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The Weekly Enterprise.
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JJ US EYES S CA 111) S.
Lcgan5 Shattuck & Killin,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
No. I'M) Kiit Slr-ft, I'p Stairs,
1'OKTLAX P, OilLoOX.
l)AGE & THAYER,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW.
OFFICE In Croc's Building, corner of
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and Stark s-treet.s LV.rtlaud. 3'J:tt
j r. c.U'LK ". J. C. MOKELAKD.
CA PEES MORE LA XD,
ATT0EKEV8 AT LAW,
O. FRONT and irASUlNiITON Sis.,
PORTLAND. OREGOX.
Vr. C. J0UXSON. I'- O. M COWX.
Xt.irv Public.
JOHNSON & EIcCOWN,
O Orrgwt, City, Oregon.
T Will attend to all business entrusted to
o9: care i:i any of the Courts of the State,
Culh-ot money, Negotiate loans, sell real e.-tate
el-). Particular attention given lo contested
Land tSs1-.
J. it. MiTCUEI.L. J. X. POl.FiT. A. SMITU
luitciiell, Dolpli & Smith,
Attorneys ond Counsellors at Lawt
Solicit Yi's; in Chancery, and Proc
tors in Admiral'.
Office o';r the old I ost'office, Front
street, Portlarrl. Orcc"!'.
a. c. CISE3. :. w. rA nii'sti,
2f:try Public and Com. of Vcvls.
GIBB3 & PAEiaSH,
Attorneys and Counselors at Law,
Portland, OrKwn.
OFFICE
brick hlock.
-Ou Alder strett, ia Carter's
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DExMIST.
I'crmdhchily Locate J at Orej-n Cify, Oregon
ROOMS With Dr. SalLirrans, on Main st.
jyi. F. BAllCLAY,
PJ'EXo .ES:.. JlZ3w .
(Formerly Mirgeon to the lion. LI. B. Co.)
OFFICE At Residence, ilaia street Ore
gon ( ' i ty , Oreg n.
W ATKINS, M. D.,
SURGEON. Port land. OuEOcn.
OFFICE V Front street Residence cor
ner of Main and Seventh stru ts.
A. II. CELL. . E. A. rAILKEK.
BELL & PARKER.
2 II. U GGIS T S 9
VP PKALKUS 1
Chemicals Fatal f Medicines, Paints,
Perfumery, Oils, Varnishes,
And every article kept in a Drug Store. Main
Firt-et, Oregou Citv.
LOO U J A
A Ia U II i a 11 T,
EXGELSiOBlSf. MARKET!
Corner of Fourth and Main streets.
OHEG(l CITV.
rj Keep(Jonstantly on hand all kinds of
f,Ti anl sa;t meats, such as
iii:i:F, roi'wK,
.MUTTON, YKAU
COUNED 1IEEF, HAMS,
P I C K E LE D ' V Oil K, L A ED,
Aj?d everything else to be found in their line
' f business.
JOIIX IT. SCIIUAM.
Manufacturer and Dealer in
SADDLES, JIABSESS,
s'r4' etc., etc.,
Main Strict, Or-on City,
"3-Wihe to represent that he is now as
wed prepared to furnish any article in his line
as the largest establishment in the State. He
particularly requests that an examination of
ins siock oe m.xue oeiore miymg fcls-wiiere.
AXLfREW wr)LJS. WM. r.ROrGUTOX.
WILLIS & BHGUGHTGiJ.
Having purchased the interest s
Q f,.. ;.. V, 1! 1 fcifes
LIVERY STABLE iTf
One door west of Excelsior Market. Oregon
City, announce that they will at ail times
keep good horses ard 'carriages to let, at
reasonable rates. Horses bought and sold
or kept by the day or week.
TO PRIXTIxr EATLY EyECUT.
U cdattho liMCRnilSE OITICE.
CHEaUERED LEAVES.
I saw a stream, whose wave were bright
With morning's dazzing sheen,
But gathering clouds, ere fall of night,
Had darkened o'er the scene ;
How like that tide my spirit sighed,
This life to rne had been !
