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New-York tribune., 1877-07-26


The Socialists who met at Milwaukee yester-
day. while syiopathlzing with the railroad men
connselled peaceable measures. One of these was
that all corporations should be dissolved, and that
the Government should buy and run the railroads.
It is hardly necessary say that this is not just the
time 10 bring forward radical change in the policy
of "a vast interest. The question would now seem To
BE- whether are to have any railroads to ruD In
times of pestilcnce every quack has remedy to
oler, and the quacks inst now arc pretty numerous.
Tho first thing to be done IS to put down tho sur-
reotion. In this work men like those who met at
Milwaukee do not appear inclined To make them
selves useful. They pass resolutions of sympathy
with the feoniously disposed, and then assure us
that they arc for only peaceabe measures. The re-
formers who are violating all the laws of the land,
will laugh in their sleeves 1T these solemn suggos-
tiOns.
There are certain advantages to the railway COM
panics in the present situation which ought not TO
hs overlooked. These Will be seen by referring to
the attampt some time since, of the Brotherhood Of
Locomotive Engineers to subugats the Boston and
Maine Railroad Company From this contest against
the whole body, the Company, though single-handed,
issned triumphant. Now the Brotherhood has the
whole country comparatively upon its hands; and
no local body of strikers depend upon help from
without. Then the vast proportions of the strike
ara really an element of weakness. And the more
general 1t becomes the it will be over Every
company which "weakens" helps to prolOng it. The
more closely the corporations stand together the
sooner the troubles will be over.
This is q great time for the mild idiot whose chief
business it is predict tho overthrow of the Re
public He thrusts his ears into the face of the
public on every ferry boat and street He talks
loudly and in exceedingly bad grammar about the
weakness of popular government and the political
corruption of the times. He is nuisance Oh the
mosquito variety-too small to extrpate by force,
but too irritating to ignore. The worst punishment
which could befall him would be to see himself as
Others see him. Yet this is impossible, for tho worst
donkey is proverbaly the who does not know
enough to krow he is donkey.
New-York tribune., 1877-07-26

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New-York tribune., 1877-07-26

The p.actice Of our marksmen at Creedmoor
has gore on simultaneously with that of their
British opponents at Cambridge, England, and
the latter have finished the competition by
which their team will be selected. A compari-
son between the shooting here and in England
in these practice trials is very favorable to
our rifemen. and the record yesterday at
CreedmoOr is accounted the BEST ever made.
There is soms doubt whether the best Of the
marksmen selected by the British competitions
will be ablo to visit this country. In any case
the prospects of the American team are bright
New-York tribune., 1877-07-26
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New-York tribune., 1877-07-26

New York breathes freer this morning.
Whatever danger there may hay" been f''''
the riots aud disturbances winc- ave sr->~d
New-York tribune., 1877-07-26

