Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 5, Number 37, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 13 March 1875 — Page 4

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Embroideries!

ELEGANT NEW PATTERNS!!

OPENING TO-DAY,'

ODB 8BOOMD INVOXCK OF

Hamburg Edgings and Insertings,'

gljrlH never before seen

Tfheae Embroideries

ALSO,

Fhands

ar®-a**t*1 er*?^^'

They having been engaged when gold was 10 per cent.

ALSO. An elegant variety of

Wanted.

WANTED-A

RELIABLE TAILOR, that

understands cutting, wishes to engage to run a tailoring business in connection with drv goods store In some neighboring town. Address, with terms, "TAILOR, Terre Haute, Ind. XXTANTED—RYE STRAW—NICE AND

clean—for which the highest price will be paid at MILLER & AIILETHS, South 4th street.

ANTED—AOENT8 TO SELL A VALliable and useful Invention—the best thing yet offered. Apply nt once to L. ADAMS, on Locust slreet, three doors east of Lafayette srreet. bc (ton Per Day at home. Terms 5pO

free. Address G. STINSON

that It Is carerully and thoroughly read In the homes of Its patrons, and that it Is the best advertising medium in Western lana.

For Sale.

..v<p></p>F°cellar,

^RSALE—A HOUSE OFFIVEROOMS,

pfcrch, etc., a very neat property

—price 91,6u0—S300 down and balance In payments to suit purchaser with 8 per cent. Interest. Buy and apply the ront on payments and have a home of your own In a few years. A. C. MATTOX.

ClOR SALE—ONI) DOUBLE HARNESS, lonu tux. one single, u*d a lot of Halters^all new, cheap. II. W. KOOPMAN

HON, Leather Store, 168 Main street.

Facres,

R8ALEOR

KearlnK

IR 8ALE-A LARGE BAY MARE—lfl high—good draught horse. En

quire

of NAT1I AN WARD, on First street, east sldo, fourth house south of Sheets street. marlS-2t

OR SALE-FRUIT TREES-25,000 APpie trees now standing In fruit Rulge Juniorles, large enough U» plant in permanent orchards. Two. three and four years old apple trees, good quality at 10c to loc each. Pear trees, cherry trees, evergra-ns, Ac., at lowest prices for good trees. Sale grounds on Fruit Ridge, three miles southeast of Terre Haute, and one-fourth mile East of Sugar Grove School House. 100 different varieties ef applo trees embracing the most desirable sorts now on hand. J. h. SOU LE, proprietor. inar0-3t

BALE—A TWO STORY IIOUSE~OF nine rooms in good repair—gas In every room-also cellar, cistern, well,

F°,

FWND-THAT

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Jf»ln»*«h

Embroider!**, Edgings JE Insertings, In new and handsome patterns.

New Collars and Cuflfc, new Crepe Lisse and Lace Ruchlngs, new Ties, Bcarlfe, etc.

ALSO, Fall line of oar celebrated Perinot KM Glove*. Bprlng Shades, Blacks, Operas, etc. This Glove is now acknowledged to be the best in Ameriit. co. Try

Domestic Cotton Goods!

Bleached and Brown Muslins, Sheetings, Pillow Casings, etc., all In full assortment at old prices.

HOBERG, ROOT & CO., OPERA HOUSE.

Ac.,

price

and terms reasonable. If not sold by the 15th, will be for rent. Also two other houses for sale, one of Tour rooms and one of five rooms, at a bargain both In prlcoand terms. A. C. MATTOX. mart 2t

TIREMIUM 0HE8TFR WHITE PIGS.— I Hi each, a pair. Chester County MAMMOTH CORN, and Imported BELGIAN OATS.

It* by mail, »1 peckSJ

bushel 83 bushel 85. Circulars and

pnekaacs

Sample

of Seeds J'Vw for stamps.

Address, N. P.BOYER, Pnrkesburg, Chester CO., Pa.

^USALE-SMALL OFFICE SAFB-AT a bargain. Enquire at M. M. JOABw Office. J23-tf

Law

SALE-CHEAP—A FULL SET OF Silver Instruments-all nearly new. A rare chance to parties wishing to organise a Band, as they will be sold cheap. For particulars call on «r address M. \V. STACK, Kxehange Hotel, near Union Depot, or M. C. WADE, at V. G. Dlckliout's Trunk Kn every, No. 196 Naln street, Jan»-tf

UIOR SALE-A BOUT-TING CHEST, FOR Flouring Mill, containing two reels. l(t foot loug by SO Inches In diameters with gearing and cloths all complete and all new. built on the most Improved plan for

Staunton, Ind.

