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Nebraska advertiser., 1878-05-30

- The best cultIvator made, sold
low, by Stevenson & Cross.
Nebraska advertiser., 1878-05-30

The Syracuse Times, observes the
awful difference there Is to the Amer
lean boy between the weight OF hoe
handle and a fish pole.
Nebraska advertiser., 1878-05-30
HIarUer AND Reaner

For sale. Woods Combined Reaper
and Now er, cheap. Call on
49w2 ROBT. W. FURNAs.
Nebraska advertiser., 1878-05-30

New stock OF Mems. Boys
and Youths Clothing, at Low
nfan'S
Nebraska advertiser., 1878-05-30
PositiveIv the Resi-

New Hosiery this week, al
Low mans.
Nebraska advertiser., 1878-05-30

Dress Goods and Trim
mings, at LOygman's.
Nebraska advertiser., 1878-05-30

New COrsets this week. at
EsevymaHss
Nebraska advertiser., 1878-05-30
BANK RESTAURANT.

Read that ''Open Letter" in this
paper.
Nebraska advertiser., 1878-05-30
A Closed Lefferf

Lowest prices on groceries, by
Stevenson & Cross.
Nebraska advertiser., 1878-05-30

- Salt, another car, 81 So per barrel
STEVENSON & CROSS.
Nebraska advertiser., 1878-05-30

- 81 lbs. choice Coffee,
Coal Oil Is cents,
Best new Salt, SI.5j.
Kit New White Fish. Toe.
STEVENSON & Cross.
Nebraska advertiser., 1878-05-30

- Mike Barada. on Saturday last,
caught fins, fuil-blood Durham COW.
that had ventured too near the river
where the banks were washing out
and had thus fallen in. He succeed
ed in getting her ashore, and soon
found an owner for her in Mr.. wm.
Fraisher, who resides on the opposite
side of the river. but luckily was
in town. Mr.. Fraisher rewarded
Mike, and took his S1G5 COW home
with him.
The daily gazette., 1878-06-25

Philadelphia and New York Exchange FUR
nished to regular Depositors without charge.
The daily gazette., 1878-06-25

EDWARD Belts, PRESIDENT.
GEO. d. ARMSTRONG, CASHIER
said up Capital, *5OO,0OO.
The daily gazette., 1878-06-25
Wilmington Markets.
ADELPHIA CATTLE MARKET.

CATTLE market was dull this week,
brices were rather lower; 2400 head
4 The West Philadelphia Drove Yard
|sc and 800 head at the North Phila-
Ia Drove Yard at 3x a 6bc. per ID.
SrP we're rather dull. 10000 head sold
IWest Philadelphia Drove Yard at 3
1; and 24O head at the North Phila-
Ia Drove Yard at IA 5Ac. per lb. as
Bs were unchanged. $500 head sold at
lest Philadelphia Drove Yard at 8 a
Eand l+JO head at the North Philadel-
Drove Yard at 5x a exc. per pound, &,
luallly.
The daily gazette., 1878-06-25
The Best Qualities of MEDICINES

The Best Qualities of MEDICINES
AT WILLIAMS
THE MOST RELIABLE PROPRIETARY
MEDICINES,
At Ninth and Market.
Choice RFUMERY COLOGN GS, &C.
AT WILLIAMS
A fine assortment of HAIR TOOTH, and
NAIL BRUSHES,
At Ninth and Market.
A choice Imported Key West Pride of Key
W est or Greeley Cigar,
AT WILL1AMS
ChoiceFLAVORING EXTRA CTS, Strong
and Pure,
At Ninth and Market.
AT WILLIAMS
Fine AMERICAN & IMPORTED SOAPS
At Ninth and Ma rket.
u q ct the best" WILLIAMS SAPONA-
CEOUS DENTIFRICE,
AT WILLIAMS'
Choice Goods, Accuracy IN dispensing and
Reasonable Prices.
WILLIAMS PRESCRIPTION STORE
ap12tf - Corner Ninth and Market
The daily gazette., 1878-06-25
and commercial.

rsn,olss;, DsI;: June ia1a1.pss :. rs By
y sock clayton House Building
4 Co.. J' at i2 NJ. to-day
InrOn, pei11 ifOTATIONS.
The daily gazette., 1878-06-25

EIRST NAIIONA Ia bANk
C OF WILMINGTON.
REPOSITORY OF THE PUBLIC MONEYS
gAND
FINANCIAL AGENTS OF THE UN
TED STATES.
Litchfield enquirer., 1878-02-14
HER LIEGT
GEFRESSEN Aug. 20, 1877.

