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VOLUME XXPT.
Egdware, Crockery, &c.
THE OLI I- 4.Nli POPULAR
if A It DIV A It E STOR
CODDINC & RUSSELL,
Invite the attentlup of the public to their stork
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11A Ruw.xg E (-,1001);i.
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COOK STOVES
or the iult;t alpro%e4l p:ttterl
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PARLOR & IFEATINU STOVES.
vari.ty
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CA PEN TEE s''POOLS,
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GAS;FINTURES.
CIIA N I►ELI 1.:,,R5, BRACKETS,.
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A t.;;n•aily
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In emilc, , N.triety., 6f our own manufacture. NNar-
1-mited flrst-ch,
all kiwis in our Itne promptly att.'n•
(ie.', to. Tin r...lfi. and care.: tr, , ugins put up in the
nn,t ,atiNta,tury 11131111 yr. at ~1,11. to tice.
GAS r I- - 11"11N1.1 A-Nl> PLUMBING
A :I“,lalty. WE tr. vE THE( Ll' I'ItACTI
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our 44.1 irlotlis and tilt- p;rbti{•
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ranw the m'e Wier you gr...ater inthweinctit3
that? any other estaliarli•lleut hi the ca:utitry.
carve a hirg-r peculiar facilltie;
rueclia•:ag.
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large Stock or Fall and Winter goods,
and art I)r )Dared to- FSllibl t
Greater variett• of Goods, and at
..liore attractive prices than over be-
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COME ONE, COME ALL 1
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Now is the time to buy everything
in Pry Goods and Notions cheap, at
0.-A. BLACK.
',Powell Co.
Are now •receiving their Second
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J'OWELL & co.
Towand:4.. 'Out: 13. 1x75
OCT. 14
KENT I BLISS,
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1 t package prices.
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KENT & BLISS, -
OFFER 'EMS DAY,
i)NE CASE OF SHIRTING PLAIDS
At wholesale price. -
LSO,
iNE. CASE DV TWILLED CRASH. .
to lie sold at
JUItISI\U Pl I€E .
C►i"!t STOCK
Will fozval mono complete than ever.
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No. 3,
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Mournfully : MOurnfu ly : Mournfully !!
:sing .ti the Autumn wlml to.day; I
Whlrling the leaves (rpm bush and Irrti
sObbing :uul roaning,
,' fikhlng and roning.
Whltt'llng.at tlmealltte a child at play:
Wl:lspering anon, as' passes by.
Tale forgotten among years; '
Ending Its tale with 'a sigh;
Sinking Rivelee till tt'sortuds. at iitnem,
Like yipplintwaves oeumstent Chimes.
Chadgefnlly I Fil fully t 4 colemuly
Sings the AUtu'rrt AV ad tO-dayt
We - tiding the boughs m the shirring trees
',ts'ettering the leave. like ocean's spray:
Lisping and ooing,
As if It were wooing.
Summer back froni th farnway:
Then changes Its song f peaCe,
With angry blast complains again,
And whirl's its dead lelve:i o'er the Vain:
Bending the bushes, red
:With the berries, whir tell ny so plain,
Of the Autumn. and owers now dead.
1
Mockingly Mocklugl.; I Mockingly :
Shfri th 6 Autumn w1:41 to-clay:
Laughing derisively Mt, We Sigh, ‘,
• 'While the sheet floNVerb,,
We onee call 41 ours
Withered and dead aviund us lie
?locking tiS still. as tearfureye
We thank the Father; That.lky•antl-lty
A suininerrimies. NV lqh will last. for aye.
no dead leaves fal the pilgritti:s way
Milli
4
Story Succossfiilly Told.
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Pre tt3-,pl ti mii Mr. Arch i bald Steele
ote the following paragraph in one
her letters to her husband the oth
day
John must con e down here at
alive, whether you c'an spare him' or
not. Oor dear little Laura is greatly
tafthu with a tall, lthin young man,
with a hooked no' e and thin lips,
called Stuyvesant. It is whispered
abront the hotel that he is a very
good match, and las the veritable
bide blood of the old Dutch governor
in his veins. I in st say it has a
queer way of showing itself, for the
yoking man is as pale as a spectre ;
anl dressed in that white duck ) with
hi sunken eyes an bilious skin, is
en ugh to frighten o e. I ha'e grown
tohate him, while aurals growing
to do quite the contrary, I'm afraid:
Al the ett , hing• 4i lolls up agalbst
thl
wall, neVer dancing, or opening
hi. mouth save to give vent to some
ha eful sarcastic criticism upon the
se ne around:him, 4nd yet dear little
oth
erL
pretty eyes about—are perpetually
be eeching him for lttention. In the
da.-time he is always with a long
3 1
bl
goingek horse, that coivers more ground
will its legs when it is than
ttan• Mina I ever saW: Wheritattra
I
go t ‘s alit to drive behind it, and Tan
isl es out of sight with the bony
cr ature, I tremb e to think how
dr adfol it would if our dear little
girl4voulil ever bee me part and par
ce of this wretch 'd man and his
wi ked beast. So think John had
I
be ter come, dnvh at once. I just
long to see hrn
is hlindsoe face and
her his honest voice, and I think it
is iabout time John should tell his
little story to Laura, and have things
settledcomfortably,'"
t Mr. Archibald Steele smiled when
beiput the letter oe his wife in his
w istcoat pocket, ail(' piCking up the
in ruing paper, scai ned through his
go d-rimmed spectiteles the news of
th day. Finding nothing therein to
rule the exceediUgly satisfactory
I I
condition of his affairs, he put it
down, and smiled again as only a
pkisperous, ebnteuted, down-town
merchant can smile. lle was one of
thOSe happy exceptions to the ordi
nary rifle of mortal, with whom ev
erything went well. His whole ap
pe trance was anexclamation point
tol
that effect. If li ventured 'a little
hazardotisly in ti-ad ,fortune trimmed
her sails to favor hi . If he set his
heart upon anytiiire* relating' to dt>-
';
pestle felicity,all the elements of art
!Ind nature conspired to bring it
about. So when lie stepped to the
door of the office and beckoned to a
young man with a strip of commer
ciiil paper in his hand and a pencil
be mind his ear, with that general air
of briskness and shrewdness about
him that betokenedi& successful mer
chant. in embryo, r. Steele smiled
the third time, with the air of one
wlio was not at all afraid of any
bilious, blue-blooded obstacle that
might be 'thrown in the path of a
domestic happiness lwhich he firmly
believed had been arranged by an
omnipotent hand. r '
' John," said M. Steele, closing
t 4 door of . his Ovate office, and
looking upon his piano - clerk benev
-Antly, "I've got ali order here from
1
It s. :Steele, which I r l wish you would
t eIo-
I,aid John. "Shall
o o i u
'articles myself?"
