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Year: 1877

PERUVIAN SYRUP
DYSPEPSIA AND DEBILITY
DYSPEPSIA AND DEBILITY
DYSPEPSIA AND DEBILITY
DYSPEPSIA AND DEBILITY
Almost Invariably Yield to the
L onfc and Invig0ratiRg EFFECTS
.. OF THE
PERUVIAN SYRUP


OR
Protected Solution Of Pro-


toXlde Of Iron.
Year: 1877

New YORK, Sept 225;,T committee, on
meeting and revised the grades of wheat, the
new grades to go into effect at once. Among
the principal changes are the addition to the
existing rules, that State white winter wheat
State unfit to grade in trade, but better in
quality than No 1 white; that No. amber
wheat shall be bright, sound dry stump and
well cleaned. All stipuations calling for spe-
Gifted weight to the measured bushel shall be
rescinded.


The committee have now completed all the
changes on the grain for the coming season,
with the exception of those affecting corn,
which will be considered as soon as the new
crop is ready to be marketed.
Year: 1877

NEW YORK, Sept. 25.-Private dispatches
were received in this city by representatives
of coal companies whose mines are in the
Lehigh district, in which operations were re-
Gently resumed, stating that notice had been
given by the miners that they would demand
another advance in their wages the first OF
next month. Nothing could be learned as to
the amount of advance to be demanded, but
1t is thought that 1t will be equal to about ten
per cent. The general impression among
coal men here is that the companies would
not accede to any further increase, and that
another strike is probable il the miners dc
not Yield.
Year: 1877

LEAvENwoRTH, KS, Sept 25-The disease
which has been affecting the cattle is attract
ing the attention of our physicians who are
experimenting with view to the discovery
of a remedy. 1t is thought that the fever is
produced by malaria and is much the same
as the following ague Some cases were ex-
amined yesterday and the temperature of the
body was found to be 104 degrees Fahrenheit
the temperature to be dangerous in human
is fixed at tO6 degrees.
Year: 1877

LONDON Sept. 25.-In consequence Of the
strike on the Southern and Great Western
road, the Postmaster General orders steam
ers from America to Land only Irish mails at
Queenstown and bring the others to Liver
pool. The City of Bourn was the first steamer
affected by the new regulation. The strike Is
confined to the men employed in repairing the
road. Night traffic was lately stopped.
Year: 1877

All kinds of fruit trees require a great
deal of potash and lime and some iron (;
pears, peaches and grapes require the
most; pears require the richest soil.


Musty bottles or jars may be sweeten.
ed with I've or dissolved soda. Let either
remain in them a short time, then dry
and scald them. They will not become
musty if a little salt be kept in them.


As manure, hardwood ashes are
worth more, weight for weight, than
land plaster. They contain from four
to five pounds potash to the bushel and
that is worth in the market not far from
eight cents q pound.


Any dairyman troubled with cows
having sore teats should use plenty Of
linseed oh before and after milking.
He will find but little if any sores or
cracks about his cows teats if this is
done. Many cows are kickers that would
delight to be MIXED if q little linseed
oil were used on the teats.


The loss of udder may be cured by
the application of an ointment prepared
as follows: Iodide of lead, half ounce; /;
lard (fresh), quarter of pound, mixed
well together. A portion about the size
of small hickory nut, rubbed in with
the fingers night and morning, will take
away the hardness and remove the en-
largement from the udder.


Small farms make near neighbors;
they make good roads; they make plenty
Of good schools and churches; there is
more money made in proportion to the
labor; less labor is wanted; everything
is kept neat; less wages have to be paid
for help; less time is wasted; more is
raised to the acre; besides it is titled
better; there is no watching Of hired
help; the mind is not kept in q worry,
stew, and fret all the time.


The right way to keep sheep is to
keep them in the best manner; to keep
only so many as to have the best care
and attention, so as to give the largest
weight of fleece possible. The right
way is to Gull out the poor ones early,
those with the light feeces, those that
are getting advanced in years, and put
them in separate pasture and fatten
them for the butcher. The balance will
do better and give more weight Of fleece
by this careful culling.


