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Year: 1877

During the Revolutionary War, and as
fate as 1890, Virginia was the most popu-
lous State m the Union, and n. Carolina
Wa, ahead of New York. These facts
show that in early times Europeans were
as ready to emigrste to those States As the!
we're to the States north Of them. But
slavery did its perfect work Of inpo7er'
ishing the South; and at the end 'oi a
century from the formation OF the Repuel'c
we find Virginia far behind three or four
Of the new States of the West, which had
no existence at its beginning; while North
Carolina, though larger in territory, has
only fourth Of the population OF New
York. and not more than a twep1ienth par
of the wealth. But the Northern and
Eastern States are now crowded with pop


Slavery has been abolished in the South,
and there is no reason Why population
should not aow into that sparsely peopled
region ss it did Of old. The negroes are
good laborer., and are not in the way q
Northern and European emigrants. Farm
era and mechanics who go South find tbe
negroes ready to do all the rough labor O.
the farm and the workshop, as we'll As o
the street and the wharf. White laborers
without the means of setting up for them
selves, ought not to 60 South at present
not because their presence would be objec
tiona bile to the people, but because the.
would find the price Of labor lower than
Is in the Northern States. But If they cal
buy farra or establish workshop, the!
will do we'll. When occupations becom
diversified in the South, and an era
prosperity returns there will doubtless b


demand for laborers. At present, how
ever, the great need is Of men who hav


more or less of capita! enough, at leas


to purchase little farm and settle on


To all such we would say, Go South.
Year: 1877

b II is true that many chronic diseases all
tho world over arise from eating too much.
But it is possible, on the other hand, to eat
too little; and we doubt whether many
could maintain healthy existence on the
meaere diet of such medical philosophers
as the celebrated Cornaro. How long one
could contrive to live without eating any
thing at all, is question which few will be
inclined to undertake the practical solution.
Unfortunately, it has been solved over and
over again ip the case Of mcny an accident
and many deed of cruelty.


Without something to eat or drink man


will not live beyond q few days, or at most


a week. Access to water, however, makes
A GREAT difference. There is. well-known
case Of an Ayrshire miner who lived twenty
three days buried in q coal mine, without
swallowing anything but small quantities Of
charlybeate water sucked through straw.
he had the advantage Of being shut up in
a contaminated atmosphere, which, by d.
minishing nervous sensibility, lessened the
| cravings Of hunger. Even more remarkable
examples Of prolonged abstinence might be
| given. Persons, indeed, have been found
in coal.pits and mines, and In other situa'
tons where there was not mouthful OF
food, but where water was to be had, as
| long as si1 weeks after seclusion, still alive,


though Of course in very feeble state; and
q small daily allowance Of food has sup


ported life longer even than that, IS In some


cases Of shpwreck and other accidents al


SEQ. Berard quotes the example Of con
II yict who died Of starvation after si1ty-thret


dsys but in this case water was taken


Cases Of alleged fasting longer than thi'
are certainly in most cases due to imposture
4 The insane appear to bez fasting bette'


than in their sober senses, and IN some
morbid conditions Of the body nouzishmen


may certainly be done without for surprs
ing length Of time.
Year: 1877

PARIS, Oct, 23.-The Bien Public
states that Marshal MacMahon will
ask vote of confidence on the bill
for indemnity from the Senate, and
if it is refused the Ministry and Mar
shal will resign. If, however, it is
accepted, the Assembly will be asked
to vote the budget and in event of
their refusal, the Marshal will ask
the Senate to agree to a dissolution.
Jules Grevy will represent the Ninth
ACCOMPLISHMENT of Paris, instead Of
his former constituency, the arron-
dissement of Dolls, from both of which
he was returned, because the Repub-
licans attach greater significance to
his election in place of the late NJ j.
Theirs. Although NJ. Grevy favors
a moderate policy, believing it to be
better for the country that President
MacMahon should serve his term,
still, if the Marshal does not prompt
ly accept the opportunity now open
to him, and sincerely cooperate with
the moderate Liberals in guarantee
ing the country against any anti-Re-
publicansurprise,M M Grevy is prepared
to place himself at the head of the
solid Left, and maintain its claims
and fulfill the duties imposed by the
country in the late elections.
Year: 1877

LONDON, Oct. 23.-Mining experts
express the opinion that all the men
remaining in the pits have perished,
but even if any are alive no rescue
party can reach them in less than
eight or ten days. The work of
bringing up the dead was resumed
this morning. The bodies found are
fearfully burned and mangled, show
ing that the explosion was of terrific
violence. -Four miners were taken
out alive, but in so exhausted a con-
dition that one of them died before
morning, and the case of another is
thought to be hopeless.
Year: 1877


DID THE WORLD STAND STILL?


