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icli figure»nd initial, a k, to counted as a wc ■mnpanjr tbe copy of e ESTABLISHED -IN 1854 j BY^W. HANCOCK, i VOL. 31. INDEPENDENT IN POLITICS AND DEVOTED TO NEW8, LJTEBATUBE SCIENCE. AND GENERAL PROGRESS j Term: S3 A YEAR IN ADVANCE AMERICUS, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, MAY 9, 1884. NO, 12. Advertising Rates. OmSquuifinthaettioB, - .. .,|.oo •W 1 ** U™ •« *!•!«, )H»«ondi»»- of time for which the, veto be lnjertM JgJWMjBmW mnu attend out rad cfiarjreJ for accordingly. K. (, SIMMONS. fortu’U at Cate, luildiny, south side of old office of Fort* JanStf P HOLLIS, ■ uorneu at Caw, 1:1. .f. VV EBB, Huuram&Yuv Ur. .). A. FORT, Physician ani Surgeon, rOANTAL ruitt, •Ti.Nl.r L.S.L Louisiana State Lottery Co •• Wt do hereby certify that tee tu/.rrrUt tk. mrrsngemenU for all Monthly and *•— • Drawing, of The Lo\ L*qttsature for Education purposes—with a caplUl which a reserve fund of since been added. nal services to the I #*5 “▼•'■whelming |>opular rote 1 vicinity. Office at If" 1 * f lhe gore. At nitfht cani Constitution adopted December 2d. «the Taylor hoo,, | ^ „„ nipt attention. I •' “* »/ *".» S J HOLLOWAY, hti»T, 4 Georgia tali* place avnihly. ‘ SH.ESIIIU lll , l , IM(T|!MrV TO »•" * ««TWB. FIFTH GRAND ^RAWING, CLASS k. IN THE acad emy OF MUSIC, NEW ORLEANS TUESDAY, .nay I3tb, 1SH* — tenth Monthly Drawing. Capital Prize, $75,000 Jh 100.000 Ticket! at Five Dollar* Each larllt I 1 CAPITAL PRIZE... y HE COM PLETEyOME. gjff j * PRIZES OF 96000... LUfirlBER ; LUMBER .! ! BELL’S place two and IV. .IORDAN. THE l Mg.: GEORGIA LOAN, T USP COMPANY. u-s loans on improved farms. I . live >e»rs. Itete of Interest Expenses light. Apply at •!lic •, Amerlcus, Ga. apiDtf rente for postage, free, a costly box itch wUl help all. 9 Approximation Prizes of 9750... 1967 Prizes, amounting to f2(55,50U Application for rates to clubs should be made only to the office of the Company in Hew Orleans. For further information write clearly, gir- lng full address. Make P. O. Money Order, payable and address Registered letters to !*fr:nr out.SATioStl. ix%>k. At pneo address Tncx A Edgerf.nn House, S. 2. Brown & S3n,_Pr prietorB. Kales $2.00 Per Day. . . NOTE* and ordinary I by Mall or Express (all sums of 95 at wards by Express at oar expense) to M. A.DAUPHIN. or M. A. DAUPHIN, •07 Ssventb »t.,YYn*lilni;ton, o.C. PLANTERS J. E. CRAWFORD, CONTRACTOR Guelder, AMERICUS, CA. Work entrusted to me will be done with neatness ami dispatch. SATISFACTION WOOTEN & FORD, STILL D!T1 Ml! Plenty of help to sell al : the goods we caa furnish. For a genetafline of Family and PI dilation Supplies, f.Im ON US. is. M. T. Ell, Will open her New Goods, In tip* .Store with Mrs. Fred Lewis, :he will lx* pleased to iends after Thursday MECHANICS, MEtCIIllTS & CAPITALISTS. HAPPY NEW YEAR! Good-bye, 1 Crops not first-rate, but mlgh* 1 — ‘ worse. Money not exactly pit enough to go round, anu after paying di and laying in supplies, stock, guano, and ad things needful, yet be something left to invest, lot os suggest that the US UK.M 1-AtlMi IM>.M llf sr. And one that will pay the largest divider Is in something that will make happiness onr homes, that will elevate our childr* riends and <»urselv s to the high) srd of refinement, culture, ar.d Mo bility. MC8ICALOXE V? ILL DOTHIS. ave you a Piano or an Organ *7 If not, yon should have, and i you money in its purchase. O delighted Purchasers, whom * supplied In tbe past fifteen years, \ dorse this statement. See the Grand Inducements m, TEN LEADING MARK! Math ran xx. Ldddi Davis, Hakdmah. Mathushkk. Ldddkh A Bates, Hallkt & ~ II, Hakdmah, Abioh, Mason a Mau- . Pacxskd, Palace, and Bay State Over 300 Styles. All tirades. All Prices PIANOS, *200 to 1,000. ORGANS. *24 te 9750. Makers* names on all. NoSteociloi Cheap Instruments sold. “The Best U al ways Cheapest,” but our cheapest Is good ■SEE WHAT Tfi GIVI fHiffiS. Good Stool and Instructor. With Each Plano or Organ, a I to Music. Alto, a Six Year Guarantee; teen Days Trial, with Freight Paul kith •" Instrument d e ‘ Exchangi faiths, if the selection made WE PAY ALL FREIGHT strumenta at Lowest Prices, < MANDRAKE and BUCHU. Nature’s True Remedy for all Billions Dto- oateor Torpidity of the HU IHI SB, undi^iFeirtb 0 * 0 ™ 06 **’ i of tlie Bladder, Retention -of th- Urine and loss of It h*s no eqrul in th* re- SAVED HIS LIFE. A Physician's Testimony. I was called to Ms Mr. John Pearson, who wsscocril aed to k 1» bed with what appeared to hls < famH? I hitd > dM^th’test’dread^dtocaM (except hb half-brother), Ma death waa regard ed »- certain and aooa. After exhansftng aU teeremeOtes, Mteally. aa aha*rwwrt, scatter Another Reecuo from Death. In net while aewfanoe a machlna. *bt wtt* was taken with a aevere pain In her aide, which was soon followed br bemorrhaees from her ln»Ci. severe cough, lexer, and aha coaid nei ther eat nor alcejs and In afew waeks aha waa reduced to a living akeleto fused to retain any food, thought one of her lunga f. V. HIAETOOX. YateenUe,<M. • From —aoon. eon's wife Irilta’ t'heTast ^tagw of rouanwp *i was coughing Incessant It, and at lid discharge quantities of pw (rum coold not sleep or retain anfUdncee “h. and we thought It orlv a question aid be compelled tojttro PULLS torpid bowels, DISORDERED LIVER, symptoms indicate their existence: f rn *1 Of food, Irritability of temper. Law ?