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Year: 1877

The general freight agents of the trunk
railroads this city yesterday to compare and al.
lust their accounts with each other for the past month";
but the questions involved in the recent compact
tween different trunk lines which the freight agents
were unable settle their last meeting not
sdered aud 1t is understood that further action
the subject will be taken by them at present. Orders
been given to the freight agents TO carry out that
portion Of the compact which relates to through bills Of
ladng.


committee, consisting OF the foreign freight agents
OF the different trunk lines, which was ap-
pointed at the freight agents meeting at the
Windsor Hotel during the latter part of December,
will meet In this cty weekly for the purpose OF eng
upon the rates established by the rates Of the
current week These, when added to the established
land rates, will b. teegapbd u the West the last Of
each week. and will form the through rates to foreign
ports for the week lOllow wing As stated In yesterday
TRIBUNE 1t Is proposed to pay rebate OF IL cent
oil shipments made from the West tO this port and sub
sequentiy exported when applied for prescribed In


letter OF Mr. Rutter to the President OF the Produce
Exchange. The Of arriving at the freight
rates by sailing vessels still remains unsettled
Year: 1877

Simon has done his work tf he does ~, there may
be room for Ministers who shall have higher, nober
qualities; there is no room for them now. Two men
emerge from this crisis marked with the stamp oi
future power, namely: the Due dAudiflret and NJ
Waddngton, for both resisted the attempts maze
to force leadership upon them Both felt that what
will one day make their authority units them ior
action now but since the Due dAudliirets recent
plain statements to the Marshal and 10 his own Po-


tical friends, France is the richer by one man VINO
NAV very probably be called to u position higher
than that of Minister NJ FAudiffret is now on
the line of future Presidents of the Republic should
ANYTHING happen to the Marshal Meanwhile we


may expect quieter times than we have been used TO
latterly
Year: 1877

As the Thirty -fourthst. ferry-boat was leav-
ng the Hunters Point slip about 10 p III on Wednesday


sleghing party dashng toward the ferry just AS
the gatenan was about closing the gates. The sleigh
was double one and drawn by two horses Besides the
driver the party consisted OF gentleman aud three
ladies'. They belonged in NewYork and had been to
Astoria for sleigh ride II reported that the sleigh
and its occupants precpitated into the water ana
that one the party missing but this was denied
yesterday.


The ferry master stated to TRIBUNE reporter last
evening that in the ferrybOx at the tme and the
boat Just been cast off and few feet from the
bridge the sleigh driving through the gate
way rapid pace The gateman attempted to stop the
horses failed Several persons, including the bridge
man. called the driver to stop. Ii was about haf
flood tide and the bridge about level The
horses stepped on the brow" wagon-plank, which
tpped over the edge of the bridge throwing them INTO
the water The.tippng Of the brow prevented the sleigh
from sliding ahead The horses were cut loose ana
though they were got out OF the water III about l2
minutes they were then drowned. The harness ana
sleigh were brought Ia NewI0rk TINS morning. lhc
ladies and their attendant took the boat which clt next
after the accident, and came To Ncw-fOrk The Terry
master stated positively that the party sustained no IN
ures and that aside from the drowning OF the horses
and the breaking of the pole Of the sleigh there were no
damages any kind lie thought the driver was en-
trcy at fault. and his opinion that nc was under
he Of
Year: 1877

where the shot had struck. Our
locomotive responded by a whistle,
and we sped along undisturbed un-
til we reached the station at Ibrail.
On leaving the train the Grand
Duke was received by a detachment
of Cossacks and the infantry regi.
ment of Kursk. While he was
reviewing these troops second
report was heard from the Danube.
Then a peculiar whistling sound
came through the air, and a conf
cal proiectile of enormous caliber
struck coal-pile some twenty yards
off from the place where the Grand
Duke stood, and in the immediate
vicinity of the last men in the file
Of soldiers he was reviewing. No
attention whatever was paid to'this
incident, either by the commander
or the soldiers; not a man moved
in the ranks, though if the shell
had burst, which it happily did not,
the damage might have been a very
serious one.


