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Year: 1877

To TEN EDITOR or TIE HERALD


Cannot public sentiment take the place OF private
Indignation compelling the gas companies to excr'
else common honesty IN their meter calculations and
moderation in their chargesf We received bill
few days since for exorbitaut sum, and when the
company's help camc to review tho mctor wo re.
Quested his statement OF tho amount consumed, and
thereby The company had added only nifty
per friond also, who closed his house
month and wont into tho country. returned and was
presented with gas bill of tho usual amount Cannot
tho press exotic remedyy UPTOWN.
Year: 1877

It is too late IN tbe day for Mr.. Til
den to test By judicial procedure the
title of Mr.. Huyes to the Presidency.
This should have been done in the pres
enee of the Electoral Com mission. 70
overhaul the election at this time, when
the country is adjusting itself to an ae-
certunce Of the Hayes Inauguration Is to
re open an old sore Such step Is an
investment in the interest of further po-
litical discomfort Let tbs cauldron oi
politics cease boiling It can throw UP
but dirt scum. The people oppose 1t be


cause they are ayerse to repetition OF
the late disagreeable and disgraceiu'
struggle over the Presidential succession
Year: 1877

Tho only reason old Dluo-Jcans WILLIAMS
dill not resign in favor Of GnAr, his Lieutenant
Governor, WIS that tic latter stlrank from dis
graclng htmself in the first net Of his Gubcrna-
tortal existence by tho appointment Of old Blue
Jeans WILLIAMS to tho United Statss Senate.
Year: 1877

Correspondence St. Louis Times


New YoRK, August "a.


The poor wretch, DR.. Sanford,
who so abandoned himself to the use
of opium that to obtain it he be-
came a thief and fell into the hands
Of the police, was sent to the peni-
tentiary the other day for his crime.
His case is one Of the most shock
ing in all tho annals of opium
eating. Although but thirty years
old, he may be said to be utterly
destroyed, both physically and men
tally. He had been in the Tombs
nearly week, yet his stupor was
seemingly as heavy when he was
brought into court as at the time of
his arrest. He had neither law
yer nor friend to intercede for
him, and the court had to assign
him couns'l. The miserable man,
who had only a few years ago been
a practicing physician, had become
mere driyeling imbocile, with
mind almost entirely gone and body
covered from head to foot with
sores made by his own hand when
forcing the destructive drug into
his system. "0h, do not hang mel
do not hang mel let me be shot!"
was all he could say when ques-
toned in the court, Physicians
tell me that the opium habit stead
lily increases in New York, and |
am informed by druggists that the
demand for opium IN its various
forms is greater now than they have
yet known it to be. Both physi-
clans and druggists say people not
familiar with the subject have no
idea of the extent to which the
passion for opium prevails. There
are scores oil persons in New York
so habituated to the drug that
each consumes as much daily as
would kill half a dozen persons not
accustomed to the use of it, A
physician said to me not long since,
when speaking on this subject, that
doctors are more exposed to the
dangers of opium than any other
class, because it is always within
their reach, and many fall into the
habit of using it for the most triA-
ing personal ailments. A doctor
who committed suicide few
months ago, under circumstances
which made his death sensational,
is believed by his friends to have
been a victim of the opium habit.


Babies are too highly prized TO hermit
Year: 1877

The deserts of California produce
many interesting speciments OF the cactus
family, among which is the cactus gigan-
teus. Some time ago it was but little
known, and by all considered perfectly
worthless. Judge G. w. Walker two
wears ago in Philadelphia, found that the
properties of the plant, which is one mass
of fbres, adapted it well for paper-mak-
ing, and that it requires much less
chemicals than any other substance, and
that it is different and distinguishable
from anything 80 far known, and that the
percentage of actual fibre was much
larger and the cost Of production much
less. He shipped on a whole carload of
this plant from the Pacific stat0s, and
converted it into beautiful white paper
at the Ledger mills. The raw fibre
bleaches into pulp as white as snow, and
resembling cotton as TO texture.


