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Year: 1878




Ayoung, newly-married gentleman of this
city acts as chief counter-jumper in certain
large Woodward avenue dry-goods house,
and goes, among his acquaintances, by the
name of Mac. little more than two weeks
ago Macs wife went West for month TO visit
her mother. Mac did not quite like it, but
consoled himself with the thought that dur
ing her absence he would at least save the
price of q months board. What was his
surprise, however, when he came to paw his
first weeks board bill some ten days ago, to
find his landlady insisted on being paid for
board for two, she stating that it was Gus
tonary, in such cases, to make no deduction
on account of the absence of either one of
two boarders occupying the same room.


Mac settled and said nothing, but way
down in the depths of his heart there ranked
resentment at the gross injury that had been
done him.


The next day at dinner there appeared a
smooth faced young man, a fellow clerk of
Macs, who was introduced to the landlady
as Mrs. Mac pro tenn. The landladysaw the
point, and said nothing, but the look of
silent fury that settled down over her face
spoiled that days dinner for all her boaders.
The new conner took three meals in the house
and then disappeared. He could not stand
the ferocious looks of Mrs. --, he said.
Besides, he added, he never had dish put
before him but that he found hair, piece
of yarn, hair-pin, or shoe-buckle in it,
and, strange to say, it seemed that the same
hair-pin and shoe buckle turned up at each
successive meal. -:


The next day at noon the landlady face
frightened as abe noticed the vacant chair
Year: 1878

The friends of Congressman Vance,
who mysteriously disappeared short time
ago, have abandoned the idea OF foul play and
intimate that his disappearance is voluntary
and caused by financial troubles.
Year: 1878

1ne 0Ormer Ca silver.


Regarding Secretary Sherman's state
ment that The silver owners OF the Pacific
coast have made corner on that commodity,
and put up the price of bullion to figure
higher than that at which they were previous
ly willing to sell for shipment to Asia, even
with freight included, the Nevada bank au-
thor tiles say such Is not: a proper statement Of
the case. They hold they are as business
men, entitled to whatever profit would fall to
them by their nearness to market in offering
silver for coinage at the San Francisco mint
They estimate what it will cost the govern
ment to buy silver in London and land it in
San Francisco. and regulate their prices ac-
cordingly.
Year: 1878




A report has been submitted to the
House committee OH banking and currency
by the subcommittee consisting Of Chitten-
den and Ewing which recently visited New
York for the purpose Of fascertaining the pres.
ent condition OF the sub-trcasury in that city
with regard to the amount Of gold held there
belonging to the United States government
and to others, and with the view OF confering
with certain financial gentlemen regarding
the practlcability Of the proposed resumption
OF specie payments on January 1st next. The
following are the substantial points Of the re-
port. The bankers were Of the opinion that
resumption at the earliest possible moment
was not only consistent with tae public we'll
fare, but was Of the greatest importance to
the best prosperity OF the country. Also that
resumption on the first Of January, 1870,
might be made practical and safe If adequate
measures should be adopted; but all who eX-
pressed themscl,c cs on the subject were agreed
that the plans Of the secretary of the treasury
were inadequate, and that if he should make
an attempt to resume on the first Of January,
under such circums:sSr are likely to OK
ist at that time, the attempt would most
probably fail. They were of opinion that the
emonetization OF silver had seriously inter.
fered with the probabilities OF resumption ut
the time fixed.
Year: 1878

An operation was performed at the Maine
General Hospital yesterday which occasioned
good deal of interest among the members of
the medical profession in this city and vicinity,
several physicians from out of town being
present to witness it. The patient was fe-
male child five months old, from York county,
which was born with large mass attached to
the inferior extremity of the trunk, the mass
being two-thrds as large as the child itself. In
fact, all the physicians who had seen it regard
ed it as an attempt at the formation of sec
ond child, the two being firmly grown together
at the lower extremities of the trunks. On the
posterior and lower part of the mass was quite
a space covered with hair, which resembled the
hair on the chld's head. At this point there
was evidently an attempt at the formation of
head. There were two cavities, one which
seemed to correspond with the cavity of the
skull, the other, which was considerably larger,
seemed to correspond to the cavities of the
chest and abdomen. These cavities were filled
with q. straw colored fluid. There was nothing
answering to the formation Of internal organs
or intestines. The arrest in the development
must have taken place at very early period of
its growth.


