Richmond Palladium (Weekly), Volume 43, Number 42, 27 December 1873 — Page 1

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THE PALLADIUM , FPBLIBBtT) KVXBT SATDBBAY BT B. W. DAVIS. T 4tJ m t CJ tZr rrcnan. - i t f - A. . -t r three ii 4 1 ( On aquare terse fnotUb Ommjbbnmx months.. MIMWAT BATU, FwpHtfW. "BE JUST AND FEAR NOT! LET ALL THE ENDS THOU AIITST AT, BE THY GOD'S, THY OOUNTRTS AND TRUTH'S! ' unaaqnars one rear.. On-a)aitkoreoluma paeMrMM. uco One-half of m column on ytar ra oo Thr -fourths of a colnmn nsn year... 7t m Om column, one year, ChsnaesMe quarterly .,, ,, jaq fQ One year. In advance.-.. .. Six month", 14 ......- Three mouths ' . $1 so 40 VOL. XLIIIJ RICHMOND, WAYNE COUNTY, INDIANA, DEC. 27, 1873. WBmI V NO. 42. VoMeceMi lime-

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( No. 2. I No. 8 No. 6. No. 10. Pittsburg.. 2:45 1:30 2:40 8SW pm am 2:15am 9:10 am 6:35 pm 7:48 pm 8:38 pm -O-JM rttn Columbus Mll'ord Vrljna.-. Piqua.. Brad Jun. Oreenv'le. Rlchm'd.. 4:35 pm l(U5uu am am eanpm 71 pm fnaA run ll:tnm 122pm 4.34 am 5W 5:30 am am! am! 8:55 pm! 2:05pm 2vvSpm 3Upm 1 10:15 pm ll.t)pm 12.5 am 12:13 am 1:29 am 3:55 am 6:44 arm am Cambri'ge Knights Indla'plls. 7:25 am Hr29 amjllioi am 10:W 6:50pmj coma gAgr. No. 1. No. 8. No. 5. No. 7. Indla'plls. Knlahw'n tu!m 830 pm HhflOem 7:00 pm 821pm (Hrtpm ft-Vi nm lloam l' llnm Canibri'ge Klchm'nd ft: I) am' 6t02 pm Oreenv'le. piU il4-.artn Brad Jun Plana mu. JMWM H::t2am! 6:50 am A. 14 i f.On l 11.-00 pm zspm &06pm 4:13piu &01pm D.l.r nawvin 12:04 am Urbatia .... MllforJ.... Colambua V. 19 BUB Mil lOJjOam ftaOani &01pm 11:41 am ll-flO am 6:15pm; IV.1VBIU Co Mtssa 1:48 am 2-JK am Pittsburg..! I t.J pi LB . . .... ' " 11:50 am JHom. 1.8,0 Dally, except Sunday. Novbjcbkr 2, 1873.' UOINO NORTH.

No. 2. No. 8. j No. 10. Clnclnnat. 7 KM) am 80 pm Richmond 100 am 110 pm Hagerst'n 10:47 pm 11:45 pm Newcastle 1 120 pm . 12:17 am Anderson 12:40 pm 1:14 am Kokomo... 11:15 pm 2:20 pm .. 2:50 am Logansp't. 12:20 am 325 pm 3:45 am Crown Ft 422 am 6:50 pm 70 am Chicago.... ItflO am 80 pm .- 8:45 am GOIMO SOUTH. i No. 1. No. 3. Chicago j 7:50 pm 820 am Crown PtJ 106 am Logansp't. 12:40 am 10 pm . Kokomo... 1:53 am 220 pm .. ............ Anderson. 8:42 am 4:12 pm ............ Newcastle 4:43 am 68 pm Hagerst'n. 5:15 am 6:88 pm . Richmond 60 am 620 pm ..... . Clnclnnat. 8:S5 am 920 pra -

