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Year: 1877

The State House Commissioners Of
Illinois, In violation of the law cx-
ceeded the amount appropriated to
build their Capitol by some five hum
drsd thousand dollars, and the last
legislature submitted the proposition
to pay II to the people who at the last
election, have decided to repudiate
the payment until the State House
Commissioners who are responsible,
shall step down and out.
Year: 1877

WASHINGTON, Nov. 8. = Senator
Stanley Matthews says he has made
no sssertion that the President will
sign the silver bill. He has merely
expressed his individual opinion that
in the event Of the bills passage by
the Senate the President will approve
1t, and and he adds that this express
sion Of opinion was made by him
without any information derived
from the President as to his intentions
on this subject and he neither profess
sed nor was the statement, in fact,
based upon the Presidents authority.
1t was based upon the assumption
that the bill would pass by so large q
majority that the President would
consider it such an expression of the
public will as he could not properly
disregard.


The Senate Finance Committee, this
morning, informally discussed the
silver question, but have not yet ia
ken up any of the bills ON tho subject
for action. The republican members
of the Senate held brief caucus, to-
day, to provide for vacancies in the
various committees caused by the
death Of Senator Morton. Hamlin,
Sargent and Allison were appointed
q committee to report on the subject
to future caucus.
Year: 1877

bt0 SVbbStuu&Ak00.


We submit below as specimen
bricks the editorial notices of two of
the leading Southern papers on Sena-
tor Morton's death:


From the Mobile Register.


In extenuation of his evil deeds,
he did not even have the poor excuse
of Summers dull, stolid, contracted
mind. On the contrary, his mind
was quick, active, and powerful, and
in his physical ability to carry ont
the evil conceptions Of that mind
were, until impaired bv shameful ex-
cesses, fully equal to their perform
ance. We will not waste words over
that bad mans freshly-du grave.
May he find peace there But, should
occasion demand, we shall review his
lite as the Egyptians reviewed the
lives of their kings, whose shrouded
corpses were brought forth before
the multitude, that those whom they
had outraged during their days Of
power, might, at least, invoke the
vengeance Of the internal deities over
their remains!


From the New Orleans Democrat


1t is tribute to this mans power
and at the samc time terrible COM
mentary upon the wicked end for
which he used that power, to say that
on the announcement of his death the
whole country bresthed more freely.
Men felt that the cohesive force which
had united in one great and energetic
party all the sectional hatred Of one
section of the union with nearly all
the corruption and profligacy of both
sections had passed away, and that
the power which for so many years
had refused rest or peace to the coun-
try, was at last broken.
Year: 1877

IT NEVER PAYS. It never pays to fret and groul When fortune seems our foe; Tho better bred will look ahead And strike the braver blow.

 For luck Is work,

 And those who shirk Should not lament their doom, l3ut'yield the play,

 And clear the way, That better men have room. It never pays to wreck t,.e health In drudging after gain, And he is sold who thinks that gold Is cheapest bought with pain. An humble lot,

 A cosy cot, Have tempted even kings,

 For station high,

 That wealth will buy, Not oft contentment brings. It never paysl A blunt refrain Well worthy of song, For age and youth must learn the truth That nothing pays that's wroLg. The good and pure

 Alone are sure To briny9prolonged success

 While what is right

 In Heavens sight Is always sure to bless.
Year: 1877

FoR CAIIFORNn.-James Bones, our fruit tobacco, cigar and confectionery merchant has gone to California for rthe purpose ofpur chasing an additional supply of goods. Du ring his absence Charles Spencer, his partner will conduct the business in his graceful way which cannot fail to give satisfaction.
Year: 1877

T he Lieutenant who superintendS the Military telegraph line in Arizona, and k constantly drawing on the Chief Quarter

 m aster of the Department for assistance to keep the line in repair, has notified theprcSs they are rated No. ! in line of receiving press news o-cr the institution he manages.
Year: 1877

The following extract is taken from a
sentence recently pronounced by Judge
Reading, of Chicago, upon the liauor
dealers who had violated the law by
selling to minors. 1t will pay careful
pcrusal