I0UftWUTTI[oEDOREN
Litchfield enquirer., 1878-02-14
Contaur L[NIMENTS.

The wonder of medic Il science-haf horse ana ha1 man-the fabed Centaurs left their impress upon the history of the world.
 Tine Centaur Iinimcuts, for man and beaSt are not less rem msrkabe in their way They have been before the public only six years, but in that time they have performed more wonderful works have allssi- ated more pains and cured more bed-ridden crippes than have all other lnments Embrocations, Extracts Salves and Ointmen:s ia existence. Their immense and rapidly increasing sale is indisputabe evidence of the estimation in which tn y are held. They are already many of the hospitals of this country and Europe prescribed by the bet physicians and veterinary surgeons. Why should they not be ? They have never failed to ame,iorate suffering when cures from loss of bone or muscle are impossible. They contain Carboic, Witch Hazel Rock Oil, Arnl;s and ingredients which must stimulate the fluids, soft en the sinews and penetrate to the bone. We have never vet heard of the first failure to benefit in stubborn cases of rheumatism, ,sciatica. .and Neuralgia while Flesh Wounds, Bites Frosted Limbs. Burns, Cutaneous Eruptions, etc. they unfailiDg. What the White Centaur Linimeat is for the human frame, the Yellow Centuur Liniments is for horses and animals. We will guarantee that one dol lar expended for Centaur liniinent will perform more and speedier results than be obtained for five or twenty dollars from any physician. Wt have made the treatment of esh bone and muscle ailment 8 speciality We know that have preparations which do what they are recommended to do. They are not curc-alls-they will not mend broken leg. but they will alleviate pain ani where any hu- n agency cure, Be sure and inquire for the Centnur Liniments and give them d fair trial
 B. ROSE CO. 46 DEY ST, NEW YORK.
Litchfield enquirer., 1878-02-14

was probably short. ' rapidity of thought at such moments of p:ril is well known. l thought an octave vnf,lme, had it illustrated and published, sold fifty thousand copies, and went to Europe on the proceeds, while that bear was loping across the clearing. AS I was cooking my gun, made nasty and unsatis- factory review of my whole life. noted that even in such compulsory review it is almost impossible to think of any good thing you have done. The sins come out uncommonly strong. recollected a newspaper subscription had delayed paying, years and years ago, until both editor and newspaper were dead; and which now never could be paid to all eternity.
 The bear was coming on.
 tried to remember what had read about encounters with bears. couldn't recall an instance in which man had run away from a bear in the woods and escape, although re- called plenty where the bear had run from the man and got off. I tried to think what is the best way to kill a bear with gun, when you are not near enough to club him with your musket. My first thought was to fire at bis head, to plant the ball between his eyes; but this is a dangerous experiment. The bears brain is very small, and unless you hit that the bear does not mind bullet in his head-that is, not at the time. I remembered that the instant death of the bear would follow bullet planted just back of the fore leg and sent into his heart This spot also difficult to reach unless tae bear stands off side towards you, like a target. finally determined to fire at him generally.
 The bear was coming on.
 The contest seemed to me very different from anything at Creedmoor. 1 had carefully read the reports of the shooting there, but it was not easy to apply the experience had thus acquired. I hesitated whether had bet ter fire lying on my stomach or lying on my back and resting the gun on my toes. But in either position, reflected, could see the bear until he<was upon me. The range was toe short, and the bear wouldn't wait for me to examine the thermometer and note the direc- method, therefore, had to be abandoned; and bitterly regretted that had not read more accounts of off-hand shooting.
 For the bear was coming on.
 tried to fix my last thoughts upon my fam fly. AS my family is small, this was not diff. ficult Dread of displeasing my wife or hurt ing her feelings was uppermost in my mind What would be her anxiety as hour after hour passed on and did not return! What would the rest of the household think as the afternoon passed and no blackberries came! What would be her modification when the news was brought that her husband had been eaten uE by bear? 1 cannot imagine anything more ignominious than to have husband eaten by bear! And this was not my only anxiety. The mind at such times is not under control With the gravest fears the most whimslca ideas will occur. looked beyond the mourn ing friends and thought what kind of an epi taph they would be compelled to put npon the stone. Something like this:
 HERE LIES THE REMAINS
Litchfield enquirer., 1878-02-14
Mothers,

