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Year: 1878

We have heard OF laie from some would-be
wise political prophets some very gloomy pre-
dictions of the future standing of The Democ-
Mcy in this county. The reason assigned for
the approaching going asunder of the party
Is, that reform is needed and that to accom-
plish such reform people must sever party ties
and in fusion of men of all parties strike to
this end-they must reserve ''party" for
national issues.


We recognize several matters Of reform in
county government, but we do not recognize
any necessity for disruption of the party to
accomplish these reforms. And it appears to
MS that Democrat is making an unwise and
unwarranted acknowledgment when he con-
cludes otherwise. To those men with whom
Democracy means economy, just legislation,
in fact, good government, this desire for de-
parture will appear as a mistake, an improper
understanding Of the party policy and lack
of appreciation Of what has been attained.


The old and tested principles are far more
comprehensive Of the peoples wants, and ill.,
6nitely more applicable to the same than can
be the ienets of any new departure which, by
the very nature Of affairs in this county, must
base and build its success upon the carcas
Of defunct Republicanism


There are reforms 10 be made, and common
sense teaches that the Democratic party is bet
ter qualified than any other. The explanation
Of the matter is that men become impatient.
II faction is unsuccessful in the effort to Sc
cure the overthrow of any ring it is a mistaken
policy, for il the ring triumphs and the other
faction bolts they leave the party in the hands
of the ringsters and thus the principles are
sacrificed TO impatience. II is duty TO work
for the best government Of your party, bat
the definition of "duty" does not imply i'm
patience. You eau accomplish more by work.
Ing with your party's principle than with the
impetuosiiy Of any new departure. The his
tory of so-called reform movements in this
State warrants that reforms which cannot
be effected within the party are nothing more
than restlessness and desire for change. 1t
10 well to ventilate all county matters, but 1t
should be done for instruction and not for the
foundation OF more splits.


To our opinion il will be long period be-
tween now and the time of Democratic impo-
tency. Though the psr,y's wisdom has been
much tried, still there is sufficient potential
energy in the grand old organization for any
emergency that may arise. And this now
dormant energy will be converted into driving
power when the time arrives. fusion now
would serve the Republicans well; It would
lead to Republican domination in Montgomery
county. Republican domination in Montgom-
cry county II sounds too mocking for Demo-
Gratis to heed those sinister whsperings which
have called forth this article. We have no
besitstion in saying, and say it boldly that the
Democracy can and will nominate good men,
and men equal 10 all wise reforms. Thus we
predict all that can be reasonably desired.
Year: 1878

Conkling is averse TO further opposition to
President Hayes nomination of occupants for
the New York Custom House. Whose sell
out is it3 What is the price of the purchase 2
Iii cow too early to have these questions an
swered, but they will be answered by the
further development of matters.
Year: 1878

ing it and Jake saying it after him, but
the poor fellow had made but little head


way when he cried out, I'D it, Dan,


here come! Hold the dogsv'


Somewhat farther out from Staunton,


in the same county, there is a somewhat
eccentric son of Esculapius, who, when


he goes to Staunton on court days, DO
tdtes slightly, and his comic humor bub-
bles out as sparkling as champagne
Driving in one morning in his buggy, a
new toll-gate keeper, woman, at the
Buffalo Gap gate, came out to receive
his toll. He asked her if it was not
usua! to let the preachers go through
scot free, protesting to be newly-arriv-
ed Methodist preacher on the Deerfeld
circuit. This was a convincing argu-
ment, and he passed in. But in the
evening the Doctor was accosted by
some different member of the family
who came to the gate. Throwing himself
back in the buggy, he hiccoughed out.
Its that same darned old Methodist
preacher! Drivon Sam ~ O.,
Year: 1878

The following is the experience of a
mechanic concerning the benefit of a
newspaper:


Ten years ago lived in town in In
diana. On returning home one night
for I am a carpenter by trade-I saw q
little girl leave my door, and I asked
my wife who she was. She said Mrs.
Harris had sent her for their newspaper,
which my wife had borrowed. AS we
sat down to tea, nay wife sstd to me, by
name:


