Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 27, Number 29, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 March 1878 — Page 1

VOL.. XXYII NO 29.

INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY MORNING, MARCH 0, .1878. WHOLE NO. 220.

FOETIXT. Think wot stranse I love you. Varth has miny charms Inh'ed, lioru to till the mi with gladness; lUt o lis hang on evrry we-d. Joys spring u Vr buried s tluoss; U'li. mold ihiavaiieo pleasure Hearts po-s- a rrMJy measure To detect tho chltfoMi treasure; This tells me to love you. Think not stranjse I love you. Heaven ban bul a t.ln! kuii, Tho' ihe name of tsu hgion. Klowers looi up and Re but one In the who e ceWtial -ion. Sure y heurl aro not Ji-ks knowing Than tlie H'.wfrslii beauty growiug; Uzht and Jy umm ni liowlug Tell me 1 must love yon. Think not strange I love you. Many umU a-all the ear. Hut It knows i he b- st. ana sweetest. Harmony It love to hear Alo-t when ful.e t and comptetest. Melody the niot endearing Is your life, aud I, r eriug, Cau not he p but love yoa. Think not strange I love you. There it Mich a thing a gold. And a test thai w 11 disclose It ; ,litt-r hped In any mold (Quickly luee.SHii rye which knows It. Have uot ht-aita like pe netratiou? Thou art go d the? wtiole creutlou Has no worthy mil itloa As the truth i love you. Think not strange I love you. To the eye wnlch knows it not. Other crj s nls may seem clt arer Than ttie diamond li; but what Ouc posses d Is counted dearer! Clear and p re and nil resplendent. With luherent worth transcendent. Is your soul; and mine attendant Kwells v ltli pride to love you. Think not strange I love you. Toward the noith the needle turns. For it knows but one direction ; o my l-rl t you-want yearns By u UteV supreme election. Instance ha uo power to s-ver. Thou Bl.a'.t be my nortu foreer, Time expire In vaiu cudeavor To disprove I iove you. Written for the eilnel. THE CHURCH AT GLENVILLE.

BY MBS. 8AIXIE-A. RAM AGE. CHAPTER II. llr. Arnold carue to hb charge with a great deal of enthusiasm, a number of college theological essays, and a vast amount of inexperience, lie believed that he was to be to the people of Glenville a leader, a shepherd, and that all he would have to do would be to crook his spiritual finger, and beckoning ttcm to fclhnv him, conduct them to bights cf wisdom and religion. He bad made notes of all the professors' lectures and had marked out his work in accordance with thete guiding posts. , He wanted to do the people good, and to see tlie result of his worV. and prayers, for not yet had he learned to "labor and to wait" lie was poor, and alone in the world. After he had paid for hi education the small estate that bis parents had left him was almost xhausted, aud he felt that he must rely up on himself for the future, and yet nothing daunted by his poverty, his youth, hia inexperience, he was engaged to be married to a young lady. The marriage was to take place within a year, but not unless he felt perfectly satisfied with his appointment at Glen ville. Miss Carlyle was rich, beautiful, and rather devoted to the young minister. To be sure she would have preferred that he had chosen some other profession, but that matter was settled before their engagement, and nolens volens the had do choice but to take him as he was. She consoled lunelf by the reflection that there was a " vague something, a dreamy respectability about a minister, that admitted him into good sociaty, no matter if he was poor and his clothes threadbare." Sae knew Le was brilliant and talenttd, young tnd good looking, and tbou.jh his friends, with worldly foresight, would have urged her to a more advantageous marriage, she was headstrong and determined, and vowed, despite their protestations, "she would red to pleae herself." "Her money was her own" she added; "if she wanted to marry a preacher, if he was poor as a church mouse, she would do it. She would use her wealth to supply the deficiencies of a meagre salary. She liked the country, and btlieved she would enjoy moving from place to place. If, after she tried the life it did not suit her, she would make Hugh leave the ministry and they would settle down in a home of their own somewhere." She was equally niistrtsa of the situation when dit-cussing their future with Mr. Arnold. He could plead as long and as earnestly as he chose; not a point would she . yield, ne was to go to his appointment, see how he liked it, preach for a abort time, and return to her and report They would marry just before the next conference, anil he would begin the second year of his ministerial life as her husband. Not a single day of favor wonld she grant. When she was ready to ba married she would inform him; until then she would do, as she had