Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 9, Number 32, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 8 February 1879 — Page 5

THE MAIL

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

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THE SATURDAY EVENING MAIL is a good medium of communication between Terre Haute business men and ihe ople who bay their good*— Because, It Lu the largest circulation any paper puoliKhed in this city. But not on this account atone, but—

Because, It goes into the family circle on (Saturday evening, and daring Saturday night and Sunday is read thoroughly, advertisements aud ail, by every member of the family who can read, alter which It is loaned to the neighbors.

Because, After having been read by the borrowers and bu ers in the city, it is enveloped, stamped and sent to some friend

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relative in some other town or city.

Because, It is a paper which reaches all classes, high and low, rich and poor.

Because, Of its very large circulation among farmers.

Bf cause, It is an espaclal favorite with the ladies, who do a large part of the buying of household goods, ID addition to thejewelry and dress goods they wear, and are critical readers of advertisements.

Because, Two editions are published, Thursday aid Satuiday evenings, and all advertisement* go 11 both editions for price of one issne. Because, Its rates are cheaper, all things considered, than those of any other paper in the city.

DRAMA, lecture and two nights of home music in the way of amusements next week.

THE coming event in Terre Haute is the rendering of Handel's Messiah on Friday next, February 14th, by 175 performers.

TICKETS for the Susan B. Anthony lecture will be on sale at J. Q. Button & Co's bookstore, comtriencing Monday morning.

THE "Messiah" is one of the grandest and most sublime of musical compositions. Don't fail to hear it next Friday, February 14 th.

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THE city election is already engaging the attention of the—office seekers. The Express mentions a Democratic slate as follows: For Mayor, Grafton F. Cookerly for Treasurer, James Matthew Sankey for Clerk, John B. Tolbert for Marshal, John Kidd, Esq.

A NEW society freak, to supercede the necktie party business, is in vogur. Invitations are printed on long ribbon bows. Toe first line of a couplet is printed on the gentlmen's ribbon and theBecond on the ladies', and the two that make the couplet are partners,

A MAN who gives his name as Bennett is taking subscriptions in the western part of this and EJgar county, Illinois, for The Mail, the Weekly Express, and Cincinnati Enquirer. He is swindler, and we presume, the same man we mentioned four or five weeks ago. The Mail has no traveling agents. A list of onr agents will bo found on the third page—all well known in the localities named. All postmasters are authorized agents.

A DEFECTIVE flue caused a fire Monday morning in the North Fifth street sshool house, and damage to the amount of about $4,000, in one of Mr. Hager's companies. Frank Pescheck, a small boy, had gone homo for a forgotten book andjreturning, saw the smoke issuing from the roof of the building. With rare good seuse and presence of mind, be went quietly to Mr. Landrum, the principal, and informed him of the danger. The goug was immediately struck /our tijnps, a signal for fire—the teachers put the children in ranks and marched th?m ouC almost as quietly as though going out for recess. Another little boy came near causing a panic by rftshing into one of t!«e rooms and shbutlug "fire!"

THK grand jury couldn't tiud a bill against Jennie Manuel lor poisoning her husband, and she was released on Thursday. Kor a young woman of twehty years, lier*s has been an eventful life. She was bom in Paris, France, of a coal black negro mother and a white father. At the age of twelve she was married to a mau named Reavis, in Lexingtou, Kentucky, where she had run awtvy from her parents. Five months after be waa killed in a railroad accident, and for nearly three years she traveled wUh a burlesque,,or variety company. Three ywars ego she married Ishmael Manuel, a man almost white, and lived with him a tempestuous life until ins death from morphine a lew weeks sinoe.

WHKX the city boundary lines were extended into the adjacent cornfields, in 1872, Hon. Wui. Mack prevailed upon the county commissioners to exempt his three acres, on the Bloomlngton road. This action caused the city ordinance to be illegal, and many of the property owners of the added territory have refused to pay the city tax. A bill Is now before the Legislature to legalise the action of the city council in extending the boundary line. It has caused a lively fight with parties interested. The bill passed the house"on Thursday, after a lively debate, by a vote of 83 for and 3 against. Ihis decisive vote indicates that it will pass the Senate. In this case, there will be a big lot of delinquent tax for the city treasurer to collect.