For Rent.

KENT—STORE ROOM, No. 142 MAIN street, (above 5UQ. Apply at Bee lllve.

Found.

.UNB-THATTIlE SATURDAY EVEnlng Mail Is the m«wt widely circulated newspaper in the State outside of Indianapolis. _____

WITH ONE STROKEOK

the pon you can reach, with an advertiseHH*U In the Haiurdaj' Kvening Mall, almost every reading family in this city, as well as

residents of the towns and country surrounding Terrv Haute.

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THE MAIL

PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

P. S. WESTFALL,

EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.

TERRE HAUTE, MARCH 13, 1875.

SECONDEDITIOK

TWO EDITIONS

Of this Paper are published. The FIRST EDITION, on Friday Evenlng has a large circulation In tb% surrounding

towns, where

it is sold by newsboys

agents.

The SECOND EDITION, on Saturday Eying, goes into the hands of nearly every

reading

ONE CHARGE.

ven

person in the city, and the farm

ers of this immediate vicinity. $ Every Week's Issue Is, in fact, TWO NEWSPAPERS, ID which all Advertisements appear

ter

tbe

IT costs over 91,500 a day to run Indiana Legislature.

A NEW YORK legislator proposes make workmen's "strikes" crimiwil fences.

THE Irish World is correct in its assertion that the stage Irishman is an intolerable nuisance.

PROFITING by past propheting, the Millerites now keep the day on which they are going up a profound secret.

THE town of Elgin, 111., has been sued by a man who

claims

Co., Portland, Maine. Jan23-ly

ANTED-ALL TO KNOW THAT THE SATURDAY EVENING MAII. has a larger circulation than any newspaper published In

the

State, outside of Indianapolis. Also

TRADE-A FARM OF 80

55 In cultivation, balance timber,

ood house, stable. Ac., au orchard of KM) trees. Will sell on very easy terms, or trade for city property. A. C. MATTOX.

that his health has

been injured by a leakage of gas from the street mains.

THE New York Legislature has before it a bill to prevent the adulteration of food and drink. That bill will have to be very sweeping in its provisions if it succeeds in abolishing the evil.

IT is stated on apparently good authority that President Grant will spend the greater portion of the coming summer in Europe, passing most of his time in England with his married daughter.

A KANSAS family has lived four days on dried apples and snow. The Boston Globo observes that a down-easter with such chances would have crawled out from under the drifts with eleven patents for making dried apple ice cream.

IN Utah a condemned murderer is allowed by a How law to choose between being hanged, shot, or guillotined. Philip Shafer, the first culprit given a chance for preference, has refused to make a choice, and will be hanged.

THE Cincinnati Saturday Night says Ohio has more frauds in the spiritual medium business than any other State, and thinks that if the spirits are to be judged by the company they keep, Ohio's departed dead area mighty poor lot.

NEVER name your child after a living man. A statute law of the United States forbids the placing of the likeness of a living man on any of the government currency, and overy city should have an ordinance forbidding the naming of streets after living individuals.

THE temperance alliance in Chicago is engaged in the very sensible business of trying to persuade employers not to pay off thoir men until Monday morning, exhibiting an array of facts going to prove that money paid on Saturday night is, in tho majority of cases, squandered at saloons and gambling dens.

THE compulsory education law of New York is now in operation, and its workings will be watebed with more than ordinary interest by the friends of education everywhere. All persons having children between the ages of eight and fourteen years In their employ are notified, that if any such children during 1875 fail to receive fourteen weeks of schooling, eight of which must be oonsecutive, such employers will incur .the penalty of the law.

THE head of Parson Brownlow is still level. In regard to his retirement from tho Senate and his return to tho editorial charge of the KnoxvilleWhig,he says "that he is getting up in the world he is promoted he is now in a position of far more powor and respectability than being a momber of Congress. Small men, with plenty of money and no brains, may crawl into tho Senate as the snail crawls to tho top of the pyramid, but such a fellow can't run a newspaper."