The general disturbance and
excitement were still more visible
here than at Galatz. The town
seemed almost deserted; the few
inhabitants who remained glided
about in the streets with uneas,
countenances and keeping as close
as possible to the walls of the
houses; and the heavy report;
heard from time to time, together
with that particular whistling
sound which seems to pervade the
whole air around you, were not cal
cnlated to inspire much confdenct
to the peaceful citizens"
Year: 1877

in her most killing array to step on
her trail, and pulled out about three
yards of gathers, with a rip like a
peal Of thunder, exposing about
three.quarters of the framework
that makes her dress stick out be-
hind. But, instead Of meeting the
accident with perfect equanimity,
she turned around and jobbed her
paraSol into his eye, called him a
junk-headed leper, and: asked him
why he didn't wear his feet side
ways. He expresses himself as
thankful that he did not marry the
girl before finding out what sort of
a temper she had, but the doctor
doesn't think his eye will grow out
again.
Year: 1877

NnlVaBo AtlDune'l


A young man read in the Ledger,
a few days ago, that if you wanted
to find out if the woman you had
selected for your future spouse had
a good temper, you ought to take
occasion to step on her dress or
snap the sticks Of her fan, or in
some other way annoy or discom-
pose her. eff" said the great au-
thority who preSideS over the
column Of advice, elf she betrays
no signs of i'll temper, she will prove
model wife" Accordingly, the
Young man seized an opportunity
when his sweetheart was rugged out
Year: 1877

The late Presidential contest engen-
dered much bad blood which cool
ness and Judgment will correct The
bad blood" induced by persistent
violation of natures great but simple
laws requires not only GOODNESS and
judgment, bat obedience to hygieniC
measures and the proper use of Dr.
Bulls Blood Mixture to insure its purih'
cation
Year: 1877

People will unfortunately get Sick and till
then do they appreciate health. But if you must
take medicine, go to Tozer's Drug Store for it,
where a full line of pure, fresh drugs, and care
full prescription clerks can always be found; also
full stock Of the patent medicines OF value
known to all. AS cleanliness is nigh unto god.
illness as we'll as health, try those splendid soaps
and toilet articles he has in such variety and
quantity In fact. the Tozer Drug Store is com
plele in all lines and all who trade there are per-
fecily satisfied with the very reasonable price
list.
Year: 1877

Dress MAKISG.-The ladies will be pleased to
learn that Mrs. s. F. Fceney will hereafter be
prepared to attend to all calls upon her in the
line OF dress making in connection with her mil
linery business, for which work she has q corps
of competent and superior assistants. Mrs. Fee
ny has given so general satisfaction as a millin-
er that this announcement will give great salts
faction to her many friends and customers
Year: 1877

The worst blow that has been struck at
civil service reform has been dealt by the
President himself. The essence Of the re-
form be proposed to inaugurate was to
divorce the official function from its close
inte1marriage with purtisansbip. What
an example of infdelity to his own princl-
pie does he present in delayingto suspend
a subordinate who openly dehes him
because his removal might prejudice the
result of the New York election! A doc
tor that won't take his own medicine cam


expect othea people to have much faith in
Year: 1877

Washington Cor n Y Tribune


Comparatively few Cougressmeu 60
TO see him During the sessions, in
President Grants time, there Nre
almost always score Of Senator's @and
Members al the White House of
morning, " ing their turn f,r inter
views. Now It is rare TO fnd more
than two or three Those who talk
with President Hays about the political
situation, says that he Is not the least
alarmed and that he puts aside their
gloomy farebodiugs about the future
OF the Republican organization with
coUnteDance full Of sunshine. an eye
as clear aS y June sky, and with such
cheerful, philo>phcal talk, that it i
impossible not to take away from the
interview good opinion Of him and
hopeful view of the future Of politics
Nobody can quarrel with him. because
il takes two 10 make a quarral, and
he viii not be one Of. the parties IL
is easy for Congressman to Sulk in the
cloak rooms at the Capitol aud pile
up their grievances against the
administration, a. Indian burial
mounds were formed by each passer
by adding stone. The pile from
accnmuatious of like material assumes
formidable proportions. but when any
one Senator Representative takes a
~ sample complaints up to the
White lIou-e he Is usually convinced
that the are not the sort Of stones he
w6nld like to be seen throwing at the
President in public.
Year: 1877

