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Year: 1879

RAILWAY Up VEsUvIUs.-It is 30
years since a concession was granted
for railway up Vesuvius. 1t has been
promised many times, but never so
positively as now. The plan pro.
posed involves the construction of an
iron elevated railway about three
leet high above the ground, on which
IS to run train of eight cars oper.
ated by steel cable. Each car is
To be furnished with two automatic
brakes. The cable will be double,
IN case Of accidents. The actual
tension on it will be 5000 kilo-
CRANES. bu: it will be made to sup.
port a tension of $4,000 kiIogrammes.
a small station with a restaurant
will be constructed on the cone and
another at the foot of the mountain.
The ground has been chosen where
there is least danger from an erup.
ton, and all the material is movable,
50 that it can easily be taken up and
stored in the observatory in case Of
eruption. 1t is expected that the
railway will be completed before
the summer of the present year.
Year: 1879

Mcssrs. LenoX and Perry have for
some time been in the mountains at the
head of Magpic, Montana, getting out
timber for large stable. The noun
tains in tile vicinity Of Magpie were
recently set on fire by a party of pros
pectors, and the fire ragged over
quite an extcut of country. About
O'CLOCK on the afternoon Of the 14th
ult., Court Sheritt"s wagon and team
started down the canyon loaded with
fence poles, and few minutes later
Leon and Perry followed with Il heavy
load Of hewn timber. They had got
fairly in the canyon when the wind
suddenly increased to lively gale, and
before they could realize the extreme
danger of their position the whole
mountain was in flames. Putting
whip to their horses, they commenced
race for their lives. 10 turn back
was impossible, the mountains rising
almost perpendicular Oh each side of
the canyon. Their only hope lay in
outstrlpping the fire, which was now at
their very heels. Judge of their sur
prise and CONSERVATION OH discoYering,' ;
few rods ahead, the wagon which had
preceded them completely blocking up
the road, the driver having abandoned
1t to save his horses. What was to be
done now must be done quickly. Perry
was on the point Of giving the horses
the whip and tearing his way through,
but the Colonel, with the cool head of
an old soldier, suggested throwing off
the load of fence poles and clearing the
road. Both set to work with O will,
and IN few seconds had the poles un-
loaded, the wagon uncoupled and
tunibled down the side Of the mountain.
The roar and cracking of the flames
and the booming crash of falling tim
ber was sufficient to strike terror to the
hearts of older mountalneers than those
who had only been in the country a
few months. So exhausted were they
with the intense heat and the severe
eX ertiOns Of the last few moments that
they had barely sufficient strength to
chamber on the wagon and again COM
mence the frightful race. The fire in
meantime had got ahead of them, and
putting the whip to their row maddencd
horses, they began running the gauntlet
of fire. Trees were falling in all drec-
tloas around them; the atmosphere
was thick with smoke and impregnated
with the fumes Of burning pitch, max
ing 1t almost suflocating. Both faces
were teginring.to wear the picture of
despair. All hope Of eyer getting
safely through had almost died within
them, when Perry Glanced to remark
that the Colonel's wife that night would
probably be widow. The words acted
like magic on the Colonel, who, rails
Ing to his feet with "not by long
sight," began urging the horses to re-
newed exertions with the end of a
binding chain, the horses literally tear-
ing thcir way over fallen trees and
burnt timber for a distance of half a
mile, when they emerged into small
clearing where the fire had taken a turn
and again gone up the mountain. With
the exception of some slight damage to
the wagon and a few bruises them
selves, they arrived safely at the Ferry


SO far is 1t from being true that men
are naturally equal, that no two people
can be half an hour together but one
shall acquire an evident superiority
over the other.


