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The Beaufort tribune and Port Royal commercial. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1877-1879, 1877-08-09
A Turkish Town In Asia Minor.

The streets of Erzeoum are compared
by correspondent to net of wriggling
eels. No squares, no good-looklng
houses, offer anywhere means OF set
ting oneself right; everywhere nothing
but houses, rising. slightly from the
ground, with grass roofs, on which may
frequently be seen mufaed-up women,
children at play and lambs frisking
about. Children and lambs sometimes
fall through the chimney into the house,
in which men, horses, oxen, COWS and
sheep live together. In bad weather the
chimneys are covered with fiat stones,
and then the smoke fills the room or
stable. whichever one chooses to call it.
A small part of this room, devoid OF light
or air, in which fire made OF dung and
finely-cut straw burns, is separated by a
railing. Here paterfamilias sits on a
rug, smoking his chibougue or narglleh,
and receives guests. The preparation OF
food gives little trouble; a penny day
sufices to satisfy the palate and stomach,
even in wealthy families. A little bread
and cheese, perhaps cucumber, under
favorable circumstances pilatf, on feast
DAYS a piece of mutton, which the Ar
menian women roast particularly we'll
that is the whole bill of fare.
The Beaufort tribune and Port Royal commercial. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1877-1879, 1877-08-09
Thoughts for Saturday Night.

Through woe we are taught to reflect,
and we gather the honey OF worldly WIS
dom not from flowers, but thorns.
Frowns blight young children as frosty
nights blight young plants. --,-,-.,,-..7,y
The surest remedy against scandal is
to live it down.
A good man will be doing good where
soever he is. His trade is compound
of charity and justice.
The vices of the rich and great are
mistaken for errors, and those OF the
poor and lowly for crimes.
The current coin of life is plain sound
sense. We drive more substantial and
thriving trade with that than aught else.
The moral courage that will face
obloquy in good cause is q much rarer
gift than the bodily valor that will con-
front death in o bad one.
Never seek to be entrusted with your
friends secret; for no matter how faith
fully you may keepit, you may be liable
in thousand contingencies to the sus-
picion of having betrayed it,
We ought never to believe evil of any
one till we are certain of it. We ought
not to say anything that is rude aud dis
pleasing even in a joke and we ought
never to carry jokes too far.
It is the most beautiful truth In
morals, that we have no such thing as a
distinct or divided interest from our race.
In their welfare, is ours, and by choosing
the broadest paths to effect their happi-
ness, we choose the surest and the short
est to our own.
1t is great misfortuue to have fret
full disposition. 1t takes the fragrance
where a cheerful disposition would
cause flowers to bloom. The habit OF
fretting is one that grows rapidly unless
it be sternly repressed; and the best way
to overcome it is to try always to look on
the cheerful side of things.
The Beaufort tribune and Port Royal commercial. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1877-1879, 1877-08-09
The Miller and the Camel.

The Arabs have a fable of miller who
was one day startled by camel's nose
thrust in the window of room where he e,
was sleeping. cit is very cold outside, -
said the camel, 81 only want to get my
nose in" The nose was let in, then the
neck, and finally the whole body.
Presently the miller began to be ez-
tremely Inconvenience at the ungainly
companion he had obtained, in room
certainly not large enough for Both.
eff you are Inconvenience you may
leave" said the camel; cas- for myself.
I shall stay where lam. The moral OF
the fable concerns all. When tempta-
ton occurs we must not yield to it. We
must not allow so much as it's "nose "
to come in. Everything like sin is to be
turned away from. He who yields, even
in the smallest degree, will soon he over
come,
The Beaufort tribune and Port Royal commercial. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1877-1879, 1877-08-09
Origin OF Genius.

Columbus was the son OF q weaver,
and q weaver himself. Claude Lorraine
was brought up pastry cook. Mohere,
the great French comic writer, was the
son of tapestry maker. Cervantes
served as common soldier. Homer WAS
a beggar. Hesiod was the son OF small
farmer: Demosthenes of cutler. Ter
ence. the Latin comic writer, was slave.
Oliver Cromwell was the son OF brew
er. Howard, the philanthropist. was an
apprentice to grocer; Benjamin Frank
lin. the son of tallow chandler; Dr.
Bishop, of Worcester, son OF q linen
draper. De Foe, the great En- elish po-
litical writer, was the son OF butcher.
Whitefeld was the son OF an innkeeper
at Gloucester; Cardinal Wolsey the son
of butcher. Ferguson was shepherd.
Virgil was the son Of porter; Shake
speare. of o wool dealer Horace, OF q
shopkeeper; Lucian, OF a stationer. Ho-
garth was an apprentice to an engraver ;
Dean Tucker, OF small farmer, and
came to Oxford on foot. Bishop Prideau1
worked in the kitchen at Exeter College.
Edmund HALEY was the son ct soap
boiler.
The Beaufort tribune and Port Royal commercial. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1877-1879, 1877-08-09
LARGE Wheat Yield.