ever done, just as ihe pleased. She would dance, go to the opera, the theater, to watering placet, anywhere she cared to go. She would en j )y herself in her own way, and that without any' interference on his part As for Mr. Arnold she seemed to think that he was fixed in a groove that knew uo turn; and that his life was to slip along easily in this predetermined channel. She had a faucy that he adored her, would obey her, and admire her, just so long as she kept herself fully in iower. but that to yield to him in any imtance would be to abdicate her throne to him, and to establish him as her lord aad master indeed. This she did not intend should happen, though in her heart she would have honored and loved him the more for a proper assumption of his natural rights. She bad had lovers by the score, a few attracted by her beauty, but as she well knew her money was the great priz for which they contended. Of all who had ever proffered her their hand and heart Hngh was the only one that she believed loved tor fr herjclf, not for her dowry. She ha I mt him d uring his vacation, when he preached at a little country church near her summer tome. She liked his earneitieos, hi fervor, his tender pleading with the people whom he was to meet but once face to fce. 8 j rue words he said touched ber wuu.au ly heart and be sought

to know him. At first he was reticent and reserved, for he had beard of the rich Mifa Carlyle and of hei many flirtations, but so different was the young girl that in her sirnplici'y confided to him the doubts and fears of her soul that he listened charmed and enamored. He had never known such a wo; man. Perfectly versed in the ways of the werld, yet innocent as a child, Beautiful and accomplished, yet simple and natural in word and thought. Wealthy and cheap attire, befitting the quiet summer refashionable, and yet dressed day after day in treat Unused as he was to the devices of a woman, he could not see how perfectly she had studied the part she was playing. She meant it for a summer day pastime, as a trifle to while away the languid hours of August; To so change and adapt herself, her living,' and her very dress, that time and place should frame a perfect picture of a guileless maiden's dreams. She donned the garb of a country g rl because she wanted a variety in ber life, now growing monotonous. She braided her soft, beautiful hair because she was weary of curls and crimps. She read books of sense and reason because she was nauseated with the light, trashy novels of the day. She forsook all others for the ardent young theological students because he was the newest and the oddest specimen of novelty that she could seize upon. And be, poor fool, believed it real, and feared that it was too pure a picture, too heavenly a vision for him to dare approach. She did not intend that it should last but she was human and a woman, and one day, listening to his i-leadings, she promised that she would be his wife, and believed herself to be as deeply in love as he was. But when, after an hour's reflection, she laughed at his weakness, he was off somewhere in the df pths of the forest, thanking heayen for this last best gift to man. When he saw her in her city home the picture was changed. Magnificent in silk and diamonds, she received him with some what of royal pomp. She was not the gen, tlo nymph of the woods that he had wooed, but a dignified woman of wealth and fashions Sbe had around her all to make life desir. able, and the contrast between her mansion and the humble home he must oiler her smote him like a cruel blow, and he saw the folly of his act. Hut she, nothing daunted by his constraint, forced him by the fascination of word and look to repeat his promises aud pledges, and he left her with the betrothal ring upon her hand, and Lis kisr upon her willing lips. His first though" after his appointment was of her, and when ho reached Glenville, and saw the place where, for twelve months his lot was cast, he longed for her to be with him. He felt strangely timid as he entered the church for the first time to attend the morning service, for he had arrived so late on Saturday night that he had made few acquaintances and there was euch a lack of familiar faces as he surveyed the congregation. To be sure Mr. Long had called at his room, and escorted him to the church, but alas, for the young preacher's peace of mind, Mr. Long occupied the time with a minute recital of the numerous troubles and difficulties of the congregation. The lack of spiritual vitality was bemoaned, the frequent and long interval.' between revivals recounted, and the need of the people for a preacher who could "stir them up." If Mr. Arnold asked any questions, no matter how trivial, Mr. Long had ready answers as