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Year: 1870

RICE La CHINESE. Chinese, not
being able to eat soup with their ''chop
sticks" never cook their rice as semi
LIQUID. When turned into bowl it looks
like mass of popped pop-eorn-each in
dividual grain being swelled up, bursted,
and seeming almost ready to fiy away. 1t
is thus prepared: Take one cup of best
Carolina rice; wash and rub we'll; put into
two cups and half of soft water. with a
teaspoonful of salt, and bring to boil;
then stand it on the top o. the stove to
simmer an hour. When the water is all
absorbed, add one cup of sweet milk, stir
well, and then let it remain on the stove
another hour without stirring, when it will
rise into beautiful white mass. Serve
with sugar or syrup.
Year: 1870

TIOW OFTEN IS THE HOUSEHOLD


IL loaf buried with the household head, and
families that might have been comfortably
ol divided for, lett destitute by the want of =
proper foresight in its deceased protector?
Year: 1870

ward observances OF their religion; and In many
other ways DO foolish IN the eyes OF the
world II wise IN the sight OF God. TOO many Chris-
tlans, alas have this false respect OF tho woil1;
they blush for the laws or their religion because
vice IL bold, and II ten to tho dictates OF the world,
because vice has bold adheraats. Some men scorn
to DO


CALLED PI0US,


and think IL Ia a disgrace. Oh. how foolish In
the last day they VIII know their great
mistake, and appreciate what was wisdom
and what was folly. Let US practice The
true wisdom; let us be wise In following
out the dictates OF our own conscience and religion;
let us be bold, proud and ambitious that we are
Christians; proud that we belong to the Church OF
God; proud that we love virtue, and never DC
OF the cross and Of repeniance; never forget 10
frown down immortality whenever we know OF IL,
either IN words or acts let us be proud OF our God
finally, our conduct be consistent with Christian re-
ligon, walk IN the fear OF God and trample down
the fear OF the world.
Year: 1870

Sermon by Father NInth0nnct ON tho InfaIIf-
hiity Of the Catholic Church aud ON Fnith
and Miracles.


The french Catholic church In Twenty third street
Is as present undergoing repairs. Divine service was
therefore. held IN the large hail of the Basement
which admits very little OF the light Of day. The
han was well filled and the greater part of the
gregatlon were ladies and children. Father Ed
mond Aubry oficiuted at the celebration OF the
mass, assisted by six little boys, in scarlet gowns
and white surpliccs, who carried six big candle
Sucks.


The service was very impressive and the singing
In itself an attraction After reciting the gospel Of
the day Father Alexander Mathonnet, the youthful
assisan. curate OF the church, mounted the pulpit
and discoursed on faith and miracles. He said:--
We know that God created man and that we ought
to contribute to the glory OF God as


THE AUTHOR OF OUR BEING;


but how can we render homage to the greatness 0f
God2 BY faith, by implicit belief In his truths ana
miracles. This faith ought to act on our minds and
hearts. Our minds should be taught TO
believe and our hearts should prompt US
to practice those virtues which are tho
sequence Of faith. What Is faithf 1t is the convic
tioD OF what do not see and cannot be EXPLAINED
to by reason. Faith Is the first step which leads
70 Coo without T. H. we We cannot hope 70 be saved:
there is one God there can only be


ONE RELIGION.


There are many sects which are opposed to ono
another, and have heaped errors on errors Surely
they cannot be the exp0nents OF q true faith The
only representative OF God on earth Is our Church.
she has always taught the same truths, and is tho
only medium through which we can receive the
word OF Cod She alone has the signs Of His inspira
tion, and through the word OF God we know the
inialibuity OF the Catholic Church.


THE REVELATION OF GOD


through the Catholic Church Is proved by She fact
that our mother Church was established at the
coming or the saviour and has been handed down
to the present time py an uninterrupted line OK
pastors Our faith, therefore, ought TO be manifested
by an implicit belief In the miracles which are pro-
claimed Dy the Church. We all believe that God
created the world. Why should we not believe thas
lie can make exceptions to Ills rules ana create
supernatural events, III order to attest the divine
attributes of the Church Of CHRISTI y-s~


. THE MINDS 0P MEN


cannot fafh0m the truths which God has revealed.
We ought therefore, TO be guided by our Mother
Church, who Is the only iniable exponent Of Gods
Word. Our Church alone has the external signs OF
the revelation aud against her the gates OF nell
shall not prevail We must admit the truth OF
Gods Word and the iDlalliby or Ills Church will
out examination, for there Is no merit IN believing
what we can reconcile with reason. y
we do not admit one Of the truths tanght
by our Church we reject all. All these
Protestant secs have sprung up because they iounu
it inc0nvenient to practise some Of the auStexe
Year: 1870

Yesterday was one OF those days which was
bright and eloquent sermon In itself. The warm,
benign sun shed nood OF grateful light upon the
dark recesses OF the city and brought gladness to
che house Of the opulent and welto-do. It was
day Of pleasure for all, and evoked the kindliest
feelings OF our religious people. The churches were
filled TO overnowing and intense interest was mani
tested in the services and sermons. The more I'M
portant efforts OF prominent clergymen win be
found faithfully reported below.
Year: 1870

Moral and Spiritual Political Economy
and the Latest Apostolic Teaching
The Wisdom Of the World-The
Great Love Of God Toward Man.
kinda Glimpse Beyond the


Grave-Services and Sermons


Specially Reported.
Year: 1870

A Boy Shot Dead With n Gun In Jersey City.