If business is not good with any Of
our readers. the only thing and best
thing for you to do is to work atonce
aud axe IT so. Do not look to con
gress or any body else to do this or hat
to improve business Remember that
YOU are the architect of your own
fortunes; that it Is as YOU make it, good
or bag. aud from yourself alone must
come The best relief 10 any hour Of
difficulty In order to effect this, you
must make your existence known BY
keeping your name aud business con
stantEy before the public, by means
of advertising in The COURIER, the
best medium for your business. You
must attract trade, aud not Imagine
that it will seek you out Do not
let your customers forget you, but
constantly remind them of your ia
ciliiies for business Do not place
the blame on the tunes. if you are not
yourself up with the times, and the
methods Of attracting trade and doing
business. So advertise always
Year: 1877

THE penalty for selling zones vote in
Kentucky is disfranchi>ement for life
IF some ambitious aspirants for Cor
oner knew thes terrible RISK some OF
their supporters were running, they
might halt in their mad effort to cor
Fupt suffrage.
Year: 1877

THE pistol and bowie knife have
grown epidemic in Central kentucky
That portion of the State is many
years behind Southern and Western
Kentucky in ciyilization A healthy
application of rope" will improve
them.
Year: 1877

A Nashville colored preacher Is sning n
member of his church for the payment OF
p, subscription to the pastor salary
Exchange.


Some whites are. from accounts, tuI
v up with their colored sbrethren in
nch matters. \ large number of our


eople sign subscription papers to
hufches. charities. and public enter
prises. W tn kind of mental reserya
ion, that if it happens to be exactly
convenient they will pay, but if 9th
orwise they will simply decline to do SO.
This i= wrong The people should
earn that when they sign one OF these
,apers that it means pay, and that they
ere under the same moral and legal
litigation as if the amount was IN
urred for self By such signatures
hers arc induced to perform work
and TO assume responsibilities, expect
'ng them to share the expense, and It


double wrong not = pay aud leave
hers in the lurch. The little para
~raph above furnishes matter for
healthful thought.
Year: 1877

There i every reason to believe that
while Hayes will stand by his Southern
policy. he will easily fud a way to re
treat from the advanced and difficult
ground Schuiz inveigled him iuio tax
lug on the civil service question = n.
o. Times.
Year: 1877

There are indications that Gen
Grant will be placed on the track for
the next Presidential race. Gen
Boynton, wiring on the Cincinnati
Gazette, says that the organizers


believe that The triumph of the solid
South, and the prominent reappearaoee
upon the political stage of the leaders
Of the rebellion, will have so disgusted'
the North long before the next
Republican Convention that such a
name as Grant will be needed by the
party. and that under his lead the
Republicans can conquer again.
Year: 1877

About three miles above Crook City,
on the WhitewoOd creek, has been dis
covered a singular cave. II Is situated
on the northwest side Of the creek, about
three hundred feet above the bed of the
stream. 1t opens into hill of lime
stone formation fifty feet high. The en-
trance to the cave is twenty feet wide by
ten feet high. The first chamber is about
seventy-five feet in length, and extends
a little west Of north. Then you enter
another chamber about two hundred feet
in length, running almost directly north
east. This second chamber is about
thirty feet wide and ten feet high. Next
you enter upon an incline floor extending
down through a room six feet wide, forty
feet high and fifteen feet in length. As
vou leave this singular chamber you
turn into small opening two and one
half by three feet, crawling on your
hands and knees until 1t graduall y
enlarges to ceiling fifteen feet high.
The atmosphere of the cave ia not dis
agreeable. Il Is necessary to take s
fambeau. "a the cave is utterly dark.
The walls and ceiling are .thickly fes~
tooned with calcareous spar, and the
outward coating Of lime.
Year: 1877