Time goes at It's own gait. and you
cannot kasten 1t by using the "spur Of
Year: 1879

PLEASE NCHEcK YOUR HORSES" \


In in these words is posted on the road
nom Orange, y. j., to St. Cloud, where
Ne road is steepest. Would it not be a
Kind thing for the horses if such a notice
VAS posted at the foot of some Of the
steep hills in this village, provided the
drivers would only heed it | have been
exceedingly panied when | have seen
horses driven up these hills at great speed
with their heads drawn up and their eyes
IN the direction Of the sky. Draft horses
especially should be unchecked in going
up steep hills, SO that they may draw
their loads with their heads and necks in
natural position. How would driver
succeed in rolling wheelbarrow, heavily
loaded, up such IA hill with his head
drawn back so that he could not see his
load 2 Who will try the experiment and
set the example? EX.
Year: 1879

4 man and wife in Upton, Ind, agreed
to separate. Their property was divided,
piece by piece, until nothing was left but
a baby and COW. The husband gave
the wife her choice, and she took the COW.
Year: 1879




The two great trunk railroad
lines going eastward from Buffa-
Io-the Erie railroad and the
New York Central-earn be-
tween them, at a rough estimate,
nine hundred thousand dollars a
week or one hundred and twenty
nine thousand dollars a day. For
several days already. owing to the
late snow-storm and the one that
preceded it, through traffic has
been entirely blocked both on the
trunk lines and on the local lines
that center at Buffalo and neigh
boring cities. It would, ofcourse,
be an exaggeration to speak Of
the foregoing amount of traffic as
lost. Only fraction of it has
been real loss, and only,a partof
that fraction faas upon the rail-
roads. But counting up conse-
quential damages-the expenses
Of delayed passengers, the delay
to the business individuals, tie
cost of storage, the outlay fer
clearing tracks and the injuries to
rollingstock-and we shall find
that the individual and corporate
damages caused by the great
snow storm amounts to an i'm
mense total. The citizens Of
this part Of the country who are
disposed to congratulate them
selves OH their freedom from
the great visitation of snow will
be wiser if they mix grateful re-
Elections with the thought that
the ties of trade have also made
many Of us common sufferers i'll
the Affections Of our neighbors
in the western part Of the state.
Year: 1879

ALL FOR FUN.-A brakeman
the other day "for the fun of the
thing threw a lump of coal at
an Italian image yender's col
lection as his train rushed
through the Springfield (Mass.) J
depot, and almost ruined the
poor mans stock in trade. The
Italian was sharp enough to take
the number of the car on which
the brakeman was riding, and
he reported his grievance TO the
railroad officers. The matter
was investigated, and the brake
man was abruptly discharged.
Year: 1879

At recent trial in CheDan-
go County as to whether cider
is intoxicating, several gentle
men were sworn and testified
that the beverage so confused
them that they didn't know their
own wives from those of other
men. The EImira Gazette says
it has known the same confusion
to occur where the person mere
ly drank cold water.
Year: 1879

A preacher living al West
Woodstock, Connecticut, set
out to tell the truth about his
congregation, but he was land
c.l ON the sidewalk before he had
got half way through with tn.
short comings of brother Reese.
Year: 1879

From Private Letter by William e. Dodge.l


But those of us who can go back to the
very commencement of the temper
ance reform well know that in all parts of
the country outside our large cities there
has been most remarkable change in the
customs of the great mass of people as the
result of temperance efforts. Then there
was hardly family of any standing that
sat down to dine without some kind of in
toxicating drink on the table. Men were
hardly expected to work on the farm or
in their shop without their regular allow
ance. It was kept in every country store;
was used at all public gatherings, and, in
my remembrance, was passed among the
attendants at funerals. AS you sat down
at the hotel tables every second man had
his bottle or glass of some kind of intoxi-
eating drink. Now we know that to a
great extent this is changed. Go where
you will throughout the country, sit down
to the tables of a great majority of our
families, and you will find no intoxicating
drinks. Sit down at our hotels on the
great liues of travel and you will not see
one person using strong drink, where
fifty years ago yon would have seen ten.
Had it not been for the vast increase of
population from the old world during the
last half century, the results of the tenn
perance movement would be more ap-
parent. But those of us who have watched
it feel that its progress has been most en-
couraging. I have just returned from an
absence of two months, in which L have
travelled through ten States and over 1000
miles, and I have seen less drinking and
fewer drunkards than ever before in the
anne time and distance.
Year: 1879