With the exception Of the mass the child
was well formed and apparently healthy ain
every respect. 1t is well nourished, being as
large as any child of that age Two months
ago the child was brought to the hospital, the
cavities were tapped and their contents drawn
off, and the friends advised to take the child
home and wait until the cavities had reilled;
and then they were to return and have an at
tempt made to remove the mass if it should be
considered advisable.


When the child came to the hospital the sec
ond time it was found that the mass bad grown
in proportion to the growth of the child. 1t
was evident to all who saw the little patient
that its life would be absolutely wretched with
such an appendage, constantly increasing in
size with its own growth With these facts in
view, and with some degree Of hope that the
child might survive the operation, the Board of
Consulting Physicians and Surgeons recon-
mended its removal. In accordance with this
recommendation the operation. which was in
deed formidable one, was made, and the Of
Tending mass removed The patient bore the
operation well, far better than was anticipated,
and at last accounts was doing sdmira bly, well.
with good prospect of recovery.
Year: 1878

A TEST CAsE.-Today the venders Of hop
lager must desist or be prosecuted for the ile-
gal sale of Intoxicating liquor The dealers
held meeting yesterday and it was decided
that one of their number who has recently gone
into business shall continue to sell, and if seiz-
ed the case will be contested in the courts on
the ground that hop lager is not Intoxicating
and cannot be seized. The case promises to
excite a great deal of attention.
Year: 1878

SHIPMENT OF GRAIN.-The Grand Trunk Of
ficials here find that instead of decreasing the
amount of grain here for shipment to Europe
is constantly increasing. There is now some
thing like $50 car loads in the yard waiting to
90 into the elevator In addition to this amount
there is a large number of loaded cars along
the road between here and Island Pond. There
are now two ships loading at the elevator and
six more have been chartered in addition to the
steamers which leave weekly. The fine iron
clipper ship Lake Michigan, of the Beaver line,
will load grain, as will the Lake Erie of the
same line. These are both large ships and will
take good cargoes
Year: 1878

NEW UNFoRMs.-The telegraph boys of the
Western Union appeared yesterday morning
with bright, new uniforms of navy blue, trim
med with red. The caps bear the name Of the
company and the number Of the messenger. 1t
is great improvement, for now the boys are
easily distinguished when seen on the street,
Year: 1878

DROWNING ACCIDENT morning
a dory belonging to Jacob Bartol a fisherman
at Long Island, was picked up at Peaks Is
land, and it is feared that the owner has
been drowned. He left the city Saturday to 60
to his home and has not been seen or heard
from since. He was about 33 ye ,rs of age and
leaves a wife and two children. The harbor
was dragged for his body yesterday.
Year: 1878

An elaborate series OF measurements of
of human ltgs has been made by DR.. J. 5.
Wight. of Brooklyn. In the proceedings
of the Kings County Medical Society the
results of the Investigation are very fully
given. 1t appears probable that not over
one personin three has legs of equal length.
and that there are about twice as many left
legs as right legs of extra length. The
average superiority of one leg over the
other is about a quarter of IN inch. The
inquiry arose FROM discussion rs to the
amount that limb may be expected to
shorten after the treatment for fiactnre of
tine thigh. The conclusion is that The av-
erage inequality OF the limbs after good
treatment for such fracture is about three
fourths of an inch.
Year: 1878

Time and money have been wasted in
futile endeavors to obtain some embroca
ton that would prove cure for this
excruciating disease; but all have failed
except KELLER's ROMAN LISIMEST, and
that has been successful in almost every
instance where it has been employed,
whether such has been Of the inhammatory
or chronic type. In Lumbago and Sciatica
it affords instant relief
Year: 1878

! -fe.- oulEInOns THE SIGNAL SILVER MINING CO.,a corporation, duly incorporated under the laws of the State of California Action brought in the District Court of the Third Judicial District in and for the County of Mohave, u the Territory of Arizona.