AT the Messiah concert Friday even* ing next, the orchestra will consist of twenty-live musicians, among which will be some of the beet talent from Indianapolis.

FANNY DAVENPORT.

Our people are looking forward with much pleasure to an enjoyable treat Monday evening, when Miss Fanny Davenport, supported by the Olympio dramatic company, will appear as "Rosalind" in Shakspeare's charming comedy of "As You Like It." Fanny Davenport is the chief representative now living of a talented family. Nature has given her great beauty, and she thoroughly understands how to adorn it in magnificent costumes. With her costume is an art. To this, and the loveliness that comes by nature, she adds a thorough knowledge of every detail of her profession, the result of a careful study and training such as few other actrosses have undergone. Perhaps the most notable feature of her art is her versatility. She has played a great variety of characters, calling for widely different manifestations of ability, and has achieved nearly the same excellence in all, displaying capacity to handle successfully a probably wider range of character than any actress on the

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SHOWS AND SHOW PEOPLE.

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gathered at the Opera House Thursday evening, and contributed just9001 at (be ticket offloe. It was on the oooaaion of the visit of Haver)ysa Minstrels—rightly named the "Mastodon" oompany. A storm of applause greeted the riaing of the curtain, revealing forty sabie-hued gentlemen ranged in tiers from the footlights to the top of the stage. We expected to see a good deal of clap-trap— but in this were agreeably disappointed. The first part necessarily occupied much of the programme, but the audienoe did not tire of the remarkably fine instrumental and vooal music—the best ever presented by a minstrel oompany in this city. The jokes were for the most part fresh, but we would suggest to Billy Kice that in the presence of such a refined audieuce of ladies ahd gentlemen as gathered here be leave out his extremely vulgar episode relating to triplets. Eight end-men make a fine show, but in allowing each one an opportunity to say something there is a necessary abridgement of the efforts of Mack and Rice, who are really the only great ones of the eight. In the second part, ihe poses, steps and evolutions of the twelve clog dancers was one of the big features of the evening—indeed every aot, and we cannot mention all, was either on an immense scale or the best of its class. Send the "Mastadons" along this way again, Mr. Haverly.

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ican stage. It is to be regretted that our city is not large enough to command her for more than one evening, that this versatility may be seen. However, as "Rosalind,"

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female attire. SUSAN B. ANTHONY. On Tuesday evening, at Dowling Hall, Susan B. Anthony, not inappropriately termed "the most foremost woman of the century," will deliver her great lecture, "Woman wants Bread not the Ballot." She comes under the auspices of the Occidental Literary Society, who have put the price of admission at 35 cents—fifty cents for reserved seats.

Mts. Mary Clemmer says of her "I like Susan, Her jaw has the resolute grip it would naturally get in a lifelong tussle to have its own way. Her eyes are round, large and gray, and look straight at you. She has no end of common sense and lots of keen wit, no sentiment, and little culture in the (esthetic sense. But she is as affectionate and aple minded as a child a brave, iiobie woman, who has given b&r whole life to her convictions, and in battling for the equality that she does, is simply true to the traditions of her Quaker birth and education. I like to look upon her at a safe but silent distance, where she cannot turn and rend me

my silence on 'the cause.' Says the Cbieago Tribune: "Hundreds of disappointed people were turned away from the Opera House, had hoped to hear Miss Anthony. The leoture was a powerful appeal for morality and for women to be raised to the political level with men. Few men, and probably no woman but Miss Anthony, could have dealt with the subjects she undertook in the same strong, direct manner."

MISS KL.EN JEFFERS.

