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BATI3IIDAY, FEBRUARY. 8, • 1888
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Tan Gum= has ben selected by
- : the County Commissioners to do the
public glinting at their disposal. We
appreciate this mark of favor townros
our Journal, and receive it u fresh et
' duce of tie continued recognition of its
superior claims and merits as an adier
. thing medium. Through wise and just
ffiscrimlustion the GAZIITTZ Ins been
eelected ea official paper of Allegheny
and Pittsburgh, and, In this instance, of .
Allegheny county. We feel that these
marks of favor and partiality hare been
ihrranted by our wide tauPeztended
stirculatten, but at the acne time' cannot
help feeling under renewed obligations
to Mends who have thus far encouraged
and Muralned no in our efforts to terabit
•journal equal in sire sad general ex
:: anima° to-any published in the Coln.
inonwealth.
11W1E WE,Tener PEXITEJITIARY.
- The report of tide institution Iles te•
.• ore us, and in it" array of facts and 11,1 -
:
:area suggest" a good deal for reflection.
Haze to an extensive institution within
whose walla during the past year have
hems gathered and maintained st a large
miPause ($20,000) 840 personi ht the
• prime of life; Of EMS large number 222
have been admitted daring the year. and
..164 discharged, showing that there have
entered 68 more than hare come aut. If
o it were a churen,en a school, or even a
imriahop, this large increase and num ,
bar waald be a hope ul 6411, bat of • this
'rumba 10 were guilty of green, 28 han. •
committal burglary, 28kad stolen
hones, 28 kid seen convicted of murder,
• 19 wens eanaterfeltem, and 17 gailty of
rape: Most of them are in the prime Of
.life, and many of therm had left useful
ocesmdlou fora forhome lathe Peniten
-tiary. Ot tke 436 at present there, 9
• ware butchers, 8 bakers, It blacksmiths,
18 camenters, 15 engineers, 12 umehin•
- . ists, 28 ihoesaakers, 8 tams, 5 physi
dams .4:lat of the 488 we Ind 22.5 tem
• ;crate man, and 419 that can either read
or write, or do both.
Now.it'eertainly is a very interesting
inquiry Whit shall-be done with so large
a number of men, who by age and On
: cation might be useful, but who are and
kavwkeen worse than useless. Oan any
thing be denelar them while in raison?
• The remarkable fact in the pliYilciatt's
• nportlhat out of the one hundred and
~.fifty-two' Persons discharged only Eve
-`want'out inno better ' heallk than
which that with they had entered. Two
. or these were consumptives; 2 named
• from enlargement of the heart, and ose
from epilepai—the other 147 went, out
briproyed. This striking.fact thews that
penitentiary life may be turned to ac
Goma inimprOving the bodily dealt/sof - the
- convict. More than one-tudf, two has
Bred and fifty out of leas thari Ave hundred
• have beet taught to reed and Write, and
thett.oo under the greatest disadrantageo,
for nonw of them are - children. The
het shows that life in a pa:attempts)
ma . be turned to some account is
`its 'victims. And tf we look at the laten
_
account; Int see that a prison nog bs
'mad. profitable,' GYM in a pecan's!,
point of lien. Bat the great question
as- csut a prison be 'nada At refonnatorpi
-.Ought it to alma at this objectf:—ls a con
nick simply to be slim up.4o that be
societi? 'Hu haff,rigkl
,~'atelit If net, than why not execute
r Elm? Why mike - Wm a burden to the
camsnalty whoei - he has wronged?
Whit claim has be to food, clothing,
ud .an expensive house? The the
that he is not shot implies tut
society ninth him as having
ionse rights—the right to ,llre. Or
shah, we any that he is put it
prison to be punished, • ail well a,
, to Seep him from harming socie
ty t: But if punishment In the ob
then—punish - him, torment him,
testae lengthei out! his con
Pusan% to the greatest extent
, ceneistent — with the greatest : pun
Is' other words', mike satiety
as safe bib possible, 'tend thet prisoner
es.alieralile as possible.. But that such
is - not the aim of puniihment I.
, evident from the fact that moot et thew
- 486 men are to be returned to society,
after a longer or shorter period, and if so,
it ii - clearly the object and should be held
. to be the duty of society so to manna
. prison lite that the discharged carnet
then he worth more to bleu:elf and so
r
defy, nit of jail than in it. Amy other
system converts crime - Otto capital and
,
MO far forth speculates in ; iniquities
. But one man reforital out of one hen
- died is -worth more to the condatucity
guilt= thousand dollars itsiki per anoint
with no reformation: It is not money
bat men that we ought to tern out of our
yealtenthiries.
Now, w inner tends towards reform*
tioa is to be fostered. The recovery of
health. the sentdeitienof knowladdesob
of Width ef-ininitiy, the opportunity of
ameliorating or shortening thefit Beaten=
by good coadset sand.weer by petition,
' except where the conviitien has beep
through minas, are some of the
things which tend that way., Now
ire ask is solitary conteeithut the best .
way to acne these things? Is educe
don as easily carried on in the solitary
es in - the congregated system. Is not
education..whethes bybooksOr teachers,
- an bilitingment on that systikm? , Trade
.- -Winking is impossible alone, and in the
company of a teacher or fellow learners
Is no loncier a solltuy system Even
-when tie prisoners are renuthdat to their
teal solitariness is an impoundlity.
Gastidpee, waterpipes, wthdoin and
rf Mien, all in anew of time become
hams Of communication, j with this
small demoralising result, that it is
egabtglaw, contrary to the system, and
- therefore a . constant intonate
Thneonvict Is in a state of anoxic dig
abedlenco arid deception, with the stimu
,
- bang feeling that he is outwitting his
Ihit we. have laid enough. The
tient officers of th e Institution love
.
thrown out suggestions in their report
Which &aim the maid cOnsideration
. 40 those. who are interested In our
Bssa4oa tiainetera, of Uremia
*emery, has Monebt forward a proJect
fora-Registry Law, which Meets with
farm from most; if not all, ipn
warders of the Legislate:rt.! It ritredd
ter home ia ; rand, how.:vcr,; that , gnu
under rieltuiry Lameittgeatic frauds
have biera perpetrated upon the elective
Itranchise, andllutt no stringency of
s t a tutory mortal= will mate bad men
" m i l t *danger, timer*, is onths
Side of inexactness. • Whitt is 'wanted Is
Registry that. will let all rightful voters
- Inland without ututeuessui PirPlexity,
. -and bap. out tba largeat 'number of
,Ittudulent Totes, by *piing Megal
- ; toting as dliticult 24 Odssibla. /Int. by
all amens enact the law. If experience
Drove it to be defectiver, it will,
also., indicate what amendmeats will
nada it ertmtnaL
1 1100111fiNG OP 7HE ALLEGHENY.
Tor mithy years a -famous boom bee
spanned the Susquehanna river at Wit.
liamsport. The object of this devise is
to catch and damn saw logs, cast into the
stream, bigher up, and marked with the
names or brands of the respective own
ers thereof. It is a matter Of dispute
whether this contrivance has promoted
the common welfare of the men who are
engaged in limbering on the upper
waters of the stream. There is ndques.
lion but it has proved a source of large
profits to the owners of the boom. It
has, moreover, contributed to swell the
population and butmess importance of
the town at which it is located by giving
1 it a practical monopoly of the =genius-,
tare of lumber for the tributary country.;
The owners of this boom are abrut
dantly satisfied with its bearings upon
their personal Interests. Indeed, they
so pleased therewith that they wish
to duplicate their advantages. To this
end they have visited Harrisburg and
instituted explorations, to see if they
can get a bill through the two Houses
and the Executive Chamber, authorizing
them to construct a boom across the
Allegheny river, at or near Freeport.
Within a few months past we hav'e
made several statements relative to the
mimes of Tellable timber existing 16
the upper portions of the Allegheny
Valley; of tor introduction of tanneries,
affording a local and important demand
for hemlock bark; and of the immediate
expansion of the lumbering Interest con
eequent thereon. 01 course, lumber
dealers miderstand that timber cut while
the sap Is up, so as to fallitate bark
peeling will not last more than, half es
long as Umber cut when the sip is down:
but the enhanced value Of the bark will
cause speedy and wide slashing ill the
hemlock forests. It may reasonably be
onjectuner, farthermore, that the gen
eral destruction of - Which goes
on steadily, without forethought as to
the condition of on-coming generations,
will, on the whole, enable the owners of
deteriorated lember to obtain as much
for it as under other circumstances they
would reallze for stock of the soundest
and most enduring description.
But this is not to the present purpose.
TheseWilliemsport from men want to
monopolize the lumber traffic of the Al
legheny, or, at least, to levy toll upon
it, which the erection of a boom would
certainly enable them to do. -It is of
1 Importance, therefore, to consider what
I. the effect, of their contemplated enter
prise would te on the .caw-mill interests
above and on the course of navigation,
ascending end descending, for ordinary
annutercial perpretel.
As to the mill owners above, it is pre
sumedr they will give this subject prompt I
oonsideration, and then act as efficiently I
as shall seem to them for the best. They
are not only hardi, but Intelligent, and
may safely be left to take care of I
their own. me, in their own way. .Con
nested with them, more or less directly, I
are the himber dealers here and down
the Ohio. Their welfare is not so di
rectly Involved, but theywill, doubtless,
feel impelled to give attention to the
proposition now brought forward.
So far as relates to general commer
cial trinaactions, it is of moment to note
the natural differences between -the Sus
quehanna and the Allegheny. The for
mer is a broad and shallow stream, with
a bedabounding in - protruding rocks.
It has a descending navigation, at par
denim- nelsons, when copious rains or
''
dissolving snows swell the volume of ite
'waters.. But it has no ascending nevi
gallon. Going up from Port Deposits
- lo the Forks, at Iforthumberiand;therr
are only hers and there pools of suffi
cient depth - to float a light-draft steam
boat. From Northumberland ;upwards,
whether by, the North Fratihh to Ot
sego Lake, or the West Brazieh up - tc
the fastnesses of the Allegheny Henn
tains, the same phenomennn constantly
recurs. It may well be questioned
GUI iirtirct
accommodating water-craft.
The Allegheny is navigable, from ite
confluence with the Monongahela, up to
Oil city; not, indeed, at all seasons 0
the year, but whenever the stream IP
swollen,-which ordinarily happens for
=ay weeks annually. This ascending
navigation is of much value to this city
Since the completion of the Allegheny
Valley Railroad this ',slue is less than i
Was before; bat it is still of too muel,
coriaequence lobe sacrificed or imperiled.
