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Year: 1876

they would, no doubt, hardly have
more than a few moments
attention. But men of letters are
few now; we have writers of scien-
tifc books and learned books, and
these are often ably written, but let
ters are not cultivated now for their
own sake, for the mere pleasure Of
COUGHING fine thoughts in fine Ian
guage; and when we come across
some waif of the grand literary
epoch which has just come to a
close, we are both charmed and sur


prised as by some unexpected and


extraordinary discovery"
Year: 1876

Every church has its Pope or Popes
that is, one man or few men in it's
membership who rule it, or aspire to
rule it. They sit in judgment on can
didates. They decide whe shall be
deacons. They make out the slate fer
the officers in the church and in the
society. Sometimes they are good
men and sometimes they are bad men.
In either case their power Is immense.
The smaller the church the more DOM
mating they are. Sometimes they
have money. The minister is de-
pendent on them for support, and he
is soon made to feel his necessities.
He stands in fear of them as the Irish
peasant stands in fear of the landlord
who can turn him and his children into
the street, and send them out shelter
less, without a home or bread. These
fellows are bullies. They have the
Pope's power, without the Poee's
suavity and diplomacy. There are
scores of ministers in the country who
have been turned out of their pulpits
by such men. There are scores of
ministers who have had the bread ta-
ken out of their mouths and out of
the mouths of their children by their
Vaccinations. Congregationalism is
only such in name. In reality, one
man rules. And the one man power
in church has in it the very essence
of papacy.-Protestanl Paper.
Year: 1876

Pay no attention to slanderers and
gossip mongers. Keep straight OH in
your course and let their back biting
die the death of neglect. What is tx c
use of lying awake nights brooding
over the remark of some false friend,
that runs through your brain like
lightning. What is the use of getting
into a worry and fret over gossip that
has been set afioat to your disadvaa-
tage by some meddlesome busy body


who has more time than character ?
The things cannot possibly lnjure you
unless, indeed you take notice of them
and in combating them give them
standing and character. If what is
said about you is true, set yourself
right; if it is false let it go for what it
will fetch. If bee sting you would
you go to the hive to destroy it !?
Would not thousand come upon you.
1t is wisdom to say little about the in
juries you have received. We are gen.
orally losers in the end if we stop to
refute all the backbiting and gossip
ings we may hear by the way. They
are annoying, it is true, but net dam
gerous, so long as we do not stop to
or scold. Our characters
are formed and sustained by ourselves,
by our own actions and purposes, and
not by others. Let US bear in mind
that "calumniators may usually be
trusted to time and the slow but steady
justice of public opinion"
Year: 1876

Colonel Finnigan was a Florida
planter, wealthy and hospitable.-
Towards the poor he was always kind,
and even the shiftless he would not
turn coldly away. A man who had
often been the object of his bounty
was uamed Jake Hartruff. Jake was
a squatter in the woods, where he had
log cabin and a small clearing. Upon
this land he sometimes raised corn,
and with his gun ne captured game.
OF the game he ate the flesh and traded
the skins for whisky. Long before
the Winter was over he was sure to
be out of corn, in which emergency
he would bring his bag to the Colo
mel for supply, which was generally
furnished. Once upon time Jake
came with his bag very early in the
season-in fact, Winter had Just set
in.


"Why, how's this, Jake?" demand
ed Finuigan. sSeems to me you are
rather early in your call for corn"


'Well. Colonel, fact is my crop
failed this yer season."


sFailed! How is that? I thought
this had been an uncommonly good
season for corn."