BY the law you may sell it to men
and women, if they will buy. You
hayc given your bond and paid your
license to sell TO them, and no one has
a right TO molest you in your legal bus
lness. No matter what the consequent
ces may be, no matter what poverty
and destitution are produced by your
selling according TO law, you have paid
your money for this privilege, and you
are licensed to pursue your calling.
No matter what families are distracted
and rendered miserable; no matter
what wives are treated with violence
what children starve or mourn over the
degradation OF parent-your business
is legalized, and no ono may interfere
with you for it. No matter what
mother may agonize over the loss of a
son, or sister blush at the shame of II
brother, you have a right to disregard
them all, and pursue your legal calling
you are licensed. You may fit up
your lawful place of business in the
most attractive and captivating form:
yon may furnish it with the most costly
and elegant equipments for your law
ful trade; you may fill it with the al
lnrements of amusement; YOU may
use all arts to allure visitors; you may
skillfully arrange and expose to view
your choicest wines and captivating
beverages; you may induce thirst BY
all contrivances to produce raging APP
petite for drink, and then you may sup
ply that appetite to the full, because it
is lawful; you have paid for it-you
have license. You may allow boys
and children to frequent your saloon;
they may witness the apparent satisfac-
ton with which their seniors quaff the
sparkling glass; you may be schooling
and training them for the period Of
twcnty-one, when they, too, can partic-
ipate-f0r all this is lawful. You may
hold the cup to their lips; but yon
must not let them drink-that is un-
lawful. For, while you have all these
privileges for the money you pay, this
poor privilege of selling to children is
denied YOU. Here parents have the
right to say, Leave my son to me until
the law gives you right to destroy
him. Do not anticipate that terrible
moment when can assert for him no
further rights of protection. That will
be soon enough for me, for his sister,
for his mother, for his friends, for the
community, to see him take the road to
death. Give him to us in his childhood
at least. Let lis have few hours Of
his youth, in which we can enjoy his
innocence, to repay us in some degree
for the care and love we have lavished
upon him.


"This is something which you, who
now stand prisoners at the bar, have
not paid for; this is not embraced in
your license. For this ofiense the
court sentences you to ten days i'm
prisonment in the county Jail, and that
you pay fine of seyenty-five dollars
and costs, and that you stand commit
ted until the fine and costs of this pros
ccution are paid.


We have not heard from any source
such an arraignment of the license law
as this.
Year: 1877

Those who have never personally in.
spccted the lower levels of our mines
may obtain some idea of the degree OF
heat to be found therein by visiting the
Savage works at the change of shafts
The men-packed together as close they
can stand on the cage-are popped ur
out of the shaft all steaming hot, for ali
the world like bunch of asparagus lust
lifted from the pot. They make their
appearance in Il cloud Of steam that
pours up continuously from the "depths
proiound;" and are dimly seen until
they step forth upon the floor of the
works. As the men land and sep.
arate, each carries with him for half q
minute his little private cloud of yapor
As this passes off the man is seen TO be
naked from his waist up, his skin as wei
rs though he had Just been lifted ont OF
a pool ofwatcr. The men bring up with
them-besidcs the steain-an amount OF
heat that may be felt by the spectator as
they pass. All this is at the top of the
shaft, where it is considered quite cool
what, then, must it be hundreds of fcel
below, where the men started from
down to where the water stands one
hundred and fifty-seven degrees Fab.
renheit? Down there no steam is seen
lit is too hot for it. II is only when
the hot, moist air coming up from the
lower regions strikes the cool air To-
wards the top of the shaft that il takes
the form of steam. Down there where
the men come from You must keep YOU,
hands of the pump columns and thc
pipes, and if you pick up an iron tool
you will at once put it down without
being told 10 do so. Down there they
handle things with gloves on, or wrar
rags about the drill they are moving
and down there, too, you will learn "a
keep your mouth shut after YOU have
drawn few mouthfuls of hot air into
your lungs. Perspire? 1t is no name
for il. You are like sponge that is
being squeezed. You are ready to be.
lieve that you have ten million pores 10
every square inch of surface, or as many
more as any authority may mention, and
that these pores are rs big as the cells OF
a honeycomb. You 90 for ice water,
and 1t almost seems TO hiss as II passes
down your throat-you keep going for il
and thus, in short time, find out what
becomes of the tons and tons of ice that
are daily consumed in the mines. Re.
main below among the miners for an
hour or two, and when YOU are finally
popped out al the top of the shaft, ali
red hot and stcaming among the other
asparagus sprouts, you will appreciate
the beauty. the light aud GOODNESS of the
upper world.
Year: 1877

