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Year: 1877

Do the young people over think that
they will be old that they will soon feel
that the grasshopper is burden and
fear il in the way9 Only few short
years ago, that aged man and feeble
woman we're young, strong and full Of
life; their loving hearts were gushing
with tenderness and care for the little
ones, who nowl stand IN their places.
Do not jostle that aged couple out Of
your pathway, but rather liit them with
tender care over the rough declining
road. You may have forgotten how
they kept your tender feet from STUN
bling, and with what care they watched
your advancing steps. But they have
not forgotten. and the time will come


when you will be reminded OF II by the
love you have foryour little ones. Will
they hand you the same bitter cup tG
drink that you pour out for that aged
father and stricken mothr7 Verify,
/" with what measure you metc, 1t shall
be measured to you again." Think oil
the anxions days md nights your mother
has watched by your sick bed; remem
ber her loving care. her patience and
long sufferings with your fretfulnsss, and
then let the blush OF shame dye your
brow. that you should be impatient or
unkind to her, now that she Is old. Old
folks are such trial! Yes they know
il, and they feel it---and so will you be
just such trial to your children in the
days that will surely come; aye, and You
will remember, too.
Year: 1877

Mr. Henry Ward Beecher has been
giving in Cincinnati "reminiscences of his
early life in Ohio. One Of his stories
is this: "The other day came through
Loudonville, Ohio, and was forcibly
reminded Of my stay there when on my
first trip out West We stopped late at
night and spent Sunday there. There
we're two coach loads of us, and the lit
tie two. story brick tavern was nearly
full when we arrived The best they
could do for my brother Charles and
myself was to give us couple OF shake
downs in the dining room. We slept
late Sunday morning, but finally waking
up commenced to talk. said: Charles,
III bet you can tell what they had at
this hotel for dinner yesterday What
was it p he asked. "Roast beef, re
piled, basing my judgment on a stale
sort of odor that pervaded the whole
room.


"No, you are mistaken, said he. shak-
ing his head and smiling at the covering
of his head 'it was mutton We both
stoutly maintained our respective prop
ositions, and falling to vigorous smelling
of our bed-clothes, found the landlord
had given us couple of table cloths for
and Charles had got the NUT
ton cloth and the beef"
Year: 1877

There's nothing to exceed the diaboli-
cal satisfaction q man will take in an
nouncipg to his wife, after he has got
bis shirt on, that there 10 button miss
ing; and the keen delight he feels in see
ing her dance around the room after q
needle and thread while she listens to a
lecture on internal carelessness, approach
es ecstaey But look out when she gets
that button on, bites the thread off with
snap and commences-"There now"
Year: 1877

A very tall. thin Highlander said that
he had cold in his head, originating
in wet feet She looked at him slowly
from head TO foot and back again, as il
measuring the distance the cold had to
travel, and then ejaculated. "GraciouS
me you must have got your feet wet
some time last yerr."
Year: 1877

My mas been working very hard.
And also very sly,
And keeps her sewing out Of sight
Whenever am nigh.
l asked her once what made her stop
Hor work when l came in;
She said she only stopped to get
A needle, thread or pin.
The bureau craw next to mine
Is locked both night and day,
And when ma wants to open 1t
She sends me off to play.
stole peep one afternoon,
Although 1t was not right;
But, obi the little things 1 saw
Were such pretty sight!
The cutest incest little clothes
just big enough for doll;
But then know there're not for her
She needs them not at all.
] know they're not for ma nor pa,
Nor me nor brother Hor,"
For We can't wear such little clothes;
l wonder who they're for.
Year: 1877

A mother was amused the other day to
hear this bit of y"a argument from her
little boy: "Mamma, don't see how
Satan could have turned out to be such
bad fellow--thero wasn't ATTY devil to
put him up to it. 2fr
Year: 1877

