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V. J. YATES, EDITOR AND PkOPRIETOK
Terms of Subscriptin2 50, in advance.
CHARLOTTE, N. C, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1874.
TWENTY-SECOND VOLUME NUMBER 1111
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Charlotte Democrat,
rum.rfHKD by
WILLIAM J. YATES, Editor and Proprietor.
Terms Two Dollars and Fifty Cents per annum,
One Dollar and Fifty Cents for six months.
Subscriptions must be pail in advance.
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Advertisements -will be inserted at reasonable
rates, or in accordance with contract.
Obituary notices of over five lines in length will
re. charged for at advertising rates.
Dr. JOHN H. McADEN,
Wholesale and Retail Druggist,
CHARLOTTE, N. C,
Has on hand a Wire and well selected stor-k of PURE
DRL'Gtt, Clumicals, Patent Medicines, Family
Medicines, Punts, Oils, Varnishes, Dye SUiH's,
Pacify Miid Toilet Articles, which he is determined
to srfl at the very lowest prices.
J;m 1, 174.
J. P. HcCombs, M. D.,
Offers his professional services to the citizens of
Charlotte and surrounding country. All calls, both
night and day, promptly attended to.
Office in I frown's building, up stairs, opposite the
Charlotte Hotel.
Oct 20, lb7:.
ROBERT GIBBON, M. D.,
Physician and Surgeon,
CHARLOTTE, N. C.
Thick Office corner of Stli and Tryon Streets.
Pesideuee on College Street.
March 11, 173.
Alexander & Bland,
J) E X T I STS.
Office hours from 8 A. M. to G P. M.
Office in Brown's Ihsild'mg, opposite the Charlotte
IU'!.
A ugust 4, 1 873.
W. H. HOKKMAN. ISAIAH SIMPSON.
HOFFMAN & SIMPSON,
Dentists,
CHARLOTTE, N. C,
Pespcclfnlly inform the citizens of Charlotte and
the public,' that they have associated themselves
t. -get her in the practice of Dentistry. Their aim
-u ill be to perform all operations relating to the pro
fession in the most skillful manner and highest de-L-tv
of excellence.
iVeth extmeted without pain by the use of Nitrous
Oxide (his. Satisfaction guaranteed.
Office on Trade Street, in A. Pi. Nesbit & Pro's
rew building. Jan. 15, 1813.
Saddles, Harness, &c.
We respectfully inform our patrons that we shall
confuuu' the inanufuei.ure of SADDLERY and
HARNESS at our old stand, next door to Sten
honse, Macaulcy it (jo's.
We shall always keep one of the most extensive
stocks in the South, which we will sell at priees to
s lit. To Wholesale Buyers we say that we will
duplicate any bill in our iiue bought North.
We snail id w ays keep a large slock of well known
brands of Hemlock Sole, Oak tanned, Kipand Upper
Leather on hand, at priees as low as any in the City.
Hides and Bark Wanted,
For which we pay the highest prices in CASH.
C3T.M.K. W.M. E. SHAW has charge of the Es
tablishment, and will be pleased to see his friends.
.March I, 1&73 ly SCHIFF fc BRO.
STENHOUSE, MACAULAY & CO,
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL
Grocers & Commission Merchants,
Cuaki.otti:, X. C.
Consignments of Cott m solicited, on which we
tvill make liberal advances to be sold here, or if
shipper desire will ship to our friends at New York
or Liverpool direct. Commissions and storage on
moderate term.
CENTRAL HOTEL,
CHARLOTTE, N. C.
This well-known House having been new ly fur
nished and relit ted in every department, is now open
for the accommodation of the Traveling public.
I-gT OmnibiiSMes at the Depot on arrival of Trains.
.Ian. 1, lS7:i. 11. C. ECCLES.
