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Year: 1877

There are now at least fifteen thousand
people in the Black Hills who are without
employment, and many thousands more who
are only making expenses. Those who came
in here last year have ''staked Off" every
foot of ground where there is any prospect
of mineral deposit. From forty to fifty
thousand pilgrims have already been here
and gone back home again. They were al
most universally disappointed in their expec-
tations. The Black Hills is no place for a
man to live in unless he is making money.
There are hundreds of men now in the Hills
who are on the verge of starvation, and they
can get no employment at any price, for the
SIMPLE reason that the Hills are swarlning
with men asking for work. Several suicides
have occurred here lately; one of them, Wal
ter Whitley, took his own live rather than
starve to death. This is the unvarnished
truth.-Ncso York Herald.
Year: 1877

We have not seen in any account of the
Presidents New England trip any mention of
one Incident that gave spice OF danger,
which had also its comical aspect. Just be-
fore the train was ready to leave Washington
some one remembered that the railroad bridg-
es in Connecticut were little lower than
those of the rest of the route. Out of abund-
ant caution the height of the Presidential
carriage was measured, and it was found too
high to pass the Connecticut bridges, and an
other Car was substituted, thus preventing a
serious accident. The car that was substi-
tuted had large water tank which projected
above the roof About 2 o'clock in the morn
ing, as the party was peacefully sleeping, one
of the Connecticut bridges smashed the as
piring water tank, and broke the connecting
pipe, discharging flood of water over the
head of the Interior Department, and filling
the boots of the Attorney General across the
way. The Secretary probably thought it was
another row in the Indian Bureau, and he
coolly called for committee of Investigation,
and composed himself to slumber. The At
torney-General did not even demonstrate. He
raised himself en- one elbow, giving grave
and judicial glance at the impromptu water
spout, murmered ''Caveat Interior" and
went to sleep again.-C0 Columbus co., State
.70,xrnHZ
Year: 1877

We have seen dyspeptics who suffered un-
told torments with almost every kind of food.
Bread became a burning acid. Meat and
milk were solid and liquid fires. We have
seen these same sufferers trying to avoid food
and drink, and even going to the enema
spring for sustenance; and we have seen
their torments pass away and their hunger
relieved by living upon the whites of eggs
which have been boiled in bubbling water for
thirty minutes. At the end of week, we
have given the half yolk of the egg with the
white, and upon this diet alone, without fluid
of any kind, we have seen them begin to
gain flesh and strength and refreshing sleep.
After weeks of this treatment they have been
able, with care, to begin upon other food !;
and all this without taking medicine. Hard
boiled eggs, by the way, are not half as bad
as half boiled ones, and ten times as easy to
digest as raw eggs, or even egg -nog.-Aedi-
cal Journal
Year: 1877

There is very little difference in fans; the
latest are straight sticks, instead of curved.
In lace fans, the newest combines lace ex-
quisitly fine paintings on silk gauze; the
pattern of the lace made with view to an
swer as framework for the pictures There
are generally one large one in the center, and
a smaller in the left hand corner. One in
rocco style was seen with wrought pearl
sticks. The fan itself was kid, beautifully
painted. This came as high as $500. Sticks
OF opal pearl are considered quite comnae IL
yaut 1or lace fans this year. For ladies in
ngnter mourning smoked pearl sticks covered
WIN black lace, except in the centre and left
sue, Which contain exquisit paintings on
Dlack gauze. are all the rage. Albert, the
celebrated French fan painter, now puts his
name in the lower right or left hand corner
OF the painting in imitation of his brother
arlsts on large scale of course the pen
chant Tor every. thing la Japanese finds a
ready outlet in fans ; the expensive ones in
ivory with raised gold or silver LACQUER work
are more attractive as an object Of beauty.
though for their usefulness beinp rather
heavy. The tortoise shell in the same STYLES
are very handsome, but xpensive--none less
than $1OO.-London 7ruth
Year: 1877

