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Year: 1878

WORDS OF WIsno M.-Sow good
thoughts and you will reap good ac-
tions.


Ennai is a nalady for which the only
remedy is work.


He who has no desire to improve up
on his present condition, is usually one
who most needs Improvement.


Adverse criticism is cheaper than no.
ble attempts to improve upon existing
models.


We could not endure solitude were it
not for the powerful companionship of
hope or of some unseen one.


The greatest blessings of mankind are
within our reach, but we shut our eyes,
and like people in the dark, we fall foul
upon the very thing we search for with
out finding it.


Evils in the journey of life are like the
hills which alarm travellers upon their
road; theyboth appear great at q distance,
but when we approach them we find
that they are far less insurmountable
than we had conceived them.


It is resignation and contentment that
are best calculated to lead as safely
through life. Whoever has not sufficient
power to endure privations and even
suffering can never feel that he is armor
proof against painful emotion-nay, he
must attribute to himself, or at least to
the morbid sensitiveness of nature. ev-
cry disagreeable feeling he may suffer.


Among the many arguments, while
Others have been refuted, this alone re-
mains unshaken, that we ought to be-
ware of committing injustice rather than
of being injured, and that, above all, q
man ought to study not to appear good,
but to be so, both privately and publicly.


BEAUTIFUL ILLUsTRATION.-A flo
rist will tell you that if you paint the
aower-pot that contains favos3te, beau
tiful, fragant flower, theplant will with
er and perhaps its blossoms will die
You shut out the air and moisture from
passing through the earth to the roots
and your paint itself is poisonous. Just
so, mere external cultivation, superb.
cial, worldly accomplishment, or toe
exclusive regard and anxiety for that
which Injuries the soui. The vases May
be ever SO beautifully ornamented, but
| if you deny the water of life to th,
| flower, it must die And there are kinds
Of ornamental accomplishments, tn,
/ very process of which is deleterious t.
the soul as the paint upon the flower
pot is pernicious to the plant, who's,
delicate leaves not only inhale a poison
GUS atmosphere during your very pro
cess of rendering the exterior NOR,
tasteful, but the whole earth is dried ant
devoid of nourishment. Nature neve
paints, but all her forms of lovelines
are growth, native character, posses
sion and development from the begin
ming. IF the sun can ever be called


painter, it is only because the plant
absorb his rays, and receive them int,
the very texture and life of their vege
tation. So, whatever Is real knowledge
wisdom, principle, character and life il
education, is a process of the absorption
and development of truth, and is no
mere painting.
Year: 1878




GRADE SIEEs.-Ic farmers under
stood the advantages Of using only
thoroughbred sires in breeding, more
Important progress would have been
made in improving our farm Stock
While grades are profitable and 1esira-
BILE for the meat market, they are often
no better for breeding than the veriest
scfuh, although they are often fine look
ing. Experience has proven that they
cannot be relied on as breeders, while
thoroughbreds that have been carefully
bred for years, reproduce their like with
unvarying promptnesa. It lis, therefore,
better to pay a fair price for full blood
than to take q scrub for nothing. MANY
stock men have paid dear for this expe-
rience-have started with a good full
blood sire, and saved the best offspring
for breeding, which answers well for
the females, but for the male to breed
from invariably runs back, instead OF
improving or maintaining the same
ground. Then there Is time and money
lost, and we would like to make this q
maxim for every farmer to adopt in the
breeding of farm stock: Breed onzl.
from full blood sizes, whether cattle for
beef or milk, horses fcs work, hogs fol
meat. or sheep for wool and muttou.-
WesseT7s Ag15cNltasriSt.
Year: 1878

IF Virginia would devote as much
money to the cause of immigration as
she pays for one session of the Legisla-
ture, more substantial benefits would
result than could be legislated by that
hAdy in a Lifetime,
Year: 1878

THE REQUIUM.
Bring withered autumn leaves,
Call everything that grieves,
And build a funeral pyre above his head!
Heap there all golden promise that deceives
Beauty that wins the heart. and then be
reaves,


For Love is dead.
Not slowly did he die
meteor from the sky
Falls not so swiftly as his spirit fled,
When. with regretful, half-averted eye.
He gave one little smile, one little sigh,


And so was sped.
But o, not yet, not yet
Would my lost soul forget
How beautiful he was while he did live,
Or when his eyes were dewy and lips wet,
What kisses, tenderer than all regret,


My love would give.
Strew roses on his breast,
He loved the roses best;
He never cared for lilies or for snow.
Let be this bitter end of his sweet quest
Let be the pallid silence that is rest


And let all go!


