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CEDARTOWN RECORD.
W, S. D. WTKLE & 00.. ProDrietors,
CEDARTOWN. GEORGIA, FRfDAY MARCH 2, 1S77.
VOL. HI. NO. 36.
NEWS SUMMARY.
Forty gypsiea are tolling tlio future
of Maeon, Oa.
There are 1,030 convicU in the Ton-
nvsaoe penitentiary.
San Antonin, Texas, in erecting an
other ice manufactory.
The nmount appropriated by congrc-is
to the improvement of the Tenueiwn river
waa larger than to any other Mingle object of
the bill.
Two negroes of Richmond, Va., were
•ent to the chain gang twelve months for
■Ruling twelve ohickem.
Two British steamships, the Van
guard and the Maurice, drawing respectively
It'S ami 15 *» feet, p netted through the jetties
In>t week.
The Hnzznrd family of Savannah aud
the state at large have fallen heirs to a $15,-
000,000 estate in England.
A Texas stockman recently sold to
portion in southwestern Kansas <0,000 head
of .-attlo and 2,000 horses for $140,000 iu
ailvfcr.
The receipts of cotton at Raleigh from
September 1 to Fehuary 2 were 32,731 bales,
nn increase of 0,353 bules over the same
period Inst year.
The United Stntea const atirvcy steam-
ship IJluke made ono sounding of 7,845 feet
in the Gulf of Mexico, one hundred add
forty-five miles from I’aia Callo.
The legislature of Arkansan lma adopt
ed a resolution to appoint a state hoard of
finance, the chief duty of which will be to
settle with the creditors of the state.
Two-thirds of the taxes of Tarrant
county, Texas, for tha year 1876, 'have not
been paid, and $40,000 for the year 1876 re
main unpaid.
A man in Georgia raised 3,100 {xxinds
of seed cotton on three-fourths of an acre of
laud, and secured the price of $56, which
had been offered by the seller of the seed for
the largest yield from a $5 package of seed.
The Standard says that “a through
passenger and mail stage route has been
established from fort Worth to Sail Diego,
California. The mail to Concho is tri weekly,
connecting with the stage tiiere to El Paso
and then to Han Diego."
Charleston exjxirtx for the week end
ing the 12th were 24-5 lings of sea island cot
ton, 11,267 bales of upland cotton, 1,663
tierces rice, 1,053 ca*ka spirits turpentine,
8,90? barrels resin, 6
idries
phospha
both precincts is bad. There arc many oases
of cholera in the distressed district of
Madras,"
NINU'.I.USKOI'S.
Pho Fresno (California) Expositor, ot
January 17, says that a flock ot wild geese,
formiug a solid column of birds seven miles
in ^length, passed over that town the day
The annual report of the New York
chamber of commerce tor the fiscal year
ending June SO, 1876, shows that while the
aggregate value of the foreign commerce of
all other parts of the United States except
New York exceeded that of the proceeding
year by more than $11,000,000, New York
loss over $93,000,000, making a decrease iu
the foreign commerce of the whole country
exceeding $81,000,000. The value of the
domestic exports of breadstufls from all
other por»* was $64,200,502, against $60,080,-
'.'63 from New York ; of provisions, $20,361,
813 from other ports, against $55,032,133
Jrom New York ; of tobacco and manufac
tures of tobacco, $11,002,682 from other ports,
against 14,070, 088 from New.York.
CONGRESSIONAL.
IIOI'MK.
In the house, on tho 3th, after business
was begun in the house of representatives
to-day, Mr. llnle rose to n privileged ques
tion and read a letter addressed to him from
J. Madison Wells and Thus. C. Anderson,
stating that they were confined in a damp,
dark dungeon, or cellar of the Capitol: that
Yesterday, by order of the speaker, they
had been transferred to a much better room,
and th it they hid been brought hack to the
cells by order of tho sergeant-at-arms, and
that on account of had air in the cell, one
of them, Gov. Wells, was now on ids sick
bed. Mr. Cox said it was in the same cell
that the republieAii congress hud incarcerated
Stewart and Irwin. The prisoners were con
fined and in the close custody of the sergeant-
nt-arms, tint they could release themselves by
simply purging themselves of contempt of
the house and answering questions which
they had refused to answer. Mr. Cox moved
to refer the resolution to the special com
mittee on election in Ixiuisiann, with instruc
lions to report speedily to the house whether
such a state of affairs does not exist as is
stated in the communication from J. Madison
Wells, and tho resolution was referred —
yeas 14.", nays 8!*. The house then went
into committee of (lie whole on the defi
ciency appropriation bill. The bill went
cr without action, and the house took a
-ess until 10 o'clock to-morrow.
In tho house, on tin* l*th, soon after
midday, to which time the recess had been
extended, the deficiency appropriation bill
passed, with the amendment appropriating
$600,000 for the payment of claims against
td« in ooventio
States mid Me
chairman of of the special committee
I.oulsisnii affairs, submitted the rejmr
that committee, which concludes with a
nltillnii declaring that the democratic c
a majority of
The Now Orleans I’icnyuno aaya of
the jetties, the 10th: The United States
man-of-war Plymouth, Bassett commander,
from Pensacola, passed through the jetties at
9:15 a. m., bound up, at low tide. Her draft
is nineteen feet six inches. Him met with
no detention.
