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Year: 1879

In Germany they manage this little


rastime in a very pleasant way. When


a couple meet after eating philOpena
together no advantage is taken of the
other until one of them prOnOunceS the


word "philopena." This is the warning
that now the sport is to begin. Let us


suppose that a gentleman calls upon a
lady. She invites him to walk in, and
at the same time speaks the talisman


word. If he accepts the offer to walk
in he is lost, unless she removes the ban


by telling him to go away. If she asks
him to take off his hat, he must reso-


lutely keep it on; if to be seated, he


must stand; or if at the table she should
hand him any article which he accepts


she wins the forfeit. During all this


time he endeavOrs II take her by sur.
prise, for the acceptance Of any offer


from the other wins the game. Both aTC
constantly exercising their wits to pre-


vent being caught, and the sport Ofts1


goes or all the evening. Perhaps the
gentleman brings a little present and
SAYS, knowing that I shall lose my
philOpena, 1 have brOughtit alOng-here
it is" If she is caught off her guard by
the smooth speech she loses, for he
Immediately claims forfeit. If neither
wins at the first meeting, the sport is


continued to the second, and 1t may


happen that half a dozen parties meet
at the same time, all anxious to win of


their philOpena partners, so that the
scene often becomes ludicrOusly anus
vol 1t is diamond cut diamond" in
very truth,
Year: 1879

A maiden lady Of Geneva, Kew York
named Jane Bush, aged siIty-two years
died recently, at Saline, Mich, under
somewhat peculiar circumstances. She
had been living in the latter place for q
few months, and while there met a
gentleman to whom she subsequently
became engaged to be married. On the
morning of the wedding day, Miss Bush
went down town to transfer the title to
some property, and after signing heI
name to the deed of conveyance heI
head fell forward and when those pres
ent raised her up she was dead. Her
death was asCribed to paralysis of tie
heart, caused by excitement. A singular
feature of the case is the fact that this Is
the second bereavement Of the gentle
man to whom Miss Bush was to be
married. Once before he was engaged
to lady and his bethrothed died shortly
before the wedding. 1t remains to be
seen whether the disappointed bride,
groom expectant, now well advanced in
years, will have the courage to try his
luck again, or whether he will be content
to live upon the sad memory of what
might have been" At any rate, he viii
have the satisfaction Of knowing that


"It is better to have loved and lost


Than never TO have loved at ALL"
Year: 1879

pie in regard to the proposed Coun-
ty Supervision movement, and so
enable our Representative to vote in
telligently, there should be eirculat-
ed in this county the following


PETITION.


TO THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE


OF OHIO.


Thinking persons admit that the
future of our country depends upon
the perfection of our system Of pop
Ular instruction.


Free school organization is as
firmly fixed in the popular heart as
the right of suffrage, or any other
vital part of our form of government,
and our future is to be what our free
school system makes it.


It is our highest duty as citizens,
to render this system as efficient as
possible, so that it may open its
school-room doors within the reach
of every child; that the instruction
given may be such as to make the
State a return ofyouthful citizens with
pure hearts, clear heads and sound
bodies; and the more remote from
other educating Influences a commu-
nifty may be, the more imperative is
this duty.


Every one placed in a position to
observe, has noticed the great differ
ence in quantity and quality of the
work done in the ungraded schools
of the rural districts, and in the
graded schools Of our cities and Will
ages; that the opportunities of resi-
dents of the country for securing for
their children the advantages of a
good education are not nearly so
good as they should be, in consider
alton of the money spent for the
support of their schools.


In our Judgment, their ineficiency
is almost wholly due to the want of
COMPETENT SUPERVISION and intelli-
gent direction in the instruction of
youth, the expenditure of school
funds, in the organization Of school
districts, and apportionment YOUTH
and these same defects cause a use
less expenditure of money.
In the township districts, with
some worthy exceptions, there is q
defective course Of instruction. No
records are kept to aid the NEW
teacher to begin where the old one,
few months ago, left off. The
teacher has pretty full assurance that
his work will never pass in review
before any one having authority to
pass judgment upon it, and that his
future employment will in no great
measure, depend upon his REAL sue
cess, and he is thus left without a
healthy stimulus, which, in other
more strictly business matters, the
. sound sense Of the people does not
fail to apply.


