Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 3, Number 16, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 19 October 1872 — Page 1

Vol. 3.---N0. 16.

[Written for The Saturday Evening Mall. TO FLORENCE. '-*"1

iris, •Jiy CONSTAXCE. You say ray ulster that you're *ad to-night, And tired ot battling with the world

That all who wear ihc guise of friends Are not no In reality." #b You have had trials, one dearer far Than life, your

Joy-your all-ha* been

Ho early called away from earth and ou. Bat "I there no balm In Gl.ead No physician ther«? to heal thy wound*. Hurwly III* grace aiiftU bc*umeient For thee, and his own right arm Defend thee.

Ha«t not thy loved one

more enduring

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home—

would he exchange

Hven for your love—deep

and

n» It wa«—

unchanging

For all the wealth of earth-aye, For a thou-sand worlds? I

I too have known atniction And rebelled that He had taken my dol. I could not listen to the voice that said

He Ktlll and know that I am God, "And what I do thou knoweal not now, Hf-r«aft"r thou Hhalt know'' And until he umoUs ine yet again—aye and

I would not bow my head and beat the yoke. O live not In the past, ThN llf* It all too nhort for vain regrets, And unavailing tear*. (rlrd on the armor of a christian life, Taki) up thy burden—bear thy cro*s And kls* the hand that smote thee Hpeak words of hope and comfort Into The ear of wine faint hearted one, Then will thy life be brightened, and Thou Hlmlt tlnd peace. •.

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II,

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Town-Talk.

"TUB I.E.SXQN OF THE SCltATCIIKS," Is tho titloot a new book which, according to the Express, some politician is preparing. As T. T. has not the ploasuro of tho acquaintance of the author of tho forthcoming volume, he proposes to jot down an Horn or two for tho benefit of said author or for "whom it may concern." T. T. thinks it concorns tho honest votors.

It is a nice tiling for a book to have nn appropriate nub of poetry on the title page. Milton furnishes just the nub wanted for this book, in tho couplet,

Devil and l*vll damned Finn concord hold. Mtn only disagree." As rulo the tnoro corrupt tho voters aro tho less scratching there is. The more hontst men are, I ho more danger is thero of scratching. T. T. (loos not deny that there Is some scratching dono through Hpito and from other low motives. 1

Jut tho groator-part of it is done

by Intelligent and thoughtful voters, by men too honest to voto for an unfit candidate at tho bidding of a party caucus or convention. On tho other hand votors who nro so corrupt that they caro little for tho interests of the country, and who make politics a means to low onds, generally go with tho party right or wrong. Not much scratching will bo done by "plug uglies" or "political shysters,"—(which List term is now to T. T. but it sounds well.) Such follows "firm concord hold."

Then too, in voting as in every thing olso, Ignoranco is the handmaid of Vice. What T. T. has said ofdishonost and vicious votors, Is also true ol ignorant voters. They go for and with the party. So as Intelligence nnd honesty Increase among tho people, scratching increases, unless at thosamo timo political managers becomo wiser nnd innre honest. ilV'i llut how aro wtf to Tnco6tint for the fact that thero is less

Ht'RATvuiNo In run coHNTtn than tn tho city? A careful study the returns will show this to bo fact. We certainly cannot say that thero is moro corruption and dishonesty in the rural districts than within city limits, Probably neither has much to boast of In this respect. Hut as a rulo there is greater intelligence in the city than in tho country. Tako the most ignorant vl asses In tho city, and they get knocked about among meu and tiro compelled to learn something, whllo men of tho same cluss iu the country often puss the entire week without meeting any one outside of thrirown families. Then, so far as the more Intelligent classes are concorned, the cities, being tho centers from which intelligence radiates, those In tho city are not only the first 10 bo Informed, but aro generally possessed of a greater degree ol information. Voters in the city scratch more than voters In tho country because they are better informed, and also because the dissatisfied can generally find somo other dissatisfied ones to keep tbem in «untenance. On the county ticket

there was hardly less scratching In the country than in th» city, end ft»r the tilhple reason that U10 county candidates kept every voter posted in nil the facts connected with tho candidates. They were well informed in regard to these, and so I hey voted as independently.