On tho price of mules the Augusta
(Oa.) Constitutionalist of the 11th says:
Tho demand for young broken mules the
past week, while very good, did not equal
tha* of the week previous, and the sales al
together did not amount to ns much. A
very good mule can be bought for one hun
dred dollars, and for ono hundred and forty
dollars a first-class imimnl can be hnd. One
hundred and twenty to twenty-five are
about the average prices fur young mules.
Tim tendency , in pi ices is upward, an ad
vance of at least ten dollars per head having
resulted siuce December.
roitKlMN.
Captain General Campon telegraphed
that the Cuban insurgents will he suppressed
by May, when he will return to Spain.
A telegraphic lino will soon be com
menced «n the shores of the Mediterranean,
to traverse the African continent to the Capo
of Good Hope.
The hard times iu Russia aro growing
harder. At Odessa the price of bread has
gone up from two copecks a pound, and
there are fears of an Absolute famine.
A letter to the Cologne Gazette from
South Russia reports thst the j.olive have
been ordered to hasten the general levy
which w ill defend tho country and maintain
order, but is not liable to service outside of
the Russian territory. This is thought to
IndioHte that the southern army will soou
Assume the offensive.
A few figures which have just been
published In England show the evils which
result from strikers in any branch of Indus-
trv. There was a strike in the Houtli York
shire mines about a year ago, in which 12,-
>W men took part. The loss of the miners
themselves amounted to $1,250,000, aad that
of the railroads through reduced carriage of
coal to $700,000.
A dispatch from Pern wivh that the
grand vizier, nt a .‘event interview, said
that he was quite sanguine that peace would
be concluded with Servia in three days af
ter Christies arrival. It has been decided to
grant Montenegro's request for the rectifica
tion of her frontier. An amicable arrange
ment is also probable as to the place where
the negotiations shall be held.
The rinderpest is on its march ngnin.
It rages in Germany and appears in the
suburbs of London. England is largely de
pendent on the continent for beef. Her
supply must necessarily be cut of! from that
quarter, for the authorities will prohibit J port, spoke in favor of that report. The pre-
further impo Die deficiency is to ( violin question being seconded, it was agreed
be made good by Canada and the United that the vote on the resolutions should be
States. Already the American export ■ taken to morrow at twelve o’clock. The
.r.oiinls in .100 ton. *«W.v. >.J Ih'r* to ! »P«»k*r luH before tn. boon a m«n«
. ... , , i from the president, transmitting a memorial
rvery probability, with an increased ■?*• j from citizens of New York, asking for the
temizAtion of the work and cheap railrcad ; passage of a law authorizing the proper de-
tran-it from tho west, tha) this business of pnrtment to set apart sufficient ground on
, . ... i -i i / > , n | either Bed low or Governor’s island in the
tupplyinB Englan.l with l.eef ■« In a-.iinm h>rbor „, New y„ rk „ „| te |„ r , he
enormous proportions. <,f “ Liberty Enlightening the World,”
\ Times dispatch fr-m Calcutta says: which has been donated to the United States
. ., >- , ...i;„.. K.hrn.r.9,1 »h» h .y, ,he French i ,e0 P le - K*f* r red. Recess
I till ten a. m.
• In the In
state of I.oiiisiniiM. The pretended canvass
and complication of votes for electors by the
board of returning officers wns without au
thority of law, fraudulent and void.Hiid that
the vote of that state uanuot bo counted for
Haves and Wheeler without confirmation
and approvul of illegal and fraudulent ac
tion of said returning board. Mr. Townsend
(Pa.), submitted the minority report recom
mending the adoption of a resolution de
claring tliHt the republican electors have
been elected in I^iuisiana mid that the elec
tion was examined into, determined, de
clared and promulgated by tho proper au
thorities of said state under all the consti
tution of tho United (States. Roth reports
The house took a
morrow.
Iu the house on the 10th, tho speaker
presented a communication similinr to that
read in the senate from the president of the
electoral commission. It was resolved to
receive the senate in joint session nt one
o'clock. Mr. Hah- endeavored to fix an
earlier time, lint his amendment was do
feuted by one hundred uml twenty to ninety.
He gave notice that he would call for the
yeas and nays whenever there is another
attempt to delay proceedings. .Senate
mnenoments to tiic Indian appropriation
bill ami military academy appropriation
bill were iion-concurred in. Tne speaker
overruled the point of order againts the
right to take a recess, mid accordingly the
house took a reces* till ten o’clock Monda
In the house on the 12th Mr. Field
offered the following: "Ordered, that the
rouuting of the electoral vote from Florida
shall not proceed in conformity with the
desiaion of the electoral commission, hut
that the votes of < all, Yonge, Hilton and
Rullock be counted as votes from the state
of Florida for president and vice-president
of the United Htates.” Mr. Hale moved ns
adlndment: "Ordered that the counting
of the electoral votes from the state of Flori
da shall proceed in conformity to the de
cision of tho electoral- commission.” After
the disniKsion of several points of order,
etc.,the house proceeded to the discussion of
Abjections to the decision of the electoral
commission. Mr. McCrary addressed the
house in support of the report of the com
mission. The debate closed at 1:16. and the
house proceeded to a vote. Mr.HalirN amend-
men! was rejected by a vote of 97 to 167,
and Field’s resolution was adopted. It was
then ordered that the clerk inform the
the action of the hoi
house is now ready
senate in the hall of the house.
In the houae on the 13th, the report
of the committee on the election iu Florida,
declaring that the Tilden electors had been
elected in that state, was considered Mr.
