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LIWKSOK A NKEI;KTOi>,
The following though old, is
worthy of frequent republication. As
ha» been often stated, it WHS found neur
a skeleton in the iiuiwuiu of the Roya'
College of Surgeons, Lincoln's Inn, Lon«
ilutV, und whh sent for jiubliculion to the
Morning Chronicle. Yet tliou h fifty
guinods .vas offered for tho disoovtny of
tie author, his name has never trans
pired.*
Behold this ruin! 'Twae a skull,
Once of tthereal spirit full; "
Tliis narrow cell was life's retieat,
This «pac.e vras thought's mysterious seat.
What beauteou* visions fllktd the spot!
What dreams Of pleasure long forgot!
Nor hope nor love, nor joy nor fear
Hare left one trace or record here.
mouldering oaaopy
Once shone the bright and busy eye,
But otaie not at the dismal void;
. , that .eye (employed, i* >
If with no lawless Are it gleamed,
But through the dew of kindness beamed,
That eye shall bo foreTc'r bright. u '
When stars and suns are sunk in night.
Within this hollow cavern hung
fnc ready, swift and tuneful tongua,
v: If falsehood's honey it disdained,
- And when it could not praise was chained;
If bold in virtue's cause- it spoke,
Tet gentle concord never broke,
That slleift tongu* .hall plead for thee
When time unveils eternity.
Say, did those fingers delve the mine?
Or with its envied rubles shine?
To hew the-rock or wear tha gem,
(?a« 11 Ho now avail to tlieia.
But if the page of truth they sought,
Or cohort to the mouner brought,
- The richer mee£ shall claim
Than all that wait on wealth or fame.
..Avails it whether bare or shod
# Tliqsc fee| tho paths of duty trod?
If fToiirtfiie'iirflTs of ease tfiey fled
To seek affliction's hmnble shed,
If grandeure'S guilty bribe* thoy spurned
And home to virtue's cot returned,
Those feet with angel's ways shall vie,
And tread the palace of thQ sky. ?
»T.OBMMCB>B OHIIBCH.
THE OLDEST JJKTBOPISX STRUCTURE IN
AMERICA. •'
[PhilaJeiphTa finiee.]
li/the ChuVch bofild"
ing iti America the congregation 'of St.
George's M. E. Chunsh iwt night ceje«
bruted its one hundi&d »ud ninth anni
versary. Tbc unpretentious little struc
ture standing back a few feet from
Fourth street,, between Race and Vine
streets, with everywhere around it the
signs of busy business life, tins nothing
about it to give token ot its many yeArs
or the eventiul history that surrounds it.
If its plain ft was ever scarred and
seamed the plasterer and the painter
now keep the tooth-prints of time well
out of iti severe plain
froiints be taken for
a structuie of 'comparhlvely moderu
growth. Jkit tfcftpUeo bps a history.
Here had their bßgfcning-overy Methods
ist church in the
Away back«ftrl764 tlie bpilding was
erected S congregation of German
Keformm It was a big edifice in those
size and its grandeur were the
country around. For six
yeaifttlie German Heformed people met
witlHw Walls, but from thz beginning
thinSjtfid not prosper with them, and,
fiualWPftUiiig head over heels in debt,
thoaoTßL»Qiisiblc among tho congrega
tion WCTWne3ted and thrown into pris
on. TheroUding was cried at public
sale, and amontMie bidders was a half
witted young fellow, who ran the price
up tg scyen liundrcdlna fitty pounds,
pose Lis aoo'd iufirinitr, paid the »«toy
pose Lis sofc'a luflnnitr; paid the money
for the church, ami then looked about
liiwi to dispose of the white elephant
with winch' lio Was encumbered. At
that time Methodism in America was a
very paity waif from across the seas.
The* was. but with
out a preacher.\ork, aud it is
said by soma that there was auothcr
somewhere in Maryland.
A LAY fKKAOHKB lit KEGIMENTALB.
lii I'biladelphia, Captain Webb, an of
ficer. In the British army, bad assembled
aroftnd him a little body of Methodists,
and |,hese met regularly in a sail-loft 011
Dock street. The gentleman wbo bad
the German Eeformed church ou his
bands heard of this little congregation
ai}d going to them offered to sell tbem
tho building on Fourth street for fifty
pounds less tban it had cost him. Cap
tain Webb advised an acceptance of the
offer, and thus bad the St. George church
—the captalrt's martial spirit suggested
the name—ltsjbegiuning. The building
then consisted of nothing but the lour
walls that now stands, but Captain Wbb
GRAHAM, N. C-, TUESDAY DECEMBER 10 1878
n full regimontato, stood upon bare
ground and preached Sunday alter Sun
day» Later on in 1769 cliere eaine foni
England the first Methodist preacher
sent to America. Itev. Joseph I'limoor,
and to hiin was assigned the position of
pastor ot St. George's church. AP.er
hiin on mo as pastor the Uov. Mi\ Bonrd
inaii, who also had been sent over from
England, and hid successor was liov.