It is believed that a judicious sys-
TEN of County Supervision can be
established, which will not only add
greatly to the efficiency Of the
Year: 1879

Tie cool and fragrant orchard shadsi
TIE blue above Of June day skiesi
The green grass lightly Overlaid
With blossoms sweet Of delicate dyes.
Afar the church bells loving call;
Anear the nesting trustful note;
Without the shade, where sunbeams fal
A shimmering stream, a tiny boat.
No voice of man nor hint of strife,
But silence sweet as tones Of love;
so calm and placid is the life
i seems TO type the Peace above.
Year: 1879

Censure is most efectual when mixed
with praise. So, when a fault is dis
covered, it is well to look up a virtue to
bear it company.


Hunting is relic of the barbarous
spirit that thirsted formerly for human
blood, but is now content with the blood
of inferior animals.


Throw a piece of meat among bears
and purse of gold among men, and
which will behave most Outrageously-
the men or the beasts2


We should enjoy our fortune as we do
our health-enjoy it when good, Ie
patient when it is bad, and never apply
violent remedies except in an extreme
necessity.


The creations of fancy are divine.
Many Venus, as beautiful as she who
rose from the white foam of the sea, has
risen from the black foam of the poets
inkstand.


Nothing is so fragile as thought in its
infancy-an interruption breaks it;
nothing is so powerful, even to the over
turning of mighty empires, when it
! reaches maturity
Year: 1879

There is now on trial in our courts,
says the Denver NelCS, a man possessed


of a good trade, and capable of earning


a decent living in any city or town in
the country. Under the influence of
liquor, q few weeks since, he attempted
to knife man to him unknown, and he


will now pay for few glasses Of vile
whisky by spending more or less time


in the penitentiary. Thursdays even
ing train brought to Denver another less
fortunate victim. He too had been i'm


bibing vile whisky, and, while under its
influence, drove the lock of gun
through the brain of an antagonist, from
the effects of which wound he died.
Here are two men-a would-be murderer,


and murderer-whose proper pleas in
court would be Drunk, your honor"


not to-day be in the coils of the law,


and with life and personal liberty i'm
perilled. They are guilty Of crime, and
vet not as guilty as men who, in their


right senses, COOlly and deliberately take
life or attempt to do so. Strange 1t is
that men never heed the lessons of every
day life and there are few more i'm


pressive ones than this. Newspapers
are filed with them; the telegraph sends


them from every town, city and village


in the land. Drunk, your honor" is
plea heard in every court in the country.


It is only an excuse-but one so fire.


uuent that it cannot be allowed. Men


whose passions are thus infamed by


drink should flee from it. They should


avoid it as they do poison. And yet to-


morrow the press and the telegraph will


have to repeat the same tale. Drunk,


your honor" will be the sad plea, the
poor excuse of many a man, who will


wake from the wild delirium of drink
to find himself q murderer or a felOn in


2 prisoners cell.
Year: 1879

MCKENZIE, Tenn., July 2lst, 1879.


Train after train load of Memphians
now almost hourly pass through here,
leaving a crowd of anxious people at
the plague stricken city waiting at the
depot there for the first chance to get
away. Mempbians say that so deter
mined are the people to get out of that
city that they clarnor with one another
as mob, and those passengers with
the most strength and determination
are those who run over the multitude
OF more timid people and escape.


People have crowded about the depot
for twenty-four hours before being able
to get on the train. Overcome with
heat and fatigue, men, women and chill
dren sleep closely huddlsd together,
until aroused and told that the hour OF
their liberation is at hand. A fresh
train has been made up, and they pass
out of the transfer station, which is also
always crowded. Instead of waiting for
trains to carly them thither they go out
by every conceivable conveyance, and
ny mat means often take ths places of
those who have been forced to come out
on the trains only to find that they
have been deprived of their early es-
cape to a more healthy climate.


