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The daily gazette., 1877-12-27
THE UoLoRED DEATH RATE.

In an interesting letter to the Gin.
cinnati Commercial Il. V. Redfleld
refers To the facts lately noticed In
this paper concerning the decrease OF
the colored race in the South. He
says that he has collected statistics in
most of the principal cities of the
South which show the same result.
The average of black deaths to white,
taking all these cities together, he
says, is more than two to one. that 10
the black race in Southern cities is
dying off more than twice as fast as
the white. While Mr. Redfield con-
cedes that nearly all the Southern
cities have made praisewortby efforts
In the direction of the Southern
blacks, they have not been able to in
duce them 10 care for their bodily
health. As Mr.. Redfield puts it, the
average colored man "has little more
idea of sanitary rules and the laws of
health than horse. Aud they are
almost as hard to learn as SO many
horses" Should not this fact have
been considered before Mr.. Redheld's
party threw themsuddenly and entire
ly upon their own resourcesi 1t is
cOAhO w nav SeAabRC W NEAR du Olu-btmC
abolitionist talk as Mr.. Redfield does:
"It is doomed race in America,
but the doom is long way off. or
one thing you may be sure the in
crease under the slave system, amount
Ing to 30 per cent, every ten years,
will never be seen again. The census
of 1880 will learn US number of
things as to this problem the main
one, In my judgment belug that the
race is not increasing. 1t will likely
hold It's own, as compared with the
last census, but the increase will be
very small if any. We have a strik-
ing evidence of what to expect even
in the census of 1870 EN- bracing some
four years of slavery and six OF free
dom. From 1850 to 1860 the incrnase
among the blacks was 25 per cent.
From 1860 TO 1870 1t was only 10 per
cent. less than one half The next
census will set out the matter 80 that
here can be no doubt whether the
race is to increase, decrease or barely
hold its own"
We do not take as gloomy view
of the future as MIR. kedfield, We be-
ieve that good men of the white race
VIII unite to promote the sanitary
welfare of the colored people as far
rs they are permitted to do SO, and |
he more intelligent colored men
'bould join with the whites in pro-
notitig an object SO important to both |
'aces.-lSalt. Sun.
The daily gazette., 1877-12-27
The Best quality of MEDICINES

The Best quality of MEDICINES
AT WILLIAMS
THE MOST RELIABLE Proprietary
MEDICINES,
AT Ninth and Market
Choice PERFUMERY COLoGNES, &c.
AT WILLIAMS
A fine assortment of HAIR, TOOTH. and
NAIL BRUSHES,
At Ninth and Market.
A Glass of ICE COLD ARCTIC SODA
WATER,
AT WILLIAMS
Choice EXTRA CTS, Strong
and Pure,
AT Ninth and Market.
A Good KEY WEST or DOMESTIC
CIGAR,
AT WILLIAMS
Fine AMERICAN d IMPORTED SOAPS,
AT Ninth and Market.
"Get the best" WILLIAMS SAPONA-
CEOUS DENTIFRICE.
AT WILLIAMS
Choice Goods, Accuracy in dispensing, ana
Reasonable Prices.
WILLIAMS PRESCRIPTION STORE
Corner Ninth and Market.
The daily gazette., 1877-12-27
GENERAL MCCLELLAN PAYS HIS
OWN BILLS
New York Sun, Decem Der %.