Of the many lady vocalists in this city none have been more generous in lending their aid at all home concerts, church festivals and other musical occasions than Miss Helen Jeffers, one of our sweetest songsters, and it is quite fitting that before she goes to Cincinnati to Improve her musical education, that some testimonial be given her. For this purpose a complimentary concert is announced for next Wednesday evening, at the Opera House, Among the local talent volunteered for this occasion we are given the following: Miss May Mcfiwan, Miss Dollie Milllken, Miss Anna Hyde, Prof. Zsrkowsky, Dan Davis, Robert Sterrett, Jerome Hill on the cornet, Albert Wyeth, A. Hoberg, Herman Henion (his first appearance in public here) in a clarionet solo, and the Ringgold Band will repeat the concept given recently at Greencastle, lp which Miss Jeffers took part. The programme has not yet been made up, but with Miss Jeffers and the talent above mentioned a fine selection of musk} will certainly be rendered. The sale of seats will begin at Button's on Monday morning.

HANDEL'S MESSIAH,

To those lovers of music who have heard Handel's Messiah, DO invitation will be needed to induce them to take the opportunity to hear it again. Its production at the Opera House next

Friday evening by the Oratorio Society will enable them to hear it without the expense of a long journey. To those who have never heard it, or similar musio, it may U«4fc) tQ briefly describe It: #4,

This Oratorio is remarkable in this, that it has been performed oftener than all the other oratorios and eantatas put together. At a recent musical festival as much as five dollars was paid for standing room when it was rendered, and this in a oity where it has been heard oftener than any other. The oauae of this great popularity has been attributed to vsrious things, but the most probable reason is that the vsrious movements are so arranged that a different set of emotions are being oontinu« ally aroused. It is sameness that tires. Mankind as at present constituted cannot bear one kind of emotion, not even Joy, long at a time. !,*?«

Prithee weep, May LillAn, Gaiety without eclipse Wearieth me, May IJIlan. The libretto ef the Messiah embraces nearly the whole range of human feelings, and Handel has done no more than add the proper music. Of the twenty choruses some of them, as the "Hallelujah," "Worthy is the Lamb," "Amen," "For unto us," "Lift up your heads," are among the most sublime creations of musical genius. Others are wonderfully descriptive, as the gathering of the "company of the preaohers," the dispersion Qf the gospel into all landB, and the masy wandering of the sheep in the highly descriptive chorus, "All we, like sheep, have gone astray." All these effects have bsea greatly heightened by ?ozart in his additional instrumentation. In the eighteen songs and as many recitatives, there are also the world-renowned airs that have never been excelled, "I know that my Redeemer livetb," "He was despised and rejected," "He shall feed his flock," "How beautiful are the feet," "O thou that tellest," "But thou didst not leave," "Rejoice greatly,"—these for female voices. For the men's voices, the great tenor songs, "Every valley," "Behold and see il there be any sorrow," "Thou sbalt break them," and the bass songs "But who may abide," "The people that walked in darkness," "The trumpet shall sound," with its magnificent trumpet part. In fact the work is a vast constellation of grand musical thoughts, the sequence of which is perfeotly natural, and therefore ever fresh and weloome. No one who possesses the least taste for music should neglect the opportunity of hearing this greatest of all oratorios next Friday evening at the Opera House.

ROMEO AND JULIET.

The Light Guards have set the evening of the 19th for the production of the burlesque of Romeo and Juliet. Paul Jones, who has charge of the stage management, was sent to Chicago this week, where be left an order for twenty suits to appropriately costume the gentlemen who will take part. Hod Smith insists on having pockets in Romeo's costume, wherein be can put his hands, which he is afraid will be in the way.

Fanny Davenport will sing the Cuckoo Song on Monday evening. The drop-scene in the new theatre at Monaco, connected with the Casino, cost about ?2,000. That seems a drop too much.

Frank Mayo is getting tfrod of Davy Crockett, and wants to return to the legitimate. He has played Davy 1,500 times, and sighs for something else to do and say.

