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Year: 1876

Elihu Burrtt says, "Thoussnds of fellow
beings will yearly enter eternity with char
acters differing from those they would have
carried thither had | never lived"


This is solemn thought, and should keep
US watchful every moment of our life, lest
We make the wretchedness of soul formed
for eternal bliss.


The true child of God, walking in the
light Of. his heavenly Fathers face, will re-
feet that brightness all around hin, SO that
whoever comes within the sphere of his in.
fuence will be blessed and helped by it.


Every man, women and child is q minister
of good or i'll to the world. We may as we
have remarked, shine and illumine, or we
may overshadow, darken and mislead. We
may SOW the seeds Of righteousness and
peace, or Of discord, sorrow and death where.
ever we 60.


1t is perpetual joy to feel ones self the
light of a loving and beloved circle, and to
know that the source of this glad influence
is in God.


1t must be fearful burden to be conscious
that those about US owe their unhappiness,
and their own misdoing to our evil temper
and example, and that the inspiration of
such life is from the Devil.


May our Lord help us to be careful in
leading thers.--Advocate and Guardian.
Year: 1876

entire defeat. This they never could have
done but for DR.. Hoge's speech and all it
brought with it. Such am confident would
be the testimony of three fourths of the As
sembly.


On this one point of the position you have
placed me in, as to all my opponents, and
DR.. HOge especially, l have thus felt quite
free to address you in reply. On some
other matters in your editorial my own self
respect>Sill prevent my saying anything in
particular. In general, have to remark
that if it was, as appears, your design and
expectation to wound my feelings ION my
part there was no thought or design to wound
DR.. Hoge's or any other person's), you GER
tainly have in a measure succeeded. /
should be sorry, I confess, to have my
brethren generally think as badly of me as
your article may be understood to represent
me. And yet let me assure you that this is
not the aspect in which | am disposed to
consider the present affair. Unfair or un-
kind criticisms in type l do not mind, being
used to them. But l feel that our Church
is in danger from within as we'll as from
without, and on that account | dread every
thing like divisions and animosities. In my
Review of the Assembly repeat that did
not dream of arousing, nor can l admit that
l said anything that should have aroused
such feelings. You say l was sore about
something, Well, if was, l certainly did
not know that l was sore, and as certainly |
had no cause to be sore. | got in that de-
bate about all | wanted. l had no accounts,
as you intimate that l had, to settle with
anybody, and especially none with DR..
HOge. All | had in mind was to make
fair and full record and exhibition of the
important question under debate. And |
had the very same right to give my own
views of what was said and done that the
editors of our weekly papers possess and
employ.


What 1 regard then as your personalities
l am content to let pass without further
challenge; but having publicly put me into
an attitude towards DR.. Hoge which l am
not willing to sustain before your readers, l
confidently rely on your sense of justice to
obtain the opportunity of setting myself
right on that point by your publication of
this letter. 1t seems to me that / may pro-
perly complain of your representing me as
under such "prejudices' respecting any of
my opponents as put me into "a state not to
do them justice" and accordingly make me
"untrustworthy;" and especially l have
right to complain of your saying that l have
perverted any declaration of DR.. Hoge's.


| am truly yours,


JNo. B. ADGER.
Year: 1876

The ruby-throat has sometimes been tanned.
Mr.. Webber, in his "Wid Scenes and Song
Birds" says, after several unsuccessful at
tempts, at last Il succeeded in securing an
injured captive, which, to my inexpressi.
bic delight, proved to be one of the ruby
throated species, the most splendid and di