*»■—, nwuriag at tbe akin and a rigorous body. TTTT’S FILLS with dally woritsnd aro^perteS lnt * rf,r * ANTIDOTE TO MALARIA. HE FEELS LIKE A SEtV MIX. "I hare had Dyspepsia, with Coaattpa- “T.T&aSI ./ARDS, Palmyra,O. 6 old ewrywhere^Mto. OCct.U Marrmy St^lf.T. TUTTS HAIR DYE. or aentby express on receipt of 91. Office, 4« Murray Street, New York. TUTT’S MANUAL OF USEFUL RECCIPTt FREE. HOSTED ^ITTCR S Regeneration for Enfeebled Systems. i general want of .“sa concomitants, dyspepels i . U Seldom derivable toil u*a of nourishing diet and stimuli of appo- lite, unaided. A medicine that will eflrct a removal of the specific ob*t«ele to re Dew ed health and rigor, that U a genuine cor- id. Itis the possession rement which nukes Bitters so effective as so invizorant. For sale by all druggists sod J i OCR JURY SYSTEM. j tection of his property, his social posi- tion, his liberty and life which cannol Its Defects and Abuse. j result from the action of n tribunal h, wrong., nod i.j«,tjr.ofit.oot.l.ad .ri.ibff from th« ,ba^ of uarjnrj ,j,-f ,n, .ll*'-’to»l streogth. 1.D .re sneh .. to More r b. brlirf B? tbo cootpOTlioo of the ro.uor. of lh.ttb.rei.. d.f.et io i,. o, g .oio,. * h * W “ d ,h ? •'r»-e.T«f on.t th.l . r.,lir,l chooge i. uer-! ““T'J“. rT “J essary to insure justice to tho-e wh>» appeal to tbe law fjr rcdiess. I have just read au able paper, pub lished in tbe Northern Rei ing a radical change in the system *» the only means of obtaining correct verdicts with the lesst outlay of time and money. Tbe argument is founded upon tbe assumption that there it not intelli gence enongb with the unprofessional public to comprehend the requirements of the law, nor the force of evidence sufficiently to guide them to a correct conclusion in a given case. Up-m this assumption tbe writer of the paper, in qoestion, suggests s radical change of ijstem that wonld take the doty and -esponsibilily off the people and put them upon those .of a higher order of intelligences and legal attainments. This is a plausible theory, and if adopted wonld certainly make places of emolument of money for the legal profession, bnt would be a reflection upon a large body of men who are characterized by intelligence and busi ness qualifications of the highest order, and who constitute the bone and sin ews of tbe country, and whose busiuess qualifications have enab'ed them to accumulate four-fifths of the property ■ought to be protected by the organiza tion of our jury system. This proposed change clasae* the intellectu*! strength and efficiency of the country with minors and imbeciles, as fit sub jects to bo cared for by another. Tbe plain language of tbe proposed change is, wp ate of a higher order of intelli gences and wonld assume the guardian ship of the nnpiofessional public and protect their respective interest. Such I conceive to be the liiden. but true meaning of the proposed change of onr jury system, that would take from the people the right and power of self protection and vest it in the legal pro fession. While I am not prepared for such a radical change, I am inclined to think that our jury system under tbe latv of 1868 was far better than that of 1877. and that a repeal of that of 1877 and the reenactmeut of that of 1808 would b« productive of much good. The law of 1868, fairly administered, distributed the talent anti efficiency of the country between the grand and traverse juries, while that of 1877 de prives tbe traverse jury of that degree or amount of efficiency necessary for the discharge of the labor and respon sibility that devolves upon them. Tbe legitimate resalt is delays in the ad ministration of the law and an increase of litigation, by appeals to a higher tribunal that renders .it impos sible for a litigant of limited means to protect his interest against one of wealth and power. say that the legislature of 1877 did not contemplate such a re sult. It was assumed (and juktly so) that there was intelligence enough in every county, when properly and equal ly distributed between the two bodies, according to the spirit and intention of the law, to give character and efficiency to both. It fellows than the*, it is partly thi abuses of tbe law providing for the orgaaization of the pane! of jm est of litigants Of this abuse I shall now apeak. I assume that the adoption of the law* and customs of England, dnriug our colonial existence, carried with it a degree of that aristocratic pride that characterized tbe judfciary system oi England, which is contrary to the genius of our Republic and should fimi sympathy or place io the judiciary our country. This pride and aris tocratic excrece&ce or fnngns displayed itself in tbe sword that formerly bang the side of an officer as he pompous ly proceeded the Judge and body of is, robed of the last vestige of moral and intellectual efficiency neces sary for tbe faithful discharge of duty iu a case of life and death. No sys tem for the selection of jurors should exist where the social position or life of a hnman being may be determined by a tribunal of justice tbhl is first shorn of iu moral and intellectual efficiency by a legal process. l( there mnst be an unequal distribution of intelligence and virtue, a preponderance should characterize that body of jurors upon which devolves^the higher duty of de termining the rights of litigants, aud questions of life and death. It is true, that