The Judge secured very valuable pa
tents on the material, as an improved
paper stock, and within the past year
built a very substantial mill on the
Southern Pacific railroad at a cost OF
thirty thousand dollars. This road cuts
through this section for several miles,
and is run by a switch direct to the mill.
To make paper the material is first carved
into blocks, then pressed down shute
TO a shedding machine, boiled in inn
mense vats and beaten up into pulp in
raw engines. 1t was afterward treated in
the usual way. Hitherto California has
imported nearly all Of its paper from the
east, but all this will soon be at an end.
1t is estimated that we spend $4,000, 600
annually in this way, all Of which will
be saved to us under the new process.
Not more than few weeks will have
elaped before this paper will be sold to
the trade.
Year: 1877

Inquest.


The medical fraternity of Detroit are
puzzled upon hearing the sequel to the
| awful affair at the house of correction.
It will be remembered that it was re-
ported that one James Donnelly cut his
throat twice and stabbed himself in the


left breast three times that the prison
physician attended to the wounds and
three minutes after they were inflicted


saw no signs of life. Coroner Wilson,
who was visiting the house of correction


at the time, held an inquest, and a YER


dict was returned in accordance with the


apparent facts in the case. The singular


part of the affair is that the inquested


suicide is still alive, and although there


seems to be no chance of his ultimate
recovery, he was able yesterday after


noon to talk in a weak and disconnected


manner. The physician yesterday in an


interview pronounced the case one OF


the most remarkable that ever came


under his notice. When the would be


suicide fell to the floor the blood spurted


from the gashes in his breast, and at each


labored respiration the air could be seen


to enter and pass out of the gaping


wounds. Exactly three minutes after


the fall his jaw dropped, the wound be


came apparently exsanguinated, the lips
turned CHASTITY blue and no pulse was
perceptible. The body was removed
from the chair shop to tie stretcher. and
two prisoners were detailed to sit through
the night with the body. Shortly after
seven o'clock, over three hours after the
man was thought to be dead, the watchers
were startled by slight gurgle in the
throat of the (?) man, and soon after the
eyes opened. The deputy superinten-
dent was Immediately sent for, and |
when he arrived the wounded man made |
a feeble motion with his lips as though !
desirous to talking. OF course restOraN
tive and cooling bandages were at once
applied to the wounds, and soon the |
three hours dead man spoke the deputy
name. At this the
deputy remarked: "I see you're bound
to live" at which the restored man re-
sponded, You bet your sweet life !"
There is no doubt that the unfortunate
man is insane. He says that his right
name is john Donner and that all of his
relatives live or did live eight years ago
1T Drogheda, Ireland. An idea of the
extent of his wounds may be gained
when it is stated that twenty-five
stitches were required to close the two !
yashes in his throat, while nine stitches
sufficed to shut the three gashes in his
eit breast.
Year: 1877

There are few traps for the female sex
any more deadly than the side-saddle,
and no one of any sense grieves at the
decay of the noble art of horse woman
ship" as long as that art cannot be Prac-
ticed except at the imminent risk OF the
ladies doing 50. English people are &c,
voted horsemen, and the ladies, as well
as the men, take the highest pleasure Of
ealloping after the hounds. But recently
an EngIish lady, who enjoys what is con
gidered an enviable fame for skill and
daring in riding close to the hounds
and who is also "a pattern wife and mother
has announced that she will risk her
life no more riding on side-saddle, but
in the next seacon will ride masculine
fashion. Her announcement has set the
whole fashionable world to talking, since
she is woman of spirit, and it is believed
she will do as she says. II she does she
will have followers without doubt, and
may be that this will inaugurate the long
expected dress revolution.
Year: 1877

Great success attends the enormous
drainage and canal operations of the
Hollanders. The two undertakings usu-
ally 90 hand in hand, so that, as in the
case of the new canal from Amsterdam
to the sea, while the lands recovered by
drainage are of enough value to reduce
the total cost of the enterprise by nearly
a third, there is a further advantage
secured by the unity of the plan, since
the process of constructing the canal
was contrived 80 as to facilitate the actual
york of drainage. That canal having
cut off and secured the drainage of a
portion of the Zuyder ice, project for
another canal, to drain the southern part
of that body Of water, is now before the
chamber of deputies. The new canal is
intended to give Amsterdam a direct
waterway 10 the Rhenish provinces. The
area to be drained is somewhat less than
four hundred thousand acres. The cost
of the undertaking, for which it is pro-
posed to obtain government loans, is
estimated at nearly $50 100000.
Year: 1877

