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aHatttum JEIfKJNSON & CULLATON. - -. .,.. WtOVWETUWl. tr- -- ' , Office, Corner Mailt and Marion Btreets. Htx Months.. . .. j i ..J 15 for Club or Tan, ut ytr, An extra copy win oe getting npa club of ten lie given to the person HuhMT-rlutinn mlut in all ease be paid In advance, and the paper wli fee u-optly stopped when the term paid for lias expired. Kate of advertising will be made known on application at the office.-"- "' - RAILROAD DIRECTORY. RICHMOND TIME TABLE. ' TAKING XFTECX NOVEMBKR US, 187& Trains leave from the rrnfon Depot, corner . and Noble Streets. . ! i nttekarg, Cincinnati A kt. Ioula , ,. Railway. , . rXDIAXAPOIJS WTIBIOX. Truux Leave Goina West. Postal Exprs. . Tr-- ------ -2i to -I'm Vfcon et uauuiapuus .mv ll.OU a m Fast Une. 3.30 p m 8.48 p in , Sm am Southern gxpiioas--.. ... Indianapolis Acconiniodation Train Arrive from the West. Fast Line......Kxpress - .... Fast Express . . . -' Accommodation . . ..7.05 ant .12.33 p 111 . -7.10 p in .-. ttU p m - cri,ijifBrs mvistoit. ' ''"""'.';''.'.' Trotne Leave Going East. n " ' ' " Fast Line.... ...... .-.'.-7.ao am Kxpress -..:.r.;.- ....'.12.35 p m . Fast Express-. 7.25 p m - Traiit Arrive from the Kant. I ; i h Postal Express..-. .,...,.ll.51 sm Fast Line ....... ..,,....- 3.J0 put Southern Express..---...- '..T8.-i8 p ni DAYTON 4 XKSU 11JVI.SION. . : Trriuts Leaoe'Goitig East. Mixed Local.. ....... ...., 6.15 s in j Pacific Express . 12.40 p m ; Trains Arrive from the East. ' -' Indianapolis Accommodation.'... ..10.15 am Indianapolis Express . .. ... 3.15 pm Mail ........ ......................... 7.1i p la v i i. chicaoo m VISION. .. Traitu Imvo Going Norih. Express ...... loan a m Fast Line-,.. 1DJJU p in Xratas Arrive from the itarth. , : . Fast Line.......... ;.. ;" 5JI am Express .... 6.10 put JlaelnuMtl, Hsmillss . 4k. . Iay ton KaHrosd. u. . , , Trains Tetive Goituj South. . Express .J..;...!'..'...."- ,......-.00 am Richmond Accommodation..... 7 Jo am Express .................. .......... S.45 pm Trains Arrive From the South. - -Express M....".:.......:..... J. ....... 100 am KichmosKl Accommodtioii.... ?J5Bm Express .................95 put Ursnd Itapiflla A IsidiMMa JbUlroad. . Trains Leave&oing North. , , Express I . .. I . . '.'I... 10.05 a m Accommodation-.. . ..... ........ 4.00 pm Express , WaO pm Trains Arrive from the North, , j Express ...... ..-I 5.00 am AVUIUUUUUMfl.,r Express ........... 9-19 V ax ............ 6.35 pm Daily. . t Daily except Saturday. : Daily except Monday., All trains, not otherwise indicated, depart and arrive daily except Sundav. ......... i - - i j Trains on all above fines ran by OJnmIus time, which is eight niinntes faster than Richmond time, twelve minutes faster than Indianapolis time, and six minutes faster than Cincinnati time. - ' - , ... POST OFTICE DIRECTORY. : : ' Mall Time Table.' Goino North Incluiling all places supplied from the Chicago ft. ft., and the Ft. Wayne B.Bekmeeat 10.00a.m. i - Goino South i. Including Cincinnati and all points beyond, closes at 5.00 a. m. 3. In eluding an places supplied from the Cincinnati Railroad, 6.00 p. m. Goino Kast Including all places supplied from the Columbus it. K and all Eastern and Central States, and via Dayton and . Aema Kauroaa, closes at rz. m. Oorco WBirr L Including Indianapolis, closes 10.00 a. m. 2. same as above, closes 7.00 p. in. 3. Including ail points supplied by the Indianapolis Railroad, .i.oo n. in. S3w Chicago and all points west and northwest. closes T.00D. m. s f-i i s: . t To Webster, Williamsburg and Blooming sport, on Tuesday. Thursday aud Saturday, at 2.00 p. m. To Cox's Mills. White Water. Bethel and Arba, on Monday, Wednesday and Friday, at tLUO noon. , ... , ...... To Abington, Clifton, and Libertv, on Monday and Friday at 7.00 a. in. To Boston, Heechymire, Cioodwin's Corner, and College tkamer, on Tnestlay and Friday, at 1A30 ni. . - , . , . t . . . . At 8.00 a. m. from Indianapolis and Cincinnati, and bevond. ' ' "- " - ' At 11.I a. m Ircio Cincinnati, way and through I mails, and from ayton nxxo .Xeuia Rail- i road. At 4.00 p. in. from Esst via Colnmbus Railroad, At 7.00 p. m. from North.-via Chicago Railroad and Fort Wayne Railroad. -. ; - , . At 8.U0 p. ni. from IuUanplis and beyond. Office open from 7."0 a. m. to 7-W p. m. On Sundav, from ftjto to W.) a. rn. - Nov.'ll, Ufi4. if . . . B. W. DAVIS, P. M. SOCIETIES. WffemoBd Ilrery el ' lieaevsleat sa Heeres MocielieM, . ; ' i' MASONIC. i ! ' ' ii-A'"1' All Masonic lodges meet in their Hall, in Gil ert's Block, notrhwest corner Main and Marion streets. .-'. h:-.;-i .:: '- " . Webb Lodqe. No. 24, F. and A. M., meets at Masonie Hall, third Wednesdav evening of each month. C. Fetta, W. M-i W. W. AuHtin, Sec. . . . ;. . ' . .. . .... " Richjcojtd LoixiK, No. 19C,F. and A. meets on the evening of the first Tuesday of each month. A. Samson, W. M. ; Himon Fox, Mee. - Kino SoLiOMOM Ch aptkr. No. 4. meets on the evening of the second Friday of each mouth. E. S. Conklin, H. P, ; C Fetta, Sec. ... , -r t , Watnk C'oun il. No 10, meets on the even, ing of the first Thursday of each luonth. S. Conklin, M. ; Ed. Palmer, Bee. Richmond CotinANDesr, No. 8, K. T., meets ou the evening of the first Monday of each month. J. JE. Tay lor, K. C. ; S. Mar Utt, Rec. r J. O. O. F. , . . All Lodges of this order meet in LO. O. F. Hall, southwest comer of Fifth aud Main. - " ' . - White Watkh TjOiKiK, No. 41. meets each Friday evening. W. P. Thomas, S. G. ; W. J. F, Thomas, V. G. ; Win. Vanueuuin, Rev. Set. Woodward Lodok, No. 212, meets each Wednt-sday evening. James A.' Heed. N. ti. ; Win. Harris, V. G. ; M. L. Mtattcn, liev. Sec. Richmond) LorwE, No. 254. meets each Monday evening. 4. R. Milligan, N. G. ; A. H. Tay. lor, V. G. ; A. Gorman, Rec. Sec ; , Hermah Lodok, No, 190, meets each Thursday evening. Win. Bartel, N. G. ; H. Marshal, V. G. ; Wm. Snrrendorf, Rec. Sec. Okikntal Encampment, No. '28, meets on the evening of the 2d and 4th Tuesdays nf avh month, a B. Williamson, C. P. ; M. L. Statten, S. W. ; Jno. H. Hinton, H. P. ; Thomas Cliandler, iicribe. Hermaxta Encampment, No. 75, meets on the evenings-of the first and third Tuesdays of ach month. . Conrad, t'raik, C P.; Aug. Kmcrick, S. W. ; Jn. No) ting, Scrite; Hugo MarshaL H. P. Herki.. I Deoree,Iat;ohtkr8ofKkbp.kah, No. 25, n.ets at L O. O. F. Hall, on the evenings of the 1st and 3d Saturdays of each month. Henry Greish, N. G. ; Phoabe Resetter, V. G. ; Cathrina Weber, Itec. Sec. . , Odd Fellows' Provident AssociATiosneets on the evening of the first Wednesday of each jnonth. President, A. A. Curme. Union Board of Trustees, L O. O. meet at I. O. O. F. Hall, on the evening of the first Wednesday of each month. . President, A. A. Curme. t; K. OF P. - Oeur db Leow Lodge, No. 8, meets at K. of P. Hall, corner of Main and Franklin streets, on each Tuesday evening. B. C Hill, C C. ; W. P. Wilson V. C: Richard King, K. R. S. Quaker City Lodoe, No. 53, meets at K. of P. H Ul, each Tburslay evening. Chas. Unthank, O. ; Dan'l Hill, V. C. ; A. W. Graves, K. R. S. BED MEN. i ( Osceolji Tribe, I. O. R. M., meets in their lall, over Second National Bank, each Thursday evening. 8. O. Hall, Sachem.. . OFFICLAX directory;. ' Connfjr 'itffievra. " Judge of the Wayne County Circuit CourtJohn F. Kibbey. Prosecuting Attorney of the Wayno Circuit Court 1. W. Comstovk. , , . , ;, Clerk of the Court W. H. Lynde. Deputies J. W. Moore and J. H. KiWey. ' . Sheriff Joseph L. Smith. - Deputy E. H. Stratton. -. Auditor K. M. Parker. ,,,rt Deputy Charles Wilson. ' - Treasurer Joseph G. Iiemon. "1 Deputy O. V. Imon. . . Recorder Jesse E. Jones. ; ... . -tDeputy James W. Wilson. County Commissioners William Brooks, C. Thornburgh, J. W. MartindIe. County Surveyor Robert C Shute. f School Su perintandent J ohn C. M ac pherson. Townxhip Trustee Samson Boon. Office in Library Building, corner Marion and Broadway. Justices of the Peace Knos Thomas, liii hmond; James M. l'oe, Richmond; D. H. Hill, Richmond. Constables Thomas McGir, Charles Seaman, and Charles Lei ve. - U.S. Commissioner C. C Binkley,- KicbInond, Indiana. 'lty nievra. Mayor-J.H. Hibbor.L Marshal Ixuiis . Shofer. ''' ' Clerk C. O. Clark. - ....- Treasurer William H. Wilson. ... Attorney John L. Rupe. Civil Fingineer Oliver Butler. - Wood Measurer Peter P. Kirn. Market Master Wra. L. Taylor. - -. Chief of Police Alexander Horney. ,f City Assessor Lewis M. Baxter. , , , Street Commissioner' E. D. Palmer. - ' ' Chief Fire Department L G. Dongan, Police Board Hibberd, Nye and Watt. Board of Education P. C, Graff, President ; W. H, Bradbury, Secretary ; A. Samson, Treasurer : John Cooper, Superintendent. Board of Health Dr. T. Henry Davis, C. R. Johnson, Frank Prnyn. A Home for $100. riTHK snbseriber offers for sale a numlx-r of X desirable Building Lots in the village of Boston, Wayne county. These lots contain a quarter ox an acre eacn, ana are nirerra u taw price of 9100. 11' tr early, and seenre first mtmfi tuist ou xevi un u u" wuiteenth treat, in the city of Richmond. swea ,asss o. , f CONI Ey Mama, Xor. 36, 1871 , dec2w2

