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Year: 1878

esty at the expense of ruth may


be commendable in some cases, ]


cannot think it would add to the


historical value Of this work, and I


therefore deem myself justified in


adhering to a true statement Of


facts, even at the risk Of be accus.


ed Of an egotistical desire for un-
deserved nOtoriety.


y 7 stated in a former sketch that


there was another train to leave


Portneuf a few days after our own


had started. 1t was a large outfit


consisting Of thirty men, besides


women and children, and the party


had about forty wagons aud a con


siderable number Of spare animals.


Among the men were SIX old


friends and associates ofmine nam


ed respectively, Murdock, Sham


burg, Utley, Kishnell, Snyder and


Chafee, They were all brave fel-


lows and experienced mountain


eers, and had with them a aconsider-


able amount Of money. They owned
no part Of the train, but were travel
ing with it for the sake Of company
and to afford the party the benefit
Of their experience and knowledge
Of the country.


This train did not leave Portneuf
until the fourth day after we had
started, but there was another
smaller train Of about eighteen
wagons which started The day after
we left, and was at no Jime more
than fifteen miles behind us. Had
we known this, the curious actions
Of the Indians would not have
been SO very difficult to
understand, But the first intina-
ton we had Of this party was from
John Kennedy-brother Of Nm


Kennedy, Of Missoula, and now a
resident Of Fort BentOn-uh0 had
been travelling with this train, bur
left it and caught up to Us some.
days after the incidents related ii
last sketch, From Kennedy /
learned the following particulars Of
bis trip,


Tha- ovs,1,,ssa.---~ oc UnTs party
with the Indians was similar
10 that Of our own. They were fol
lowed and watched continually, but
no serious effort was made to
capture the train. They however
met with one misfortune. Two Of
the party, one Of them Q young
man and the other rather aged, re
NAMED behind one morning, after
the train started from camp, to
catch fish. The men had bht one
horse between them, and with ex-I
ception Of a small pocket pistol
carried b7 the old man, neither had
any arms or ammunition with
them.


After the train had been gone
about an hour, the two left their
fishing and started for tie road, |
bat before they had gone a hundred
yards from the river bank a party
Of Indians sprang out Of the willows
and made for them. The young
fellow was mounted at the time,
and as soon as the Indians appear
ed he endeayoredto escape, leaving
the old manto his fate. The caward, I
however, either had not sense
enough or was too frightened TO
prevent the Indians from heading
him off from the road, and they ae
soon had him oorraled,
and he was shot dead while in the
act Of sinking hands with one Of
their number. Meanwhile the old !
man had not been molested, prob
ably because the Indians thought
they would have no difficulty inI
dispatching him after they had
caught the young fellow, and hy he
time they did turn their attention
10 him, he had made good head
way towards the willows on the |.
river bank. They gave him 4 hot
n
Year: 1878

Hot Creek, Wy, July pa coach which left
Deadwood for Cheyenne on the 23d was detained
one day at Jenny's stockade on account Of high
water. After proceeding from there it was stop
ped at o'clock this morning two miles north of
Lightning creek by six armed men who were on
foot and masked. Finding there was butone pas
senger on board the Rev. j. W. Pickett, they fore
bore molesting him but turned their attention to
the mail sacks. They were cut omen and robbed
of registered letters and other valuablue matter.
They also broke open the treasure boxes, but
found nothing. They were not at all excited
over their work, which occupied them fully half
an hour, and as soon as they were through order
ed the driver to go on. II is impossible to say
what the losses from the mails are, although 1t ls
known they found one gold watch.
Year: 1878

It isa q great deal more pleasant inside
the house than out of it these long cold
evenings, especially if you have a good
book or nswspaperto to read. Every boy car
have one er the other, Or both. The hour
spent in reading are never lost They arr
time well spent. They are investment
that pay from the start .-
They pay in pleasure and pecuniarily
for young man with a well stored mint
not only draws deep draughts of dehgh


from such evening occupation, but in hi


business intercourse with the world posses


ses advantages which the ilIitsrate canao
hope to enjoy. Improve The long winte
L VA~~sn-.
Year: 1878

IHE POLICE FoRCE.-There are now
twehty-one men engaged ON what is
termed the police force of Wilmington.
and question has arisen as to whether
this is sufficient. We believe the Mayor
and the City Council ought to be the
best judges OF this question. But while
we deem it wise to consider whether if is
not best to make communities denend
upon themselves to a great extent for
their protection from rouges, neyertbe.
less it is not wise to have too small 9
force for the protection of property or
Ytra occasions. I'VE have now a nom,
Ation of about 10000, and have abou
me man to each two thousand persons
In the day time such force would b
more than ample.


