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Year: 1879

THE JEANETTE SPOKEN ON WEDNESDAY LAST.


lBY TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD


sAS Francisco July 10. 1879.


The Arctic steamer Jeanette was spoken yester-
day at one O'Clock in the afternoon in latitude 81
dog. A min north. longitude lbs deg. 10 min. west.
with all sail set before favorable northnortheast
breeze.


GOOD WISHES OF THE PRESS FoI THE ExpEp!-
lvrom the New York Journal of Commerce. July TO-
The best wishes OF all mankind will follow the
Jeanette ON her voyage into unknown Arctic seas.
transfer OF the vessel from the British flag and the
change OF her authorized by Congress- or
because gallant officers have been detailed from
navy to command her. but because she is the typical
representative of American originality. energy.
courage aud openhandcdness. The undertaking is
also national ia the that the route chosen
to the wished for goal is peculiarly American. The
Arctic expedition of no other nation would have
selected 1t. 1t is distnctively the American line of
approach TO the Pole. The eroutes from the Atlantic
which have all been strewn with failures We have
only shared IN common with all other nations that
chose to try them. Here At last we have route
nrst suggested by an American Captain BENT.
learnedy and eloquently approved by another





may say by the Journal Of Commerce.. and now ABOUT
TO be entered upon and explored to It's utmost possi
bilities by An American expedition.


UNTRIED


over and above the pride which, as Americans. we
take in this attempt to solve the Polar problem
Benring Strait instead OF by familiar Old World
route. We are gratihed to the recomme endations
which have frequently made at last adopted under
conditions so salts, factory and promising of
The legend mo thoroughtxre'' may be written up.
tor aught We know. on the Behring Strait line
ON all of the rival approaches to the Pole. We
know that the barriers in other directions are
fmpassable. We have no such knowledge about the
route to be explored. That OF itself is "a
sufficient reason why II should be tried unless
Arctic expeditions OF every kind be abandoned
not worth the expense and risk involved in them.
We firmly believe that il the Jeanette will follow
Bents and liaury's advice and keep in the Kuro
Sswo current by OF thermometrical soundings,
she will have better chance Of gaining the Pole than
has favored any other Arctic expedition history.
Possibly failing IN that great endeavor she should
least oc able to make some discoveries interesting
aud important to students of geography meeorology
and oher physical sciences The quest OF the Worth
Pole may be like the search after the Holy Grail
only the following OF an ignis tatuus; but such
labor Is not wasted IL 1t incidentally eparges
knowledge OF the wonders OF the world we live in
Year: 1879

Purchasers should, as far as possible
patronise the merchants Of their own
town. 1t is poor policy to send money
abroad for articles which can be bought
IS cheaply at home.


Do not take hold Of q piece Of goods
which another is examining. Wait till
it 10 replaced upon the counter before
you take it up.


Injuring goods when handling. push
ing aside other persons. lounging upon
the counter. Whispering. loud talk aud
Laughter. when in O store. are ali evi-
deDces of ill., breeding


Never attempt to beat down" prices
when shopping. If the p'ice does not
suit. 60 elsewhere The just and up
right merchant will have but one price
for his goods and he will strictly adhere
to it.


II is an insult to clerk or merchant
to suggest to q customer that hs may
buy cheaper or better goods elsewhere.
1t 10 also rude to give you: opinion, un.
asked, about the goods that another is
purctasiug.


Never expect . clerk to leave another
customer to wait on you; aud when at
tending upon you. do not cause him to
wait while YOU visit with another
When the purchases are made let them
be sent 10 your home. and thus avoid
loading yourself with bundles.


Treat clerks. when shopping. respect
fully. aud give them no more trouble
than is necessary. Ask for what is
wanted. explicitly. and il YOU wish to
make an examination with II view TO
future purchase, hsy 10. BE perfectly
frank. There is no necs ssity for prsc-
ticing deceit


The rule should b. 10 pay for goods
when you buy them. II, however. you
are trusted by the merchant. you should
10 very particular to pay your indeb:-
edness when you agree to. BY doing
a. you promise. yon acquire habits OF
prOmptitude, and at the came time es-
tablish credit and make reputation
among those with whom you deal.