The Dayton (Ohio) Democrat says !:
On the second of July farmer named
Long, who resides several miles south
of this city, began to harvest his wheat,
a twenty-acre field of nice grain. Being
in want of cash, he shelled sore OF the
grain and took sample of it to miller
and asked what he would give him for
his crop per bushel. He struck bar
gain at 81. 65 per bushel. On inquiring
how much his crop would yield, MI;
Long said it ought to be fully 400
bushels. But he was most agreeably
astonished when the threshing was COM
pleted. and the grain measured in the
field. and it turned out to be almost 800
bushels instead of 400. yielding almost
forty bushels to the acre. Mr.. Long m
forms us that there are number OF fields
of wheat in his region which ere quite
as heavy, or heavier than his,
The Beaufort tribune and Port Royal commercial. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1877-1879, 1877-08-09
How Mr.. and Mrs. Fly Take a Wash.

The toilet of the fly is IS carefully at
tended to as that of the most frivolous
of human insects. With contempt for
the looking-glass-an article which ne
reserves for the most ignoble uses-he
brushes himself up and wabbles his lit
tie round head, chuck full of vanity,
wherever he happens to be, Some
times, after long day of dissipation and
flirting. with his six small legs and little
round belly all soiled with syrup and
butter and cream, he passes out OF the
di1fng-room and wings his way to the
clean white cord along which the morn.
ing glories climb, and in this retired
spot, needless of the crafty spider that
is practicing gymnastics afew feet above
him, he proceeds to purify and sweeten
himself for the refreshing repose and
soft dreams of the balmy summer night,
80 necessary to one who is expected to
be early at breakfast. It is wonderful
toilet. Resting himself on his front and
middle legs he throws his hind legs
rapidly over his body, binding down his
frail wings for an instant with the pres
sure, then raking them over with back.
ward motion, which he repeats until
they are bright and clear. Then ne
pushes the two legs along his body
under his wings, giving that queer
structure a thorough currying, every
now and then throwing the legs out and
rubbing them together to remove what
he has collected from his corporeal sur
face. Next he goes to work upon his
van. Resting on his hind legs and mid,
die legs, he raises his two forelegs and
begins a vigorous scraping of his head
and shoulders, using his proboscis every
little while to push the accumulation
from his limbs. At times he is SO ener-
eetic that it seems as if he were trying
to pull his head off, but no fly ever COM
mitted suicide. Some of his motions
yery much resemble those OF pussy at
her toilet. It is plain, even to the naked
eve, that he does his work thoroughly,
for when he has finished he looks like
new fiy. SO clean and neat has he made
himself within few minutes. The
white cord is defiled, but foppy is him.
self again, and he bids the morning
glories very good evening.
The Beaufort tribune and Port Royal commercial. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1877-1879, 1877-08-09
PROFITS OF LITERATURE.
WelI.Known Authors, and What they Liv'
On-InterestinR Figures.

Well-Known Authors, and What they Live
On-Interesting Figures.
Longfellow is independent in circum-
stances-probably worth $4,000 to
$500. 900; but the greatest part OF it has
come to him through his wife, long
since deceased, who was rich in her own
right.
Emerson has not made, from his re-
markable little volumes, over $2O, 600.
He has gained nearly as much more by
lecturing and yet, by excellent man.
agement, which one might not expect
from the high idealist, and by serene
philosophy Of practical sort, ne con-
tinues to live on his small property.
Bryant is often cited as an instance OF
a rich author. He is rich, but not by
authorship. All the money he has
directly earned by his pen, outside OF
his journal, would not exceed, In all
probability, $4,000, Notwithstanding
his estate is estimated at s5OO,OOO.
Hawthorne was poor to his dying day,
and might have suffered but for his
appointment to the consulship at Liver
pool by his friend, President Pierce.
Lowell is independent in circum-
stances-no thanks to his fine poetry
and essays, however.
Whittier, like most thrifty New Eng
landers, owns his own house, and be-
meath its humble roof, it is said, he has
sometimes subsisted- is q bachelor
on $500 year.
Holmes is well off by the practice OF
the medical profession, by marriage and
Inheritance, albeit not by poems, lee
lures, novels, nor "Autocrats of the
Breakfast Table" All that he has writ
ten has not brought him $25, 600.
J. G. Holland is frequently named as
an author who has amassed wealth. His
books have sold as largely as those OF
any American writer, and, whatever may
be thought of his ability, he still has
vast constituency. He is not at all rich
in the New York sense he may be worth
5000. 900, but most of this he got by his
partnership in the Springfield Rep16H-
can.
George William Curtis is dependent
on his salary from the Harpers so Is
Mr.. William D. Howells dependent upon
his editorship of the atlantic.
Bret Harte, T. B. Aldrich, James Par
ton, J. T. Trowbridge, R. 81. Stoddard,
T. W. Higginson, mainly upon fugitive
writing.
The Beaufort tribune and Port Royal commercial. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1877-1879, 1877-08-09
Items Of Interest.

