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SILVER.

Tho DsffAr or tho Fathers 1ndors4a by tho
Cincinnati ChAulbnr OF Commerce.
Cincinnati Commercial, .tutvu
The remohcttzation Of silver uns consldered ty
tho Chamber Of Commerce yesterday. All o'clock
President K8Hlcston called tho Chamtcr to order
and said: The time has arrived which was nxcd
few days since tot tho consideration Of certain
resolutions which ara propo*cd to be sent to tho
National Board Of Trade. Tho DIST resolution has
relation TO Tho "siiter Dollar Of Dnr Fathers, :"
Anu the Secretary will now read tho resolution.
d!Rcusson.
The Secretary. Mr. Brent Arnold, rcad tho fol-
lowing resolution:
Rtsoitfd. That the National Hoard Of Trade IN 1ev
Of ts near agrrosr q ths ting Aprelnted tor Ing
satstsr 9, III seGe .h Az n Ta. of the
respettfuy eerotncnd 10 The Congress Of The United
Inn me silver dollar Of tho weFkf aud neness e1siinR
Il TIC time Of tho p1asge OF said unit uf money
valHS. aid that ts coinage he rctuncd and that II ay
country. G. n. H0LtQwAY,
y. EonLkArOM,
3. T. EDylNDT0N,
j. y. QAE0 -
G. W. ltnwLANn,
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1877-02-02
Is a Paint Mule a Horse9

Nothing is more remarkable than the
facility with which the colored popula-
tion become acquainted with the forms
of law, and the practical management
of case in court. There was a strik-
ing illustration of this fact in the Re-
corder's Court the other morning.
The prisoner was accused of riding
across one of the bridges at gait faster
than a walk, and the proof was that he
galloped paint mule over Houston
street bridge. He managed his own
case.
His. honor said ssI think I'll have to
fine You, Johnsing"
''May l ak few questions ?''
"Yoa may.'
"Isn't thar sign over that bridge,
warning people how dey must ride ?''
"There is, and that makes you all
the more guilty."
eft does, does it? Now, Mr.. Re-
corder, Is dat sign what has to go by :?
Is DAT de law ?"
cit is''
"Well, den, dat sign reads, walk
your horse or you will be tined.' Don't
it-don't it boss 90
''It does, Johnsing."
"Well, de proof is, I was gallopin' a
paint mule, wasn't it boss ?"
Yes, | believe TO-" replied his Hon
or, beginning to smell rat.
"Now, if your Honor is willin' to
admit dat pain: mule amt no boss,
III rest de case, because you see de law
is shall walk my hoss, and as it was a
paint mule dat is fatal in de indictment.
You is a lawyer, and you ought to
know de points most as well as myself.''
Recorder-tAhem for the purpose
of this suit Pll regard that paint mule
as a horse''
Prisoner-ssY 7 our Honor will please
note my 'ception. jess wants to make
one more point. Allowin', for de sake
of argument, dat paint mule is hoss.
de sign reads: walk your hoss. Now,
| has de witnesses here III court to prove
dat paint mule hoss was not my hoss
at all. De law say walk your hoss.o :
Recorder-"Tll find you $40, john
sing"
And as JohnSing was conducted to
the lookup he expressed great sympathy
for the taxpayers, as he intended to
bring snit for 100000 damages for
false imprisonment.
He is now, however, at work on the
Street.-Sa7a 14ntouio Teras) Herald
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1877-02-02
FoRGET.ME-NoT.

am the flower that every age has sung,
My name has trembled on the unwilling
tongue
Mid sad farewells-how mournfuily has
rung
Forget me not
/ image best the heavens eternal blue!
Though transient clouds may hide it from
the view
1t shineth still, faiths never changing hue,
Forget me not.
The restless brook. the rivers deeper flow,
Beside my quiet home still come and go;
Kiss the waters, murmuring soft and low,
Forget me not -
The birds above me lowering on the wing,
List the hushed whispers, and the wood
land ring
With the light choral as they answering
sing.
Forget me not.
The laughing eddies fastening to the sea
With rippling echoes mock the symphony,
The rnde winds toss It on their pinions
free,
Forget me not.
And human voices catch the sweet refrain,
In loving accents fraught with human pain,
Repeating still the never-dying strain,
Forget rne not.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1877-02-02
An African Kings reception.