General Mcclellan took up his quar-
ters in Trenton on Thursday. His ap-
panages were six servants, four horses
aud two carriages. While the servants
were setting his house in order he put up
at Peters. AT the proper time he called
for his bill. "It's all right, general. "said
the suave clerk, rubbing his hands, "your
bill is paid.' "My bill paid ~ exclaimed
the general. "Who paid my bill ?" The
clerk, astonished at the generals stern,
curt question, an unusual one in Trenton,
iAltered out, Secretary Kelsey, general,
paid your bill tins morning" "Then
Just return the money to Secretary Kel-
sey, Sir" SAID Governor Mcclellan: | all
low nobody TO pay my bills for me. -
opinion are divided as to whether Mr..
Kelsey will succeed himself as secretary
oi state " not
The daily gazette., 1877-12-27

Last year $4,000 cattle were de
,troyed by wild animals and veno
NOUS snakes in India, and 22,351
wild animals and 270,l poisonous
snakes killed. l2O,015 rupees
were expended in rewares. In the
current year 1928 persons and
$500 cattle have been killed, and
l24,3 Il rupees expended in rewards
In the central provinces the the
deaths from this cause increased
from Gil in 1875 to 1908 in 1876.
The daily gazette., 1877-12-27
nor YOUR CHRISTMAS GROCERIES

DOR YOUR CHRISTMAS GROCERIES
H go to Thomas NJ. Weir, No 1909 Mar
ket street. Prices to suit the times. lbs
curranJs for 25 CTS, lbs raisins for rs cts,
new seedless cherries 20 cts per lb, new
Damsen plums 20 cts per lb, dried apples I
cts per Id, seedless raiSins II cts per lb, new
figs II cts per Id, peeled peaches 10 cts per
ID, New York pIppins 10 cts can, table
peaches two cans for % cts extra syrup
25 cts, 2S pounds excellent flour for 81 12
French mixtures for 25 cts per lb, smoked
hallbut II cts per ID, boneless hams 1G cts
ferkin butler 25 cts per 10, best SO cts per ID
peach jelly 2 Id for % cts ounce Jelly Ii
for 70 cts. THOMAS NJ. WIER,
de4-lm No. 1909 Market st.
The daily gazette., 1877-12-27
FROM LATE EDITIONS OF PES
TERDAY.
MAcMAHON AND THE ARMY.
A SOLDIER CASHIERED FOR DECLAR-
ING HE WOULD NOT ABET
A COUP D'ETAT.

PARIS, Dec. 25.-Much comment
has been caused by decree signed
by President MacMahon cashiering
the captain of regiment of the line
stationed at Limoges, who, on the
18th inst, when orders were receiv-
ed to prepare to march to Paris, de-
clared he would not abet a coup d'etat.
The daily gazette., 1877-12-27

PHILADELPHIA Nor TO BE SOLD
OUT.-The New York Sun a few
days since published a romantic arti-
Gle purporting to give the particulars
of discovery made by Baltimore
lawyer to the effect that about twen-
ty nine square miles OF the most val
liable part of the ground on which
this city is built belongs to the heirs
of one Amasa Pawlctt, or Parlett who
obtained from Cecilius Calvert a
grant confirmed by William Penn.
ID. VI. Fox, who has at his fngerends
the history of the titles of all the old
estates in town, from PENIS time
down, said to reporter of the In
quirer that the Pawlett story was a
very neat one, but that not much
more could be said about it. The
land on which this city is built, he
said, was granted to Penn by a char.
ter from King Charles. If any claim
snch as the Pawlett pretensions had
the color of validity the fact would
appear on our rec ords, or in the other
event the law of limitation would
put an end to the Pawlett claim
PhiiG. Ing.
The daily gazette., 1877-12-27

At the fair held few weeks ago
III Scotland for hiring farm servants
an immense number attended but a
very small proportion got places
wages have gone down A terribly
hard winter is anticipated in Eng
land, Scotland, and South Wales, and
the average poor rate will probably
lie higher than it has been in twenty
Years
The daily gazette., 1877-12-27
WISTAR'S BALSAM
WISTAR'S BALSAM
WISTAR'S BALSAM
Bleeding at the Lungs.
PUTNAM, Conn, March 20