STRANGE OCCURRENCE IN An On


WELL.-Situated about four mile:
southwest of Clintonville, Venango
county, is well which, for volume OF
production, surpasses anything vet dis
covered in that county. The well was
completed upward of a month ago. Nc
oil was found, but an immense gas vein
was encountered where oil was expec.
ted. Before abandoning the well the
owners resolved to draw out the casing
This was attempted in the usual way,
but the casing stuck about a foot above
the former resting place. As it was
elevated to its present position, the
fresh water from the upper part of the
hole rushed into the we'll at the bottom
of the casing in great quantity. AS ii
did so, the gas raised it to the surface
of the earth after sending it forty feet
above the top of the derrick. There il
continues to gush and may for all time.
II is estimated that at least twenty
thousand barrels ofwater are discharged
daily. II istruly remarkable phen-
omenon.-GPittsburg Dispatch.
Year: 1877

Looking at ourselves in mid-lifc We
see only the glow faded, the freshness
brushed away. Therefore we must
not look at ourselves, but at the work
the Master has given us to do, at the
brothers and sisters the Father has Civ
on Us to lovely Mrs. CHARLES.
Year: 1877

The Park Commission of Philadel-
phia did something recently which
promises to get it into trouble. A mum
ber Of Centennial buildings, which were
sold at auction at the close of the ex-
hibition, had not been removed by their
purchasers. The latter claimed that the
time within which the work of removal
was to be done had not elapsed. But the
commission decided that the ground
must be cleared within five days, and
when the time was up force of work.
men was sent who pulled down the
obnoxious buildings and left the grounds
looking as though they had been swept
by a tornado. One of the structures in
question was the municipal building,
erected at cost of about 10, 900. This
had been bought by a gentleman for
something less than 1000, and he
claims that by the conditions of the
sale he had yet four weeks in which to
remove it. The workmen pulled out
the four corners and let the building
down, converting it into wreck which
is now worth nothing but its price for
fire wood. One of the Government
buildings was similarly treated.
Year: 1877

The discovery of cheap and COM
plete process for keeping all kinds Of
fruits, vegetables, and meats fresh and
sweet, is said to have been made by a
Texas physician named Davenport,
whose patent is on the application of
the ingredients of a pickle which will
arrest the process Of decomposition and
extingdish the germ of decay Of all
animal and vegetable substances with
out impairing their flavor, or imparting
to them any injurious effect. 1t is
simply a pickle of the most inexpensive
sort, less than brine or vinegar, in
which any meat or vegetable may be
kept in open vessels, submerged for
months, and when taken out will be
found as pure and fresh as when the
vegetables came from the garden or
the meat from the butchers stall.
This pickle may be furnished and pre-
pared at cost of four cents per barrel.
Year: 1877

There were two of them hanging over
the front gate the other night. She was
standing within the yard and he on the
sidewalk outside, both leaning on the
top rail. and apparently as happy as two
pigs IN corn field. He was saying,
q Now, my own little darling, sweet idol
of my soul whose image is ever on my
ing down the front walk, and continued
In different strain: These potato bugs
haven't destroyed our crops 50 much
since we purchased Paris green, and you
will find also that cabbages can be raised
better on a richer soil The cid gentle
man heard it, and turned back, saying,
as he entered the house: These young
people take more interest in agricultural
affairs than people generally suppose
Year: 1877

Busy shipping places are full of
craft.


Market gardners are taxed, just for
greens.


The road overseers are mending
their ways.


Coal oil comes near being the fat
of the land.


In court etiquette a prisoner comes
before a judge.


Oyster dealers first set the fashion
:of fall openings.


Blind men can find fish market
by the sense of smell.


The bell-punch is failure. Only
milk punch is left us.


A heavy St. Louis lard dealer has
slipped into bankruptcy.


Salt tears were shed at Salt Lake
over the death of Brigham.


A man born to command is differ
ent from one made to order.


