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Year: 1876




BY WILLIAM B. MUcNOw. Svo. pp. 800. Atlantic PuO-


fishing and Engraving Company.


The revival services held in the Gospel Tent
during the fervent heats of the past Summer we're
crowned with such eminent success as 10 be deemed
worthy Of special memorial in the present volume IL
comprises an interesting history of the origin and pro-
gres Of the movement and the results which IL achleVed
under the ministry Of the Rev. stephen H. Tying r ana
other evangelical preachers, together with cOpous
selection from the dscOurses which were listened
to by immense audiences, and attended, it is
believed, with striking aud salutary effects. The
character of these discourses affords instructive les
son to the student OF the religious aspects OF society
They are remarkable for the singeness of purpose Win
which they aim at the salvation of sonls NO tant OF
doubt OF unbeef impas the marrow and atness 0f TIE
Gospel which is urged upon the hcarer as the sole CON
ditlon of eternal lile The preachers to man, ignore
the subtlees Of modern speculation, waste no time IN
the discussion OF intricate questions which play round the
head touch the heart and not tempted 10
blunt the sword Of the Lord by the demolition OF Gu
rious theories which have as little TO do with tie
pulpit as quadrature of the circle or the discovery OF
asteroids The primal elements Of religion are taken
for granted with such earnesness of conviction that If
the question Of old repeated When the son OF
Man eometh shall he find faith on the earthf every
one would hasten to reply, Among the company or
preachers the Gospel Tent Nor this ervor OF ihth
yated by any lack Of charity The zeal OF the apostle Is
tempcred With OF Christian love- IheteTr"rs
of the Lord are assuaged by the grace of the Gospel The
mild atmosphere Of Zion is not disturbed by the tempest


FIRE and smoke Mount Sinai In this respect the revival
preaching of the "Tent is happily distinguished from
that u President Edwards, Whtefeld, and even from
that Of Lyman Beecher NettetOn, Flnncy' ana Othef
erytongued apostles of the faith in the first hall OF the
present century II is not to be presumed That the
essence of Gospel truth weakened in its efficacy under
the present dspensaton but the medicine Of life Is GER
tally exhibited in attenuated form when makes IL
more palatable, and perhaps not less potent.
Year: 1876

From these comparative statements it
will be seen that we constantly purchase
more than four times as much from Cuba as
we sell to Cuba, whereas without the Spanish
discrimination against us we would probably
sell to Cuba fully rs much as we buy.


There is only one pretext on which the
United States could reasonably ask the Co.
operation of other nations in IN Intervention
in Cuban affairs, and that is on the ground Of
COMMON humanity,-for the express purpose
OF assuring the emancipation Of the slaves,
and to bring to an end the cruelties of war
which otherwise seems to forecast eternal
strife or determination But even on this
ground any action that comes from the
United States had better be independent, so
that there may be not even the appearance OF
abandoning the MONROE doctrine, though we
might join with other Powers when theprop-
osition comes from them If there is to he
any intervention, howsver, it should be on
the broadest International and commercial
grounds, in which independent action on our
part will lead to complete assertion Of oil
our future rights.
Year: 1876

It seems to be admitted that there is some
foundation for the recent Herald dispatch
from Vienna to the effect that the United
States Government has been in communica-
ton with European Governments relative to
8 combined Intervention between Spain and
the native Cubans now in revolt To the
extent that this report is correct, we think
that q serious diplomatic error has been
made. The Cuban question is one of those
matters which the traditions Of our Govern
ment, which were formulated in Mr.. Mon
aoE's message, and sincoknown as the " Mon
ROE doctrine" require should be settled by
the American Government for itself. Any
proposition to European Governments which
contemplates an infringement Of this policy
is an abandonment Of it on the part Of the Gov
ernmeut, and leaves the United States ut u dis
advantage in my future effort to enforce re-
spect for it.