PUTNAM, Conn, March 20, 1869.
Gentlemen-I avail IN yself OF this oppor-
tunity to say word in behalf of DR. Wis
tar's Balsam of Wild Cherry, which have
made use of in my family for several years,
and always with the most beneficial results.
My wife being of delicate habits has al
ways been trou bled with hard, dry hack
Ing cough, whenever taking a little cold ,
and has employed various specifics with
out obtaining any relief, until prevailed
upon to test the virtues of Wistar's Balsam
The effect of which has been truly astonlsh-
ing.
More than year since a young man be-
longing In this place was taken with bleed
Ing at the lungs, in connection with a most
severe cough, and was finally given over to
die by our best physicians and IL was evil
dent to all that consumption was claiming
him as victim. Learning these facts my
wife sent him "a bottle of the Balsam which
he took, and In due time, to the great as
tonishment of his friends, was AT his ac-
customed occupation, snatched, as It were
from the very jaws of death In many
other cases we have administered the
Balsam 10 the consumptlve, and always
with the best of success. These statements
are simple facts, which can be vouched for
at any time by calling on me at my store
/ remain truly yours,
4 IA
The daily gazette., 1877-12-27
A Case of Consumption.

CHESTERFIELD, N. H., March %, 1867.
Messrs Seth W. Fowle & Son: Gentle
men;I feel in duty called upon voluntarily
TO give my testimony in favor of DIR. Wis
tar's Balsam OF Wild Cherry. / was taken
sick last October with lung complaint,
accompanied with q very serious cough !;
and after having been treated a number OF
weeks by tue best physicians. they gave me
over as an incurable case of consumption,
and for about six weeks my friends expect
ed that might die any day, having entire
ly despaired Of my recovery. AT this time
l read the advertisements and certificates
of the Wild Cherry Balsam, and was in
duced TO try it myself have taken five
bottles, and from the commencement L
have been gradually recovering. My cough
has now entirely ceased. have regained
my flesh and strength, and am feeling quite
well. 1 attribute the cure TO DIR, Wistar's
Balsam of Wild Cherry, as have taken no
other medicine since / commenced taxing
that. Very respectfully yours,
MRS. MILA =. SMITH.
Messrs. Fowle q Son: Gentlemen-M
Smith gives me the foregoing certificate OF
the efficacy of your medicine In her CASE
She is an acquaintance of mine, and took
the Balsam on the strength of my certih-
cate, which she saw in the papers. Her
story is literally true. Yours truly,
w II. JONEG
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1877-12-15

PAUL V. CARTIER, a well known
New York dancing-master, who distin-
guished himself some time since by
waltzing six hours without rest, has
since added to his laurels BY continuing
the same performance seven hours. He
used relays of partners, and rested HIM
self by occasionally dancing with gen.
tleman and taking the lady's part. His
only stimulant was beef-tea, and when
he finished his performance he was,
seemingly, almost as fresh as when he
began.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1877-12-15

ton and growth of the Library OF Congress
is also OF national Importance. AZ the de,
pository Of all copyright publications and
records this library has outgrown
the provisions for Its accommodation, anu
the erection upon such site as the 1udg-
ment of Congress may approve, OF nre-
proof library building to preserve the treas
ilres and enlarge the usefulness Of this valu-
able collection, Is recommended. recon-
mend also such legislation as will render
available and efficient for the purpose OF
construction, SO far as Is consistent with
public service, the Cabinents or Museums OF
Invention, of Surgery, of Education, and OF
Agriculture and other collections, the prop.
erty of the National Government.
The Capital of the Nation should be some
thing more than mere political center.
We should avail ourselves Of all the oppor-
tunity which Providence has placed ut our
command, to cultivate the general intelii-
gence Of the people and increase the condi-
lions most favorable to the success ana per-
petuity of our institutions.
fsioned, i r. Is. HAYES.
EXECUTIVE MANSION, Washington, d. Co.
Dec. 3, 1877.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1877-12-15
A Lively Crusader.

