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Year: 1877

payment. Deceived by his frequent
promises to 'make the thing square,"
Eagene Taggars and his brother
James went to the house of the negro
on Wednesday to insist upon the
payment of the account: The evis
dence Of the dead mans wife, who
was the only witness to the killing,
made it appear that Eugene Taggart
stopped at the end of lane near
Coly er's house, that James went to
the house, told Joe what he came
for and that he intended to have the
money or whip it out of him. Upon
refusing to pay, Colyer was told to
go up the lane and fight it out" and
he proceeded to accept the banter.
Upon reaching the end of the lane
Eugene Taggart stepped out, drew
his pistol and fred. lie and Joe
then clinched, two other shots were
fired, the last of which brought down
the negro. The ball took effect in
the back of his head near the base of
the skull and ranged around to the
Junction of the temporal and occipital
bones. The torce AM weight OF the
ball was not sufficient to fracture the
skull. In short time, however, the
wounded man died. On Thursday
Coroner Cochran held an inquest
over the body of the deceased. Dr..
Lyon of this place, acted as medi-
cal expert and made a post mortem
examination of the dead body. The
skull was sawed open, the brain ex-
amined, and the opinion given that
death was produced by apoplexy.-
The verdict of the jury was that the
deceased "came to his death from a
pistol shot wound (pistol being in the
hands of Eugene @. Taggart) and
Improper treatment afterwards,
which brought on apoplexy causing
his DEATH" .. So. -..'s,. ....


Another account Of this unfortu.
nate occurrence, to which perhaps
the greatest truth should attach.
makes it appear that when James
Taggart went TO Joe's house to ask
for the debt he was roundly abused
and threatened with instant extermi-
nation, Joe calling to his wife for his
gun. The boy retreated at this, was
followed by Joe, jerked off his horse
and thrown down into the road
About this time Eugene came up,
was struck with rock by Joe, drag
ged to the ground and in the course
of the scnffle fired his pistol, the ball
taking effect a S above detailed.


The Taggart boys have fled from
home but will very probably make
their appearance for trial at the
proper time. 1t is to be regretted
that so many bloody deeds are oc"
curing in this county-always noted
for its peace and good order. They
contribute nothing to our domestic
happiness and will he looked upon
with an evil eye by those living out
side our borders. Too many pistols
and entirely too much passion.-Ab~
beville Medium.
Year: 1877

You must take your baby just where
he is now, not much more than little
animal, and educate his physical nature
so rapidly developing. For instance,
he has just reached the climbing age:
every chair and stool is worry to
you, aud pair of stairs is a perpetual
terror. Now show him how to get up
and down the stairs, how to place his
feet when climbing up into chairs. Let
him tumble little; it will only make
him more careful. 1t is but foretaste
of the hard schooling which experience
gives us all our lives. Better little
fall with you close by to stop it at the
right place, than great one when you
are "off guard" some day. Remember
that too. when he is in his teens-) But
beg of you, if you want to see him
grow up active, strong-limbed and
agile, do not keep his white dresses too
clean, nor tie his sashes after the pres
ent uncomfortable fashion, so that he
isn't conscious of any legs above bis
knees. Then, let him feed himself.
He'll make a miserable mess of it at
first, but protect him well with bib and
TIN tray, and he'll soon teach his spoon
the way to his mouth. Let him burn
his fingers a little some day when the


stove is not very hot; he wont touch it
when it would be dangerous.-SeTibRer.
Year: 1877

There are one or two proverbs that
contain more truth than falsehood; and
one of them, unhappily, is that famil-
iarity breeds contempt. Though mys-
terry is good key, il is bad lock; it
does very well to open the door of
heart, but it is by no means well adap
ted to keep it safe and secure. This
must be done by sheer strength; and of
sheer strength, over-much talk about
love and art, and the youthful affeeta-
tions of long locks and mild wicked
ness, are in no wise symptoms-at least
not of the sort of strength that is re-
quired to hold forever a woman who
has opened her eyes to the fact that the
good things of the real world are by no
means to be deS SDisel
Year: 1877

