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Year: 1878

The rush Of Immigration to MINES
sofa that has now set in, is the
greatest that has been known since
l856.57. Although it is now too ear.
ly in the season to look for a general
rush Of immigrants all the lines of
travel leading into this State are
crowded with land hunters and their
families.
Year: 1878

hangs just over this muster of martial tokens.which
you invited to believe is RaphaePs, but cannot


And not far from the MadOnnas soft l0veliness Is
group of canvases, which Goya's pencil has done
his worst to surpass Dantes pen in delineating gro


tesque horrors with only too much There is
immense power in these hideOus spectres-power IN
conception and mastery art and knowledge OF art
in the painting. They too good to be destroyed,
and too bad to be looked at; they ought to be
kept under lock and key, and shown only on ply
sicians certificate. They transcend In repulsive-
ness even that museum of Nightmares which the un-
wary visitor sometimes stumbes upon in Brussels,


There is nothing for it but to get into the open
air and sunlight and rinse your eyes out with the
view of the great city spread before you, and the
blue sky which bends over it: view so beautiful,
so much fairer than anything to be seen beneath
any roof that you wonder why any other Exhlbl-
ton should have any attraction at all. And you
presently perceive that good many thousands ofpeo


pie are of your way of thinking The grounds OF the
TrocaderO are thronged restless multitude is
streaming across the bridge from the Champ de
Mars the long white paths are black with passers !;
the river the broad hills the domes and towers are
glitterng before you just as you have seen them
hundred times and for the hundredth time you
conclude that the thing best worth seeing in Paris
is Paris. G.w.s
Year: 1878

WASHINGTON. July 7, 1873.


The Superintendent of the Life-Saving Ser
vice will proceed rapidly practicable provide
for the establishment Of additional stations the coast
of North Carolina, and to improve the service there as
WE'LL as elsewhere much possible before the stormy
weather of the Autumn months begins There has been
on exhibition in the Office Of this service, in the Treas
ury building here model OF apparatus invented by
Lieutenant Walter Walton, commanding the revenue
sloop Saye, and Assistant Inspector OF Life Saving
Stations for sixth district which Is designed 10 ef
feet rapid transit the various stations to points
wreck along the coast The model has somewhat the
pearau ce OF reman's hook and ladder carriage, and
is 10 be drawn by horses and convey at to points
OF shpwreck all appliances used by OF stations
in their work Of rescung shipwrecked persons and af
fOrding them comfort and safety superintendent Kim
ball will probably make use OF this apparatus the
North Carolina coast


THE GOLD AVAILABLE FOR RESUMPTION.


The coin balance in the Treasury is now
about 5000 000 which may be considered certainly
available for the resumption OF specie payments at the
date fixed. That balance has been steadily increasing
and there idea that 1t will fall below its present
figure the fact taken In connection with the present
low premium gold forms the basis Of the general
cipatOn here that resumption will before
the first OF next January.


RUSH OF ORDERS FOR POSTAGE STAMPS


The acquisitions received and filled at the
Office Of the Third Assistant General yester
day. for postage stamps etc. aggregated face value OF
90 being the largest total reported to the
Department any day. The requisition embraced
42Z40 900 postal cards. number which is also
dented in the records Of the office.
Year: 1878

PorTsvILLE, Penn, July T. This morning
at the usual hour for service at the Polish Catholic
Church at Shenandoah, the priest on going to the
church found 1t locked aud nailed up large crowd OF
excited men and women were present. defying him to
open or try to enter the church. Upon attempting 70
an or be was assaied with stones and clubs by the
wi Thirty men and women were at once arrested
aD odged In the lookup and will probably be brought
here tomorrow morning. This Is the second demon
sration made by the congregation against this priest
There al two classes Polanders there. large num-
her OF them demand a change in their priest, while
others insist that the present incumbent shall remain
The nr,est IN charge II determined 10 rule and will not
hence trouble Ii asserted that the promps
arrival and interference Of the police prevented the e


cited crowd from killing him on the spot number os
nersons Including the priest received wounds, none oS
which however are Of q serious character.
Year: 1878

WORK GOING ON IN THE ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS


LIBRARY WHICH is ATTRACTING ATTENTION ALL


OVER THE WORLD.