The true plan to follow, when safety is
the call, is to swim with everything be-
low the chin well down under water, the
head we'll back and resting centrally on
the floating power of the lungs. But
what will you do when your comrade is
tired out and drowning? That depends.
If he is cool and reliable, get in front of
him, let him place his hands on your
hips (not your shoulders), and you can
carry him quite distance. That sup
poses that both parties, rescued and
rescuer, understand fair play. The
weaker party is the one that ought to
drown, if he shows any disposition to
drown his friend by a miserable, cOwardly
death-cIutch at the only floating thing
around him. In the case of the death
clutch, 90 to the bottom with your man
and leave him there. There may be an
unpleasant wrestle, but the real drown
ing man is ready to quit his prey when
he strikes bottom. The better man has
his right to come to the surface and swim
ashore.


But in a considerable swimming ex-
perience, and some rescues, there comes
one absolute rule: Never face q drown
ing man. He welcomes rescue so eagerly
that he will hug you around the neck
and take you down The safest and best
thing to do is to get behind him, and,
unless you are left-handed, put your left
hand under his right arm-pit. The lift
YOU give him will be enough in ordinary
water. He can be coaxed to help him
self, and if he is reasonable being you
can bring him to shore. If he is insane
with fright, recollect that you are to be
both prudent and heroic. Get away
from him, clutch his ankle with one
hand and tow him ashore. If the bank
is near, he is not likely 20 drown on the
way. If he does, it is not your fault.
But brave swimmer is master of his
element.


once saw two young fellows rescue a
drowning comrade in a way that was
remarkable for its neatness. The poor
fellow was in mid-stream, cramped and
exhausted, and barely able to keep
afoat. Which was first was never de-
cided, but in critical moment each was
behind him, each with a hand under an
arm-pit he was almost a dead weight
on their hands, and they swan him to
shore, more dead than alive. 1t was a
struggle, but they were masters of the
situation.---ISt. Nicholas for July.
Year: 1877

THE SAN FRANCISCO ELorHMENr.-


The romantic story of pretty Jennie


Burdick, of San Francisco, and gallant
George deKalands, of the Russian navy,


has already been recounted-how they
loved, how they planned an elopement,
how her father with shot gun scared
off the sailor, how the maiden ran away
and hired boatman and went to q
boarding house, where she was captured
the next morning by the detectives and
taken home. But she had set her heart
on marrying her lover, and married him
she has. A second elopement was plan


ned for Sunday, March 10. She paid


visit to young lady whose father was q


boatman. Soon after midnight the boat
man took his daughter and her friend in


a boat across the water to a yacht, and


then they all set sail for Vallejo. The


wind died away, and off Angel Island
they abandoned the yacht for a small
boat. Owing to a dense fog they lost
their way, and it was not nntil after TIVE
o clock in the afternoon that they arriv-
ed at Vallejo. Jennie went at once to
her friends house and signaled to the
Russian corvette Vsadnick. A moment
after, the lieutenant had crossed the wa
ters and was holding her in his arms.
They obtained license and were mar
ried by justice of the peace. Mrs. de-
kalands Immediately telegraphed to her
father that she was married and happy.
Year: 1877




Matthew Dorm, the monster headed
boy, is dead. He was fifteen years Of age
and was certainly a curiosity, if not a
monstrosity, so far As his Uranium was
concerned. 1t is said that his head was
nearly four feet in circumference, and
weighed quite eighty pounds. He was
of 1rlsh parentage. When a. weeks
old his head began growing mS5h more
rapidly than his body, and continued to
grow up to within few weeks of his
death, which occurred early this week.
He has never been able to sit up, but
could move his head from right to left
while lying ON a pillow. During the
Centennial Exhibition at Philadelphia
he was taken there by speculative per-
sons, but the undertaking did not prove
successful there or in Albany, where he
was subsequently exhibited for a few
days. His body at the time of his death
weighed about one-half as much as his
head.
Year: 1877

District Court, where it had been taken
on a change of venue. The proofs
showed that McMains had collected
and was in control of the mob and
hired man to entice Vega out to
them, and that he was taken and hung
to telegraph pole, after which he was
shot and killed. The jury found
McMains guilty in the 9th degree, but
the court, owing to an informality in
the verdict, on motion of the defendant,
granted a new trial, which will be had
at the next March term. Meantime
McMains is out on bail.
Year: 1877