W. P. COOK,
Trade Street, on North Carolina Railroad,
Charlotte, N. C,
Manufacturer of CIDER MILLS and all kinds of
FA RMJ.NG 1MPLE.MEN TS.
t-?r All orders promptlv attended to.
Jan. 22. lSi2. -
R. M. MILLER & SONS
AoKXl FOH THE OKl.l'.Isrt.YTKIJ PltrMICM
Milburn Wagon.
A LAIUJE LOT NOW ON HAND.
For durability and style of finish unexcelled.
Call and see them at our Ware Rooms, corner of
College and 4th Streets, 2d story.
W. N. PRATHER & CO.,
Manufacturers of
r ur x n 1: v i x 1: i ? a xd ie s,
And Wholesale Dealers in
C(ifvtfo:h"ru 8, Foreign and Domestic Fruits, dre.
Trade Street, 1st door above Market,
'CHARLOTTE, N. C.
C Orders solicited.
Jan. 5, 1S74.
Again
We announce a neat and pleasant amusement for
the Winter evenings. PARLOR t' ROQUET, com
plete for and S per sett, at TIDDY'S.
ALSO, a large hit of new NOVELS, fresh from
fhe publishers, at TIDDY'S.
Our Svhoot Rook stock is now complete. We
don't deem it necessary to go into detail, but simply
avcounce that our stock is full. Call and see
Nov. 17. 173. TIDDY it BRO.
NOTICE.
Raving sold out our entire stock of Groceries to
Mr. R. li. Alexander, who will continue the business
at our New Store, we respect full" commend him to
Ike favorable consideration of our friends
CRIER & ALEXANDER.
We will in future confine ourselves to a GENER
AL COMMISSION BUSINESS, to the purchase
and sale of Cotton and other country produce, to
the wholesale and retail Liquor, Tobacco and Pow
der business. Storage furnished on accommodating
terms.
We would rcspcctfullv solicit a share of the pub
lic patronage. GRIER fc ALEXANDER.
Jan. 5, 1S74. tf
Postal Gauds. Persons writing on
postal cards should invariably write the
name of their post office, for the office
stamps used to impress the name of the of
fice, don't make an impression on postal
cards to the value of one cent in mutilated
or cancelled postal currency of these United
States. Without the name of the post of
fice, in nine cases out of ten, the postal card
is a perplexity to the receiver and a loss to
the sender.
Prepared Cocoanut.
An elegant article for Pies, Caramels, Puddings,
&c. For sale at SCARP'S DRUG STORE.
Dec. 15. 1873.
MRS. QUERY
Has the Handsomest and Cheapest Stock of Milli
nery Trimmings and Fancy Goods in thecit'. The
Ladies are requested to call and examine the Beau
tiful Millinery and all the Latest Novelties in Fan
cy Goods at very Low Prices.
Hair Goods a Specialty at
Sept 15, 1873. " MRS. QUERY'S.
Important to Farmers.
GUANAHANI,
An Imported Natural Guano A genvine
Animal Deposit.
Lettei: from Puck. W. C. Kerr, State
Geologist oe North Carolina.
W. F. Griffith, Esq, General Agent Guanahani
Gnai Company :
Dear Sin : Dr. F. A. Gcnth, whose analysis of
the Guanahani Guano you have shown me, is
Chemical Mineralogist to the Geological Survey,
and has no superior as a Chemist. I have no hesi
tation in endorsing any analysis from his laboratory,
and I think the anahsis justifies his statement that
the substance examined by him is a valuable ma
nure. From his report, and that of Prof. Wilson,
it is evidently a true Guano, both in origin and
composition, and its action on crops may be ex
pected to be the same in kind and in degree in
proportion to its relative per centagc of the valua
ble ingredients Phosphoric Acid, Ammonia and
Potash, that of the first being unusually high.
Yours truly,
W. C. Kerr, State Geologist.
2" As it will he impossible for us to
get a full supply for this Spring's trade,
we advise orders to be sent in at an early
dav.
