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Year: 1877

The great want in New York is civility
in trade. Stewart, a short time before he
died, said that one of the great plaques
of his life was to find a salesman that
would be civil to poor people who wanted
8 few needles and some tape. To ladies
that trade in satins and laces men would
be polite. But the same salesman would
snub a small buyer. 1t is the universal
complaint that officials are impertinent.
One can hardly get civil answer IN
trade. One of our car conductors came
up the other morning to the Grand Cen
trail depot. His car was stopped two
blocks below. The train left at twelve.
A dozen people were in the car who
wanted to take the noon train. Some of
them were aged and decrepid. Instead
Of announcing that his car would be de-
tanned ten minutes, he jumped of, bought
a paper and an apple, came into the car
and began to eat and read. When asked
if the car was going TO move he simply
shouted, eff you want the twelve train
YOU had better be lively" All his load
lost that train through his dogged Incl


Witty. / saw a lady ask for a bunch ol
tickets at one OF the ferry offices. A
mere lad threw down two punches. The
lady said she wanted but one package


The boy flew into passion, as if the wo


man had committed some great crime


because the lad misunderstood her. h
really abused her so that the woman lef


in tears. During the centennial season
little of the Old-time courtesy would be
healthy Infusion. Burleigh's Ne1s POrI
J Letter to the Boston Journal.
Year: 1877

The Savage incliner point near the
water. is so hot as to be almost beyond
human endurance. But for their shirts
the skin Of the men would be blistered as
though by a jet of scalding steam. A
man from the mine recently showed q
blister on his arm that was nearly as
large as a mans hand. This blister was
caused by exposing his arm at the bot
tom Of the incline. It is so hot down at
the water that in screwiDg a nut on the
end of bolt one man would be able 70
do no more than fasten a nkey-wrench
upon it before he would be obliged 70 re-
treat. Another would then descend and
give the wrench two or three turns, when
he would fall back, and third man
would 90 down and give it a few turns
Yesterday morning the giraffe got
of the truck well down on the incline,
and in trying to replace it one of a small
party of men was so overcome by the
heat that he fell down in a state Of in
sensibility His companions carried him
from point between the 700 and the
l 900 foot levels TO the 300 foot level OF
the Hale and NoTcrOss mine, where he
could obtain mouthful of fresh air. He
was still unconscious when he reached
the point named Virginia City LHtes-
prize.
Year: 1877

Leave all and follow TheeI o blessed Lord,
Fain would leave the cares and tolls Of life,
I he ceaseleSs worry, and the endless strife
Zen the seant joys my earthly days afford
1t were pleasant task to follow Thee
Up to the heights of Heavenly calm and peace,
Where pain and discomfort forever cease,
And all from grief and sOrTOw are Il free
But, Lord, Thou once did'st say if we would tread
The narrow path, we too must bear g cross,
And serve Thee well, counting all else as drOss,
Remembering, when sad, how Thy heart bled.
1t is by doing that which we shculd do,
We follow along the blessed way.
Thou bid st US all work well while yet tits day
And not the smallest duty to eschew.
We cannot serve Thee well through idle DAYS,
Fen though hearts be filed with love and prayer:
Labor is worship'-We must do our share,
And do it faithfully, to meet Thy praise.
Leave all and follow Thee! Yea, all the sin,
And all the paths which lead aw-y from Thee;
But from our labor we shall not be free
Until our harvest-sheaves to Thee we bring.
And, nothing 10th, I turn my eyes away
From far-oH heights which know not toll or care.
Duties well done Thou dOst accept as prayer:
In Thine own mansions we shall rest some day.


Faith Walton.
Year: 1877

At mass-meeting of the workingmen
held in New York, resolutions were adopted
sympathizing with the late strikers. The
meeting was held under the auspices of the
fUrnlture-makers, who are ag1tating the
question of an increase of wages to the ex-
tent of twenty-five per cent. Their present
wages are from six to twelve dollars per
weak
Year: 1877




Night air and damp weather are held
in great horror by multitudes of persons
who are sickly or Of weak constitutions;
consequently, by avoiding the night air,
and damp weather, and changeable
weather, and weather that is considered
too hot or too cold, they are kept with
in doors the largest portion of their
time, and, as a matter OF course, contin-
ue invalids, more and more II ipening for
the grave every hour; the reason is,
they are breathing an impure atmos-
phere nineteen -twentieths of their whole
existence