There is the harmless and certain remedy for your children CAsroRIA is the result of twenty years perimens by the celebrated Samuel Pitcher, NJ. D.
 It is vegetable preparation, effective as Castor O but perfectly pleasant to the taste. be ta ken by the young est infant, and neither gags nor gripes. Dr. A. Green, of Royston Indiana, says of it:
 SIRs:-I have tried the CAsToRIA. and speak highly of it's merits, It will do away with Castor Oil It is pleasant and harmless. and is wonderfully eff cacious aperient and lax tive. It is the rery thing.
 Tho CAsToRIA destroys worms, regulates the Stom- ach, Wind Colc and permits of natural healthy sleep. It is very ecacious in Group, and for Teeth ing Children Honey is not peasanter to the taste, and Castor Oil is not certain in its effects. It costs but S5 cts, in large bottles.
 A5-3m J. B. ROSE Co.,. New York.
Litchfield enquirer., 1878-02-14
Pennington Savings Bank.

Omce Hours, to IF 4. M., ? tO6P.M
 Deposits made in this Bank put upon Interes the First Day of Each Month. eF- MONEY CAN BE SENT BY CHECK or POST OFFICE MONEY OR DER, aud the Deposit Book WiH be rettTnea by Mail
 All Loans are made under the supervision of an en cient Board of Directors,
 TOTAL AMOUNT OF FUNDS, May l, 1s77 ..$1 ,690, ,064. go g4 The Bank Vault is protected by Sargent < ureenleaf's Double Chronometer Lock, by Burglar Alarm Telegraph, and by Night Watchman. JULIUS GAY, Treasurer,
Litchfield enquirer., 1878-02-14
EATEN BY A BEAR Ann Ol 1877

It is 8 very unheroic and even disagreeable epitaph That ''eaten by bear' is intolera- ble It is grotesque And then 1 thought what an inadequate language the English is for compact expression, It would not answer to put upon the stone simply ''eaten," for that is indefinite, and requires explanation ; it might mean eaten by cannibal. This difficulty could not occur in German, where essen signi- fies the act of feeding by man and .tresse'a by beast How simple the thing would be in German:
 HER LIEGT
Litchfield enquirer., 1878-02-14
We Watched her Breathing.

We watched her breathing through the night, Her breathing soft and low, And in her breast the wave of life
 Kept heaving to and fro. So silently we seemed to speak,
 So sio sly moved about, As We had lent her half our powers
 To eke her living out, Our very hopes belied our fears,
 Our fears our hopes belied.- We thought her dying when she slept, And sleeping when she died. For when the morn came dim and sad, And chill with early showers, Her quiet eyelids closed,-she had
 Another morn than ours. -ThOs. Hood.
Litchfield enquirer., 1878-02-14

It is about at hard to keep good resolution s it is to keep good hotel.
Litchfield enquirer., 1878-02-14
Gl)e GitebaslO Gnquirer, H. \. HICkJX, Editor < Proprietor
 LiTcAFlELD, CONN.
F FEII Ms:

TERMS:
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 Any subscriber wishing his paper stopped with the expiration of his subscription should notify us at the time of subscribing, before the term paid for expires. Any subscriber in arrears de- ,iriAg to stop his paper must pay up arrears
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 Yearly Advertisers are entitled to four changes during their term (not Oftener than once q h houth) without charge
 Yearly or half yearly advertisements are pay ubIs quarterly: all other advertisements in ad- vance.
 simple notices of Birth, Death or Marriage are tnssrted free of charge; obituary notices, cents per line.
 Job Printing.
 All kinds of book and Job Printing neatly and Promptly done. Business Cards, Wedding Cards, Bill Heads, Labels. Ball Tickets, Handbills, Pamphlets, &c., &s, done in the best style, and as cheap as al any office in the State.
 Orders can be sent in by mail and the jobs sent Uut by mail Cir small), by stage or express, to most parts of the county, without serious FISK ol delay.
Litchfield enquirer., 1878-02-14

A little squint-eyed Chicago boy pranced up to his mother one day, and said: ''Ma, hain't 1 been real good since I've begun to go to Sun day schools" 'Yes, my lamb" answered the maternal, fondly. And you trust me now, piled again. ''Then," spoke up the little in nocent, ''what makes you keep the cookies locked up in the pantry the same as eyer?"
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1878-02-23
The Local Editor.

