Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 December 1879 — Remarkable Statement. [ARTICLE]

Remarkable Statement.

The following, from Major W. W. Nayin’s letters in the Philadelphia Press, from Glasgow, Scotland, is a remarkable statement to make: “I close with a Scottish note of today. which illustrates how throughly the old Scotch spirit of integrity—the spirit which willingly sacrifices Itself for right, the spirit which utterly refuses compromise or half way settlement with wrong, isaliveand burning In Scotland to-day. It is one of the principles of the United Presbyterian church not to accept money for sacred uses from unclean hands. They decline to take for God, as IDs agent or minister, money that, as far as they ean see, has not been honestly made. “When the great Glasgow Bank failure took place here some of the Directors were members of the United Presbyterian congregation of the city, and one or more of them were large givers—almost the support, I am told, of their particular churches. When, by the judgment of the civil courts, they were declared to have been guilty of systematic fraud for some yearn back, their liberal donations were all returned to them, although it more than crippled the congregations who did it.

“This fact was told me not by any of themselves, but by a learned clergyman of the Established Church of Scotland, who bore honorable testimony to their devotion to principal, and their own profession. Match it.” Secretary Stanton’s Daughter The last of the family of Eawin M. Stanton, the great War Secretary, is his youngest daughter, who has just left her “teens.” She is a beautiful girl, and has had many admirers. Not' long ago she fell in love and became engaged to the Turkish Minister, but the engagement lasted only twentyfour hours. When the Turk went to/ ask her hand of her guardian that wise man asked hitp how his American wife would be reoeived, and how she would live when he returned to his own country. The answer was frankly given that she would, of course, have to conform to the customs of his nation, as he was a man of rank. This meant that she would be no better thay> any other woman of his harem, and the guardian, of coarse, withheld his consent. The same day he consulted with Mias Stanton, who indignantly informed the titled barbarian that she could not be his wife.. Now Mhw Stanton’s engagement to a Lieut. Bosh, of the 6th Artillery, ja annonnoed. Never cover a boarded floor entirely with oilcloth because it rets the boards and causes' dry rot '