When are eyes not eyes? When the
wind makes them water. a
Woe to the inexperienced little fish
who goes out to enjoy himself on his own
hook.
Thinness is an objectionable fault In
Turkish women, and is considered as
good ground for divorce as snoring or
grinding the teeth in sleep.
"The worm will turn" Quite 30;
but the italian organ grinders are not
aware of it, or assuredly they would I'M
press him into their service.
There were 25,527 dozens Of eggs,
81. .4sS pounds of butter, $3.50 birds
and 1920 boxes of berries consumed In
a Chicago hotel in one season.
There are at least eight smart young
ladies in Macon, Ga. They graduated In
gowns of their own make, and then put
into type their compositions" for publ
cation.
If the car just wishes to perfectly
annhilate the Turks, he should arm hls
soldiers with firearms " supposed to be
empty" They do more damage nova
days than any other weapon.
"Would you believe" said q thriftless
Young man to a friend, "that 1 had
fortune in my grasp the other evening"
"How so ?" asked the friend. 81 shook
hands, with girl whose fingers were
covered with diamonds.
A Miss Buchanan, once rallying q
brave soldier on his courage, said: Now
Captain 49,, do you really mean to tell
me you can walk up to the cannon's
mouth without fear ?" "Yes," was the
prompt reply, cor a Buchanan's, either"
And he did it.
"Supposs we pass law, said, q se-
we're father to his daughters, 'that no
girl eighteen years old who can't cook
good meal shall get married. till she
learns how to do it ?" "Why, then, we'd
all get married at seventeen" responded
the girls in sweet chorus.
The Beaufort tribune and Port Royal commercial. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1877-1879, 1877-08-09
A Festive Turk.

A war correspondent writes: l have an
item relative to the Turkish commander
of the Danube army, Abdul Kerim. The
old man has the most gigantic appetite
in Europe. His dinner ordinarily con-
sists of an entire roast kid, twenty-five
or thirty boiled eggs, and, when in good
form, he tops off with Il goose or a
chick Ken. I have this officially. When
not occupied with digesting a small
lunch of this character, the venerable
warrior is supposed to be looking after
the movements of the Muscovites.
The Beaufort tribune and Port Royal commercial. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1877-1879, 1877-08-09
Fashion Notes.

Bunting is the seaside dress.
The new shade of pink is rose tre-
miere.
The latest notion in kid gloves is half
fingers.
Ivory white berege is in favor for even
ing wear.
The latest novelty N printed cambrics
is hdiennes.
The Serbian costume is the rival of the
Breton.
Black lace mitts are worn with all kinds
of dresses.
Embroidery appears on nearly all sum-
mer dress toilets.
Plaided and plain hosiery is more fash
ionable than striped.
Lace fchus and collerettes, with cuffs
to match, grow in favor.
Grenadine is full dress for matrons, but
not for young girls.
The French twist is still the most fash
ionable morning coiffure.
Black satin shoes covered with en-
broideries are very fashionable.
The most fashionable lawn dresses are
moonlight blue and sorrel green.
Handkerchiefs and neckties for morn
ing wear are trimmed with colored
torchon laces.
Narrow bands of black velvet ribbon
worn around the hair in Grecian style are
coming in vogue.
Navy blue percale, trimmed with white
embroidery and Clovis lace, is the cos
tune of the moment.
The prettiest seaside hats are of white
Panama, trimmed with white bunting
scarfs and deep red roses.
A stylish costume is effected by trim
ming colored cambria with salmon col
ored torchon lace and salmon ribbon
bows.
Ivory mohair braids, embroidered In
black or in color to suit the materials,
appear on many of the most stylish sum-
mer suits.
White berege evening dresses are pref
tily brighted up with colored ribbon
bows, such as ruby, Mandarin, or tur-
quoise color.
Dentelle flet is new, durable lace, OF
the character of guioure dart, which, to
some extent, is taking the place OF torchon
for underwear.
Fine white torchon laces edged with
color-blue, red, pink, tilleul, or black
is made up into fchus, collars, and cuffs
of various styles.
Some of the newest 6alageuses are OF
white plated muslin, embroidered on the
edge in color to match the. dress with
which they are worn, or edged with col
ored torchon or Clovis lace.
There is run upon green; we have
had Holbein, sage, myrtle, willow,
bronze, and moss green, and now we
have Oseille cutie Cooked sorreD, q yel-
lowish green shade, which combines with
singularly stylish effect with either pale
blue or pink.
The mousquetaire cuffs of lace to be
worn outside the sleeve have been her
aided for some time, and are now found
among the importations. They are six
inches deep, and square, or else they are
closed in gauntlet shape for the hand to
be slipped through. At present they
are only shown in the white and colored
torchon laces that are worn with sum-
mer costumes. Accompanying these are
broad collerettes that fasten behind and
have long jabots in front.
The Beaufort tribune and Port Royal commercial. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1877-1879, 1877-08-09
She Came to Ne.