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BOSOK TO OIK WOHHINHMKN. Whom shall we eall oar heroes 9 To whom our praises sing ! The pampered child of fortune. The titled lord or king I s - -They live bv others' labor . Take all a'nd nothing give ; The noblest type of manhood Are those who work to live. Thorn honor to ourjworkmen, Our hardy sons of toil . The neruea of the workshop, . And monarchs of the soil. . Who spans the earth with iron, : And rears the palace dome ! 't Who creates for the rich man The comforts of a home 1 I It is the patient toiler 1 . Ail honor to him then ; ' The true wealth of the nation Is in her workingmen. ; . ... . . I - '. : For many barren ages ' , Earth hid her treasure deep, i And all her giant forces . . Seemed bound as in sleep ; Then Labor's 'anvil chorus" Broke on the startled air, i And lo I the earth in rapture i ,. Laid all her riches bare. , . Tis toil that over nature Gives man his proud control, And purifies and hallows The temples of his souL - It scattered foul diseases, ' With all the ghastly trains ; Put iron to tho muscle,' And crystal in the brain. The Grand, Alniudity Builder, Who fashioned out the earth, ' Hath stamped Bis seal of honor : On labor from her birth. . In every angel flower - That blossoms from the sod. Behold the Master touches The handiwork of Ood ! ' Then honor to our workingmen. The hardy sons of toil , The heroes of the workshops And monarchs of the sou! THKLONU PACK. ' "Autity, ttIl m a story," I said, as I sat with my maiden relative in a hutre tapestried apartment in a rambling- oldfashioned house in the country. "What kind of a story do you want, Harry?" she asked. "Grave or gray, true or untrue, pleasant or sad? For my life has been long1 and my experiences many," she added, as she gazed dreamily and thoughtfully into the Are that blazed on the hearth before us. "Oh, 5 something; :. harrowing: and thrilling, fearful and shocking, and above all, true there's a dear aunty!" I exclaimed, as I drew near her side, and gazed shuddering-ly around the large, gloomy room. A little pause ensued, while aunty Razed meditatively into the fire, and I watching her face in eager hope of the exciting- tale that was coming. ' I was about sixteen (Aunt Betsy began at last) when I was invited to go and stay with some relatives in Sussex, whom-1 had never seen. - My life in this old house where I; was born and have lived all my days was somewhat monotonous. I was a lively girl then, and, wild with delight at the prospect of a change of scene, I looked anxiously for my parents' permission to aecept the Invitation. After some deliberation, the desired permission was given; so, early one morning, accompanied by my father, I set out in high spirits for my destination, arriving there in the pleasant twilight of an autumn evening. Our friends gave us a cordial recep tion. Squire and Mrs. Uldbam were staid, good-tempered, rather elderly 1 people, and their two daughters, girls of 18 and 20," ' as merry and as wild as I could possibly desire, Their names were Mildred and Janet.' - le The :houset- ' standing on its own grounds, and surrounded by lofty trees, was old and spacious, with many long corridors and passages, and plenty of rooms of all sizes and descriptions. I ran recall so well the great entrance hall.' It was of immense size and gloomy, and from It ascended a wide staircase, which led to an open gallery above. - ':' S -' '' ' ' - . Uuilaff. naytay with my Sussex friends, Mr. and Mrs. Oldham went to spend a few days at' a gentleman's house, a few miles distant from their own, and it was while they were absent that the alarming occurrence I am about to relate took place. The household consisted of the but ler and four maid servants. The coach man, who lived ; In a cottage on the grounds, about a quarter of a mile distant, was now absent with his master and mistress. The butler was a pompous, stately, ' middle-aged man, given somewhat to patronizing, though always respectful in his manners to ns young people. "He evidently considered the safety of the house as his peculiar charge, and wan very particular in the extinguishing of tires, and in looking-after the fastening of doors and windows, : We had heard of one or two robberies being committed In' the neighborhood; but we did not feel nervous, and my cousin placed great dependence on a huge black dog, which always slept at night in the hall. ' - One evening I believe it wan the third after Mr. and Mrs. Oldhams s departuremy cousins and I were sitting, chatting merrily around the fire, In a large room which opened from the hall, , I think it was about 7 o'clock when there came a pull at the front door-bell, and, after a short delay, the butler answered it. ' Presently, hearing a somewhat prolonged parley out side, we opened our room door and peeped out. -' Two men, apparently much ex hausted, stood at the lower end of the hall, while on the floor, at their feet, lay a large, long package. Opposite to them stood the butler and one of the maid servants, and a stormy discussion seemed going on between them. Mildred, my elder cousin, after a few moments pause, walked forward and requested an explanation. One of them, rather a respectable-looking individual, I thought, advanced toward her, and making a low bow, began to speak: "Madame," said he, "we have brought this bale of goods to your house by mistake; we were to take it to Mr. Needham's," mentioning a house about five miles distant, "but have carried it here instead. ' We are much exhausted, for we have walked far, the night is tempestuous, and we feelthat we can take it no farther. Will you kindly allow us to leave it here till morning?" Mildred looked at the butler inquiringly before she answered. The old servant shook his head with a doubtful and suspicious air, whereupon the man who had just spoken observed hastily: "We do not ask for lodging for ourselves, madam; we shall make our way to the nearest public house. It is only the pack we wish to leave. It is very heavy, and we will call for it in good time to-morrow. We throw ourselves upon your compassion. "Iiet the poor men leave their large package, Mildred," said Janet, my younger cousin, "and have it put into the ante-room until to-morrow." Mildred consented, and in disregard of the frown and ominous looks of the butler, ordered the pack to be carried into a little room near the entrance. , This was done, and glad was I to see the door liolted and barred behind the formidable strangers. It seemed to me a dangerous - risk, in our thinlypeopled household, to admit two strangers at that time in the evening. I had noticed, too, that they glanced around the hall in a surreptitious manner, and esiecially at the dog, which stood with us in the hall, and had at first begun to bark, but had been quickly silenced by a low command from Mildred. I saw that the maid servant, who still stood by, shared my uncomfortable feelings, and she assisted, very readily, after the men had gone, in barring the door and seeing to the safety of the window fastenings. Later in the evening I met her on the stairs, and she stopped me. "I don't like the look of that bundle at all, miss," she said; '"it looks to me alive, and twice I have fancied I saw It move once when lying on the hall floor,, and again now, for I have been in to look at it." - -; I smiled, and telling Harriet "not to be whimsical," passed on, and, rejoining my cousins, I told them what Harriet had said to ' me, and proposed going to take a look at my mysterious package. Taking a lamp with us we proceeded to the little apartment wherein it was placed. - It lay on a wooden settle, which stood on one side of the room. It was enveloped In a brown wrapper, was very long, and thicker at the middle than at the two extremities. Some-