BURROUGHS & SPRINGS, Gen'l Agts,
Fi-b. 2, 187-1. lm Charlotte, N. C.
NEW SHOE FACTORY.
Sample & Alexander,
MANUFACTURERS
And Wioh'Kide and Retail DiaUrs in
HOOTS, SHOES, HATS and LEATHER,
Have opened their Shoe Factory, and are now prc
pared to furnish good goods to the wholesale and
retail trade at priees that defy competition. Call
and examine style, quality and price before buying.
SAMPLE & ALEXANDER.
Feb. 2, 1874.
Last Notice.
All parties against whom we hold over-due Notes
are hereby informed that we icill not hold said
Notes longer than the loth of February. Take
our word for this.
BURROUGHS & SPRINGS.
FebL S.JSTjL
LIME!
qrpw BARRELS FRESH LIME, one of the
C)KJJ very best Fertilizers in the world cheap
er than Guano, and more lasting in its effects. Or
ders tilled promptly and for any quantity at $1.75
per barrel, by W. J. BLACK.
Ib. 2, 1874.
Notice to Whom it may Concern.
The panic (so-called) out of w hich so much capi
tal has been made, and behind which so much
dodging has been done, having at last passed away
and left all of us as well off as we ever were, we
think it is now time to make a square settlement
and take a new start before another panic over
takes us. To this end we call upon all those in
debted to us either by note or account to call at our
office and settle, as we intend to settle up all our
old business. Please consider this notice sufficient.
Jan. 20, 1874. GRIER & ALEXANDER.
Removal.
I have moved my shop across Trvon street to the
room formerly occupied by R. W. Beckwith, where
I will in future as in the past, execute well and
promptly ail work in my line.
Guns, locks, keys, and indeed everything in my
line will be done in a workman-like manner, and
warranted to frive satisfaction.
Jan. 12, 1874. W. B. TAYLOR
Groceries, Liquors, &c.
W. J. BLACK,
In the Briee Ihnldino, Trade Street,
Cli AULOTTE, N. C,
Having bought out the entire stock of Groceries
and Liquors of W. II. H. Houston te Co., respect
fully informs his old customers and the public
generally that he will be pleased to do business with
them, and sell
Groceries and Liquors
At as reasonable rates as any other house in this
city.
lie requests a call from those desiring to mir
chase at retail or wholesale
Cotton and all other country Produce bought at
market rates, for cash or barter.
Jan. 12. 1874. W. J. BLACK.
At Searr's Drug Store.
Tiie best food for Infants and Iuvalids, prepared
by Savory & Moore, London.
Italian Macaroni, a fresh supply.
' Pure Cider Vinegar, for sale at
j Jan. 19, 1874. " SCARP'S DRUG STORE.
j COTTON FOOD FERTILIZER,
j J. McLaughlin & Son, Agents.
The undersigned are Agents for this excellent
Fertilizer, and it is recommended to the Cotton
planters of this section of country.
j. Mclaughlin & son, Agents.
Feb. 2, 1874.
PETER MALLETT. PRANK WOOD.
MALLETT & WOOD,
Insurance and Merchandise brokers,
AO. 58 BEA VER STREET,
(Corner William.) New York.
Insurance effected in first-class Companies, on all
kinds of propert', at the lowest rates.
Orders for Merchandise solicited.
June 23, 1873.
Lying Abed in the Morning.
I love to rove in the shady grove,
When gentle zephyrs aredoating;
I love to wit at the social board,
Where buckwheat cakes are smoking;
I love to gaze on the golden blaze,
Where Sol the West is adorning ;
But this 1 love far better than all
To lie abed in the morning.
That poets should sing of the joys of
Spring
Is not in the least surprising;
But I cannot conceive how a man should
weave
A sonnet to early rising.
Though Franklin of old was a sage I am
told, ,
I can't go with him in scorning
The blissful scenes in the land of dreams,
While lying abed in the morning.