Ffancis Ash bury, lite lirst Methodist
Bishop ot America. From this time,
41 ml in tact dotvn to about tho year 1630,
St. George's church was almost the Ca
thedral of the Method'st Church in Amer
ica. in a lit tic room in the bnihlinglhat
the iconoclast's hand Iras yet spared was
held ali (lib church confot cnbes, and this
furnished room enough tor ail tiie
preachers in tho county of the church
that to-day boasts of eleven thousand.
"In it there Slid stands the chair ii
Btstu/p A
fry sat, the desk at which 1
he wrote, the hart) benches from which
the preachers rose, and around Iho wall
are the wooden pegs upon which their
broad brimmed hate rested. In Revolts
tionary times the church had its troubles.
When Washington was almost starving
at Valley Forge, aud General Howe was
in Philadelphia, tho British Oeneral ig
noung the origiu and the title of the
church, took possession of it and utilized
it as a training school for hid cavalrymen
When peace was restored the congrega
tion set about placing tho management
of the church on a sound financial but is,
and will) this end in view, adopted, as
the church fecor-Js wi'l show, th 6 some
what questionable method of purchasing
lottery tickets airtil trusting tor luck, if not
to Providence, for a-tyappy hit. Wlieth>-
or or not this brougHt jqioijey iu the
church purse, is not known, but any
way everything about it was conduct
ed in an economic way, and so late as
1800 saud aud not oarpets covered its
floors.
ITS DisTnretiisnKD PASTORS.
During iis career one hundred and
twenty pastors, at Various times, odea -
pied its pulpit, and many of the3e were
among the best known and must bril
liant preachers In the annals of Ameris
can Methodism. Four Bishops -A»hbu«
ry, Whatcoat, Roberts .and .Scott—had
it a* their charge. Of these all but
Bishop Scott, who is now located in
Delaware, are dead. Then there was
that wonderful orator, Rev. George
Cookman. who afterwards became the
chaplain of the United States Senate.
Me started to return to England in tho
steamship President, and the Prosident
aYul George Cookman, were never heard
of more. He was the lather of the
weli -known liev. Alfred Cookman, who
died a few veara ago. Charles Pitman,
the Remarkable revivalist, was at one
time pastor of St. George's church. He
increased its membership to 1,500. He
was one of fhe most powerful orators
of the Methodist church and of his day.
It was during his pastorate that the
church floor Were raised and galleries
were erected, and, by the way, there
was employed in these alterations a
carter, who oame one night to hear
Pitman preach. H*j came again, and
finally was enrolled as member. That
carttr was William Oorbett, who to-day
is the well' known pastor of one the
most prominet churches in New Tork
Rev. Robeit Pattison, father of present
Oity Controller Robert E. Pattison, was
also pastor of St. George's church, and
in fact,-scores of the most prominent
Methodist preachers had their first
charge in the little building on Fourth
street. To-day the church has a mems
bership of but three hundred. Business
has grown up around it and driven
away its people. Its congregation is
wide-spread. Brought by eurly tie?,
some come from Camden and many
from either end of the town. Its oldest
member was admitted as far back as
1806, and, in fact, it is a church of old
members, who take a pride in its old
•tory and its old walls.
• Doau Stanley the celebrated English
leader of the 'Broad Church' party and
Dean of Westminister, now on a visit
to this country, stands perfectly still
When tie preaehes. making no gestures
though he speaks impressively. CMe
Sunday after returning from church he
asked bis wife why people looked so in
tently at toim during the service. She repli
«>d: 'How could they help it, dear, when
one of your gloves was on tho top of your
head ail the time?' It had dropped from
his bat. He is a rather magnificent
looking person with a slightly built and
stooping figure, neatly cut gray hair, and
whiskers of tlie old English style, a face
expressively lull of pleasant >»>t exigence
and dignity, and a Voice not powerful,
but distiuct.
Hl* IVOBl) OIiOMOB.
Tliero was a Corporal in the
garrison of Nantes in the year 1795.
He was H spirited fellow, barely twenty,
but, young though he WHS, he hud
learned to 'drink to excess, according
to the too frequent custom of the day.
