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Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-01-31
SCIENTIFIC.

Adulteration of Wine in France.-A
sort of. panic has been caused here
[Parisl on the subject of the adultera-
tion of wine, and | am able, from per
sonal knowledge, to say that there Is
good ground for the alarm. A M.
Grandeur, who is an authority on such
matters, has just written an interesting
report on fuchsine, which Is now very
generally used for the cOlOrIng of wine,
and which is most deleterious.
According to NJ. Grandeau, wine has
for many years been the object OF
frauds of various kinds. No one con-
tradicts NJ. Grandeur in this, but he
adds that at no epoch Lave adultera-
lions been so numerous as at present
and so injurious to the public health
Wine used to be doctored with brandy
and to be colOred with matters having
a vegetable origin; but now fictitious
color is produced more cheaply by the
employment of .fucusine, which con-
tains arsenic, and is extremely hurtful
An almost microscopic quantity OF
this dangerous substance Will give q
gallon of water the appearance of red
Bordeaux or Burgundy; it is cheap
and NJ. Grandeur knows houses which
spend between { f400and 900 (S2, 600 and
2,50O) year in its purchase. This
shows the extent to which this system
of adulteratiOn is carried. In conse-
qnence of serious complaints made al
Nancy Nj. Ritter, a professor at the
Medical College, was directed to ex-
anime several samples of wine, and the
analysis proved that the employment
OF fuehsine is very general all through
the South. In some instances the wint
was found to contain such quantities
of this arsenical matter that any one
drinking it would have felt seriously
i'll after couple of days.
NJ. Ritter mentions the case of mar
having taken some of this adulterated
wine, and Il quarter of an hour after.
ward his ears became exceedingly red
and his gums slightly tumetied. NJ
Grandeau tells us how. with the aid Oi
ether and vinegar, people may analyZt
their own wine.-PdH Nall Ga-ette.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-01-31

CETn &c. stamp for elegant piece Of Jewelry
SC ~ ~ J. X. Fessenden, & Co, 800 BrUadw'y Y
Y. City. l-ll-it
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-01-31
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PONDS NIaaeI COMPANY, IS Maiden

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burg ". Va. l-ls-lt
The New York herald., 1877-10-01

Friday afternoon. Dnt TO the surprise or friends and
the assembled relatives OF the supposed deceased ana
TO the undertaken himself, the corpse he hal come for
was no longer corpse, but was returning more
to liic No Ice had been placed about the body when
at nrst had been believed she dead. thinking.
perhaps, that life might not be extinct aiterwara this
was forgotten. The watchers. who sat all Thursday
night with cold corpse mad on Friday nis ht warm
body. with tho blood apparently IN good circulation.
friday toward midnight, they found the eyes OF The
corpse oi the night previous wide open. looking at
then and CONSCIOUS OF what going on about her,
though sn" was unable to speak or 10 move. The phy
scian Was summoned by the family. and every effort
exhausted to sustain tins lie. Ihs appeared mi os.
so'e, and Il again disappeared. At three O'Clock
Saturday morning there we're symptoms OF lite
ana the PHYSICIANS pronounced her dead THIS was
sustained by the iact that the body had begun 10
mortify, aud II was evident could not long be pre-
served Before the burial her relatives az String
town, who had not seen the old lady srnce her DEATH
washed 70 take parting glance NJ her. The cofu was
opened. and the smell OF rtlcalion was almost too
strong 10 be endured But those who looked we're
asfonishcd by The appearance of the eyelids which
appeared 10 quivcr. though they did open. Tho
body was found 10 be again warm and the heart beat
ing Tho funeral was postponed. Dut the warmth
passed shortly from the body. aud It's death became
apparent while the odor o putci action 10 be
restraiaed sunday lnero was no change or any in
dication ot lfs, and Ia tho afternoon decided
bury The corpse.
The New York herald., 1877-10-01
AN UNWILLING CORPSE.
(rrom the Dayton Cohio, journal, Sept. o. J

