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A. S. HEARN, Editor and Proprietor. VOLUME XIV. LATEST NEWS. THE OLD WOULD. The experiment of shipping peaches to England by steamer had at last proved a success* according to a London dispatch of the 6th. An enthusiastic meeting to protest against Vaticanism was held at Glasgow on the nigfit of he 6th. A Vienna dispatch of the sth says it was estimated that Tiykcy had remitted over $:W,OOO.OJO in taxes since the Herzegovinian troubles began. A special from Bagneres do Luchon, in Pyrenees, of the (Jtn reports a general rising of the inhabitants of the Arran Valley against the Cadisls, on account of the exactions of the sol dfcry-JUtd that the latter had been compelled to take refuge in the mountains. A large sugar-refining house failed in Glasgow, Seotlaud, on the 7th. The liabilities of the concern were very heavy, and it was thought it would involve other firms. The circular of the British Admiralty directing the surrender of fugitive slavos found on British vessels was, on the 7th, indefinitely suspended, owing to popular outcry. The “Garden House,” belonging to Henry Allers flankey, located at Westmins'er, England, was totally destroyed by fire on the 7th. Its value with its contents was $2 503,(XX). The Bishop of Berlin has been deposed by the German Ecclesiastical Court. According to a Constantinople dispatch of the 7th the Sublime Porte had decreed that during the live years succeeding Jan. 1, 1870, the interest on and the redemption of the public debt, shall be paid one-half in cash and the other half in 5 per cent, bonds. A special dispatch published in the Lorfdon Morning Standard of the 9th says the Servian Parliament had met on the preceding day and voted not to declure war against Turkey by a vote of 62 to 21. Diplomatic relations between Holland and Venezuela had been broken off, according to London dispatch of the 9th. The Bombay Times of a recent date reports a severe outbreak of cholera in the prov ince of Mysore. Dr. Alexander Forbes, Lord Bishop of Brechin, in Scotland, died on the 9th. THE NEW WOULD. The National Banks have been called upon for a report of their condition at the close of business, Oct. 1: The Secretary of the Treasury has di rected the sale of $4,000,000 in gold during Oc tober John J. Baker was nominated as the Prohibition candidate for Governor at a meeting held in Boston on the 6th. No further nomina tions were made. At the recent election in Connecticut amendments to the Constitution were adopted, changing the time of the State election from the spring to the fall of the year, and making the Governor’s terra of office two years instead of one, as before. The epizootic of a comparatively mild type prevailed to a considerable extent in Cin cinnati, Chicago, St. Louis and other Western cities n the 7t,h, and appeared to be spreading. The Grand Jury of the District ot Co lumbia have found true billn against B. B Ilal leck, W. [I. Ottman and T. W. Brown for having been concerned In stealing the SC?,OOj from tha United States Treasury. On the 6th the New York Supreme Court aflirmed the decision of the conrt below denying the motion to vacate the order of arrest in the ?5,'00,000 suit against Tweed, and fixing tile bail at $3,000,000. The Labor Reformers of Massachusetts met in state Convention at Worcester on the 6th and placed in nomination the following tick et: Governor, Wendell Phillips; Lieutenant- Governor, William M. Bartlett; Secretary of State, Jesse W. Andrews; State Treas urer, 8. B. Collin; State Auditor, John F. Fitzgerald; Attorney-General, 11. McLaughlin. The platform favo s a reduction in the hours of labor; a system of factory inspection: condemns the action of the Fall River manufacturers and favors greenbacks and the retirement of the Na tional Bank currency. D. O. Mills has been elected President of the reorganized Bank of California. There were serious disturbances at Friar’s Point, Miss, on the sth and 6th, arising out of political conventions and complications. It seems that Senator Alcorn had serionsly criti cised the official conduct of one Brown, the col ored Sheriff of the county. The next day Brown replied in severe language, whereupon Alcorn threatened to shoot him. Brown then gathered a number of colored men for his protection. Oil the sth the women and children were removed from Friar’s Point, and tie place was attacked by BtO negroes, who were repulsed by whites under Gen. Chalmers. In the skirmish eight colored men and one white man were wounded. The liog-cholera was prevailing in Franklin County, Ohio, to an alarming extent on the 7th. A Columbus dispatch of that date says 6.000 hogs had died in the county so far this month. The Catholic Total Abstinence Union of America was in session in Cincinnati on the 6th and 7tli. Rev. Patrick Byrne, of New Jersey, was elected President for the ensuing year, and James W. O'Brien, of New York city, Secretary. President Grant and party were in Den ver, Col., on the 7th. A Friar’s Point (Miss.) dispatch of the 7th states that Gen. Chalmers was driving the colored forces under Pease and was determined to capture him if possible. The skirmish on the sth resulted in the fatal wouuding ofoue white man, the killing of three negroes and the fatal wounding of another Senator Alcorn sent a dispatch to Atty.