Yesterday afternoon about two O'Clock squad OF
boys went shooting for sport through the neghbor-
hood OF West Side avenue Jersey City. They took
with them an ordinary rifle gun, which was
shoudercd by lad named Briggs about sixteen
years old. In order to perfect his practice with the
weapon he raised 1t, stood attention. eveed again
and familariZed himself with the trigger and the
setting at full and half cock. While he was thus
manGuvering his arms, 1t is supposed, became
weak. and In an unfortunate moment down fell
the hammer and the contents OF the gun
passed through the left eye Of a boy named
Doran, twelve years old, and going clear through
his head killed him instantly The verified Briggs
at once threw down the gun an d took TO his heels.
and he had not been captured up to late hour last
night His parents reside In Rock lane, near Pali-
sade avenue. A police officer hearing the shot ran
up and met the crowd OF boys running away, but
Briggs had gone In another direction. 1ne body OF
young DOran was taken TO the residence OF his
parents In Palisade avenue near Academy street.
and the scenes that followed in that house may be
easily imagined.


Coroner Burns and Justice Reilly were notified.


and Captain Pierce, OF the Fourth precinct, sent
detectives to New York. whittier II Is believed young
Briggs had fed The boys who witnessed the shoot
ing pronounced the AFFAIR accidental. The face Of
Doran was greatly burned with the powder, which
proves that his head was In close proximity to the
Year: 1870

At meeting Of the Mercer County Board OF Chosen
Freeholders. held in Trenton yesterday. 1t was re-
solved to take measures to compel the Camden and
Amboy Railroad Company to build q bridge at the
crossing OF their railroad with Greenwood avenue
The Board has already provided for the construction
OF bridge across the creek at Greene street, and
two thOrOughiares will thus be much improved.
Late rains have put down the clouds OF dust which
the Common Council failed to dlspel by watering
the streets,
Year: 1870

The Eshopians in Chicago ore going to
celebyat the ratification of the Fifteenth
Amendment" whether it be rati6ad or not.
Moreover, they propose to exclude all white
man from the celebration
Year: 1870

The agony that some young mothers undergo
from the caking of milk in the breasts, ulcer.-
tion of the nipple and other painful affections of
the Tamillary organs, is extreme. And yet
few applications of the Ointment would remove
the difficulty and enable the sufferers TO resume
the maternal function and continue to exercise 1t
without interruption or pain. AS the life Of the
child well the health of the mother may
depend on her ability to nurse il. this fact which
10 verified by ample testimony, should be treas
ured in the memory of every wife and matrou.
Year: 1870

verdict was set aside on the ground of excessive
damages, and a new trial was ordered. The
Court Of Errors took the ground that it was
absurd to suppose that woman of her years
could suffer such damage in the disappoint-
mcbt, especially as the defendant was rich
man and so old az to render the supposition of
an earnest, bona .fde courtship, with intent to
marry, highly improbable.


The new trial commenced yesterday in the
Hudson County Court before Judge Bedle. Mr..
Dixon, on behalf of the plaintiff, opened the
case, stating in substance that the plaintiff is q
widow, who is engaged partly as teacher and
partly as forewoman In factory in New York
city; that she resides in Greenville, where de-
fendant also lives; that some years ago an inti-
macy sprung up between plaintiff and defendant
which resulted in promise of marriage; that
the engagement was postponed at the instance
of defendant; that new engagements were con-
tracted and again postponed, till at last plaintiff
became convinced that defendant would not fulfil
his solemn promises to her, and she accordingly
brought the suit


The gay Lothario was in court; an attentive
listener, but apparently quite at case rs to the
result The Judgment of the Court of Errors
makes it certain that the jury will not again
venture on the award Of heavy damages.
Year: 1870

In the ease of Ezekiel B. Phillips against the
Illinois Central Railroad Company, tried on
Thursday in Chicago, the jury returned YER
dict for the plaintiff, and assessed his damages


The suit was brought to recover for personal
injuries sustained by the plaintiff by the explo-
sion of the boiler of a locomotive owned by the
defendant, in December, 1867. The injuries
were claimed to be of very serious nature, and
to have resulted in partial paralysis of plain
tiffs body.


