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The Greatness of 0bscurity.

1t is curious circumstance of the war
in the east, and of interest in connection
with the capture of Plevna, that prior to
its occupation by Osman Pasha's army,
Plevna was never heard of outside of its
own immediate neighborhood. 1t had no
commercial prominence, and was entire
ly without military defcnces save such as
nature provided. Plevna is twenty. y.seven
miles southwest of Nicopois, and when
the latter was captured by the Russians
on the 10th of July by General Krudener,
many Turkish refugees fled to Plevna.
Osman Pasha with a strong corps was
within days march of Nlcopolis when
it fell, and after that disaster wandered
into Plevna in a purposeless way, as if
waiting to see what would turn up next.
1t was General Krudener who turned up
very quickly after the fail of Nicopolis
and occupied Plevna without resistance,
but incautiously marched beyond and
into Osman Pasha's army, and was de-
feated. Osman was quick to seize the
advantage he had secured by chance, and,
marching up his main body, he occupied
Plevna with $4,000 men. This was on
the 18th of July. Following their ira
ditional tactics, the Turks, as soon as
they took possession of the town, began
to use the spade, Fortiications were
erected, and strong earthworks and
stronger redoubts were thrown up, and
there he stayed, repulsing every effort of
the Russian and RDumanian armies to
dislodge him until finally, after long
siege, he was starved out and compelled
to surrender. All these fateful events
grew out of the purposeless movements
that characterized the first part of the
campaign. The great fortified towns OF
Shumla, Rustchuk, Widden and other
notable Turkish fortresses have had no
conspicuous place thus far in the war,
while an insignificant Turkish town, to-
tally devoid Of artificial means of de-
fense, has played the most important part
of any point on the scene of military oper-
ations, and whose downfall is probably
the death kneIl Of an empire Of several
centuries of history Hdwk. Eye.
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seven Husbands.

The NeS Nurk Ti-is. has sp,,iA.
from Hartford. t.uuy,t,ut. Shich say,
ihe iusu Of Coventry has Brought sui,
agsiat tH, iHVu o. NarChc.icr fur The
support u' hu alleged pnup,r named
Plfti PAMELA Anthony, aut fhv woman
herself ha. made "a deposition which
shows remarkable career rf married
life. The case Is before Judge tarp,n.
ter ~ Hartford, ss Arbitrator
According a. her story, she Was mar
ri,d July .. 1885, o. VIM. Bly 81
springfield. Who left her three day, ~
ter. SIX weeks later, she heard be Vas
dysd, and on February I. of the next
year, she married David l.. Rogers, oi
Hadlyme, Connecticut. She lived With
Roger, siS months. when By. the dead
man, appeared. hut was bought mp and
gave q quit-claim to Rogers for a silver
watch and tive dollars.
About two years after Rogers went 20
sea, and siX months following hIs de.
partIIe, Mrs. Rogers heard be had been
hanged rs a pirate. Finding single life
hanging heavily on her hands, she mar.
ried, in March, lS4l, Frederick A.
Wheeler, who now lives in Manchester,
Connecticut.
Six months after this marriage,
Rogers, the hanged pirate, came back,
ousted Wheeler, and lived with Pane.
liza till October, 1S49, when he died.
in March, 1850, she married Henry
Myers, of Williamsburg, New York,
and got divorce in March, 1857, and in
the same year married James Davis and
moved to Wisconsin. She lived with
him several years and got divorced.
She then married Richard Marshall
somewhere in Ohio, lived with him
seven years, and got another divorce,
then coming back to Connecticut she
married Emanuel Anthony, of Hartford,
and lived with him six months, when
he ran away.
This record shows she had seven hus
bands in all. She was first married
when fourteen years of age, She says
she is now tifty.siX years old. Coventry
owes Manchester for her support, claim
ing her settlement is in Manchester,
where her husband, Wheeler, now lives.
There Rogers marriage is claimed to be
void, as BY was still living, but as Bly,
died before Wheeler's marriage, the lat
ter was legal. Manchester says the Bly,
she married is not BLY,, who is said to be
dead, but another man; that the married
BLY, was alive when Wheeler's marriage
took place, which makes that void. 1t
is also held that Wheeler's marriage is
of no effect, under the Connecticut laws,
from the fact that at the time Wheeler
married her, his father was married to
her sister. So he was not only marry
ing his mOther-in-law's sister, but also
his fathers step-sister, and so on. 1t is
a very peculiar case.
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Railroad Notes.