A WRITER in Appleton's Journal advocates a more general and thorough musical education. He says: "Tho frequently adopted plan of waiting to see whether children have any taste or show any lovo for music is a wrong one. No child would prefer practising scales to playing ball and few boys, if the cultivation of their tastes depended upon the whims of their ever-flying fancies, would turn into educated men. But all parent* should first give their children the opportunity of forming a taste, and for its development trust to the tusthetio element of their nature." 4 ^SSSSSSSSSSBSS

THK Reverend Mr. Talmage, who utterly annihilated Rome in tbe earlier day* of his ministry and more recently destroyed the last vestige of Universal tem, and yet mote recently erected an orthodox church on the ruins of tho last theater to withstand his assaults, now attacks Spiritualism.

indict Spiritual

ism," be "I spiritualism as asocial and

marital

cams, as an unclean,

adulterous, damnable religion, and the jKwscr it drops into bell, where it came from, the better. I wish I oouldjnOher nil tbe rape that were ever beard Prom the blent or damned and bring them together into one thunderous rap on its #d. I won Id try to crush it out forsw I hate tbe aoctrinc, and believe it* long haired disciples, whose an- soft marshes yielding rank a«, «re doottii 4 lo de»ln f"

A FEW OBSERVATIONS ON BUTTONS. XZZAfter along and varied experienoe we have arrived at the conclusion that our whole system of buttons is a failuro and a fraud, a delusion and a snare. That the ages of running strings, hooks and eyes, skewers and loops should have culminated in the present faithless and vexatious invention is more than we re»n comprehend. How noble was the mission of the Roman hand which with one graceful sweep draped the form of its owner, when compared with tho hapless Norwegian emigrant, who spends no inconsiderable portion of his life in endeavoring to immure himself in a short blue jacket and waistcoat, with three or four dozen brass temptations to sin running down their front, and pack' ed in closely together as tho vertebrae in the spinal column. These cases are in point. They are the extremes. In the one your coat and what might answer for your breeches on a pinch, invest you as if by magic while in the other, the whole edge is taken off your pious resolutions, you are HO long and bitterly engaged with your fingers among worthless buttons and worn out button holes, or apparently playing on your stomach as if it were a concertina.

The faithlessness that exists between even the trustiest button and a frail but-ton-hole, or vice versa, has been acknowledged for ages. And so of buttonholes themselves. They are as treach erous as the Indian and deceive you at the

period of

Insignificant as the cause may appear, whole families have been agitated, and sometimes upset, through the mischievious instrumentality of a simple shirt button or a button-hole. A difficulty in relation to our trowsers, coat or vest may be obviated temporarily, or thrust out of sight for a moment but what resource have we in case of the sudden fall of the neck button of our shirt when we have but a few minntes before the ringing of the second church bell, or to catch the train

But where are we to look for a remedy 7 A running string around the neck, in these modern days, might be too suggestive to be comfortable and skewers might be dangerous among quarrelsome men. Loops soon get shabby, and, however faithful an eye may be, a hook is apt to straighten itself out. We must evidently then look for success to tbe inventive genius of the age and we should, therefore, call upon men of originality and science to turn their attention to this important subject and help us out of our dilemna, although we may at the present moment have "a soul above buttons." ,'^is.

JOE HOWARD, editor of the New York Star, says of Henry C. Bowen: 14

Bowen always reminds me of the angels who ^continually do cry.' That's partly on account of the sinfulness of tin.

I remember Brother Bowen when he was a Brother Bowsn, and great goodness how he used to pray.

He went at it hammer and tongs. He never allowed tbe Lord to rest for a moment under a misapprehension ss to his, Bowen's, views.

What the Lord didn't know about the world in general, and dry goo()s in particular, Bowen told him."

THE FAULT WITH AMERICAN PAPERS. [Washingtop Star.] The Springfield Republican frequently Is the nail square on the head, as it does in the following paragraph:

If two-thirds of the American newspapers were tensed to cut down their sise 25 to 60 per oent,, and get the same matter into tbe reduced space, it would be occasion of rejoicing both for tLeir creditors and readers.

So it would. But it would be hard upon the editors. In journalistic life there is nothing saaier than editing a Wg

newspaper, where everything can be shoveled in at full length without discrimination or condensation.

