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Smyrna times., 1877-09-19

Be constant in what is good, but beware
of being obstinate in anything that is evil
constancy is a virtue, but obstinacy is
sin.
Smyrna times., 1877-09-19

The Mormon apostles have chosen Senior
Apostle John Taylor president in place of
Bringham Young, to be assisted by John
" W Young, Daniel II. Wells and Geo. o.
Smyrna times., 1877-09-19

The APrETITE.-To know when and how
to follow the instinct of appetite, to CRAFTY
the cravings of nature, is of inestimable
value. There is rule which is alwavs safe.
and will save life in multitudes OF cases.
where the most skillfully exhibited >
drugs have been entirely unavailing Par.
take at first of what nature seems to crave.
IN very small quantities: if no uncom.
Portable feeling follows, gradually increase
the amount, until 10 more is called for.
These suggestions and facts find confrma.
ton in the large experience of that now
beautiful and revered name. Florence
Nightingale, whose memory will 90 down
with blessing and honor, side by side with
that of the immortal John Howard, to
remotest time. She says: al have seen.
not by ones or tens, but by hundreds, cases
where the stomach not only Graves, but
digests things which have never been laid
down in any dietary for the sick, especially
for the sick whose diseases were produced
by bad food. Fruit, pickles, jams, ginger.
bread, fat of ham, of bacon, suet, cheese,
buttermilk, etc, were administered freely,
with happy results, simply because the
sick crared them"
Smyrna times., 1877-09-19

William A. Stewart, Republican nominee
tor Associate Judge in Lawrence County,
Penn, is colored man of good education
who has studied law and been admitted to
the bar, His color, however, stood in the
way Of successful practice, and he has
spent many years in the business of a
barber. He is the only colored man ever
nominated to county office in Pcnnsyl-
vanla, and it is said that his chance of
election is good.
Smyrna times., 1877-09-19

Inc increase of the yellow fever at Fer.
hsndlna, Fla, has caused the physicians to
ADVISE the citizens TO leave the plaee
Much excitement prevails.
Smyrna times., 1877-09-19

Josh Billings says he knows people who
are SO fond of argument that they will
ssop and dispute with guide board about
the distance to the next town.
Smyrna times., 1877-09-19

" Lon - Hurbell, the strong man of the
world once well known in the circus
arena, is in the poor-house of Putnam
county, n. Y. In his time he could hold
back two yoke of oxen, and support a
weight of 1900 pounds resting on his
arched hands and feet with his stomach
upwards.
Smyrna times., 1877-09-19

We are told that nothing was made in
vain; but how about fashionable girl2
Is she not maiden vain?
Smyrna times., 1877-09-19

A little Athol boy, guilty of some miscon.
duct, upon being asked why he could be so
naughty, replied that he thought he was
not doing anything wrong. That's no ex.
cuse, said his mother, thinking doesn't
help the matter" "Well, mamma" said
he, whats the use of having a thinker, if
you can't think ?"
Smyrna times., 1877-09-19

When General Changarnier was in Africa
he was Colonel of a regiment, and was
more fearful of draft of air than of the
lead of his opponents His mind appeared
to be constantly occupied with drafts of
ar. On one occasion the balls were flying
thick around him. An officer saluted and
SAID, Colonel, you are exposing yourself"
True, said Changarnier, 1--WE are fighting
IN a gorge" He turned up his coat collar.
Smyrna times., 1877-09-19

;. A gentleman gave party in honor of a
distinguished missionary lately returned
from his held OF work. The ladies appear
ed with very decollete dresses, and as the
host feared the style might shock his rever.
ence' ne .apoloogized to him for it, saying
mind it at all" replied the missionary =" I
have been ten years among the savaces. :"
Smyrna times., 1877-09-19

FASHIONABLE ENULArIoN.-Lady Cspeak.
ing with difficulty " What have YOU made
It round the waist, Mrs. Price ?" Dress.
maker " Twenty-one inches, madam
You couldn't breath with less = LADY /:
" What's Lady Jemima Jones's waist ?n
Dressmaker Nineteen and half lust
now, ma,am. But her ladyships head
shorter than you are, and she's got ever so
much thinner since her illness last
autumn! Lady: Then make it nine.
teen, Mrs. Price, and III engage to get
into it .''-P,ulch.
Smyrna times., 1877-09-19

