and the habitual attitude of my SOU
was to lie at the foot of the cross, cry.
ing to Him, "Here am I, bound hand
and foot, unable to do the least thing
to get away from the enemy who op,
presses me. Do all thyself. I know
that thou wilt do it. Thou wilt ever
do exceeding abundantly above al
that I ask"


1 was not disappointed all my
doubts were removed, my anguish
quelled, and the Lord extended to m,


f'peaee as a river" Then I coulC
comprehend with all saints what is tn


breath, and length, and depth, ant
hight; and know the love of Chris
which passeth knowledge. Then wa
I able to say, ''Return unto thy rest
o my soul; for the Lord hath deal
| bountifully with thee.n
Year: 1871

Captain Hall, whose expedition to
the North Pole was fOstered by the last
Congress, is now engaged in fittiAg
out his ship called the Periwinkle al
Washington. He expects to sail dur
in next month. There are at present
about one hundred and fifty wOrkmen
engaged on the vessel, which is on the
ways, and they are doing the work in
the most substantial manner. The
vessel is about four hundred tuns, one
hundred and thirty-eight feet in
length, twenty-eight in breadth, and
thirteen in depth Of hold, and will be
rugged as a top-sail schooner. There
are two thicknesses Of three-inch
white oak planking on her, so arrang-
ed as to secure the greatest amount OF
strength. The frame is solid about
four feet below the load line. The
bows will be sheathed with iron a dis
lance of forty feet, as a further pro
- sts,ss .-a-i.Ast the ice. and she has q
hOisting propeller for use in working
through floating ice. It was original
ly intended to line her with cork, but
this plan has been abandoned. Her
engines are building in the strongest
possible manner for the rough service
she is intended to undergo.
Year: 1871

The Troy Times tells this story of


Col. James II. Hooker, an eccentric


eharaetric who died in that city some


twenty years ago:


"a remarkable man was Col. Hook


er, and very eccentric withal. At


times he would fairly boil over with


passion, and was very violent in his


speech and action. Yet he was a Just


man, and directed his fury against


what he believed to be wrong and ras-
cally. 1t is related of him that hav-
ing a dispute with one of his clerks,
the latter would not yield the point in
issue to him, whereupon the Colonel
undertook to put his stubborn emplOye
out of his office. But the clerk was


too much for the irate Colonel, and in


the melee the old man was laid upon
his back, and his countenance rather
unpleasantly tapped. Rising from his
position, he proceeded to wash his
battered countenance, brushed his
clothes carefully, and, seating himself,
asked the victorious clerk to come to
him and report. Said he: "a pretty
thing you've done, sir; got yourself
{ into a bad serape; committed assault


and battery; licked your employer
/ This shows that there's some stuff in


YOU. miserable sinner; and now, you
I infernalseamp, / am going TO pay you
I for il. You are discharged from the
desk You now bold, and tomorrow
morning I want you to take place


next to me, and hereafter act as my
! confidential clerk, and your salary
4 increased $3.50. That's all now &c
about your business The clerk TINS
( promoted held the confidential posi-
/ ton assigned him many years during
the remainder Of the Coloneps life
/ time, and never had to whip his en-
er again TO get an advance of salary
Year: 1871

A man went TO Mr.. Greeley, the
other day, and told him he was desti-
tute, he didn't even have a cent, and
wanted to know what he should do.
Horace scratched his head and thought
minute, and then said: "Fll tell
you what yOu do. You buy ten
cylinder Hoe press and 20 out to some
station on the Pacific railroad, away
from civilization, and start an eight.
page morning paper, and grow up with
I the country" The man is around
now trying TO borrow money to buy
ten-eylinder plate Of hash.
Year: 1871

Sabbath day is the beautiful river in
the week Of Time. The other days are
troubled streams, whose angry waves
are disturbed by the countless crafts
that float upon them, but the pure
river Sabbath flows on to Eternal
Rest, chanting the sublime music OF
the silent throbbing spheres, and tim
ed by the pulsatiOns Of the ''Everlast-
ing Life.n Beautiful river Sabbath
glide on, Bear forth on thy bosom
the poor tired spirit th the rest which
it seeks, and the weary watching soul
70 endless bliss.
Year: 1871

A good story is told OF man who
went for the first time to q bowling
alley, and kept firing away at the pins
to theimminent peril Ofthe boy, who, 80
far from having anything to do in
''setting up" the pins, was actively at
work in an endeavOr TO avoid the ball
Of the player, which ratified on all
sides Of the pins without touching
them. At length the fellow seeing the
predicament the boy was in, yelled
out as he let drive another ball.
''Stand in amongst the pins, boy, II
you don't want to get hurt ~
Year: 1871

A Cleveland dispatch Of the 9TH
ult, says:


NJ. n. Kennedy, farmer 80 years
old residing in SOlOn Township, was
killed by his son this morning. They
had been on unfriendly terms for
some time, on account OftrOuRes aTis-
ing in regard to property.


Early this morning the father went
to the place where his son lives, and
he Informed the latter that he had
come TO take away certain horse and
buggy and 20 clean OUt him and his
wife. The old man then went to the
barn where the son entered; the fath-
er seized him by the throat and sWore
he would kill bim. Believing he
meant what he said, the son drew a
revolver to save his own life and fired
three balls into his fathers head be-
fore the latter fell
Year: 1871

Sin against light and knowledge is
most exceedingly SINFUL but the sum-
NIT of iniquity Is to take a diaboiical
pleasure In the wIekedHess OF others,
and 70 love sin for tts sake. -s