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Year: 1877

The p itched battle in the Senate over the


admission OF BUTLER TO u seat, which has
been raging for more than week, culmi-
mated on Saturday morning, us was an
nounced in THE NATIONAL REPUBLICAN,
by his being sworn in The vigorous resist
ance made by the Republican Senators had
the effect to lead Senator CoNOyER, who
held the winning card, to withdraw his
support from BUTLER's case as one Of
precedence and enlist on the side
of Mr.. KELLOGG. This, of course, brought
the latter to the front with sufficient
strength 10 insure his success under the
casting vote Of the vice-President which
Year: 1877

We SUPPOSED that we had done with the
question of postmaster at Toledo, into the
discussion of which we were inadvertently
drawn. From recent developments we are
led to the conclusion that Mr.. REED, the
present incumbent, has been the victim Of =
bitter persecution, with which wecan have
no sympathy. Every man, whether
in or out Of Office, is entitled
10 fair treatment, and should be
exempt from unwarrantable assault and
malignant traduction. We have before us
the evidence that number of forged tele-
grams, assailing the business character of
Mr.. REED, have been forwarded to the Post
Office Committee Of the Senate, with view
70 prejudicing his case. These must react
upon the perpetrators Of the assault, and
we have no doubt will have the effect to
precipitate his confirmation.
Year: 1877

SOBER SECOND THoUGHTs.-The
eyes of other people are the eyes that
ruin us.


Expense of time is the most costly
OF all expenses.


The hen Of our neighbor appears to
us a goose, says the Oriental provarb.


People seldom improve when they
have no other model than themselves
to copy.


The man who can be nothing but
serious or nothing but merry, is but a
half man.


The woman who is resolved to be
respected can make herself to be SO
even amidst an army Of soldiers.


Our natures are like oil, compound
with anything, yet still we strive to
swim on the top.


Example is more lorcible than pre-.
cept. People look at me six days in
the week, to see what | mean on the
seventh.


There is this Of good in real evils
they deliver us while they last from
the petty despotism Of all that were
imaginary.


The old saying is expressed with
depth and insisniticance: "On the
pinnacle Of fortune man does not Ions
stand firm. >


We 10 not know how much q mar
is capable, if he has the will, and to
what point he will rise if he feels free


Who shoots at the midday sun
though he be sure he will never hit
his mark, yet as sure as he that he
shall shoe; higher than he who aims
at a bush.
Year: 1877

And you mean to tell me, Miss
Breton


That I have put my heart in the
scale against pair of ponies valued
at two thousand dollars, said Annie,
with a curving lip. And find my
heart heavier than Tie ponies


The world now says Mrs. Lane made
A wise choice. Few men are more re-
spected or honored than her husband
The lesson did Mcdonald good. 1t
did much toward curing him Of his
vanity, besides teaching him never to
bet On woman love.
Year: 1877

We are nothing by being with such
as ourselves. We encourage one an
other in me1iocrity. | am always
longing to be with men more excel
lent than myself.


God made no one absolute. The
rich depend on the poor as we'll as the
poor on the rich. The world is but a
magnificent building; all the stones
are gradually cemented together
No one subsists by himself alone.
Year: 1877

Truly the way Of the 3harpers Of to
day are past finding cut. Some times
however, they IN -et their match. a
little while ago person was sent to
the bank for the purpose OF drawing
money to pay the wages of hands of a
mandatory. Two men stood near
the place where he was counting over
the amount he had received, some six
hundred pounds. One Of the men re-
Marked


You have dropped five pound
note, pointing to q note on the floor.


'All right, sir, was the reply I'll
Just put my foot on it for the present,
which he did and continued counting
the money.


It was not until the sharper learned
that they were trying their game OF
an experienced customer that they IN
formed him that the five pound note
was dropped by one Of them. ANY
thoughtIess person would nave stopped
for the note, and in all probabilities
have lost the best part Of the six hmm
dred pounds.
Year: 1877

What will become of the last man?
Various theories that have been seri-
ously maintained by scientific men are
described in the Scientific American,
and we can summarize:
l. The surface of the earth is steadi-
ly diminishing, elevated regions are
being lowered, and the seas are filling
up. The land will at last be sub
merged, and the last man will be
starved or drowned.


2. The ice is gradually accumulat-
ing at the North Pole, and melting
away at the South Pole, the conse-
quence of which will be an awful catas-
trophe when theearth's center of gravity
suddenly changes. The last man will
then be drowned by the rush of waters.


3. The earth cannot always escape
| collision with comet, and when the
disaster comes there will be mingling
cometary gas, causing an explosion. If
the last man is not suifocated he will
be blown up.