An alarm of fire few days since caused
a portly gentleman to suddenly rush from
the reading room of the American House
to the sidewalk, when he encountered an
intoxicated man, Of whom he inquired
what the trouble was. " Fire department"
replied the inebriete. The engine by this
time was down near Richmond street, out
OF sight The portly gentleman not seeing
any engine, looking at funeral that hap,
pened to be passing. said
cuneral?"
All same was the response, "both
going to a fire "-Boet9q Trar,Hcr.
Smyrna times., 1877-09-19

NICE FOR THE You've HusBAND.-Newly.
married wife (anXiously to stranger Just
going to bathel. Pray excuse me, sir, but
this Is my husband, and he is going into
the sea, and as | see you are as well, may l
ask you to be kind enough to give look
after HIM IN case he should get out of his
depth Besides, think he is a little
timid Of the water.
Smyrna times., 1877-09-19

"2th pullin'" is Western dentists
siga
Smyrna times., 1877-09-19

John Burroughs, in his "Birds and
Poets, tells the best story, illustrative of a
boys confidence in the power of a lie we
ever read. A teacher, after long and
patient watching, catches boy eating an
apple in school-a misdeed he had fre.
quently committed and as repeatedly lied
out OF. " All, ha |" exclaimed the teacher,
" I've caught you at it this time" "Caught
me at what 2" asked the boy, in conscious
Innocence. Eating that apple" "Ain't
eating no apple" The astonished teacher
compelled the boy to open his mouth, and
2 great slab of apple was extracted there
rom. Didn't know it was there,n
sturdily asserted the boy. Burlington Ha,ok.
enc.
Smyrna times., 1877-09-19
We then hold these truth,

VIC IHViI IU.I tnCsc trutH.
To be sclfevidcnL Tia, all mankind
Are equal, and endowed iy their Cr,.,or
With certain ina,ienabc rights
mat among these are Life and Liberty
And the pursuit Of happiness. That mon
TO make these rights available and safe,
Have instituted governments, deriving
lhelr lawful power from the free consent
VI those they govern, That when any form
VI government is proved 10 be destructive
oi these their ends, It Is the peoples rigl.,
To alter or abolish it, and found
government anew. with principles
20 lald for its foundation, and with power,
In such form organized, as 70 them
-cem most conducive % their happiness
And safety
Smyrna times., 1877-09-19
WHOLE NO. l,lGS.

We give the following extract from a
curious Gu poem in blank verse entitled {" A
Well Known document. The author $
ann Is to show that "the earnest and inn.
paSsloned language Of real life is sometimes
closely assimilated to blank verse" lie
mas therefore lined out the whole DccIa.
ration Of Independence with little moro
variation from the original text than is in.
VOWED IN the occasional transposition of a
Smyrna times., 1877-09-19

No perfumes, no perfumesl Bean
3rummell used to exclaim, when ouos.
TONED concerning the essentials of a gen.
tleman toilet. There is a New York
merchant who disregards the Bcau's in.
junction, and, strange to say, he deals in
hardware, and. during business hours.
dressed III tatters and is cloyed with CRIME,
notwithstanding his coarse trade. he is a
man OF delicate scnsbilities and is very
fond OF pertumery. While sitting in n
New Haven train, last week. his nose
caught delicious Whit. A lady. well-dres.
sed, d,hand some and not eleaturod had
taken her handkerchief from her noclet.
and the air was flied with fragrance. The
merchant thought of his wife and the
propnetles, and hesitatcd to accost strange
lady, who might turn and rend him with
an indignant glance: but that pcriume-it
was so delicate-he really must know
what 1t was. So he bent forward, and clear
ing his throat. began: Pardon me. but
VIII you give me the name ofit 1t is so
delicious The lady smiled graciouslv.
ana. after an effort to collect her thoughts.
replied: Sure, an | don't be after re-
mcmbering the name onto it, but it war in
small bottle, just SO high" Her brorue
betrayed her. Somebody's toilet bureau
had been rifled by the chambermaid. The
hardware merchants thoughts reverted to
his wife
Smyrna times., 1877-09-19
Posture,