-WM. WINTER.
Year: 1878

ont of the rebellion. At the beginning OF the war his
struug Union sentiments resulted in his arrest and
confinement in prison for period OF several months
and he escaped With his life only through the inter
cesson of warm personal friends. After his liberia
ton granted upon condition that he should leave the
State, he North. where he remained unt
the close OF the In 1865 President Lincoln ap
pointed him United States District Attorney for the
Eastern district of Texas He reappointei hS
President Grant and held the Office at the time OF his
death
Year: 1878

At Western Agricultural show the orator of the day spoke as follows:- There is an industry, my friends, that seems to be entirely monCpolized by one or two counties in the southern part of the State, in which more money can be made, according to the investment, than in any other species of agriculture. l allude to the raising of wolves, in order to sell the scalps to the State. You devote good deal of time and labor to the raising of sheep, and what do you get for it. The best sheep cannot lay more than eight pounds of wool in a season, and, even if you get 50 cents per pound for it, you have not got any great bopanza. Now, the State en- courages the raising of wolves by offer ing bounty of $10 for piece of skin off the head of each wolf. It does not cost any more to raise a wolf than it does to raise sheep, and, while sheep rarely raise more than two lambs 8 year, q pair of good wolves are liable to raise twenty young ones in the course of a year, if it is a good year for wolves. In addition to the encouragement offered by the State, many counties give as much more, so that one wolf scalp will bring more money than five sheep. You will readily see that cur wise legislators are offering inducements to you that you should be thankful for. You can establish wolf orchard on any farm, and, with pair of good wolves to start on, there is millions in it.
Year: 1878

East Liverpool it beautifully situated, about fifty miles above Wheeling on the banks of the Ono, in the southwestern part of Columbian county, one hundred miles from Cleveland and forty miles from Pittsburgh.

 Its natural gas wells form one of the seven wonders of the world. They are situated in and around tle city and give it continual supply of the finest light. The gas is almost as free as the air. It costs practically nothing, and forms the illuminator and heater of the town. The city is lighted by it, and the street-lamps blaze away at monday as well as at mid night. It costs nothing to let them burn, and it takes trouble to put them out.

 Almost the entire fuel used in the town is this gas. It is con d into the grates and stoves in pipes a. " it all the cooking and heating is done. It does the business, makes no dirt, is easy to kindle and costs very little. Why, for instance, the Dobbin House, where am now writing, is three-story brick, containing in the neighborhood of fifty rooms and a basement. Its light and fuel for the whole house is composed of gas and costs only $14 per month the year round, and it's light is not the flick ering mockery of poorly manufactured gas, but flame which approximates in it's brilliancy that of the electric light.

 But the question is, how long will this last? Will these wells continue to send forth their streams of light-giving power throughout the centuries, or will they die away in the course of short time This, of course, no one can tell. The prospects are, however, very good for the future. The first we'll discovered now burns as brightly as when it was first opened, and for the last twenty years has never Jagged in It's brilliancy, and none of those now in operation have ever shown any signs of giving out. Fol years Liverpool used manufactured gas, never dreaming of the rich supply that was wasting away daily under it's very feet. The poor quality of this caused | Colopel d. h. Hill, 1n 1So9, to experl- ment with and open his first gas we'll in this vicinity.

 A well was dug, being some four hun- dred and fifty feet deep, and pipe laid. That we'll has been furnishing fuel and light to several houses, producing the steam for large engine and burning pottery-kilns every day for over twenty years.

