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Year: 1877




One of the brightest names in the list
of noble women is that of Florence Night
ingale The fair City of Florence was
her birthplace; hence her beautiful name
Her early years were spent chiefly at Lea
Hurst, house charmingly situated on
rising ground, in one of the most lovely
and extensive of the Derbyshire valleys,
and surrounded with hills and mountains,
rocks and woods, and Watered by the
winding Derwent and its tributary
streams. Her father possessed another
large estate in Hampshire Embley Park.
In the villages around these her homes,
Miss nightingale was welcomed and be
loved from childhood, for the ever-ready
sympathy and help bestowed on the poor
and afflicted. After visiting hospitals,
schools and reformatories in London,
Scotland and on the Continent, in 1851,
she spent three months at Kaiserswerth,
working day and night among the sick,
and thoroughly learning everything re-
Quired in the management of hospital.
On her return from Germany she rested
for while amid home scenes, but she
soon gave up the pleasant country life in
order to devote her time as well as for
tune to hospital for sick governesses in
London. She also took an active interest
in ragged. schools and like institutions
until her health dropped under her benevo
lent efforts, and she aad to recruit
at Embley. Then came a call
which awoke q ready response in
her heart, and she went forth, in 1854, to
the East, to afford unspeakable consola-
ton and help to our wounded soldiers.
There, each day had its own peculiar
trial to one who had taken such a load of
responsibility In -untried neld, and
with a staff of her own sex all new to it.
She had frequently been known to stand
twenty hours OH the arrival of fresh de-
tachments Of sick, apportioning quarters,
distributing stores, directing the labors of
her corps, assisting at the most painful
operations where her presence might
soothe or support, and spending hours
over men dying of cholera or fever. In
deed, the more awful to every sense any
particular case might be the more certainly
might be seen her slight form bending over
him, administering to his ease by every
means in her power, and seldom quitting
his side till death released him." Firm,
systematic and energetic thOughtfulness
was her great characteristic, and won its
way over every obstacle. Fearful were
the scenes through which she passed, and
wonderfully was she sustained.


Miss Nigtin gales work is not yet end
ed, and the influence of her wise plans
for training nurses is extending farther
and farther.-British Workman.
Year: 1877

AN ACT to amend chapter IS of the laws of 1876.


relating to foreign wills.


The people of the State of Wisconsin represented


IN Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:


Section /. Section 1, of chapter 5S: OF the laws
OF 1876, is hereby amended so as to read as
follows: When will devising lands or any
interest in lands situated in this State shall ave
heretofore been or shall hereafter be duly proved
and allowed in the proper of any other of the
United States or the Territories thereof copy of
such will and of the probate thereof duly authen-
tlcated may be recorded in the Office o. the Reg
lister OF DEEDS OF any county in which any such
lands are situated and when so recorded and any
such VIII so proved and authenticated that NAV
have heretofore been recorded in any such county
shall be as valid and eectual as evidence of title
to such lands. as if proved and allowed in this
State and the record of such copy or ira, SCI ipt
OF SUCH record duly certified shall be prima facie
evidence OF the authority of the person or per-
sons therein named to convey such lands ii therein
authorized TO do So in all the Of this state


Section :. This act shall take effect and be in
force from and after its passa, e and publication


Approved February =, 1871. sS~COPY,
Year: 1877

other young man, who had strong an
tipathy against ghosts, started to cross
the square. He had. proceeded about a
quarter of the distance when he discov-
cred the ''ghost up a tree.n The anti
ghost boy Immediately returned to Fifth
street, where he armed himself with as
many rocks as he could pack and re-
turned to the siege of thee st' ghost' up a
tree. After pelhng the impostor with
about dozen rocks the ghost descended
the tree and made most excellent use of
his legs, leaving his winding sheet as a
trophy to the ghost-hater. The boys have
not played ghost since that evening.
Year: 1877

Your cozy crib is in the corner yet:


| sit and watch it just as day is dead;
You cannot press again, my vanished pet,
Its pillow with your drowsy, golden head.
You cannot reach your arm to get my kiss,
Or dart about with rosy naked feet.
Babbling soft syilables of that and this,
A tiny night gowned fairy, blithe and sweet.
Empty the home where, frolicsome and fair,
Your precious presence made so bright part
Empty your little crib your Clothes your chair
But emptiest of all your mothers hear