The "true inwardness" of the average opera-bouffe company is graphically portrayed by "Ajax," ths San Francisco correspondent of the New York Dramatic and Musical Mirror. We reproduce a portion of the "Ajax" correspondence, relating to Mrs. Oates, who will appear here next month, and is pleasantly reoiemberod as the pretty Miss Alice Merrick, the music teacher of Rev. Covert's female college in this city in days gone by. Says "Ajax": The truth of the matter is, Mrs. O.ttes is "played out" in California. When she first opened here the public received her kindly, and showed by good attendance their desire for an opera season, but when Mrs. Oates began to "guy" the audiences so audibly that even her curse words (of which she makes use quite often) are heard in the audience, it was too much, and, gradually, the better class of theatre-goers stayed away. Then to make matters worse she indulged in champagne diuners, the effects of which were plainly visible on sevoral nights, when she had to retire to the wings—the poor little lady was so very sick from "overwork," as our kind critics hsre {called it. And to cap the climax, on Christmas Day she gave a dinner to Mr. Richard Beverly, the tenor —for you must know that Mrs. Oates is very fond of tenor singers, as her past record has shown—and it was such a dinner that during the evening performance that gentleman could hardly stand on his feet, and drawled his songs as if be were in a beer cellar instead of a respectable theatre—and all this under the nose of General Miles and Manager Locke, who closed their eyes to it. Not oontent with this riotous demonstration the little prima donna had to insult her stage manager, Mr. Meade, openly on the stage that night, which insult she kept up—sfter the curtain bad drawn on the first act—to such an extent that a regular rough aud tumble fight occurred on the stage, In which Mr. Connelly, the brave baritone, 6 feet 2 inches, weight two hundred, pounds, went for Mr. Meade, who is half his size, and a consumptive invalid besides, and as was plainly visible from the shaking of the curtain and the noise they made bahlnd it, got the better of him. "Brave Connelly! Big bully!"

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Miss Eleanor Carey, who happeued to be in a private box, left the theatre, I oould cite lots of items about this popular lady Mrs. Oates, but let this suffice.

A contemporary thinks it will not be long, if the present taste for speotscuiar drama oontlnues, before the so called "leading ladies" of the "society" drama style will be compelled to reduce their terms from |1S0 to |20 per week, and will be glad to get a season's engagement at that. The ballerina, the coryphee, the first line ballet girls, will all come back to their old salary figures, and the property man, thescene-painter and the calcium light man will once more beoome the authorities behind the scenes. There Is a good time ooming for all these people who have been suffering in secret for long years and languishing for a chance to reappear on the scenes of their old triumphs. The fickle public, which suddenly turned its back on tbe."nsked drama" a few yesrs ago, after having run wild over the advent of grand spectacle, seems, however, ripe for a revival of this form of entertainment, It has "frozen out" high tragedy, it baa given the cold shoulder to legitimate drama and comedy, it has repudilated its false idol, the "society drama," and has smiled only feebly on modern eccentric comedy or "character drama," and the revamped drama of "the good old times." Spectacle, with ballet, pretty women, centipedal groupings, tinsel coytumes and bewildering trick scenery is what it wants now.

THE house committee on educational institutions, of which our Representative, Mr. Van Valzah is a member, visited this city Monday afternoon. They visited the normal school that afternoon and next morning, and seemed much pleased with its workings. In the evening they were hospitably entertained at the residence of Hon. Wm. Mack, where a number of our citizens gathered. During the afternoon and next morning the visitors were taken to the biggest distillery in the world, the artesian baths, Anton Meyer's immense brewery, the nail works, the Opera House, the Polytechnic institute, and then to the residence of Hon. E. P. Beauchamp, where an hour was passed inspecting Mr. B's collections of art, pictures, rare silver and table ware, etc., and sampling some fine wines. Altogether the visitors were well treated and certainly went away well impressed with the Normal school and Terre Haute people and institutions in general.