II wish you would subscribe for the
paperi it is so much comfort to me
when you are away from home"


II would like to do so,n said I, ssbut
you know owe payment On the house
and lot. It will be all can do to meet
it,"


She replied: "If you will take this
paper, 1 will sew for the tailor to nay
for it,"


subscribed for the paper, 1T came in
due time to the shop. While resting one
noon and looking over it, I saw an ad-
vertisement of the county commission
ers to. let bridge that was to be built.
I put in bid for the bridge, and the job
was awarded to me, on which I cleared
$500, which enabled nae to pay for nv
house easily, and for the newspaper. II
I had not subscribed for the newspaper.
I should not have known anything
about the contract, and could not have
met my payment on my house and Tot.
A mechanic or farmer never loses any
thing by taking o newspaper.
Year: 1878


I pity him whose heart in sorrow holding
The memory Of lost-love to be pain,
Denies his hunger, martyr-like enfolding
AS buried loss what rather should be gain.
For me it is a Joy to live anew
The days when fortune seemed o willing
slave;
To change the evenings for the mornings dew,
And strew the flowers Of old on PASSIONS


grave.
For me it is pleasure, lonely often,
To see with eyes .half-closed and dim with
The pictured past in tints that warm and


soften,


Shine clear across the intervening years.
To feel the hands that other cares have known
With sweetest touch bestow their fond caress-


ing.
And have my lips in dreamful undertone
Pour forth upon those hands real blessing
To feel in tender frances, self-deceiving
Her kisses rain upon my upturned brow,
And stretch my arms, my own deceit believ-
ing
To know that in such hours, the best returning
OF all had to give of trust and truth,
Stir in my heart, and sanctifles its yearning
To cheat withered life that dreams OF youth.
And SO as when in sleep our dead appearing
We wake with clearer hope, and tempered


grief,
The past but dearer for the future nearing,
The Spring betokened by the rustling leaf.
So l, my vision ended, bless the dreaming
That keeps my perished hope living thing,
And rise in prayer and faith beyond this SEEM


ing


To seek the eternal love, with tireless wing.
Year: 1878

From recent Communication to the
Philadelphia Eueeing Bulletin by Prof.
John Wise, the celebrated seronaut, we
make the following extract:


1.-THE man that ew-a-days goes round
to put up finger-thick lightning rods for
protection to buildings is as much of a
charleton as the man that sells amulets,
or he that furnishes old horse shoes to
be nailed over stable and house doors to
Keep out witches. The only protecting
power of the "rod" is in its surface, and
that to an ordinary bolt is about as eff
caciOus as would be q tin-foil coat of
mail to thrust of lancer's spear. The
day is net far distant when a metal-cov-
cred roof will be considered as indispen-
sable to the protection of building and
its furniture and its inmates from light
ming as is the roof itself to the protec-
ton of the persons and things inside
from the rain.


From over forty years. observation
can incontrovertibly say that the thun-
derbolt passes from the eleud to the earth
as any other missile would pass-shot or
shell-meteOrite of hail or iron, in the
direction of least resistance, regardless
of all and any pointers, and that when
it meets field of metal it botinces over
it harmless, and goes the way of all
things that play out.


The fire that we see in the lightning's
play is the combustion-thed def1agration
of the matter, dlffuse or otherwise.
through which the bolt passes. have
in my possession globules of iron that
dripped from the end of railroad rails
along which thunderbolt travelled
The space between the rails to allow for
expansion and contraction, not over one
eighth to one-quarter Of an inch, being
sufficient to obstruct its velocity lair be-
ing non-eonductor) to degree of fu-
sion of wrought-iron. The atmosphere is
full of diffuse matter. Interstellary
space is full of diffuse iron and nickel.
A magnetic storm in the regions of in.
terplanetory space pours iron hail, and
hence the disposition of masses of me-
teoric iron upon our planet when it hap
pens to be the nearest body to a mag
netlc cyclone. have passed through
snow and hallstorms in the cloud re-
glen during the hottest days of July
1t often SHOWS two to three thousand
feet above the earth, and the oftenest in
the hottest weather, and we are uncon-
scious of it ON the face of the earth. be-
cause it is melted and taken up as yapor
in the grasp Of the lower atmosphere.