No. 8 arri ves at Htate Li ne at 9:55 p. m. and ' No. 10 at 6: to a. m. No 2 leaves Chicago laily, except Saturday. N. 10 leave Richmond dally, except Sunday, and Logansport for Chicago daily. No. 2 leaves dally, except Saturday and Sunday. All other trains run except Hunday. Uttw Mlaaal Dtvlalaa. NoviMBxa 2, 1873. OOINO WKHT. No. 2. No. 4. No. 6. No. 10. Pittsburgh 915 14 n i 9:40 am 8:57 pm :25 pm 7:30 pra 8:44 pm 55 pm 1125 pm 00 pm 10:30 pm L res. June. Columbus. 1022 pm H-4U ant i:iuam 60 am 1025am U-2Aam London Xenta.. Morrow Z:2U am &X5 am 63 am 720 am 8d0am 10:50 am 7:25 am 12:35 pm 4:58 am pm Cincinnati :wam 8:40 am Xenla . Davton 12:40 pm 90 am Richmond, Ind'polis.J Il2:40pm 8:45 nm 6:50 am GOINO JCAST. No. 1. No. 8. No. 5. I No. 7. Ind'apolls.1 Richmond! Payton.l Xenla.. 100 ami fcSOam 0-a0am '5:35pm T-IOn-m 1.-00 nm! T-lil nm 110 pm 40 pm ISO pm 30 pra 40 pm 5:14 pm 6:15 pra 8:40 nm iz-wara, ! 95pm ClnclnnaU 6:50 am 8:18 am :25 am 40 pm 60 pm nm Morrow ... Xenla. London ... 12-J0am 10--lMam 11:40 am! 8'48 pm! istam 25am 5:19 am Columbus. Dres. June. v.nn pm Pittsburg. 7aupm 2:15am! 11-50 am Nos. 1. 2. 6 and 7 run Dally to and from Cincinnati. Nos. 1 and 6 Daily between Xenla and Dayton. All other Trains Daily, Oen'l Passenger and Ticket Agent. C. K. 4k. TU Way Kallr d. OOISO NORTH. I OOINO SOUTH. ti K m'l A ex.l00 am Portland ac... 9:00 am Portland ac....40 pm O R m'l A ex. 625 pm Arrival aassl Peawnrfre of taie Mails. ROUTES). OPENS. CUMES. Cincinnati, throunU 60 am 5:30 ani Cincinnati and wy 10:30 am 60 pm Chicago, through... 70 ant 7:30 pm Chicago and way 70 pm 12M pm Columbus and way 4:30 pm 120 wi Dayton and way 9:30 am 9-r.4m Indianapolis, through.-..- 80 am 60 am Indianapolis and way 10 am 3:80 pm ' Ft. Wayne and way 70 pm 9:30 am ARB A. Monday, Wed'day, Friday 110 am 12:00 m BIiOONINOfiPORT. Tuesday .Thursday at'd'y 120 m 20 pm COLLEGE CORNER. Tuesday and Friday. 120 m Ub30 pm LIBERTY. Monday and Friday......... 60 pm 70 am Lake Shore via Winche'r, 9-JO am 9-JO am Offiee open from 70 a. m. to 7:30 p: m. On Sunday, from 90 to 100 a. m. - W. W. DAVIS, P. M. B.M. PETTEHOIIX CO 40 Park Bow, New York, Are agents for the Richmond Palladium In that city, and are authorised to contract for Inserting advertisements for us at lowest cash rates. Advertisers In that city are requested to leave favors with them. STATE OF INDIANA,-) S9. Wayne County, J Wayne Circuit Court, February term, 1874. Attachment. No. 788. Henry T.Burns vs. Henry Trimpe. Be it known, That on the 2d day of December, 1873, the above named plaintiff, by H. A. Forkner, attorney, filed in the office of the Clerk of the Wayne Circuit Court, his complaint against said defendant In the above entitled cause, together with the affidavit of a competent person, that said defendant, Henry Trimpe, la not a resident of the State of Indiana. Said defendant, Henry Trimpe. therefore, la hereby notified of the tiling and pendency of said complaint against aim, and that unless he appear and and answer or demur thereto, at the calllug of the said cause, on the second day of the next term of said court, to be begun and held at the Court House, in Richmond, on the first Monday of February, 171. next, and complaint and the matters and things therein contained and alleged, will be taken as true, and the said eause will be heard and determined in his absence. Witness, the Clerk, and the seal of SEAL said Court, at Richmond, this 2d day of December, 1873. WM. W. DUDLEY, Clerk. S. A. Fork nek. Attorney. 39-3 OTICE IX ATTACHMENT. BTATE OF INDIANA,") J-SS Wayne Couuty, J Before Enos Thomas, Justice of the Peace, Way ne to w nshi p. f avI T nnfp lilittH . . ... . - . - t -.ii nfluu,Ruu reward M. Doty. vs. U illiani F. Romizler and Job n K. Hmallwooll. Attachment and GarTh. ttwv. n.m&l rlafuml. ..... . notified that on the 3d day of November. ., tfnu. m vr tiv it, siiinciimtrni.. anu also m WfH Arriral.hM.n 1 n V. . . . . . saute, and that tlie hearing of said cause is mdkt tir 1A a'.ImIi a.. . I. o, . -J . - ltt7J L-vnu Wlinr .u D. W. Coxstock, Attorney. 3tfmw Befnre Enos Thomas, Justice of the Peaee. 0? Wayne township, Wayne county, State vi xuumum . Levi R. Doty, t. al., vs. WUUam F. Rom Ixier, et. al. The above named defendants are hereby notified that the plalntifls in the above entitled cause will take the depositions at the Mayor's office of the city of Columbus, county or Franklin, Htate of Ohio, on the 30th day December, A. D. 1873. between the hours of 8 o clock a. m., and 6 o'clock p. m of said day, before some oificer authorised to take depositions, of JUndry witnesses, to be read In evidence in the trial of saidcause. In bei?' lhe Plalntifls, now pending before aaid Justice, and continue from day to day till ail are taken. . W. COMHtOck, Att'r foVpi W W a..

