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Year: 1877

Once upon an evening bleary,
While 1 sat me dreamy, dreary,
In the sunshine thinking over


Things that passed in days of yore
While l no ided, nearly sleeping,
Gently came a something creeping
Up my back like water Ieapiug-


Leaptng upward from he hooT;
lis cooling BREATH" I muttered,
From the regions meath the floor
Only this and nothing more"
All distinctly remember
II was IN that wet September,
When the earth and every member


Of creation that it bore
Had for days and nights been soaking
In the naeanest, most provoking
toggy rains that, without joking,


We had ever seen before;
So I knew it must be very


Cold and damp benea b thu RocF-
Very cold beneath the floor
So I sst fne nearly mapping
IN the sunshine, stretching, gaping,
Craving water, but delighted


With the breeze from meath the floor;
Till found me waxing colder,
Aud the stretching growing boIder,
Aud myself growing older


Older than l felt before;
Feeling that my joints were stlffer
Than they were in days of YOre-


Sitter than they'd been before
All e1Ong my back the creeping
Boon gave place to rushing, leaping,
As if countless frozen demons


Had concluded TO explore
All the cavities-''the yarmints'-
'Twixt me and my neither garments,
Up into my hair and downward


Through my beets into the ho0T;
Then found myself a-shaking,


Gently first, but more and more
Every moment more and more.
Twas the " agerI'' and it shook me
In my very clothes, and took NE
Shaking to the kitchen every


Place where there was warmth in store;
Shaking till the dishes C altered,
Shaking till the tea was spattered,
Shaking, and with all my warming
Feeling colder than before;
Shaking till it had exhausted


All its powers to shake nae more
Till it could no: shake me more
Then it rested till the morrow,
Then resumed with al the horror
That 1t had the face to borrow,


Shaking, shaking as before;
And from that day in September
Day that shall long remember
1t has made diurDal visits,


Shaking, shaking on so sore
Shaking OF my boots, and shaking
Me to bed, if nothing moro


Fully this and nothing morel
ana to-day the swallows fitting
Round my cottage see me sitting
Moodiiy within the sunshine


Just inside my silent door
Waiting for the " ager," seeming
Like a man forever dreaming;
And the sunlight ON me streaming
Throws 40 shadow on the floor
For I am too thin and sallOw


To make shadows on the floor
Nary shadow any more


Boston GG5etts.
Year: 1877

DEADwooD gambler TO correspondent :
g am a blackleg, and you know it but
I never take advantage of mani mean
a miner working for a stake. Traders
and merchants are my game. II / can
bleed a freighter do so without the least
compunctiOn. / never resort to violence
the knife. pistol, or black jack. While
I would rather steal than receive the
money as a gift, I never leave man
Denniless"
Year: 1877

AN ASSAULT WITH A PIECE OF BARK
Yesterday about half-past O'Clock q diff
Guilty occurred in the yard OF the bark-mill
ON the corner Of Tenth. and Byrd streets
between Captain j. w. Philpots, OF the
canal.boat Captain Bland, and one OF the
boat-hands, named Lem. Herndon, in which
the former received a severe, lacerated
wound on the upper left jaw, about two
inches in length and one in width. The
wound was effected with piece OF bark.


From what we could gather from one Of
the hands Herndon was unloading the bark
when Philpots, who had been of drinking,
came in and told him he was not working
fast enough, and the answer was, 81 am do
ing the best can" Philpots then went to
him and shook his fist in his face and called
him liar, and repeated it the second time,
and put his hand in his pocket rs if to draw
knife, when Herndon raised the piece OF
bark and struck him.


The city ambulance was telegraphed for,
and Drs. Styli and Nicholson were on the
ground in eight minutes. They stitched
the wound and left him on board his boat.
Herndon, as soon as he struck, him left the
yard.


