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New-York tribune., 1877-10-13
A NEW RTSsIANLOAN.

BERLIN. saturday, oct. l3, 1871.
A new Russian seven per cent loan Is contem-
plated
New-York tribune., 1877-10-13

CoNsrANriNoPLr, Friday, Oct IL, 1877
Intelligence has been received at the British En-
bassy that Mukhtar Pasha is pursuing the retreating
Russians,
New-York tribune., 1877-10-13
THE OHIO ELECTION.
THE LATEST ADYICES.
THE MiJOPIIY ABOUT 23,OOO-GENERAL GAR

FIELDS EXPLANATION.
General Garfield attributes the defeat Of the Re-
publlcans in Ohio to the Civil Service order, to
judge Vests mistake In giving encouragement to
Communism, TO the Southern policy, and the labor
movement. The majority appears to be be-
tween %, 900 and % 1000.
New-York tribune., 1877-10-13

Tlal. ........ 47,S2O 3,Ol3
Plurality ...... 2-422
The new Legislature, according to the Latest ad'lces'
will compare as follows with the old body:
1878. 1877.
New-York tribune., 1877-10-13
THE ARMENIAN CAMPAIGN.

There are no further Russian bulletins about tho
latest operations in ASIA it must be taken as true
that another attack on Mukhtar Pasha has been re-
pulsed
New-York tribune., 1877-10-13

GENERAL GARFItLDs vIEw-A BLUNDER BY JUDGE
wEST-:HE LABOR yO1E-THE CIVIL SERVICE
New-York tribune., 1877-10-13
A DEMOCRATIC SERENADE.

RITTER SPEECHES DENOUNCING The PRESIDENTS
uLU-rHE FIRST EFFECT OF REpUBIIcAN AP-
ATHY
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1877-03-22
Why Editors Do Not Suicide.

The New York correspondent of the
Cincinnati Gazette, in recent letter,
says: While speaking of suicides as a
feature In human experience, am led
to the remarkable fact that editorial
life exhibits so general an exception.
While we have had instances of self.
inflicted death among lawyers, bank.
ers and mechanics, such a case has
not occurred among the journalists of
this city. One may reasonably in.
quire what is the cause of this excep-
ton? They labor intensely, and are
generally ill.paid, and they have full
share of life's hardships, which they
endure until their change comes in
the course Of nature. I can give no
other reason for this except that the
profession is constantly busy, and
works with an approval of conscience,
since it labors for public veal. Edi.
tors, in fact, are so occupied with a
range Of thought embracing public in.
terest that they have little time to
think about themselves. Walter Scott
made the remark, after he had reach
ed bankruptcy, that nothing saved him
from insanity save his habit of writ.
ing. His mind was thus led away
from the contemplation of his mise.
ries. Journalists are SO engaged in
chronicling the woes of others that
they lose sight of their own.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1877-03-22
PLEASANT THOUGHTS.
By r. &. PARKER.

By r. E. PARKER.
love to recline by the dashing rill,
Where the foam and the bubbles glide
Over its face, as it springs from the hill,
Or leaps from the mountain-side.
My thoughts then are sweet; my 80 I'll feels
peace,
As when Loves mystic tendrils entwine
About the lone heart, to give it release,
And I'LL It with raptures divine.
think ofmy youth, those days Of delight,
OF those fields where used to roam,
OF the babbling brook, so pearly and bright,
That ran by my childhood's home.
As the nodding grass from the bank bends
And baihes in the silvery tide,
And the sparkling sands in the sunlight
Near the rocks where the fishes hide.
think OF the days when l used to roam
Through the meadows, rich and green,
By the laughing brook; and out from the
The innocent violets CLEAN.
Al the:waters dash DER the rocky bed,
And fall to the bubbling pool,
And the birds sing merrily Ger my head,
In the foliage green and cool.
think of the days when used to steal
Away to the wooded hooks,
And climb DER rocks in my youthful zeal,
And sit by the silvery brooks.
IT'S sweet to think of that distant past.
OF those paths where my feet have trod,
OF the loves and pleasures too sweet to last,
And OF dear ones at rest with God!
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1877-03-22
Noon Madness.

