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Year: 1878

by Gumbiueer deliberately, and carried iuto
execution without the oonnivance of the young
girl. During the evening the young. couple
wero seen in their room by several Of the hotel
employees. who stale that the girl was quite
lively, while Gumbiugor, though he was very
marked 10 his attentions to her, had preoccu'
pied expression, and did not bear himself alto.
getber as happy bridegroom, which they sat
down as the character be was playing. The
only material point still unsettled 10 the case 10
whether or not the couple got married yester-
day afternoon previous to their taking quarters
at the hotel az man and wife; but though the
Letter family have made researches, there has
not been found auy evidence to show that the
ceremony had taken place.-Cnn. Eng.
Year: 1878

New York, March 26.-Comptroller
Kelly has sent communication to At
torney General Fairchild, urging the
release of VIM. N. Tweed. Kelly says
that his promise to Tweed that the late
Attorney General would release him If
he would make full confession Of his
misdeeds and surrender his property
induced Tweed's confession and his
proffer of the surrender of his proper
ty. He states that the late Attorney
General promised him kelly he would
dicharge Tweed if he complied with
these demands. AS a citizen Kelly
says he feels that the state is being dis
honored by this brech of trust.
Year: 1878




RUSSIA has manifested its respect and
friendship for the United States by re-
qnesting it to take part in the proposed
congress which is to settle the Eastern
question. While this may be regarded
as tiattering compliment, it is not so
clear that it is wisest and best for this
nation to accept any "entangling al
nance" with the East. While we have
commercial interests that harmonic
with theirs, orr form of government is
instinct and inharmonious in principle,
ana hence should not entangle itself in
the Eastern question, where, il 1t has
any desire, 1t is to see republic erected
over every throne in the Old World.
Year: 1878

Blair in the Maryland legislature
last night, declined to accommodate
some members by refraining from press
ing his resolution looking to unseating


the President. He declared there was
an understanding among leading Dem
ocrats of the country, and that he knew
of developments that would soon star
tie the country to an unheard of extent.
Year: 1878

CHRIsTrANcY, from the Judiciary
committee, has reported back to the
Senate the bill to repeal the bankrupt
law, without recommendation, the
members of the committee not being
able to agree upon the matter.
Year: 1878

WE hasten to make the dmcnde
honorable to the Hon. Byron Wa
ters who, we were informed, was In
favor of the bill to locate the ses-
slons of the Supreme Court ire
movably at Sacramento. We find
that we were entirely in error, Mr..
Waters being heartily in favor OF
the law as it stands. We apologize
to that gentleman for the caustic
character of our comments, their
acrid tone having been largely due
to the fact that we have always
been friendly to him, advocated his
election to the Constitutional Con-
ventien warmly and staunchly,and
were surprised out of our good
humor and personal preference and
disgusted unspeakabiy when we
found, as we supposed, that he was
arrayed against an essential inter.
est of Southern California.
Year: 1878

resultant enormous sums Of money
60 into the same few hands whose
possession OF the money we all
along have had, under our theory
caused all the evils from which we
suffer?


We started out with the sole pur-
pose of stating the true cause of the
universal depression and stag nation
which Is now characterizing busi-
ness in the United States. There
are of course remedies for such a
state of affairs and we shall glance
at some of them in future article
Year: 1878

Inventors of electric lights have been
given an opportunity by the Brooklyn
board of Aldermen to demonstrate the
practicability and economy of this meth
cd of Illumination. That body has just
authorized the publication of advertise
ments for proposals to light the city next
year either with coal gas cor other IL
Illuminating material"
Year: 1878

The entire mass of tobacco
which IS annually consumed in
smoking, snuffing, and in chew
ing on the earth is 1000 millions
OF pounds-manitestly too high
ali estimate tor from twelve to
fifteen hundred millions of IN
habitants. Let us take the half
as more probable, and let US sup
pose the tobacco leaves trans
Termed into roll tobacco, a tobac-
co serpent is created which, with
4 diameter of two inches, and
following the direction Of the
equator, could wind itself around
the earth thirty times. Let us
suppose that the tobacco is FORM
ed into tablets similar to the
chocslate tablets, and which, in
deed, is the shape which chew
ing tobacco Of sailors and Yam
KEGS take, and we have a colos-
sal pile worthy ola pyramid Of
Gizeh, that of the .Mykerinos,
and as massive and as high as
that old regal edifce. Let US
grind all the tobabco into snuff,
and let us picture to ourselves
the sad case that an evil equi-
noctial wind one fine morning
blows the snuff over the ocean
and showers it OH one of our
German States! We are certain
more than one Of the Llllipution
States would have much difficult
ty in recovering its existence by
shoveling away the snutf.-En-
0Ltsh Paper.
Year: 1878