NU,EiY three hundred miles Of rniI-
ruid wa' built 10 Califprnia la.t year.
WoUN on the railway from Kansas CS,v
to Blr.iugtou, kas, is progressing rapid-
D.
O,rR four hundred tons ~ iron b,v,.
hrsu received iur the extension pf IN,
l'aA ani NaTua gauge line from Anes
uoTthWari
TINS cnmplc,iDn of the Colorado Gen
trail Railroad has already hai ths eiG a
Ui cutting dosu rates on the road ie-
tween Denver and Cheyenne.
TuE -. Paul Il saul, ~. Marie Rail
road, Whea built, will pass acrn-. M,
northern portion Of Wisconsin and ouen
up valuable tract of country.
bHE Lchigh Valley Railroad has iust
sent into iis shops 10 be Tebuilt locono-
tive tina, has been run steady for twenty
years with hardly any repairs.
THE Central Pacific Railroad Cnmpan,
planted 100000 trees along the line Of
their road last season, and they have or
dered over 100000, which will be set ont
the coming season.
TnE managers Of the Quincy, Missouri
and Pacific Railroad Company have
made arrangements TO commence work
on the extension of the line west of
Kirksyille at once, and will push the.
work forward as rapidly as possible.
THE declining interest in railroad prop
erty is evidenced by the fact that the new
Pennsylvania Petroleum Railroad, grad
ed from Titusville to Cambridge -four OF
five years ago, has been abandoned, and
part of the track torn up.
The report Of the Minnesota Railway
Companies show that the receipts for the,
past twelve months of the Chicago, Mil
waukee 81 st. Paul Railroad, in that State,
amount to 81, ,267 1861, Of which ST. Paul
and Minneapolis have contributed $574,-
900.
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Cotton Dyeing.

The working up of cotton and wool
into all sorts Of fabrics has of late years
received much development, so that now
20 to 30 per cent. Of loose cotton may be
added to wool, and to the fabrics SO
woven actually deceive the naked eye Of
the most experienced dealer-the only
difficult point being to die the cotton
well and fine. A method Of accomplish
ing this has, according to the 2'@tiJc
Manufacturer, now been found, SD that,
with fabrics not requiring to be fulled,
all oolor9 can be produced to resemble
the tints of wool, The loose cotton, as
it proceeds from the ball, may be loosed
either by mechanical or manual labor,
and rs soon as each raw cotton yarn
has been boiled two hours in water, it is
ready for dyeing; but such manipulation
may be saved In most colors by imlners-
ing the cotton-as, for example, for
black, in logwood bath for two hours,
by which time is saved. The chief point
of attention during the boiling process
is to turn the cotton incessantly, so as
to insure all portions being soaked
through, otherwise non-dyed white spots
show up. 1t is also advisable to use sep
arate watts for each bath, much dyeing
material being thus saved.
, 1878-02-15

LIEBrG makes the statement that rain
water filtered through field or garden
soil does not dissolve out trace of pot
ash, silicic acid, ammonia, or phosphoric
acid. The soil does not give up to the
water one particle Of the food of plants
which it contains. The most continuous
rain can not remove from the field, except
mechanically, any Of the essential con-
slituents Of its fertility. The soil not
only retains firmly all the food Of plants
which is actually in it, but its power to
preserve all that may be useful to them
also extends to Withdrawing from rain or
other water all the ammonia, pOtsShy
phosphoric and siliciC acids held in 30
luton.
, 1878-02-15
The japanese Persimmom.

The attention of horticulturists is now
being attracted to this'new and valuable
fruit that has recently been introduced
into this country, This variety differs
materially from the persimmon of the
Southern States, as it ripens without
frost and is equally palatabIe whether
fresh or dried. The tree is highly orna-
mental, Il prolific bearer and rs hardy a&
the pear. Its season is from October to
March, coming in when fine fruits are
scarce, The fruit is Of bright yellow,
orange or reddish color, and is pro-
nounced equal to the pear or peach. Is
is also sufficiently solid to be packed and
shipped with safety. 1t grows to large
size, attaining in some cases a pound
each in weight. The japanese persim-
mon is perfectly adapted to the soil and
climate of this country, and may be cul-
tiVated precisely as the apple. The
grated trees bear in about four years :;
seedlings require double that time and
are not reliable. Colonel Hollister, of
Santa Barbara, Cal, writes as follows of
the diospyros of kaki:
This fruit is, think, the most beau
tiful Of all fruits have ever seen, and is
the most delicious to the taste. car
ried four of them to San Francisco last
faln which weighed quarters of
pound each. The fruit is OF rich yell
low color, and smells more like bali of
wax than a fruit. 1t is simply splendid.
| think twill be the greatest acquisition
to our State ever introduced"
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The Washington Canktal notea the .