fiMlCI71.TI.MAI. rASriKATIOS. I dreamed of a great republic Whose people shall all go Went, Sow plums and reap tomatoes In the land that they love best; Where Jobs of all dimensions Shall bloom on every hill. And chickens low in the bam-yard, And gooseberries toil at the milL I'm tired of seeing the cabbage Handle the rake and hoe; I'm tired of waiting and watching For the grasshopper bush to grow; I long for the time when spinach Shall cope with bread and milk; When, hens shall lay bananas. And horses spin raw silk. Oh! sweet were the vanished hours. When I wandered along the glen And wreathed my brow with tomatoes, And pluck the ripened hen;

When the donkey climbed on a trellis, And the cucumber chirped in the grass, And the sweet potato whistled To Its mate in the mountain pass. HOME JOT. XJCBLE. Sweet is the smile of home; the mutual look Whore hearts are of each other sure; Sweet all the joys that crowd the honsehold work; . The haunt of all affections pure; Tet in the world even these abide, and we Above the world our calling boast; Once gain the mountain top, and thou art free; Till then, who rest, presume; who turn to look, are lost. Kesaarkable Weddlaife:. The gentleman who sends na the following particulars of a recent marriage, says the event was the most remarkable he ever witnessed. We should think as much. The marriage took place in Lancaster, N. H., between William Evans and Mary E. Lamb. The day fixed for the ceremony was a Thursday, but the dress for Miss Lamb not being ready in time, a postponement was made until the Wednesday following. Unfortunately for that day the frosting would not adhere to the cake, and another postponement was made until Saturday. On Saturday the friends of the happy pair assembled at the house. The pastor of the Methodist Church was engaged for the occasion, but a he lived some distance from Miss I iamb's house, and as he did not put in an appearance after waiting a necessary time, they sent for the pastor of the Baptist Church. This they were obliged to do, as they were to take the six o'clock train for Montreal, and had no time to lose. The Baptist clergyman proceeded at once with the ceremony, and had got half through with it when the Methodist minister arrived. lie was very much surprised, and , his horse was very much reduced as to wind, but he helped to finish the tie. The American House coach had been engaged to take them to the depot, but the driver for got the appointment, and nervously awaiting tor - aim, they were turther unhinged by hearing the whistle of the ' incoming train. All was confusion at once, and much discomfort and annoyance were apprehended, and would have probably been realized had it not been for the presence of mind of the Methodist clergyman. His horse, already hitched ip. was in the barn, and he ran out to get it. In backing it out, the carriage careened over the dump at the door, upsetting both the horse and itself. 1 he Bap tist minister seeing the trouble oroceeded to the rescue by jumping out oi a pantry winaow, ana in so aoing sprained his ankle, and received other injuries. At this three or four of the guests eame to the rescue of the Meth odist clergyman. Ihey cut the har ness while he held his horse down. and when the animal came up to a perpendicular, which it did with mar velous quickness, the Methodist cler reman was launched in the air. and when he came down he did not jump . 1 . . r up wiin some iacetious comment, tor the reason that he came down on his head, and with such force as to drive a stove-pipe hat entirely over his ears and mouth, and clean up to his shoulder. The hat had to be cut to pieces before he could be released. In the meantime the bride's sister dispatched a man to the hotel to have them send some one to stop the train, and immediately followed after for the same purpose. It was well she did, as her messenger stumbled in going down a hill, and struck head-first in a pile of Btcne, where he remained some minutes, lost in thought. Reaching the hotel she made known her errand, and frightened the landlord by telling him she would hold him responsible for all damages. He mounted a boy on a fleet horse, and started him to the depot. And the boy tore over a bridge at such speed that he was not able to avoid a woman with twelve bundles in her arms, but ran straight against her, bursting, and scattering the parcels, and injuring her so severely that she had to be carried home. The train was stopped, however, and the hap py (?) couple got safely aboard. But it was a singular combination of acci dents, and is possibly without a paral lei. Danbury News. A Kansas paper gives the following report of a judge s sentence, lately passed on a criminal: "Brumley, you infamous scoundrel! loure an unredeemed villian! You hain't a sintrie redeeming trait in your character, Your wife and family wish we had sent you to the penitentiary. This is the fifth time I've had you before me. and you have put me to more trouble than your neck is worth. 1 ve exhort ed and prayed over you long enough you scoundrel ! J ust go home and take one glimpse at your family, and be off in short order ! Don't let's ever hear of you again ! The grand jury have lound two other indictments against you, but I'll discharge you on your own recognizances! and if I ketch you in this nick of woods to-morrow morning at davheht. 1 11 sock von right square in jail and hump you off to f enersonville in less than no time you infamous scoundrel 1 If ever 1 ketch VOU crossinfr vnnr fimrer at man. woman or child white man or nigger I'll sock you right square into the jug 1 Stand up, you scoundrel, while i pass sentence on you ! A party of students from Hanover College have gone on a tramp to the Mammoth Cave. They expect to walk to the cave and return during the holidays.

