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Year: 1877

New Orleans Times 1t now turns out
that the republicans did not intend to
keep up row in the south forever. 1t
was their original plan to Withdraw the
troops at the proper time. and by sin~
gular coincidence the proper time ar
rived Just rs majority of the nation
joined the democratic party,
Year: 1877

IT is said that wages are low and COM
petition great at San Antonio. This is
generally the case with all railroad ter
minuses Everybody hocks to the place
and the thing is overdone, Fort Worth
is another example Of this kind,
Year: 1877

FRED. DOUGLASS has again shown his
hatred of the white race. This time by the
most reckless and ill-mannered speech he
ever made. Office and its emolumeuts
have made him bold and he has spoken,
no doubt, his real opinion about the peo-
pie who suffer him to intrude himself
upon their society. No white man ought
10 countenance the impudeut mulatto
bastard. 1t is hoped the President may
be induced to remove Douglass from
office. As a private citizen he might
abuse the white people of Washington
with impunity; but as high official of
the government, receiving large pay, it is
an outrage that he should be allowed to
stigmatize those from whom he gets his
living in the manner he did in his lecture
in Baltimore. For the Democra ats who
went on his bond we have little pity.
Iney might have known that Douglass
lived upon his hate for the whites, and it
is only because of his emitting this ha-
tired against those in the South that he
got the office. The Southern people have
done more nvi the negro race than all
the world besite.
Year: 1877

THE TRIAL at New Castle of the ne
gro Rhodes for the murder of another
negro named Temple has occupied the
Court two days. Rhodes, when arrested,
admitted that he killed Temple, and
made a confession. He said he knocked
Temple down with piece of "slag" and
left him in the road; he then went back
and found knife by Temples side and
with it cut his throat. He said he killed
Temple in self-defence, that he feared
Temple would shoot him. Temple was
down and he saw him raise up on his
elbow, and fearing he would shoot he
went back and committed the act of cut
ting the throat from ear to ear. When it
is remembered that the deed was COM
mitted at night, and that it was very easy
for Rhodes to get out of the range Of the
pistol of Temple in the darkness, after
he had knocked him down with tie piece
of "slag," the story of self-defence seems
altogether an after-thought. To make
the matter more horrible the throat of
Temple was so horribly cut that only the
bones of the neck held the head to the
body. Some parts of the throat W ere cut
out and missing. Under the circum-
stances it is almost astonishing that
question could be raised as to guilt. So
tiendish an act certainly proves that no
one who could be guilty of it should be
allowed to be at liberty. INSTR 1ctively
the mind comes to the conclusion that
Temple, perhaps, the first victim, some
one else may be the next.
Year: 1877

The Michigan Farmer, in notes of the
Michigan Agricultural College Farm,
,}s:


Ierr is one useful experiment which
r>cmpliiies the effect Of the thinning of
Iuil In summer, to which we have often
directed attention. There is no part Of
the farm that receives less attention than
t.c orchard and its fruit. There is no
arn given to the trees, and the quality


their fruit. There is no attempt made
10 thin ont the fruit, and to thus grow a
letter and higher quality of any variety.
Last year Prof Bead caused Il number Of
Northern Spy apple trees to be severely
thnncd of their protuSion of young fruit,
with the intention Of trying whether the
hraling wear could not be changed.
Every other year protuSon of fruit was
4athcred and the off year there was a
scarcity Well, here in the orchard there
W;ts a large number of Northern Spy APP
pie trees, several of them had been thin
ned last year, which was thin hearing
YEAR Every tree that had been thinned
ot its fruit last wear, WAS bearing a fair
average crop Of fruit this YEAR and the
tIttA lIldl lldl llpi pttlI llllllltu, but lcl
alone as is the usual custom Of orchard
lists, We're standing next to them without
amy fruit on them. To Mr.. Bcal this
proved that the bearing year could be
changed, or at least sustained that theory
as shown by some pomologists; but still
4 would not be satisfactorily settled until
The trees had ha0 time to show by their
future crops that the change had been
established. But with such a season as
last year, when fruits We're SO plentiful
and every orchard and tree bore with Il
protuseness that seemed as universal as
IN epidemic, here were trees that had
been checked at an early date by taking
ot' fully one-half Of the immature fruit
soon after they were formed, and this
Year their crops Of fruit were a fair
average.
Year: 1877