there is some sho,w of plausibili - ty in the plea that tbs grand jnry is the guardian to watch gr« the interest •ti the county, and to. see that tbe, county officials have faithfully discharged their respective duties, aua report upon Abe correctness of thejr ac tion. But it is equally true, tbs^there are in onr county at least three han dled citizens subject to duty, any one of whom, if pat in the possession of tbe books of th* teverml officers of the county, are able to present to the cotut full aud correct reports as to then mracy as generally result from tfit- ion of the whole body ofjutiAwL This being true, it superseeds th» ne cessity of such a sweeping ingathering of all the supposed intelligence' into body at so great a sacrifice of time, it-y and equity as results from such urse. Tbe fact that a majority of important cases for tbe last twenty years have been carried np to a higher tribnnal at the expense of litigants jus tifies this fesbleefibrt toaronsethe rep resentatives of the people to a sense of ' doty that they make an efFor^o r jury system ill result in an equal'dwtribn tin of intelligence and efficiency be- • <cn the grand and traverse jnrys in ir conrts oflnw. Here allow me to .y. that the cations fact in this matter remains to be accounted for. Why honld men of intelligence and learning >ud wealth, be so blind to their own interests as to elsct, to sit as a body oi grand jurors, and. try cases upon ex- pitrte evidence, while their property, liberty, and their social positiou, ven life itself are left tc be pro tected and determined by a body of ju rors that has been shorn of its strength by the laws and customs of out couu- There should be au adaptation of eaus to thqtnd sought to be obtnin- Jostice i etween litigants and the protection of life at the smallest ifice of time and money should be the ibjectof the law, and nothing short m exercise of the highest order of i telligence and virtue in its administrs- a fiord a ns any guarantee that the object will be attained. In view of the paramount importance of the aubjeot^I now propose to cousid grand jurors, as they - from the court room, rnmenta t . _ Installment Terms and | — Freight, , that tbe Instrument costs yoTi no more than If you lived in Savannah or New York city. Why hesitate? We are the men for vou. Sena as you< name, and will mat yon Illns- bated Catalogues and Circulars which will toll you what we hare not oom tossy here, LUDDEN &. BATES Southern Misie Ilonse, Savannah, ifrgla. Tbe First Music House in the U. 3. to De- Fianus and Organs Freight Paid. Winship & Callaway, 120 Second Street, Macon, Gn. Leading CLOTHIERS AND HATTERS of Kiddle Ga apr!9tf. for sa e by au druggists. I*ri«-e .TO Cents. Manufactured by haile & mower, s,rret * Atlanta, Georgia MONUMENTAL MARBLE WORKS, Miller Sc MoCnll, PROPRIETORS, Southwest Corner of Public Square, AMERICUS, • - - GEORGIA monumentsTtombs, etc., Best lUUaa aid ARicrleaa Marble. IRON RAILING XALTIMOXX.il PATENTS ffect ‘VO'&'VB.X. n» SIDXET DAYKX. ‘'Mamma” said: “Littl- one. go and see. If grandmother's ready to come to tea, 1 knew 1 mustn't disturb her, so I stepped u gently along, tiptoe. And stood a moment to take a peep— And there was grandmother fast asleep! "I knew it was time for her to wake: I thought I’d give her a little sitake. Or Up at her door or softly call; But 1 hadn't the heart for that stall— She looked so sweet and quiet there, Lying back in her high arm chair. With her dear white kair.and a little smile, ttiat means she loving yon all the wliil “I didn’t make a speck of a notoe; 1 knew .he was dreaming of little boy. And girls who lived wUh her innir >•.. And they went to ‘ “I went up close, On# word, but 1 to heaven—the told me so ant I didn’t speak g«v* her aw her cheek >f a Uttie kiss. “Grandmother, dear, it's time “She e pened her eyes and looked at me. And wild: ’Why Pet, I’ve just now dreamc Of a little angel who .came and seemed To Idas me loviagty on my face,” Hhe^olnted right at the very placet I took her hand and we went to tea." TABERNAOLK SERMONS. Bl KEV. T. UeH’ITT TAM1ASE. EASY DIVORCE. What therefore God hath Joined together, |^Dot man put asunder.—St Matthew That, there are hundreds and thous ands <>f infelicitous homes in America, one will donbt. If there were only skeleton in the closet, that might be locked np and abandoned; bnt in many a home there is a skeleton in the ballway and a skeleton in all the apart- yielJ to that cry. iJ out ■ i»w easy it is now. IhL._ looked over the laws of all the Stale*, nd 1 find that while in some States it s easier than in others, in every Staty it is ei»y. The State of Illinois, through its Legislature, recites a long of proper causes for divorce, and i closes up by giving to the - courts the right to make a decree of divorce in case where they deem it expedient, r that you are not surprised at the •uncement that in one county of the State of lllinnia, in one year, theib were 883 divorces. . If you want t’b know how easy it is, you have only to look over the records of tho States. In Massachusetts 600 divorces in one year; Maine 478 in one year; * year; in thecit; i 401 divorces m one year; in thecity San Francisco 333 divorces in 1880; New England in one year 2,113 di- rcss, and in twenty years in New Eugland 20,000. Is not that easy igh? If the same ratio continue, of mall iplifd divorce and mnl- rom the court