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Year: 1878

Being summoned to appear as witness
in the court of common pleas of Aileghe-
ny County, Pennsylvania, in the month
of April of this year of grace one thou
sand eight hundred and seVenty-eight,
and having several days there to wait on
the calling up of the case in which my
testimony was wanted l had an opportu-
nifty of noting some of the pleas that are
common, but not unclean, and was sur
prised to see how many men had gone to
law about the fulfllment OF plain written
contracts. But the case which most did
interest me was one between two men
about an injury inflicted upon the prop
erty of one by that of the other


1t was not the old case of the bull which
gored the OK but it was very like unto
it. This bull had not gored another
mans OK, but he had tossed another
mans wifes; or, as she would have been
called in the days when our present laws
was enacted and up to fifty years ago, his
woman.


There were two questions for the jury
to decide. First, whether the woman or
the bull was a-trespassing on the main
street of Temperanceville a suburb of
Pittsburgh. Second, what damages, if
any, the owner of the woman was enti-
tied to collect from the owner of the bull.
The bull was not brought into court, to
give his version of the affair; but the
woman was placed on the stand, to state
the case, on behalf of her owner, and gave
it much as one might expect from "A
a-let me see "a noun is the name of
any person, place, or thing" This wo-
NJ an answered to a name; but whether
the court recognized her as person, a
place. or thing, or as all three, or only
two of them, l could not exactly make
out.


Taken as witness, one might conclude
she was person; but places and things
are often offered in evidence, so the fact
of her being a witness does not settle the
question But she was witness who was
to give intelligent oral testimony, and,
therefore, must have been regarded as a
person Still, dog might do this, by
barking a recognition of his master, and
so deciding question of ownership.


Well, l give it up. The woman, and
not the bull, was brought into court, and
gave her testimony as one might expect
from one in her anomalous position. No
class of property ever yet learned to weigh
words very accurately, and lying is the
vice of slaves; - SO no one seemed sur
prised when this respectable wife and
mother said, on oath, that she had been
walking that morning, and carrying her
sick child in her arms, for air, when the
defendants bull tossed her and the child
seven feet up into the air, whence she
fell under the trestles of railroad bridge,
insensible; that she fell on the child, in
juring it severely; was insensible for
some time after never saw or heard the
bull, and had learned the facts from the
papers. 1t would have been better for
the owner of the woman if he had kept
his property at home. although she, nc
doubt, told 1.-The truth, the whole truth
and nothing but the truth" but, since il
was the truth of which she even profess
ed to be personally cognizant, it nigh
better have been untold


The defense admitted the tossing, anl
Year: 1878

caucus of his party, or, in ecclesiastical
cases, of his church, and is always tri-
umphantly indicated.


Two years ago the quadrennial election
for President occurred. Senior Tilden
received majority of quarter of q
million of votes but the party in power
favoring his opponent, and threatening
to use the army in favor of the latter,
compromise was affected, by which fifteen
of the purest men of both parties were
chosen to decide the question. These
fifteen pure men proved their superiority
by voting in court exactly as they had
voted at the election. So pure were the
fifteen purest men found in Sodom The
selfgoverning Anglo-Saxons at the North
are now investigating this affair, and
uncovering a mass of corrupt bargain and
sale such as never disgraced the vilest
pueblo of North or South America. No,
Senor Lerdo, if you wish to gain the suf-
frages of Mexicans, you must hold up
loftier exemplar than that of the corrupt,
anarchical pepublic depotism of the
North. We are not yet prepared to ex-
change our bull-fghts for your prize-ring,
our religious liberty for your Methodist
State Church, nor the legacy of Bolivar
for either an Austrian scepter or mock
republic Disgusting military plutocracy.
Year: 1878

A little footstep pattering on the floor,
A golden head laid gently on my knee;
A shadow darkening all the earth and sky,
And life is sad and desolate to me.
Sweet lips half parted in peaceful smile;
The light of God upon that baby brow;
A hush upon the tiny waXen face


Our darlng's but a tender mem'ry now.
Our grief nigh spent, we try to calmly think,
To ask ourselves half Sternly-Is it right
That we should mourn that to eternal rest
Her infant form was laid by US tonight?
In later years her footsteps might have turned
Aside from paths that point the heavenly


gate;
Perchance she might have heard the awful


words
And, now? All, yes! our darling calmly sleeps;
Earth holds for her nor hope, nor grief, nor


loss,
Another life has gained the pardon won
With such deep pain upon the bitter cross.
Year: 1878

