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Year: 1878

"No man will ever prosper who has
the curse Of ruined woman upon him.
The murder Of the body can he tried and
executed by the worlds laws, but the
murderer Of the soul is trieu by heavens
law and the execution is as sure as di'
vine Justice" Aunt Betsy said this as
she folded the white hands Of n beauti
cul girl, and put white flowers and green
leaves about the marble cold forehead
There was tiny babe beside the gir
mother. The house was hushed ant,
there was mourning such as few know
Half glad that the mother and child were
dead, the rest of the family must perform
the sad office Of burial and bear the
family shame. A haunted house! A
ruined home God the architect and
and man the spoiler. The curse is there
and the destroyer cannot escape.
Year: 1878

a few hours, and sought among the saved
for the stranger who had proved himself
SO true Masonic Brother, but he was
no to be found.


He must he on the other Ship said
Mr.. Durant,' and he will care for little
Eva


Both ships were at port the following
day, but although Mr.. Durant found the
stranger who had befriended him, and
who proved to be q Mr.. Wadesworth,
from a a southern city, Eva was seen by
no one, and given mp as lost.
Year: 1878

The six years that followed the death
of his wife and the loss of his child,
passed wearily to James Duraut. He
visited nearly every country in the world,
seeking among scenes of natural beauty
and grandeur, as well as historic interest


for the mental rest which could never
be found. Once more he turned his steps
Year: 1878

A subscriber asks "How TO scald a
goose?" There are several methods
Perhaps the best way would be TO wait
until some evening when the goose comes
around to seranade your daughter, and
while he is in the midst OF "Sweet BY
and By pour a kettle of boiling water
on his head from the second story win
dow.
Year: 1878

NEW YORK, July 10.-Secretary Sherman
visited Wall street this morning. In o short
interview be said that he believed in the re-
sumption of specie payments at the earliest
possible moment, and with two hundred mill
lion dollars in gold and silver in the treasury,
or thereabOuts, and the surplus continually
increasing there was no reason why the
country could not resume before the end Of
the present year.


The government has promised to redeem
It's notes by the first of January, and it might
as well redeem them earlier"


81 think" added the Secretary, chat specie
payments might be maintained after the
first OF October, but the law provides that re-
sumption shall begin on the first Of January"


will not resumption even at that period,
depress the business interests Of the country
more than at PRESENT.


"No the unsettled State Of finances serves
to depress business; people are looking for re-
sumption and an equalization Of money. The
sooner resumption is an accomplished fact, the
sooner will business revive, and all parties be
benefited.
Year: 1878

II onions are sliced and kept In a sick room
They should be changed every hour. La the
room Of a smallpox patient they blister aud
decompose very rapidly, but will prevent the
spread Of the disease. Their application has
also proved efIectual In the Gasa Of snake
bites.
Year: 1878

A cup OF tea is generally made the
wrong way. In the first place the tea is
made too strong, thus losing the full
tea flavor. In the second the tea is
boiled, extracting the bitter fannie acid
from the leaf, while the true tea,arOma
is lost by evaporation. In China the
tea is made weak, in the cups from
which it is drank, the water being
poured boiling hot on the leaves, GOV
cred for a few minutes, and then drank
without either milk or sugar; the Chi
nese consider our use of. them in tea as
by no means the least proof Of our bar
baTism. But that is a matter Cf taste.
The water with which tea is made
should be fresh, not drawn from the
boiler, nor taken from a Kettle ih which
/. it has been kept standing on the stove,


but freshly boiled for the purpose, and
the kettle in which it is boiled should
only be. used for water. Wash and scald
the teapot, and allow an. even teaspoon
fuKOf tea for three cups sf-tea. Pour
a.Cupful a Of waterOn the leaves, cover
the teapot elesely, ,~and. set fOT-ten min.
Utes on the back of the stove or range
to draw. II you use a teapot 'eOsey'
Il. {. thrce-cOnered bag of quilted
wooden TO cover the teapOt-the tea viii
draw. just as we'll on the table. Fill the
teapot with hot water and send to the
table. 1t is absolutely necessary. that
the water used to draw the tea should
be boiling bubblingfuriousIy, not mere
ly at the boiling point; but the tea
should never boil an instant after it is
poured on. A lump OF loaf sugar put
into the teapot with the tea is said to
hasten the Infusion.
Year: 1878