The logic Of the proposed Cuban interven-
ton is clearly Is follows: 1t is question
that Affects the United States Government al
most exclusively, and certainly no other Gov
eraments than those which have now roc
ognized foothold on the American Continent,
Great Britain, Mexico, South America, and
Central American Republics. It is doubtful
even whether the first named can have any
claim to consideration in any disposition
which our own interests, aud the considera-
ton Of international justice, may lead us to
mako Of the question The United States
Government would never dream OF Interior
ing with Great Britain or Russia in any set
uement either should undertake to make Of
tho Turkey question and the same reasons
which would render ouch an interference
impertinent place European Interference
in the Cuban controversy out Of the
question. Ether 1t is proper and polite FOR
the United States Government to intervene
between Spain aud Cuba on account of tho
demonstrated incapacity Of the former to
mnntain in Cuba the sovereignty it asserts,
or such Intervention is not proper or polite.
But in either case the United States Govern
ment must decide for itself. If our rights
and interests suggest such en- Intervention,
the United States Government has ample
power to assert them without counsel OF help
from other nations if not, then the CO.
operation Of other nationo could not justify
US in adopting such course. But it would
be q confession Of weakness at tho very OPEN
ing of the Centennial year Of our national
a1iateuco to call upon foreign Governments
Year: 1876

were put into the bonded warehouse ns ~,
and before shipment were flied mp, the dis
tiller thereby gaining difference Of four
gallons per barrel. Still another method was
the shipment of large amount of distilled
water from the distillery to the rectifying
house, q certain percentage Of the barrels be-
ing fled with whisky. In ways that are
dark anil tricks that are win the Chicago dis
tillers seem to be fully up to their brethren
in ST Louis and other cities
Year: 1876

That our emplayes should have an oppor-
tunity to devote portion Of the first day Of
the year to social duties, The TRIBUNE ap~
pears to-day with but twelve pages Of read
ing matter, instead OF our usual sixteen
Year: 1876

ELwOoD. KANSAS. March 6, 1s76.
EDITOR CHIEF II write you few lines, in tG
the article in yonr last weeks paper from who say
he is Seeker after Truth" will first ask him what
he is infer from what he says in his denunca ton OF
the Bible, that he is will take the negative and
say that he is mule. He go to the Bible for
his proof for that is false from Adam John the Reve-
ator if his position rue and he has put it down
Reason Logic and Truth and have got to believe
Now if he fails to prove that he is man. it stands in
proof or will stand in proof that he is cow mule
or some other lOng-eared animal


He pretends to give advice to Christians, when he
doesn't know the first principles of the doctrines of Christ
have donbt that he understands logic rhetoric tao
tics sheeptcks yearlng ticks seed ticks and all other
kinds of ticks but he doesn't understand the laws of Go
He is reading those old letters that written to his
randfathers by their brothers. trying get
out of them and he cannot get it. and bames the whole
Christian world for it, Although they did write those
letters they did writa them him. if he does find
brothers and sisters have written him. that are in his
trunk desk and apply them to himself he can under
stand them and he will be such loss as he is
now. Let him turn Christ and the veil is taken away
but in reading the old, there remains veil not taken
away to this day


In his quotation the Scripture he reminds me of Sa.
tan when he tried read the Bible Savior on the
mount He had it wrong in every instance-quotng
Scripture that not in the Bibe-and he made offers
to Christ that Seeker woud have taken almost any
of u.s. and at that time, he did not foot of land
advice when he has not got drop of it himself But
feel panied believe are who will give
hearing to his counsel


Mr.. Editor, find that have said than expect
ed although done but will stp for this time.