I'm THE DISTRICT COURT OF T1E So =


ond Judicial District of the State Of Nevada in and for
the county Of Ormsby. Roger Crow plalntlff vs. j. L.
CIerg aud Florence Cegg and A W. Pray, defendants
Action brought the District Court OF the Second Judicial
District State of Nevada in and for the county OF
Onsbv and the complaint filed in said county OF OrSby
in the Office OF the Clerk of said District CorThe state
of Nevada sends greeting to j. L. Cegg and Florence Ce
and A. W PRAY defendants You are hereby required to
appear in action brought against you by the above
District of the State of Nevada in and for the county OF
Onsby and the complaint filed therein "a copy
of which accompanies this summonS) within ten days Tex
elusive Of day of erce after the service on you OF
this sumons served within this county; or If served
out of this county, but in this district within twenty days
otherwise within forty daysor Judgment by default Will
be taken against you The said action is brought to fore
close certain mortgage executed by defendants j. L.
and Florence Clepg said plaintiff, lot No one ) in
block No six (6 in Rice Peters addition to the city OF
Carson in Ornsby county Nevada which said mortgage
was given to the payment OF promssory note


made by defendants j. L. and Florence Cegg on the goth
day of May D. 1875, to plaintiff, for the sum Of six
hundred dollars and interest thereon at three @ per cent
per month all in gold coin of the United States. And
plaintiff asks decree of foreclosure of said mortgage and


proceeds applied the payment OF costs attorneys fees
taxes insurance and the principal sum and interest on
said note gold coin Of the United States and found
insufficient that Judgment be docketed against the prop
ery of defendants L. and Florence Cegg for any bal
ance found remaining due plaintiff All OF which Is more
fy set forth in plaintiffs complaint file in my office
And YOU hereby notified that you fall to appear and
answer the said complaint as above required the SAID
nantf will apply to the Court for the relief demanded


+ Given under my hand and the seal OF the District
& Court of the Second Judicial District of the State


LIS. of Nevada in and for the county Of Ormsby this
*-* oath day of August in the year OF our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and seventy y-seven.


au251aw6w ALFRED HELM, Clerk
Year: 1877

The following incident occurred dur.
ing general review of the Austrian
cavalry a few months ago. Not far
from 10000 cavalry were in line. A
little child-a girl of not more than
four years, standing in the front row
of spectators, either from fright or
some other cause, rushed out into the
open field just as squadron Of hus-
sars came sweeping around from the
main body. They made the detOur for
the purpose of saluting the Empress,
whose carriage was drawn up in that
part of the parade ground. Down
came the flying squadron, charging at
a mad gallop-down directly upon the
child. The mother was paralyzed, as
were others, for there could be no res
cue from the line Of spectators.


The Empress uttered cry of hor
ror, for the child's destruction seemed
inevitable-and such terrible destruc-
ti0n-the trampling to death by q
thousand iron hoofs. Directly under
the feet of the hor ses was the little
one another instant must seal its
doom-when stalwart hussar, who
was in the front line, without slacken-
ing his speed or loosening his hold,
threw himself over by the side of his
horses neck, seized and lifted the
child and placed it in safety upon his
saddle-boW; and this he did without
changing his pace or breaking tho cor.
rect alignment Of the squadron.


Ten thousand voices hailed with
rapturous applause the gallant deed
and other thousands applauded when
they knew. Two women there were
who could only sob forth their graft
tude in broken accents-the mother
and the Empress. And a proud and
happy moment must it have been for
the hussar when his Emperor, taking
from his own breast the richly enam.
elled Cross of the Order of Maria
Theresa, hung it upon the breast of
his brave and gallant trooper.
Standard.
Year: 1877

Review Of the Markets.


Trade in the mercantile line has been
unusually good tor mid-winter, in Wholesale
quarters. The only important changes in
prices to note in groceries. Java coffees and
refined sugars are down handsomely. 1t
seems to be the opinion that cotton goods
will rule strong during the coming season,
and that further advance may be expected.


Flour is quite unsettled since the recent rise
in wheat. There is quite broad margin in
the quotations. Some brands of xxx Of
very good reputation are held at 5000 v bbl,
while choice family -four and .sstraight"
xxx is held firmly at $3.50 tor wholesale
and job lots, and s675@7.00 for small. In
terror qualities are not now in much demand,
and quotations are nominal. 'tPatent Pro-
cess" flour, which is in demand throughout
the country as the equal if not superior of the
very best winter wheat brands, sells to DEAL
ers and consumers at $8.60@1OO0 Y bbl. Rye
flour is in moderate demand at IS, ,5O@6. 90 "
bbl; buckwheat is not much inquired tor, and
with very small stocks on hand quotations
are mostly if not entirely nominal