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fbisiwl Bnss'i I Rettehlas; Japan with a Oliver Quarter He Leaves ss Hla lanperial Ma Jeaty'a Special CaoBsaiastoBer. lion .him inaii Washington Correspondent N. Y. Sun. There are many of your readers who are ignorant of the fact that the Japanese Govenrnent has es tablished a postal service, and that it has entered into a regular postal treaty with the United States. A" still larger number do not yet know what has given the ancient empire Bach a glorious start in the race of progress. The story is as pleasant as it is instructive, and here it is : With one of the Ohio regiments that passed through Washington at the beginning of the war came a drummer boy Samuel Bryan about twenty years old He enlisted at Cadiz, the home of John A. Bingham, buV after an experience of a few months he secured a discharge, obtained employment in one of the departments, and by perseverance and patience soon worked himself into a clerkship in the Sixth Auditor's office at a sal ary of 1,600 a year, and was placed in charge of what is known as the British mail desk. In this position he became thoroughly acquainted with our foreign mail system, and obtained also an excellent general knowledge of postal business in all its various departments. ' A HAPPY THOUGHT. One day, after reading an account of the Japanese Embassy's reception at San Francisco, the thought arose in his mind that while Japan bad attempted to introduce our Internal Revenue and Agricultural Bureau systems, she had as yet made no effort to establish a Postal Department. He argued that the government which could so clearly see the advantages of system in the workings of the Agricultural and Revenue Departments could not be blind to the importance of a plan by which general intelligence could be most rapidly and most cheaply distributed among its people. Filled. with the thought that he might be the means of conferring a lasting benefit upon Japan, while he him self might occupy a prominent position in the line of promotion to immortality, he lost no time in surYerying the field and preparing for action. His first step was to introduce himself to Hon. Jacob A. Ambler, member of Congress from the Seventeenth Ohio district. "I should have gone to Mr. Bingham," said he to the Congressman, ' but he is so lazy that I know he would do nothing but make the promises." From Mr. Ambler young Bryan learned that the Japanese Government had so postal service, but that, according to Minister Mori, attempts were being made to establish one. He next called upon Minister Mori, but received no encouragement. When Minister De Long arrived with the Japanese Embassy Bryan obtained an 'introduction to him from Ids good friend Mr. Ambler, and after fully explaining his plans received from Mr. De Long assurranees of his earnest co operation. The chief men - of the Embassy were delighted with the explanations of the young enthusiast, and were easily won to promise their aid in the prosecution of his enterprise. They had no authority to enter into any agreement with him, but urged him to go at once to Japan and treat directly with the Imperial Govern ment OVERCOMING OBSTACLES. "This was flattering," said Bryan to me the other day for yon must know he was in Washington "but how could I follow their ad vice! Without money, without moneyed friends to assist me, what could I do? Mr. De Long came to my aid with a happy suggestion. It was simply to put myself in com mumcation with the Pacific Mail Steamship Company, lay my plans before them, secure an appointment as agent lor the line, ana while in Japan press my scheme upon the Government. Backed up by Minister De Long, who. on his departure for Europe, left him a letter of introduction and recommendation to be handed to the President of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company, Bryan was appointed purser in the branch lines plying in Eastern waters, and received a free ticket from San Francisco to Yokohama. Leaving $200 with his wife he started for New York with $75 in his pocket. From C. H. Hunting toe, Vice President of the Central Pacific, to whom- he bore letters from the Postmaster General At Council Bluffs he purchased an army omcer s ticket over the Union Pa cine, for which he paid $38,50, and had just $2,50 in currency left. On the train he met the mail clerk, who engaged him as his as sistant. This made it unnecessary for him to use bis ticket, and when he reached Ogden he sold it for $41,20. In San Francisco he ob tained from a friend a letter of in troduction to H. M. Miller, the chief officer of customs in Japan, after reaching lokobama after pleasant passage his cash capital amounted to TWENTT-ITVE CENTS XS STLVZB. At Yokohama he met with Mr. De Long, who advised him to go at once to xeddo. "I was again in ' pecuniary trouble," continued Mr. Bryan: "A