-Gen. Pierrcpont. on the 7th, stating that there was no political question involved in these disturbances; that the whiter were to a man for defense, and that the negroes who had been misled were fast being reconciled. His name had, lie stated, been most ridiculously associated in the matter. On the 4th the United States Supreme Court decided in the of Mrs. Minor, appealed from the St. Louis Circuit, that the new amend ment to the National Constitution did not confer the right of suffrage upon anyone, and that the Constitutions and aws of the several States which coniine the ri. lit of suffrage to men alone are not necessarily void. Two Canadian propellers, the St. Aud ley and the Bristol, were burned at Hamilton, Out, on the night of the 7th. A Memphis (Tend.) dispatch of the Bth says the Friar's Poiut troubles were considered at au end A Ileleua (Ark.) dispatch of the Bth says Sheriff Brown, of Friar's Point, was at that place and had said he would not return to bis home, as the colored people there had threatened to kill him. Chalmers was still seeking to effect his capture. Pemberton, the murderer of Mrs. Bing ham in East Boston last March, was hanged at Boston on the Bth. According to a New York dispatch of the Bth Messrs. Moody and Sankey will begin their revival on the 31st inet. in B ooklyu, N. Y., using the skating-rink, which has a capacity for se ting about 8,000 people, as the tabernacle. The services will be on the same general plan as that foPo’*’ed in The meeting of the American Board of Foreign Missions which began m C hicago on the sth closed on the Bth. The principal officers elected for the ensuing year were as follows: Rev. Mark Hopkins, President; Hon. W. E. Dodge, Vice-President; Revs. Selahß. Treat and N. G. Clark, Corresponding Secretaries; John O. Means, Record]'g Secretary; L. S. Ward, Treasurer; Hon. T. H. Russell, Hon. .Avery Plurner and Jtlbridge Terry, Audiiors. John Siney, President of the Miners’ National Union, and Xingo Parks, a prominent member of the same association, were recently tried at Clearfield, Pa., on the charge of riot and conspiracy in connection with the late mining troubles in Pennsylvania. The former was acquit ted and the latter convicted and sentenced to the Penitentiary for one year and fined $1 and costs, amounting to about $1,600. Westervelt, convicted of conspiracy to abduct Charlie Ross, has been sentenced to seven years’ solitary confinement in the Penitentiary. Some of the citizens of Mason County hung a horse-thief named Pemberton at Forest City on the morning of the 9th. The Chicago Journal of the 9th says, despite the damage to the corn crop by frost and flood in some localities, the aggregate would he stupendous. Advices from the South indicated that the cotton crop would exceed the average. John Ryan, of Boston, died on the 9th frem injuries received in a prize-fight with Mike Carney the day previous. Win. M. Tweed was sued on the 9th to recover $983,610 fraudulently paid on warrants certified by him. The members of the bankrupt firm of Duncan, Sherman & Cos., of New York city, were arrested on the 9th upon the charge of fraud, and held to bail in $5,000 each. Mr. Duncan has withdrawn his offer to pay the creditors 83 per cent, in notea. Senator Pease and TT. S. Atty. Wells, of Mississippi, and the Attorney-General of that State called on Atty.-Gen. Pierrepont, in Wash ington, on the Slth, and informed him of the very general hope that there would be no Government interference in Mississippi, in which event many of the serious difficulties now existing would dis appear. THE MARKETS. New York, Oct. 11. — Flour—White Winter Extra, $6.55@7.50. Wheat—No. 2 Chicago Spring, $i.23@1.24; No. 2 Milwaukee, $1.27® t. 28; No. 2 Northwestern, $1.23® 1.24. Barley— sl.ls@l.2o. Oats—Western Mixed, 43© 47c. Corn—Western Mixed, (>B®7lc. Pork-Mess, $22.37*4. Dressed Ilogs—loJ4c. Lard—l3J£c. Cattle —Market dull; 12®12%c. for Good to Extra, nogs—B>4@B?4c. Sheep—4@s?4c. Gold closed at 116/a • East Liberty, Pa. Cattle Best, $6.6G®6.75; medium, $5.25@5.75. Hogs—York ers, $7.25® 7.60; Philadelphias, $8.25@8.50., Sheep—s4.(lo®s.2s. Chicago.— Wheat—No. 2 Spring closed at SI.OBSai.OBM cash. Corn—Closed at 57&c for No. 2 and 56c for Rejected, cash. Oats—No. 2, 33‘4@34c cash; November options sold at 32?£c. Rye—No. 2,72@72 1 / t c. Barley—No. 2,97@97Hc. Mess P0rk—522.75©23.C0 cash. Lard—sl3.2o® 13.25. Cattle—Choice to Extra, $5.50®6.20; Me dium to Good, $4.15@5.2'i; Butchers’ Stock, $2.50@3.75; Scalawags, etc., $1.75®2.25. Hogs —Good to choice, $7.75@8.25. Sheep—Good to choice, $ !.25@4.75. The Recent New Hampshire Horror. Concobo, N. H., Oct. 5. Tns terrible outrage at Pembroke, re ported late last evening, lias aroused in tense excitement all over the State, and hundreds are thronging the trains in their eager curiosity to visit the scene. The discoveries of to-day have, however, been few. Miss Josie Longmaid, eighteen yeais old, daughter of James T. Longmaid, who resides a mile and a half from the Pem broke Acailemv, left home for the acade my at eight o’clock yesterday morning. The road is a lonely one, and in that dis tance there are but six houses. She was seen to pass the house of Mr. Amos Hoyt, a fourth of a mile from her home, but after that was not seen alive, nor did she reach the academy. She was not missed till evening, for her younger brother sup posed that she had remained at home. Her father at once aroused the neighbors and a systematic search was begun on both sides of the road. Shortly after eight o’clock Mr. Cope, one of the party, came upon her headless body in a dense undergrowth of birch, about three rods from the road, a mile from home. The father was the third or fourth man to see it, and as his eyes fell upon the sickening sight he ex claimed : “ Oh, my God!” and threw him self beside the bloody corpse, alternately kneeling beside it and embracing it, The ground and leaves for quite a space were completely saturated with blood, as was the butt of the tree. The clothing of the girl was torn into shreds and her under clothing torn and saturated with blood. Her dress and chemise were stripped to her breast, and three bones of the right hand were