i t '
, c i
elrta and
di 3 .
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`Why, the fact iii, John," said the
rchant, enjoying his joke mote
id more, " its'oLly one article7la
,her bulky one. 'lt was bargained
long ago. I think you will have
go with it, John 1"
' Down to the seashore!" said
ilin, getting a litt e hot and flushed.
is it a very valut ble parcel, sir . ?"
- Well, perhaps -our natural mod
y may depreciate its worth, John.
-s. Steele and I (think a good deal
' it, and Laura, t o—l'm sure she
Rs. The comm dity is yourself,
it'll. Mrs. Steele wants you to' go
wn and take a lit le, holiday there."
hen the name f Laura was run
ned. the young man's face grew
re 'flustered an 4 hot than before.
"You are very kind, i sir," he said,
. iv
end Mrs. Steele is always more like
angel than a woinan."
" Rather solid a4l plump for that,"
erposed Mr. Steele, but liking the
tram nevertheless i ,.
" But it is simp madness," pur
led John ; "to dream of further hap
.
aess than I enjoynow—your affec
?n and that of your wife; trey posi
[ion here. I don't l'care, I can't hope
anything more. Oh, Mr. Steele,
can't .tell her ni•• story, sir. She
old`shrink fro me with hoer
frog
d aversion, She is so young, so
autiful. Let meat least enjoy the
esent."
" And in the Meantime some ca
verous, bilious,que-blooded'seoun
el will carry herb off from us all !"
Then John's fade grew pale and
'rn. "If there iS th slightest feel-
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e"bi t e••
gfltr4d
tug upon ! hey .part for-40, Any
else, then indeed, Mr. Steele', my cue
is hopelesa." , : . ,
The commercial ' paper: Ifiutteret
from his hand, the , pencil fell
his ear; leaned his head , agailui':
the desk and trembled.
" Why, who would sUpti 3 Ose
could be such a eoward ? ' said - Mit
Steele, iinf)etuously. " YOnlshall46
down with ine this very day,".`
All the way to the teashore.Jolo
face wore the look of one *.
resolved to - Storma deadlybreh - , r ,
but who did hot WO to et~cbive Elie'
attempt. -- tven - *the !oceah,lwheit
confronted them, wore a tlirpateigng
look.. I.lpOn - the horizon n pilo r of
clouds formed a backgipapd, : wan
and gloomy, a great blear' mbiti;lay
in the zenith, a dense red vapor
almost touched the water,
"A verylnasty sea;". said Ms Steele.
John snuffed it in, his eye ililatiug,
his broad shoulders expandingi his
head high iu the sea-scented air. -
A tramp on the hard, wet sand,
and like a Meteor a long,llael horse
shot - by, disappearing in the Est,
leaving for John the memOry Of
charming dead crowned with Weide,'
curling hair, two kind eyes bent neon
his own, 'a white, waving hatri , ex
tend salutation: • . ,
i
'..!'John,'' said Mr, Steele, "didYcni
see the face of that man ? count
upon your saving Laura. Did You
see his thin, cruel lips, his trencher-
ous 'eyes ?"
"I only saw Laura, sir," said John,
simply.
Later on, . Mr. Archibald Steele
and his plump, pretty wife were alone
together in their private parley. Mor
dimpled hand lay lovingly in his, her
shapely head, fresh from the hands
of the Coiffehr, rested recklessly on
his shoulder.
Suddenly the door opened,--and
there was heard the rustle of silk
drapery. A still shapelier little held,
and fresher from the lianda of the
coiffeur, all unruffled by the audacious
touch of a mortal, peeped in at the
door. Laura . was pale ; her little
white hands were clasped tegether ;
her musical voice trembled.
"Oh, papa, - mamma l conic reetly !
Mr..-Stuyvesant :ventured out : top far,
and—and=' ; • .
"Was drowned ?" said M. Steele . ,
with a peculiar combination -in his
voice lof pity and relief.
" no ; how can you suppose so
dreadful • a thing? He was rescued,
but he is very weak and ill. I He, lufs
asked for me—and inns I go!? Will
you come with me, mamma ?I 011, do,
theg, of you! Can't she, papa ?"