third -clans ticket to Yeddo, eigh-

' teen miles away, was only 37 eta., but that was just 12 cents more than I had in the world. I was ' not discouraged. I called upon Mr. Miller, presented my letter and asked the loan of $25, which was given with cheerful alacrity. At Yeddo I met Mr, De Long's inter preter, by whom I was introduced to the interpreter of the Court, who arranged a meeting between myself and the Minister of Foreign Affairs. But . little was done at this interview. Two weeks slipped away, and my purse was again empty. I went back to Yokohama, saw Captain Lane, agent of the Pacific Mail Company, told him what had "brought me to Japan, enlarged up on the benefits that must accrue to the company in the event of my success, and borrowed of him 250 Mexican dollars. At the end of two months Captain Lane advanced me $250 more, and this sum carried me through. "Then you met with extraordinary success, said 1. "Well, yes, but I had to over come many difficulties, as you shall learn. Aided by Mr. De Long, I was soon enabled to lay my plans before the Ministers. I found them Yery intelligent, quick to perceive, willing to listen and learn, and prompt to act. Hut now came my trials, ion know that every government that is in commercial intercourse with Japan has its own mail service. Our Consuls act as postmasters, and so do the French, British, and German Consuls. The British Consuls who had everything their own way in Japan until the arrival of Mr. De Liong, were vio lently opposed to me and my plans. So were our own Consuls. W hatever they could do to embarrass me and prevent action by the gov ernment they lost no time in doing. But for this influence I should have accomplish my object in two qr three months at farthest But I succeeded at last, and to my -great toy an imperial edict was issued establishing a Jrost-omce uepart ment, with Maysbimi iiiaska as Postmaster General I was ap pointed His Imperial Majesty's SPECIAL COMMISSIONER to negotiate a postal treaty with the United States, tireat .Britain, France, and Germany, and my sal ary fixed at 6,000 Mexican dollars per annum, with an allowance of $300 a month for traveling expen ses, railroad fare and like expenses being extra. His Majesty allowed me $500 to compensate me for the delay to which I had been subject ed, and $500 more for passage mo ney by steamer to the United States." "How have you succeeded with the authorities at Washington?" asked. Very well, indeed, was the re ply. "I have negotiated a treaty with this government which is Yery favorable. The rates of postage are to be fifteen cents per ounce for the first year, and twelve cents thereafter. The rates will not be raised even should the subsidy paid to tile Pacific Mail Company be withdrawn, each government agree ing to pay its due proportion of the carrying expenses. The treaty has just been confirmed by the Imperi al (iovernment. Mr. Bryan sailed for Havre on Saturday. From Havre he goes to Paris, and after negotiating a treaty with France he visits Berlin and London. He expects to accomplish his mission and return to the Dm ted States by next July. When he comes back he will have the dies for the Japanese stamps engraved, and purchase a large quantity o: bags and bagging, and other ma terial needed for the mail service. He has an assistant at $5,000 year, and two clerks at $2,500 each, to travel with him. hue May shimi Hiaski is nominally Postmas ter General of Japan, BRYAN IS THE SEAL HEAD of the department It was at Bry an s suggestion that Mayshimi Hi aski was raised from an inferior clerkship in the Finance Depart ment to the position he now occu pies, and the grateful chief is the young American's most devoted friend. Japan has never had what could be called a postal service. There was a sort of postal express thro' diffeient parts of the island, but it did not meet the requirements the people. The government is now for the nrBt time having sur veys made, with the view of establishing post roads, and the work, Mr. Bryan thinks, will be finished before his return. Lives there a' man with nose bo red who never to himself hath said. "I'll pav before I go to bed, the debt I owe It- i OtT J T li: tut- iiiiuicri urauuvu xvepuuucau. Yes. there are some I know full well, but they, I fear, will go to well -the place where there s no winter. Panola Star. You're blind, Star, you're reason's dim, or you'd not argue such a whim; e'en Satan bad would not have him who fails to pay the printer 1 Tupelo Journal. . We're glad that now the means are ' found to bring the back subscribers i round so when you've run your course of years, pay then at last your full arrears; but no arrears to have I to pay is better far, we think and say. Several young men of Bedford, Lawrence county, who are learning J telegraphy, have erected a line of their own about tour squares long, to practice upon.

BT JOAQUIK BUIXXR.