DIR. Dufaur, French physician, reports
this interesting case: A common brown
owl built it's nest beneath the projecting
roof of farmhouse, where it had brood
of young. One day the farmer, moved by
curiosity, drove away the old bird, took
out the young owls, and, after looking at
them, replaced them uninjured. In the
evening, as he was entering his house
with his servant, the latter suddenly
heard the beating of wings, and felt the
claws of the owl on his chin, and before
he could defend himself received blow
from its beak directly under the eye. On
the following day an unsuccessful hunt
for the bird was instituted, but in the
dusk it appeared again and attacked the
farmer himself striking him directly in
the eye with its beak. DR.. Dufaur found a
wound of the cornea and an abundant
hemorrhage. The sight OF the eye was
completely lost and the other eye was
subsequently threatened with sympa-
thetic Inflammation.
Year: 1879

While in Georgia tea culture is begin
ming to attract attention, in some portions
of Florida the culture of coffee is excit-
ing int rest. The Tampa Tribune says
s'Mrs. Joe Atzeroth, living on the south
bank of Manatee river, near Braidentowa,
was two coffee trees, bearing this year
for the first time, as we learn from
a gentleman recently from there.
With proper care and judicious efforts
there certainly can be no doubt of the
probability of raising cofye in South
Florida, especially in certain parts of
Manatee county and in the Caloosahatchie
county. 1t would be interesting to know
if any efforts have been made in this lat
ter region to grow this tree, and if SC. with
what success"
Year: 1879

There is no known way to tell the re-
snlt Of an election beforehand, and 1t is
never safe-at least, hardly ever-to boast
or bet much in advance. Senator Thur
man gave the Democracy a comfortable
assurance at Bellalre that things were
working well for Ewing, and was even
quite solemn in his expression OF opinion.
To be sure, he made the result hinge
somewhat on the contingency Of every
Democrat doing his duty, which is always
a saving form OF expression, but we
presume that he meant to assure the
brethren that success is quite possible and
not altogether improbable. This only
shows that the Senator differs widely from
such men as Garfield on the Republican
side. Garfield addresses, we presume,
three or four meetings where the Senator
addresses only one, and we suspect that he
is better political barometer than the
Senatori and it is his opinion, as privately
expressed at Etnayille, that the Demo-
cracy Of Ohio are gone up this time and
no mistake. One can hardly go over to
the Ohio shore without receiving sort OF
atmospheric impression that great Re-
publican whirlwind is gathering head very,
fast, and that 1t is liable to sweep
through the State like an old fashioned
John Brough tornado on the second Tues
day CT October The fact is, that the people
Ohio have got tired Of confronting the
constant disposition Of the Democracy 10
unsettle the results Of the war, and they
seem determined to put their feet down
this time and sQuelch this mischieyous
propensity. They believe that the States
Rights heresy is a ghost that should be
laid by this time, and as the Democracy.
are always trying to resurrect 1t they in
tend to dig its grave little deeper this
fall and pile on the clods more liberally.
They are also apparently determined to
give rest to the financial agitation, and
let the Democracy understand that the re-
turn Of specie payments is accepted as
tlnality on that subject. The coming Of
good times is a satisfactory consummation
Of their wishes and hopes in financial
way, and they see no sense in going back
into the mine out OF which they have at
last tloundered. They want to stand on
solid bottom, and they know that they are
now on that kind Of a foundation. The
present boom has for It's base the whole
volume Of specie and paper money
in the country, and its dimensions
are being daily enlarged by gold
from Europe. What more could
sensible people want? They certainly do
not want another irredeemable paper.
money collapse. They want good money
and plenty OF 1t, and this they now have.
They have plenty Of business and plenty
ofwork, plenty Of cheap bread, fair wages
and worldwide market. What more
could people have2 What more could
Democracy give the people2 When did
Democracy ever give them better times2


These questions are killing the Democ-
acy in the Ohio canvass. They are pressed
upon them, and rubbed into them, like sand
paper every day, and the attrition wears
away votes atevery meeting. The Democ-
racy are rubbing against the srind.stones
Of the busy rolling mills OF the land, and
they are bound to be pared down into a
minority. {
Year: 1879