Her blue eyes filled with tears ;
hor little feet seemed pautin4 to fly
through the corridor.
" Certainly not," said
" Lei f him wait till he is ablelte Come
to you or to'rne. Either a men is
drowned or he isn't. Because he was
imbecile enough to risk his life,' that
is no reason for your being 'the talk
of the hotel."
• Lanni raised her heait
" No danger of that,
.P4aand,
besides, every one is occupied - now
with the one that rescued hith." .
"rind what madman wa • S that ?"
said poor Mr. 'Steele, who could not
reconcile himself to the pretient con-,
'dition of affairs.
"J• don't know—a stranger, I' be
lieve; I was - so interested in 3Fr.
Stuyvesant I forgot to ask."
" Pah !" said 'Mr; Steele, getting,
upon his feet and walking to • the
door, " I'll go and find out all about
it. Do you stay here till I•return.'?
Before he had gone far Mr. Steele
heard from the. eseited guestSseveral
differeht versions of the affair; but
one and .all agreed that the rescuer
Could be nothing less than aoliampi
on swimmer.
" A regular waterld ogy' Bald one
gentleman to Mr. Steele ; and as-the
merchant
merchant had heard this epitnetused
but-once before in his life; and that
on an occasion of ;vital interest to
himself, he sought i out the hero of
the hour, and found, to his unbound
ed astonishment, it was John Waters
himself! He was quite enveloped in
the flounces and furbelows or pretty
and sympathetic women, whOlinsiated
upon knowing every half second if
he was sure he t felt strong and
and how in the world'could he buffet
those dreadful waves in that grand,
heroic way, and,how did .he manage
to drag poor, dear Stuyvesant. in to
the shore ? •
'John, like any other hero, of the
hour, enjoyed this womanly adula
tion, but looked anxiously at Mr.
Steele ivtien he approached. .
" Hum growled that worthy mer
chant ; " s pretty fellow you to in
terfere :with other people'g plans!
How do you know he wanted to be
rescued ?" ° I
" He appeared aniistua that, way,
sir," said John. " him
self about the 'like a devil-fish.
thought one time we'd both go clown
together. There ought to beta school
for teaching people how to et theni
selves be . saved. It's the easiest
thing in the world ; the water itself
is an accessory, if you manage it
right."
." Oh, do tell us how, Mr. Water. 4,
please !" chorused the pretty and
sympathetic women ; and ns John
began his lesson, 'Mr. Steele slipped
away.
"Oh, papa," began Laura, "how is
Mr. Stuyvesant ?"
"I don't know—l didn't ask," he
replied, "I was so interested in the
fellow that dragged him ash Ore. He's
an old friend of ours. The way we
made his acquaintance wasi on just
such an occasion ; he saved a lady
from drowning."
" Why, papa," -said Lanra, • " he
must be a splendid fellow I"1 • ,
"Magnificent!" said Mr. Steele.
•",You see, we_had traveled over a
considerable o the world together,
your motliernnd I while
.. li•ott
,were
yet a baby. And we found fit rather
odd one morning to discover that,
having one_
the • ocean and the
Alps, loitered in . the Hudson High
lantls,•traveled thence down] through
the Mississippi Valley, across- the
American desert to California, and
back again by another ro u te, your
mother had never been up the East
River as far as Morrisania. It seemed
so
„absurd to have neglected this
home excursion that we determined
-,upon it at once.. The Morning was
wet, but tho didn't matter. Your
. ,
mother' looked prett,lerlit water
:proof ,and , rubbera,:vritli sathevel-hat
tied down under,-hers4hi, than . pOst
rsomcfi would }n a. balt,
wasnie'n — pit.oti l itaidrhitti; 9 r. mild
be was sy little tiio'reeklessi" f.*
gettiag,,aalioria , to7'.fiee7oliiiif the instil ,
tutionk-Tor vagokopd..beysi key foot
slippedt44, 14 , 94S*PA she
poring,: I' •
.Iroic6 tilteied . f• the little:plimiti , band
hisitlfe ilippedintahis 'own; he
ilatehed,,it t aucl went on again. ' •
" Oite,..ialqttte ,as neat
and trinin
wat'Oprobf' and stovet-hat the
next she Was Itone."_. • -
" Gone!. . cried.. Laura. :," Gone
where ?:! = -; •
"latO.,the . „water jute
_the
liungry'green WaVes that stirged up
to take' her • frOtri the . Tondest
heart inlheuliiverse ;': and itit hadn't
been •for - one -or : those vagabond bQY§,‘
who: bad ,been, lnrking_ there for - 11
Chance ',to well) from •the island,
you'd have lest-us - both, iny clear, for
I mado'an'agOnized:plimge after her,
though I'M ashamed to.sar• I .could
not swim . a stroke,- and should only
have.gone to the bottom like a plum
lilet 'lead; but an Official standing
by caught and held .me, and cried
out that johny Waters had. her safe
as.a-triret ; and presently: that'. vac.-
.abond boy come .up with your &Area
mother on the other side of. the boat,
anft±thC:9flicial cried out i- "He's' a
regular Water-dog, that John.) , Wat
ers !" And these are the very words
a guest.here used in relation to John
a nunute or so ago." • -
."John!" cried poor bewildered
Laum, "our John ? Mamma ? My
rhatOma.? Was mania . the lady ?
was:J . o . lft the boy? And is it John,
our 'John, that saved poor Mr. Stuy-'
- vesantr! • • • '"
" The very same, darling- . -- - John,
our John; he's always on hand whOre
there's trouble or danger."