There is some doubt whether the best Of the
marksmen selected by the British competitions
will be ablo to visit this country. In any case
the prospects Of the American team are bright.
At a time when our citizens have most Oc-
casion to congratulate themselves upon the
strength and efficiency OF our police, George
W. Matsell, whose name is iuSepsrably con-
nected with the sound organization of the
force, has passed away. Many of our readers
doubtless recolect the weakness and worth
le,suess of the police before Mr.. Matsel was
appointed its Chef-a time when it was always
doubtful whether a policeman would sympa
thize with the Iaw-breaker or protect tie citi-
zen The change that was made in the char
ac,or of the force under Chief Matsells direc-
tion was az great as between raw militia and
q well-drilled army. Our peaceful City Is at
this hour a monument to his honor.
Delaware usually furnishes tie main supply
of peaches for this market, but seems likely
to fail in doing SC this year unless the total
amount brought to this city is far below the
average. We print elsewhere letter from
truSty correspondent, Solon Robinson, who is
good authority on such matters. He estimates
the produce of peaches this year in Delaware
and MARYLAND at a fifth of what was expect d
earlier in the season. So great deficiency
cannot well be made up by the peach orchards
of other neighboTing States, even if it should
be the case that this crop has suffered less.
BEt as the general weather of the Middle At
lantic coast has not varied greatly in different
localities, it is likely that al the peach growing
districts which supply this city have been af
fectcd by the rainy and cloudy skies, and that
the fruit will not be cheap her, this year.
Our telegraph managers seem To imagine
that there is some insuperable difficulty in lay
ins their wires underground and dispensing
with telegraph posts. The last that WAS heard
of the project in this city was that experiments
were to be tried TO ascertain whether IT was
nrac.icable Time enough has since elapse dsto
try the experiments a half dozen times, but
the unSirlltly poles still obstruct the streets.
They do such things better abroad, and this
mornings DISPATCHES announce the completion
of an underground telegraph between Berlin and
Nayence, q distance OF eighty miles, connect
ING sew raj cities on the route. Already during
the riot, OF our present strike there have been
a few instances of cutting the wires. and that
a here in general one of the first perfonnanc
es Of n mob with intelligent leaders. Ii seems
almost unnecessary 10 suggest that it would
be far more difficult for rioters to cut under
ground wires, whose location could not be
generally known, than to apply the axe where
the telegraph pole invites destruction.
New York breathes freer this morning
Whatever danger there may hay" been ih''
the riots aud disturbances wihC.- ave sr.>~u
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-11-01
Autumn Mysteries.

About this time sentimental misses
initiative children, and nearly every
body else, are afflicted with a mania
for gathering leaves. What they gather
them for is beyond the ken of mortal
man to discover. Whatever the object
may be, weary mothers. as they set
aside the broom over and over again
each day, fail to see any other result &C
complished than an aesthetic littering
up the house And prosy fathers are
abundantly satisfied that leaves fall but
once year when they find their choicest
books crammed full of the many col
ored things, put there by their poetical
children Just to be pressed, you know,
papa"
Young men and maidens 90 out to
gather leaves, at least they say so, and
it is wonderful how much time they
take to gather few leaves. Just like
the nutting parties that go out every
day, when they know there is not nut
in the country. Leaves have their
times to fall and nuts their time to
drop and their time to be gathered.
But the time for the gathering of hearts
is always now.
Fishing parties are always made up
cstensibly to go fishing for fish. But
the young man, innocent of piscatorial
skill, doesn't care continental whether
the fish bite or not if Sarah Jane is ore
of the party And Sarah Jane, on such
occasions, has most persistent habit
of catching her hook in her hair or of
getting her line around her neck, know
ing all the time that Josephus Ferdi-
nand.is only too happy when assisting
her in disentangling things, and it is
observable that he is never in a hurry
Leaves are gathered and nuts sought
for and fish skirmished after and all for
a common purpose; and what that pur-
pose is,-Josephus Ferdinand and Sarah
Jane could tell if they would
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-11-01
A Yankee Trick.

Just before the Declaration of indie
prudence a Yankee peddler started
down to New York to sell lot of bowls
and dishes he had made of maple.
Jonathan travelled over the city, asking
everybody to buy his wares, but no one
was disposed to purchase.
1t happened that a British fleet was
then laying in the harbor of New York,
and Jonathan struck upon a plan of
selling his dishes, He got naval uni
form by hook or by crook flor history
doesn't tell where he got it,, and strut
ting up town one morning asked a mer-
chant if he had any nice woodenware,
as the Commodore wanted lot for the
fleet.
The merchant replied that he had
none on hand, but there was some in
town, and if he would send in the after
noon he would supply him with pleas
ure.
" Very good" said our naval officer,
" [ will call"
Jonathan now cut for home by the
shortest route, and he had scarcely
dotted his borrowed plumage before
down came the merchant who, seeing
that Jonathan had sold none of his
wares, offered to take the whole if he
would deduct 10 per cent, but Jonathan
said he'd be gol-darned if he didn't take
EN- home before he'd take a cent less
than his first price,
The merchant finally paid him down
in gold his price for the woodenware,
which laid on his shelves for many
long day thereafter, and Jonathan
trotted home in high glee at the success
of his maneuver, while the merchant
curse British officers ever after-PhR-
odeLphia Herald.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-11-01
Water for Manufacturing Purposes.