Another lesson of the scratches la that vj* fi j|f,

H-

KRCrATUANTS*

is not good capital for a politician. In the first place churches lire getting too Intelligent and honest to vote for a man of their own church in preference to tatter man from another church or from

church. And then too ncuri-

anism is sword which cuts both ways. If

some

bigots will vote tor man sim

ply because be is in the ssme church with tbem, good utany other bigots in other churches will vote against him. because he is not of their church, snd jjood mauy bigots, who are not cbumh

members, will vote against him because he is a church member. So it will not do to depend upon church influence too much, as several defeated candidates, members of the most influential church in the State, can testify. For example take the case of the candidate for Superintendent of Public Instruction, lie is a popular minister of the most poworlul religious body in the State. Yet he runs at the tail of the ticket. The fact of his church relations did not probably gain for him five hundred votes, if it did onq hundred, in tho entire State, nor did it probably loso that number of votes for him. The whole thing resulted simply in this way. The intelligent voters of thp State familiar with educational matters were satisfied with Hopkins, and did not care to change, so they scratched and elected him. Church relation had little or nothing to do with it either wa}*. The same is true in relation to the contest betWGCliTH,llingcr and Buntin. *TirE GERMANS may ioarn from the great majority for Kottman that it is not their nationality which causes their candidates to bo scratched sometimes. The same voters who havo scratched some German names heretofore, would havestratched an American name for the same rea son. One's reasons may or may not be good ones, but tho lesson is, that nationality has nothing to do with it, as it ought not to havo. T. T. knows little about honost scratchers, he beliovos that most of them regret more to refuse to voto for a Germ in or an Irishman than for a man native born. All nationalities havo first rate men,. men lit for any office of trust or honor, and if such come to the front they will not be scratched because of their nationality. And the fact that one of these has received ono of the largest majorities of any candidates on the ticket proves conclusively that the scratchers have, no spite against Germans.

Another lesson is that CHARACTER IIAS INFIA'KNCK with tho voters, and henco caucusses and conventions must consider this al: so, if they expect the voters to elect their candidates. Browne may bo a sober man, T. T. does not know but he is President of a Total Abstinenco society, but tho fact is that tho people, a great many of them, did not think so. That cost him his election. Had such a man as Harrison been nominated there is littlo doubt that he would have been elected. Not a small amount of scratching on the county tickot, as woll

as tho

stato ticket was on the score of character. T. T. would by no means hint that any candidates' moral standing is decided by the number of votes which he get", lor fitness for tho duties of the office and many other considerations exert an influenco, But it is a fact that character has nn influence with honest nnd intelligent voters.

Husks and Nubbins.

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I have doue with politics. It is at' best a sad subject, and I turn to a brighterone. Who has words to tell all the glory of tho woods in Autumn? All the pons that havo ever written noblest and finest should be moulded into ono all tho languages that have words for color nnd lortn nnd physical beauty rarifled to the uttermost verge of conception, should bo fused into one glowing, burning thought-specch bo fore that could be done. The glory of the American fo^st in Autumn Is simply unutterable its majesty of Torm, Us Illimitable sweep of outline, Us gorgeousness of coloring, its ruggedness and softness, Its abrupt contrasts an! more than sunset harmony of shading, Us cloudy indistinctness and sharp clenmejos. Its ripeness, completeness, hcalthfolncss, Ikhindlessness and untamed and untramellcd wildness, oh, the eye can see, and the heart can feel, all these and more which the tongue trembles to utter and is sileut.

I,!tst Sunday white the balls were ringing for church I strolled away to the woods. I was In need of no sermon. I knew where to get more good than in church. Going up on a rising ground my eye swept tho horiiton. What magnificence, whst very extravagance of beauty 1 The caily frosts had been at work snd in the still coldness ot a few October nights, what miracles had bcrn performed! I felt then, as 1 always feel in the ear'.v fall, ss if the world had reached its climax of perfection and could only diminish thereafter. It seemed as If the spirit of Nature, the incarnation of sll the soft snd airy beauty of Shelley's Queen mab, should Heat out from the clouds over the heavenly scene snd breathe upon it some subtle, essence with power to embalm its beauty snd keep it for our perpetual delight. But alas, how quick the glory fades. The splendor vanishes the rich coloring pales day by day asit ifexli red into space or were stolen by the morning mints which kissed and

