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f lf W5 jtfj ! 'fi t. jly r Hm Imnq ftorMRhly Bds4 wflB I SVB80BIPTION JUTX3 : a oo f,.ry Jftwtt 7g ? Jo 11 : U I : ffTiLHTtfi PTTiTi tabs. Maara.poaTxaa. . VOL. XXV. CHABLOTTE, N. C, SUNDAY MARCH 6, 1881. THE HANDSOMEST OBSERVATIONS. yer mouth bare a big get a steam LOT Of Street row: First gamin "I'll with gravel." Second gamin"? Job doln' It." First gamla "Oh, snovei." "Canadian hemlock forests are being rapidly t destroy a iew Spitz as there destroyed for their bark." Why not destroy a few i v 'mere is as mucn oar iu Hamburg Edging GLOVES (PATENTED JVSS 1MB, 1870.) flic Finest, Most Convenient, AND W FITTING GLOVE SOLD. WITH A full line JUST RECEIVED. INSERTING MATCH To be Found in the City. A beautiful lot of 1TEW LACES -JUST 1N- Evfry Pair Warranted. T. L. .SEIGLE & CO., is in a forest. "How can I tell the sort of parasol yon require?" the pote was heard remarking to Miss Murnford. "when you do not give the shade." "Billy man! I expect the parasol to do that," was the reply. The Begister-CaU says: "It took ages to bring women up to the standard of marriage." What did the men do during those ages? "I wonder, uncle," said a little girl. "If men will ever yet live to be 500 or 1 ,000 years old?" "No. my child," responded the old man, "that was tried ouce, and the race got so bad the world had to be drowued." No better evidence Is wanting that a general disbelief in Mother skipton's prophecy is abroad in the land tnan the fact that the contributions to the government "conscience fund" tnus far mis season show a marked decrease In comparison with the corresponding period last year. They were talking of literature when she re marked: "How I admire Hogg! His tender l'lns fairly bristle with good points." "I am partial to Bacon," said he, "and I consider Hogg a boar." ' Did you ever study the metrical rhythm of Hogg's feet?" she asked. "Yes; but I do not and so mucn wisdom interlarded as In Bacon's prose " And then they sat down in one chair, and he held her Akenslde. "My pa Is bigger than your pa " "Yes, and my pa's got a pistol that'll shoot further than your pa's pistol " "Mj pa's got a gun bigger than you can lift, aud my pa can slap your pa." "I Know who can whip your pa." "Who?" "God can." "Yes, and God can split your pa all to pieces." "Mr Thomrjaon nresents his compliments to Mr. Simpson, and begs to request that he will keep hlspiggs irom trespassing on his grounds. "Mr. Simpson presents his compliments to Mr. Thomp son, and i not spell rnanKC.U to Mr. hlrriDSon, will add the letter E to the last word In the note inst received, so as to reDresent Mr. Simpson and lady." "Mr. Simpson returns Mr. Thompson's letter unopened, the impertinence It coutalns being only equaled by its vulgarity." THE REVISED BIBLE. EXAMPLES OF THE CHANGES MADE. ALEXANDER & HARRIS. WEST TRADE STREET. Col- feb'20 nmrl miscellaneous. Boots j&Uoes il Spi Stock 1881 A DELICIOUS DRINK For Use in Families, Hotels, Clubs, Parties, Etc. We are dally receiving our SPRING STOCK r s which will be more complete than ever before and comprises the est Br anas Latest Styles lAttaananW Hi PUNCH. Boatox H. GRATES fe SOKS. LADIES-, MI53ES'. CHILDRENS,' GENTS', BOYS', AND YOUTHS' FINE BOOTS! SHOES A SPECIALTY. Lower grades all goods in our line .all prices. FULL STOCK In variety aud STETSON HATS, and soon to anlve a pretty line Straw Hats, Trunks, Valises k Satchels, ALL SI S3 AND RRICES. 'Call and see us. PEGRAM & CO. feb'20 f3VTJ CT0Xl5. The "Hub Punch " hu lstely bssn introduced, ud meets with marked popular favor. It is Warranted to Contain only tht Best of Liquors, United with Choice Fruit Juices and Granulated Sugar. It is ready on opening, and will be found an urreeable addition to the ettoioe thingewhich undeniably enlarge the pleasures of life and encourage good fellowship and good nature if rightly enjoyed. GOOD AT ALL TIMES Just the Thing to Keep In Wine Cellars. Sideboards not Complete Without Hub Punch. It can be used Clear or with Fresh Milk, Ice, Soda, or Hot Water, Lemonade, or with Fine Ice, to Suit the Taste. Sold by leading Wine Merchants, Grocers, Hotels sad Druggists everywhere. Trade supplied at manufacturers prices by1 W son & Burwell, Wholesale and Retail Druggist Charlotte. N. C." Jan 23-eod 6m. NEW SPRING CALICOS Beautiful Styles. -STILL OFFERING SEVERAL- LINES OF GOOD3 AT COST Ml Early and Get Bargain. TUYT'S POLLS INDORSED BY PHYSICIANS, CLERGYMEN, AND THE AFFLICTED EVERYWHERE. THE GREATEST MEDICAL TRIUMPH OF THE AGE. SYMPTOMS OP A TORPID LIVER- Logi of appetite.Naoiearbowelg costive, fain in theHead,with a dull sensation In the back part. Fain under the snonlder blade, fullness after eating, wltn a disin clination to exertion of body or mind. Irritability of temper. Low spirits, -Uoss of memory, with a reeling of fryPf nem leeted some dnty, weariness, IlBinea, Muttering of the Heart. Dote before the eyes, Yellow Bktn, Headache, Restless ness at night, highly colored urine. IF THESE WAEHUrOS ASI TOHEEDED, SERIOUS DISEASES WILL SOON BE DEVELOPED. TTTTTS PILLS re especially adapted to sacVeasestonedoee affeeto such change of feeling as to astonish the sufferer. They IeiweaM IM AppeUso, and cans the body to Takk en rieb, tkos tne system to "ndbyUiilreilAel.ODthe ducad- Price ffi csots. 