SCOT is very powerful manure ap-
piled at the rate of one pound to the
rod. One part of it and two of guano
in combination possess more stimu-
lating ammonia than any proportionate
quantity Of any other manure extant.
SCOT forms an exceedingly rapid stimu-
lator for peas, lettuce, carrots, spinach,
and most crops in liquid state at the
rate of half an ounce to two quarts of
water, given so as to soak down to the
root. Always give SCOT while the plant
is in an active state.
Year: 1877

REMARKABLE PRESENCE OF MIND
Owing to an alleged necessity of push
ing the work as fast as possible on the
new point bridge, says the Allegheny
Mail, the contractors had the men who
are employed in joining the three cables
engaged all day yesterday. They are
compelled to work in a basket or
platform, which is suspended above the
river at about the hight of ninety feet
from the water. Sunday afternoon a
workman by some accident fell off the.
platform. Hanging from the platform
was rope that reached nearly to the
water. In his frightful descent the.
man attempted to grasp the rope, but as
he kept turning somersanlts in the air
he was unable to reach it until within
about twenty feet of the river, when he
succeeded in grasping the rope with
both hands. He was at first unable to
stop his descent, and slid down the rope
for about fifteen feet, until his feet
nearly touched the water. Then to the
astonishment of the people on the
banks, who had seen with horror his
terrible fall, he commenced climbing
back upon the rope hand over hand.
Then the crowd cheered him Justify.
and his companions on the platform
drew him up uninjured, except the in
side of his hands, which were badly
lacerated.
Year: 1877

ABOUT SNoRNG.-"How many sleep
who kept the world awake" A CORE
spondent Of the Troy Times amends DR..
Young's lines in this way "How many
sleep who keep the world awake, and
then takes it as text for q sermon on
snoring. The grades and varieties Of
snoring are defined with critical acu-
men, the main heads being saving,
groaning, choking, bubbling, whining,
whistling, and ''the habit Of ejecting
little volumes of air, as if the sleeper
were smoking" The painful topic,
young ladies who snore." is treated
with consumate tact and delidacy. No
reference, howerer, is made by this
preacher to the relation of snoring to
dreaming, and consequently the essay
is incomplete. He might well have
said that the snore is an index of the
dream. A nights experience in any
sleeping car will prove this. When,
during the midnight run between sta
tions, a cannonade of snores is followed
by rAttling volley of snuffies and din
of wheeling, the traveller knows that
his neighbor is a veteran, and is dream
ing of one Of his battles. But if the in
voluntary music is soft and low, sniff
answering unto sniff in measured ca
dence, the traveller may rest assured
that there is q young man in the next
berth who is dreaming OF his sweet
heart. Given the snore, and one has
the man and the dream.
Year: 1877

DREAMING. Eminent philosophers
declare that there is no such thing as
dreamless sleep. They hold that it is
the body which sleeps, the soul that
dreams; that the former needs rest, and
the latter does not !; that, while physic-
ally fettered, the souls natural express
sion is in dream. The soul being i'm
mortal, incapable, independent Of stay
or stop, must necessarily and perpetu-
ally dream. Because we do not remem-
Der our dreams is no proof that we do
not have them. Persons on waking may
feel confident that they have not dream
ed, and yet during the day some out
ward happening or passing thought will
by force Of association recall the dream
they had entirely forgotten. It is even
questionable if dreams ever go entirely
out of the memory. They may not be.
recollected for q week, a month or o.
year, but they are some time, thouk =
in so vague and shadowys a manner as.
to lose their identity.
Year: 1877

/ PROTECTION TO SETTLERS. are not


an authority ON military matters, but still


we venture the opinion that Governor Ferry
should call for at least two hundred yolun-
/ teers, and that these men when mustered in
to the service should be detailed to the duty
of guarding the outlying settlements. A
military post established at some point on
the Palouse would reassure the settlers who