care

used it and borne away to be

imprisoned in the filmy sun set cloud*. Yet it is well, may-hap. Oar gross

"Sil

eyes would Weary of the sight too long continued. It is the vision which daz zles for a moment and is gone that lives enshrined in our memory. The sun vails his face only for a moment, in years, and millions of eyes photograph tho marvelous scene to be albutned among the hearts never to be forgotten pictures. Only at rare intervals the clouds and tho moon conspire to form a rainbow in the night and the long watcher who at last beholds the coquettish revelation, finds increased joy in the rareness of tho sight. The spit it of beauty is coy it delights in the wooing of its admirers it loves to be sought and reveals itself only now and then as tho arder of its pursuer flags. It would not be best to dwell even in the mellow ripeness and beauty of fall. The searching, shivering winter wind is full of a needed tonic the Lotus-like, languishing air of spring has its mission in melting off the too hard coruer^of our nature and making smooth and uniform the hot, sultry breath of mid-summer is the plain prose of life which prepares us for the feast of Autumn's poetry.

But I havo wandered from my subject, or rather, into the woods, fit scene for Arabian enchantments. Let us look more narrowly at what the frost has done. The hickory is ono ot the earliest sufferers and its leaves are already ripe and golden. Far off you can single it out in tho fused band which encircles the horizon, a tall cone of glowing yellow. The aromatic sassafras too is easily touched and its leaves now have tho color of the ripe plum inexpressibly beautiful dors it appear in sharp contrast with the dark green bushes from wkicb it rises. The emerald oaks,as becomes their royal dignity, have yet the deep green of August, save on tho top-most branches whii are turning into a yellowish pink subdued by the distance of their elevation they have all tho softness and delicacy of the rose. Tho oak is nevor more beautiful, not even when its first buds are bursting in tho Spring. Thero is treo which I havo marked here and there through the woods, clad from top to bottom in a blood-red robe. It changes with wonderful celerity and aconploof frosty nights will transform every ono of its leaves, as if it had suddenly cast its green set and put forth a new one of ruby red. I stand beneath oneof them now and nearly all tho foliage is already scattered on the ground, a matting of mingled brown and red. It is the sweet Gum of most royal luxury but transient and soon lost from tho view, llero is a little dwarfed, gnarly plum. ^Jt cuts but a poor figure among its magnificient associates, from a distance, but when approached is full of interest. There is a ruggodnoss nnd sturdy independence about tho plum which always charmed 1113- It seems to live a continual protest against tho tyranny of certain influences which are intent on its destruction. It seems to bo repeating all the timo to itself, "I've got a right here as well ns the rest of you and I mean to maintain it." And it does, too. It grows thorny, and bushy, and rough, and is ns piquant nnd sarcastiil to the oye asitsgroen fruit is sour and astringent to the tongue. I made the acquaintance of the plum very early in life and I, for my part, shall never cut it through coldness or dbdain. The leaves of the plutn now are red as iUi own fair fruit in September and there is a brightness atul freshness about them which is not found in any other foliage.

Heyond me there Is a most baautiful tree. It is a member of the tribe of soft Maples and its low, bushy growth and short trunk make it resemble very closely the burr oak. Its leaves are of a light, transparent yellow and their peculiar radiate form makes tho tree look like an artificial ono hung with gilded stars in a Christmas festival. Nothing more perfectly elegant could be imagined. All is so bright and clean that the verv light seems to take color from the glowing mass as it moves through it. I^owcrdown among the branches where the frost has not bad such easy access the leaves are of a green and purple hue, some of them presenting the rich color of a cluster ol rl»c grapes. I can hardly take my eyes from the beautiful thing, but when I do they are sure to rest on something not less beautiful. Ob, wild Iree wihhIis how is he to be pitied who scarcely sets foot within thy sacred precincts!

