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Year: 1877

WE have enqOired among the farmers
and find that but little damage was
done Tuesday night by the heavy show
ers. Quite number of the farmers are
through haying all eady, and the weather
since haying commenced has been so
favorable, that hauling in has kept pace
with moving, so that only small
amount was caught out in the late rain
Year: 1877

The story of Evangeline is repeated
with wonderful fidelity in all its details
in the experience of a young French girl,
a resident of Marseilles. She was en-.
gagged to sailor to whom she was to be
married on his return from a voyage to
New York. He did not return, and after
year she got berth as stewardess's as.
sistant on one of the Havre steamers, to
come here in search of him. On the pas
sage rich American lady became inter.
ested in her story and resolved to help
her find out her lover. In New York
she learned that he had gone to Canada
For months she travelled about the Do
minion, sometimes close on his track and
again losing every clue as to his where
abouts. She returned to New York, and
one day while standing at Broadway
crossing waiting her turn to get across,
she saw the object of her long search on
the other side. She shrieked his name
and ran into the middle of the street, but
a policeman caught her and saved her
from the wheels of the string of vehicles.
'Angel of God there was none," and she
never again saw the Gabriel she had so
long sought and nearly found. She
learned then that he had sailed for San
Francisco, and so went overland to Cali
fornia to meet him. Arrived on the Pa
citic coast, she found that her lover had
fallen overheard just outside the Heads
and been drowned. Meanwhile the body
of youSg man dressed in sailors clothes
was cast ashore on the beach, carried to
the coroners office and, not being identi-
fed, was inferred in the public cemetery.
A water-sodden pocket.book was taken
from the dead man, which contained only
a few letters written in French and unad-
dressed. The girl, hearing of this, went
to the cOroner's office and found that the
letters were hers. The waves had tardily
and partially recompensed her devoted
search, and she was able to find the grave
of her lover.
Year: 1877

THINGS WE LIKE TO SEA- real lady
who can carry parcel a father at place
of amusement with his children; young
man with clear eye, and fresh, virtu-
Gus, unhackneyed face; shop girl neat
ly dressed, and without sham ornament.
alton; man of business going home at
night with boquet for his wife; a shop.
keeper, civil to and patient with poor
woman who, with baby across her arm,
ventures to buy one shilling article; a
dressnaker who is scientific enough to
perfect eft" and yet leave your breath.
ing apparatus in Christian working-con.
dition; shop that is not an emporium"
a milliner who didn't come from Paris
a jolly domestic who likes the family; a
bride with her pet, small house; young
father with his first boy.
Year: 1877

Poisonous WELL WATER.-The dam
ger incurred by drinking water from
highly respected old wells, whose reputa-
tion for purity raises them above the
reach of suspicion, becomes more evil
dent each day. Outbreaks Of fever are
continually being traced to we'll water
which from contamination has become a
poisonous fluid, bringing disease and
often death to those who drink it. The
latest case of this description has just
occurred at Galashiels, where there has
been an alarming outbreak of typhoid
fever, which, according to the British
Medical JOurnGL is believed to have orig
mated in public we'll in the market
place, from whence large number of
the public obtain their supply of water
The result of analysis that have been
made of the water of this and other wells
in the neighborhood shows that the wa
ter in the we'll in question contains Or
ganic matter in considerable quantity.
Under these circumstances the we'll has
been closed against public use. 1t is to
be regretted that the analysis was not
made and the well closed before instead
of after the outbreak of fever. The mere
fact of a well being largely used by the
public is quite sufficient reason for the
sanitary authorities of the district in
which the we'll is situated to keep
watchful eye on its waters. The princi-
pie of "leaying well alone" is about the
most dangerous that can be adopted as
regards these old parochial denominations.
Pail Nall Gazette.
Year: 1877

ALWAYS win fools first. They talk
much; and what they have once uttered
they will stick to; whereas there is al
ways time, up to the last moment, to
bring before q wise man arguments
which may entirely change his opinion.
-Heips.
Year: 1877

WASHINGTON, Oct. lO.-The most inti-
mate friends of the president say he is not
surprised at the result in Ohio-in fact it
was anticipated, on the ground mainly,
that the state for several years has been
gradually becoming more and more friend
| ly to the doctrine of initiation. Hard times,
also, had its influence, and the working
mems ticket Injured to the benefit Of the
democrats, aud this beiBg the of year
there was much Indifference on the part OF
the republicans.