There are few things more productive
of evil in domesti6Hfe than athOrOdgh-
ly bad temper. ItdOes nOtn after what
form that temper may assume, whether
it is of a sulky kind that maintains
perfect silence for many days, or the
madly passionate, which vents itself in
absolute violence. III temper at any
age is a bad thing; it never does any
body any coed, and those who indulge
in it feel no better for it. After the
passion has passed away Une sees that
he has been very foolish, and knows
that others see it too. Bad temper in
The aged is, perhaps, the most trying Of
all. It is, indeed, a pitiable sight to see
the wrinkIed cheek of an old person
aflame with anger and passion. Since
anger is useless and an unspeaksble
misery to it's victims, why should it be
indUlged in at all2
Year: 1878

Keep to your calling; let 10 man m
duce you to abandon that which you
have studied Tor years, in the vain az
tempt to learn a new trade in a month.
Success springs from Industry and per
severance
Year: 1878

The town of Griffin, Texas, is
supported by buffalo hunters, and
is their favorite rendezvous in this
section. The number of hunters
on the ranges this season is estima-
ted at 1900. One can see at Griffin
a plat Of ground of about four
acres covered with buffalo hides
spread out to dry, besides a large
quantity piled up for shipment.
These hides are worth in this place
from 81 to $1.6O each. The gene
rally accepted idea of the exciting
chase in buffalo kuntlng is not the
plan pursued by the men who
make it regular business. They
use the needlegun with telescope,
buy the powder by the keg, the
lead in bulk, and the shells, and
make their own cartridges. The
guns in a party of hunters are used
by only one or two men, who say
they usually kill drove of thirty
or forty buffaloes on one or two
acres Of ground. AS soon as one
is killed the whole herd, smelling
the blood, collect around the dead
body, snufing and paving up the
ground, and uttering a singular
noise, The hunter continues To
shoot them down as long as he can
remaiH concealed, or until the last
animal "bites the dust" The buf.
falo pays no attention to the report
Of the gun, and fees only at sigh
or scent of his enemy. The Others
then occupy themselves in "peel.
ing" Some Of these have become
so skillful they offer to bet they car
skin five or six-year-old bull il
five minutes. The meat is also
saved and sent to market, and com
mands good price.
Year: 1878

l wish young women could be taught that
it does not add a cubit to the stature of
house to call it residence that church
or even a meeting house is as venerable as
the ''sacred edifice, that it is no more genteel
to say ''retire" than to 60 to bed that the
garment so fondly, slowly covered with side
plaitings, so coldly and quickly frayed out
along the paving stones, is really gown and
not promenade custume, that it need not
bring blush to the cheek of even Mr.. Pods
maps young person to say leg instead of
''limb," when leg is meant; that the supper
at an evening party is not ''the entertain
ment;" and that there are well-founded OBJ
jections to the use of ''nicely' as an adjective
describing the state of ones health. ITO
clothe low creeping with fine language" said
old Fuller, lis not fine fancy, but flat fool
cry" 1t rather loads than raises wren to
fasten the feathers of an ostrich to her wings.
Mrs O.. Runkle.
Year: 1878