broken, as if the hand had been struck when vainly attempting to ward off a blow. The head was cut oft' cleanly, as if cut' by a large, sharp knife. The spinal column was severed between the first and second vertebrae. It was the unanimous opinion of ttie physicians that decapita tion was performed or begun before the girl was dead, because of the evidence of her having bled freely. The body was otherwise horribly mutilated. Two rings, one of plain gold and one rubber, and a gold-enameled breast-pin and ear-rings were not to be found on the body. The body was taken home, placed in the same position as when found, the right leg doubled under tne left, the right, arm laid across the breast and left one under the back. At dawn search was begun by a large party for the missing head, books and water-proof cloak. About eight o’clock Horace Ayer found the head part ly rolled up in the water-proof about sev enty-five rods northwest of where the body was found, in the same piece of wods. It was partially uncovered, resting on the water-proof, which was carefully thrown over it, but nots| quite concealing it. There w r as a wound on each side some inches long, and a cut on the top. On the right cheek there was a well-defined print of a boot-heel, medium size. There was also a cut on her cheek, just front of the left ear, that was probably made by some sharp instru ment. A few minutes later the books were found, and near by a heavy oak stick considerably stained with blood. At about ten o’clock Deputy-Sheriff Hildreth took one William Drew, of Pem broke, into custody on suspicion. Drew' is a young man, twenty-two years of , age, of dissolute habits, anti lives about a half mile back of the woods where the 1 murder was committed. He is married |to a woman fully as dissolute. It was } thought advisable to lock him up. Though i there is as yet no direct proof pointing to . him as the assassin, Officer Hildreth was : obliged to draw his pistol on the crowd when he locked Drew up at Suncook. A negro named Charles Woods has also been arrested on suspicion of being con* ceroed in the crime DODGEVILLE, WISCONSIN, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1875. TWO CHRISTIANS. %■ Two Christians traveled down a road, Who viewed the world with different eyes; The one v* as pleased with earth’s abode, The other longing for the t>kie6. For one, the heavens were so blue They filled his mind with fancies fond; The other’s eyes kept piercing through Only for that which lies beyond. For one, enchanting were the trees, The distance was divinely dim, The birds that fluttered on the breeze Nodded their pretty heads for him. The other scarcely saw the flowers, And never knew the trees were grand; He did but count the days and hours Till he might reach the promised land. And one a little kind caress Would to a tender rapture move; He only oped his lips to bless The God who gave him things to love. The other journeyed on his way, Afraid to handle or to touch; He only oped his lips to pray He might not love a thing too much. Which was the best? Decide who can. Yet why should we decide ’twixt them? We may approve the mournful man, Nor yet the joyful man condemn. He is a Christian who has found That earth, as well a6 heaven, is sweet, Nor less is he who, heaven-bound, Has spurn’d the earth beneath his feet. —Good Words. GROWING OLD TOGETHER. [From a Recent Lecture by Rev. Robert Collyer, of Chicago.] So I want to run a story through the rest of my discourse, in which I have tried to open this great secret of staying mar ried in the light that comes to a man by the time he gets round to the silver wed ding, to which my wife and I got round last April. It is about a young man who set out to seek a wife, and who found one, of course, as all young men do who set out in dead earnest; and when they were married he knew very little about her, and she knew very little about him, beyond this: That they were both born of a good, honest stock, and raised in a good, wholesome way; and she had to go home with him and live with that person for a while our new sat irists are girding at so unfairly—a mother in-law. And what would come of it? They had no idea; the whole future was as yet in the shadow except for the light of love that was in their hearts; and when they came to be alone in their chamber they knelt down and prayed this prayer • “ Mercifully ordain that we may grow old together.” It was one of those weddings for which some people predict a leisurely repent ance—love at first sight, followed by a very brief courtship —and then the min ister and friends, congratulations, kisses, tears, laughter, a supper, which they ate no doubt looking slyly at each other, and half wondering whether it could be possi ble that they were really husband and wife, as the man had said, as long as they both should live. They were both quite young; they did not know much of the world they had lived in, and nothing at all of the world they were entering. Could he hold his own as bread-winner, and she as bread-maker? Could he keep a house over her head, and could she make it bright and trim as a man loves to see it when he comes home tired and wants to rest? Would he turn Out selfish in his home, or self-forgetful? or she a frivo lous gossip, or a wife he could trust like his own right hand? Would the sunshine break out in his face as he en tered his own door and met the sunshine breaking out on liers? Would she cry: “ Husband, here’s your slippers, nice and warm; little Annie has been toasting them ever so long” ? and he cry: “Ah, wife, you are the woman to think of a man. Where are the children?” Or would he save all his snarls until he had shut the door and sat down to supper, and she give him back his own with usury? There it all lay