DunneU, who had signed the majority
“ l„ the week ending February 2d the
her of persons engaged in the relief
decreased thirty-four thousand in Bombay
and three thousand nine hundred and thirty-
nine in Madras, as compared with the num
ber employed the previous week. This de
crease is attributable to the reduction of
wages and the exclusion of persons net
really destitute. There has been no rain
ned no improvement in the condition of the j t b
ermw, and the health of the population in j
the 14th, considera-
tion wan resumed of the resolutions reported
by the special committee charged with the
investigation of the recent election in Flori
da, ami Mr. Thompson, chairman of the
committee, addressed the house.
In the house, on the 15th, the naval
appropriation bill passed after incorporating
eiidmgnt of Mr. Whitthome for the
tmeni'of a commission to decide upon
the future naval policy oft ho United Htates
the commission to cousist of the admiral
of the navy, general of the nruiy,
senators, three representatives and two
naval officers, to he designated by the
president. The bill was parted re
moving tho political disabilities of Joseph
E. Johnston. The speaker laid before the
house a message from tho president vetoing
the bill perfecting a revision of the laws ot
the United Suites. His objection Is to that
section which directs the clerk of the lioitse
of representatives to select ono newspaper
in each of tho states "In which all
treaties and laws of the United Hates ns
may ho ordered for publication shall he
published.” Mr. Durham moved to sustain
the veto, and said he would, as soon as p
sitde, report hack tho hill with tho obj
tionable feature removed. The veto u
sustained- yeas. 212 ; nays, 0. Mr. Durlu
reported back tne bill, lonviug out tho s>
tion objected to by the president, ami it
was passed. The house then took recess
until ten o’clock to-morrow.
NKNATK.
In the senate, on the 8th, Mr. Win
dom called up the house hill to provide for
the payment of James B. Eads for tho con
struction of jetties ntithe South Pass. Aftei
discussion, by n vote of 80 to 24, the hill was
indefinitely postponed, and tho considera
tion of the Indian appropriation hill was re
■tuned. The senate thou went into execu
tive session, and when the doors reopened
they took a recess till 10 o’clock to-morrow.
In the Hcnate, on tho ‘Jill, Mr. Windom
introduced a hill appropriating $7,000 for
the expenses of the electoral commission.
Referred. Mr. Dawes introduced a hill to
authorise and equip nn expedition to tho
arctic sea. Referred. The bill provides
hii exhibition according to the plan suggest-
d by CapL Ilowgate. A bill to encourage
I promote telegraphic communication lie
tween Europe mid America was passed. It
construct the line, with the American end
at Baltimore.
1 n the Honato on tho 10th, tho chair
presented a communication from the presi
dent of the eloetonal commission, informing
the senate that it has decided upon the
matter submitted concerning the electoral
votes of Floridn. Tho sergeant-at arms was
directed to request the atteudanec of absent
senators nt tho conference—llie committee
on the fortification and appropriation hill,
Messrs. Windom, Logan and Davis. After
further debate, the following, submitted by
Mr. Sherman, was agreed to by a pnrty
vote: !(• solved, that tho decision ol the
commission upon the electoral votes of the
state of Florida stand as the judgment of
the HOiiate, objections made thereto to the
contrary notwithstanding. A long debate
look place as to the form of the question
sustaining or overruling the objections filed
by Mr. Field. An order submitted by Mr.
Whyte, that the senate do not concur iu the
decision made by the commission, created
under a clause approved Jnnunry 20, 1777,
but that the votes oast by Wilkinson Call.
R«l*t. Bullock, .1. K. Yonge and R. II. Hilton,
as electors of the state of Florida on the
7th of November, 1874, are the true and
lawful votes for president and vice presi
dent of the United Htates, and should ho
counted us the electoral vote of that state,
was defeated by a strict pnrty vote. The
following Ih the vote : Yens—Bailey, Bar
naul, Bayard. Bogy, Cockrell,Cooper, Davis,
Eaton, Goldtli unite, Hncford, Johnson,
Jones (Fla.), Kcllv, Kcrhnn, MeCrcery, Mc
Donald. Maxoy, Merrimon, Norwood, Ran
dolph, Ransom, Haulslmry, Htevonson, Wal
lace. Whyte and Withers; twenty-six. Xays
—Alcorn, Allison, Anthony, lllniiic, Booth,
Bout well, Bruce, Burnside,' Cameron (I’ll )
Cameron (Win.), Cliaffe, Chrlstlancy. Clay
ton, Conk ling, Conover, Bragin. ' Dawes,
Dorsey, Ferry, Frclinghuysen, Hamilton.
Hamlin. Harvey, Hitchcock, Howe. Ingalls.
Jones (Nev.), Logan, McMillan, Mitchell,
Morrill, Morton, Oglesby, Paddock, Patter
son, Robertson, Sargent, Sharon, Sherman,
Spencer, Teller Wiwllelgh. West, Windom
and Wright; forty-five. The senate then
agreed to an order submitted by Mr Ham
lin, that the vote of tho state of Florida
should bo counted for It. B. Hayes for presi
dent and Win. A. Wheeler for vice presi
dent, us determined by the vlei'toral com
mission. The vote upon this was, yens
forty-three, nays twenty-five-a strict party
vote. On motion of Mr Hargeant. the secre
tary was direeteil to notify the house that
the senate had reached a determination iu
re. ard to the decision of the electoral com
mission, and was ready to meet the house
for the purpose of proceeding with the
count.