"Yaas, s'pose it has, Colonel. Bat
y'see forgot to plant"
Year: 1876

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We have before us now on our table
a specimen which is one half anthar-
cite coal and the other half solidified
sediment that four years ago was all
soft sediment. For over four years
there had been i'll use in the Indian
Ridge shaft of the Philadelphia and
Reading coal and iron company, this
district, a wooden pipe, about six inch
es in diameter, made of inch boards
nailed together, which served to carry
the water from one of the rings of the
shaft TO q lower level. The rings are
boxes around the sides of the shaft
which catch the water coming out of
the rock, slate or coal, and are put in
to prevent the water from falling
down and making a regular shower
bath of the shaft. At the ring in
question large spring in the slate,
about thirty feet below the Primrose
vein, had been struck, the water from
which is apparently as clear as crystal
Some four months since it was found
that this wooden pipe had become SO
clogged with the reddish brown sedi-
ment that is deposited by all mine
water, that the open space in it was
not more than two inches in diameter
aud not large enough to carry of the
water from the ring. Consequently a
new pipe was put in, and the old one,
nearly closed with sediment adhering
TO its sides, was left standing, The
water was then turned into the new
pipe and cut off from the old one,
which is some fifty feet or over in
length. On Friday last, after remain
ing in the shaft without any water
passing through it for over four
months, the greater part of this old
pipe was taken down, and VIII Ell bro
ken open the wonderful phenomenon
presented itself that the sediment was
gradually changing into what appears
to be anthracite coal. About half an
inch of the inside of the sediment lin
ing the pipe has changed into coal,and
the semainder was also gradually
changing, the only portions OF the sed-
iment remaining quite soft being that
part deposited first and next the sides
of the pipe. A cross section of the
pipe now shows, commencing at the


center, first circle of about half an
inch in diameter surrounding the two
inch opening still remaining in the
pipe, then a circle of sediment partly
turned into coal, and then the sedi-
Year: 1876

ment in its natural state, and the side;
! of the pipe. The surface of sediment
which was exposed to the action oi


the atmosphere has changed first, and
the same influences of chemical COM


binations which had changed its ma
ture were gradually operating on the
rest of the sediment. The process of
formation is plainly seen in the sedi-
ment next that already turned into
coal.


Samples of coal taken from the pipe
have been tried on the blacksmith fire
at the. colliery. and it makes an ex-
-ceedingly hot fire, but being of soft
er nature than the anthracite, it clink-
ers badly. Fortunately there are any
quantity of samples of this wonderful
formation, and those who are unwill-
ing to believe without themselves
seeing and touching, can be accom-
modated. There is no Keely motor
business about this discovery. A Sec
ton of the shaft about sixteen feet
long has been left standing in the
shaft to see what results will follow
in the next six months or year. Sam
Piles have also been sent to Gen.
Peasants at Pottsville, for examina-
ton, and we suppose the public will
soon have the opinion of gentlemen
qualified to judge on this surprising
formation-but if anthracite coal will
form from sediment deposited by
mine water when exposed to the
action Of the atmosphere under
certain conditions for period short
as four months, what becomes of all
the pet theories of the geologists and
mining engineers on the subject p
How about the great heat, the mil
lions of years of time and tremendous
pressure which, according to the var
ious theories OF the heretofore accept
ed authorities were necessary 10 ac-
count for our deposits Of the finest
and best fuel yet found?
Year: 1876

In Burmah if two married persons
are tired of each others society, they
dissolve partnership in the following
impressive manner. They light two
candles, and, shutting up their hut, sit
down and wait quietly unlil they are
burned out. The one whose candle
burns out first gets up at once and
leaves the house (and forever), taking
nothing but the clothes he or she may
have on at the time all else becomes
the property of the other party.
Year: 1876

The adjourned meeting of the creditors of
Saturday and the plan of settlement proposed
at the former meeting adopted. The trustees
named are Messrs. Chas. Allen, VIM. B. Ba.
COD, and Willard p. Phillips. The scheme
must have legislative sanction, and commit
mittee of bondholders will present it to the
General Court of Massachusetts, at an early
day. Gen. Butler made suggestion that the
rate of interest for the first three years was too
large. He also told the stockholders that by
this plan there was prospect of keeping the
stock alive and of its becoming of value at some
future day, while bankruptcy would wipe the
stock out of existence at once


Speaking of the plan adopted the Boston
Journal says 1t is entirely in the interest of the
bondholders. The stockholders have small
show of having their rights in the franchise of
the road sept III existence. If the road should
net sufficient to pay the interest on the new
$15,0O0,O 900 bonds after a mortgage is secured.
then the stock will continue to have specula-
tive value. If the road again defaults the
stock will 60 cut Of existence. The property of
the road through gross msmanagement Is
held for debt which is iD excess of the value
OF the road. The bondholders therefore pro-
pose to secure by mortgage all there is. If the
road ever becomes so remunerative that the
earnings exceeds the interest on the indebted.
ness, the surplus will be applied to a sinking
fund to reduce the principal of the debt When
the debt shall have been reduced to ten mil
lions, which is the estimate value of the road,
then and not till then will the stock have a
show of receiving dividend
Year: 1876




