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THE CITY OF INGERSOLL.
Waal 4 baplare metehesses M hi. IMs
A Brat talkie' 0144 -AM, us e)awllia
. Const..•.
At the revival meeting at Shaftesbury
it Hall Mr. Hammond road and o.mutent
ed un the following which Chaplain
Mcea had about the city of Ingersoll-
ville, unded by the great infidel, Col
Robert Ingersoll :
I had a dream, which was not all •
dream. I thought I was on a long journ-
ney through a beautiful country, when
suddenly I Dame to a great city with
walls fifteen feet high. At the gate stead
a s.utin*l, whose shining armour reflected
back the rays of the morning sun. As I
was about to salute him and pass into
the city, he stopped me and said :
"Do you believe in the Lord Jesus
Christ
1 answered : "Yes, with all my heart."
"Then," said he, "you cannot enter
here. No man or woman who acknow-
ledges that name can pass in here.
Stand aside !'• said he, "they are com-
ing."
I looked down the road, and saw a
vast multitude approaching. It was led
by a military ofttoer.
"Who is that 1" I naked of the sentin-
•'That." he replied, is the great Col.
Robert I - -, the founder of the City of
I ngersoll villa. "
''Who is he !" I ventured to inquire.
"He is a great and mighty warrior,
who fought in many bloody battles for
the Union during the great war."
I felt ashamed of my ignorance of
history, and stood silently watching the
prtx;e461°n. I had heard of a Colonel
I ' ' but, of course, this
could not be the man.
The procession came near enough fur
me to recognize some of the faces. I
noted two infidel editors of national
celebrity, followed by great wagons con-
taining steam presses. There were also
tine members of Congress.
All the noted infidels and scoffers of
the country seemed to be there. Most
..f them pleased in unchallenged by the
sentinel, but at last a meek looking in-
dividual with a white necktie approach-
ed, and he was stopped. I saw at a
glance he was a well-known "liberal"
preacher of New York.
"Do you believe in the Lord Jesus 1"
said the sentinel.
"Not much'" said the doctor.
Everybody laughed, and he was allow-
ed to pass in.
There were artiste there, with glorious
pictures; singers, with ravishing voices;
tragedians and comedians, whose names
have a world-wide fame.
Then came another division of the in-
fidel host -saloon -keepers by the thous-
ands, proprietors of gambling hells, bro-
thels and threatres
Still another division swept by :-
burglars, thieves, thugs, incendiaries,
highwaymen, murderers- all -all mar-
ching in. My vision grew keener. I
beheld, and to ' Satan himself brought
up the rear.
High aflo is above the mass was a ban-
ner on which was inscribed : "What has
Christianity done for the country 1" and
another on which was inscribed : Down
with the churches' Away with Chris-
tianity -it interferes with our happin-
ess '" And then came a murmur of voices
that grew louder and louder until a
shout went up like the ter of Niagara :
noway with him' Crucify Hini-crucify
Him !" I felt no desire now to enter
Ingersollvillc.
As the last of the procession entered,
a few men and women, with broad -brim-
med hate and blain bonnets, made their
appearance and wanted to go in as mis-
sionaries, but they were turned rudely
away. A zealous young Methodist ex-
horter, with a bible under his ar•tn, ask-
ed permission to enter, brit the sentinel
swore at him awfully. Then I thoopght
I saw Brother Moody applying for ad -
minion, but he was refused. I could
not help smiling to hear Moody say, as
he turned sadly away :
"Well' they let me live and work in
Chicago; it is very strange they won't
let me into IngersollviIle."
The sentinel went inside the gate and
shut it with a hang; and I thought, as
soon as it was closed, a mighty angel
L ame down with a great iron bar, and
barred the gate on the outside, and
wrote upon it in letters of fire, "Doom-
.( to live together six months." Then he
went away, and all was silent, except
the noise of the revelry and shouting
that carne from within the city walls.
I went away, and u i journeyed
through the land i could not believe my
eyes. Peace and plenty smiled every-
where. The jails were all empty, the
penitentiaries were without occupants.
The police of great cities were idle.