iBY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBUSg.l


WASHINGTON. July IA work has long been in
progress at the Office of the Smgeon-General in this
city, in which the members of the medical profession
all over the world are much interested. force Of
seven OF eight clerks of that bureau have been en-
gagged for several years. under the direction of Army
Surgeon j. 5. Billings, in compiling catalogue of
the literature in the National Medical Library, bet
ter known in Washington as the library of the Sur
geon-GeneraPs Office. This catalogue is to be much
more than Its name indicates 1t is rather an alpha
betical classification by names of titles of all dis
eases, wounds and affections to which human flesh
is subject, all known remedies, theories of treat
ment and descriptions Of special cases, giving at
the same time the names of authors who have writ
ten upon medical subjects and of the books and the
numbers Of the pages in which such matters are
treated.


In short. it will be when finished complete de-
scriptive index to nearly everything which has ever
been written upon any subject, in any language
which has professional interest for medical men,
This is perhaps overstatement in one respect for
the catalogue will not contain references to any
book of which the National Medical Library does
not contain a copy. but as this library is now
Thought to be the largest medical library in the
world, complete catalogue of il will be for all
practical purposes universal index of medical lit
erature.


The catalogue will form q series Of seven OF eight
Volumes each about the size of Websters Uu-
abridged Dictionary. Should Congress authorize
It's publication, it is proposed to distribute sets of
TINS work to the medical and circulating libraries
IN all the large cities of the country where they can
De consulted by any physician who, having a
special and uncommon case for treatment, may wish
20 know what has been written upon other cases OF
Aae Same character. and where such writing may he
Year: 1878

REMEDY FOR INSECT BITES.-When a
mosquito, flea, gnat, or other noxious
insect, punctures the human skin, it de-
posts or injects an atom of an acidulous
fluid of poisonous nature. The results
are irritation, a sensation of tickling,
itching, or of pain. The tickling of
flies we are comparatively indifferent
about; but the itch produced by flea,
or gnat, or other noisome insect, dis
turbS our serenity, and, like the pain of
wasp or bee sting, excites to rem
edy. The best remedies for the sting
of insects are those which will instantly
neutralize this acidulous poison deposit
ed in the skin. These are either am
monia or borax. The alkaline reaction
of borax is scarcely yet sufficiently ap-
preciated. However, a time will come
when its good qualities will be known
and more universally valued than am
monia, or, as it is commonly termed,
"hartshorne. The solution of borax
for insect bites is made thus: Dissolve
one ounce of borax in one pint of water
that has been boiled and allowed to cool.
Instead of plain water, distilled rose
water, elder, or orange flower water, is
more pleasant. The bites are to be
dabbed with the solution so long as
there is any irritation. For bees or
wasps' stings, the borax solution may be
made of twice the above strength. In
every farmhouse this solution should be
kept as household remedy.
Year: 1878

Poets have sung the delights of the
farmers life in strains so enchanting
that one might wonder why all the world
has not forSaken every other pursuit and
betaken itself to the tilling of the soil.
But the farmer himself, in the unshaded
bayfield,, or plodding in the clayey fur
row at the tail of his plow, with free
holders right sticking to each boot, or
bending, with aching back, between the
corn-rows, or breasting the winter storms
in the performance of imperative duties,
looks at his life from different point of
view. To him this life appears as full
of toll and care and evil chances as that
of any other toiler. And true it is, the
life of an ordinary farmer is hard, with
too little to soften it-too much of work,
too little of play. But as true is what
the poet sang so long ago: "Thrice
happy are the husbandmen if they could
but see their blessings" for they have
independence, more than any others
who by the sweat of the brow earn their
bread, and the pure air of heaven to
breathe, and the blessed privilege of
daily communion with nature.


