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Year: 1870

Yesterday was one of the most magnif-
cent days of the season, and plantation sup
plies were largely ordered. The prospects
Of large and diversified crop the coming
season are good,
Year: 1870

About half mile from Golden City
Colorado, is the celebrated Table Rock
seven hundred feet above the level of Clear
Creek, that runs through the city. Five
hundred and fifty feet from the base oi
this foot-hill is a sort of terrace, oil
step" from which to the summit is
about one hundred and fifty feet of per
pendicular rock. On our late visit tc
the mountains, we learned from old
mountaineers the following legendary
account os tragedy enacted on Table
Rock years ago, by the Ute Indians, who
then inhabited the locality on which
Golden City is situated.


The Ute tribe was carrying on wal
with other mountain Indians, and some
where in the celebrated Ute Pass a
bloody battle was fought by the hostile
redskins. During the conflict the Utes
captured seventeen of their combatants,
who were taken to this famous rock to be
disposed OF. After the usual savage cere-
monies, war dances and yells, the unfor-
tunate prisoners were arranged along the
brink of this precipice, and at a given
signal were hurled off and dashed to
pieces on the jagged rocks one hundred
and fifty feet below.
Year: 1870

Very few of the sudden deaths which
are said to arise from diseases of the
heart y do really arise from that cause
To ascertain the real origin of sudden
deaths, experiments have been tried in
Europe and reported to a scientific con
g-ess held at Strasburg. Sixty-six cases
Of sudden death were made the subject
of thorough post-mortem examination
in these cases only two were found who
died from disease of the heart Nine out
of sixty-six cases had died of apoplexy
while there were forty-six cases of con
gestion of the lungs-that is, the lungs
were so full of blood that they could not
work, there not being room enough for a
sufficient quantity of air to enter to sup
port life. The causes that produce con
gestion of the lungs are cold feet, tight
clothing, oastiVe bowels sitting still
chilled after being warmed with labor or
a rapid walk, going too suddenly from a
close, heated room into the cold air, es-
pecially after speaking, and sudden de-
pressing news operating on the blood.
The causes of sudden death being known,
an avoidance of them may serve to
lengthen many valuable lives which
would othetwise be lost under the verdict
of "heart complaint
Year: 1870




There are all sorts of weddings and
marriages; it would take many pages to
register them, from the marriage Of true
minds to that Of couple of money bags.
Sometimes the bride and bridegroom are
two masked figures, tricked up and dis
guised, so that it would be hard to say
which is the most deceived in the other.
Sometimes it is living creature united
to a shadow Have you ever known a
man married to doll? He chose her
out and paid for her. What a sweet
face it is What high-bred calm And
then again come the happy lovers,
two and two as they pass before the
high affairs, the long white walls of the
brides sweep along the gray aisles o.
the churches; their happiness lightens
up the faces looking on. Then, per-
haps, some blooming young girl comes
up, bringing crutch and bronchial
wheeze, and it now and then happens that
youth appears, leading wig of false
plaits, set of artificial teeth and half
century of bones to the altar. The
disparity is not SO great as you might
imagine. There may still be a heart
beating beneath all these adjustments,
while the bridegroom, for all his good
looks, has not one single drop of warm
blood in his body. So bad, good and in
different, they pass their way. Some
times it is Peace and Goodwill who 90
hand in hand What does it matter if
Goodwill's beard is grizzled, and Peace
has crow s feet round about her loving
eyes? Sometimes it is Pride and Vain
glory that go sweeping past down the
long church out into the churchyard be-
yond. They are a fne-looking couple as
they sail along, and they look to see
their reflection in the eyes of the
bystanders. Sometimes-and this is no
very strange phenomenon--it is only the
past of one of the contracting parties
that is united to the present of the other.
They find it out too late CornhiU Mag
dzine.
Year: 1870

TIC LVOh . CHH '0
makes is more durable and beautiful than
any other, presenting the same appear
ance on both sides of the fabric and will
not ravel. 1t is also more economical,
requiring oNE-THIRD LESS cotton than
any OF. er kind of stitch. Being the same
on both sides, it is not necessary to use
the extremely fine sewing cotton required
by those machines which make stitch
with ridge on the under side, which can
only be concealed by using thread tso
delicate and fine to bear ordinary wear.
Year: 1870

1t possesses the very great advantage
OF carrying the work in the natural way
from left TO right:-which enables the
operator tohandle the work more readily
and to sit upright; while machines which
carry the work from the operatorre require
an inclination of the body forward (detri-
mental to healthy and are hard and tire
some to use.
Year: 1870

terry, is doing the utmost possible. Let faith
be stronger; love more active and tender and
deep; zeal more earnest and fiery; the sweet
ness of giving to the Lord and his Church
better understood and wonders can be done
by us all, in every portion of the field.