4. There is retarding medium in
space, causing gradual loss of veloc
ity in the planets, and the earth,
obeying the law of gravitation, will
last man will be moonstruck.





earth is slowly diminishing, and SIM
ultaneously the air is losing in quantity
and quality. Finally, the earth will be
an arid waste like the moon. The last
man will be suffocated.
6. Other suns have disappeared, and
ours must, sooner or later blaze up and
disappear. The intense heat of the
confagration will kill every living
thing upon the earth. The last man
will be burned up.


Z. The SUMS fire will gradually burn
out, and the temperature will cool.
| The earth's glacial zones will enlarge,
driving our race towards the equator,
until the inhabitable space will lessen
| to nothing. The last man will be
frozen to death.


8. A gradual cooling of the earth
will produce enormous features, like
those seen in the moon. The surface
will become extremely unstable, until
the remnant of humanity will take
refuge in caves. The last man will
be crushed in his subterranean retreat.
0 The earth will at last separate
into small fragments, leaving the
people without any foothold. The last
man will have dreadful fall through
space.


10. The tenth theory, proving that
there will be no last man at all is thus
expressed: Evolution does not nee
essarily imply progress, and possibly
the race may have retrograded until
| the human being possesses the nature
of the plant louise. Such being the
case, this single inhabitant will
spontaneously produce posterity of
both sexes.'
Year: 1877

The story of an Oshkosh man who
took up collection at the funeral of
his wife, which is going the rounds as
illustrating mean man, says the La
crosse San, is explained by the fact
that the bereaved man is church
deacon, and for 20 years had always
taken up collection while the choir
was singing the second time. At the
funeral when the choir struck up ''Old
Hundred" before he thought what he
was doing, he got up and passed the
hat, as usual, to raise money to defray
the necessary expenses. When his
attention was called to it, after the
funeral, and he thought how his motive
would be misconstrued, he felt as bad
about 1t as anybody. It was not an
evidence Of meanness, but a case Of
absence Of mind
Year: 1877

A strange discovery is reported from
the Lake Of Geneva. A tourist having
lost his trunk, two divers were employed
to search for it. While they were be-
low water they found what they sup
posed to be village. since covered by
the lake. Their statement led to an
Investigation of the spot by the muni-
cipal authorities, who took measures to
ascertain tie truth of the extraordinary
account of the divers Ga covering
the placid surface with oil, these latter
were able to distinguish the plan of
town, streets, squares, and detached
houses marking the bed of the lake.
The ruddy hue which characterized
them led the Observers to suppose that
the buildings had been covered with
the famous yermillion cement which
was used by the Celts, Cimbri and the
early Gauls. There are about 200
houses arranged over an oblong surface,
near the middle of which is a space
more open, supposed to have been used
for public assemblages. Atthe eastern
extremity lies a large square tower,
which was taken for rock. A super
fetal investigation seems to indicate
that the construction of these buildings
dates from some centuries before our
era. The Council of Vaud has decided
to have the site Of the dwelling inclosed
by jetty stretching from the land, and
to drain off the water, so as to bring to
light what promises to be one of the
most interesting archaeological discov-
cries Of our day.
Year: 1877

GYPSY RoMANCE.-The Neenah
Times thus speaks romantically of a
gypsy band !:


The Gypsies who have lately left
Malison have encamped out near this
city. They have some rough-l looking
men, but most beautiful looking women.
The chief has daughter of nineteen
years, who is of surprising loveliness,
a queen among queens, said to be the
most beautiful woman in the country,
combining healthful Anglo Saxon blood
and Italy's warm nature. The chief,
it is said has tired Of his nomadic
manner of living, and will give the
hand of his daughter and dowry of
$4,000 to any young man with proper
credentials as to morality and standing
in social life, who will marry this
beautiful queen.
Year: 1877