88 MrTy mu, m.k. TUTT'S HAIR DYE. Obat Haib or Whtskkbs changed I to aOMesr Black by a single application of this DY. It Imparts a natural color, acta Instantaneously. Bold by Druggist., or sent by express on receipt of SI. Office, 35 Murray St., Mew York. CDr. TCTTS UREAL ef Vslaahht laftmastloa see- k cieftil BMlpto wUI be suited ran a aaUeaU.a. Feb 23 deodAwly. HUGH SISSON & SOKS, Importers, Dealers and Manufacturers HAKGRAVES & WILHELM. feb27 OF rpHE WASHINGTON QAZBTTK, Published at the National Capital every Sunday Giving a full resume of the preceding week, news of all national topics and general Intelligence, be sides being the only REPRESENTATIVE SOUTHERN PAPER There supporting the National Democratic Party. Edited by GKOttGB C. WEDDERBURN. of Virgin ia, formerly publisher of the Richmond CVa.) Enquirer. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION : Single copies, one year, postage paid. 2 00 Fire copies, to one address, postage palft r 7 go Ten copies, to one address, postage paid, , 12 60 Twenty copies, to one address, postage pd, 2O00 (.With a copy free to the person securing the clubs. . I" or furtherlnf ormatloD address ; GAZETTE PUBLISHING COspANT, Box 822, Washington, p. K,-ot tt Editor. Dec 23. - MARBLE STATUARY MONUlTcXTS, FURNITURE SLABS, 1 Altars, Toibs, Tile, President Chate, of Haverford lege, a Member of the Committee on Revision, Lectures Upon the One Hundred and Twenty Thousand Errors) and Variation. Philadelphia Times. President Chase, of the Haverford College, a member of the American branch of the committee on the revi sion of the New Testament, lectured on the subject of that work in the hall of the Academy of Fine Arts last night. The arrangements for the lecture were made months ago, the time being a few days after the new edition of the Bi ble was expected to be placed before the public, but for some reason the bring ing out of the work has been postponed until May, although private copies are Mireadv in the hands of some of the members of the committee. The in structions with regard to uiem are strict, however, and nothing could in duce any member of the committee to make public any material portion of the work before the appointed time. Pres ident Chase in his lecture, gives a clue to many of the changes and the reasons therefor. . President Chase's first point was to show why the present revisers claimed superior knowledge to the older trans lators f the New Testiment in regard to the genuine text. His next step was to demonstrate how that original text became perverted and how it could be restored. In the' economy of heaven with re verence be it spoken-"there is no waste of miracles." As the inspired words of revelation were given forth in human language, with all its necessary imper fections and limitations, and recorded by finite human instrument, so their preservation has been entrusted to hu man fidelity in accordance with that .rrpat. law of our relieious life, that it is left for man in his subordinate sphere to co-oporate with God. Nor have men been wanting in the faithful endeavor to preserve the records or uivine reve lation unimpaired. Yet with the very means of preservation came in the pos sibility of variations and errors a lia bility which has not been completely obviated even by the invention of print ing. It is not likely that any two edi tions of our English Bible fo-day,or the Bible in any other language, are entire ly alike in every letter and mark of punctuation. In spite of the greatest care and watchfulness curious and sometimes even shocking -.misprints have on various occasions crept in. I remember scribbling off some years ago for a manuscript paper published by a college society some lines entitled "The Skaters,'' which had sung themselves to me when a few evenings before, under a clear starlight sky, I had joined a party of students in skating on Morns' Pond and felt all the poetry of youth and the motion of winged feet on the resounding ice and the ringing steel. I had almost forgotten having written them when 1 found a so-called copy of them a number of years afterward in an album handed me for contribution. The piece had been copied from book to book from year to year, and the change it had undergone in the process was surely sometmng ncu auu Buttle (not in Shakespeare's sense). Some lines had no sense at all; in others an omis sion or slight modification had utterly perverted the meaning; and the metre which was perhaps, the piece's strong point if it had any had become in some places the most excrutiating discord. - 220,000 ERRORS. The danger of such variations how