comprehensive as the list of church members. He introduced now and then some of the shortcomings of other pastors, tbtir lack of executive ability, their weakness on various theological points, their extravagance, pride, family troubles, bud children anything and everything; all were ground up fine in that morning talk of "one of the official members." The minister silently prayed for strength, for help, for the one friend of the friendless to sustain and direct. At thr. church door, a general introduction took place, and the little hum of voices penetrated the half open door. When Mr. Arnold walked up the center aisle to the pulpit many were the nods and gestures that sig nailed like or dislike from one pew to another. Ashe knelt in silent prayer there were a few whispered comments, and then all settled down to listen to the first words of the new preacher. As he stood before them with the open hymn book in his hand the people were impressed with the quiet dignity of the man. His features were large and as clearly cut as a cameo, and his dark bair framed the manly face well. His eyes wandered for an instant over the congregation, and there was no fear or timidity in their gray depths. The moment of prayer had given him strength. His voice trembled slightly but grew firm as he read reverently, as though a rrayer, the hymn Hock o'Rj"e,H-ft for me, Itjt mi biUe my-v-If In Thee; the water uud th- blood from thy wound,! MJ which flowed lie ol ntn the douhld cure. Save from s n and make me pure. Ther9 was an awkward pause as he finished the last line, and waited for some one to lead the singing. The organ was closed. Mr. Long had informed him of the reason, and no one seemed willing to take the in itiative in the musical part of the devotion. It was but for an instant, and the minister, with the memory of chapel exercises at college flitting through his brain sang to the old, old tune, the grand beseeching hymn. The congregation joined him, wita voices cracked and discordant, but above all he heard ringing as pure and clear as a silver U-11 a rich soprano. With a keen ear for music and a passionate love for melody, his glaiioeti fallowed the sound, and marked tho 'ace of the singer. Through the verses of contrition and adoration the ptstor lead tneni, but there wa3 no faltering in the notes, thre was no thought of loneliness or sadness, no glance for a face, or memory for another far distant, but the soul was absorbed in the one petitioa Rock of ages, cleft for me, 1st me hide myself In Thee. The prayer, the term on, the announcements

of prayer meeting and Sabbath schools, were

finished, and after the benediction the congregation came around the steps of the pnlpit to greet the minister. A name, a grasp of the hand, and the introduction was complete, though now and then seme old Christian" would pause for a moment's conversation. Fathers and mothers brought their children with them as they came from their pews to speak to Mr. Arnold, and he had a kindly word for each. As a little space was left about him, an old man leaning heavily on his cane approached the altar. At his side was the young girl whose voice had attracted the attention of the minister, and who awaited with him an introduction. "Brother Allen Brother Arnold ; this is his grand daughter. Ruth Allison," said Mr. Long. "Brother Allen is an old member of our church', and his son in-law, John Allison, was our fir.it preacher. He and his wife both died here," and with this bit of biography the ceremony concluded. The daughter of a minister, fatherless and motherless, Ruth Allison, needed no further words to commend her to the young pastor. To be Continued. The I'nksown Jol. San Franchuro Bulletin. City or Mexico, Jan. 2. I am going to tell you of a trip to the mountain of Tezcosingo, famous in Aztec days as being the pleasure garden and retreat of the Indian poet-kin" Xazfthnacoyolt. From Ttcoco the trip is wildly picturesque and grandly btjautiful The curiously constructed bath of Ntzahuacoyolt is cut from a solid block of granite overhanging the brow of the hill. The rock has a smooth surface several yards square, aud dropping from its center is a circular basin some three or four feet deep and a dozen or more in circumference. Out of one side is cut a seat for the accommodation of the bather, while riiing from tha surface, a little hack, is another having a perfect chair form, with a rest on one side for the arm Protecting the outer side of this is a wall a part of the same rock into which seats have been cut, and various little nicbes in the form of miniature steps, which might have been used by the old Indian monarch as receptacles for his toilet paraphernalia. Following along the still well-preserved path we came to a chamber