The Doctors say that while the wound is
painful it will not be necessarily fatal.
Year: 1877

Editors Dispatch: !: In your paper OF TINS
morning (Stb) is q communication on the
cow nuisance. j trust that our city aninori-
ties will relieve us OF it, Richmond IS no
longer a village, and yet we are more
troubled and annoyed with the pest OF cows
than are those who live around the CITY,
for they seem to suffer less without .ieness
than we in town do with then. a Wen-s
educated city COW will not only dispute your
right to the sidewalk or tt,s stree et-crossing,
but she viii open your gate ana MP your
Year: 1877

The same qualities which make suc-
ce.sful teacher would win with success
in other and more lucrative pursuits.
Cutting down the pay win surely result
in driving out the class of men whom we
ought especially to wish to keep, and
converting the schoolroom into tempo
rary refugees for the unemployed. 1t is
poor economy which hires only the
cheapest hand for work that requires
trained ability and long experience
Urr,land !Sclbool Journal.
Year: 1877

1t is more and more evident that the
best Sunday Schools are managed with
the least noise; the teachers and scholars
are fully as ready to be quiet as is the
superintendent. The cail-bell is a far
less Important factor in Sunday School
management than formerly. In many
schools it has hardly place left to it.
In one Philadelphia school, for example,
the superintendent has it understood,
that when he is ready to open the school
exercises he will step into his desk, and
that his appearance there shall be count
ed the signal for the school to come to
order, and 50 again at the close of the
lesson hours S. Times.
Year: 1877

Twas very bold and fearless girl, and
my brothers and sisters often dared me
to go into lonely places in the dark, or
do perilous feats of various kinds, which
challenges never refused Often they
set out to play tricks on me,but it usual
lyhappcned they fell into their own traps
while l performed my part in safety.


We lived in large old house, built of
English oak, and bearing its nearly two
centuries very lightly. 1t opened to the
south, and the two large parlors opened
to the east and west. The dinning-hall
and spacious kitchen formed the sqaure
of the house, while at the west and back
was another large room sometimes called
the great porch, and at the east and back
was the dairy and another porch. There
were three stairways leading to the up
per rooms ana a garrett, whose ample
space was broken only BY the great
chimney in the center


We had a gay and lively house, and
we're used to a great deal of company
and visitors, for my parents were greatly
given to the old fashioned virtue of hos
pitality. The humblest wayfarer conf
ing it at the porch was entertained
kindly and given God-speed, as we'll as
the guest whose elegant carriage and
span drove around to the front door on
the southern side.


1t was a summer day, and warm,
bright and beautiful. The morning
promised lovely day. Just after our
early breakfast a merry party came rid
ing down the lance in carriages and on
horseback. and yelling ioyously for my
father and mother to accompany them
on a pleasure-trip. They were accus-
toned to this mode of impromtu feshv
ity, and galy answered that they would
soon be ready. 1t was only the day be-
fore that my father had returned from
the Australian gold fields, and mad
brought with him bag of gold. knew
he had this, for / had seen him the
night before counting some of ii out and
putting it into another bag.


Thomas brought the chaise to the
door. Fathers favorite black horse
whose coat looked like lustrous velvet
and who stepped so proudly, was paw
ing the ground impatiently as he ap
peared. He handed in my beautiful
mother. and stood looking on viii
childish pleasure at her beautiful anc
rich dress, that so became her.


fastened indoors again to see then
wind down the private way una, ie1
through our extensive grounds ana nai
wished were old enough to go VIII
them. Hearing slight noise, L tnrne,
and saw a stranger, figure not unsuAl


man with bundle hung ON sticK-


He was leaning on the stone wall AM


apparently looking after the carriages


He came forward in a moment AIN
Year: 1877

IT is often lamented that the female
teachers in our public schools change 50
often, because they leave schools to be
married; but / believe that this Is far
from being an unmixed evil, but that.
on the contrary,th fresh young element
has its value in the schools, If it works
under competent direction and super
vision, and that whatever evil arises is
more compensated by the knowledge Of
The schools, which is thus gained by the
future mothers Of the community, who
can exercise so powerful An influence
upon education. EDNA ID CHENEY.
Year: 1877

An Irishman who had just landed,
said: The first bit Of mate ] ever ate in
this country was a roasted potato. boiled
Yesterday. And if you DO Mt believe it
l can show it to We; for have it in my
pocket.r
Year: 1877

The gas Company reduced the price of gas,
on the first of January, and yet we hear people
couplain that their bills are as large as ever.
Well, people can keep on grumbling and Gem
planning till doomsday and precious little good
it will do them. The only way to red duce your
bills for light is to have the gas turned off
and burn oil. The great objection, heretofore.
to oil,-its liability to explode or Ignite
been removed by recent discoveries, and the
best authorities assert that there is as little
danger is using Insurance Oil as there is in
using gas or candles. Besides this the light
is softer, steadier aud better than gas light
and costs only about one. half as much. Being
interested in reducing the cost of gas, We
advise readers to call at the Puroline
Gas Company's Office, 95 and 81 Gravier street.
purchase a supply of lamps And oil, and
have the gas turned off at their oi ,es and resi-
dences.
Year: 1877