The case was tried about two years ago, when
verdict was returned for $1,000, but subse-
quently reversed by the Supreme Court. In
giving the case to the jury, the Court instructed
It for the plaintiff, among other things, as fol-
lows:-


'If the plaintiff, at the time of the accident
was passing along the platform in the depot for
the purpose of purchasing ticket and taking a
train, and the boiler of a locomotive which was
standing on the track exploded, in consequence
either of the insuffciency of the boiler, attribu-
table to the negligence of defendant, showing a
lack on its part of that degree of caution and
diligence which prudent men would use In their
own affairs then they should find for the plain
tif. If the explosion can be satisfactorily ex-
planned, from the evidence, on the ground of
carelessness, or want of proper thickness of the
boiler, or imperfcction therein, resulting from
age or other cause, which with reasonable dill
gence could have been guarded against, and If
no other cause of the explosion is shown, upon
which 1t could be explained, then they should
find for the plaintiff"


The Court also instructed the jury as follows


'Jf the jury believe from the evidence that
within @ reasonable time before the explosion of
the boiler in question, the defendant made a
careful and thorough examination of the engine
and boiler, by skilful and qualified mechanics in
that branch of business, and that the same was
then in sound and good condition, and SO con-
tlnued up to the time of the explosion, so far as
could be discovered; that there was at the time
of the explosion proper quantity of water in
the boiler, and only an ordinary amount of
steam, and that said engine was under the man
agement of careful aud skilful engineer, and
that the explosion was from causes which could
not have been ascertained by any known and
recognized means, then the injury, If any, to
the plaintiff, must be borne by him, as one of
that class of injuries for which the law allows
no redress. and the jury should find for the
defendant"


At former trial of the cause this last instruc-
tion was refused by the court, aud upon its re-
lection the Supreme Court reversed the judg-
ment and ordered second trial of the cause
Year: 1870

The Republican Nominating Conventions OF
the several Congress Districts into which our
Cityis divided meet this eveningto organize and
confer; and the names of some of the dele
gates encourage the hope that nominations
may be made calculated to strengthen our
State ticket and impart new animation and
vigor to the canvass. We can elect two Rep
resentatives in Congress from this City II the
best possible nominations shall be made, with
single eye to their fitness, and in utter dis
regard of personal wishes and aspirations.


In the two Eastern districts, the German vote
is very strong, and is largely inclined to sup
port our excellent candidate for Lieutenant
Governor regardless of past differences. We
urge that, at least in those districts our Ger
man friends be invited to present the names of
men whom they know to be qualified and wor-
thy, and that their suggestions, if proiiered, be
promptly and heartily adopted. We can make
great inroads into what has been our adyersa-
ries' strength if the right spirit Is eVinced
through wise and acceptable nominations.
Year: 1870

Joseph Hawley remarked: al meant to talk
ga little about the Chinese question, but have
"no time. My doctrine is that of the Declara-
ton of independence. | only say, it you
"know how to lock the doors of the United
States, do not and wont lock them" IL
the General had talked two hours on the
subject he could hardly have said more, or
have hit the nail more squarely on the head.
We may regulate immigration always with an
equal eye to the best interests of ourselves and
of the immigrant but any measure looking to
the exclusion of any distinct class is sur
render of one of the oftenest avowed and
most sacred Of our political principles.
Year: 1870

We apprehend = danger to the city from
the presence of yellow fever at Governors
Island so long as the cool weather continues
and the quarantine is maintained as strictly as
for the past fortnight But if all that the report
of the Board of Health relative to the condition
of the quarters, Notifications, and dwellings on
the island may be trusted-of which we are not
fully convinced-it is an unfit place for soldiers
or anybody else. 1t is intimated, on the au-
thority of the United States Surgeons, that
Castle William is mere shell, not only rotten
and untitled for defensive purposes, but filthy
beyond description, and not suitable quarters
for troops.
Year: 1870

Republicans will not be thrown off their
guard by the proclamation of Mayor Hall that
there is to bo no registration to-day. This
very unusual sacrifice of Tammany purposes
at the public demand may prove, after all, a
ruse of the Ring, at once to mislead and deter
Republicans Let the Republican Supervisors
and Inspectors be promptly at their places,
and the Republican voters do their duty and
register promptly to-day if they find the regis
| tration places Open.
Year: 1870

Can the City Controller by any possibility
be persuaded to tell us what the actual debt
of the city is7 There is "A widespread feeling
among the taxpayers that some classes of
city bonds are becoming about as abundant as
those of Erie. What is the debt of the city ?
And how long are we to be kept from any
actual examination into our financial concerns 2
At present we are compelled to trust abso-
lutely to the tender mercies of the Tammany
Ring
Year: 1870