ZACHEUS
Year: 1876

tF The last number of the Wathena Reporter
is mt specimen of paper to go into families
mat would be corrupted by the Chief 1t has
'iuiS refined and religious tone. If those chaps
VINO cannot stand the Chief don't try to secure
,ne presence of the highly moral aud elevated
heP0r'T at once, they will exhibit carelessness
ana want OF appreciation that is equivalent to a
crime
Year: 1876

lS~ The Reporter manifests lively interest in
the ''Holy War; in Troy. Perhaps this will af-
ford good opening for the Reporter to loc ate
here, since it so inglorOusly failed on the Coun ty
Board. The tremendous influence enlisted in the
new movement is sufficient to sustain paper of
itself. Then, the walk and reputation of tue ed
itor of the Reporter are such that cannot fail to
command the admiration of all who are piously
inclined.
Year: 1876

70 When some of the best citizens of Wathe-
ma send their advertising and job-work to the
Chief Office rather than patronize the moral leper
who runs the virtuOus concern in that town, it
leaves that concern lots of leisure and space to
devote to personal abuse of the editor of the
Chief or to notices of the "Lost Cause" pa
per that frequently doesn't have a new adyer-
tisement in a month, or receive a new subscriber
in three months, is tremendous influence in
the land
Year: 1876

q In another column we publish a commu-
nlcation on SPiritualism. To provide against
any hiSh-toned indignation meetings or mobs for
the purpose of condemning us for it, we will take
occasion to state that we did not write it, and
furthermore, that We consider Spiritualism the
biggest fraud of the age. But perhaps are
laying ourself liable to Spritualist mob, so we
will stop.
Year: 1876

Es he smoke had not ceased ascending from
the ruins of the Nemaha County Court House,
before the question of removing the County
Seat was being agitated. Doniphan County had
the same experience once.
Year: 1876

The work has been begun after long and careful preliminary labor and with the most ample resources for carrying it on to a successful termination.

 None of the original stereotype plates have been used. but every page has been
Year: 1876

In prepa ing the present edition for the press has accordingly been the aim of the editors to bring down the information of the latest possible dates and to

 furnish an accurate account of the most recent discov cries scence of every fresh production in itera- ture and of the newest inventions in the practical arts, we'll as to give asuccinct and original record of he of
Year: 1876

edition have been added not for the sake of pictorial eee but to give greater lucidity and force to the plantations in the text They embrace all branches of

 and remarkable features of scenery architec- ture and art, well the various processes of chanics and manufactures. Although intended for instruction rather than establishment, pains have heen snared to insure their
Year: 1876

The work originally published under the title of THE NEW AMERICAN CYCLOPEDIA was completed in 1885, since which time, the wide circulation which

 has attained in all parts of the United States the signal developments which have taken place in every branch of science literature, and art. have induced thorough revision, and to issue edition entitled
Year: 1876

Van feels justified in saying to the
public that his styles are leading ones,
as he has had his attention called to
the fact several times by seeing cop.
les of his originals issued in town.
Therefore, if you want to get the
originals, and not copies, in the way
Of a stylish hat or bonnet yon are
now well aware that Van can furnish
them at prices that will astonish you
when YOU examine the quality
Goods at head quarters always save
money; and it is a satisfaction to
know that his styles are his own.


7. J. Van SLYcK.
Year: 1876

TIE TRUE DELTA is the furcated
name Of newspaper which Messrs.
Conn & Burton have just started at
our neighboring town Of Clarence.
1t is six column folio. printed all by
themselves we should Judge, and
evidently intends to make of itself a
valuable means of local advancement
and intercommunication. Success
to 1t.
Year: 1876

Now doth the little onion


Poke up his little head.


And the restless little radisll


Stretch in his little bed
and if any young man wants to poke
up his little head with genteel hat
on, or stretch in his little bed with
the happy consciousness of having
worn a respectable suit Of clothes,
Why let him call on CAsAD & GILMORE
they can fix him.
Year: 1876

Council MEETING. The town
council met Saturday evening at the
usual place. After passing upon
sundry bills the following resolution
was unanimously adopted:


Resolred, That all persons that
were exempt from paying poll tax in
the town of Upton by reason of said
persons forming themselves into a
fire company are hereby required to
pay their poll tax as other persons
are under the law. That all acts or
resolutions passed or adopted in
reference to the organization of a
fire company are revoked and the
the company is hereby declared dis.
organized.