We are poor now, comparatively, like the
Macedonian Christians; but if the grace of
God be only bestowed on us. then in great
trial of Affections even, the abundance of our
joy and our deep poverty will surely abound
to the riches of our liberality. We must
have the abundance Of the Jog, however, to
make us liberal in our poverty. 1t must be
sweet to give to Jesus and his people,
We must be Jealous for Christ and his
Church. We must love sinners and the
Saviour. We must believe in the unseen
and eternal which is nigh. All these graces
may God give to us all, and to all his people
every where"
Year: 1870

The last Southern Presbyterian R>rieW contains
very interesting and instructive article on this SUBJ
ect from which we intend to present some extracts
next week. In the meantime here are the results
to which the whole is brought, and certainly they
are such as the Church may well ponder, and pray
over and act upon.


"The facts which has been presented in
this article, evince four positive results spring
ing out of Presbytery's evangelistic work.
These four results are of the hig hest value
and most cheering promise. Here is the
system of weekly collections made nearly
universal in the Presbytery's ffty-three
churches; marked advance in the support
of ministers over what had of late years been
common in its bounds; the desire for fuller
supply of preaching awakened to some ex-
tent in particular cases; and the mighty idea
of self-help aroused in number of case
which do speak volumes of instruction to us
all, regarding both the resources of our weak
churches and the true way of calling them
forth. The eleemosynary spirit, whether in
persons or in bodies amongst us, must be
| frowned down. 1t must be felt all through
our Church, that to give is blessed rather
than to receive. 1t ought to be point of
honor with every church to support its min
lister in comfort, and that without asking
help outside the congregation. 1t fought to
be point of honor with every Presbytery
to give much more into the treasury of the
Assembly than it draws out. A person, a
church, Presbytery, that really cannot live
without aid, ought not to be ashamed to ac-
cept it. We are all brethren and we have
one Father and one Lord and the strong
must help the weak. But let US all try SELF
help to the utmost, before we ask for any
help from others. If it is the Christian Law
to put your own shoulder to the wheel wher
you ask the Lord to help, surely it is NEE
to do your utmost before you appeal fol
help to other people. The resources We
possess are, in sense, boundless No Chris
tian man or woman, no church, no Presby
Year: 1870

When storms arise upon thy Efe's rough ocean.
And waves of sorrow round thy spirit roll,
When clouds of doubt and terror o er thee hover
And the dark depths seem yawning for thy SOUL
Be still and hsten!-drawing nigh to thee,
The Master cometh-walking on the sea.
Though far away from land when shadows gathered,
And darkness quenched lights latest lingering


spark,


Though the fourth watch approach, and tOilsome


rowing


All unavailing seem to save thy bark,


Still wait and watch; from the far distant shore
The Master cometh-then thy toll is Ger.
Thou may st not hear his football on the billO~,s
Thou may st not see his face amid the gloom,
Thou may'st think above the winds Wild warring,
To hear the Saviour's gentle accents come
When spectral doubts prevail and hope hath


fled


"Bs Of good cheer, tbs L be no, afraid"
Bat sbea BY faith thou canst discern his coming,
And ST thy fears are ike the tempest stilled;
Thou shalt look back upon the storm with gladness,
Since thus it was the gracious Master willed
Rejoicing in the presence of thy God,
Thoult bless the waves whereon his feet have


trOd.
Year: 1870

We CANNOT expect too much from God,
nor too little from man.


He IS the best Christian, not who talks
most of God, but who walks most with God.
He is no man who needs no mending.
The SOUL is not so much where it lives,
as where it loves.


BETTER to have less comfort and more
service, than more comfort and less service.
THAT LOVE to God which knows an end,
never had beginning.


PROVIDENCE is creation continued.