The Union Pacific has decided to put
in Howe truss bridge for temporary
duty. The agent of the company
which is to build it, in an interview
with an Omaha Herald reporter said:


1.-THE temporary bridge will be COM
pleted in two weeks time, if the
weather is good, and twenty days at
the farthest. We will put up trestle
work from the embankment to the first
pier and a Howe truss from the
first to the second pier. 1t will be as
long distance as was ever spanned by
Howe truss in the world, and only
two have been built rs long-one at
Rock Island and the other at Winona,
Mimi, both of which were the same
length as will be required here, 25C
feet.


"This will necessarily have to be a
strong bridge, as in addition to support
ing the crossing trains it will have te
support the iron bridge while 1t is being
built. The cost will be $4,000 Of
s3o,ooo."
Year: 1877

The Colorado grist mills are now
busy grinding new wneat and the price
is steadily declining, because it is off.
cred in greater quantities than needed.
Our Greeley farmers mean to build a
grain warehouse so soon as they are
able, wherein they will store their grain,
and then they can get what money they
must have on warehouse receipts, leav-
ing the actual sale of the grain to be
made when they think prices will justi-
fy,by which means prices will be equal
lied. Tribune.
Year: 1877

Anxiety at Washington Regarding HIS


Whereabouts.


Washington, August 30.-General
Terry does not credit the report that
Sitting Bull and his band have returned
to United States territory, and thinks
the Indians seen and reported as Sit
ting Bull's band are small part of his
tribe which never went across the
Canadian border at all but remained
within our territory. \ dispatch has
been sent to the Canadian authorities,
asking whether Sitting Bull has ac-
tually returned to American soil.


The Sitting Bull commission will not
leave until a reply to this dispatch is
received. Secretary Schurz is confident
that Sitting Bull is still in Canada.
Year: 1877

THE Grand Duke Alexis has received
a gold hilted sword for bravery in the
action at Sistova. The intrepidity
with which, from an elevation mile
away, he beheld his soldiers rush into
battle is said to almost pass belief.
And he did not commence to run till
several minutes after the soldiers had
started. He was satisfied with start
er of only little over half a mile.
Year: 1877

THE committee appointed by the
board of Aldermen Of New York to
investigate frauds Of the Tweed ring,
resolved on Friday afternoon to make
an application to the Supreme court for
a summons commanding VIM. NJ.
Tweed to appear before that body at its
next meeting on Monday.
Year: 1877

IT is now positively asserted that the
Powers have arrived at the understand
ing that their neutrality will remain
unaltered, Notwithstanding the military
alliance between Servia and Russia.
Year: 1877

FROM the fact that the Russians are
making contracts for the building of
winter bridges across the Danube, 1t is
inferred that they do not expect to
finish the war or intend to leave Bull
garia this season.
Year: 1877

A Mr.. Morris, planter, near
St. Joseph, Tensas parish. aoci-
IDENTITY discovered what he calls
% cheap and effective means of
destroying the cocoa grass. It is
to sprinkle GOAL oil THAT in its
crude state is best) on the grass
out of an ordinary watering pot,
putting it on so that about FIVE
or six drops will be on each
stem that goes down to the nuts
in the ground. The best time to
put it on is when the grass is
perfectly dry. free from rain
water and dew. Will some one
try it and report the result p
Nndicotor.
Year: 1877

Twenty Thousand People
old and young. every week. 1t is just to say
that the patrons of the WESTERN
METHODIST belong to the best class Of
community.


We desire our business mon to make note
of the above facts before completing their
advertising arrangements for the coming
season.


We use our best efforts to keep our columns
free of all irregular and irresponsible adyer-
tisins; for many aoOd people seeing an ad-
vertisement in paper. especially their
church paper. take it as guarantee of re-
sponsibility. Such confidence should not be
abused when it can be helped. We want.
therefore.


The Advertising Patronage
OF such business men and firms as we can
recommend to our friends and the public
without compromising the character of the
paper.


Our Terms Shall be In Harmon


with the business Outlook.