cut into the side of the hills, now unrooitd and in ruins, the floor being strewn with debris. At the end of this vaulted chamber was a raied platform a foot in height and several feet square, hewn from solid rock, and on either cornrr back of this were niches chuelled out with fragments of cement still clinging to their sides. We have since learned that between these, above the platform, there still remained at the beginning of the present century a large calendar stone, which was later destroyed by the neighboring Indians in search of treasure. This curious work must have cost its builders a vest deal of labor. Separating himself from the cares of his kingdom Nzahuacoyolf came for retirement to this beautiful mountain, and here, four times every day for forty days, on bended knees, be offered prayer and incense to the "All powerful God, hidden and unknown." It is said that. In answer to these earnest petitions, a vision appeared to one of his servants in attendance, directing him to go at once to his master with the comforting assurance that the unseen God had been pleased to accept his prayers and offerings, and would avenge him by the hands of his eon, Axoquatzin, a boy of only 17 years. The king could not accept the supernatural vision, which was, however, fulfilled. Ne zahuacoyolt, upon hearing of the fnlfillment of what he had considered a false prophecy, retired in humiliation to the garden of bis palace, and, kneeling on the ground, gave thanks to the unknown God for bis signal benefits, promising to build a temple to bis worship, to abstain from idolatrous worship and human sacrifices, and to alone acknowledge the supremacy of tbe unknown God. In compliance with his vow, be built a tower nine stories high, the interior of. which he garnished with gold and precious stones, and the exterior he covered with black cement eiubflihed with stars. The workmanship was of the most expensive order. In this superb tower were stationed men, whose duty it was, at certain hours of the day, to strike upon platesof Que metal, at t ie sound of which the monarch fell upon his knees in prayer. An AireetlaK Incident. The New York World publishes a remarkable and affecting incident of the reception given by the Young Men's Christian association in Brooklyn Friday night Tbe entertainment was to consiatof music, recitations, and an addre?s by Rev. J. Hyatt Smith, pastor of the Lee Avenue Baptist church. Mr. Smith was introduced, and the audience was soon in an uproar of laughter and cheers at the amnslng anecdotes with which be interspersed bis remarks. Suddenly a gentleman walked upon the platform from an ante room and said to Mr. Smith in a whisper, "Mrs. McDowell, the mother of two young ladies cow in tbe audience, lies dead in the ante -room. Please announce tbe fact to the audience." "Not for the world," replied Mr. Smith. " Let some, judicious person go to tbe daughters and call them away without letting tbem know tbe worst until tbey are out of the room." The young ladies were called out, and Mr. Smith, who had taken his eat, arose, and the audience broke into lond applause, which he instantly checked, m ide the solemn anwoUycement, and then offered a feeling prayer, af'er which the audience dispersed. The lady's death was caused by heart disease. An txrellent SUKkfli)D. Louisville Commercial. As will be seen by the proceedings of the General Council Dr. George W. Griffiths introduced a resolution reqm-sting the Honorable Board of Commissioners of Public Charities to appoint a board of lady visitors for the female wards of the various charities under their control. This is as it should be. " What is every one's business is no one's business." By the appointment ef a corps of ladies whose business it shall be to visit the sick women of thete institutions a great deal of good may be accomplished, as has been evidenced by the excellent ma nagment of "The Kentucky Infirmary for Women and Children," the sick and bill eted of that noble charity being constantly che-red by the visitations of the "Board of Iv'y Visitors," a band of lady workers, the superior of which no other i ity can boast. Ilonr They Are Provided For. The government at Washington has taken excellent care of the gentlemen of the Louisiana returning board. It has continued Wells as surveyor of the port of New Orleans, where, for no ecrvic at all, be receives $7,500 per annum, and irives employment to his son as deputy at $3 500 a year. Anderson is deputy collector of the port, and receives $(.0X) a year. Kenner and Cawnave are sub-deputies in the same office, at $3,010 each, and every clerk employed by tbe returning board, save Littlefield, is employed in the custom house at a good, round salary .Chicago Times.

TI1C At'LD AS!I TREE.