DR. B. F. MULLEN, of this city, died at Indianapolis Monday morning, at fifteeu minutes after twelve o'clock, of consumption. He went to the capital some three weeks ago, his friends hoping to get him a position as State Librarian, or assistant, for which by taste and education he was eminently qualified. As Colonel of the 35th Indiana, the

Irish regiment," he made a brilliant record. He also served as a surgeon in the Mexican war. He waa a frequent and acceptable contributor to the newspapers and journals, was a musician of no ordinary merit, and in the practice of medicine stood high in his profession. He leaves a wife, daughter and four sons. The body was brought to this city for interment, and was accompanied to the grave by the Governor's Guards, and along line of citizens in carriages.

THE Criminal Court has been engaged most of the week in the trial of Knight and Jackman for throwing open the switch at St. Marys, thereby wrecking a train and killing a man. Jackman, who was put on the witness stand yesterday, testified that he saw Wilson and Kehoe throw the switch, but he took no part. Neither did he do anything to avert the danger to the train. The evidence looks bad for these men, but it is a question whether it is strong enough lor conviction or manslaughter, the punishment for which is imprisonment for lile. The Sugar Creek people are over in force. They believe these men part of a gang who have perpetrated a long series of crimes in that community. The case is strongly oontested by Kelley, B.*W. Hanna and S. C. Davis for the State, and Mack. Buff and Beecher for the defense.

ANOTHER burglar was taken into custody Monday night—a colored man namud George Gaskill. Quite a lot of his booty was found in a room in the Anton Kraft building, corner of Main and First streets, where he bad been rooming with James Hicklin and John Harper, also colored men. These were also arrosted, but they showed their inuocence and were released. Gaskill was promptly indicted by the grand jury, plead guilty before Judge Long on Tuesday, and was sent to the peniteu tiary for two years. Our police are making it uncomfortable for these knights of the jimmy. i-i i'v

S SOW TO DO BUSINESS. We have several notable Instances right here in the city, of the truth of the following, from the Philadelphia Star:

It has been practically demonstrated, in thousands of cases, tnat while a place of business should not be repulsive in appearance, its success almost invariably depends upon the ability of the owner to compete in prices with others in the same business, and upon the publicity given it by keening it constantly before the public. The difference between the rent of fashionable building, on a fashionable thoroughfare, and one of more modest pretensions in a less conspicuous position, if expended In advertising in its various forms, w4ll always prove a good investment.

Fair dealing, moderate prices and liberal advertising are the elements of mercentile success. Elegant stores are to be commended, but it is poor policy to sacrifice for them the advantages of the wide publicity which Judicious advertising alone can give. The two combined are almost irresistible.,

FAITH.

SreOBSTKI) I»v A SBRMON OF THX BBV. T. H. BACOJK.)

Faith fills the chastened soul with peace and Joy, And throws a beam across the darkest night:

For, from behind the olonda, the spirit's sight Sees, as a vision, bliss without alloy, a ,^

O! Joy untold to those who, by this light, Receive assurance of those things not seen

Tie evidence of which—the peace serene. And endless Joys—#ire hid from mortal sight,

Sometimes we darkly see, and grope, and cry, As Mary Magdalene of old, and say, "Our Lord, we loved so well, is taken &wfty— O! tell us where that we may bring him nigh

If we seek earnestly, our Lord is fonnd And, when we find, may we with Him abide:

Nodoubt, though wesee not His bleeding side Nor, in His pierced hands, each bleeding wound. K. W. E.

Feb. 2, 1879.

TEACHERS OF THE CENTENARY M. E. SUN DAY SCHOOL.

As coming Sabbath#fereet you here, The pride of statipn cast aside, Remember that the dear Christ man

For hign and low alike hath died.

Let kindness be the rule of all, Build up the good where e'er yon may, With smiles and kindness lift the soul,

And scatter blessings o'er its way.

And whilst God's poor are ever near, And purse-proud wealth is false and cold, Remember still that human worth

Is not made up of lands and gold.