The election could not be called a rebnke
to the administrator, because the demo
Gratis themselves claim To be in favor OF
civil service reiorm and the southern policy
Year: 1877

The kind of daughter to have is
the one whom William Butler Duncan.
the ruined New York merchant, re-
Gently found out he had. For two or
three years during the summer months
drivers and equestrians on the public
thoroughfares of staten Island have
met young lady equestrian accom-
panied by an orderly, whose elegant
figure and superb h0rsemanship elicit.
ed general admiration. She had every.
thing from infancy heart could wish,
and was supposed, by those who knew
nothing to the contrary. TO be q gay
butterfly of fashion. But soon after
the suspension of her fathers firm,
unknown to her family, she undertook
the translation of q work which was
attracting not q little attention in
Germany. Secretly she kept at her
task, night and day. When it was
completed she went alone to the large
publishers in the city. submitted her
manuscript for inspection, and q few
days later made q contract for the
publication of the volume. When the
first copy was printed she placed it in


her fathers hands, and selling him


what she had done, expressed the hope
that she could do something toward
relieving bis financial troubles. The
translatfon has proved q decided sue.
cess. It has met with q large sale.
and what the royalty paid the devoted
adughter has amounted to y consider.
able sum.
Year: 1877

and when think Of you Anna We may
never see each other again but live
with a hope. My desire is that we
shall both pass the short but treacher.
GUS away willing and we'll Darling to
dream of you by night and sigh for
you by day What luxury for me it
would be to behold your illustrious
imige yes Anna your eyes burn Liquid
fire so flaming to my heart that is IRE.
sistable. Yes Anna as I travel along
the Western horizon I seldom 1ueet
any one except the old hunter who is
as grave as the Wind. My only COM
panion is three young men it ls needlss
to assert that we are on the make.
we have lonsome Time Of it we Rob-
bed fellow to-day but did not get
much. We have no Certain Country
to dwell We inhabit the Western
Country and will Continue until we
get Rich which l must imphatickly
think we will and when we do l am
Coming Back to dallas. Wait
for me Anna for I am solid
with you God is my witness do
love you l am held to no Locality
Bound to no personal object except
yourself Yes wait for me and I will
make you a generous husband.
Year: 1877

The Galveston (Tex.) News says that
about three weeks ago the Gillespie
County Mounted Rifles captured one
Donaho and three other chaps, who
had robbed mail-stage between
Austin and Fredericksburg. On the
person of Donaho was found an incom.
plete letter, which stamps him as one
Of the romantic and sentimental sort of
robbers read Of in dime novels. The
young man will have to serve FIVE or
ten years in the Penitentiary before
he can lay his fortune at the feet of
gentle Anna Parsons and claim her
hand. His loving epistle reads thus:


Miss Anna ParsOns-Dear Darling /:
'Tis with pleasure that sit my self
on the Banks OF Llan0 River a Beau.
tiful stream Ripping its way through
the Western armament on each side
far as the eye Can behold is Mountains
and prairies which vast heards of
Buffalo roam the lean l;yote Can he
seen skulking around and Ill il lovely
to the eye of one sad Boy and Could
Anna But know the sad and shocking
feelings that exist in my l,osom When
[ think OF my Anna who 1S 90 far away.
Yes the Rose the day star Of my life
I am winding my way through tho bar.
rem Country to Mexico for my idea ID
to be Western warrior desperate,
Year: 1877

Bishop Whipple, writing to the
Churchman, says that, soon after Alas.
ka came into possession of the United
States, Gin q certain Greek church
there was beautiful jeweled copy of
the Gospels lying on the altar An
officer Of the army, happening to enter
the church the day before the trans
fer, saw the beautiful copy of Gospels.
Knowing there was no law in our In
dian country, he called on the Bishop
and said: Your Grace, Alaska is to
be turned over to us tomorrow, and I
called to say think you had better re.
move that Gospel from your altar.
The Bishop replied: 1t has lain there
seventy years 1t was the gitt OF the
former Empress of Russia why should
I remove it!' My friend very meekly
said: 'Itis q beautiful jeweled copy,
and I was afraid it might be stolen.
The Bishop, with surprise said: \
hope you have no one with you that
would steal from God. Ishall leave it
on the altar 1t was left, and it was
st0len.''
Year: 1877

not only what was then her own es.
tate, but what might become so on a
contingency thereafter happening.
The death Of her husband and the pay.
ment Of the policy on his life was such
q contingency, and hence his exec
utors are entitled to one.third of the
fund thus realized, and the decree
should be reformed accordingly
Philadelphia Times.
Year: 1877