San Francisco NetUs Litter.
Year: 1877

"A rather ludicrous accident took
place two or three days ago, near the
Universalist Church, at Lawrence, to
three little girls who were sliding down
the hill, west of there, on one sled.
They were coming at lively rate when
a COW undertook to cross the street in
front of them, and had just got far
enough to catch the full force of the sled
on her hind legs The blow overthrew
the cow and upset the girls. and for a
few moments there was promiscuous
mixture of girls, COW and sled. Hearef3-
r0fth 4K0n) Times.
Year: 1877

THE champion economist lives in Osh-
kosh, and rents his money at twenty per
cent. A poor man was owing him recent
", and went to his house to saw wood for
him. The economist picked up the saw,
looked at it, and then told the man he
couldn't cut his wood, as his saw was set
too wide, and it would waste the wood
He now saws his own wood, and sets
pan under the saw to catch the dust.-HH.
lcaukee Sentinel
Year: 1877

A NEW HAMPSHIRE lady says that she
kept her house-plants from freezing,
through the coolest nights last winter, in
a room without fire, by the following
method Draw table to the center OF
the room, set the plants on it, drop the
curtains and leave a lamp burning all
night. Apropos to that, lady living
IN the city says that half an hour before
her boys go to bed she lights the gas in
the room, and that takes the chillotf the
air
Year: 1877

The highest level of the Panama rail-
road is only 262 feet above the sea. Tide
water makes to within about three miles
in direct line of this summit, from the
Pacific, while the valley of the Rio Grandc
approaches, with deep depression, to
within a stones throw of the divide. 1t is
this route through which it is proposed to
construct canal.
Year: 1877

Rome, are no more politically considered
than the head quarters Of the respective
armies Of the countries they are capitals Of,
to have announced, that forty millions OF
people by their representatives in Congress
assembled, decided that a standing Is
unnecessarily expensive, and dangerous to
liberty, and that hereafter the armed mill
tia Of each State, shall be at once the mag
istrates of public order, and the soldiers OF
liberty.


Neither Canada nor Mexico, are likely
for century to be able to require our Re
public to prepare to meet their armed
hardes, there is not transportation enough
in the entire marine of Europe to debark
an army upon our shores, able to maintain
itself week. Two of our frontier States,
if we persist in killing the Indians OF the
face of the earth, would do it much cheaper
than it costs at present. If we DO not de-
sire to court Gods vengeance TOR our IN
Justice to the Red man, the Canadian gov
erument will show US how to manage, SO
that the cost Of our Indian Bureau will be
reduced from $3.50 for each Indian, to
s1.s1, and none killed, and no wars,
which is the difference between our man
agement and that Of Canada.


The army is used to provincialize two
Sovereign States, to sustain fraction OF
political power therein, as against the over
whelming might Of the States. One oftwo
things forbid by the law. the use under
any circumstances Of the army, in any
purely interstate quarrel, unless upon
resolution of both Houses Of Congress
Make it treason to so use the army-and
pin its penalty to the skirts Of the Presi-
dent. Abolish the idle and expensive, and
aristocratic grade Of General. The caste
of Soldiers have been in the United States
a corrupting power since the formation Of
the Government; obsequious at all times to
power, and by their organization open
contemners ofthe Constitution which subor.
dinates the Military to the civil power.
What it costs to keep this useless and
dangerous army, would be ample to open
industrial Colleges in the land,where every
child might be trained TO craft, and the


prosperity of the country assured by un-


usual industry.
Year: 1877

AMERICA is now exporting an immense
quantity of soap. That sent to Marseilles
alone has thrown out Of employment in
that city, 5000 people. who have got to
give their attention to something else.
Surely ours is becoming great country.
Year: 1877

IT was a queer revelation that was made
in divorce case in Brooklyn, recently.
The husband was the half brother of the
wife ard both were children of the same
father. The clergyman who performed
the marriage ceremony in this case ought
to be called to account.
Year: 1877

National Associated Press to the star.