Send In Your Ravors.
Year: 1877

History repeats ITSELF Twenty or
thirty years ago the man who possessed
from ten to twelve thousand dollars
worth OF property was considered
wealthy. The same Is rapidly getting
TO be tho case again.
Year: 1877

A young mans interest and duty both
dictate that he should make himself in.
dispeDsible to his employers, He should
be so industrious, prompt and careful
that the accident of his temporary ab-
sence should be noticed by his being
missed. A young man should make his
employer his friend BY doing faithfully
and minutely all that is entrusted to
him 1t is a great mistake 10 be over
nice or fastidious about work. Pitch in
readily and your willingness will be ap-
preciated, while the J high toned !"
young man who quibbles about what it
is and what it is not his place to do will
get the cold shoulder, There is story
that George Washington once helped
rolla log that one of his corporals would
not handle, and the greatest Emperor
of Russia worked as sbipwright in
England TO learn the business. That
is just what you want to do. Be ener-
getic, look aud act with alacriry; take
an interest 10 your employers success;
work as though the business was your
own, aud let your employer know that
he may place absolute reliance on your
word and on your act. Be mindful /;
have your mind on yonr business, be.
cause it is that which is going to help
you, not those outside attractions which
some of the " boys" are thinking about.
Take pleasure in your work; do not
90 about in listless, formal manner,
out with alacrity and cheerfulneos, and
remember that while working thus for
others you are laying the foundation of
your own success in life.
Year: 1877

A discovery has been made in Aus
tralia, which confirms with singular
the theory that assigns to
Camel coal an origin from leaves. It is
difficult to understand how leaves can
accumulate free from dirt in sufficient
quantity to form the beds of Camel coal
now severel feet thick, and representing
many times their mass in leaves. But
in Australia, Just such q mass of leaves
has been found partially, but not com
pletely, altered to Camel. The appear
ance and fracture of fresh blocks are the
same as of this kind of coal found else
where, but after some years exposure, it
can be separated with knife into thin
lamine, which shows that the mass is
composed principally OF leaves. The bed
is six feet thick, and the government
geologist calls it incipient Ignite"


Coal Trade journal.
Year: 1877

boiler, being divided into two comPart-
ments, one for the engineer and fireman,
and the other (in front and directly ever
the boiler, is fitted up with upholstered
seats for the use of the superintendent
and those who accompany him.
Year: 1877

We read in scientific Journal: There is .
method which have adopted in my own house
to cool the temperature of my room during hot
weather, and that is, to hang q sheet or q
blanket down outside windows upon which
the sun may be shining. This sheet is wet,
and tie evaporation of the water prod uces a
deliciously cool apartment. The sheet is kept
damp by having 9 vesssl filled with water
above the top of it outside, and piece of
flannel arranged to form siphon, and touch
ing several portions of the sheet. The water
gradually empties out of the vessel, and may
be replenished if necessary. The window is
of course, open. 1t is strange that so simple
and mex peusiVe method has not found favor
mere, more especially in sick rooms; q cylin-
drical-shaped tin vessel, with some very fine
holes, fixed over the window, would easily
supply the water"
Year: 1877

The cotton manufactures of New England
chow encouraging signs of = gradual revival
of business, peroeptible IL email. Forty nine
mills, which turn out about one-third Of the
Northern product, worked up during the first
six months of the present year s9,2Ss 942
pounds of cotton, as compared with $3.50 ,sOo
pounds last year during the corresponding Pc
riod. The increase lie about per cent, but as
the quality of cotton this year was somewhat
better than that of the fabric worked up last
season the increase in the actual amount of
manufactured goods iS about per cent. All
the goods have been readily marketed, there
being no considerable accumulation on hand,
while there is perceptible improvement of
the demand. With prices ut the present
figures it is expected that all the New Eng
land mills will be kept running at their
hiebest capacity during the fall aud winter to
meet the demand for cotton goods.
Year: 1877

FAIR AT Pass CHRISTIAN The Fair at Pass
Christian opons tonight Saturday }, and will
continue tomorrow and Mcn nday. Great prepa-
ratious have been made to ensure its success,
and as the proceeds are to be devoted to build
ing lew church TO replace the one burned
down . short time ago, We have no doubt that
the Catholics of the coast, as we'll ss those Of
our city will contribute to that end 10 the foil
extent OF their ability.