A great deal of the calling and twit-
tering and my-dearing have no more
real connection with sociability than
the flowers and feathers on a woman's
hat have with her head. They are
purely artificial, and tackled on by the
milliner. There is a vast deal of social
millinery, however, which passes for
Natures hand work; and people are
often praised for their fine social quail
ties merely because they are adopts IN
the art of saying pretty nothings by the
hour, and exhibiting themselves in
other peoples drawing rooms in an en-
tertaining way. And on the other
hand, those who are emineDtly social
in nature and spirit are often con-
demned as unsociable because they say
little, and do not care to exhibit them
selves and turn their hearts inside out
for other people to admire. Perhaps
they are deficient in the graces of cul-
tivated society; they may not have the
gift of rapid utterance or repartee;
they may find it hard TO intrude their
thoughts and feelings upon others
while more variable natures make the
air vocal with their incessant buzz. Be-
hind their reticence, and beneath the
disguise of modest and unattractive
ways, are all the elements of the truest
sociability, which il requires but the
least penetration to discover aud the fit
occasion to bring out.


Being soeiable requires something
more than ceaseless chattering and gad-
ding about. 1t requires the culture and
expression in all proper and helpful
ways of those thoughts aud sentiments
which are unselfish, generous, sympa-
theiie aud humane. Ii means perva-
ding interest in others and the general
good. lt means the lively commerce
of mind, and communication of heart
with heart, by listening as well as
speaking; by large respectively as we'll
As generous giving. And this soeiability
is just what is wanted TO redeem our
social intercourse and make our COM
ing together helpful, stimulative, and
ennOblinr.
Year: 1877

Life is mainly made up of tribes. A
pin hole will in time sink large ship.
A small saving per day or week will
speedily amount to large sum. An
extra production of small thing, as
an extra egg per day or week, good
hill of corn in each row, bushel of
wheat, or corn, or potatoes, extra per
acre, will in the course of years make.
one comfortably rich, or what may be
better, will buy many convenient or
useful thinGas one goes along, and such
extra production is easily secured by
trifiing thought, care or labor. To il
lustrate what the reekly saving. or the
extra production will amount to in a
single gear, we select the following COM
mon items.
Year: 1877

Lumber fumes in the Sierras are
generally constructed of plsnking,
thirty inches wide and sixteen feet
long. There are nailed together at the
sides, making v shaped trough or
box. They are then fixed in brackets,
thus forming continuous channel for
the passage of water which is let into
the flume from diverted mountain
stream. In the fumes constructed two
or three years ago but two brackets
were used to box. In those now build
ling by the Sierra Flume and Lumber
Company, three are used, thus adding
to the strength Of the ilume. The
rapidity with which the lumber is
transported varies of course with the
fall. With down grade of one inch to
the box Sixteen feet, or twenty seven
feet to the mile, the, lumber travels
from two or three miles per hour. With
grade Of two inches to the box, or
fifty-five feet to the mile, the rate is
about trebled, and the increased velocity
is in 4 similar ratio where the grade is
augmented. Thus grade of five or six
inches to the box ensures velocity of
from Is TO 20 miles per hour. On the
Blue Ridge division the thirty miles
from the mountains to the dump on the
Sacramento River is made in about
three and half hours. On the Chico
branch lumber put in at the Arcade
mills reaches Chico, distance of 40
miles, in less than four hours. As
showing the capacity of this kind of
transportation, may state that during
the past season the Chico flume has
carried over it an average of 10000
feet of lumber daily. OF course it is
necessary to have men constantly en-
gagged in watching the fiume to prevent
the lumber from punching, as it is
called. For this purpose walk plank
is constructed its entire length. But
an ingenius contrivance does away with
much of the. labor formerly necessary
TO keep the lumber in motion and pre-
vent its blocking the flume. 1t consists
of a sluice gate which occurs at inter-
walls on the line of the fumes, and which
is operated by simply moving handle.
The water is thus turned from the reg
lar flume into a siding, without any
grade, when the lumber is rendered
motionless. Men are stationed who
take up the lumber which has punched
and throw it over into the regular iume
to commence the journey anew.-Sdn
Francisco Bulletin.
Year: 1877