In tho senate on tho 12th, no business
transacted up to noon. The senate was
awaiting [notification from the house that
that body was ready to resume the joint
session to continue the count. At 2:20 the
clerk of the house appeared nt the bar of
the senate aud announced the decision of
the house that the counting of thu vote of
Florida shall not proceed in conformity with
the decision of the electoral commission,
and also notified the senate that the house
was now ready to meet the senate in joint
meeting. The senate then proceeded to the
hall of the house.
In the senate on the 13th, at the ex
piration of the morning hour the senate-
yens. 25; nays, 14—laid aside the unfinished
business, the hill to amend the Pacific rail
road acts, and the resolution submitted yes
terday, providing for the issue of an attach
ment tor the arrest ot Conrad N-Jordan,
cashier of the Third Nutionul .ban.%>f New
York, who failed to appear and testify as to
the accounts in that bank of Samuel J. Til
den, William T. Pelton and A. H. Hewitt.
The Pacific bills were laid aside with the
understanding that a motion to take them
un again should be made as soon as the res
olution for the arrest of Jordan should be
disposed of. After some discu ssion, the res
olution os submitted yesterday by Mr.
Mitchell for the arrest of Jordan was agreed
to without division. The bill to amend the
Pacific railroad acts was taken up in order
that it should be unfiniMhed business to-mor
row The senate then went Into executive
session, and when the doors were reopened
took a recess until ten o’clock to-rnorrow.
In the senate on the 14th, a bill ap
propriating $250,000 for a fire-proof building
for the National museum was placed on the
calendar. The bill removing the political
disabilities of Joseph E. Johnston, of Vir
ginia, was paused. Mr. Dorsey introduced a
bill amendatory of und .supplemental to the
act of March 3, 1871, to incorporate the
Texas and Pacific railroad, and the act of
July 27, 1806, granting lands to aid in the
r o; s'ruction of a railroad and telegraph line
from the state of Missouri and Arkansas to
the Pacific ocean. Referred. The hill is a
copy of the so-called compromise of the
Texas aud Pacific bill, recently snorted to
the house of representatives by Mr. Lamar,
from the committee on Pacific railroads,
The senate resumed consideration of un
finished business, being a bill to amend the
Pacific railroad acts, so as to create a sink
ing fund for the liquidation of the indeht-
ness due the government by the Pacific-rail-
ioa/1 company. Pending discussion, the
senate went into executive session, when
the door* re-ooened. The railroad hill was
laid aside, with the understanding that it
shorn . hf. the unfinished business of to
ll anpron. ,,
,.— ... ,.. v . of tho electoral
commission was passed
in tho senate ou tho 15th, nt tho ...
plratlon ’of tho morning hour tho Pacific
railroad matter wan laid nsdle, and the
house bill for tho support of tho government
of tho District of Columbia for tho fiscal
year ending Juno 30, 1778 was taken up.
Various amendment-!, reported by the dis
trict committee were agreed to. Ponding
discussion by Mr. Wright demanded the
regular order of business, being tho bill iu
regard to tho Pacific railroad sinking fund.
A lengthy discussion ensued during which
Mr. Sargent said tho oommitto on appro-
printiouH would soon proas tho appropria
tion hills, and they would antagonize any
thing which might bo before the sonntc.
After further discussion Mr. Wright with
drew his demand for the regular order, with
the understanding Hint tho district tax bill
should ho disposed of to-day. lie gave no
tice that to-morrow lie would Insist upon a
vote upon the railroad sinking fund bill,
which would oome up as unfinished bus
iness. Tho discussion upon the hill for tho
support of the government of thu District of
Ooluiohiu whs continued nt great length, tho
pending tpicstlon being on tho amendment
of Mr. Reman exempting from taxation
property actually occupied and used for
educational purposes. Tho debato wits
mainly iu regard to exempting religious and
educational institutions from taxation,
Messrs. Ingalls, Cameron, Pa., Clayton and
Alcorn, speaking in opposition thereto, and
Messrs, Dawes, Reman, Saulshiiry and Mer-
rlman, iu favor thereof. The nmomliuont
of Mr. Kerimu was agreed to: Yens, 33,
nays, 19. Other amendments, exempting
the Louise homo, and the works ol nrt iu
tho Corcoran gallery, as well as the building,
from taxation, were agreed to. The bill
then passed : Yeas, 19: nays, 12. The senate
then took n recess until ten o'clock to-inor-
Ltinibonnon—Tliolr Lire mid Work.
Throe hundred men will cover and cut
section of throe miles square, taking oil*
over GO,000 logs, which would measure
about 10,000,000 feet, eneh season. Work
begins at daylight and ends at dark; and
when tho days lengthen und the moon
favors a longer twilight or earlier morn
the men get the benefit in longer work
ing hours. Un tho river, when the drive
is started, work begins at three o’clock in
the morning and ends at pine o’clock in
the evening, tho men having live meals ;
breakfast at six, lunch at nine, dinner at
twelve, supper at five and tea at nine.
The meals consist of jxirk ami beans,
corn bread, molasses cake, and tea or cof
fee. No stint is given to a man’s appe
tite. The fare, such ns it, Ih, is abundant,
monotonous, nutritious and cheap. A
cook is provided for every lifty men.