Colonel c. G.. Long, of tho Egyptian
Army, now visiting with his family
friends IN St. Louis, gives the following
account OF his rece ption at the Court OF
King M'tesa, to which he had penelrat.
cd with two attendants only:
My reception by this strange and mys.
terious King was unique. Covering the
hill tops that characterize the mountains
Gus districts of the lake regions, were
thousands of the people of Uganda as
sembied to welcome '.the Great White
Prince" as they called me. King
M'teSa, surrounded by his courtiers and
harem, as | arrived, sent messenger Co
ask me to appear before him and show
him the strange animal upon which
was mounted. | was riding tie first
horse that had ever been seen inUganda.
At a qnickened pace, advancing toward
the King and ceurtiers, they fled pre-
cipitately before me, willie /, turning
my horse, regained the hill from which
| had descended, and, throwing my foot
from the stlrrup, in the act of dismount-
IDg, L vas surprised to see the people
scatter in every direction in disnay.
learned from the interpreter that they
had supposed, up to that moment, that
l and the horse were one animal-that
| was a kind of centaur. | was pre-
seDted next day to the King-a tai,
graceful man, dressed in flowing
Arabic robe. bound at the waist by a
girdle to which scirf1etar was suspend
ed. and with sandalled feet, who eyed
my horse with affrighted glance and re-
treated towards his throne. PROSTATE
bodies covered the entrance and floor
OF the hut. It was here that the King
held audience with his different Sheiks
and chiefs, aud the heads of the differ
ent branches of his Government. The
ceremony ended in slight inclination
of the head of the King to his messen-
gers, who, unrolling from their heads
neatly 0ouni cords, threw them around
the necks of the assembled throng at
the door and dragged them, halloailg
and struggling, away to All executioner,
who, as the fancy struck him, had them
poinarded or choked to death, or had
their brains dashed out. This is a sac.
ritice which is made to all African
Kings.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1877-02-02

RUSSIA AND PKlvATEERISG. There
is story current that Russia has asked
permission to send her navy to .Ameri-
can waters, IN which it would be safe
in case of a war with England over
Turkey. There is also another runor
afioat to the effect that American ship
owners will ask Russia for letters of
narque ard reprisal, with which to fit
our privateers to prey upon British
commerce III the event of such a war.
But by such step Russia would en-
tirely repudiate the Treaty of Paris of
1855, to which she was party. That
would absolve England and all the
other singing powers from their obliga-
tlons, and lay Russia open to most
serions incursions from all sides. 1t is
extremely doubtful il she would take a
step like that at this time. She will
have enough to attend to without
shouldering. needless jobs.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1877-02-02

CUTTING STEEL WITH Soft IRoN.-
Jacob Reese, of Pittsburg, Pa. had
long endeavored to construct ma
chine to cut hardened cold steel. He
accomplished it at length by means of a
saw of soft wrought iron-merely a
circular disk-rotating at high veloc-
ity. With low speed this would not
cut at all but when running at about
10000 feet per minute the disk cut
through steel rapidly, giving out an
immense cascade of sparks during the
operation. 1t was found on examining
the DEBRIS beneath the disk that the
PARTICLES of steel were not merely rubbed
OF: they were welded together in a
pyramid like a etalagnlite or the snow
circles on the top of Mount Washing
ton. Professor Hendrick ascertained
that real tusion had taken place among
the particles of steel. The disk is very
little heated, but the steel is actually
melted and drops down. Yet the bar
on each side of the cut is not heated
enough to draw the temper or oridize
the metal. Solid bars are cut, of two
or three inches in diameter. The naked
hands may be passed through the let
or stream of flying sparks during the
operation without being burned, since
the particles of melted metal are IN
the condition known as spherodical
state.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1877-02-02

Assault with intent to kissn is an
offence under the laws of Pennsylvania.
An aged house-owner who was moved
by the prayers and tears Of a tenants
wife tor delay III respect to rent, to pat
ting her OH the shoulder and kissing
her, has been arrested for the offence
named. and held to bail. A suit for
damages is also to be commenced, the
Judgment to offset the rent. There are
great many tenants this cold weather
who conld be induced to liquidate their
rent account in a similar way if their
landlords were very old and unnistak.
ably grandfatherlY.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1877-02-02