Let those who choose retire to snooze
When the ducks and chickens are
going,
And rub their eyes when forced to rise
At Chanticleer's dismal crowing;
They lose the sight of the gorgeous night
And spend their days in yawning
Till midnight damp I'll burn the lamp
And lie abed in the-morning.
Who can be Spared?
Young men, this is the first question your
employers ask themselves when business
becomes slack, and when it is thought
necessary to economize in the way of sala
ries. This question is answered in an
American journal to our satisfaction. It
answers the question who can be best
spared in this way: The barnacles, the
shirks, the make-shifts, somebody's neph
ews, somebody's good-for-nothings. Young
men, please remember that these are not the
ones who are called for when responsible
positions are to be filled. Would you like
to guage your own fitness for a position of
prominence? Would you like to know the
probabilities of your getting such a posi
tion? Inquire within. What are you do
ing to make yourself valuable in the posi
tion you occupy ? If you are doing with
your might what your hands find to do,
the chances are ten to one that you will
soon become so valuable in that position
that you cannot easily be spared from it ;
and then, singular to relate, will be the
very time when you will be sought out for
promotion to a better place.- Be content
to grade among the men who can easily be
snared, and you may rest assured that
nothing will spare you so certainly and so
easily as promotion.
Piedmont Air-Line Railway.
Richmond & Danville Railway, (A7". C. Division,)
CONDENSED TIME TABLE.
In effect on and after Sunday, Dec. 7th, 1873.
GOING NORTH.
Statioxs. Mail. Express.
Leave Charlotte, 7.00 P. M. 8.35 A. M.
" Greensboro, 2.15 A. M. 1.15 P. M.
" Danville, 5.28 " 3.27 44
" Burkville, 11.40 44 8.0G 44
Arrive at Richmond, 2.32 P.M. 11.02 44
GOING SOUTH.
Stations. Mail. Express.
Leave Richmond, 1.48 P. M. 5.03 A. M.
44 Burkville, 4.58 44 8.28 44
" Danville, 9.53 " 1.03 P. M.
44 Greensboro, 1.16 A. M. 4.00 44
Arrive at Charlotte, 6.30 44 9.C0 44
Below Greensboro.
GOING EAST. GOING WEST.
Stations. Mail. Mail.
Leave. Arrive.
Greensboro, 2.00 A.M. 12.30 P.M.
Company Shops, 3.55 44 10.28 44
Raleigh, 8.30 44 COO 44
Goldsboro, 3.00 P. M. 11.40 A. M.
Mail trains daily, both ways, over entire length
of roads.
Pullman Palace Cars on all night trains between
Charlotte and Richmond, (without change.)
S. E. ALLEN, Genl. Ticket Agent.
T. M. R. Talcott, Eng. & Gen. Sup't.
Schedule of C, C. & A. Railroad.
This Schedule to go into effect on and after Sun
day, October 12th, 1873: ' .
GOING SOUTn.
Day Train. Night Train.
Leaye Charlotte, 7:00 A. M. 8:30 P. M.
Arrive at Augusta, 8:05 P. M. 8:45 A. M.
GOING NORTH.
Day Train. Ni(jht Train.
Le ave Augusta, 4:30 A. M. 4:15 P. M.
Arrive at Charlotte, 7.08 P. M. 5:15 A. M.
Charlotte and Atlanta Railroad.
Ex. Passenger. Accommodation.
Leave Charlotte
Arrive at Atlanta
Leave Atlanta
Arrive at Charlotte
8.48 P. M.
12 24 44
6.00 44
8.06 A. M.
8.12 A. M.
11.48 44
524 44
8.45 P. 3L
Atlantic, Tenn. & Ohio Railroad.
Leave Charlotte at 3:00 P.
Arrive at Statcsville at - - 6:35 "
Leave Statesville at ... 6:25 A.M.
Arrive at Charlotte at - - 10:00 "
New Eating House.