Three hundred men will cover and
cut a section of about three miles
square, taking off over 10000 logs,
which would measure about IL, ,000, 900
feet, each season. Work begins at
daylight and ends at dark; and when
the days lengthen or the moon favors
a longer twilight or earlier morn the
boys get the benefit in longer working
hours. On the river, when the drive
is started, work begins at three o clock
in the morning and ends at nine o'clock
in the evening, the men having five
meals: Breakfast at six, lunch at nine,
dinner at twelve, supper at five, and
tea at nine. The meals consist of pork
and beans, corn bread, molasses cake
and tea or coffee.


No stint is given to q mans appetite.
The fare, such as it is, is abundant,
monotonous, nutritious and cheap. A
cook is provided for every fifty men.
The beans are genel ally the large white
bush, parboiled in pots holding a
half bushel, then ten pounds of pork
is set in the middle of the beans in the
pot, a quarter of pint of molasses
poured in, and then the pot is set in a
hole surrounded with hot ashes ard
burning charcoal, the top covered
with a stone, over which heavy
wood FIRE is built, and here they stay
from five to eight hours, coming out a
most palatable dish. All tho baking
is done in rudely. stone ovens.
which are heated, before the dough is
mixed. with a good wood fire. The
loaves of biscuit or cake are set upon
the hot stones, and are cooked quickly
and thoroughly.


| A camp of three hundred men will
consume daily four barrels Of bears,
half 4 barrel of pork, one barrel OF
flour, half 4 barrel of meal, one.quar.
ter Of a barrel of sugar, and five gal.
Ions of molasses. The men are en-.
camped in tents, making their beds of
boughs, while their extra clothing, a
pair of duck oyeralls, woolen shirt and
two pairs of woolen socks, is kept in
an old grain sack and used as q pillow
at night.


Sunday in the woods is always day
for sharpening axes, mending sleds, re.
pairing boots and clothes, setting out
a new tent spot handler to the cutting
in the woods, and all the odd chores
which would grow out of the congre.
CATION of so large a body of men. All
well.regu)ated camps exclude liquor.
Being usually fifty to two hundred miles
from any settlement, and the men not
paid until the end of the season. there
is little inducement for any speculator
to peddle rum through the woods, or
for the men to stragyle off in search OF
it.


The consumption of axes and handles
is enormous, an Ak lasting month
and handle about three weeks. The
axes are sharpened daily, some camps
having regular sharpeners, while
others require each man to keep his
own ak in order. The old axes are
never collected for the junk dealer, the
distance to ship them being almost too
great to make it an economical meas.
sure. Woodsmen generally consider
spruce harder on axes than either
birch or pine. The gum which runs
out of a spruce tree is found hard
enough to chip the edge Of the az
when striking through it.
Year: 1877

Fun ON the Farm.


From the Rural New Yorker.


How often do we hear the remark,
"What dull life farming must bet"
or. ''Who would live in the country
where there is no opportunity for hav.
ing any fun 2" which is but shorter
name for pleasure. 1t is certainly
true that many do find country life
very dull if not almost unbearable;
but we are free to say that the cause
of this is less in surroundings of such
persons than in themselves. The Bril-
tish Museum or the Geological Gardens.
would no doubt be dull and uninterest.
ing places to great many persons;
still this would not prove that they
were really unattractive to those who
have eyes to see and ears to hear,
with minds trained to enjoy such ex.
hibitions.


The same principle holds good in re-
gard to the pleasures which the resi-.
dents Of city or country respectively
enjoy. Wealth has really but little to
do with happiness, or what we may
term pleasure or the ''fun of living"
and it would be difficult to fix "poy.
erty point below which a human be.
ing may not live and be happy. In.
deed it could be easily demonstrated
that there are proportionately as many
happy families who subsist on ten dol.
lars week or less, as on one hundred
and upwards. We must, therefore,
conclude that after a mans actual ne.
cessities are supplied, the matter of
pleasure depends mainly upon his dis
position, previous training, or capacity
for enjoying the things which come
within his reach. Now if the farm is
such dull place as many would make
lis believe, why is it! and who is to
blame! There is certainly no lack Of
materials Or opportunities for enjoy
ment of the most rational and limo.
Gently hilarious kind. What could be
more enjoyable than trained animals
of all kinds, from mouse up to an OK
or horse and then what a field there
is for study, as instinct improved be.
comes veritable reason! Let each
child have his pet animal to work
upon, thereby creating friendly
strife which will make life all the
more pleasant.