A young man hardly 20 years of age was recently
sentenced in the Superior Court in Boston to three
years in the State Prison for burglary. This preco-
cious hero his lawyer urged should have light
sentence on account of his tender wears but the
Distrct-Attomey showed from the record that since
thed was years old he had been arrested twice for
malicious mischief twice for violation of city ordi-
nances twice for larceny. suspicion Of break
ing and entering once for disturbing public school,
three times for dsorderly conduct. three times for
burglary, three times for assault and battery thlee
times for minor Oienses; and that he had been
sent back to his native Ireland but would Mt stay
there. most remarkable youth.
Year: 1870

Mr.. Thomas Hughes is Ia sail for Liverpool on
Saturday, and his last evening in America viii be
devoted to lecture under the auspices of the
Mercantile Library Association, the announcement
of which will be found in advertising columns.
Ii Is new lecture written expressly for this
occasion, and we have no doubt that as many of Mr..


ughess friends IA the hall possibly be made to
hold will be present not only to hear what he has to
say. but To bid hIm hearty good-by
Year: 1870

There may be some who are using every
endeavor to secure subsistence and an hon
orable position for themselves and those de-
pendent on them; and yet all their efforts
are unsuccessful Slowly the tide of COM
fort, and even of the means of existence, is
ebbing; and the dark reef, which threaten
utter shipwreck, lift their head. If some
change does not quickly come they feel that
temporal ruin is on them. 1t is time not
to relax effort, but to look out more intently
for deliverance from God, and to have the
heart resting on it.


Or there may be some one who has the
presence of a constant difficulty in the spr-
tual ife-perhaps the want of that sense of
religious comfor. which is felt to be so de-
sirable, or the cbtrusion of some painful
doubt about doctrine or duty, through which
no present light can be seen. To cast the
thing aside and become Indifferent to it,
would be against the promptings of the whole
spiritual nature; and yet to reconcile it with
other convictions is meanwhile impossible.
There are many such cases of painful want
of harmony in our time. A period occurs
in every genuine life when the simple faith
of childhood has to pass over into the intel
ligent faith of manhood, and such periods
occur also i'll the history of the world
Many things then seem shaken when they
are only about to be established on new and
higher ground If there are some who are
involved in such struggle, and if all thought
has failed to open a path through it, it
is time also for this more entire reliance
upon God. No exertiOn to reach light is to
be neglected, but there may be more i'm
picit confidence in Him who is the Father
of ights,-holding steadfaStly to what is
felt to be true, and waiting for illumination
on what is doubtful-"ca casting out the anchor
and wishing for the day."
Year: 1870

Those who know the great theOlogian only
by name would hardly expect to find in his
Institutes some of the most tender and en-
couraging advice to Christians that is any
where to be met with The heartiest enjoy
ment of religion belongs logically to such as
are penetrated with the views of the divine
sovereignty which are here unfolded- the
views that Calvin received from Paul. "Out
of the strong cometh forth sweetness" The
purest streams of Christian consolation flow
through the green pastures, from the distant
mountains of doctrine that are seen only in
their dim outlines, and lose their SUBMITS in
the clouds


Nothing in uninspired literature is more
edifyiug than the humility and resignation
of those who have laid down the pride of in
tellect, as we'll as the burden of sin, at the
cross-receiying with unquestioning faith
the deepest mysteries of godliness because
they are found, with all their apparent con-
tradictions unexplained, and unexplainable
by man, in the sacred Scriptures, and bear
the royel signet of the King of kings. To
such it is given to rejoice where the unsub-
dued heart would murmur and repine, and
the faithless mind would wear out its powers
in vain speculations, dying at last in misery
and dark despair.


The submission of the understanding to
the high mysteries of the Word of God is
closely allied to the submission of the heart
to the dispensations of His providence; and
the one with the other belongs to the right
eousness whose ''work is peace, whose effect
is "quietness and assurance forever" We
may apply to the intellectual part of our
nature, as well as to our feelings and de-
sires, the following remarks of Calvin
Self denial, as it relates to God, habituates
us to equanimity and patience. First, there
fore in seeking the convenience or tranquil
ity of the present life, the Scripture calls
us to this point; that resigning ourselves
and all that we have to the will of God, We
should surrender to him the affections of the
heart, to be conquered and reduced to sub
lection. No man has rightly renounced
himself, but he who has wholly resigned him.
self to the Lord, so as to leave all the parts
Of his life to be governed by His will. He
whose mind is thus composed, whatever may
befall him, will neither think himself miser-
cradle, nor insidiously complain against God
on account of his lot" How far removed
from the gloom and austerity which many
iguorantly ascribe to the doctrines called
Calvinistic are these cheerful rules for the
attainment of happiness in this world. In
this field of dry truths, rigid logic, and abSO,
lutte faith, we find not the dreary and sterile