The clouds dispersed ; the glorious West
Was bright with closing day,
And on the river3 peaceful breast
Khone forth the sunset ray;
lly spirit caught the soothing thought
Thus life might pasa away.
I saw a tree with rip'ning fruit
And shading foliage crowu'd
But ah, an axe was at it3 root,
And fell'd it to the ground ;
Well might that tree recall to rr.c
The doom my hopes had found.
The fire consumed it, but I saTf
Its smoke ascend on high ;
A shadowy type, beheld with awe,
Of that which cannot die,
But from the grave shall rise to crave
A home above the sky.
OUR SATUISDAY XIDIIT.
The Family Record
Saturday Night again ! How
tlie Avecks come and go singly
here blended into one varied prist
as they are called to His presence.
To-night Ave opened the Bible by
chance at the Family liccord.
Singular ! Exactly between the
old and the new the past and the
coming, so far as affects our fu
ture. Horn !
Married !
Died !
Three words and the sum of life
is told. JJora and who cares for
us ? Only one or two.
Married and who cares for us?
As if there were more than one to
answer?
IMed Oh God ! let us not be
forgotten by those who say they
love us, and who will not forget us,
no matter whether married or died,
given or mated, here or hence.
Little would there be of life did not
some one love us did wo not
think that some heart, would hold
our memory sacred that 'way
over the wondrous river where the
skies are brighter, the seasons more
even, the joys sweeter, would we
hnd waiting us, or stand waiting
the coming of the loved.
At best it is but a short stay
hcre. Hardly long enough to be
come acquainted. Merely an eve
ning call, and good-by ! But so
it is written, and so Ave are content.
Xo one escapes death. We do not
wish to. It makes but little differ
ence whether we go at noon or
sundown, if our new home be hap
py. Without a doubt or tremble
we are ready to go, for ours is that
full faith which has long since
made the heart entirely at rest con
cerning the future. When the
carriage comes we are ready to go
meanwhile we will look at the
pictures, chat Avith our friends, or
put the house a little more in or
der for those Avho remain, that they
may not be compelled to do the
work Ave might have done.
And yet Ave do not care to go.
All these beautiful skies bright
stains, trees, hills, rivulets, hikes,
tlowers, and the pastimes for hu
manity Avill remain for others as
toilet articles are left after we have
gone to the party ! We can part
from the beautv of this world, for
the tlowers arc over yonder. 3 Suds
here, ilowers there. And we shall
not care for the beauties we le u e
when at rest over there ! Age
puts aAvay the toys of childhood,
for they are no longer wanted.
But Ave had rather stay than go,
for we do not know Avho Avill care
for our loved ones! Who Avill
look OA'er all the little scrolls of pa
per, the letters, memorandums, a d
keep-sakes ? Somebody. And they
Avill smile at our old fancies, and
wonder Avhy this little thing be
here, and that oue there, saved so
carefully. Little will they know
the history each could tell or why
Ave prized'them to preserve.- Xever
breeze more laden Arith odor of
perfume than these little keepsakes
are Avith memories. Why we Avalk
back to til i distant bank of the
past on these stepping stones hi
the stream others cannot sec !
And Avho ay ill care for the ones
Ave Ioa'C ? Who will care for her
Avho ga-e us that priceless jewel
years ago ? Who ay ill care for the
one Avho for Aears has been so
good, so pure, so true, so kind, so
loving? This is the only real
sting death has. They Avho walk
hand in hand, palm in palm, for
years on the road, cannot bear to
part. Who Avill care for the one
who with us, years ago, stepped,
as it were, behind the screen, to
Aveld hearts for the future? For
this we would live; for the longer
ORJSGOff CITY, OEEGOI, SAT
together on earth, the less time to
Avait.for each over in Heaven, as
the beautiful home Ave are going
to is called.
Who Avill protect her? Who
will hold her to his heart and oren
so wide the doors thereto that she
may enter and kuoAV that all ay it Il
ia is hers? Who ay ill love her as
we do ? Who Avill hold her hand,
still her troubles, look so truly and
tenderly in her eye as Ave feel to ?