TBRRE ATTTE SATURDAY EVENING^MAIL.

your greatest reliance upon

them, and, like their perfidious allies in brass, horn or gutta percha, leave you in the lurch at the moment of your direst necessity.

That buttons and button-holes have a certain perception of some of our weakest points and glory in assailing them, there can be but little doubt. When we have but fifteen minutes to dress for some entertainment in the evening, or for church on Sunday morning, they usually commence operations, and in the course of a few seconds destroy not only our own equanimity, but thatef our whole household should we happen to be Benedicts. On such occasions our suspenders, waistbandB, collars and cuffs are sure to be selected as the special departments for their depredations and fortunate must the man be indeed who does not suffer in some of them. The neck, which is the ticklish spot, is the constant butt of their malice. The man does not live who has not, at some period or other, turned from his looking glass, with eyes aflame, and a shirt button between his fingers, that had just quietly dropped to the floor, rendering his looped bow and his paper collar of no arail for the time being. And yet, with all this tendency to mischief, who ever b»d a button or a button-hole to give way when he desired all possible delay in conducting his impatient wife to the evening party, where, in order to get the least of the bore, he wished to go late. At such periods they appear to evince a vicious and irritating solicitude for our moral and spiritual welfare which we do not accept in compensation for any of their previous faithlessness. Tough as buckskin on the one hand and unyielding as adamant on the other, they now approach each other in a spirit of friendliness that even the rudest manipulation fails to disturb, while the few threads of cotton, that on other occasions would have given way before our slightest touch, now appear to possess the strength of whip cord, and to secure both in a manner which sets at defiance even the most able analysis.

W. S. LINOUE, editor of. the Lafayette Courier, the man who never told a lie about the circulation of his newspaper, nor allowed any of his employes to do so, has been elected President of the Smithson College, at Logansport, with a salary of 94.000 a year.

A PARAGRAPH is going the rounds of the papers to the effect that the chinch bugs are all frozen. Entomologists know that severe freezing never killed a bug of any kind, but continued freezing and thawing combined with vfot, sometimes does kill them.

NEARLY every inland town of respectable size has a grand opera house, and strains by prima donnas and maestros are now heard in regions where until within five years such things were unheard of. Twenty years hence, what will our country be in these respects

As aji evidence of the extravagance of the present day, Thurlow Weed says: "There are ten thousand New York ladies whose costumes, when in full dress, cost at least $1,000 oach. Fifteen years ago the same fashionable ladies would have appeared adorned quite as attractively'at an average expense of $250." y*

GOSSIPING about dancers and dancing in New York, a correspondent defines New Yorkers socially as the people who attend Imlls and never dance. Dancing is given over to children and the vulgar^ pt least so far as public balls are concerned. Within the penetralia of one's bwn or somebody'selsehomes girls who are enjoying the usually brief period between coming out and getting married permit themselves to take part in quadrilles, germans and galops. But the mo* ment they have secured a husband, or rather their managing mammas have secured one for them, they desert the dance, because it is not quite the thing, you know. At all the grand balls in the Academy, however, they come to look on and enjoy the fatigue of others. They begin to got ready weeks beforehand. They besiege the shops and torment the mantau makers. They fret and fribble over what they shall wear, and are wretched lest they shall be outshone. They receive attention, have admirers, hear compliments, and after five or six hours of crowd, confusion, excitement, and bewilderment, they roll home in their carriages, weary, worn, jaded, and go to bed to dream of the next Academy ball. 1V

SHOW PEOPLE.

The Detroit papers are debating as to whether Neilson can act or not. Church's Musical Viator beseeches concert players to choose simpler strains.

The New Haven Register relates that an actor at one of the theaters was called out three times in one evening, not long ago—twice by a sheriff.

It is noted that all great humorists are sober and sedate, with a melancholy cast of countenance. It is rather serious business to bo funny.—[Richmond Enquirer.

Charles Backus, the negro minstrel, is going to play Romeo in black, by marrying Miss Lillie Eldridge, "The American Juliet," as she calls herself. This is the meeting of extremes, when the lily weds the lamp-black.

DeHaven's mammoth Hippodrome is organizing for the road in Cincinnati. It will rival Barnum's. Tho Show they will make on the street will be equal to Barnum's in the ring, as the "Congress of Nations'.' will be given in the street procession. Sam Joseph is the literary agent of the coneern.