How THE EYE BECOMES PERFECTED
SO AS TO DISCOVER CoLoRs.-Science
gives us interesting details about what
the human eye has been and what it
may become. The Vedas of India.
which are the most ancient written doc
uments, attest that in times the most
remote, but still recorded in history.
only two colors were known-black and
red. A very long time elapsed ere the
eye arrived at the perception of the
color yellow, and still longer time be-
fore green was distine uished and it is
remarkable that IN the most ancient
languages the terms which designated
yellow, ilsersibly passed to the signifi-
cation of green. I he Greeks had, ac-
cording to the received opinion row,
the perception of colorS well developed;
anu yet more recent writers assure us
that III the time of Alexander, Greek
painters had for fundamental colors only
white, black, red and yellow. The
words to designate blue and violet were
wanting to the Greeks in the most an
cient times of their history. They call
ed those colors gray and black. 1t is
thus that the co'ors of the rainbow
were only distinguished gradually, and
u great Aristotle only knew four OF
them. 1t is well known tact that
When the colors Of the prism are pho
tographed there remains outside the
limits of the b,ne and violet in the
spectrum distinct impression, which
our eyes do not recognize as color.
According to physioIogists, time will
come when the human eye will be per-
fected SO as to discern this color a well
as the rest.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1877-02-02

The following story, selected from an
English teacher, may be applicable in
all clinles and by all people
There was once q beautiful damsel
upon whom one OF the good genii wished
to bes:ow blessing. He led her to
the edge of large corn-feId, when he
said to her:
"Daughter, in the field before us the
ears OF corn, III the hands of those who
puck them in faith, hall have tails
manic virtues, and the virtue shall be
III proportion to the size and beauty of
the ear gathered. Thou shalt pass
through the field once, and pluck one
ear. 1t must be taken as thou goest
forward, and thou shalt not stop in thy
path, nor shalt thou retrace a single
step In quest of thine object. Select an
ear full and fair, and according TO its
size and beauty, shall be its value to
thee as talisman."
The maiden thanked the good genii,
and then set forward upon her quest.
AS she advanced she saw many ears of
corn, large, ripe and beautiful. such as
calm judgment might have told her
would possess virtues enough: but in
her eagerness to grasp the very best she
lett these fair ears behind, hoping that
she might find one still larger and fairer.
AT length, as the day was closing, she
reached part of the field where the
stocks were shorter and thinner. and
and the ears were very small and shriv-
e ed. She nov regretted the grand
ears she had left behind, and disdained
TO pick from the poor show around her,
tor here she found hot an ear which bore
perfect grain. She went on, but, alas
only to find the stocks more and more
blighted, until in the end, as the day
was closing and night coming on, she
found herself at the end of the field
without having picked an ear of any
kind.
No need that the genii should rebuke
her for her folly-she saw it clearly
when too late, as how many, in all
climes and III all ages, in the evening
OF life call SADLY and regretfully to
mind the thousand golden opportuni-
ties forever lost because they were not
plucked in their season.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1877-02-02

An Englishman visiting Sweden,
noticing their care for neglected chill.
dren, who are taken from the streets
and highways and placed in special
schools, inquired if 1t was not costly
tie received the suggestive answer :
:" Yes, it is costly, but not dear. We
SWedes are not rich enough to let a
child grow up in ignorance. misery and
crime, to become atterward a scouroo
70 society, as well as Gisgrace 10 him.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1877-02-02

A Chicago woman has been the wife
OF four brothers. She began with the
Oldest ten years ago, when she was IT
years old, and he died. She soon mar
RED the next younger, and after three
years got divorce from him, and the
third was divorced from her after about
the same period of welded life. She
is now the wife of the fourth, and they
seem to live contentedly, possibly be-
cause there is no fifth brother for her to
capture.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1877-02-02
WILLIAM KAY NEIL.
LINN COUNTY JAIL, Jan. 25, 1877.

OLD AND NEW SrYLE.-What po-
etical way the ancients had of putting
things! We read in their pages that
"Lycurgus, King of Edones in Thrace,
refused to worship Bacchus, in conse-
quence of which the god visited HIM in
madness" Now, in our day, the affair
would read, "Lycurgus, King, ETC., re-
fused to drink any more whisky, and.
in consequence, had the delilium tre-
mens''
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1877-02-02

"My wife tells the truth three times
a day. remarked jocose old fellow,
at the same time casting very mis-
chievous glance at her. "Before rising
in tho morning she says, 50, dear /
mast get up, but / don't want to-
After breakfast she adds, well, I sup
pose | must go TO work, but / don't
want to ! and she goes 70 bed saying,
There / have been passing all day,
and haven't done anytling.'n
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1877-02-02

Business is lively at Hood River !.
farmers busily engaged /: new dwellino
houses are being erected. A Iaroe
saw mill and p,aner will soon he IN
operation. A new ditch company or
ganizeo "a VIII soon be at work, called the
q " ater Supply Company of Hood river.
Dr. Barrett, president, and G. F. Back
us, secretary.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1877-02-02