howTdid not like the looks of It; but my fears were of such a vague nature . ... ...... that I did not like to express them. As we crossed into the hall on our return to the' -sitting room, we encountered Harriet, who was hovering about with a . very uneasy and mysterious ex pression on her face. "What is the matter, Harriet?" asked Mildred. "Oh, miss, I am so frightened about that pack. I cannot rest, and I am sure that I cannot go to bed while It is in the house." "You -are very ridiculous, Harriet, remarked Janet. I am sure the men were very respectable looking indi viduals, only two shopmen. We have just been looking at the pack, and it did not move, though I gave it a good squeeze. I am sure there is nothing in it to alarm you. Harriet looked very pale, and shook her bead warialy. len o clock, came, and my cousin and I were thinking of betaking our selves to our sleeping apartments, when we heard a door in the hall vio lently shut and locked. Immediately after Harriet rushed in on us, and sank on the nearest chair in violent histerics. She was speedily followed by the butler, looking as pompous and still as ever, but with a certain expression of unquiet on his fat, grave face. T' "What is the matter, Jones?" asked Mildred, starting to her feet. "Tell us quickly. Do try to be quiet, Harriet. "Oh, that pack is alive!" shrieked Harriet. "Hush, Harriet," said Miidred, calmly; "let Jones tell us. I heard you lock a door. It was that of the ante room in which this unfortunate pack is placed, I suppose? . "It was, miss," replied Jones, sen tentiousld; "and the dog is in the hall, he added. . "So far good," said Mildred com posedly. And how, pray, do you know that the pack Is alive f -. "lou see, miss, replied Jones, ever since that pack has . been left here Harriet has been in a distracted state of mind frightened ont of her senses, in fact. 1 saw the thing move when it was laid in the hall," sobbed Harriet. "Go on, Jones," interrupted Janet. Jones continued: " So before we went to bed Miss Har riet persuaded me to come and take another look at the package. You know I did not approve of its being left, miss, he added. "Never mind that," said Mildred, "tell us what you have seen. "Well, miss, I thought it great non sense, but I went. We took hold of the bundle and turned it about a little, but could make nothing of it. Pres ently Harriet found a small hole in the wrapper. She pulled the rent rather more open and looked in. I saw her face change. She turned and drew me out of the r-pom, pulled the door to. and locked it. This is all I know at present, ladies," and here Jones bowed to us politely. Harriet had become quieter, so Mildred inquired: "What did you see, Harriet?" The girl shivered and covered her face with her hands. . fCome, Harriet, speak," said Mil dred, becoming a little pale. "Yes, tell us, and instantly!" cried Janet. Harriet took her hand from her face and looked up. "It was an eye, miss," she said in horror-stricken tones; "such an awful looking eye, and it glared at me!" she added, with a repressed shriek. We looked at each other in mute consternation. "Was it a living one, do you think, Harriet?" I asked. ; "Yes, it was al alive,' miss, I am sure," she sobbed. "Oh, what shall we do? It looked so malignant and terrible!" ".- - - - " --.'..... We looked at each other for a few moments, and then Mildred spoke: "I can scarcely believe that you are right, Harriet," she said; "I fancy that your imagination must have been making a goose of you." "Still, Mildred," I ventured to say, "Harriet may be right, and it would be well to do something at once. This may be a plan to rob the house when we are all in bed." "And murder us all," shrieked Harriet. Janet began to cry, and meanwhile the butler had left the room. "Where is Jones?" inquired Mildred, suddenly observing his absence. "Let us go and find him, and see what is to be done." She passed into the hall and we followed. Jones was rummaging in a large closet, the door of which stood open; be had a lamp in his hand. The other servants stood by, and we together waited for him to emerge. He was rather a long time so Mildred went close to the door and whispered: "What are you doing there, Jones?" Jones made no reply, but came out, armed with an old rusty looking dagger and two pieces of strong rope. . "You are not going to kill him!" inquired Janet. "Never fear, miss," replied Jones; "a little prick, however, will do no hurt. I must take care of my master's house." "We will come with you," whispered Mildred. "Very good, miss," he answered. "Please bring the dog to the door, and keep hlin there till I want him." So off went Jones with his lamp, his dagger, and his ropes, we and the servants following closely with the dog, who seemed to possess a strong consciousness of something being amiss. Jones opened the door of the little room quietly, and went in and placed the lamp on a small side-table which stood near. Then at once, dagger and ropes in hand, he walked toward the pack, which lay on the settle; but I now observed that there were one or two openings in the wrapper. There was a deep silence among us for a moment or two, interrupted only by the low growlings of the dog, who became manifestly more and more uneasy, and was with great difficulty restrained from rushing Into the room. Then there come a scene of noise and confusion. Jones reached the pack, and throwing the rope over his arm, and 6till clutching the dagger, stooped to inspect the slit in the wrapper where Harriet asserted she had seen an eye. At that moment one of the most fearful and terrible yells I ever heard broke from between the folds of of the wrapper. The pack struggled violently, then rolled over and fell heavily on the ground, while a choked voice lagged for mercy; at the same time a knife was seen endeavoring to effect an opening. The screams of the servants, the hysterical sobs of Janet, the loud bowlings and whinings of the dog, who was still restrained by Mildred fronrushing frantically into the room, made a din that I never can forget. I remember that Jones alone looked composed and unmoved throughout. Before the man in the pack had time to free himself from the wrapper, Jones had managed, despite his opponent's struggles, to pass the ropes several times round and round him, and to secure them. By the time he had accomplished this we had all become pretty quiet. The dog was silenced, and made to lie down in the hall, Mildred, I and two of the servants, the terrified Harriet not being one, went into the room. The pack presented a very ludicrous appearance. The wrapper had been slit open from the center upward, and displayed the figure of a man apparently about 30 years of age, lying in it, the ropes wound around him. He had a long pale face, a brown grizzly beard, and eyes that glanced doubtfully from Jones and his dagger, who knelt beside him, to us, as we approached. He was perfectly mute, and refused to answer any questions. "See, he has got a whistle," cried one of the servants. Jones instantly seized it, and after a few moments consideration beckoned Mildred out of the room. I followed. "Young ladies," he said, "this man is now quite secure, and his accomplices will not attempt to enter much before midnight. I exect the whistle was to have been the signal. Would- you be afraid if I slipped down to the coachman's house and get his wife to send one of her boys Into the village for oth