KILLING WEEDS. The most rapid way
to kill weeds is not to let them grow
Break the white and brittle sprouts from
the seeds before they are fairly above
ground. The oftencr yon do it, the bet
ter for the crop. 1t is ever so much
easier and better than pulling up big
weeds by hand, OF cutting them off with
a hoe. In the garden the most eXpedl-
llous way is to run over the mellow
ground with a steel rake, which going
down an inch, snaps the sprouts of every
weed. If the ground is hard, skim the
surface with a light, thin hoe, ground
sharp, and then use the rake. In the
field, the farmer must use the harrow or
cultiyator often enough to keep perfect
~ clean surface all the time. Such good
treatment will often double the growth of
the crop by the constant stirring of the
soil, independently of keeping the weeds
from sucking the nourishment.
Year: 1877

otto WAS a black -and-t tan, with ears SO
flexible and quick they seemed as though
hung on wires, and the sauciest-loo
little turn-up tail you ever saw. lie was
very bright and could 90 through SO many
cunning little tricks, he was a great pet


in the house where he lived. But house
cleaning time came, us usual, and Otto
was neglected. He went to his place in
the kitchen, where he ate, but, like
Mother IIubhard's dog, he found nothing.
He shifted round and wagged his tail, but
concluded to 90 and lie down, when he
discovered Il bone, which he seized and
ran with into the hall There happened
to be amirror standing there where it had
been left after cleaning, with its polished
surface outwardS. otto saw another dog
in it with a bone, and he was furious with
jealousy. He dropped his bone and rushed
ut the mirror, but the other dog did the
same, and looked so very fierce, that OF
to jumped back like a little coward. But
seeing the other one drop his tail and
jump back SO quickly, he again advanced,
and was again repulsed. Then he danced
backwards and forwards, and seemed
skirnishing around, as though intending
to get the bone by skiltul manuuvering
rather than an open attack. 1t was II
funny sight SO thought Otto's mis-
trcSS, as she stood in the doorway and
burst into laughter. At this Otto looked
to her us though asking help, but kept
his attention on the other bone. The
mirror was removed from the WALL and
Otto bounced behind and snapped at the
bone, but such a change as came over his
face in an instant. He seemed to under
stand the situation at once, and dropping
his tail, and hanging his head, rushed
under the table, while his mistress's peals
Of hearty mirth seemed to confuse him all
the more. No temptation of bone OF
meat could induce him to come out tol
the remainder of the day.
Year: 1877

Mrs. Sawin of Kansas is a plucky
woman who has farm OF :H;0 acres of
prairie land. This spring she harvested
ten acres of wheat of her own plowing
and sowing, and put down twenty acres
more, besides some sorghum and broom
corn. She is not a strong bodied woman !;
on the contrary, when she began her
pl0Wing she was so feeble that she had
an easy chair at the end of her furrow,
and was obliged at every second row to
stop and rest. She chose this life because
she had more fitness for it than for any
thing else that gave promise of a future
for two little sons whom she desires to
educate to usefulness. Her health i'm
proves, and a sheep raiser in the neigh
borhood has engaged her to plow ten
acres of land for him and take her pay in
sheep.
Year: 1877

Seven Massachusetts sewingmachlne
agents and fourteen book agents invaded
this county one day last week. The
Governor was Immediately urged to send
troops, but he said he had no military at
his command, but he would send down a
couple Of lightning rod men and a chrome
man, who would talk the invaders to
death. Then Burlington just got up and
went over the river and hid in the woods
until the sound of carnage died away
And as the pale moon rose slowly and
calmly she looked down and saw the cold
corpses of seven sewing-machine agents
and two lghtning-rod men, while the
only living creature that roamed the aw-
full field was deaf chrome man, in the
wild, fierce delirium Of the lock jaw.