How inadvertently spoken, and yet
how frequently with serious and pain
ful results? How many hearts has an
idle word seyered-bow many broken? {?
For true is it that thoughtless express
sion Will make breach between those
that fate, in its visitations, could not
divide; hearts that would have strug-
gled together through the storms of life,
that would have clung to each other for
strength when its buffetings had almost
overwhelmed them-that would have
braved all the changes of fuetuating
fortunes, and still see in their own un-
changing love gleam of brightness
through the blacklist cloud. And yet
an idle word-one-has separated hearts
like these. The breach once made,
others step in TO make it wider and
wider; false pride, mistaken feelings,
the sudden bitterness the heart can feel
even toward those it loves, all aid the
work of cruelty; the distance increases
day by day, until, finding it impossible
to return, like the wrecked mariner,
they give up in despair, and sit down TO
mourn over their fate, careless, it seems,
whether they live or die. And this is
not the romance of youthful affection,
though there is perhaps more suffering
from the early disappointments of the
heart than the more serious ones in after
life produce. No, it is witnessed in
the experience of every one; in the
friendships of life, in the family circles,
In business; what Misunderstanding,
what ruptures, what chickering's, strife
and irrecOncilable differences, have
arisen from one idle word; it may have
been spoken in jest, in spirit of leyIty,
in an attempt to be witty, or itmay have
been said inuocently or inadvertently,
with no motive and no intent, and still,
for some cause of which you were to-
tally ignorant certain party applied
the remark, and in a moment a fire
brand was kindled. Jokes are danger
Gus articles 10 play with; they are sort
of mouth grenades that are apt to eX-
plode before you are aware of it. \
joker should understand their nature,
and the nature of his company well,
before he Introduces them. He may
suppose they will recommend him to
favor, but he is frequently mistaken.
The man who labors to be witty, loses
his breath and is considered to have
rather a weak nina. Never was there
truer sentence written, and one which
view it in every way, must result in the
same conclusion, that "a silent tongue
showeth a wise head''
Year: 1877

Take your youngest male child when
about three years old. Let him have
every thing he wants; let him make as
much noise as ever he likes; let him
eat and drink as much and whatever he
mas fancy for; give strict instructions
to his father, his big brothers, visitors
and servants that he is never to be pan
ished in any way for anything he may
do. aud never even contradicted in any
thing he may say. BY the time he ar
sivss at the sweet age Of seven, Sour
youngest male child viii be very nice
pickle.
Year: 1877

fer them to be nothing more" "Oh!
perhaps might prefer that also!" 1t
must be owned the god goes among US
with limping gait and blear eyes.


You wonder whether it was so always; !;
whether desire was always equally dull
and spiritless, and possession equally
cold. cannot help fancying most
people make, ere they marry, some such
table of recommendation as Hannah
Goodwin wrote to her brother William
about her friend Miss Gay. 1t is so
charmingly comical, and SO pat to the
occasion, that 1 must quote a few
phrases. "The young lady is in every
sense formed to make one of your dispo-
sition really happy. She has pleas
ing voice, with which she accompanies
her musical instrument with judgment.
She has an easy politeness in her man
ners, neither free nor reserved. She is
a good housekeeper and a good econo-
mist, and yet of a generous disposition.
As to her internal accomplishments l
have reason to speak still more high
ly of them; good sense without vanity, a
penetrating judgement, without dis
position to satire, with about as much
religion as my William likes, struck me
with wish that she was my Williams
wife," That is about the tune-pieasing
voice, moderate good looks, unim-
peachable internal accomplishments,
after the style of the copy-book, with
about as much religion as my William
likes; and then, with all speed, to
church. To deal plainly if they only
married when they fell in love, most
people would die unwed and among the
others there would be not few tumul-
tuous households. The lion is the king
of beasts, but he is scarcely suitable for
a domestic pet. in some way, l sus-
ect love is rather too violent passion
to make in all cases good domestic
sentiment. Like other violent excite
ments, it throws up not only what is
best, but what is worst and smallest in
mems character. Just as people are
malicious in drink and brawling, and
virulent under the influence of religious
feeling, some are moody, jealous, and
exalting when they are in love, who
are honest, downright, good hearted fell
lows enough in the everyday affairs and
humors the world.-C0rRhHM Magazine.
Year: 1877