As nothing can wash us clean but
pure water, so nothing can cleanse the
blood, nothing can make health-giving
blood but the agency Of pure air. SO
great is the tendency of the blood to
become impure in consequence OF waste
and useless matters mixing with it as it
passes through the body, that it requires
a hogshead Of air every hour Of our
lives to unload it Of these impurities;
but, in proportion as this air is vitiated,
in such proportion does it infallibly fail
to relieve the blood Of these impurities,
and impure blood is the foundation Of
all disease The great fact that those
who are out of doors most, summer and
winter, day and night, rain or shine, have
the best health the world over, does of
itself falsify the general impression that
night air or any other outdoor airis un-
healthy as compared with indoor air at
the same time.


Air is the great necessity Of life; so
much so, that if deprived Of it for mo-
ment we perish; and so constant is the
necessity of the blood for contact with
the atmosphere that every drop in the
body is exposed to the air through the
medium of the lungs every two minutes
and half of our existence


Whatever may be the impurity Of the
outdoor air of any locality, the indoor
air of that locality is still more impure,
because Of the dust, and decaying and
odoriferous matters which are found in
all dwellings, Besides, how can indoor
air be more healthy than the outdoor
air, other things being equal, when the
dwelling is supplied with air from with
out?


To this very general law there is one
exception, which it is of the highest i'm
portance to note. When the days are
not ana the nights cool, tnefe are perl
DDS Of time within each twenty-four
hours, when it is safest to be indoors,
with doors and windows closed; that is
to say, for the hour or two including
sunrise and sunset, because about sun
set the air cools, and the vapors which
the heat of the day have caused to as
cend far above us, condense and settle
near the surface of the earth, 50 as to
be breathed by the inhabitants; as the
night grows colder, these vapers sink
lower, and are within foot or two Of
the earth, so they are not breathed. As
the sun rises. these same vapors are
warmed and begin to ascend, to be
breathed again, but as the air becomes
warmer they are carried so far above
our heads as to be innocuous
Year: 1877

Correspondence of the Cincinnati Gazette.


Why are men of genius so often bach
elors? TO this | reply that such instan-
ces are not owing to anything like a
want Of appreciation Of woman's value,
but most generally to unfavorable cir
cumstances. Most of our celebrated au-
thors have been in love, but found that
its course did not run smooth Irving,
for instance, was engaged to a maiden
whom he lost by death. Charles Lamb
remained unmarried that he might de-
vote himself to his lunatic sister, Mary,
whom he kept an inmate of his house
until her death Lord Macauley never
married, but it is probable that this is
due to some youthful disappointment.
He might have had


"A love that had an early root,


And early had doom:


Like trees that never come to root,


But perish in their bloom
|. Goldsmith was deeply in love with the
charming Miss Horneck, whom he styled
the "Jassamine BRIDE" and even Pope,
though lifelong invalid, expressed his
admiration Of Martha Blount, but nei-
ther of these men married. The one was
prevented by poverty, the other by i'll
health


Hume seems almost the only leading
writer who was formed for celibacy. He
was naturally cold and apathetic, and in
deed, any one who could defend suicide
by such ingenious sophistry was unfit
for social life.


Gibbon, when student, was in love
with Mile Ourchod, the daughter of a
poor clergyman. His father opposed the
union and the love-lorn student resign
ed his hopes of matrimonial bliss The
girl was talented and became a teacher,
and afterwards married the richest man
in France and was the mother of Nine
De Stael She entertained her former
lover at her palace twenty years after
the match had been broken


TO return to American authors am
reminded that Percival proposed but
was refused Indeed, he was unfit for
married life by reason of his peculari-
ties Halleck became deaf and remained
single. SO did Tuckerman. Confirmed
bachelors are rare among the editors,
physicians, lawyers and clergy Of this,
and it has always been So


Almost all the great authors of the
British Empire were married men, al
though some had conjugal trouble.
Among those were Milton, Byron, Shell
ley, Bulwer and Dickens. Walter Scott
was rejected by his first love- who was
above him in rank, but she lived to see
him the greatest author Of his age He
afterward married an heiress Of French
birth, Miss Carpenter but would no
doubt have done better to have allied
himself with Scottish blood His life
was entirely separate from the domestic
circle, and his wife never knew till the
Bannatynes failed that her husband had
for fifteen years been silent partner in
an Edinburg printing house.
Year: 1877

DR.. Holland in Nicholas Mnlf~rn.