But why continue? What have I said—what can I say? If I had the indomitable patience of Thoreau, the airy imagination of Hawthorne, the tacile expression of Irving, and the word power of Emerson, I would write an essay every week on the woods, as long as I lived, and ahonld never want readers either as it is I shsli only advise everybody to shut up their stores and factories and banks, throw down their tools snd implement*, tarn their backs upon civilisation, and their faces to the woods before it is too lata and the spirit of painting and poetry snd sculpture shall have ilown. If ther refuse to do that they will at best tbink

this but the vain babbling of a visiooary and a dreamer.

TERRE-HAXJTE, SATURDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 19, 1872. Price Five Cents.

People and Things.

Spurgcon proposes a '"ministerial strike." »•"'.« n-wi, 5* Jacob Foolish edits a paper at Searcy, Arkansas. 1 4

A Washington man lifts been arrested for biting a dox. Tho Yanks are gorging themselves with "punkin" pie.

Secretary Seward's last words were "Love one another." A Kentucky man has been eleven years hunting mammoth caves. *g

Licorice is good for bronchitis brought on by cheering election returns. Barnum, with some Bridgeport friends, is going to visit Colorado.

Greeley oneo wrote: "Tho White House gad-lly crazes when it sings." Prof. Swallow (appropriate name) sa3*s good wine is a temperance acid.

Counterfeiters move iu the best society at St. Joseph, Mo., until betrayed. Farina is giving opera in Chicago. The Chicagoans think "his singing is wheat.

Pere Hyacinthe anl his no «v wife are going to start a newspaper. Good-bye, §75,000. ,.3 -i'

Little liaven, the Arapahoe, has a head just like Beocher, and is an eloquent orator.

A disgusted tnsas pioneer saj*s that Barnum's mummy is "nothuv but a jerked Injun."

Leslie, the Democratic Governor of Kentucky, is superintendent of a B.iptist Sunday School.

Rev. A. II. K. Boyd, the "country parson," proaches in kid glovesand has §4,000 or §1'300 a year.

There is a prospect that blooc'-and-thunder Cobb, Jr., will let up on his New York Lodger slush.

Kansas seances have developed tho fact that the spirit lives after dialh, and gradually loses its intellect.

A seidlitz powder seidlitz business with a North Carolina doctor last Tuesday, by making him a corpse.

A Connecticut merchapt, being askod how he spent his time, replied, "At night I storo my mind nn during tho day I mind my store."

Edmund Yates is astonished—"perfectly astonisLed" is his phrase—at his reception in America. Ho isn't used to this sort of tliiug, you know.

Sylvanus Cobb, Jr., has gone back on sensational novels thinks too many of thom have been written, and regrets that they are so extensively read.

An exchange notes that, "In Northwestern Kansas there nre four men to ono woman." In New England factories thero aro often foremen to one hundred women.

Those minute perforations noticed by tho surgeons in the diaphragm of John Ayros, of .Jacksonville, Illinois, were caused by banging his gun up by the hammer. ,, ts

An old sailor recently refused to ship on a Lake Erie schooner because he had seen a rat swim ashoro from it. Curiously enough the vessel was foundered the next uight with all on board.

If somo young agriculturalist should inquire of Horace Greeley where the biggest beats could bo raised, he need not tell bun to "go West," but would probably direct nitn to try Pennsylvania.

A Maine gentleman named Brick, having an unfortunate proclivity to got himself in his hat, has publicly notified all liquor dealors that he will prosecute to the full extent of tho law any one who sells to him any intoxicating beverage.

Boston has a well dressed highwayman who atept up to a lady, places his finger on her nose and in. the "most amiable manner" requests her name, at the same time grabbing her pocketbook, which is in her hand, making ofl with his booly.

The latest Chicago nomination is John Jones for County Commissionr." It is believed he Is sufficiently numerous to elect himself. He will be inaugurated by companies, and dischsrge the duties of the office in weekly squads.—New York Commercial.

An amusing anecdote is told ot King, the actor, who metajriend whose name be had forgotten, and took him home to dinner. After several ineffectual attempts to find out bis name, King said: "My friend and I had a dispute ss to how to spell your name indeed, we bare laid a bottle of wine on it." "Ob, with two p'a/' was the answer

A boy about l.» years old was prit tn the Tombs at New York the other night, for drunkenness. He protested to the keeper that he had not been drinking, but thai he was born drunk. His speech ami staggering indicated intoxication, but it appeared on examination that this is his normal conditioo. His father was a confirmed inebriate, and since he was thres years old the boyha manifested these symptoms.