 The Territory of AriZoGa sends greeting to the SIG- NAL SILVER MINING COMPANY, a company duly incor- pOrated under the laws of the State Of California You are hereby summoned and required to appear n an action brought against by abovenamed plain. tiff III the District Court of the Third Judicial Dis trict in and for the County of ohave the Territory of Arizona and answerhe complaint ed with the Clerk of this Court at Mineral Park in said County copy which complaint accompanies this sumlnonsl within twenty days exclusive of the day of seros after the service upon you of this summons, if served in this county but if served out of the and within district then within thirty days: in all other forty days.

 And you hereby notified that if yoa fail to appear and answer the complaint above redured the plaln-

 tiff will take judgment by default against you for the sum of S9.0226l, for goods and merchdnse and for hauling and transportation goods certain due bills aud other indebtedness in writing, set forth in the complaint and costs and disbursements in this be- half expended.

 Given under my hand and the seal said District Court at Mineral Park, this 2d day of September A. D. 1878. CALDWELL WRIGHT, Clerk.

 c. A. TWEED, Attorney for plaintiffs. oc15d6o
Year: 1878

In this age Of inventions and progress in art,
Our schools must keep step may fail in their part
For things are progressing at wonderful speed;
And the men of great talent must take the lead.
But our schools not idle they're doing their best
And no duobt they will march straight ahead with


the rest.


Our School superintendent seems made for the place,
And determined his schools shall not lag in the race
His subordinatcs find that he'll never cry stop
Until he's compclld them to climb to the top
For he raises the standard, at every new term,
And It's utterly useless for teachers to squirm.
Through the length and the breath Of our tight little


State,


Onward marches REFORM We have only to wait
And the system Of teaching reduced TO a science,
BY modern improvements, and every appliance
Will then be at par, with the best in our land,
And amongst the best systems, Will then take its
stand.
Our schools here in town. are well managed and good
Well supplied with the best intellectual food.
The head teachers, Of rare talent and worth
| And the town has good reason to cherish them BOTH
| Whilst their lady assistants fairly compare,
With the best lady teachers you'll find any where.
| Now surely, the scholars should work with a WILL
And with good useful knowledge, their crani lms fill
| 'Tis easily carried, where once its obtained,
And they'll find it a triumph Ger ignorance gained
Twill give moral courage, and make them feel strong
And twill fit them TO grapple with trouble and wrong.
But there's time for fooling just push at once,
| And don't be a lazy or thick headed Ounce
| If Ounce you rcmain-you will reap his rich por-


ton,


Hard work-kicks and cufs-with all kinds Of extor


ton


But knowledge is power-thc wise viii possess her,
To prove this great truth, YOU may ack the Professor
| SMYRNA, DEI~ sept 18th. SEC.
Year: 1878

A young man admires pretty girl, and
must manifest. He can't help doing SO,
for the life of him. The young lady has
tender heart, reaching out like vine ten
drills for something to cling to. She sees
the admiration is fattered; begins soon
to love expects some tender avoWal; and
perhaps gets so far that she will choose a
white satin under thin gauze, etc., at the
very moment the gallant that she loves is
popping the question to another damsel ten
miles off Now, the difficulty lies in not
precisely understanding the difference
| between polite attentions, and the tender
manifestations of love. Admiring beauti-
| full girl, and wishing to make a wife of her,
are not always the same thing; and there
| fore it is necessary that the damsel should


be on the alert to discover to which class the
attentions paid her by handsome and fash
| ionable young gentlemen belong. First,
| then, if a young man greets you in loud,
| free hearty tone; if he knows precisely
where to put his hat or his hands if he
stares you straight in the eye with his own


wide OPEN if he turns his back to you to


speak to another; if he tells you who made


his coat if he squeezes your hand if he


eats heartily in you presence; if, in short,


he sneezes when you are singing, criticises
your curls, or fails to be foolish in fifty ways


every hour, then don't fall in love with


him for the world He only admires you,


let him do or say what he will. On the


other hand, if he be merry with every one


else, but quiet with you if he be anxious to


see that your tea is sufficiently sweetened


and your dear person well wrapped up when
. you 60 utinto the cold; ifhe talks very much


and never looks you steadily in the eye; il
, his cheeks are red and his nose only bushes


it isenough If he romps with your sister


sighs like a pair of old bellows, looks sol
: emn when you are addressed by another
gentleman, and in fact, is the most still
S awkward, stupid yet anxious Of all your
!, male friends, you may "go ahead" anc
make the poor fellow too happy for hi
skin to hold him! Young ladies, keel
Y your hearts in case Of good leather, O.
4 some other tough substance, until the righ
" one is found beyond doubt, after which
: you can go on, and love, and "court" anC