room, as though tin touch of a citizen would befall hit houor, or some contaminating influence wonld lodge in the folds of the gar ments of the grand body, as they brought in a batch of tine bills tha't their superior wisdom enabled them t< find upon exparto evidence. This same prids has separated thi wealthy from the poor, and intelligencr from mental weakness, and the learned from the unlearned, and outraged the genins of a republican judiciary, by denying many the rights of freemen. It has packed intelligence and mental weakness into separate rooms, labeled the one, the grand inquisition of the county, and vested it with ers and assigned to it the extraordinary dnty of finding true bills upon exparti evidence. And what am I asked ol the other? We gave it the significant ■ame of petit, the true meaning ol which is small, little and mean; and to this body of American citizens, after robbing it of all that should character ize an American jury, you require it to decide questions of law and of right upon tha most conflicting evidence that shrewd and practiced attorneys may be able totortnre from an excited witness. This folly and abase of the law for the selection of jurors have been encouraged by the judicial charge of the court to the gaud jury, the general tone and spirit of which have the tendency to inflate that body with the pleasing no tion of its own greatness, and oth er peoples littleness to that extent that tbe magnitude of the outrage has as sumed such proportions, that a mac. who is educated and deems himself in telligent is insulted if his name should be cast as a traverse juror. 1 ask, may question tbe wisdom and propriety of a law or custom that wonld by selection organize.* body .of grand jxrora at so great a sacrifice as that of tbe efficiency of the traverse jury, and give it so little to do while the duties and responsibility of tin traverse jury are paramount to all otb ers connected with the judiciary of the country? It is to this bjojly the old cognomen petit designates as little and insignificant, that the laws of the country have assigned the highest da- ties of oar judiciary. It is this body is called upon to determine the rights of litigants, with conflicting (fence M the only guide to a coi verdict where property, social position, liberty and life are involved. I am bold to say. that the spirit of the law. authorizing th* organisation of th* two bodies of jnrors, did not con template each an outrage upon com mon seas* sad tbe right of litigant* Every litigant is entitled to tbe pro- ject,l now di from n political the adoption of the laws and easterns of other nations, we should be careful oadopt none that is not in harmony with our republican form of govern ment, and 1 would emphasize the fact that the adoption of onr jury sys- whether borrowed or original, no exception to the general rule. Ours is a representative government, aud no mnpire; if three men ehould be inthorized by law to determine my competency, to sit and act in the high- ist capacity as a juror and two ignor ing ray right to be heard, yon bad bet ter tend a doomed juror to an asylnm ban to ostracise him mentally and norally without a bearing, and leave him' to run at large to seek the sytnpa thy of those who live in and breathe the social atmosphere of a lower plain. Ostracism, whether social, civil or po litical , tends to degrads, create and to strengthen the cords that draws to gether and binds in chains of adamant th* whole class thu* degraded. It be comes a. body politic, compact and fi«ly framed together and co llated by that political sympathy i*t characterizes those ot a common iterest, and I may add,that where the iws or usages of a country creates common interest, concert of action i the ballot box mnst and will follow. These suggestions foreshadow the future of all republics which dare ig nore the fundamental troth that * ’* popular governments advaloram tion and representation are of right aud ought to be inseparably connected, whether in the jury system or in the halls of legislation all else being equal. These facta being admitted by thi action of the government, it foRowt that every citizen of tbs country being subject to a reasonable qualification should have the right and be required to serve as a grand or traverse juror, -objected only to a challenge for in- competeuey by tbe litigants directly interested. All history shows that he interest of a people is safe in the halls of legislation where intelligence nd virtue predominate, and I would icre emphasize th* remark, that where wisdem and virtue predominate, as in tbe South, tbe rights of the people are iver protected against the aggressive novement of imbecility and corruption, and we’have no reason to fear in a de liberative body of grand or traverse ju ra that the result would be differs at. Iu conclusion, allow me. to say that I am no* in my eigh h decade, have itched closely for fifty years the ef ts of our jury system upon the rights of litigants and the morals of society, I know its defects and have seen its alures. Tbe evil has grown to. inch will be thus incarcerated and her life will be a crucifixion, ns was the with Mrs. Sigonrncy the great poetess and the great soul. Sometimes consecrated man will be united to a fury, as was John Wesley, or nnited a vixen, as was John Milton. Some- aee, and generally, both parlies are blame, and Thomas Carlyle is an intolerable scold, and his wile smokes and swears and Fronde, tho historian, is mean enongh, because of the shekels he gets for the manuscript, to poll aside the curtain from the life-long squabble at Craigenputtock and Five Oheym Row. Some say that for the allevia tion of all these domestic disorders of which we hear easy divorce is a good prescription. God sometimes authoriz- ““ divorce as certainly as he anthoriz- marriage. 