Wc have opened an E ating House in the house
formerly known as Butt's Market, on Trade street
We will furnish Board by the month, week, day
or single meal on the most reasonable terms.
Fresh Fish and Oysters served in every style and
at short notice.
Hot meals at any hour of the dav.
Feb. 9, 1874. B. N. SMITH-
A. HALES,
"Watch Maker and Jeweler,
Xext to I'lddgf Book Store,
Is receiving a large addition to his stock, consisting
of Ladies' Gold Watches and Chaina, Gent Gold
and Silver Watches and Chains, Ladies' Setts, Ear
bobs, Breastpins, Finger Rings, Gold and Silver
Thimbles, Gold and Silver Spectacles to suit every
person. Clocks, Accordeons, Harmonies, and all
Goods usually kept in a Jewelry Stoe.
Very particular attention paid to REPAIRING
Watches, Clocks and Jewelry, and all work war
ranted for 12 month? Give Lim a calk
Jan. 1. 1873
-Assassinations in Berlin.
A Fearful Record of. Crime in the Prus
sian Capital.
Correspondence of the London Daily News.
"Berlin is getting to be very unsafe,"
said a policeman to me the other day.
"This morning we found the body of a man
in a lonely suburb, murdered and robbed.
Last evening a woman's throat was cut on
her stairway, as she was descending to the
street. The day before yesterday a mer
chant was gagged aftd robbed in his own
store. There are a good many villains
about."
"Yes, indeed," added another, cheerfully,
''look well to your doors and windows."
i' Good advice this, and a small dealer in
arms here in 'the city has a placard in his
window which reads: "In view of the
growing insecurity of Berlin, gentlemen
are advised to buy and carry one ot my
new and improved pocket pistols. Price
." That this was not a mere commer
cial manoeuvre on the part of the small
merchant, is abundantly proved by the
daily police records."" The Bourse Gazette
has lately published a list of the more no
table assination during November and De
cember, and I hope aud believe that no
other city in Europe can show such a reck
oning. On the 4th of November a tailor was
mortally wounded and robbed in the chul
strasse, and a workman dangerously stabbed
in the Gitschiner-strasse ; on the 7th a la
borer was robbed in the Ilamburger-strasse;
12th, a gentleman was seized before his
own house, dragged into the hall and rob
bed ; 16th, St. Phillip's Church was plun
dered ; 30th, a goldsmith was stabbed and
robbed in his own shop.
The month of December shows an im
provement even on this. On the 7th a
man was beaten down and robbed in a
leading thoroughfare; 10th, a widow in
the Neue Konigs-strasse was stabbed and
robbed in her own hall ; 11th, a bricklayer
was found dead and robbed on the bank of
the Wiesen canal ; 13ih, a woman named
Springer was found dead and robbed in her
own house ; 14th, a laborer was robbed and
left for dead in the Choriner-strasse ; 18th,
a linker was chloroformed and robbed;
2 1st, a laborer was found in the suburbs
murdered and robbed ; 26th, a cigar dealer,
Schunemann, was attacked and overpower
ed at midday in his own shop, in the busy
Commaudanten strasse, and robbed ; 27th,
an attempt was made to break into a shop,
and the proprietor was threatened with a
knife, etc.
Some of these cases were particularly
atrocious. Take that of the woman Sprin
ger. Her husband returned home late aud
found his wife in bed, as he supposed,
asleep, but when he threw back the clothing,
he revealed a ghastly corpse, the head
nearly severed from the body by a knife.
The case of the cigar merchant, Schune
mann, attracted the most general notice.
The day after Christmas, about noon, two
ruffians entered his shop, attacked him
with knives, emptied the till, and locking
the door behind them, coolly walked off.
The victim was found some hours later,
and now lies at a hospital, barely alive, but
speechless. There is not the slightest clue
to the robbers, and it is not even certain
that Schunemann could give any inlorma
tion, even if he were conscious.
