Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 5, Number 43, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 24 April 1875 — Page 4

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Hoberg,

Root»• -df

& Co.,

Opera House.

KEEP THE BALIi ROLLING!

Alive active trade can always be seen g«lag

oar

establishment.

The reason tpJut—We

keep oar stock fresh

tod attractive bv the daily addition of New O^Sd" We Hell for cash and at low prices, having greater faith in the "nimble^xpence than the "slow shilling

EXAMINE BARGAINS!

In NEW PRISTS, NEV COTTON ClOODH, NKW PERCALES, NEW DRI^GOODS, NKW LINENS, NEW LAWNS, NEW WHITE GOODS, NKW PARASOIJJ and SUN UMBRELLAS, NEW KEADV-MADE SUITS, NEVV HPR^NO SHAWLS, NEW SPRING CLOAKS and WRAPS.

Examine oar elegant stock of Black OTOS Grain Silks f«m 1 to 4 50 per yard. Our Black Alpacas and Mohalra from to 1.00 per yard.

Oar Black Iron Frame Grenadines flrom to 76c per yard. Our Black Cashmeres and Drnp D^ctcs, lower prices than ever offered before.

Examine our elegant variety of

Real„I^.c„

Lace Goods. Embroideries, Linen Collars and Cufft, Ribbons, Ties, Scarffc, Hosiery, Uloves, etc., etc.

HO BERG, ROOT & CO., OPERA HOUSE.

City Election.

TREASURER.

We are authorized to announce JOHN PADDOCK as a candidate for re-election to the office of City Treasurer, subject to the declsiou of the Republican convention.

CLERK.

Wo are

authorized to announce FRED

ERICK SOliWINOROUBER a* a candidate for re-election to the ottlce of City Clerk, subject to the Republican convention.

Wanted.

-117ANTED FURNISHED ROOM BY

two young gentlemen, on or near Main stroet. Audress "E, this office. It

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MAGNIFI-

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JjOA Per Day at home. Terms (J)ZU free. Address G. STINSON &

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THE MAIL

PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

P. S. WESTFALL, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.

TERRB*HAUTE, APRIL 24, 1875.

SECOND EDITION.

TWO EDITIONS^

Of tills Paper are published. The FIRST EDITION, on Friday Evening has a large circulation in the surrounding towns, where it is sold by n^sboys and agents. The SECOND EDITION,

011

Saturday Even

ing, goes into the hamU of nearly every reading person In the city, and the farm era of this immediate vicinity, Every Week's Issue Is, in fact,

TWO NEWSPAPERS,

In which all Advertisements appear for ONE CHARGE

THE SECRET OF ORATOR Y. Not a little fun has been made of Beecber's "crying" on the stand, and of his description of frequent "bursts of tears" in his interviews with persons connected with the great scandal. To your average, matter-of* facts man, whose life is business and soul is money, who rarely feels any emotion but resentment of injury or regret for a bad bargain whose feeling never troubles his judgment except when he gets "fighting madand to whom tenderness and sympathy seem girlish or effeminate, such displays are either funny or silly. They call them "mawkish," "Blushy," "babyish," and they are so far right that a very emotional nature is apt to share largely in the impressibility of childish feeling. But we can't see that a man is the worse for the childish sensitiveness which is easily moved to tears by regrets for his own misconduct or sorrow for the suffering of other*. "Jesus wept," and we have yet to learn that any christian thiqks His "burst of tears" unmanly. It must be kept in mind, in judging Beecher, that he is, as he says of himself,pa man of "intensely emotional .nature," and that he has more to move him now than often falls to the lot of mortals. His great renown, his vast power for good, the admiration of the christian world, the affection of scores of thousands of friends who may never have seen him, his advanced age clouded by the scandal of gross vice, all cling to his heart strings, and it would be strange if even a less sensitive man were not often moved to tears when the imprudences and misconstructions that so imperil him were recalled in the narration of them. The satno quality that makes him the greatest orator on the continent, or in the world, makes him the object of the disparaging epithets we have alluded to. His intensity of feeling makes him cry easily, but it makes him able to make others cry. It starts easily into a laugh and as easily moves others to laughter. It is the secret of his power over his auditors. No great orator ever lived, or can live, who does not derive bis power from his feeling. It never comes from more intellect, force ef judgment, depth or breadth of knowledge, acutenessofwit, or accuracy of discrimination. It comes from the emotions. Only those who feel deeply cm make others feel at all. Strong emotion, intense passion, over-mastering feeling will awe and subdue the most powerful intellect that God ever gave a man. It, more than intellect, separates man from beast. Emotion is not nearly so well developed even in a dog or horse, the highest of the bruto creation, as reason. We find faculty often in brutes, feeling We find faculty olten in brutes, leenng