II is rude in the extreme to find fault
aud to make sneering remarks about
goods To draw unfavorable compsri.
sons between tho goods and those found
at other stores docs no good, aud shows
want Of Difference and respect to those
who are waiting upon you. Politely
state that the goods are not what you
want, aud. while you may buy. you
prefer to look further.


II . mistake has been made whereby
you have been given moro goods than
you have paid for, or have received
moro change than was your due. 90 i'm.
mediately and have the error rectified.
you cannot afford to sink your moral
character by taking advantage Of such
mistakes II you bad made an error
to your disadvantage. as a merchant.
you would wish the customer to return
and make it right. You should do ~
you would be done by. Permanent
success depends upon your being strict.
ly honest. .-From Hih's Manual Of So
eial and Business Forms
Year: 1879

Between and 9 o'clock one evening
last week Robert G. Uffner, his wife ano
daughter twelve years of age left
Frankville for Shenandoah in an ordi-
nary farm wagon drawn by two horses.
After driving short distance Mr.


Ufner On looking ahead hall mile or
SO saw that the woods were on fire Oh
both sides of the road, but as the timb-
er was small and the underground
light he thought he would be able to
get through without difficulty. When
he entered the burning district the
wind seemed TO increase and fire
Year: 1879

THE Mark Lame k1press, in the weekly
review of the English grain market, ad-
mIts that the crop prospects generally
throughout the United Kingdom are of
q very unfavorable character, and that
the season has now so far adj
vanced that the aggregate result of the
years planting can be closely estimated,
which estimate will show a very de-
cided falling off in almost every branch
of agricultural industry. The Express
predicts an early advance in the price
of breadstuffs, now that the actual con-
dition Of the supply and the i'm perative
needs of the country are known.
Year: 1879

In the Russian province ofSaratoff
the people are praying publicly for
rain, as the crops are parching from
drouth; while at the same time in the
province Of St. Petersburg they are
praying for dry weather, as the rain
has fallen necessarily for six weeks, and
all the crops and the hay are in danger
from rOtting.
Year: 1879

MAILrc LE1rrRs.-A recent order Of the
postmaster general makes it the duty Of post
masters to refuse to mail letters when the
address does Eot contain the name of some
post office and that Of the state or territory
IN which such Office Is located. When let
ter Is addressed to place Which is rot a
post office, or when the pane Of the state Is
not written on the address the letter Wiz he
sell; at once to thc dcad-iet.er oiGce, unless
the envelop shall bear the naTle "f the send
er or other Indication whereby 1t may be re-
turned to the sender for better direction If
you desire therefore that y"ur letter Silad! he
mailed and reach the person t" whom you
wish TO ,rile. be sure that the place to
which it is direc.ed is a r"st-o.iice, and be
certain To add the maine of the state IN which
that particular oiiice is located IL Will also
prove good rule to indicate your own name
and address on the envelope.
Year: 1879

The Western Queen still has the lead for breaking sod
plow the Scotch Clipper is the best brouh this
give satisfaction. Our Moline and Garden City Stubble
avorites and have improved styles this season
Year: 1879

The s'i invisible patch on boots and shoes
is thing that the owner of dilapidated fan
cy feet coverings delights in But to get
one put on by the cobbler costs nearly as
much as by the old way. This need not be,
for any boy can put them on himself in the
following way, given by correspondent OF
the Country Gentleman


Take gutta percha, half ounce bi-sul-
phuret carbon, two ounces. In a wide
mouth bottle put the two together, and
shake occasionally until the gutta percha is
dissolved and it is ready for use When the
patch is to be applied, scrape the boot or
shoe until the blacking is off and the leath-
er is little rough, On this dust with fine
resin, minutest quantity; serve the patch
the same way. Then spread a little of the
cement on both the shoe and the patch, first
having shaved the edges of the patch Ap-
ply like court plaster, and smooth with a
warm spoon or iron, and the shoe will soon
be ready to wear. A few hours will harden
the cement when properly done the patch
will be invisible. and will last as long as the
shoe. This cement is waterproof. The gut
ia percha, shaved in thin slices, is kept in
India rubber stores for the above purposes.
Ten cents worth will do the work of fam
lily for a long time. The bisulphuret OF
carbon is sold by druggists, and will cost
five or ten cents an ounce. The smell,
which is offensive, soon passes off.
Year: 1879

FACTS ABOUT MAN. If well made mar
be extended on the ground, his arms at right
angles with the body, circle, making the
navel it's centre, will just take in the head
the fnger-ends and feet.