1t is not easy for the farmer to see any
beauty in his enemies,-the meadows
full of daises, with which he is forever
fighting, or by which he has been igno-
miniously conquered; the encroaching
ranks of golden-rods along the borders
of his fields, and the bristling bayonets
of those Canadian invaders, the thistles.
How few farmers, or other people for
that matter, see in the climbing bushes
of the dawning day, or the gorgeous
painting of its close, or in the perfect
day itself, anything but the fore-telling
of fair or foul weather; or notice the
ways of any untamed bird or beast, ex-
cept that the crows come to pull the
corn, the hawks to catch the chickens,
and the foxes to steal the lambs and
turkeys! However, the farmer generally
does feel thrill of pleasure when in the
hazy softness of a February or March
day, he hears the cav of the first carbon
seeking, hungry crow. "The heart of
winter is broke" In April when the
fields begin to show suspicion of COM
ing green and give forth an odor of
spring, and the dingy snow-banks along
the fences are daily dwindling, he well
comes the carol of the first blue-bird,
and is glad to hear the robin utter his
restless note from the boughs of the old
apple tree; and the clear voice of the
new-come meadow-lark strikes him as
not altogether unmuSiCal; and when he
hears the plaintive cry of the grass
plover he is sure spring has come, and
then thinks of the small birds no more
till the first blasts of returning winter
sweep over the bare trees and frozen
fields, when, all at once, he becomes
aware that the troubadours are gone
He sees that the brave little chickadee
remains faithful to his post, and feels
that his CHEEKY note enlivens little the
dreariness of winter, as does the reedy
piping of the nut-hatch and the voice of
the dowry, fuller of life than of music,
and the discordant note of the blue jay,
who, clad in bit of summer sky, loud
ly proclaims his presence; but the sing
ers are gone and he misses them
Sc176Her.
Year: 1878

b~ How often do we hear the remark,
"Oh, so-and-so rose because he had a
friend who could push him ahead!" AS
a rule, however, the disposition to ad-
vance another does not arise from friend
ship, but rather from full confidence
in his ability; men possessing the ele-
mentS which raise them in business are
usually too just, too keen-sighted, and
too careful of their own regulations to
risk the same by recommending others
out of pure friendship. Indeed, such a
course would be anything but an act of
friendship, because, as compared to get
ting good appointment, keeping it is
ten times more difficult.
Year: 1878

Deep down beside the tangled sedge
The meadow lark sings all the day,
And bursts at times from out the hedge
The mimic chatter of the jay;
And here and there wandering note,
A crickets chirp, comes sweet and clear
Where dreamy mists of summer float
At noon upon the grassy mere.
Afar away below the hill


l see the noisy mill-wheel go,
The smooth broad lake above the mill,
The flash of foam that roars below;
And on the even slopes that rise


So gently toward the mountains brow,
The cattle watch with sleepy eyes
The lazy plow-boy at the plow.
My soul is sleeping, and its dreams
ALL sad and sweet that dreaming thrills!
For there are other wales -eed-stresms;s -
And other focks on other hills
The hills whereon 1 climbed to pull
The golden-rods and weeds of May,
When all the world was beautiful
And all my life summer day.


-Harper's Magazine for Augast.
Year: 1878

The delegates to framo Constitution
for Washington Territory, met at Walla
Walla yesterday. The members of that
Convention are men Of ability and no
doubt will submit such Constitution az
will be acceptable to the people of our
neighboring territory. There are many
Of the citizens Of that territory who are
opposed to any state government, and
who prefer to remain, for time yet, in
a territorial condition. 1t is natural,
however, for the average American citi.
zen to desire to be his own ruler, or have
voice in the selection of those who
shall govern him. This the people Of a
territory are deprived of, and il makes
them more clamorous for Statehood be-
cause in many instances their executive
officers come from section Of tbs coun-
try not their own, and men are put over
them against their will and consent. III
the matter Of expenses, we see no reason
why state government in Washington
Territory should be much more than it
is at present under territorial form.
1t is not the part Of wisdom, however,
to form a Constitution which will out
grow itself in few years, and either be
useless or put the political sages to
studying up some means to avoid its
provisions. The Convention should be
liberal, and guard every right of the
people; and with honest officials, the
burdens Of Statehood can be easily car
ried along, and the people have their
choice in selecting those who govern
them. 1t puts on manhood to assume
the dignity of state, and while it may
DO Il little more expensive, it need not
be so to such IA degree as to be burden.
some, A state government for Wash.
ington 'erritory would bring it to tie
notice of the people abroad, and soou
her increased population and wealth
would make up for the additional ex


pcnses of state administration.