 The great beauty of the gaslight is the entire absence of smoke and dirt, and when in an open grate playing through burning iron log, made in the imitation of wood, or over Jumps of coke or red-hot firebrick, it has all the cheer fitness of an open coal fire or an old fashioned country fireplace, with none of its dirtiness.
Year: 1878

Ono of the officers of the ill-fated Princess Alice had received his appoint ment after being unemployed for long time, and this had enabled him to turn himself round little, and, though still feeling the crippled effects of his en- forced idleness in the winter, things at home were getting easier, and he pro- posed the day before the fatal event that his wife should take a holiday and go down to Sheerness with the steamer. He actually procured pass, and did his best to persuade his wife to go on that disastrous Tuesday. It was a great temptation, but she declined, and the husband went off alone. That night she waited up and grew uneasy. The death-watch, she says, ticked inces- sanity in her parlor, and she went out to the door and heard Big Ben boom out hour after hour-2 o'clock, quarter past 2, half-past 2-and then, feeling weary and anxious, she went to bed. A quarter of an hour later telegram came, informing her that the boat had come in COlllS1Ou, duu u6I uuSbu4u WdS H. luTGCl, and requesting her to go down to Wool wich. What that startling summons was to woman who had a family of five little children, and who had been listen, ing all the evening to the "death watch, , may be conceived. It is fifteen miles from Vauxhau to Woolwich, and at o'clock in the morning she started off

 and ran and walked and cried the whole distance. When the telegram came she clasped one of her children to her breast and told the little one that her father was drowned. She had no doubt tha

 that was the truth, because of the tick ing, and she plodded down that wear. journey on foot feeling herself widow and her children fatherless. The bus band was injured, and seriously injured but not dead, and he is recovering, anC will probably live to do many goo( days work yet. The shock and excite ment to tho wife were such that for

 whole week she was unable to sleep.
Year: 1878

Is an easy stage in cases of dyspepsia. A slight attack of indigestion, especially when there is a prcdisposition to digestive weakness of the stomach, must speedily culminate in the more obstinate form of the disease. It is well, therefore, to adopt preventive measures early. Although Hostetters Stomach Bitters over comes, if persisted in, cases of dyspepsia of wisdom to use it ere the malady assumes q chronic phase. This is particularly true because as dyspepsia advances, it engenders other bodily evils, such us disorder of the liver, constipation or undue looseness of the bowels, nervous disorders, hypochondria sleepl, ssness. These maladies are both pre- vented and remedied by the Bitters, but how much better to check them in their outset with the great alterative, than to wait until they established 'firmer foothold in the system Surely the advisability of this must be ap parent
Year: 1878

In an address to farmers Bod Ingor-

 soil spoke as follows about certain things

 of our day: Every man that could get

 $500 worth of goods on trust became a

 merchant. They wanted to be dentists,

 lawyers, doctors-something that there was no work in. When they could not do that they would start an insurance association. Then they sent their agents all over the country to get your property insured, to get your life insured, and every moment you would have d pic ture of coffin thrust In your face to see if you wouldn't insure. And those agents would came and sit down by you and talk about your last struggle with that monster They got a certain share of the premium, and they insured anybody. They insured consumption in Its last hemorrhage, and the money flowed into the society. As soon as the fellows began to die the company closed its doors. Then they had fire insurance companies. The agents of these also had share of the premiums, and I tell you that for six, eight, or ten years, they would have insured an iceberg in perdi, tion. Then the merchants filled all the cars and all the hotels and bars with

 runners and drummers. Every man that you meet had three carpet-sacks filled with samples. And in the mean. time we had the Bankrupt law, so that every man who couldn't pay his debts might take the benefit of this law. Ther it all went to the clerks, &c., of the courts. I never heard of anybody getting more than three per cent. on any claim in my llfe.
Year: 1878