Of course, it will be averred that
boom can be maintained, at a' sUitabh
eddy, without impairing navigation; by
this remains to be demonstrated. A
boom is certain to be swept away by the
preasnos of the current and of logs, ur.
len en eddy exists tot ecch an extent at
to produce still-water, or something Air
thereto. This eddy must be large tura
certain; or it will not nerve as a , reser
vole for huge massesof timber.
Consider a few other facts. The lam.
bermes shove do not ask for this boom
The dealers in lumber, here and below,
do not ask for it. Hen, in various, call
ings, interested in the navigation of the
river, do not ask for it. A few men who
are making money by the ownership of
a boom on the Busquehmtna, sea a chance
to double their gales by erecting a boom
en the Allegheny. Is this a case it
which the Legislature ought to interpost,
its anlhority In order to' help a few tt•
make fortunes, not by promoting the
general welfare, and clearly at the ex
pense of the many? Ruch a use of leg
illative power would be a flagrant abuse
of the Commonwealth's right of pre-em=
bleat domain; and wcroasubject all whc
might be concerned 111 It, from the Gov
enter downwards, to serious aniread.
verilon. The enterprise is simply
"big job," concocted to put ironer in e
few pockets by, inflictu3g damage at
general and permanent Interests.
A WASIGIGTOiN special to the New
York World, Estes that the .Presldant ie
determined to make the Britieh govern.
meat pay the Alabama claims,. and a,
the presentation of the new Minister
from that power, to Morrow, will tit
ateelfy. Itdds
.aitnoams the addreesos that are to bn
exeltaseed between the President and Min
ister Tooth may ro guarded and serene,
the feet yet renseles that a speedy sad ut
Isfeetory ramose moat M nude , by the
(iaverotneut to the ultimatum ol
the Ezenetore of the Gutted Slates,.or
wawa Great Britain
non evemstuiliy onsuo.7
Ls "ultissattua of the Executive of
the Gaited Ststes"—s refusal on the
part of Great lirltaln--and a deer:ration
of trar—when! Don't be frightened!
The declaration is only promised, "ulti
mately." This li yery ranch like Daniel
Webster's throat to take poseession of
tie Canada" "mine fourth of July.
roonsol LATH, under date of
4111111 lay
. 8, lan, wrote from Lentilloos
to a frituid:
Tour gefferbagg and lanai 'base ipton to
me ever pageant through aft the trials to
what you so feeUnaly rater. The desola
tion watch everywhere presents Itself le
Mai Pace primparous country ails every
heart wit! sorrow; bet 1 hotel and truat,c
better time will wen wake to es. The pa.oU
ens fortitude. the eneerful. ender, 0
easels virtue, which our people Ctl/plea In
tae depth of their misfortune, cannot tall
to bylaw the due reward," • 1 -
It trodden% he begins to comprehend
from what a surpasslog.degree of pros
perity Into what a depth of wretchedneu
kepi Ms sarociates plunged the South.
am States. It is moat unfortunate that
his =tone comes too late to ba bent
-
Wa auw, gediy or two ago, that the
democratic organs did not know whit
to mike of the Republican victory, at
the specisl election in the Eighth Con
gressional District of Ohlo. We were
a little too fist: Dna of them, the Diy
ton Ledger, Mr. Vallandighatea organ,
his found out what it meant. It sari -
"This hi the grit gun of the ?sudden.
tint campaign of 1868, and Indicates a
Republican majority nau till, in Ohio,
of tram melee to twenty thousand."
More of the deMocratie journal will
ascertain "what is the matter" in due
NAM
SrL-Parz,; - January 2501,1868.
EDITOR'S GAZITTE:-1411.11tibillC mat
.
ter w;th your mailing clerk? Whet have
I I demi, that I, your "constant reader"
andis spec in advance, should receive
OCC&B onaliy, as I have received to-day,
a weekly lame, just one week elder than
It should be? Only think of It! in these
days of submarine telegraphs, me, year
correspondent, carrying home on the
25th of January a copy of the Hirer's
dated January 15th. Personally, Meters.
Editors, you do not know mo Were it
otherwise, I am quite sure you would
"pity the, torrowa of a poor out man."
lam en the s%ady ! side of fifty. I ISM
striving with all my might to imitate,,
that Saint! of 'old, Job, in exercising pa
tience under all difficulties, and in my
own - imperfect way succeed now aid
again, but I will leave it for you to say
whether, under the . present circrunstau.
ees, I was not fully warranted in recol-,
lecting Harper's famous anecdote Of that •
famous sties:re, sad tempted to exclaim,
Tube Damm. Now, the Gazzne has
its thousands of readers everywhere,
and would it be much trouble for:you to
whisper • in the ear of your clerk to se
lect some other subscriber (say is our
lately scgulied Mission pamessions)
upon whom to play any-loaner practical
jokes he may have in store, and as "the
boys have it, "lemma lone?"
It is cold weather here, gent!, men—
thirty and forty decrees below zero.
Some two and a half feet of level snow, ,
and a wind now and again, which means
almost daily. cold enough to congeal the
the warmest sympaties of the greatest
philanthropist mat ever existed, is no ,
joke, and when you take into considers-
don the price of cord wood (IS per cord)
besidee the sawing of the same, yotiwill
serhaps agree with me that the neighbor
head of a , PeormYlvania coal bed would
he a desideratum. Nevertheless, our
streets ale thronged with sleds and
eleigha, end all, high or low, poor or
rich,Atrom the urchin coasting down
kill to the millionaire banker with blood
horses, bells, furs and driver, every one
"goes in" for the excitement.
Such glorious blocks of tee as we man
ufacture here I—blocks of any length and'
width wanted, by three to four feet in ,
thickness, and as clear as the limpid we-
:era of the Ifississippi, of which it is
made. I !,
Our Legislature Is now in session. Of
,- - onrse it is Republican in majority, but
here rood ;there can be fOund among its
ineml,ere men who, in times put as now,
Ibrow ell the influence at their command
in behalf of whipped traitors, and who,
to-day, if is their power so to do, would
undo intim glorious deeds ochieved by
the Boys in Blue. It was a hitter pill to
the Cops, the resolneon endorsing Con, 1
tress for the reinstatement of Stanton': I
This week they prayed-that the bitter
cup might pass from their lips untoncli- 1
k,l, but, it wouldn't do. They drank,
dregs and all. Gloria in nucleic!
The Congregation of the late Dr. Rid
11e stand impeached, to-day, in this city 1
robbery. Hew say you, gentlemen,
Trustees of the Third Presbyterian N. 8.
Cottrell, guilty or not ? Your accusers
.re- the congregation of the House of
Hope, of this city. Have You forgotten
that part of the decalogue which turbid'
the coveting of your neighbors' goods ?
ais man nor coot ? Under the circum
stances, we can only console ourselves
with the stereotyped phrase used on all
-amasions, by all penile bodies:—"We
trust that our less will he the gain of
Rev. F. A. Noble, ad well as that of
yours."
A man named Van Soleil lately stood I
trial fOr his life on the charge of wilfully '
murdering a Dr. Hartmatt, an Bugliida-
MLR by birth. The trial lasted near or
quite three weeks. and resulted In the
disagreement of the jdry. The culprit
is to be tried again.? The Pioneer, of 1
this city, suggested - with same ferce the
discharge of the prisoner, adducing as a I
reason, that if a conviction could net be 1
had nen, when all the circumstances and
testimony were fresh, it was idle to sup ,
pose one could be bad at a future time,
advocating as a cogent reason.forthedis
charge of the culprit that it 10.6 tad care
expense. Of course, your readers will +,
not be astonished when they learn that
!that delectable sheet is of the-Democratlc
persuaelon. An resole,
Minuteortari.
- Reriarka.—We concur in the estimate 1
our correspondent puts upon the Gs-
Z 11714," filst as a mother appropriates all
the compliments bestowed upon her
child; but he is wrong In grumbling at
oar "mailing clerk," who is as faithful
a male as lives. But he does better than 1
some of our friends in getting his paper,
even I after considerable delay. There
some dlatance from this city, which hal I
of the GAZITTZII directed thereto fall to
teach. They are stolen from the bags, 1
moue great annoyance, by postal officials.
We hare tried time sad again, to stop. ,
this rascality, but hare signally failed.
The Stealing goes on in Elite of :all we:
can (to.
Its Fess cz conservatism has recently
received a new shock. From time im
memorial there it has been customary to
educate girls or we middle and higher
classes in convents. Not long ago cer.
tarn parents became - 41=140rd with the
quality of instruction their daughters
got, and began to send themto attend
lectures delivered by able men employed
for the purpose by private enterprise.
Soon the Government interposed, not to
stop the innovation, but to establish a
conr.ecilon between these teachers and
girls and the University of Pifria. A
regular course of instruction hai . been
adopted, embracing a wide range.
Crowds of girls, including two Delete
of the Empress, attend the courses.
Bisbop . D near:Lour cold not, however,
restrain Ids veneration for antiquity. In
a vigorous pamphlet Lc exclaims: ("Our
girls have hitherto Leen educated on-the
knees of the Church; we aro now going
to pass Will into the arms of Ithe Uni
versity." Ile'Ls farther scandalized that
the movement has extended Into the
provincial towel', a here die lectures are
to be given in the Hattie, so that the
girl, will have to pees to and from their
studies under the eyes of policemen and
other profane persona All thia lamen
tation Is of no avail. Thernoiement Is
i
111SUCCel.11.
In these modeen days coreicrvatism
really has a Lard lime of it. Trim which
way l lt will, and whatever Metier may
coma --, it to cure to get shocked.' if it
bad died a century ago, and been de-
Gently' buried, as reason demanded, It
would have escaped intlictions which
constantly increase le number and se
verity as the son of civil/action mounts
towards the zenith.
. Trix. Conservative and Democratia
Journals have been puzzling their heads
for tome it/Lye over the brilliant }iamb
limn 'triumph at the spectil election for
Cringrisaman in the Eighth District
Ohio. They profess to understand what
the 'apparent reactlea in that Stan, and
in that particular thalrlct, las! October
meant; bet this grand,advance confounds
their calculations. They hoped the Re
piblicati party was falling into decay,
and , this 7display of laity life baffles
theM. Well; they will have many shocks
of this tort next fall, when all along the
Rept:Adman line the Advance shall, be
wended and made.
dirran :the restoration of Secretary
Stanton the Pretident subsided into a
condition of quietude, without attempt.
lag anyof the energetic acts he proth
ised to perform If the ()pee Tenure
billiwas enforced In the case of that gen
tleman. fle has, within a day or two,
broken out egainst Mr. Rollins; threat
ening to disregard the law of , Congreu
In his consuming zeal to maintain what
he emact-iTez to be the true "interprets
tioit of the Constitution.