The industrial value of water depends
according to NJ Gerardin, a French
chemist of much note, greatly on the
facility with which it deposits matter
contained in suspension. Testing, with
milk of lime, the best water for manu-
facture is that in which the lime is de-
posted the most rapidly. The best
manufacturing qualities are never found
in water which gives much bubbles OF
foam. Water Of blush tint is best for
drinking, but that which has a greenish
tinge is the more fitted for manufacture
ing purposes, the greenness being the
result of microscopic vegetation. Ii
water which is found suitable for manu-
featuring purposes be examined by
means of a microscope of at least 900
diameters, it viii be seen that the par
ticles left in suspension are inert or only
affected by gravity, while water found
unsuitable for industrial purposes seems
animated by gyratory influence which
Overcomes gravity, and keeps them III
constant suspension. The gyratOry
movement may be destroyed by the in
PRODUCTION of organic matter in the
state of putrefaction. and then 1T be-
comes easy of decantation, and III the
industrial sense, good water. The GU
rious inference drawn from these facts
is that sewage water, and the waste
water Of certain factories which are
turned into the river, while they corrupt
the waters of such rivers, as regards
portability, endow them with manufact-
uring qualities. A manufacturer
gelatine at Paris was stopped in his work
one day when the water company, which
had formerly supplied him with Seine
water, changed it, at his request for the
pure water Of the Vaune. On the res
toration of the Seine water the manu-
facturer proceeded as usual.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-11-01
THE GOOD WIFE.

II is just as you say neighbOr Green.
treasure indeed is my wife;
Such another for hustle and work
/ never have found in my life;
And then she keeps every one e-se
As busy as birds on the wing:
There s never moment Tor rest
She such a fidgety thing.
ne makes the best bread in the town;
Her pies are perfect delight;
Her coffee a rich golden brown,
Her crullers and buildings just right.
But then, while | eat them, she tells
OF the care and the worry they bring
Of the martyr-like toll she endures,
Oh, she's such fidgety thing!
NV house is as neat az a pin.
You should see how the door handles shine
And all the sOfa-cushiOned chairs
And nicely-swept carpets are mine,
But then she so frets at the dust,
At a fly, or a straw or string.
That I stay out of doors all can,
She is such fidgety thing
She doctors the neighbors? Oh, yes,
II d child has the measles or Group,
She is there with her saffron and squlis,
Her dainty made gruels and sonp.
But then, she insists on her right
To physic my blood in the spring,
And she takes the whole charge Of my bile,
Oh, she's such a fdgety thing.
She knits all my stockings herself
My shirts are blesched white as the snow,
Ny old clothes look better than new,
Though daily more threadbare they grow.
But then. il a m"rsel of lint
Or dirt to my trousers should cling,
I'm sure Of one sermon at least.
She is such fidgety tning.
Iou have heard 0: a spirit so meek,
So meek that it never opposes,
It's own it daTes never to speak
Alas! | am meeker than Moses.
But then | am not recOnciled
To subordinate music to sing,
submit TO get rid of row,
She is such fidgety thing!
It's just as You say, neighbor Green,
A treasure to me has been given:
But sometimes | fain would be glad
1 o lay up my treasure in heaven
But then e, cry life has its cross,
Most pleasures On earth have their sting.
She's a treasure, | know, neighbor Green,
But she's such a fidgety thing!
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-11-01


THE snail is an article of diet in
France, and Partisan cook is not con-
sidered au fat in his profession unless
he thoroughly understands the various
methods of their preparation for the
table. Raising them for the market has
become an industry in some portions of
France. At Dion there is snallery
from which the proprietor makes a clear
annual profit of from $1,000 to $1,000
year. Thus cultivated, they attain re-
markable size, and their favoris said to
be exquisite. In Switzerland they form
an important article of consumption.
They are to be had at all the inns.
Seven large snails constitute a plate
Latterly they have been introduced into
England for the eating of eonsumptive
patients, who can either take them raw
or made into broth.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-11-01
OVER $40 600 600 of eoId YEARLY pass,