Hawkeye.
Year: 1877

The trouble with much of the religious
life of today is that it is allowed to rust
and stiffen from disuse. If Christian ex-
poets to have religion that is worth any
thing he must use it daily, A great many
hang up religion, as they do a coat in a
closet, six days in the week, then take it
down and give it nice airing and brush
ing, and wear it on Sunday But such re-
ligion won't wear. An engine that is idle
soon rusts a house unoccupied and uncared
for soon goes to ruin. The only thing that
will keep religion bright is the friction of
constant use "If," said Pagauini, g let a
day 20 by without touching my violin, i'm
medately am aware of it; If | let two days
elapsc, it is the public who are aware of it,
Everybody who heard Rubensteu when he
was in this city marvelled greatly at his
wonderful execution. The secret of it all
lies in two words--constant practice. lie
kept in his room small portable keyboard
having neither wires nor hammers, and
which emitted no sound. Upon this key
board he practiced constantly. Whether OF
| the steamer crossing the ocean, or in tht
cars, or travelling by stage.coach, the prac
tice of the noiseless keyboard was kept "
with unceasing regularity. This is JUS
what we want in the religious liie--a daily
unceasing practice of the life and doctrin,
of Christ in our lives wherever we are. Ii
no other way can religion be made living
force. Let Christian put aside religious
thought and work for even a day, and lik,
Paganini he will be Immediately aware o
it let a little longer period elapse, and tn
world soon finds out that something i
wrong.-ChriStidn at Work
Year: 1877

Cultivate singing in the family. Begin


when the child is not yet three years old.
The songs and hymns your childhood sang


bring them back TO your memory and
teach them to your little ones; mix them
altogether, to meet the similar moods, ms in
after life they come over us so mysteriously
sometimes. Many a time and Oft in the
very whirl of business in the sunshine and
gaiety of Fifth Avenue, amid the splendor
Of the drive in Central Park, some little
things wake up in the memories of early
youth-the old mill, the cool spring, the
shady tree 10y the little school-house--
the next instant we almost see again the
ruddy cheeks, the smiling faces, and the
merry eyes of schoolmates, some grey-headed
now most lie smouldering in the grave.
And anon, the song thy mother sang -
springs unbidden TO thy lips, aud soothes
and sweetens all these memories. AT other
times, amid the crushing mishaps of busi-
ness, a merry ditty OF the olden time pops
out its little head, breaks in upon the ugly
train OF thought, throws the mind into
another channel light breaks from behind
the cloud in the sky, and new courage is
given TO us. The honest man goes singing
to his work and when the days labor is
done, his tools laid aside, and he is on his
way home, he cannot help but whistle or sing
Year: 1877

Churoh-members and Christian laborers in
the Masters vineyard do we consider the
heart of the stranger? Do we look at the
burden that is often pressing so heavily ?
and do we not sometimes add to it, instead
of giving the ready sympathy, the kind word
which goes so far


No matter how strong our church, we
cannot afford to lose one. Nor can we tell
of how much value that one who seems
weak and insignificant may prove to us in
future; and above ALL we do not know how
much power that one whom we neglect may
have with God in prayer.


If Jesus died for souls, not one is insig
nfcant enough to be passed by,-Christidr
WeekiU
Year: 1877

SOMEBODY is already making good thing
out of the silver business. Trade dollars
are circulating here quite freely. Some one
buys them in quantity at discount, passes
them off for greenbacks and makes hand
some profit. Even the small change is get
ting troublesome. A bill collector sent out
the other day came back with eighty dollars
in silver, about all he could carry. OF course
they could not be deposited at the banks or
used in large payments, so the trader must
watch his chance and peddle them out.
Year: 1877

As public Creditor was quietly drinking at
a Wayside Coupon, Western Statesman, who
had been lurking hard by, accosted him, and
rudely accused him of Demonstrating the Dollar
of his Father. The timid Creditor in vain pro-
tested that the Dollar of his Father was Dol
lar while the Western Statesman's Dollar was
a Coin of unfair Vantage. 81 care not" re-
piled the other with a wisdom beyond his Ears;
then it was your Grandfather who took his in
Continental Currency, and if you do not desist
from sucking the Life Blood of the Nation, L
will wipe you out with a sponge" He then
moved the Previous Question.


Moral.-This shows that he who does Busi-
ness with the United States of America needs q
Long Spoon.
Year: 1877

We do not read anonymous etters and communi
cations. The name and address Of the writer In
all cases Indispensable not necessarily for publication
but as guaranty of good faith.