The Congregationalist has story of
member of a fashionable congregation in
New York who called at music store
and inquired, Have you the notes of a
piece called the Song of Solomon" say
ing, "Our pastor referred to it yesterday
morning as an exquisite gem, and my
wife would like to learn to play it,"
Year: 1878

All kinds of Real Estate bought and sold, and
all work incident TO a Real Estate Agency
promptly attended to.


gs-If you want Information concerning Real
Estate in Pike county, call and see me. Office
in the Court House, Waverly. 23may7Stf
Year: 1878

For several weeks past many Of our citizens have been talking of celebrating May 30th in accordance with the general observance of the day in other towns, and with this good object in view, it has been urged upon Us to give notice of a meeting through the columns of the BEE, so that our citizens might be interested and their co-oporation secured in carry ing out the details.

 We join heartily in this lroI ose l public celebration, and did not really need urging, to open our columns for the ftTthcrancc of the good cause. We wanted to ascertain the sentiment of the ladies and gentlemen, and have received sufficient encouragement from them to warrant Us in calling meeting to be held next Monday evening in Glovcr's Hall Main St. Mr. Norman B. Glover will give the use of the hall for that evening, for nominal sum sufficient to pay for lighting up, &e.. and if each one who attends will bring his or her mi it will help to make up a collection to pay expenses. The meeting will commence about 8 o'clock D. m, and all who are interested will endeavor to attend. All soldiers and members of the Grand Army are expected to be present and help to perfect the necessary arrangements for 8 grand parade. It is desirable that the friends of deceased soldiers will send in the names of those that enlisted from this town, and who died during the war, or since their return home and the place of their burial

 It is confidently expected that each, distrfetsof Newtownswill be represented, and that q list of soldiers buried in the several cemeteries in town will be hand- -ed-in, so that each grave may be decor ated with flowers by the commi: tees ap- pointed to do so. An effort will he made to have appropriate services held in the Newtown cemetery consisting of short addresses. singing and prayers. Let there be full meeting Monday night.
Year: 1878

A successful business man told me
two things which he learned when he
was eigteen, which were ever afterwards
Of great use to him, namely "Never
lose anything" and 'never forget any
thing An old lawyer sent him with
an important paper, with certain instruc-
tions what to do with it. 'But," in
quired the young man. suppose ! lose
it; what shall / do then?'' ''You must
not lose it, 81 do not mean to" said
the young man, '.but suppose | should
happen to % "But l say you mast not
happen to; shall make no provision
for any such occurrence; you must not
lose it r g.


This put new train of thought into
the young mans mind, and he found
that if he was determined to do thing,
he could do it. He made such provision
against every contingency that he never
lost anything. He found this equally
true about forgetting. If certain
matter of Importance was to be remem-
bered, he pinned it down in his mind,
fastened it there, and made it stay. He
used to say "When man tells me that
he forgot to do something, | tell him he
might as we'll have said do not care
enough about your business to take the
trouble to think of it again. | once
had an intelligent young man in my en-
ployment who deemed it sufficient for
neglecting any important task to say 81
forget it" | told him that would not
answer the case. If he was sufficiently
interested, he would be more careful to
remember. 1t was because he did not
care enough that he forgot it. drilled
him with this truth. He worked for me
three years, and during the last of the
three he was utterly changed in this re-
spect. He did dot forget thing His
forgetting. he found, was a lazy and
careless habit of his mind, which he
cured Country Gentleman.
Year: 1878