About o'clock Saturday evening
good-looking little woman, named Mrs
Newton, went into the saloon of Fred
Kistner, of West Washington Street,
and marched up to the table at which
her husband was sitting playing cards
with party of cronies, took the cards
from his hands, and after tearing them
up, demanded that he Immediately 60
home with her. The husband reluc
family consented, and left the saloon
with her. At a later hour he reappeared
in the saloon, having evidently given bis
decidedly better-half the slip, and soon
became engaged in a game of billiards
Shortly afterwards Mrs. Newton ap-
peared on the scene, and proceeded to
make things very interesting for thai
Husband of mine" She smashed the
mirror over the bar with a brickbab
and, snatching billiard-cue out Of her
husbands hands, made sad havoc
among the bottles and glasses. Ihe
saloon-keeper rushed to the door anu
blew short calls on police-whlste
When the police arrived, Newton offer
ed to pay for the damage done by DIS
wife; but she told him that he woua
do nothing of the kind, as he had spem
too much of their substance already u
that saloon. The saloon-keeper de
manded the arrest of the woman, Duh
on being reminded that she had ~
quested him not to sell liquor to DC,
husband, and that therefore she nsa
good cause of action against him. Dc
decided not to prosecute, and she oOi'
off her hayward spouse in triumph
indianapolis Journal.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1877-12-15
WIT AND WISDOM

THERE is just one thing abon, .
The lady who insists on carrying ON,
share of her dress in her hand, hass s y
to keep her shoes tied up or let evs ~
body know that she left home in hun.
In some parts of the world the d.
are four months long, and when ljv,'
boy of 70 years accompanies his pars,'
to church for the first time, he thipk,S
has struck one of those days, sure,
A WRITER says, "The boys NM
help themselves" Most boys do. mn,
the old man admonishes them h, \
thump on the head that somebody a.
likes cake as we'll as they.
ONE of the most beautiful bouuu.,
ever seen in this city, says a X,
West (Florida) paper, was presented h
our sanctum on Saturday morning Int
1t consisted of 142 roses around a chi.
umn of IS inches in length, interspenN
with small sprigs of geranium. Thar
were 16 varieties of roses, filling d.
entire office with their delightful uer
fume. I.. .u. ..| tt YN
"HoLT on sometimes little" shout
ed wrathful Berlin landlord, as the Cal.
orado Beetle, just landed from a Bra
n-Hamburg steamer walked up hI
register his name, " sthop little, when
you was from, chi" And the gents
man from Colorado bent low over tn
register as he scratched down his mama
and, giggling softly, said, " From Mu.
phys burrow. ''-Hawkeye..
A BooK-AGENT recently met in tn
Council Bluffs Qowa) Post-office an in
mate of a deaf and dumb institution,
and talked TO him without intermission
for an hour, showing him all the pic.
lures and urging the claims of his work
upon his calm and delicate considers.
ton, before the stranger had chance
to open on him with the sign-language
Then the agent was wicked enough to
swear. 4t H ID af a
IT is stated that 10 members Of the
United States Senate are printers BY
trade.-E1change. N. B. We should
like to see "proof " of this.-New York
Com. advertiser. Yes, their course in
Congress hardly "justifes " the state.
ment. -NorristoWn Herald. A good
many of them behave as if they had
been brought up at the "galleys.e
Phila. Bulletin. Yes, but they have
got the quoins down in their pockets
Detroit Free Press.
A MAN picked up a purse in the street,
and advertised the fact. In 10 days he
was visited by 81 men, women, boysand
girls, all claiming to have lost money.
The sum was but $11, but of each VS.
itor who called the finder asked: ~
you lost $50 did your" Nine-tenthsd
the applicants promptly replied, Yes
sir" "Ah," said he, "Your's was an.
other purSe.n
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1877-12-15

THE Russian Government treats TEN
perance and teetotal-leagues as illeg.
secret societies. This is because W.
revenue is so largely increased BY lqOO'
duties, whereby s16O, 900 are snnF
ally added to the imperial exchequs,
Policemen and soldiers are instruc'~
to fog teetotalers into dnnkil
The clergy are ordered to PresD
against the new seditiiion. PublicsnOn
on the immortality of the Hquor-trAn.
are vetoed. A Polish schOolmaster !.
recently put to sweeping the streets =
convict-gang for denouncing liquor -
ing.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1877-12-15