But the force is divided between tn
night and the day. In fact we have bu
ton policemen, one to each 1000 people
and ten acctchmen. The force on duty
the day time is off duty in the night tim,
This is not given the consideration


Should I'm viewing the matter in tn
light, we deem the force insufficient an
Year: 1878

EVERY Republican clerk from Pennsyl-
vania should ascertain or see If his name is
properly recorded on the regstry-listS.
Under the new constitution persons in the
service of the United States cannot he de-
prived of their vote on account of their alb
sence from the State. However, he shall
have paid within two years state or
county tax which shall have been assessed
at least two months, and paid at least one
month before the day of election, in order
to properly qualify him. 1t becomes the
duty of every Republican clerk from Penn
sylvania, from this day until the ith of Sep
tember next, to apply to the assessor in his
district, ward, division, or precinct, if he
wants his name placed on the list. 1t is the
duty OF every assessor 10 remain at the
clection-housc inss his respective district on
the Sd and lth days Of September next
when those not registered eau find him and
have their names put on the registry OF
voters. There is penalty of line and i'm
prisonment where an assessor knowingly re-
fuses to assess person who is qualified, and
all the Keystone clerks here are certainly
qualified under the new constitution. Brace
up, brothers, and attend to this.
Year: 1878

FIASK 4. BURR, ESQ, seems TO be loom
ing up as q possible candidate for the Re-
publican Congressional nomination in the
second West Virginia district. Captain
VANCE has withdrawn from the contest, and
very wisely concluded to retain his present
Office Of appointment Clerk in the Treasury
Department, which he fills with satisfactory
ability to all concerned. The convention
will he held tomorrow, and the chances are
apparently in favor Of Mr.. BURR. If nomi-
mated, he will not fail to make an energetic
canvass in his own behalf, and his election
will follow a. natural result if the good
people OF the district are TO be Influenced
by due consideration of their bcst inter
ests He has been resident and voter in
the district for fifteen years, and has taken
an active part on the stump and otherwise
in behalf of the Republican party in every
campaign since the war.
Year: 1878

II is asserted with some appearance of
certainty that if the Democrats carry the
next House an attempt will be made to
change the law regarding the time Of the
beginning Of the regular sessions of Con-
grcSs, 50 that that the Forty-sixth shall as
semblc as soon ~ the Forty-fiith expires,
A Republican senate would hardly agree to
such radical change Of the laws; but
stranger things tnan this have happened.
Year: 1878

The Republican party is the real Green
back party. 1t was the author Of the
greenback system, and has preserved the
purity Of that system against the insidious
efforts of the fiat money demagogues to
make grcenbacks curse by destroying the
redemption feature, which alone made them
acceptable when they were iirst issued.
Year: 1878

LET the currency alone. 1t is rapidly
shaping itself for the general benefit. All
that is required is to prohibit further con-
traction of its volume, and to open the
Treasury vaults in Legitimate way to en-
courage commercial activity.
Year: 1878

The following, taken from an Eng
Iish paper, explains inself. Those
who are interested in the exporta
ton of beef and live stock, may wish
to know something about the senti-
ment across the sea upon the sub.
ject:


Last week deputation from the
Royal Agricultural Society waited
upon Lord Beconsfeld and repre-
sented to him that it was of exceed.
ing Importance that the importation
of live cattle for food purposes should
only be permitted under certain
stringent regulations. Our readers
will remember that DR.. Chaplin said
something to the same effect day or
two ago. 1t is hardly to be believed,
but it is fact nevertheless, that what


we may call town papers, the repre-.
senta.ives in journalism of Manches.
ter and the other great towns, con-
tlnus to advocate simple freedom
of trade between Great Britain and
the Continent. The answer to this
is, first, that we find that when we
restrict the movement of cattle in
land, say under dread of cattle
plague, we kill all the other costly
diseases to which our domesticated
animals are subject. Pleuro and
foot and mouth disease both disap-
pear when you take action against
cattle plague. That ought to teach
us that the best thing we can do to
increase our food supply is to pro.
mblt the importation Of all live ami
mails for food purposes. Why should
they be driven from point to point of
the Continent, then shipped to us,
and after that kept until they are
again fit for slaughter? We add to
our expenses in the feeding and
keeping, and after that get worse
meat than we should have had if we
had determined that we would only
take dead meat from our neighbors.
The reason why there are not better
things done is that we have vested
interests concerned, and that these
vested interests mean to take care
of themselves, without regard to the
needs or the well-being of the COM
munity at large.
Year: 1878

We sometimes meet with men who seem
TO think that any indulgence in an affection
ate feeling is a weakness. They will return
from journey and greet their families with
distant dignity, and move among their
children with the cold and lofty splendor
of an iceberg surrounded by its broken frag-
ments. There is hardly more unnatural
sight on earth than one of those families
without heart. A father had better extin-
guish boys eyes than take away his heart.
Who that has experienced the joys of friend
ship. and values sympathy and affection,
would not rather lose all that is beaut tul in
natures scenery, than be robbed of the
hidden treasures of his heart? Cherish then
your hearts best affections. Indulge In the
warm and gushing emotions of fillal, paren-
tai and fraternal love.
Year: 1878

The streets of almost any large city at
night present Q spectacle more saddening,
more pitiful, more fearful than any picture
to be found in Dante's Inferno. Beneath
the gaslamp. from dark until long after
midnight, wander increasingly thousands of
young girls Their eyes are fixed. They
stalk like shadows. There is no merriment
in their gait; no JOY, no peace, no happiness
in their look. However well dressed, 1T is
the same whited sepulchre. For mile after
mile these sad specters hurry along. At each
side street they carry off their victims.


Who are these desolate ones that fill the
city with their ceaseless tramp? Do they
come forth at night because they care not
for the society of their fathers or
or mothers or sisters ? Alas, no.
These have no homes. They
are alone in great world too busy
to notice them or their misfortunes With
out knoledge of the world, they are driven
into the midst of its vices, and forced to
earn a living by the only means that is
within their power. They know not the
horrible abyss of shame, the amplitude OF
suffering, the depth of the distress to which
that first step leads, and so having begun,
they are carried on by the swift current of
crime about them. Do they ever seek to
escape? They turn blindly for the means,
but on every hand they seem shut in by a
high wall separating from the respectable
world. There is no recourse, and So year
after year, they fall lower and lower and
their despair grows deeper, until death takes
them for his own, and their poor bones are
laid away in the potters' field.
Year: 1878

empty. the service totally failing to he
attractive. The same may be said of the
large cities OF this country. While few
preachers draw here, the majority appeal to
very slender congregations, which appear to
be diminishing rather than increasing all
over the country Persons who feel a deep
interest In the cause of orthodoxy, and who
consider attendance upon church an evidence
OF righteousness and morality, are sorely
troubled ar the lukewsrmness OF our people
respecting religion, and anxious to discover
some M ans of instituting a thorough re-
form.


Ri. Rev. Bishop Hendricken of Providence
gave his people Sunday some wholesale
advice concerning savings banks Heshowed
that the depositors ssffer mainly in sense.
less run upon the savings banks which
might, however, cripple the best institutions
He also called attention to the fact that
Catholic churches in the city are large
borrowers of the savings banks and a sum
mary calling in of those loans would cause
serious embarrassment The Catholic clergy
OF New England, by their action upon this
SUBJECT, have done much to prevent panic
and foolish fears from getting control of the
community.