One God is watching over all— One common brotherhood are we, And Jesus yet no difference knows

In lost yet dear humanity.

I stormy ocean strewn with wrecks These little barks mast all sail o'er Temptation's night will darkly fall—

Oh! set the lights along the shore.

Those youthful hearts are tablets fair, Whereon yonr hand shall haply write a so a if

In characters of living light.

Like little placid lakes are they, Whose rippling waves you ottshall guide, As here percnance, without a thought,

You drop the pebble in its tide.

The circling wave far out shall go, And grow and widen evei more, Till joyous angels list to hear

Its murmurings on the other snore.

How beautiful to you the thought That your frail hand, as time snail roll, May oft to Heaven give back its own—

The lost yet never-dyidg soul.

Press on! No nobler work hath earth, And sure at last its sweet, amend Just o'er the liver waits the crown,

The welcome glad as Jesus'friend. S.J. AUSTIN. Terre Hauts, Feb. 3rd. 1S79.

THE BETTER WORLD.

CHURCHES, PASTORS AND PEOPLE.

Rev. Alex. Sterrett is up in Detroit, Michigan, and there will be no service in the First Presbyterian church tomorrow.

At tha First Congregational Church. Services to-morrow at 11 a. m. and 7 p. m. Preaching by Rev. T. R. Bacon

Usual services at the Second Presbyterian church, corner of Fifth and Ohio streets, at 10 a. m. Sunday school at 2 p. m. E. W. Abbeyr Pastor.

St. Stephen's—Sunday school, 9% a. m. Morning prayer, IQ}4

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And it is faith that takes from hope eaeh fearThat gives to weakness its full complement

Of strength from the Infinite, and is sent To htm, who willingly, with trust, draws near.

And it will give the oil of Joy for griefBeauty for ashes—sweet peace for disnuu dread—

Fsr clouds, the sunshine beaming overhead— For every ill a speedy, sure relief.

Litany,

Sermon aud Celebration of the Holy Communion, 11 a. m. Even song &}4 p.m. At Centenary M. E. Church to-morrow will be Annual Missionary Day.— Services at 10.30 a. m. and T.30 p. m, addressed by the pastor. Sunday school at 2.30 p. in. These.services are expected to be of special interest, and all are invited to attend.

Winter camp-nieeting would seem au impossibility, but a New York church finds it otherwise. The camping is done within the church and lasts about ten days. No croquet, however,

Mr. Talmage says he is ready to be arraigned before the Presbytery, and that anybody "who can twist anything wrong" out of his church defct telegram to which his nephew John objected "must be either a viliain or a fool."

Mr. Beecher said last Sunday that morality just now needs more cultivation in the churches than worship, and gave instances, particular the dishonesty of church financing.

The. Rev, James Berriman, Biptlst, of Davenport, Iowa, said that the woman who bleached ber hair or painted her face was unfit to be a member of any church.

The Rsv. t. Winthrop, Presbyterian, of Boston, expresses the opinion that "children who have, when grown, the greatest influence in worldly affairs are not born beneath elegant canopies.'*

The Rev. James Hodgson, Adventist, of Petersburg, Va., thus advised his congregation: "Get your ascension robes ready by the Stb day of next January, for that day will be the end of the world." He is now probably ashamed of himself.

The Rev. Mr. Clay, Luttiei Louis, advocates a political Christian party, whose candidates should be only Christians, and whose principle should be Christianizing of the country. A President, he believes, oould be elected on this basis. 3-

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The Rev. Josej^Ooofc,S«|f^AMM»llst, of Boston, says: "Communism, as defined by the official language of the International Society, means the abolition of inheritance, the abolition of nationalities, the abolition of religion, abolition of property."

The Rev. Mr. Wilson,'formerly Methodist, of Wisconsin, announces that he

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has withdrawn from orthodoxy and 1» about to preach a new religion, founded on divine revelationii made to him io dreams. He has not, however, received sufficient supernatural instruction to enable him to fully deeqrib? his proposed doctrines.