We cannot undertake to return or preserve COM
munications that are not used.
Year: 1877

A RUMoR comes from st. Petersburg that
constitution for Russia is to be prepared
and made public on the End of March next,
the anniversary of the accession OF the Gar
Alexander to the throne. This is too good
news to be true
Year: 1877

THERE is urgent inquiry made for the re-
port on the Chinese question which the late
Senator Morton prepared. 1t is understood to
recommend the protection of the Chinese and
for that reason it is limited, has been sup.
nressed
Year: 1877

The Constitution and the Supply are the
ships designated for the transportation of
goods to the Paris Exhibition. The Supply
will be loaded at New York and the Consti-
tuition at Philadelphia.
Year: 1877

EVERY regular attache of the PRESS Is furnished
with Card certificate couDtersgned by Stanley T.
Pullen, Editor. All railway, steamboat and hotel
managers will confer favor upon us by demanding
credentials of every person claiming to represent our
al
Year: 1877

Having disposed Of my stock of Boots
and shoes i'm store PIP Middle Street, I
take pleasure In commencing him to my
late customers as one worthy Of their
confidence, and who will do his utmost
to maintain the good reputation Of the
Store by keeping a large stock Of first
quality goods, and selling them at the
lowest living profit. A. GOWELL.


P. ST. shall remain with Mr.. GOss
during the Fall and Winter, and shall be
happy to wait ON all who may wish to
have Boots or Shoes Of any kind made
to order. A. G0WELIi.


no2l isdeod3m
Year: 1877

Awould-be suicide wrote these farewell words
to his wife: Dear Mary, when my body is
dragged ont of the river they can identify it by
the linen patch you put IN the seat of my cloth
trowse.s"
Year: 1877

The business on the Stock Exchange to-day de-
veloped a heavy aud depressed feeling Tor nearly the
entire list, which probably reflects the sober second
thought of recent buyers. At the start there
was slight, very slight attempt to sustain prices


and in some instances they were Is higher than at
Year: 1877

steps to full resumption within the time
now fixed By law.


. 7. We oppose any further land grants
or subsidies to corporations or monopolies,
and hold that the public domain should be
reserved for the free homes of industrious
settlers.


s. That we regard with alarm and dis
approve the demands coming from the
promoters of various schemes that profuse
appropriations and grants shall be made
and the national credit used to carry on
works of various kinds, local and sectional
in character, and not of urgent national
importance. We call upon the burdened
tax payers of this state to watch and de
feat all attempts however specious, to in
crease the public debt or to obtain their
money for remote and questionable pur-
poses. We recognize equally the rights of
property and the maintenance and dignity
of labor, deprecating any resort to violence
in the name of either. We insist at all
times upon the supremacy of the law and
the maintenance of public order.
The remaining resolutions arraign the
democratic party for false pretenses, for
slavish subservience to the most corrupt





the republican party of the ,state to re
newed and unyielding efforts for the cor .
rection of municipal abuses and for econO-
my and reform in every branch of the
administration.


When the reading was completed George
William Curtus called for the re-reading
of the second section Of the platform He
then moved to amend by substituting the
following resolution, which he read. having
been called to the platform amid great
applause:


The lawful title of Rutherford B. Hayes
to the presidency is as clear and perfect
as that of George Washington. We gladly
recognize his eminent patriotism. proved
in the field and in civil life. Weheartily CON-
mend his efforts in the permanent paciG-
cation of the southern section of union and
for the correction of evils and abuses in the
civil service as strictly couformed to his
J own pledges and to the declarations of the
convention that nominated him, and as
tending to the promotion of public welfare.
Recognizing that the work is but begun,
VIC shall hail with satisfaction its prompt
and vigorous prosecution, in which the
president may confidently rely upon the
cordial support of the country.


Curtis supported the amendment in an
eloquent speech, and then, after debate,
recess was taken till 7:30.


The convention reassemble at 1850 and
u long and sharp debate ensued upon
Curtis announcement in which Conkliug
took part, strongly urging the adoption Of
the platform just as reported. and con-
cluded by moving the previous question.
which was ordered. The roll was called.
resultlng-yoas 100, nays 295. SO the
amendment was lost, and the platform
was then adoted Uiva Uoce with few dis,
sentiug votes. A delegate nominated
Hamilton tFish. Jr., for secretary of state.
Fish, Jr., declined the nomination.