A writer who says that bis cow gives all
the milk that is wanted in family of eight
persons, and from which were made 200
pounds of butter in the year, gives the fol-
lowing as his treatment: IF you desire to
get large yield of milk, give your COW three
times day, water slightly warmed, slightly
salted, in which bran has been stirred at the
rate of one quart to two gallons of water.
You will find, if you have not found by daily
practice, that your COW will gain twenty five
per cent Immediately under the effect of it,
and will become so attached to this mess tnat
she will drink almost any time and ask for
more. The amount of this drink is an ordi-
nary water pailful each time, morning, noon
and night.
Year: 1877

Rubini created an Immense enthusiasm up
on his appearance in 1881. The facination
of his voice was irresistible. Even his
brother artists would linger at the wings
while he was singing, 10th to lose single
note.


He made his debut at the Theatre Romano,
his native town, in wOman's part, when he
was twelve years old. He was afterwards
engaged to play the violin in the theatre at
Bergamo and sing in the chorouses. A drama
was about to be produced, but there was no.
body to sing it. Rubini was mentioned, and
q few shillings were offered him to undertake
it, He accepted, and received great applause.
Some time afterward he was engaged as ten
or at Pavio, at 36 shillings month.


Sixteen years afterward he and his wife
were offered an engagement ut $4,000. But
he always cherished that song which first
brought him into public notice, and used to
sing it when he was in the height of his rep
tation. The compass of his voice was mar
velous he could begin on the high B flat
without preparation, and hold on it for con-
siderable time.


At Milan the people flocked in crowds to
hear this wonderful effect, and never failed
to encore it. One night, raising his eyes to
heaven, extending his arms, initiating bis
chest, and opening his mouth, he endeavored
as usual to give forth the wonderful note.
But B flat would not come. Greatly discon-
certed, the tenor brought all the force OF his
splendid lungs into play and gave it forth
with immense vigor. But he could feel that
he had in some way injured himself. He
went through the performance, however, as
brilliantly as ever. When it was over he
sent for surgeon, who very soon discovered
that he had broken his collar bone-it had
been unable to resist the tention of his lungs.
''Can man 60 on singing with broken
clavicle p he inquired. ''Certainly," replied
the doctor; land if you take care not to lift
any weight, you will experience no disagree
able effects" And he did go on singing
BeL0r0Cl0.
Year: 1877

As the warm weather is coming on it may
not be out of the way to say u word or two
about cool houses. We all appreciate cool


house on hot day as well as warm house
on cold day. But how to keep house cool
on hot day is not so generally understood


as appreciated. We shall not go into dis
cussion of architectural construction to tell
how house should be built and partitioned


to secure proper circulation of air and per-
feet ventilation, at this time, though these are
important questions in building houses in
California, but shall simply suggest a few


ideas about the management of the house in
hot weather, to keep it as cool as possible. In
the first place our nights in California are al
ways comparatively cool, however hot the
days. This fact, if properly taken advantage
of, will enable US to keep comparatively cool
houses during the hottest days. Many people
upon going to bed are very careful to close
up every door and window, and upon getting
up in the morning are equally careful to
throw them all open. Thus they effectually
shut out the cool air and manage to keep
their houses very uncomfortably warm day
and night. If directly the opposite course
be pursued that is, to open all the doors and
windows upon going to bed and close them
upon getting up-most any house can be kept
comfortably cool in the warmest California
weather. If those who have been following
the former course will change and adopt the
latter, they will be surprised to find what a
cool house they have. The same principle
holds good as to any particular room in the
house. The working rooms, as for instance
the kitchen and dining room, have to be
opened frequently, but the sitting room and
parlor, which are generally used much in the
fore part of the day may in this way be kept
comfortable for occupation in the afternoon
when the heat is the most intense and oppres-
sive. If the curtains to the windows of the
sitting room and parlor be kept closed also
during: the forenoon it will assist in keeping
the heat out, and render their occupation
later in the day more agreeable. Cellars
where milk is kept and butter made should
always be managed in this way. A. little per-
causion in this direction will add to the guam
tity and quality of the butter made materially.
Year: 1877

The Goose that Laid the Golden Eggs. A
certain Man had Goose that laid him q
Golden Egg every day worth about Two Dol
lars. After while the Goose could not find
much to eat and the Egg kept getting smaller
till at last it was only worth Ninety Cents
''Good for nothing Goose" said the man. 81
will kill you and cut you open, and get the
Egg you have in your belly" He did so,
and, to his great sorrow and disappointment,
found nothing.