Speaking of courts, reminds us of
funny instruction said to have been given
by judge to a jury in--well, we won't say
in what State. Itruns in this way:


"1f the jury believe, from the evidence,
that the plaintiff and the defendant were
a partner in the grocery, and that the
plaintiff bought out the defendant and
gave his note for the interest, and the de-
fendant paid for the note by delivering to
the plaintiff COW, which he warranted
mot breachy,' and the warranty was bro
ken by the reason of the breachiness of
the cow, and the plaintiff drove the cow
back and rendered her to the defendant,
but the defendant refused to receive her,
and the plaintiff took her home again,
and put a heavy yoke or poke upon her,
to prevent her from jumping the fence,
and the cow in attempting to jump the
fence, by reason of the poke or yoke,
broke her neck and died, and if the jury
further believe that the defendants inter.
est in the grocery was not worth anything,
the plaintiffs note was worthless, and the
COW good for nothing, either for milk or
beef, or for green hide then the jury
must find out for themselves how they
will decide the case--for the court, if she
understands herself, and she thinks she do,
don't know how such cussed case should
be decided"
Year: 1878

A terrible day for the poor coster-
monger and stall-kecpers of Whitecross
street. The fshwoman who yesterday
stigmatized the weather as beastly, be-
cause it drenched her shawl and compell-
ed her to stand in a puddle, could not,
unless she sent home for kettle of hot
water and thawed the stubborn ice in the
kennel, find puddle to stand in, though
she walked mile in search of it and her
life depended on it. A day so bitingly,
bitterly cold that the very turnips
and carrots set out in penny lots on the
bleak boards looked nipped up and
frost-bitten, and would be grateful to
any one who would take them home and


pop them into comforting pot of hot
soup Gin fails, this morning, to be at
what is desired by the miserable women
who indulge in it at the bars of the
Whitccross street gin shops. There docs
not seem to be warmth enough in the


fiery liquid to set free the slatternly
dram-drinkers' powers Of speech, or to
alter the leaden hue of their lips. The
mae loafers at the beer shops find no
comfort in pewter measures-perhaps it
is because their pockets are frozen out
and loiter by the lamp-posts, asking each
other in dismayed voice how " long this
ere is a-go:n' to last," as they stamp their
feot and blow on their knuckles for
warmth's sake. The sudden frost seems
to have paralyzed this nelghbor-hood Of
Year: 1878

Two singular incidents, which will fur
nish nuts to crack to unbelievers in the
supernatural, have recently come to light
in England in regard to the recent loss of
the Avalanche in the British channel.
A lad, who was great friend to one of
the apprentices who was lost, made ar
rangements to accompany him down. the
channel and come ashore with the pilot,
but, at the last moment before sailing,
he was seized with such an indefnab!e and
ungovernable misgiving that he declined
to 60, and thus escaped almost certain
death. The apprentice who was lost had
aretriever dog who was very fond of him,
and which answered to shrill dog
whistle that he carried. On the night of
the shipwreck his mother and aunt were
in the sitting-room, and the dog in the
kitchen. Between 8 and 10 o'clock the
ladies were startled by hearing a shrill
whistle upstairs, resembling that of
the dog whistle used by the young man.
The dog heard it also, gave his usual re-
cognizing bark, and bounded upstairs,
where he supposed his master was. The
whistle was heard by two credible wit
nesses, whose testimony. was confirmed
by the response made to it by the dog Of
the lost sailor.
Year: 1878