Who av ill bear Avith her nervous
hours her little forgettings her
sad moments, her need of love as
v, a would ? 'X:i :M thb :-.re'it 1?
woi'iu tjiou.-ga.ve us is not one Ave
would give her to ! They may
take our houses and lands our
books, pictures, letters, keepsakes,
jewels, life, reputation take all,
for they are but things of our crea
tion, prized more in the chaethan
capture but God gave us to each
other and may we be not long
parted. She has been so good to
us so kind so true so earnest.
Xcwer a Avrong has she done us or
falsehood told. When came the
storm, to our heart she came for
shelter. When there Avas bcauty
in the sky, 'twas she Avho pointed
it out to us.
When others said we would fail.
'tAvas she avIio said we could not
and would not, for her love Avould
sustain us. To be sure ours was
but the home of a Avorkimrman,
but never did walls contain more
priceless treasure. When others
were cold and cruel in words, she
was good and kind. Yheu others
doubted our purpose or honor, she
never did, and thus made us strong
and invincible.
And her hand has soothed our
pain stilled the temples wiklly
throbbing her eye gone into the
depths of that darkness which, like
a fog of I lades, at times en v elops
the stoutest and brightest heart, to
drive it away her kiss lias brought
life and warmth to energies her
words have so often kindled anew
the tires of hope on an ash-covered
hearth her life, ideas, Aviskos, '
hones, future and eternal rcsimg
have so woven m with ours tnat
the great joy of life brings' the
great rting of death !
Who Aviil protect the one Ave so
Ioa'C tltot ? it is the only agony
approaching dissolution doth
bring. Will she be tempted ? Per
haps ; for ail are. Will she fall?
Xo a million times no? Yv'ili
she suffer? Xo, for Ave Aviil Avork
and save lest the one or ones so
dear to" us should come to Avant.
X"o, Ave must not let her suffer
we Avill guard against that, and if
she be good and not sellish, this
care Avill make her love us the
more. And herein confess we to
ten-fold sellishess ! But we cannot
help it.
And so avc Avork, and love, and
labor, and look to the future that
we may not leave her, the best
loved of all to suffer to mourn
Avhen we are sleeping undisturbed,
A'isited only by her; she may be
cared for wrapped and safe in
the mantle Avoven by our hands
while ou earth. Who Avill earn a
home. Will not lose it in dissipa
tion. Will not tarnish our love
for her by contact Avith all Avill
not spoil the beautiful dinner she
Is ever preparing for us alone by
partaking of here a little and there
a little as homeward Ave journey.
He Avho truly loves knows Avhat
this means and it means more
than it contains Avords.
The Avinds might blow A'ery,
A'cry cold on her, and Avho Avould
Avraj the mantle of true love-about
her, for who Avould knoAV her Avorth
as
do
Ave?
And avc know her
heart Avould go down like lead into
the Avaters of bitterness when came
the hour Avhich said, " no more can
he come." Others might be good
to her, and. kind, and gentle. 'Jut
Avhat is their ' good" to our love
their : kind" to our adoration
their t gentle" to our Avorship ?
And there are others Avho Avould
mourn as avc Avould, should they
go down before us but these
could live and love, comforted in
their 1oacs, which Avould absorb
grief CAen for the dearest friends.
And we should feel so sad and
hcartsore to think avc must die or
go home Avithout having all the
unkind Avords avc may have hastily
spoken, forgiven. Oh, how the
memory of unkind Avords lives in
the hea"rt. Let us not speak them
to the ones we love. Let us be
better, more kind and gentle, bear
ing with each other, for none are
quite perfect none except our
loves. And if they are, avc must
not speak unkindly if they are
not, avc must forgive them! Oar
homes may not be palaces Ave
may be children of toil, but ayc can
hare palaces in our hearts, and live
hannicr than Ave do if ayc but strive
aaPK-B in n in pgaa atmuw
aright, for he ayIjo avIus by earnest
striving best knows and enjoys the
reAvard.
We Aviil strive, if Ave are poor.