minutive that comes north of Florida. 1t
Immediately suggested itself to me that
mixture of two parts of loaf-sugar, with one
of fine honey, in ten of water, would make
about the nearest approach to the nectar of
flowers. While my sister ran to prepare it
| gradually opened my hand to look at my
prisoner, and saw to my no little amusement
as we'll as suspicion that it was actually play
ing possum' -feigning to be dead, most skill.
fully. 1t lay on my open palm motionless
for some minutes, during which | watched it
in breathless curiosity. | saw it gradually
open its bright little eyes to peep whether
the way was clear, and then close them slow
ly as it caught my eye upon it. But when
the manufactured nectar came, and drop
was touched upon the point of its bill, it
came to life very suddenly, and in moment
woo oh i'o ieSo, WINNING, "isn ooS0i Suo'o Va
the refreshing draught from silver teaspoon.
When sated it refused to take any more, and
sat perched with the coolest self composure
on my finger, and plumed itself quite as ar.
tiStically as if on it's favorte spray. was
enchanted with the bold, innocent confidence
with which it turned up its keen black eyes
to survey US, as much as to say "Well,
good folks who are your By the next
day it would come from any part of either
room, alight upon the side of white China
cup containing the mixture, and drink eager
ly, with its long bill thrust into the very
base. 1t would alight on my fingers, and
seem to talk with US endearingly ip its soft
chirps.' Mr., Webber afterward succeeded
in tanning several of the same species. He
gave them their liberty occasionally, and
they returned regularly. At the time for
migration they left for the winter; but the
next Spring they sought their old quarters,
and accepted the delicious nectar kindly pro-
vided for them, and By degrees brought their
mates.-Popular Science Monthly.
Year: 1876

The Staunton Vindicator gives an inter


es,ing account of an old lady who had had
series of distressing providences in her
family, perils by lightning, by fire, by water,
and yet her faith fails not.


" Are you Christian?' we asked, as the
old lady was concluding her story.


Yes, she replied, her eyes filling with
tears; Il have served God in the Methodist
Church for forty years. The people of that
Church have been very kind to me-.


The conversation was listened to by her
two grand children-,one wasted looking
little boy of four, and the other a bright
little girl of six. The boy had chills and
fever.


Bidding the old lady adieu, we left. Few
women have had violent death rained into
the family circle in such pitiless storm, but
she seemed never to have lost faith in Him
who sendeth the rain on the just and the un-
just alike. Speaking to her of the terrific
thunder of Sunday, We asked if she was not
frightened, in view of one death already from
that cause in her family. 'Oh, no. she
replied; Il was sitting by the window read
ing Sunday school paper. My daughter
was frightened, though. This trusting old
woman, who in forty years of serving God
had lost one son by drowning, daughter by
lightning, and last son by accident, and is
now suffering from the direst poverty, at
tended by disease, still felt quite safe in the
hands of Him who had chastised her 80
What a sermon it is! Doctrines have
changed since this woman commenced her
forty years tuition men have been born
and become prelates and died full of honors
since this humble scholar entered the school
Of the Great Teacher; women have entered
it and left the irksome tasks and gone back
into the world, and some have remained, and
are ripening for the harvest; and yet this
gray haired scholar, at the foot of her class
in all that this world can give, still remains
faithful to the end. She cannot understand
why the Master has been so hard with her.
She does not complain of it; she can see no
way out of it; but her failing eyes still see
in her copy-book what the Master has set for
her: Be thou faithful unto the end, and l
will give thee crown of life.'


There are some of the scholars who are
not old, nor poor, nor sick. Isn't it a part
Of their lesson to see about this aged ono :?
Year: 1876

The publication of these volumes will be
o pleasure to thousands of the admirers of
the brilliant essayist, historian, orator, poet,
statesman and conversationalist, wherever
the English language is spoken or the litera-
ture of England is known. Many all over
the civilized world have been eagerly look
ing forward to the appearance of the prom
ised biography. Nor will they be disap-
pointed either in the contents of the work or
the method of its execution. Singularly for
tunate in his life, Macaulay was scarcely
less fortunate in his biographer, who to a
thorough knowledge of all the incidents and
details of his life and cordial appreciation
of his character and abilities, added gene
raj sympathy with his views literary and po-
litical All this he has the tact to bring out
without too obtrusive an exhibition of the
partiality of the kinsman.