Perhaps their taste may not be for
animals, but for minerals, shells, plants,
or some other of the thousand and one
objects Of natural history to be found
on every farm ,all of which may be gath
cred and studied in leisure moments
without wasting the time required for
labor in the field. The boy if told
he may 60 fishing after his task is
done, usually finds a way to get
through with it in time to spend a hap.
py hour where the "fun comes in, "and
this might often be done in hunting
for plants to put in his herbarium, or
for insects, Shells minerals, or other
objects of natural history to enrich his
cabinet.


OF course the parents should second
all these deviations from the far too
general routine on the farm, which
often amounts to little more than
working eating and sleeping-a fact
that accounts, in a great measure, for
the widespread complaint, that boys
and girls leave the farm whenever an
opportunity presents itself. And who
will blame them, If the farm can offer
no inducements for remaining! There
is world of amusement on every acre
of land occupied by plants and living
creatures, and it is only those who are
blind through ignorance who fail to
find it.
Year: 1877

A good hot.bed may be made upon
the surface of the ground, piling up
The manure from two feet six inches
to three feet high, and at least six
inches wider all around than the frame.
This extra width tends to preserve tho
heat within the frame; and il. it he q
foot wider than the frame it would be
better than six inches. The sitH ation
should be where the soil is dry; and
the bed should front to the south, or
as nearly south as the location will
permit. The sashes should either be
procured before the bed Is made, or
their exact size should be known when
the frame is made; and the frame may
be made to hook closely together,
so as to be removed, and easily stored
away when not in use. Fresh horse
dung is the best manure to produce
heat. It should be thrown into q heap
and wet slightly about a week before
it is placed on the bed, and turned
over once or twice before using it to
increase the heat. When put on the
bed, tread it down firmly. and cover it
about six inches deep with light, rich
soil, and ascertain the degree of heat
when you desire to SOW your seeds, by
plunging a thermometer into the soil;
and if too warm, wait a day or two
for the bed to cool.


Seed will stand a heat of 90 degrees
very we'll. Sometimes seeds are sown
in pots and pans, which are plunged
into the manure without any covering
of soil; but in such case, it should be
covered three or four inches deep with
sand or ashes to retain the heat. Wood.
en- boxes six inches deep,made of very
thin boards, about two feet long, and
one foot wide, would be better than
pans and pots for some kinds of plants.
The bottoms might lie of zinc, or GAL


vanized sheet-iron, perforated with
small holes to allow water to pass
through them, if the watering should
be too copious. Such boxes could be
packed in without any waste OF room;
and they could be easily removed to
fork up the bed anew to increase the
keat,or to allow q new bed to be made
when the heat of the old one is tco
much exhausted.
Year: 1877

The Boy AND THE PANTHER. The
Colusa (Cal.l SIM tells the following
story Last Saturday Master JOHN
Williams, aged 13, was out hunting near
home, on Elk creek, when he ran across
panther anu gave him the benefit of
the contents of his rife. The panther
made off, and the young man loaded up
again and gave him chase, getting in
another shot on him. This time, how
ever, the panther got ont of his sight,
but he could sec from the blood that he
had been hit. He went home and dream
ed all night, of course, of fighting pan
theirs with grizzly or two thrown in to
make it interesting. Next morning,
bright and early, he gathered his gun,
determined Oh finding that panther
He got on the blood, which he traced
into hollow log. He fired into the log
and then got an ak and cut the panther
out, finding him still alive, but he fin
l6hed him up and dragged his trophy in
triumph home. An inspection showed
that both balls OF the previous evening
had gone through the panther's lungs.
He was an immense fellow, measuring
seven feet from tip to tip. 80
Year: 1877