IBS e. recant case in New York, the
Oottrt suitalned - a claim for , destines
against the Central Railroad bompany,
In Consequence - of InJunee eccesioned
a broken rail. It was held that common
carriers of persons were bound to fur
nls. trustworthy vehicles, irrespective
of all question, of negligence..
It.te proposed to build a line of rail
road between 7.lnesvillo and Cleveland.
Such a road would pay largely and
greatly enhance, the value of r property
along tbe route, awl contribute mach to
the prosperity of Cleveland, Wooster,
Midina end Zineaville.
- , -Chicago had another flro on Wed..
nesday night, which burned ono 1f0M11.12
to death, rendered twelve families home-
lend, and: detKroyed upwards of $30,000
worth of property.
pinggrimit WEACLY GAZETTS:
SELIGI#S3 ISTELLIGENCS.
Among the noble projects of the lead.
log denomination. is the. establishment
of Homes for aged and indigent mem
bers. In some of the leading cities of
the East these institutions hlsye been or
ganized en a grand scale, arid have re
ceived liberal aid from the members of
their respective cherr_hiss. Almost ev
ery . church, especially in cities, have
the poor id! their membership. By the
establithmenrof a Home, the peer will
receive more permanent aid, and not re
lief now. And thee, as at, present, and
when the sympathies of eir churches
ore awakened. Recently we chronicled I
the consummation of the .purchase of a
line building and grounds by the IMitho
dlsts of Philadelphia. Last week this
body of Christmas in Baltimore held a
grand .re-Action at Maryland Institute
Hall, to raise funds for opening a Home
for this churn of persons In the Methodist
churches of that city. Recently a more
-1 meet has been set on foot to establish- a
Baptist Fiume is Philadelphia. The
I project is Id the kiands of a number of
leading Baptist laymen of that city, who
will doubtless Prosecute the matter to
final succeso. It is proposed to raise at
least twenty-tlie I thousand dellare for
I this object. :
An IndePendert Methodist Church In
Boston has' had great success during its
existence of nine yearn, acoording to
Zion's Herald, there having been over
eight, hundred conversions, and of bap
tiams three bemiren and twenty-nine.
The church Is Congregational in govern
ment, Baptist as respects immersion, and
Methodist in doctrine and merle of war
ship. I
. Rev. A. G. Watkins, a probationer in
the A oLnten hI. E.:Conference, Tennes
see, who was converted aim» the close of
the war, teas for mayoral years a Rape,-
seuatative from Teimeeee in Congress.
The novelty of hearing et Roman Cath
olic Sunday Schools, le passing away.
It neems to be now an arm of service
among theColholicses among the Protes
tant denconinetattie. The report of the
Roman Cathodic Sunday Scheel Union of
New York City reveals the fact that
forty-five thousa d children of that
Church are regularly receiving religious
instruction, or one-third et the total Duni-
Lei of children from five to fifteen year,
of age, according to the last census:
At the Installation of a Presbyterian
minister, at Passaic, N. J., by the New
ark Presbytery, Rev. Mr. Thompson, a
- colored man of the Oberlin School, amt
stationed "atNewark, assisted in the ordi
nation ser vice, by laying on hinds.
Rev. Newman llall, In aCknowledging
the testimonial by the.members of his
church, stated that he bad never received
a chilling for any one of the lectures 'de
livered, or sermons preached out of the
ordinary course. He says at throe mill
vertddes they had made him a doctor,
but be Is determined not to change his
name, and be pLiin Newman hail to the
and of the chapter.
The Young Men's Christian Associa
tion of Brooklyn, furnishes every Sun
day miming a breakfast to the poor.
The breakfast «instate of coffee; and
bread and butter.
Father Taylei, the noted sailors ,
preacher at Boston. has resigned his
chaplaincy, arid retiree alter nearly hair
a century of service with the &semen's
Aid Society.
The Indejlendcrit Nip) eleven new
churches were . nrFputirod last year in
mmnection with the Missions of t h e
American Board. The additions to the
onion churches by professions were
eleven iiiinifred 'and'atzty-seven.
The oolporterir work of that American
Tract Society has been prosecuted with
great vigor in the Seuth, resulting to
cheering s accesi Sixty Col port ours have
beau' commlemitui there this year: whot
in addition to other useful results, have
organised or aided nearly thirteen Ithn
dred Sabbath Schools, embracing abou .
one !hitrirell ihousand scholars, who'
hove been supplied with small libraries.
Some week. a geg the cOntributlons of
the Ilettiodiate during the grand Centen
ary- you, (iEO3) were reported at some
, thing ever six millions of dollars. Quite
a number of Conferences had not then
retorted the amount of,their
i all
...centribu
tiPturtinif;Tour"lart."nual Conferences
report an aggregate of .13,211,70.3.17.
! Four Conferences are yet to report, and
two have reported in Tart. It la possible
the grand total will teach nine etii'ions oJ
dollars. At the opening of the Centen
ary Jeer it wee oath:mated that four or firs
millions would be the outside limit.
The "Sunday School Uhildren's Fund,"
! to he used to assist meritorleas scholars
of both sexes in securing a more ad
vanced education, is nearly sixty thou
.sand dollars.
7 Grace Episcopal Church, New York
City, took ^ up a missionary collection
Sunday before last of fiveAbousarld five
hundred and sixty dollars.
i The Ent attempt to establish a Unlver
ealuit Society at Washington City, was
mode within a week orfao. The recent
action of Unitizions, to ejecting colored
children out of a Stthday School, will
help the Univerutilsts, at least it in sop
posed three-fourthn of the audience at
the organization of 14...UnlyetaalLst So
ciety, wore Unitarians.
The Ilepasilery Rays the Episcopalians
!are "'devouring" and appropriating to
themselves certain delapldattid UniveT-
salist societies.l It, however prefers that
Liberal Cluistinns should do this work,
thou Episcopalians and ether Partleast
sects.
The itherof Christian, apeaking of the
Nor Cbrenont, of Chicago,. argues that
while It la well edited and a handsome
ithent, its creed may. be summed up In
three wrtlclee I. No one who If not a
member of the Universalist denomlus.
can possibly be saved. 2. The Unitarl.
sus ere " the sbominalen of desolatlon
spoken of by the Prophet Daniel." h.
The Liberal Chrierfon Is the
At the recent 1201011Prelby trliaD Pen.
',Triton at Harrisburg, Pa., scaled was
taken favorable to holding Pareekial
Conventions, to comprise Presbyterian
bodies in a neighborhoed,to moot for the
purpose of conference and prayer' in re
lation to he Union movement, awl to
;may 'for the increased. effusion 'of the
Holy Spirit open all the churches. By
this means, It is believed, the spirit of
anion will be transmitted to the minute.
of the membership.
Rev. W. M. Ferry, who died at Grand
Haien, Michigan, the • founder of the
city, lervides leaving one hundred and
fifteen thousand dollars to his wife and
children, brxincathed nearly ono hundred
and fifty Lbonaand dollars to benevolent
ol;jects of a religious and educational
'character. • HO was a graduate of Union
College, and studied theology with It.ev„
Dr. Gardner Spring, of New York.
Thn First English Reformed (Gorman)
rhurit of Baltimore hue been favored
with nn addition of forty-four portions,
I of whom forty aro heads of families..
--The Preachers' hireling of this rl ty,eem.
prising the resident Methodist Episcopal
pastor.; have been discussing foraeveral
weeks, at their Monday sessions, the
best method of preaching In order to
reach and lave men. .At lest Monday's
meeting, it was resolved to held onion
or creoperati meetings—mlniders and
members of the respective Methodist
Episcopal churcheo, uniting In the ser
vices at *se church for it week,• visiting
each church in turn In the two cities.
The first ofthe' aeries Is to he held at Lib
erty streetchurch, Rev. W. IL Locke pas
tor, commencing next Monday evening,
Rev. E. B. Snyder preaching the sermon,
to be followed by Revs. J. W. Baker, S.
Burt, L. McGuire, and S. 2d. Hickman.
Meetings have been held in this church
for two or throe west/ past, and oensid
erable revival interest prevail& quite
number of persons.have preformed con
version, and have united with the
chuich, among whom are eoveral
premising young men. Mr. Locke le
laboring in an. indefatigable manner to
promote the interees of the church, sod
is
aucceeding.
The I:lrat Chrittlau Church, Alto-
ghony, of which Joseph King Is the
Pastor, la said lo be In s very Donald:ling
condition, the rdinance of chriatian
baptism having been adminlatored near
ly every - Lord's Day and evening for
many weeks 'peat. The number of ad
didoris to the church during the year
1867, wee sixty, mid the whole number of
commindaints at the present time Is
four hundred and forty-six. A Series of
meetings began In this church last
evening, during the' continuance of
which the Pastor wilt bo assisted by Dr.
W. A. Belding, of Troy, New York.
EPHECISFERIS.
—New York la loon to hove another
big 'cock right
—Diptheris is epidemic among the
children *I Fort Wayne, Indiana.
—On the 39 of February Horace
Greely wig be flity.eeyon years old. ,
—The Insurance companies ofelnein
anti lost over SVIO,OOO In two days-last
week.
—There are more than twenlp•two
millions of acres of unimproved land In
Texas.
-26,860 passengers / wire carried bY
le Pacific Mail Steamship Company
ZS=
—The people of Burlington, lowa,
have been enjoying fine alelghing on the
river lately:
—in English church is to be erected
on the battle field of Montana. At least
it le on stated.
—Great mortality has prevailed
•
among the cattle in the southern part of
Kansas this winter. „
—There are twelve hundred 'Good
Tempters and fourteen lodges In - Wayne
county, New York.
—Mr.-Stanton may hive many vir
tues, says an exchange, but resignation
is not one of them.
—When Is a little poem like an acre of
land unpaid for? When it is Anacreon.
tie.--Reentny Bulletin.
—Capt. Grant, the African explorer,
has been requested by Gen. Napier to
join the Abyssinian expedition.
—Bdme fifteen hundred Bailie:lora
vessels arc engaged in the oyster busi
ness, end they take about feerteen mil
lien. ef bushels annually to that city..
, —The Arkansas Republican 'Conven
tion has nominated General Powell
Clayton for Governor, and Colima
James N. Johnson for Lienienant Gov-
—Senator Itorton's great speech In
reply to Deolittle's labored effort was s
glorious one. Persons who have been
familiar with the hallo f Congreas for
years say that they h se never heard
its equal.
—Some eats live to he twenty-eight
'years old. One who_ltad attained that
great age, but who was en evident Mc
thosaleli among the feline race, died la
mented In Cleveland recently. "Oonn
but not forgotten."