Washington is one Of the richest and
best territories in the Union, and hei
population is rapidly increasing in Con
aress which would command attention


and her wants from the Federal govern
ment would be more rapidly supplied


1t Is true that the people of the territor,


now receive small sum to pay off th,
! Governor and other officers; but thi


amount would be more than made up b,
the increase of Foieral appropriation
t from those now received. We hop


that the Convention will submit Con


stitution which will be acceptable to th


people, and that our neishbor may sool


assume the dignity OF s,ate.--F


Standard June l3,
Year: 1878

Buffalo Horn the leader Of the hos
tile Bannocks vas Gen. Towards right
hand man in the celebrated campaign
against the Nez Perces The knowl-
edge he obtained during his brief sci.
vice In the United States Army will
doubtless be great value fo him in
his present raid against the whites, and
will unluestionably be indirectly the
death of many u good man hsfore he
and his blood thirsty friends are cap
tured. And it is to be hoped that the
General will profit by this experience
aud take no more g0od Indians iuto his
service, who may in after time turn and
sting him.
Year: 1878

LEWISTON, Juno 18th 1877.


EDITOR TELLER: In answer to vari-
GUS inquiries with regard to the "times"
in the east; | would like to say through
your columns that the comparison is
greatly iu favor of this country. In
fact | cannot see as the ehard timos"
that is at present depressing the whole
nation, il not the whole world, is felt
here to any extent The trouble there
is that the people have not got over
those extrayigant habits formed during |
those good old "war times" when their
crops were bountiful, and wheat was
worth two dollars per bushel. The
reaction came upon them unexpected
aud caught many of them in debt for
their fine houses aud fancy carriages
that cost fabulous prices. The result is
that very many of them have lost their
farms and are forced to come west. The
most OF them too poor to get further
than Kansas or Nebraska, to which
places they are aided by the railroad
companies, who take them at half fare,
provided, they buy land of said CON-
pauies. While 10 Chicago saw fifteen
passenger cars loaded with emigrants
for Kansas, in one train, aud this was
repeated :.at least twice a day. Good
farm hands were glad to get SIG per
month, during the working season in
Illinois, and sl2 in New York and
Pennsylvania. The only reason why we
are not flooded with immigration here
it that very little is known there OF this
country, except that it is inhabited by
millions of hostile Indians. The truth
would bring h h,sts on foot if they could
get here in no other way. However in
any erent | think they will get here as
fast as we are able to provide for them.


For instance seed grain and horse feed


would have given cut livery many more


had come last Fall,


In this connection should like to say


that our streets should be given o more


Inviting appearance to the newcomer


am of the opinion that his first i'm


pressions are that good fire iu certain


parts of the town would injure the bed,


bugs more than any one else, aud that q


decent dress would be superfiuity for u


lady prominadiug the .usineas portion


of our streets. Could not our city au.
thorities wiring in" street commits
soner who would lay new side walks tc
correspond with the individual improve.


ment that is evor going on? Some ol
the walks--notably that over the ditch
is really dangerous, and needs--dodg
ing. felt sorry for one poor old, one.
cared. poroin iriend--to whom every
body down this way is SO much attach
ed when | saw her forc,d to go quite
long way from direct course to affec
safe crossing in order to steal bar O
: soap from a neighboring door step
: Would not the value Of properly be en-
t haunced enough in this end of town Il


pay for cleaning the rubbish out of th'


street and putting sprinkler in opera


ton if such were done? If the bust
d ness men wont do it, why don't the au


thorities ''let friendship cease" and d
9 it for them. Yours truly,


i On, Anything.
Year: 1878

NORFOLK, VA, Feb. 1.-The wrecking tugs
have all returned from the scene of the wreck
of the Metropolis, and report that a terrible
strong sOutheIly current. Nothing is visible
of the wreck but her Stem-driyerS all the
woodwork being gone. The Cygnct and other
steamers that went by the way of the canal
will not arrive here until late tonight or early
in the morning. Ii is the general opinion of the
wreckerS that the Metropolis grounded at low
tide. which kept her from forging closer in
shore, having nothing but her sails 10 hold her
head on. The vessel, from The force of surf,
came TO with her side exposed to the sweep o.
the surf, thereby causing SO much loss of life
The people on her decks being unable TO hold on
Year: 1878