COVERED YARDs.-Few farmers in
America have yet considered the value
and use of covered cattle yard. In
England such are not uncommon, and
they are coming daily more into use,
both there and upon the continent. In
this country where building material,
especially wood is more abundant and
cheaper, we feel convinced that their
adoption would, In many cases, be found
to pay. Properly constructed, they pro-
tect the cattle from the inclement wealth
er, and allow of their being turned out
many more days in the year than would
be otherwise prudent. They also make
the yard more comfortable and cleanly
for the cattle to lie down; and they
protect the manure from teaching or
washing by rains. In this way alone
roof would often pay a good percentage
on its cost. If to the roof we add also
a pavement, with a covered cistern in
the Centre into which all surplus mois-
ture is conducted, we shall then have
completed one of the most valuable i'm
provements that dairy or stock farm
can possess.
Year: 1878

kings is represented by John Skae, a
Canadian Frenchman. For many years
he was telegraph operator in Virginia
City, and is about 43 years of age.
Through the assistance of Colonel Fair
he was advised early to invest in Con-
solidated Virginia, and realized hand
some fortune therefrom, which enabled
him to purchase controlling interest in
Sierra Nevada some years ago, and
which mine he has virtually controlled
ever since. Skae is an impetuous and
reckless operator, and a. born gambler at
heart. He has none of that reserve and
caution that is necessary to manage and
control the destinies of market, and is
atotally untitled to have such important
interests in his care. With his recently
acquired fortune he is disposed to arro-
gate unto himself great power, and seeks
rather to ignore the bonanza firm than
to rely upon their assistance. Whatever
may be the result of the development,
in any event the Bonanza firm will al
ways control the market, and be the
Money Kings. The bonanza firm hold
large quantities of Sierra Nevada, and
have almost entire control of Union Con-
solidated, the next adjoining mine, and
which is believed by the most reliable
experts | have seen to contain the most
valuable portion of this ore deposit.


It's to be hoped, and it is the wish
of our conservative and most respected
merchants and operators. that the desti-
ny of the new bonanza will fall into the
hands and under the immediate control
of the bonanza firm, who will, to say
the least, make an economical and just
disposition of its wealth. The manage
ment of the past. when the Bank of
California and other unscrupulous ad-
ministrations were in power, would alb
sorb this bonanza and leave the innocent
stockholders completely out in the cold.


TOBY CANDoR.
Year: 1878

The fellow who was layed out found
himself IN Strengthened circumstances.


A too-sensitive lover in Burke county,
Ga. has broken off his engagement be-
cause his sweetheart named her pet calf
after him.


9 Some wretch had the audacity to re-
mark that the ladies deck their hats with
flowers in memory of the men who have
been killed by milliner's bills.


Love is blind, and that's the reason
why it can get along with one small
hand lamp, turned down as low as it Will
60, as well as under blazing chandelier
of fifty burners.


A Pittsburg school teacher had just
taught her scholars to say either" and
"nither, and "fe-nance," when she died.
No one can tell when their life's work
will be cut short.


Cider may be good temperance
drink, but can manage to get so drunk
on it that l kant tell one ov the ten COM
mandments from bylaw ov baseball
club.-Josh Billings.


With Edison's new machine you can
see man hundred miles away, but
you cannot see with it the man owing
you bill who lodges around the corner
when he notices you coming.


"Oh % said the afflicted wife, while
she wept over his remains, "he said he
would take off his fannels, poor man, he
little thought how soon he would 90 to
that place where fannels are never
needed"


From the time boy is eight years old
until he is thirteen he devotes two solid
hours of every day of his busy life to
learning how to make a new kind Of
noise. By the time he is thirteen years
old he has accumulated noise enough to
last him the rest of his natural life, and
uses three kinds of noises the same day
too.


A contemporary referred in his loca'
columns to bracelet lost by an estima
BILE young lady of our city, and request
ed the finder to leave it at her residence
The compositor set it up "breeches lost,
and the proof-reader let it go at that
The young lady says she would not ad
vertise in that paper again if she wer
to lose $4,000 worth of jewelry.


"Fellow citizens, said stump orator
eve have the best country in the world
and the best government No people o.
the face of the globe enjoy more priv
leges than we do. Here we have tn
liberty of speech and liberty of press
without onerous despotism. What. fel
low citizens, is more desirable than this


Do you want anything more, my cour
|, trymen 2" "Yes sir-ee." yelled one {
his hearers, 81 want suck out of ths


flask in your coat pocket behind" :"
Year: 1878

Butler says that currency that is good
enough in times of war is good enough
in times of peace; but what would he
think of the remark of q man who said,
as | once heard that one did, that he
gave his wife terrible dose of calomel
when she was sick that cured her, and
he had continued to dose her the
same ever since. for what is good for
her when i'll is good for her when well.
Henry Hard Beecher.
Year: 1878