The work abOunds not only with interesting
facts and anecdotes connected with its imme-
date subject, but with almost all the leading
men in literature, science and craftsmanship
and society of the last and of the present
generation. Macaulay was one of the most
diligent of mortas. His power of work was
amazing. With all his readiness, with all
mis- brilliancy, with his incredible quickness
of apprehension in seizing upon the sub
stance of book, and his unrivalled powers
of memory-he was as unweared in dill.
gence as the dullest plodder. He would take
an amount of trouble to make the smallest
correction to insure the utmost accuracy in
a date or name. In this, as in so many other
things, he forms a striking contrast to an
other great English historian, David Hume,
distinguished alike for his charming tact in
telling story, and for his powers of acute
analysis and subtle reflection. Hume work,
with all its faults and all its defects, is likely
to keep its place permanently; and its place
is high one in the bright roll of English
historians and of the histories of England
and yet it is reported of him that with all his
intellectual energy, he was so lazy and SC


regardless of accuracy that he would not


cross his library and take down book from


the shelf to verify reference. should moi


like to Vouch for the truth of this statement


1t may have been sheer invention or gross
exaggeration, but even if an invention it suf
fciently indicates the notorious character o


the man.


Macaulay, on the other hand, would per
form long journeys to survey the sight of
great battle, or seige, or massacre, to mari
f all that was characteristic in the scene o
: conducive to the event, and to note tn
/ changes which time had made in the natura
{ aspects of celebrated spots. His ideal o
o excellence, ike that of many great artists
o was very high. Cicero used to say that hi
o orations delighted his friends, but rarely SAT
q is6ed himself. II is likely that Macaula
Year: 1876

The steady growth Of the churches under
the labors of their pastors is very easily dis
covered by comparison of the Minutes of
one year with some preceding one. By
making such comparison between the last
Minutes and those of 1869 the following re-
suits in this regard are obtained.


In 1869 there were in our Southern
Church only four churches which had over
400 members: according to the last Minutes
there are now eleven. They are as follows:
and l give the names of the churches, their
membership and their pastors in this article,
for it is we'll for the whole Church to be more
Familiarity acquainted with its individual COM
position.
Year: 1876


1t was December. The wind had been
blowing tempestuously several days, and our
steamer Zone of the Cunarders) could scarcely
buffet the great waves that mounted high
above her side In the midst of anxieties
for our own fate, the stirring report reached
US that a wreck was discovered at distance
with living beings aboard. Our captain was
inclined to make an effort to save them.


"Who will venture out in life -boat?"
he cried, pointing to the signals of distress.
His voice had no tone of command, but
seven sailors came forward at once and
offered their services.


"Too heavy sea, murmured the cap
tain, while the men were proceeding to man
the life.b


l had great desire to see the counte-
nances of men that showed such bravery.
They were standing in the clear sunshine Of
midday, just as they departed. Their faces
were white as death, and each feature was
stamped with an expression of desperate re-
solve. They put out to sea and they reached
the wreck safely. There they found eight
Norwegians, who had been trading at the
West Indies, and their cargo of sugar had
been sunk with everything on board. About
all that was left was the sky-light, on which
they were standing, and which rose two feet
out of water. They had subsisted entirely
on salt pork hauled from the hold. With
scarcely any hope they had hailed our vessel
which looked too stately to stop for so poor
little craft as theirs, even if she observed
them. They made proposal to try their
own shattered life boat, but the sailors would
not consent, we'll knowing she could not live
in the waters.


One by one they were hauled from the
ship with rope tied round their waists. The
worst part was to get them in safety from
the boat to the steamer--the pillows were
rolling SO fearfully high. But it was all
finally accomplished, while the Cunard pas
sengers looked on in state of suspense, as
the frail barque rode the great waves or sunk
below, apparently to rise no mora.


Two dogs had survived the shipwreck,
whom the sailors had no heart to leave be-
hind. One planted himself firmly on the
spot, refusing to move But the other seeing
his friends venture out to sea, tied with a
rope, placidly followed their example and was
received on shipboard He instantly shook
off the briny fluid, and began promenading
the deck at his ease, as if it were the old
ship, aud he the master.


The excitement among the passengers was
increasing, and their liveliest sympathies were
awakened. A purse was raised for the Nor
wegians, 'but their gratitude was of such a
nature that they would not accept it, and
begged it might be transferred to their bene
factors. There was another brief consulta
ton which ended in the raising of second
purse In the ladies' cabin eight little pack
ages of gold were formally presented to the
Norwegians, who by the storm had been de-
prived of everything they possessed on earth
and yet who could not in their own suffer
ings forget their generous friends.
Year: 1876

Although there a small rise of the Of pres
suIe-as shown by the lower diagram-On sunday
compared with Saturday the difference Il enough 10
predict much change in the weather IL is still low
barometer for the There also little alteration
In temperature The humidity OF the air during the fog
which has succeeded saturdays rains is great that II
amounts almost To satuTatiOn.