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er assistance? We could then probably secure all the vUlians." , "But you may be attacked by them on the way," urged Mildred. "No fear, miss; I can slip unseen behind the shrubs in the darkness." "Go, then, and quickly, said Mildred. "You are sure that the man Is quite securely bound!" "Quite so, miss: but perhaps 3on would like to ask the consent of the household before I leave you?" Mildred soon obtained our consent to the plan, and Jones was cautiously let out of a small side door. In about twenty minutes which had seemed two hours to ub he returned, and his low tap was Instantly answered. - "It's all right," he said. "I have seen and heard nothing of the men. The boy is sharp enough, and he has his directions, and is to bring a party from the village to this door by the same way that I took." More than an hour passed away; then a low tap was again heard, and six men appeared, accompanied by the boy who had been sent to bring them. " About midnight Jones opened the shutters of a casement window in the hall and blew a loud whistle; the whistle was responded to by another, and ' two men presently appeared at the open casement, Jones drew back Into the darkness of the hall and silently allowed them to enter. The moment their feet touched the hall floor they were secured. "And where were you, aunty? I said, during this scene?" ) "We stood in the gallery above. The boy who had receive! his directions soon brought forward a lantern, and we also had lights at hand in the gallery." W ere the men tried, aunty; and what was their punishment?" les; they were conveyed to the county prison, and on their conviction were sentenced to transportation. The butler, as you may imagine, was hand somely rewarded." A CillMBMSe r Uabriel Csarsy, Bret Harte's new Serial Story in Scribner. It was raining. Not in the usual di rect, honest, perpendicular fashion of that mountain region, but only suggest ively, and in a vague, uncertain sort of way, as if it might at any time prove to be fog or mist, and any money wa gered upon it would be hazardous. It was raining as much from below ; as above, and the lower limbs of the loungers who gathered ' around thesquare box-stove that stood in Briggs' warehouse exhaled a cloud of steam. The loungers in Briggs' were those who from deficiency of taste or the requisite capital avoided the gambling and drinking saloons, and quietly ap propriated crackers from the conven ient barrel of the generous Briggs, or filled tfielF pipes from his open tobacco canisters, with the general suggestion in their' manner that their company fully compensated for any waste of his material. They had been smoking silently, a silence only, broken by the occasional hiss of expectoration against the hot stove, when the door of a back room opened softly, and Gabriel Conroy entered. "How Is he gettin on. Gabe?" asked one of the loungers. ; So, so, said Gabriel. "You 11 want to shift those bandages agin," he said, turning to Brigg, "afore the doctor comes. I'd come back In an hour, but 've got to drop in and see how Steve's gettin' on, and it's a matter of 2 miles from home." - - 'But he says he won't let anybody tech him but you," said Mr. Briggs. I know he i o," said Gabriel soothingly, "but he 11 get over that. That's what Stimson Bed when he took worse, but he got over that, and I nev er got to see him except in time to lav I him out." ' ' -; : ;-J The justice of this was admitted even ! by Briggs, although evidently disap pointed. Gabriel was walking to the door, when another voice- from the stove stopped him. Oh. Gabe! you mind that emigrant family, with the sick baby, camped down the gulch? Well, the baby up and died last night." I want to know, said Gabriel, with thoughtful gravity. - ' ' Yes, and that woman s in a heap of trouble. Couldn't you kinder drop in in passing and look after things?" "I will," said Gabriel, tlioughtfully. " I thought you'd like to know it, and I thought she'd like me to tell you," said the speaker, setting himself back again over the stove with the air of a man who had just fulfilled, at great personal- sacrifice and labor, a work of su ererogation. : ' " You 're always thoughtful of other folks, Johnson," said Briggs admiringly. .. - ....-.'. ...... "Well, yes," said Johnson with a modest serenity, "I allers allow that men in Californy ought to think of others lesides themselves. A little keer and a little (tube on my part, and there's that family hi the gulch made comfortable with Gabe around 'em." Meanwhile this homely inciter of tho unselfish virtues of One-Horse Gulch had passed out into the rain and darkness. So conscientiously did he fulfill his various obligations, that it was nearly 1 o'clock before he reached his rude hut on the hillside, a rough cabin of pine logs, so unpretentious and wild in exterior as to be but a slight improvement on nature. The vines clambered unrestrainedly over the barkthatched roof; the birds occupied the crevices of the walls; the squirrel ate his acorns on the ridge-pole without fear and without reproach. ; A Very Jfenn Nwla filer. In a certain Troy church on Sunday, says the Times of that city, a young man who occupied a seat near the pulpit was evidently greatly ' embarassed when the collection was taken up. His pew was about the first into which the basket was thrust, and he plunged his hand into his pocket, kept the collector waiting a moment, and then quickly thrust a bill evidently the first he could get out of his walletinto the basket. After the service the young man lingered, and, when the congregation had retired, approached the gentleman who had charge of the collection, and who was counting It at the time, and remarked that he was a stranger In the city, that he was a poor young man, and had, in the hurry of a moment, put a $10 bill into the collection basket by mistake for a $1 biu. He inquired modestly if it would be unfair to ask for the return of to him. The collet-tor, appreciating the stranger's evident frankness and modesty, looked overt-he collection, and, finding the $10 bill, offered to return it. The stranger declined, saying he meant to contribute $1, and that as he had no small change, he would be satisfied if $9 were refunded to him. This was proof positive to the treasurer that the stranger was really hon. est, and he accordingly gave him $9, nearly all there was in the basket, with the exception of the bill, and the stranger departed with many thanks and apologies. After the treasurer reached home he was strllck by the appearance of the bill and examined it closely. It was counterfeit. . Which h. was Id Ralhrr Have. A Detroiter of liberal education, says the Free Prww, has been greatly annoyed because his wife and other women are not better posted on history and other matters connected with the growth or welfare of the country. The other day he carried home a big history and handed it to his spouse with the remark: "There, Mary, I want you to commence at page one and see if you can't learn something." She agreed to become hi. pupil, and when he came home to supper he found her reading way, hair down, slippers on,' all the fires out but one, and no sign of supper. "Why how 's this?" he inquired; "are you sick?" . "Sick! No." "Well, where s my supper?" "I do n't know anything about your supper," she relied, as she settled back In her chair, "but I can tell you about the first discovery of Florida as straight as a string!" That history has n't been opened since that evening. t . DeJazet, the celebrated actress, died at Paris recently.