One chief danger from colds is the cx-
haustcd state of the body that first occurs,
so it is not able to resist unfavorable in
huences. People who are not very vigor-
Gus should avoid over-exertion and keep
the strength up to the highest point. 1t
will help those prone to cold to sleep all
they can. Another cause of colds is eat
ing too heartily after days work, when
there are not forces enough to digest the
food and keep up the circulation. Eat
moderately at night if yo1 would avoid
cold. A cold in its early stages may be
broken up by hot foot-baths, warmth to
the body, especially a hot pack or hot
bath in the middle of the day, with much
friction and quiet in comfortable room.
1t is not advisable to take hot bath at
night in such cases. When you have q
cold, don't eat much or work much un-
less you have great physical strength.
when hard days work may be good
thing to equalize the circulation and IT,
store the action to the skin, which always
suffers when one takes cold'-Hcrazd of
Ho01fI
Year: 1878

are species of bidens, plant very we'll
known in the United States, as Spanish
needles, and kind of crab grass. One
object Of placing the plants so close to-
gcther is to give the pineapple possession
Of the soil, and the weeds little chance of
usurpiDg the ground. The first sight of
q pine field is astonishing, for it presents
broad intricate tumble. OF a vast mass
of interlacing leafy sword blades, and the
first impression is that such q jam of vege-
tation womld be utterly incapable of pro-
ducing any fruit whatever, whereas the
fact is, the acre properly attended to yields
tho enormous number of ten to twelve
thousand pineapples.


There is another enemy, no less for
midable than the weeds that requires
looking after very sharply, and that is
the rat, which attacks the fruit Just as it
is about to ri pen. If no measures were
taken to prevent the depredations of
these troublesome creatures, very few
pincapples indeed would escape their
destructive jaws. The planter has q
remedy. Sweet potatoes are cooked, and
while they are yet hot, the sulphur ends
Of common matches are broken off and
introduced into them. The phosphorus
is diffused throughout the substance OF
the potatoes, and these being placed
among the principle plants are eaten by
the rats, which almost Immediately fall
dead from the effects of the poison
Year: 1878

A letter from the island Of Eleuthera,
in the Bahama group, writtcn to the New
York Sun thus describes the cultivation
of the pineapple: That the soil of Eleu-
thera should yield such an abundance of
delicious plneapples, is a matter of won
der to a person who has been used to the
fertile lands of the United States. One
who has never been on coral island can
form but the faintest notion of the exceed.
ing roughness of the surface, and migrate.
full aspect of the ground. The island'


Elcuthera, which furnishes such vast num-
bcrs Of pineapplcs, is, indeed covered by
a wild vegetation, in the main, while the
earth from which it springs is, in great
part Of the toughest conceivable charac-
ter of rock. Holes of every size, form
and description, some of them partly or
wholly filled with dirt, the debris of de-
cayed vegetation, loose fragments, large
and small, round and angular, sharp and
hard, everywhere abound. The rock
sticks up its singing points and cutting
edges in the most irregular and provok-
ing fashion. No plough, no spade no
hoe can here be used. The only thing
l1iG Gull uClS Ut uOuC ~ W SUCK SpEOuL
into one of the holes and let it take care
of itself, which it almost invariably does
right we'll; for it likes that kind of soil,
and sips its sweet nourishment from the
little dirt it may happen to find in the
hollow of the rock.


The holes are very close together, the
sprouts are placed scarcely foot from
each other, and as the plant grows up it
spreads its long, sharp, hard leaf blades,
with edges armed with little rasping,
saw-like teeth, up from the ground and
abroad in every direction. The plant has
a thick supply of these outbending
leaves, Tapped closely one over the other
near the ground, and out of the centre of
which comes up the fruit, one pineapple
only to each plant, which then perishes,
and leaves behind ! progeny Of young
sprouts, and these being stuck in the hol-
lows insure new crop for the succeeding
year. This replenishing can be kept up
for about six years, and. then the whole
field about exhausted, is left to itself, the
plants die out, in the course Of time the
soil is renewed, and freshcr fields now
demand the care of the pine grower.


The only attention given 70 the plant
is to keep the field clear of weeds, and
that is almost daily work the year round.
One negro man can attend to about two
acres. The worst weeds to contend with
Year: 1878

squalor, and everybody is half benumbed
and wretched looking except the child,
rem. Here they come in troop Billy
Of yesterday and his young friends
among the number, and though the shoes
aud boots of the whole party, on account
o their ramshackle, would not: if all
sold to an old Jew realize enough money
to buy new pair, the Dervish dance
they performed yesterday was quite q
lame performance to what they are equal
to this morning. Their jackets and frocks
are miserably thin (for there are little
girls as we'll as boys,) and flutter in: the
wind, and in many cases the tiny latter;
demlions have neither hat nor cap, and
their hair is prematurely gray with snow
that lodges in it. But tEey don't seem
to mind it bit. Mind it!They rejoice
and revel in it, and laugh out loud,
though their noses are blue, and the
breath puffs out as white steam when
they open their mouths.-London Soc;etv;
Year: 1878




The American people are gradually in
crcasing the consumption Of mutton.