1 have just as ronch re gard for one Jawfally divorced ms 1 have for one lawfully married. Bnt you know, and I kuow, that wholesale divorce is one of onr national sconrges. ot surprised at this when I think of the inflaences which have abroad militating against the marriage relation. For many years the plat forms of the conntry rang with talk about a free love millennium. There were meetings of this kind hold it Academy of Mnsio, Brooklyn, Cooper Institute, New York.Tremont Temple, Boston, and all over the land, f f the women who were most pi in that movement have since been distinguished for great promisenosity ol affection. Popular themes for occasions were the tyrauny of mar •pprestion of the marriage relation, Oman’s rights and the affinities. Prominent speakers were women with •hort curls and short dross and very ong tongue, everlastingly at war God beesnse they were created wc while on the platform sat meek with soft accent and cowed demeanor, pologetic for masculinity, and holding he parasols while the termagant rot on preaching the gospel of free love. That campaign of about reaty years sent more devils int marriage relation than will be ex ed in the next fifty. Men and women went home from aach meetings so manently confused as to who their wives and husbands that they got out of the perplexity, and the criminal and civil courts tried to disen tangle the Iliad of woes, and this one got alimony, and that one got a limited divorce, and this mother kept tbe chil- tiplied causes of divorc., we from the time when the courts will have to set apart whole days for appli cations aud all you will have to proye against a man will be that he left his lippeis in the midiilu of the floor, and all you will have to prove against a oman will be that her Imsband’a over eat was buttonless. Causes of divorce donbled in a few years—doubled in Frauce, doubled in England and donb* the United States. To khow how very easy it is, I ha' magnitude that its arrest can only be effected by a sweeping stroke of civil and political ostracism or a wise utili zation of th* weaker dement in o midst. The former is not desirable . in harmony with tbe geaine of our Re public, and we bn single alterna- utilize and' control by' superior n tbe weaker * * >y virtuous ex plain of usefulness. Submitted for th* consideration of the Representatives of Old Bcstxk. Debility in ndalte is often eaueed by worms. Tbe change from childhood manhood is not sufficient to rid tbe system of this twfnl plsgue.-Shriner’e Indian Vermifng* will cxpellthem nod restore health and-, bright oomplexion. Worm Candy, Shriner’s Indian Vermifuge .strictly vegetable andeoi these went into graves and th into an insane asylnm, and all went destruction. The mightiest war ev made against the marriage institution was that free love campaign, sometimes under oue name and sometimes undei another. Another influence that hat waired upon the marriage relation bai been polygamy in Utah. That is i stereotyped caricature of the marriage relation, and has poisoned the whole land. .Yon might as well think that in have aa arm in a state of i tification and yet the whole body be sickened, as to have those Territo- rie« polygxmized and yet the bodjr of the nation not feel the putrefaction. *Wr it', good men and women of .merles, that eo long as 1862 a law wm passed by Congress forbidding po- in the Territories and in all ss where they have jurisdiction. Twenty-two years have passed along and five administrations, the power of government ^ anpy at their disposal, and yet the first brick has not been knocked from that fortress of libertinism. Every President in his inaugural has tickled- that monster‘with the straw of con damnation and every Congress has stultified itself iu proposing^some plan that wonld not work. Polygamy stands Utah and in other of the Territories to-day mote intrenched and zen and more puissant and more brag gart and more infernal than at any ‘me in it* history. James Buchanan. ranch-abused man of his day. did more for the extirpation of this villainy than all the subsequent administrations dared to dp, Mr Buchanan sent out S.rmy, and although it waa halted its work, still he accomplished more than the subsequent administrations fhieh have done nothing but talk, talk, talk. I want th* people of to know that for twenty-two years wa have had's'positive law pro hibiting polygamy in the Territories. Ppdplo are crying out for somo new law Ssthpngh we had not' a*n ‘ old -law si tes.ir with which that infamy could be swept info the perdition from which it tmokpd.ap.. , Pojygamy ,in Utah has warred against the marriage relation throughout tbe land. It is impossible r —lqoi- mding up its miasma, which is wafted by the winds north, south, slat ind west, without the whole land being tffected by it. Another influence that •** warred against tho marriage rela- : ' * ntry has been pestulom literature with its millions of sheeti •vary week choked