Judges set in court rooms with nnthisg
to do. Business was brink. Miany greet
hdMimp, formerly crowded with crista
ins's, were turned into manufacturing
selablishra.nta Jot about this time
the president of the United litotes Ball-
ed fee a day of Thanksgiving 1 attend-
ed servieas in • Presbytenan rhore1
The preacher dwelt upon the ohangd
-e nditinn r+( shim As he went on,
and dopieteri the great prrnperity that
had come to the onnntxy and gave raw-
est toe devout thangegtwinI 1 sea one
old charm clap his hanken:hie( uver hu I Counsel - (oottuderab y abashed)
teonth to keep frau shouting tight out. oo That wfll da, air , you may so
Alanciaut spinster, who never did like causes.
"noisy" Stethodist-a regular old
blue -stocking Presbyterian couldn't hold Can stein e.w'sa-
' in. She expressed the thought of every
heart by shouting with all her might,
"Glory to God for Lugersullville A
young thsologicil student lifted up his
hand and devoutly added "Esty perinrt-
ttta" Everybody smiled. The coun-
try was almost delirious with joy. Great
proosssions "f children swept along the
higraging,
ging,
"Well not sloe up the bible.
God's blessed Word of Truth.-
Vast as einblies of reformed inebriates,
with their wives and children, gathered
in the open air. Nu building would
hold thein. I thought I was in one
meeting where Bishop Simpson tuad0 en
address, and as he closed it a mighty
shout went up till the earth rang again.
0, it was wonderful ! and then we all
stood up and sang with tears of joy.
"All hail the power of Jean's name!
Let angelsrostrate tall:
Bring forth the royal diadem.
And crown Iflm¢ord of all."
The six months hal well-nigh gone. I
made my way back again to the gate of
Ingersollville. A dreadful silence reigned
over the city, broken only by the sharp
crack of a revolver now and then. I saw
a man trying to get in at the gate, and I
said to him, "My friend, where are you
from ?"
"1 live in Chicago," said he, "and
they taxed us to death tht.re; and I've
heard of this city, and I want to go in to
buy some real estate in this new and
growing place."
He utterly failed to rouove the bar,
but by some means he got a ladder about
twelve feet long, and with its aid he
climbed up upon the wall. With an eye
to business, he shouted to the tirst per-
son lie saw:
"Hallo, there' -what's the price of
real estate in Ingersollvtlle 1"
"Nothing !" shouted a voice; "you
can have all you want if you'll just take
it and pay the taxes."
"What made your taxes so high i"
said the Chicago man. I noted the an-
swer carefully; I shall never forget it.
"We've had to build forty new jails
and fourteen penitentiaries -a lunatic
asylum, and an orphan asylum in every
ward; we've had to disband our public,
schools, and it takes all the city revenue
to keep up the police force."
"Where's my old friend I
asked the Chicago man.
"Oh, he is going about to -day with a
subscription paper to build a ..hurch.
They have gotten up a petition to send
for a lot of preachers to conte and hold
revival services. If we can only get
theta over the wall, we hope there's a
future,for Ingersollville yet."
The six months ended. Instead of
opening the door however, a tunnel was
dug under the wall big enough for one
person to crawl through at a time. First
cane two bankrupt editors, followed by
Colonel I himself, and then the
whole population crawled through.
Then I thought, somehow, great crowds
of Christians surrounded the city. There
was Moody, and Hammond, and Earle,
and hundreds of Methodist preachers
and exhorters, and they struck up, sing-
ing together:
"Come. ye sinnerti poor and needy."
A needier crowd never was seen on
earth before.
I conversed with some of the inhabit-
ants of the abandoned city, and asked a
few of thein this question: -
"Do you believe in hell ("
I cannot record thte Manswers--they
were terribly orthodox.
One old man said: "I've been there
on probation for six months, and I don't
want to join."
I knew by that he was an old Metho-
dist backslider. The sequel of it all was
a great revival, that gathered in a
mighty harvest from the ruined City of
Ingersollville.
l' Good ileaw•ry,
The following story is told of a counsel
who was taken down very neatly by a
witness whom he was browbeating. It
was necessary to the counsel's cause to
make the witness break down. The
following dialogue ensued :
Counsel-" How old are you i"
Witness-- •' Seventy-two years. "
Counsel-" Your memory, of course
is not so vivid as it was twenty years
r
Witnes -" I think it is. "
Counsel-" State some circumstance
that occurred, say twelve years ago, and
we shall be able to judge whether your
.semory is unimpaired. "
Witaese--" I appeal to the Court ; i
refuse M be interrogate,' in this man-
ner.
Judge- " You had better answer the
question.'.