' "Oh :mamma!' • mammn!" cried
Laura, forgetting all the years that
had paskd 'since the' accident, and
crumpling botli the coiffured heads
in a reckless manner.
"Papa, " stiff then said, "we must
go and : tind John. I -want to tell
him hot! much I,1" • • .
. .
"Yes i dear,".. said Mr. Archibald
Steele, and 'all the way throiigh the
Corridor and 'into the parlors of the
hotel, With his plump and' pretty
wife oivone arm, his lovely daughter
on the other, he smiled.
But.JOhn was still surrounded
.by
the pretty and sympathetic women,
who had cruelly deserted the blue
bloodedldescendant of the -old Dutch
governor, lying in his most graceful
and lan tic! of attitudes on a neigh
boring tounge—the descendant, not
the got'ernor-,-atid had flocked one
and all to the. handsome and heroic
founde4 of the new school for
teaching people the way to he res
cued from drowning. .
Thesocharming creatures spent so
much of their time at the seaghore,
and it Was so necessary and so nice
to be wise
•
John was almost hidden in flounces
and, laces; but when his eyes met
LaurasElieplunged out of these-cost
ly with his usual ease and in-
trepidity. There was, something in
Laura's eyes that he had never seen
there before; a tempting languor, a
bewitching shyness, a bewildering
splendoii,that steeped his soul in mad
sweet hope.
Laura stopped a moment to whis
per to her mamma, and John gasped
out to Mr Steele: '
"If I:dared—if I only dared to tell
her"—
•
t‘l.'ve told her myself!" rlaid the
merchant. .
"That I was a , pauper, without' a
come or friends `1
"1 told the story in my own way,
John," 'pontinued, Mr. Stecle, "and I
flatter myself I told it successfully;
don't spoil it; if you please. I have
maimed the past and the present;
do you'. look out for the future,
John."':
And , John did. Laura walked
through the parlors that night; the
envied of all the pretty ,- and sympa
thetic women and brave and appre
ciative men that congregated there.—
TICE 'SPARE BED
When I „go to the country to visit
my relations, writes M. Quad, the
spare bed rises up in my imagination
days before I start, and I stiver. as
I retheinber how cold and 0-rave : like
the sheets arc. put off the visit- as
long as:Possible solely on account of
that spare bed. , I don't like to tell
them that I had rather •sleep on a
picket fence than to enter that spare
room and creep into that spare bed,
and' 'so:! they know, nothing of my
sufferings.
• The spare bed is alWays as near as
a mile and a half from-the rest of the
beds an it can be located. - Pts either
up stairs 'at the head of the hall, or
off the' . parlor. The parlor curtains
have not been raised for weeks;
everything is as prim as an old-maid's
bonnet, and the bed is as square and
true as.if it had been made up by a
carpenter's rule. No matter whether .
it be Summer or Winter, the bed is
like ice, and it sinks down in•a way
to make orie shiver. The sheets arc
slippery clean, the pillow slips rustle .
like shrouds, and one dare not stretch
his legs down for fear of. kicking
against a tombstone. ; _
He is tired and:•sleepy„ . but lie
knows the rest of the family are so
far away that no one could hear him
if he should shout for an .hour, and
this makes him nervous._ He wonders
if anyone ever died in, that room, and
straightway - he sees the faces of dead
persona, hears- 'strange noises,- and
presently' feels a chill galloping up
and down . . his back. Did any one
ever pass a comfortable night in a
spare bed ? „No matter how many
quilts 'and spreads.-covered him, he
could not get warm ; and if he ,i-cci
dentally fell asleep, it was to awake
with.a' start, under the impression
that a :dead man was pulling his nose.
It will' be days and Weeks before be
recovers
. from - the impression, and
yet he 'must suffer in silence, because
the spare bed was assinged him in
token of esteem and affeetion. •
A learner newspaper publisberid Jen
wise° pills his place of business ayrintery
;
BEM
I
1 - i
1110
MIN !AB ninanomErr,
,;11i - .. .NalibY ,11)aii . published ii.Miii 7 ,
itirjrOf `the - Rise and -4 7rilt - of tlie-On
liiiiiteet-Trns.e- and : Cniiitdenee "Cori ,
Yuc.n.f; of f;Ciiiifederit'--X-' Roods." We
;printed a fd.w , woeks sines 4n:4c:count
of: tlieiliparis4 , of that . instilitioni
;and we give • below 'the. sad story of
its decline:bid:frill ':
i MORE ANIIS 1N ME FIELD.
r." tiii ,citizens - WiCh ar'6 thOtanchest
ii:UpPorter . s iv tife --- neW, inteey hey
.de
termined thater ice lie the .. - rituto'
:iihOtt ::money,. -they. flare- the - same
rite. : And :soi jowl :more banks
1161 , bin - started. t,his
_week.
- 1
Then '.' - frontilq setTpi -in
,'chunks.
The 'peoplerwhq -- Was net interested
in- bankin ireffitized, -pint
_blanki:to.
take any tiy, theli , ishoos.- Bankswnz
~ - . . -
a _ getting . rater -to p frokent. - . - A
reackslien okkpired - agin•our money
Wicli We Who iyui interested deter
mineillo einiti to:wunst. -' •- :
1. ;-.The offishls or the five banks - in the
town7inet and (*tilde& to bold a meet-•
Ing uv th 4 citizens,: at With stePi
Amid be takeniO legalize our iShoos.