Ordinance No. so, published else
where, was adopted, and provisions
made for the setting of pots and
caring for the street lamps, and for
crossing and sidewalk work.
Year: 1876

WHEN the theolOgian takes up politics he
usually lays the stripes on evenly regardless
of party lines. The Rev. DR.. Marvin r. Vim
cent says he sees in the present political con-
test some discouraging aspects, but one fea-
ture makes him joyfal. He sees the moral
and Christian sentiment of the nation loom
Ing up in politics Men whose stamp is set
on the religious culture of the people have
come for the first time and made their infu-
ence felt. He would have US turn for safety
not TO men or parties, but to that old-fash-
ioned piece of political philosophy uttered by
David: "He that ruleth over men must be
just, ruling in the fear of Cod" ''Good and
true men first," he says, "not party men
first, otherwise it will be as in the parable of
the trees, which went out to annoint king
over them. The vine would not leave his
good cheer to run up and down for the other
trees; the fig-tree held by his sweetness; the
olive preferred his oil to the troubles of
Office, and so the bramble came to the throne.
The bramble, which had neither cheer nor
sweetness nor nourishment, but only the fire
which went out of his thorny dryness and
blasted the forest"
Year: 1876

1t occasionally happens, says the New York
World, that woman with her husband or her
lover comes into a crowded street car and
young man whose chivalric feelings have not
been utterly destroyed by constant contact with
the busy world, rises and surrenders his seat to
the lady He takes hold of one of the straps


hanging from the roof of the,car for the con.


venience of passengers to whom all other con-


yeniences of travel are denied, and stands pa


tiently in the aisle with the glow of conscious


well.doing on his ingenious cOuntenance. He


feels that he has done an act of kindness to


damsel in distress; that he has paid due hon.


age to the genter sex; that he has acquitted


himself courteously towards a stranger. He


can therefore, bear with content the elbowing


of the conductor as he pushes in and out, and


tramping of fellow-passepgers upon his toes.


The meek satisfaction of self-sacrIhce exalts


him. Let such ore enjoy the illusions of his


youth while he may, for few moments will


see his reverence for womanhood dssipated


and hard, distrustful cynicism take its place


Invariably after his act of courtesy comes a


sequel of selfshness, as if in bitter mockery.
One of the passengers sitting beside the lady
rises to go out. She slides hastily along so as
to make room for her escort lover or
husband, as the case may be, and that gem
tleman glides quickly into the seat, leaving
the courteous young stranger still hanging to
the strap from the roof, and abiding the buffets
of the conductor. To him the little drama is a
revelation. He sees at once the meanness of
humanity. The holowness of the world and
| the sawdust stuffng in his doll are painfully
manifest. He feels toward the man or woman
| who have disenchanted him as Sir Pelleas did
| toward Gawain and Etarre when he laid his
| naked sword across their breasts. They have
| destroyed ;his faith in his kind. He who has
| been cheated out of his seat by the woman to
| whom he has surrendered his own has touched
| the bottom of all meanness and disgust, and
may 90 through life confident that he will
never again experience such a sensation ol
| cheapness and weakness as he did when ht
| saw the couple to whom he had been so courte
Gus complacently settle close to each other ant
| smile in blissful forgetfulness of his existence
| Even the fiends arch mock would be bearab
| to the victim of such misery.
Year: 1876

y
In conformity to the proclamation of the Pres-
dent of the United States, and by the advice of the
Executive Council, do hereby appoint
Thursday, the Thirtieth day of November,


Instant,


AS a day OF PUBLIC THANKSGIVING AND PRAISE to
Almighty God, and recommend to the people of
THIS State the employment of the day thus set apart
IN otermg the grateful Acknowledgements due to Him
1or the well being of country our State and our
homes during the year that has passed, and in pre-
ferrng our petitions for the continuance of His low
ing kindness towards us.