THOMAS PAVIDNOX. There grows an n.sn by my bour door. And a' ita boughs aie bitsklt braw In lalrest weeds o' simmer Krt-eu, And hints sit singing on them a'. But c us ycur smut-, ye blithesome birds, An' o your liltln'letme be: Ye brln;: deid summers frao their graves To weary me, to weary me I There prows an ash by my bour door. And h its boughs nre chid in suaw; Tho ice drap hings at ilka twig. And ad t lie nor' wind kjukUi thro' a. Oh, cosse thy n line, thou uorlan' wind, And o' thy wailin' let me be; Thou bring deld wlmcra frae their grave To weary me, to weary me ! Oh, I wad fain forgot them a'; llemembor'd guld, but deepens ill, A Rletd o' licht lar been by mcht Mak' the near mirk but mlrker still. Then client be, thou dear auld tree O a thy voices let me be; Thy bring the deld years frae their graves lo weary me, to w-ary me! Blackwood's Magazine. m- - i - - ,x STATE NEWS. Lafayette has a new gang of gamblers. Craw fords ville is to have a. colored councilman. The Covington masquerade ball netted the red ribbon club $27. The Hues of the Covington hotel are in a dangerous condition. Robins and blue birds are making their appearance all over the state. Warren county needs gravel roads, and the people aie going to have them. Theodore Tilton visited the public schools of Auburn on his recent visit there. Two dogs killed and wounded 17 sheep for a Montgomery county man in one night recently. . The Michigan City Enterprise reports tbe sailors getting things prepared lor early navigation. Indiana Statesman: The farmers report tlo fruit crop promising, if na severe frost comes after blossomiog. Two young men at West Lebanon disturbed religious services at a church. They were fined $43 70 for their bad conduct. The Somers farm near Auburn will be purchased by the Catholic people, and a school building, etc., for their order erected there. One hundred and fifty lodges have been invited to participate in the odd fellows' anniversary ceremonies in Danville April 20. Columbus property, owners are making many improvements about their residences, and the appearance of the town is much improved thereby. Allen county has a man with four "K's"' in his name a name that can be spelled backward as well as forward, or from the center either way Kukkuk. Tbe Monticello Herald shows that meet ings now are being held along the line from Biadford through that place to Delphi in the interest of tho narrow railway, wi h a view to active operations on it in the spring. , Crawfordsville. Star: ACrawJaidSYiUe. drummer became involved In a dispute with a debtor at Waynetown last week, and finally locked up the debtor's store and carried off the key. e or this piece of work the nervy drummer was arrested, but on trial acquitted. The Salina correspondent of the Spy, at Rochester, relates that William Overmyer near there lost two sheep near three months since, and lately found them both beneath a fallen bay stack, where for ten weeks they had been confined, and yet one of them was taken out alive. The Elkhart Review says that' a wolf in the township of Cleveland, supposed to have killed about MO sheep in that neighborhood. having been recently hunted and shot at 12 times, was on Monday of last week shot down by young 2uimby, who got $40 as bounty made up by tbe neighboring farm ers. Not Quite the Same Thing. .Small child (whose favorite aunt Is "engaged"): "Grand ma, where is Auntie May?" Grandma: "She is sitting in the library with Captain Herbert, my dear." Soisli child (alter a moment s thought):-"Grandma, couldn't you go and sit in the library with Captain Herbert, and Aumie May come and play with me?" Punch. Salem Democrat: How much more must our town suffer from loss by fire before we have some sort of effectual fire apparatus? It s a matter of serious contemplation to know that a fire is liable to break out at any time and that we are compelled to stand around completely at the mercy of the flame?, excepting what little virtue there may be in the application of a few pails of water. Greencastle Banner: Gravely roads are beneficial in various ways. They are more agreeable to travel on than through the mud. They save the wear and tear of horses, harness and vehicles. Tbey enable the farner to reach the city at the worst seasons of the year so as to take advantage of tbe high prices prevailing at such times. From two to eight times as much- can be bauled with same team as on unimproved roads. Thfy indicate a higher civilization, promote intercourse among the people, aud are things of joy and profit to all the people. Build gravel roads by ell means. Columbus Republican: The father of his rountrv wasn't father of anything else. N. Y. Herald. ' We have a distinct recollection of a man turning up in Indiana some time ago who claimed that G. W. was his daddy. Aud they say the son's name was Thomas Posey, the first governor of Indiana. Ledger Standard. Thomas Posey was the second territorial governor of Indiana General Harrison be ing the first. Jonathan Jennings was the first governor after Indiana was admitted into tbe union. As to Posey's "daddy," there is good evidence that he has the right to claim G. W. as such, and history will not contradict it A dead body, supposed to be that of a dramatic aent from the big ame'tbyst ring on bis middle' finger, was found at tbe bead of Water street, stabbed todeatb in 20 places. The boly was partially identified by a citizen of New York, who said that he met tbe unfortunate man in the morning, who displayed several paragraphs in regard to Modjeska's "realistic" dresses, ber manner of cutting her corns, an anecdote about ber ranilfather, where she bought her false hair, rio , which he said be was about to "hand in" to tbe Boston newpapr mcnH The unfortunate wretch was undoubtedlystabbed to death by tha scissors of tbe outraced journalists. Boston Commercial Bulletin. ; Frankfort Crescent: The gravel road is a sort of a self sharpening arrangement. Build one road . to Frankfort and it will be the entering wedge to the completion of several others. As soon as the Kirklin road was under way and the people near the Frankfort terminus saw they were about tn be taxed for it, then the people out on tbe Morris Chapel road must also tnacaaamizc to get the benefit of the taxation.