Mr.. Simmons Lynn made an ascent in a
balloon near Calcutta, on the Doth of Janu-
ary. He descended safely some miles from
the city, after an exciting adventure with a
crocodile. Owing to the density of the gas
supplied for the balloon, MIR. Lynn did not
deem it advisable to take up with him Mr..
L'Estrange (Blondin), who was much disap-
pointed in consequence. The balloon first
moved in the direction of Baliganj, but after
wards shifted toward Dhappa and the Salt
Lakes. Having passed over the Eastern boun-
Diary of Calcutta, Mr.. Lynn found that at
4:4O o'clock it was beginning to move rapidly
toward Tiger Point, in the Sunderbunds.
He descended from his then altitude of 49,
600 feet into the current which was blowing
for a few moments from the southeast In
this current he could not remain, and at 5
o'clock descent into the jungle seemed in
evitable. lie at this time observed that there
was not breath of wind over the surface
of the jungle for 5000 feet in height.
Either he must come down at once or be en-
veloped in darkness, and have no chance of
getting out of the jungle. Even with light
the chance of being extricated seemed small.
While slowly descending, and at an altitude
of 10000 feet in an otherwise perfectly
clear atmosphere, vast plain of intense
white toward the north was open to view.
He could not form any conception as to the
cause of this phenomenon, except that the
rays from the setting sun had come in con-
tact with a cold blast from the snowy range
in the Himalayas. He continued his descent
and very soon the phenomenon was lost, but
although every moments delay increased the
risk in landing, he could not resist the temp
tation of reascending to Try and fathom this
mystery, but did not succeed. At 5:15 he
was within 1000 feet of terra frma, rather
inappropriate name for the locality. A huge
crocodile was moving toward him with an
impressive steadiness, and when he came
down into the mud and rushes he could see
the monsters head level with the bulrushes.
Fortunately there was enough ballast left to
throw overheard just as the monster was
within so yards of the balloon, and this en-
abled MIR. Lynn to rise above the thick jungle
to the length of the graphing rope, about 30
feet. The story that crocodile cannot turn
rapidly was in this case disproved, as this
one ran round the graphing rope. Having
called Justify for help, Mr.. Lynn found some
natives making their way toward him wading
through the thick mud and rushes. AS the
rushing sound was heard on all sides the
crocodile made off, About half dozen
natives were induced, after much persuasion,
to hold the rope, and ultimately the balloon
was waited over the jungle and across creeks
for nearly three miles. until small dry space
was reached.
Year: 1878

A good writer, who gets things down fine,
eau put several thousand words on postal
card, and the cost is cent, but if he pastes
printed slip containing single word on the
card the expense is six cents; one paid for
the card and the other five collected from the
card receiver; yet if words are printed on
the card itself it is all right. If person
pastes printed slip on a card the size of a
postal card and puts the card and slip in an
open envelope the Government will carry
carry card, slip and envelope for cent, yet
it charges six cents for carrying postal card
and slip without the envelope.-Free Press.
Year: 1878

A lame man, carrying basket of groceries,
vent quietly down Main street. Cambridge.
Yesterday. when, with the suddenness of
lightning, his hand went up to his eyes and
his basket went rafting to the ground. The
sidewalk was flooded with broken eggs and
maple sugar and the air was burned with
profanity. A boy with q bean-sling in his
hand and the impress of the devil on his
face peered around the corner. and as he lis
tened to the old mans blasphemy he mutter-
ed. tsThat was the boss shot. '-Bost0n Globe.
Year: 1878

A correspondent of the Scientific american
says: ''The best remedy for bleeding at the
nose, as given by Dr. Gleason in one of his
lectures, is in the vigorous motion of the jaws
as if in the act of mastication. In the case
of a child, a wad of paper should be placed
in its mouth and the child instructed to chew
it hard. 1t is the motion. Of the jaw that
stops the flow of blood. This remedy is so
very simple that many will be inclined to
laugh at it, but it has never been known to-


fail in single instance, even in very severe
Year: 1878

The lady was somewhat excited and
in writing an account of the runaway
for her local paper, she said: "Oh,
it was a terrible runaway. You see
an umbrella was carrying man across
the street and it frightened the buggy
and il started to run with the horse
and they ran over the lamp-post aud
knocked the sidewalk down and upset
little boy who was in her mothers
arms and struck some apples and
knocked the apple woman out of the
peanut stand and they went down the
lightning like street and knocked three
spokes out Of one of the horses hind
legs and took the hide Of the wheel of
and ] tell out and run a mud puddle
into my ear clear up to my shoulders
and mud got full of my mouth and
eyes and I'll never get over il and it's
awful"
Year: 1878

Mr.. Spurgeon said the other day
that there were a number of religious
people who. like vagrants, seemed in
clined to try to get to heaven by by
road SO as TO escape paying the turn
pike, attending sometimes one place
and sometimes another, never doing
much, and never being asked for
much.
Year: 1878