THE police Jury Of Point Coupee


La, has passed a levee ordinance. They
divide the parish into six leyee Districts
corresponding with the police jury wards,
appoint one superintendent for each, he
to have the privilege to appoint two
assistants. All persons liable to road
service are compelled to work on the
levee when required, under penalty Of
two dellars a day, or provide an able
bodied substitute. Persons are forbidden
employing directly or indirectly, any
person who has been notified 10 work on
the levee until such work has been per-
formed under PENALTY Of twenty dollars.
Year: 1877


afirays and their part in them. These
reports may all be incorrect Or over
drawn, and the action of the military
may have been rendered necessary by
the conduct of the mob. The object
of this article.is not the censure or con-
demnation of the behavior Of the mill
tia, for the provocation given them
may have been worse than reported,
and Heaven knows it was bad enough
far greater than most men would
willingly submit to, hut our purpose is
to prove, as far as possible, from the
example Of these men, and their fail
ure to quell the disturbances the utter
ineficiency of militia companies as a
means of public protection in times Of
danger from either domestic or foreign
foes. Being regarded as only volun-
teer, or "play" soldiers, their presence
inspired no fear or respect in the
minds of the strikers, and their want of
discipline, and vacillation only served
to increase the fury and violence Of
the mob. Maryland and Pennsylva-
MIA, each, spend large amount Of
money annually in behalf of their mi
litia organization, and, with the excep-
ton Of the two hundred and fifty men
Of the Fifth Maryland, the whole thing
in both States proved, when put to the
test, to be useless for the purpose for
which it was instituted Let those
Delawareans who would have Cover
nor Cochran assemble the legislature
for the purpose of enacting a militis
law calculate the cost of keeping up a
well organized State militia, then re-
fleet upon the advantages that accrued
to their neighbor States from the use
Of their militia in the recent riots. IF
soldiers are necessary to the preserva-
ton Of the peace, it would be far bet
ter to increase the regular army Of the
United States than to subject the States
to the expense Of organizations which
experience has proved cannot be re-
lied upon in time of need.
Year: 1877

The riotiug spirit did not subside, and was
not satisfied with the violence of the mobs at
Baltimore aud Pittsburg, but as the news Of
the terrible doings in those cities spread over
the country it only served to awaken dormant
passions and to whet the morbid appetite OF
thousands Of turbulent spirits who only await
ed an opportunity to join in the horrible
work
Year: 1877

At the highest point Of Mount Adams We


came upon a scene of absolute, unrelieved


desolation-a world of naked, savage rocks,


piled together in Cyclopeap vastness and


utter confusion, their sharp, jagged points


and edges all threateningly thrust outward


to deter, by their perils, any attempt at


climbing this rugged and frowning height.


The "bridle path" was a mere gully in the


precipitous mountain wall, and sometimes it


was not very clearly defined.


Stopping the horse to give him breath I
looked back for my companions They
were out of sight, with the guide, further
down the vast slope, and we started again
for another two rods before stopping again
for the horse to breathe. In some places
this terminating cone of Mount Washington
is as steep as the steepest old-fashioned roof
to house. The path is picked out among
the threatening rocks, mere line Of step
pi ices for the horse, for the first part
OF the ascent through al enormous fOrma-
ton of glittering quartz.


This intensely white stone probably gave
the White Mountains their name. Above
it we come again upon the ugly pointed
and jagged boulders of gray and dark gran
ite, scantly covered in spots with clinging
yellow gray lichens, and equally scanty bits
of peculiar mossy Alpine vegetation, in
the chinks and crannies, of which DO not
know the name. It is almost invisible
unless you look for it.