—Louisville has a knack of getting up
very mysterious affairs.. The body of a
man has been found there and nobody
knows him nor how he got there, and of
coarse the papers are boeily engaged in
agonizing over the mystery.
—ln 1060 the population of Charleston
(S. C.) was about 40,000, and now it
scarcely reaches 15,000; fifteen deaths
per week is the—usual average there,
which is a largo one, and If continued
should, we think, depopulate the place.
—The Union League Club of New
York has leased for ten years Mr.
Leonard Jerome's splendid mansion, on
Madison Square, originally thtended for
the Jockey Club. The. Union League
has appropriated $50,000 for furnishing
their new house.
—California is an insatiable State; not
satisfied with tho boundless prodigality
which dame nature has shown there, the
Californians have taken to planting and
raising ,ine apples, and have been sue
cessful. We. really think anything
would grow in that favored land...
—A new use Las been found for the
great Pennsylvania product, petroleum.
Champagne is made of It. if all the
champagne 'drank sliouLl hereafter be
made of petroleum, the search for wells
would becoMe as brisk as ever, for the
supply would hare to be doubled:"
—The Swedenborgian Society of Cal
ago Jut meetings. of a social nature
every week, when the pastor joins them
and dances &tin rhey danct. This hu
ceased reo . much ainsaisfactiori La clerl 7
cal circles In that town that the Sweden
borgian pastor is nut recognized LY his
Christian and clerical brethren. "Such
_.• of
Christian cbaricter
—A. boy In L'inclnnntl was euttiak Ice
from the pavement in (rout of his fath
er's honey, on 'Thursday but. Ile struck
• terrific blow at thirtee, but bit his foci%
cornlitetely severing his live tees and tbe
and o;'. his boa. An attempt, made by
the phyaician called in, to . join the paru
l igaih. 4- was nneuccessfel; and 'the , bap
will have a clump foot all hie bre..
—What a 'stir , would be created in
it Napoleon were to do so Solomon
did In his time, reken tin found that
there were, about two
,bitroired thousand
Stranvers In ierusaleniVitia set them all
to work as hewers and carriers of wood,
as drawers of water andltod carriers.
Such treatment would have the effect rot
keeping . a go-lolly number of people at
home nowadays.
—The citizens of Amherst aio behind
the age. An 'outcry bas been made be.
cause the old First Church In that' town
allowed their building to be used for an
operatic perfrrmance. If Amherst were
sot behind the age no such outcry would
hays been wide, for 'lu ail go-ahead
place the churches are
used for oPeraUc
parformanoes every Sunday, and crowds
often flock to Lear them who would not
otherwise go.
—The Bostonians sayi that better din ,
Dere can bo gotten at one of the new
Boston restaurants than to Paris. The
good intentions that they have In Boston
arc 'niter than those used In the cause-'
ways of that' more tropical place, sod I
the railroads Which run in Bogen are
Smooth as some golden - streets we have
read about, ant the streets or Boston, are
as broad and besatlfal as the road 'which'
leaded', unto gestrucUon, probably, but
sone but the char-sighted "Whites have
eyes .to see these advantages, and all
others will probably live and elle in tha
opialon that Beaton Is an immensely
overrated, dlugreeabty crooked town.
—An alarming case of counting the
chickens before the period of Incubation
was reached, has occurred In Now York
city. A young Juan married on Christ
map day; intending to live on love in n.
coitus and $l,OOO a year, which was
the amount of his salary. - Oa New
Years day his bland employer kindly
informed him with a parker-like smile,
that in consideration of the valuable
nature of his services, and the depreased
state of
. the markets, his salary hermit
ter should be $llOO, Instead of $l,OOO, se
heretofore. There was about as much
consternation in the Small family of that
young man that night as Is generally al
lotted to small families.
,
—A French writer hal found out the
reason why spectacular plays are now
preferred to the legitimate drama. Ile
says: 'The modern legitimate drama
falls to please because it Is incapable of
giving pleasure; Out spectacles nee Pre.
ferred to It, because they are prefera•
ble." Every- one will at once under•
stand this, of coarse,' and though some
may think the explanation ends where It
begins, what poulble difference can that
make Y " Then the author goes on to state
that "until Me t drama Is revived the
stage cannot be reformed." Any one
who wishes to kno*'" more of this
Frenchman's original and rateable ideas
on this subject should rend hie essay.
Ills name Iv Villentot. ' ,
—That excellent Journal, the Ads.
praiser, which so many peopleread on
Bandar' *then other papers are tabooed,
although it flopped out of Its ?lay rivulet
of - religion wale- time agch has Oran
Ciogreu such a scathing that the mein.
berg must feel dreadfully about it;'aad es-
pecully must ench tiny minds u these
pouessed by a Morton, a Bimini, a .
Sumner, a Williams or a Wilson wilt .
beneath 'the remarks which come from
the mighty spirit behind the altar of the
Independent. hear what this modern.
oracle asys, this Horace, this tint is'
elegance of language of .Addison
Chesterfield: "Congress has three days
of flabbiness to one of strength. :` •
• • coupe's Is nothing but a wet rag,
end may be wrong with impunity. •
• • Perhaps a few days hence we
shall see Congress once again a coward."
RDA l . FEBRIARY LS, !
EPHEMERIS
Oregon tuts Grant cubs
—The ice boats of Now York had a
race recently for a silver cup. '
—Senator Henry Wilson was in New
York on Saturday and Sunday.
31inister Washburn° is wending his
may homewards from. Paraguay.
. .
'--6 peat company, iwith a ah capital
o
1 .,
$lOO,OOO has been organiz d in White.
a 'e county, 111.
—The Brookiille 11erald, t West lie.,
r , y a that "the usury law, aii it now
stands, le ridictilous.7
"I—The.wool growers of Brooke county,
West Virginia, have concluded to hold a
Meeting on February 6th.
—Nearly two million dollars' worth
of shoes were minufictured by some 19
dines in Chicago last year.]
—Jackson county, lit., has just open
ed a Gne quarry, the Marble of which is
said to fully equal that of !Italy.
—Another illicit still has been seized
in Baltimore, this time carried on in an
Irishman's shanty in an CI becure alley.
—Mr. E. L. Daveniport, Mi. Chalice
Dickens and Mr. li. li. Bateman's comic
opera troupe are all hhlping to amuse the
Baltimoreans.
—Peoria has two causes of 'rejoicing ;
one 14 the killing of ti!rat weighing three
pounds and a half, and the other Is the
erection of anew jail..
Grasshoppers' eggs arc no plena) , In
some parts of Arkansas that it is feared
the State will be plagued, literally, in
the Egyptian style in , the spring.
C —The Salem floliring mill of Oregon
is making four hundred .14C111 n day.
This is doing pretty well, wa think, for
the very hem of the outskirts of clvili
aloe. • •
..,
—The :it Louis ilepublieon calla the
various southern' Convintions, "Menu.
Mies," and "ring ; tailed, streaked and
striped," which, of course, adds greatly
'to the' dignity of that newspaper. •
s '•. ; —Vie wonder if Mt. Croly's American
Oraer of Knighthood has many members
ne y 4? HU 2rticlo on that subject is
hu seiisaiion millet' takes the place, o
the Dickens article in tho last number.
—The decline In the figures In Boston
is noticeable, and surely cannot all be
blamed on Cunard and his steamers. A
modiste says that her Boston customers
need more and mare:padding every year..
—Bonita and the , province In which
it is situated haring become imbued with
thathern principles, has made 'up' its
mind to secede froin the Dominion. and
•then to look abtioi for s"good strong
hook to bang upon, \
I'rofessorlßlot Las already some six
hundred subscribers to his Club in New
fork. We shrill ere long bo turned out
a nation of gastronomers and bon al
vents if Blot lives lung enough to &cadet.
phth Lis pleasant crusade.
.—The . dlstillerles in Peoria have
stopped, and reeritUll are going to pe
Litton the Preaident,:or 'Congress, or. the
'Supreme Court, lot have the Revenue
spies dtsmisned, as they can't carry on
their business whonao Mosel , watched.
—A wealthy property owner in the
Crescent City hes reduced the rents on
his property. ,One store, which easily
brought 15,000 last. year, he now rents
for $3,1.0. and tint reduction on his
other property Las I,een in like propor
tion, I
—Alabama is to have a day of castle.
and prayer to deliver the State from
horrors of ncgro domination. If they
do not soon get over their absurd resist.
cure to fate, they may have a longer day
of fasting than either we or they would
Caret° ace.
nch says that St. Martha of Tours
is tke patron of tr....yellers; by a slight
use of the same logic we would make
the London fib Mary Axe the patroneia
of executioners, and we would recom
mend all bandied persons to •the protec
tion of Si. Mary Lc Bow.
girl—(who evidently, like Chics-
go, looked with. Inning eyes st Mrs.
Grinder's frime),lives In New. York,
enrcsil re'dson on the
tanatt intended for her master's children,
and then spanked them well, poor dean,
because they would not est it.
—Father Agsplus, the Greek priest,
who was welcomed to Trinity Church,
N. V:, • row yearaego, as a representa
tive of the great Church of the Orient,
is said to have become • convert to
methodism, ind having abandoned the
'gorgeous ritual of Greece, has become a
it circuit rider In California.
—Capt. FA. Fisher is a candidate-for
State Auditor to Indiana. Ile lost both
legs in the war, and .on that account
some pereoos thiali that he is not IL in
L,o the holder of ;et r:spensible °Mee.
His ears, howeve, are both quite per
fect, n fact of snore importanee than legs
to an Auditor °antral.
—The attention! of Kentuckians is
being called to theexisteice of coal in
large
. ottantities in their State. Along
the valley of the (dreen liver there are
known to exist Ono beds of excellent
bitumtnous coal. Use mine has already
been started and yields 'an average IA
eight hundred bushels per day, and other
mines will soon be:in operation.
—The recant great Bre In Chicago aC.
(coed the insurance littoresteu,of the
whole commercial world. The lou of
New York companies alone was over
half a million or dollars, and between
ono and two hundred thousand dollars
comes from T.agiond. The Western
States lore ovei hair a million, and the
relq of the loss falls on New England
companies. !' _
—Atlantic City lint Niagara Falls Is
mid to be among, the things tildchle
soon to be among the thlngs ihe past
Nmine tho last three years over tire
umbed feet of the belch have been
mashed sway. The pretty grove of ce•
dark along the Inlet (Notts almost en.
they gone ; and the glories of the place
arc not es brilll.nt as they have been.
—Same persons are much troubled at
the modernisM,lei Americanism, u they
call it, of calling s widow • widow wo.
man. The um or. the term is, however,
the original nod correct one, and widow
Ic merely en libraTifillotl. Widow woman
occur. Chaceti and the still earlier
writers, and is also osal In the .Old feet
smolt. •
--Chicago havieg achieved greitnesa
In the divorce line, has turned Its ratan.