The local offerings of wheat have been un-
usually liberal, stimulated Of course by the
very high rates which have prevailed. We
have to note very sharp decline within the
week, aggregating l0c Y bushel on all quail
ties. The decline is largely in excess of any
similar movement in the great markets, and
can only be accounted for by the supposition
that buyers found themselves paying more
for grain than it was worth, or than it was
likely to be worth in the spring. The sudden


hutting down ofa large number OF the flour
ing mills Of the State, not only in Minnneapo-
lis but in nearly all the principal centres of
flour manufacture, has undoubtedly had de-
pressing influence on the current buying
price OF wheat. The reason given for this
evidently concerted movement is the alleged
disproportion between the price of wheat and
its product, flour. Millers asserted that they
lost money on every bushel of wheat that
they bought and manufactured, although they
were careful not to give figures to support the
statement, or to give producers credit for the
profits made on the vast amounts of flour
formerly sold on advancing markets, which
was manufactured from low priced wheat.
But there will be no serious embarrassment
likely to follow the sudden disinclination of
local manufacturers to buy our leading cereal.
Millers will want wheat in the spring, if they
do not now, and will then be compelled to
pay all that it is worth.
Year: 1877

There are some meek-faced and tender
hearted men in this City of Detroit There
is one III particular who owns house and
lot in the eastern part of the city. Anoth
er citizen, whose face doesn't betray
meekness, owns a vacant lot next to him,
and few days ago he wanted to buy the
meek faced man out and build a factory
covering both lots. The figures were too
high, and he went away feeling mad and
revengeful. Coming across a Snowman
who wanted 10 set up his tent and exhibit
wild man and other interesting speci-
mems of life and death, he gave him the
free use of the vacant lot. 1t was stipu-
lated that hand-organ should be kept
going, bells rung now and then, and if
the wild man uttered wild yells occa
sionally 50 much the better. When the
meek faced citizen saw the tent put up a
tender, forgiving smile crossed his face,
and he made for printing office. About
the time the Snowman was ready to open
doors'to the anxious public the meek faced
citizen was ready with his signs and tack
hammer


g Gentlemen, walk in and see the great
Kickapoo kangaroo from Kalamazoom
said the Snowman


Tack tack !" and up went a sign on
the fence reading: Look out for small
pox!" A second and third followed,
and the meek faced man was putting up
the fourth when the Snowman closed
bargain with truck to move him down
town. He wasn't over fifteen minutes
packing and loading, and when the lotwas
clear again the meek faced citizen sat on
his door step and mused:


"He who wants TO sell out let him sell,
and / wonder how much ahead thess sre p
Detroit Free Press.
Year: 1877

Some months ago Frank Whittemore,
an artist, courted a New York heiress by
the name of Alice Carter. Her parents
opposed the match and the twain eloped
were married and took up their residence
in the vicinity of the metropolis. A few
days ago she became mother, her father
relented and sent her a check for 81 900
her husband forged the wife's signature,
got the money, abandoned her and the
child and fled to Europe


This is a striking illustration of marry
ing in haste and repenting at leisure.
This poor young woman has now learned
to her sorrow that her parents knewmuch
more about her good-for nothing swain
than she did, and that if she had followed
their advice she would not to-day be in
sadness.


The last act in this play of marriage
was the most lugubrious. The father,
learning of her desertion, threw open his
door and killed the fatted calf. She
made up her mind to return, but DIR.
Talson, who had attended her, had an
attachment issued against her pendtes for
the amount owing to him. They were
seized on truck-car at the Hoboken
Ferry, and conveyed to station house,
where Mrs. Whittenore, accompanied bv
her father, appeared, and he paid the bill.


Nothing could be more sadly prosaic
than this denouement; but it is safe to
affirm that its lesson will be lost upon
those whom it should serve. The young
woman will continue to think of the
guitar, the silken ladder, the moonlight
and the song of love. The nice young
man will continue to appear when her
young imagination is filled with this par
aphernalia, and beguile her willing ear
with his tender story. The experienced
father and mother will frown upon his
suit, and recommend their favorite, some
unromantic plodder of an assured future
from whom the daughter will turn away
She will not listen to the plain speech of
the parental choice, but will hang by the
hour on the sweet words of her Alma
viva, and, in spite Of the family injunc-
ton, will marry him, eloping for the
purpose, if necessary. Then, nine times
out of ten, she will discover, when it is too
late, that what she took for gold was only
pinchbeck.