Restivs and combative under these
circumstances men grow desperate and
fight like tigers. Revolvers are drawn
in the most savage determination and
bloodshed is only prevented by the in
reference of strong guard. People
are so closely sandwiched in the trains
that the heat becomes intolerable pas
'engers get restive and almost any one
who makes it known can be easily ac-
,ommodated with knock down. A
general scramble for seats continues all
llong the various lines until the con-
iuctor gets rid of the jam by dropping
hem here, there and everywhere.
Year: 1879

The moment 1t is certainty the
North will not interfere in the local af.
fairs of the Sonth, there will be two
healthy parties in each Southern State
and the rights Of all will be protec-
ted. Northern people complain Of
bnlldozing and ballot stuGng.-
II they will leave the Southern
people alone they will no longer have
any cause to complain about these
things, for the better class Of people
here will put stop to them at once,
the very evils they produce will cause
each State to suppress them. There
will be as fair an election in Mississip-
pi this fall as in any Northern State,
and he is prophet indeed
who can tell how the State would 20 in
the Presidential election if the Repub-
lican party next year would take such
a position that it would be to the in
terest Nf the State and the safety Of
the people to side with it. In other
words. if the Republican party will
sever its connection once and forever
with the scoundrels who called them
selves Southern Republicans to serve
their own ends, the Southern people
will instantly divide, and the sol
i'd South will be thing of the past.
Vast numbers OF Southern people..helieve
our alliance with the Northern Demo-
Gratis is to our disadvantage and
serious impediment to our material de-
velopment. They are certain no good
will come of having nearly all the best
people of the North arrayed against the
South.
Year: 1879

The Anderson Is. CO. "Intslligen-
Ger" is disturbed by the organization Of
a sacred order, known as the Good
Samaritans, among the colored peo-
pie of that State, and is firmly convinc-
ed that it is nothing but political Re-
publican Union League in disguise. 1t
makes this obscure threat: "We take
this occasion to urge our colored friends
in this county not to organize or sus-
tain secret political society, for it will
certainly result iu no good for those
who participate in it. Our people are
on the alert for Just such schemes, and
they will not only come to naught,
but those who seek to establish them
will be remembered and shown that
they cannot expect to foment discord
betw tn. races, and then receive
kindness and assistance
from the white people,"
Year: 1879

Congressman Chalmers, of Mississip-
pi, has written a political letter, in
which he says there is no need OF any
Greenback Party in that State, because
nineteen-twentieths of the Democrats,
not only there, but throughout the
South and West, stand ON the Green
back platform. He preiicts that in the
next national convention the soft money
Democrats will select the candi late and
make the platform. At this time he
says: 1--WE have other issues besides
those of currency, and we cannot afford
to drive out either Bayard or Ewing,
while they remain true OH other great
principles of Democratic policy
Year: 1879

The Chester Times says: A short time
ago the Ross nine of this city accepted
a challenge from club Of Wilmington
styling itself the Quickstep nine.


The game was to take place Satur-
day on the Chester grounds. The club
arrived, but such club barefooted,
no shirts on, ragged, dirty, and alto
gether set of fellows who looked more
like bummers.


They neither had ball or a dollar
to pnt up against ball. The Ross
Club were greatly disappointed. They
thought it was a frs s-class club and that
a good game would be played. Out of
courtesy the Ross boys played a friend
ly game and beat them fearfully. If
that was representative club OF Will
mington, certainly base ball is a. low
ebb in that city.
Year: 1879

OF tOInplaint.
For the REPUBLICAN.


MEssRs. EDrToRs VIII you be kind
enough to insert the enclosed letter in
your paper Our association appeals
to the public to enter the conflict with
US, and see il something can't bs done
to stay the progress Of int-mperance IL
our midst. Very Truly,


JonN B. Cook, President NJ. s. r. A.
W,LMiSeroN, July 18th, 1879.


To MORAL SuAsloN:-I sincerely think
If you would send some Of your com
mittees up the Brandywins and in the
woods they might see sights that would
convince them that there is yet work
for tn. Moral Suasionists to do. TO see
the nurseries Of rum drinking now
along the race and creek is alarming.
How little does thu mother think when
her boy goes up the Brandywins for a
walk or hath how freq quently he comes
in contact with these stands where the
so called temperance drinks are sold,
and how bsfore they are aware OF 1t
these boys are getting into the habit of
tipplng, first taking cider and next
lager beer.


Not only boys but young ladies take
their drinks. On Tuesday five nicely
dressed young women went down the
race bank 50 drunk that they could
hardly walk, and one was calmly en-
joying a cigar, putting the smoke right
and left, Some Of these stands are
kept by men who are unnatrralized
citizens. They keep open on Sunday
and week days, and some Of them have
no title to the ground on which their
stands are placed. 1t is wonder that
the owners allow such places on their
premises or the Mayor does not stop
them from selling on the Sabbath.