THE Washington Capital notes the ap.
pearance at party in that city of the
wife of a New Yor6 banker, whose dress
was covered on the skirt, so a3 to make
it appear one piece, with one hundred and
five one hundred-dollar bills. The waist
and sleeves were 81 900 bonds sewed in,
and her fingers and ears bazed with dia-
monds. The tiara was said to have been
worth SSO,OOO, and the total value of the
notes and diamonds on her person was
$26O,OOO. Two pages carried her train,
and watched lest the jewels and green
backs should fall to the floor.
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THERE are 10000 unsettled pension
claims on file in the pension office at
Washington, and the number is still in
creasing. The number Of pensioners in
creased from 207, ,495, in 1871, to 24O, 900,
in 1876, when about $3O,OOO,OOO were
discussed for claims.
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GRAHAM MUFFINs,-Take equal parts
of milk and Graham -four and mix well
with a little salt. The flour should be
passed through a coarse sieve, and the
ingredients mixed over night. The lit
tie roll pans, the best for this se,should
be heated quite hot apd well buttered,
and the oven should bake quickly.
The pans must be not quite half filled.
A little experience will teach any one
how to do this all right.
Corn MUFFINs. Three cupfuls. corn
meal, one cupful of flour, one egg, one
half cupful sugar or molasses, two tea
spoOnfus of cream tartar, and one of
soda, and piece of butter the size of
a butternut; wet with milk to about the
consistency ofsponge cake.
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In his sermon in the Classon Avenue
Presbyteria6 church, Brooklyn, recently,
the Rev. DIR. Duryea said; "lt is no
trouble to live on bread and water, though
some people are making great ado
about it. have done it many time,
simply for my own pleasure and recrea-
ton, in the forests and in the fields"
, 1878-02-15

PooR England! Her industries are
suffering everywhere and becoming the
subjects of attack from all directions
Germany is now reported to be fairly
flooding the hosiery districts of Noting
hamshire and Leicestershire with yarns
of astonishing qualities and prices. Bel
gium is sending over iron, and the United
States, says an English journal, is sup
plying our warehousemen with ship loads
of calico, good salable prints, and wear
able cottons at rates that command buy
ers. American beef is underselling the
famous beef of England, our fruits are
constantly increasing in demand, and
our cutlery competes with English wares
in Sheffield ITSELF Chicago Commercial
AdUertiser.
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singing in the Family.