The RETURNS of prayer call for returns
of praise.
Year: 1870

Charles Lamb, told his sad experience,
as a warning to young men, in the following
language d" The waters have gone over me.
But out Of the black depths could be heard,
would cry out to all those who have set a
foot in the perilous flood Could the youth
to whom the flavor of the first wine is as de-
licious as the opening scenes of life or the en-.
tering upon such newly discovered paradise,
look into my desolation, and be made to un-
derstand how drear it is when he shall feel
himself going down precipice, with open
eyes and passive will to his destruction, and
have no human power to stop it, and yet feel
it all the way eminating from himself to see
all godiness emptied out of him. and yet not
able to forget a time when it was otherwise
to bear the piteoUs spectacle of his own ruin;
could he see my feyered eye, fevered with last
nights drinking, and feverishly looking for
to-night's repeating of the folly could he
but feel the body of death out of which |
cry hourly with feebler outcry to be deliver.
ed, it were enough to make him dash the
sparkling beverage to the earth, in all the
pride of its manting temptation"
Year: 1870

How A WoMAS KKEps A SEcREr.-It is
an old qup upon women that they cannot keep
a secret but the fact is, they are the only
part of humanity who can. \ wife keeps her
husbands secrets much better than he keeps
hers. We calculate there is one drunken wife
to about four hundred and ninety-nine drunken
husbands In gambling, icentiousness, lying,
cheating, hypocrisy, covetousness, there is
pretty much the same proportion Yet ofthe
four hundred and ninety-nino wives four hun
dred conceal, cover up, silently endure the
terrible secret; while one husband mourns
over the frailty Of his wife in the study of his
pastor, and to the ear of his friend, and prob
ably complains Of it to a court of law. 1t is
the same between brother and sister. The
secrets woman talks about are of the kind
that are unimportant, and mostly agreeable to
hear That is our observation and in our re-
lations Of physician, minister, and unordained
lawyer, we have had room for great deal Of
observation
Year: 1870





Buy o home, is our advice to every one
We wish We could give to it the emphasi.
which experience and observation convince
US it deserves. Weare firmly persuaded that
with almost every one it should be one of the
first objects. \ very large part Of our young
men begin life with little more means Of in
come than the product Of their labor Not
realizing yet the Importance of a permanent
possession, unwilling to involve themselves in
debt, they make no purchase until, it may be,
mid.lifc Farmers seek to become possessors
Of the soil but mechanics, clerks professional
men, and all dependent upon others for EN-.
pioyment, feeling certain degree Of unset
tednoss, tempted by the percentage Of other
Investments, or deferred by the fear Of debt
continue to live as tenants the greater part ol
their lives and many of them never know the
happiness of home in their own name.


10 all such we say, Buy home. Not q
costly one; not one that will consume your
income and your strength to keep it up but
one according to your means, and in which
you eau live happily and Independently
There are no more certain investments than
in real estate, if made judeously. The per
cent. is not large, and does not come into the
pocket every six months, but with proper
care the value grows every year. A panic
does not destroy it a telegraphic dispatch
does not unsettle it.


An investment in real estate is a stimuli,
to effort and economy Looking back, many
can now see how they could easily have paid
for piece of ground if they had undertaken
it. When there is a payment ahead many a
dollar will be laid by for it, that otherwise
would be used for present onjoymenti anC
once paid, it is secure from being paid ou
under some momentary impulse. The habit
Of industry and economy thus formed is a
good basis for future success.


But we have in view more particularly the
moral effects when we give this advice. A
man is a better citizen for owning a home
He has an interest in the preservation Of gooc
order, in the enactment Of judoious laws
aud in tho election Of good men that he does
not otherwise feel. Like a tree, he take
root in the SOIL and developes those traits o
character that makes him better noighboi
and more useful citizen. There is 6xednes
of character, and desire for the prosperity
of others, which contribute greatly to his owr
and his noighbor's comfort.