Oen to tires, and has hurried up two
milllum ;of dollars worth of property.
rea'cr tires than' this have occurred, In
fact we do not think that Chicago, If It
would ell born down, could put itself at
the head in the matter of tires, for Ham
burg and London' have too many -hun
dred years start of IL Bet In murders
and such things we think that their en
deavors are meet:Wel. •
—Charles Dickens will not 'tilt the
Weil. Ho has thrown up' all' of his en
gagernente.made In Western cities, and
the onlY reason which heofferc. for this
action is the feet of the burning of Far
well Mall in Chicago, by which he was
deprived of a hall in that city imitable
for Ms purposes, Many, very many
people will badliappointed by this re
pudiation;Ot Mr; Mimes; but many,
very many 13101 e would have been Wimp
pointed if they bad heard him..
—The Boston roll bee complacently
gotten - 4R the Joko about tracks and
tads, this time in connection with the
English in Abysidnia. We always used
'to like .that Joke when we ware gaits
small, bet for the last twenty or thirty
ears it his been'a little inclining to an
tiquity, and whenever we see or hear it
we are reminded of an assertion that a
recent writer has made that there is an
immense' amount of fascination . In a
weak Joke to a rewsriaper paragraphist,
Ton Pirrantinea UALWITIL—The
Gaesiti is the largest paper published In
Pennsylvania, and °Meets more life aid
ability than any ether Itepublican paper
published in Western Pennsylvania.
To those of our Mends who wish to sub
scribe for it pima In addition to their
own home organ, get the Pittsburgh
Cantle, asst contains more general news
and useful reading matter than any other
paper In the litate.—Juniata &Mind.
A 10) ItuU;tillOLI)
/g of tee llone.
. . .. . . . _ ... _ . . .
I Jog along, week 01lt, week In,
lUcklid and curaadi and taeanly fed,
Jaantaal In the side lud lurked la ill°
C /Id—
&It ' P ha thtag that I can t , at all make out
Is, wh:t on earth Ws all about.
1
Why as / toads to ton and tug .
For Ods odd hula human bug,
Twolegged, dump7u Ong. •
Whoqs alert my rtbd batter—
Or w mem be made. for that matter t-
And,l I needs must ho created,
Why ts It that I woo not taw]
Top.n. and curvet, finely Mated, •
1511. f-harnessed, 'leek and ler,
ITlth krre),ll and blauktd, and all UM,
Hare 1 go, day after 1114'1
Pons ring MO slipping' dose / 3,01,11 "/'
Dragging/6.01.10. biped things,
With fore-legs gone and yet nomlngs
Where they all go to 1 .1. 1 1 kuovr,
.
Nor Why lathe world limy hum so,
Nor what:good use Heaven pule ' them to!
lAw . til m n' y t ijouyi.ftT grow
big
..
ltooee,t.
e 4111 2,1,
muxth,
Small,
And SO l'ritiamel of rich man's stall.
I'm clump, crooked, stupid. slow, • ,
tot the meanest horse Is a horse, you know
And his ribs can ache with the kick or blow
As well so the glossiest nags that go.
0, Lori, how long will [bey zoo 011
And When may the so ulna spirit go
Whets glorified horses stand in a row,
Switching their bright tails to and fro.
Careless or eithor wheal or whoa—
Wen 13/11eer1 al ways approi,CH,
EMMI
~.
1...-911.14.1u . i, Rtve.O. With 0 lei,
egistatures in the F. hstern States are
alll6-operatingteartily- in the effort to
root4rc choice varieties of lisp to those
laveal in which they Jim Vebeen extermi
nated through the agsncy of nitildeme 1
and lather artificial barters. lu almost I
every s.
Bpi', commis Loners have been
aprnted to study th habits of fish in I
the_ them of rivers to their spawning
bed ;.and lathe have . Ileett passed to re
cord the predatory tribes in the rights of
propagating their species. In Massa-1
chusetts, with the approval of the New
Hampshire cemmiesioners, substantial
program has been made by constructing l
fish !ways on the Merrimac river at Low• I,
ellar Lawrence. That at Lowell is of
the ind known as- the "double stair,"
con letiog of perste' lines of tanks,-each
of Which is twelve feet higher than the
next below, all built 'of niasonary and
tiler, to resist the I ice and freshets.
Th itch way at Lawrence is a kind of
eloping Elam, twelve !'felt wide, with a
fall one toot in ten and intermediate
ten sin which the' fish may rest.. On.
the
beet
no fish ways have yet
been built, but the Proprietors of the
new dam building at Tome's Falls,
have been notified that fish Lave rights
that must be respected, and, a fish way
at HadleyFalle mix centimplation. The
Nair Hampshire cummissioners have
planted about/@O,OOO Salmon ova in the
PeMigewasset. Their, are expected to
hatch next spring..- , •N. 'Y. Jdornal - of
Conmeree.
_
Fonsouling Timber.
•.. chief reason whY summer cut Bee
be i lea' longer than . lwinter cut, It the
rapidity with which it is or may be sea-.
soared. If cut in the winter and al
lovi--I
iid to remain in the l9g until the
summer before sawing or splitting, it
beemes more or testi sap rotten, and of
little comparative value. -When cut in
saw:inner and sawed immediately, it dries
in ii`few days, and bebemes firm and hard
like horn.
Bekt many farmers cannot find time to
.enhand Prepare their timber during the
betty Summer season. The next best
thibg is toprovide in winter for effect
lug the seasoning as quickly as possible
after the trees are felled. Go to the saw
meif and matte an arrangement,to have
your logs waked .4 immediately after
Leiin g drawn Udire• and when the saw
done Ito work,, place them on a win
dy spot where they will dry so rapidly
as possible. • If intended for mile mitre.
wood, do the splitting,at once, and as
due as the intended Lac will permit.
Cord weed, intended to \be cut up for I
small stoves, will be .werth tame as I
mdch a few months bence,lf sawed and ! !
spill at once into small etickg,,and placed't
fan seasoning whore the wind has access, i
than if left in large pie ces : Cou n try Gen. i
Cenon.
__,,—
616.1.10ap' e Lime. i
tun article bas the effect of lime kri i
he a alight degree. After it has been,
weathered, it cOnsists to a great extent
of ;•
gypsum gypsum (plaster.) It s effects ! upon!
1. ,
the soil aro to supply Hulot° the plant •
where this ingredient is wanting, (which
en d common soils rarely occurs, (to sup-
elf •sulphur and eulohuric acid, an to
produce that series o p ' obscure, yet bone-
nail effects which plaster does—all of !
which pussies win p equally well orb
bettet, but not so c exply
i.,
. Tee "math- '
mad gas lime often contains small quart- j
titles of Urns remai ag long in th e con
ditlon of slacked l ithe. - This is exceed. !
Ingly abundant when the article is fresh, !
aud,tben it acts with good e ff ect in vegisl
table compost heaps-, upon muck, etc.
If papplied to the so Il in this fresh state,
and, during the growing season, placed
upon the soil wherelcropa will lie effect
eit'thri. results arc uniformly disastrous,
nee owing to the lime, but to various' !
crbinatlons of aulphar with Lime,
wth, after some Months' exposure be;
coon converted into the sulphate of
Hine, or gypsum have alluded to.—
American .dorieelt ' ith -
•.! flow to Trews Ilii Horne&
II you have bal y horses, Iris your
awn fault, and not the horses, for if they
anot pull teue, the' e is acme cause for
.
it,l and if you will re ova the cause, the
etc-et will cease. When your horse
bilks be is Excited, and does not know
*bat you want h m to no. 'When be
pedal little excited, top him five or ten
minutes; let him me calm; go to the
balky horse, pat hi and speak gently
to!hun; and as soon ho to over his ex
citement, he will, i n nine cases 'Sint of
ten pull at the word. • Whipping and
dishing and sweating only make the
Molter worse. After yon have gentled
a . hile, 11111 Lis eicitement has cooled
El wn, take him by th e hid;' tis rn 'hina
e c
, f
h• way for a few minutes, as far as
you can; pullout thd tongue; gentle him
a little; starch' - him;! then step before the
Milky horse, and lei the other start Gest
then you can take them ! anywhere you
with. A balky - hem is always high
allirited - and starts uick; half the pall is
odt before the °the '
starts. byi•staniliag
before him the ot h er starts first. By
close application Pi Oils rule, you - can
whinny balky horse pull. If a horse
his been badly spoiled, you . should hitch
him- to au empty wagon, and pull It
around a while on level ground; then
put on a small load, and increase it grad
ually, caressing se before., and in a short
dine you can have a good work horse.—
1
Uterieisn Pruner. I .
—I
llok.!og Nirow Mop. -
- (Thosi who use 1 4t.bede oetold frames
can hardly dispels with straw - mats for
covering Gtha. The usual way of mak.
lag them is ro lasts itnil in handsfuLto •
i esds stretched lengthwise fir a warn.
IA correspondent, "N,' of Milford, Ct.,
i seeds us hie way lea cass.ing - the mats,
I which be maiden cider and batter.
"Sdiretch the cords for the under side of
the mat, (five la the canal another), lay
ors ; the straw, then stretch above the
straw an equal number of cords, directly
Mier the others Then sett through the
straw, catching the strings both ways,
in tee same way that brooms are sowed.
To straighten the edges, lay a straight.
edged board out the Mat, standon it, and
With an axe cut all the ends of the straw.
By this method the straw is all laid on
at-once, and tberq are no seams to allow
ofEtith passage of I air." The plan- of
Mr. IN. looks practicable. In whichever
Way the matet mule, the straw is laid
Os evenly,' and at right angles with the
Warp.. Th e buttsinds of the straw
should be placed at•the edgesof the met,
and the upper ends lap over lan the cen
tre, taking paina to keep the thickaess
uniform throughont. The making of
mats is good work ]for stormy weather
id winter, arid they aro of gieat utility
in protecting plants from early and late
frosts. I
Pocking Ilsow,ll7pos Wheat.,
Lut winter we suggested tho export.
..eat of packing snow upon winter wheat
:by rolling it down with a common land
roller ; but it wu rather') ate in the sea.
Wm to te of any pmclical use at the time.