1 The meithrwss - lieldinnd lir mire
We kerried it without 'any trouble for
: Pevell-teAth'S nil eni', bed our money,
in their, pdcket4, anilithey wilt very
favorable io - 6 ri i aCkSlien that wood
keep it a bilin. iTo that end welpitat
the follerinlresiklooshens : •
.WAnEAi Thti.Deirihcrisy tiv . Ohio.
and - Penititiviiii, yi with a singerly
just appreShia - slien JO. the Wiiiits . ity
the' citizenc'uv the Cross Roads hey
denianded amore money'; and - - -
i-,.
i W.k.riE4s 1 , F ive compinieS hey ear.'
ried out' th e idec uvthe Democrisy
nv Ohio and s yenrisylvany by• furn
lshin the peoplemore,money; and ,
;' WArin.o-1 Noiwitlistandin the on
; .,
paralleled prosperity that hez result
ed frsrd the- increase. in currency,
Certin men in• ;the ceininoonity,,by
tefoozin,,, ,, to 14e - it; decline' to be
benefited ,• therefore t •he it r. •
1?e8olred.1 Thtit, this;meetiu.uv citi
enS-;demarid u, l / 4 - the . ; Town Council
that it to .wunst couVene- - and - pass
an Ordinance *kin_ the isshoos iiv
the five bankS ldga.Vtender for every-,
thing from l dri4 - s down to takes, and
that any citizen iyliti- refeozes to take
it, Or • miniuerst at it ;or in any way
discredits it, sl4-be held ez a public
enemy and be ilkulejitly hung. .
.
The whereeses and the resolooshen
wuz passedito:witust! and I felt easier.
With the owe to living all Ns:jell re
fooie . to 'take our money, I rather
think Itin rankle it ctirrent. A rope
over limb IN a tree is a persuader
Of rare mnrit, and it; iS , the,,best eiii
dorsement luv cur paper that we kin
Possibly hey. --; .
So far so good. But jist ez 1 .wuz,
feelin good over; my success, that on
mitigated cuss,' Jehitil Perkins, rose
and proposed the yoOnanirrius adep
'lnin nv tl r ic fiipliwiri WherareS
' and
iresolooshen: 1 - : . -
WAREASI Ef Slio hey' a good - thing
Soo can't h ' ev•toO much uv it; and
' WABEAS,LThd, increase uv currency
in the Corners hez bin productive uv
prosperity Sidi dz we •never. dreeinecl
uv; and •j • 1 - i
~
1 WAREAS,I It is tlteH Booty uv all
earthly guyermhents 1 to.difsiase its
blessings ekally4hereby iniitatin the
loos of heaYen, 1 with !falls • alike on
the just and onjrist ; and . • :
1 - WAREAS Theinaimtakter uv money.
I Shoot' net be confined to the few, but
hood be the privilege uv the many ;*
and ,
I 1 '
~ WAREAS,I We!rek - Ognise the justis
4nd propriety itv compelling the
People to take sch money ez may be
ishood ~ , the'reforic, be it
I Resolved,i Tlnit, every man may
ishoo his notes ny hand, in sieltsums
ez may suit his interest or conven-.
fence,
and that sich ; notes shel -be
legal tender fur everything, the same
es the noteS islinod by:our live bankin
institutions', i. • I
Ant - 1 1 ,, the d-4.d - itleots abslootly
utssed the teriolooslien without a
Ininit's
.tielriy, and they: demanded
that the: COuneil meet that very nite
arid pass the ordinance, wich it did.
• Ez everyllast Man uv em commenst
I Writin notes to *mist, and 'buying
all sorts ill?, thii*s with em, we're•li
.
'able to hav r e enntl money at the Cor
r
4erq immejitlyz..;much ez our
brethren in. Ohio and
.Pennsylvany
wood desire, even. : _,
Everything in the :shape uy labor
hez bin abandOned, jfort everybody
hez gone into thel,Cititiufakter uv cur
rency—that is i everYbody who kin
write. Thank , i Reayen' that they
never favord iikeols here—the in
ability to Shed link -is the only limit
to our irillashen. One sinter result
has followed thiS ordinance, viz : No
body hez nothing to sell.
TII4 F11%4L S:ftAtill-Ur. , • ,
There is glooln onto the Coroners!
our sun of prosperity is sot, and my
hopeS blasted. iThe Onlimited 7 rust
Confidencelis net eggSackly no more,
but it's near en4ff dead to make it
'safe to bury- Rion wencher. Its
eyes are sot. Is notes,. which is its
.holin any cirkelashen.
The people' don't take em with cheer
fulness neSsaryto a proper, - ,baukin
bizne t ss. l i segislashen don't tech em:
,The •eirdnances,*hien : made death the
penalty for relopzin our ishoos, only
workt so far ez takiu uv em for taxes.
The corpOrashim did take cm for'
taxes in Pursdoaneei uv their own
legislashioil, anal herd wuz where the
trouble begun. - The taxes wuz ley
led on a greenback basis, and the en
tire levy araoruited to $6,000. Well,
the taxes for the first, time in the his
try of the Coreners •wuz all pale in
full, and with great promptness. A
more proMpteg set of taxpayers
never send; • '
The treasurer hed uv our
ishoos when itliecuni neSsarY to buy
a plow and four spades to 'do stun
work on the roads. In vane he tried .
to git: em. gibe deafers home,.
knowin Wat, currency, W1141(.11 to pay .
in, suddenly gi)Lout 'IV plows and .
spades, and whip he - went to Looi's
vile it toOk $llOOO in our .eUrreuey
to pay his fare, and he offered the
hardware deal& the other $7,000 for
the impleinet4s he 'wanted, but : it
woodcut go. Be had, to come back
without em. ..