The aspect of the upper peak is one of
bare, tremendous, rocky desolation; of ugly
pointed rocks, so firmly and everlastingly |
fixed that no effort of human engineering
will ever be likely to disturb the positions
assigned to them in the convulsions of
primordial times. It is an impressive
thought, in looking at this austere mountain
;op, that it presented just as aged an aspect.
md was, practically, as aged mountain at
he time of the Crucifxion as now. In the
ife of such a hill two thousand years are ga
day, and the rise and fall of human races
ire as the feeting lights and shadows that
BASS across its face. Reading Eagle.
Year: 1877

Joseph Albert, photographer to the court
has finally succeeded in inventing photo
graphy to render the natural colors in the
picture by Photographic steam press Of
his own construction, without the aid of @
pencil. have seen some of the proofs OF
such colored photographs, by the Albert
press. An expert painter could hardly give
the colors of the object more faithful in liv-
ing reality and with distinctness to the
incest shades. The secret of the invention
consists in the analysis of the white light
into the three colors- yellow, blue and red
and in their recovery of the three colors
ready for the press. On plate chemically
prepared, SO as to receive but the yellow
parts of the light, and the tones of the
colors of the object to be reflected the first
photograph is taken, when negative
of that plate is at once put under the press,
whose cylinder is dubbed over with yellow
paint. None but the tones of the yellow
colors are now seen in the impression.
After that the object is photographed on a
plate made to reflect but the blue colors.
The plate now under the cylinder reflects a
blue impression, the cylinder being dubbed
over with blue paint. In the same manner
he receives but the tones of the red colors
by means of third plate. Printing the
individual pictures of yellow, blue and
red over each other, picture is produced
true to nature, the colors intermixing by
having been printed over each other. The
dea long entertained and prosecuted by
Albert, to photograph colors, may no
longer be considered as not feasible. It is
hard at present to fortell what revolution
the new invention will produce in the many
departments of art. Vienna Press.





The Great Western Railroad in England
was originally planned and executed by that
most extravagent of engineers Brunel;. at
lavish expense, and among other peculiar
features boasted the broadest gauge in |
Britain. The company's employees have
always been proud of this, and the engi-
neers in particular have manifested especial
for the gyratic eight wheelers with
which the 'Flying Dutchman' Gas the train
which runs steady SO miles an hour is
:ermed) is driven from London to the
Lands End When lately an engine driver
was knocked down and mortally wounded
oy one of these mechanical Monsters he
;ad to the company's doctor, q great favor
te with the men, "Tm glad, sir, you come
o see me start; and I'm glad, too, it
vornt one Of them narrow gauges as did
T. ~
Year: 1877

hOuse SURRENDER.


PTTTsBURa, July 27. The Evening Tele-
graph publishes the following:


Gen. JOS. Brown, commander of the local
military, this afternoon, about o'clock, ad-
dressed the strikers at the Allegheny City
round house, notifying them Of the sheriff's
request that they should disperse and hand
the property over to the company The men
complained that the sheriff had not hereto
fore given them proper notice. Gen. Brown
then calledon them to hand over the property
to the company, as they had no right to pre-
vent others from working because they pre-
ferred to strike.


One Of the strikers answered the General
that the legislation of the country was to
blame for the low wages paid and that when
they sent q man to Congress he made laws
to oppress them.


The General replied that if one of them
were to go to Congress he would come back
with big diamond pin.


This was greeted with laugh, and while
some wanted to interrupt the speaker with
impertinent remarks the majority favored
him with fair hearing and suppressed all
the noisy demonstrations of their compan-
ions.


After the General had finished his remarks
the strikers agreed to appoint a committee
of conference to meet him and talk over mat
ters with him. Gen. Brown, however, pre-
ferred to conclude the matter there and then,
and after short parley the strikers agreed
to turn over the property of the company to
him but to remain out on strike


The General subsequently communicated
this intelligence to General Manager Laying
and that official has taken charge of the road
and will send out freight trains tomorrow,
This settlement may be regarded as the con-
clusion Of the difficulty on the Fort Wayne
road.