A PETRIFIED human foot has been
found in a Des Moines coal mine, 16
feet below the surface, and embedded in
soft slate. Its length is 1Oi inches ;
width in the widest part 81 inches, and
its weight IL pounds and 6 ounces. The
veins are distinctly marked, clearly in
dicating that the petrifaction is a genu-
inc human foot.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1877-12-15
The Nez Perez the White Mans
Friend. ru'

The Nez Perez comes into history as
the white mans friend. In September,
1905, the Governmental exploring expe-
dition of Capt. William Clarke, of the
First Infantry, and Capt. Meriwether
Lewis, private secretary of President
Jefferson, crossing the Rocky Noun
tains, found the various bands of Nez
Perces occupying the plain west OF the
Bitter Root Mountains, and the Valleys
of the Salmon, Snake, and Clearwater
Rivers, where they had been from their
earliest tradition, and where they all
continued until this year of grace 1877.
The history Of the expedition tells us
that when the explorers, descending
the last of the Rocky Mountains" reach
ing beautiful open plain, they came
upon an Indian village, call of whose
inhabitants gathered round to view,
with mixture of fear and pleasure,
these wonderful strangers" 1mmedi-
ately they brought "a sumptusus treat;
we returned the kindness Of the people by
few small presents" Two miles distant
was another village, and here also the
party was "greeted with great kind
ness. The two villages" continues the
account, " consist of about thirty double
huts, and the inhabitants call themselves
Chopunnish, or Pierced Nose" Among
these hospitable people the Govern
ment's party spent upward of twenty
days, leaving them then to push on to
the Pacific. So much had they been
impressed with the honesty of their new
found friends, that they left their horses
with them, to be called for the follow
ing spring. The spring of 1906 came
around, and with it, in April, the ex-
plorers returned. Toward the ocean
they had had hard experience with the
Indians; but now, among the VOLTA
wollahs, neighbors Of the Nez Perces,
they found welcome "peculiarly ac-
ceptable after the cold, inhospitable
treatment lately received" Passing on
to the Chopunnish villages, one of
the first Indians they met
gave Clarke every elegant mare,
for which all he requested was aphial of
ey.-water;" another Indian brought
two canisters of powder, buried by the
party in the autumn, which his dog had
uncovered" he had kept them safely,
and had honesty enough to return
Them" and then followed the recovery
of the buried saddles and the horses left
in Chopunnish charge. When they
asked fat horse for q lean one, desir-
ing to eat the former-for the Chopun-
nish lived almost wholly on roots-''the
hospitality of the Chief was offended at
the idea of an exchange; we might have
as many horses as we wanted. Accord
ingly they soon gave us two fat young
horses without asking any thing in re-
turn-an act of liberal hospitality much
greater than any we have witnessed
since crossing the Rocky Mountains"
Other presents of horses are recorded,
both for food and riding. Finding
that these people are sokind and iber-
al, we ordered our men to treat them
with great respect. GALAXY for De-
cember.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1877-12-15

WITHIS a single week five children
of Martin Domaine, of the town of Dunn,
Dane County, Wis, died, all from the
effects of diphtheria.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1877-05-24
.THEsURE WITNESS, :,