Il would like to see every charitable
organization existing in this city, inclu-
ding my own enterprise, swept out of
existence. | would like to see estab-
lished in their place single organiza-
ton whose grand purpose 1t Is to work
radical cure of pauperlsm. | would
like to see the city government, which
is directly responsible for more than
half the pauperism we have, united in
administration with the chosen repre-
sentatives of the benevolence of the
city in the working out of this grand
cure. | would like to see the city divi-
ded into districts so small that one man
can hold in each, not only registry of
every family living in it, but obtain and
preserves knowledge of every family's
circumstances and character. would
have labor bureau in every district,
in connection with this local superin-
tendents office [ would have the rec
ord of every man and woman even more
complete than any that has ever been
made by your mercantile agencies. |
| would have such vagrancy as we find
illustrated by the tramps and dead beats
who swarm about the city, a sufficient
crime for condemnation to hard labor
in prisons and factories built for that
purpose | would make beggary on the
street misdemeanor punishable by i'm
prisonment. | would have every help
less person understand where help in
emergencies can always be had by a
representation of facts, subject to i'm
mediate and competent examination
| would see the matter so arranged that
premium would be put upon truth
and a ban upon falsehood. Temperance
and intemperance should always be con-
ditions in dealing with the poor There
is no limit to the benefits which such
an organization as this would have the
power to inaguratc and pcrpetuate and,
gentlemen, | verify believe that under
it's intelligent and faithful administra-
ton we could Danish beggars from the
streets, introduce new era of prosperi-
ty and virtue among all the suffering
poor, and save ourselves forever from
the terrible pauperization that curses
and almost kills the cities Of the world. "


In Bucnos Ayres drouth and intense
heat have prevailed for weeks Only a
small portion of the crops in the upper
provinces will be saved; and much suf-
fering. it is feared, will result The
small rivers have almost dried up, and
in some places fish are found lying dead
in the scorching sun. 1t is reported
that in the Province of Entire Rios the
fires prevail to a great extent, cOmpell-
ing the passenger steamers up the IRA.
quay river to anchor in consequence OF
! intense heat and smoke.
Year: 1877

v TIE DISTRICT CRURV OF TIE ST -


ond Judicial District Of the State Of Nevada IA and for
Clegg and Florence Clegg and A. W. Pray, defendants
Action brought the District Court of the Second Judicial
District of the State Of Nevada in and for the county of
Ormsby and the complaint filed in said county of Ornsby


in the office Of the Clerk of said District CourThe State
of Nevada sends greeting L. Cegg and Florence Cegg
and A W Pray, defendants You hereby required
appear in action brought against you by the above
plaintiff in the District Court Of the Second judicial
District of the State of Nevada in and for the county
Omsby and to the complaint filed therein "a copy
of which accompanies this sunmons) within ten days
elusive of the day Of servic after the service you of
this county but in this district within twenty days
otherwise within forty days-or Judgment by default will
taken against YOU The said action ia brought fore
close certain mortgage executed by defendants j. L.
and Florence Clegg to said plaintiff on lot No O in
block No. six 6 in Rice Peters addition to the city of
given to secure the payment of promssory note
made by defendants j. l. and Florence Cleg the 2Oth
day OF May, A D. 1875, to plaintiff for the of six
hundred dollars and interest thereon at three 81
per month all in gold coin of the United States. And
plaintiff asks decree OF foreclosure OF said mortgage and
that the morgaged premises be decreed to be sold
proceeds applied to the payment OF costs, attorneys fees
taxes insurance and the principal Yum and interest
said note in gold ecin oi United States and ii found
that Judgment be dockeed against the prop
ance found remaining due plaintiff AL of which is
fully set forth in plaintiffs complaint file in my Office.
And YOU are hereby notified that you fail to appear and
answer the said complaint above required the said
plaintiff will apply the Court for the relief demanded


s Given under my hand and the seal Of the District


Court of the Second Judicial District of the State


L'o of Nevada in and for the county Of ormsby this
++ oath day of August in the year OF our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and seventy seven.