From the first entrance into the ministry
Latlmer was esteemed a pestilent fellow
they called him a ''seditious fellown-bv
unjust persons in authority; and 10 sucn
men he was ever. indeed, highly trouble
some. At this early period his preaching
was 50 effective that it was even tben said of
1t, None except the stiff necked and uncir-
cumcised ever went away from il without
being affected with high detestation of sim
and moved to all eodliness and virtue" An
instance is related OF his early plainneSs of
speech which is interesting as an illustration
OF bis fearless Independence, and also be-
cause 1t attracted the attention of Cardinal
Wolsey 10 him, and directly led TO his
future advancement He was preaching
before the university of Cambridge on a
certain occasion, when the Bishop of
Ely came into the church, curious 10
hear the young preacher. The bishops
entrance caused some stir, and Latlmer
paused TIL the prelate was seated and the
commotion had subsided. When be recon-
menced he entirely changed the subject of
his sermon, and instead of pursuing his
original theme began TO draw an ideal picture
of what a bishop ought to be, the features of
which were strikingly unlike those of his
episcopal auditor. The bishop indignantly
complained to Wolsey, who sent for Latimer
and inquired what be had said Laiimer
frankly repeated the substance of his sermon,
whereupon other conversation followed,
which showed Wolsey very clearly the ma
ture of the man with whom he was speaking,
and instead of responding to the bishops
accusations by silencing the audacious
preacher, he gave HIM license to preach in
any church in England, coupling ii with the
remark IF the bishop of Ely can not abide
such doctrine as you have repeated you shall
preach IL 10 his beard, let him say what he
will
Year: 1878

Correspondence Country GentlemanJ


The opinion is quite general, if not univer-
sal, that corn fed pork is harder contsins
more nutriment, and shrinks less in the spot
and in the frying pans than pork fed on milk.
slops. or partly on flesh, as happens where
swine are kept and fed in slaughter Yards,
and the food of which is more or less the
offal of slaughtered animals Nevertheless
tie opinion is almost wholly an erroneous
one, as we shall try 10 show. Granted that
under temperature so low that
lard remains firm and stiff corn
fed pork is frmer than pork fed
on milk, slops or flesh, but this firmness
depends more on the relatively large amount
of stearine than of oleipe in the composition
OF the fatty matter of corn-fed pork; but it
is firmness which is wholly lost at high
temperature, like that of summer heat, or
the average of tropical weather. Where
pork is made partly on milk slops or similar
food, the oleine of that fat exceeds in guam
tity the stearine, and while the meat so
made may at ordinary temperature appear
soft and tiabby, it really contains more nu-
tr1ment-that is, more albuminous matter
and will shrink less in cooking than corn
fed pork. The cell tissues which envelop the
fatty matter are very thin and light,
and consequently tender, and when
heat is applied, either by boiling
or frying, cells burst, the lard escapes
and the fieshy portion sinks 10 almost moth
ing. And this happens because corn is very
deficient TO the substances which make cell
tissue that IS, in albuminous matter. On
the contrary, milk and slop are very rich in
albuminous matter and flesh is almost
wholly composed of it, and consequently
swine fed and fatened on these substances
have cell tissues largely developed and
where the lard escapes in cooking there is a
much larger portion of solid meat left. In
the old country where swine are raised and
fattened on peas and harley and the like,
and where such thing exclusive corn
diet is almost unknown, cooks
make a great account of Harding
that is, cutting the iatty part of the pork
into long strips and sewing them into certain
meats and game birds previous to cooking,
for the purpose OF increasing their flavor and
juices. With ordinary Harding in the
United States is much restricted or gone out
OF fashion. In the case of foreign pork, its
abundance and strength of cell tissues make
it suitable for the operation; in the other
the delicacy and tenderness of the substances
renders it quite unfit for that purpose.
As for illustration of bow particular
kinds of food affect adiposs and cell
tissues. il may he stated that the meat of hogs
faitened on beechnuts and mast generally,
so far the fat is concerned, il semi taos
parent, and a slaughtered hog hung by the
heels will drip lard oil from the snout at an
ordinary tempe nature. In candle burning
days the farmers and dwellers In the middle
states learned that the tallow OF grass fatted
beeves would make candles which would not
run in midsummer; but the tallow of corn
fatted cattle required to be hardened by the
addition of alum, rosin or some other sub
stance.
Year: 1878

A little elbow leans upon your knee,
Your tired knee, that has so much TO bear;
A chfld's dear eyes are looking lovingly
From underneath a thatch of tangled hair.
Perhaps you do not heed the velvet touch
OF warm, moist fingers, folding yours SO


tight;