OVER 100000 of gold yearly passes
over the gold balance scales in the
United States Mint A new balance
has just been made, having a capacity
of 10000 troy ounces (about 600 pounds
in each pan. The beam measures
feet 6 inches in length, is mounted on
agate bearings and is sensible to one
grain when loaded.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-11-01

A pretty Wisconsin school-marm, to
encourage promptness, promised to kiss
the first scholar at school, and the big
boys took to roosting on the fence all
night.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-11-01

A Texas man got mad because a
waiter handed him napkin the other
day. He said he "reckoned he know'd
when to use an'kercher without hay
in no hints thrown out"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-11-01
Adyerbs and AdiectiyeS.

For example, [ have of late received
no less than nine epistles, one of them
from the Pacific shore, asking me to de-
eide dispute whether it is right to say
tomorrow is Sunday or tomorrow will
be Sunday, and [ am speaking within
bounds when 1 say that within the last
ten years that question has been put to
me personally or by letter more than
80 times, and [ have lately received
seven letters, three during the last week,
asking whether it is grammatical to
say feel bad, or [ feel badly
AS to the former mOmentOus inquiry.
[ might truly say don't know which is
right and l don't care. 1t is not worthy
of five minutes consideration by any
reasonable human creature. Either
form of expression is perfectly intelligi-
BILE; and both have the support of good
usage. As to the latter, which; trihing
as it is, does really present point for
decision, there seems TO me no doubt
that % [ feel bad'' is right [ cannot be-
lieve that any one of my querists, who,
rising in the morning, felt low-spirited,
would say, " feel bluely," but g | feel
blue" Nor would any one who speaks
English well without thinking about it
land only such persons speak well) say
" the grass looks greenly," but the grass
looks green" But we say, and should
say, that woman dresses badly" or
Z" the air bites keenly" When the web
expresses action or suffering, an adve-b
Is required; but when it expresses a
condition of the speaker, as u feel
bad, or an appearance to him, as &c the
grass looks green" an adjective is
proper. But even under these con-
ditions good usage and good sense ad-
NIT both forms. We may say
either the sun shines brightly" or
''the sun shines bright" GO the river flows
darkly," or 1.-The river flows dark. ;"
There are many such cases in which
the adjective is the better word; and
solicitous use of adverbs is rather a
sign of grammar-and-dictionary style
of speech and of writing than of one
which comes of a spontaneous con-
formitv to good usage and an I'M
conscious mastery of ones mother
tongue And it should be added that no
one can learn to speak good English or
'good grammar" by fretting over such
questions as these; that is to be attained
only be an unconscious conformity to
the usage of the best speakers and
writers, as | have had occasion to say
before.-Richard Grant White.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-11-01

"Jemima Susan, did you get my let
ter?' Yes, Sambo." g [ sent it in de
hope OBJ raisin' fame" Sambo, you
succeeded, for it lit de gas"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-11-01

the Bible but what is true; all you
want is to go prayerfully to work and
cipher out how t was done "-SAMUEL
L. CLEMENS in atlantic for NorembPr
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-11-01

A San Francisco doctor has an ONYX
snuff-box lined with gold, and bearing
on the lid wonderful mosaic repre-
senting miniature landscape three
inches long and an inch and half wide,
and consisting Of 5000 pieces of stone.
They are so small and are put together
so artistically that the general effect is
that of delicately finished picture Oh
ivory. The box is said to have been
presented by the Empress Josephine to
her surgeon, whose grandson in Paris
gave it to the present owner
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-11-01