Mr.. Blaine is not responsible because Rem
Hill chose to fly off the handle. If a man
cannot venture to comment with some sever
ity on JEFF. Davis in the Congress of the
United States it becomes pertinent to in.
quire what the war was all about and how it
ended. .-Sprtnafeld Union.


After L. Quintus CurLius Lamar of Mis-.
sissipi had been nominated for Senator by
the Democratic caucus, the other day, he re-
turned thanks for the nomination to an office
adorned by the craftsmanship of a Brown
and Davis" The Davis, to whose genius
and craftsmanship he thus refers, is MIR. ].
Davis of Andersonville.


In answer to the clear and forcible arraign-
ment of Jefferson Davis as one who should
be held forever unworthy of public life, be-
cause he had helped and had not averted the
horrors of Andersonville, Cox can rise to no
higher level than to accuse Mr.. Blaine of
aspiring to the Presidency, can excite no
deeper approval than the bracketed laughter
which must be to him somewhat as the sight
of his motley must be to the wearied harle-
quin. Does he not know that when the
question as to whether an amnesty shall or
shall not include JEFF Davis is before the peo-
PIE of this country, there is no man in it who
cares snap of his finger whether Mr.. Blaine
has Presidential aspirations or not ?-St.
Louis Globe Democrat.


We do not regret this debate. Forgiveness.
reconciliation, and mutual good will are ad-
mirable, ifgenuine, but the pretence of them
is not admirable. Let US understand each
other; hollow truce and simulated amity
are not good materials with which to cement
the rebuilded structure of our national union.
If we have been trying to bind its stones to-
gether with such treacherous material, the
sooner we find out our mistake the better.
Ii we cannot have the good will of our South
ern brethren without forsaking our political
principles, and confessing that those prlnci-
Piles are essentially false and mischieyous. as
Mr.. Hill says, we ought to know il if they
have been led to believe that we are ready
to make that sacrifice for that object, they
ought TO learn their mistake.-Worcester
Spy.


Mr.. Hill, indeed says that the the South
will never again try secession; what it pro-
poses, then, is to gain all its ends by coalition
with the Centennial folks, now, for subsidies
all round; with the West afterwards for the
same end; and generally to do anything and
vote any money which will give further po-
litical power to the south. This is very nat
ural. What the South lost in an appeal to
arms it is attempting to regain by diplomacy
and bargaining. All that we propose is to
keep In view the game as it progresses, so
that whether the secession which failed in
the field shall or shall not succeed in the
forum. we shall know what is going on before
it is too late to offer protest. II the speech
OF Mr.. Hill is as he says, q conciliatory one,
Year: 1876

have not enjoyed good health for several years
past yet have not allowed it to interfere with my la
Dor. Every one belonging to the laboring class
knows the inconvenience of being obliged to labor
when the body from debility, almost refuses to per-
form its daily task never believer in dosing
with medicines but having heard the VEGETINE
spoken of so highly, was determined to try it, and
shall never regret that determination. AS tonic
(Which every one needs at same time) it surpasses
everything ever heard Of 1t invigorates the whole
system; it is great cleanser and purifier of the
blood. There are many of my acquaintances who
have taken it, and all unite in praise OF its satisfac
tory effect.


Especially among the aged class of people, it i'm
parts to them the one thing most needfu in old age
nights Of calm, sweet repose thereby Strengthening
the mind as well as the body One aged lady, who
has been suffering thr ough life from scrofula, and
has become blind through its effects, having tried
many remedies with no favorable result was induced
by friends to try the VEGETNE. After taking few
bottles, she obtained such great relief that she
pressed wish for her sight, that she might be able
to look upon the mau who had sent her such bles
sing. Yours respectfully,


o. p. H. HODGE, Police Officer, Station 6.