For this city and vicinity foggy weather will probably
be followed by occasional light rains There not much
prospect OF clearing sky and cooler weather before to-
Year: 1876

A man who will not provide for his
osn household is orsc than a he ath-
Ell. The only sure way to provide
for their sap. or: in case Of y ur death
is by life insurance, only you must
be sure and select souni company
such one is the Centennial Life, OF
Iowa.
Year: 1876

From the sale ~ J0.vD bottles Of
Hale = Cough Cordial sold in the north
west within the past year, ON guar
aniec to refund the money in case Of .
failure TO cure, there were less than
fifty bottles returned, being less than
one failure in = thousand. This fact
Year: 1876

WASHINGTON, April l6.-Regulations
are being prepared at the treasury depart


ment for the issue ofsilver currency under
the new law. Treasurer New has been in
consultation with Secretary Bristow on the
subject to-day. The silver currency will
be issued only as substitute for fractional
currency delivered at the department. 1t
is not yet decided whether the department
will be at the expense of the transportation
of silver to the treasury, to bankers and
others applying therefor. There is now
$4,000, 900 of silver and silver bullion in
the vaults Of the treasury. Enough will
be provided to redeem all the fractional
currency in circulation as rapidly as the
same can be presented.
Year: 1876

Among the pictures which no one who visits the Bel
mont Gallery, open to the public in AID Of tho
Centennial Loan Exhibition. should fall to notice. Is the
'ssave Market" by Geromc. II Is superb specimen
OF tho style OF this celebrated MASTER nno In color.
beautiful in drawing and with extraordinary force OF
expression The impassive figure Of the merchant
in striking contrast tho wretchedness grie shame
and despair revealed in the attitudes aud faces OF tho
slaves who crouch before him.
Year: 1876

So much time has been consumed
by the confederate branch of the
National Assembly in manufacturing
political capital for the Democratic
party that Ii has had no time to At
tend to the Legitimate Of business of
the session--the business for which
II Is paid to do--and Friday last the
Senate was compelled to adjourn un-
Ill the House could find time to at
tend to business. Under pretense
of reform the lower House Ia
spending time uselessiy, protraeting
the session needlessly at All uncalled
for expense, and delaying necessary
legislation.
Year: 1876

Chicago is blessed with two
Mayors-one more than the statute
provides for-but Chicago believes In
doing nothing by halves. Owing to
some technical error in the new char
ter of tho city Mayor Colvin claims
that he Is entitled to hold over, ami
that such action Is demanded In the
interest Of law aud decency, but says
he will vacate immediately If the
Supreme Court Of the State decides
that he Is not the legal Mayor
Hoyne, the "tother fellow" was
elected few weeks since by tho
hummer element, there being no ono
nominated by the respectable portion
Of the citizens. 1t remains for
the Supreme Court to decide tho
matter.
Year: 1876

We expect to be able to publish
the call for the Sixth District Con-
pressional Convention In our next Is
sue. The Chairman Of the Commit
toe is corresponding with the othor
members In regard TO the matter.
AS harmony prevails this year and
candidates are not numerous, IL will
be but small matter TO select our
representative. But what jolly
time the Bourbons will have.
Year: 1876

The Jefferson Bee would have the
choice Of Judicial candidates left to
the members of the bar In the sew
eral Districts. Dad idea. This is q
matter In which tho people are inter.
ested fully as much as attorneys, and
they will not readily submit to be to.
tally excluded from participating in
the selection of suitable candidates
for Judges when they have so much
at stake,
Year: 1876

Michigan Republicans assembled
In State Convention at Detroit last
week and selected delegates To the
Cincinnati Convention. A resolu-
ton 10 instruct the delegates to act
with unanimlty In the selection Of
the best man for the Presidency was
adopted, but no positive instructions
were given as to whom they should
vote for.
Year: 1876

