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Year: 1879

Many people, when they are told to
Initiate the example Of Othe-. are very
much ike the Chinese tailor to whom
was given q coat as q pattern for q new
one which he was to make for an Eng
lish sea captain. Unfortunately the
sleeve of the pattern coat was patched
ut the elbow, and, when the new gar
ment was brought home with great salts
faction by the tailor, there was q patch
on the sleeve Of the new coat Just like
the old one.


Such people not only initiate the faults,
but are far more apt to excel in their
imitation of the bad than in their fol-
lowing the good qualities. 1t is easier
to copy the strut of q man who Is vain
than the Calmness and quiet courtesy or
the gentleman. Tt is much easier to iu4
itate the lame walk Of a wounded soldier
than to pattern after his bray cry and
endurance.


Let the faults alone and look only fOr
that which is truly worth copying, or
YOU will teach the lesson learned by the
sailors parrot, brought as q present to
his captains daughter.


While lying Ill with q severe cough he
had taught the parrot many pretty
phrases TO surprise Fanny; and 80, when
the bird was brought to her room, Fam
ny was delighted to hear it cry Outl
"Long live Fanny long live FannyF'
but tie parrot always ended his pretty
salute with such q natural imitation Of
the Sailors splitting and coughing as
quite to take away Fanny's pleasure at
] the gift. She could never take delight


in the birds fine phrases for they were
always accompanied by the too clever
/ imitation Of the sailors unfortunate
habit.


Copy only the agreeable and the use


III, the true and the good.
Year: 1879

Cincinnati, June 5.-What is known
as the shop tailors, being those who
make up goods for the wholesale cloth
ing houses of this city, have made de-
mand for twenty-five per cent. increase
in their compensation. The clothing
firms affected by this strike claim that
they are now paying fifteen to twenty
per cent. higher rates than New York,
and declare their intention to firmly
resist the strikers. 1t is estimated that
1000 persons work at this kind of tailor
ing in the city and vicinity.
Year: 1879

The B. H. c. association will hold a
picnic this afternoon and evening AZ
Rosendals Park, where there will be a
contest for bird. There are to be
trials of five minutes each. The first
dance will be a plain waltz. second,
schottischs, and the third and last
will be the two step gallop.
Year: 1879

The Calvary church fruit and flower
festival was held last evening. There
we're about two hundIed-and fifty in
the audience and good time was had.
The table decorations were fine. Ice
cream, lemonade and cake was in
abundance. The entertainment will be
opeu this evening.
Year: 1879

About five hundred colored people
left this city last evening, to attend the
annual gathering Of the Masonic order,
at Atlantic City. The commandry Of
this city was among the number.
Year: 1879

WASHINGTON. Sept. 49, 1879.


The Superintendent of the Census Bureau has
issued circular in relation to the office Of enume-a-
tor under the Census law. in which the duties OF
that Office defined. and other information in
regard to the discharge Of these duties given. The
duties in the main are identical with those Of assist
ant marshal under the last three censuses. but the
provisions OF the law regarding the time and the
size Of the enumeration districts mako the office
differ widely from the former. Under the old law
subdivisions limited to 10000 inhabitants
while by the present law they limited to 1000,
and will be generally confined to single town.
where the number may be even less. BY the old
law, from June to November was allo wed for the
enumeration, while under the present statute 1t Is
required to be made in June, and in cities of more
than 10 900 inhabitants in weeks from the first
Monday in June. The aggregate amount of COM
pensation to an enumerstor cannot exceed 500,
but one months time is allowed. and the pay not to
exceed 81 per diem.
Year: 1879

OF THE WESTERN UNION AND AMERICAN


UNION LINES.


[BY TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD


BUFFALO, N. Y. Sept. ID. 1870.