*This is the captains own mistake.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-11-01

quit.
"What does Isaac do, now? He
steps up and says to some friends of his,
there. Pour four barrels of water on
inc altar Everybody was astonisned !;
for the other side had prayed at it dry,
you know, and got whitewashed. They
poured it on. Says he. Heave on four
more barrels Then he says, 'Heave
on four more Twelve barrels, you
see: altogether. The water ran all over
the altar, and all down the sides, and
filled up a trench around it that could
hold a couple of hogsheads--' meas
ures, it says; [ reckon it means about
a hogshead. Some of the people were
going to put on their things and go, for
they allowed he was crazy. They didn't
know Isaac. Isaac knelt down and be-
gan to pray; he strung along, and
strung along, about the heather in
distant lands, and about the sister
churches, ard about the State and the
country at large, and about those that's
II authority IN the government, and all
the usual programme, you know, till
everybody had got tired and gone to
thinking about something else, and then,
all of a sudden, when nobody was
noticing, he out with match and
rakes it on the under side of his leg,
and puff up the whole thing blazes
like house afrel Twelve barrels of
water? Petroleuns sir, petroleum
that's what it was ~
Petroleum, captain?"
g Yes, sir; the country was full of it,
Isaac knew all about it. You read the
Bible. Don't you worry about the
tough places. They amt tough when
you come to think them out and throw
light on them. There amt a thing in
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1877-07-20
A = = " Or
y.

A NSOUNcEs TO THE PUBLIC THAT
IA he may hereafter be found ut his Old
once. on North Main street. where he will
until the Eureka Consolidated fnrnscss again
Sssums operations.
Eureka. April 3. ISL. sp4tf
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1877-07-20
Application for a Patert
TO THE
GENERAL LEE MINE.
No. 376.
U. 8. LAND oFFIcY, EURFx,. New,
MAY 18th, 1871.

U. 8. LAND orrIcY, EURFx,, New,
May 18th, 1877.
NOTICE Is HEREBY GIVEN THAI
~ the Adams Hill Consolidated Mining
Company, whose nostofice ahdressis Edreks.
Nevada. has this day filed its application for
n patent for eight hundred 500 linear feet o.
the General Lee mine or VEN bearing silyer.
with surface ground two hundred ard ten
(2l0l feet in width, situate, lying and being IN
Eureka Mining District, county OF Eureks
and State Of Nevada. and known and dssig.
mated by the field note. and official plat %
file in this Off o as Lot Number 40.
Tho exterior boundaries Of said Lot Va
10 being as follows. to Wit: Variation l63
degrees east.
Comm encing at a post mari ed No. |, us
Survey No. 10. whence the flagstaff 10 ths
town Of Eureka bearso ~ Dig. ~ min T.. 50
feet: the highest point Of Ruby Hill So.l
bears =. q dg. IL min. ". 57y9 feet: and thstsp
oi tho General Lee ireli ne bears 4 lidg.r
min.W AS s-l0fe I; theme rusning LIT eosrs
:. 20 deg r. 30 feet. 10 post marked No. az.
5 survey No. 40: thence ~ course ). 20 g.
w. 800 feet, TO post marked. No. 3, u. :. su.
yey No. 10. whence post No. 4 Of L. 5. saf.
vey No. lUj, Wide West lode. bears :. 81 deg.
81 min. ". so $40 feet: thence 81 course Y.
20 deg. ". 40 feet. TO post mar. cd Nc. ~.
=. Survey No. 10: ard thence Ith course N.
20 deg. h. 800 1 et. 10 post No. ]. the place Of
beginning, containing - 100 acres.
1bi. claim - bound d ON neither end by
any known claimants Tbs nearest mines arc
tho Wido Vest aud the Lexington.
The location of ihis mine l. duly recorded
in tho Recorders Office Of Eureka Mining
district. on page l7S, IN Book ID, Of said MID
ing Records.
Any and all persons claiming adversely any
portion Of ssid General Lee mine. or said
MIXING sroun I a. herein before described ar,
required 10 fls their adverse claim With the
R~ctis;er Of the United States Land ofheest
Eureka. in the State of Nevada. during the
80 DAYS period 81 publication hereof, or they
will DO barred by virtue Of the pr9visionso Of
the statute. u. u. lMMEL. REGISTER;
Eureka. MAY 2S, 1871. my2i-M