A masked burglar entered a room
where man and his wife lay asleep.
They both awoke, when the robber point
ed pistol at their heads, and quietly
backed out of the room and got off with
his plunder. The startled slumberers
were terribly frightened, "the mans
hair turning white before morning
The woman was as much scared as her
husband, but upon examining her hair,
which hung over the back of a chair. il
was found not to have changed parti-
Gle. Something strange about this
Norrsstoacn Herald.
Year: 1878

MoNKEYs.-Monkeys are. as rule,
incredibly agile, and will traverse the
forest through the trees, at the height
of hundred feet or more above the
ground, as rapidly as deer could 60
beneath them. Some monkeys have the
tail SO highly developed that it is almost
a fifth hand. The most remarkable of
the American monkeys is that known as
the ..howler." He roars louder than
the lion or the bull, being provided for
this purpose with large long vessel in
the throat, into which the air is forced.
Year: 1878

We devote most of our editorial
and general news page this week to
the graduates ofour home high-schOol.
We thought this due to them, to the
school, the Principal. teachers and
public, and doubt not that all who
take pride in our excellent schools
will duly appreciate the unusual and
ardurous labor 1t has taken to bestow
this mark of respect for our schools.
Year: 1878

Uncle Sans Harness Oil will
keep the leather soft and pliable, thus
preventing its cracking or ripping,
keep ont water and is better for oiling
harness than any other oil ever made.
It will make harness last as long again.
Sold by all harness makers and deal
ers in leather. Give it trial.
Year: 1878

The wheat now Is threatened with
rust. Warm, wet, cloudy weather is
not good for wheat at its present stage
Of maturation. We have heard, how
ever, of no injury as yet from this
cause. We think fall wheat harvest
will begin within two weeks.


- Mr.. O'Pelt, of the Marsh House,
desires through THE ADVERTISER, to
return the hearty than ks of himself
and wife, to those of this city, and
others, for their presence and in
fluence in rendering the banquet and
ball on Tuesday evening a perfect
success
Year: 1878

OWING to great pressure of work
we omitted, in this issue, that part
of the advertisement of sale of the
Port Ludlow mill property referring
to lands in Island County. But, as
that portion of the estate will not
be sold until Nov. 18th, the adver-
tisement will still have six weekly
insertions before the sale. The com
pete advertisement will appear next
week.
Year: 1878

IT may be interesting to know
that according to provision made by
the last Territorial Legislative as
sembly, this county received l25
copies of Elwood Evans Centen
NAL Address, to be sold for the ben
eft of the school fund. A large
number of these pamphlets are still
on hand at the county auditors Of
fee, although they will be sold at
20 cents per copy.
Year: 1878

We expected to be able to pub
lish the entire remainder of the
Good Templar Grand Lodge pro-
ceedings this week; but must be
content with merely the G. W. C.
Us report. Read it, and next week
we will endeavor to insert the rest.
Year: 1878

Miss Mary Spencer, the artist, gave q
reception to large number of her friends
at her studio, 80 West Fourth street, yester-
day afternoon.


This is the third annual occasion of Tim
kind, each one of which has been thorough
ly enjoyed by many of the friends of Miss
Spencer The reception lasted during the
entire afternoon, and persons were coming
and going during the whole time.


Refreshments were provided and the wish
tors enjoyed pleasant talks with each other
and with the genial artist, and were given
an opportunity to examine specimens OF
Miss Spencer's work.


Besides the many orders she has filled slle
has on banda number of beautiful pieces Of
new work. Those which attracted, perhaps,
most interest, were number of beautiful
flower pieces, department of art in which
Miss Spencer has no superior in the conntry.


Several portraits were also to be ssen.
which were remarkable both for their faith
fulness to life and the artistic excellence of
the work


Altogether the reception was very de-
lightful affair, and the guests all enjoyed
both the social side and the opportunity
of seeing the beautiful specimens of work
which adorn Miss Spencers studio.
Year: 1878

The Board of Control held a regular
monthly meeting this morning, with all of
the members present


The following was adopted:


Resolved, That in any case when urgen-
cy or necessity demands an appointment be
made or any contract be entered upon by
the County Commissioners previous to lay
ing it before the Board in the regular way,
it is respectfully requested of the County
Commissioners to state on the review.sheet
the cause of such urgency or necessity for
the appointment made or contract entered
upon and that unless so stated it will be re-
jected by the Board"
Year: 1878

National Associated Press to the Star


New YORK. Oct. 4.-The farewell concert
to Theodore Thomas, and the last perform
ance by the Orchestra which has given us
so much enjoyment for the past fifteen
years, took place last night at Steinway
Hall in the presence of fair and very en-
thusiastic audience.