From the Dayton l0h:o journal, Sept o.
A most extraordinary OF suspended animation
recently occurred shelby county about thirty miles
from Dayton. An old woman III whom the lamp Of
lie was nlckerlng-rcady 10 expire tho iantcst
brcath-wps the subject, yet her little spark OF lilo
clung 10 her aged frame with a tenacny that was
mnrkablc Her name was Mary slaughter she was 10
ncr oghty.cghlh year, and OF the Old settlers Of
thai portion OF the State With the increase OF years
she became weak aud childish, aud at times would re-
main Tor wccks an UNCONSCIOUS stac, tnkIEg no
sustenance ana scarcely moving To show that
suu nyihg. thursday Of last week hardy any lile
was pcrceItible Her limbs ana body grew cold, and
every sign lie and breath departed, aod the anIy,
assurei OF DEATH sent the next day 10 Carlisle for
a colin and notified her relatives
hearso co ntaIn!pg u colin arrived from Carlisle
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1877-11-23

added Mics burden, but marriage is
lottery
Yes, Miss, thank you, said Peggy.
4 thought you'd be much madden, If
you'll excuse me, Mise.
4 thought go myself, said Miss
burden.
'Aunty, darling said Lavinia, at
this moment, since you forgive Peg
gy, perhaps | might as well confess
now. shall have to do it sometime.
1--we been as Peggy. But you
know how it came about, and, of
course, some one had to read to him.
And one day was reading Maude,
and he-oh, he began to say such
beautiful things. And he isn't like
any other young mao | ever saw
and--welI, Auntie, I'm engaged to
Mr.. Audiey =
4 suspected az much said Aunt
burden.
ohe ISM very mau yer, sait
Peggy.
Suddenly Miss burden began to
laugh. Moreover, she bid her face
in her pocket>handkerchief.
No. she said, I'm not angry. /
have no right to be. I've been won>
dering all day how | was to confess
something. You've made it easy for
me. I--dear me, can't you guess 7
I'm engaged to the doctor. He has
such immense firmness will
Once he had all his mind on it, it
was done.
So burden Nunnery lost it's name
and lost its mistress. AS in the en-
chanted garden 10 the fairy tale, the
entrance of the one man broke all it's
spells, even though the gate was not
open to him, and he only fell into it
by accident.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1877-11-23

Coop TEMPER. The experience
Of a lifetime teaches most people
that the most desirable quality hu>
manity can possess Is good temper.
How much influence is there not ia
one Of those bright, cheerful, whole-
Come .empers which neither ~.
troubles where they do moi exist
meets them halfway where they do
exist. Where others might be in
cIined to fret peevishly over this
petty annoyance, and that small trial,
the good,tempered person makes
light Of the one. and bears with pa
thence what cannot be denied of the
other. Is the dinner late, found to
be badly cooked when it is served I
Good temper makes kindly excuses
for the one, and covers the more
glazing evidences of the other. 1t
exerts itself, too, for the entertain>
ment of fellow sufferers tells its
best anecdotes, launches into livest
chat, and SO leads the rest over the
bad haif>hour which would otherwise
bave thrown every one out of gear,
and makes the best of all that was
less than good. The i'll tempered
one of the party makes bad worse
by grumbling all through the meal
at everything alike. How much
misery can a bad temper cause 7
Offence taken at airy nothings, inns
patience under unavoidable worries,
small things made into great ones by
the magnifying powers Of suspicion,
sulIenness, irritability, ill>humor-
who can say that this has no inAu>
enceY You might as we'll deny the
singing power Of the nudge or the
penetrating quality of dust, as deny
the depressing effec. Of i'll humor
whenever it is found, and the corr
responding good influence Of sweet
temper.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1877-11-23
r. IS GOOD TO BE POOR.