BOSTON, Mass, May 9, 1871.
Year: 1876

THE MUTUAL COUNCIL ABANDoNED.-T
proposed mutual council for the settlement of
the matter at issue between Plymouth church
and Mrs. MOulton has fallen through. In ar
ranging the list for the council the names of
DR.. Storrs and DR. Buddington were included.
After they had announced that they would
probably accept the invitation, the committee of
Plymouth Church entered a protest against
their serving, or the ground that they
were partial and had emnity against the
church. When some of the other churches
heard that DR.. Storrs' and DIR. Buddington's
churches would be- left out they also declined
to serve, and the council was therefore upset.
Mrs. Mouton was apprised of the fact of the
withdrawal of the churches and the disarrange-
ment of the list, and her counsel, Mr.. Van
Cott, Friday, sent long letter to the Ply
mouth Church committee refusing to treat with
them any further in relation to the mutual
council, and sharply reprehending the course
they had pursued in rejecting the churches Sc
lected. He thought the action of the church
would be considered by all just men deliber.
ate attempt TO avoid investigation. Letters of
Drs. Storrs and Buddington were enclosed with
Van Colts communication to the com mittee.


After the prayer meeting at Plymouth church
Friday night Mr.. Beecher addressed the aud
fence in relation to the mutual council He
was glad, he said, to inform them that the 9TH
er side had withdrawn and had thrown up the
mutual council The announcement was
greeted with loud applause, and the speaker
continued, telling them they knew nothing
of the affair, and should not express even o
pedal opinion in relation to the matter. They
desired to put all the trouble possible on the
back of Plymouth church, that poor camel of
Congregatioualism. We simply said that these
charges should be examined and they have now
backed down from that examination because
we object to some of their churches. The
speaker never believed the council was asked
for by Mrs. .Moulton with any degree of sim
cerity, and it was never declined by the church.
This declination on their part to go on, madeft
imperative to invoke the advisory council,
which the church had adjourned, to investigate
the matter and determine whether or not the
church had acted properly. They should issue
at the earliest possible moment the letter mis-
sive calling it. If he was to consult his own
temperament he would open a church and
preach in an entirely different way to that
which he was now pursuing. The church was
willing to accept suggestions from wise men of
the Brotherhood about, and would only ask that
those who gave such advice would do so as
friends and with the proper spirit. This was
followed by applause, and Brother Edgarton
took the chair, and Mr.. Shearman read the re-
port of the committee
Year: 1876

The amnesty debate has served to show
that there is bitter feeling yet in the North
against Jefferson Davis because of the An
dersonviile atrocity. There are many who
still regret that his name does not appear in
the list of the American dead with sus. per
coll. 1865, written after it.
Year: 1876

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


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

| A few days ago Judge Abel, of the
First District Court. wrote a short pam


phlet OF sixteen pages, entitled "a
Review Of Misrule, Greed and Plumber


in Louisiana for Eight Years Past"
Several hundred s6pies of this were


published and directed by the Judge to
various friends and leading citizens for
their perusal and consideration. Quite
number Of copies directed to the coun-
cred. The others. however, directed to
city gentlemen appeared to have attract
ed the attention or inquisitiveness OF
some clerk or other official in the post
office. This conscientious officer broke
open the papers and read the pamphlet.
Evidently the contents were unpleasant
to him; probably he found himself
personally and by name referred to,
for on the next day Judge Abel
received all bis pamphlets back again.


with the notice that there was not
enough postage on them. He had
placed q two cent stamp on each pamph-
let, sufficient to send q printed docu


ment OF ten times the weight of this
short essay. These stamps were care
fully erased and scratched, but the post
office officials demanded six cents post
age. On the margin OF page Is Judge
Abel had inserted in ink the words
giving Them" by slip of the pen left
out in the original manuscript and
printed copy. Such a correction, he
was informed, was, by the new postal
laws, sufficient TO change entirely the
character of his pamphlet and make
letter postage payable on it. 1t was no
longer pamphlet but became letter.
Probably had it been Radical cam
paign document, the officials might not
have been 50 conscientious and scrupu-
Year: 1876