The value of a home to a family cannot b.
oyerestimated. The Independence of Others
the freedom from anxiety about place t.


live, the encouragement and stimulus to maxi
improvements, cannot be valued in money
A more re6qed taste is deyeloped-tower
supersede the weeds, simple ornaments AM
attractive appearance take the place OF un
sightliness. The children grow up with tn
love Of the home Of their childhood, and tn
parents look forward with hope to the col
tentment of their latter days in their ow
house. And many a man in the effort
secure this finds employment for time th'
would hang heavily about him and tempt hi
to injurious enjoyments, and in his pleasan
home finds protection from the influence
evil associations. - United Presbyterian
Year: 1870

A SELFISH MAN.-Geologists
sometimes find toads sealed up
in rocks. They crept in during
the formation periods, and de-
posits closed the orifice through
which they entered. There they
remain in long darkness and
toad stupidity, till some chance
blast or stroke sets them free.
And there are many rich men
sealed up in the mountains OF
gold in the same way. IF, in
the midst of some convulsion
in the community, one of these
mountains isoverturned, some
thing crawls oHt into life which
is called a man!
Year: 1870

PIETY AT oME.-Religion
is majestic in the State; it may
be grand in the church-in the
church building a great insti-
tuition, in the State swaying the
destinies of millions of men.
But piety looks lovelier and
sWeeter at home; not arrayed
in her court dress, nor set off
in her church regimentals, but
dressed in her homely week
day, work-day clothes. It is a
little striking that the word
piety, which SO often rings in
the Christian church, is men
toned only once in the English
Bible, and then coupled with
the admonition to show itself
first at home.
Year: 1870

CHINESE CUsToM.-In Eng
land it would scarcely be re-
garded as an evidence of very
tender filial affection for son
to send his venerable father a
coffin as a birthday gift; ; but a
late visitor to China declares
that in that country such gift is
considered the ne plus ultra of
courtesy and love. The cheer
full gift is received with glad
ness, paraded ostentatiously in
the best chamber, and, until re-
quired for its special use, is
made a depository for clothing
or food. Nothing is more COM
mon than for a person who is
desirous of a grand funeral to
provide his own coffin, accord
ing to his own fancy, long be-
fore his own decease.
Year: 1870

TIME AND ETERN1TY.-What
folly is it, that with such care
about the body which is dying,
the world which is perishable
before our eyes, time which is
perpetually disappearing, We
should so little care about that
eternal state in which we are
to live forever when this dream
is over! When we shall have
existed ten thousand years in
another world, where will be all
the cares and fears and enjoy
ment of this7 In what light
we then look upon the things
which now transport us with
joy, or overwhelming us with
grief2"
Year: 1870

No character can be lastingly
injured by a fearless discharge
of duty. Calumny or prejudice
may obscure it for a time, but
in the end it will shine the
brighter for the clouds which
obscured it.
Year: 1870




They are happy people who
can always look on the bright
side, who grasp their singing
nettles so closely as to disarm
them, and plunging with brave
perseverance into their dark
cloud, find its center a globe OF
silver brightness. ! don't be-
lieve in mock heroics, but do
think a happy. hopeful. consis-
tent spirit is the truostand best
Heaven in the world
Year: 1870

We again warn our readers that
they cannot be too careful in han
ding kerosene oil. A gentleman
in this parish was in the act of
filling lamp from a FIVE gallon
can which he held in his arms,
when a breath of wind blew the
blaze of another lamp standing on
the window sill, near enough to
ignite the oil. There was no ex-
plosion but the contents of the can
ran all over the floor, severely
burning the gentleman's wife and
little boy, who were standing by
Nothing but the most prompt ac-
ton saved the house from being
burned, as the floor of the room
was in a blaze.


A PROBABLE SUIGIDE.--A Ger
man sign painter, by the name Of
w. Dannigkeit, having had some
domestic trouble on the previous
night, yesterday morning went
out to the graveyard, where he
has child buried, and shot him
self with fve-shooter, and fell
upon the grave of his child. He
evidently intended to shoot HIM
self through the heart, but the
ball went below and into bis sto'
mach. He was taken to the in-
firmary, though DR.. Clay informs
us that he will not recover
South Western.
Year: 1870




Shun evil speaking. Deal
tenderly with the absent; say
nothing to infiict a wound on
their reputation. They may be
wrong and wicked, yet your
knowledge oft does not oblige
you to disclose their character,
except to save others from in
jury. Then do it in a way that
bespeaks a spirit of kindness to
the absent offender. Be not
hasty to credit evil reports
They are often the result of
misunderstanding, or of evil de-
sign, or they proceed from an
exaggerated or partial disclo-
sure of facts. Wait and learn
the whole history before you
decide; then believe just what
evidence compels you to, and
no more. But even then, take
heed not to indulge the least
unkindness, else you disipate
all the spirit of your prayer for
them, and unnerve yourself for
doing them good.
Year: 1870