au25-lawsw ALFRED HELM, Clerk
Year: 1877

WHY PERSONS ARE DRowNED.-Per-
soDs are drowned by raising their arms
above water, the unbuoyed weight Of
which depresses the head When a
tuan falls into deep water lie will rise
to the surface. and will continue there
if lie does not raise his hands. If he
moves his hands under the water any
way he pleases his head will rise so
high as to allow him full liberty to
breathe, and if he will use his legs as
in the act Of walking up stairs his
shoulders will rise above water so that
he may use less exertlon with his hands,
or apply them to any other purpose.
These plain directions are recommend
ed to the recollections of those who
have not learned to swim in their youth,
as they may be found highly advantage
GUS in preserving valuable life N'o-
6urn Adrerti~r.
Year: 1877

ST. PAUL, Dec ii, 1877.


Editor Denaocrat-I wish, through the medium
OF your paper, to say TO the New Orleans Cham
ber OF Commerce that our committee on river
improvement was ins' ructed to correspond
with the New Orleans Chamber of Commerce
and ascertain what advantages can be obtained
by the merchants and farmers of the Northwest
by shipping by the river and gulf route: what
is being done or designed to be- done in the
matter of freA hting wheat in barges; whether
wheat can be shipped through the gulf without
damage, and any other matters bearing upon
the question of higher prices for what we FELL
and lower prices for what we buy, and the
opening up of competing markets for our
40 1000 900 bu hels OF wheat" l understand the
president of your elevator company-Mr. Hig-
by-has much information on the subject, and
would doubtless be able to head committee
which would make valuable report on this
subject, which has been so much misrepresent-
ed by interested parties and localities. We of
st. Paul are determined to give New Orleans the
opportunity to answer and correct these mis-
Representations in the most public manner, and
it Is with this view that we wish your report for
publication in the Northwest Knowing that
public sentiment. both in the South and North
west, must be educated by the public press,
write to you and invoke your aid in bringing
about more correct understanding of the in
teres.s oil both sections.


By srdeF Of the Com1aittee on Rive improve
meuts. j. w. MeGLUNG, Chairman.
Year: 1877

took plack between whites and blacks this
afternoon at Muscle Shoals. Ala, a small town
on the Tennessee river. about thirty miles
between g white man and a colored barber. The
friends Of each rushing in to assist. caused the
fight to become general. Revolvers and knives
were used freely. The negroes were driven out
Of town. except three. who we're nearly beaten
to death.


After the mob returned they set fire to the
barber shop and burned it to the ground with
all Its contents. One negro was killed and q
number wounded. Three whites were terribly
cut and shot. but none killed.


Agreat deal of excitement prevails there to-
night, and there are fears of O. further outbreak
before morning. There is much excitement In
this place over it,
Year: 1877

WINNIPEG, Man., Oct. 13.-The ceremony
of taking wife, by which this mercuriaI
race sprang into existence in the old days Of
the fur trade, cannot be considered, In the
light Of the present day, as an elaborate per-
formance, or one much incumbered with
social and religious preliminaries. IL 1t
failed in literally fulfilling the condition of
force implied by the word taking" L usually
When the French Canadian wanted a wife, he
took a horse, gun, some white cloth or
beads, and, repairing to the lodge Of his red
brother 10 the wilderness, purchased the
her stern parents. If she did not love, after
"these presents" /" the lodge-poles were always
handy to enforce that obedience necessary to
domestic tranquility. This custom, I may
say, has by means fallen into disuse, but is
still in vogue along the border.


Now, as In the olden time OF the fur trade,
there is no uniform price for squaws, their
qualifications being taken into account, and
a price demanded in accordance with their
capacity to render service. Usually one may
-four andsugar, a little tobacco and bottle of
whisky. But woe to the purchaser Ii he
should make his abode at any point convenient
of access to the tribe to which his squaw be-
is kicked about and whipped by any buck
that takes notion to do so. when she be-
comes the white mans squaw things are
different. There is not an Indian in the tribe