We part as ships on a pathless main. Gay ly enough, for the sense of pain : Is asleep at first; but ghosts wlU arise When we would repose, and the forms will come :'... And walk when we walk, and will not be dumb, Nor yet forgetful with their wakeful eyes. When we most need rest, and the perfect sleep, Home hand will reach from the dark, and keep-- - The curtains drawn and the pillows toss'd like a tide of foam; and one will say ' At night O Heaven, that it were day? -And one by night through the mysty tears Will say O Heaven, the days are years, And I would to Heaven that the waves werecross'd, - Bans Weller the AripUes. Sam Weller was seated on the quarter deck of a coal barge not far from the Brooklyn Navy Yard, a.nning himself, a day or two ago, when the following incident occurred, which - he relates in his own characteristic way: 'I was sitting takin' it easy like,' says Sam, 'when up steps a gen 1 m n, and says: 'You don t remember me? 'Can t say I do,' says L )h, I know you, says the genTm'n, 'knowed you when I was a boy, says he. 'W ell, I don t remember you, says L 'That's werry odd,' says the genlmn. Werryy says I. 'You must have a bad mem'ry,' says the genTm'n 'Well, it isn t Yery prime, on recolectin , says 1. Then he grows more confidentialer and says, 'It's a werry narrer channel here for a SpahiBh brig un to get through? 'It is rather narrer, says L 'Nasty bit,' rays he, 'and more especialer suthin should upset and get stuck in the mud, what couldn't be dug up less nor a fortnight or so, till this Cuby question's riz off the public mind?' Werry nasty sitiwation, says J- 'Y ell, says the gen - m n, you re a werry good barge man as can do what he likes with his own barge. 'It's werry kind 'o you,' says L concealin' suthin as he handed over to me. 'Good arternoon,' says the genl'm'n. 'Good arternoon,' says I. And you wonldn t b'lieve, p'raps, but next mornin' afore daybreak a barge was upset on that werry spot as the gentleman pinted out. A Ward the Clergy. Much interest has been excited of late on questions relating to Christianity and the increase of skepticism and infidelity throughout this country and Europe. It can not be denied that the spirit of free inquiry, a desire to find the truth wherever it may lead, has spread with remarkable rapidity during the past few years, and that it has spread a deleterious influence on the churches. In other words the churches seem to be losing in a measure that vital power which once characterized them. This fact will hardly be denied by any honest and unprejudiced observer of pass ing events. In seeking the cause of this state of things we naturally turn to the ministry. The church is what the clergy make it On them rests the responsibility of giving it influence and power. They can lead the public opinion or follow it When they do the first the church becomes a vital institution, exercising a vast power among the people; when they do the latter it ceases, to a great extent, to move and guide the masses It would seem that the clergy of the present time are followers rather than leaders. It is almost painful for a man of an active and intelligent mind to listen to many of the sermons which are preached from Sunday to Sunday in the churches throughout the land. They strike him as being peculiarly dead and powerless. They are the mere echo of sermons which were preached a hundred years ago, ana wmcu had power then because in keeping with the times. Now, as then, the minister reads his scriptural passage and proceeds with his formal first, so cona an i tmraiy, to expatiate on some doctrinal point, with painful elaboration, which has been elucidated a thousand times before in almost the same language. He sets forth the life and trials of Paul or goes into a scathing denunciation bf the Jews for their rejection and mistreatment of Christ Discourses of this kind are not calculated to increase the power and usefulness of the church to make it an institution strong with vital force. There is little in them to draw the masses. They may partially satisfy the old members of the tehurch, who have got used to them and never weary of hearing their favorite dogmas set forth in strong terms, but to the worldly mind there is in them a barrenness which -is uninviting and unsatisfying. This class miss a certain novelty and practicalness which it is the nature of the human mind to demand. This style of preaching is not what the churches need to make them as useful as they ought to be. The field which the clergy have to till in an almost ilimitable one. ' The regions of fact and fancy, of history and science, of poetry, politics (in the highest sense of the word) and philosophy are at hand; they should not be satisfied to cir cle round forever in the norrow limits of sectarian theology. If the ministers in the many thousand churches throughout the country would forget doctrines and begin, as some have done, to deal with the practical questions of the times,

the questions that force themselves

on the mind of every thinking person and demand an answer, their discourses would accomplish far more good than any eulogy on Paul or exegis on predestination can do. lhe churches ought to guide the people, not in spiritual things only, but in temporal, by viewing temporal things from a spiritual standpoint' Instead of shirking from allnding to things which axe passing in the every day world around us, they should comment intelligently, fearlessly and candidly upon them and teach the people their duty in every emergency. In other words the church needs in a measure to be revolutionized. This is being done slowly but inevitably ana wui go on until the fact is fully accomplished. If the people knew that bv sroinsr to the churches they would hears calm, dispassionate . comment on the events which have engaged their attention through the week, instead of the usual discussion of purely religious-questions, the houses of ( worship would be ever-crowded and I would have to be enlarged. There is much in the church service that is interesting and impressive. The music, the solemnity and the sense of close sympathy which the con gregation can not help feeling, coming together Sunday after Sun day as they do, makes the church an institution possessing peculiar powers. . If to these inherent . advantages it should join a more popular style of preaching, reaching out more widely into' popular life, it would become a much mor6 potent instrumentality for good. Terre Haute Express. Another IattereaUais; sMfesury Iet stesii. Among the large number gather ed at the horse sale Friday, was Colonel Higginson, who is, as our Danbury readers well know, very deal Along side of him. stood a young man, a stranger, engaged, as was the Colonel, in watching the 1 W . W a stue. jjunng a rat ne turned toward the Colonel, and politely observed: "A pleasant dav." The Colonel saw the movement of his lips, but of course heard no sound. and not wishing to lose what might he a matter of vital interest he said: "What's that?'' "It is a pleas ant aay, repeated the young man, suddenly realizing the dreadful in significance of the statement "I did not quite hear you," explained the Colonel leaning forward with some anixefy. The young man turned very red, and looked as if he was about to descend into the bowels of the earth with his hat on. "I said it was a pleasant day," he again stammered, raising his voice and shivering at the Bound. The Colonel's hand went up to his ear. "Really, sir," he said, in a bland manner, "I am afraid you will have to speak a little louder. The young man grew redder than ever. How gladly he would have turned and fled; how bitterly he regretted not keeping the information to himself. But the Colonel stood waiting; and raising himself by his toes, the young man shrilly screamed : "It is a pleasant day." The Colonel heard this, and promptly coincided, and the young man retreated amid the encouraging smiles of the populace. Danbury News. The BoviaeSatram. Probably the best paragraph that 'ever appeard in the Indiana Farm er appeared last week. It should be printed in gold letters, framed and hung up in every farmer's kitchen: " And an old cow, still yielding her milk and, if well treated, quite abundantly is one of the most touching things, after having lived her life of. usefulness. She is still doing her best to be one of the herd: and she says to you in that silent language, "give me but food prepared so that I can nse it and I shall still be your cow." She is al J j at mere at tne earn, waiting lor you nowK am in the old days. Though old, she is sensible, not childish, and you should treat her according ly. The rest are your pride. In their prime they are a fine set, with great eyes, as bright as summer, and with full, bursting summer breaths, restless, and shaking heada expecanuy ior tneir iooa, which is the summer feed, the very grass that they were to crop, a little more grown, and only need of its sur plus of water. This green, healthy, fragrant food is presented. They, give their milk in return. You have secured that shelter and that free ventilated space that makes them desire it as- they would the summer field. And downy is their bead to Ha on with its soft pulverized material to take up all the moisture and the odor, and keen dry and sleek as in the fresh green grass, the much cow, so much abused, will here show her quality. what she tan do for you . who thus favor her; for this favor, this kind ness even adds to her profit bo do mestic is this animal Ve can not be too kind with milch cows; we can not be kind enough; they will always show their thanks in profit able returns. - s. A Maine woman ate four quarts oi oysters at one sitting, the otb day, and won one hundred dollars by so doing, which, after deduct ing her burial expenses, eighty-five dollars, leit ner mteen dollars to I commence the next world with