A practical suggestion is that any one
of the above items saved or produced
extra, will just about pay for this pa
per a whole year which will place be-
fore your family over fourteen columns
of reading. contain multitudeso of hints.
carefully gathered and prepared, that
can hardly fail to be of use to yourself
and others in Developing thought, and
suggesting modes of doing many things.
Would it not be well to pass the above
along to your friends and neighbors at
this timeP
Year: 1877

little ur.yeur-old boy in Bloomfield, Ill., who had
yrown tired Of bakers bread prayed at his mothers
knee one night "Give us this day our home made
bread"


The devil and the Cincinnati Enquirer are both in O
terrible rage Just because the Brooklyn Taber-
nace pastor s again earnestly at work. While Brother
Talmage rusticatng at Round Lake and elsewhere
the Enquirer announced with evident glee that Its
long-tailed partner enjoying o season OF well
earned repose


The Chicago Interior is n little irreverent at DR..
McCosh's expense because OF his address American
preaching before the Edinburgh Council. 1t says
sDr McCosh will doubtless be coshous and less
McCosnous hereafter What was TO him patty pan
suddenly conformed TO his environment and became
frying PAM


The misery of the young man who courts spark
ling fashionable belle. and loses her, only excelled
by the misery of the man who courts and wins her.


The vacations over and now pastors and people
return to their wonted work for months more.
1t is good thing for good pastor to he parted a
little while from his people, he and they will meet
again with a quckened sense Of their mutual duties
But there is much hard work before them and they
must give themselves II. We notice cneerfully the
cordial receptions gwen here and there to the return
ing pastors the mutual JOY at seeing one another


A clergyman was annoyed by people talking and
Year: 1877

To THE EDITOR HERALD


There Is a steam exhaust pipe .hc top Of tho New
York Hospital, in Fifteenth street. which is insult.
ierable the whole negnborhood for blocks
around incessanty puf1ng away at the rate of over
two hundred times minute, day and night, week
days and Sundays, making sick people IN the
day and rendering continued sleep night impossible
TO us all. Idont know how their patients endure It,
but | know that 1t aunoys mo ana my family in the
day. ana II we wake at night II Keeps us awake Tor
hours before get TO sleep again. and
We are neither sick nervous and uve Two blocks
away hospital Wouldn't the spiral helix now
by prevent the disagreeabe noiso Of
blowing of steam stop that cough? Something should
be done ut any rate, so We can "take a Fest"
Year: 1877

To THE EniToa OF THE HERALD


wish TO complain Of the horrible condition OF the
sidewalk Ia front OF the yard ut the corner OF
Thirteenth street and rentn avenue Tho walk -
covered with dirt and huge chips OF granite
blocks, which one has at the risk cutug
boots striking one's toes As this q great thor
oughiarc to different lines OF cars and The midst OF
respectable neigDborhood II Is positive nuisance,
which broom and shovel would remedy
Year: 1877

lNorE-Lei'ers intended tor this column must b
accompanied by the writer's foil and address to
insure attention Complalnants who are unwilling to
comply with this rule simoly waste time In writing
Write only one side OF the paper-Ep HrRAIDl
Year: 1877

To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:-


have been under the impression that tho owners
OF all improved occupied lots within city limits,
required pave the sidewalks in front to the
full width II this be there II negligence the
part OF the city authorities in not requiring the Now
York Central and Harlem River Railroad Company
pave their sidewalks on Madison avenue, between
Forty fifth and Fortyeigh streets For some yeara
a single breadth of broken flags has done duty upon
these three blocks; the rest OF the sidewalk being
composed OF dust In summer and mud In winter, and
being dsgraceful and incommodious condition all
year round And, while they are about IT, those IN
authority might extend their attention to the sidewalks
the four Of tho block between Fortythird and
Fortyiourth streets, owned by the same corporation,
dividing eight per cent dividends. Those sidewalks
are u curiosity. The pavements arc mosaic, and arc
composed broken pieces of flags OF all mixed
sand and DIRT. IL Is only short time since that
l. private citizen, ordered and compelled by the
Health Board TO take and relay much better stde-
walk pavement than any of these, and am induced to
inquire whether there in this city two laws the
for poor property and the other Tor rich
and poworiui corporationsY One is inclined to I'M
prove upon Chancellor Oxcnstern and exclairn, 'Qua
para jttsttcia murdus regitu, ~ PEDESTRIAN.
Year: 1877