NEW YORK, Oct. 10. "A meeting OF
Hungarians was held this morning for
the purpose of discussing the question
OF founding colony in the West. VIM.
Malyesay was present aud stated that
the absence of any organization in this
city to care for emlgrants from Hungary
was the cause OF much suffering on the
part OF their fellow countrymen who
emigrated to this country Without any
definite purpose and with little money
1t was proposed to purchase u tract OF
land and iarm it on the cooperative
principle. To do 80 it would cost about
500. .0OO and this it,was expected to raise
in New York by taking payment In IN
stallments from the Stockholders. They
would thus be able to furnish employ
ment and home to their cOuntrymen,
and perhaps in due time enlarge The
colony.
Year: 1877

In the New York Tombs there is a
terrible example Of the use Of opium.


Henry l.. Sanford is now twenty
eight years old, and began to take
morphine about seven years ago, be-
cause whisky did not satisfy. "That"


be said to reporter Of the World,
chad q splendid effect on me, made
me lively and ambitious, and gave me
an amount of happiness / can not ex-
press to you. IL transformed me at
once, | became strong and independ-
ent. Nothing was too hard for me
to undertake. i speeulated and made
lots OF money. At the end of two
years my sufferings began" He went
to lunatic asylum, bu: could not
get cured. He soon went up to forty
five grains day, and began taking
it by injection, for it had ceased to
take effect through the mouth. He
had used hypodermic syringe, which
be could not insert without first cut
ting hole He used to take a razor
and cut cash in bis thigh. and then
with scissors bored hole into the
flesh, into which be would insert the
syringe a1d inject the morphine


During the last two years be has TAX
en- over sixty grains a day, and has
often taken over one drachm, which
is equal to FIVE hundred grains Of op-
ium. He is in jail for stealing medi-
cal instruments, which be disposed Of
to purchase the poisonous drug, and
be describes bis sufferings thus: "If
1 wasn't so helpless I'd soon be oct
of this hell I'm 10. I've no fear of
the next world. There is nothing 10
this for me For over two years |
have been dead. There is no blood
in me. can eat nothing, and that
which would keep life in me can no I
get. Even when asleep | have no
rest l am constantly dreaming of
being thrown in among lot Of dead
and being compelled to eat their flesh.
| know when | wake up, covered as
| am with cold prespiration, that il is
but dream, but the effect of it makes
my desire for morphine a torture. /
would kill my own father in q minute
if | could get enough for one dose
When the desire comes on me !
would not exchange the morphine for
heaven. Give me the dose and then
hang me if you like. don't care
what they do with me after have
got he morphine" Imagination can
hardly picture a more awful condi-
tion of body and mind than bis
Year: 1877

Thus is Mr.. Robinson yindicated,
but how many Of the leading actors
in the terrible drama of the re-
bellion have been, in like manner,
flung into history as guilty Of crimes
against the humanities of Christian
warfare by the passions which sur-
yiTe civil war? This question is
grave one, and must soon command
the earnest attention of considerate
men Of both sections. Jefferson
Davis has been accused Of the de-
liberate starvation of prisoners of
war, consigning them to tortures
worse than a thousand deaths, and
when shall the truth be established
and accepted as authentic history?
Not only by partisan journals when
iniaming the prejudice of u people
to recruit armies or to win political
contests, but by statesmen on the
floors Of Congress, have these fear
ful accusations been made and yet
a full decade has gone by, evidence
has perished, and power mas failed
TO employ its resources to teach the
world the truth or falsity of the
charge. If true, Mr.. Davis should
have atoned for it by his death in





obedience to the judgment of Chris
tian law; if untrue, he should be
acquitted Of it before the enligh-
tened civilization that must heap
upon such a crime its most terrible
execrations. Why there has not
been dispassionate inquiry into the
disputed records of conspicuous
actors in the rebellion, is a question
that comes from very many sincere
men who believe that only the truth
should be crystalized into history.
We owe it to the world now, after
nearly twelve years Of peace, to rise
above passion and prejudice in both
sections, and present ourselves to
history and to each other as we
really were. We owe, each to his
foe, the justice of candor that brave
men ever concede to brave men
and we owe it to a once estranged
but now reunited people, with a
common country and common laws
and common aspirations, to turn
back through the scars and sores
of intensified hate, and make truth
the guiding star of those who wor-
shipped the blue and the gray.
Year: 1877

w INVITE ATTENTION TO THE FOL-


w LOWING Departments of our Establish
ment. The low prices at which our Goods are
marked have special reference to the HOLI-
pAf SEASON, and bargains will be found
throughout the House
Year: 1877