before them, the vast, un trodden possibility leading to heaven or to hell by the time they came to their silver wedding. There was but one wish in their hearts, come what would, resting there as the lark in the spring rests in my old homeland among the wild thyme, and then it soared as the lark soars sing ing into heaven; and this was the burden of their song: “Mercifully ordain that we may grow aged together.” But we have to see how this most touch ing cry would be of no more use then than it is to some now if it did not stand through all the time to come at once as a safeguard and an inspiration—a safeguard against some things that prevent us from growing old together, and an inspiration to some that help us. It was a natural longing just then voicing itself out of their hearts. They felt sure they had been made for each other, and while they knew that time must turn their raven to white, furrow the brow, blench the bloom, bend them down with its burdens and touch all their faculties with its wintry frosts, if they should live, still they wanted the good God to deal them out an even meas ure together. This seems to me to be the binding word. Together then as now, in the autumn as in the spring, in taking as in giving, until the silver chord was loosed and they were borne away not far apart to the life to come. But looking first at the most outward thing of all there, there was danger, if they did hot take care, tiiat their prayer would not and could not be answered. They might both grow aged—that must be as God ordained; and they might live togeth er while life should last—that must be as they ordained; but this day might be, for all that, the end of their equality in age. If he was one of those men we have all known whose body and soul is given over to business, w’hile she was one of those women who take life easy and run no risks, he might be a broken-down old man with a great fortune while she was still young enough to enjoy it, or if he had a secret vice, such as keeping ics water on the side-board and a sample-room in the closet, or any other of those subtle and dangerous devices that are always watching for a chance to drag a man down, while she held her life sweet and true, then long before their silver wedding he might be in his grave or be lit for very little out of it, an old man in mid-age, feeling the warning finger of paralysis in his shoulder or the bolts of inflammatory rheumatism in his marrow, a broken man that she has to care for like a fretful child. Or, if she, poor woman, is beginning this wedded life as so many of our girls do, without the sturdy womanhood of the open air, with a bloom on her blessed face like that you see on the blossom in a hot house, while he has the strong vitality in him of the hills, by the time she has borne those six sons she had she will have aged two years for his one. I kpow if he has a man’s hpart in his breast he will love her and cherish her all the more for her last beauty and broken health, and some blessings DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF THE PEOPLE. may be found in the altered relation which might never come to their perfect equal ity, but I beg to say this is not the ques tion at all. This blended being of the man and woman is first of all a piece of exquisite mechanism ordained of Heaven for a perfect work on this earth, and it is the very first condition that all the arms of its power should be equal to their de sign ; but when this power fails by our folly on either side the thing in that shape is past praying for. We can only pray then for power and grace to make the best of it, and thank God that prayer can always be answered. So I hope when they cried: “Mercifully ordain that we may grow aged together,” this most out ward condition was there in their nature, or else they might as well have prayed that the wheels of a watch, one-half steel and the other pewter, might grow aged together. So 1 tell yop, young men, if you are not wholesome clean through, and you, young wom.-n, if you will not train yourselves to tls; r> iest and strictest womanhood possible to your nature, if you will not eat brown bread, and work in the garden, if yonhaveone, with any more grip than a bird scratching, quit reading novels in a hot room and devouring sweet meats, if you dare not face the sun and wind, ana try to outwalk and outrun your brothers, or let our sweet, wise mother nature buckle your belt, you had better not say amen when your stalwart young husband cries: “Mercifully ordain that we may grow aged together.” I said this is the most outward condi tion. Reaching inward we find others more serious. These young people have to find each other out, and they may spend a life-time- in doing it. Some find each other out as mariners have sometimes found out the polar seas. They leave the shores of their single life in the spring days with tears and benedictions on them; they sail on a while in sunshine and fair weather, and then, somehow, they find their way little by little into the cold lati tudes, and see the sun sink day by day, and feel the frost creep in and harden them, until at last they turn to ice, sitting at the same table and sleeping in the same room. Others again find each other out as in all these years we have been finding out this new world. They settle down at first among the meadows by the spring, then they go through a belt of shadow and lose their way to find it again by and by, and come cut into wider spaces and a better land than they left. They meet the rug ged hills and climb them together, strike the deserts and cross them together, come to the mountains and scale them together, and then they see the other ocean, and reach it together; and so their journey ends. But through shadow and shine