have abandoned their homes and induce them
TO return and harvest their crops. Unless
this IS done there must be much suffering and
destitution in the country A similar post
established at some point on Crab Creek
would at once reaSsure the hundreds Of set
tiers who have fled from their homes and
left property, crops and everything else to
go to destruction. 1t IS urged that to send
volunteers into the country is equivalent 10 a
declaration of war, and that Moses and his
band Will so regard it. Gov. Ferry might
very properly accompany the volunteers and
explain TO the Indians Il at they were sent
as matter Of precaution, and with no in
tention whatever to disturb those peaeeably
disposed Under the influence of panic all
labor throughout the whole vast interior is
brought to a stand-stiIl and must 50 remain
until the settlers are made to feel that they
are safe from Indian attacks In re-estab-
fishing industry and peOpling the plains de-
serted, we of Walla Walla are directly in
terested. Already every business interest
suffers, and if the present distrust continues
the town VIII be injured to an extent that
can scarcely be estimated in dollars and
cents. We venture TO make these suggeS-
tions at time when Gov Ferry is here and
prepared to act, and if our older and more
experienced citizens are of the same way of
thinking, We are quite sure that the call for
volunteers will be issued, and that the men
when mustered into service VIII be so dis
tributed as to maintain the peace and protect
all themoreexposedpoints. Asthe executive
chief of the territory Gov. Ferry must nee
essarily desire to see the citizens protected
in their lives and property, and this can only
be done by calling out the military and station
ing them where they can at all times hold
the Indians IN check.
Year: 1877

STEAM BREWERY few weeks since Mr.
John Stahl. of the City Brewery, imported
direct from the east steam engine to be
usedin connection with his extensive brewery
The engine is three-horse power, handsomely
finished, and altogether is about as neat a
specimen Of workmanship as overcome under
our notice. The engine is so rugged as to
run the malt mill, pump water into huge
reservoir on top of the building, and run a
circular saw. If necessary all three can be
working at one and the same time, and thus
accomplish an immense amount of work. 1t
is really wonderful to witness the engine at
work, and viii well repay for a walk out to
Mr. Stahls extensive establishment
Year: 1877

CROWDED. Our town Is now crowded
with strangers who have hockei in from the
surrounding country to escape from posi-
hle Indian massacre. Many Of these persons
have come in with very little more than the
clothes on their hack In the panic Of the
moment they left everything behind, and if
they remain here long are quite sure to re-
CI.lrt. assistance
Year: 1877

DRIED POTATOES. is now on ex-
hibition at the STATESMAN office a lot OF
potatoes that were prepared in Plummer
DRYER, III which condition this vegetable can
be kept for an indefinite period. Persons
who are curious in such matters are invited
to examine the specimen.
Year: 1877

PLEASANT of a warm afternoon to have
some old reprobate who is not even sub
scriber. enter the editors Sdnctan', overhaul
his exchanges, disarrange communications,
and generally play the mischief We have
been tried that way and know how 1t IS
Year: 1877

CONDoLENCE. Associations should re-
member that when they pass resolutions OF
coincidence and forward the same to the
printer for publication, they should enclose
at least sufficient money to pay for putting
the resolutions in type. This is the proper
way of showing respect for the dead.
Year: 1877

FLIES muster in great force this season,
and the boarder that takes his milk without
first looking into the pitcher is quite sure to
get a dose that viii unsettle his stomach.
The invention of fly-trap for the benefit OF
hotels and boarding houses is now III order.
Year: 1877

TIE WATER MANS viii soon be laid along
the line of Poplar street as low down as
Fourth street. This viii be great eonve-
nience to people in that part OF the town
who are now unable to get water for lrIlgat-
ing purposes.
Year: 1877

The CRY ELECTION, Monday last was
tame affair. People generally have come 70
regard the so-called city government as little
better than farce, and as consequence are
indifferent as 20 who fill the offices
Year: 1877

LADY WATERS are now employed IN the
leading San Francisco hotels. They are more
attentive and generally give better satlsiae-
tion than the men and boys who formerly
ruonopolized the business of hash Singing
Year: 1877

There is a charming frankness about this paragraph. in The Cincinnati Enquir- or: .sThe Democratic party is now ap- parently in the condition of the old man who lost his wife. The neighbors came in to console and condole with him. and sympathetically ina fred if his wife was willing to die. Willing said the old man, she was obleeged to-"
Year: 1877

The work has been begun after long and careful preliminary labor and with the most ample for carrying it on to successful terminaton.f' =.