Professor Tyndall, we presume, does
not believe that the sun stood still at
Joshua's command that is to say, that
the earth ceased its revolutions to accom-
modate that ancient and valiant warrior.
The Professor says: "The shock which
would be created were the motion of the
earth to cease would be sufficient not on
ly to set the whole earth on fire and melt
it, but also to convert it into whole
mass of vaper. The heat would be equal
to that derived from the combustion of
fourteen globes of coal, each equal to the
earth in magnitude. And if, after the
stoppage of It's motion, the earth should
fall into toe sun, as il assuredly would,
the amount of heat generated by the
blow of contact with the sun would be
equal to that developed by the com bus
ton of 8 300 worlds of solid carbon" here
is nothing in history sacred, or profane,


to prove that anything like this happen
ed in Joshua's time, and Professor Tyn-
dali, of course, knows what would have


happened had the motion of the earth
ceased. Don't he give the figures? Fig
ures never lie, and the Professors figures
show that the earth could not have stop


ped moving, TO postpone sunset, with


safety to JoShuas army.-PhIG. Record
Year: 1877

The poet Longfellow, although
naturally Of most amiable dispo-
sition, especially under the assaults
made upon his time and privacy
by simple curiosity and literary
lion hunters, who have no possible
claim upon him, would be little
short of saint, il he we're not
sometimes annoyed by the peril
nacity of unlimited guests. Take
for illustration two instances:


Three ladies, two from Chicago
and one from Milwaukee. entirely
unknown to the poet, send in their
cards. They are courteously re-
ceived by him in reception room.
Would he be good enough to let
them see his libraryi The request
is acquiesced in, and the library
undergoes inspection.


"Oh, it's lovely" $50 NICE"
and now "mayn't we see the dining
room 7"


The cloth for dinner was laid,
and the hour for that meal close at
hand, but nevertheless the ladies
carried their point; but when 1t
came to wishing to be shown the
kitchen the host was fain to ring
for q servant, lest further examine
tion might extend to the cellar or
attic.


Another amusing incident also
related to us by friend was that
Year: 1877

Fowls are subject to the attacks


Of two kinds of vermin, which in
summer are worse than at any
other season. The more common


is q louise the other is a mite,
which has the appearance of a
minute spider. The louise lives on
the feathers and bodies Of the fowls,


while the mite conceals itself in the
crevices Of the hen house, coming
out at night and preying upon the
fowls and returning to its hiding
place. The louise can be got rid OF
generally by providing the fowls
with dry ashes, sand and dust in
which they can bathe themselves.
1t is q good plan to sift ashes and
dust for this purpose, adding tc
them some -four Of sulphur. Place
Year: 1877

the mixture where il can be easily
used, and the fowls viii soon free
themselves from vermin. The mite
is usually dintroyed by applying
good coat of whitewash to the
poultry house, but the surest way
is to fumigate the house thoroughly.
1t is necessary to stop all the
openings of the house as tight as
possible. Take an old pan or iron
pot and place some live Goals in It;
then take tobacco (cigar refuse viii
answer) and lay on the Goals as
top layer, after which put on
sufficient quantity Of rolled brim-
stone. Have everything in read
iness before you begin. Shut the
door up tight before you fumigate,
and the sulpher fumes will DO the
work effectually.
Year: 1877

We want a few private words
with the boys. The truth is we
have a great idea of boys
We used to think men were
made of boys. We begin to think
now that they are all out of date.
We look around and see a great
many persons grown up, with mems
clothes on, who are called men,
But they act and behave so that
we feel certain that they were never
made out of boys. If they had
been they would know how to be-
have better. Where they came
from we do not know. But what
we wish to put into the ears of
the boys is this--be gentlemen
In this country every boy may
grow up to be gentleman If he
will. 1t is not necessary that he
should become rich-and most boys
think it is-nor is it necessary that
he should become a distinguished
man.