The beans are generally the large white
hush, pur-hoi led in pots holding a half
bushel, then ten pounds of pork is set in
the middle of tho beans in tho pot, a
quarter of a pint of molasses poured into
it, and then the pot is set in a hole sur
rounded by hot ashes ami burning char
coal, the top covered with a stone over
which a heavy wood fire is built, and
boro they stay from five to eight hours,
coining out a most palatable dish. All
the baking is done iu rudely built stone
ovens, which are hented before the dough
is mixed, with a good wood (ire. The
loaves of biscuit or cakes are set upon the
hot stones, and are cooked quick and
thoroughly. A camp of 800 men will
consume daily four barrels of beans, half
a barrel of pork, one barrel of flour, half
a barrel of meat, one-quarter of a barrel
of sugar, and five gallons of molusHCS.
The men are oncamped in tents, making
their beds of boughs, while their extra
clothing, a pair or dark overalls, woolen
shirt, and two pairs of woolen socks, is
kept in an old grain stick, and used as a
pillow nt night, Sunday in the woods
is always a day for sharpening axes
mending sleds, repairing hoots anil
clothes,setting out a new tenting spot
handier to tho cutting in the woods, and
all tho odd chores which would grow out
r “ o congregation of so largo a Isi.ly of
All wcll-rogu luted camps exclude
liquor. Being usually fifty to two hun
dred miles from any settlement, and tho
tnon not paid until the end of the season,
there is little inducement for any specu
lator to peddle rum through tho woods,
or lor the men to straggle off in search
of it.
The consumption of axes and handles
is enormous, an ax lasting about a month
and a handle three weeks. The axes are
sharpened daily, having regular sharpen
ers, while others require each man to
keep his own nxo in order. The old axes
are never collected for tho junk dealer,
the distance to shin them being almost
too great to make it an economical meas
ure. Woodsmen generally consider
spruce harder on axes than either birch
or pine. The gum which runs out of a
spruce tree is found hard enough to chip
tne edge of the axe when striking
through it.—Norlhvtetlrrn Lumberman.
An Ebony Epicurean.
An emigration agent accosted an old
negro In Columbus tho other day: “ I
say, old- pjan, don’t you want to make
somo mfti. ” Ilat’s jest what I'm
scarchin’ roun’ fer, boss. I hungry
right now.” R.)Vell, iu Mississippi
the planters are paying’mighty high
prices for good work hands, nmf if you
” “ Hole on dir. boss. Jess wait,
a middle Georgia uiggei. I done
been out dar. I’m a good wuk band too.
f wuk myself out dar, an’ den J turn
roun’ an’ wuk myself back agin, an’
dght here I’m gwine ter stay, ef do Lord
spars me. When I dies I wants ter have
belly spang full o’ bread an’ meat, an’
wants ter Ire berried in a seminary
whar I’m ’ouainted wid do folks. You
beertd my horn I”—Savannah News.
Exporting American .KiiIch.
The New York Herald of Sunday
says: “Seventeen Kentucky mules were
taken aboard the steamship State of
Pennsylvania last night—‘kicking up
before and behind,’ as a sailor expressed
it. No liner animals of the kind are to
lie seen, one of the chief kickers standing
sixteen hands and three inches high and
built in proportion. This is said to l>e
the first shipment of the kind to Europe.
They come from Stonewall, In Scott
county, Kentucky, and are three years
old. About forty more are to follow
them in a week or so. The cheapest
among them in Kentucky cost $150.
They are to be used for dray horses in
Glasgow.”
The Ht. Louis Globe-Democrat says
“a good rule in using French words Is to
he sure you are right and then iw
English.”
Tlio s limit llwri*.
Th» rollon inn versos aro from the non of lh« Uev
or. Arthur T. I’lersvn, of liutioll. hlmsoir shoU.
Known sous writer, anil wore rood st th« mrotlhii
hold roroniTr in Hint oily In memory of ih« late Sir
nnd.Mr* I*. (». IUIsa:
The harp ot Ziou’s ixwlmlst now is still;
Ion thousand oyos In bitter urlof have wont,
Itmiuso (ho loin.I that, with n mntdor's skill,
rhososllver chords so long, so swootlr wept,
is turned to asho* Iu tho fntai Haines I
No more, on earth, that voice redemption slugs,
And sounds the Nauio above nil other names,
\\ llh whoso high praises oven Renvoii rings!
The harp Is still 1 The harp Is not hero,
No more shall that anointed silver tongue
Alonso the dull und Inutlautlve ear,
And touch tu how the gospel mar be sung!
Row nod a harp und hcatt, alike devote,
_ noth wonts and melodics mar oouseerito,
1 111 t'hilst's own cull Is heard fn every note,
And winds the wanderer to tho narrow gale
The earthly harp is still j tint up on high,
Where everlasting nutheuiN ceaseless mil
A golden harp, resounding tn the sky,
'thrills with UuVtrluHiph on a mnsouir
There’ mid the host of the celestial choir,
runsomrd soul I
I Jesus, on Ills iircHsl-
" sep not for him, who now doth fully know
’1 he depths of moiry and Ihe grace divine;
- ho precious hlood, that makes him while i
He I cadet It him ; lie guides him with Ills eye;
Light ot the world. He brightly In-ams on him;
And, brethren, we shall inret hlui hy mid by,
Where ant a tear tho ransomed eye shall dim.
Catch un and echo ye Ills trumpet tone,
w 'V w,<M,vor henroth shout the sound,
We II tell ot Him who saves and saves alone.