We Avill be a man, no matter how
soon avc may go or how long Ave
may stay. We Avill do by her as
avc promised in the years of the
past, Avhen speaking by the card of
oruainment each soul said. " I
have found it I" And as avc thus
care for her avc Avill she loA'e us,
and we Avill save our own respect.
And thus avc can do good can be
of use can more cr'ov the beautv
ef life
and
vnen o;
name is piaeeu
on
C i K
familv lecord as Utcd
shall know we live in memory and
are thought of ofteucr than every
Saturday Xhht " Brick" Pome-
roy.
Tlli: XiAGSITY- OP MECHANICAL.
The recent humiliation suffered
bv the peerage of Great Britain
eonvcA-s a lesson fraught with im
portant consideration for the peo
ple on this side of the Atlantic.
For nearly half a century Ave have
been insensibly, but none the less
surely, engrafting upon our social
system, a cry erroneous, pernicious
ideas of ay hat constitutes respect
ability. So far litis this gone, that
not a few have come to consider
manual labor something to be
dimmed as undignified, and a bar
to refined society. Children are
ired up in idleness and look at
the
workshop Avith
contempt.
am. gillv parents, witn more
Vlf I
money than brains, and more pre
tensions that either; recoil at the
thought of having their sons taught
some mechanical pursuit. Noth
ing but one of the learned profes
sions, the army or navy, the bank
or counting-room, are supposed to
be. lit arenas for the surprising
abilities of their offspring. Under
such teachings, the youthful mind
becomes Autiated, and it is not
without some feeling of mortifica
t'on that many of our young men
fan! them-'elves forced to acknowl
edge that thdr fathers or grand
ihtfieirt Avere toiling mechanics.
Alh h.oweve:-, are only too eager to
claim descent from those who have
sited theitTustre upon the mechanic
arts; those Avhose names stand fore
most upon the historic page as the
great benefactors cf mankind; the
titanic exemplars of the superior
ity of mind over matter such
men as Franklin, YCatts, Fulton,
Stephenson, Howe, Hoe, Guttcn-
oarg,
ntt. AlcCormic
, Ericsson, and a
host of others. It 2 time to recog
nize that true nobility has its origin
in. the Avorkshop; that to the me
chanic the world is indebted for its
progress, refinement, civilization,
commerce and dignity. It is time
to acknowledge, by daily practice
and social demeanor, our obliga
tions to the mechanic arts, by in
structing our most promising youth
how to become lords of creation.
Teach them how to combine, con
trol and utilize those gigantic
forces Avhich astonish and appal.
Avhile thcA cnoble
1 I ri- 1 fr mill
civilize. Th
false aristocracy
which sprung from brigand barons
or predacious lordlings is giving
av.iv before the superior claims of
mental merit and wondrous artisan
conquests. The field for mechaical
enterprise is by no means exhaust
ed. Triumphs never yet dreamed
of arc still to be attained. Aston
ishing results are yet possible. The
elements still abound Avith undis
covered forces. An illimitable domain-
of artistic research is yet to
be explored and subdued. But
these triumphs, these conquests,
these results, are only possible
through the. Avorkshop. They arc
net accessible to the practical stu
dent. Thov are to be achieved
only by hard hammering and criti
cal" observation. Let American
heraldry be founded upon grand
mechanical achievements, and let
the doors of refined society be
opened Avide to receive the victors.
In tliis lies our true nobility.
ti
Corn m ere led Herald.
A Xegho Makhiage. -A Chica
go correspondent of HarpcFs
J)raicer mentions the case of an
old mulatto who belonged to an
icqua
mtance.
The old mulatto
s asked if he was legally marri
ed to the Avomaii whom he called
his aAvife." To Avhich he replied:
" Yes. We had no minister ; but
we took a-hold each ether's hand,
knelt down together, and I axed
her if she'd be my Avife till death.
She said ves ; and then avc took
dc Lord's name in vain ' and avc
was lawfully married.
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There are only 420 registered
' voter? in Yrc-kr,
A REVOLUTION IX GEOLOGY.