She came to me,
And her coming seemed to be
Like the coming Of the dawn
Ger q dark and silent sea
Like swell Of music, born
In perfect harmony.
She came to me, ~
And her coming seemed to be
Like the blooming Of the rose.
Fraught with sweets alone for me:
Like The falling Of the SHOWS,
In spotless purity.
She came to me,
And could I her slave but be?
The deep love light in her eyes,
On her lips the laughter free,
Bade my slumbering soul arise,
And sing in melody.
She came to me-
Mine, my sweet through Life to be,
Nor death the bonds can sever
My beauteous mystery,
Ny souls sole queen, my ever
Peerless divinity.
The Beaufort tribune and Port Royal commercial. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1877-1879, 1877-08-09
A Cure for Burns.

People generally will be glad to know
that charcoal has been discoverd to be
sure cure for burns. BY laying small
piece of cold charcoal on the burn the
pain subsidies Immediately. By leaving
the charcoal on for an hour the wound is
healed, as has been demonstrated on
several occasions.
The Beaufort tribune and Port Royal commercial. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1877-1879, 1877-08-09
The Country Lass.

The Country Lass.
Although am country lass,
A lofty mind bear
think myself as good as those
Who gay apparel wear.
NV dress is made Of homely gray,
Yet is my skin as soft
As those who using choice perfumes
Do scent their garments oft.
At times I keep my fathers sheep,
A thing that must be done;
A garland OF the fairest flowers
Oft shades me from the sun.
And when I see them feeding b.,
Where grass and flowers spring, .
Close by crystal fountain clear,
sit me down and sing.
take my part in household work,
card, I sew, I spin.
milk the COWS at early morn,
Kind Robins smile win;
bake and brew with sister Sue,
NV brothers hose I darn;
At harvest time the sickle WELD,
And winnow in the barn.
Ny ruddy cheeks with glow of health
Seek neither paint nor patching;
At church have my duty learnt,
And need no constant watching.
With Robin at the Whitsuntide
dance upon the green,
While pipe and tabor cheer the throng,
A merry set, ween.
envy not the ladies fine,
With skirts that sweep the ground,
Nor trained to any useful art,
They're good for nothing found.
In idleness their days are spent
Abroad for recreation
We country lasses hate their pride,
And keep the country fashion.
Then, do not scorn the country lass,
Though she 60 plain and meanly;
Who takes country girl to wife
That goeth neat and cleanly,
Is better sped than if he we'd
A lady from the city,
For there they are so idly bred,
They're only worth our pity.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1877-03-08