TUI sinners shall receive the world around,
Hhnll shout: ’ fls done. I, too. believe the Hon.
Till prmtlgnls come home, slid kiss His feet,
Till hearts, emptied of self, hy grnee are won,
Nothlug blit vosioln lor His use made meet.
He'd bid us, could lie speak, troni mansions fair,
Rescue I ho potlshimt, not mourn the dead ;
Hid burdened souls dismiss their loads nt care,
And loam that Jesus loves them- -tor them tiled.
Ho seems In shout, trom over Jordan's wave,
•• Hold yo tho fort I hr help of grace divine;
Let lower ilglils tie burning, you may save
Homo struggling seaman, It your light doth shine,
I.ct IIS not weep. When Jesus comes, wo'll fly,
re going home,
ltd we sigh
■ won ay fool n
Now coining tn the cross, ai..... ...
With Jesus eruclfled, we shall, i
HiiiiiIh.v-Neliool l.esson,
sinsi gl'AItTKK, IH77.
I -Kigali ai d the prophets
a—- Kill ah mil Ills Karri liras. I Kings !
KHjah llnrjib I it lugs I
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Sunt tier Venr.
It Ih Haiti of Philip Henry, that when
ho hiul reached tho age of three-score
and ten, ho wns accustomed to ditto his
letters, “ The year of my dentil.” And
of both the older and the younger presi
dent Edwards, it is said Unit on tho first
Wabbuth of the years of their death ouch
preached on the text. '• This year thou
"bait die,” the text seeming almost a
prediction of tho departure of each to
that.hotter land to which they wore »'i-
eting their hearers. Death may not
une to tiH this year. And yet it may
•mo at any inomont. But in viow of its
irtalnly coming soon, and in tho possi
bility that it may come at any moment
when we expect it not, does it not become
us to live in expectation and in prepara
tion for it? “There are two words,”
says another, “that may well take up
much of our thoughts and cares, viz.,
time and eternity: tlmo because It is so
fast passing away, and oternity bocimso
it will soon begin ; time because it will
soon he at an end. and eternity bcoauso
it will never end.”
wuh the now year's resolvo of tho
Hunt Hannah Afore, “never to pass
a day without thinking of tho end of
days, and never to pass an hour without
lifting up her heart to God, through
Christ, to aid her to live for him.” And
an ancient sculptor, when asked why he
took such pains in a part of a beautiful
statue that would l>e concealed hy tho
wall of the temple, replied, “ The gods
it." And as to every part of
. wo should hear in mind that
God secs it. and should endeavor so to
live «h to he approved by him. On a
plain tablet in Westminister abbey is an
ription over the remains of ono who
once eminent as a sculptor:
int I wss, ns nn n r I Inf, hcciiiimI of mono I in-
|K>rtani'<i to im» while J llvcl;
I wss. ns s Imilfvcr In Joami Christ. Is
ily tiling of lni|torlnnco to ms now 7 "
And such will bo the judgmnnt of’evory
one of us tin we look hock from tho
hour of death, or from Pho unseen world,
our earthly life and state.
A departing or n coming year is full of
lessons to us—lessons wo all should pon-
The rules that some one has sug
gested for the opening of erory year and
for our guide through its days, if we are
spared to behold them, are full of wis
dom and safety: “Hay nothing you
would not like God to hear. Do nothing
you would not like God to see. Write
nothing you would not like God to read.
Go no whore you would not like God to
go with you. Read no book of which
you would not like God to say, ‘ show it
tome.’ Never spend your time in such
a way that you would not like God to
say, ‘what art thou doing ?”
Ko endeavor to live, and life will bo
continually preparing you for death, and
death will neier find you unprepared to
depart.
Dost tlion thk, “ Whan comes this hour? "
Then, when It shsll suit thee best;
t rust His fiilthfulni'ss ami power,
Trust In Him, und quint rest.
Labor on, and hope, and wait;
Jesus never cornea too Jsto
Suddenly though He may oome.
'TIs to l»oar then to thy home.
—A”. Y. Ohurver,
The "Widow Van Cott'sStorj.
The widow Van Cott entertained her
hearers in the West Thirteenth Htreet
Methodist meeting house last evening by
telling them the following story : She
was announced to conduct a series of re
vival meeting in one of the cities in the
interior of the empire state. A young
man who was at the club with a party of
jovial fellows, Haid : “ Widow Van Colt
is coming to town und I am going to
attend her meetings,” One of liis com-
radon responded : “If you go to bear the
widow I’ll Ix-.t five dollars she will con
vert you and make a Christian of you.”
The young man clinched the wager.
Then another comrade wagered five dol
lars with tho young man, and tho exam
ple was followed until every member of
tlio company bad deposited five dollars
against a corresponding amount with the
stakeholder. '1 he pools were made on
lition that the young man should
attend the mootings every evening as
long as Mrs. Van Oott was in town.
“Theyoung man went to tho mooting,”
said tho widow, “and God touched his
heart, lie would have gone to the
altar, blit he didn't want to lose his
Money. Ho told me that alter I had gone
away ho would embrace religion, and
write and let me know tho fact. I said
to him: ‘ You will not do as you think
you will. You must como to the altar
now or novor.’ ” Mis. Van Cott closed
her meetings in tho place and went away.
She did not get tho promised lotler; but
she was told that tho young man, after
winning his wagers, became more wicked
than ever. He had won a few paltry dol
lars, but lost his soul.—N. Y, Sun.