Moral.-Let the goose go on laying.-Nec
York World
Year: 1877

All along North Main street people were
looking this morning at some sight aloft.
Far up in the air, on the spire of the Fourth
Congregational Church, at a height of nearly
200 feet from the pavement, two men were
seen-looking rather small up there-at the
very top of the spire, and one OF them on
ladder above the top. They were taking
down the weather vane preparatory to paint
ing the spire and church, which sorely needs
it, not having been painted for eighteen years.
One of the men, painter, by the name OF
Bullock, is said to be nearly or quite sixty
years old, and is moreover lame man; yet
not one person in ten Thousand, at half his
years, would be willing to 60 to that dizzy
height, above the highest buildings, and
stand alone in the air, supported by nothing
but ladder, and his feet resting on one OF
the upper rounds of that. The Fourth Church
was erected in 1848 and 1849, and was not
finished before the close of the latter year.
When the spire approached its completion,
and the ornamental finals or hollow balls be-
low the weather vane were in process of con-
struction, certain residents of North Main
street contributed quart bottle of fine old
rum and pack of playing cards, which were
placed, without the knowledge of the Church
Committee, in the hollow swell beneath the
vane The bottle of liquor was duly marked
with the date Q848,) but probably without
the names of the contributors; and under
these ungodly devices the religious services
have been carried on for nearly thirty years
without the knowledge or suspicion of the
odd situation of things aloft up in the steeple.
Hartford, Conn, Times, June 22d.
Year: 1877

MACKEY AND HIS ASSOCIATES RULED
OUr.-In the South Carolina House of
Delegates on Saturday the committee on
privileges and elections in the same body
reported adversely upon the claim of the
entire Charleston delegation-seventeen
members including Speaker Mackey-to
seats in the General Assembly. The
ground of the report is that there was so
much fraud and intimidation in that
county as to vitiate the election. The
evidence upon this point was almost
wholly derived from the report of the
Congressional subcommittee which visit
ed Charleston last fall.
Year: 1877

1t is terrible to think of the distress
and poverty which the Republican lead
ers have brought the people of this coun-
try. The following, from the Notre Dame
(Ind.) Scholastic, is, fair sample of the
distress all over the countrya q


There have been, probably, no less
than 800 poor, hungry wanders who visit
ed Notre Dame during the past year, and
who received such refreshment ard
ciothing as their immediate wants called
for. The great and apparently increas-
ing number of these s'tramps" is simply
appalling. Why do not our Legislators
take the matter in hand and make some
provision by witch they will be enabled
to earn their living? Ifthis matter is not
attended to in time, worse evils will un-
doubtedly be the result. The State Legis-
latures should take some concerted action
in the matter, and petition Congress to
legislate upon it. There are abundance
Of waste lands In the United States where
these young and old able-bodied men
could be colonized and made means of
great good to themselves and the COM
munity at large. We venture to say that
every 500 Of public money spent for such
purposes would save triple the amount in
State prisons and work houses as well as
relieve the public nuisance and the coun-
of lasting disgrace. Talk about pauper-
ism in the old Catholic countries Of Eu-
rope! We havs here 10 to one the num-
Der of paupers to be found in any Of them.
1t is high time effective steps were taken
to stop these species of compulsory vaga-
bondism, entailed by the want Of labor
throughout the older settled portions Of
the country, East and W est.
Year: 1877