Thin hint was takeo, from reading an acs
runt of an accidental experiment of the
llnd. A man having occasion to hard
, t ,
'tied, one winter, acu hie neighbor's
field of winter w heat, r he engaged to pay
him whatever damage it might do to the
Wheat, presuming that more or less due
ttist would accrue. 'There'd was staked.
out, ao that it could be accurately distin
guished at harvest time. But there nas
no need of stakes; for all through the
Season the wheat upon the track was a
Whole bead and shoulders above any
other part of the ffeld, and the yield of
grain was proportithiably larger.
pi.a he difference WO so rewind that it
e ed impossible that it should have
be n the remit of the :little manure drop
upon the track be. the' teams, were
passing, and the muse of the Macao
'oral regarded as a Mystery. It la_ well
)0101111 that snow W e ll packed will mist
4.00 spring thaws and remain .on the
ground much longer than snow left tut it
fallk and that It is early bare ground in
the spring time that injures the wheat
pence the suggestion to take opportunt
en when the mew Is MA enough to
pack well, and roll-it down on the Acids
. •
of winter wheaL It la: l certain that it
will cause .the snow to remain .on the
ground longer and hold the 90i1 more
firmly in its piece and protect the roots
of the grain fr,m some of the early
fremings and thawings, which are FM ,
posed to ha the chid causes of winter
Filling; _
There is, as ct, no snow in this region
to pack down, but it is liable to come
. soy day or night. When it does come,
we hope nurilbers tit our farmers will
avail themselves of the first opportunity
to try the experiment, and in due time
commnrdeate the multi —lt will cost but
little and may pay well. Every heavy
fall of meow should be treated in this
way to In'ilto the expriment perfcct.-
117.m-ft:in Es ton e r
•
lloia.el.old Reolpa•.
l'un.a.nut.ruta BUNS.—One pint'of
milk, one cup Of butter, ono pint of
yeast, three cups of sugar, one egg,
!nuke a Bolt dough ut nigut. 'Early in
the morning :MO not quite a teaspoonful
of soda mud twa teaspoonsful of ammo,
eta.. Now put in a little more of dour,
would it well, and return it to rise.
When light, make into cake; and let
them stand half an hour or till light
enough,.then bake them.
. ,
Scow Bot.t.s.;—Take half st pSund of
the best rice, pUt it Into a • eatcepan
with a 'qiiart of new milk; simmer It
Slowi y, so that It may not burn; when
it hail absorbed all the milk' et .it crool;
then mix in the whites of two eggs;
pare and core some middling sized ap
pins; put a little sugar into each, then
envelop them in rice, tie them in clothe,
oat boil them for twenty minutca or half
an hour, according to the quality of the
apples used; turn them into a dish to
serve, and dust them thickly over with
loaf sugar. The advantage of this dish
is, that it employs the whites of eggs;
and sometimes, after making custards or
preparations which require the yaks of
eggs, housekeepers ace at a lots to turn
•the whites of eggs to account.
CANE datsowthicEs.—Four eggs, half
pound of
,pounded lamp sugar, ball a
pound utr,lresh butter, half a pound of
tiour;•bnat the huller to a cream, dust in
the flour;and add the eggs welfwhisk
ed; beat with a fork for a grinner of an
,honr;thutterio tin, and pour in half of
the mixieth; bake from a quarter of an
hour to twenty minutes; remove from
the tin, butter again, and add the other
half el . the 1:W:tore; bake as before.
When cool, spread jam thickly over one
portiou of the cake, place the other part
over it, and cut lean whatever shape
,you
please.
FRITTIOIR istta Yr:Sat.—Make a
batter of one pint of milk and as much
flour as will form it, ones teaspoonful of
salt, and flee tablespoonfuls. of yeast;
put this in a warm place three Ifours.
Just before dinner, beat apace egg-well,'
and, add. These fritters are quite;
wholesome, being light, and do not abs
sorb much lard, Boil them in lard. .1
BUICAD CLIERBE CAL:U.—Slice up a
large French roll very_tblu,'pour on it
some boiling cream or milk; when Cold;
add six or eight eggs, ball -a pound of
butter melted, home nutmeg, a spoonful
of brandy, a little sugar, and half - a
pound of currants; when mixed together
pour the mixture into puff-paste as othei
cheese mikes.
A Poem Ppeptaa.—Boil ale apples
well, take out the cores,. put: in half a
pint of milk thickened with three eggs,
t lemon peel, and sugar to the
taste; put putr.pa-te round your, dish,
tak e rs try a slow open, grate sugar. over
it, and serve It Mt.
IiELIOUTPUL"PODDING.-0 , 40 quart of
boiled with, a quarter of a pound of I
mashed potatoes, a quarter of a pound of
dour, a small piece of butter, and, when
cold, add three eggs well beaten; bake'
half an hour; eat with wine notice.
A GOOD Cano WITUOUT 4 . /DO
cup f sugaroonu cup of butter, nutmeg,
one cup of milk, two minced currants,
one teaspoonful of dry cream tartar, one
half ounce of sods dissolved in milk,
dour enough to make a batter.
Hann G GRUB ityan.—Two poupds Of
dour, half a pequd of butter, one pint
of molasses, a quarter of a pound of
sugar, one mine* of ginger, half tea
spoonful of soda, one teaspoonful cream
of tartar.
Poen Kase& Vertu.,—Tieo ' Caps tiou4
oulocup cream, one cup sugar, one egg,
ono teaspoonful of soda, two :teaspoons-
fa of cream of tartar, mined 'with flour.
ECOTCU GAIEE.GLIO pound of brown
'sugar, one pound of dour, a half pound
Of, butter, two eggs, cinnamon. Roll
re thln._
o be head nod Haan.
'r culture - - '
Agilcultute being a science as well as
an art, 'requires both an "educated head
and aultducated hand." The educated
hand must havethe direction of the ed
ucated head , or, skilled as it may ho in
practice, Ittru half its labor for
not working in\ tho right direction. So
Ike educated heiil turiatlave the help 'of
the practiced hat. ;, or its wise devices
.will fall of proper e ecution.
Tin , following eon npr..arsin that
ptoortionofr 'poi! 'n Thief in the
117: t
S,Llbige
h in the Feb.
ai
rury number of the Co rr int .11iniAlyi
Sorrow to rill my sport!
hero no breast
.I.wads ms Its own el:appal
end licaren's rest. ' •
Soliowlaw.llnity stay , .
For now no grin . I
VphoLda nos ILI I away . .
From storm Lon:Alm. • .
Sorrow La all nay grace
No ernile there le
to overrun my face
When flung (Alm Itle.,
O sorrow I lilt t s 5 sword
W boo° lightning. *WOe
neetroy row •t a word
For I pun thine.
=I
A hen has lasen traveling, during the
past six months, over the entire muntry
east of tzpMissivsippi. Shc has become
prolmt of the Merchants' Union Ex
press Co itiany, and travels from &lice
to oniee in her coop. •Im alerted from,
Spume. last . July. and hew been, alhco
that time, in nearly every large Western
city, and is far north as St. l'aul,•l4llu
neanta. She in now In' New England,
having lett Bridgeport, Connecticut, last
Saturday, fpr 14111400 d, Max, A Bridge
pot paper given a full account of her
autocratic manner , , her plump physical
health and her cheerful disposition. She
senate to 02N1111110 the v arisen einem with
much intermt.is usually at liberty,when
not traveling, r t as more than she can eat,
of course, and lives liken princess. The
officers of the company arc her humble
aerosols, end afford her protection
well us every possible facility. • • •
It has been suggested that this hen In
tends to 'write a volume of American
Norm. We hardly credit this report,
however. The Exprms Company em.
ployes aro mostly respectable,' hard•
working mon, and do not furnish, that
obeyed of Vidgarity and vice, which a
great author should oonsider - neceaiery
to a correct delineation of national char
actor. Some have acid that in
,
tends to give a CUUI,O of readings, and
Mat a young rooster has been engaged m
her emelt, We trust the report Is true.
Wo shall read with much Interest
"eriti -lotus" of, the Tribune and
the Irorbt.—A:
alterlama Vomanaleatlea and Tkeme
The express time between San Fran•
elect and New York was stored tont%
teen days at the °lose of 1a67, and by the
doe, et ibis year IL in expected the tltne
will be further colored to eleven day.,
lx the further ektoeetoe of the p e ehi e
from both..directleint 113 the
nithlle of IsTit It not sooner, we may
look for the albrall rameetion, and a
schedule et about nix days from ocean to
oyoun and therefor° we may look for a
prodigious stream of travel and tenthly
over the Main :Stem Line.
• . .
By reason Of the unprecedented low
rates of fare on the competing etcaurship
lines. no loss than In,ooo passengers have
leit New York for California, rt the
Isthmus, within three months. Tho in
ternal and agricultural development of
the Nettie coast to no rapid that the de
mand Gtr. labor Is lnappessable. The
dispatches announce that tile Central
Nubile Cotnpeny aro organizing a force
of 10,000 workmen, with which to prose
cute the grand enterprise during this
year.
Pentair duttring a steady and safe In
vestment hare now .un opportunity of
securing the First Mortgage Bonds upon
this groat road at lees than their' per
value. `See the advertisement of the Fi
nancial Agents 'on another pap.
—The Columbus ((Ohio). Journal says
ah attempt to swindle liter an accident
coat:wilts out of $BO,OOO bus lust mule
to light, In which theAccidentlosurance
Company of Columbus' id' Intereetod to
tho amount of 010,1100. A wan named
Capt. M, L. Bryan, f rmorly of the rebel
army, and a citizen of Georgia, wont to
BsTannali and secured policies on his
life to the amount of 080,1100, early In
Juno. In czinpatiy with a man named
Owens on the linh • of Juno, ho went
fishing on the davaniuth Inver, and
Owens testified under oath that the boat
was upset and Bryan drowned. The In
surance companies, however, wore .'blow
in paving up thole louses on the jalead
man, and on tbo Milt of January, 1.1568,
Bryan turned up at his home In (todrgia.
xmixations - Which bavo;been
made In the hill of Vont-Hares at Lyons
boa brought to light numerous vestigee
or Roman amstrtietten which are of
great interest. Thorp is foundeoinnerus
and capitate of the puro Archalque
with tablets of atone and sculptured mar
ble, indicating beyekid question the spot
where was +theatre] ono of these sump
tuous gialacte inhabited by the • wawa,
who made the capitate of Clan! Itheir
.tomes daring the tinst ye-3x of the Chris
itan ern.
--The murderer of Louise Krause, the
beautiful Merlin lorotto, is a deaf mule
and only eighteen years old. Ibreasertri
that ahe attempted to take from him his
pocket-book, containing only. four dol
ma,
11111
TE - NEWS
ST
1 following items We
ivn correspondence of tiliT,`!
1-1 le , thrt
ih the 13ohnstoi
Eberusbarg
A dihturoan,
...411ponhoro tbO
tinwinco of wh
Boriderielc
till noun
to occurred in a lager beaiT
other day,thiritig tbecou;'
ieh a young man named';
severely em by a dirk,l
'ands of some pen on mig
kniu in tlqi, IL
nown.