Fashion Wulfk,
Squnrc-nockcd corsages aro n
A popular thin matoriul is pond-col
ored or oink wire mesh gauze.
Lace is no longer used for bonnet trim
mings.
Black satin is revived and is combined
with black silk or velvet for street cos
tumes.
Necklaces in real lace, with pendants
of various stylos have taken tlio place of
Inco collars.
Buttons aro now placed on tho bottom
of corsets to which the underskirt is at
tached.
, Rich India h1iuw1h aro again in vogue.
They are worn over long |K>lonaises by
Parisian women for full dress.
Album fans, each stick painted by dif
ferent artists, with a subject of their
own selection, aro among tho novelties in
Paris.
_ Cluny insertion an inch wide alterna
ting with English embroidery of tho
suine width, makes a very effective trim
ming for Indio’s under wear.
From tho robe do chambre to the
ball toilet every dress lms it« fringo to
match, put on in waves, taps or scal
lops.
Ladies who wear no petticoatH attach a
handsome flounce with buttons and but
ton holes lo tho lower part of their
flannel undergarment* or the short bal-
mornl.
The newest thing in sleeve buttons are
separable; that is, the two parts are
connected with a string, and no button
hole is required, oyolots permitting the
shauksto pass through.
Circular handkerchiefs of ValenceinneH
lace and Swiss embroidery are much
worn around the neckouUddooftho ruche
und fastened hy a bow or flower.
Along, slender dress, without scarves
.j front, and without looping at tho
hack, is being affected by elegantes.
These aro worn without any tournure,
and are as straight down tho back as the
front. But at the floor tho train spreads
out suddenly, like an open fan, near the
wearer.
On bonnets, ehenillo in forms of leaves
and fringes occupies a prominent posi
tion. That favorite coiffure of Mmo. Do
Steel's, the turban, promises to revive
again, much to tho delight of ladies who
remember Us popularity a few years ago.
The Dunichofi is numbered among now
models for bonnets.
Tho trimmings of the season, which
show many novelties, have the mirth of
being artistic, as, for example, the open
moss work embroidery in scroll and leaf,
shading from dark to light in dlflbrcnt
colors to match materials. Broad bands
of straw gimp, one and a half inches
wide, aro shown on the newest evening
dresses abroad.
A remarkable waterproof has been in
vented in Paris, It is of silk, and may
lxi foldod almost as small ns a pocket-
handkerchief. When unfolded it offers
an ingonius series of pockots of different
shapes, made to hold the fan and other
essentials of fomtntno toilets. The hood
can lxi raised over tho head hy meuim of
a spring, so constructed us to prevent tho
hood from resting on tho hat, and muss
ing the flowers or other ornaments.
Why ilo Wept.
lie loft her and ■ topped out to see a
friend between acts.
“ Why, Edward,” said she, when he
returned, “there aro tours in your
eyes.”
“ Yes, net,” replied ho solemnly. “ I
supposo there aro—I saw such a sod sight
when I was out.”
“You did—-whnt wns it?” Inquired
e.
“ Such a sad sight”—continued he,
keeping his face away that she might not
smoll his breath—•* I discovered a young
whom 1 have* known for years drink
ing whisky.”
“You did?”
“Yes, standing right in plain sight
before me, partaking deeply and careless
ly of tho dreadful intoxicating glass.”
There wus a little pause, when tho
young lady suddenly said :
“ Edward, was he standing right In
front of you?”
“ .Yes, pot,” was tho reply.
There was another pause when the
young lady asked again :
“ Edward, don’t most of the fashiona
ble saloon counters have great nice mir-
rs right on tho walls behind them I”
Edward flushed a little and looked
quizzical as ho replied that lie “believed”
they did.
And there he permitted tho subject to
drop.
Scepticism In England.
Mr. Joseph Cook, the new defender of
orthodoxy, declares that there is no
scholarly skepticism in Boston. Har
vard college, in tho time of Tern Paino,
was full or the wisest French skepticism.
Lafayette has turned the whole heart of
our people towards France. “The
atrociously shallow and unclean, but
brilliant and audacious Parisian infidel
ity of the period—a scheme of thought
which we now regard with pity, and
which no scholar cares to hear named—
was then attractive even to scholarly un
dergraduates. Harvard never had a
president Dwight to take the poison of
our French period out of her veins. In
that fact begins tho history of Boston
scepticism.” Yale would have had the
same experience as Harvard, had it not
been for the massive arguments of Dr.
Dwight against sciolism in religious
science. Mr. Cook said, further, that it
would do now to tell the truth of Har-
ard and Boston, since they have slowly
utgrown the poison.
FACTS AM) FANCIES.
Your rosy crib in tho rornor yol j
I sit an.l watch It Just ns tho day la dsnd ;
4 ou can not prosa ntfslii. ,„y mulshed pot,
Its pillow with your drowsy, guidon head.
You can not resoh your arm to not my kiss,
Or dart iilnuit with rosy, naked toot,
niilddlnK soft syllables of that and thin,
A tiny night-gown fairy, blithe and sweet.
Empty tho home whore, frolicsome aud lair,
7 our precious presence made so bright a part;
Empty your llttlocrib, your clothes, your chair:;
Uut cmptlcat of all your uiothor s heart.
Two women wore having some words
together, when the daughter of ono of
them pimped her head out of tho door
aim cried out: “Hurry, mother, and
call nor a thief before she calls you one.”