Then 114 came :Intl: demanded some
currency its a wichle ,cool yooe,
wileknv.corsplwe hedn't_ got none,
and tarbecumi au Opponent ) to . our
i •
Two ahoinniskers,!each with CP,-
000Ati- our, nioney,! - emlent buy a
-la Ply Annum In Advance.
MS
side -nit Sole kather to continyoo
their- Wpiss with, and hed 'to stop,
our-raleredgakand turnpikes hed to
itop l :hee" Z z , got to the pint
where - wiled to her iron and nails
its gob"things, we coixleiit go on.
So &lithe labrers'hedip' he discharg
ed, - which made a desprit populashen,
all howlin ngin ,
lint the mist wuz to come. We toad
het wethered all this, but alas! Bas
coni
.:!,.fhis wuz the - finishin .
grate :stogerer _which.: the Corners
coal not possiblfrecOver from..
1 - attempted to reason with the
I told em .that one •reaSOn
av our wealth wuZ ,:ve . .bed it in. a
currency we coodent send away from
hcime, thus keepin our - Capitul within
Ourselves..;
. but.they refooozed to list
en to Me. They d my 'bonk,
they (L--L--1.1 me, and they went for
the. honk, swearin that of there wuz
anything there that cood be convert
ed into likker Paseoin should hey it,
It is unnessary to remark that they
didn't find anything. • Jintisiipattip
aii onplesantnis, we lied removed the
.valynobles to a place up, safety, with
wuz the .underside "uv my bed at
Deekin 'Pogrom's. . -
Then' they demanded that the mon-
Tey they held be redeented, into suthin
they cood.- goose, :but uv course we:
'declined to discuss the Matter / re
ferriri them to the ;terms. trot the ishoo
ez expressed on the note, ez well ez
thet own indorsenient uv the skeem.
But this didn't, satisfy On. They
deliberately brought ont $6,75,000 uv
the ishoos - mr- : the varions - banks, and
piliu 11‘;, it Up=on the street; sot fire
to it; dancin 3 . demonia6 dance-around
it. This ninoozed ine,for course
ice led liO'earthly objeCkshen to their
red ecteitt uv it in. that way, tut when
I seed em riggin ropes'to the trees in.
the'lvicinity I remarko to my fellow
officers: "Gentlemen, your Presi
dent haS preisin biznis'in - yOnder, for
est," and I got out ez rapidly ez my
poor ~waistid limbs 'wood permit.
Indeed, wen
.I turned and sax ten or
a dozen. uv_ the' foremoSt men uv the
Corners clost • behind! me and all
shoiitin Hang the ci cl thief!" no
gentle gazelle that I ever heerd uv
ever skimmed the plain ez I did. I
did not cease runnin till I got into
the middle uv the swarnp. -
Wat beeome xis- the other drekters
I don't know. The - lafit fond look
that I turned toards the bank-I saw.
Issaker' Gatitt and Beekin Pogratn
strugglin in the hand's uv the mob;
wick wtr2: playfully _forein' em to
sit - ,doWn- on a bnrnin 'pile nv their
Owpicurreney. I '
'N. B. I .hey heered from-the Corn,
ers. - The ougrateful' L people, after
half - Minn the officerS uv the bank,
passed resOlooshuns that we wuz all
a pack uv tbeeves, and that them ,ez
• lied sold land and sich-for our money
shood soo for reeoverytherefore, and
that they'd 'hang any judge whfch
woodent deside agin us, Base6m
hez - gone back onto us, and hez sold
back to Pollock and Bigler 'the store
we bot ity em, and hez got greenbax
enuff to . git a few barls oflikker, and
hez- re-Opened. He hez puCthe price
likker down to five cents agin,
and refocizei to take anything.for it
but nickels and postalCurreithy.
sez-lie. ain't gittin ez meny east-loads
us' money ez he did bi,the ,inflashen
,eriod, lint .he's• satisfied. I.'lie most
iv the citizens is bankrupt, and roo-
.
in is everywhere.. Oh why did their
faith give oa'n.t the wrong 'time!
la • . 1 P. V. N. .
. .
, - , -10-44110.0.-.------
MODERN DRESS AND MANNERS.
.
It is a bad sign then men cease to
tespeet women of the* own or, in
deed, of any class;, bit the,- women
themselies are- to' blame for the in,
tolerable' ilippent . and impertinent
tone pervading young societY. We
do not want to go back to the for
malities of Sir Charles Orandisoni
and there is a winding', Charm in nat
nralnesS not to be had front the most
perfected artificiality. NeVertheless,
a slight return to Old World forms
of courtesy, a little dash ofthat state
ly reverence of speech land demanor
which our forefathers exaggerated
into pedantry, would 'be - a gain in
times when the'young.men giVe, as
their greatest praise of a girl. "There
is no nonsenmabouCher," meaning no
bashfulnesS, no re4Crve, no girlish
shrinking Modesty;l - while the girls
jtistifyilie:complimeut by Calling the
young men""dear boys," and some-
times. when they have ,less nonsense
even than usual, and desire a closer
assimilation of style, "old iuen."