Cooper & Bailey's Circus starts from Louisville, Ky., about the first of April, and will travel in Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois. They will have an excellent company, well equipped. Tbe Lee family, Charles Kenyon and wife, and James Ward and Julius H. Kent, clowns, are engaged,

Although he has abandoned tbe platform for good, "Mark Twain" consented to lecture in Hartford the other night for the benefit of tho poor. The tickets were placed at one dollar each. He sent a dollar to tho committee in payment for a ticket for himself, writing to them, "I am aware that I could get in for nothing, and still be acting in a measure honorably but "when I run my lecture over in my mind and realize what a very bonanza of priceless'information it is, I find I cannot conscientiously accept of a free pass."

Clara Morris, the actress, In a loiter from San Francisco to a friend, describes her visit to a Chinese theater She was shown the room which suffices for a green room and dressing room, where she says, "a number of actors were changing their costumes, and tbe cool indifference, not to say gravity,with which they stripped themselves to the bare brown skin in my presence, was startling.

bad some difficulty in find

ing a nook I could fix my eyes on without being shocked." An almond-eyed actor asked, "You act ee?" and when the nlanager explained, "She much-ee biff act-ee," tbe greeting extended to her was very cordial.

The Brooklyn Eagle notices the present tendency of

fashion

ha Sarah Jewett, now at Daly's Mrs. Foster, who lately played a star engagement at the Park Theater in Brooklyn, all women of intelligence and above the need of adopting any profession for a living. The latest addition is the widow of a late Brooklyn minister, Mrs. Gaddis. The development of this passion for the stage is aooounted for by the passion for private theatricals, which have became so fashionable of late years. It was in these that Agnes Ethel and the Dietz sisters made their first essays, and the private performance only whetted their appetites for larger display. Women like Fanny Morant opened out as teachers of acting, and fitted the neophytes for the regular theater. Another cause of this passion among ladies is to be found in the nature of the plays more lately popular, and called "society plays," which necessitate dressing "in the fashion." Mrs. Hoey demonstrated the effect on women of this.

Bid well fc McDonough's dramatic company, which has been presenting "The Black Crook" to South Americans, was the cause of a riot In Valparaiso. A woman had been playing one of the male parts, and had become a favorite with the public. One night she did not appear, the stage manager assuming the character. The young men »in the audience, supposing that the woman had been displaced against her will, inter, rupted the performance with hisses. The Governor of the city, who was present, commanded the police to stop the hissing, and they did so. The next day the young men held a meeting and resolved thac they had a right to express their disapproval at a performance if they chose. They went to the theater that night in great numbers to hiss. The police went to srrest them. A sanguinary fight was the consequenoe, in which two ot the police were killed and one of the yOung men was mortally wounded. 1

James Parton says people wonder that the pantomime called Humpty Dumpty should be played a thousand nights in New York but the substance of all that boisterous nonsense, that exhibition of rollicking freedom from restraints of Isw, nsage and gravitation, has amused mankind for unknown thousands of years for it is merely what remains to us of the legendary Bacchus and his jovial crew. We observe, too, that the great comic books, such as Gil Bias, Don Quixote, Pickwick and others, are most effective when the hero is most like Baoohns, roaming over the earth with merry blades, delightfully free from the duties and conditions which taake bondsmen of us all.

OUR NEW YORK LETTER.

VARLEY AT THE HIPPODROME—THE GREAT SCANDAL, ENTERTAINMENT—A RIPPING WITNESS AND A LUDICROUS

CROSS-EXAMINATION STAMPING OUT ANTO-BKBCHHBISM.

Correspondence of The

able women to

the stage, and in support of its assertion that this tendency is growing it says that in Sew York tho stage has lately been crowded by accessions from the drawing-rooms of society. Since the opening of the Fifth-avenue Theatre a large number of women of fashion have made their debut on its boards. There wasAnes Ethel, who achieved quite a popularity Miss Kellogg, who became leading lady at tbe Brooklyn Theater the two Diets sisters, Linda and Ella, tbe latter tha, wife.of JEdward Clymer, brother of Hester Clym«rW of Philadel-

Mail.l

other

NEW YORK, March 9,1875.