The prevailing atrocity of these crimes
reveals a very desperate spirit among the
criminal classes. In ordinary times thieves
shrink from murder except at a last resort,
and they deliberately plan murder only
when the promised reward is very great.
But in the daily murders now, none of the
victims are rich, and most of them belong
to the poorest. The workman on the
Wiesen canal was murdered for twenty
thalers, and his murderers could hardly
have expected more. The widow had only
a little sum of money about her person.
pven the cigar merchant, Schunemann, had
only 800 thalers; and as he had been talk
ing freely about it during the day, it is to
be presumed that the assassins knew just
how much money he had.
They were reckless enough to enter a
shop in broad daylight and murder a man
for 800 thalers. They do not hesitate to
attack a woman at four o'clock on her own
stairway, when all her family is above, and
cut her throat before her own son, who
rushed to the rescue. They attack work
men in lonely streets and kill them as ruth
lessly as sheep. This is not the work of
practiced hands ; it is the work of an igno
rant, brutal class, demoralized by war and
military life," thrown out of work by the
panic here, and driven by desperation to
crime. It is the woik of a whole popula
tion of bloodthirsty, starving wretches,
who, having adopted murder as a profes
sion, are tin owing terror into the whole
city by their atrocities. There is uo doubt
about this last fact. These brutal and
reckless deeds have seemed to render every
thing possible and the most careful precau
tious useless.
"Not Responsible for Correspon
dence." This notice is to be found in
many papers. It should not shield editors
from a just responsibility, especially if he
admits anonymous
n in ns.
scribblers to his col-
Have no respect for any man who
has to feel the public pulse to learn his pri
vate dutv.
A CARD.
Having rented the office recently occupied by W.
J. Black, we are prepared to do a general commis
sion business. Strict personal attention given to
purchase and sale of cotton, corn and country pro
duce of all kinds. Liberal advances made on all
consignments made to us.
We therefore respectfully solicit a share of the
patronage heretofore uetmved upon us. We havft
large European orders, and will pay the highest
price for cotton.
Very rcspectfullv. &c,
W.'fl. II. HOUSTON & CO.
Jan. 12, 1574.
The Deadly Evils of Gossip.
I have known a country 6ocie.y which
withered away all to nothing under the dry
rot of gossip only. Friendship once as firm
as granite dissolved to jelly, and then away
to water, only because of this; love that
promised a future as enduring as heaven;
and truth evaporated into a moruing mist
that turned to a day's long tears, because
of this.
A father and son were set foot to foot with
the fiery breath of anger that would never
cool again between them, only because of
this"; a husband and his young wife, each
straining at the hated lash, which in the be
ginning had been the golden bondage of a
God-blessed love, sat mournfully by the
side of the grave, where all their love and
joy lay buried, arid because of this.
I have seen faith transformed to mean
doubt, hope give place to grim despair, an d
charity take on itself the features of black
malevolence, all because of the fell words
of scandal, and the magic mutterings of
gossip.
Great crimes work great wrongs, and the
deeper tragedies "of life spring from its
larger passions; but woeful and melancholy
are the uncatalogued tragedies that issue
from gossip and detraction; most mournful
the shipwreck often made of noble natures
and lovely lives by the bitter winds and
dead alt-waters of slander. So easy to say,
yet so hard to refute throwing blame on
the innocent, and punishing them as guilty,
if unable o pluck out the stings they never
see, and to silence Words they never heard.
Gossip and slander are the deadliest and
crudest weapons man has for his brother's
hurt.
To the Young Ladies in North Carolina.
From the N. C. Presbyterian.
I have been giving the young men some
advice about seeking wives. I feel a deep
interest in the young ladies also, and would
like to aid them in getting good husbauds.