Men are not, and certainly it is true in
general that they never have been raised
from vice to virtue, from sin TO holiness
from moral sickness to moral health, by
morality alone. No matter how pure il
may be, no preaching of morality has ever
sunk deep into society, or shown itself able
to have any wide control over the conduct
of men. 1t has never shown itself able to
mould society internally and from the cen
tire. You cannot make man virtuous sim.
ply by teaching him virtue. You cannot be
certain that child will practise the Ten
Commandments, simply because he has
learned them by heart. The teaching is, of
course, well; is not only important, but in
dispensable How can men be led to do
their duty unless they are first led to know
it? How shall they believe in him of
whom they have not heard But, notwith-
standing this, all the knowledge which men
obtain of the divine commands, and their
duty, never have been sufficient to lead
them TO true obedience No theory of
human nature is deep and thorough which
does not recognize the actual foundation for
this fact and no observation of human
conduct is wide or penetrating which has
not seen its frequent exhibitions---President
j. II. Seelye.
Year: 1879

How do the anniversaries come in groups,
jostling each other, and crowding together,
as the years 60 on, TILL as | said, life gets to
be made up of anniversaries Is this not
true Z You can answer me--you, sir, or
you, madam, who have crossed the glad
meridian heights and are on the downward
slope. This day, perhaps, is the anniversary
OF your graduation; this, of your entrance
upon some field OF labor-no matter whether
1t be wide one or anarrow one-for which
you had eagerly prepared yourself this, il
may be, of your first communion, when it
seemed to you, in your hour of exultation,
that God had set his seal upon your fore
head and whispered Peace" this, of your
happy betrothal this, OF your wedding
day, with its solemn joys, its trembling
hopes, its tremendous yet half-felt RESPONSE
bilities. Yesterday was the birthday of
your eldest son. lie is man grown, per
haps-but you think of him as your boy
still, the little fellow whom you loved and
scolded twenty years or more ago. To-day
a twelve month SINCE or five, or ten, AS the
case may be, you gave your one sweet daugh-
ter 10 be the light OF another mans heart,
the Joy of another mans home You won.
der how you ever did it; aud you think, for
the fiftieth time, that of all cool proceed
ings on the face of the earth, the coolest is
when some young fellow, in all the self-as
surance aud blessed audacity OF youth, steps
up to father and quietly asks him to pluck
the heart out of his bosom and place it in
his hands


just twenty years ago to-day, it may be,
your baby died-the little one that had not
learned TO know his name He would be
tall, manly boy now If he had lived. You
wonder how Il is in the land to which he
has gone. Is he still babe or has he
Year: 1879

We want a religion that softens the step,
and tunes the voice to melody and fills the
eye with sunshine, and checks the impatient
exclamation and harsh rebuke a religion
that is polite deferential to superiors,
courteous to interiors and considerable to
friends; a religion that goes into family,
and keeps the husband from being cross
when dinner is late and keeps the wife
from fretting when the husband tracks the
newly-washed floor with his muddy boots,
and makes the husband mindful of the
scraper and doormat; keeps the mother
patient when the baby is cross, and amuses
the children as well as instructs them
cares for the servants besides paying them
promptly; projects the honeymoon into the
harvest-moon, and makes the happy home
like the eastern fig-tree, bearing in its bosom
at once the beauty of the tonder blossom
and the glory of the ripened fruit We
want religion that shall interpose between
the ruts and the gullies and rocks of the
highway of life and the sensitive souls that
are travelling over them.
Year: 1879