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0.-SECTARUX SCHOOLS. Iltrrfrsul Ex-Mpt-alcer Blalne-Can ail terlleiwal tre)Vilosr. The foliowing letter was written by Mr. Blaine to a prominent Ohio gentle man. lust after th election in that State: I Augusta, Oct. 20, 1875. Mi Dear Sib: Te public school agitation in your latS campaign Is lia ble to break out eisesvnere, ana, occurrino- frt in one Stat and then in an other, may keep thejwhole country in a ferment for years u come. . xnis in evitably arouses sectarian feeling and leads to that bitterest ana most deplor able of , all strifes, the strife between relicious denominations. It seems to me that this questioa ought to be settled in some definite and comprehen sive way; and the only settlement that can be final is the complete victory for non-seetarian schools. I am sure that this will be demanded by the American people at all hazards and at any cost The dread of sectarian legislation 1 in this country has been felt many times In the past. It began very early. - The first amendment of the Constitution, the joint produetof Jefferson and Madison, proposed In 178a, declared that Congress shall make no laws respect intr an establishment of religion, nor prohibiting the free exercise thereof." At that time, when the powers or the Federal Government were untried and undeveloped, the tea? was that Con gress might be a source of danger to perfect religious liberty, and hence all power was taken from It. At the same time the States wero left free to do as thev pleased in regard to "an estab lishment of religion.": for .the tenth amendment, proposed by that eminent jurist, Thoophilus Parsons, and adopted contemporaneously with the first, declared that "all powers not delega ted to the United States by the Constitution nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively or to the people." , Amaiority of the people in any State in this Union can therefore, if they ; desire it, have an established church under which the minority may be taxe'd for the erection of church edifices which they never enter and for tho support of creeds which they do not believe. iThis power was actually exercised in some of the States long after the adoption of the Federal Constitution, and although there may be no positive danger of its revival in the future, the possibility of it should not be permitted. The auspicious time to guard against an evil is when all unite in preventing it. ;. And in curing this constitutional de? fect all possibility of inartful agitation on the school question shou'd be ended also. Just let the old Jeffevson-Madi-son amendment be applied to the States by adding the following to the Inhibitory clauses In section 10, article 1, of the Federal Constitution, viz: "No State shall make any law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; and no money raised by taxation in any State for the support of public schools, or derived from any public fund therefor, shall ever be under the control of any religious sect, nor shall any money so raised ever be divided between religious sects or denomina tions." n'ti.lThis, you will observe, does not in terfere with any State having just sueh a school system as us citizens may prefer, subject to the single and simple restriction that the schools shall not be made the arena for sectarian controversy or theological disputation, - This adjustment, it seems to me, would be Comprehensive and conclusive and would be fair alike toj Protestant' and Catholic, to Jew and Gentile, leaving the relicious faith and the conscience of every man free and unmolested. : Very sincerely yours, J. G, BLAINE. THE CHEROKEE XATIOJi. Intrreatlna; Lecture by Colonel ltadinot on the livillaeil Indian Tribe. 1 . Chicago Inter-Ocean, At the First Methodist Church last evening Colonel Boudinot, of the Cherokee Nation, delivered the lecture which was announced for Monday evening, but was postponed on account of the weather. -Notwithstaning the weather last night was all that could be desired, the lecturer, an orator of established reputation, and the subject one In which the American people ought to feel a deep interest, the audience was small, not more than half of the seats being occupied. Colonel Boudinot said that he was present last August at the laying of the corner-stone of an institution of learning in the Indian Territory a normal school for the Instruction of Indian children. It was to procure aid for the founder of this great work that he had come to Chicago. Being an Indian, he considered it proper that he sho jhi address the people on this subject. In the House of Representatives last winter he was present at a meeting where a negro presided over a debate on the rights and privileges of the Indian. He could not help thinking that these men who a few years ago were slaves had been rapidly elevated to positions of honor. But in this country everybody had equal rights ami equal privileges except the Indians, the original owners of the soil. The great question had been how to get rid of the Indian. They were always being moved from one reservation to another, and each time the ground was promised them "so long as grass grows and water runs." It was time to change this policy. It was time for the Indian to ask some permanent solution of this question. Every Indian clung to the land where his fathers slept. No tribe was ever yet removed from its original home with its own consent except such consent as the condemned criminal gave to the noose which the hangman placed around his neck. In New England the Indian was once the subject of consideration by the legislators, who gravely asserted that the chief object of the whites in settling America was to benefit the Indian by bringing him to a knowledge of the true God, Now the Indian did not trouble those legislators. He lived only in the legendry and poetry of New England. And the history of the Indian was the same everywhere east of the Mississippi. The Indians of .America numbered about 391,01(0 and occupied about 200,000 square miles of territory. Of these 50,000 were civilized, 50,000 semi-civilized, and the rest wild as when Columbus first landed on these shores. The fact that one-fourth were civilized was an answer to the oft-repeated assertion that it was impossible to civilize the Indian. These have become civilized by contact with civilization. The remaining three -fourths were wild because they had been carefully kept away from the white man. Much as has been said about ! the blighting influence of white civilization upon the red man, it was only by bringing the latter into conflict with the former that the Indian question could be solved. Better corral the children in school-houses than the warriors in the reservations. If some of the millions squandered by the government In useless legislation could be devoted to the education of Indian children, the results would be seen in one generation. - The speaker then briefly described the Indian Territory, its location, its rich agricultural and mineral resources, its jfietroleum wells, and plains of crystalized sand. It was proposed, he continued, toremove 30,000 savages, the Sioux, from the Black Hills to the Indian Territory. He asked the government to pause and reflect before determining upon this course. A treaty was made with the Sioux in 168 by which they were to have the Black Hills forever. It was absurd to send them to the Indian Territory. The Indian Territory contained far richer gold mines than the Black Hills. In twenty-five years they would want that country. It was bitter mockery to promise that they should nevermore be disturbed. He was aware that all this mineral wealth ought not to be allowed to lie idle. The gold was needed, and the white man ought to be allowed to develop the mines. But in doing this at least let fair and substantial justice

be done to the Indian. Don't beguile them into removing to the Indian Territory by a promise that can never be kept. If he were the government he would frankly say to the Sioux: It is true we ni&de 4 a - treaty with you, in which . we -drmnised that you should always possess this country. We fin now that such a promise was a foolish one; in fact, we could not keep It if we tried ever so hard. Gold has been found in your hills and our people trill take it In spite of treaties. But while you must permit our people to work the mines, we will see that you are well paid for it. We shall devote an ample amount to furnish your wives and children with the necessaries of life, and protect and assist the able bodied men in the process of learning how to cultivate the ground, to raise flocks and herds, and finally to become self-supporting. We will select homes of 160 acres each of the very best lands for every man, woman, and child among you, and give you an absolute title therefor, which shall be invariably for twenty-one years. As your guar dian we will see that your lands are cultivated, and make you a livin - We will sell the surplus lands for thu oest prices we can get, and make a great fund, the ' interest of which shall be used for your benefit every year. With some of it we will buy you cattle and hogs and sheep, and farming implements, and clothing, and aid you in building comfortable homes. With another and a considerable portion of this interest, we will build school houses and employ teachers lor your children, so that, in twenty-one years, under the protection of equal laws and with a rich inheritance, you may be come prosperous and useful citizens of the United States. But then, unfortunately, continued the speaker,T don't happen to be the government, and I suppose some less wise policy will be followed. Colonel Boudinot then gave a history Of the tribes which occupy the Indian Territory ' .dwelling chiefly on the Cherokees, Choctaws, . Chickasaws, Creeks, and Semmoles, the five civilized tribes, who numbered about 50,000 souls, a large proportion of whom were naturalized negroes, whites, and halfbreeds." Besides these were 20,000 wild Indians. The Black Hills Commission recently made a report recommending a policy substantially the same as that which he had been urging for years. He was in favor of the passage by Congress of territorial bill, which would provide for a survey and sectionlzlng of the Territory, the establishment of United States courts, a delegate in Congress, and all the necessary officers of a strong civil local government for the better protection of life and property, which would declare at least all the civilized Indians who paid taxes to the United States citizens of the United States; which would authorize the selection by them of 160 acres of land for every man,' woman, and child, the same to be inviolable for twenty-one years; the lands remaining unappropriated to be sold (just as soon as the Indians shall so determine by popular vote) by the United States so as to realize $1.25 per acre therefor, the fund accruing to be invested for the benefit of the Indians, and the interest to be paid to them annually. ' . These five tribes were civilized In dians. Their friends point to them with pride as evidence that the Indian can be civilized. But were they always to remain merely "civilized Indians?" Was that all the government could do for the red man? No, it could give him the right to say: "I, too, am an American citizen." This was simple justice. By a decision of the Supreme Court the civilized Indians were compelled to pay taxes under the revenue laws, in violation of the treaty of 1866, and they were therefore entitled to citizen, ship. : Let the American people: make the Indian an American citizen and he would bless them for elevating him above the dependent and humiliating position he now occupied. THE H0IY LA.XD. Programme of the American Ia leatine Exploration Sociely IntereelInar Character of the Rains to bo . Surveyed. rNew York Tribune. Late