be married and happy without the least bi
, of trouble.
Year: 1878

The days were long and lonesome after
the sods were heaped over mothers face
Such sense of utter loss and vacancy
clung to everything! | often used to go
up to the churchyard and lie down on her
grave and tell her all about it, and it al.
wavs seemed that she heard me, and COM
forted me, in a strange, silent way. The
peace in earth and sky and air would steal
into my soul and it was as if her hand had
touched me with blessing.


In those days of childish sorrow John
Earle was the truest, kindest friend l had.
He understood me as no one else did. He
never tried to comfort me by trying to
forget what | had lost. He always spoke
of mother as one just out of sight, but
knowing, as of old, every trouble and
grief that came to us, and that thought
was inexpressibly sweet with comfort to
me.


DO you know, Ruth" he said, one
day, " always fancy she is looking at me
out of a pansy- blossom? She loved pam
sizes, you know. My mother loved no
other blossom as we'll as lilacs, and in
! lilac-time | am always happy, for can't
help fancying she is near me then, and
that in some strange way her soul and the
lilacs are so much alike that l can't tell the
/
myself talking to the blossoms as if they
could understand. Perhaps they do.
| Every time breath of their fragrance
comes in at the window, nights or morn
ings, | think mother has tender thought
for me. l wish lilacs lasted the yeal
around"


The next morning, when Robbie and
went to mothers grave, there was grea
bunch of pansies growing there, and
knew where they came from. When
bent down and kissed them, as if l wer'


kissing mothers face, fancied something
whispered to me that had a sound In
. like her voice. But it might have been th


wind.


Robbie and woke up, one day, to tn


fact that we were children no longer. w
D had grown out of our childhood unaware'
E "You are a man now," | said to him
l. ga mani Do you comprehend what tina
+ means, my brotherr
/ 81 hope So" he answered. mean


be man that you will proud OF Ruth"


As if he could ever be anything else
/. No one can know how loved my orothe


II had seemed to me, after mother die


and left us alone in the world, that all I'll


love [ had TO give ought to be given
him, To me he was more than the worlc


beside him | had few friends. With hi


to love l wanted no one else. Looklr


back now to the days when we driftt


down the river from childhood to man ar
y womanhood, only one other face lool
vividly out of memory by the side of hi
!, and that is John Earle's. 1t is blent wi
u all my remembranees of those happy day
he for Robbie and John were always togethe
a a used to feel something like pang
or jealousy, often, when Robbie would con
ia' back from some walk with John, or son
Year: 1878

While musing in the pleasant shade
One hot and sultry day,
There came hOary-headed tramp
Plodding along the way.
He sat him down upon the grass
And for to talk began;
With stammering voice and fearful eye,
Twas thus his story ran:
"Ah yes, they call me now a tramp,
A low and vulgar man,
Because tc seek my daily bread
wander through the land.
And by your look of pity, Sir
You ask, how is it so.
That am here poor old tramp,
So wretched and SO low.
Its through tn unfaithfulness of friends
That am here to-day,
In helping them in time of need
signed my all away.
Then when they had all 1 could give
And left me bleak and bare,
They thrust me out upon the world
Without crust to share
But yet have seen happy days
~In years long past and gone,
When golden grain my acres filled
And green grass decked my lawn.
When countless friends around me stood
With arms extended wide,
And all the comforts wealth could bring
Were gathered at my side.
To fill my cup with happiness,
AS full as full could be,
a little boy with bcaming eyes
Played merrily at my knee.
But happiness was never born


For me to long enjoy
Twas soon the day of trouble came
Death took our darling boy
Twas that which broke my Lilies heart.
That heart SO true and brave,
And by our little Eddie's side


laid her i'll the grave.
So lonely now wander here


From all the world I'm free;
The birds are my companions now,
The skies my canopy"
He heaved sigh and looking up,
His eyes bedimmed with tears,
Then gazing on my little boy


He told of earlier years.
L often think of childhood too,


Those bright and happy days,
When at my mothers side sat


And sang my little lays.
All yes, the people called me then,
Sweet, curly headed boy
And mother pressed me to her heart
And said was her JOY.
Right well do l remember now,