Then Colonel Catterlin bestirs himself and says we must have a road out his way. and thus the pike to Michigantown must and

will be built. Aow comes George Scrogzy, ana he says taere must be a road to Jvumore. So it goes. Frankfort will soon be environed with good roads. Dr. Hardwicke, the coroner, at a recent inquest in MaryJehone, London, said tbat JOU children annually met their deaths in London alone from suffocation in bed. It is generally imagined that the suffocation of infants arises in great measure from the intemperate habits of their parents. I)r, Ilardewicke. however, is of opinion th it this is a mistaken impression, jus r-xperifi-ce leads him to the conclusion that the causes of suffocation are mostly due to the over kindliness oi the parents. When the late bis'iopof Oxford was travel iner eastward to rttend the church congrefs at Norwich, a lady sitting opposite to him commented in flattering Wms on the eloquence and ability of the great Anglican diyine. quite unconscious that she was ad dressing bim. "But why, sir," she added, "do people call him Soapy Sum?" "Well, madam," replied the bishop, "I suppose it is because he has always been in a good deal of hot water, and always manages to come out wun ciean nanus. And now another romance is exploded. Only a few days ago it was announced that the daughter of Kleber, the Alsatian general, was living, old, blind and in poverty, and divers pretty paragraphs, concerning "the ingratitude of republics" were thereupon : . . t l i . , t i nriiieu. iucu a uiouer-oi iaci x renca re' porter there are such set to work to ia vestigate the matter, and sbe proved to be me widow of Kleber s son. Then he inves tieated a step further and discovered that Kleber had never been married: also, that there was no evidence to show that he had ever bad an illegitimate son. Thus another little romance of history vanishes before sober facts like the frost picture upon the pane beloro the sun. ALL hOKTS. Vinnie Ream's bust of David Dvis is said to resemble the Cardiff giant It now requires IS months to obtain a divorce in Georgia. The suit has to pass through three terms of the court. Matilda Joi-lynGage doesn't know whether Mrs. bwissbelm is a Judas ora8apphira. The question bhould be referred to a com mission. Dr. Peabody, of Harvard college, recommends tbe students to read tbe Bfble more and slop novels less, if they would have a good English style. Monsiznor Chatard, of the American col lege, at Rome, has collected $32,000 for the college during his tour of a few months throughout the United States. Texas this year made over 700,000 bales of cotton, from which will be obtained MO.tJUO,000 pounds of seed. This seed converted into oil would bring over JH.ow.OOO. The general conference of the Methodist Episcopal church, south, meets in Atlanta, Ga., in May next. The conference will em brace about 300 clerical and lay delegates. It will be a very important session, as be sides tbe general routine business, several new bishops will be elected. " The tribe of Chickasaws maintained 23 schools last year, in which were taught 715 i rr I I . , 3 . 1 . pupils ioe live irioes in inaian territory have 181 school houses, in which are main tained 12 boarding and ICS day scboolsemploy ing 190 teachers, who instructed 5,490 pupils. Of the population of 50,715, there can read 31,000. They spent on the schools last year S137,i.O. A ew iork murderer sealed his own doom when arrested, some years ago, bv re marking. "U, hanging's played out, any how." He finds a parallel in Mnrobv. i Boston murderer, who said to his captors recently: "I suppose people outside think I'm a brute aud ready to kill at any time, but I will be real good in prison, and in a lew years those tender chaps with a soft spot in their heads will get me out" Miss Emma Stebbins has nearly completed her life of Charlotte Cushman aud tbe book will soon be in the publisher's bands. Miss Stebbins was the intimate