We are just commencing now in the
first reader Of Meteerology, and if we
stick closely to facts as nature reveals
them to our senses, we shall be able, by
and by. to make respectable science of
it, and learn little of the language that
the stones use in talking to each other,
as we know they do when they are gab-
Ding one to another in their vibratOry
dialect, as manifested in the telephone.n
Year: 1878

Translation of Omar Khayyam.


LIVE WHILE YOU LIVE.
I sometimes think that never blows SO red
The rose as where some buried Cesar bled:
That every hyacinth the garden wears
Dropt in her lap from some lovely head.
And this reviying herb whose tender green
Pledges the river lip on which we lean
All, lean upon it lightly, for who knows
From what once lovely lip it springs unseen
All, my beloved, fill the cup that cheers
To-day of past regret and future fears.
tomorrow may be
Myselfwith yesterdays seven thousand years
For some we loved, the loveliest and the best
That from his vintage rolling Time has prest
Have drunk their cup round or two before,
And, one by one, crept silently to rest.
And we, that now make merry in the room
They left, and Summer dresses in new bloom
Ourselves must we beneath the couch of earth
Descend-ourselves to make couch for


whom?


All, make the most of what we may spend,
Before, we, too. into the dust descend;
Dust unto dust, and under dust to lie,


Sans wine, sans song, sans singer and-san.


end!
Year: 1878

Duty oF THE Although
the success of the National Democracy has
not been as great as was anticipated, in the
recent election, We are not sure but it will,
in the near future, prove il great blessing
to the party, and the country. A small
majority in both Houses in the next Con-
gres, Will make the Democratic party moro
cautious in its legislation, and more earnest
i'll its efforts to secure the welfare of the
whole country. Chastened by its recent re.
verses in the Eastern and middle States il
viii aim at a higher state.manship. and
strive moro zealously to bring back the gov
ernment to those solid principles of the
Constitution, and to those pure and simple
works Of administration, which, for three
quarters OF Il century, gave it such strong
hold upon the hearts Of the people We
have seen it since the advent Of the Rcpub


licanS to power, the lamcntable results of
an unchecked aud unrcstraincd party su.
promacy. Wrong, corruption and oppres.
sion arc it's bitter, but Legitimate frnits. If
the Democracy will adhere to its ancient
landmarks, if it will rightly appreciate the
great necessity Of higher and broader
craftsmanship than that which is dictated
By mere desire for party triumph, il it
will 90 heartily to work to lift politics out
Of TIC slum and ccsspools into which the
corrupt machine politicians have drappcd
them; if it will dcnounce the author Of the
cipher dispatches with the same bitterness


it denounces those who committed the frauds
and pcrjuries by which Mr. Hayes was
made President. its success in 1880 will be
assured For the first time siuce 1860 the
Democrats of tho 10th Congress will have
an opportunity Of showing their fitness to
govern the country, and the success Of the
party i'll the next Presidential campaign.
will largely depend upon the use they max
of this oPportunity.-Speyhts' Doiy.
Year: 1878

A most horrible story comes to us
from the Western part of our parish
A lady was attacked and killed by a
panther. 1t seems the unfortunate vic
tim had started to Il neighbor's house
near by, and in passing through a skirt
OF woods was attacked by the hideous
and dangerous animal. Her husband,
becoming uneasy at her long absence,
went in search of his wife, and when
he reached the sad scene, he found the
panther devouling its prey. The hus-
band fired at the panther, but without
effect. The body OF the lady was much
Catalonia News
Year: 1878

The report was adopted


On motion of Z. T. Lewis, the Presidsut of
the Convention was authorized to appoint an
Executive Committee for the parish Of St. Ian
dry, to consist Of thirteen members.
Year: 1878