New York has ten cent cab line,
and poor man can ride all the dime.
In the South worms have not been
able to eat the price of cotton up
much.


Chief Joseph goes out to fight;
Looking Glass remains in camp to
reflect.


The Indians have gone to Wind
River for the purpose of rasing n
breeze.


Information comes of a most san
culinary battle in Bulgaria, at Sock
ettoembad.


The Russians can never whip the
Turks by telegraph until they take
Constantinople.


If any man attempts to haul down
down another Charley Ross, shoot
him on the spot.


The hotel keepers OF Washington
are always in favor of an extra ses-
sion of Congress.


The barkeepers propose holding a
convention for the settlement of
mixed questions.


Lawyers talk of malice afore-
thought, as if u person could be ma
licious before he thinks.


A lady's hat, cut in ivory, is on ex-
hibition in Paris. Now ivory other
lady will be wanting one.



Lame Deer is reported on the war
path. If he is very lame Howard
ought to be able to catch him.


Correspondents have mixed the
Turks and Russians so badly that
none can tell which side gains VIC
tory.


Saratoga is very eely place dur
ing the presence of Mayor Ely of
New York and Mayor Ely of Nor
walk.


A Mr.. Gore is editor of Florida
paper. Those who thirst for Gore
can call with new poetry during office
hours.


Men with big feet are generally
honest. When they attempt cooked
ness 1t is not easy to cover up their
tracks.


Spots on the sun may interest sci
entlfic men, but there is nothing like
spots on n circus horse for popular
amusement.


We should call for the copper cents
of our fathers. They enable one to
make heavy contributions for church
or charity.


Moral support of the Turks has
been withdrawn. Prayers for their
victory has been forbidden in the
churches Of Hungary.


1t has been remarked that the Rus
sian newspapers are remarkably
truthful. Theirs is not q language
in which lying is easy.


An essay has been written on
."How to order dinner for six per-
sons" An essay to pay for the din
ner is the most difficult.


Brigham Young started in life with
one wife and no fortune. By indus
try and economy he laid up two or
three millions and nineteen wives.


Miss Corson, New York philan-
thropist, knows how to feed six per-
sons on fifteen cents. Five of them
must 20 out without getting drink.
If a man wanted to saw his hand
Oft lie would naturally use hand
saw; but the operation is generally
performed in circular manner by a
Year: 1877

The Importance OF the heatncss the system
cannot be over esmsted s power over lie and death and
TO be recognized. its capabilities qualities and its
the Importance OF its heahf It's moder
thought study application In mental investiga-


on aud research whether By the absorbing
cesary 10 the condnct OF complicated and moentos bust
tites and propenstes OF the All proper
subjects Tor consideration also the knowledge OF what
moderation what excess and when these the abso-
lutte necessity OF promptly seeking advice from
pert who tor long series OF years has devoted
his whole time and attention the study. invests
CATION and treatment Of all the maladcs Of this
porant department. TO accurately determine the diseased
OF exercise. its rreguarity or excess and
who hrs experience and practice has
cover NJ opcc the dengemcnt and promptly apply the
truth. common to the and annoying
the patient who very naturally wants know without
the probabilities Of and the required


striking example of the value Of experience and
application OF suitable remedies is found the important
statement coming not from one but dozen public insti
p"ron Of those who suffer from mental disturbance and abb
solur insanity permanently who placed under
treatment within after tho first symptoms mani


The intellect become
haused by intense mental application deprivng II of the
OF connected thougt. strength
by being properly fed nourishcd by the Of
systematic methods IL is precisely in other de
parmen whether of appetite propensity passion each
for bringing them the overworked and
exhausted conditions The Importance OF this branch OF
medical practice scarcely be overratc Tor IL reaches
the pcrpe,uation Of family the securing OF
hereditary tho retention o estates In the
family


From long and lnrge experience direction have
been able 10 command by the thankful appreci


certainly communicate cultivated ,irds in
connection with my practical experience IN what pert aims
the of their powers whether
Of brain, appetite, propensity or passion.
Year: 1877