and the spring of all that man has done Intellect alone would never have made an invention, wrote a poem, or built a railway. It must be started by an impulse, and that Impulse must eome from feeling. The emotional or passional nature suggest* tho object, the intellect works to accomplish it. The latter is the tool of the former. Not always, to be sure, for sometimes it rises to the level of a monitor, but, In the main, feeling Is the steam of man's life and work and the Intellect, the judgment, the faculties, the engine, shows, therefore, little pewpioacity to deride strong feeling, even if it does sometimes break out unduly or indecoronsly. As it is the foundation of human nature, the power that reaches it can best control nature, and that power is the largo possession the same element. Stronger feeling masters weaker ones, even when backed toy better brains. It Is this strength that takes a hearer's heart into an orator's hand. His well balanced periods, his graceful allusions, his clear distinctions, his coherent argument, may plesso or convince the judgment, but they wont move to action. If be wants men to do something he mast stir their

feelings,

inspire their wills, rouse their

neungs, inspuw

or affections. Yon could aa easily rash a

over, and earnestness is strong feeling, the feeling that pours out in tears as well as words, and goes to the heart because it comes from the heart. "Why will men go to sleep under a sermon full of the most vital truths, affecting life here and hereafter, and sit wakeful and weeping at a play where everything to fiction?" said a clergyman to Garrick. "Because," said the great actor, "We speak fictions as if they were truths and you speak truths as if they were fictions." In other words the actor reached real feeling by admirably simulating feeling, while the preacher with no feeling of his own affected nobody else's. The actor was in earnest, for the moment the preacher indifferent. Garrick said once that he "would give a hundred pounds for

Whitfield's, Oh!" The earnestness, the force of feeling in it, was so great that it moved a hearer more than a whole sermon of doctrinal exposition. Great orators have always been men of strong feeling, easily roused, sensitive and even tearful. Emotional men were they through all their natures. Burke and Fox wept when they quarrelled and parted in the House of Commons, and no two men ever moved that body as they did. Not because Fox was a master of debate and Burke of all knowledge and all rhetoric, but because they spoke as tbey felt. Chatham's speeches make no impression on the reader comparable to that they made on Parliament. The voice, the earnestness, the personal magnetism of strong feeling are gone. We once heard a celebrated elocutionist, Prof. Bronson, declaim Chatham's speech on employing Indians in the Revolutionary war. It was deader and flatter than a dead leaf under a saw log. He couldn't sumtoon or simulate the feeling of the occasion, and he would have made a better impression to have read it "sing-song" like a Quaker sermon. When Sheridan finished bis great Bpeech in urging the impeachment of Warren Hastings—hot the one on the trial—Pitt moved an adjournment "because the House was too deeply moved to vote with proper calmness and deliberation on so important a question." What moved it If Sheridan had only informed its judgment, instructed its reason, there could not have been a better time to vote. But his feeling bad stirred feeling and judgment was for the time overpowered. Said Fox- once, "If a speech reads well, it was a bad speech," meaning that the deliberation which could construct good reading was incompatible with the earnestness neoessary to effective speaking, and he was not fax wrong, as any one can judge who will read one of Gough's speeches or hear one of Wendell Phillips's. The former will start men from their seats and tears from their eyes when they bear him, but the reading of the same speech would not suggest a tear to "Job Trotter." The latter makes a speech that reads admirably, but wo never heard atone of Jiis voice that would stir any more feeling than a legislative clerk reading a tax bill. He may have feeling but he never spoke it when wo conld bear It. Beecher possessesin an eminent degree this fundamental quality of an orator. He is emotional and the master of other men's emotions because he is so. His nature leads him to stir feeling and urge actions and in following the prompting of nature he has cultivated this passional element constantly and strengthened it to a degree that most men can hardly appreciate. He has never been a doctrinal preacher, and few great orators have been4 We doubt if a doctrinal sermen can bo eloquent or effective to move men to abetter life and higher aims. It is almost sure to run into some sectarian rut, and is more likely to end