they keep together; they allow no disaster to divide them, and no third person, not even the mother-in-law, to interfere. Did you ever hear my definition of mar riage? Sydney Smith says: “It resem bles a pair of shears, so joined that they caunot well be separated, moving often in opposite directions, but always punishing anyone that comes between them.” The remark Is as wise as it is witty, and he might have added: “Part the shears asunder, and then all you have left is two poor daggers.” So it is possible that we may grow gray as we find each other out, and wonder why we never saw that trait before or struck that temper; but if there is this true heart between us that keeps the rivet in its place the years will be sure to bring new reasons for a more perfect union, and the sweet Scotch ballad will be a psalm of life: John Anderson, my Jo, John, We clomb the hill together, And many a canty day,' John, We’ve had wi’ ane anither; Noo we mun toadle doon, John, But hand in hand we’ll go, And sleep together at the foot, John Anderson, my Jo. But in finding each other out, again, it is possible that, like my mother’s old shears, over which I used to ponder when I was a boy, one side will be greater than the other. Now, what are we to do about that? I found my old friend James Mott delighted, one evening when I went to call, because as he was walking in his garden two men went by and one said, “ That is James Mott,” and the other answered, “And who is James Mott?” “ Why,don’t you know? It is Lucretia Mott’s hus band.” Now, James Mott was anything but a common man. With a lesser half he would have seemed great, and he was great in a perfect loyalty to truth and goodness, but his wife was the woman of a century, while he was so noble and great of soul as to be glad and proud of her greatness, and at the same time seemed greater for his worship, a feat few men ever accomplish. Audubon, our peerless naturalist, married a good, sweet wife,, and when she began to find him out she found that he would wander off 1,000 miles in quest of a bird. She said amen, and went with him so long as she had no sacred reason for staying at home, crossed the Alleghenies w T ith him on horseback, camped in the woods, lived in log huts and shanties on the frontier, eutered into his enthusiasm, and counted all things but loss for the excellency of the glory of being Audubon’s wife. When the chil dren began to come to them he had to wander off alone, but he could not go into a valley so deep or a wilderness so distant that the light would not shine on him out of their window. He knew just where he should find her. and how she would look, for while, as Ruskin reminds us, the clouds never take the same form again, we know the sunshine as we know our most familiar friend, and it was sunshine he saw when he looked homeward; and so, if you have read his notes, you will remem ber how his heart breaks forth into sing ing in all sorts of unexpected places as he thinks of the wife and children waiting his return; and so they grew aged to gether, until they dropped into the lap of God like mellow fruit. It was laid on him to do this curious wild work. How her woman’s heart yearneu to have him home we may well imagine; and how gladly she would have sacrificed some of his greatness to keep her children’s father at her side, but she did not tell him so, and now she is changed into the same image, from glory into glory, as by the spirit of the Lord. My story ends before the answer to the prayer is granted. They must be getting on when we leave them, for they have six sons; but they move away and the curtain falls on them forever—but it makes little matter. I know just how it was with them if they kept these safeguards and followed this inspiration that I have tried to teach. When Oberlin was eighty years old and very infirm, in climbing one of his mountains he was obliged to lean on the arm of a younger man, while his wife", who was stronger, walked by herself. Meeting one of his parishioners, the old man felt s# awkward at his want of gal lantry that he insisted on stopping and ex* nlaininr* h r ' Tr " b was Law thov onnh understood it perfectly. She could not lean on his arm, hut she leaned on his heart all the same. They had grown aged together and he shot ahead a little; hut they must not mistake them, it was all right. So it would be with these twain in the far-away Eastern Valley. They would keep together, and when the arm failed the heart would still abide in the old, beautiful strength and grace. “And what did you see?” I said, eagerly, when a friend went from our dale once over into the Lake country, and on his return told me he had been to Words worth’s home. “ I saw the grand old man,” he said, “walking in his garden w ith his wife. Very old tie was—nearly blind, the people told me—but they seemed like sweethearts, they were so ten der and attentive;” and Miss Martineau tells the same story, with the additional particulars of a near neighbor—how she would miss him and trot out to find him— find him, perhaps, asleep in the sun, run for his hat to shade his face, tend him and watch him; and so it w T as that when he died they dug his grave deep enough for both, and when she died they w r ere one in the dust as they were one in heaven, and had been on earth for over forty years. The w orld came to him at last but the wife at first. “ Worse and worse,” Jef frey said in his review, w r hen anew poem came out. “ Better and better,” said the wife, sitting on the green bank. The world might scoff, the wife believed. She was no Sarah to laugh at the angel of the Lord. What wonder then that they were sweethearts at three score and ten ? It w r as so with the wife of Thomas Car lyle. The woman with the blood of old John Knox