Hippodrome preaching is a novelty introduced this week (Sunday evening) by the Y. M. C. A. through Mr. Henry Varley, the London Evangelist. It is supposed that the audience of 15,000 people rivaling the monster gatherings of Moody and Sankey in the old country, was the largest ever assembled to listen to the gospel, on this side the Atlantic. simultaneously with this, another evangelist, Rev. P. B. Morgan ot the Episcopal church, commenced a mission in St. Ann's church for Deaf Mutes, in a very different style governed in some measure by that view of the gospel (so to speak) which conceives it as a mysterious gift mystically imparted through the person and the formal action or a consecrated priest. The people who hold this view are many of them imbued with the same passion for saving souls that made the career of the founder of the Jesuits a parallel to that of Paul or Whitefield except in tbe ethical and spiritual and tender character of thoir teaching and its absolute denial of every

name than Christ crucified. In this, still, the Christ evangelist and tbe Church evangelist are at opposites as much as ever, and to all appearance as zealously and fervently as ever, on both sides. ...

Mr. Varley Is not an ecclesiastical or official personage of so much as the lowest pretensions. Socially, too, ho is at tbe widest remove from the snob, which Thackeray has taught us is the character of all but the rarest men. His calling ho will tell you in plain unvarnlsh ed English, was that ef a butcher though good Dr. Cuyler feels to euphemizeit, in his excellent articles on Mr. Varley, as that of an extensive dealer in meat. But

any

can assure yeu that in all

my small though numerous transactions in beef and matton,

have never met

butcher in Fulton or Washington or other markets, of whom Mr. Varley at all reminds me. He is more at home in the scriptures, old and new, and even in tho critical translation of apostolic Greek, than other butchers are in the anatomy of a bullock. Moreover, 1y some instinct of nature's gentleman, he uses a

style,

grammar, and pronuncia

tion, free from the traces of vulgarity or provincialism that mar the rhetoric of some very distinguished Englishmen we have heaid. At the same time, he is a little burly and market-like in looks, and tree in elocution and action to a degree which only audiences

it bears upon Mr. Beecber's caBe (except as a maa Is known by the bosom friends whom he chooses) or how It tends to explain a "conspiracy" of so momentous ana tragical a nature as tbe two parties to the present suit were evidently plunged In together until last summerno one but a very ardent partizan can be qualified to perceive.

Judge Fullerton's business, on tbe other hand, is to remove and blow away the chaff from the substance, in all the immense heaps of Mr. Beeeher*s thresh-ing-floor, as last as they are accumula-

I. And to see him do this, if you can lay aside for the purpose and Uie moment all interfering, sympathies or scruples, is a better "play" than you can witness on any stage. The direct

very popular character do not think a little extreme.

other words, he suits

the tussses for whom bo talks with so much success.

MB. BKECHKR'S DEFENSE,

XoW loing on. is hugely entertaining to lovers of small go*sip and scandal, as well ss satisfactory to those who con-

him, the defense is necessarily

pretty much of the (u quoque order, or a sort »f counter-trial of Mr. Tilton and his witnesses. For this purpose, everything that anybody ever saw, heard or imagined to the plaintiffs disadvantage in morals, theology, te per, mai opinions, acquaintance and cfrcumitances, seems to bo evidence and there are «dd Uv be about eighty witnesses in all tho coidp of that can bo raked together, tho sanction of their oaths. As I remarked, it is all very entertaining to that personal curiosity which pervades homan nature but how

examination of these domestic gossips. mostly female, is far from dull, as well as far from pleasant to good taste. But the prompt and quiet emergence of Fullerton's head and voice the instant tho opposite counsel says "that's all," is the signal for infallible "ftin." I never en-

quintessence,

besides a good deal more in the set-to of yesterday between Mr. Fullerton and one of the lady witnesses, who gave him a foe-woman worthy of his steel. During Miss Moore's cross-examination the oourt was mostly convulsed not only the audience, but both parties, tho counsel on both sides, the jury, and last not least, the judge himself, being overcome with merriment which it would have been mere affectation to reprove. The witness herself, who had an equal spice of humor and temper in her composition, once or twice went into convulsions of internal laughter, and shook behind her fan, like a woman of jelly on a trotting horse. At other times, she shook her Tan in Mr. Fullerton's face stamped her foot at him, "magi"-ned him. and generally ripped her full share of the alternation, in the most ludicrous style of feminine excitement and malapropriety.