Charity balls are still In season. Tho
participators lmvo tho ball, and tho
public show tho charity for thorn, tho
poor—'well, tlioy have no direct interest
in tho matter.
Give work to tho able-lxxlied, give
food and sholtor to the Hick, give sympa
thy to tlio distressed, and consolation to
tho nflliclod, but beware how you give
alms to tho lazy.
The Banner of Light, tho Spiritualist
nowspanor, goes to tho oxpenso of cablo
dispatches about the Slade case, and tho
New York Sun wants to know why somo
obliging spirit doesn’t bring ovor the
nows freo of cost.
The New York Telegram announces
that “wages of servant girls nro to be cut
down nt that point where tlio mistress of
tlio house will be abln to ovortnko them
on tho question of bonnet.”
Em to rant physicians in tho Quakor
city make affidavit that the ringing of
church hells aro unnerving to healthy
adult* nml dok'feructivo of the rest of in
fant*, and ask, with property holders, for
nn injunction to restrain the ringing of
the bulls of St. It lark’s.
Thih from tho 1)11 City Dorrick, in
probably too good to bo truo:
’Twbb n young printer's iIbtII. who asked tor a kiss,
tbit shu.qMlcklv replied, did tills port Ilf tin mins,
" You look Inky and black, tho' your brad may ho
Ilul I’ll never consent lo ho kissed by tho devil.”
Years paused, and tho inis* became an old uinld
With frizzes und curls, IhIno tooth and nornndn.
Thou sadly sho sought lo recall l ho old Imiio,
nut tho printer replied: "Tho devil won't klsa
“ Yeh,” remarked a tramp ns ho
stretched himself out to sleep on a seat
in tho sonnto gallery, “tho glorious pal
ladium of our liberties must lxi preserved.
We can’t watch these politicians too
closely ; In fact, I think I shall stay hero
nil night.”
There had Ixieti a discussion about tho
cost of dress, and she wns wrat hy. “It’n
all very well," she pouted, “for you to
oxpoct a woman to bean angel; but I’d
have you to know, sir, that I wouldn't ho
even an angel, unless my wings could bo
cut goring. There, now*!”
Owner coming into stable and ad
dressing hostler: “Isay, Jim." “Yes.
sir.” “Take Romeo's harness oil ana
put it on Ophelia.” “Yes, sir." “Give
Gen. Grant somo oats." “Yes, sir."
“Tnko Gen. Sherman out to water.”
“Yes, sir." “And rub down tho Grand
Duchess.” "Ay, ay, sir.”
Two views of tho situation by tho Bur
lington Hawkeyo man : If wo hnd ns
lovely a home ns Judge Davis has at
Bloomington, wo would not 'want to bo
president. Wo wouldn’t want to do
anything but sit m tha front yard and
look at the house, and he glad wo lived
there and had tho taxes to pay, and ono
thing and another. But thnUs tho way.
Lady (to shopman, nfter making him
turn over uil his stock)—“There, that’s
ixactly tho quality 1 want, but it’s
green, and I want plum color.” Insin
uating shopman—“You can’t do hotter
than take this. Besides, ina’rm, it is
plum color." Lady—“WhntI Plum
color?" Shopman—“Certainly. Only
the plums are not ripe.”
When the wxt edition of Webster’s
“ Unabridged” appears, wo may expect
to Hfo tills addition to tlio overexpand
ing volume of the English language—
thus:
I ▼. n. 'I ho act nt hulhdozlng tha
, DOZE, ; condition ot being bull-dosed, as
) It worn; lo Iks the victim of h
nilLL-POZINU, | bull-dozers; so to speak. Colloq.,
J and vulgar.
Perfect Faith.
pathetic episode in a lecture atBl.
recently:
A story was told of a street boy in
lxmdon who had had both logs broken
by a dray passing over thorn. Ho was
laid away in ono of the beds of a hos
pital to (lie, and another Ifttlo creature
of the same class was laid near by,
picked up with famine fever. The latter
was allowed to lie down by the *ido of
the little crushed boy. He crept up to
him and said:
“Hobby, did you uovor hear about
Jesus?”
“No, I never heard of him.”
“Bobby, I went to mission school once,
and they told us that Jesus would take
you to heaven when you died, and you’d
never have hunger any more, and no
•c pjiin, if you axed him.”
1 couldn’t ask such a great big gen
tleman as he is to do anything for me.
Ho wouldn’t stop to speak to a boy like
“But he’ll do all that if you ax him.”
“How can lax him if I don’t know
where ho lives, and how could I get
there when Ixith my legs are broke ?”
“Bobby, they told mo at mission
school as how Jesus passed by. Teacher
says as be goes around. How do you
know but what he might come around
to this hospital this vory night?” You’d
know him if you was to see him.”
But I can r t keep my eyea open. My
legs feel so awful bad. Doctor says I’ll
die.”
Bobby, hold up your hand, and he’ll
know what you want when ho pusses
by.”
'They got the hand up. It drooped.
Tried again. It slowly fell back. Three
times lie got up tho little hand, only to
lut it fall. Bursting into tears, he said :
“ I give it up.”
“ Bobby, lend me yer hand; put ycr
elbow on my piller; I can do without it.”
So one hand was propped up. And
when they uame in the morning the boy
lay dead, his hand still propped up for
Jesus. You may search the world and
you cannot find a grander Illustration of
simple trust than that of the little boy
who had been to mission school but once.