But some impatient ones are ask
ing, show shall we become gentle
men9 How can boy go about
making himself one9 Can he work
for it! Yes, he can. And the
harder he works in the right way
the better. Can he study for it
Yes, he can. But he must study
with his eyes, and his ears
Reading books and newspapers is
not enough. He must think and
feel as well as speak and act. Can
he buy itl No, he cannot. Mon
ey will buy great many things
but it will not buy what makes q
gentleman. If you have money
you can so to a shop and buy
clothes. But hat, coat pants and
boots, do not make gentleman
They make fop, and sometimes
they come near making fool
Money will buy dogs and horses
but how many dogs and horses dc
You think it will take to make o
gentleman Let no boy, there
fore think he is to be made a gen.
tleman by the clothes he wears
the horse he rides, the stick he
carries, the dog that trots after him
the house he lives in or the money
he spends. Not one of all these
things do it-and yet every boy
may be a gentleman. He may
wear an old hat, cheap clothes have,
no horses, live in poor house and
spend but little money, and still be
a gentleman. But howg By be-
ing true, manly, honorable. BY
keeping himself neat and respect
able. BY being civil and courteous.
BY respecting himself and respect
ing others. BY doing the best he
knows how. And finally, and
above all, by fearing God and keep
ing his commandments.
Year: 1877

And in accordance with law and an order Of e Board Of
Trustees made and entered the 4th day Of August A.
D. 1877 so many such designated shares Of stock be
longing to and standing in the of the shareholders
aforesaid as shall and will be necessary to y the


nen upon all shares held and owned by such shareholders
or standing in their upon the books Of the company,
will be sold a. public auction at the Office Of said company
in the ntee of Trenmor Coffin, in Carson CITY, Nevada
Year: 1877

The most wonderful palace car
that was ever built is this orb on
which we live. Large enough to
hold the human family, its resources
are, with proper care and effort on
the part of the passengers, sufficient
to sustain them all comfortably, with
a great deal to spare. 1t supplies
its own fuel and makes its own time.
Its speed is about $4,000 miles per
hour, yet so accurately does it move
that those who have well studied its
movements can tell to a fraction in
what part of its airline track it will
be on any future day. With good
held-glasses, other palace cars, equal
in beauty and grandeur to this, can
easily be seen flying along the high
ways of space, yet none of these are
ever known to come in collision.
Onconsciously, to the passengers,
gravltatlon tends greatly to keep the
passengers in their places; but aDho
or what controls gravitation? This
magnificent palace car has the heav-
ems for its roof, Vesuvius and Etna
Tor chlmneys, seas and oceans fol
water-tanks, natural scenery suffic-
lent to charm the eye and feast the
soul with combination of beauty and
sublimity. The only depot or stop
ping place is at the gates of death


where all must leave, whether pleased
with the journey or not. Thus WI
are swiftly borne on from birth t.
death on this wonderful line of travel


and at the terminus commissioned
authorities of a higher order are ex.
pccted to receive and conduct us al


to higher destiny and a better lif,
than this.-Burlington Hawkeye.
Year: 1877

ST. LOUIS, July 23.-The strik-
ers in the East St. Louis have given
a special permit to the National Stock
Yard people to use their own locomo
tives to hanl feed to the yards for the
stock there. They have also permit
ted the Union Railway and Transit
Company to select ten men to switch
trains coming to relay depot destined
for this city.
Year: 1877

Mr. Post, Of Cayuga, introduced bill in
the Assembly yesterday giving the Superin-
tendent of State Prisons exclusive power to
make all appointments and removals Of
prison officials and to fix their respective
salaries, provided the amount does not
exceed that allowed by law. This is
practical method of securing efficient
reform. Perfect discipline and full control
over subordinates are essential to good prison
management. If the new system inau-
gurated by the recent constitutional amend
ment is to benefit the State, and to effectu-
ally remove the evils that have crept into
our prison management, the Superintendent
should be in fact as we'll ak in name, its
supreme head. The prison officials should
know that they owe their positions to
him that he can remove them at will,
Just as he would if he were a private en-
ployer, if their duties are not faithfully and
capably performed; that he has the power
to reward them by On increase Of compen-
sation for fidelity and efficiency. Mr.. Posts
bill should become law, and under it's
operation we might hope soon to have self
supporting State Prisons.
Year: 1877