Something like telegraphic war has taken place
here to-day. The American Union Telegraph Com
pany's employees; in accordance with q grant from
the city have been for some days putting up poles
through Pearl street. Yesterday afternoon they
placed sixty-fve foot pole at the
ner Of Pearl and Seneca streets. the point
where they were to the Western Union
wires. BY this means their wires would
have been at least fifteen feet above those Of the
Western Union. About midnight last night men in
the employ Of the Western Union appeared on the
ground. and notwiths standing heavy rain storm.
proceeded to place poles the same height as those
The American Union men. anticipating trouble.
kept man on watch. and when the work was CON-
menced by the Western Union he notified his su-
periors and they soon arrived and put their men
at work stretching wires The Western Union at the
same time commenced to change their wires
from the short to the long poles and in short time
then began to taunt each other and did what they
could to interfere with the changing stretching
OF wires Several wires were cut. and at one time
there was prospect of blows. but the prompt ar
rival OF a squad Of police prevented this. Each
and this forenoon. but little progress however being
made in the work. This afternoon the trouble broke
out afresh Wires cut and hatchets and pistols
brandshed. Affairs began to serious look
that 1t became necessary to arrest both parties.
They were all taken before Police Justice King.
where the Western Union men claimed they
acting under direct orders from the officials at New
York. The American Union men state that they were
working along quietly. and had they not been mo-
Tested would have struck their wires with but slight
interruption to the working of the Western Union.
The hour being ate Justice King allowed both parties
to waive examination until Monday noon and told
them both to release their wires and should they
break tho peace the police would arrest them and
lock them up until Monday. There any guam
tity of rumors aHoat tonight to trouble between
the parties but 1t is hardly probable that either Of
them will commit any overt act.
Year: 1879

MINNEAPoLIs. Mimi. Sept. Is. 1879.


william Keene. lately the assistant cashier
Of the Northwestern National Bank of this
city, arraigned In the Municipal Court
to-day charge Of defalcation. He waived
the reading of the complaint and was bound
in the of $1,000 to await trial by the Dis
trict Court in November. At Late hour this
ing bail had been secured. 1t Is understood that
Keene will make no defence, but will plead guilty
and ask for immediate sentence An assessment
will be made on the stockholders Of the bank, who
are all wealthy men, and the deficiency made good
ut once. There sign of a run to-day, tho
public having full confidence in the ability Of the
bank to bear the loss. Tho demands upon the bank
were lighter than usual to-day.
Year: 1879




Col. w. B. Helm raised a somewhat
novel issue, the other day in defending
q client charged with hog stealing, The
evidence Indicated that the accused
had struck the hog with an ak, in an
ger, and not with view to theft. After
the hog was dead he seems to have
changed his mind, dressed it and con-
cealed it under bed in his house. The
law makes the theft of live stock grand
larceny, without regard to the value of
the animal stolen, but otherwise the
theft must amount to the value of ten
dollars to constitute grand larceny.
Counsel contended that it was the in
tention that fixed the nature OF the
act, and in this case the intention to
steal did not actuate the defendant
until after the hog was dead, and hence
the theft was not of live stock, but of
pork valued at less thanl ten dollars.
The Court so instructed the jury, and
a verdict of petit larceny returned. 1t
has been held that where a man killed
another, apparently in the heat OF pas
sion, and afterward availed himself
of vsluables ON the person of deceased
and endeavored to conceal the body and
crime, the liter acts of the slayer were
equivalent to self.acknowledgement of
original malice, and the crime was nur-
der and not mansaughter. In the hog
case, however, it must be borne in mind
that the instruction were as to the con
struction of law, and not of the evil !
dence.
Year: 1879

Hard times is a cruel fallacy and 4 pop
ular humbug. The man who confronts
each day with bold heart and cheerful
spirit. and has vim, has only to say, will
know no such thing as hard times-and he
will never know it. Work-individually
and faithfully, with the pick-ax Of determi-
nation-and YOU can level mountains Let
each one strive to better his own condi~
ton. and the aggregate Of such an example
and influence will be to turn the vast
volume of gloom into volume Of sun
shine.


When each one il the grateful apprecis-
ton of our lovely climate, bountiful soil
and genial sunshine, shall stretch ont his
arms and say, the lines have fallen unto
me in pleasant places-yea, have a good
ly heritage" he will unturl the banner Of
victory, and march on from conqueriug to
conquest. Let Us be manly men-not
croakers Our suherings ale half i'm
agnary. If you cant pay all go to your
creditors with fraulness and truth in one
hand, and the figures of your assets in the
other. and you Will have no trouble in
settling.