Feminitems.

Lnura Fair's mothor attempted suicide by poison on Thursday night.*•*, Mrs Dr. Carl Formes joins the noble army of women lecturers this season.

Lillie Devrreanx Blska's new story is entitled "Lord and Master," aud is severe on husbands.

Indiana brings to tho frout Florence Horton, a powerful five-year-old pianist.—[St. Louis Globe.

"What Shill Hinder?" is Anna Dickinson's new lecture. Some say it is her advanced youthfulness.

Nearly three thousand women showthat their souls are not above buttons in Philadelphia gaiter factorii

The ladies are now wearing bright silk handkerchiefs folded over their shoulders. It is a very pretty fashion.

The Boston car drivers complain that old ladies punch them in the back with parasols when they want the car stop

Eureka Jones, widow of tbo late Jailor, has been elected Jailor of the Hudson county, New York, jail, to till the unexpired term.

Boston girls nro up to e^ryihlng. One of them, at twenty years of age, is in the Indian Territory, publishing a paper in the Choctaw language.

Mrs. Stenhouse, the recalcitrant wife of a Mormon Bishop, has taken the lecture field against polygamy.—She's been there and knows how it is her-

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A Washington lady, unable to procure a hearse in the city for the funeral of her child which had died of smallpox, purchased one for the occasion, paying ?240 therefor.

Rev. Mrs. Ilines, a lady preacher, over seventy years old, is travelling over the mountains of California, exhorting the wayward whercvor she finds them, to repent.

A cheap way of getting credit for liberality was devised by the managers of a fair in Illinois, who offered a premium to the oldest spinster present. Of course nobody claimed

Mary Butler, of Jersey county, Illinois, has taken the reins in her own hands, and challenges any man in the county to engage in a plowing match with Ler on a wager of §100

The widow ot an Ohio Colonel is said to have received §100,000 by the* will of a Southern colonel, whom her husband protected from the brutality ol somo negro soldiers during the war.

Miss Kate Staunton is going to lecture in Boston on "The Loves of Great Men," and nineteen out of every twenty Bostonians fear that she intends to divulge the heart-secrot9 of their private lives.- .r

What's become ot* Victoria Wooflhnll? She hasn't done anything recently to bring herself unenviably before the public. We begin to languish for a feminine to tako her place in the sensation business.

In Pittsburg they have cruel-hearted corporations. The ptreet cars have notices posted up to the effect t!$at the cars won't wait for young ladies to kiss good-by. Can man's inhumanity to woman go beyond this

A jailor's daughter at Des Moines, Iowa, the other day caught an escaping horse-thief, after he bad knocked down her father and jumped from a window ol the jail, holding him upon tho, sidewalk until assistance arrived.

The Courier-Journal is hard on Susan when it says: "We shall never know tho age of Niagara Falls, because Susan B. Anthony is the only person now living who was alive tiben the Falls were built, and she has forgotten the date."'(

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The Liberals have a female advocate for their cause. Miss Minnie Swasie, formerly professor of elocution at Vas-

College, is devoting herself to the csuse of her party. She is said to be very pretty, about20 years of age, and a good speaker. .1

Here is an extract we clipped out of one of the introductory remarks of a thrilling tale in aNew York paper. It is good: She went to the center table, where, amid albums, annuala, and the New York Sickly, lay a copy of the Holy Bible, and taking up a newspaper, began to read."

The two ladies who have recently been admitted to tbo bar of Utah are not

Mormons. They advertise their willingness to advocate the cause of all Mormon women who wish to escape from the vows that have made them the fractional owner of a man.

The women of Baltimore have entered npon a sharp fight for tbeir"rights." They have formed an association, the object ot which is to test in all the courts their right to vote, snd if they are beaten to begin all over again and so keep it op nntil they get"jtastke^or kill the judg-*. v* /si*.-

Connubialities.

Somp'-nv 111ki^iiik's «in, r. But I thiuk It's uane nva— For KisMiiK Ints wan 11'1 in ihis worldf ,, .Since ever that there was l\va,

f. O, if it wasna lawful, Lawyers wiiilna allow it ,' If

it wiisna holy,

VfMinisters wadna do It.