There is no public institution in New
Mexico for the care of the aged and infrm
who are unable To longer care for themselves
We often see poor old man whose form is
bent beneath the accumulated years Of more
then four -fifths Of century, blind and feeble.
tottering through the streets and bye-ways,
alone, uncared for and unhceded by the busy
world around him-hs long snow white hair
and beard streaming wildly down his back
and breast giving him the weired appearance
of Old Father Time himself. rude wand
with which he cautiously feels his way being
his only guide. Within his rememheFaaee
four generations have grown UP and passed
away, leaving him poor, friendless and alone


More then once has this relic OF forgotten
generation come near losing his life by We
hicles and recS.ess horsemen plunging mad
Is through the st4eets. 70 see him t4ttering
along with a few dry sticks to warm his
cherries home grasPed in his ~ithered hand.
cannot fail 10 excite the composition of every
one with who hemeets, and eEoquentIy pleads
for quiet asylum whcfe old blind Antonio
and Others like him can pass their declining
years in peaee and quiet To them the sum.
mer Of lie is forever gone and the frozen
winter settled around them to melt away nc
more, and We should see to it shat the rude
hand of want is driven from their door while
/ Time with hs sickle hesiiates ~ gather them
I home to their fathers.
Year: 1877

A curious story is told US IN the


books about the members of town


council who passed three resolutions


concerning the building of new jail.


They ordered, first, that new Jail


should be built second, that the new


Jail should be built on the site of the


old one; and third, that the old Jail


should not be torn down until the
new one should be finished and ready
for occupation History tells US of
the hopeless condition of dead lock
into which these mis6tting resolu-
tions plunged their builder, and how
at last the town council had to get
new lot for the new jail. Had those
old-time worthless lived in our day,


their resolutions would not have


been the Hibernium impracticabilities
they turned out to be, for just that
thing of building q new ediGee on
the site Of an old, and keeping the
old one in use until the new one was
finished is now a feasible matter with
civil engineers and builders.


An example of construction of that
sort is going forward on the line of
the Pennsylvania Railroad few
miles beyond Harrisburg. At the
place referred to the track of the rail


way crosses the Susquehanna river
on bridge of twenty-three spans


having an aggregate length of 1910
feet between abutmepts; the whole
length of the bridge is being recon-
structed, making an entirely new and
large bridge of wrought iron-this
is being erected upon the site of the
old bridge; and. in the meantime,
the enormous travel and traffic of the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company
hundreds of heavy trains every day
pass over the bridge without the
slightest interruption


This is solving the old puzzle on
colossal scale but even that is not
the most surprising feature of the
work. The iron superstructure of
the bridge is nearly three quarters of
a mile long i. requires 5000 tons of
rolled wrought-shaped and nicely
fitted iron; not a pound of that iron
was in the course of manufacture un-
til about the end Of June Of this year,
and the three-qusrters of mile of
bridge tissues were to be finished aud /,
put in place in complete bridge by |
the first day Of December. The sto-
ry of the rapid progress made toward
the successful completion of this un-
exampled achievement IN bridge
building shows wonderful degree of
certainty in the methods of our civil
engineers, and of the marvellous ia
cilities for work and accuracy and
of orr great iron manufac-
turing establishments, of which all
may be justly proud.
The manufacture Of this bridge, for
it is a manufacture, is being done by
the Edgemoor Iron Works, near
Wilmington, identified with the
Philadelphia house of William Sell
lers & Col and the work of erection
is being done by the Delaware Bridge
Company. Fourteen of the twenty
three spans are already iu place.
We are assured that the execution of
this work is the most rapid known
achievement in bridge building under
like conditions on large scale on
a great line OF railway. without in
terrupting traffic. - Philadelphia
Ledger
Year: 1877

i How oflen We hear the above remark
during these extreme changes Of weather.
Colds, Coughs aud Sore FFhroats weie new
or more prevalent among children than
now. Now we are going to rye you to
try remedy which has excited comments
by physicians all over the country. who &C
knowledge their surprise at the wonderful
and happy results from its use. That rem.
edy Is the welLknown preparation,