The distance from top to toe is precisely
the same as that between the tips of the fin
gers when the arms are extended.


The length of the body is just SIX times
that of the foot, while the distance from the
edge of the hair on the forehead to the end
of the chin is one-tenth the length of the
whole stature.


OF the sixty-two primary elements known
in Nature, only eighteen are found in the
human body, and of these only seven are
metallic. Iron is found IN. the blood, phos-
phorus in the brain, limestone in the bile.
lime in the bones, dust and ashes in all
Not only these eighteen human elements,
but the whole sixty-two, of which the uni
verse is made, have their essential basis in
the four substances, oxygen, hydrogen, nitro
gen, and carbon, representing the more ia,
miliar names of fire, water. saltpeter and
charcoal; and such is man, the lord of earth
a spark of fire, drop of water, a grain OF
gunpowder, an atom of charcoal !-HaHs
Jou, nal of Health.
Year: 1879

That the safety of the country rests
in the full restoration of the Republic
can Party to power, there remains no
shadow of doubt. With the Demo.
Ecracy in control of the Government,
it requires no prophetic eye to see.
that the Republic will be placed in
far greater jeopardy, than when its
fortunes seemed to SO fearfully vibrate
in the balance when treason assaulted
its life on the field of Gettysburg.
Et was the sacred mission Of the Re-,
publican masses to save the nation in
that supreme hour: Of peril. 1t was
it's mission to cary the standard Of un-
ity and free law through all that
bloody period Of conflict with the
Democratic party. And it is its
.mission now to uphold the authority
of the unity of the Republic in the
immediate future.


With the Democratic party in pow
Tcr, all is lost. With it held in abey-
ance the country is quite safe. Dem
ocracy means ,overtaxation. malfeas-
ance, rebel restoration, plantation
manners, and the supremacy of the
Church in all civil affairs. Ofcourse,
time is requisite to bring this, but its
coming is as sure as it is that results
follows cause in case of the elevation
o. the Democracy to power.


The asseveration of Hill, Stevens,
Lamar, and other representatives OF
the old Confederacy to the contrary,
are as meaningless as are the winds.
They could declare nothing more
than fidelity to the general good.
These men are shrewd anu polite.
Upon their lips now rests as sweet
perfume the sentiment OF loyalty to.
the Constitution. But in their hearts
tstill lives the spirit that awoke the


rebel yell on an hundred batt!efields,
that starved and imprisoned our sons,
and that finally struck at the national
heart in the person of Abraham Lin
coin.


In the failure of the Republicans to-
carry the next Presidential election,
comes upon us one of the saddest and
darkest periods of American history.
It will be the inauguration of an era
which will take its place beside that
of the gloomiest .epochs in national
annals. So let every element of patri-
otism begin to prepare for the nearing
struggle of 1850. Vigilance and ac-
tion should be the watchwords with
every Republican from Maine to Ore
(gon.- Commercial (Cal) Adoocate.
Year: 1879




Under the above caption the Salem
Statesman of the 14th inst, has some
pertinent and timely remarks, sug-
gested by the late judicial farce in
that county, by which notoriously
guilty parties escaped "unwhipt Of
Justice" There is scarcely shadow
of doubt in the minds of well-inform-
ed persons, on the subject. that Mrs.
Hebert and John D. Whitney con-
cocted and carried out the murderous
plans which deprived Marion county,
of peaceful, quiet citizen, in the
person of Oliver Hilbert, and involved
the taxpayers of that county TO the
amount of thousands of dollars of
costs. But it does not stop here
Such instances produce feeling of
insecurity of life and property and
establish fearful precedents. The
Statesman says:


In all cases coming up for adjudicatie n, j.
before court of justice the first objective
point should be to ascertain the equities of
the case ; truth should be brought out as far
as possible and in the application of the es-
tablished principles of law that construction
should be given as far as possible in the in
terest of truth and justice. Precedents are
not as safe as the elementary principles of
law coupled with honest purposes and good
sense.