Witaesis-" Well, sir, if you compel
me to do it, i will. About twelve years
ago, you (addressing the ontmwl' studied
in Mr 11-- . office t"
Counsel- -" Yes
Witness. ' At that time your fathee
ams into my office and said too nes, "Mer.
D-- - -, my son is to be examined to
tsorrnw. anal i wish vnu to lend mr $26
to bey him a suet of elothea ' 1 sit.
rammed the money, and from that dsv
to this it lase never been repaid 1 re
member it as though it was yesterday
Item 1--+Twenty-tive million aeras of
land.
Item 2-1128,000,000 worth of pum-
pleted railway. '
Item 3-52,000,000 cash.
Item 4 An amount of money suffi-
cient to bonus Canadian manufacturers
of railway material to the extent that
the articles furnished by them would
pay duty if imported.
lts:u 5 To recompose Dr. Schultz,
w1W was favorable to the Howland Syn-
dicate until he saw that the Government
was bound to pass the Stephen bargain
through, and who then turned around
and voted with the majority --an extra
2,500 ac. on per toile for the Southwestern
Rail wa)
Item tl-To recompose the men who,
after Mr. Edgar's alliance with the
Grand Trunk, organized au independent
lin* from Toronto to Sault Ste. Mori.,
and who then suddenly adopted the Ni -
pining route and amalgatnated with the
Canada Pacific Syndicate -X, an un-
known quantity. Developments await-
ed. -[Hamilton Tines.
The aoera.
Cul. Butler in the r aofeinpurary Re-
rie,!- gives a graphic sketch of the Boers
and their allies the French Huguenota.
According to that fair-minded English-
man it is the Celtic French who are the
guiding stars of the slow, phlegmatic
Boers. The Boers, or Dutch, disc oved
and took possession of the Cape of Good
Hope hundreds of years ago. They sent
out settlers, and all went well until the
English came with their bibles and cot-
ton and bad pen -knives and drove them
back. The Boers left Cape Colony in
1836 and occupied Natal, saying they
would never submit to English domina-
tion,though they did belong to the sante
religion. In 1836 the English carte
along, and c ovetjng the new Boer settle-
ments, drove theist our and the Boers
crossed Treck River. Here they were
encountered by the Zulus, and, a fright-
ful battle was ft tight, in which 3,000 of
the Zulus were killed and the Booers were
sadly thinned. In 1842, the British,
ever covetous, made another attack on
the Boers, and the Boers made a stand
like the present, but were at length defeat-
ed by diploinacy, and crossed the Vaal.
In 1877, Sir Theophilus Sheptone an-
nexed their territory.
Zorn+A. -I have secured the agency
fur this new compound for Dyspepsia
and Liver Troubles It conies to me
under most favourable auspices, toeing
very highly endorsed and recommended.
Its wonderful affinity to the Digestive
Organs and the Liver, increasing the
dissolving juices. correcting the 'acids
and carrying off impurities of the
Stomach and regulating the Liver, can
be tested by securing a sample bottle
which well al 10 cents. or large Eight
Bunce bottle 75 cents. F. Jordan. 1763
Newspaper Laws.
We call the special attention of post-
masters and subscribers to the following
synopsis of the newspaper laws :
1. A postmaster it required to give
notice by letter (returning a paper does
not answer the law) when a subscriber
does not take his paper out of the office,
and state the reasons for its not being
taken. Any neglect to.do so makes the
postmaster responsible to the publishers
for payment.
2. If any person orders his paper die-
continded, he must pay all arrearage.,
nr the publisher may continue to send it
until payment is trade, and collect the
whole amount, whether it be taken from
the office or not. There can be no legal
diacontinuance until the payment is
made. -
3. Any person who takes a paper from
the post -office, whether directed to his
name or another, or whether he has sub-
scribed or not, is responsible for the pay.
4. If a subscriber orders hie paper to
be stopped at a certain time, and the
publisher ctntinuen to send, the sub-
scriber is bound to pay for it if he takes
it nut of the post -office. This proceeds
upon the ground that a ratan must pay for
what he uses.
5. The courts have decided that refus-
ing to take a newspaper and periodicals
from the post -office, nr removing and
leaving them uncalled for, is prima/anis
evidence of intentional fraud.
Yellow Oil is unsurpassed for the cure
of Burns, Scalds, Bruises, Wounds,
Frost Bites and Chilblains No other
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is for internal as well as external use.