Ifany Of your committee should come
up they can see for themselves and can
find proof for all that has been written
above. There are police on each side
of the creek, but they are too much in.
terestpd in the accommodations they
get from the stands to say anything
about breaking them up. 1t is very
pleasant walking along the Brandy
wine and many more would enjoy the
refreshing breezes, if there was dis.
position on the part of the Mayor and
his officers TO keep order and break up
these nurseries OF rum drinking.


Now by attending to this you will
be confering lasting benefit. | have
been trying myself for years to break
up such places and still expect to gol
on in my endeavors. If can assist you
| will do so. Yours, JIG.
Year: 1879

This morning it was reported on the
street that colored man was suffering
at one of the wharves with yellow fever.
From information We learn that color
ed man from Christiana Hundred, by
the name of Charles Peters, and en-
ployed in running one of the flour
boats from the Stanton flour mills to
this city was sunstruck. The man was
removed to his sisters residence on
French street near Eleventh, and it is
said that he is now in convalescent
state and unconscious of the rumor that
his sickness has caused.
Year: 1879

The large contract which the Edge
Moor Iron Company has received for
furnishing iron steel for the Brooklyn
Bridge Company, has led to the remark
that the Brooklyn Bridge is the second
ever built. The first one is the truss
bridge, completed about month ago,
across the Missouri river, on the Kansas
City extension OF the Chicago and Alton
railroad. We learn, however, from the
English correspondence of the American
Manufacturer of Pittsburg, that steel is
to be used to build the Forth Bridge in
Scotland, which is an enterprise of
unequaled magnitude.
Year: 1879

The tonsorial palace Of the Preston
Brothers, still carries the belt as the
champion shaving emporium of Will
mlhgton, and a transient visit is all that
Is necessary to make regular custo-
mer. Ladies and children have come
to look upon it as the place to have
their hair cutting done.
Year: 1879

You will as readily realize, it
is expected, the very important
inducements hereby offered for
investments or speculation.


I am prepared to receive prop
ositions for the sale of my patent,
or of State rights, or to have the
Fire Escape manufactured on
and to give due consid-
Year: 1879

Your attention is respectfully
called to the subject of the above
circular. You will readily realize
the Importance of the combina-
tions embodied in my invention,
which makes it unquestionably
the most practical, efficient and
reliable Fire Escape heretofore
introduced to the public.
Year: 1879

the understanding was that every
body came and took coffin. just as
they needed them, without asking
anybody. The bill of the city under
taker for burying paupers amounted
to over $4,000. and the one drug
store that kept open all summer made
more than 10000 net profits.


"All the doctors of Memphis with
out exception are standing to their
posts, although most OF them have
sent away their families. On the
same train upon which / lift Mem
phis was DR.. Laski, one Uf the most
eminent doctors of the city, who last
year had thr attacks OF the fever,
but recovered. said TO him, why,
Doctor, are you running away" No.
he replied. L have sent off my family
some days ago, and now L am going
to bid my wife goodbye When
asked him why he wished to bid his
family good bye, he replied, Because
expect L shall not i've through this
summer. l can bear to die. but
could not for moment thiuk of lev
ing at such a time This was said
with the utmost seriousness, and
could not help thinking wha; q grand
instance was thus afforded OF self
sacrifice In the line OF duty."-Indi-
dndpOiis Journal.
Year: 1879

CHICAGO, Feb 8.-Major Reno, again on the
stand to-day answering questions, replied en-
phatically that it was not cowardice that made
him move from the timber on the hill. BE
had a flask of whisky with him, but didn't
drink a drop until the battle was over. He
used it on the 9th, when on the Custer battle
field, where the stencil was so severe that Off
GERS drank it. He was pressed as to his opin-
ion Of Custer, and finally confessed that he had
no confidence in him as a soldier but said his
relations with Custer were friendly. Had his
own brother been with Custer he could not
have done differently. He would do the same
again under the same circumstances with the
knowledge he then had The long trial was
closed by the defense submitting some docu-
ments. The arguments will be sumitted Mon
day and the case closed.
Year: 1879

FROM Lne Fnila, Ielegrapn.