She is sister to most Of them and first cousin
to the remainder. They meet herswith kiss,
and she feels that she must ask, them In to
dinner, and give each one something to
remember her by. The result of all this fs,
that the white man soon finds that he has
married an entire Indian tribe, and has made
an antemortem distribution OF his property.
Speaking OF the Indian women, writer
says: Their general occupation, like that Of
all the married women in the camp, when
not engaged In culinary duties, seemed to be
the dissemination of nourishment from the
maternal font to swarms of children. This
maternal occupation among the half-breeds
is protracted to an advanced age Of childhood
"a circumstance probably due to the fact
that for four days after its birth the newly
born infant receives no nourishment from it's
mother, In order that in after life it shall be
able to withstand the pangs Of hunger. The
infantile mind, doubtless, being conscious
that it has been robbed of its just right, en-
deavors to make up for lost time by this pro-
longation Of the term of nursing. In SIM
liar manner the half-breed doubtless obtains
his appetite for strong drink, from the fact
that the first thing administered to him after
birth is spoonful of strong polt wine, or
even spirits, In order to insure him vigor-
Gus constitution in after life. From the per-
sistency with which he follows this practice
as he grows older it is only lair to suppose
that he is insuring himself vigor OF consti-
tuition which will carry him into the nineties.
Year: 1877

BAsTRop, La, Dec. Is, 1890 y. m.-James Me-
Clendon was hung here yesterday for the muir
der Of g. MI. Evans. Esq, about one year ago.
There were fifteen hundred or two thousand
people present. mostly negroes. He died game.
and asserted his innocence to the last. In his


statement ON the GallOws


he spoke at length Of the strong friendship
that had always existed between himself and
Evans, asserting that the feeling between them
was almost fraternal. Night before last he told
one of the guard that he had lent his gun the
day that Evans was killed to colored man
named Henry Robinson: that Robinson re-
turned the gun the night Of the murder. saying
he had lent IL to Bill Slick eolored man, and
that Slick did the killing; that he had no idea
for what purpose the gun was borrowed
when he gave 1t to Robinson. TO other parties
he made different statements. all conflicting.


The result of an interview with Rev. Henry
Bell, colored. was that Bell refused to baptize
and take him into the church because he did
not believe his statements sincere. Another
colored preacher performed these rites for him.
In his statement on the gallows he charged W.
H Vaughn and Byron Vaughn both good citi-
zens. Of hiring Slick to commit the murder for
which he was about to offer up his life. Know
ing the character of these men. think these
statements utterly unworthy of belief.


His Last Words


were substantially these: Something else Is
the matter I lived Republican all my life and
4 am going to die one" His manner at times
was naughty and defiant. and think 1t pos
sible he had been led to hope for rescue from a
mob at the last moment No demonstration.
however, was made. the sheriff having strong
posse for an emergency, and at o'clock the
trap door was cut from under him.


There can be no doubt of McClendon's guilt.
The murder Of Evans was a cowardly assassin
alton, and the guilty wretch deserved the stern
Justice meted out to him. N.
Year: 1877

WASHINGTON, Dec. 15.-Messrs. Banning
Bragg. White and Marsh, the. subcommittee
gate the Mexican border troubles and take tes-
timony concerning them. have under consider
alton q proposition to proceed to Texas and
convince themselves in person Of the state of
affairs there.


Several of the members of the committee
argue. however. that they have no time for this.
and that they must confine themselves to the
taking of testimony here. The committee will
be in session during the recess of Congress.
Year: 1877

l DO not hesitate to say that the frs t
and paramount aim Of religion is not to
prepare for another world, but to make
the best of this world, or, more CORRECTLY
stated, to make tLis worl better. wiser.
happier. 1t is to be good, aud d the most
good we can now and here, and help 9th
ers 20 be and do the same. 1t is to seek
with all our might the highest welfare Of
the world we live in, and the realization
of the ideal greatness, nobleness and
blessedness Dr. Cai1d.
Year: 1877

He was sitting silently by her side one
chilly evening last autumn, thinking of
something To say. Finally he remarked: i:
"Hnw sad it is the frost has come, and
it will kin everything green" There
upon the young lady extended her hand,
and said in sympathetic tone: Good
bye"
Year: 1877

They tell story Of a man at Chica.
60 hotel, whose room was on tho ton
floor, the bell in which was out of order.
After wrestling with it for halt an hour,
he went to the window and collected a
crowd On the street below by waving a
plllow-case. When multitude Of fel-
low citizens had collected be shouted loud
enough to be heard in Omaha "some
nfyou fellows go TO that Office and tell
them to send me a cocktail Z"