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

In ing the present edition for the press has accordingly been the aim of the editors to bring down the information of the latest possible dates, and to furnish accurate account of the most recent dscov cries in science, of every fresh production in ltera- ture and of the newest inventions in the practical arts we'll to give succinct and original record If f hal, If
Year: 1877

Which introduced for the first time the present edition have been added not for the sake of pictorial effect but to give greater lucdy and force to the plantations in the text They embrace all branches of science and of natural hslQSy, and depict the most famous and remarkable features of scenery archec- ture and art well the various processes of me. chanics and manufacturers Although intended for instruction rather than establishment, pains have haen sDared to iDsnre their
Year: 1877

The old Abercrombic house at Pei
ham is said TO have been once the
scene of practical joke by Rev. Mr..
Abercrombie, the original occupant
of the house and minister of the town.
In his days, of course, Flip was the
common beverage of clergymen and
the laity, and no objection was ever
made, unless people became notori-
ously over-indulgent. The charge
was finally brought a church meet
ing that the minister was drinking
too freely, and a committee was ap-
pointed to tell him of his fault and
warn him Of the danger of continu-
ing in it. Warned of their coming,
the erring pastor told his wife to pre-
pare the first round of flip, which
even this committee would expect,
with equal parts Of rum and water,
the next with more rum, and the next
mostly rum. The committee, soon
after their arrival, partook of the
flip which their pastor ordered, after
which they made known the nature
of their errand. The pastor admit
ted that there might be need of the
reproOf. and that he would be gov
erned by it. Then came the second
round of Nip and, as the business
had been dispatched, the committee
were disposed to be laxative and So
cial with the pastor who had so hum
bly, admitted his sin at their rebuke.
The flip came around the third time,
and, it is said, near sunrise the next
morning two of the committee man.
aged to reach their homes, but the
third lay prone upon the floor, una
Bile to stir from the effects of the flip,
until broad daylight. At the ad-
journed church meeting, when this
committee made their report, it is
said they made very concise report
of their visit 10 the pastor, and the
kindly way in which he received the
reproof, by reporting: "We have
called upon the pastor, as directed,
and he gave us Christian satisfac-
ton"
Year: 1877

or assessments, if any like the term
better. between 5000 and $1,000.
But with the proclamation OF Hayes
as President came the announcement
that no more political assessments
would be allowed, and not , dollar
Of the sum due would be collected.
BY hard work it was reduced by
what turned out TO be empty nrQmis-
es to $4,000, those to whom It y9ns due
offered liberal discount, ard gain
that "machine man." Zacll.- Ohandler,
stepped in, and the day he left Wash-
ington gave his personal check for
$3, GOO, after having failed In inducing
the Cabinet to help the committee out
Of trouble. This recital willlindicate
what large class among active re-
pnblicans here have in mind when
they listen to discussions upon the
entire disestablishment OF the ma
chine. They think, under the cir
cumstanccs, and considering the ex-
tent Of the benefit and the main re-
cipients of the results secured by it,
that the reform was rather too sud
den, and much like finding an ex-
press train under full headway on q
wrong track, and stopping y by eff
fectually blocking the road with rock,
lest it should do some damage fur
ther along.


THE OPPONENTS OF THE cIvIL sERvIcE


ORDER


TO office holders probably form the
largest division Of the pArtyArrayed
against the President on any one
point of his policy. There are many
who heartily approve of the object he
sought to attain but here again they
think he has adopted an extreme in
terpretation, as in the case of giving
a universal and unmerited sweep to
the meaning of the terms "carpet
baggers7 and "machine politics. -
But there are a large number who
saw a broad and proper distinction
between disestablishing the machine,
and practically sweeping the. party
organization out Of existence on the
threshold of most important cam.
paign. Neither did they see the JUS
tice, the right, or the expedicncy OF
disfranchising q large, and in the
main, an honest body Of Office holders.
They seem to regard this remedy for
the disease Of the body polite much
as they would suggestion to cut off
the head as cure for disagreeable
and unwholesome eruptions.