Thomas returned to the stage after the
concert was over to bow his acknowledg-
ments of the cheers and clapping; and SO,
with waving of handkerchiefs and many
other demonstrations of feeling, the fare
well benefit came to an end
Year: 1878

Miss Dora Nelson, President of the Col
lege of Music, announces the removal of
the institution to its present quarters, 305
Race street. Here excellent rooms have
been provided and the school will have the
advantage both of a central location and
most spacious and convenient quarters.
Year: 1878

A NEW York exchange says that
Thurlow Weed never saw the face of
VIM. c. Bryant, until he looked upon
1t in the burial casket; and yet these
two men were contemporaries in pub
lie or literary work for three-quarters
Of century in the same State, and
most of the time in the same city.
Year: 1878

AT the close of the session the thanks
Of the Senate were voted to Vice
President Wheeler and Vice President
pro tenn. Ferry for the able and impair
tial manner In which they had dis
charged their duties as presiding
officers.
Year: 1878

The cancellation or retirement of the
legal-tender notes will not follow re-
sumption. Under the Secretary's con-
struction OF the present law, they
would still be kept in circulation. But
that no possible doubt may exist il il
TO be hoped that the wise provisions
reported by the finance committee of
the senate in lieu of the act passed by
this house will become law.


The present volume of paper circula-
tion will be maini a ned, not dishonOr-
ed and deprecated, but always and
promptly convertible into coin at the
will Of the holder. Three hundred mil
lions Of actual money, gold aud silver,
will be thrown into the circulation and
our currency healthily expanded by so
much. Side by side the promise of the
government aud the money of the
world will circulate among the whole
people.


Then the money OF the millionaire
and the mechanic will be the same and
be of equal value. Then the little
stores OF the frugal and industrious.
will not dwindle away TO nothing under
the withering influences of deprecia-
ton. Then will industry and legitimate
business each receive its own and spec
ulatIon find its Occupation gone.


We can go forward certain of sue
cess. We can go forward assured that
subsequent events will vindicate our
action. We can go forward assured
that in history the complete success OF
resumption, the vindication OF the ma
tion's faith, honor and credit, will be
recorded triumph second only TO the
suppressing of tho great rebellion.


To recapitulate, i claim:


First. That all experience has shown
that an irredeemable paper currency is
among the worst of evils that can be-
fall nation, aud more especially an
evil to the working class.


Second. That the best and wisest
men the country has produced, each in
his day has spoken against the evil.


Third. That 10 abandon resumption
would violate the pledge given by those
who passed the law, both before and
after its enactment


Fourth. That resumption on the
day fixed by law can be accomplished,
aud that so far from decreasing the
circulating medium il will, in fact, add
TO the currency s3O0,000,0 900 in actual
money.


Fifth. II will insure staple values
and solid prosperity.
Year: 1878

The result of aa interview with
Senator Paddock is going the rounds
Of the press- He thinks the Republi-
cans will elect their man in 80 and
that Grant is now the favorite. We
guess the Senator is correct. The Re-
publicans can win, if they can have
something near fair election, with
either Grant, Conkling or Blaine.
Year: 1878

alongside OF the works, and with their forcepumps
threw quantity OF water the surrounding taoks


which. Kept them from becoming ignited.
Next 10 the tank No. 5, 10 which the explo-
sion took place, tank contrasting about
1000 barrels of benznc II this mad taken IRE there
Is no telling how far the flames might have spread


In fact the whole oil works would POSSIBLY have been
destroyed well as the zinc works which aojoined
them. Besides the work oil Keeping the other tanks
cool the oil was drawn of from those most contiguous
10 the nre and over thousand barrels OF oil were
drawn OIL from the tank ia which the explosion took
place. Although the workmrn were at times during
tho ure IN more or less danger no one was injured