Brave xnd excitable, wine WHS a bad
master for him, and one day when in
toxicated, ho struck an officer who
v-asgi.il);> him an order. Death was
the punishment for such an offense,
and to death tlie lad was
ilf,
■ The Colonel of his rogiment, remeni"
beriug the intelligence and biavery of
the young criuiiual, spared no puins to
ob'.ain a remission of the sentence. - at
first with no succgsa, but finaLy liarop.
er'ed with M sertaiu condition—that the
prisioaer should uever again in his life
be found intoxicated. The Colonel pro«
oeeded at once to the military prison and
summoned Canibronne.
''You are in trouble, Corporal he
said."
"True, Colonel; and I forfeit my life
lor my Jolly," returned the young fol
low.
"It may be so," quoth the Colonel
shortly.
"May be," demanded Cainbronne,
"you are aware of the strictness of the
martial lAw, Colonel. lexptot no par
don; I have only to die."
"But sti|)|>oßu I bring you a pardon
on condition?"
TlrtMad'a eyes sparkled. "A condi»
tion? Let me hear it, Colonel! I would
do much to save life and liouoH"
""ion must never again get drunk."
"O, Colonel, that is impossible/"
"Impossible, boy ! Yon will bt shot
tomorrow otherwise; think of that!"
"I do think of il. But never to let
on« drop of wiue touch my lips! See
you, Coloneh"Gambronno and the bottle
love one another so well, that when
once they get togethar it is all up with
sobriety. NfPno! I dare not promise
never to get drunk."
"But, anhappy boy! could you not
promise never to touch wine?"
"Not a drop, Colonel?"
"Not a drop."
"Ah! that is a weighty matter, Colon
nel. Let me reflect. Nover to touch
wipe all my lift!"
The yjuug soldier paused; then looked
up.
"But, Colonel, if I promise, what
guarantee will yon have that 1 shall
keep my promise?"
"Your word of honor," said the offi
oer. "I knew you, and you will not
fail me." 9
A light came into the young fellow's
eyes.
"Then I promise," he said solmnly,
'•I, Cambronne, swear never to take a
drop of wine."
The next day the Corporal Cam
bronne resumed his place in his regi
ment.
Twenty-five years after he was Gener
al Cambronne, a man of note, respected
and beloved. During one day in Paris
with his old Colonel, many brothers in
arms being present, he was oflfcred a
glass of rare old wine by his former
commanding officer. Cambronne drew
back,
"My word of honor, Colonel; have
you forgotten that?" he aaked excitedly.
"And Nantes—the prison—the pardon
—my TOW?" he continued, striking the
table. "Never, sir, from that day to
this has a drop of wine passed my lips.
I swore it, and I have kept my word;
and shall keep it, Qod helping, to the
end."
Once more, not without reason, did
the good old Colonel thank God that he
had been able to preserve such a man for
France.— Exchange.
A BELL NN«n 1.1 A BARBBB
alios*,
SPHINGFIELD, 0., Nov. 24. —Donn BA
zy a colored barber, employed a bell
pouch in hid shop to register shaves. At
noon yesterday Long Wiley was left
alone in the shop. He fell asleep, and
some practical jokers slipped iu. went
to the punch and registered tweuty-five
-haves. Last night, at the settlement of
accounts, Hie money was short to the
amount of twenty live shaves. Suspicion
fell upon Wiley, and a quanel ensued.
His n*llow-wor)imen lie)) upon him and
beat him unroercitully, aud he will die
of his injuries.
Oi(*T lIK ■IA AUDITS TRSATdEmV
«*D>r RcaMankli Ni||«li««>~Th« Mar*
rMillHft That Cuime ike DiN«u»
[From tho
Diptheria is a disease which springs
from the growth of u real tungus on
*ome of lho mucous' surfaces of the
system, more generally ol (ho throat,
may be spread by oomact ot tlio mucous
surfaces of a diseased person with those
of a healthy person, as in kissing and is
to a limited degreo epidemic. From tho
local pai ls a fleeted It spreads to the
w hole body a tic G'. i* tho muscular ami I
nervous systems, vitiating tho lymph
ami notrient fluids. Assoon as
the bHcterlniu or fungus appears
In white patches oil the throat, It should,
no more be ncgloclod than a bleeding
gash ci; a broken arm, and there is
utmost as littlo need ot a fatal termina
tion ot one incident as ot the other. It
has bcenvfound by actual experiment,
both in an uut %f the huinan system, that
this bacterium is killed by several drugs
tho safest and most certain of which is
chlorine water, diluted with tho addition
of from two to todr volume of water.