Cultivate s.u-..- Iu IHH family Be-
.IH NI|a OBJ, yuI.I B. rH' Set three yrar-
u.H lla song. and hymns yuaf mother
sang. bring them l.. ha.k o. yuur memo
ry. and r,aUl '.rm f1 NuuE little uurs
MA 'lrm a.. fHgttlrr. ,H meet tur slmi-
.ar u.sHl-, 10. ,u after .I'r hey come over
I- -H mt-'"u.u-.g snmu.Iur- Many a
time and ull. .n tU, very Nllu ui bust
u,-.. il OH. Sunshine anI gaF#iy ui thU
streets, and amI doe .p.suIUr ui the
drive, In Vark, some little tHiu- EEke,
aT the memories ui tAfly youth thc old
mill. Ibr cuuI spring, tbc shady tree 10y
the little school house and the neat In
.tBHt we almost sac again The rudty
checks, thg smiling face, and the merry
uyc, 81 schpoimA'g., some grayheaded
now, mu.t ''lIe moldering 10 the grave.
And "the song your mother sang
spring, uubiddcn to the lips, and sOothes
and sWectcns all these memories.
At other times, amid the crushing mis-.
haps OF business, q merry ditty OF the
olden time pops up its little head, breaks
in upon the ugly train Of thought, throws
the mind into another channel; light
breaks in from behind the cloud in the
sky, and new courage is given to us. The
honest man goes singing to his work, aud
when the days labor is done, his tools
laid aside, and he is on his way home,
where wife and child, aud tidy table, and
cheerful tireside await him, he cannot but
whistle or sing OccldeM.
HOME, WIFE AND SATURDAY NIGHT
Happy is the man who has little home
and little angel in it of Saturday
night-a house, no matter how little,
provided it will hold two or so; no mat
ter how humbly furnished, provided there
is hope in it. Let the winds blow-close
the curtains. What if they are plain cal
leo, without border, tassel or any such
thing. Let the rain come down-heap up
the fire. No matter if you haven't can
die to bless yourself with, for what a
beautiful light glowing coal makes
shedding a cloudless sunset through the
room-just light enough to talk by; not
loud, as in the highways; not rapid, as in
the hurrying world; but softly, slowly,
whispering, with pauses between, for the
storm without and the thoughts within
to fill up with. Then wheel the sofa
around 10y the fire; no matter if the sofa
is settee, uncushoned at that, if so be
it is just large enough for two and half
in it. How sweetly the music of silver
bells for the time to come falls on the lis
tening heart then! How mournfully
swell the chimes of "the days that are no
morew
- H. n
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To CURE HOARsENEss.-Be well
the whites Of two eggs, add two table
spoonfuls white sugar, CRATE in half a
nutmeg, add pint of lukewarm water,
stir well and drink often. Repeat the
preparation if necessary.
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THE monks of st. Bernard save the
traveller, and the dogs get all the credit.
, 1878-02-15

How TO PUT Down EGGs.-I send you
a receipt for putting down eggs that /
have used to our entire satisfaction for
over twenty-five years. l never expect
to find, nor do wish for, better one,
either in point of simplicity, economy,or
certainty. Take of good salt half a
pint, Of unslacked lime a piece the size
of teacup. Put both in stone jar
Pour into the jar two gallons of boiling
water. Let stand till perfectly COO, then
put in your eggs. BE sure that your
eggs are all good. Care must be taken
not to crack any of them in putting
them in, or they will spoil Immediately
The eggs must be entirely covered with
the brine, and kept in cool place
Be careful not to have too much salt, OF
the yolks may harden. I have kept
eggs in that way from September until
May, and used them for the most delicate
cake and omeette. A friend in the COM
mission business, in making some
changes in his store, found few eggs
had been overlooked, and had been in
a brine prepared in that way nearly two
years. He took them home, and they
were found to be perfectly sweet and
niee.-O0r. Of the Detroit Tribune.
, 1878-02-15

A NOVEL WAY OF MAKING JELLY CAKE.
Take the whites of six eggs, one cup
Of white sugar, same Of -four, one tea
spoonful Of butter, two tablespoonfuIs of
sweet milk, two teaspoonfuls cream of
tartar, and one Of soda. Bake in large
oblong dripping pan, so the cake will be
very thin; meanwhile stir another batch,
making just the same, with the exception
of using the yolks instead of the whites
when both are done, spread when warm
with jelly, or preserves Of any kind; put
together, bring the largest side of the
cake toward you, and roll Immediately
or cut in four or eight parts, put together
alternately, putting jelly between each
layer, and frost lightly over the top. An
other method is to make three pans, max
ing the third layer of one-third red-sand
sugar, proceeding the same as for the
other layers; in putting together let the
first layer be the yellow, made of the
yolks, then the red, and lastly the whites.
Nicely frost the top, and you have a beau
tiful as we'll as a delicious party cake.
They are very pretty made into rolls.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1878-12-21

How FORTUNES ARE LOST AND Won.
A Colorado mine operator and ranch
man discovered large deposit Of car
Donate OF lead and zinc blend near the
South Arkansas river about seventy
miles south of Leadville. A dispute
arose between them, and the ranchman
agreed TO sell out 10 his partner for &c.
900, If the whole amount was paid within
eight months. The ma in operator act
ually stinted himself and family the ne
osssaries of life to get the money, and
paid 81 600 cut of the 90 500. but having
. large number of unpatented mines to
work out, and to pay the annual assess
nent required by law, he could not m eet
the .ast payment in time. lie went to
ST.. Louis and tried for three months
TO raise the money by Offering one. half
tho mine to any good bus mess man that
would Join him and pay the S6 500 that
the entire share when fully paid would
cost, hut failed to raise the money. Dur
ing the Iner's absence in St. Louis the
raAohman had worked few feet further
into the m inc and uncovered AS great a
deposit OF carbsnates of lead with silver
rs has yet been d iscovered. These gen.
temen now hold their properly at the
snug little sum of $500,GO0.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1878-12-21