Thirty years ago but few fat sheep went
to the markets. Now more than a mill
ion are required annually to supply the
demands OF New York CITY alone. The
great staple meat food of the cities is
beat, while in the country districts it is
the flesh of swine. :F;IGsis +ezs can not keep
whole carcasses of beat on hand, and if
preserved in salt, as they do their pork,
it soon gets hard and unpalatable. A
carcass of mutton being so mnch smaller,
even in hot weather, a considerable por-
tion of it can be used fresh, and the bal
ancc picked in salt. Mutton will keep
longer in a fresh state than any other
meat and when corned it is excellent
food. 1t is equally nutritious with beef
and far more wholesome than pig-meat
in any form. For persons Of sedentary
habits, and at all afflicted with weak d.
gestion, it is far healthier than beef or
pork. Many people who can not digest
either of the latter without distress, can
eat full meal of mutton and experience
no unpleasantness whatever It is the
SAS"AA|o0 AAu PuACSt 1OOU Ill luC
whole animal kingdom, as sheep will
starve before it will eat anything dirty or
tainted. Mutton wastes less in the pot or
oven than beef. The bones are lighter
and finer in proportion to the amonnt of
meat in we'll fed sheep, and this, alone, is
an important item to those who have to
buy. The less shrinkage in cooking is a
considerable percentage in favor of NUT
ton. The great reason why more mutton
is not eaten is because of its poor quality,
which is the result Of no general system
practiced in the production of this i'm
portant staple. During the late war the
price of wool ran up so high and the de-
mand was so urgent that the country was
stimulated to the increasing of the focks
without regard to their kind or character.
Mutton became secondary consideration,
or rather was not taken into the account
at all. With the close of the war and the
inevitable monetary reaction, there came
a crash in the price of wool land the sheep,
bred for heavy feeces, were sacrificed


Breeding sheep for their fleece should be
confined to the great areas west of the
Mississippi, and remote from market.


So long as more than sixty million dol
lars worth of wool and wooden fabrics are
yearly imported to supplement our def
ciencies, growing sheep in those immense
regions will pay.
Year: 1878

A daring attempt was made to rob a
passenger train on the Atchinson, Topeka &
Santafee railroad on the 9th, between three
and four o'clock. Five armed and masked
men entered the Station at Kainsley, Kansas,
and captured Wright, the telegraph operator
who was ordered to open the safe. He refused
to do so, although his life was threatened
The wcst-bound express arrived at this time
and the operator by desperate effort broke
loose. A vollcy of pistol shots was fired into


1t, and us the train was stopped the conductor,
VIM J. Mallroy. was met by two robbers who
presented pistols to his head, and ordered him
into the baggage car. He stepped in and
closed the door instantly, starting the train by
pulling the bell cord. Mallroy and the bag
gage master then armed themselves with car
'bincs carried in the car and then stopped the
train after running about mile from the sta
ton. They went back through the coaches
with arms but found the passengers had not
been disturbed.
Year: 1878

A wedding as abrupt, if not as fan
tastlc. as MIR. Wemmick's took pace not
long ago at Marlboro on the Hudson.
During the afternoon wcll-known resi-
dent Of the village called on the Rev. DIR.
Osbon and invited him to dinner at six
o'clock. bring marriage certificate
with you,' said the host; I'VE may have
wedding there tonight. The doctor
is discreet man, and did as he was told.
At his friends house be met large COM
pany, and after dinner was announced
teok his seat at the well-appointed table.
The host undertook to carve the turkey,
but made such bungling work of his du-
ties that one of the guests was constrain-
ed to remark to him: "You ahould get
married, then your wife would teach you
the proper way to do these things" The
host did not deny the soft impeach-
ment, but told what manner of woman he
should like for wife ending by saying;
"Now, before we proceed further, 'spose
We take vote as to who I shall marry"
The company entered into the canvass
with great hilarity, and after the vote
was taken it was declared that the host
was in duty bound to marry his house.
keeper, a young and we'll educated lady
who had presided over the establishment
for more than year. The young lady
had stepped into the kitchen to give some
final directions to the cook, and when she
returned she was informed of the views
Of the company. She was completely ta-
ken back, but when the ladies coaxed her
to give hor consent, she placed herself in
the hands Of her friends. "Halloo! le+