It's an old story, and will probably go
on as long as the world lasts. The ca
pacity for loving is something enormous
in the feminine breast, and the adverse ex-
perience of others will not deter her, as
rule, from taking the man of her choice,
though he come from the regions of brim-
stone.-W Washington Nation.
Year: 1877

The best way to find nests is to watch a
bird while building; in that way, more
over, you are sure to see them in their
best condition, and to know when the eggs
are fresh. 1t requires patience; but you
see the workers return again and again to
the same spot, and little closer inspec-
ton usually completes your knowledge,
th ough you may sometimes be deceived
or nonplussed by the caution and cunning
of the architects. You will facilitate your
work by scattering cotton wool, horse
hairs, straws, string, worstcd, and cloth
where they will attract the attention of
the birds about you. Put them on your
lawn or on the piazza vines, and watch
them. A robin comes to carry off the
string, and, having used up what you have
provided, and liking the material, attacks
a long piece wound round a stake, and
effort he frees part OF it; but the harder
that he pulls the rest, the tighter he ties
the knot around the stake, and the string
is becoming entangled with his legs he
fights twenty minutes and then gives it
up. Sparrows pick up hairs and straws
from the lawn, and wa1blers come to the
vines for cotton wool, passing fearlessly
within three feet of your chair; then
they come back to break off little
twigs and to peel off shreds OF
dry bark from the honeysuckle. A pair
of golden robins, the male with black and
orange, the female with yellow and duller
black, come for string, worsted and thread;
but beware Of them for they are thieves.
Leave your knitting under the tree there
for five minutes, and it is gone; you will
find it a week later, a part irrevocably
woven into the hanging nest, and a part
dangling with the needle in it. The
weaving is so cleverly done that you won
der whether the orioles haven't used your
needles. Not at all, madam; defy you
to produce with your implements such
piece OF work as these birds have pro-
duced with their bills. Successful exper-
iments have been made by supplying the
orioles, in the tree where they are occu-
pied, with bright silks and worsteds,
which they employ altogether, if literally
provided, so that very gay and parti-
colored nest may swing in your orchard
where you can see it from the house
Wilson says that an old lady, to whom he
showed an orioles nest in which piece
of dry grass, thirteen inches long, was
passed through thirty-four times, asked
him, half in earnest, if the birds couldn't
be taught to darn stockings.-H. D.
Miaot, IN Rarper's Monthly.
Year: 1877

able TO drag him into the pen, the coyote
being equally powerless to drag the eagle
out. The coyote then concluded that he
didn't want any more eagle, and expressed
himself to that effect loudly, but too late,
inasmuch as Mr.. Wolcott's attention was
drawn to the spot and he shot the animal.
He says that the ull-grown eagles of this
very rare species are eight feet in spread
of wing, four feet in height, and scarcely
any man or animal could avoid being
stunned if attacked by them in their usual
manner San Francisco Post.
Year: 1877

There is said to be a young
man in the Missouri penitentiary
whose parents, at their death,
left him a fortune of $4,000.
There's where his parents made a
fatal mistake. If they had taken
the precaution to invest that 800,
600 in Il small dog and shot him,
and then had simply left the
young man a jack>plane or a
wood-saw, with printed instruc
tons how to use it, the chances
are that, instead Of being in the
penitentiary, he would to-day
have been gradually but surely
working bis way up to a hand
some competency and an honora
bic old age. But ever since the
days Of ADAM and EVE parents
have made it a point to toll and
struggle all their lives in order.
to realize a sufficient sum of mo
ney to purchase, when they are
dead and gone, their sons each a
first>class through-ticket to the
devil, and it is not much to be
wondered at that so many of their
sons, reared in vice and idleness,
as too many OF them often are,
nave no higher ambition than to
invest their inheritance in just
that sort Of transportation


Weekly Courier Journal.
Year: 1877

BY virtue of an order of seizure and sale
to me directed, in the above entitled and
numbered case have seized aud will offer
for sale at public auction, pursuant to law
to the last and highest bidder, ut the Court
House ill the Town of Thibodaux, on .,--
Year: 1877

The most skillful operations of bur
glars recently have been effected by
means of the air pump, the compound
blow pipe, in connection with the drill
and the wedge. IL is impossible to make
safe perfectly mir tight, where the
metal is in contact with the metal. I'm
opening and closing the door, allowance
must be made for friction: air therefore
enters, and consequently fine powder can
bc introduced by the air pump. This in
strument has n metal portion resembling
q lengthwisc section of n cylinder, which
is applied to the opening between the
safe door and the safe itself on the side.