A correspondent of the London
Daily Neaos at Penzance, speaking of
the arrival at that place of Captain
Crspo and his wife, who left New Bed
ford on May 28th in a small boat, says
"The voyage was commenced on May
2Sth, when the vessel left New Bed
ford, but by stress of weather she had
to put into Chatham. Mass, where she
stayed until the I'd of June, when the
sails were again hoisted, and the little
pygmy left on her perilous voyage with
a fair wind All went we'll for three
days, the wind being southwest and the
sea calm. The wind then changed to
southeast, and it came on foggy for
four days, and continued foggy up to
the time when they reached the Grand
Banks, seventeen days out. After
leaving the banks, where they lay to in
gale for fifteen hours, the weather
improved, and they sailed on till the
2lst of June, when another gale was
encountered. While lying to, the New
Bedford spoke the steamer Batavia,
from which assistance was offered, and
the offer was made to take them on
board, which was pluckily declined.
After this incident they encountered
succession of gales. the only wonder
being that they survived. to tell the
story. During the voyage, which occu-
pied forty-nine days, the rudder broke,
but happily there was spare oar on
board, which was used until the first
could be repaired The seas were
running mountains high, and during
that time, even when lying down to
rest, they had to lie on wet clothes.
On one occasion the Captain was for
seventy hours steering without relief,
the weather being so frightful. and on
another he was eighteen hours conse-
cutively attending to the drogue.
Captain Crapo says he could not have
stood another fifteen days; indeed, he
had not slept for seventy hours when
he landed. His average sleep while
coming across was under four hours a
day. Among the many extraordinary
things connected with the voyage is
that it had to be run by dead reckon
ing, as the New Bedford was not equal
to chronometer. Only on two occa-
sions could they get their longitude.
When speaking the two vessels Captain
Crapo had intended to make for Fal
mouth, but the wind was against it.
Captain and Mrs. Crapo seemed won
derlully we'll after the hardships they
had undergone, though the Captain
has bad hand, and when be came on
shore his other hand was firmly clenched
after seventy hours steering. The
house they stopped at was invaded by
persons eager to shake hands with SO
brave couple. The boat was also vi
sited by numbers. Captain Crapo
thinks of going on to Falmouth, and
afterward to London and the Paris
Exhibition.
Year: 1877

WHILE the freaky Missouri river is
endeavoring to find new charnel at
Omaha, the grim old Mississippi is on
a similar rampage at La Crosse, where
it threatens to leave the city several
hundred yards inland. The new rail
road bridge is accused of causing all
the trouble at La Crosse, and the citi-
zens are appealing to the proper author
ities-the War Department at Wash
ington-to compel the bridge. owners to
avert the change in the river channel
by such mechanical protection as may
be necessary.
Year: 1877

When you see his barn larger than
his house, It shows that he will have
large profits and small Affections.


When you see him driving his
work Instead of his work driving him,
IL shows that he will never be driven
from good resolutions, and that he
will certainly work his way to pros
perity.


When you always see in his wood
house a sufficiency for three months
or more, It shows that he will be a
more than ninety days wonder in
farming operations, and that he is not
sleeping In his house after q drunken
frolic.


When he has a house separate from
the main building. puIposely for ash
es, and an iron or tin vessel to trans
port them, 1t shows that he never
built his residence to be funeral pile
for bis family, and perhaps himself.


When his sled is housed in summer
and his farming implements covered
both winter and summer. 1t plainly
shows that he will have good house
over his head I'm the summer of early
life and the winter of old age.


When his cattle are properly shield
ed and fed in winter, 1t evidences that
he is acting according to the scripture
which says that "a merciful man is
merciful to his beast
Year: 1877

On Friday night, about midnight, a
posse of between sixty and seventy
five men quietly entered our town,
went to the blacksmith shop, broke Il
open, procured tools and proceeded to
the jail and broke open the door,
They went.to the cell In which Geo.
jackson, the negro ravisher and MUIR
derer of the little girl Corinna Haynes,
was confined, and breaking open the
door of the cell they took George out
and departed. They carried him
south of town about four miles, near
the Berlin road, where they chained


him TO a green sapllng and there
burned him. The whole affair was
conducted quietly, except the noise
made In breaking open the shop, and
very few persons were aware Of their
presence until they were leaving the
town. AS they were going off they
set up q loud yelling, which was don e
to prevent the voice of the negro from
being heard. Some Of our citizens
saw them riding through the streets,
and learning they had the negro, fol-
lowed them until they came to the
place of execution. When they ar
rived there, however, the negro was
burned to death and the men all gone.
AT Mr.. Brazzeale's the kidnappers
halted and gave George some water
and asked j. C. Brazzeale to go with
them and hear what George had to
say This he declined doing. We
Year: 1877

The Post, of San Francisco, Califor-
mia, is candid enough to say: we
make daily mention of the arrival of
immigrant trains from the East, but
we do not specify with equal minute
ness the departure OF disappointed
ones from the State. The reason why
Is this: We have no means of ascer-
tanning the fact, or strict regard for
truth would compel: US to chronicle
the departures as we'll as the arrivals.
But 1t may be safely averred that a
very considerable percentage of i'm
migrants from the East leave this
State after a short stay, thoroughly
disappointed.
Year: 1877

One hundred years ago not a pound
of coal or cubic foot of Illuminating
gas had been burned in this country.
No iron stoves were used, and no con-
trivances for economizing heat were
employed until DIR. Franklin invented
the iron framed fireplace, which still
bears his name. All the cooking and
warming in town and country were
done by the aid of the fire kindled
upon the brick hearth or In the brick
oven. Pine knots or tallow candles
furnished the light for the long win
ter nights, and sanded floors supplied
the place of rugs and carpets. The
water used for household purposes
was drawn from deep wells by the
creaking sweep"


No form of pump was used In this
country, so far as we can learn, until
after the commencement of the pres
ent century. There were no friction
matches in those early days, by the
aid of which a fire could be speedily
kindled; and If the fire "went out"
upon the hearth over night, and the
tinder was so so damp that the spark
would not catch, the alternative re-
mained of wading through the snow
a mile or so, to borrow a brand OF a
neighbor.