cannot but envy the poor man,
for his is the happi0st condition of
life the experience and the lessons
Of humility and patience and the
devotion that he daily receives are
strengthening his character and
making his influence nobler. | have
thought that poor, good men are
given as, that their lives may re-
fleet the eternal goodness Of the
Creator. SO many Of the sweetest
songs nave been sung, so many Of
the bravest deeds have been done
by men of low estate, that | al
ways look to them for great achieves
ments in thought and act. | can.
not say why 1t is, but money
seems to cramp our nature, devel-
oping only what should be Destroy
ed and dwarfng the better parts,
and | wish none of US could have
more IMAM enough to satisfy our
reasonable wants, unless for charity.
If this world was the sum Of all we
have been or hope to be, even then
the poor man holds the vantage
ground. Health and contentment
following bis calling; happiness hap>
piness dearer than anything this
world can give Is his of his own
right. These reflections are the re~
suit Of sketch Of the life Of rich
man who lately died, who never
knew what it was to have a pleasant
moment, and whose only struggle
was to get money. and, having it,
to get more. He died without bene-
fitting himself or any one else, per-
haps making some miserable. From
the hour he began to acquire wealth
he grew narrow-minded, selfish and
distrustful, and passed his time in
what seemed to be wretched way,
without friendship for men or love
for God or spiritual growth. Pardon
me for contrasting him with neigh>
Dor vino is contrary to himself and
his relations to the other. II is a
great victory gained when we can
be humble and contonted, poor in
goods and rich in heart, good and
able to do no wrong for conscience
sake.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1877-11-23
A CARD.
TO the Democracy of the 35th Senator
ial District

ial District.
SENATECHAMBER, ATLANTA, Ga, }
Saturday, Nov. 10th, 1877. )
Having been appointed delegates
to the Senatorial Convention of the
35th District, by virtue and in pur-
suance Of the following action of the
Democracy Of Cobb county in mass
meeting assembled:
Whereas, A call for District
convention to nominate suitable
candidate for Senator to represent
| the Goth Senatorial District in the
isext legislature has not been forms
Isslly made, The Day osSslection be-
ing near at hand, and being unwiIl
ing that the matter should go by de-
fault, it is
RESOLVED lst, That the Democracy
of the county Of Cobb in mass meets
ing assembled do hereby cell CON
vention for the 35th Senatorial Dist
to meet at the Senate Chamber in
the city of Atlanta at 10 o'clock, A.
NJ, on Saturday the 10th inst. to
nominate a candidate to represent
us as Senator in the next Legisla-
ture.
ResolOed 2nd, That the counties
of Fulton ane Clayton be, and they
hereby are, requested to send up
delegates 10 meet ours at the time
and place specified and make the
nomination.
Resolved 3rd, That we do respect
fully but earnestly submit to our els.
ter counties, that in this instance Cobb
is entitled to the Senator and we re-
quest that they cooperate with us to
that end. 7e
Resolved 4th, That the Secretary
of this meeting do. at once send
copy Of these resolutions to the chair
man of Democratic Executive Com.
mittees of the counties of Fulton and
Clayton.
Resolved 9th, That a copy be
furnished 10 the Atlanta Constitution,
the Marietta JOURNAL, and they
be requested to publish the same at
once.
In pursuance Of the foregoing re.
solutions we are here for the purpose
indicated. The counties OF Fulton
and Clayton having failed to meet
US, and the Constitution newspaper
refusing to publish the proceedings
of said mass meeting, we are con-
strained to believe managers of the
party 10 Fulton have from design re-
fused to meet and harmonic with
their brethren Of Cobb, and intend
to repudiate their compact and agree
ment heretofore made to alternate
with Clayton and Cobb touching the
Sen atorship of said District. We
here desire to be distinctly under-
stood. No reflections are made on
the PEOPLE of Fulton or Atlanta
they have ever been found true,
honest, and fearless in the advocacy
of right. Being left to act without
the cooperation Of Fulton and Clay
ton, we here as delegates of the
county of Cobb put in nomination
our esteemed fellow>citizen Hon.
WV. T. WINN, and ask for him the
united support of the Democracy of
the District. w. ?. HARDEN.
l. B. KENDRICK.
T. ]. ATKINSON.
G. D. PHILLIPS.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1877-11-23