BEVTVALM PREACItERS.

BeMk? Henry Ward Beecher, in his Yale College course of lectures on preaching, has a description of the "revivalist" of . the day, which contains much sound sense as well aa humor. 'Most revivalists that I have known are men with immense bellies and immence chests and big underheads. They are men that carry a great deal of personal magnetism with them; a sensuous magnetism, too, and they have a great power of addressing the undermind; and they will set feelings undulating like waves, and will carry men on them, I do not believe yon could preach with effect to the boatmen and gamhlers of Arkansas and to all the rill raff of the community, those who realy liv down Jn the cellar 1 si. Iheir heada; unless yon brought the motive of fear to bear upon them. If you could in any way bring the higher feelings in their natures to act in and of itsself upon the lower ones, there would be regeneration in that direction. "But ordinarily, men that work among those classes are men large-. ly of the earth, blessed with vigor ous circulation and great power of throwing out sympathetic influence upon men. and because they preach -largely to the under class, men who are amoved by conscience and by nothing else, they preach these: absurd and terrific doctrines, and - preach them with all the imagery that has come down to ns from the mediae vel times, with hoofs and horns, and all manner of' exaggerated statements. I have heard a revivalist in my pulpit make statements to my congregation that, if I believed them to be true, would make me abandon the Christian ministry I was going to say aban don decent society and foreswear my race! The things .was bo hideous! He Btood there and afterward, when I was with him, it ap-' peared that he had no compunction and he began with this declaration, that the mind was capable of infinite developement and increase of capacity. Well, that is pure supposition to start with. But, assuming that, he went on to say, that it would go on increasing forever in power of thought, and power of susceptibility, and power of enjoyment, and power of suffering. That being granted, he went on to say that if men' went to hell they will increase forever and ever; and when he came to the application, it was this : 'I have no doubt said he, and his great white eye glistened as he rolled it around the audience, 'that there are men sitting before me who will by and by be in hell and will have grown and grown in the power of suffering until they will have reached a point at which they will suffer more in ' a single minute than all the suffering of all the damned from the beginning of creation to the present hour.' . "There was his logical inference: and then he multiplied it and went on, saying that there would be multitudes and multitudes of them there, while angels were singing glory to God, and while God was oolong over into the pit and seeing that terrific scene, enjoying himself he wanted me to believe that and then worship God! Now, - where you deal with men in communities in that way, it i you who are to blame, for the reactions sometimes very terrific in revivals.' The daughter of Don Carlos, of Spain, is a very charming young la-, dy, but her visitors have some difficulty in making themaelvs under stood when they call, because of the dimensions of her name. More than one hired girl has caught cold and gone into galloping consump tion by keeping the front door open while young gentleman callers ask if Signonta Blanche-de Castile Mana-de-la Conception Therese Franeoised' Assise Margerite-Jeanne Bea trice Charlotte-Louise- Fernando-A-delgonde - Elvire - Hlupons - Regine-Josephe-Michelle-Gabrielle-Raphel-le is in; and one serveant girl called the police because she thought the visitor was swearing at her. It took eight able bodied clergymen to baptize her, and her visiting card is made as large as a cellar door and carried around on a push cart Her monogram is said to resemble a handful of fishing worms; and when she has her name put on her umbrella, the engraver begins at the handle, works up one side, over the end of the ferrule and down the other side? in order to crowd it all in. She was named after the entire orphan asylum. : Perteet has finally been hung. . The law of Illinois, after three trials, and despite the technicalities of the Supreme Court, supersedeases, and re prieves by the Governor, has been strong enough to hang one of the most cowardly and revolting murderers that ' ever disgraced the race. There is a' gleam of hope in this, to the shame of the courts lie it said. Inobrsoll, Ontario, Dee. 21 .-A man named Timothy Topping killed his wife and four children this morning, by cutting their throats with a' butcher knife. He also tried to murder his two eldest boys, but they succeeded ia disarming aim, and fled for help to the neighbors.' On their return they found he had cut his thaoat. At latest advices he was still alive.' The cause assigned for the butchery is insanity, eaused by flnancial trouble.