The pendency of foreclosure proceed
ings in chanceiy is no defense upon
the merits 10 an action at law, but as
the legal action is forbidden unless the
courts leave is obtained compiled
laws, section BAD. the proper way to
take advantage Of the pendency OF the
foreclosure is To move the court, be-
fore going TO trial, for a stay OF the le-
gal proceedings.
Year: 1878

A married woman who has lent mon
ey 10 firm of which her husband Is n
member, is entitled to recover against
the firm, even though the indebtedness
was contracted by her husband acting
in the firm name and without the
knowledge of his partners.
Year: 1878

Where payments alleged TO have
been made 10y a deceased debtor are
denied by the creditor, they are not
sufficiently proved by entries in the
debtors hand writing in an unusual
place in his day book from which the
Immediately preceding leaves have
bean torn
Year: 1878

An administrator cannot, az a matter
OF law, recover from an estate the SUN


he has paid the widow to release her
right Of dover in lands sold by him
under a probate license; the statute
does NOT empower him 90 make any
such arrangement, and the purchaser
can buy only the interes, Of the estate.
Year: 1878

Eight and Walnut streets, will picnic neIt
Thursday, Ascension Day, at Inwood Park
A fine time and lots of fun may be Gntici-
pated.


A meeting of the Soldiers and SailorS
Memorial Society will take place this even
ing at the corner of Court and Walnut
streets. The meeting will be held in refer
ence to the proposed mass meeting at Day
ton, Ohio, on August l4th, at which time
the action of the Legislature in passing 4
law recognizing the Home for Soldiers Or
phans will be discussed.


The musical festival 10 be given by the
Sengerbund for the benefit of the Relief
Union and the two Orphan Asylums, viii
take place at the Music Hall on the 18th,
9th and 28th of September. The chorus
will number one thousand two hundred
and eighty singers, representing the seven
teen societies that compose the S9ngerbund
The orchestra will number one hundred
and twenty musicians and the great organ
will be used
Year: 1878

The Board met in regular session, all the
members present except Mr.. Bell, and Mr.
Baker in the chair.


A petition to change the name of Clifton
avenue to Buckeye street, was referred to
Mr.. Caldwell.


The Engineer was directed to repair tho
bridge over the gutter at Eighth and Evans
street and also to lay pipes on Hamiltoa
road and Locust street.


The Superintendent of the Water-worss
was ordered to lay new water man On
Fulton avenue from Hazen street to Brook
lyn avenue.
Year: 1878

National Associated Press TO the star.


WHEELING, w. Va, Aug. 12.-Yesterday
Miss Rosana Crow, who resides near
Moundsville, committed suicide by climb
ing a large tree, to limb of which she tied
one end of rope and fastened the other
end about her neck When ready she
jumped from the limb and broke her neck
No cause is assigned for the rash act.
Year: 1878

York in the course of month or six weeks.
Speaking of the future Of the stage, he said
lower prices must rule.


Elevated Enterprise.


New YORK, Aug. l2.-The business of the
Elevated Railroad seems to be on the in
crease, the New York Elevated Railroad
Company having carried one hundred and
fifteen thousand six hundred and eighty
seven more passengers during the first nine
weeks after opening of the Metropolitan
Elevate Railroad than it did during the
nine weeks previous to the opening of that
road, and two hundred and twenty-nine
thousand nine hundred and thirty-four
more passengers than for that same period
in 1877.


Ex-GOv. ThOs. A. Hendricks
and Mrs. Hendricks were in the city yester-
day OH their way to Newport.
Year: 1878

constantly hunted, the whale fishery will
probably soon be given up as a regular
branch of industry. A white whale was
captured in the Gulf of St, Lawrence in
1861, and kept on public exhibition in
a wster-tank for nearly two years. He
was ten feet long and weighed 700
pounds. During his confinement he
showed some capacity for education,
He was sufficiently well.trained to allow
himself to be harnessed to a car, in which
he drew young lady around the tank;
He learned to recognize his keeper, and
would allow himself TO be handled by
him, and at the proper time would come
and put his head out of the water to
receive the harness or take food. At
times he showed a playful disposition and
amused himself with splashing about in
the water, and at other times with toss
ing stones with his mouth. He often
took in his mouth a sturgeon and a
small shark, which were confined in the
same tank, and after playing with them
or a while allowed them to so un'
harmed. An anatomical description o.