I A valuatle.
from the door ,
ore n couple
twenty dant
that will lelid
Store-door al
rnm
eoon here
I A child of
ages' eightee'n
death one 11.1
upon it of a jut
TowU
innt., as Will ni
twelve years
Sniall, of Pot
! home front ocli
the woods a slu
woods he he
-brus t and °nil
red on his Instil:
[roll of carpet was
of Mr.:, John J. Murphy's;
of during.% A rewar d . of
is , nlhred for informatioa
the detection of the thiefi,
sling has beerme
late,
N. llosors, of Sharpsbnrg 4 ,
months, was liC.irdeli le!)
litmt week by the unsettle;
lb of hot eater. •
Slay a week , ' ago, the itip
lm Small. a boy',of abou;
lof age, son of John A , l,
k township, was returnini
tool, he had to go throufig
tort distance. While in thq
...ad some rattling In th 6
.at flew a elteasaneand
mein. lie grabbed anithelei it
th one ham! andlitost at this moment
.., mu a red lox after the pheasant. The
lad made a grab f?r Lim with the other
Land, but Lei betri" too quiet:, William
missed the sly' fox. has the pheasant.
at home allve. l .—ifenroe Democrat.,
—A. man armed Yonson, a shingle
aker, left Phillipsburg on Friday, Jon.
'nary-17th, partially Intoxicatod, with a
horse and sleigh, and en Saturday, the':
.11tb„lie woo l found in 'the Allegheny':
mountains, txst of Phillipsburg, frozen
lo death. 'Plie horse was, also dead and
stiff: MIA len terrible warning to those
;who are in the habit of indulging freely
an intoxicating drinks. An Rimiest was
;held on the body, and a verdict in an
leordanco witli the above facts rendered
'by thojury.
entir lino of the Wilmington
'and Birciabe ' Railroad tins been. let
from West etreet. Wilmington, -to" no
junction witN the Reading road at 'liras
;
bore': The contractors a re already busy
at worlc, each: with large force of handu
ma Wilmington and lioading road hnn
a live President in .V.lwara Brooke,
who wilt put it through In let%
Limo and at coat than out expeaßnd
on any provicius work of the kind built
in the State.-41Ctlailly Jolllllfli.
—On Wednesday evening, 2251 Inst., a
sad and perhaps fatal accident. occnrred
at Phillipsburg. this counO. A daughter
of Mr. Wm. !McCoy, of tha t ' place, aged
fourteen, was engaged in filllog a lamp
with oil, and poi ace whether or not the
lamp was full, lighted a pine splinter.
which, coming in contact with the oil
ean, caused it to explode, the ignited oil
being thrown upon the. girl, Whose
clothes WerebOOXIBIIII.E.:011$11111Cd. Her
screams, soon brought her -old, but not
until she wits terribly i burned. 'She is
not expected to rectiver.—rCierion Ban
--The Shamokin Herald of ThUrsday
last says: pti Wednesday morning of
last week, MI Pawl& Burke, residing at
the Excelsior Colliery, descended the
stairs, ho fotind the lifeless body of his
aged mother !lying at the bottom, with a
I deep gash in ,her forehead, and her neck
broken. It Li supposed the old lady had
attempted to go amen to the kitchen at
. an early hoot-, as watt her custom, and in
06008 way felheadlong to the bottom of
ihe • stairs, although no ono in the house
heard the noise. She was ono of the old-
_ . .
est MdlestiaLs,eection, being in her
ninety-seven I year, but bed full use of
her limbs, a. il.was considered active for
ono of her ago.' " •
Model Farm recently located In
Chester coutily. proves rather expensive
to the good `people among whom It Ls
placed. They were first called upon to
contribute to' the purchase of the farm,
and are no asked to stock It. • The
ty Agricultural Society has
'buts Wirt num, provided
allowed-a voice ha the
Chester Cou
agreed to me ,
at,. officera a
firm; and it Is understood
cos of the PentlO9lvools
control of th 1
that the Trt I
bavo Jig - mod to Llte propool-
Farm Schou
tion.
—Heavy
the Catnnio-
recovered ii
awaken. of SII,MO aprinht
Railroad Company wore
Jano J. .Caldwoll, iu the
. _ _
rt, on Thlaraday last. The
lined that the;
accident
'd in the tnjdrint for, which'
Supreme
plaintiff e
which rein
o largop amountin d=•
ahe obtain,
om carelessness, whil; the
mended that a rail that had
rittle by frost had broken'
mishap was beyond their
le jury took the plaintlfr
linestlon,, and the result Is
ahes, way f.
Compan e
been'roade I
and that lb.
control. T
view of the
seen In an awgrd. of damages to the'
umount of; 1,000.
1
—ln Lau user county the rate of tax
ation for th
. carrept year is. two and' a
half mitts o the dollar; in Yorksiounty
It is seven ills; in Y.erks county nearly
va
ten. L.Y ter has a Republican Ma
jority of a ut six. thousand. ~Y ork. n
Democratic aiorityof about three thous,
sand, and. arks. of. about seven thou-,
sand.
—The next Annual Frit of the State
Agricultural Society will- bo held .on
Tuesday, 'Wednesday, Thursday • land
r lt
Friday, Se 4 itember - iltn.h. and 30th, and
October lot Out la nd Oat. The President and
Secretary I rite proposals for the place
of the next %Whitton, such pre,posals•te
be laid bolo o the Committee at its. next
meeting, NI rch 10th, WS - -
—The Ci y Passenger Railway Com
pel:O. of Dhiladelphis haring resolved
to insuo . ne more pusses to numbers of
the city council, this year, the,latter are
disposed to theoutragowith proper
spirit. On! Friday, an ordinance . was
submitted ! , providing for a tax !of one
cent on eact passenger, where the fitte is
seven cants. This in but the beginning
of the cantfat, .. , .•
—The Downingtown ..ronntal,says ilia
wife of Jeclb Spotts, tiff Springfield,
Chaster county, on Sunday night of last
week, anveq birth to fonr children, each
weighing eight — pounds. The mother
and children are all doing well. The
same paper says that on the same day
\ the wife of Elijah li. Rettew, Esq., resid.
• ......_---- -,--- • -. -th. to' n
tell
ery
tw moments tssme ntnning down s table
eaming, his clothing all on tire d his
ftleb In planes burned brown! lie lin\
gored In greet distress, constantly de
manding water, until about half-past two
o'clock the next morning; when death
came to his irollef.—Lcwithur Chronicle.
—The Pottsville Journal gives - the
amount of anthracite coal sent from
Pennsylvania to tide-water during the
year 164'17, at 12,650,571 tons, being an In
creme of 471,081 tool over the year 1860.
Ofeend-atahracltetind bituminous reach
lug thle,vater there were last year 2.25.1,-
CZ tons, beteg a decrease of tons
from the preeedteg year. This gives an
aggregate of 14,900,309 tons; and an lu
cre.° of 185,003 tool.
—The dwelling bogie of Anthony
Foust, Washlngtonville, woe burned on
last Sunday. Kr. F.;,tvo learn, Was ab
sent at tiro . The entire building
and nearly all Its contents, together with
a email grain lionise satiated, ceintair Lug
quantity of wheat were consumed. and
in addition to the above, nevemi hundred'
dollars In gold, eilver_und greenbrucke.
No ineurancet—Daarille /eta/veneer.
-On last Tutiadav morning about Ono
o'clock, the body of Joseph Kline, of Se
11nrgrove, Snyder county was ran over
by the down enuring train at AVateen-,
town, and horribly mangled. It Ls
thought-ho had been murdered and the
body laid ou filo back. The remains
were taken to Sellnoegrove on thO 103
train, on the same morning. lie Ittrire
fautily...Vanbnry &nand. '
—The Stockholders or the Never.lnk
Fire Inariranco Company, lot this city
have under ,conalderation the propriety
of changing the present name to "Smil
ing Fire Insurancw Company." This will
ho a decided improvement, no it more
thoroughly. Identifies that organization
with the edy where it originatyd, and ha
head-quarters are 'crated. Readtru
On Friday afternoon of lavt walk, a
nen of Jonav ponawitz, of Ilerryabuim
to this county, botwoeu, nine and ten
years of age, while on lila way lame
Irani school was ;an over bya Med load
ed with iime , mad sa aoverely lu3nrod
that he expired in au hour afterwards.—
Unity Doophin /feat:der.
—On Friday last, a little girl, 0. 4 , 2 a
about ton- yearn, daughter Air. Shot',
-residing near tho now bridge over the
Railroad in Loudonsville, adjoining Al
toona, woo no eo•erely burned that she
died the following night. • • .
— l otie night week before 'hut the prig
antis in tho Columbia county jail es
caped by digging through the well. A
reward of glee for their return being
offered, parties pursued and 'captured
• • •
—On Saturday Ist - two lifty.berrel oil
wells woro struck In thayleinity of Pll- .
hole —one on the. (enitary of
. .I.o.z . Unite4
Matra Petroleum nYi Compantfid. the
other on the Bean Farm..
—Wyoming county elected' dele,mtes
an the tilth nit., to the Itepublican State
Convention, rum fruited restitutions for
Great and" Grow for President end Yip
Presidem. •
—Tho 'linnesdale Republic mentions
and David Gtllnld, keeper of a grocery
To - that town, Ohnt a rowdy .custrener
through the heart ono, day !nit week;
killing him luatantly.
—During the past . year. seven tuatara!
one woman wore Ming, in Pennsylvania,
for murder. Two were except ad on Tues
day, three On Wedneeday, two on Thurs
day, and eno on Friday.
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MEM
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Rae rtooll hreeer nigh arrils the corn,.
elo
te p
the ed b aw y t enthea he gol rt of-rbds.. Itr e
tant morn—
/A ruu.
Wird minty 6 glarving.klathatl wan.
On beret:tette an Autumn . 111611
Deeply rleWnwlt— , uch a blush
Lithe moist of.brown was born.
, • 110 led Poppies groan corn.
Run.' her nyns her creienttlall. -
neruhlaekeet none emshitell
llntlnnu Whets - celled alllght • ' '.• •
That Pad elm boot all um bright.. _
Amt her boss,'th shut),
Menloe be lorpivma tllm •/-
Tb nastit.:Sto , l amid tine stoult.
YraDluir eipet with awetmet took..
Stun, I said. Heaven Mil not ratan •
Whin., I reap than shOuldet but gletull
I. ty thy sheer adewn ern! some,
51151 V My harvest add my oamo.; •
CHURCH RE-OPENING.
reel Libor., i
mind
dott l
Pal file t
eest anusbOrritie
.-I.o•(?kentos .1' Eaters is. E. ClansOn
Ilaspoonia Norman. sta. .