How women can manage to sit bolt
upright and not change position,
looking neither to the right nor left,
during sermon in church, passeth
the understanding. A man will sit on
a pickle, fence all the afternoon to see
a ball match--but put him in church
pew for three quarters Of an hour, and
he will wabble all over the seat. 1t
can be said for the women that they do
not wabble.--lElmira Advertiser.
Year: 1878

The setting of "a great hope is like
the setting Of the sun. The bright
ness of our life is gone, shadows of the
evening fall behind us, and the world
seems but a dim reflection of itself-a
border shadow. We look forward in.
to the lonely night; the soul with.
draws itself. The stars arise. and the
night is holy.
Year: 1878

THANKSGIVING, No. 2.-,-This Friday
evening in Weaverville will be devoted
to the Little Folks all of whom are to
meet at the New School House this even
ing at O'Clock and have a jolly good
time under the direction of their parents
and friends. Music and lunch will be
furnished and the children will doubtless
enjoy themselves immensely. There
were very few chieren at the dance last
night, the immense throng being com
posed almost entirely Of grown persons.
Year: 1878

LOCAL ITEMS will necessarily be scarce
during the dull Winter months, unless
the young people will do something to
help US out. Now that the ball has been
fairly set in motion we hope the young
folks will keep it rolling and furnish us
with an item under the head of "Marri
ages" every week during the Winter. -
Brace up, and do something.
Year: 1878

FEMINITY Owe; Ono Hundred La
dies were in attendance at the School
Ball, and about one half of them were
marriageable young ladies, too. Only
about ten of the ladies were from outside
of Weavervile.
Year: 1878

WHITE frosty mornings, with a late
fog, have characterized our weather for
week past. When this changes, look out
for storm and WET Winter" A
man ought to be killed who would pre-
DICT anything else in this section ofcoun-
Year: 1878

Vow not by Ncctiug moon and stars


That die from heaven at dawn OF day
Nor trembling sheen Of silver bars,


And blooming flowers that fade away
Swear by yon pure and boundless sky


That wears unchanged its heavenly hue
Thy love, like mine, shall never die,


Then shall know thy love is true.
Year: 1878

THE GOLD THAT WEARS.
We parted one eve at the garden gate,
When the dew was on the heather,
And promised my love to come back e
her
Ere the pleasant autumn weather.
That we twain might wed
When the leaves were red,
And live and love together.
She cut me tress from her nut-brown hair,
AsI kissed her lips of cherry, !.
And gave her ring of the old-time gold


With stone like the mountain berry


As clear and blue


As her ewes were true
Swee, eyes, 80 bright and merry!
"The wealth of my love is all have
To give vou," she said in turning;
sThe gold that wears like the radiant stars
In wonder blue vault burning"


And took the trust,


As mortal must


Whose soul for love is yearning,
Fate kept us apart for many years,
And the blue sea rolled between us,
Though | kissed each day the nut brown


treSs,


And made fresh vsws to Venus, =


Till sought my bride,


And fate defed,
That had failed from love to wean u.s.
found mr. love at the garden gate


When the dew was on the heather,
An,, we twain were wed at the little kiik
In the pleasure autumn weather;
And the gold that wears


Now soothes my cares,
As we live and love together.
Year: 1878

I distinctly heard kiss follow, this
declaration, then the conversation con-
timed few moments in so low tone
that could not understand when l de
scried the outlines of the two lovers as
they emerged from the sha .e OF the
tree where they had been sitting during
the conversation I have related. L
waited until they had passed out OF
sight, and slowly proceeded on my
Year: 1878

One of the meanest ISLANDERS afloat is
that which charges that one of our cler-
gymen sWore an oath the other night.
The circumstances are simply these :
He went into the house and attempted
to make his way in the dark through
the sitting room into the pantry to de-
posit bunch of rhubarb presented him
by parishioner, forgetting that house
cleaning had commenced. The Wretched
girl had left pail of soft soap near the
door, over which he accidentally, STUN
bled. Making an herculian effort to
save himself he grabbed for something
with both hands, and as he alighted on
his stomach pulled down on top OF him
q table full of crockery. Rising prompt
ly to his feet he made a pitch for the
match safe, but happening to plant his
foot in puddle of the soft soap he
promptly sat down in tub of pre-
served fruits. His poor tired wife, who
had retired early, was reused from her
slumbers, and, thinking that burglars
were abroad, shrieked for help, to which
the hired girl responded, rushing into
the room and tumbling headlong over
the man in the washtub. These are
the naked facts in the case, and that is
all there is of it. Our good friend did
not say word that could be construed
into profanity. He simply sat firmly
and quietly among the preserves until a
light was struck, and then mildly in
quired: Glow much longer, dear,
does house-cleaning lastg"
Year: 1878