THE MEANS AND THE END. -We
ought to think much more of walks
ing ie .he right path, than of reach-
ing our end. We should desire vir>
tue more than success. If by one
wrong deed we could accomplish the
alterations of millions,a and in no other
way, we ought to feel that this good,
for which, perhaps, we had prayed
with an agony of desire, was denied
US by God, was reserved for other
times and other hands.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1877-11-23

"Suddenly and without a moments
warming" says an exchange, "The
plank broke and the unfortunate car
penter fell to the ground below"
Well, now, what would you expect
it 10 give warning, Lookout every
body; cart stand the pressure much
l,nger, and, ifthis blamed carpenter
don't get often me he'll get his head
busted" Would you expect COM
mon two,inch plank to do that The
things absurd.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1877-11-23

THE days of darkness come, and
they are many, but our eye takes in
only the first. One wave hides an
other, and the effort to encounter the
foremost wi,hdraws our thought from
evils which are pressing on. If we
could see them all at once we might
lie down, like Elijah, under the jun>
iper tree, and say: at is enough
let me not live.!' But patience
attains her perfect work while trials
uafoId.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1877-11-23

Mr.. Hollis Belk, from his or
chards in Marion county, will make
$1,000 this lear from the sale of APP
Piles. Besides, he has manufactured
5000 gallons of wine.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1877-11-23
Western & Atlantic R. R.
'KENNEsAw ROUTE. "

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The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1877-11-23

Judge Reese says it will cost
$4,000 to remove the capitol back
to Milledgevills.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-01-31
Railroad Subsidies and Land Grants.

Messrs Editors When the existing Sioux war
is closed and its expenses are made up It will no
doubt be found that the sum expended in this
little contest would have been sufficient subsidy
to have ensured the completion OF the Northern
Pacific railroad. Before this war begun had this
road been so completed, this contest with the In
dians would have been rendered simply impos-
sible But If this war is ended, the inevitable
necessity for this road will still exist While this
is so and nothing but money subsidy or the
guaranty of bonds by the government will ensure
the construction of the road, such aid should only
be afforded after the revocation Of the IMPROVE
dent and enormous land grants given to this COM
pany, 1t being equivalent 10 strip of land forty
miles wide from the Red River of the north TO
Pugets Sound, and twenty miles wide from Duluth
to the Red River. If the lands along the road as
completed are charged with the lien of mortgages
by the company, such lien should be diverted by
the consent of the company and ON the pledge of
the government to guarantee the payment of
such bonds.
Practically, land subsidies to railroads have
been great swiDdles and in violation of a sound
policy, both for the government and railroad cor
porations. To preserve the national domain for
the benefit of settlers should have been the idea,
and then by the cultivation of these lands, de-
veop the national resources, and thereby create
business for railroads. Railroads running through
remote sections Of the country have ciyilizing
tendency over the local communities along their
line, and hence become conservators of the ma
tonal progress and OF the public peace The pro-
ect Of Tom Scott for the building of the Southern
Pacific railroad, II completed would go farther 10
eliminate from the Southwest or it's neonle tina
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-01-31
"Our Next Door Neighbour

Matters in Mexico are rapidly passing
from bad to worse. The rebel Diaz has
made pretty substantial conquest of the
entire country-two states only holding out
against him. On the whole his rule is fair
one, and some of his acts merit praise. The
matter of enormous taxation-always Incl
dent to a revolution and the attendant un-
settled state of affairs-is very severely felt.
Diaz, however, is showing readiness to &C.
cept things as he found them by taking the
earliest opportunity to pay over to the United
States the first nstallment of three hun
bred thousand dollars on the four millions
awarded to American claimants by the Joint
Commission for depredations along the Rio
Grande. But the new government is not
without grave faults which will involve it in
ruin if persisted in. The heads of Mexican
revolutions have long had most summary
method of filling their depleted military cof-
fers; but In filming banking firm one hun
bred and fifty thousand dollars because of
their failure to comply with railroad con-
tract, Diaz is showing recklessness and
lawlessness that will speedily create a coun-
ter-revolution which may cost him dear.
He has ordered new election for President,
to be held within few weeks and now that
he is master of the situation it becomes his
imperative duty to act with as much decency
as he is capable of until the people have a
chance TO say whether they want him for
ruler. The more freedom he gives them in
voting the better it will be for him. Indeed,
under the present circumstances, he is about
certain to be elected anyhow, SO that he can
well afford to make all proper concessions
He has little to fear from his opponents. BY
the arbitrary and outrageous terms of the
election proclamation, Igesias and his chief
general are ruled out of the race for the
Presidency. And Iglesias is now at Mazat
Ian, ready to flee the country at the least nod
from Diaz. Lerdo has gone into retirement
if not into perpetual exile. Things may be
better after the election-they can hardly be
worse-but the outlook for the land of the
Montezumas is still of the most sombre hue
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-01-31
The Illinois SenatOrship.