The thrill of JOY she felt,
When for to say my evening prayer
Down by her side I knelt,
When her soft hand was gently laid


Upon my upturned brow.
wonder what would mother say


If she looked on me now?
It's little did she think those days,


She plait my curly hair,
And dressed me in the neatest things


That little boys could wear
That one day would be cast out


With beasts and birds to camp,
And people whisper as pass,


There goes an ugly tramp
But mother dear, you know it not,


Your head is hid from care
And sleeping silent in the dust


o God, if were there"
SMYRNA, DEL, Sept. 18th. r.. &. D
Year: 1878

"There is a land that is hotter than
this" 1t is the planet Mercury, which
is over fifty millions of miles nearer the
sun. The Mercurial summer comes every
three months, and it is ten and one-half
times as hot as it is here, and they have no
ice water
Year: 1878

The dead money in the vaults of the
banks all over the country is going into
the government per cent. bonds very
rapidly. If the hard times and the stagna-
ton in business continues for year or two
longer it is believe that all the government
loans may be funded at and Al per cent.
Year: 1878

MARRIED MEN are of two kinds-good
and bad. The bad are truly horrible the
good, very good indeed. The bad married
man illtreats his family in every way, and
generally ends by eloping with some
body and leaving his wife to earn a
living by fine needle-work. But the good
married maxwell, he is not madly in
love any more, but he believes that there
never was such a woman as his wife. He
does not see Times changes in her face; !;
she is always young to him. Every baby
binds them closer to each other. There is
an expression in a good married mans face
that n bachelor cannot have. 1t is indis-
cribable. He is little nearer the angels
than the prettiest young fellow living.
You can see that his broad chest is pillow
| for somebody's head, and that little fingers
pull his whiskers When some one has
said husband" and some other Papa" a
ceal is set upon the forehead. No one-no
woman at least-ever mistakes the good
married man for an instant. 1t is only the
erratic one who leaves you in doubt. The
| good one can protect all the unprotected
females, lift pretty girls over cutters, talk
to them in carriages, and make himself
generally agreeable, and yet never leave 6
doubt on any mind that there is q preciou:
little woman at home worth all the worlC
to him. Some women like the bad married
man, and delight in making his wife jeal
Gus. | hate him. The good married mar
on whom l could not make ian impression
if died for it, is the one for me.-MiSS B.
IN Sunday Dispatch.
Year: 1878

NARROW EsoAPE.-Our little friend
IIennison had cause recently to thank
somebody that he was not Ms largo as
some OF his acquairtances. He is work


ing with others on the Buckeye ditch and
stopping at the upper camp. One day
last week, just after dinner, when all but
" ennlson had lett the house, n snow slide
came down the mountain taking away
Inc baeksmithshop and about half the
mouse. He sprang to the door but was
thrown TO the floor, the door over him
una resting on the do0r-sill. Rocks from
'ne chimney, lumber and snow piled over
MN, tho weight of which would have
crushed a large man in his place. His
companions, who were only a short dis
lance away, heard the slide and returned
ana dug him out, only slightly bruised.
~ was certainly lucky escape for him.
Year: 1878

STAGE During the past two weeks
the mail men have come through from
the Tower House on horseback, but
haven't brought any mail because there
wasn't any to bring. Kise expects to
get through with the stage again next
Monday, as it is expected the road will be
repaired by that time.
Year: 1878

On TIME.-The Humboldt mail came
through on time as usual this week. We
would suggest to the Railroad authorities
that II they cannot get our mail this side
OF Red Bluff that they send it back to
San Francisco and thence to this place
by way Of Humboldt Bay.
Year: 1878

FIXING UP.-Paulsen 81 Loveridge,
who are running the Mccarthy Mine ON
Oregon Gulch, lost part of their flame by
the high water, but will have it in and
be at work in few days. The portion
OF the hume that remained was cleaned
up and shows a fair proportion of gold
mixed with the dirt IN the mine.
Year: 1878

SMASHED. The new cabin belonging
to Sargent & Kilins on Deadwood, was
demoraized by getting in the way OF a
falling tree during the recent storm
Fortunately there was nobody at home
ot tho finnn