The popular belief that the moons
rays will cause madness in any person
who sleeps exposed to them has long
been felt to be absurd, and yet it has
appeared to have its source in un-
doubted facts. Some deleterious in
huence is experienced by those who
rashly court slumber in full moon
shine, and probable there is no SUI.
perstition to which the well.to.do pay
more attention. Windows are often
carefully covered to keep the moon.
beams from entering sleeping-rooms.
A gentleman living in India furnishes
Nature with an explanation of
this phenomenon which is at least
plausible. He says: cit has often
been observed that when the moon is
full, or near it's full time, there are
rarely any clouds about and if there
be clouds before the full moon rises,
they are soon dissipated and there
fore perfect clear sky with bright
full moon, is frequently observed. A
clear sky admits of rapid radiation Of
heat from the surface of the earth,
and any person exposed to such radia.
ton is sure to be chilled by rapid loss
of heat. There is reason to believe
that, under the circumstances, paraly-
sis of one side of the face IS some
times likely to occur from a chill, as
one side Of the face is more likely to
be exposed to rapid radiation, and con-
sequent loss of it's heat. This chill is
more likely to occur when the sky is
perfectly clear. have often slept in
the open air in India, on a clear sum-
mer night, when there was no moon !;
and although the first part of the
night may have been hot, yet toward
two or three o'clock in the morning,
the chill has been SO great that have
often been awakened by an ache in
my forehead, which l as often have
counteracted by wrapping handker.
chief round my head, and drawing the
blanket over my face. AS the chill is
likely to be greatest on a very clear
night, and the clearest nights are
likely to be those on which there is
bright moonshine, it is very possible
that neuralgia, paralysis, or other SIM
liar injury, caused by sleeping in the
open air, has been attributed to the
moon, when the proximate cause may
really have been the chill, and the
moon only a remote cause acting by
dissipating the clouds and haze IF it
do SOY, and leaving a perfectly clear
sky for the play of radiation into
SDaco,''
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1877-03-22
:
Parental Pride.

Last night a crowd of l0ungerS
were sitting round the stove of a cor
ner grocery discussing such live topics
as the weather, etc. As the wind
howled through the streets they hitch
ed up closer to the stove, and filled it
up with wood to warm their chill
limbs and evaporate the layers of
tobacco juice on top. With pardon.
able parental pride they began to dis
cuss their children. Said one man,
reflectively:
81 s'pose I got the worst boy on
the Lode. He was taren disgrace to
the family from his cradle. He squall.
ed and had the collie till he was eigh-
years old, and then he began to break
things. When he got to goln' to skule
he never learned nothin', and was al.
lers playn' hockey. One day he lit on
one of the teachers and plum nigh
murdered him with the stove
poker. He was the stupidest cuss in
that ward, and in spite of my tryin'
to keep him correct, he grew up to be
regular hudlum.'
eyes, heard of that boy" chimed
in another from across the steaming
stove. t'He's bad egg, no mistake.
I'm alters sorry to see boys act that
way, and I'm alters sorry for their
parents, because faint their fault"
''It's rough to have that kind Of a
rat. sure enough" said another.
ssHi'd break is bloody neck hif he
was my boy" remarked a third.
"Yes, you bet I know i'm. He's a
hood1um from the ground up
And so these comments passed round
the store, each man taking special pains
TO coincide with the opinion of the
sire. During the conversation, how.
ever, the sire gradually got nervous,
and at the last remark he rose up
with:
''Men that'll insult father by run.
min. down his child are mean skunks!"
And letting out his right, he pasted
the last speaker in the eye, and then
sailed in.
1t was fine to,see how bis parental
love asserted itself as he walked
through that crowd. He just foored
all hands and stamped on 'em. In two
minutes he had cleaned out the place,
then shaking his fist in the air, he
roared out:
"That boys mine, and no man can
abuse him to my face: and what's
more, he hain't got his equal on the
Comstock -
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1877-03-22
Great Wealth a Great Mockery,