The Illinois legislature closed the sena-
toral contest the 25th, by electing to the
United States Senate, for six years, from
March 1877, to succeed General John A.
Logan, the Hon. David Davis, Justice of the
United States Supreme Court. He was the
third ex-Republican they had tried. The
final vote was Davis one hundred and one,
Lawrence ninety-four, Haines three, Logan
one, Parrish one. Justice Davis was born
in Cecil county, Maryland March 9th, 1915.
He graduated at Kenyon College in 1882
studied law in Massachusetts and New
Haven was admitted to the bar in 1885, set
fling in Bloomington, ILL.,; member of the
state legislature in 1914 of the state consti-
tuition conventional in 1917; judge of the
eighth judicial district 1913 to 1862; APP
pointed Justice of the United States Su-
preme Court in 1862, by Mr.. Lincoln. He
is always referred to as having been for
many years the intimate friend of Mr..
Lincoln, whom he warmly supported in the
National Republican Convention at Chicago,
in 1860. Justice Davis is reported to be
very wealthy. For several years he has
been out of communion with the Republi-
can party and has been supposed to indulge
a strong political ambition which of course
resulted somewhat to his prejudice among
the members of the bar. The change of
Justice Davis from the Court to the Senate
has greatly relieved the minds of those who
have been fearing that he might be the fifth
Judge called in by his four associates to
make the fifteenth member of the Presden-
tial Commission. While he need not leave
the bench till March 4tl, and perhaps will
not do so if he is unwilling to let General
Grant appoint his successor, it will be OBJ
viously improper to put him on that COM
mission now, whether he accepts the Sena-
torship or not
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-01-31

TEMPEST IN A TEA-poT.-At recent
meeting of the directors of the Central YER
mont railroad it was voted that as fast as
the iron rails on the road were worn out,
they should be replaced with steel rails An
enterprising newspaper reporter got hold of
the fact, and telegraphed to Boston paper
that the present rails were all to be taken up
and steel rails substituted, adding that this
would render the road one of the greatest
trunk lines in the country. Some jackass
put fraudulent advertisement into the
Boston AdveriSer, soliciting bids for equip
ping the road with steel rails. The i'm.
position was so bare-faced, the advertise
ment so malicious, not to say criminal that
the way-faring man, though fool need not
have been deceived Yet the st. Albans
Messenger devotes more than a column 10
this silly business. The editor should have
known better Even his malicious persecu-
ton of the affairs of that road has never
gone further than this.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-01-31

BURNED GREENBACKs.-Some weeks ago
an express car on the New York Central
railroad near Buffalo, was burned, and in
the safe was about million dollars in green
backs. The charred remains of the money
have been for some time undergoing examn-
alton at the hands of experts in the redemp-
ton bureau, but only seventy-fve hundred
dollars could be identified. In order that it
may be redeemed by the government a
United States note or greenback must show
its number, denomination and series of issue,
and be restored to a sufficient degree to pre-
vent any possibility of its being counter
felt, The balance of this money could not
be restored, and the government will be a
gamer by about nine hundred and ninety
three thousand dollars, the amount destroyed
The loss is sustained by the express com
pany.