get married now!'' exclaimed the host
with the imperturbable Wemmicks self.
possession. The dinner was suspended
--indee ! 1t had scarcely begun; the bride
took off her white apron; the bridegroom
dropped his napkin; the two were made
one; the marriage certificate was signed;
and the company kissed the bride and
then sat down to dinner with first rate
appetite. The next day spinster in the
neighborhood, hearing what had happen
ed raised her lands towards Heaven and
exclaimed in spirit of true devoutness
"HoW sudden; there's no tellin' whose
turn II come next"


The following recipe for doing up shirts
will be found Of use to many housewives
Take two ounces of gum arabic powder
put it into pitcher and pour Oh it piut
or so OF water; and then, having covered
it up, let it stand all night. In the morn


lug pour it carefully from the dregs into
a clean bottle, and cork it anb keep it for
nse. A tablespoonful of gum water stir
red into pint of starch, made in the usu-
al manner will give to the lawns. either
| white or printed, a look of newness, when
nothing else can restore them, after they
have he nwashed.
Year: 1878

The treasury committee of the U. s.
Senate Oh the 22d, took up and discussed at
length Senator Pounds bill to sxpprcss gam
bling in the army by means of an additional
article Of war. 1twas made the special order
for the next meeting, with every Indication it
will be agreed upon for favorable report to
the Senate.
Year: 1878

One of the most remarkable instances
on record of parental devotion and of success
in keeping secret Il family atfiiction, may be
found in the family of citizen who is keep
ing drinking saloon in the western part of
Cincinnati. Twenty-seven years ago a num-
Der Of houses in the vicinity were destroyed
by fire in the night, including his residence.
His wife in delicate condition suffered much
from fright, and subsequently gave birth to a
monstrosity-an offspring without any of the
better senses of living creature, except that
OF sight-without toes or fingers; deaf, speech
less-without the least spark of intellect or
instinct.
Year: 1878

A leading grain circular says, during
the first four days of the week the markets
were very flat, with q tendency in prices to
decline. In consequence of the ministerial
proposal on the oath in parliament, the market
opened with an active inquiry for wheat and
maize, holders asking advanced prices, and
some business was done in both before the
markethours. At this market there was ex-
tenslvc business in wheat, white and red, ad-
vancing full one penny per GENITAL on former
prices with trade buoyant. Flour is in good
demand at full prices. A fair amount of corn
was taken and rather more paid for dry new
mixed; old was unaltered,
Year: 1878

There is an old story of an English


man who saw a man ROWING, but
refrained from pulling him out from
the water because the victim was a
stranger, and there was nobody about
to introduce the Englishman to him.


But there Is another story, alleged to
be true which tells of foolery little
worse than that. There was in the
Colored Peoples Home the other day
an old man who became insane. The
The fact was certified to by two
homeopathic physicians, but some
body at the almshouse refused to ad.
NIT the patient TO the asylum unless
the certificate should be signed by at
least one allopatbic physician. Ac-
cordingly an old-school doctor was
hunted up, but he .refdsed to sign the
certificate because the State Society
wouldn't allow him to associate his
name upon the document with a
homeopathic doctor. Then an effort
was made TO induce the allopathic per.
son to examine the patient on his own
responsibility, and while these diplo-
Year: 1878

CARE OF SToCK-Carc Of stock, so far
as their proper bedding, feeding and vcnti-
lation are concerned, is too important mat.
ter for the thrifty farmer to neglect attending
to himself However trustworthy his assis.
tants, judging from our own experience, it
will pay him well at the close of the season
to see, each evening, that his CATTLE sheep
and hogs are we'll bedded, fed and watercd
Scarcely less important is the proper venti
lation of the buildings in which his stock
is winteTed While the entrance OF
draughts and cold is TO be carefully proven.
ted, it should be borne in mind that domes.
ticatcd animals, like man himself, need
fresh, wholesome air, and, if compelled by
ignorance or carclcssncss to breathe q foul
tainted atmosphere, it is at serious risk
of health and consequent profit. A visit
to the barn, stable and pig pen early in the
morning will at orcc warn the observan
farmer of defective ventilation Moore
Rural