By departure from this rule we think,
the Supreme Court of this State greatly er-
red in granting new trial to John D. Whit
ney there were no facts before the court
to show that Whitney had not had fair;
and impartial trial there were no evidences.
that went to show that injustice had been
done IN any degree. The grounds upon
which a new trial was granted was purely;
technical and not upon an exception taken
by counsel for the defense at the time of trial.
1t was forced effort to follow precedent
rather than substantial justice. /!


The minority opinion given by Judge
Boise is clearly in the right. When an at
torney takes upon himself the obligations of
his professions he is in honor bound to dol
business committed to his management on.
honest and legal principles !; there is no code
of honor or obligation to clients that will
warrant any illegal, dishonest practices or
the taking of any undue advantage of an un-
settled principle or technical defect in the
law. Counsel are supposed to be educated
in the law for the purpose of aiding and,
facilitating the adjudication of differences in
the interests of justice, and not to mislead
and defeat the right.
Year: 1879

A woman, notwithstanding she is the
best of listeners, knows her business, and
it is woman's business to please. l don't
saw that it is not her business to vote but
I do say that the woman who does not please
is false note in the harmonies of nature.
She may not have youth or beauty, or even
manners, but she must have something in
her voice or expression, or both, which it
makes you feel better disposed towards
your race to look at or listen to. She knows
that as well as we do :; and her first ques-
tion after you have been talking your soul
into her consciousness is, did please? A
woman never forgets her sex. She would
rather talk with a man than an angel any
day. Womanly women are very kindly
critics, except to themselves and now and
then to their own sex. The less there is of
sex about woman, the more she is to be
dreaded But take real woman at her
best moments-well dressed enough to be
pleased with herself, not so resplendent as
to be show and a sensation, with the vari-
ed outsiGe influences that set vibrating the
harmonic notes of her nature stirring in the
air about her-and what has social life to
compare with one of those vital interchanges
of thought and feeling with her that makes
an hour memorable? What can equal her
tact, her delicacy, her subtlety of apprehen-
sion, her quickness to feel the changes OF
temperature, as the warm and cool currents
of thought blow by turns? At one moment
she is microscopically intellectual, critical,
scrupulous in judgement as au analysts bal
ance, and the next as sympathetic as the op-
en- rose that sweetens the wind from what
ever quarter it finds its way to her bosom.
1t is in the hospitable soul of a woman that
a man forgets he is stranger, and so be.
comes natural and truthful, at the same
time he is mesmerized by all those divine
differences that make her a MYSTERY and q
bewilderment. Atlantic Monthly
Year: 1879

The 8 20 train took the two cars which had been left for those who wished to at tend the. picnic of the Reformed Men of Danbury and Bethel, at Parlor Rock; and when the conductor came around 218 re- ported with tickets; young and old were alike in good spirits. clean in heart and hand. At Hawieyville, we were taken up by tho Danbury train, which had nine cars. making in all eleven cars, and each full. making GOO in all. Our Bethel Cornet Band was with the Danbury part of the train. The ride over the railroad was we'll worth the cost; the scenery Is just splendid. We arrived at the grounds all

 right, only tables were scarce the com pany should put up more. Here we must say tho arrangements made by the com mittee were complete. and their part was we'll carried out. Over on the west side of the track. in the woods. Satan, as of old, had taken up his abode under tree to tempt the weak with an apple Gack) or gilt.cdge: but though he worked hard, his own agents had to drink their own
Year: 1879

now roam in distant lands, but the most of whom have .passed beyond the river. Here is the room in the dear, modest little cottage ill which you were born After all your wanderings you have found noth-