The following sensible advice to
Liberals comes from the New York
Herald, and Is timely and good |:
Still on the fence. Better get down
on one side or another, or you will
|hass'ito sit on the rail till the end OF
the campaign. This Is not the right
time for hesitation"
Year: 1876

appointments and Jobs. Judge Nc
Faaden with genial qualities we'll
calculated to command influence,
allowed his political vanity to get
the better of his sounder judgment,
by permitting himself to be pre-
sented in Congress as the representa-.
tive of party triumph over the
ruling majority. Judge Jacobs has
thus far made no such mistake. He
has not identified himself with any
personal or factional intrigues look
ing to Federal office or patronage,
and has done nothing to make him
self offensive as o partisan. That
he has labored with untiring energy
and zeal for the best interests of his
constituents, promptly attended to
every demand made upon his time
and attention and won the confidence
and respect of all with whom he
has come in contact, We have abund-
ant proof. If the result of his la
bors have not thus far been made
manifest to the public, there are
abundant reasons for that which no
man, under the same circumstances
could have avoided. He entered
Congress at time when the inves-
LEGATIONS of the present Administra-
ton and preparations for the cleo
ton of next, in neither of which he
has any vote, were the absorbing
and overwhelming matters under
consideration. All that could be
done he has done with sincere will
and honest purpose, and has thus
been preparing himself for future
usefulness which can only be
thwarted by the mistake of his con-
stituents in insisting upon a change
to some new man who would have
his lesson to learn without promise
of any better results


In regard to the party phase of
this matter we care nothing. No
political party issues have any prac-
tical connection with Territorial poll
tics. We would choose a Delegate
to Congress as we would choose any
other agent or attorney, with spe-
cial reference to his ability to serve
US without regard to his party affilia-
tions or abstract political notions.
Year: 1876

LIEUT.. CAMERON tells how an African
woman made pottery. First she pounded
enough earth and water for one pot, with
a pestle such as they use in beating corn,
till it formed a perfectly homogeneous
mass. She then put it either on a fiat
stone or on the bottom of another, and
giving it dab with her fist in the mid
die, to form hollow, worked it into a
shape roughly with her hands, keeping
them constantly wet, and then smoothed
out the linger-marks with corn cob, and
finally polished it over with one or two
bits of gourd and a bit of fiat weod--the
bit of gourd giving it the proper curves
and finally ornamentiEg it with sharp.
pointed stick. 1t took forty-ive min.
utes, and then it was put away to dry
four or Gso hours in shady place. The
shapes of many are very graceful, andall
are wonderfully truly formed, like the
amphora in the Villa Diomed, at Pom.
neii
Year: 1876

r SANKEY means to keep right on sing
ing "The Ninety and Nine" lie pre-
faced it in Chicago with the following
story: "Three weeks ago we were hold
ing some meetings at Mortified, Mass.
and after the service gentleman said
with deep emotion: 'When you were
here last year | did not believe in re.
ligion, and would not 90 to your meet.
ings. But one evening, when the church
was too small to hold the people, the
meeting was held in the open air. i was
sitting under the porch of my home, and
a line of that song was waited to me on
the still air of the evening" "Rejoice
for the Lord brings back his own"
began TO feel the force Of the truth that
the Good Shepherd was looking after me
and now |, with my family, belong to
this chnrch.'"
Year: 1876

CosT OF THE GREAT IsTHMus CANAL
John c. Trautwine, an engineer of
great experience, who was connected
with the construction of the Panama
railroad, and who made an exploration
for canal by what is known as the At
tra:ro route, says that no canal can be
constructed across the Isthmus, which
will he satisfactory for less than $780,
100000. He holds that it would not be
possible to construct canal on the most
favorable route without having tide
locks at either end. The rise of the tides
along the Pacific shores of the Isthmu.
range from sixteen to twenty feet, while
the rise on the Atlantic side average,
only about two feet. He thinks that a,
least two tidelocks will be necessary il
order TO check the current, which would
materially impede navigation.
Year: 1876

The leading citizens of Philadelphia
are very much enraged over the refusal
OF the board of Park commissioners Ia
allow the main exhibition building to be
retained permanently upon the centen-
NAL grounds, as was projected by the
Philadelphians, who were in affair way
to raise half million dollars to purchase
the building. The reasons controlling
the commissioners in this decision are
not known.