with the stories oi lotne»lic wrongs and infidelities and DAHtL-icres an t outrages until vondfr to me that there aro any decen- :ies or auy common sense.left, on lbr abject of marriage. Qoe-lialf of. .the ~ nd* of Brooklyn and Nev? York . reeking with filtlf. say some, “wo admit all these ind the only way tp clear them them i« by easy.diyoife.” — -i-ii ,L-t — m id all oni Well young man of 2f* years of age, yfarrpfkge. bar tjw habit of strong drink fixed bh Min, lj? is as certainly bound for a drunkard’s" ^gravc aa that the train -starting oaf/roni Grand Cen- tial. Depot, at ti o'clock, to-morrow morning i\ bound /wi,,Albany. The iqay ,nvt"teach'Albany,* for "it - : - i be throwrf frotn 'tho''tiac!;. . The Vonhg man ftray not reach* drunkard’* grave; ftir something may throw bin off the iron track ofvvB; bufthe probi ability is that the train .that starts to, morrow tnorhinjr atT o clock'for Al- bSny will fcet there,’and tho probabili ty is that the young mati who hWs : th« habit^wf strong-dribk-fixedi on him be- foio 25 or 30 years oi ago will, arrive at a drunkard’s grave. &ha knows he drinks, although he tries to ludo it by chewing cloves. -Ererj tody knows he Jtinka Parents warn, neighbors and to*** w*rife ti sbe is unsuccessful in tbe cxicn- f. why then tho'divdice !nw wilt emancipate her, because habitual draakenaesa ii a cause - for divorCs in Indiana, Kentucky, Florida, Connecti cut and nearly alliim .States. So the poor thing goea (o’ tho alUrot sacrifice, b yoq will Hhojv tun thej»©ye(ty-4fqck Connecti- streets,many qity.J will show you the homes' of the women who married men' to reform them.- In umrebse edit often thousand it may be a successful-exper iment; I never s«w<he successful ex periment. . But havo a.rigorous divorce ^4 l ^ al will say:\ ‘ If 1 Wer liw , Ohio » marriages c proportion of divorces brated is one to eleven, in Rhode Is land is ono to thirteen, in Vermont is i to fourteen. Is not that easy •ugh? I want you to uotice tha} frequency of divorce always going loug with the dissoluteness of society. b»me for five hundred years had hot ine case ol divorce. Those were her days of glory and -virtue. Then the ign of vice began and divorce became tpidemic, and if you want to know how rapidly the empire went down ask Gibbon. Do you kuow how tbe Raign was introdneed in France? By 20,000 cases of divorce in one year 'n this coun try and in all lands is that divorce be difficult. Then people, before they enter that re lation, will be persuaded that there will probably be no escape from it ex cept through the door of the sepulcre. they will pause on tho verge of that relation until they are fullv satis fied that i; is bust, and that it is right, happiest. Then we shall marriage * ' *"* and thal have e and women will not e lation with the idea it is only a tr id if they do not like it they c get out at the first landing. Then this hole question will be taken oat of th) frivolous into lhe tremendous, and there win be no more joking about the blossoms iu a bride’s hair than about the cypress on a coffin. What we want the Congress of the United States, at this present session, move for the changing the national ConstHu- that a law can be passed which shall bo uniform all over the country, ind what shall be right in one State ‘ball be right in all the St-' what is wrong iq one State will be wrong in all the States. v? If a party in the _tparriage,rela^ i gets dissatisfied, it ‘if ouly ueces- y to move to another State to achieve sration from the domestic tie, and orce is effected ko easily that tha t one party know* of i^,U by heeing in the newspaper that Rev. Dr. Somebody, on April 14, 1884, inup^. dneed into a new marriage relation' member of the household, who ruet off ou a pleasure excursion to Newport. excursion to Chicago. Married at the bride’s house. No cards 1 There are State* of |he Union which particularly put a premium ujnjn tbe disintegration of the marriage relatioi hile there are other States, like our wn New York State, that hastbepi* ‘ idiocy of making lawful at twelve and fourteen yoa;s of The Congress of the Unitjo) needs to move at the present session for a change of the national Constitution aud then to appoint mmittee, not made up o.f single ge tletnen bnt men of families, and their families in Washington, who shall pro pose a good, honest, righteous, com-; niforr will c- vith a whole fleet of’ship] id gardens of pedceL” divdVeo’ltw will ale< Ballads onr American poet puts into the lips of a repentant husband after a ^Utok” nK5et ,n hMkven 1 ywwM w* If wa loTwfeach other better beesnse we quarreled ybnhg and if now in the aMor 'of his love, and-1 am the prize to he w np .his cups,.when he haw F?u Uje prize, surely ba will not give up his cups.”, Aud sp woman, will say to the man: “Nd, sir, yon art! aTh*dy minled to' •the' dob, and you xre married to that ovil-habit, and soyttu are married twice, and yo*. area bigamist. Go!” ' A rigorous divorce law will also «lq much to hinder hasty and incotisider- marriagbs. Under the-impression bo easily released) pooplo »tion without inquiry aud without reflection, Romance and imi pulse rule tho day. Perhaps tho only ground forthe marriage compact is that »he likes hie looks tfnd be admires the graceful way. she passes'arumuhtiu! ice ream at tho picnic! It is all they know bout each Jr. i<»il the prepar- tion for life; A. man net abio to