Would you be exempt from
uneasiness, do nothing you
know or suspect to be wrong; ;
and if you want to enjoy the
purest pleasure, do everything
in your power that you are con-
vinced is right.
Year: 1870

WISCONSIN sends US another dog. story.
Tbs owner Of dog got drunk and lay down
on the Railroad track to sleep, with mono
but the dog to keep him company. The
whistle of su approaching train shrieked in
the startled ear of night; the faithful dog
tugged AT bis masters clothes and tore them
in bis efforts TO waken him. His Efforts
proved in vain, and the dog took the man
by his shoulder and fairly dragged him from
the track just as the train came along. The
man was saved, but the poor faithful dog
was struck by the cowcatcber and killed.
tls faithful owner, when be awoks from
bis siupor, gathered up the pieces and rev-'
erently buried them
Year: 1870

The question of the introduction OF Texas
cattle is again exciting the stock men Of
eastern and southern Oregon as it is under
stood large drove is on the way to Cali.
fornis and Oregon. They intend to adopt
decisive measures, if necessary, to prevent
the introduction Of diseased cattle.
Year: 1870

burst, a gentleman living near, and who had
desired TO stop the insane proceeding before,
but knew not exactly how to proceed told her
husband she was crazy and to get a chain aud
fasten her, where she could no longer do mis-
chief. She at once fed and was pursued, caught,
and secured, and at once the rest of her fol-
lowers gathered round, and seemed for the first
time TO become aware of the mischief they b I'd
wrought. They thanked Mr.. burst greatly for
breaking the spell Jane had thrown over them =
went to their now almost ruined fields and CON-
menced work again in good earnest-the parties
having kept and returned to them their stock,
farming utensils, etc. They are now however,
without the necessary apparel and food to ena-
BILE them to work successfully. The excitement
lasted some ten days, and all that time no work
was done by these deluded creatures.


Until the confinement of the old woman
every one of her commands were obeyed, aud
from what we have narrated none can doubt
that II she had commanded her followers 90
commit murder among the whites they woild
have essayed to do it. In the case of the negro
man beaten she commanded them to beat him
to death, unless he joined their band. But for
Mr.. burst, he would have been killed outright.
Year: 1870

The death of DR.. Nadal viii be great surprise
and shock to the Church OF which he was such
jealous and efective member. Letters were re-
ceived from him in this city on Saturday, at the
time OF writing which he was apparently in his
usual health. Even as late as yesterday there was
no token OF his approaching decease, which took
place very suddenly at O'Clock this morning. A
few months ago HIS son appointed by the Presi-
dent and confirmed by the Senate as Assistant
residing
Year: 1870

CLEVELAND, June 20-Riehard G. Tong was
fatally stabbed by Thomas Day, in saloon on
Broadway Extension on Saturday night. The
wounded man died ten minutes after the blow
was struck. Day was under the influence of
liquor, and mistook Tong for man with whom
be had had an alteration in the early part of
the even irg.
Year: 1870

Mark Twain says of his horse: II have
a horse by the name Of Jericho. lie is q
mare. | have seen remarkable horses be-
fore, but none so remarkable as this.
wanted a horse that would shy, and this fills
the bill. had an idea that shyng indica-
ed spirit If it was correct, have got the
most spnite horse on earth. lie SHES at
everything he comes across with the utmost
impartiality. He appears to have u mortal
dread of telegraph poles especially; and ii
is fortunate that these are on both sides of
the road, because, rs it is now, never fall
offtwice in succession on the same side.
If | fell on the same side always, II
would get monotenous after while. The
creature has SHE'D at everything he has seen
to-day, except a hay stack. He walked up
to that with an intrepidity and reckessness
that was astonishing. And it would fill
any one with admiration to see how he
preserved his selEpossession in the presence
of a barley stack. This daredevil bravery
will be the death of this horse some day.
H. is not particularly fast, but think he
will get me through the Holy Land. He
has only one fault. His tail has been chop
ned off, or else he sat down on it too hard
some time or other, and has to fight the flies
with his heels. This is all very WE'LL bit
when he tries to kick a fly OF the top OF
his head with his hind foot it is too much
of a variety. He is going to get himself
into trouble that way some day. He reaches
round and bites my legs, TOO. ldonnt care
particularly about that. only do not like
to see horse to sociable."