Suppose each and all should do that
would there be any hard times Never,


Go to work udlyiduaIly-practice men
tai and muscular labor-lncUlcate frugality
-habituate economy-keep diary of your
expense-buy only what is absolutely in
di5psnsablo-and the hard times, like the
Arabs, will fold their tents and steal away,
Your gloom will transform to sparkling
your tears will turn to dia-
muuds.


Open your eyes! Don NOPE about like
an unconscious somnambulist. Work while
it is day, and at night sleep the slumb7r
that belongs to cheerful husbandry-tO the
tOiliug artisan, and to an honest con
science.


Only the rich suffer from insomnia-only
the prodical and the sluggard know of hard
times.
Year: 1879

Our friend and brother, Col. Frantz, of
the Brandon Republican, is giving the
Board of Supervisors of Rankin county
Hail Columbia. 1t may be that our friend
and brother has the argument on the Board,
but if it was us we would think heap and
stand heap before we would turn loose
our batteries on the Board of Supervisors
The man who deliberatly sets himself about
making war on the board of Supervisors OF
great county, with any expectation of get
ting the Board down, must,feel himself very
strong, or have a soft place in his upper
story. A Board of Supervisors is just
about the hardest thing to turn down there
is in this world. If we we're to get mad we
might undertake to demolish a mere Con
gress or Legislature, but as long as cur
head is level we don't mean ever TO come to
a deadly breach with the Board of Supcrvi-
sors.
Year: 1879

The Postoface Department of the United


States has increased greatly in efficiency


during the last few years. 1t is rare now


that you hear of a postoffice defaulter. A


few years ago it was rare thing to tind


ono in the South who was not a default


or. Now a letter with money is near


ly certain to go through. Then letter


with money in it, and not registered, had


about the same chance of reaching its des-


tination as highwayman has of making


landing in Paradise. As for getting paper


circulated, the only way to get paper to


particular point was to get five or six subsori-


bers for it at least, at that Office, SO as to


make it too bulky to stop up a crack with.


A single paper, or a one cent circular, was
too contemplate to bother about. Besides
they were handy to light cigars with. The
letter mail was the point of interest with
our postoffice attaches a few years ago.
Some of them grew so skillful that they
could detect a bank bill instantly by the
s'feel" of the letter. And if they deemed
it necessary, as they usually did, to alb |
stract the bill, tho piih of the letter was
thereby destroyed, and the liter had just
as well be burnt up.


We heard Of wicked fellow once Just |
after the war who wrote n dozen letters and |
enclosed ton dollar Confederate bill in
each and directed them to as many different
aoIdiar friop6o II, ofhar Stofac Ha cold ba
did it purely as joke on the postofice
mon. There was nothing of Importance in
any of the letters, and he declared that the
only object he had in sending them out
with the enclosures was to enjoy in antici-
patton the disgust and disappo ointment of
the honest postoffice clerks and route
agents when they opened them and pos
sessed themselves Of their contents.
The singular fact about these dozen let
ters is, LoV one of them ever reached the
party to whom it was addressed, was never
returned and never got to the dead letter
Office IBut it was wrong to impose on in>
nocent officials in this wny, aud the wicked
man who so cruely deceived them with
Confederate bills ought to make public
apology to them.


But the postoffices of the South have
fallen into good hands at last. letter, or
or circular not only goes
forward now, but goes promptly. The
letters are not tampered with. We have |
known several instances lately where let '
ters, unsealed, and containing currency or
bank checks indorsed to blank came safely q
through One notable case where a check {
for $4,000 and made payable to baarer, was i
sent out in an unsealed letter and went all {
over the State and was finally placed in the {
box Of the party for whom it was intended. i
Ten years ago such thing would have
been looked upon as a miracle. e
Year: 1879

This rising young attorney of Yazoo,
and genial gentleman, favored us with call
last week. He is man of talent and
promise, and we look forward to brilliant
future for him, and there are none of his
many friends who will mark his advancing
strides up the road to preferment with
more pleasure than the writer of this para
graph.
Year: 1879