I wish you all great happiness, usefulness
aud prosperity in this world, and everlast
ing clory in the world to come. And the
greatest happiness which I cau wish you
in this world, apart from true religion, is,
t hat you all in due time may get good hus
bands, who will be kind to you, love ou,
and take good care of you. .Most of you
expect to marry at some future day, and
you all desire to have good husbands. A
good husband, as well as a prudent wife, is
from the Lord. And if you would have
such a husband, you must go to the Lord
for him. You probably know some good,
pious women, who have very bad husbands,
who waste their substance, and that of their
wives too, in vice and dissipation, and per
haps sometimes abuse, whip, and. turn their
wives out of doors. Do you suppose those
good women acknowledged God in all their
ways, and specially sought direction from
Him in regard to their marriage? I can
not but think they leaned to their own un
derstanding in the matter. And God em
ploys their husbands as instruments to
chastise them tor their sin and folly in this
particular. Then, my young friends, take
care that you do not lean to your own un
derstanding in this great matter Consult
your parents, and seek direction from God
too. The cases are rare, if there be any
such case, in which it is proper for daugh
ters to marry against the earnest advice
and wishes of their parents. Such mar
riages are not likely to be happy.
And, on the other hand, I am as much op
posed to parents attempting to press their
daughters into marriages to which the
daughters are strongly averse. When
you marry you bind yourself, and are bound
by law to your husband for life. And
parents have no right to require a daughter
to bind herself for life to a man whom she
does not and cannot love. Such marriages
cannot be happy.
Acknowledge God in all your ways, and
earnestly seek direction from Him, and you
will get it. Nor will he direct you to mar
ry either contrary to the wishes of your par
ents, or to j-our own wishes.. But you
must not wait until your affections are won,
nor until a young man begins to wait upon
you, before you seek the guidance and
blessing of God. Go to God now in all sin
cerity and earnestness, and ask Him to
guide you in this great matter, to provide
for you what is needful for your happiness
and usefulness, that if it be for his glory,
ami your good, that you should marry, not
to suffer you.. to marry a man who will prove
to be a bad husband, but to provide for
you a good husband, one who will provide
well for you, take good care of you, pro
mote your happiness and usefulness through
life, aud help you in the way to heaven.
But while you consult your parents and
seek direction from God, you must also ex
ercise your own judgment, as well as your
affections, on deciding as to a man's qualifi
cations for making a good husband. Please
allow me here to advise you never to marry
an idle or slothful man, though he may be
as rich as Solomon. The man who has noth
ing to do, and does nothing, is no account.
Ami his riches will probably' soon take
wings and fly away, as an eagle towards
heaven. The condition and prospects of the
wife and children of such a man I will not
attempt to describe. Again. Do not marry
a young man who is unkind to his mother
and sisters. Such a man will be unkind to
his wife. And the young man who is
kind to his mother and sisters will make a
kind husband. Don't marry a man who is
fond of a social glass.
True piety is of the first importance in
a good husband. But it is not all. Good
sense, a good education, congeniality of
taste and disposition, industry and energy
me all important. But I forbear.
The Lord bU-ss you all abundantly.
Your true friend. T. X, J
A New Thing under tha Sun.
Americans have been accused of a fond
ness for making speeches on -all occasions,
but we do not remember that any one haa
ever made a speech at a marriage cere
mony, as Hon.' Wro. E. Gladstone, Prem
ier of England, did at the late wedding of
his eldest daughter, when he addressed his
guests as follows :
"One might almost suppose it 1 was pre
sumptuous to enter into a vow -which, de
pend upon it, no human power can dissolve
or weaken, but it is not presumptuous if it
is done in the right spirit. If it be done in
humble trust and reliance upon-. the guid
ance of Him who alone can direct our step
in the greater transactions of life, a in the
smaller, it is not presumptuous. Then, it
is hopeful, it is blessed, it is happy. As far
as regards the family from which our
daughter is removed the marriage presents
a mixed character. It would be idle to
deny that we shall miss her much. Ii
would bo idle to deny, however much the
good opinion of her is deserved, that we
shall long look for her familiar form and
her vacant place in our family circle; but
it would be selfish to dwell upon ideas such
as these. The question is whether the
union which she has formed is one which
we ought to rejoice in as reasonable and a
Christian men. . I must honestly own that
there is not one point that I could . wish
otherwise than it is. My dear friend Lord
Littleton said you know littlo in compari
son of the man with whom she has united
her lot, and it is true; but once or 'twice
you have seen him and heard him in the
church, ami have had some opportunity of
judging what manner of man he is.'. To
him we can with perfect confidence commit
the future fortunes of, our beloved child.