Omitted States funds. says the London
Times. as quoted by the cable, 'are now
almost the only legitimate objects of invest
ment in the foreign market"-news that is
pleasant enough to hear on this side the
water. It was for years o fine example of
the faulty Of the British investor to observe
the grace and energy with which he ad-
dressed himself to the accumulation of
Turkish promises to pay, and Egyptian
promises to pay, and Spanish promises 70
pay, and other forms of expensive waste
paper, and turned an Indifferent and frigid
shoulder to American securities ut seven per
cent as certain MS the revolution Of the earth.
His prejudices against our political system
blurred his vision as to government bonds,
while he had an abundant faith in
other parts OF our national organization
that carried him over head and ears
into various American securities, especially
the obligations Of railroad and mining COM
panies. But as if the whole world were
organized on spirit OF antipathy to this
British investor, an infinite number of these
railroad and mining securities have gone to
.'the demnition bow-wows," and the bonds
that stand on the faith Of the nation have
turned up the great financial trumps. It
appears likely that the bad fortune of our
railroad interests and the uncertainty of
many bonds of European governments will
keep up the movement toward our govern
ment securities sufficiently to carry us
handsomely through the year and to enable
us to fund the whole debt on good terms.
Year: 1877




Report-and, apparently, authentic re-
port-gives President Hayes Cabinet
which, all things considered, is head and
shoulders above any Cabinet that has shared
the labors Of o President Of the United
States for many day. Some of the names
now assigned to the great departments
Of the government may be changed when
the statement receives an official form;
but the names that are certain are
sufficient to assure the country that the
President means to be advised by men Of
great talent and integrity; not by bosom
friends, nor leaders OF cliques. nor carpet
baggers nor jobbers, nor lobbymen. This
will be great victory for sound principles
in government and guarantee for the
sincerity and earnestness of the declara-
tions made in the Presidents inaugural
address. Every person named for the
Cabinet thus far with any likelihood
that the naming is by authority is o man Of
mark. Mr.. Evarts is the greatest lawyer in
the country; not merely the acutsst reasoner
on legal points and the most cogent orator,
but the man who takes the broadest and
most liberal view of the relation of facts to
principles. He is also conspicuous by his
freedom from relation to any Of the factions
into which the party in this State is divided.
Mr.. Sherman is man whose ideas on the
subject Of the currency and specie payment
are good and valid He seems to US not to
take national view offree trade and protec-
ton but inasmuch as those topics are not
conspicuously before the country now this is
Of the less consequence; for the subject that
is really Of moment in administration at the
present time he is the strongest man in his
party. In point of actual knowledge of the
fiscal operations OF the government he has
no equal. Mr.. Schurz stands high as an
orator and has an admirable record for his
relation to civil service reform but it re-
mains to be sesn whether he possesses I'D
ministrative talent as required in Cabinet
officer. His military history is not encour-
aging in that respect, though the compari-
son that may be made of q commander with
the head of a civil department is not in all
respects just The other names recognize
sectional claims without in any case de-
scending from the standpoint Of national
demands or yielding the imperative require
ment Of superior capacity.
Year: 1877

Washington was brilliant yesterday when
General Hayes was inaugurated President
of the United States. Such events always
deserve to be celebrated with all solemnity
and honor, and this was not an
exception. The ex-President escorted
his successor to the Capitol the
army was represented Congress formally
welcomed the new Executive; the ambassa-
dors from other countries were present. and
many thousands OF citizens made the air
resound with their enthusiastic cheers.
The day was bright and beautiful, and
nothing marred the splendor of the
procession or the ceremony. Whatever
may be thought of the election and the
methods by which it was decided, one thing
is certain-thnt the American people
rejoice that General Hayes was installed
in his high Office by pageant at once so
simple and impressive. Party feeling is
lost in pride that after contest almost
unparalleled in its intensity Of feel
ing peace and order attended the
Inauguration of the new President. When
Sir Edward Thornton and NJ. Bartholdi
and the other Ministers from Euro
pean nations beheld Mr. Hayes
stand with uncovered head .under the
blue sky, and take the solemn oath admins
tered to him by the Chief Justice, they had
the visible proof that the republican exper-
iment has not failed in the United States,
and that the American people intend that
this Republic shall remain republic still.
Year: 1877

monstrous piece OF stupidity were Po'.
'petrated the filing would be sweps


alternately into the Harlem and IaS'


rivers BY the ebb and flood tiaes'


and until both were cboked up


with garbage and city filth Little ne"