We have good news for good children. TIE


boy who never told lie is to be honored in his


memory by the selection of his approaching


birthday for the first of series of festive en-
tertainmeuts to be given in the school hall OF
the Dominican Convent on Drysdes street.
| 1t is we'll known that heavy debt on the
Convent has to be met, and by some means or
other discharged by the Community of Reli-
gious on whom the responsibility rests. Sew
eral gentlemen volun teering assistance, ad
vsed the present undertaking for various
reasons as being the most practicable now at
hand. Much amusement, with some rtfresh-
ments may be had for the outlay of . few
dimes or rickels. The price of admission is
fixed at % cents; children 10 cents. Tne hours
will be from noon to six O'Clock, and the days
Thursday, Friday and Saturday of the current
week.


L !dies of the different parishes Of the city
have kindly come forward with Gers If help,
and ST.. Johns congregation will not be slow in
making known theP gratitude. The people
can best show proof of the existence of this
sentiment by II 'cking around the tables aud
thus giving the ladies the encouragement of
success. Tnis is what is called for by their
own gracious deservin2s and the merits of the
cause they uphold.


The youth of St. Johns must look we'll to it
that the juvenile following from the other con-
gregations does not outdo them in their part of
the work.


Every thing will be ordered happily for the
enjoyment of visitors, and cheaply for their con-
venience with respect to whatever they please
to buy. No annoyance is to be allowed in the
" nf Enlicita tn tal ia tnla
in one or other article; nor otherwise to de-
viate from settled purpose to spend much
little aford or may feel disposed.


Parenta will he afforded the double pleasure
of themselves participating in tho fun and see
ing their children g. into ec7tacies over the
b, Dad simplicity of the plays which are to be
brought forward


The point Of the whole will be to edify and
make tho visitor happy, at the same time that
the many will 10 AXE light work of thAt which
in itself is too heavy for the few.


The few are the Nuns who cannot be de-
pressed, aud the people knowing it, feel indif
ferent at ease until relief is accorded and
peace of mind restored. In the name of the
nuns and in compliance with their wish, we
acknowledge that the gentlemen and ladies
conferred with have been most kind and
ana nave contributed lDerauy OF
their means and personal services.


The mere mention Of some of the acts to be
played will awaken the young mind to a state
of the liveliest anticipation.


Mother Goose's Tea Party will introduce the
young folk to her Son. Then will follow
Little Peep, Little Boy Blue Tom the Pliers
Son, the Old Woman in the Shoe, Old King
Cole and his Fiddlers. Little Johnny Horner,
Mr. Tom Thumb, Mrs. Tom Thumb; an old
who goes TO market for wife and
interesting ialogues. PAT RICE.
Year: 1877

SOME of the Boston silver-greys are greatly
shocked by Mark Twain's speech at the
Whittier banquet The dignity of these
men is something wonderful. Doubtless
they would have censured Henry of Navarro
for levity because he got down On all fours
and capered about tbs room with his little
son on his back.
Year: 1877

THE cigar makers have made the astouEd-
ing discovery that the tenement house sys-
TEN is an invention to renew chattel slavery,
and opposed to civilization, the spirit of the
age and free country. 1t requires even
more genius to make that discovery than to
make an Havana cigar out of Connecticut
tobacco.
Year: 1877

THE new italian premier is said to favor
the extension of Greece to the Balkans and
the establishment of her capital at CONSTANT
nople. That would be setting up parody of
one of the worst governments that ever ex-
listed in this world-the old Byzantine ems
Year: 1877

JUDGE HUMPHREYS certainly must
lave been drunk when he delivered his
3piniou in the case of Senator Patterson.
If be was not drunk he is too much of a
partisan to sit as judge, and if he was
trunk, as we suppose he was, he ought
20 be put out of Office. So long as he is
sept there, any thref, if he is a Radical,
nay hold seat in the Senate secure
from arrest and punishment. This action
If Judge Humphreys will convince the
people that Patterson is guilty man.
Year: 1877

TUE bond inhati onists are depressing
cal estate by heavy taxes from which
he bondholders are exempt. In year
r two these spectators will sell out and
my real estate at low figsres then in
urn they will try to initiate it.
Year: 1877

THE SOCIETY REFUSES TO AMALGAMATE WITH


THE SOCIETY OF THE CRESCENT AND THE


CRosS-THE REASONS GIVEN.