Every bottle is guaranteed to give esti.- Rm.w es.
faction. All medicine dealers sell it. A.. Ise.**
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NEW VALENCIAS.
NEW LAYERS,
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CHESHNUTS.
Ir LAKE SUPERiOR 7a
TROUT, WHITE FISH & HERRING.
Pr SALT WATER -./t
HERRING ASI? CODFISH.
ALSO, A LAAO■ alreltTYaNT Or
Teas, Sugars
A rail General armorial' ;
CROCKERY, GLASSWARE, A N D
CHINA.
Dr. Papa's Cream Baking Powder.
Dr. Patca'a Lupulin Yeast Genu
Chas. A. Nairn,
TIIB .1QUsdRB.
1734
W. S. Hart & Co.,
PItOPRIETORS
GODERICII mss,
ILut.- Yifier s.l
A LARGE QUANTITY OF
choice
Buckwheat Flour
ON HAND.
ANCHOR LINE.
UNITED iTATE- MAIL STEAMERS
Sail every Saturday.
NEW YORK TO GLASGOW
CABINS. has to Bae. STEERAGE Iia•
These Steamy rs do not carry cattle, shoe p or pigs
NEW YORK TO LONDON DiRECT.
CABINS PS to Excursion at Reduced
Rates
Passenger accommodations are unsurpassed.
All Staterooms on Main Deck.
Paasengers hooked at lowest rates to or from
anyRailroad Station in Europe or America.
rafts at towest rates, payable (tree of charge, )
throagbout Ent land. Scotland sand Ireland.
For bootu of intor ation, plans ko.J. apply
to H.NDaneoN BRDTHiRa, 7 BowLrno °RUN,
N. Y.
Or to MRS. E. WARNOCK. Albion Rlock,
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/or sale by Jamas Wmws,
Chemist and Druggist.
77as Great American Remedy fbr
COUGH COLDS, ASTILfA,
BRONCHITIS, LOSS OF
YOICB, HOARSENESS AND
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n►vent Comaumption neglect nut the most
triflme syrnptoats. Hagyard's Pectoral
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KELPS " THE CHEAPEST AND BEST '
Groceries, Crockery & Glassware
IN TOWN-AiiD MAKES
TEAS SPECIALTY.
GIVE HIM A CALL.
1751
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HARDWARE
t,F
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Reduced to Bottom Prices!
Farts and School Bells, Household Hardware -at discount prices. Builders' Hardware sad
Tools at Wholeaale Prloes. Large contracts filled at Manufacturers' Prices.
G_ H_ PARSONS,
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1751
Extensive Premises and Splendid New Stock.
G. BARRY,
CA&NE MAKR ANS IJNIJERTAIER
Hamilton Street, Goderich.
A good assortment of Kitchen. Bed -room. Dining Room and Parlor Furniture, such as Ta-
bles, Chairs chair, rano and wood seated). Cupboards. lied steads. Mattresses. Wash -Wanda.
Lounges, dotal, $Vhat-Nota. Looking °Wises.
N. It -A complete assortment of Coffins and Shrouds always on hand, also Hearses for biro
at reasonable rates.
Picture Framing a specialty.—A call solicited.
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Red, White and Blue !
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New Dress Goods, Gloves & Hosiery,
JUST ARRIVED,
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MARKET SQUARE, GODEI:I('II.
Wholesale and Retail Dealer ieChemicals, Paints. Oils. Dye Stuffs, Artist Colon.
Horse Patent Medicines. and Cattle Medicines. Perfumery. Toilet Articles, hr.
Physicians' Prescriptions carefully dlapensed.isi
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Holiday Presents!
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Photo and Autograph Albums in great variety, Work Boxes, Writing Desks, very
suitable for presents for Teachers and Scholars.
PRESENTS FOR EVERYBODY. - ALL CAN BE SUITED.
Stock is New. very complete, and consists of Ladies' and Gents' Purses, China
Goods of all kinds, Ruby Gods, Vases in many patterns, Flower Pots,
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China and Wax Dolls!
A Large Assortment. Smokers' Sundries-Merschaum Pipes and Cigar Holders
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School Books, Miscellaneous Books,
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IRISH, AraRleAN and CANADIAN Papers and
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A full stock of School Books, for Teachers and High and Model School Students
All will be sold cheap, and Patrons suited. I hare a choice
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Christmas and New Year's Cards I THE BEST EVER SHOWN,
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At BUTLFFR'S.
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