companion and trusted confidant of tbe great actress, and the memorial will be looked for with inter est. A movement has been lately started to erect a monument to Miss Cushman over her grave in Mount Auburn, Mr. John T. Ray mond ouenng a subscription of $500 as a beginning, and there is good reason to believe that her many admirers, in and out of tbe profession, will be glad to unue in so well deserved a tribute. A correspondent of the New York Even ing Post, writing from Boston, cays: "The churches here are feeling the financial pres sure deeply, several of tbe churches are heavily in debt, and fo pay the interest and incidentals, and the pastor's salary, is more than they can do. Their revenues have declined greatly. The pew rents are the main reliance, and these have fallen off to a great extent. Some fail to pay their pew rents, and others give np their pews altogether. Some of the churches must unite if the times continue as they are, or tbey will be obliged to discontinue tfceir services." Q Robert Laird Collier, of Boston, has been preaching on the drama. He says that "of all people, Americans are tbe most unskilled in pleasure. This we inherit from tbe English, who take all pleasure solemnly. A. wholesome man has a time to play as well as a time to work. No man is symmetrical and neaithiui who does not at times mve himself over y play and recreation. The drama should be the means of intellectual recrea tion. And, moreover, it ought to be morally elevating. The best aud purest sentiments heard by thousands are those tbev hear spoken upon the ela-e, and I have never Known sued sentiments pass nnapplauded by the crowd." A correspondent says Gecrge Eliot's home life is a very charming one. Sue exercises an active supervision and develops a most comprehensive management and exquisite taste in every detail of tbe household. In composition she is very slow and methodical, writing not. more man irora iu to dj lines a day. When a hook is completed she is in such a state of nervous extaastion tbat her husband takes her to I'aly or southern France to recuperate. While writine she must be scrupulously arratig d as to person, while every detail of her surroundings must be in harmonious place. Her information is encyclopediac in its extent and as exact as the sciences. She belongs to a materialistic school of thought. What tbe witty Mrs. Trench once said of Mnie. DeStael that she is "consohnelv "Sly" will apply to George Eliot, with the reservation, however, that her plain features are so sanctified by her expression tbat the becomes a very beautiful woman. She is morbidly sensitive in remrd to her annrar- J ance ami certain pnases ot ner life, she has been offered fabulous sums by Londou photographers if she would sit for her picture, but she has always refused. Ko far as I know there is not a picture of ber in existence. Sue goes little or none in society, but has weeaiy receptions to which onlv a certain class is admitted. She mar be ofrbn Been at the classical matinees, given every Saturday

at St James' hall, and occasionally the may bo been on the street xith a pair ot sianking bays, a very sweU carriage and liveried servants. Letter from England. General John A. Sutrer, the discnvn of gold in California, has been interviewed by a Washington reporter, who describes bim as a stout, grsy haired man, a little ovr five feet high. He wct to California in as a farmer, and built r. mill, in tbe race of which his wheelwright, n.tmfd Marshall, discovered somo goid, and conveyed the news to his employer. Tbe man couidn't keep the secret, the news spread and the general was ruined. He could hire nobody to Sive his immense v. beat crop, into which the prospecting parties turned their cattle, no one would dig gold for him, and finally he lost his land to the American government on a flaw in bi3 Mexitn t tie. He has for 13 years past been trying to get some compensation for it from the go ,'ernment.