RAILROAD BUILDING According to
the true reports of the railroad interests
Of the country it appears that there has
been decided revival of railroad build
ing during the year now closing. Some
two thousand miles of railroads have
been constructed SO far, which is almost
double the amount reported for the
same time in 1875. The Railway Age
concludes from this encouraging show
ing that the panic has fully spent its
force, and that railway building has al
ready been resumed with new vigor and
confidence. If so mach new road can
be constructed in ter months, while bus
mess is languishing, or at least uncer.
tam and hesitating, what is fairly to be
inferred for the coming year, after all
our present doubts and apprehensions
shall have been peacefully removed /?
1t is cheerful side of the times. and
we present it as such with eIadpess
ourselves. s>7'>D''
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1877-02-02

"What ails dis peoples of America. .
says an, old traveller from Germany,
rs dot dey walks nit der legs too much
IN de street gars out, und don't get
some muscles some more.''
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1877-02-02

De more prompt to go to a friend in
adVersity thau III prosperity.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1877-02-02

Richard Grant White says there IS
no such thing as Gin our midst p but
we would like to know where he would
locate the pain that makes paregoric a
popular beverage among the young.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1877-02-02

Is it proper to call a retired black
smith an ex-pounder
Dodge City times., 1877-09-22

While two of the robbers were rifing
the safe, q third stood guard at the back
hall door, and from certain sounds Mr..
Myers inferred that one was at the front
door. At little after midnight the rob
bers departed with their booty, except
one who stood over the County Treasur-
er, revolver in hand, until the O'Clock
train came in. Then he vanished.
At 6 O'Clock this morning Mr.. Myers
was discovered by the Janitor, gagged
and tightly bound to the chair, where
he had suffered during the long hours Of
the night. +
The loss is between S3l 900 and S32,-
0O0, wholly in greenbacks and bank
notes. The robbers overlooked in their
haste package of $50, 900 in Govern
ment bonds belonging to Samuel Bitter
of the Farmers Bank. 1t was in an en-
velope, and wrapped in an old piece Of
newspaper.
Mr.. Myers's hat was found this morn
ing where it had been dropped in the
street. His watch was found where it
was thrown over the fence. The thieves
took it from him, but had the discretion
not to keep it.
Dodge City times., 1877-09-22
P.l.t.ble. Powerful, Antip.r,odi.

Pslatable, Powerful, AntiperiOdis
and TOnic.-All the necessaries Of great
popular remedy are combined in Clif0rd's
Febrifuge. As - tonic, In debilitated states
Of system, this remedy stands pre-eminenfly
at the head. Yet It is more than Is usually
understood by that term, for no other pre-
paration known exercises an eradicafins
power over intermittent diseases, at all com
parable with 1t. As it IL probable that, in
the intervals Of the paroxysms of these dis
eases, atrain Of morbid actions is going out
Of our sight, SO It is equally probable that
this remedy produces in the same system an
action equally mysterious, which supersedes
that Of the malady and thus accomplishes
the restoration Of the patiently
j. G. RICHARDSON, Prop'r,
For sale by all Druggists. st. Louis.
Dodge City times., 1877-09-22

WILHOFT's TONIc!-UNFAnINGA AND In
FALLIBLE!This great Chill Tonic cures
Chills without the Intervention Of doctors
and their bills. No consulting visits-no
prescriptions to be filled-no huge bills, en-
failing pecuniary embarrassmenfs, added to
loss Of health. 1t is the friend Of the poor
man, because 1t enables him to earn living,
and o. the rich, because 1t prepares him to
enjoy his wealth. This great boon to man.
kind Is cheap, safe and prompt. G. r. FIN
LAY & Co.. Pr 1ptet0rs, New Orleans.
ns-GGIsTs.
Dodge City times., 1877-09-22
How Crazy Hsrse Met His Death.