If you are ever tempted to purchase
very large pear, decline the invest
ment or reckon upon disappointment.
You will probably find it woody, al
most tasteless, and more like a turnip
than pear. We know, for we have
the experiment in the land where
the gigantic pears are grown. Over
grown fruits never seem to us to have
the delicate sweetness which may be
found in those of the usual dimen-
sions. What is gained in quantity is
more than lost in quality. In the
same manner great wealth, great
honor and great rank generally turn
out to be great shams. Beside the
counteracting influences of great care
and great temptation, there is the in
evitable safety in too much of any.
thing, which soon renders it tasteless.
For sweetness prefer competence to
enormous fortune, the esteem of a few
to the homage of multitude, and a
quiet condition to a position of emf.
nence and splendor. There is more
flavor in enough than in too much.
Solomon's proverb bids us prefer the
dinner OF herbs eaten in peace to the
stalled OK consumed amid fcontention ;
and his remark is the more practical
when we consider how often the fat OK
seems OF necessity to involve conten.
ton, while the herbs are not thought
to be worth fighting over. He chose
wisely who said: "Give me neither
poverty nor riches" He took the
smaller and the Fsweeter pear. After
all, it is better to have no choice, but
leave it all with our Heavenly Father.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1877-03-22
The following very. interesting table shows
the amount received and paid out from 1870


HOW cLARK's 80. N. T." SPOOL COTTON oR1a1-
MATED. 49,,
Until within few years, the great diff
Guilty to he overcome in the introduction of
sewing machines, was the objections made
by manufacturers and operators to the then
popular threads. These complaints were SO
loud and well founded that the sale of sewing
machines was greatly impeded on account
OF the impossibility of obtaining thread
approaching the difficulty, introduced into
the American market the now famous Clark's
80. N. T." Spool Cotton all numbers being six
cord, from 8to 100, which met the demand, did
away with all complaints, and long since es-
tabiished its reputation as the best thread in
use for sewing machines or hand sewing. To-
Mr.. George A. Clark belongs the credit of be-.
i Ing the h first to supply those fine qualities Of
Six Cord Spool Cotton with which his name
is associated. The thread is used and recsm-
mended by agents OF the Singer, Wheeler 4
Wilson, Grover & Baker, Domestic, Howe,
Florence, Weed, Wilson, Blees, Remington,
Secor, Home, !athrop, and other sewing ma
chime companies. The superior quality Of
Clark's 80. N. T." Spool Cotton soon secured
tor it an immense sale, but with the great
popularity of the goods came also counterfeits
which made it necessary tor the manufacture
ers to adopt trade mark for their own and
the public's protection, and now upon every
genuine spool of their thread is the follow
ing:
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1877-03-22

A clergyman had come to preach a
charity sermon and the clerk was as
sisting him to robe before the service
commenced, when he said, 'sPlease
sir, l am deaf" Indeed, my good
man, said the clergyman, "then how
do you manage to follow me through
the service?' t'Why, sir, looks up,
and when you shut your mouth, I
opens mine.'
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1877-03-22

Father Tabor, of the Boston Sea-
mans Chapel, furnishes as many good
things for the papers as any other
man. The other Sunday. in the midst
of his sermon, he called an old salt to
order, who. was walking out Of the
meeting. "Aye, aye, SIR responded
Jack; ''I'll be back in the :twinkling of
marlingspike; I've only got to get
my grog." 49, ..- 80
ST, +. n. q. No. T.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1877-03-22
ClARK'S 'O.u.1." spool COTTON,

How, and Where!it is Made-..Th
Clark Thread Comrany----
Largest Works in the New:
World--Acres Of Splen-
did Buildings--For-
ests of Wonderful
Machinery.
The Process Of Manufacturer
Down in the Cotton Fields..-Th
Employees Societies. The Clark
ose Company--A Grand Re-
lief y--Employees'Cen-
tennial Excursi0n--The
Renowned Eureka Club
And Thistle Band
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1877-03-22
%s!s!$A
({U1l
.%;is;ssW

This trademark is familiar to every mer-
chant in the United States, and all who have
ever tried the genuine Clark's 20. N. To-
Spool Cotton, continue to use it.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1877-03-22