You almost are too tired TO play tonight.
But it is blessednessi A year ago


did not see it as do to-day
We are so dull and thankless, ana 700 SLOW
To catch the sunshine till il slips away
And now It seems S1rpaSsing strange 10 me
Thsst, while bore the badge of motherhood,
did not kiss more oft and tenderiy
The little child that brought me only g0od.
And II some night when you sit down to rest
lOu rniss this elbow from your tired knee,
This restless, oarling head from OF your


breast,


This iisping tongue that chatters constant
II from your own the dimpled hands had


slipped,


II the White feet into their grave had triPped,
/ co9Id not blame you for your heariache


then.


I w0ader SO that mothers ever fret


At little children clingng 10 their gown;
Or that the footprints when the days are wet
Are ever black enough to make them


frown.


IfIcould find little muddy boot
or cap or jacket on my chamber noor;
II could kiss rosy, restless foot,
And hear its patter in my home once more
IF could mend a broken cart to-day,
Tomorrow make a kite to reach the sky
There is no woman in Gods world could say
She was more blissfully content than 1.
But, ah, the dainty pill ow next my own
Is never rumpled by a shining head;
Ny singing bIrdling from its nest is flown
Dhe little boy 1 used To kiss is dead.
Year: 1878

The other evening young lady abruptly
turned the corner. and very rudely ran
against boy, who was small and ragged and
freckled. Stopping as soon as she could, she
turned TO him and said:


Il beg you pardon; indeed, 1 am very
sorry"


The small, ragged and freckled boy looked
up in amazemenJ for an instant; then taking
of about three-fourths of a cap, he bowed
very low, smiled until bis face became lost
IN the smile. and answered:


You can have my psrding and welcome
miss, and you may run agIn me and knock
me clean down, an won't say a word"


After the young lady had passed on be
turned to comrade and said, half apologet-
ically:


II never had any one to ask my pardon,
and it kind o. took me off my feet"
Year: 1878

every seven years. The mystical nature
of the number seven has had an unquestion-
able effect in originating this opinion; and
although the age of IA and again that of 81
may be regarded as marking the attainment
of youth and manhood and womanhood
respectively, yet physiology gives no coun-
teuance TO the popular opinion that of ne
cessity these periods are those of sweeping
bodily change. On the contrary il might be
shown that the periods at which full growth is
attained vary with climate, race and constitu-
tion-that is, with the personal nature. and
with the physical surroundings of lndivid-
uals, communities and nations The true
state OF matters, disclosed by physiology,
leads Us to contemplate actions ana changes
which are OF infinitely more w0ndrOus kind
than those involved IN the idea of septen-
NAL change. For if there is one axiom
which physiology maintains more constantly
than another, 1t is that which teaches that
constant and never ceasing change is the lot
of life from its beginning to its end.


No part OF the body of living being is
free from these changes of substance, through
which indeed every act of life is earned on.
Every movement OF muscle-hnger-
implies waste of the organs and parts which
move. The thinking of a thought i'm
plies wear and tear of the organ which
thinks-the brain itself Were it possible To
spend existence even in perfectly still and
rigid condition, there are still actions to be
performed which are necessitating continual
waste and wear of the tissues Thus the
beating of the heart, the movements of our
chest IN breathing, and the very act of re.
ceiving and digesting food-actions which
are in themselves concerned with the repair
of the frame-can only be performed through
the Intervention of processes of work, and
waste of body. So that living being is to
be regarded as passing its existence in a
constant state of change. Its particles
are being continually wasted. and as
necessarily renewed; and although
the growth of our bodies may be said
to culmiDate at various periods of our life
yet it is anything but correct to say that
there are marked epochs of change in human
existence. The truth is that change and
alteration are our continual heritage; and it
is strange indeed to think that not organ
or part of our bodies exists which has not
repeatedly in its history been insensibly and
gradually, but none the less perfectly, re
newed in all its parts. Our particles and
substance are being dissipated in very many
fashions. Chemically and physically, We
are in a state of continual break down ;
whilst, on the other hand, II may be shown
that the forces OF life are enlisted powerfully
on the side of renewal and repair.