advices to the executive committee of. the American Palestine Exploration Society announce that the society's expedition left Abeih on Mt. Lebanon for the field of their intended lalxtrs in the region on the east of the Jordan on Sept. 5, and after visiting and taking numerous photographs of interesting ruins on the southern slopes of Lebanon and Mt. Hermon, arrived at the sources of the Jordan at Cosarea Philippi. The expedition consists of Col. James C. Lane, chief engineer; Mr. Rudolph Meyer, first assistant engineer; Mr, Ti H. Treat, second assistant; the Rev. Selah Merrill, archieologist; Prof. E. R. Lauis, M. D., of the Beyrout eollege, geologist and botanist, and M. Dumas, photographer. ; The members of the expedition propose first to make a general reconnoissance of the. whole field, beginning with the sources of the Jordan at the foot of Mt. Hermon, including the singular lake Phala, on the mountain east of Ctesarea, which, in the time of Josephns, was believed to have a subterranean communication with the great cave fountain at the site of the ruined temple of Pan, at Cteserea. Thence It will follow the high table land of ancient Gaulanitis to the south, supposed by some to represent Job's country of Ur, and then strike eastward over the plateau of ancient Bashan to its capital, Edrel, the city of Og, and which still remains with the same name as a famed stronghold of the wild Druze and Arab tribes of the Hauran. After traversing Bashan and ancient Gilead, the expedition is to enter the districts of Amnion and Moab, and then return by the eastern route to Salehah and Damascus. There is hardly a region of equal extent in the world which so abounds with interesting and important remains of ancient civilization as this district on the east of the Jordan. The ruins there of cities, temples, castles and tombs are more numerous and better preserved than In any part of the east. This is due to the operation of several causes, chief among them the fact that the broken nature of the country and the immemorial character of its inhabitants have rendered it profitless to use the ruins of one place as quarries for later rivals. At the present time the stones of ancient insular Tyre are carried in boats to build the now flourishing seaport of Beyrout; insular Tyre in its turn was built out of the remains of the older Tyre on the mainland, whieh was destroyed by Nebuchadnezzar. Similarly the traveler can see in the massive Roman walls of Herod's Ciesarea Palestine the beveled stones of more ancient Phoenician cities along the Syrian coast. But this old habit, which has done more than war itself to cause the disappearance of some of the world's mist renowned cities, has never operated in the case of the earliest sites of the interior, east of the . Jordan valley, and hence some of the most perfect specimens of primeval architecture from the days of the patriarchs to that of Zenobia, Queen of Palmyra, are to be found there, still illustrating, each in its own way, the long record of that country's history. -' - ' The Rev. W. M. Thomson. D. D., the veteran missionary and explorer of Syria, in a recent letter to the society, says that he has just made a tour through this region, and that nothing ever Impressed him so much as the richness of the field in Its architectural and archaeological remains, which are far more numerous and interesting in a historical sense than any to be found now in the much-traveled district of Palestine proper, on the west of the Jordan. It is this district which forms the special field of the American Exploration society, while the English Palestine Exploration society restricts itself to the land ou the west of the Jordan. Beside the objeets of interest in the form of ruins and still imperfectly explored sites which are thus as. signed to the American society, there are some elements of exceptional Importance in their undertaking which promise results of great value. It is not improbable that the earliest routes of travel and of commerce between the valley of the Euphrates and of the

1875. Nile, between Asia and Africa, took this inland course, for the caravan with its stations and cities preceded by many centuries in the history of civiliv zation the ship with its harbors and emporiums. Facts of this nature only x... .. . Ik. l,U.. J. ., 1towns whose massive ruins now astonish the explorer as he finds them even in the most inaccessible quarters of the great Syrian desert, east of Damascus. Some of the ruins In this region afford examples of the- most peculiar arch! teeture to be found anywhere, and sug gests an antiquity which may match that of Egypt Itself. Closely connected with the origin and date of these remains is the important subject also of the antiquity of the art of writing and of the use of metals, on both of which questions it is not unreasonable to look for the most Information to be gained by properly conducted explorations in this region in conjunction with the similar investigations which have been prosecuted of late in Assyria and Egypt. While England, France, and Germany are competing with each other in such enterprises, and enrich ing their museums with illustrations of the beginnings of human civilization, the managers of the American society hope that the public of . this country will not fail to take an interest in, and will adequately support the expedition described, in carrying forward a work which can hardly fail to yield results of great importance, both to the students of history and to the biblical scholar. An Innocent Man a Imnrlao tuent. Springfield, Mass., Republican. . . . -A man was pardoned from the Charlestown State prison, Friday, after serving almost eight years o'f a life sentence for a crime which he never committed. This was Moses H. Wheeler, convicted of arson, in February, 1866, on the testimony of his sister and her husband. who said they saw him fire a : house in Brighton, occupied by a widow, . and against his own oath and the . testimo ny of the widow herself, who declared that Wheeler-. Baved . her house from burning, the actual daznage the build ing sustained being $30. ' Two years after Wheelers- entrance upon his life imprisonment, the sister who had condemned him to it died of smallpox. On the day before her death she confessed to another sister, in an agony of 'remorse, that she had perjur ed herself at that trial, at the bidding of others, and for the purpose of get ting her brother out of the way. .Before a legal deposition could be obtained, the woman was too far gone to give it. The motive for this unnatural con duct was at the outset explained by Wheeler to be that he was charged by brother who died in battle by his side to see that their mother had his property, which, when he returned home, he found claimed by his sister, on the strength of a forged letter purporting to be from the dead brother, Be the motive what it may, she and her husband had actually put him out of the way by perjury Wheeler has made incessant efforts since to have his sentence revoked, and at last succeeds. A Temperance Lecture, At the recent sanitary meetings in Baltimore, Dr. Hitchcock, of Michigan, presented some startling figures on the avages : of intemperance. The con sumption of spirituous and malt liquors in this country is placed at the incredible aggregate of five hundred and sixty million gallons equal to fourteen gal lons to every man, woman and child in the United States. He estimates the entire loss to this country from strong drink, including sickness, deaths, crime, insanity, and so on, at two thousand million dollars annually, almost enough in a single year to pay off the national debt; He cited from English reports of the highest authority showing that three-fifths of the insanity of that country is produced by intemperance. In the asylums for idiots three-fifths of the" patients owe their misfortune to this vice in their parents. Investigation shows that only eighteen per cent, of State prisoners pretend to have been temperate. Fifty thousand men, according to the Doctor's calculation, die every year in this country from intemperance. Of course there is great difficulty in compiling statistics on this subject, but the figures given by Dr. Hitchcock are probably as reliable as any ever presented on intemperance. Whether the accuracy of his statements is received or rejected, one thing is certain, and that is that intemperance is mowing a mighty and deadly swath through the land. A Too tiallant Conductor. Conductor B is always very polite to the ladies, particularly so, provided they are young and handsome. Miss C was handed on board at the station as carefully as though she was "glass to Ihj handled with care." An extra seat was turned over on the shady side of the car, and the conductor took a seat by her side to do the agreeable, having met Miss -C on the train before. Presently, as matters were going along nicely, an old man in his shirt sleeves half threw himself into the seat in front, which the conductor had unlocked and turned over for the benefit of the parties more immediately concerned. Mr.- B spoke up sharply: "Go away from here." But the old man didn't go. Conductor says, still more sharply: "Go away, or I "11 make you." But still no go, while a vacant, provoking smile sat uion the face of the intruder. Whereupon Conductor B grasped the old farmer by the nape of the neck. At the same time the young lady grasped the arm of the conductor, exclaiming, "Please don't, Mr. B ; this is my father!" Ever since. Conductor B always asks young ladies if they are traveling alone. A Queer Way to be Killed. Greenville, Ohio, Advocate. ) Mr. Pickett Boggan, a respectable citizen of more than forty years' residence in this country, met a most singular death at his home, near Pine Apple, a short time since. He was sitting in the piazza of his house, in a rocking chair, near the railing or banister, his feet resting at the egde of the flooring. In this position his feet slipped off the floor toward the ground, his body being allowed to follow on account of the moving forward of the chair on the rockers; his chin caught on the upper railing, and tho back of the chair came up against the back of his head, and so remained, so that he was suspended in this singular manner. Being quite old and infirm, he was unable to extricate himself, and the weight of his body resting on his chin prevented his opening his mouth to eall for help, and he thus died from strangulation. . Meterologlrnl Phenomenon. The Ottawa (Canada) free Pretts of the 24th Instant, makes the following statement on the authority of an eye witness: "About 8 o'clock on Monday morning a novel and brilliant spectacle was witnessed by those who had the good fortune to be in the vicinity of the Chandler's Bridge. A large body of fire was seen to descend from the blue heavens, and by those who witnessed it will not be readily forgotten. It was apparently about six feet in diameter, and as bright as the sun, which was shining brightly at the time. Followed by an immense train of fire, of a vividness that cannot be easily described, terminating in ' an immense column of blood-red flame and dense smoke, it fell in an oblique direction to the west, and then plunged with a fearful hissing noise into the Ottawa, causing a dense volume of vapor." . . .. NomeC'hlnanejr. . ' A chimney 468 feet high . from the foundation, which is 14 feet beneath the surface of the earth, has just leen completed at Glasgow. It is 32 feet In diameter at the ground and 18 at the top, and contains 7,000,000 brick, weighing 7,000 tons. When within live feet of completion the chimney was struck by a gale from the northeast; which caused it to sway seven feet and nine Inches off this perpendicular, and it stood several feet less in height than before it swayed, but by "sawing back" it was brought to a vertical position.