1t is pleasing to note that the Repub-
licans are becomingly modest about the
result of the congressional election in
November, and the New York Tribune
faa fha say no m9Fe Re than that majority Of
That is sensible, and it is more, for in
the old times they had way of obtain
ing .maiorities when it was not possible
at the polls. The thing will not be pos
sible this year unless the Democrats go
Washington, Missouri viii probably
send a solid Democratic delegation,
and the Republicans may count on a
loss of four members from this state,
which will require gain of eight some
where else to fully make up. They
have a big job on their hands, and, be-
sides, haven't the machinery in their
hands for counting out Democrats, as
they. have always had heretofore.-lSt.
Louis Republican.
Year: 1878

THE RAMPAGEOUs.-Disc have
prevailed in all ages, among all parties,
but when these GROWERS say they re-
present the people, Or even the Democ-
racy of Louisiana, they mistake. Dem
ocracy means" equal rights to all men
under the law y and liberal concession
toward those who may chance to differ
with us in their views. Nothing of this
sort is contemplated by these would
be leaders, before they have even the
shadow Of power they hurl their denun-
Citations against those who differ with
them, and eff they do these things in
the green tree, what would they do in
the dry" All We have to say is, that
if they mean good to the State and it's
people, they will cease their abuse of it's
best men, attend more closely to their
own affairs, quit imagining they have
the weight of the whole State upon their
shoulders, and give more attention to
sober second thoughts, in place of being
so rampant.-[Carroll Conservative.
Year: 1878

this letter. But stored away in the
treasury of memory it will remain a
diamond never to tarnish, sealed with
signet of immortality. The reader, too,
who so eloquently gave utterance to the
words of the absent patriot will not be
forgotten by those for whom he once
offered his life as sacrifice.
Year: 1878

We have heard of no greater reform
than the one adopted by the merchants
of Big Cane. By mutual agreement
they keep no Intoxicating liquor in their
stores, either for sale or to give away.
We warrant they will never regret hav
ing taken this stand, a good one for the
merchant and far better one for the
planters.
Year: 1878

One of the dangers OF home life is
the habit of disrespect-that which
is bred by familiarity. People who
are all beauty and sunshine for a
crowd Of strangers, for whom they
have not the slightest affection, and
all ugliness and gloom for their own,
by whose love they live. The pleas
ant litte prettiness Of dress and per-
sonal adornments which mark the de.
sire to please, are put on purely for
the admiration Of those whose admi-
ration goes for nothing, while house
companions are treated only to the
ragged gowns and threadbare coat,
the tousled hair and stubby beard,
which, if marking the ease add COM
fort, or the "sons facon" Of home,
mark also the Indifference and disre-
spect that do so much damage to the
sweetness and delicacy of daily life.
And what is true of the dress is still
truer of the manners and tempers of
home, in both of which we often find
too, that want of respect which seems
to run side by side with affection in
the custom of familiarity. 1t is a re-
gretable habit under any of its con-
ditions, but never more so than
when it invades the home and en-.
dangers still more that which is al.
ready too much endangered by other
things. Parents and bringsrs up do
not pay enough attention to this in
the young. They allow habits of
disrespect to be formed--rude, rough,
insolent and impatient, and salve
over the sore with stereotyped ex-
cuse. "They mean nothing by it,"
which if they look at it Alright, is
worse than no excuse at all, for if
they really do mean nothing by, and
their disrespect is not what it seems
to be, the result of strong anger or
uncomfortable temper, but is merely
a habit, then it ought to be con-
quered without the loss Of time, be-
ing merely a manner that hurts all
parties alike.
Year: 1878

A bill has been introduced in the Ohio
Senate making it criminal oflense to
charge for goods sold to laborers, in pay
men for work, price greater than that for
which the goods are sold for cash.