There are very few earnest civil
service reformers in Congress, and
only two in the Cabinet, or, 10 be
more accurate, only two Of this par
ticular class in the Administrations
The opposition to the President in
this most important and vital matter
comes from outside of Congress. It
is, however, strong, earnest and ag-
gressive, and the indications are that
unless the President mends his ways
it will speedily develop strength
throughout the country. Thus far
the proclamations of reform have
been accepted by the public as mean
ing exactly what their language inn
plies. Those who have looked be-
meath the surface here have been
growing rapidly sick at heart at the
wide difference between promise and
practice. They represent most in
fluential body within the Republican
party, and their active life and con-
tinued devotion to vigorous and prac-
tical reform will endure and gather
strength whether this Administrator
rises to the level Of promises and its
great opportunities, or, failing to full
fill the first, falls short Of the last.


III, v. b.
Year: 1877

Special Correspondence of the Cincinnati Gazette


WASHINGTON, Oct. lS.-The Repub-
licans in Congress have never found
themselves in such a thoroughly un-
settled condition at the opening Of a
session. This would be true even if
the effect of the Ohio election could
be fully eliminated from the situa-
ton but when the influence of that
is added it takes on emphatic signs Of
decentralization. When the solid
South last confronted Republicans it
stood In arms along the Virginia
heights with its Confederate banner
planted on Munson's Hill, in plain
sight of the capital. That array in
the sight of many, was less threaten.
ing to the life of Republicanism, than
the solid South on its new political
vantage ground.


1t has been difficult to analyze the
situation, and Congressman them
selves have been equally puzzled with
all others who have sought to study
it, and make out it's main elements.
But the week which has now passed
since the members began to gather
has been sufficient to show the prin-
cipal classes into which they are ar
ranging themselves.


The sO-called
Year: 1877

A CONSIDERABLE THIEF. ..On Sunday
night last while the Rev. Arthur Milby
Of Harrington, was away from home fill
ing distant appointment, his house was
entered through the window by a thief
who made his way to Mrs. Milby's room,
where she was soundly sleeping, and
opened a japanned box which contained
three fifty dollar bills and one five dollar
bill. He took one of the fifties, and very
generously declined to touch the remain
ing one hundred and five dollars, and
quietly left by the front door. He left a
card on which he wrote as follows. 81
take with me the front door key so that |
shall have less trouble when l call again..
A girl, lodging in an apartment adjoining
Mrs. Milby's heard the thief but supposed
that it was Mrs. Milby out OF bed moving
about the room.
Year: 1877

The majority of the Finance Commit
tee Of City Council are in favor of issu-
ing the bonds for the completion of the
Cool Spring Reservoir, bearing interest
at the rate of 8 per cent. per annum. Nc
definite conclusion has as yet been reach
ed as to the rate, but it will very probab.
ly be only per cent.
Year: 1877

The loyal French Canadians are touch
ed with the war fever, and one Colonel
is prepared to organize regiment for
European operations in case England
should become involved IN the war.
Probably twenty thousand volunteers
could be raised in the New Dominion for
the Queens service. The Australian
colonies could furnish ten thousand
fighting men for their sovereign. in an
emergency.
Year: 1877

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ON the general principle, that things
seen are miehter than things heard, one
may be excused for wondering where the
vast piles Of leather go, and how they are
used, that are seen in our great stores. On
the other hand, the visitor to some. great
boot and shoe mandatory where hundreds
Of hands are constantly busy working up
leather might ask where does it all come
from. Generally speaking the supply of
any one article is never so great but there
is demand for ii, or vice versa-dtfferent
as the facts of the case may be judged
from the two different stand points. a great
proportions Of the hides coming from tho
West and Southwest, there is more or less
done here in the tanning business.
Year: 1877

OF the various ways in which tobacco is
utilized in the present day, the more prev
alent form--as luxury for leisure NO
men,s--is that Of cigar smoking. As this
has become in ali classes of society, even
the most cultured and refined, an indis-
pensible luxury, the cultivation and man
ufacture of tebsceo have become an indus
try, throughout the civilized world, OF the
greatest practical importance. Hence it
is that We find every appl:aneeo of skill and
taste, and the best results Of experience in
this business brought to besr on this
business brought to bear on this mauutac-
.ture. The best tobacco for cigar manufse-
ture, which holds the highest rank for the
excellence of its flavor, is grown on the
Island of Cuba, where innumerable styles
are found for exportation all over the
world. In various sections OF the United
States this industry has "a local habitation
and name" nor is there city Of any
consequence where tobacco, in some one Of
its artistic preparations for use, is not 4
staple article Of manufacture.