Tbh wash is nannies*, even when
swallowed and is pretty certain to arrest
the disease. The "great cyclopaedia of
Ziemesseu on the practice of medicine
gives the highest placo to the inetlwd of
treatment. To keep tlie patient housed
and warm, with additional flannel
clothing if necessary, and t» keep the
bowels •pen are matters of nursing often
neglected; but, with care in these re
spect* and early application of the
odics above suggested, there is no need
of tho disease proceeding to a fatal
termination, or even to the debilitating
illness and pailful cauterizations which
go together in its latter stages. As to
tho origin of diptheria. tho weight of
testimony is that it belongs to the class
of filth diseases, but further than its
source is not clear. Families which
would be scandalized at the suggestion
ot untidiuoss are attacked while others of
filthy surroundings escape. This simply
shows that our sense ot cleanliness needs
cultivation, so that wo may discriminate
between what if offensive to the system
and what offensive to our falsely educated
tastes. The fanners wife to whom the
closed and carefully dusted parlor or the
prcternaturally scrubbed floor aro tho
essentials of neatness, may endure the
proximity of a sour swamp or of the
kitchen cesspool for years without takiug
offense.
Mrs. Clara S. Foltz, a widow, of San
Joae, is the first woman admitted to the
Bi»r of California, the Legislature of
that State having at its last session
passed a bill granting such right to the
sex. Shell as pursued her studies under
difficulties that would have discouraged
most men, having no property to speak
of aud five small children to provide for.
Most of the time she has done her own
housework, and has occasionally de
livered lectures to eke out subsistence.
The Committee appointed to examine her
consisting of the best lawyers in the
town unanimously testified to her entire
fitness for the profession.
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A CALIFORNIA Doo.—A sad dog in
San Francisco is called "Whiskey
Straight." At two months be developed
a taste for beer, and now he is devoted
to all sores of liquor, from absinthe
down to porter, waxes strong and fal
thereon. After a spree he appears
morose and sullen till he has had a
drink or two of whiskey, when he cheers
up and frisks around in the liveliest
manuer. Additional potations, however,
change his mood; be become cross and
and quarrelsome and finally falls into a
condition of drunken stupidity.
1 POPULATION.—-In his "Tr«ie Law of
Population" Doubloday points .out that
"Populations aie universally found thin
in pastoral countries, where tho food is
■ chiefly animal,* denser where it is mixed;
still denser where vegetable but plentes
ous; densest of all where it is vegetable
aud scarce." The natural inference is
that in,the plethoric state productiveness
is arrested, while in the deplethoric it is
reinvigorated. In the poorest times Irish
families subsisting on potatoes aitil meal
, averaged seven, against five i;> England
and Mirce in Fiance. In rice eating
countries the popnlatlon it dense.
A spelling match in Peltonville, Miss.,
ended in a row. One contestant said
that p-l-o-u-g-li was alone correct, ami
another**exclusively inautaiued p-I-o-w,
The »clM»o!masier ruled thag both were
r ght, but, iu tho absence of a dioiiona
iv, ihe prevailing scuiiment was that
there coyhl not possibly be two correct
ways of spelling one word. A book was
thrown jnt i!:u schoolmaster's head, aud a
general fight ensued.
other Dayton, Ohio, tho day, just as (lie
train she intended fo tuße was
as she stood almost crying with vexation
on tho platform a gentleman arrived at the
depot on a full run. with his carpetsbag
in his hand his coat on Jbfs arm, and
face -streaming with perspiration. As
he looked an the traiu now moving
fast away, ho sat down on his c&rpet-bng
wiped tls face, and deliberately and
emphatically said, "Darn that train 1"
The lady heard Uuu> aud auuling upon
him with a lady's sweetness, said," Thank
you, sir." j
NO, 40
Gleanings
Fourteen thousand persons are sup«
posed to have died of yellow fever.iu the
South* during the Into visitation.#
Tlio compositor who made it read, J- In
the mh-st ot lii'o we arc in du'M," wasn't
lmicli out ol the way.
At nn election a candidate solicited a
.vote. "J would rather vote for the devil
than von," was I lie reply. "But ill case
your Iriend is not a candidate," said the
solicitor, "might i then count on your
assistance?"
About this time l'l incc Bismarck steps
around to hi* tailor's and remarket "oa>,
Schneider, Jim put a copper lining to
dem gout and bants, v!ll you? 1 (Jinks
we have aiioder zociulis't echuizenfcst
pooty sudden maybe."— Boston Travel-
I er.