The opening on the other sides of the
door are filled with putty, and when the
pump is set i'm motion the vacuum pro-
duced causes the air and powder to rush
in at the remaining opening. One of the
latest methods Of preventing the use of
the air pump is packing the joints with
rubber, or its equivalent, making n cush-
ion on the jamb 10 receive the door,
which, from It's elasticity, suits itself 10
any equality in the metal when the door
is closed, and forms tight Joint, pre-
venting the introduction of nitro-ely-
cerinc or any liquid explosive, az well as





that where rubber tubing is not used,
fine powder can be put in at the rate of
an inch an hour. The air-pump is with
out doubt the most dangerous tool now
used by burglars.


The compound blow-pipe, in connec-
tion with the drill, can be used on all safes
made exclusively of iron and steel. The
only protection against it's franklin
ite," q mineral composed of proxide of
iron, oxide Of zinc and oxide Of manga
nese. in appearance IL resembles mag
netic oxide Of iron, and its advantages
over iron and steel are that il is hard by
nature and heat cannot soften It. The
temper can, Of course, be taken out of
steel by the blow-pipe, as stcclis artisti-
cally hardened, and the drill readily
effects an entrance into the safe.


Wedges are successful where they can
be operated In the newest safes, doors
and jambs are protected against wedging
by steps and rebates, and q tongue and
groove. A strong tongue is fixed all
around the door, projecting from its
inner surface. A similar tongue is made
on the jamb Of the safe, against which
the door closes. The latter is made o fit
inside the tongue projecting from the
inner surface Of the door. The door is
opened by lever or movable hinge,
which tbrowsitsquare into place, keying
IL on all sides.


Protection against masked burglars is
guaranteed by the use Of time locks in
conjunction with combination locks. n
q watchman is obliged to give up the com
binatiOn to burglars at night they cannot
effect an entrance until morning, at
which time the clock is probably set.
Year: 1877

WASHINGTON, Nov. 19.-There isan increas-
ing feeling of impatience and even indigna-
tiOn at the manner in which the most impor-
tant of the Presidents nominations have
them in charge Committee men, when they
are spoken to about this delay, are SILENT
though it is said that the nomination of Gen
Harlan for Justice of the Supreme Court is
kept back for no reason that any one Of the
Judiciary Committee knows. There is good
deal of discussion privately among Senators
about these delays, and the sympathy of
some anti-Hayes Senators is turning toward
the President on the ground that
he is III not ts,1 meeting d With n fair treat
spectful to him if the committee should
bring in adverse reports and let the Sen
ate decide than for the chairman to pocket the
nominations out Of what looks like mere spite
This feeling is strengthened by growing
disposition among good many of the anti
Hayes senators to make up with the Presi-
dent. They have opposed him so far, not
with the idea Of breaking down his Admins
tration, but with the notion of getting him
Unto harmony with their ideas" as they say.
He treats them civilly and makes himself
personally pleasant to them and they have
lately begun to hope that they can "make
something out of him yet They are natu-
rally averse to war on the President in the
first year of his term and they see with
alarm that they have been gradually drawn
into an attitude of opposition by Senators
whom they now believe to be not for peace,
but for a lasting war upon the Admins
tration. The two caucuses have had the
effect of making the distinction clear be-
tween the anti-Hayes men, who hope to gain
over the President, and those who mean to
oppose him, in order to break him down, and
so far the Administration has gained by these
meetings. The President has not surrender
ed any point, but he has been solicitous to
show Senators that he means to act within
the Republican party, and that, while he will
not abate anything Of his policy, he hopes to
carry the party with him in its support, and
is very ready to be friendly to everybody who
will go with him, or even who will not go
against him.


1t happens, therefore, that some of the
moderate anti-Hayes men begin to think of
separating themselves from their extreme
comrades. Ii they are to follow either Mr.
Conkling or the President, for instance they
prefer to follow the President. Thus one OF
these gentlemen remarked to-day, in con-
templatiye tone:


On the whole it may be said TIA. there is a