East Liberty and Ito itnmediatesur -•
rounding; is generally' reganiod is the.
l'gtrden spot" of our suburban districts. •
Its rustural advantsgs of surpassing
Leanly; level etirface, and proximity to.
the pent up city, allracitol usany;of (Mr ,
wealthiest citizens, who have erected Pa,
toilet residence.=, Mal spent mit sums to
make the gremalY,'Tdmehed blossom as
the rose. Even at tits Season of the
year, the gioutol; indicate the culture ,
they have received, and. the 'numerous
elegant residences:that rts . p by In every
direction, ate seen to better adSannign
than when hidden amid the summer. fo- , •
liege.
Bettutiftil as this spot lies always been, t.'•
within a brief score of years the whole
neighborlimul lass been transformed un•
der the tangle touch of nesters, culture. •
'The opening of the r'ennsylvenle
road, wiich sw ceps ihrougli it, Jens had •
much to do with this 'marvellous change.
Itapiti travel under ("on fflitabla drown-
stances hoe yielded a rich fruitage. The .
influx of el/ mach 'wraith and culture
anon began to fasten. With the erection.
•of elegant residences, the necessity of
having trotter churehl edifices sOOll tlO,
came apparent, soil!. now handsome '
church structures dotl.tho pinch, adding-.
beauty and solidity to it. Among the -
tintt churches erected was Emory M. E. =
Caurch, and soon after the Fresh:Acid...
ens built one tf grott artdiiteetural
beauty. Soon utter, tim e Episcopalians .
were tvorshiping in a tasteful cut ,ateue„
strueture, and other' denominations
erected es.eellent ohurchts. ' -
A score of yearn ago this small body o
Methislists worslaiNed inn plain unpkes
tending brick knitting, much Ilke.ta
country school -lieu... , btu olden Omni
and 'located iu uu oislcure place. With
_theerection of the new building iissout
decade of years tigo,lfethodlsnanssumed
n new position, and slow then has been
gradually growing stronger. Feeling •
that their church accomniodations waratit
insufficient to meet the demands of the
ace, it was determined to. remodel the
building throughout, at a cost or twelve
thmisand dollars. The extent cost was
magnified until full . twenty.eiglit thous: -
*mod was spout. . For about a year the
work
of "recenstrtiellon" becagoleg •
no, and an it progressed 1:10Nr features t
were added, until the plain brick steepled.
editice lola become tompletely.inetamar
, phozettanu Is now ono of thorned gram..
MI churches to be found west of the
mountains. ,
The church fronts on .witatis familiar=
ly known as Greensburg pike, now the
principal street, uud ilea quiteclose to the.
„railroad. s'ation. The front presents at
pure Romanesque style or architectural, •
while In other portions of the building
there is Plight bleselin,lnf Gothic.. En-
tering tile spacious • door, a short ball
opens Into the sessionleettany ,rtionr
The enlart,ocusaist of this room wilt
of UtOdeie four hundred persons, .It is
filled up with considerable taste, and-le •
admirably adapted • fsr Sunday' School .
anit• Nature purpoues. Imutediately• In
the rear are two elaas rectum 'By nasty ,
flighty of- stairs from the vestibule ,
you . enter ::the, . ,' main audienoe
room,.- hich 'Contaimi ninety-alx •
lows, . twpable of seating seven' '
liuntired persons. , It is ninety by ferty ,
eight, though at the iuMot, incluillng the
wings, the width. is 'i•ixty-seven feet.
The seats urn black waluut finish, neat], '.•
cushionedibright tett etainr,'and to strik-a •
log contrast to the elegant Bniskels oar ,
_pet whirls gnu:oath° entire floor, strang•-'
Iy tinted in. green.-The largo v./Indorse'
are tilled witlC stained- alas', of bright.,
cheerful colors. The adjustment of the
chandeliers, anti nub lights, numbering -
thirty-six elobea, bzilliantly lights thee
chamber. Arrangements ere in progress
to mitotic:ilia. 5.10 on the premises for - '
the van of the ctureh. The welts'are:
orange tint, and 4ailing purple or thieely...
color. Thy bra iful tower pintecta
deep-toned mead hell, Tbe-bulldlug
is beatelliwith steno. On either aide of
the pulpit, the "Ten Eeintriendments:' •
iiiteentli.l °Lord's Prayer" and
•siConfossloat of Faith," rira beautifully
Daserilied In anthill° letters. .
a'Yetterday the re,openin,,i - services took
phica . - Bishop .Sitepson, that prince of
. 1 - mII,RA/rent delivered 'very able
aml el t discodrse in the morning, ,
and in theafternoon lice. Dr. B. Miller,
of this city, occupied the pnlidt, to the
grant satisfaction of the numerous cud!-:
tory. Tho oanuregation in the morning'
gave a liberal contributien, mid in the
afternoon a plate 'collection wasp taken.
Quite a number of strangers were Free
mat freui other ellureties4. ReV,44 .* W.' :
Reny, of Wllliinsbunt; took part :in:`
the exerelses.'tind Ito.. l‘f. kliGowan.'s
a worthy minister,. was - also present in -
the altar. The eervice9 were rendered.
more interesting . by the sweet vranititn
sle of the choir, accompanied by one of
MesoU Ilemlin's superb organs, fara
fished by' C. C. - lifeller, under We -'
ful lead of W. J. Bender, Esq., formerly ,
of the choir of. Liberty Street M.
E. Church. ... • h
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Glancing over the vast throng" of - .'Up
turned faces, 411stenIng•reverently and"
attentively to the eloquent Bishop, we
sae but few. familiar fares, who had'
mingled in, thcf,services of the little
brick ellureli of a score of yeah% • The
vencrabliaJolin Stewart, tather.helaw of,.
A. Bradley, and father of ex-Sfiter= -
111' Stews rg the sweet spirited J..8. - Bey..-
Ind, and Samtrel Chadwick, formerly ;of
the House of llepresentatives, were the
lusty prominent. ones we vceegnired.'
.Aments the ninny who have - become ac
tive and prominent we Observed, Col. J.
SieWart, IMO of the trustees; Di: 3.-
.I'erchment, and .the members of the
Building Committee; :Steers. Frank Sel
lers, Caot.--C. W. Bathelor. S. 8..111aE1-..
rov, P. 11. Laufman;
Bites awl J. W. Woody:ell. Thiel.earn
mittee, and the ladies of the China:d, are
hpolten or in the pulse.
Since this church became a Separate
charge, it has been favored with some
prominent Ministers-et the Conference,
among wltomi We name President Perth-
Itig,•.Prof. J. L. G. McKeown, and. Bey.
U. Siusabauglic The latter minister sr=
pastor when the contemplated improve
ment was agitStvd. The - present pastar,
Rev, W. Pat. Turner, A. 24., deserves to
be well thought of_ end doubtless is, by
his eting,r,galion, tor tri3 -unceaAng !s
-hot, .to pounotw the - ptoJeet.. He is' a
young Inn - Astor •of cultism end very
Prouttsing; Wifluntal during our brief
ia2.- in this parldasical part of outflow
that .n the
palatial residence of Frank Sellers, Esq.,
[Lunn woe conlrart.. and luxury,. worthy
to telader to piinteS, mid such; we re.
ileiveVom our hest, mid his] acne 0-
plishe wife.....
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0E17.0 NEWS. -- 7
SLY-Gaveruor Cox has settled down
in iiinelonatill pranico his profession,
thinvr. of I aity of his fr.ends say
an7thing to him hereafter about offish*
pia es, ha will be , rieved.• • • ,
411,.... Ohio State Abraryateoloanbrus
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114:S1,1M volumes: ' e Public Library
at petroit has over 15. volatiles. and
'devote:tan annual ince ' e of over , $4.000
to ihe purchase or b ask. All • forfeited
'lila inin.ll in that city ni',o o bo collected
'aini raid over 10 11,1, I 411(1.
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4TIto suleids bf lbw.' Mr: Brush,- at
Dolitwilre, Ohio, W 11.3 committed en Ehui
dayl, mernin 2. , while Ids congregation
were quietly awaitinghis appearance to
emiduct the opcning aseleises of the reg.
else quar.erio mitring. The members
hat:itur wain-tiepins time after the usual
ho.i.S. of COlllmeneint: se rrlee, dispatched
one; of their number to ascertain.- the
raise of his delay. And ho was found,
hating dead In his ',ern. Another cher- '
gythAn, the Rev. Mr. Ryan, at Marys
vil the comity. adjoining Delaware,
alsdj committed eute.tio the same Senday
aftejrn con. bvcnt deg his threat. Insani t y
Is id.leged In both eases, and In ,the last
limbed it mod beau h e r eetne time: appa
rent': '
he Payton JOUrnel mentions tome
erg.°WU - dents which enlivened aooon
im at g. In that vicinity, on
Somlay morning. A coon was treed,
Mthedreo fellow, and a ``e ach dogs beloaigs
Mgt ; lo - a : young ma named Skylas
seised the coon. The latter was getting
tlaelwat of the fight when Minot Walk
cc, Se attempting to make a diveralem in
faveir ci the dog with a stink. struck the
latfer awidentally and ,kilisd blab
SkVes am enraged at•the death; of hie
loth and felled; with St club,
kne,-cking him - senseless. Jacob Milton,
a friend of Wallto 4 , seised the axe with
. wintah the tree erne felled, anti !chopped
intntkyles Shegider. Whereupon. Dan.
ielVrow drew a rerolver and ahot
toMssu the right Shoulder, Wounding
blue severely. The party wero subs*,
.qn6nly arreeted.. I
John Robes tson Postmaster at
thi# place, wee attaeltetil on his way
bottle, on Sunday night about nine
o , citeele, knocked down and rebbed of
seMje two Mindied., and ninety, dollara.
Thee partleularenrm. Aft. Roberuiort altar
chtlelf repaired to the pestollice. aa - ls
his:unstom, r,
to Make up the mails leaving
nnida..therning. After conclud
ing. is label's he started for Mirne,•and
ha reached dot steno Meals In ffent of
tbotrestdence orllr. O. IS. Nelson; when
tv4men who had concealed themselves
behind the ORO at the side of,the gale
rushed out, knocked hlmsenseleas and
reliNved him of the runount stated above.
Atrip.oriertson;remained proetrate on the
-greand In an insensible condition:. for
abate an. benr;• when , reason returned
muthe soughthia home. Rola consider
ably injured nbbut ..the baud, bni{hie
wounds ate not considered dangerona.
tiering ro the perpetrators of the tatir
&worts assault and robbery hes yet been
elicited.-.‘-Nun Lisbon Jeterued„. •
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