Tho term, says an exchange, is tech nical one, understood in yellow fever districts. A "walking case" is pa tient who refuses to go to bed and keeps his feet until he drops dead. Some times he refuses to admit that he has yellow fever; sometimes he realizes that he has the dread disease and despairs of recovery from the start. Sometimes the "walking case manifests the most ab- iect fear, and again he displays the courage and indifference of spy led out to execution. Sometimes the "walk- ing" is confined to the patients cham Der, and then again he roams the streets, with the seal of death on his brow, the dreadful black vomit oozing from his lips-an object of horror to all whom he encounters. This stalking death is not an uncommon feature of life in New Or. leans during the prevalence of an cpl demic. Many who passed through the fearful ordeal of 1853, in which nearly eight thousand victims perished, will re- member the case of John O., a Mem phis printer. He was a nun of splendid physique and handsome presence, but an unfortunate love affair had made him reckless. He developed walking case" of yellow fever, and for two days and nights roamed the streets and ire. quented the drinking houses of the city, in spite of all his friends could do, final. ly falling on the street, and dying before he could be conveyed to his lodgings, He would wipe the black vomit from his lips, hold up the handkerchief, critically examine the horrible exudation, and re mark with grim humor that his coffee didn't agree with him that morning Death is dreadful at best, but no disease presents so great horror as " walking case" of yellow fever.
Year: 1878

The revival of foreign immigration to this country begins to be very noticeable. During last month the arrivals of immigrants at New York were S,955, against 6,673 for the same month last year during the last three months they were 25, 263, against 20, 109 in the same time last year. Causes are now at work that will still further add to this increase. The Socialists in Germany have avowed their intention of emigrating to the United States by wholesale to avoid persecution at home. There are some thing like 9O0,0OO Socialist voters in Germany; should they all take it into their heads to come hither with their families they would form handsome addition to our population. The threatened increase of hard times in Great Britain will also have the effect of accelerating and enlarging the emigra- ton movement. It will not be surprising If, ere long, we shall sec the tide of emigration rolling in upon us in as great volume as eyer.
Year: 1878

A San Francisco correspondent writes as follows: Whatever may be the end of this gambling mania, it is idle to preach prudence here now. San Fran cisco is Q vast gambling hell at the pres ent writing, and the women are if possi- ble wc4se than the men in their greed to obtain money by gambling in mining stocks. A very sad case illustrative of the demoralization which the craze is devel- oping is now before the police court. A young woman of one of the best-known society families, wild to raise few hun dred dollars with which to speculate in mining stocks, invented @ bogus chari- table society to relieve the pressing wants of needy and starving families, whose modesty would not permit them to make personal appeal to the charity of their friends or the public. She appointed herself treasurer, under false name, and sent out number of circulars beg ging for money. One of these circulars was sent to MT. Sam Wilson, a promi- nent lawyer, who, suspecting swindle, sent police officer to follow the messen- ger and investigate. At the same time he handed the messenger small sum of money, which was duly delivered to the young woman who was waiting in the street, and who, being unable to estab- fish the good faith of the society for which she pretended to be acting, was arrested, and charged with swindling and obtaining money by false pretenses. MT. Wilson was sent for, and found to his consternation that the prisoner was a fashionable young woman, a frequent visitor at his own and others of the best houses ill town. Bail was taken for hel appearance her true name was with held from the police report and the newspapers, and strenuous efforts are being made to avoid trial and public exposure. The affair is, however, all open secret, and the girl, who is only nineteen, is ruined for life.
Year: 1878

AMemphis paper says:-The Towards occupy three stores in the Adams block on Second street. Here, in these spacious rooms, are deposited the con- tributions of the charitable from all parts of the world. While there is on immense quantity of articles necessary for the maintenance of our destitute people, there is a very large variety of entirely useless provisions and clothing of all sorts and conditions, that cannot be sold or gwen away. The pious souls who have shown their great hearts by sending us bottled fruits, preserves and jam of all sorts, homemade wine, potatoes, onions and perishable stuff, that can neither be sold nor given away, have our hearty thanks. We take the will for the deed, and thank them as sincerely as if their offerings were of the utmost service. Some of those bottled fruits would kill old man Goepel himself, if he dared to eat them. The potatoes are perishable, and can neither be used nor sold. When we pass to the dry goods and clothing departments we find still larger amount of incongruous and useless articles. Great boxes of hats, caps and secondhand clothing. So much of this stuff is so utterly useless that we must laugh at the donors lack of knowledge of our wants, but when we think of the generous spirit which prompted these liberal donations, we feel more like crying
Year: 1878