The Executive Committee OF the American Society
OF the Red Cross held adjourned meeting las. even-
ing at No 81 West Tenth street. Mr. Joseph H. Choaio
President OF the society, in the chair Tho principal
business OF the meeting to hear the report OF the
subcommittee, to which had been referred Tor consid
GRAFTON the letter OF the Crescent and tho Cross
cicty at the last meeting and which was published In
the daily papers on the following day.


The report OF tho committee was read last evening
and was very emphatic Ia the expression OF Its pur.
poses. 1t TOOK the form OF a communication that
might be looked upon reply the published letter
OF The Crescent and the Cross Society," but
antagonistc 70 the suggestions made the latter
munication The Crescent aud the Cross Society has
Red Cross Society has been organized since september
last aud tho members OF the latter association
have iet little chasrined a. the now soclety's
attempt TO absorb II. The report set forlh
TINS fact III its general tenor and explained that tho
Rel Cross Society was confined 10 neither Russian nor
Turk exclusively IN Its benevolent Opuratlons nor was
II organized Tor any political purpose But IL was en-.
phaLcay stated that tho society would not ION hands
with Crescent the Gross Society anu OF course lh
WIS the main point III the committce's report. Tho
report Was unanimously adopted, but not before
tue gentlemen present had expressed themselves
freely ON The subject matter IL Was admitted
that the Red Cross society," which affiliated with
the Russian society bearing the and which





would operate on the RUSSIAN side Of ines but
not therefore TO be Understood that the
nate Turkish soldiers VINO were among the wounded
OF the battles we're not to receive iully the caro-
and help that tho wounded Russian soldiers dii.
There was no favor TO be shown on the battlefield; tho
sick and wounded OF both sides equally eniillcd
to the society Is protection and assistance


THh CRESCENT AND THE CROSS.


II was complained by some geDtienon that even
the very namc Of the Crescent anu the Cross society,"
with the crescent above the cross was not likely 10
be iavorably received at ST. Petersburg the TACT
that this society had Tor It's president Turkish
lady, and the turkish Ambnssador in this country
took an active interest IN It's. progress and .ls
general workinga IL was not therefore, an American
organization. One gentleman said that right hero
the mistake made at irSt-no name should have been
taken Tor tho society which would identity Il with
either begerent Tnc organization should have
been thoroughly American, aud then trouble Ike
the present could have arisen. Some com mcnt
also made on tho adroncss Of the Crescent anu the
Cross society publisaing its letter and then
complaint ng that the Red Cross society aid reply,
the truth being that the latter could reply until
alter the report had been received IRON the commit
tee, and that report had boen only Just then handed In
Year: 1877

of them, it would be benefit 10
you. You allow thing to annoy
you. just as you allow a fly to settle
on you and plague you; and you
lose your temper Tor rather get it
for when men are surcharged with
temper they are said to have lost it)
and you justify yourselves for being
thrown off your balance by caust s
which you do not trace out. But if
you would see what it was that
threw you off your balance before
breakfast, and put it down in little
book, and follow it out, and ascer-
tain what becomes of it, you would
see what TOOL you were in the
matter.


The art of forgetting is a blessed
art, but the art of overlooking is
quite as important. And If we
should take time to write down the
origin, progress, and outcome of a
few of our troubles, it would make
us SO ashamed ofthe fuss we made
over them, that We should be glad
to drop such things and bury them
at once in eternal forgetfulness.


Life is too short to be worn out
in petty worries, frettings, hatreds,
and yexations. Let US Danish all
these, and think of whatsoever
things are pure, and lovely, and
gentle, and of good report.
Year: 1877

TRANSIENT TRoUBLEs.-Most of
US have had trouble all of our lives,
and each day has brought US all the
evil that we wished to endure. But
if we were asked to recount the
sorrows of our lives, how many
could we remember? How mary
that are six months old should we
think worthy to be remembered oil
mentioned? To-day's troubles look
large, but a week hence they will
be forgotten and buried out OF
sight.