THE OUTSIDE DEFENCE,

however, seems to be approaching a

{on

ritch of violence at which public opinmust soon give it a cbeok. Wherever the Beeoher party is socially strong and compact, as for instanoe in Montclair, intolerance of blasphemy against its idol falls nothing short of porseeution. Its treatment of Mr. Joseph H. Richards is tbe most shameful thing I have ever witnessed in a Northern community, and can be matched only oy tbe oontumely of secession fanatics in the South against United States officers. A gentleman not only of Irreproaohable aecnliarly amiable, exemplary, and devotedly religious character, he is pnb-

but peculiarly atedly rellgio licly insulted in the streets and cars by fellow cburch members and neighbors, who return his greeting with an insolent stare, or averted glance, and pass him by or even give vent to bitter re-

Eis

roaches. Like Ins sister, Mrs. Tilton, temperament is sympathetic and sensitive, and the sting of insult to him from his neighbors they can well imagine. When it becomes generally known that a man whose sincerity and purity of character is the ornament of his sphere, cannot yield testimony dragged from him by the power of the law ofhis conscience, without being subjected to social osthacism if it makes even so

anyooay

break tbe image in pieces $ if only as a relief from something too much like despotism for free men to endure.

VIDI.

HUMOR AND SARCASM. It Is not everybody who knows where to joke, or when, or how and whoever Is Ignorant of these conditions had better not joko at all. A gentleman never attempts to be humorous at the expense of people with whom he is but slightly acquainted. In fact, it is neither good nor wise policy to Joke at anybody's expense that is to say, to make anybody uncomfortable merely to raise a laugh. Old jEsop, who was doubtless tho subject of many a jibe on account of his humped back, tells the whole story In his fable of "The Boys and the Fregs." What was fun to the youngsters was death to the croakers. A jest may cut deeper than a curse. Some men are so constituted that they cannot take friendly jokes In the same light coin, and will requite it with oontumely and insult.' Never banter one of this class, or he will brood over your bandinage long after you have forgotten it, and it is not prudent to incur any one's enmity for the sake of uttering a smart double entendre or a tart repartee. Ridioule, at best, is a perilous weapon. Satire, however, when leveled at social foibles and politcal evils, is not only legitimate, but commendable. It has shamed down more abuses than were ever abolished by force or logic.

DR. TALMAQE ON UNIVERSALISM. The New York correspondent of tho Christian Leader writes to that journal of Dr. Talmage's recent discourse on Universalism in the following strain:

Last Sunday the Thunderer himself touched off bis million-pounder. Talmage has need of an iron-clad tabernaclewhen he preaches on such a subject. He blew Universalism into fragments, the report of the explosion being distinctly audible as far away as the Herald office! He pounded its doctrines into Jelly and dislocated every bono ot its theological body. At least one would think be did all this to look at him. If he had had any effigy of a Unlversalist minister to wreak his wrath upon, and torn it limb from limb before his horrified spectators, flinging its sawdust gore ingleo about him, ho could not bavo been more savage and canibalistic. Ho portrayed Universalis as breaking tho reflectors in the spiritual light house, luring men's souls to wreck and eternal, death. He would rather he said, be an nger train, approacheea, than ag

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full of people with him down to the utmost hell. Most people would rather ho would.

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A STRAIGHT PETITION. The Star of the West quotes from "Starting Out," by Alexander Clark,

Brother Martin Ejpsonhammer's" prayer at a revival meeting. For plain praying right at a subject, we havo never heard of its equal:

O Lord," we thank Thee for what Thou art, and for what Thou art doing. Thou has convarted many, manysouls-a. O Lord, convart more. Convart a heap raore-a. Convart all tbe sinners in Owl Run-a. Convart the

Presbyterians.

Convart tbe Campbellits-a. Convart everybody about Baker's Grove.

then, O Lord, start up Willow

Ana

Creek,

and clean tbe holler-a. Stop two weeks, at Henderson's still-house, tbe grinders and the bilers, tbe ooopcrs and the haulers, tbe selleni and tbe miserable drinkera a. And go on up the creek-a and cljmbtbe hil to Reiestertown and .J?" and the Riptoas who raise the barlej a.