In oxagperation than

very rarely. It is the basis of manhood^ ©reached to move men to aot, and

flll th mlmKI rant ow

sympathies or resentments or enmities fili the glass ui.m uraneo^r. T11* recont cold weather has greatly a soldier Into storming a battery by |^jar(K] the growing crops throughout repeating the multiplication table, ss

wJwJ0

meve an audience to great work by a thai many orchards have been logical and Irrefutable disquisition, on- The polar wave extended formam dtfikiM IfcWira Ihftl it At \e at JmJmm arm

(V^IUH Wiu raiCNPOU AJNipiiw

less, Indeed, yon could prove that It ther towards the guif than daring any would pay, and even then the i«n* —. palae would come from the feeling of all men, of all Americans at

least, for money. Whan Demosthwe mad* the Athenians cry oat "Lot as fight Phillip," he worked upon their fears, their feelings, and he did it by shewing them bow strongly he felt himself. If Patrick Henry had done nothing more than daoMMMftnte illegality «f the eaaoUoas of the parsons, tbey sroold never have ran away from the OiMUt Hones In terror. It was his fearful appeals to feeling against lr\Justios that soared them and be at them. "Earnestness Is eleqnance" all the world

rERRE A TTTIC SATURDAY "EVENING MATIi-

elevation. Bcecher

has preached to move men to aot, and feeling is the only motive power. Ho deals little In crceds and dogmas, and much in the love and suffering of Christ much in the self-devotion that brought him from Heaven to Bethlehem and Gethsemane much in the grandeur of a good life, and noblo actions always in what suggests motives, inspires impulses strengthens resolutions, and developes action. He does It because this is the direct effect of earnestness, of strong feeling, and Its almost morbid development in a long Career of constant cultivation makes him do the "blubbering" and "slop work* of our caustic commentators. A true man might find something to prefer in the "slop."

TRS Grand Army of the Republic, which holds its next reunion in Chicago in May, extends an invitation to all surviving soldiers of the late war throughout the Union, "who regard the flag of the United States as the emblem of undivided and indivisible Nationality." No matter whether ho wore the blue or the gray, if that is his feeling and opinion now, he will be welcomed and recognised as aright good fellow, tor whom the landlord will be requested to

south, and feats are eater-

past winter. Tho damage In one direction. however, may prove of Immense benefit In another We are told it will have the effect of klllicg the embiyo grasshoppers and Colorado bugs—thus proving the old adsge that "it's as 111 wind that blows nobody any good."

WHAT a splendid year this will be tor American tourists if the leading railway companies maintain their present yar» to*. At the rate at whloh the pilots of tore have been "cut down" during the past month traveling by nil will toe more economical tbat «taylBg at home the summer monthe.

THREE hundred thousand immigrant* have moved into Texas since last Octo-

A FRESCH Court has decided that landlords who fail to wake guests to t«Vw their trains are liable to damages. tasesaessssss

SOME of the papers are discussing the ineligibility of Jefferson Davis to the presidency. By the time he is elected, there will be but little doubt of bis legal ability to take the seat. gf^ggggStsSCSCSSt

How is this for Hyf Rev. J. Hyatt Smith, of Brooklyn, in a sermon recently, said that the Beecher difficulty had its origin in spiritualism and because Mr. Beecher drew back from the delusion the devil now seeks to destroy him.

THE fashionable style of benevolence was too much for the gorgeous Lick, of California, who has just revoked the last of his magnificent bequests. This fash-* ionable style consists in keeping all your money until you die, and then leave its disposition, for charitable purposes, to the better judgment of yeur aeirs. K=

THE Adventists have again been disappointed. They assembled at Chicago Monday night, arrayed in their white robes awaiting the expected coming of Christ. They waited and watched until near morning, and then quietly dispersed. It is barely possible that in Chica go they have selected a bad place to start heavenward.

THKRE never was a jail in Churchill county, Nevada, and it was only recently that the need of one was felt. A shaft 200 feet deep. was made to answer tor one, however, and the first and only criminal who ever invaded the privacy and piety of the county was lewered to his confinement. He is drawn up three times a day for fresh aly and meditation on sublunary affairs.