Tliis is the "form" which is taught
and held up for admiration iii the la
test,
.novels of the day, and it is' hilt
to,exaggerate the degree in
which these Writings have tended 'to
corrupt and , degrade the; sex . who
chiefly .write and read them. All
these things are patent. Patent, too,
is the inferenee that When a moman,
from no 'fault of her 'Own,. falls* into
trouble, she suffers for thel mistakes
and follies of her class and; the times;
Personally she may be whollyblame
less ; but with all these lines of de 7
thareation blurred,' these. distinctive
characteristics confused, it is almost
inevitable that there should be
takes. i Until .we mine tb - "a more
ethereal condition of existence the
burden of self-protection - must, we
fear, lie on the women theMselves.
That burthur is not very i heaVy, and
the penance It include's:not very bit-
ter. It only that Modest ; women
Must Show what they are* a series,
of negatives, and take care not to ex
pose. themselves to take:,
by an , attractiveness of out-of-door
dress, a . doubtfut manner of : speech
ard a Bohemian of behavi
for to strangers which shift the labels,
mislead their. companions, and end
in: the confusion of a 'Mistaken affini--
ty,lfy which they tbeniSelVes arc the
greatest sufferers in the end:L.Bom--
da y Teri• 7
ODE to my Ipn'illady—two weelea board
bill:—Exchange. Yes.- She tinder stanza
joke of that kind, and that's why you're
a verse.to meter, we suppose., • •
" TUE first step toward wealth," says
an exchange, "is the choice of a good'
Wife."i• And the first step toward seem' ?
frig a wife. is the possession. of good
wealth. •
Puricisr.• old pity: "Conductor, do,
i.n.ny. 'get on. rNV an' appointment—".
Condnetort "AU right, sir Now, look
alive,Bill, here's a hold gent want's to
meet his young 'ootnan,"
011
NOME 2.0.
a j I-..Eir-.8g.A.: is -IiS.:Z.,,
SL:olliint xir: I:ii- ooinxsireir;iir. iestr. vii :o
Fouttrit QuArratf,:,. J 4149. ~s - : - : 4...
--lhiaiiiitalitilCs discourse (iti . 4oslti '..-,':
this {lop .. 1' compate'ehs,p,44•ll! ~,af app:',...,.;,
„....
ken aftee.Chilitandliiilikriskt .
.. , . ,
the Upper room,. end ..while;: en AhelewllY
•o•Getbseinanii. new eameA.T* Lord s
`.select this figure , 'or - the - vine and 05 .
,branches? Blithe siimiese it was
!ed bi the wine cuptaiffslfiutipet.4. •
•Thiaiiirobable. I _lint ;perhaps -.a hetteri
'ideals that it was ria. ,4 4isted : - *seeingia
:vitus!and its , peadelSk . lirsklies..":en, their, •
:way.' The truth ille4td , br-tii. l9. I,rt •
-linial# the preciatui truth of 'tlia 3 organic -•-•
life- . Union of, Christ anti - all 'believers. s
They live in hint. - Ilei is • their ) life , and .
the source of all High' , frnitfulnes4; 4ipatt ~
from him they .wither and - die.. 4t - is ;he
'same truth that St. Paul sets' forth undlr- -.
the similitude oi: the bead and, its inent- -- ,-.
bets.' Ephesians v:Ilii; colas: ii: 19. i - "
V. I. "I am the true vine,!' The Avoth •
translated true means time to the' him',
genuine, . essential;', original, as , :f.listin4t. •
ftum what is derived, ecipied,typicat
shadowy,' and more or less,imperfect. , it .
does Mot denote what is trite in api7.o sitiou
td wbat is false. Christ is the isisentia ,
s ..
original vine: all oilier vines are 'derived
. .
and typical. Ile is the living ,Kitirce of
A
all life and' fruitfulness - . ' "And my PI -;
titer is the husbandman." . ThiS expre
es his subordination to his Fatheii not
lo,his_divine nature, but as tO his medi -
torial state and work. His Father dire -
ed -.omin the mauifestationkof his life .
it llOvVed out into friiitfulnal; lie, spa '
throngit hini, 'he ivil#ight . ' all hittl war.
Son lle did with him, as of Man, apordin
to his will, as the huSbanclman (lees wit
"the vine. And in like inanuer , lie dea
With the branches. : . Ile is Abe ,LOrd c
the vineyard, ~ .
' I • /- i •
V. 2., "Every branch." Belie t ers al
ithebranche'S (v. 5). They form aulprgan'
whole with him through the communi
of his Spirit, ;and receive his qtdekerii
life: Their' fruit is liis fruit. - - "In me.
That is, in professed union' with in
Christ speaks here in an external Manner
as it 'appears to men. He does • ni:.t me- i
that any one can be vitally unitcdto;hi
and receive his life without bearing frui
'We might paraphrase his worth" A
s j
member of the visible church thatibOret 1
Upt fruit." I The fruit isdefinedin Clal,
22-23. ' "Ile taketb away',.' (or - 'ciit 1
,
oft). The idea is that of pruning l awn: •
the dead or 'unprofitable brandies Th s
was done
,generally by vine-dressers, b t
was sometimes participated in by the pi
trietor himself as a light and'plea3'sant,o -
;cupation. So all prtifessed,.belleVerswi 4.