Mr.. GLADsToSE's TREE-CHoPPISG.-As
an artistic effect it would have been perfect
if we could only bring ourselves to believe
in 1.-THE spectacle OF the greatest states
man in England telling trees in his shirt.
sleeves, intent only on the eXcellency OF
country life, and desiring to make town life
as mach like it is as possible, with back
ground Of fourteen hundred or so impa-
tient admirers vainly eager to engage him
Oh the questions OF the day, and succeeding
only in inducing him to Join them in sing,
ing the Old Hundred. We rub our eyes and
ask ourselves whether we can be dreaming.
There must surely he a deluslon some
where.-London Times editorial.
Year: 1877

Notwithstanding the denial OF the death
OF young Morton, which comes from the
sick-room OF the Senator, at Richmond, In
diana, we are compelled to believe that the
report as published in the Star, Friday was
substantially correct. 1t is perhaps natural


that the friends OF the Senator should DE
anxious to suppress the truth at present
but sooner or later he must be made aware
OF his sad bereavement Washington Star
Year: 1877

The Iron Works at this place are again in operation. Anything from sewing machine needle to water wheel can be turned ont at short notice. These works at Talbotville and the miniature works of several kinds which are in operation. are a sight worth looking at. Among the works are saw mill, grist mill. iroa foun- dry. blacksmith shop, turning shop, cider mill, &c
Year: 1877

pALaw is ike sieve; it is easy
enough to see through it, but one
must be considerably reduced be-
fore he gets through.


B9Zealous men are ever dis
playing to you the strength Of their
belief, while judicious men are
showing you the grounds of it.


BErA man who could not afford
to take his parish newspaper in
vested the amount in ,Uhiskey and
then didn't care cent about affairs
Of State.


n9~We will not locate the
church, nor state the number of the
pew, but the story has some how
or other got out that Miss -,
who dresses in the very height Of
fashion, dropped one of her false
eyebrows in her pew, last Sunday
and badly frightened young man
next to her, who thought it was his
mustache.
Year: 1877

frightened, and were driven down the brook
into the briny lake. The instant they touch
ed the waters they came to the surface, belly
upward, and died without gasp. The water
is remarkably buoyant. Eggs and potatoes
float on it like corks. Mr.. Hood and myself
stripped and went in swimming. dived into
the lake from long pier, which had been
built for the use of a small steamboat that
formerly piled upon the waters. The sensa-
tion was novel. The water was so salty that
my eyes and ears began to smart, but so buoy
ant that found no difficulty in floating, even
when the air was exhausted in my lungs. As
I struck out on the beach felt as light as q
feather. In spite of all that I could do my
head would fly out of the water. The light
ness of the water and surging of the waves
forced my feet from under me. A person who
could not swim might be easily drowned in
FIVE feet of water. His head would 60 down
like lump of lead, while his feet would fly
up like pair of fducks. The water is as clear
as Seneca lake-so clear that the bottom could
be seen at depth of twenty feet. When we
reached the shore and crawled out upon the
sand in the light of the sun, our bodies were
thickly covered with salt. We were compell-
ed to 20 to the small stream from which We
had driven the chubs and sinners, and wash
off in fresh water before we could put on our
clothes. Our hair was filled with grains Of
salt that could not be washed out. The Nor
mons occasionally visit the lake in droves for
the purpose of bathing. Many say their
health is improved by leaving the salt upon
their bodies and dressing without wipin
themselves.
Year: 1877

engage steadily and industrially in product.
i've employment, it would be worth more to
the State than the investment of $4,000
of Boston capital in it. Besides, there is a
magical sympathy in labor that attracts its
kind from all quarters.


If the people of South Carolina were to
help themselves with all their might and
main, they would be surprised to find how
many others would come to help them. If
all the idle persons in the State were to go to
work, resolved to make their own capital
thousands of intelligent laborers, and mil
lions of vigilant capital, would flow in uson
them, eager to seek employment and invest
ment in the midst of an industrious and indie.
pendent people, and to share in the profits Of
cheap manufacturing. But as long as the
people of Southern State invite somebody
else to come and do the work which they
themselves will not do, dig the ore which
they will not dig, spin the cotton which they
will not spin, and build the shops which they
will not build, so long will they fail of that
power which wealth alone can bring.