IF some of our big financial writers and speakers would be as frank asSen ator Oglesby, they would say as he did, up at New Haven, Connecticut, the oth er day: "Don't suppose I am talking about finances because I know anything, or think you do, because I don't. I have been studying for a year, and, if I know anything more about it than when I began, why, you may shoot mo."

A FEW days ago a man in Now York gave his nine-year-old son a severe box on the ear with his open hand. Children should never bo struck 011 the head yet there are many good parents who sometimes do it. In this case the boy was supematurally smart and tenacious of his rights. He actually went before a police-justice and lodged a complaint against his father, oil which the latter was arrosted, tiied, convicted, and sen tenced to

five

days

in the

city jail.

Judge's head is level.

That

IN Nebraska, the second Wednesday in April i9 known as "Arbor day" and is set aside specially for the planting of trees. The farmers on the treeless prairies wero taught by sad experience that the one way to protect themselves from the fierce sweep of the desolating sum mer tornadoes and the cutting winter blasts was to plant trees and raise forests as rapidly as possible. For this purpose one day in each year is set apart, and young and old engage in the work of planting trees. In tho mean time tho people of the Middle and Eastern States continue to destroy their timber in the most reckless manner, apparently heed less of the fact that dry summers and autumns, severe winters, and disastrous spring floods aro the natural result.

THERE were clergymen who kissed before Beecher was born. Said the Rev. Sydney Smith: "We ar9 in favor of a certain amount of shyness when a kiss is proposed, but it should not bo too long and when the fair one gives it, let it be administered with warmth and energy let there be soul in it. If she dose her eyes, and sighs immediately after it, the effect is greater. She should be careful not to slobber a kiss, but give it as a humming-bird runs his bill into a honey-suckle—deep, but delicate. There is much virtue in a kiss when well delivered. We have the memory of one we reoeivod in our youtn which lasted us forty years, and we believe it will be one of the last things we shall think of when we die."

THE Indianapolis Senunel aays the reports that come in regarding the effects of the freese on the fruit interest are altogether disheartening. It seems that there is little chance to hope for any crop at all in this region, of apples, pears, cherries, peaches or berries. Probably the strawberries will give part of a crop, and a few of the late varieties of apple trees may yet bear fruit. The ft-eexe was quite exceptional tor the date. In this vicinity the mercury marked ten degrees below free sing. In Hendricks county a steam boiler, in which water was carelessly left, rained by the expansion of Ice formed within it, and Mr. W. H. Ragan, of Clayton, secretary of the Horticultural Society, states that ice was formed in a barrel of water at his place, two and one-half Inches in thickness by actual measurement. Such freezing as that ends all controversy about fruit, and the croakers have really some foundation for their mutterings. But, there will be a eort of compensation after all. The fruit bearing trees will have year of reet which will result la a renewed vigor growth tor good crops hereafter. There are also palliations. Times are not ss they used to be. A fellnre in ene section does not imply detfitutfcm there. The canning businees and ready communication of freight insures to all osetiona the luxuries of every "other. It Is bad tor our home fruit ratoera, but this Is a part of the business which tbey are supposed to reokon on totfert eagaginginlt.

AN OUTLAW MORALIST. Of the notorious California Tlbercio Vasques, who has recently expiated his thirty odd murders and innumerable lessor crimes upon the gallows, the account merely inform u^ that be was about as fer removed from a human being ot natural impulses as was possible the only claim to a softer side of his character being in the employment of his delicate hands and feet, his smooth fees and feminine handwriting, upon whioh his small circle of admirers doted, ss'means of engratiating himself with the fair sex, alas! only to beguile and deceive them. His career was that of a bold, daring and unconscionable robber. In his Istter days, he msde light of serious matters, and his highest sspiration appeared to be to "die game."

But there was really a better side to this inhuman man's mental operations, if not to his chsrscter. He was not without sober, sensible and even noble reflations. The day before he went to his*execution, be held a conversation in which he expressed his views spon this life and the next, and finally, calling for pen, ink and paper, he committed to writing the following homily:—

To Fathers and Mothers of Children "Standing at the portals of the unknown and unknowable world, and looking back upon the life of this, ss I have seen it, I would urge upon you to make your greatest care to so train, influence, instruct and govern the young to whom you have given life, that thev be kept aloof, as far as In the nature of things is possible, from the degrading oompanionship of the immoral and vicious. The general welfare of society depends upon the strict performance of this part of your duty."