The custom of our fathers endears to us the hold
ing o. family festivals upon that day as beautiful
and appropriate feature of its observance If amid
the gadness Of happy reunions of parents and chill
dren and children's children round common
hearthstone our gratitude for the good that we and
ours enjoy, shall extend eur thoughts to the great
family which embraces us all, shall awaken in our
hearts fresh sentiments Of love and goodwill to-
wards our felow-men, and strengthen our deter
minaon to support the institutions and aid the in
fuences which tend to benefit them, and to lessen
human wretchedness and suffering, then will the day
of our Thanksgiving be most blessed


Given at the Council Chamber at Augusta this third
day OF November, i'll the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and seventy six and of the
Independence OF the United States of America, the
one hundredth first. SELDEN CONNOR.
BY the Governor.


SD. CHADBoURNE, Secretary of State.
Year: 1876

While it is not expected by those who are
familiar with the sanguine temperament of
Democrats that they will at once concede the
election of Hayes, it is evident that they are
daily weakening in their claims, and "letting
themselves down easy" They now concede
the success of the Republican electoral ticket
in South Carolina, though they still cling to
the hope that Hampton is chosen Governor.
In Florida their own canvass shows that they
are beaten. They fall back upon Louisiana
as their last hope, and apparently think they
may carry that state by the aid of the ''bull-
dozed' parishes. (The adjective, by the
way, is as barbarous as the method which it
describes.) But the Republicans are conf
dent that they have majority in Louisiana,
and they calmly await the action of the re-
turning board.
Year: 1876

we do not read anonymous letters and commune
Cations The name and address of the writer are in
all cases Indispensable not necessarily for publication
put as a guaranty Of good faith.


we cannot undertake to return or reserve com u,u-
nications that are not used.
Year: 1876

+ The after life, and world do not
seem to us to bo remote or mystical,
pny more than any earthly country
is remote and mystical because it is
beyond our sight Nor DO those who
passed into the unseen seem to have
gone far or to be really separated
from Us. The vision of spiriluaIizcd
beings must, in the nature Of things,
b" finer than the vision Of malerializcd
J. beings; and while We cannot see them,
/ doubtless their dear eyes constantly
behold Us. And as to what some
haye suggested, that, If this were 80
then would cur SHINING pain them,
being behcld, we would say this does
not hold in reason; for sure that they
/ cannot be more sensitive 10 our sinful
ness than is God /; and if Gods heart
can bear the spcctacles Of our trans
gresslons, why should we think
4 that those less sensitive to wrong
doing than is he should not be
brave enough to bear this sight
! They who are there are much wiser
than we who remain. They see the
end from the beginning, and what
consOlations they may have come to
them, from their lofty view Of things
we know not but we may imagine
that they are great and many. We
should not worry ourselves overmuch
touching such intricate questioning,
but rather rejoice that those who
were dear to Us, and in whose life we
found joy, are actually living and in
a state Of ineXprcssible happiness.
Nor does that distance seem TO be so
distant, because of the fact that it. is
being lesscned daily, and the space
between US is shortened. We know
not how soon, we may not tell the
day or the hour, when the gates shall
open, and we be admitted where they
are. But we cannot doubt if we be-
leve in Christ and have faith in i'm
mortality, that we shall come to them
some day-the day of Gods appoint.





and have them with us forever.
And this coming together of those
who loved and still love, but have
been for brief time apart; this reun-
ion Of souls that were as one, but
were separated and kept apart for a
brief space this meeting and having
and eniOyinr those we crave and all
that we have craved purely, men call
death, and drape the royal event with
Grape, and fills the gateway of mans
finest victory with lamentations. If
we could be unseliish enough to think
less Of what we lose and more Of
of what they gain, how different
would the styles Of our funerals be |
in my fathers house are many man
siOns. If it We're not SO, | would
have told you.'-Ihe Colden Raie.