''The nineteenth century is the age of move Is, ~
remarks literary historian he might have ad-
ded with equal truth, land novel impOsitions."
Studied politeness has been passed off on US for
native refinement, the forms of devotion for its
esse nee, and speculation for science, until We
look askance at every new person or thing, and
to an assertion Of merit, invariably exclaim,
"Prove it," In brief, Satan has made himself SO
omnipresent, that We look for his clOven foot ev-
erywhere-eveu iu bottle Of medicine. lmsg-
inc lady having q complexion SO salow that
yor would deny her claims to the Caucasian type
if her features did not conform to it, purchasing
her first bottle of Golden Medical Discovery.
The one dollar is paid in the very identical man
ner in which Mr.. Taylor might be expected to
purchase a lottery ticket after his experience
with No. 104, ,l63," with this difference, his doubt
would be the result of personal experience, while
hers would be founded on what certain practi-
toner (who has been q whole year trying to cor
rect her refractory liver has said concerning it,
At home, she examines the bottle half suspi-
cOusly tastes of its contents carefully, takes the
prescribed dose more carefully, and then pro-
ceeds to watch the result with as much anxiety
as practitioner would count the pulse-beats OF
dying man. She takes another dose, and an
other, and shows the bottle to her friends, tel
ling them she ''feels better" Her skin loses its
bilious tint her eyes regain their lustre, her &C
custOmed energy returns, aud the fact that she
purchases another bottle is . snrs witness that
she has found the Golden Medical Discovery to
he q reliable remedy for the disease indicated.
The lady wisely resolves that IN future her esti.
mate of any medicine will be- based upon per-
sonal knorledge of its effects, and not upon what
some practitioner (whO always makes long bills
rhyme with pills) may say of it. DIR. Pierce Is IN
receipt of letters from hundreds of the largest
wholesale and retail druggists In the United
States stating that at the present time there is
greater demand for the Golden Medical Discov'
cry and Purgative Pellets than ever before. In
affections Of the liver and blood, they are unsur'
passed
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1877-05-24
The ROul Meeting.

Troy, May Is, 1871.
The delegates duly elected, met at the Court
House. and organized by the election of Hon. ]. L.
Phibrick Chairman, and 5. n. johnson and T. W.
Heatley as Secretaries.
The list of delegates was then read and were found
to be as follows
,;ns m" hy we Watsr. ID Ws Edwards. J. /. Blair. c.
O. Turileson, s. T. Hardy, s. d. Gilmore, J. W.
Sehock, Louis Duehn, j. ii. Stewart.
Iora-W. Trevet.
Centre-A. Perry, " D. Wood, and Thomas Hen
shall
Wayne-J. L. Philbrick. A. Low B. O'Driseoll, H.
Frick w. X. Shaw. G. Walker, s Neese. W. W. Bull
lock, J. Britain. John Campbell, A. w: Patterson
Henderson, J. b. Kennedy, and David Wynkoop.
Bmr-Oak-S kirkpatrick, and S. Lehman.
Waslingtoa-C. Kcarncy, J. Mann, and J. C. Will
Jams.
. Mdrion-A j. Mowry.
On motion, the Secretary was requested to read the
call for the meeting, published in the last weeks pa
pers, which accordingly read by Mr.. Heatley !;
whereupon OH motion of A. W. Patterson, commit
tee on resolutions appointed, consisting of b.
O,Driscoll, n b. Wood, A. J. Mowry, John ID. 1lier,
W. S. Trevett, Jacob Schock, and Sol Miller.
The committee then retired, and Hon. n. Price was
called upon address the convention upon the
ton before it and he briefly gave history of our
bonded indebtedness, called attention to the great
burden OF the same, ana suggested reme'hes 'ii''
could be applied, if the convention thought proper.
He requested the Board of County Commissioners
not 10 levy a TAX 10 pay 'ne ih'eres' on '"o "''"
bonds, and then stand by the Board in whatever may
result from said action. He was followed by A. Per-
~ 70 'ne same ohec' -"r NJ i~" s''N Nc -, o"
Wouiu s'ahu oy inc noafu ~ INC -1oi..
'r,' as ineinuer u 'ne n'u '.u e woe -.
act Iof anu win .he people An "Ne'.r was ioi '"o
'es' in'eies'' inos He"'Ni s'N' ~ o.,
sar popn "r sor aei W. D. Rppsy said, let us start