THE STORM OF THURSDAY was very severe
in New York and Massachusetts. In Boston
the streets were filled up with drifts of snow
from SIX TO ten feet deep. The railroad tracks
are blocked up, and travel in some localities
completely suspended. On Manhattan beach,
COney Island, the storm struck with terrific
force. There We're three tidal waves which
carried out to sea a number of Shanties and
as Tar as known eight persons were drowned.
Year: 1878

TRAVELLING on THEIR PIETY.-Two young
men, one hailing from New York and the other
from New Haven, after sleeping in the station
house Oh Saturday night, visited the Rink yes
terday morning, and became Tor profeSSed To
bec0me) convinced of the error OF their ways.
Their apparent sincerity attracted consider
able attention, until Mr. ShOrey, the reformed
drunkard came along and said that he recOg-
niZed the men as followers of Mr. Moody in all
parts of the country. I'm the evening they
went to the Presbyterian church meeting, and
saying that they wanted to follow the Master,
asked for prayers. A collection was started
TO help them, when a police officer happened
to hear OF it, and suggested that they might be
the same chaps who had visited the Rink in
the morning. Another officer subsequently
arrested them In North Main street, and they
We're brought before Judge Egglest0n's police
court this morning. He said that men who
travelled on their piety, like these fellows,
should be sent TO state prison, and regretted
that he was only able to send them TO Jail for
sixty days each. The men appeared happy at
the prospect OF being housed and cared for
until the birds begin to sing in April.-[ Hart
ford Times,
Year: 1878

THE scene which is to day being
witnessed in our own city, Of mule
teams and wagons conveying grain
to storage, is being reproduced in
every nook and corner of Califor-
mia accessible to railway or boat.
The grain crop of this State is inn
mense, and the significance of this
statement is emphasized by the
telegraphed intelligence Of the
damaged cereal crops of the East.
1t is really a sight to see-the
heaped sacks of wheat and barley
which are seeking San Francisco
from all quarters, confirming Fried
lander's estimate that the present
/, the largest grain crop ever har-
vested in the State. Another nota-
BILE Circumstance Is that there are
more vessels ia the port of San
francisco waiting for cargoes now
than in any period of the history
of that harbor.
Year: 1878

A ''Femsle Hercules" native
of France, is to be seen in London.
One of her feats is to lift an anvil
by the hair of her head, and then
have the small anvil placed on her
breast while three smiths forge q
horseshoe with their hammers,
she talking and singing all the
while.
Year: 1878

Reception OF the Chf0eAe Embassy


WASHINGTON, August 12.-The
reception Of the Chinese Embassy
here next September will not be
exceptionally elaborate. The Chi
nese Ambassador and suite will be
received by the President and Cab
met In the same manner as other
foreign Am mbassadors. The Presi-
dent does not anticipate any trouble
In being able to convince the EN-
bassy to take the same view which
he maintains on the subject of
Chinese immigration, and it is not
thought that China is opposed to
the Limitation Of The emigration Of
Year: 1878

Mrs. Nathan Lieberman while visiting
Ocean City yesterday, met with mlshap
which if it had not been for the prompt
assistance of friends might have proved
fatal. She was in the act of stepping into
boat for the purpose oftakinga sail down
the Synepuxtent Bay when her foot Slip
ped, and she was percipitated into the wat
er. She was quickly taken out, and be-
yond good ducking and scare was not
hurt.
Year: 1878

The Washington, D. G. Post Of August
18th, publishes statement that First Assist
ant Postmaster General Tyner, in conversa-
ton with seme personal friends of his about
his recent trip to Europe, remarked that Ae
had converscd with several leaders Of the
Grant movement and that they are in earnest
in pushing Gen. Grant for the presidency.
He stated that the choice Of man for the
second place on the ticket had embarrassed
the Grant managers good deal until the
name of Gen. Key was suggested, when 1t was
adopted at once.
Year: 1878

Michel Campion, aged 81, was killed
at Marinon, MIMI, on the 18th inst, in a
very singular manner. While riding through
his field near his house, the forward wheel
sank down into 4 rut in the ROAD and he was
thrown violently out between the wagon box
and wheel As 1t crampcd it caught him by
the neck and instantly broke it. His wife
saw the accident and ran to him, and shook
him loose and he fell, gasping only four
times and he was dead