The following is borrowed, and it is the best
we ever had q local editor lend US: "If a man
buys a new buggy, or if his COW can bawl three
times without winking, the local is expected to
proclaim it with a grand flourish. If he starts a
two-penny business his first thought is to bride
the local with a FIVE cent cigar to write up a five
dollar puff. Indeed, he thinks it is a mission of
the local to make a fortune for him by { free
blowing He will take the local to one side
and point out the superior qualities of q rat
terrier, and cOolly ask him to give him a hoist.
He don't care anything about it, only Spriggins
has a dog that he thinks is a buster and some of
'em want his put in just to take the conceit
out of Spriggins. Everybody wants to be put
in They are the Great | am but no one
says, here, local, put yourself inside of this
new suit of clothes, or throw yourself outside
this oyster stew, or stuff this watch into your
pocket Oh, no, of course not; that would
cost something. The shoe is on the other foot
you see. The local is supposed to know every
thing about other peoples business, and is
expected to show up all the actors in every family
broll IN town, If the vile tongue of scandal
finds a victim, people wonder why he don't run
about with his notebook and gather up the
vItuperatiye bits Of SANDER for his paper. If he
steps into Il billiard hall he is requested to make
Il note of the astonishing fact that Bill Tompkins
has made a run of eleven points. When the
minstrel troupe arrives in town, the agent i'm
mediately rushes into the printing Office, and
calling for the local, he slips three or four
tickets in his hand, and whispers, draw us q
big house! Put it in strong and pattlng him
patrQnizingly on the shoulder, the agent admits
the inferiority of the troupe, but we are not to
{ let on 1t is no sin for the local to lie. To
please the lecturer the local is forced to sit two
mortal hours to hear him through an insipid dis
course SO that he can write him up And so it
goes. All are anxious to appear favorably in
print, but few are willing to pay for it. The
locals time is worth nothing but to bother his
head writing puffs for ambitious persons. 1t
don t cost him anything to live. He never eats,
or drinks, or travels, and money is of no use to
him. Put it in Put it in
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1878-02-23
From the Popular Science Monthly
Present State Of the Garden of Eden.

Prince de Ligne, countryman and contempt
rary of Maria Theresa, wrote an essay 9 On the
Location of the Earthly Paradise" and, after
some reflections on the hygienic influence OF
different climates, calls attention TO the fact that
=. paradise traditions, in locating the garden OF
Eden, differ only in regard to longitude, but not
to latitude. The latitude keeps always near the
snow boundary, q line just south of the regions
where snow may fall. but will not stay on the
ground. 1t passes through Thibet, Cashmere,
Northern Persia, and Asia Minor, and reaches
the meridian of Europe near the center of the
Mediterranean The nations that a. celebrated
life as a festival > have lived along this line, and
we may doubt if in the most favored regions OF
the New World human industry, with all the
aids of modern science, will ever reunite the
opportunities of happiness which nature once
Ia7ished on lands that now entail only misery on
their cultivators. All over Spain and Portugal,
Southern Italy, Greece, Turkey, Asia Minor,
Persia and Western Afghanistan, and through
out Northern Africa. from Morocco to tie valley
Of the Nile, the aridity Of the soil makes the
struggle for existence so hard that to the vast
majority of the inhabitants life from a blessing
has been converted into a curse.
Southern Spain, from Gibraltar to the head
waters of the Tagus, maintains now only about
one tenth Of its former population, Greece about
one twentieth. As late as A. d. go, a good
while after the rise of the power,
the country now known as Tripoli, and distinct
from the Sahara only through the elevation of its
mountains, was the seat of eighty-hve Christian
bishops, and had a population of 10000 0 of
which number three quarters of one per cent.
are now left The climate which. according to
authentic description, must once have resembled
that of our Southern Alleghanies, is now so
nearly intolerable that even the inhumanity of
an African despot forbears to exact open-air
labor from 8 A. NJ. to 5 p. NJ. Steamboats, that
pass near the Tripolitan coast in summer, on
their way from Genoa to Cairo, have to keep up
a continual shower Of artificial rain to save their
deck-hands from being overcome by the furnace
air that breathes from the barren hills on the
opposite coast. The rivers of some of these
countries have shrunk to the size of their former
tributaries, and from Gibraltar to Samarcand the
annual rain fall has decreased until failure OF
crops has become a chronic complaint.
And all this change is due to the insane de-
s~truction of forests. The Caucasian SylvGniG
that once adorned the birth-land of the white
race from the Western Pyrenees to the foot
hills of Himalayas has disappeared of the
forest area of Italy and Spain, in the days of the
elder Pliny, about two acres in a hundred are
left; in Greece, hardly one. But even the
uakedness of the most sterile tracts of Southern
Europe is exceeded by the utter desolation of the
Ottoman provinces.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1878-02-23