An erect bodily attitude, says Dr. Greene.
is OF vastly more Importance to health than
IS generally imagined. Crooked bodily
positions, maintained for anv length ri
tlme, are always injurious, whether SITTING
standing, or lying whether sleeping or
walking -
10 sit with the body leaning forward on
the stomach or TO one side, with the heels
elevated TO a Lowell with the head. is not
only in bad taste, but exceedingly detrj.
mental to the health 1t cramps the
stomach, presses the vital organs, interrupts
tho Tree motion Of the chest, and enfeebles
the functions Of the abdominal and thor;c
organs, and, III fact, unbalances the whole
| muscular system
Many children become slightly hurnn.
backed or severely round.shouldered bv
sleeping with the head raised on n hip6
pillow. When any person finds it easier
70 SIT, stand or sleep in a crooked position
than straight one, he may be sure his
muscular system is badly deranged. and
the moro careful he is to preserve a straight
OF an upright position, and get back to
nature again, the better
lnose persons engaged in occupations
requiring the hands alone to move. while
the lower limbs remain motionless. should
"0''i al !IiIHu llat without frequently rails
ing the frame to an erect position. and Civ
ing exercise to all parts of the body, such a
practice Will tend to destroy their health
IIhey should also sit as erect as possible
with seanlstres3es there is always more or
less stopping of the head and shoulders
tending to retard circulation. respiration
ana digestion, and produce curvature of
the spine. The head should be thrown
back to give the lungs full play. Health
cannot be had without free respiration.
Strength and general health must come
rom exercise. confined attitudes are in
violation OF correct theories of healthy
physical developments and the instincts of
nature. Those accustomed to sit writing
Tor hours, day after day, can form some
ldea OF the eXhausting nature of the
tollsome and poory-paid labor Of the seam.
stress.
Parents and guardians should see to il
that those under their care maintain an
erect position, and keep the position in
harmony with the laws of life, especiaIly
during the period of growth And persons
VINO, from necessity, are obliged to remain
lor time in unnatural or cramped posi-.
llons, should overcome the evil. as far as
possible, by proper exercise in the open air
ana other means Of maintaining the
strength, vlgor, harmony and beauty of
thelr physical constitution.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1877-01-13

Tbs whole amount of money raised
for the poor women and children, widowed
and orphaned by the Brooklyn hrc, amount
ed toa little over 1000.
The official report of deaths in New
York for 1876, up to last Saturday, shows
them to be 2S,65S or about lj00 less than
last year, July, as usual was the deadiest
month, and August followed next, while the
present month Of December is of a low
average. The heat does the great damage to
life with us.
The Virginia fish commissioners have
submitted their annual report showing that
during the past year they have hatched and
distributed among the various streams of the
state the following small fry of the various
fish named; California salmon, 10000;
land.locked salmon from Maine, 900 shad,
100000. Besides which large numbers OF
red.eye perch, river bass and pond bass,
brook trout, gold fish, etc, have been widely
distributed. A curious and amusing cX.
perenCe under the new fish law is related
by the commissioners, whereby they had to
pay fines and costs to the amount Of $40, ad
judged by Flenrico coanty court against three
men employed by them to catch minnows
and dace to feed chubs, which they had
placed in pond to breed, there being moth
ing in the pond for the chubs to subsist on
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MISCELLANEOUS.