A oony of the Montz Bible printed by
Gultenburg in 1465—being the first book
ever prh.ted was sold at auction in I'aris
last June for #IO,OOO. It is printed on
Vollum, but is uot quite perfect, scvoral
portions having been restored In fuo
simile.
"Pale fact) gtm red mau chaw?" said
John Feyonk, and ludian,-at a house in
Arkansas. John did uot get his tobacco,
which made him so angry that he killed
the live inmates of the house.
"Satan died here," read* a Pittsburg
j-ign; but it was uot until an astute Alle-.
ghauy Dutchman inquired when he died
there that the people urnlei stood that
they could get satin dyed.
St. Peter'i Church in lionie is a vast
structure of which tew people have any
just conception. It covers au area of
8 acres of ground. Its cost *as $50,000,s
OOOiu gold, and it requires $20,000 per
year to keep it in repair. It was about
aOO years in building.
"Ifi my airly days," remarked the old
mau, as he shoveled coal into the school
house bin. "(hoy didn't use coal to keep
u« school young'uus warm, i kin tell
you." "What did thov use?" ask«d a
bi;y near by. A sad, fur away look
seemed Jo pass oyer the old man's lace as
he quietly responded: "Birch my boy.
idrch."
A young lady hesitating for a word in
describing the charaeier ot a rejected
suitor, said, "Hois not a tyrant, not ex
nelly domineering, but—" "Dogmatic,"
suggested her friend, "No, he has not
dignity enough for that; I thin* that
pupmalic would convey iny meaning ad
uiirably.
Ou the day of Miss Helen Astor's wed*
cling to Mr. Jniries liodKevelt, In New
Vork, she provided a feast fcr all the pa
tients in Bcllevue Hospital. The tare
comprised 900 pounds ot chicken, ten
barrels ot vegetables, twenty bushels of
truit, and agreat variety of cake aud con
fectionery.
TIT FOR TAT.— ''Eugenia, Eugenia,will
yon still insist ou wearing the hair of au
other woman upon your head? ' "AN
phonse, Alphonse, do you still iusist lip-,
on weaiing the skin oi another calf upon
your feet?' 1
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SOMK BAD EGOS. —Mr. Eggers. of Cin
cinnati, bas sued tor a divorce, after Mrs.
Eggers has for tweuty-five years been
keeping drunk on three bottles of Rhine
wine a day, at $1.26 a bottle, and forc
ing him to meud and wash the family
clothes.
Speaking of dull times, * wicked Mo
bile man says that a few weeks ago a
stronger arrived theoe aud bought a
bale of cottou, a pleasant tumor was at
once started that the cottou buyer hud
arrived, but it only proved to be a Chi
cago man with the ear ache.— Com But.
A quack doctor is (raveling in Ohio,
accompaniod,by a remarkably beautiful
yonng woman. .Uer complexion espe
cially is perfect. He tells the people, in
fire lectures, that thjs lair ereature was
once ratliei ugly, but has been improved
by the use of his elixir, which ho oflors
for sale at $3 a bottle. Nobody buvs ahv
at the conclusion of tfco lecture, but* oil
tho following day, when lys agent goes
trcm house to house, the sale is large.
A seli-bindiug and reaping machine
was run away with by a lively team of
horses in Otegou a lew days ago. Tho
eourso lay through a field ot Wheal eon
tainimr about 100 acres, and tho machine
kept together, binding every tmuile that
came to it with ligntning rapidity. When
the team was stopped the" machine had
cdt aud bound 150' bundles.
HAPPY THOUGHT.- Brethren, before
we sing the next verse ot ".fobnitrown's
body lies sIJ inouldlv in (ho grave," let
us take a look into the grave and see that
it is there. In these davs of Ohio medi
cal colleges a cemetery isn't no safer than
a savings bank, and it may be that polit
ical glee clubs, who have" been singing
Ihe song quoted above, have been chant- "
ing a rhxthißic lie for the past fifteen,
years.• -Bur 'ington Hawkeye.
A CHIN KESK CITIZEN AT LAST.— For the
first time in the history of ihe cit} ot
New fort; a nttiVC live Chinaman Iwu
been wmittfid to all the privileges of cit
izenship provided by the constitution of
(he United States. The questiou of the
naturalization of Mongolians has been a
mooted one for many years, and the con
stantly icreasittg emigration of that mys
terious aud thrifty race has intensified
the popular interest in the settlement of.
this dilUcult problem. Tho question, ti
fornia, has never been tested in (his city
before