Gate channel would never be filed. Again.


supposing even that the ashes and heavier


matter used for filing remain whefe
dumped, do the officials intend fha' our


water 'front.' the slips and indenatlohs
along the East River. are to be filed with the


floating carcasses of dead dogs and cats our
ing the summer? Is the river surface 70
become offensive to eye and nose with tne
putrid offscourings Of the Little He'll Uate
dumping grounds We see it demonstrated
every day that the Street Cleaning Bureau
is unwilling to secure separation OF
the ashes and garbage collected ID snls
city. An order hos been issued. and is gen.
orally obeyed by all decent citizens, to pro-
vide two receptacles for the ashes and refuse
of houses The cartmen Of the Bureau ma
this separation effected, but they dump
the contents Of both vessels into common
cart and thus mix them again; instead Of
having two carts for the, purpose they use
only one. What can we expect, therefore.
from q system that operates in violation OF
the very rules its organizers have estab-
lished We denounce emphatically the
mischievous statements made by the officials
of the Street Cleaning Bureau and the
Health Board, and will insist upon q
guarantee that no garbage whatever shall be
used for filing Little He'll Gate.
Year: 1877

should owe their whole service to the gov
eminent and to the people. They meant
that the officer should be secure in his
tenure as long as his personal character re-
mained untarnished and the performance OF
his duties satisfactory. They held that ap-
pointments to Office were not to be made nor
expected merely as rewards for partisan SER
vices, nor merely on the nomination OF
members of Congress, as being entitled in
any respect to the control of such appoint
ments." The refreshing earnestness OF
these declarations and the resolute, un-
finching purpose they disclose will
strengthen the advocates Of civil service re-
form and strengthen the new President in
public confidence.


On the currency President Hayes stands
by principles with which he became so con-
spicuously identified in his Ohio canvass in
1875 The country is now 80 well agreed as
to the necessity Of early resumption that
the financial policy Of the President will
encounter nc serious opposition. The
President favors an amendment Of
the constitution limiting the Executive
to single term extended 70 SIX
years. If the country shcu!d get into any
difficult dispute with foreign nation he
would try to have it settled by arbitration
He thinks universal education an indispen-
sable accompaniment Of universal suffrage
This address is so unexceptionable in its
positions and so conciliatory in its tone that
it entities the new President to candid judg-
ment by his fellow citizens until he shall do
something that contradicts his excellent pro-
fessions
Year: 1877

II now appears probable. that tha- sattle-
ment of the Eastern question will once more
be pacific, and that Turkey will get off with
o reprimand on condition that she gives her
.'solemn promise" to be good She is. in
short, to be tried once more, like
bad servant taken for another term.
Although the Powers still believe
they can reform her great deal
better than she can reform herself they will
give her year in which to try the expert
ment of constitutional government and hu-
name treatment of her Christian subjects.
This, of course, is farcical, for every one
knows that at the end of the year Turkey
will be, as to the lawfulness and humanity
of her administration, just where she is
now. But the statesmen of Europe have
their own reasons for playing these
little farces, which cannot be fully
seen at this distance. If, however,
Russia yields her intention for any other
reason than an absolute incapacity to meEe
her armies and feed them this change is a
great blunder on her part. 1t was her lucky
moment. 1t was, in her relation to the Otto
man Empire, that turn in the tide (which
taken at the food leads on to fortune. I"
Her chance may not come again for many
a year. All the facts favored her. Turkey
is abandoned by Western Europe in an
access Of disgust at her selfish and narrow
policy She has no allies; she has no money.
She has no policy but what is formed on the
one idea of Moslem fanaticism, and no force
to sustain this; while Russia, morally, has
the world on her side and an army that
could trample Ottoman resistance in the
dust Will all these points coincide in her
favor again in the life Of this generation?