coursing through her heart upheld her husband through all weathers, proud of his strength, tender of his weak ness, never saying: “ Thomas, pray do write so that people can understand you.” His wild, weird words might puzzle her brain, but they were the simplest Saxon to her heart, and so when she died he had graven on her tomb: “For forty years she w T as the true and loving helpmate of her husband, and by act and word un weariedly forwarded him as none else could in all of worthy that he did or at tempted.” And this -was what this man said of his wife, and this wife of her hus band, when one was taken and the other left, and their prayer had been fully an swered in a beautiful old age. Now this is a prayer we can all put up to God on our wedding-day, or, if we will, on any day and every day after, and find the spirit of the answer in the spirit of the cry. Is there danger that we shall make it impossible for Heaven to hear us in the tale of the years because we are using them up as the prodigal used up his fortune? We can guard against that. Is there danger that while we may grow old together in years there may be such a growing difference of spirit and purpose that at three score and ten w T e may merely be tw r o old people who have found each other out but only to find it is all a mis take? We can guard against that. For where this safeguard to our inner life, and for that matter our outer life also, is needed, the answer to our prayer comes in the true asking. No man and woman ever cried out to God with their whole heart fervently, “Mercifully ordain that we may grow aged together,” who did not find wellsprings in their dryest desert, gleams of sunshine stealing into their darkest shadows, an arm ofpporerw r er for their most appalling steeps, afd sunny resting places all the way. The U. S. Supreme Court on the Suf frage Question. In the Supreme Court of the United States at Washington, Oct. 4, in the case of Virginia L. Minor and Francis Minor, her husband, plaintiff's in error, ts. Reese Happersett, in error to the Superior Court of the State of Missouri, Chief-Justice Waite delivered the opinion of the court to the effect that the Fourteenth Amend ment of the Constitution does not confer upon women the right to vote. The court affirms in the decision that women have al ways been considered citizens under the Constitution and entitled to all the privi leges and immunities of citizenship, but in the admission of this general point the court decides that suffrage is not one of the privileges and immunities of the citi zen, and that it is nowhere made so in ex press terms, and even further than this, that suffrage was not coextensive with the citizenship of the States at the time of its adoption. Applying these general facts to the constitutional amendments, the court shows that the framers of the Fourteenth Amendment never contemplated that it conferred the right of suffrage even upon the colored persons because it invested them with citizenship, and, taking this view, they framed the Fifteenth Amend ment to prevent any State denying them the right of suffrage because of race, color, or previous condition of servitude. Upon this point the court said: “ The Fourteenth Amendment had al ready provided that no State should make ®r enforce any law which should abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States. If suffrage was one of these privileges or immunities why amend the Constitution to prevent its being and e nied on account of race, etc.? Nothing is more evident than that the greater must include the less, and if all were already protected why go through with the form of amending the Constitution to protect a part?” The decision closes with the following statement: “ Certainly if the courts can consider any question settled this is one. For nearly ninety years the people have acted upon the idea that the Constitution, when it conferred citizenship, did not necessari ly confer the right of suffrage. If uni form practice long continued can settle the construction of so important an instru ment as the Constitution of the United States confessedly is, most certainly it has been done here. Our province is to de cide what the law is, not to declare what it should be. We have given this case the careful consideration its impor tance demands. If the law is wrong it ought to be changed, but the power for that is not with us. The arguments ad dressed to us bearing upon such a view of the subject may perhaps be sufficient to induce those having- the power to make the alteration, but they ought not to be permitted to influence our judgment in determining the present rights of the parties litigating before us. No argument as to woman’s need of suffrage can be considered. We can only act upon her rights as they exist. It is not for us to look at the hardship of withholding. Our duty is at an end if we find it is within the power of a State to withold.” There is nothing more dangerous than telling moral truths ; it is like handling a rusty pistol—you never can tell which of your friends it will hit, after it has „*r XULTUM IN PARVO. The leaves are taking their leavings. The epizootic has appeared in Boston. Dress rehearsals Trying on new clothes. Charity is the locomotive of love under full motion. Economy may lead over a long road, but it ends up in a gold-mine. No person is perfectly civilized who makes a trumpet of his nose in public. A mild winter is predicted because Jack Frost has been sent t® the Kentucky Penitentiary. Many a haunted heart is hidden behind a diamond pin and. a marble-front shirt bosom. A resident of Harrisburg, Pa., has a collection of 1,600 copper coins, no two of which are alike. A man in Tioga County, Pa., has raised tw r o crops of potatoes on the