Some little while ago, at a bar conclave at a
Southern hotel, generals, majors, &C., were each,
with much defamation, giving an account OF an
incident of the war. A quiet man stood by, and
at last said Gentlemen, l happened to be
there, and, perhaps, might be able to refresh
your memories as to what took place :" and he
gave, succinctly and inoffensively, an exact
detail of a smart action. The hotel-keeper said
to him, Sir, what might have been your rank?''
81 was a private, " was the reply. The next day
the quiet man, as he was about TO depart, asked
for his bill. Not a cent, sir-not a cent
answered the proprietor. You are the very
first private ever | met
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1878-02-23
TIcnBonNE AGA1s.-Tbe South australia,

IICHBUKNE AGAIN.-Ihe S0uN -IUStFdltdn
Chronicle: of Adelaide, has the following:
Mr.. w. II. Locke, who is acting as agent in
australia for the persons who maintain the
Ilchborne agitation in England. is about to take
to Great Britain the man William Creswell, alias
Smith, alias Orion, who is now confined in the
Paramatt Lunatic Asylum. The Melbourne
ArguS says Mr.. Locke accompanied Mrs. Jury,
Orton's sister, to Sydney. and is satisfied with
her recognition of the man. He Identifies him
also by bis correspondence with photographs of
evidence which it is not advisable to disclose.
Mr.. Locke, it will be remembered. made a statu-
tory declaration that be was present in Court
when de Castro and Orion were charged with
with horsestealing at Castlemaine, and he has
thus been mixed up with the case from the COM
mencenent. Mr.. Locke takes the man home at
his own risk and thus gives tangible evidence
of the frmness of his belief in the identity of his
prOtege with the Mapping butcher. The Incident
will be a new and unexpected chapter in the Itch
borne ronIauce.i
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1878-02-23

Among Mr.. Mackay's Scottish anecdotes is a
characteristic one OF DR.. Wardlaw, the octO-
genarian minister, who advocated the most rigid
observance of the Sabbath, and who was re-
buked for riding his pony four miles to service
in Glasgow every Sunday. The doctor justified
himself on the ground that the observance Of the
Lords day was obligatory on mankind only;
that animals were left under the old law Of the
Sabbath, and that his pony invariably had rest
every seventh day of the week.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1878-01-10
WHY SILVER TUMBLED.
An Eminent English Authority on the
Subject.


Mr. Walter Bagchot, the distinguish
ed editor OF the London Economist, one
of the closest students of monetary
phenomena and financial science, and
recognized as one of the highest au-
thorities in England ON such subjects,
was called before the committee of the
House of Commons investigating the
depreciation of silver, in July, 1876.
He testified that he had given particu-
lar attention to the silver question He
said among the causes Of the decline of
silver was the impression of the in
creased production in America, the de-
nonetization Of silver by Germany, and
the increase OF the drafts of the Indi-
an Council. Mr. Bagehot agreed that
cause had an existence, and thought
fourth should be added to them;
Question ,405-What Is the fourth
cause? Answcr-A great number of
States which are grouped together in
what is called the Latin Union have
ceased to coin silver ever since the
year 1874 in the same manner ecHich
they did before as the committee are a.
ware the Latin Union is name for
five States, France, Belgium, Italy,
Switzerland and Greece, which up to
the year 1874 had what they cali a
double standard-that is to say, silver
and gold were tenders for any amount
for debts, and the coinage was framed
on the relation Of 49, to 1. Up to
that time it was open to anybody to go
to the French or any other nints, with
silver or COLE. as the case might be,
and get it coined The consequence of
course was that the moment metal be-
came deprecated the holders took it to
those minis and had itcoined. But in
the year 1874 that process was arres-
ted, because these Governments limi-
ted the amounts of silver which they
would coin, and fit had not been for
that change Of policy, and all the sjtuer
'chich as ao1o flooding the London mar
ket and lo'oering the price, would have
been long since IN the n,ints of these
countries 1t would have released
gold from them and, the combined effort
Of the t3oo operations ,0ouid hare been that
the comparative -ralate Of gold and silrer
'rouid hare been rcrg little altered. proba-
bly, not at all