Farmer Gilman fixed gun in his melon patch, ill Summerset, Iowa, in such way that the person who stirred a certain large, ripe melon would receive a charge of beans. He meant to remove the gun in the morning if no thief was caught in the night, but before daylight his mother in-l law went out to get a melon, and got the beans. She was seri- ously wounded, and refused to believe that Gilman did not set the trap for her.
Year: 1878

An elaborate editorial upon the Potter reSo
llllOn III that leading democratic paper OF
the west, the Cincinnati Enquirer, attracts
considerable attention in Washington pOliti-
cal circles to-day. 1t is urged in the Enquirer
article that the investigation is neXpedient
as matter of political policy, and the editor
goes on to say:


MI Potter wisely denied that he had any
intention to unSeat President HAYES. and anV
attempt to perform that impossible feat aroutd
ne Supertdtire political fOLly But if the in
VeStlgatlon IS not aimed at that end. what is il
aimed al? One result of the device is already
plain. 1t has contributed to closing up the
ran ks OF the republican party. The President
had made some honest efforts to set the seal OF
non partisanship upon his administration, a
representation in his Cabinet. In the dis
tTibution of patronage he had remembered
them with courtesy. To the southern de
mUcracy he had given special boon-the
all the states, Tor the first time since the war,
equal beneath the flag. 1t is only human and
decent to remember these things with just
appreciation, Mr.. Hayes is human, and if
the 1avorS he has bestowed seem to be
forgotten, such favOrS would naturally cease
IL is lntlmated even now that Mr.. Key will
TINS personal phase of the matter, however,
the. millions of voters have little interest
1t IS, nevertheless; of some consequence
iydeG Tfdeer ne party IS nnted
hereafter to make his administration a bitter
partisan one, he would by that token solidify
the republican organization. The prOnuncia-
miento issued by Eugene Hale is indicative of
the intent of the republican leaders. The war
cry IS to be raised again. The ShibbOleths of
war that have been used in a decade of peace
WITH such erect are to be again employed
The sectional appeal is ence more to be made
In so far as this attack upon the Presidential
title tends to drive this administration into
partiSanship, and by SO doing consolidate the
political mistake. We could aTs1rd renubIis
can dissensions. We could better afford to
encounter them than republican unity. we
are not doubling that all that is expected to be
proved by the Potter investigation is suscepti-
ble of proof, but the search will not make con
verts; The fact of the great wrong need not.
and should not, and would not perish from the
memories OF men even in the absence of a res
Year: 1878

Chairman Potter, of the Florida committee.
arrived in Washington this morning, and has
called the first meeting of the committee at
$50 O'Clock this afternoon


Mr. Morrison will insist that the inves,iga-
ton be proceeded with in open session, but
Chairman Potter and Representative Ben
Butler will oppose open sessions. 1t is the
general feeling among the members that there
Will be no necessity for sub committees to go
south The only witness who is unable to
travel, by reason of illness, is McLin, and it is
thought that his deposition will be taken
there, rather than go to the expense of sending
committee to Florida. One of the members
OF the committee said today that he would not
lfaVel IN the present state of his business and
domestic affairs to save the neckS of the entire
committee. 1t is noticeable. too, that the eX-
cltement on the subject of the frauds has con-
Slderably died out. The feeling is growing
that the movement is so closely associated
with Illden that iJ takes Off a good deal of the
edge, Southern democrats say that the result
thus far has been to solidify the republicans
ana distract the democracy; they anticipate
that the country will be pnt to an additional
season of unrest, and that the effect will be to
do more harm to the democratic than the re-
publican party.