THE BUCK MtEDER.-The Red Blaff
Peopte'S Cause of the 18th has tho fol-
lowing particulars Of the killing of A 4.
D. Buck near his farm on Live Oak
creek, Tehama county, in April last,
according to the contest ion of w. r..
Donaldson, John CIuckey and John f..
Martin, now in custody for the murder:
The murder was deliberately planned
by these three men as appears by their
own confess ions. They did not draw lots
to decide who should fire the fatal shot
but agreed that the first of the three who
should meet him should kill him. By
this arrangement the lot fell upon Don.
aldsen. The trio, rs it appears by the
confession, held consultation at the
house of one OF their numbers where the
plot to destroy ",he badger" as they
styled their victim, was laid the day be-.
fore its Elimination in Bucks death. 1t
appears that the plan was to turn Bucks
horses out of his own field and drive them
some distance away, and when Buck
shonld go in search of the horses, the
men who were to kill him, were to tol.
low and shoot him down. 1t is in evil
dence that Buck did take horse belong
to Benjamin +. Riley, at whose house he
was stopping, and go in search of the
missing animais early Monday morning
and on Wednesday following he was
found dead AS above stated, with bullet
hole through his body with every indi-
cation that the shot had immedi lately
proved fatal. The confession exonerates
all others who have bsen suspected Of the
crime Of any participation therein,
Weekly Trinity journal., 1878-12-21

IT is only eight months before the
next election and the regular attempt to
make Geo. G. Gorham a living issue Of
the future canvass is being made. An
outsider m ght suppose that the effort to
Or ing man not citizen OF the State in
to the issues of a canvass nearly q year
before the canvass begins, was. in the
language Of the street, stretching things
little. But those who know anything
Of California politics know that any
election not heralded year in advance
by prophes les and threats Of Geo, c Cor
ham, would be no election at all. They
are just as necessary rs the Governors
proclamation. There is only one issue
in this State and that is Gorham. De-
mocratic or Republican success is of the
smallest Importance; the Administration
policy is not worth considering; the f.
nancia question is frivolous. Gorham
Is the only issue worth considering that
the Republican party in the State has,
and that is important enough to last
through all times and seasons. The
Republican who refuses to recognize that
the all absorbing and only issue worth
considering for moment, is Geo. G.
Gorham, is net worthy of the name
Vai!cjO Chronicle.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1878-12-21

CONVENTION AND CHINESE When
Gen. John f. Miller, Chairman Of the
Committee on Chinese, presented the
report of said Committee in Convention,
he was charged with having attempted to
bring the whole opposition to Chinese into
ridicule. The report was stigmatzed as
a disgrace, and its provisions regarded as
impessibiIities which could never be en-
forced, coming MS they did in direct con-
flict with the onstitution Of the United
States and the existing Burlingame
Treaty. Much time and talk has been
consumed in the discussion of the abstract
Chinese Question and the Gnal result
shows the Convention has adopted the
report Of the Committee on Chinese with
very slight amendments. The action of
the Convention in this matter is best de-
scrbed by the threadbare charge of
"buncombe ard notification" and the
only effect which the adoption of the
Committee Report can have will be to
make friends for the Chinese in the East
ern States. There is nothing like perse-
cutisn to make even a bad cause popular
Assuming that the Constitution framed
by the Convention is ratified by the peo-
pie and becomes the fundamental law of
the State, its Chinese provisions will cer-
tainly be declared unconstitutional and
imperative just as soon as they are
brought to the notice of the Courts. The
people of California have asked for bread
and the Convention has given them
stcne. Instead Of intelligent, efficient
action on .he Chinese Question, the Con-
stitutional Convention has done worse
than nothing. It's action must injure the
opposition to Chinese, as it certainly can
do it no good. And the members of the
Convention, if they know anything,
must know this to be the fact. Once
more We are compelled to reiterate our
firm conviction that this whole Conven-
tion business is fraud.