IMPORTANT TO SOME ONE.-The examina-
ton of the affairs of the Continental Life Insur-
ance Company is progressing slowly in New
York. The testimony the past few weeks re-
specting the management of its business by
Mr.. Frost, the President, and majority of the
directors, leaves the public to conclude that the
parties named are guilty of defrauding the
policy holicy holders by gross mismanagement
of the company's business, by squanderng the
assets of the company in bad investments, etc.
On Monday Mr.. Chandler, Actuary who has
made an estimate of the outstanding liabilities
and assets of the company, testified that if all
outstanding premiums were received, the liza
bilities would be reduced to about $4,000, 900.
1t was also his opinion hat the company was
solvent and with the exercise of prudence it
could meet its insurance contracts as they ma
tured. 1t is stated that the referee Mr.. De
Witt, who has been conducting the investiga-
ton, will soon make report to Attorney Cen
eral Fairchild, who will then make motion in
the courts for the dissolution of the company
and the appointment of receiver, as he does
not recognize Mr. Grace, who was appointed by
Judge Pratt of Brooklyn. The greatest danger
which the interested policy holders have now
to apprehend is that the litigation which the
courts, insurance department and other state
officials have begun will eat a hole in the as
sets
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evening.
PATRIOTIC ORDER SONS OF AMERIcA-Camps No
q and conyenes over the Eastern Express once,
Plum street. No. on "Wednesday evening; No. 4
on fist and third Saturdays of each month; No on
Honse r susns isand Cape ESabe Friday
Evening.
BoswoRTH POST G. A. R.-Meeting every Friday
evening in Mechanics Hall, corner Of Congress ana
Casco streets. -.
PORTLAND TEMPERANCE REFORM CLUB-Head-
quarters in Printers Exchange, I'd floor, Exchange
street. Open day and evening: Business meeting
every Monday evening at u O'Clock.
Young MEMS CHRISTIAN ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Congress and Casco Streets. Every evening.
PORTLAND TYPOGRAPHICAL UNION, No. To-
Second Saturday of each month.
MERCANTILE LIBRARY ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Block. Second Monday in each month. Delivery
of books dai y, to 9, day and evening"
PAYsoN LITERARY SoCIETY-Meetings every
Monday evening, Browns Block, cor Brown and
Congress streets, at y O'Clock.
PORTLAND INSTITUTE AND PUBLIC LIBRARY
In City Building. Open and free to all from ~ to
and to 8.
MAINE CHARITABLE MECHANIC ASSOCIATION
Corner of Congress and Casco streets. First Thurs
day In each month.
KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAs-Bramhall Lodge, No. 8,
Thursday evenings; MuDjoy Lodge, NO 3, nonuay
evenings; Pine Tree, No. IL, Friday evenings, at
their Hall, Ciapp's Block, Market Square.
PORTLAND ARMY AND NAVY UNION Corner
Congress and Brown streets. First Tuesday in each
month.
INDEPENDENT ORDER OF COOP TEMPLARs-.
Arcana. Monday; Mission, Wednesday, williams
Block, Congress street; Mystic, Thursday, at sons
of Temperance Hall, Congress Hall; Iron Clao
Thursday, at West End.
PORTLAND SOCIETY OF NATURAL HIST Y.
At thei, library room, City Hall, on the first and
third Monday evenings OF each month.
SovEREIGNs OF INDUsTRY-Dirigo Council, No.
meets every Friday evening, at Arcana Hall, at 7!
O'Clock.
PORTLAND FRATERNITY-No. ~ Free st. Block
Every evening.
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SUPERIOR Court.

MARCH CIVIL TERM, 1877, sYMoNDs, j.. PREsID-
ING.
TuEspAY-The March civil term commenced yes
terday morning. Prayer was offered by the Rev.
Mr.. Bicknel of the India street church
new traverse jury was empanneled as follows:
Samuel Buchanan, foreman, Yarmouth; William
NJ GOo Gape Eoa6esS Melville
Hunnewell, Scarborough; Francis Il sJ0roan, Ma
Piles; John Knight. Gray; Cornelius Maynard
ell, No. Yarmouth; Franklin Mains, Otisfield; Geo.
Racket, Deering.
Supernumeraries-Israe E. Richardson, Baldwin;
Joseph Ridlon, Gotham; George Slemmons, west
brook.
Excused-Robert Douglass, james X. Emery, Geo.
L. Kimball, Portland
The case of Hardenbrook, admir-, vs. The Eastern
Railroad assigned for trial Tuesday will be disposed
of without resortng to to trial by jury Inc case
was tried two years ago and resulted in verdict for
the plaintiff which the law court set aside as against
evidence and granted new trial. If tried the case
would have occupied the remainder OF the week.
The court was occupied during the day in making
assignments of Jury cases for this term and attending
to other nterocutory matters. Counsel should bear
in mind that the April will be the last opportu-
nifty to try civil before the session OF the law
court in July, as Judge Symonds has given notice
that he shall try no civil cases at the May term.
The docket of this Court was never in better con
dtion since the court fairly got under way than it
now-and by that we mean that there never wal
less in it for actual trial. large bulk OF the case
are continued for judgment or cases in which bank
ruptcy has been suggested. The actual number
cases on the continue docket is five hundr ID ant
ninety-nine as against over thousand at the com
mencement of the October term.
Grin Hawkes. ct al, applts. vs.. Henry Doan' AS
sumpsit upon an account annexed to recover pal
ance of twelve dollars alleged to be due 1or ciotnins
Defense-payment The case was tried last teri
and the jury disagreed
Blethen for plaintiffs.
Carleton for defendant.