Perhaps there was never preached a sermon on the duties of parents to their children, which more clearly or Impressively conveyed a lesson of the highest importance in the guardianship of the young, than dees this appeal of the dy ing bandit. It is one of the most beautiful and touching addresses in our literature. Not only in the sentiment expressed, but also in the choice of lan guage and in the serenity of the spirit which it breathes, is it a remarkable production. Had it been uttered by any one of the recognized great and good men of the world, and bequeathed as a death-bed injunction, this address would certainly be accorded a* high place among the memorable words of the wise and honored leaders of thought and action.

This dying declaration of the robberbandit, who was justly despised, hated and feared for his manifold crimes, reveals one of the startling contrasts not infrequently presented by men, In whose lives worthy thoughts and diabolioal acts are most strangely interwoven. It is a feature of the evidence which goes to show that the human mind is manysided, and that the broadest contradictions in words ar.d deeds may proceed from the mental operations of the same individual. The infamy of Vasques consigns his memory to the deepest reproach but the werds of warning to those having the guardianship of the young, from his pen, are freighted with a tremendous importance. .This bandit's sermon is truly memorable.

MRS. BEECHER'8 FAITH. [From Cincinnati Commercial.) If this trial convinces me of my husband's guilt, I will part with him on the steps of this Court House. But I have no fear of such a result."

The City and Vicinity.

WHO wants to be Mayor?,

THE housebunter is abroad.

BUSINESS begins to bo brisk.

LITTLE Lotta is oomlng shortly. 1 .i THE season ef bock beer has come.

LOOK to your liver about this time.

FISH-HOOKS and garden seeds in demand, ____________ THE city election ia only one week from next Tuesday.

THE Georgia Minstrels Tuesday and Wednesday evenings. ELKVBS deaths from small-pox have occurred near Lockport. We are glad to learn that the disease is abating. ,,

THE city council has finally resolved to build the Fourth street market house and the work has been commenced,

Frvn of our big dry goods houses have fresh bulletins in this week's paper, which will be read with interest by the thousands of lady readers of The Mail.

MARRIAOS LJCKWHJW.—The

consumption. s*miPdebiIi AlV'U

following

marriage licenses have been issued by the County Clerk since our last report: Andrew Cross and Amanda E. Williams.

Darwin Sparks and Laurm Hawkins. Wm. McWUIlams and Margaret Klrwood. Wm. MoWllltams and Margaret KirkRobert R. Osborne and Sarah J. McNeil

brrERXXKT.—The following ia a list of interments in the dty cemetery since last report:

Apr. 16-JohnShad, and l«yrs drowned. Apr. IT—Mrs.

Nanoy Baker, age

years

Dod

years gen-

Apr.H-Sunae! Bowser,age32years eongesuosu __________ THE Vigo County Sabbath School Convention Is to he held on Tueedsy, May 4th. All the Sabbath schools in the county are expected to send delegates. Let them come prepared to make reports of the condition of their schools from Jan. 1874 to Jan. 187S. The meeting will be held daring the day and evening In the Seoond Prsebyterien churoh on Ohio street. Entertainment will toe tarnished tor the delegates by a committee who will meet them at tbe church, tot all the sehoole respond. Sabbath school worken from sbroad will he in attend-

THE 8cnior Class of the High School must have felt highly complimented last even ng at the vefy large audienoe, filling to overflowing' the Assembly room, in the Normal building. The occasion was an exhibition, a sort of rehearsal, to break the ioe, as it were, for the crowning-event of their school studies—the graduating exercises in June.. That that event will be one reflecting, credit upon teachers and pupils was« msde manifest on last evening. Essays? were read by Misses Bertha Koopman, Kate Boston, Fannie Donnelly, JLigrifr Furgeson, Sallie Hioe, Luella Twstfell and Lida Yates, all acquitting themselves in a manner to receive the congratulation of their friends and tbe en-f thusisstic applause ef tho large audienoe. The musical portion of tbe programme was rendered by Miss Lollie E. Moore,

Misses Ensey, Ida Demorest, Bertha Koopman and Luella Westfall, and was an interesting feature of the evening. i, 1