same piece of ground this season. An exchange philosophically remarks that the most eloquent man is the man who means what he says. The average human will chase a dozen miles to discover a bad deed, and not raise his eyes to see a good act. A Hibernian horticulturist exemplifiest the multiplyingpporersw r ers of nature by point ing out how pears grow into threes. Kerosene, buzz-saws, guns and threshing-machines are all pulling togeth er to make this a busy world—for-tlie Cor oner. “ Mush and milk festivals” and “ apple butter parties” are social events frequent ly chronicled of late in Pennsylvania papers. Isn’t it strange that while Nature clothes the trees with thick foliage in the summer she makes them go bare in the winter. If carpet-tacks were not so much .given to the acrobatic feat of standing on their heads they would save a great deal of pain iu this world. A Pennsylvanian, to prove that potato bugs are not poisonous, swallowed a hand ful of them. The last articles he vomited up were his socks. Every young woman contemplating marriage should studiously prepare her self for that condition by learning how to split kindling-wood. In the fall a livelier color comes the bonnet top above; In the fall a young gal’s fancy turns to strings that match her glove. —Boston Traveller. The people of the Colorado Valley in Texas are going largely into the sugar growing business. Land and climate are both adapted to the purpose. The Herald of Health announces the remarkable scientific discovery that “ freckles indicate a defect in digestion,” which is really something new under the sun. The Detroit Free Press has heard that a certain woman is writing a lecture on “ Woman’s Duties,” and cruelly suggests that her first duty is to bum the manu script. A man can see more bad things in a circle of humans in a minute, after he has been kicked out of it, thaa he could have seen in a year had he been permitted to remain. Twenty-five and in some cases 50 per cent, has been taken off from the price of rents in New York city and suburbs, and yet there are hundreds of tenements stand ing idle. A “moose trot” came off at Ottawa, Ont., the other day. The animal is said to be perfectly domesticated, exceedingly kind and docile, aDd one of the squarest trotters in the world.' A Georgian local editor is taken across the knee of the Columbus Enquirer for rushing into print about the “extreme felicity” with which he sampled “some sorghum sirup.” The wedding season is now fairly open, with .he supply of brides fully equal to the demand; bridegrooms shaky, with a disposition on the part of maternal op erators to bull the market. The Paterson (N. J.) Guardian says that the outlook for the locomotive works of that city was never darker than at pres ent. There is scarcely any prospect of work for the coming winter. An Arab chief at the Marseilles opera especially admired the trombone player, expressing his wonder “to see that Christian swallow so much brass. I can not yet comprehend where he puts it.” Miss Sophia Arms, of Springfield, Ma-s., in a somnambulistic freak cut all the hair from her head one night recently. To avoid similar mistakes, young ladies should take off their ringlets and frizzes before going to sleep. Miss Annie Wyatt, of Shady Dale, Jasper County, has a wonderful pet pigeon, which alights on her piano while she is playing and goes through the evolutions of a waltz with remarkable ea*e and grace. — Savannah (Ga .) JSeixs. “ He builded better than he knew,” re marked a shoemaker’s wife about two o’clock in the morning, as she nervously grasped one of his pegged sole boots in her right hand and patiently waited lor the sound of his footfall on the stairs. A St. Louis reporter was sent into the country to gather crop statistics. About dusk he reached a spot where the horse power of a threshing-machine bad been at work, and he patiently followed the track nearly all night. When waked up from a slumber into which he had fallen ex hausted, he said that it was a dreadful long distance between houses. A Jacksonville (111.) physician, hav ing successfully removed one-half of a pa tient’s tongue, has been overwhelmed with applications from suffering husbands for miles around to operate upon their wives. Most of them suggest that he need not be particular to leave one-half of the tongue for use, but that one-sixth or one-tenth wifl be quite sufficient. — Chicago Times. In Kansas City, Mo., a few days ago, an Irishman named Pat Whilen saved the life of an old- man, snatching him trom before a locomotive which would have run over him. Pat was paid lor thus whilin’ away his time by the magnificent gift of two dollars from the old mans son who said he wouldn’t have had the old fellow killed just then for twuce the money—he couldn’t spare time tor the funeral. No LONGER will the crafty resident of Troy, N. Y., order the succulent oyster stewed, nor roasted, nor fried; nor will he hereafter indulge in the steaming fragrance of the savory oyster-pie; nor jet in the mysterious compound of escaloped oys ters will he ever indulge. But none the less will be the consumption of the luscious bivalve, though it will be taken only on the half-shell. A strict!v truth Gil TERMS: $1.50 per Year, in Advance. NUMBER 6. was found in a Troy oyster served up raw, while another pearl worth S4OO was found ruined bj 7 having been stewed. And the rush for raw oysters on the half-shell iu Troy is becoming a mania among all classes. An expressman named Qucal, of Os wego, N. Y., went out sailing with two friends last June, who returned wet and bedraggled, Queal having been drowned when the boat capsized. Queal’s wife, whom he had recently married, was plunged in terrible grief. Queal had S2OO with him of the express company’s money, which