OF the large rolls of webb or lap that came from
the lass scutching machine is placed on
carding machine, which takes and runs it
BETWEEN THE TEETH
Of large and small cylinder for the purpose
OF drawing out the entangled fibers and layins
them parallel or in the same line OF direction
and also to remove the small pellicles O,
notes which may have escaped the action O
the scutching machine. After being treated
in this way, q comber or doffer takes the wei
from the small cylinder, which is now deli.
cate gauze; and it is gathered up and passed
through small hole, say halt an inch in size
whole process is one of wonderful delicacy
the material being so finely worked that
breath OF air would break it. This card con.
tains ninety thousand square teeth to foot
or total Of four million one hundred and
eighty-six thousand. On the cardlng machine
is little joker that works like some cid man
raisingRthe wire covered flats from the teeth
OF the carder, which it cleans, and throws of
the particles of dirt and coarse cotton LETT on
them. Six OF the
TIN CANS CALLED CARD sL1vERs,
in which the roll is wound are now taken ia
another machine called Drawing Frame and
run together into one ''sliver." These six
are so light that when they are passed to-
Retne1 through 0Ole ana mace one, tney 1al
into another silver and are then no larger
than one OF the six from which it was made,
although they have not yet been twisted al
all. Fourteen of these cans full of slivers are
placed at the "Lapper" and run between two
rollers, making a new web nine inches wide
and halt an inch thick, which comes out like
the original roll from the scutchin9 machine
that takes the cotton from the bales, only IL at
now 1t is soft and delicate as is possible to
conceive; weighing only one hundred and
ty-hye grains to the yard, nine inches
little machine, sFrench invention, int intro.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1877-03-22

hank winding department, and wound upon
large bobbins, when it is ready for its last
wind upon the spools, from which it Is taken
by the consumers for it's thousand uses of
necessity and utility, from tying the rag on
the boys whitfield and bloody finger, to the
delicate embroidery of the wedding garment.
THU sPooLINd DEPARTMENT..
The spooling room is busy place, where
spools Of thread Of all sizes and colors by tens
Of thousands are wound every day, two hum
dred yards on spool. The self acting spooling
machine is marvellous piece of mechanism.
The .spools are placed in an iron gutter by the
operator, when the machine picks them up,
puts them on shaft eight at 4 time, winds
the thread upon them at the rate of three
thousand revolutions per minute, cuts little
slot in the edge Of the spool, catches the
thread in it, nips it of, drops the spools full
Of thread into Boxes below, picks up eight
more empty spools, places, winds and drops
them as before, and never makes mistake.
The machine, which is used in this country
only by The Clark Thread Company, was ex-
hibited by them at the Centennial, and with
their magnificent case OF goods, was one OF
the great attractions among the many won-
ders of the exhibition. From the spooling
department, the spoiled thread is taken to
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1877-03-22

COLORED OR UNCOLORED,
it goes to the warerooms, where it is counted
atory to being wound upon spools for the
market. The thread having reached this
stage OF perfection, has become very valuable
and is looked after with the greatest care
Tickets direct it to its different departments
and denote its size, quality, etc. The inspec-
ton and testing Of thread is one of the
most important features in its production, and
day with Clark's 20. N. T." Spool Cotton, to
know by what patient and constant care the
perfect smoothness and regularity of the
thread was secured. It is now taken to the
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1877-03-22

duced in this country by The Gil rk Thread
Company. It is q refined carding machine.
the product OF which is as much superior in
tneness to the large oarders just described as
the most elegant silk goods are to - -.''.
THE coARsEsr COTTON CLOTH, 80
1t is called the French combing machine and
is only used by the best thread makers as it
is very expensive and while it makes the
thread superior in quality, it adds twenty per
cent to the cost of manufacture. Six of the
rolls OF webbing are now passed together
through the combing machine between two
rollers, and combed by innumerable steel
teeth to the flneness OF gossamer and the thin
ness of SPIDERS web. It passes on, is gath
cred into one soft round solver, }" again, goes
through rollers once more, when it is coiled
into cans as before, with loss of twenty per
cent. on the material which composed the
web when it was put on the French machine.
It is a texture so fine and soft that one can
not but wonder how it bears its own weight.
After the last process, six Of the slivers are
again. put through the drawing frame making
one silver no larger than any Of the six from
which it is drawn. Then six of these last are
put through the same process reducing them
IN size six times, and adding that to the length.
This is repeated three times, and each time
they are coiled into cans The last silver is
the same size and weight as when the process
began, although doubled four hundred and
thirty-tive thousand, four hundred and fifty
SIX times. The last cans are now taken to
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1877-04-04

The hopes Of Hayes are that he
will be able to get an Administration
majority in the House, through dis
Greet use of his Southern patronage,
and by promises of large expenditures
of public money in Southern internal
improvements. The bargain he is try
ing to make is utterly discreditable,
and it is gratifying to see that 80 far
the Fraudulent President has not sue
ceeded in purchasing his men. 1t is of
the highest Importance to the welfare
of the South, to the cause of Govern
ment economy, aud to the interests of
the whole country, that the Democratic
majority in the House shall work to-
gether, and bear unceasing testimony
to it's hatred of the frauds by which
the people were cheated out of an cleo
tion.-[N. Y. Sun.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1877-04-04
RATHER MIXED is not de6nit