Why Tiwle Tom" Is Popular. "Trinculo" writes in Wilkes' Spirit: "Uncle Tom's Cabin" is one of the mot popular plays ever written. Do you know why? Because it has a good story of low life? No. Because it touches the extreme of character? No. BecauK$ cf ita crowded incidents and increasing action? Xo. Because there is an apotheosis in it? No. The real reason why it is popular is because there's a baby in it. It belongs to the late order of Pniladelphia Ledger dramas, in which the maternal and paternal instinct is touched, and people call it sweet. Everybody likes babies, except the elrcng minded woman. now well the editor of the Spirit knew it last Christmas. There is a good deal of baby in "Uncle Tom's Cabin." It is the precociou, ideal and good baby whom the gods love. Or, as the obituaries say, who are only lent to earth for a brief season. It is ingeniously made to sparkle all the more brightly by reason of its jet setting. Whenever Uncle Tom black as Ertbus comes upon the stage, leading the little gold haired spirituelle damsel by the ban J, a great wave of delicious sensntion sweeps over the assembled mothers, yet to be mothers, fathers and hopeful husbands, who make up the audience. It is astonishing, hut it is nevertheless true, that this sweet buby is the bright bx;us of the drama. Godblesathe naive little creature! Sbe tries to act, and to be as unnatural and angelic as possible, in accordance with her coaching; but it isn't her histriomsm that delights us. No, it is nothing more nor less than tbe babyhood of her. Natural babies don't want to be angels. Tbey want to live and bloom, and make mud pies and rag dolls. It is the unnatural, the supernatural baby of the story book that patters with Its fairy foot coniempuously upon the earth, and looks up like a Herman, mystic into the azure mystery. This ia what Eva does. m A Story, ofimill. An article by Mrs Elizabeth Oakes Smith, entitled "Reminiscences of N. P. Willis," appears in Baldwin's Monthly, from which we take tbe subjoined anecdote: "Mr. Willis was always ready with a good word for any man or woman struggliog with the sensitiveness of genius over the thorny way of poverty or neglect. With delicate tact he would find away to set them right in the public mind, while so many editors passed tbem by in silence or gave tbem a sharp prick with tbe critical pen. I remember one casein point: Emily Chubbuck, a vivacious and poetic woman, had been writing ' for a mere pittance for papers and magazines, while others, with no more poetic ability and no more scope of thought, wre well paid and accepted by tho public. She complained of this to Mr. Willis, in a half-playful, half-aggrieved letter, to which he replied: "'How can you expect anything better? Your genius is not o! a kind to aflUiite with you name. Who will read a poera signed Chubbuck? Sign yourself "Funny Forester.' aud you will see the chang. "Sbe did so, and her success was complete, as those who have followed the fortunes of this interesting woniap. afterwards the wife of the East Indian missionary, Judson. will remember. From this hint of Mr. Willis arose a small army of alliteratives-r'Minnie Myrtle,' 'Minnie May,' etc.. till . these were superseded by masculine cognomens. Mr. Willis was one of the first to recognize myself under the nom de plume of 'Ernest Helfenstein,' as did Edgar Poe." TtilerV Paper. Any number of stories, all entirely ir accurate, are flying about as to the disposition of Thiers' papers. In the first place, thereare no "testamentary executors," Mine. Thiers, the sole and universal legatee, having: only invited tbe advice officiously of Messrs. Uignet and Barfchelemy Jsaint-Uilatre. Sec ondly, tbe only matters which it has as yet oeen resoivea to publish are the dead statesman's speeches, to be given in four volumes. covering the epoch of Louis PhilMppe'a reign, the Second Republic, the Second Empire, and the Third Republic. Tbe historv of the negotiations with Germany about tho payment of the war indemnity nicy also be printed, the manuscripts beiog complete. There is no present intention cf punting the correspondence ; indeed, tbe vzltie cf the letters he left from a grave uolitical staud point has been greatly exaggerated. As he was accustomed to develop fully his views on such things in his speeches and books, he commented upon them very briefly in his letters, which are, as a rule, light and familiar notes. Oiled with badinage. The big work of his life, however, to which he gave every moment he could spare from politics and literature, a sort of all-embracing" History of Man," is in such a fragmentary form that it can nevec.be published. - A Sagrcestlon for entireties. I New Yoik World J The Protestant Episcopal church Las a usage of refusing to consecrate churches until they are paid for, which is very salutary. It may be doubted whether an extension of it to forbid ihe use of a church for worship until it has been consecrated! would not also be' salutarv. It cannot be satisfactory for a bishop or a layman to consider tbat a church is erects! for divine worship subject to two mortgages. Even the limited restriction now enforced dots much good. The consecration of St. Bartholomew's yesterday was also a celehraMoa of tbe payment of the debt, and notwithstanding the wealth and liberality of its conrcuation, it may he doubted whether ita dt-ht would . have been paid off so soon unless payment had been a condition precedent to consecra tion. The Paris Univers has discovered that Isaiah xix., 11 to '20, refers to tbe present time, Egypt being France ntd tiie Vatican Judah, while the live cities of Jtidah ar the Roman Catholic universities cf Pans, Lille, Lyons, Angers and Toulous, and the altar in the midst of Egypt is tbe Church of tho Sacred Heart on Montemaitre.