A recent article in the Advance
haAring elicited inquiries as to the
Aqueous Formation of Granite, and
the bearing of that theory on the
interpretation of Genesis, it may
be interesting to many of our read
ers to give a statement of the ques
tion and the progress of the discus
sion. We do not of course pre
tend to speak Avith the authority
of professional geologists, but sim
ply to present the statements of
some of the most eminent scieuti-
fie men ou the
subject such as
iO-?0, i, if -v.-. iVwt
Ax-ted and
many others, ayuo now
ackiiowl-
edge granite as an aqueous forma
tion. The current theory is, that our
globe lias been formed from a con
densing nebuhe of gas at an in
tense heat, Avhich gradually cooled
down into the condition of molten
metal, of which the granite is the
principal part ; that a thin crust of
cooling matter, forming t lie present
habitable globe solidified upon the
surface, and the action of the rains
washing dovn the exposed surface
into primeA'al seas has formed the
sedimentary strata, Avhich Avcre
again elevated by earthquake, or
more gradual uplicaA'als, to their
present positions. Such is the the
ory of the text books, illustrated
by engravings of sections of the
interior of the earth, showing tile
crust as less in proportion to the
molten interior, than the skin of
an orange to the pulp.
It has been known, howcA'er, to
advanced geologists, ibr some time,
that facts were accumulating con
tradictory to this hypothesis. In the
meetings of the Geological Society
of the British Association for the
Advancement of Science, of the
French Institute, and of several
German. Scientific Associations, pa
pers were read from time to time,
and translated and published in the
scientific journals, assailing one or
the other of the grounds of the Ig
neous
Theory ; and Aviihin the last
A ears detailed accounts of
experiments tendis
o cstabusii
the aqueous formation of granite
have been laid before the scientific
world.
and tiro now in process of
discussion. Uiese papers have
not, till quite recently, attracted
the notice of American Geologists,
Avho though prompt to publish any
alik'ged facts apparently hostile to
the Bible, such as the hoaxes of
the Abbeyville and Calaveras
skulls, are not at all quick to per
ceive facts tending to establish its
authenticity. Theologians gener
ally are not apt to be familiar Avith
scientific periodicals, preferring to
wait and receive their science after
it lias been filtered from its crude
contradictions and "digested into
A' ohim.es. Thus they JnTve not had
their attention called to these re
cent discoveries.
The attacks on the Bible at our
Chicago Academy of Sciences and
of several speakers at the meetings
of the American Association in th is
city, last year, however, induced
Rca Bob-cut Patterson, D. D., to
deliVcr a course of lectures on the
DeA'clopmeut theory, including the
nebuher, the Geological and the
Zoological Departments, and to
publish the examination of the As
tronomical department in the
Family Treasure (Western Tracfc
Society, Cincinnati), and the lec
ture on The Aqueous Formation
of Granite in the April number of
t he American Preshyterletih Jievicw.
This articles has proAoked the crit
itism of The Independent, and of
many of the Unitarian papers ;
Avhich, hoAvever, do not pretend to
contradict tho facts alleged. .They
simply assail Dr. Patterson as a
scientific authority. It should he
Stated, howcA'er, that he does not
offer himself a scientific authority
in the question ; he simply narrates
the discoA eries and experiments of
scientists, and quotes his authori
ties for the facts he alleges. We.
subjoin a resume of his article as
the most compendious mode of
stating the case :
The igneous theory is the geo
logical continuation of the Nebu
la? r Theory; Avhich has been ex
ploded by. the great discoA'cries of
Spectrum Analysis, and. The Cor
relation of Forces ; the former dis
proAung the existence of homoge
neous eternal nebula?; the latter 1
reducing an tnc motions oi me
heaA-ens to mechanical motion, and
the laws of mechanics proving that
a mechanical Perpetual Motion is
impossible.
The only physical facts alleged
in support of the igneous theory do
not logically piwc it. These are
the increase of the temperature as
we &ink into the earth ; and the
phenomena of earthquakes, volca
noes, etc., Earthquakes howeA'ci'
1 have a docii different thcoric:.