Only one room in any house was
warm unless some one of the family
was Ill; In all the rest the temperature
was at zero during many nights In
the winter. The men and women Of a
hundred years ago undressed and went
to their beds In a temperature colder
than our modern barns and wood
sheds, and they never complained.
Year: 1877

CHAPTER XXXvIu

 An Act Concerning Railroad Mortgages. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:

 Whenever any railroad company has mortgaged. or shall mortgage it's railroad, pursuant to Jaw, to secure it's bonds. and has included, or shall include in said mortgage all or any part of its rolling stock. Locomotives end cars. whether those owned by it at the date of said mortgage, or those thereafter to be acquired by it for use upon said railroad, or both, such mortgage shall be deemed valid and ef- fectual, as respects all the pfDpegty thefe- in included as aforesaid; and may be fore closed in the same manner as ordinary mortgages of real estate; and the record thereof in the office of the Secretary of this State shall be sufficient record and notice to protect the title under the mort gage, notwithstanding such company may remain in possession of all or any part of the mortgaged property. .-

 Approved February 2S, 1877.
Year: 1877

CHAPTER XLyIII.

 An Act Relating to Service on Corpora

 tions.

 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of

 Representatives in General Assembly

 convened:

 That section twelve, chapter two, of ti. tie nineteen of the revised statutes of 1875, which reads as follows: "When any corporation engaged iu transacting busi- ness in any other town than that in which it's secretary or clerk resides, shall be named as agent, trustee, or debtor of the defendant in any action commenced by process of fore .gn attachment, service may be made upon such corporation by some proper officer. by leaving true and attested copy thereof, at least twelve days before the process is returnable, with or at the usual place of abode of it's Secreta- ry or clerk, or any agent or clerk employ ed by said corporation to keep it's ac- counts, or pay it's employees in the town where it transacts business, and where any moneys, which may be owing to the defendant are due and payable;" be amended by adding the following after the word payable in the last line of said section; ''And when the plaintiff shall recover judgment ill any suit so brought and obtain execution for the same, 8 demand by the officer serving such execution on, or at the usual place of abode of the secretary, agent or clerk of said corporation with whom service was originally made, will be a sufficient demand of said corporation.

 Approved March ', 1877
Year: 1877

The work originally published under the title O.

 THE NEW AMERICAN CYCLOPEDIA was completed in 1863, since which te the wide circulation which 1t has attained ill all parts of the United States the signal developments which have taken place in every branch of science literature and art have induced the editors and publishers to submit it to exact and thorough revision, and to issue edition entitled
Year: 1877

In prepal ing the present edition for the press accordingly been the aim of the editors bring down the information of the latest possible dates, and to furnish accurate account of the most recent scov- cries ill science, of every fresh production in tea- ture, and of the newest inventions ill the practical arts well as to give succnct and original record of the nropress of
Year: 1877

The work has been begun after long and careful preliminary labor, and with the ample resources for carrying it on to successful termination.

 None of the original stereotype plates have been used, but every page has been
Year: 1877

The cost of their execution is enormous and it is be- lieved they will find welcome reception as an adm- rable feature of the Cyclopda and worthy of it's high character.

 This work is sold to subscribers only, payable on delivery of each volume. It will be complete in Six teen Large Octave Volumes, each containing about 300 pages fully illustrated with several thou sand Wood Eneravings. and with numerous colored Lithographic Maps.
Year: 1877

Have you ever caught the secret


Which the leaves forever sing.
Through each balmv day Of summer
When the birds are on the wing
Have you listened to their language,
And their laughter soft and sweet
Have you watched their shining glances
Through the noontides glowing heat
Oh! they make such merry music,
Gaily dancing in the breeze.
Every tiny leaf tremble


On the solemn old oak trees.
mat you know some happy secret
Must have stirred some winsome ELF
To those bursts of fairy laughter


And You fairly laugh yourself
Up and down they dance and CULVER.
Back and forth they sing in 4lee,
While the whistling winds still louder
Pipe their merry minstrelsy.
All along the woodland borders,


Past the reapers and their sheaves,
Still the ripping music greets you,
Of the laughter of the leaves.
All. t is sure some lovers secret


Which they whisper day by day;
Never ceasing, never firing


Of the old and happy lay.
Merry songs and merry singers,


Merry hearts when love is king,
Every summer brings new lovers,


Every year fresh leaves to sing.