One Of the wealthest settlers in New
Caledonia is gentleman from Australia
we will call him Mr.. Brown--who went
there some ten or twelve years ago with but
small capital, and has become enormously
rich by raising cattle for the markets Of
Noumea. Mr.. Brown was on his way
through the bush from one of his outlying
cattle stations to another, when he lost his
way entirely, wandering about till near
night-fall aud then came to large native
village. Here he was Hospitality enter
tanned, well fed and most deferentially
treated by the great chief Atai, thiuk,
whom some persons regard as the chief
mover and leader of this years revolt against
the French. Atai was all courtesy to his
white guest, and when night had come con-
Quoted him himself in state to the hut set
apart for his nights repose. Fortunately
MIR. Brown was acquainted with the GUS
toms of the country and among them, knew
the common way of putting an end to
travellers, preparatory to feasting upon them.
Ii is as follows: The traveller is kindly
received; nothing occurs to shake his con-
fidence in his host; he is allotted cabin to
himself to sleep in. The native huts have
usually but one opening which serves as
door and window both. When the





his cabin this one entrance is set on fire.
Being thatched, and made altogether of
light wood, it burns very readily, and
the traveller is cooked as well as killed.
Then the feast begins. Being acquainted
with these details of New Caledonian life,
Mr.. Brown knew that the cabin to which
the venerable Atai so courteously led him
might probably become for him both tomb
and cooking stove unless his wits could
save him. He entered the cabin of the
chief, meeting courtesy with courtesy, till
they were both fairly within Then Brown
being in the prime of life and athletic, and
Atai old and intirm, the Englishman knew
he was more than match for the savage.
He closed the door within the hut, planted
his back firmly against it, and sitting thus,
with his hand on his revolver and his other
weapons ostentatiously displayed, continued
his conversation with the chief. The situa-
tion remained unchanged throughout the
night. A terrible night it was, no doubt, for
the Englshman, and almost as bad for the old
chief, who again aud again requested per-
mission TO withdraw. Mr.. Brown as fire.
quently declared he could not part with
him-he should not feel safe except in his
company. When daylight was fully come
Mr.. Brown felt assured that Atai would not
ventue to allow his people to openly attack
an individual so well known in the settle
ment as himself, and both issuing together
from the hut, he gladly accepted the escort
OF native guide, and was safely conducted
to the French settlements, where his adven-
ture was the theme of considerable interest.
Year: 1879

The most urwise thing done, so fer as the Democratic party is concerned, we believe to be the lacking on of very obnoxious measure to the army appropriation bill Should the bill pass the Senate with the rider, we believe that the President will veto the bill. Congress may get on its ear and refuse to pass the bill during the session which would compel the Prs ident to cali another extra session. To leave our army without the means ol subsistence forebodes trouble. and we pre- d.ct an uprising in the North that will overthrow the so styled Democratic party. and obIiterate it entirely from the records The Supreme Court of ;he United States has decided that the President has not the authority to disband the regular army Of the United States, hence his only policy will be tn keep on converting extra sessions of,Congress from time to time, until the army shall be provided for.

 When Grant comes back into the White house. as he certainly will, then Congress will be Republican and such grand fiascos as are now being enacted will cease and the country will prosper.
Year: 1879

There is no doubt 10 our mind, after Pc
rusing the testimonials, and investigating
the merits Of PUTNAM's hot forged and
pointed horse shoe nails, which
are guaranteed not to split and silver in
driving, that they are superior to others,
Consequently are indispensable iu every
blacksmith's forge throughout the length
and breadth of the land. Owners of horses
should insist upon having them used in
shoeing in preference to cold rolled iron
cut nails, which lame horses The Put
nam nail is the cheapest and best horse
shoe nail and you get from 450 to 80t
nails more in box than Of any other
make.
Year: 1879

1t is said that one out of every four real
lnvalids who go to Denver, Col, to recover
health, never return TO the East or South
except as a corpse. The undertakers,
next to the hotel keepers, have the most
profitable business. This excessive NOR
tally may be prevented and patients
saved and cured under the care of friends
and loved ones at home,iif they will bat
use Hop Bitters in time This we know.
See other column.
Year: 1879

Heat relaxes the system and opens the
way for diseases to attack the depressed
and weary body. People of judgment and
experience at such times make use of
Kidney-W ort as this great remedy keeps
up the tone of the whole body by enabling
the Liver, Bowels and Kidneys to perform
their functions perfectly.
Year: 1879

No use of having the chills, no use of
headache ,or any of the ills that come from
a disordered or inactive liver. One bot
tie of this old and reliable family remedy
will cure the most stubborn case-will
relieve the system and make you feel like
a new person. Try it and be satisfied.