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The Rockland Gazette. Gazette Job Printing ESTA3L13M.^ENT. l’l IU.ISIIEO EVERY THURSDAY AFTERNOON i)Y 7OSB& PORTSR. II ivi' 2 • v -ry in I’ro si-s, T v p - ::n«l Material* il .1 to execute with prinilpHa . i good .MV-O S I f) *A.iin S tre e t. rv variety ef J il> l’ri .ti-ig, iueliidi 4 i'owti Reports < ntulo^ia*,, B y-Lavs l’oaters, Shop Bills, Hand Bills, Pro grammes, Circulars, Bill Heads, Let ter 11 ends, Law and Corpor It' noi paid I II tin e ation Blanks, Receipts, Bills New Hiibsenbel of Lading, Business, Ad payment in s dress and Wedding ^continued until AM. AR- Cards, Tags, tlie option of the puhlish- L abels, &c^ .itT sin g le copies i . cents—for sale at the office and it the B ookstores. VOLUME 30. ROCKLAND, MAINE, THURSDAY AFTEROON, AUGUST 5,1875. NO. 35 PRINTING IN COLORS AND BRONZING Z. I’Ol’E VOSE. ,T. B. PO U T E R . of Mr. Gordon’s sermon this afternoon?” “ Perhaps she wouldn’t; hut what has THE PIKE’S PENANCE. the rightful inheritance from which it had gathered together and buried in one heap. Grimwood applied to Mr. Sulivan, the city |?ortvn. “ Perhaps you would be disappointed if that to do with it? In mercy’s name, what been so long excluded. The spot was marked by a pile of stones, editor of the JournaJ for a seat in the ear. I should tell you,” replied Mrs. Draper. claim has Twombly upon me? ” Sam knelt fora moment with his face be and a lu ge cro s was raisi d as a m onu I’lie morning’ newspapermen were given Where they came from no one knew. he was delicate; but in her way she was “ Do you remember, Moses, the words of side his wife—wliat hu said or did the Lord ment, hearing the inscription: “ Ven an ascent on the previous day, and Mr. ARD TIME CllANMEK'S IIEKNING. stro n g . Christ which the minister quoted this after Among th- f .nners near the Bend there only knew, hut the doctor, who w:is of a geance is mine, saith the Lord.” Grimwood and a rejiorter of Post and Mr. Draper laughed. noon—words which immediately follow the was ample ability to conduct researches be spcrulativemind, afterwards said that when The remains that have been mouldering Mail were to go up on Thursday. Mr. You saw him how he passed among the crowd ; Golden Rule, and which are, in part, its set by far more difficulties than was that1 Sam appeared at the door lie showed the in that heap for nearly eighteen years, Sullivan endeavored to dissaude him, urged And ever as he walked the Spanish friars •* U|>on m y soul, Louisa, you are serious.” “ I feel serious, Moses.” explanation?” I will repeat them : “ For if of tin- originof the Pikes; hut a charge of first Pike face in which he had ever seen while the hand of vengeance has been the perils of a lake voyage, and tried by Still plied him witli entreaty ami reproach ; ye love them which love you, what thanks bdckMiot which a good-natured Yankee re-| auy signs of a soul. stayed, were those of a band of emigrants persu.-ision and ridicule to prevent his mak But Cranmer, as the lielmsinau at the helm “ Was it the sermon made you feel so?” have ye? for sinners also do even the same. ceivcil one evening, soon after putting Sam went to the sod house, where lived who had set out from Arkansas with their ing the trip. Mr. Grimwood, however, II Steers, ever looking to the happy haven •• The sermon gave me serious thoughts.” s “ Well, will you let me have some of And if ye lend to them of whom ye hope to questions to a venerable Pike, exerted a the oldest woman in the camp, and briefly cattle and horses and household effects, to with a youthful faith, made up his mind to W here he shall rest at night, moved to his death; th em ? ” receive, what thanks, have ye for sinners great depressing inlltience upon the spirit announced the end of llis wife. Then, after make their home in California They accompany Donaldson, and maintained And 1 could see that many silent hands of investigation. They were not blood- some consultation with the old woman, numbered upwards of 140 persons, includ liis jdaee in the h.