 ing so notwithstanding about which the tendrils of your heart so entwinc themselves; there is the rocking chair in which your mother hushed you to pleas 1at slumbers on her loving and faithful bosom. Here are the same old scenes. and yet not the same. The hills that in your youth seemed 50 lofty-towering to the skies-haye flattened away, and seem to you like indifferent knolls or rolling land The foaming river on which you delighted to gaze so we'll as it flowed on to the sea through wale intervals, has dwindled into a brook of small preten- sions. The roaring stream has become a tiny rivulet. and the ''babbling brook" has, to your imagination, dried up alto gether or lost itself ill the tall grass; the stately trees of the prfmeval forests ill which you loved to roam, seem dwarfed you clllnD Ile HiSHSot u1ll Ill lHG OEd town, now high to you no longer, and gaze for fifty miles over that bcaidiful Switzerland of Maine lying betweenyou and the White Mountains, and how to your vision the once lofty Mount Bald, Mount Blue, Mount Saddlebaek. and a myriad of other noun tains within your view seem te have dwindled away from the lofty heights with which your youthful imagination en- dowed them. You visit the considerable fall Of water in the northern part of the town-a foaming cataract to your youth fui visiOn--a silvery cascade now. All seems changed; and yet the old home feeling comes over you, and even in the deep solitude of the forests you cry out, " This is my own, my native land" A crowd ot fond memories come over your mental vision, and you revel in all that is sacred and tender in the past, casting all that is sad and unwelcome to the winds. You fain would finger amid such delight ful images and memories forever; but you arouse yourself from such fascinating reveries and, under a stern sense of duty return to the cares, sorrows and joys of active life again. c.
Year: 1879

The submarine and surface entertain mrnt which has been extensively adver- tised Ill this section to take place on July 4th, at the Lake, came off according to the programme; the attendance, howev-

 CT, was not as large as was expected; but, such as pcnics, excursions, &c., ill other directions, we would call it a fair audi cnce. The weather was such as has been

 the custom on the Fourth of July since

 our memory has served us, warm and sultry, until the usual black cloud puts in

 an appearance ill the western horizon

 and announces in laundering tones that

 it is about his turn to celebrate. The ex-

 libition took place on the premises of $. B. Camp, on the West side, near the

 North end of the Lake-the grounds be-

 ing particularly adapted for such an occa-

 sion, being well shaded and a steep in-

 cline of about seventy-fiye feet from the

 edge of the water. The entertainment

 commenced at half-past two, when MT.

 Graham donned the suit and went down

 INeltbS-ItNe IceL rom Gu6 SufIace, ldklnS with him small spear, and returned in a few minutes with a string of four fish he then returned to deep water and amused himself by playing with the fish; writing upon bulletins which were buoyed under water, and cutting them adrift so that they might float to the surface and doing various other tricks, remaining nearly two hours, showing himself occa- sionally in shallow water. He was in communication with his attendants on shore by means of telephone perfected and applied to submarine diving by Mir. Charles W. Raymond, one of the engi- neers employed by the New York Dock Department, and q friend of Mr. Fair various other performances, such as log rolling, swimming, &e. Joseph Doyle performed numerous freaks on q square log, causing 1t to turn rapidly in the wat CT and stopping at his will, going here and there at pleasure and always keep ing on top. To fully appreciate the merits of this performance, we would advise the reader to procure log and try 1t himself, as your correspondent has done previous to this, without much success. The swim mer, Frank Paul, remained In the water and performed feats as though it was his natural element; swimming gracefully and with apparent ease, diving into the water frequently and remaining under without visible apparatus, for several minutes at d time. A very fair specimen of duck shooting was given when one put in an appearance near the shore; the only bad feature was that of it's being terribly mutilated. We do not know but having it all cut up into small pieces ready for the cook, may be an improvement over the old style, but We should judge that it would be such a job as would cause the most orthodox taxidermist to swear. The electric explosion was as much Of a suc- cess as the quantity of powder and the nature of the ground would permit; fifty pounds of powder was used. but they did not have time to find proper place, con- sequently the water was not raised over fifty or sixty feet as it would have done had they had hard bottom. The Citizens Band, of Bethel, furnished music for the occasion, and greatly assisted in making the affair success. UNo.