If you would keep book, and
every day put down the things thai
worry you, and see what becomes
Year: 1877

DELIoAoY OF FEELING.-Delicacy Of
feeling is trait of character almost
more lovely and engaging than any 9TH
er. 1t is a quality whose hidden prin-
ciple exists in greater degree in every
mind, though it is often thrown in to
the shade by the workings of the ferc-
er passions, in the rude encounters of
life.-Man's mind, as manifested IN his
daily converse with the outward world,
seems to be made of "sterner stuff and
cast in rougher molds, but delicacy is no
mark of weakness, for it is essentially
consistent with the stoutest courage and
the sublimest energy. 1t is in every re-
spect manly quality, and throws over
the whole intellectual and moral char
acter kindlier hue. If delicacy exists
in the heart, it will gush spontaneously
from it, and never can the cold can't of
hypocritical formality be mistaken for
the warm welcome of the soul.


Power, mental or physical, never ap-
pears so great as in the hand Of those
who seem unconscious of its possession.
True intellectual greatness gathers an
additional charm when accompanied by
real delicacy of feeling. Kindness may
enter where the sword cannot penetrate,
and s.soft answer" and winning de-
pertinent, springing from delicate
feeling and a generous heart, have al
ways proved irresistible. Breathing
nothing but harmoney and love, ''a min
istering angel to mankind, it goes to
fro on the earth. uniting everywhere
more firmly and strongly, bonds of un-
ion.
Year: 1877

Next to diary the most difficult
thing to keep is lead pencil.


1.-The point is not we'll taken," as the
country schoolmaster observed when he
sat down on pin.


Didn't she return your love 2" "Yes,
she did; she said she didn't want it.
That's what's KILN me"


at was during severe thunder show
er that a maiden of four summers re-
marked: Mother, it yains so hard bod
can't light his fire. He's burned up
most whole box of matches already"


When bride and groom go to church
together, and the sun steals through the
stained glass, making his nose a bright
carmine and hers sickly green, they
fancy the congregation admires them
because they are so lovely.


The most important question for a
young lady to ask when man pops the
question is, "Do you take a paper and
pay for it ?" Always have dish of
hot water handy, in case he says no.
But if he says yes, pin to him-he's
your man by all means.


Not q lodger weak and weary, or
drunkard bleak and beery, not tramp
or vagrant dreary, had a couch upon the
floor, for the station-house was empty,
not mortal there to tempt the long
tailed rats to play at sentry, as they
often played before. Said the turnkey
never more.


A person, in the course Of some re-
marks in prayer meeting, having sever
al times observed that he never should
forget the dying words of his brother,
the pastor suggested that 1T might be
well for him to repeat them; whereupOn
with some hesitation and scratching of
his head. he said that they had slipped
his mind.


A Columbus. (Ga.,) colored person
discussed the dog law thusly: "You see
Use always KEEP dog, not SO much for
de lub OBJ de dog, but case he oversees
de premises. Now whedder it be better
to keep de dog and be shot or turn de
dog loose and not be shot is de painful
question for de owner OBJ dogs to 'scuss.
Now | rudder hab de dog race to become
'stinct than to be shot, an consequently
my dog is dead an there won't be any
more foolishness bout him, an dis mig
ger am saved to die Of more healthy
disease"


In Harrisburg is fascinating woman
who has been married four times within
ten years, and there are at least dozen
men so anxious to get her that they have
remained bachelors in the hope that her
last husband would follow in the foot
steps of his illustrious predecessors.
Sure enough, few weeks ago the man
died, and all these fellows began imme-
diately to prepare for opening the cam
paign against the widow. One man,
named Hyde, determined to have the
first chance; so he jammed himself into
the widows carriage on the way home
from the funeral Taking her hand and
looking with tender glances upon the
handkerchief with which she sopped her
dutiful tears, he asked her to be his-to
let him take the place of the dear de-
parted, and to comfort her in her bereave'
ment. The widow removed lher hand
kerchief, blew her nose gently and said
"Mr. Hyde, | should gladly consider
your offer. and perhaps { might have
accepted it, but you are too late; The
minister proposed to me in the grave
yard while you were lowering the coffin
and ] said, Yes But / tell you what
will do; I'll give you the first chanc,
after he dies l'' Mr.. Hyde said h
would wait.