-isket. M r. Sullivan is Came from the crowd and met his own; ami thus, “ In the first place, Moses, I thought also lenil to sinners to receive as much thirst \ these Pikes; hut they bail good rea Sam rode to town on one of his horses, lead ing women and children, had forty wagons overwhelmed with grief at the result. His Great Reduction When we had come where Ridley burnt with Lal inn what a waste of eloquent language it ag a in .’ ” son to aspect all inquirers of being at le.-ust and over HIM) cattle and horses, all their interest in the young man was more than lie. with a cheerful smile, as one whose mind w as.” “ 'That is all very well,’* said Moses, ing another. He came hack with hut one deputy sheriffs, if not worse, and a Pike’s: property amounting to some $30,000 in that of an employer in employee or ac IN P R IC E S ! Is all made up, in haste put oft' the rags “ What, Louisa ! a waste ! I don't un when his wife had finished the quotation, horse and a large bundle; and soon the hatred of officers of the law is equalled in ; value. The men were well armed for de They had mocked his misery with, and all in white, derstand you.” an«l sat waiting for his response. “ Itis all women were making for Mrs. Trotwine her quaintance in acquaintance. Their friend To correspond to tin* dull intensity only by his hatred of manual la- 1 fence against the Indians and wild be:ists. llis long white beard, which he had never shaven “ I mean, mv husband, that the preach very well, indeed; but—but—” last earthly robe, anil the first new one she ship was of twelve years’ duration, and bor. In September, they p.issed through Salt times and Reduction Since Henry’s death, down sweeping to the chain ing of such sermons as that to our society “ But,*’ interrupted Louisa, “ it doesn’t bail worn for years. The next day a wagon this hut added to Mr. Sulliv, an’s sorrow in W a ges. Wherewith they hound him to the stake, he stixrtl, is a melancholy waste of time and labor; apply to your ease. You cannot square But while there was doubt as to the fa- i brought a coflin and a minister, and the Lake City and proceeded on their way over that liis influence had been insufficii nt to the old California road. Their advent was More like an ancient father of the C hurch and 1 measure the waste by the value of your business by any such rule. \Y Ben therland of the little colony of Pikes at whole camp silently and respectfully fol deter liis young prote.yt. from underhiking Thau heretic of these times; and still the friars the thing thrown away. Mr. Gordon’s about to turn Seth Twombly from the •lagger’s Bend, their every neighbor would lowed Mrs Trotwine to a home with which looked upon w ith suspicion by the Mor the journey. mons, anil there were secret councils hel I We lim e opened this morning' Plied him, hut Cranmer only shook his head, sermon was a beautiful production in its house (hat has been bis home for years, you willingly make affidavit as to the cause of she could find no fault. The circumstances were so strongly their remaining at the Bend. When hu-1 by the elders and bishops regardingthe ex a l.ot of All W o o l Or answered them in smiling negatives; way; anil bis subject wxs most forcibly il cannot ask yourself how you would like to For three days all the male Pikes in the against them that there w:is no reasonable Whereat Lord Williams gave a sudden cty— lustrated and eloquently presented, but be treated if you were in his place.” lnatiitai ians and optimists argued that it I camp sat on the log in front of Sam’s «lo.»r pediency of allowing them to finish the’r prospect of their return to Chicago. The •• Make short! make short! ’’—and so they lit the woo •• (), but my dear woman, you must re was because the water was good and con and expressed their sympathy, as did the jo u rn ey . velocity of the surface wind at Chicago at what good can such sermons do here?” venient, that the Bend itself caught enough ! E m p ress - Then Cranmer lifted his left hand to heaven, “ U»uisa!” called Mr. Draper, in utter member that tlie application of that rule three friends of Job—that is, they held their Whether actuated by greed for their pro 4 o’clock was ten miles per hour toward And thrust his right into tin* hitter flame, drift-wood, anil that the dirt would yiidd a perty or fear that the coining of such bands astonishment. would run society into ruin—it would peace.