pay hi* own board bill, with.pot a dollar in his possession,win'sta'm! at the altar and take the loving ha'rfd nnd any, with ail my worldly goods I thee endow! A fromun that could not make a loaf of bread .to save her. life will ,promii cherish and obey. A Christian •tarry an atheist, : and that ’ al makes conjoined ^wretchedness, f.» re the.s is.a God, he is neither to bo trastc.L with a doliaij aor with your lifelong happiness? Hav ing read much about lovo iiia cottage, people brought tp in ease will go '‘and tarve in a hovel. Ruuatvav matches nd elopements, 95»9 out of 1,000 of rhich mean death anil hell, multiply >n all hands. Yon sen them in every day’s newspapers. Onr-ministers in this region have no defence such as they other the I b# previously published officer ef tjio law must give a certificate that all is right. So clergymen an left defenceless and unite those win ought never to bo .united. IVrbspi they are .too young, or perhaps they ire standing already in Home dom .•onipact. By the wreck of 10,000 hi by tbw holocaust of*10,00H sacrificed’ and women, byitbo he«uh»l< the family which is tbe corner btoua of tins State, and in the name of that God who hath net up tfic family^stL tntion and who hath made the break ing of the marital oath the most .ippa!< ling of all perjuries, l implore the Con gress of the United plates tq make righteous, hnj^orm law fi s, aud from ocean to oceat ubp»ct of marriage and di law th: ■ything from Sandy Hook the Golden Horn. That will put end to brokerage in marriages. That, will send divorce lawyers into a <\eccnt. business. That will set people agita- tated for many years on the qoestion of how shall they get away from eacl} ( adjust unfayor- “ oft di- planning how they i themselves to the more or lesi able circumstances. More difficol vorce will pot an estoppel to a great extent upon marriage as a financial speculation. There are men w^o go. into the relation just as they go into Wall street to purchase share*. The. female to be invited into the partner ship of wedlock is utterly unattractivq, and in disposition a suppressed Ve*oi- ; vius. Everybody knows it, .but thi* masculine candidate for matrimonial orders, through or through the t out how much estate is to be inherited, and he calculates it. lie thinks'out how long it will be before tbb old inan will die, and whether he can stand the refractory temper until he does die, and then he enters the relation, tor he 'If l cannot stand it, then throngh the divorce law I’B b*6k out.* That process is going on all the time, and men enter the relation' withoet' ahy moral .principle, without any affection, and it is as much a matter of* stock speculation a* anything that transpired yesterday in Union Pacific. Wabisl and Delaware and Imckawanna.' Now, suppose a man understood, as he ong^f to nnderstand, that if be goes intoYhat relation there is no possibility "of his getting ont. or no probability, be wonld be more slow to- put-bin neck iu'the yoke. He 1 would any] to himself, “Rather than 'a Caribbean whirlwind iy to the liutadrfids of 'young peo ple in this housetMrf - morning; before you givey onr heart.aud band.'in holy alliance-use all caution J inquire outside is to^ habits, j explore tha disposiliqn, icrntinize the taste, qheriion the, try and finfl' dut tlib-ambitions\ take tho heroes .and* heroines of cheap novels - for model: Do not put lifetime happiness in the ktcpii man who. has a reputation of being a little loose in morals, or in the keeping of a woman %ho drenbes fast. Remem ber that while good looks arc a kindly gift of God, wrluktS!*or accident n despoil tbefii. dlf-ni'eiTri-fer that* By: was no mere celebrated for his beauty than for his depravity. Ueueinber that Absalom's hair was not meic splendid than his h*bit*. were despicable. Hear it, hear, it: The only foundation f happy marriage that : eve?has been ever wiH. hois good character. At-k father,and mother’s counsel in this most important step of your lite. They aro good advisers. They are the ' Irieml* you over had. They made sacrifices fdry«Wthan lifly-ohb eh er did, and they will do more to-day for your happineos ehau any othor. peo ple* 'Ask them an.t mbevo ali-fc*k GtSd. I.used tpemil* at. JolinUn/v. nof Had- dingtauj*catre»>,rw jien, bp ."**• about to olTer Lis hand, ami heart in marriage tb one who hecamt^ hi? life-long com panion, he opened the coftTertsation by •aying.» tu psay.” But 1 have eau Romany abiflrreek« un thn eea of matrimony I have mpde up my mind tLait John Brown of^ Haddington was right. : A nhi6ri foAnedin'pra'jef will e * happy'Tftiioti, though ricKti#gs pale the check and poverty>empty the brcid tray and death open tbu 'Hui^U graves, and all the _path_ ofJjje_ba_strewn with thorns.Jxpqt ihtyjBJafriagq^dltr, ,wjth its wetloidg march and orange bld.