A spontaneous and enthusiastic uprising of
the Northern people within the last few days,
evinced by recent advices up to this evening at
headquarters. leaves no doubt about the cleo
ton of Hayes and Wheeler by large majority
of electoral votes. The evasiye and valueless
promises of Mr. Tilden with the stereotyped
and reluctant approval forced by him from q
lew Southern Democratic committees not to
press rebel war claims for loss or damage to
property, although still demanding payment to
rebels as we'll as to loyal persons of about two
thousand millions of dollars claimed in their
bills before Congress for supplies furnished or
taken, or for the use and occupation of proper-
ty, have failed to produce conviction in the face
of overwhelming evidence of their contrary
purposes, and have alarmed, instead of quiet
ing the people of the North. The imminent
danger to the public credit and to reyiving
commerce and manufactures, if the payment Of
the national debt is to depend on a government
oil men whose rebellion that debt was created
to suppress, has aroused the merchants and
business men of New York, and of the country;
the violation over nearly half the territory OF
the nation, by intimidation and murder of the
fundamental republican principle that the bal
lot shall be freely chosen and safely cast, is
rallying United North to put down promptly
this new Southern rebellion. With this up
rising of Northern sentiment every Northern
State will probably be carried for Hayes; the
frauds in New York city can be prevented, and
the Democratic city majority kept down to
such an amount that the larger Republican
majorities elsewhere will not fail to overcome
it, and secure decided majority in the state
for Hayes and Wheeler. The three Pacific
coast states and New Jersey are believed to be
surely Republican, and there is good fighting
chance for Indiana, while the information from
North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida and
Louisiana shows that in spite OF the murder
Gus opposition of Tilden Democrats, those
Southern States will give majorities for Hayes.
The systematic and prearranged boastings from
the Tilden headquarters in New York are only
desperate expedients to avert the Inevitable re-
suit.


The Republicans of the country have only
to perform their full duty, and every man go
early to the polls, and the triumph OF Hayes
and Wheeler will be overw whelming.


q. CHANDLER,


Chairman National Republican Committee.


November l.
Year: 1876

The pending Presidential election is regard
ed with more interest and anxiety by the in
telligent citizens of the country than any
other election in the past history of the ma
tion. Nor is it to be wondered at, for on the
result depends the veal or woe of the Repub-
lie. A Democratic victory means radical
change in every branch of the. Government,
the return to active power of elements that
have been regarded for the past fifteen years
as dangerous to the peace and perpetuity of
the Government. What will be the effect of
this radical change? Can any sane man be-
lieve that it will be advantageous to the pros
perity of the nation? Is it not reasonable to
suppose that it will have depressing nfu-
ence on our credit, and seriously impair the
value of our securities both at home and
abroad? Letters from Europe and from the
financial centers of this country strengthen
this suppositon. Distrust accompanies the
very possibility of Democratic success, and
it is safe to say that but few investments will
be made in American securities until the bal
lot-box shall decide that the Government is
to continue in the hands of those who believe
in maintaining its credit, and who favor
keeping good faith with every one of its cred
itors.


The people must be aroused to the real
dangers ahead. Our free institutions, our
credit, our national safety. all depend upon
the continued supremacy of the Republican
party. The results OF the war are in peril,
the freedom OF millions is endangered, and it
remains to be seen whether the evils which
threaten us are to be accepted by the people
or promptly rejected at the ballot-box by an
overwhelming Republican vote.
Year: 1876

HAS tne Ooutn cnanSeuI


Every man who votes for Mr.. Tilden and a
Democratic Congress votes to place the Govern
ment in the hands of the old rebel element
Mr.. Tider's only chance is in a solid South aud
lis Northern sympathzers. His election in
stalls the solid South in power.


What man in his senses believes those who
fought against the Government have changed
their spirit and disposition? What lover of his
country is so wild as to think it safe to trust
them with power.


Could any greater madness be conceived thar
to hand over the Government to those who but
yesterday were in arms against it? The public
credit, the security of the debt, protection
against claims, stable aud sound manage.
ment of the finances, the maintenance of the
war guarauties-can these be wisely confded to
party of which the solid South is the master?


No man in his right mind could answer yes.
Nothing but partisan bliadness could tolerate
it. See to it that you are in no way RESPONSE
BILE for such danger.