he would have paid over next day according to custom. The Hartford Accident Insurance Com pany owed his wife $3,000 on a policy which he had taken out just before his death, and had agreed to pay it over on the 22d of August. On Aug. 16 a mer chant of Oswego saw Queal sitting at din ner at Carthage, Mo., disguised. He was arrested and returned to Oswego, where he is now in jail with his wife, who has also been arrested as an accomplice to the conspiracy to defraud. INDUSTRIAL. Brooms are being shipped in large num bers from California to Australia. The Lynchburg Republican notes signs of business revival in Virginia in conse quence of the belief that the crops ot corn and tobacco are the most bountiful that have been produced in the State for a num ber of years. The annual report of the Salmon Falls (Vt.) Manufacturing Company shows a loss during the yearjjf $24,000, or 4 per cent, on the capital of $600,000, and the prospect for next year is even worse, as some of the mills heretofore shut down are to be started up to give employment to the operatives, who -would otherwise suffer during the coming winter. The Coc.heeo Company has made $34,000 dur ing the year, a profit of 1-10 of 1 per cent, only on its production of 34,000,000 yards of print cloths. It seems impossible for European man ufacturers of Cashmere shawls to attain to the perfection of the Oriental article, nor is this to be wondered at when the fact is considered that in the production of the richest specimens of the latter scarcely a quarter of an inch is completed by three persons in one day. Sometimes, however, in order to hasten the process, a shawl is made in separate pieces at different looms and the pieces are afterward sewed to gether, this being done with such marvel ous dexterity as almost to defy detection. The shawls are made both long aud square, the former generally measuring four and one-half feet wide and twelve and one-half feet long, and the latter five and one-fourtli to six feet square. It is well known they are exquisitely soft and warm, surpassing in these respects every other clothing material. In some parts of Asia these shawls are worn in precisely the condition in which they come from the loom, but all those destined for India are carefully washed and pn/>kp<i — N. v. Sun. A method of bronzing cast-iron, recent ly introduced in Paris, is said to render the copper so thoroughly adherent to the iron that there is nothing required be tween the two metals, and they are so com pletely united that, if an accident happens, the cast-iron will sometimes scale off with the copper; it is said, moreover, that the deposit of copper is perfectly even, not thicker on salient parts than in hollows or under cuttings. Mention is made of a number ot huge statues having been cov ered with copper bj r this method, and, among other works, two bulls, larger than nature, presenting each a surface of at least 132 square feet, and on vases, can delabra and decorative castings of every kind —all with invariable success —and the copper deposited on the works is nev er less than 1-100 of an inch in thick ness. It is stated that the c®st of these works is not more than doubled by this valuable application, and the copper, when carefully treated by a French bronz ist, presents an appearance vety little in ferior to genuine bronze. This process is also found peculiarly adapted to the tin ning of copper or cast-iron vessels, the adherence of the two metals being com plete, and the coating of tin may be of any desirable thickness; the articles are simply first scoured, and then those to be coppered are dipped into a bath of melted chloride or fluoride of copper and cryo lite, to which chloride of barium is added. —lndustrial Exchange FOREIGN GOSSIP. Mr. Gladstone still indulges in his favorite exercise of felling trees. Tie goes to work in true woodman fashion, with his braces thrown off behind him and his sliirt-collar unfastened. In the abbey of Grotta-Ferrati, near Frascati, Italy, a palimpsest has just been discovered which contains, under the Gos pels, an invaluable manuscript of Strabo that supplies a large number of deficien cies found in all previous manuscripts of the geography. An Englishman named Brunker, from Tunbridge, was killed in the Alps recent ly. It is supposed that he was about some rocks near the Upper Grindewald glacier gathering flowers, as he had a taste that way, and that the fall of some ice had frightened him, causing hi* t to let go his hold, and that he tumble ’ down. A German paper expresses uneasiness at the decreasing population of Prussia proper. Between 1861 and 1864 th*-re was an increase of 8,409, but between 1864 and 1873 there was a decrease of 12,922, and between 1867 and 1871 one of 56,440. Al lowing for the loss of life in the last two wars and for the Prussian soldiers quar tered in France at the time ot the census, the loss of population in ten years amounts to 52,200. A remarkable water-proof has been invented in Paris. It is of silk and may be folded ‘almost as small as a handker chief. When unfolded it offers an ingeni ous series of pockets of different shapes, made to cover the fan and other trifles which are essentials to the feminine toilet. The hood can be raised over the head bj r means of a spring so constructed as to pre vent the hood from resting on the bonnet and mussiug the flowers or other or a meats. It seems not so certain after all t.i King Alfonso is to marry the and m h the Duke de Montpelier lot < diplomatists would be glad to i ance, but the Germans want him to m the Princess Louise Margueri e, il*i daughter of Frederick Charles, the * lied Prince.” Neither of these ladies has ,ve* reached the age of sixteen Alfou-oV preferences in the matter has not a.- ye*