A distinguished gentleman yesterday
gravely remarked to Jounoi reporter
" Ii YOU will walk along the street and lay
claim to the umbrellas you meet, One-hali
of the carriers will admit the ownership
His idea, practically interpreted, indicates
that half of the umbrellas are stolen and it
is singular how teetotally the rights of prop
erty in this useful article are ignored The
reporter acted upon this suggestion in two
or three cases, but he was too well known to
realize anything by the venture The hold
ers didn't deny the accusation in any par
ticular instance, but instead Of surrendering
they advised the reporter to do as they had


done take the first one living around loose.
Year: 1877

There's an urgent demand for the fool
killer, in st. Louis-not in any OF those out
of-the-way places where his services are
usually supposed to be required, but in a
place where you might suppose he would be
the least likely to find job. If he responds
to the call, and does his duty, there will
soon be svacIncy in the bench OF the 'court
OF criminal correction To establish what
we have hereinbefore set up, We submit to
the jury the following, from the RepuJiican
OF Tuesday morning:


In the court OF criminal correction last
week boy TAo had been tried and con-
victed OF petty larceny, for stealing pocket
book and handkerchief from married Go-
man, was unexpectedly released upon the
ground hat the property stolen from her be-
longed 10 her husband, who had not Joined
her In the prosecution. Without discussing
wlether this j good or bad law, the RepuJLi-
Gun cannot refrain from saying thai it is a
very foolish proceeding. To some extent it
Is quite proper that the disabilities which
The Old common law made for a femme cOuer:
should De- preserved, but even
the most rigid observance of those
technicaliiieS Of practice should not re-
qulre the joining OF the husband in a crimi-
nal action. In this particular case the wom-
an was really a witness, and not the prosecu-
tor. The state was the prosecutor, and the
state had surely nothing 10 do with the ques-
tiol whether its wtness.was a temn,e sole or a
femme c1ceJt. TIE use of the phrase .'prose-
cutting witness" has led To the idea that il is
a voluntary matter whether or noila crime
shall BE- punished. Every now and
then the paper, report that some wit
ness refuses To- prosecute, and the
case referred 20 above seems 10 be the climax
Of this ah>Errlily. The witness does not
prosecute criminal suits. The state is the
plaintlE, for the community as well as the
individual suffers by crime, and the COM
munity cannot afford 10 let crimes be arrang-
ed as private matte between individuals.
The HcUysii.UH i not sufficiently informed
about this particular case 10 say just where
the mistake was made bat enough is shown
10y the result 10 convince any one that, law or
mo law the end was inocllery ofJuStice.
Year: 1877

Mr.. Field, himself, estimates it at about a
million dollars on the stock. The manag-
er OF the retail department saws there was a
retail stock in the store of three quarters of
million dollars, and from quarter to II
half million OF the wholesale stock stored
in the basement. The insurance on the
building is not known, but it is stated TO be
over S2O0OoO, and is placed by New
York agency. The stock is believed to be
insured for at least two thirds its value.
Year: 1877




Here is an alleged new phase OF the sill
Yer question" which the advocates of sill
yer, according to the New York IV0tt, have
got to tackle:


Has the present congress now the power
and right 10 repudiate the action OF its prede-
cesSor in 1873, infiict actual damage ON the
bondholder and impair the obligation of the
public debt entered into in lS15:''


This is the easiest conundrum We have
vet seen. The present congress has certain
ly as much power and right" as the con-
gress OF 1873, which repudiated the action
OF all Its predecessors since 1892, inflicted
immense damage upon the people, and
changed the obligation of the public debt
entered into in lSG5 and in 1869. The
present congress has as good right TO con-
slider the interest of the taxpayer as that of
1873 had to consider the interest of the
bondkolder.
Year: 1877

joe- Il 4 Commerce. Some weeks ago he
made an offer for the paper, but was unable
to secure control of all the stock and did not
desire to buy unless he bought all Since
then he has abandoned all thought of buy
ing it. Col. Anthony claims that The
TINES, OF which he is editor and proprietor,
Is making more money than all the papers
in Kansas City put together.
Year: 1877