-
The notorious Sioux chieftain, Crazy
Horse, died at Camp Robinson at mid
night of the 9th inst. 1t is a coincidence
worthy Of note that the uncOnquered and
atrociOus chief received his death-wOund
"a terrible bowie-knife cut in the side
at the hands of one of his former fol-
lowers, soldier Indian, who had stood
side by side with the chief in the battle
OF the Rosebud, in the Custer massacre,
and in other engagements OF the Sioux
war. When Crazy Horse essayed his
escape, few days before his death the
Indian soldiers who had been foremost
in acts OF brutality one year ago hunted
MN down IKE DloOd-nounds. heiatioh-
ship, tribal ties and savage Pride nave
all lost their hold before the Keen manip-
ulation OF General crook ana ms Jun
lor oihcers. ana the words OF the uener-
al year ago regarding tnese hostiies,
that he couid make protner nunt
orother, are striAlhSiy 'eriheo Ill 'iiis
instance. a,
Inc scene arounu anu insice 'he Au-
Jutait oiIce "s .ne 1ine, uaeu, ""s ~ nt
perfect keePinS WIN MS lohs years VI
tnrilhns ae'en,ure anu uns'lh.eu re-
venge. ms Iather, WIN ohe vi .Ho
Iaitniul Ioii9wers, wa.cilea oy us siue;
WINE crowus oi sa'aSes n"lS aiouhu run,
the puiiding' giving vent 10 tneir ieei-
lngs IN the curdlinS whooP ana iehuihS
utter drear 70 tne murky daTk1ess WIN
the omnous death chant; Indiah soi-
uiers anu uisarineu hos.iieS wei1 .heie
Dodge City times., 1877-09-22
The Most Disasreeable Sort Of People.

1t will always be nice and difficult
question to decide who are the most dis
agreeable people to4ive with. Our first
thoughts will be directed to the more
ugly and venomous passions, such as
hatred, envy, Jealousy and the like. 1t
will probably be found, however, that
those qualities which come under the
head Of foibles rather than of vices rem
der people most intolerable as compan-
ions and coadjutors. For example, it
may be observed that those people have
a more worn, jaded and dispirited look
than any others, who have to live with
people who make Diff
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1877-09-28

The way for man to truly suc-
coed is to do what he thinks il best
worth his doing, 10 the way he
thinks it ought to be done. Let
him never step aside fiona his path,
either for prois or praise, and no
will have all the success that is pos
rible to have aud al that Is worth
having.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1877-09-28

Our farmers should plant largely
of wheat and oats this fall, for the
demand for brcadstutfs will be great.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1877-09-28
farm aud Aousellola.
HOW TO MANAGE HORSES.


A beautiful and high>spirited
horee would never allow shoe to be
on his feet, or any person TO handle
his feet. In au attempt to shoe this
horse recently he resisted all efforts,
kicked aside everything but an an
vii and came near killing himself
against that, and finally was brought
back to his stable unshod. This de-
feat was just on the eve Of consigns
ing him to the pillow, where be might
work barefoot, when an officer late
" returned from Mexico, took accord
about the size of common bed
cord, put it in the mouth of the
horse like bit, and tied it on the
animals head, passing the left ear
under the string, not peinfully tight,
but tight enough to keep the ear
down aud the cord in place. This
done, he patted the horse gently on
the side Of the head, aud command
ed him to follow and instantly the
horse obeyed, perfectly subdued and
as gentle and obedient as a we'll
trained dog suffering his feet to be
lifted with entire impuuity, acting in
all respect like on old stager. The
gentleman who thus Ifui nlshed this
exceedingly simple means of subdur
Jog a very dangerous propensity, in
timated that it was practicedin Mex
leo and South America in the man
agement of wild horses.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1877-09-28
HOW TO GET RICH.

A practical farmer being asked
what the farmers most needed TO IN
crease the value of their lands, crops
and herds, "they want" said he,
'.iust what the merchants, the man-
ufacturers, eud the mechgnics went,
lust what the re- ilroad men, the lun
Der men, and the mining men want.
they went labor, capital ond brains
There is not farmer in the State
but will stand an application Of this
trio work, money and thought. -
We asked him again, what simple
and easy methods he would recoms
mend to the farmers from which they
could get the quickest returns, and
he replied: "First | would recon-
mend that every COW in the state be
crossed by a thorough bred bull. !
calculate that would add 81 100000
to the wealth Of the state in two
years, and that it would double the
value OF the cattle of the State IN
four yesrs. Second, | would cross
every breeding eve in the state with
thorough bred ram Of approved
pedigree, and cslculate that Il
would add one pound of wool to every
shearing in two years, besides i'm
proving the focks in meuy respects.
You can calculate the gain yourself.
Third, | would have every farmer
select his seeds of every grain, es.
pecia'ly Of wheat aud ooln--that is,
to pick out the best and discard the
inferior. The profit would be im'
mense, for there is no el'irg how
much can be ga'ued by the selection
of seeds" Nov here are three
things within the reach Of almost
every farmer. They require little
money, some work and good deaI
OF nerve and will power. Was the
old msu rightf Let every farmer
adopt these precepts aud then con-
,radict than If he can.