OLD MAy.--Bow low tho head,
boy do reverence to the old man.
as he passes slowly along Once
like you, the vicissitudes of life have
silvered the hair aud changed the
round face to the visage before you.
Once that heart beat with aspiration
co-eqnal to any you have felt aspi.
rations crushed by disappointment,
rs yours arc perhaps destined to be.
Once that form stslked proudly
through the gay scenes of pleasure
the bean ideal Of gay scenes of pleas.
ure the bean ideal OF grace now
the hand OF Time, that withers the
flows of yesterday. has warped that
figure and destroyed that noble car
rlage. Oncs. ut your age. ho had
the thousand thoughts that pass
through your brain-now wishing
to accomplish something worthy of
n nook in fame anon imagining life
n dream that the sooner he awoks
from the better. Bat he has livei
tho dream very near through The
time to awake is very near ut hand ;
vet his eye ever kindles at old
deeds of daring. aud his hand takes
II iirmer grasp OF the staff. Bow low
the head. boy, rs you would in your
old age be reverenced.
Year: 1877

Two men were engaged in q
friendly trial OF strength, last week
in q saw-mill IN Perry county, when
ono Of them fell, striking his head
against a sbpzz, saw in motion and
causing instant death.
Year: 1877

The following from the New York
Sun, written Immediately after the
death of A. T. Stewart, will long be
remembered


A rich old man lay dying. The
full number of years allotted to man
had passed away since first his eyes
opened upon the light of day, and a
father and mother rejoiced that q
son was born unto them. The full
number of years allotted man-it
is a long time; and yet it had not
seemed long to them, so stealthily
do the days glide by. But It's long
enough to incur grave responsible
ties-which, if the preachers preach
truth, stretch out, in their conse.
quences, through all eternity.
The longest life has its close, and
his hour had come. The physi
clans who had healed him hereto
fore could not heal him now. He
was possessed of untold millions.
BY night and day his riches had in
creased; was 1t, alas that in the
moment of his dire necessity they
might press, with mountain weight
upon his own soul? His gold,
which had availed him so often,
would not avail him now. ALI his
vast wealth, if he were willing to
give it, would not purchase for him
one day more of life. He must die


Failing in all efforts for physical
relief, he turns to seek for spiritual
consolation He had lived a life
quite blameless in the estimation OF
men-a fair life; but livers of the
fairest lives grow anxious when they
stand face to face with Death, and
realize that they are about to enter
into the darkness which human Wis
ion cannot penetrate. Could he
find comfort in the word of Godi
He opens the Bible and reads:


GLOW hardly shall they that have riches
enter into the kingdom of Ged.n


"It is easier for camel to 60 through the
eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter
in the kingdom of God"


And he thought of his millions Of
money.


And he wondered what Jesus
Christ meant when he spake these
words.


And he died!
Year: 1877

People cannot help having been
born without tact, any more than
they can help having no ear for
music; but there are occasions when
it is almost impossible TO be quite
charitable To a tactless person. Yet
people who have 70 tact deserve
pity. They are almost always do
ing or saying something to get
themselves into disgrace, or which
does them an injury. They make
enemies where they desire friends,
and get a reputation for ill-naturo
which they do not deserve. They
are also continually doing other
people harm, treading on metaphor
ical corns, opening the cup boards
where family skeletons are kept.
angering people, shaming people,
saying and doing the most awkward
things, and apologizing for them
with a still more forcible bluntness.
If there is one social boon more TO
be desired than another, it is tact;
for without tact the career of the
richest and most beautiful is often
utterly marred.
Year: 1877

An exchange very truthfully and
sensibly remarks: The farmers are
the only producers, and it is through
their wheat, corn, cotton, &c, that
money is brought into the State
But on the other hand we have to
buy everything manufactured from
the North and West. We buy
everything from a thresher to an
axe-handle, and this takes our
money away, and leaves but little in
circulation. We manufacture moth
ing, except few wagons in town,
and most of the timber for them is
brought here in the shape of spokes,
felloes and hounds. If we wish to
keep our money at home we must
have manufactures. We have an
abundance of wood, but we make
nothing out of it. Our buckets,
pals, tubs and b-ooms, are made
where wood is scarce. We can never
be independent until we utilize the
raw material of all kinds that grow
spontaneous on our hands. We
must learn to be more reliant on
our own resources and make all we
need. even to our clothes out of the
cotton and wool we raise.