4 MOUNTAIN OF SALT.-A correspond
ent Of the San Francisco Chronicle
writes cone mile above the ferry the
Virgin River comes in from the North,
and on and neal 1t is, perhaps, the most
wonderful and extensive salt formation
on the continent. The formation is in
fact one Of the mountains Of salt, hard
rock salt which is blasted ana gisarriad
out like quarries of granite end marble
Commencing six miles up the Virgin
River, these mountains of salt extend
fer thirty OF more miles up the Virgin
and Muddy rivers. There are openings
now made from six to twenty miles up
the Virgin River at different places.
From six to twelve miles these openings
uncover species of dark gray salt, nine
tg-two per cent. pure, presenting to the
casual observer the appearance of com
mon, coarse, gray granite. These open
ings are all on the east side Of Virgin
River. from one fourth to one half mile
mp from its banks. At a point twenty
miles up the river, and on tho western
side, is mountain of pure white crys-
talized salt, white as the driven snow,
aad transparent almost as glass. 1t is
al once a pleasing and interesting spec
tacle to see the great masses OF crystal
like salt, as thrown out by three or





fill blocks resemble somewbat blocks Of
the purest ice when prepared for the ice
house.
Year: 1877

To clean and restore the elasticity of
cane chair bottoms, turn the chair bot
tom upward, and with hot water and a
sponge wash the cane; work well, SO
that it IS well soaked should it be dirty
use soap let it dry in the air, and it
will be as tight and firm as new, provid-
ed none Of the canes ere broken.
Year: 1877

SETTLING UP.-A gentleman who
has just arrived from the valley of
Pischt river, says that he is going
back to make home there; also that
others are going, and in the course
of q month there will be in all about
20 settlers on or near the river. This
is rapid work in the way of filling
up the country with hardy, indus
trious and valuable population. Three
months ago there were but one or
two settlers in the above named re-
gion.
Year: 1877

The Southern Republicans hope to
escape the odium that justly attaches to
them by getting another party-the Old
Wing. This would be censuring the Re-
pablicans who destroyed the Wing par
ty; but it would not purge the bad men
who have been using the Republican
party organization to enable them to rob
The people and steal government funds.
As they did this as Republicans they
would doubtless repeat it as Whips.
Year: 1877

RECKLRss CARELEssNEss AND FATAL
REsULTs.-More men were killed by tn,
horrible accident at the launch at Roach'
iron ship yard, in Chester, on Tuesday
morning, than at the celebrated battle Of
Big Bethel, over which Ben. Butler sought
to acquire fame as commander, but was
subsequently laughed at by military mer
on both sides, nearly as much as he was
after Grant said he had bottled his army
III Bermuda Hundred. "Old Cock-Eye'
has managed to give bis assailants some
pretty hard hits in return for sarcasm
but that did not restore the lives which
his blunders occasioned. Gen .Uackson's
aormy Of recruits at New Orleans,
withstOod the assaults of three thousand
English soldiers, under experienced COM
manders, and lost but thirteen men, al
though the enemy suffered the loss Of
about as many hundred. What extraor-
dinary prudence and care must have been
shown to have accomplished the saving
Of life under all the heat and excitement
attending a great battle, and what a
contrast Jackson's management presents
when compared with Buffers, although
Buffers, fortunately, was not attended
with very sanguinary results ?


The misfortune at Roach's yard is re-
garded by all the experienced ship car
penters Of Delaware as one of the most
reckless and careless character in ship
building on record. Some of the poor
fellows who were ground to death were
more competent than the man who had
command of the launch. Charles Wright,
one of the killed, had worked in this city
and knew all about launching ship.
These poor fellows were sent under the
ship to knock away the blocks on which
the vessel rested; and they knew that it
was not safe for them to be there after
they had completed their duty but it
was their duty to knock the blocks away
before coming out. And it was their
duty to report their work done ; yet the
ship was cut loose while the workmeu
were in the terrible trap. 1t was the
business of Mr.. Fountain to know thai
all the men had got done knocking out
the blocks and were safely from under the
stern of the vessel before the fatal order
was given to cast loose or saw the plank
that held the ship in its place.


Ii such an accident had occurred in
Delaware we would have considered it an
eternal stigma to our mechanics. That
Mr.. Roach, who was not present, will
lament the occurrence every man that
knows his generous character will admit
But how he came to trust so responsible
duty 10 so reckless character will be
wondered at SO long as the unfortunate
accident is remembered.