HALES COUGH CORDIAL. Your


own druggist, Mills d Purdy will tell you
that It is the best cough medicine they ever
sold and Will warrant cure or return
your money to you in case Of failure after
using one half The bottle II Is very pleas
ant to the taste, making it . very desirable
remedy for children s.
Year: 1877

We regret very much to see slight feeling of dissatisfaction springing up between our merchants and the railroad company. Come gentlemen try to be patient, the depot agents here are doing all they can to please and accommodate you, and we are certain if you had no railroad you would give half you have to get one.
Year: 1877

The Turks have disappointed the ex-
nectations of their friends by their in
explicable failure to interpose anything
worthy of the name Of resistance to the
Russian advance at their lines of defence
on the Danube or il the Balkan passes.
There may be some deep strategy in all
this. but it is hard to understand plan Of
campaign that involves the surrender to
the enemy of every strong position with'
out a single effort to retain it. 1t begins
to look az if the Russian cannon will thun'
der at the gates of the city of Constantine
before many weeks are over. Lord Bea'
codsfeld, there's trouble waiting for yo'
a little bit ahead
Year: 1877

Not only have shs brakemen and fire
men on the Baltimore and Ohio railroad
been indiecreet in striking. bat they have
been foolish and criminal in addition when
the7 perpetrated such outrages as throwing
rains off the track and firing into the
troops brought to protect the property and
remaining employees of the company.
The instances are very rare where men
have, by striking, obtained better terms
rom their employers, and there are no in
stances, whatever, where men have added
criminal actions to the folly of striking,
without being made to suffer for it to a
greater or less extent. The present case is
n, exception in this respect. AS result
of firing into the troops, one of the offend
er, was killed, and public sympathy turned
strongly against the whole party. The
people at large have such a deep regard
for law and justice, that they will not look
with much favor upon the actions OF men
who are trying to arbitrarily control the
business of an individual, or corporation
in whose employ they had formerly been
especially when they are guilty of taking


life in their efforts to carry out such i'm
proper purposes.
Year: 1877

. IT is we'll to be little careful just at
this tine, owing to the danger of sun
stroke. Cases of prostration from the
effects Of the sun have been frequent lately
,2me of them being attended with fatal
rss Its. Too much prudence can not be
observed by those who are much exposed
The excessive use OF ice water and other
,nindieious drinks should also be avoided.
There are laws in reference to these things,
whioh--though not down on the statute
pooks-can not be disregarded without in
yoiving sure peLa.ty.
Year: 1877

SHOCKING ACcIDENT.-On Tuesday
morning. about 1890, Mamie Crump, tho
ten-year old daughter of Mr.. John Crump
proprietor of the Philadelphia Colonnade
Hotel, fell from sixth-story window of
that hotel to the pavement, and was al
most instantly killed. At the time of the
accident the little girl was watching the
progress of the returning militia down
Chestnut street, and leaning out, lost her
balance, ana fell. In her descent she
struck her head against the cornice that
surmounts the first story of the hotel and
fell thence to the ground at the foot OF
the large lamp at the corner of Fifteenth
and Chestnut streets. The deceased was
Immediately picked up and carried into
the hotel, and medical assistance was
summoned, but she died few minutes
after the accident. Mr.. Urump the father
of the deceased, is in Richmond, Va.,and
Mrs. Crump and her eldest son Harry
were at Atlantic City at The time of the
fatal occurrence,
Year: 1877

Watermelons so far are'very poor.


Tht re is lull in the coroners business.
The peaches in our market are very
small.


The Board of Trade held short session
last evening.


Several pic-nics and excursions are to
come off yet. a.


If you want reliable neacspaper sub
scribe for the GAZETTE.


The city election will take place on
Tuesday, September 4th.


If you are going to send your children
away to school read the advertisements
in the educational column.


Do not be afraid TO order your job
printing at the Gazette job office. 1t Will
be done in good style and at the lowest
rates.