ever was undoubtedly vastly less in the case of tke New Testament than in that of any merely human composition. The sacred text has always been regarded with a reverence which is calculated to inspire a copyist with a profound sense of his responsibility and very great care was taken in the comparison and revision of copies, a work often entrust ed to a different hand from that of the transcriber. Notwithstanding all this care, however variations and errors crept in to the amount of no less than 120,000. At first hearing this number startles us. We almost tremble for our precious inheritance. A little examina tion, however, reduces its terrors. Ninety-nine in ahudred nay, perhaps I may say nine thousandnine hnndred and nine ty-nine in ten thousand, are practically of no importance as involving any point of faith or practice. Themajority of the different readings in this formidable ftnnmfiration are mere differences in spelling. Next come slight differences in grammatical form, not affecting the substantial sense; then differences in the greater or less fullness of writing the name of our Savior the use of one of his names or both, the prefixing or omission before his same of the: title Lord (what might be the importance of these variations being neutralized by which the effect is merely rhetorical, the Bame idea being expressed in differ end readings with greater or less - force and vividness ; and the whole number of texts in which the variations of read ing would affect materially the doc trines conveyed can be counted by units I had almost said upon the fingers of one hand. Of the one hundred and twenty thousand differences in spelling, ar rangement and phraseology which have been noticed in our sixteen hun dred manuscripts many are found only in one manuscript, or in very few ; many others are obviously erroneous at first sight, like the mistakes we some times meet with in a letter or in a newspaper; so that the whole number of readings in which there is really any room for serious don't or discussion including questions of mere spelling, grammatical rorms, reiauve position oi words and the like does not exceed from sixteen hundred to two thousand. For the simple translator the prob lem is still less extensive ; for it is evi dent that mere questions of orthogra phy, and in many cases questions of re lative position, do not affect him one way or the other, ft is an encourage ing fact that by the labor of scholars the numberof what can trulybecalted doubt ful readings israpidly diminishing :point after pointbecoHies settled beyond possi bility oi reversal, and by tne strict ap plication of the regular scientific laws of criticism the text of the New Testa ment is becotmne established witn a certainty far surpassing that which at taches to the text ot any oi me pioiane authors of antiquity. EXAMPLES OF CHANGES, In regard to the revision, one of the first questions that comes up is, 'What shall be the style of language V There is, perhaps, a wrong popular impression as respects Biblical style, the peculiar itesoftheold English - found in our translation of the Bible being mistaken for peculiarities of the Bible itself. Now, it is no more literal to translate in the fourth Gospel "the wind bloweth where it listeth," than to translate "the wind blows where it chooses." The former is no more the stlye of Divine inspiration than the latter; nay, the latter, to us to-dav, is the more exact representation in " English of the in -spired original. Still fthink we shall all agree that the Convocation at Can terbury was wise when, in 1870, it de cided that the style of diction which we find in our Bibles of 1611, itself largely determined by Tyndale's version of 1534, shall be retained so far as possible, so that the revisers could hardly find exceptions to snch a word as "bloweth nor to "listetn" unless they should believe that the word had become un intelligible to modern readers. A some what harder question has regard to such grammatical forms as "be" for A ITT L in IH. ;.i In Arr3nf$ OUR "Wo liave Made a J OO BBB ' JO OB B JO O BBB J JO OS B JJJ OO BBB L OO TTTT I. O O T Ii O O T Jj O O T T T.r.T, OO T OO FFF O OF O OF? O OF OO F A A L L T. L L AlUJLLLLL TTTTH BKBX T s H B HI HRKS BBB - OO B BO UB O B BO O BBB OO o O YT 88 ha Y Y as8 UU 11 T "Ber In Prices $10, $12, $13 and $14, 01FIFEE HEM MIFIIIL M 7.50. The ages are 9 to 14 years, and the greatest bargains ever placed upon our counters. ws E. D. LATTA & BRO. PRICES DOWM m prices Dotnnxr. 