The total amount Of silver payment
made by the government since April IS,
1870 to date is as follows On account a
fractional currency redeemed, Sl5, ,2O7 ,9Gj72;
on account of currency obligations, 1854.
599.35; total, $25,Oj2 562.97.
The government directors of the Union
Pacific railway have made their annual re-.
port, IN which they complain Of the ire-
qnent conflicts relative to the construction
Of the road, and propose that some defngte.
arrangement should be made betw cen the
government and the company that will not
interfere with the progress Of the rOad, and
at the same time, secure the payment of all
the interest and reduce large portion of
tn" roads Indebtedness.
Capt. j. w. flall who has Just pre-
pared the marine statistics Of 1876 places
the number OF lake disasters at G39; the
valuation Of property lost; $ll73, 500; losses
timber RATS on the lakes $lOl 600 The
greatest losses during any month was in
September, amounting to $4,000, The
number of disasters this year are Al less than
that of 1875. The total number Of deaths
either on board Of ship or on shore among
the seamSn was 1j5, of which number So
were vessels masters l4were lost by founder,
ed yessels,97 We're drowned Is died on shore,
Is were killed accidentally, 2were murdered,
. committed suicide and was found dead.
the new tonnage amounts to 7,i6l this year,
a falling of from 1873 Of 11,5l7 tons The
lost Tonnage amounts to 1900 tons. FIuon.
cially, the season Of 1876 was the worst ON
rprnrl
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curled. On hills and slopes the trees suf
fcred very little, while in the bottoms and
low places they suffered very much, and
many young unprotected trees were entirely
killed
The Texas general land Office records
show that within the Texas and Pacific rail.
road reservation there is vacant land to the
amount of l3,692,OO acres. On the first of
September last there had been set aside for
the benefit of the common school fund 2j,-
l25 sections of land, making in all l6,OS0O00
acres. OF domain subject to location at the
same date there were 45,9l0$2u acres, For
the year ending August jl>t, there had been
OF patents issued through the general land
office, 1874, representing 429l 1853 acres.
For the same year there were issued in Ger
titcates Of all classes, S,3ll, representing b.
3OS,449 acres. During the same year the to-
tai new files were 1862 representing in
acres ll,7SI7l4. The total receipts Of the
land office for the year ending August 3lst
1876, were $7S,332.73.
Norfoiork Virginian: About two weeks
ago negro preacher named Riley, residing
in Martin county, near Hills ferry left his
home together with his wife to attend church,
leaving his two children, boy OF five years
Of age and Il girl a year younger, in the
house with no other companion than large
dog belonging to the boy. During their alb,
sence the girl had occasion to crawl under
the building in search OF something she had
left there, when the dog, which was lying
under the house at the time, made a violent
attack uponIher biting and severaly rnjur.
ing her in several places. The boy, who was
up stairs, hearing the cries of his sister ran
to her assistance, when the animal turned
upon him, seized him by the throat, and
after severe struggle succeeded In killing
him. When the parents of the children re-.
turned they found the dog lying by the side
of his dead master engaged in eating the
flesh from the child's head and face, and
when they attempted to drive him away he
was so savage that they were obliged to shoot
him.
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The secret Of the notable increase of
crime comes mainly from the vice of in
temperance Boston pays $4,000 year
for the support of out-of,town Ioor,
where the cause is intemperance but
this on'y part only presents the mer.
ccnary aspect of the case. just look at
it in the light of transmitting the
crime from father to son, from genera
tion to generation, and causing at one
and the same time whole generation of
pauTer, aWd criminals. On This subject
it j. well to consider that the pauper
class ism hereditary class, and the only
hereditary class whose status cannot he
affected by written constitutions. The
intcmperae ia er transmits to hi, pos-
trrjty the propensity for intemperance
DIR. Howe, the best authority on this
subject, who will certainly not be
suspected OF eXaggeration, Uses these
words:
With tipplers, on the other hand,
there is a gradual vitiation and impair
ment of vital force. We may therefore
expect that, other things being equal,
their progeny will tend more strongly
than the children OF temperance people,
or even of occasional drunkards to fall
into the dependent or pauper class, by
reason of the cause mentioned elsewhere
as occasioning so much pauperism to.
wit, original lack Of vital force. II
there be truth in these views, then the
right to use or not to use alcohol passes
beyond the sphere Of individual rights,
and comes into the sphere of social rights,
1t certainly should do so in the form of
conscience and it may perhaps do 50 in
the form of law. Certainly, i it could
be proved that the use of any imported
or manufactured article vitates the
breed of horses or cattle, farmers at least
would look for some power to interdict
it, and would not hesitate much about
using that power
With such text and comment le,
those in danger take heed that they d,
not fall
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picked out, and OF some OF TIE lHst there
were but CHASTITY trunks. There were
but titly.two taken out Of the wreck,
and t ree-quarters Of that number were
badly injured. saw but one other man
who nscauad with rs ll5tle injury as ]
did. ! was badly brtiised."
q" How long was il before the flames
were out?'
" | should say about an hour. They
had an engine there, but no hose, and
they could make no impression on the
Tire, Tht tfain burned very quickly {;
1t was consumed within an hour. IN
every car we're two stoves. Que at each
end, and the lamps We're all lighted at
the time
Did you see any persons taken rom
Tie train after the fire got full head
way
"No. All that were saved were res
cucd, ! think, at the time the people got
out ofour car They could not be got
out t5r the fire was 50 rapid"
How many persons altog gtther DO you
think We're killed, Mr.. BurcheH?"
| should say about one hundred and
fifty The railroad officers claim that
there 5ere only one hundred and sixty.
five people on the train, but that could
not be. believe there were fully two
hundred on board the train, and my un-
derstanding of it is that the railroad
officials admit that there are over one
hundred killed The bridge war feared
( by railroad employees. Up at the hotel
heard some of the railroad men expires,
Themselves as having always been fear,
full Of the bridge, and one who had
passed over it two hotties before the acci
dent said it occured to him that the
bridge was too liglt." Cdirogo Inter-
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Washington and Andre.