do not bear the fruitS : of the Spirit will
rejected: cut off._ "And' every brane i
that bcareth fruit, he purgeth it (ratite ~
he pruned' or .cleanseth it), that; it mk -
Ining forth more fruit." • 'Judicionsprtni
ing ....ondoces to greater fruit fnlnes in fl , 4
vine: so in the ' vineyard, of gracc.!. tl I
prunings ,of .Gitx•rs band (afllicthinsl an
temptations)` lead to increased' Itolin s efi
and fruitfulness. ''fhis solves the prol
lem of God's " s prnvidence as At r e lates
belies:en:. . ' ,
V. 3:: ' , .Now ye 'are clean (or, ~threw
ye are•elean ? ) through the Word*ldeli
have spoken unto yon:" ('lean;!:lieeani)
united to Christ. the, Vine; bee:lase -po. l
sessed,Of his indwelling' life.; Tlley we .
clean as to the inward prin r eiple of
but not as to . its outward .ma7pigestatio l
and energy. ":The purifying !lord of .11
sus'ilurt) made the :"diseiple,s clean fro
within, Must, be supiAetnenteA frOm with!
out by the rather's.sehool of Otferin.l
the lid ter, , hOwever; was not to ,giire
the principle of ,purity, loft to -f;tting,the'
it.and free it from the danfrer&;f denenet
ation."
. V.-4. - Abide in int.: and' I 'in you. '
The second clause' is usually interprete i l ' ~.
as a prom Ase , conditioned on - the first
.:
clank.. "Abide in me, and I shall- abido
in you.'' The idea nridoubtedlyi is that •
we must abide in -Christ by faith,! or el 4, -
ho will not abide in its by his Holy Spifitl. . '
"As the branch . catinot bear-froit of il- 7
scifyetc." The branch severed- from th •• • 2- '
vine becomes dry and dead; so,no - ! humai •
soul can live spirituidly and briuig fort
,1 . •
i
spiritiml fruit without Christ's life in his . •
heart. t i • i. •' 1 .1 i . .
Nr.'s..This is a Positive stateineut of
tile truth e*pressed negatively iO!,the ,
pre
ceding verse. -And at the
.s,lmei Hine it .
'gives greater emphasis. to the orpuie ail- . . •
,fithesis bet Ween Christ and his i people--- [...
an antithesis that caunet be ellanged,er
reversed. fie Li' . always - the Vpie, and:
they the branches; He the Head, l and the,y ,
the members. And to signalize this,cte,s - .- •,.
nal relation_ he addS; " Apart . fl.oin Me'
ye can do nothing." t •." Christ i.s the •be-
ginning, the middle,' and the end', of 'spi-' -..
ritual life; we can do nothing' Withont • :, •
him, but Much, • yea. verythin i g; with •
:II . e
i
him." 1 .
V. G. " Ifa man (any one) abide het in ~..
me." That. is, -if . the professed union , •
with Christ be not, 'real and actual. ~ if
any one have - only the name of Spirinial •
life. I "He is cast forthas the lin:Melt, 'and
is• Withered," .lle is east forth
. 'from the
vineyard; 1. e., the, church—heuirrejected .
..
froni the unmber Of ['Christ's blessed serf
~.
rants. "As thl! branch "—i. e.,1 the use- , ,
less hraneh, which is lopped ()Minim the -
vine, ' And men (literally 'they) gather,
then),•and cast them into the ;fil - re, and.: .
they are burned (they burn). lii the fig
ure
i "they" Means', the' servant* of. the : .
vineyard, who-gather together i i.the dead
iii - d[ withered branches, and thrOw them ..
into the vineyard fires, which:of:ay. have ;
been burning that night. along the slopes . -,
of the, valley of kedi . before the eyes of-
Christ and his discil les. in.t*,'lapplica
tion, a they " denotes all divinely ordain; ,
ed instrtiments'of judgment, bui„ 4 ,especial-
ly the angels who will act as God!s'special •
messengers in the final Judgmek. '- -,
• Itl' • "If ye abide in me." -
i !ilow call • 1 .
' • [. .
we tell whether we abide in hint "And .
my words abide in you.'' -If the word of
Christ dwells; in us . ..richly in all wisdom '.
and spiritual understanding _.then we ' •
dwell in him- His word is Ifil; life (chap. .
vi: 63). If we receive, his word 'iin faith, .
we ) , eceive iiiin. -" Ye shall,: as what what ye
will, and it shall be done unto Ton." This
means, what ye will as branch+ abiding; ,
in me; that is, what' my Spirit in ay teach
you through the wont. to ask. Thut4.
talight by his Word abiding in thein,. they
could - not fail to ask for thingsi Ogreeable
to !God's will. This passage 'seems tP,
teach that' if we submit our Wills to the
Spirit of Christ iii. connection ;with his
Word; we shall never as amiss. .I'. .
.
"V. 'B.- "•! wHerein" (in the aners.; to '
[
your .prayers) "is :my Father
.41otified, • .
that yi ..,,, much fruit" (this--defines•
hoW the FO her is to be. glorified by his
1 -1
childx): l " and yo.will become - My disci-,
ples (i. i.en c.,. ye will erow, pp, into's; full .dis
cipleihip). There is a stature of diseiple• - • . •
ship into which believers 'grow; and the
fullness of that stiltnro telorlo to him
wfio is filled full with Christ (C6l. ii: 10).
Ho who is self-emptied and Christ-fulled, -0.
•is the largest, noblest, t happies sciple.
• ti i
—4.-,«_..___.,;
Tim ;afflicted . editors of roii: ICI3 - fie,
Ind.,' have induced a judge to declare in
sane and commit Ul the lunatic asylum,
man with' an • ung,')yernabl6 .penchant for
writing Oetry. , " I la. .
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