1 PDA mm -m- -mm -m -r rt r r T st DECLINE IN WOUUSM W ! FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC Having received intelligence Irom our hOHe 1b Baltimore. wMeh U one of the lartest purchasers oLWooleos.at ti sun U from M t mm A Bsjhuksjl TTil iisj mm nmm, Milt sWs, 15 per cent, which naturally makes a decline in Clothlnc, we consequently act accordinely. and we now oner our - ' . thhnM w Ytxrn mare strVea tha tar letker tract fpr large quantities. We are assured that we pnrcnase at very cioee buib, auu sue TrW house earrsnow, and better made Clothtnf than any other .old in this market f the simple fact that moat of them are made IB our own mqm.w m . - . . it - kun rilKIxt MSllMinSS. ( thsti ItsUlUt. same as a garment made to order. The most complete line or overcoat, u men ana v uusreua a u " ' ' ' We invite the public to come and see facta, YerrfiwJSSEWlf. L. BERW ANGER & BRO. Leading ClothioTs and Tailor. is or "are. which" for "who," and the like. "Our Father, which art in Heaven." is a mistranslation in the English of the nineteenth century, for the Enelish of our day, like the Greek of old. has a masculine who, as well as a neuter which, and has no right to sub stitute one for the other. But three centuries ago "which" was admissible English for a masculine relative pro noun, and its frequent use in our Bible is one of the most striking characteris tics of what is called the Biblical style. FIDELITY TO ORIGINAL ilEANIKG. It has been uTged just at this point that fidelitv to the meaning of the oricinal reauires a literal modern ren dering; the case having been cited, for instance, of a clergyman, not wanting in general intelligence but he must have been wanting in the very elements of Greek scholarship who actually en larged, in a discourse, upon the sublimi ty of the use of the vague, grand which in this passage, instead of who, "for the latter," it was alleged, "would lessen the majesty of the Deity" by making the reuresentation of Him too sharply de fined, too near and personal, perhaps too anthropomorphic. Well, 1 can only sav that it has rested with the com mittee, in all such cases, to weigh the conflicting claims of the preservation of the old archaic color of our transla tion and the requirements of modern grammer. So, too, with archaisms in the use of words, in which the question becomes more important: for there is little danger perhaps of any one's being misled bv the "bes and the "whiches;" but a man of inferior education might easily misunderstand such expressions as "David left his carriage ana ran down into the vallev." when his car riage is not a coach, but some bread and wine: "I prevented the morning,' when nrevented was simply "anticipat ed" or "came before:" "he was let," meaning "he was hindered;-" "wizards that neen." meanine "wizzards that chatter:" "be carefuL for nothing,' meanino- not. take no care, take no thought, but simply, be not too full of care for anything, be not over-anxious, TOE GENERAL PRINCIPE. But the general principle upon which Urn rftvisinn is made hefe too, is a retain archaic word3, as well as archaic forms, w&ere there is no danger of their meaning being mis construed, but if there is any serious dancer of this kind substitute for them words intelligible to the common read er at this day. lUmm Hundreds of Men. Womkh and Children Rescued from beds el pain, sickness and almost deaihand made strong and hearty by Parker's Gtneer Tonic, are the best evidences In the world of its sterling wonh. You can find them in every community. Post, See advertisement Forty years' trial kai proved "BLACK- DRAUGHT" the best liver medicine in the world. marl lor sale by Dr. T C Smith. Thirty Tears' Experleace of si Old Nurse. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup Is the prescrip tion of one of the best Female Physicians and Nurses In the United States, and has been used for thirty years with never-falling safety and suc cess, by millions of mothers and children from the feeble Infant of one week old to the adult It corrects acidity of the stomach, relieves wind colic, regulates the bowels, and gives rest, health and comfort to mother and child. We believe 11 the best and surest remedy in the world, In all cages of Dysentery and Diarrhoea in children whether it arises from teething or from any other cause. Full directions for using will accompany each bottle. None genuine unless the fao-simlle of Curtis & Perkins, Is on the outside wrapper. Sold by all medicine dealers. mail -d&wlw "Malt Bitters" are a brain, nerve and blood food, peculiarly adapted to, and warmly recom mended by, our druggist and physicians for gen eral debility, mental and physical exhaustion, hys teria, nervousness, sleeplessness, emaciaUon and dropay, Urm. Ruiefunon 4 Bro. : It la with real nleas- ure that I add my testimony to the great virtues of your "Menraigme" as a specinc ior neuralgia ana sick headache. Such a remedy Is a blessing, and all sufferers should keep it on hand. - - i J. B BrjHHnvr, 188 Cathedral 8treet, Baltimore. Sold by L. R. WIUSTON 4 CO. 1 s mi ' ' ii Smith's Scrofala Byrap and Star Curtne are pure- ry vegetable, wny will you surfer witn cancer, ' B"E5. OIIS ,311 JUST REGE1VEP A HANDSOME LINE OF HOSIERY AND GLOVES SPRING For Ladies, Misses, Children and Infants. NEW SRPING GINGHAMS, DOTTED SWISS, NOTTINGHAM La-oes and. Cretonnes. 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