The increase of temperature is not
according to any uniform rate ;
in some of the English mines one
degree for every forty-four feet ;
in Saxony one for every sixty-five
feet ; in the Dalnath mine in Corn
Avall, a degree for every seventy
five feet ; Avhile ivupfer gives as
the result of his researches, just
half of this, a degree fer CA'ery
thirtA-seven feet. The artesian
well at Chicago, at a depth of 700
feet, should give Avater at Kupfer"'s
rate, nearly 20 degrees above the
aA'crage temperature, Avhile in fact
two
s:-i;i
degrees below it. The arti
wcsl rvt St. Lou's shows a ei mi-
lar contradiction of the theory.
These discrepancies indicate not
one general Avorid-wide source of
heat, but many separate, A'arious
and local causes. There is no agree
ment among geologists as to the
amount of the internal heat. Hum
boldt calculates the solid crust at
twenty-four miles; Hopkins at eight
hundred. Gordier says the heat of
the internal sea is 45(5,000 F., or
about one hundred and sixty times
that of melted iron.
This is contrary to the law of
melting bodies. Every foundry
man knows that lie cannot raise a
crucible of melted metal aboA'e the
melting point Avliilc a bar of the
unmelted metal floats in it. It is
also contrary to all the experience
of steam boilers that A'olcano holes
should exist for five minutes in the
shell without blowing off all the
gas and liquid Avithin, as the Fssex
Avas blown off when riddled with
rebel shells. It is contrary to the !
laws of hydrostatics, since the tides !
of an infernal sea of molten gran-j
ite Avould speedily destroy the shell
with the attacks of a hydraulic
ram four thousand miles in length.
It is also contrary to the dynamics
of astronomv; a a-lobe chierlr. mol-
ten could not retain its present
shape halt a year, it is contrarv
to the laws of heat : a cooling
globe must also contract; but our
earth lias not sensibly contracted
since the earliest measurements.
Influenced by these considera
tions a number of observers set
dovYii to study the problem do novo.
They dis overed in the ejections of
A olcanoes, Avater, shells, fish, and
even pine twigs. It was evident
to them that these things did not
groAv in a lake of lire. Then they
found that contrary to the theory
of granite being the primary rock,
it Avas more recent than any other;
being found overflowing and up
heaving both secondary and ter
tiary strata, and that in great
abundance. Next it Avas discover
ed that all tho constituents of
granite existed in the sedimentary
rocks minerals Avhich Avould havc
boon changed at a far lower heat
than that necessary to melt granite
rock. Then fossils were discover
ed in granite rock. Next the quality
oT granite Avas found to be of the
specific gravity of 2.0, proving that
it was formed from an aqueous so
lution, and not by fire which
would have a specific gravity of
2.0. Then Avater marks AVere found
in mica. Finally, Daubree has ac
tually manufactured fieldspar, in
the remaining constituent of gran
ite, by mixing kalairi Avith the alka
line solution, at a temperature of
00 C. under presure. This com
pletes tho demonstration.
The most eminent geologists ac
cept tho facts. Sir Charles Lyell,
lii taking the Chair of the British
Association in 1804,. asserts it cx
cathedra ; and Professor Austed
last year read a paper before the
same Association ou The Conver
sion of Sf ratified Rock into Gran
ite, exactly reversing the anti
biblical theory. He says: "Ge
ologists, until recent lv. Lorn
spoken of granite as the primitive
rock, as the nucleus of the earth,
and as having been from time
to time erupted, playing an im
portant part in the general disturb
ances by which the frame-work of
tne earth is supposed to have been
constructed. The observations of
JJaubrcc and Lerby, show that all
true granite had been elaborated
Avith water, under great pressure,
at a temperature below molt inn-
heat; that it had neither been
ejected, nor had it formed a frame
1 ri
a or a. mere are granites of all
ages, and pi many kinds. Numer
ous observations show that granite
alternates with, and passes into
stratified rocks, and must itself in
sue! i c-ascss lie stratified rock; and
that its production does not. hoppq.
production does not neccs-
sarily involve the destruction ar
obliteration of all the stratilh
rock with vhich it is nnr'ntn
and
cd
it IS nccnfiotnd
This view of the nature of o-ranite
win greatly affect the theories of
geoiogy." Annual of Scientific
Discover its, 1868, p. 226.)
fr.Yih not only ': greatly affect,"
but if sustained, will utterly ovcr-
NO.
turn'the whole fabric of infidel ge
ology in all its parts cosmogony,
development and chronology. It
does not leave one stone upon
another of the whole structure. The
foundation facts alleged are false.