Yesterday, and for several days past, it


was rumored on the streets that q case of


yellow fever existed and death had occur


red within day or two at Leath Orphan


Asylum, which institution is located out on
the Raleigh road half a mile from the city
limits. An Appeal investigator was dele
gated to hunt up the facts. From his in


vestigations the following may be relied
upon az correct In November last young
woman, aged about eighteen years, a crip~
pie and invalid, and former inmate of the
Asylum, took the fever and after lingering
for some weeks with very bad type of
yellow fever, recovered in December.
Within week or so a little orphan boy of
weak constitution and in bad health con-
tracted the yellow fever, he having been
no doubt exposed to it in the case first
mentioned. He got along very well for a
couple of weeks 1t being a very light at
tack, and at last was able to be up and run
about. About Christmas he had relapse,
and this time bad and malignant case of
yellow fever of pure type. DR.. Ess, the
attending physician, believed for a time
that the boy would die, his constitution
being weak, but he recovered from the at
tack, only however, to be again prostrated





of the yellow fever relapse. The boy is
now sitting up, is out of danger, and is in
a fair way of recovery. Our commissioner
asked DR.. Ess for an opinion as to the
probability of the appearance Of yellow
fever here next summer. The doctor said
that he believed the late freezing snap of
weather had destroyed all the germs of the
yellow fever. But, he added, it might be
that such germs may yet exist, not actually
but passively, in buildings wherein yellow
fever patients had died, and which build
ings had not been properly fumigated and
ventilated. Should this be so, it might
break out again next summer in such
buildings. He believed that the only true
preventative was a rigid system of quaran>
tine, he not believing that yellow fever was
indigenous to any portion of the United
States, and most certainly it could not
Orjpinate in this latitude,
Year: 1879

1t hung in the sun, the little house,


1t hing in the sun, and shone;
And through the walls could hear his voice
Who had it all for his own.
The walls were of wire, as bright as gold,


Wrought in pretty design;
The spaces between for windows served,
And the floor was clear and fine.
There was plenty, too, to eat aud drink,
In this little house that shone;
lucky thing, to be sure, you'd say,


A house like this for ones ownl
But the door was shut, and locked all tight,
The key was on the outside;
The one who was in could not get out,
No matter how much he tried.
II was only prison after all,


This bright little house that shone;
All, he would not want a house Ike that,
No matter if t were our own
And yet, through the walls heard the voice,
Of the one who lived inside
To warble sweeter song each day,


1t did seem as if he tried.
To open the door, he. never sought,


Nor futtered in idle strife;
He ate, and he drank, and slept, and sang,
And made the best of his life.
And !, to myself, said every day,


As his CHEEKY song heard,
There's lesson for us in every note


Of that little prisoned bird.
We all of US live life like his,


We are walled on every side:
We all long to do hundred things,


Which We could not if we tried.
We can spend our strength all foolishly
In discontented strife;
Or we can be wise, and laugh and sing,
And make the best of our life.


Il H. H., St. Nicholas for February.
Year: 1879

was secured under very favorable conditions,
and the largest producing States report an in
crease.


1t is such facts as are contained in the above
showing that afford justification for the feel
ing of hope and confidence with which the
working and business people of this country
regard the future. Their capacity for produc-
ton enlsrges each year, and the demand from
other markets increases. Moreover, it is
known that we have not yet commenced to
exhaust our splendid resources, and that
ahead of US is long series of years in which
capital, enterprise and labor may have room
for their fullest exercise. BALTIC. American.
Year: 1879

In considering geological climate and
geological time, Mr.. William Davies
suggests that the heat which the earth
once received from the moon ought to
be be taken into account by physicians.
He thinks that, at one time, the moon
must have exerted an influence on the
earth like that of q second or addition
al sun.
Year: 1879

Tho Chinese immigration bill was
discussed yesterday at tn. Cabinet
meeting, and it was formally decided
that the President should return
the bill 70 the House with a
Message giving his reasons for
withholding his approval. The bill
viii he returned to the House with the
veto Message tomorrow or Monday.
The Internal Revenue bill was also dis
cn'sed. This bill will receive the Pres
id"nt'o approval.
Year: 1879