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FIJXEBAL SERVICES 4a-dMu se.iiwoved mt I no "Punerul of t Ike late Jfuaaje Mollo- " By very general request we publteh the following discourse upon the occasion of the death of the lte Judge George Holland, by Bev-W, H. Gode, D. D at Grace Church, In this elty on Thursday, the 2d day of December, 1875.. I-,.' I -.V.'! There are times - when words are vain things; there are crise in.. life which language fails to reach; seasons when even the subtime truths of religion, eonveved in abstract, verbal form, fall without effect. The ear refuse to hear, and the heart to feel their import. There are hours when the soul seems to spurn and repel even the very words of comfort whieh it so much needs; when the stricken heart shrinks from the tenderest words of consolation, as the fresh wound from the hand of the surgeon. - Thee are times wnen uuu speaks by events; when, by some direct stroke of his providence, he calls to communities, to families, to individual hearts; and, through his dispensations. opens the ear to instruction, and the heart to receive knowledge.' ; This is eminently the ease when we are arrested in the business and bustle of life by the sudden departure of a fellow man, a neighbor, a friend, smitten down by the hand of God. The almighty Sovereign, the Giver and Taker of. lue, for reasons of his own, has declined his wonted premonitions of approach; the angel has eome in upon us unawares. We are awe-stricken in the Divine pres ence. We stand still before God. . We cover "our faces and listen in silence for the voice of his providence as it utters itself in his acts. Happy if, in such an event the life has been such as to im print useful and salutary lessons. Hap py indeed if life's problem has been so .wrouifht out as to afford a safe model for others in its - motives,- its : aims, its efforts, and its results. Fortunate for our fallen humanity that ' along the great highroad of life, so mingled, so confused, there appears now and then a character and, a life, which; without disparagement to other lives of virtue, shines out with paramount brightness illustrating the beauty of ' true good ness and greatness, and - showing the grand possibilities of our manhood uu, der the gracious aids afforded by the beneficent Father of us all. It is ours to-dav reverently to listen to these providential teachings. The case before us is one from which may be safely drawn the lessons of life. Spared in the providence of God, just to pass the grand climacteric of human life; to realize, and- to employ life's full streugth, and yet - saved the humiliating experiences of physical and mental decline, incident to extreme years, he has lived just long enough to demonstrate the problem of life; and, the Imperfections of a common humanity excepted,, well has he solved this problem. ' . , No stale or fulsome panegyric is intended; the solemnities of the hour are too reali too deeply intense 'and personal for this. Our friend has aiready passed to that tribunal where no eulogy will avail, save the eulogy of the Judge, "Well done, good and faith ful servant; enter thou into the joy of thy Lord." But should any think the picture overdrawn, let it be set down, not to design, but rather ascribed to the individual heart-workings of him who stands before you this day under a deep sense of personal bereavement; the loss of a trusted friend', a counsellor, a guide, among the most cherished and endeared of a lifetime; and who, instead of this constrained public duty. would far rather take his place m yon mourning group, and mingle hisjtars with theirs. , .. . . -at . . George Holland was of Irish parent age, born in Westmoreland county. Pa., September 28, 1811, whither his parents had emigrated from Ireland in 1802. Removed by his parents to Ohio in his infancy; thence, in 1817, to Franklin county, Ind.; became, at the age of seven years, an inmate and adopted member of the family of the late Rob ert John, Esq., of Brookville, a family well-known and remembered In Its sev eral branches in - eastern Indiana. Learned the trade of a printer; served in the capacity of a deputy to Mr. John In the offices successively of Sheriff and oi Clerk; admitted to the bar In his twenty-first year, and at twenty-four to the bar of the Supreme Court of the State; a delegate to the National Convention which nominated Mr. Lincoln In 1860; removed to Richmond in 1861. where, for a number of years, he filled the ofnee of Judge of the Criminal Court, received first by appointment of the Governor, and a second term by popular vote ; devoting the remaining years of bis residence here to the prac tice of his profession, in which he was actively employed to the close of life. United in marriage In his twenty-third year to Miss Elizabeth John, the daughter of his friend and patron, with whom, reared under the same roof, he had en joyed the benefit of a childhood and youthful acquaintance and Intimacy, so that their union has been literally al most a lifetime companionship. Died suddenly in his bed, without pain or struggle, and without previously known disease, about six o'clock on the morn ing of day before yesterday, being the 30th day of November, 1875. In the life and history of our departed friend, we may find, - 1. The general lesson of the brevity and uncertainty of human existence. and the nearness of our approach to the eternal realities. Who can to-day walk the streets with his fellow-man, his friend, and talk with him about the affairs of life, and to-morrow helo to lay him in the grave and not reflect? "I. too, am treading upon life's maririn: L too, shall soon go to test the realities of an unending state. - Our life contains a thousand springs, ' adu uies u one oe gone : Strange, that a harp of thousand strings Should keep in tune so long." 2. The care of a merciful Providence over the bereaved and the helpless, providing a friend in time of need. I have myself seen in the private diary of the departed, to which I have had access, treasured recollections of the bitterness and humiliation of want and dependence felt by a young and sensitive orphan heart, at the tender age of seven years, and recorded in after life; and, with this, we see the blessing attendant upon acts of charity and beneficence, i This good man, Robert John, lived to witness and to enjoy the fruits of his labor of love. "Leave thy fatherless children to me, and let thy widow trust in me." 3. The issue of a manly oonfliot with adverse circumstances,:, ending in marked and signal success. Identifying himself with the fortunes of the family of his adoption, sharing in the struggles and successes of his foster father on his upward path In life; at the same time vigorously applying himself to the work of self-improvement till he attained an enviable position In his profession. . I leave to the members of the legal profession to speak, as they have already done, of his dignified and honorable position at the bar, and to assign him his rank among themselves. But I will not forbear in this presence and in this public manner to record my testimony the observation of a life-time to the honorable character of a profession so much traduced, and, with the masses, so greatly misunderstood. It is even a grave question in the minds of many, good, well-meaning people whether a practical lawyer can be au honest man, much less a consistent Christian. , The name : itself Is, with not a few, a synonym of reproach. On the contrary I have no hesitancy in making the assertion that the members of the legal ' profession in - our country will, on the whole, bear a favorable comparison for uprightness and moral integrity with any other body of men. I go farther; I believe that no set of men of the same number in our State are doing more at this time to elevate the standard of morals and piety than are the practicing lawyers of Indiana. So may it ever be. , , 4. The triumphant results of a firm and unyielding integrity under the most trying emergencies of life. A general character for straight-forward honesty need not be here spoken of; this, by universal consent, was well nigh prov-