MR. VOORHEMES' SPEECHES, if A handsomely printed volume of liMf six hundred pages, containing the most prominent forensic, political, occasional and literary addresses ot Hon. D. W. Voorhees, has just been placed on our table. The speeches wero compiled by his son, Charles S. Voorhees, and the book is from tbe publishing house ot Robert Clarke & Co., Cincinnati. It is embellished by a portrait of our distinguished towns:nan, is prefaced by a short biographical sketch written by Judge Carleton, and contains the greater part of Mr. Voorhees' best intellectual efforts, including his defense of John E. Cook, the companion of John Brown, his address soen after at University of Virginia, defense of Mary Harris, tributes to Judge Law, Judge Huntington and Prof. Morse, and near twenty of his most celebrated political speeches—running from 1863 to the present time. Upon tho subjects be has spoken the volume is a valuable text book and should command a plaoe in a

THE Republicans at their ward meetings on Saturday evening and Convention on Monday evening put in nomination this ticket:

FOB CITY OFFICERS. FIJDJI -SA

Mayor-Wm. S. Cllft. Treasurer—John Paddock. utrt Clerk—Fred Schwingronber,1 Marshal—Fred Sohmidt. -*i: Assessor—Jackson Stcpp.

'FOR COUNCILS!EN.

First Ward—Chas. M. Carter,*'* Seoond Ward—John G. Holul. -i1r Third Ward—T. K. Giltnan. 4 ii Fourth Ward—E. M. Gilman. Fifth Ward—Chas. W. Duddleson.^.\ It will be observed that upon tho general tioket all the old officers are renominated with tho exception of Mayer Thomas, whe would not allow bis name to go before tho convention.

At the request of Mr. Cllft, we statod ou last Saturday that under no circumstances could he accept the nomination for Mayor. Notwithstanding tills statement the nomination was tenderod him. It was hard to resist such a cempliment from his fellow citlzons, and on Tuesday ho published a card accepting the race. But when he becamo aware of the fact that ho %vould be compelled to give np for a time his large and profitable business, be was forced to decline the free will offering of his neighbors. The City Executive Committee has called the ward delegates to the Republican convention to meet this evening at the Court House, to solect another candidate. «$ri is

J6880 Robertson, nominated t)y tno worklngmen for Marshal, hasdocllned in favor of Fred Schmidt,

So there aro only tlio two clear cut tickets in tho field. Choose yo between them.

*sr

rrr.

A SPIRITUALIST"is "telling tales out of school. In a communication to the Gazette, he says:

On a certain evening at a dark »e» ance, "Bill," Mrs. Stewart's civil rights oompanion requested that the guitar be rubbed with matches so that the phos-

horns might show tbe altitude attained that instrument in the sable hands ol tbe "materialized" African. But alas, the matches were rubbed too hard and the phosphorus "materialised" to such a degree that ere "William" could knock tbe matches out of the luckless "servant of the Lord's hands," the light revealed tbe empty chair of tho "meium," and that laoy plaving tho role of both medium and ghost.

FROBABL FATAL. t* {From Thursday's Express.) A few days ago, William Simmons, a married man, who resides near Mount Pleasant church, a son of Ilelmsiey Simmons, a well known citizen of this oounty, was driving by a school bouse just as the children welcoming from school and bis horse became frightened at the rattling of their dinner buckets and ran away, throwing him out, breaking one leg, severely injuring the other,

beside*

inflicting other Injuries the horse ran on and hroko the boggy all to pieces. Dr. Link was sent for immediately, who set the fractured limb, bnt be Is in a dangerous condition, requiring constant attention, and his life is dimpaired of.f^

OUR CHURCHES TO-MORROW.

Subjects at the Baptist church—Morning, "Spiritual Builders evoning. "Self-denisl an Element of Manhood,' C. R. Henderson, pastor. 1|

At tbe Univeraalist church—subject, rooming, •The Riches of Graceevening, "liie word Unlversalism snd the Number Twelve," Rev. M. Crosley*. pastor.

At Second Presbyterian churoh, at 1) o'clock, Rev. Edward W. Abbey preaches on the text, "Blessed are tbe pare in heart."

At tbe Congregational cbnreb. Rev. AJ. Chittenden, or Clinton, Iowa, who is filling tbepulpU during Mr. Howe's absence, wilf discourse in the morning on "The msn who receiveth sinners evening, "How the impassable gulf is made.,r

Centenary M. E. chursh—services et' tbe usual hours by the pastor. At night Mr. Brakeman will conclude his "Lecture on Abraham Lincoln, the theme being: "Lessons from his lift ami Ming: Death.'