•. If It wasna

Modest,

b, Maidrns wulnn take I fit wa^na plenty, Puir folk wni'.na get It. '4

Adam remained in Paradise—until he got married. A Lover is like a vocalist wheju he goes to meet her. •. -%.• •»!t

A rich Turk recently gave §30,000 for a boautiful Circassian girl. A Crazy Mormon womnn hurled stones at husband's funeral procession as it passed.

A reckless and wefhlthy miller is preparing to be Crbttended. in love with Laura Fair.

lie has fallen

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About o:iehundred and seventy Mor- 5 mon converts from England pnssed through Iowa, for Utah, tho other day.

Divorce lawyers in Cleveland, Ohio, have to undergo sticks, stonos, aud alt 3^ sorts of missiles from tho husbands of their fair clients. iw

Can a young lady who refuses an offer be justly accused of slight of hand? -m This was the last question up fordo- x: bate in the Keokonack Lyceum. :a

A man who bought a thousand Ilavana cigars, yesterday, on being asked what ho had, replied they wore tickets to a course of lectures to bo given by his wife. 4 ti*

Sybil Docy, of Ohio, has saved §200 out of her wages by hoeing potatoes. Sho advertises for a husband who has made the satno amount, of money iu tho same way. ., u,

Tho Prussian lieutenant who eloped from Berlin to Salt Like with two sisters, is said to bo insano now, and

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wonder, but tho two sisters must have been natural born fools,

A young woman whoso pockbt had been picked iu an omnibus, admitted that sho folt the prisoner pressing her very closely, lnft thought "he was only intending to make love.",,:-

A gushing coupled aged, rospectvively, eighty and seventy-eight years, who had courted some sixty years ago, and then soured on ono another, wore maraied recently at Iribcrty, Missouri.

Chicago merchant advortised rocently "a boy wanted," and boforo ho got down town his clerk met him, breathless, nnd told him that his wifo had twin boys. It pays to. advortiso!

A widower observod tho third unnivcrsary of his wife's decease with a littie supper the other night. Tho affair passed offin an agreeablo manner, and the party separated at a lato hour in tho best of humor. t*

A lady had her ilress trimmed with bugles before going to a ball. Her littlo daughter wanted to knowifihobugle8 would blow when she danced. "Oh no," said tho mothor, "papi will do that when he sees tho bill."

Miss Lillian S. Kd^nrton, the "Peail of the Platform," is in greater demand mi from lecture committees than any other woman in tho field except Mrs. Scott-Siddons. This indicates that suaceptiblo young men conslltulo tho comuiittoes. 1 „i -a

In the Chancery Court at Covington, tho other day, a divorce was granted to Atlantic Oceana Richardson, from/ her husband L«jwis Ricliardfcon, on the ground of abandonment. No wonder ai I^ewis fled from such a sea of troubles. —[Lou. Conr. Jour.

The St. Ixuls Globe- tells about a youth, just married, who left thai, city with bis bride on an Hbstern tour via Vandaiia, the othor evening, who in sUted on having a bed-room with a S door to it didn't want any of "yer durn curtain fixinW

Robert W. McCreery,.son of Ex-l.'ni-ted States Senator McCreery, of Kentucky, recently wedded Miss Orleark Athy, of Oweusboro. Owensboro is a good

place

for bsides to come from~

Rich old fatborsltbere have a weakness for presenting their children occasionally with §.*,0W) checks andep dianer plates.

The Hon. Henry LoAas, of fSta glisb nobilUy, got separated from his? wife and daughter tkroogh a divorce, and some years afterwards married Ma daughter through mistake. A dlvorce-i followed the discovery of tbe mistake, and now Mr. Loftns and hi» first wife have become reconciled and are living together happily.

An exchange informs ua that some? young women are endeavoring to start a new community on Lone Prairie, 111. It is to bo Mormonlsm, with tbo grand principle of that) sect reversed. There* are plenty of such communities in this city, and they aro pretty well scattered over the world, and hays beeaeiseeh the earliest reoorded.tlme,,Sodom and^ Gomorrah were filled vittl tbem.