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?kl?r Uln'!m U'SU- well it tood Lur& 7lvta th to that Ul-na-MatL, TiS" his nutory, wheifYmm a condition of gn.wprosperity and atMut the period ,4 nuddie We, he waked up uddeuly to find himself the victim of misplaced confidence, with a load of a hunared thousand dollars of security debt upon him. And his heartless vlctimlzer nunself had the cruelty to say to him, Lve, yourself; convert all your Property into money; put It away, and "e provision for your family; take er of yourself; It is enough to crush three such men as youil Such was the temptation presented. But integrity Mood firm; his private diary again lets us into his inmost feedings. It records nls retreat to his own parlor; his flood of tears; the firm support and encouragement of his ever-faithful wife; his attendance that day upon the church services for It was on Sabbath morning that the startling disclosure was made. Soon after it records a fixed purpose to "pay the last dollar," and an "abiding faith," whieh never forsook him, that he should be permitted to live until this was accomplished. And in the providence of God, ao he did. He lived through it all. and saw himself again upon his feet in the enjoyment of ease and competence. But It cost long years of labor, and of personal and domestic sacrifice, as well as physical sufferinoand laid the foundation, as he himself thought, of ,3 that! nervous debility which, in a degree, attended him through life. What an example for the men of this day! 5. The happy Influence of nersonsl religion upon aTTtheTelatlons- of " life. the foundation of which reaches lnn h to his pious education In a godly housenoia. .. He was a firm believer in the ci niicpl. leal truths of the gospel of Jesus Christ.; No man ever heard from his lins an irreverent vnruduf a vlttv jest upon the Bible, a slight remark upon sacred things. He revered the word of God.,, . He was a conrerted man, a personal, experimental Christian. His diary contains the following record: "In the year 1842 (which was his 31st year), I have reason to believe that God for 1, m... 1. : . a little further, on he speaks of "a" faith that never forsook him. - This contlnuuoo nrouoi uuui Kvr" cnaracter to all his religious life. P .. ; He confemed Christ "before men." Whether in all required ways or not, ourselves being jndge. Is not 'now 'athat he was not ashamed of tnrTellgion of Jesus. He confessed Christ by his circumsDect Godly walk: by his steady and reverent attendance upon the services of the sanctuary; by his regard for the Holy Sabbath; by his love of re. ligious society; by his public and private charities; and still more by his personal readiness to bear a part . in reujrious uevouons. and to lead in these devotions, public or private. It is said that he never declined to lead in ' As the head of a family he . maintained : v wn f-FB, s w va uru t-roii ni s vr U. . the .domestic altar; and among the pleasing memories now fresh in recol lection is the sweet Christian comour united families, ahiio with earnest ness and pathos he led the utterances of prayer. And who has not marked his constant, watchful control of tem per and of words?, Who ever heard a harsh, - ac gry or unkind expression from his lips? Emphatically a "peace- . maker, one of those that are "called the children of God." w But enough. "We come to bury" our friend, aud "not to praise him. "a -. .. -- 6. A model in life, God in his providence permitted that be should be such in his death. . . "He taught ns how to live, and O, too high He labored to the end, and bravely fell at his post. .1 r ' : . John Vesley, in advanced life, was asked by a lady, " Suppose, sir, you knew that you would die at 12 o'clock to morrow night, how would you spend the intervening time?" " How. madam?" he replied; why, just as I now intend to spend it. ' I should preach this evening at Gloucester, and again at five to morrow morning; . after that : 1 should ride to Tewkesbury, preach in the after noon, and meet the societies In the evening, i snouid tnen repair to the borne of my friend Martin, who expects to entertain me, and oon verse and pray with the family as usual, retire to my room at ten o'clock, commeiirnyself to my heavenly Father, and lieiojap to rest, to wake up In glory." A Had our lamented friend foreseeiTthe moment of his departure, -1 -scarcely know how a more interesting class of circumstances could have been thrown around it. A day of active application to the business of life; a cheerful even -ing at his own home In the bosom of his family, occupied mainly in the enter- . tainment and instruction of his two little grandsons ; a retirement at the usual ii"ui , li ii i. la 4 tin i rjHffr , t waainK up to everlasting life. : : : , - : ' "His bodv with his charee laid down. And ceased at once to work and live." True, the parting "good night" at the ' eve of life's journey was not permitted ; but the greetings of the Eternal Mora : will make ample amends. , ., . So died John Quincy Adams; so Henry Wilson passed away; and almost Identical in the hour, the place, the surroundings, was the closing scene of . that distinguished Indiana jurist and pure-minded Christian gentleman, Jere-' ujimi ouuii an, urtwTT-H vtuiiiu ouu iindeparted there existed a warm personal " friendship, and -no small resemblance ;of character. . . . ... . , The family of the departed as left, ; are well-known to the people of. this, city. ' There Is in their domestic rela-! tions, an item worthy of notice, and limiicht. tii mind hv an nntrv in hisdi:l. ry. "Having," as he says, "no son." and : gratefully remembering, as it would seem, the scenes of his own early history, he sought and obtained the privilege of adopting and rearing an infant and motherless son of a friend. a well-known minister of the M. E. Church, now with God. He traces with Interest and parental solicitude tho progress of the child, the boy, tlw , the youth, up to the period of his' graduation ; there bis pen leaves nun. It is , pardonable, however, to say." . i. n . ii... u i.. .nn. r.i:.. 11.1 . Lll.b ,1111, JUUUI SO MMWWW UI ..w. land Terrell, a young practising attorney at Indianapolis, who bids fair to bear worthily the name of his adop1.1111, OUU .JIV 4 ! I" PVITTUilllMi of this hour. v- - A flood of domestic grief has been poured upon the atrieken household ; tho devoted husband, the fond pareut, the child-loving grand-sire, "taken away with a stroke," a sad, irreparable breach in the family circle! - But I will not rudely invade the privacy of domestic sorrow. It is a precinct too sacred; "a stranger Intermeddleth not therewith." W la m llfnuiir! w am... w,a.v sources of Divine consolation are not unknown to them. The adult members of the household, mother, daught er, son-in-law and grand children, are all treading in the steps of the loved one that has gone i on before. The sympathies and prayers of a large circle of loving friends are theirs. To these and to the tender care of a compassionate Heavenly Father we commend them with all their mourning friends in this hour of trial; while the blessing of God Is devoutly implored to all upon the sadly pleasing and Instructive lessons of the hour. The Postmaster General's report shows the receipts of the department to be $27,441,360 and expenditures $33,611,309 for the current year. Re- -ceipts exceed , those of last year by ; 11.03 per cent., and expenditures exceed those of last year by 4.62 per cent. Actual amount drawn from the . Vl M liain. U1 IU Idea treasury , ,., 'fs - than fast year. The complaint of missing letters numbered 5,645, of which 2,677 were registered, containing drafts and money to the amount of $75,9'J7. Of these latter 1,083 are accounted for, 91 1 are lost, and the bal ance are being investigated. Arrests t . I . . , , 1 ! ,. for Violation oi postal law numiwr .wi. The money order transactions reach ' about $80,000,000, giving an apparent profit of $120,000. . :. The Grand Jury o the Court of General Sessions made a presentment , at New York .Wednesday , last, declar ing that all games of chance had a de- . .!.. I.fl A .1 . l. . calling for the suppression of poolselling on horse-raees, regattas, elections, etc., as an evil which , should be stoppea, ana stating that laws should be enacted or amended to procure the punishment of offenders in these eases. ' The total value -of sUi I trial Kew York last month was tlliAX