Adjourned till a. 10. tomorrow.
Year: 1877

For example, although both oxygen and hydrogen ex-
ist they do not combine permanently TO form water
cues, tncy are instantly separated by the impacts
OF thousand other molecules To prevent :he intc-
ror from sodifyipg the temperature must bc on
the scale with pressure to which the interior
is subjected IRON the weight OF the outside The lat
ter is constantly cooling by radiation, and thus con.
have described"


"But Is II thought that with such convulsions the
sun can go on radlating heat ioreverY"


80 lar as tho maintenance OF the solar heat, not
only at present, but tor several millions OF years
past, is concerned, the contraction theory fuhls all
the requirements OF science As the sun coos u
must contract Ia volume, and the heat generated by
this contraction, rather by the all oi the parts
OF the sun on each other which the contraction
involves, Will almost entirely replace that which has
been lost. The most important consequence oil the
theory that the total duration ot the solar heat is
necessarily limited because tho amount OF heat gen.
by the falling together OF the entire OF
the sun from Infinite space is limited and would only
serve keep up The present supply Tor about
OF years"


EpYEcrs on THE KARrs.


radiaton.n


s'Great changes In radiation are not consistent with
lie The globe, for increase OF but fraction OF
the present amount would cause the entire ocean 10
boil, while a yet smaller dimnution would permit
water to exist only IN the form OF cc That the rada
ton should remain constant under any consideraDle o
changes OF the suns density is mproDable is there
lore probable that running water and animal life
have existed on the earth many millions OF years"


"or that they Will exist many millions OF years





s'rnat depends as the French say. II limit our.
solves TO what all Investigations permit us to consider
credible from scientific point o! view then We may
pronounce CERTAIN supposed phenomena incredible
ana declare their occurrence TO border on the mracu
lous. For instance, that telescopes may reveal 10
intelligent beings moving at will through the cclcs-
uai spaces presents tsc extraordinary idea to
all, an incredible one TO many.


Tue CONSERVATION SOLAR HEAT.


ssBut In the present state OF science. | doubt
whether II is any more extraordinary incredible
than the idea that he sun is receiving from any cx-
ternal source supply OF heat equal TO that winch ho
radlates And The phenomenon OF the conservation OF
the solar heat without supply from outside, and
without progressive change within leading to u state
in which the supply must cease, would be yet more
miraculous. OF course, II observations showed that
the sun possessed the power of thus producing per-
cnnia heat from nothing We should huvo 10 accept
II aud modify our IDEAS OF certain natural laws, just
tho case OF our secng boings flying through the
celestial spaces; but In the present state OF our know
edge neither OF these suppositions can bo iairy ad
milted the category Of scientific possibilities"
Year: 1877

1t Is proper TO allude to one or two
customs OF the place which may be con-
sidered to illustrate the simplicity Of
the society, or the reverse. The rule In
Washington is that all strangers pay
visits trst-a rule which, like most social
rules, is observed with strictness by for
eigners, and with considerable Iaxity by
natives. Not only this. but 1t is to q GER
tain extent de rigueur for all the Washing
ton magnates to return visits (by leaving
card) on all persons, known or unknown
who call on them. For instance, if the
wife OF the smallest tradesman in Wash
ington takes it into her head that she
would like the acquaintance of the wife
OF the Secretary OF State, all that is nec-
essary Tor her to do is, after securing
some passable costume, dressing in
Washington need not be what it must bein
Paris Or New York, to present herself
ON the regular day" at the Secretarys
house. She will be admitted, will pay
her respects, and the next day she will
have the satisfaction Of having lett ut her
own door by the official footman Q card
bearing the official inscription, The Sec
retary OF State. Now. this tends TO
great complication rather than simplicity,
and ii 1t could be given up would make
life for the wives vi high officials more
endurable. An attempt was made during
the last Administration to break it up, but
like one or two other more serious reforms
undertaken at that time, the existence of
such custom tends to make society al
together too easy OF entrance, and to foist
upon it gradually many characters whom,
ii left to itself, it would not recognize. 1t
exists nowhere but in Washington, and
would not be tolerated for moment any
where else. 1t is, OF course, regarded by
everybody as very ''democratic," and SO
it is; but it must be confessed that when
democratic principles are carried so lar
as to permit strangers 10 force their ac-
quantance upon people who do not care
ior it, it is risking great deal for poiiti-
cal consistency. The custom is like that
tabled to prevail along the western FROM
tier, which entitled any member OF the
community TO force stranger to drink
with him or be shot. No such custom
could prevail in society which aimed at
being exclusive" and if fault may be
found with society at Washington, it is
that of not being exclusive enough.-At-
iantic Monthly.