«sqihs clear on to the'last fkreweH ai that gate-wlier© Isaac r a9d Rebecca,' Abraham and.Bara, t A Jam and Eve parted- Ajuhiet «q a And let me aay to those of you who are in happy married union, avoid first qoarrela; have no unexplained corres pondence with former admirers; culti- vate no suspicion; in a moment of bad tdafSer do not rush ont and loll the neighbofaTdo hot let any of those gade about* of society onload in your house jtbefr baggage of gab and tittle-tattle; do not stand on your rights; Jaatn how tq apologize; do not be so proud, or so stubborn, so davilisb that you will not make up. Remember that the worst 'domestic misfortunes and scandalous divorce esses started from little Infeli- Miiei. The whole piled up train often railway car* telescoped and smashed at th* foot of embankment 100 feet down ci'tqo to that catastrophe by getting two ,or three inches off the track. Some of hr greatest domestic misfortunes and lie wildest resounding divorce cava have started from little misunderstand ings that were allowed to go on and go intil home, and respectability, and re- igion, and immortal soul went down the crash, crash! And fellow-citi zens, as well as fellow-Christians, let have a divine rage against anything that wars cn the marriage state. ’Blesa- fd institution. Instead of two arms to fight the battle of lit*, four. Instead of two eye* to scrutinize the path of life four. Instead of two shoulder* to lift the burden of life, four. Twice the *n- ergy, twice the courage, twice tbe holy —I-'*:— —tho probability of ’ , . rice the prospects of .heaven. Into that matrimonial bowar God (fetches two souls. Outside the bower for all contentions snd all bick- jerings and all controversies, bnt inside that bower there is room for only one guest, the angel of love. Let that au- . ad at the floral doorway of the Edenie bower with drawn sword to hew down th* worst foe of that bow- •—easy divorce. And for every Par- ( lise lost may there be a Paradise re- igained. And after we quit our home ‘herefnay we have a brighter home in ven, at the windows of which this men are faces which this moment faces watching for our arrival, and wpnileriug why so long we tarry. Jteluslngr to Eat After Hia Mis tress Was Buried. New York Times. ingnlar exhibition of fidelity on . rt of a house dog was shown in Stapfeton, Staten Island, daring the j’*»t week. Last Tuesday morning Mrs. Walter Odell, wife of a tinware dealer in that village died. A Scotch terrier, named Fido, had been a pet of Mrs. Odell for the past twelve years. During the two months that Mrs. Odell was tick Fido remained continually at her bed. After her death the dog per- nistod in lying beside her coffin, and he following it to the hearse, trying to jorap inside. When the funeral pro cession reached the grave Fido was there, and he watched the interment. Then ha returned home ami took up hia former position besids the bed late ly occupied by Mrs. Odell. The dog from that time refuted to eat. aud be ingry at any efforts to disturb or feed him. At times he moaned in a low -On Sunday Fido came across a pair •f shoes that formerly belonged to Mrs. Odell, and had been thrown ont doois. These he took up in his mouth and car ried to his 6efl-aaaigned post, near the bed, and placing them on tbe floor, laid his head and forepaws across them, in whicji position ha remained rertral hours. Daring Monday night Fido rouRed the household by his moans, and Mr. Odell, who was very much attach ed to the animal, weut to the room Fido looked up and Advertising Cheats. “It lias become so common to write the beginning of an article, in an ele- gaut, interesting manner, then run it into some advertisement that we avoid all Mich, and simply call attention to the merits of Hop Bitters in as plain, honest terms as possible to induce peo- 1 them om> trial, which res their valne that thei anything elre.” sill n “The Remedy so favorably noticed in all the papers, religions and secular, to having m largo sale, and isHOppIant- ing all other medicine*. “There is no denyiug the virtues of the Hop plant, and the proprietor* ot Hop Bitters have shown great shiewd- ness and ability in compounding a med icine whose virtues are so palpable to every one’s observation.” "No! she lingered and Raftered along. . pining away all tbe time for years.” “The doctors doing her no good;” ‘“And at last was cared by this Hop Bitters tho papers say so much abont.” Indeed! Indeed! Bow thankful should be for that medicine.'’ bed of misery, from a complication of kidney, liver rheumatic trouble ami Nervous debility, under tha care of the best physicians, who gave hsr disease various names, but no relief, and now -1 " ‘s restored to us in good health by imple' a remedy as Hop Bitters, that we-bad shunned years before using it,”r-rT«a Paaxsrrv. a ,. , raxHxaris ormxo wxu.. My daughters say. “how much bet- t father u since he usad Hop Bitters. Hp ia getting well after his long suffer ing from a disease declared incurable. And we are ao glad that he used your Bitters.” A Lady,of Utica, N» y. lie to the Ohurch yon-'*ought each otherHaathif sometimesothrough |4ifto«nce qf qpipjoq tf ^renc«^f-dis- If lear ami.fdrbear, remembering that' | life at the longest bwbbrtJiind that »for those wlm -hare -been-bad It mated ia this world death -will givVa*<jkick anl imoiediat* billwLdivaeoeaeal; ^written MjHsijf a*** mUn you m&y hppreiVH bttter&JlieivhnTriAnyhdbkVk ated each other on earth. Iir-tSfer Farm Why Not Co-opernto In Merry’s Work. Supreme Conrts have decided and learned Judges say that the contracts mads tor the. continual maintenance of tha world-famed Charity Hospital at New Orleans, La., by the royal gift of 91,000,000 from The Louisiana State Lottery Company must ever stand as a bright example of tbe sanctity of a pledge made by n sovereign State. It i# jq^t, it U right and M. A, Dauphin, New Orleans,-La., will give any far ther information to persons desiring to co-ojvertitein any way in thi* work of