The English historian, Chalmers, stated
that Washington ordered the gallows, on
which Maj. Andre was hung in 1880, to
be built in sight of the prisoner This
accusation aroused the ire OF the Ameri-
cans who Aourished in the early part OF
the century. No one was angler than
John Pintard and he did everything that
could be done to correct the mistake,
One day, sitting in his Office, a venera-
bic parsonage called ON him. and As
usual the conversation turned on Andre
"What?' said Pintard, edo you know
anything about that execution ?"
II do, for / was one OF the guards who
kept watch on him while in prison, and
who marched alongside him TO the place
Of"
"Well, what did you do? Tell me, " ex-
claimed Pintar.
1--WE took him from the house where
he was kept, ard marched along the road
until We turned into a lane, when
Andre lhrank back, and with sludder
said ,lt that to be?' The gallow,
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trump at all, for everyt thing IN thf attitude
of the St. Peterstuig cabinet and the con.
duct Of Gen. lgnatietl, the Russian plenipo
tentiary here, contributes to confirm the be-
lief that Russia is afraid to go to war. The
Russian ambassador, in fact, throws out clear
hints that the affair could only be settled by
Joint European execution, thus reveltng to
the proposal male by the ear two months
ago. The Turks cannot fail to perceive the
advantage accruing to their cause from the
irresoluiou Of Russia and Europe, and are
not unlikely to tontinue unmanageable and
stubborn so long at they natter themselves
that the conferences will break up without
any other result than leaving them masters
Of the situation.
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HURON.



The bill to establish the Territory Of
Huron and provide a temporary govern
ment thereof, which passed the senate last
week, proposes to create the new territory
out Of the northern portion of the present
territory Of Dakota, It has been before
congress for the past four years, and hay
ing passed the senate nov goes to the
house Of representatives for the concur
renee Of that body.
The present territory of Dakota contains
lj0,932 square miles, and the new terri
tory would have an area of aboat 70 600
square miles. 1t is to be paralIelogram,
extending from Minnesota on the east for
something less than 400 miles to Montana
on the west, and from the British posses
sions on the north 200 miles to the bound
ary of the remaining territory on the
south, Its population is estimated at
about 10000, having received considerable
accessions by immigrations since the tax
ing OF the last census. il is said that
one of the best farming regions in the
United States lies in the proposed new
territory. Among the reasons given for
the passage of the bill are that the set.
Elements in present territory of Dakota
are comprised in two separate and dis
tinct communities entirely separate and
Distinction theirgeOgraphical positions.
The inhabited portion of southern Da.
kota, the old settled portion OF the ter.
ritOry is along the Missouri rivnr It's