The fundamental process is exactly
contrary to that decided by the
geologists. The time necessary
for the conversion of stratified rock
into granite in not so many months
as the geologists have demanded
millions of years. And the Avhoio
business is a good specimen of tho
scientific superstition which accepts
improved and impossible theories
as of sufficient importance to shako
men's faith in the word of God.
Such is an outline of the lecture.
Of course ayc do not commit our
selves to it, as ayc have not had
opportunity to examine the author
ities ; but Ave commend the subject
to the careful investigation of all
interested in the bearing of geology
upon the Bible; since, if Dr. Pat
terson's authorities are trustworthy,
as they seem to be, this is nothing
less than a revolution in Geology.
'Advance.
CATS IS A QUEER AXIMAL.
What under the sun possesses
them to go about nights like roA'
ing lions is more than. ayc can tell.
Instead of doing their transactions
in the daytime like honorable men,
they go about at unseemly hours
Avhen people Avould sleep, and in
fliet much undue interruption upon
sluraberers. In fact, their noctur
nalings in this city are becoming
too grieA'Ous to be borne.
And avc respectfully petition
Kennedy's clubs to light on the
aforesaid felines, Avho have no mora
feeling for a fellow than to get un
der his AvindoAV at the dead hour
of night, with melodies more re
sembling the Boston Peaeej Jubilee
than they do music. What they
yawl and squall about is more than
aa-c can understand. It shows tho
tom-cat-foolishness of cats, and of
ten leads us to exclaim in the lan
guage of the Projhct: Why arc
these things thus ?
They remind u.s of the Pharisees,
and therefore Ave say unto them,
av lien you thus enter upon your de
votions go into your closets secret
ly, and do not make so much dis
turbance to be heard of men. Just
as if men would not know Avhat
you were doing, or take any satis
faction therefrom, or receive any
benefits by them confeiring the
aforesaid rites in the dead hour-of
night.
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Oh cats, it is our opinion you
arc a humbug! Hasten the time
when cold weather shall aaain
cause a demand for sausages, and
blessed be the man Avho lirst in
A ented fiddle-strings, thereby -hut
ting your yaul and yaulop to some
good purpose. It you arc hero
Avhy don't you staA at home and
not go visiting, to boo-loo over
family troubles. AYhy go as it
Avere into the neAvsapers Avith your
little complaints? Why not be
not take good adA'ice and warning,
that your last end be not worse
than your first? For if you do
not cessate your midnight under
the AvindoAV where Ave A-ainly at
tempt repose, there aauII be maify
things lighting down upon you,
other than Horatio dreamed of in
his philosophy.
We Avould not be profane, "but
at the same time in consideration
of the unmusical musicians, wesav
piii... i . i .. .. J
uomiy- aim witnouc Hesitation,
darn the cats ! And darn the
habit of telling all they know when
no cue cares about it. Pomeroy's
Democrat.
opncsymg is the order of
the day. The Hickman (Ky.)
Courier says Miss Susan Caroline
Goodsey, the sleeping Avonder, died
at her mother's home, some eight
miles from Hickman, on Wednes
day, July 14th. The history of
Miss Goodsey is well knoATn to tho
public, a statement of her Avondcr
ful condition having been publish
ed exU .'nsively by the press of tho
United States. "At the time of her
death, Miss Godsey, AA'as about 20
years cf age, and had been asleep,
as described, about 14 years. She
said the " sun Avill be a total eclipse
on the 7th of August" (this is re
markable, because parties assert
that she could have had no knoAvl
edge that this Avas according to
calculation), "and that the sun
would never shine as bright after
that day; that this would indicate
the end" of the world, Avhich AA'a3
I speedily approaching."
A Bad Case. 1Yictor Emanuel
cannot lie down for fear of as at
tack of apoplexy.
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