The New York papers had pinned their
faith ts Congressman J. ID. Cox, Of Ohio, a.
"a man to whom the conservative opinion
of the country has turned with confidence. y
He has disappointed them, however, in his
viexs on the financial question. They
counted him n steadfast resumption
ist, but now they count him among those
whose course has excited surprise and NOR
tifcation, if not alarm. The course Of Mr.
Cox will not alarm the people as much as it
does the advocates of resumption
Year: 1877

II is worth noting that the syndicate
threatens to abandon the negotiation of the
four per cent. bonds, just at the time that
the senate and house committees are con-
sidering how best to take the bonds out of
their hands and offer them direct to the
people. The syndicate think they can die
tate the terms upon which the government
may refund its public debt, but the people
are beginning to believe they have suffered
altogether too much of that dictation al
ready
Year: 1877

Every intelligent reader knows that the
use Of opium has increased enormously in
this state within few years, the direct re-
silt without doubt Of the enforcement oi
the liquor law in many of the LANCER towns
and cities. We learn upon good authority
that one of the largest firms of manufac-
turing chemists IN the country says that
more morphine is sold in Maine in proper
iion to its population than in any other
state of the Union.
Year: 1877

IChicagO Tnbune.I


A beautiful site in Crown Hill Cemetery
at Indianapolis has been dona ed by the
Trustees for the erection Of the monument
to the memory OF Senator Morton. The
Monument Association has entered upon
vigorous canvass Of the State, and before
the close Of the year fund will have been
secured sufficient to erect a noble tribu,e to
the great indianian.
Year: 1877

II is stated that Gordon and Lamar CALI
od recently on the President 10 induce him
TO take some action looking to the decision
Of the Louisiana Senatorial contest, and
that they were informed that it was the
province Of the Senate alone to decide upon
die qualifications OF It's members.
Year: 1877

The way the local Gambetta of Des
Moines put it to the Mayor of that baiIi-
wick was, Sober up or resign" and he has
handed in his resignation, to take effect the
next time he gets drunk.
Year: 1877

What an amount of misery might be
saved, and sin averted if everybody obeyed
the injunction and shut the door" 1t
seems to be one of the methods used BY his
Satanic Majesty to promote discord in the
family and encourage silent profanity at
the office and the counting room.
Year: 1877

The walls, which were impaired by an
earlier fire, have never been as strong


as they should be, and are so shaky thai
they will doubtless come down. The build
ing may, therefore, be considered very near


ly a total loss, and the stock is variously es-


timated at from three-fourths OF million
Year: 1877

The consequences that would ensue 10
the country by putting into the once OF
President man with title manlliactnr-
ed as MIR. Hayes title has been, were left
entirely out of view by the men who COLI
structed that title. They proceeded upon
the assumption that no matter what might
be the materials out of which they fash
ioned it, the people of the United States
are such lovers Of peace, and have. so
much at stake in public order, that they
would acquiesce in any result rather than
have sanguinary contest for the possess
sion of the Executive office.


This calculation, short-sighted and des-
perate, left out of view the enormous in
jury to the feelings of men that must be
produced by requiring submission to that
which could not be regarded as anything
but great public wrong. If left out OF
view all that infinite mischief which was
to ensue from violent, unwarrantable,
indefensble construction of constitution
al provisions construction of which
has made the electoral colleges mere ma
chimes for defeating the popular Will, has
gone far to work out their destruction.
1t lett out Of view the spectacle of a
President coming in contact with peo-
pie who cannot see him without seeing
what is stamped upon his brow, the in
dellible marks of fraudulent title; and,
finally, it left out of view the spectacle Of
party maintaining that it had chosen a
President through the electoral votes of a
State in which the same tampering with
the popular votes had aimed to appoint
and is confessed not to have appointed, q
Governor.


For all these and a thousand Other
consequences of making President a:
Mr.. Hayes has been made, no man who
is entitled to be regarded as representa-
tive of that majority whose votes were
given to his opponent is in any way re
sponsible ; and no man who is entitled t.
be regarded as a representative of tina
majority, or is in sympathy with it,, cal
by any act allow it to be supposed tina
he means to overlook the wrong Y
Sun.