The Rev. Robert Collyer, of Chicago, says: "In no land is there snch a need that the rich and poor shall meet together so that there may be a blending of their life as in this of ours, and no land in which men can so ill sfford to mass themselves into what some call short-hairs and swallow-tails."

The Rev. J. J. Perry, Catholic, of New York City, gives the following rule for the cure of the hsbit of profanity: "Every morning resolve that you will not curse or swear during that day, and in the oourse of the day renew this resolution from time to time and Impose some penanoe upon yourself every time you break it."

The Rev. Samuel Sooville, Congregationalism of Norwich, N. Y. (Beecher's son-in-law), says: "While we hsve been laying down propositions to protect a Christian in his liberty and keep distinct before his eyes the prospeot and ideal toward which he ts to aim, when we come to the matter of the popular amusements of the day we take the ground bluntly that it is expedient for a Christian to let them alone."

The Rev. Charles W. Wendle, Unitarian, Cincinnati, gives warning that there is danger of that city becoming notoriously immoral through its amusements but, as to music, the fear of sinking it into clap-trap, "with Theodore Thomas at the head of our orchestra, has passed away. Whatever the popular clamor may be, he Is not the man to yield to it, even though, like another Shadracb, or Abednego, be be cast into the fiery furnace of Cincinnati indignation." "Society is in a state of chronic alarm at defalcations," says Rev. Julius H. Ward, Methodist, of Boston, "and yet there really need be no surprise. The main drift of our modern life is toward dishonesty in our business and social relations. The fundamental thing in our conduct is moral character. What is behind all the pastoral and paternal care of us is the rooting of character in religious convictions. Morality depends upon belief in the living God, and upon the distinction between right and wrong." "Christianity," says the Rev. W. H. H. Murray, Congregationalist, of Boston, "takes sham and artifice and conceit and hypocrisy out of man, and makes him natural, modest, frank, real. Wheu you see a person made narrow, and bigoted, and mean, by his belief, you may know his belief is a wrong one. Any view of God which makes a man intolerant, any view of duty which makes him harsh, any conception of eternity which makes him a coward and hypocrite, is proved by its effect to be erroneous."

The Rev. Mr. Moses, Jewish, of London, points to the Jews as always having been a temperate people, and adds: "They were so chastened by captivity and purified by suffering, that the vice (which, as Montaigne says, 'hath something brutish in it') had only a feeble and transient existence. So feeble, indeed, that when we come to compare it with that which to this hour marks the Greek Church, it is scarcely appreciable. And, moreover, the rising generation of Jews have not that transmitted predisposition to imbibe alcoholic drinks which the children of intemperate parents posess, and vainly strive to overcome."

MA &R1A OE LICENSES. The following marriage licenses have been issued since our last report:

Daniel Morris aud Jane Nicholson. James W. Vanette aud Mahala Tuohy. OttaEugene Wilde Rnd JBertha Henrlette Schaefer. aam. L. Bridwell and Euseba Beauchamp

Cicero \V. Gardner and Mary Matilda Power. THE grand hallelujah chorus of Handel's Messiah will be sung next Friday as it has never been sung here before.

—For bargains in Long and Short Tug Harness, call at Fisbeck Brothers, 211 Main Street, Between Second and Third streets. —Thousands and thousands went to Cincinnati last May and Christmas to hear the "Messiah." Yon may hear it rendered by the Oratorio Society on Friday next.

—Trade gettiag better and liveler everyday at Fisbeck Brothers. Everything new at our plaoe of business, and at prices that can't be beat, in the city.

New Trimming Lares, New Dress Buttons, Handsome Embroiceries, See

Popular Cent Store.

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Main street is situated the office of the New Improved Howe Family Sewing Machine.

Boys, Rally once again! Holly, Rogers and Lester's Scroll Saws. Saw Blades, Designs, and Fancy Woods, together with Amateurs' Vises, Planes and turning tools, at A.

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