There is a gospel in wo'a?or glad tidings, however gratofd to the ear, are tnriee blessed when they proclaim some good thing dons- some beneficent event accomplished. ThesBgels sang to the shepherds-after thrift had been born. The world was rich in its possession of the Messiah, before the Magi offered the. incense of adoration. Men praise; the Fetbrr Almighty because he is ' mighty in working, and worketh ever. :, " ' The connection between work and worth is too often overlooked or forSotten. People of all sixes and conitions, are eager for sdwir.-ron. They covet homage, sigh for wnr-pli-meats, and want to be field in m nUi -tion, ad if they get notall tlie atn ntion which others receive, often gitm sour and discontented, and think t l o whole world against them. ' But v. hot have such people dose to deserve re- ,

1 spect? Have they conferred any ben efit upon society? nave tney ttiueu one whit to the sum of human happiness? Have they earaed a right to ' pfae ia the affections ef their kind? - ' Have they ever made an effort to enlarge the domain of truth, of virtue, and of Christian power? The verdicts which the averace - world of mankind pronounces on the characters which appear before its tribunal, may be and doubtless tre often wrong. Yet the common rule is right. There must be work of some kind rendered before the "well done" is conceded. And the higher the work in the end, the higher will be the praise. All kinds of Christian work to be jrorthy must be done for the work's sake, and not for selfish vanity. Selfforgetfulness is the very highest style oi ma my ammuon, ior it is oi mat order of devotion which exalts great ohiects far above petty personal considerations, prejudices or preferences. He who loses his life in his grand life work, comes at lajt to rank with the crowned snd the worthy on whom the divine benediction shall rest forever, because they have entered into the joy of their Lord. This is" the eeason when nearly every paper we take up relates some horrible casualty, from the explosion of a kerosene lamp, or the like, and women and cnudren are either kiiiea outright or terribly burned and scarred for life. A simple know ledge of the inflammable nature of the fluid would probably put an end to nearly all the accident?. First, no lamps should ever be filled after dark by the light of a candle. Always do this work alter the breakfast dishes are put away, and then not only fill them, but wash the chimneys, for if they are dim and smoky, you cannot expect to have a bright light. Take the chim- . ney in one hand and breathe through it; then draw a large wisp of paper up and down it, and all the blur will be removed. If the chimney is blackened with lamp smoke, tarn warmish water through the tube, and then wipe out . with paper in the same style as before. If" the lamps are glass, and they become clouded with a deposit from the kerosene, take lime water that ia milky with the lime and shake it up in the lamp. Do this with two different washings and all the deposit will be removed. A little chloride of lime, dissolved in warm water, and left in a lamr or can which has held kerosene, will deodorise it very soon. .Lamps must be filled every moraine. This is an imperative duty for every housekeeper to see performeo, ior as tne on Durns aown in a lamp, there is created a highly inflammable gas, which gathers impercepti bly over the surface, and as fast as the oil is consumed this gas increases, so when the oil is nearly out of the lamp, the slightest jar of the table will set the gas on fire, an explosion follows instantaneously, and a bombshell would not he more destructive, for its loucnes are aeainiy. - xut u tne on is burned only half way down in your lamp, the gas is not of suaoient power to do any injury; therefore let me beg of you never to defer the operation of lamp-filling to another day. but see yourself that it is done. ' When 1 read of deaths occuring from trying to light fires with kero sene, 1 always think the verdict of the coroner s jury should: ae, served .them right," for it seems impossible to believe that any mortal could be so foolish as to tamper with such a highly inflammable liquid. Better try to kindle fires with a powder can well filled than with the contents of your kerosene can. Daisy Eyebright, in Country Gentleman. cat of SsmuUmBi CrsMlty. ' A most touching instance of heroism, and one of the most atrocious acts of cruelty, the truth of which is vouched for by the most respectable authoiity, occurred during the Colombia struggle for independence. The Spanish General Morillo, the most blood-thirsty and treacherous tool of the Spanish, was created Count of Cartagena and Marquis de la Puetra for services which rather entitle him to the butcher or hangman. While seated in his tent one day, he saw a young boy before him drowned in tears. The chief demanded of him for what purpose he was there. ' The boy replied that he had come to beg the life of his father, then a prisoner in Morillo's camp. "What can you do to save your father?" asked the General. "I can do but little, but what I can, shall be done." - - Morillo seized the little fellow's ear, and said: "Would you suffer your ear to be taken off to procure your father's life?" "I certainly would," was the undaunted reply. ' . j The boy wept hut did not resist while the cruel order was executed. "Would you lose your other ear rather than fail of your purpose?" was the next question. "I have suffered much, but for my father I can suffer still," was the answer of the boy. , The other ear was taken off piecemeal, without flinching on the part of the noble boy. - "And now go!" exclaimed Morillo, untouched by his sublime courage: I "the father of such a son must die. In the presence of his agonised and vainly-suffering son, the patriotic father was executed. ,. . Never did a life ptetvre exhibit such truthful lights ana shades in national character, such deep, treacherous villainy such lofty, eathasiastie harassa! ;

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