There is not one cloud upon the sky of
their prospects, so far as it is allowed us to
forecast them. Well, my dear friends and
neighbors, again let me express the deep
gratitude we feel for the manifestation of
your kindness; they have been such as wo
feel now, and such as I trust we ever shall
continue to feel.
There is one act of kindness I will request
you to perform still on their behalf. You
have to-day accompanied us to the temple
of the Most High to witness the solemn
rite which has been there performed ;? but
let each one of you, in the temple of his
own heart, and in the silence ami secrecy
of his own chamber, beseech the Almighty
to continue to fulfill His goodness upon the
heads of the married- pair. Happy as
they are, they cannot dispense with
His aH ; they cannot dispense with the aid
and comfort of your prayers that aid and
comfort which under all circumstances and
at all times every one of us can freely and
at t he same time humbly render to one
another."
Training and Enerer. .
In a recent address to the students of
Liverpool College Lord Derby said :
To acquire and keep up in every-day
work a habit of concentrated attention on
details two things are necessary training
and energy. The training you can all give
yourselves; the energy which is necessary
to maintain it is in part no doubt a gift of
nature. Men possess it, to begin with in
different degrees, but it may be lost where
it naturally exists, and it may be enor
mously increased where it originally was
but feeble. And in that connection it is
important to notice how much depends on
what students and young men are apt to
despise as below their notice 'I mean a
perfectly sound physical condition. Take
two men, if they could be found, exactly
alike in mental and bodily aptitudes, and
the one go on carelessly and idly, iudulging
his appetites, and generally leading a life
of pleasure and let the other train himself
by early hours, by temperate habits and
by giving to muscles and brain each their
fair share of employment and at the end of
two or three years they will be as wide
apart in their capacity for exertion as if
they had been born with wholly different
constitutions. Without a normal healthy
condition there can, as a rule, be no good
woik, And though that qualification cannot
absolutely bo secured or preserved by any
rules, a little common sense and care will
go a long way both in securing and pre
serving it. On that point I would give yon
these hints: First, that it is not mental
labor which hurts anybody unless the ex
cess be very great, but rather fretting
fidgettiug over the prospect of labor to be
gone through; so that the man who can
accustom himself to take things coolly,
which is quite as much a matter of dis
cipline as of nature, and who by keeping
well beforehand with what he has to do
avoids undue Kurry and nervous excite
tnent, has a great advantage over one who
foil ows a different practice. Nextj I would
warn you that-those students who think
they have not time for bodily exercise will
sooner or later have to find time for illness.
Thirdly, where an opportunity of choice is
given, morning work is generally Letter
than night work ; and lastly a matter
which I should not slop to allude to but
that I know the dangers of an overdriven
existence in a crowded town if a man
cannot get through his day's labor,' of
whatever kind it may be, without artificial
support, it should be a serious consider?
tiou for him whether that kind of labor 13
fit for him at all.
1 1
A very good hit was made a day or
two after an election by one of the deeald
candidates. A gentleman approached him
with, "Well, Mr , how do you MT1
4Wtll," said he, 4;I feel, I suppose, pretty
mtu h as Lazarus did." "As Lazarus did,'
Kiid the first speaker, "how is that
"Why," said he, "Lazarus was liked by
dogs aud so was I."