The Judge said to him :-"Dennis
O'sulivan, the jury returned a verdict
in your case, but while l am satisfied
with the verdict in one sense l cannot
help saying that if the jury bad taken
another view of the case l would have
Oeen better satisfied. As it is, you
stand OIL the record with your life saved,
and you are accordingly Indebted to the
skill OF your counsel, who defended you
in a very proper and able way, and who
convinced the jury that they might
spare your life. The statute limit of the
length Of time during which will SEN
lenc. you to the Penitentiary l cannot
20 beyond. cannot give you to the
limit now, but shall 20 as near to the


INIT as possible. II you can recall
) Inc Of the tone Of mind in which you
should be, trust when you come ou,
Of PRISON you will be better man THAI
! ever.


The sentence of the Court is that you
undergo an imprisonment in the
Eastern Penitentary for the period Of
eleven y. ars and eleven months" The
maximum punishment of murder in the
second degree is twelve years, but the
statute requires that prisoners shall not
pe DISCHARGED in the winter mouths


Therefore it IS the custom to shorten SEN
tences SO that prisoner will regain lis
liberty befJre the winter period comes
Year: 1879

WASHINGTON, December 1.-Repre-
sentative Harmtr called ON the Secre-
tary of War and General Beuet, Chief Of
qu.st the loan, OF the War Department.
OF arms and equipments for the use Of
the militia and cltlsrns on the occasion
Of the Grant reception on the 18th In
slant In that city. The Secretary Of War
said he had no more power to loan the
property of he War Department than
Secretary Sherman had to loan the mon
ey In the Treasury vaults. He therefore
decliLei, and hoped he would have NO
further applications.
Year: 1879

An Omaha belle recently received
a present Of q pair Of twenty-four
button kid gloves from one Of her
admirers. She wrote him a letter
Of thanks Ia which she frankly told
him no had made mistake IN tho
size, but she had remedied Il By
cutting or the feet aud only wear.
ing the legs.
Year: 1879

When thou cometh into the chief city, beware of them that offer thee prices, and say unto thee, To, when thou hast bought of Us for 20 broad pieces of silver we will return one again unto thee; for verify these men seek thy last shekel

 Shun him who sayeth come, buy of us at less than cost, for the truth is noi in him and thou wilt waste thy sub stance upon him, aud thou and all thy household come to want. Beware of him who sayeth, To, 1 am smarter than thou, for pay Gut 50 and %, yea, even but 10 pence for my goods, flee from him as thou wOuldst from himwhO seeketh whom he may deyour

 But when thou buyest thy merchan disc seek those whom thou knOwest have dealt honorably, yea, call upon them who pay an hundred pence for all their goods: pay the shekels of gold and of silver to him who chargeth thee a small profit, for it is written that no man laboreth for naught.-Ex- phaDpp
Year: 1879

lay for both. But it can, on the ether hand, do serious injury through inter ested, or malicious, or plundering COT respondents, no: all of whom will be likely tc prove paragons of mining virtue and intelligence. Arizona will doubtless come in for a share of tue Bullion Clubs attention in the neal future, and we shall wait with interest to see the course it will take.
Year: 1879

food with the grain, or we will give more
than the stomach will hold, and the last
portions eaten will force the first ones into
the intestines before they are thoroughly
impregnated with the gastric juice. Thus,
two pounds of hay and tour pounds of
oats are about as much as should be fed
at once when mixed, and if more oats are
given the hay should be decreased. For
instance, five pounds of oats ana oRe and
a half pounds of hay may pesgiven.


Now, these facts will give us better
understanding of the effect of water on
digestion. If, after feeding hay and then
oats, we allow horse to take large
drink of water, a considerable part of the
oats will be carried by the water into the
intestines, and we get little of the advan-
tage of feeding the oats after the hay
If such drink is taken soon after eat
ing hay alone, the effect will not be 50 in
'urious, because hay does not need so
long time for digestion as grain. If
only one or two quarts of water are al
lowed, it will pass food in the stomach
without changing its position to any
great extent. When the stomach has got
rid of considerable part of its contents,
it seems difficult matter for it to force
out the remainder. and fermentation and
collie sometimes result; drink of water
at such time, by carrying on the sub
stance which has remained long enough,
relieves the condition This probably
explains why some horse-car companies
have found 1t advisable to have their
horses watered at mldnlght.-MichtgGn
Farmer.