RATHER MIXED. 1t is not definite
~ known in what capacity Carl
Schurz took Mr.. Hayes in or Mr..
Hayes took Carl schurz into the Cab
inet-whether as Republican, q
Liberal, Democrat or an indepen-
dent. Neither is it certain what
State he is supposed to represent, as
when he took the oath of Office he
wore pair Of trousers he bought be-
fore moving from New York; his
coat, one of last years make, had a
St. Louis tailor's label inside the col.
lar; his shirt was one Of six acquired
on the strength of his name during
his residence at Milwaukee, and his
watch he picked up at bargain
when he was q citizen of Detroit.
IN. Y. World. -
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1877-04-04

"Samuel P. Stickney, one of the old
est circus performers in the country.
died in the residence of John Robin
son, in this city, yesterday, at the age
of SO years." was the dispatch sent from
Cincinnati yesterday.
"Sam" Stickney, as lie was familiar
ly known, is the oldest circus rider in
this country. Frank Whittier said,
last evening, in the Hippodrome, as he
scored one for the jockey on the bay
gelding: "Look around this crowded
arena, select your man, and III guaran-
tee that his childhood has been bright
ened by witnessing Sam Stickney in
the sawdust ring"
In his house in East Twenty Fifth
street last evening Mr.. Sanl. P. Lent,
one of the old time circus men, said, in
response to a question as to what he
knew of sau. Stickhey. "Why, eve
rything. knew him almost ever since
he stepped in tho ring, and better
man never straddled horse or tread
sawdust. About three weeks ago his
aon Bob was here at my house, and
told mo that his father had fallen on
the ice in the streets of Cincinnati and
had broken three of his ribs. This was
the direct cause Of lis death. You
know he was quite an old man, yet to
look ut him, clean limbe.l, straight "a q
reed, no one who did not know his age
would have taken him TO be more than
forty. The first knew of linn was
about 1924, when he was connected
with y small travelling circus from
Boston. The next was as rider in
the circus of Jerry Fogg. Afterward
he was with Brown, Fogs & Lent
Somewhere between 1880 and 1910 he
had circus of his own, and travelled
through the West and South. From
that time Oh he was mostly i'll my en-
psoy either as rider or ringmaster. but
for the past three years has not been
doing anything. lie was the first cir
cnsman who introduced a cut of rider
on horseback with boy standing on
the riders head. This was abont 1928
} subsequently his daughter Rosalind
performed Will, him. He was born ia
Boston, and his marriage, which was d
runaway match, was in Philadelphia
His children were all raised up in the
profession, aud Rosalind, Sa'lie aud
: Robert achieved considerable reputa
tion-they were born riders. His wife
died several years ago in Bridgeport
Conn. Poor Sam I wish I could SCI
him now."-[N. Y. Sun.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1877-04-04

GOV. Hampton of South Carolina
addresses Mr.. Hayes as ''Your Excel
lency." Governor Hampton should
understand that this is not the title of
the President of the United States. 1t
was proposed in the Convention which
made the Constitution that the Presi-
dent should have this appellatioD, and
the proposition was rejected He i.
simply "Mr. President" and nothing
more. Perhaps Governor Hampton
supposes that, as the present incum'
bent is only Fraudulent President,
it may be worth his while to try upon
him the iattsry of a high-sounding IT,
tie which tile real President could moi
accept.--IN. 7. 6uu,
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1877-04-04

"A movement has been set on foot
by the ladies of Upper Canada to in-
duce the Canadian Parliament to make
seduction criminal offcnse, and pub
lie opinion, as indicated in the news
papers, seems to be on their side. Al
present tho law there permits only an
action for damages to be brought by
the father for the loss Of his daughters
services. The subject has for some
time exercised the public of upper
Canada, bnd as they have recently
T. Hen with a heavy hand upon kin
dred and naturally sequential offense,
it is quite peobable that the legislation
desired will be brought about.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1877-04-04
One of the Dem ocratic Journals

who turned double somersault back.
wards into Mr.. Hayes lap, begins to
see that 1t has been deceived, and it
now sings out: "Ifto false title he
adds a false record there will be No
page in history black enough to write
his name upon. Blessed are they
who trust not, "for they shall not be
deceived"