A Kansas man dropped little note
to neighbor's wife inviting her to
meet him under the pale silver moon.
The husband got the note first. an6
kent the appointment. Two doctors
have been al work on the Kansas man
for week taking out lead.
Year: 1879

deacon Wilder, ! want you to tell me
how you kept yourself and family well the
past season when all the rest OF us have been
sick so much and have had the doctors visit
ing us so often"


Bro. Taylor, the answer is very easy.
used Hop Bitters in time; kept my family
we'll and saved the doctor bills. Three dol
lars worth of it kept US well and able to
work all the time I'll warrant it has cost
YOU and the neighbors one to two hundred
dollars apiece to keep sick the same time.
''Deacon, I'll use your medicine hereafter.
Year: 1879

GoRHAM HEARD FRoM.-The Repub-
lican State Central Committee recently
very properly passed a resolution request
ing the National Committee to remove
George G. Gorham as member frem
California, on the ground that he opposed
the Republican candidate for Governor at
the late election. Gorham is now in
Washington, where he boldly asserts that
he is ready to meet the charge when it
comes before the National Convention and
will show conclusively that he supported
all the Republican candidates for Con-
gress and those for State officers who were
not under the control of the railroad -
Gorham's IS braggadocio is too we'll known
here to have any effect. His recent treach-
cry was Characteristic, and no time should
be !ost in expelling him from Republican
ranks. Gorham returned to California
for the ostensible purpose Of assisting in
electing the Republican ticket. His fraud
in accepting proxy to the State Conven-
tien, participating in its deliberations,
and at the ratification of its nominees,
promising to use all reasonable means to
secure their election, and his subsequent
betrayal of his party should forever debar
him from any further confidence or con-
sideratlon. The Republican party in this
State has been heavily handicapped by
Gorham, and now that it has been de-


monstrated that his enmity means sue


cess, and his good will defeat, it is to be
hoped that the National Committee will
at once carry out the request of the State
Central Committee e.-- Oakland Tribune.
Year: 1879

REPLANTfNG TEETH.-G. w. Weld,
dental surgeon, recently read before the
First District Dental Society of New
York a paper on the subject of replant-
ing teeth. The root OF the tooth is first
extracted and the decayed portion cut
squarely off at or directly under the mar
gin of the gum. A porcelain crown with
a tapering screw made of platinum and
iridium, which had been securely baked
in the center perfectly parallel with its
length, is then firmly screwed into the
pdlp-canal of the root, the nerve having
first been removed and the canal enlarg-
ed by raining out with an engine-reamer.
To facilitate the introduction of the screw
a preparatory thread is cut in the root
with tap. This process establishes
very shong attachment between the nat
ural roo. and the porcelain crown, and
with the additional aid of cemeut in the
canal, it is made perfect. When this op>
GRAFTON is competed (Which requires from
l5 to 20 minutes) the socket is syringed
out with tepld water, and the new crown
attached is gen tly but firmly pressed into
its original position. Perfect reattach-
ment easues in from two to four weeks.
There is seldom any pain attending the
operation, and very little Inflammation.
Year: 1879

CHINESE TEACHING AT HARVARD
The New York Times says The Pro-
fessor of Chinese language, who was APP
pointed BY the Faculty Of Harvard Uni
verify few months since, has not had
much of an opportunity to show his skill
as teacher, for thus far no one has shown
a desire to acquaint himself with this Gu
rious and elaborate language. One reason
for this is found in the time and study
required to obtain even superficial know
ledge of {. single dialect, and as there are
five of these, and as the written language
is quite different from the spoken one, the
student who thinks he may have use for a
knowledge of Chinese may be excused for
doubling whether his energies will be
well employed in learning to speak that
which an ordinary Chinese laundryman
will not In the least understand. The
language which the Professor proposes to
impsrt a knowledge OF is "Mandarih" "
Chinese, the dialect of the court, teachers
and scholars, but to the great mass Of the
inhabitants, and 20 many of the upper
mercantile class, it is as incomprehensible
as English.