this animal, illustrated by plates has


been contributed to the Boston Society


of Natural History.
Year: 1878

In Paris lingerie as we'll a, dress in,
el,pes toward division. Just as short
dresses ale worn in the morning and
trained dresses in the evening, narrow
and fat plain linen collars are used for
morning and deep lace collars, ruches and
6chus Tor evening wear. Formerly a
plain linen collar WAS worn with the
bsndsomest velvet dress IN the morning
as well as in the evening; formerly, too,
lace collars were worn in the morning.
Fashion at present more sensibly suits
the lingerie to the dress. and regulates
the latter to suit the hours Of the day.
Year: 1878

History and observation alike teach
Us that our reapinK will be according
to our sowing that il the product OF
q certain course OF life is happiness,
the end OF 8 different kind Of life
must be misery. 1t is not according
to reason IL the future state Of one
class OF human beings Is to be the
highest possible enjoyment, that an
other class altogether unlike In
character and life should be partakeTs
OF the same joy In any degree what
ever. That in the end obedience to
God will receive lis reward aud dis
obedience its punishment, Ia q firm
conviction OF all who admit the exist
ence and righteous government Of
God. The fact that retributiOn may
be delayed Is no argument that 1t will
not be Inflicted.


But when we come to the Word Of
God, all uncertainty is at once remOv-
ed. We are there taught in the plain
est language, that It shall be well
with the righteous and i'll with the
wicked that those who receive the
Lord Jesus Christ as their Savior,
shall enter into His rest and glory,
and that the wicked who know not
God, and obey not the Gospel OF His
Son, shall go away into everlasting
punishment. The future happiness
OF saints is no more clearly revealed
than Is the future misery OF the ene-
mics Of God. We have no more right
to reject what the Bible tells Of hell,
than to refuse to receive what 1t tell US
of heaven. The knowledge Of both Is
to US by divine inspiration.
And the same terms are used to eX.
press the unending happiness Of
heaven, and the unending misery Of
hell. According to the Holy Scrip
lures We have no more right to eX-
pect the wretchedness and suffering
of the wicked to cease, than we have
to look for a termination Of the bless
edness of those who have fled for ref
uge to lay hold upon the hope set be-
fore them In the Gospel. The con-
tinuanee OF the latter is no more
plainly or fOrcibly expressed than Is
the continuance OF the fOrmer.-PreS-
byteTidn Banner.
Year: 1878

Oliver Wendell Holmes hit the
nail on the head when he said : 81
don't like your chopped music any
way. That wOmAn-she had more
sense in her little finger than forty
medical societies-FlOrenee Nightin-
gale-ssys that the music you pour
out Is good for sick folks, and the
music you pound out isn't. Not that
exactly, but something like It. i
have been to hear some music-pOund-
ing. II was q young woman,
with as many white muslin fiOunces
round her as the planet Saturn
has rings, that did It. She gave the
music stool twirl or two and fiuffed
down on Il like q whirl OF sOap.suds
in q hAnd-bRsin. Then she worked
her wrists and her hands, to Timber
'em, I suppose, and spread out her
fingers till they looked as though
they would pretty much cover the
keyboard, from the growing end
to the little squeaky one. Then
those two hands Of hers made 3
lump at the keys as II they were q
couple OF tigers coming down on 3
flock Of black and white sheep, and


the piano gave q great howl a. II its
tail had been trOd on. Dead stop-sO
still YOU hear your hair grow
ing. Then another jump, and
another howl, as II the piano
had two tails and you had trOd on
both OF 'enl at once, and then Q grand
clatter and scramble and string oil
Jumps, up and down, back and for
ward, one hand over the other


like stampede OF rats and
mice more than like anything
call music. like to hear q woman
sing, and 1 like 10 hear = fiddle sing


but those noises they hammer out o.
their wood and ivory snvils-dOn'


talk 10 me, I know the difference be
tween q bullfrog and 3 WOcdthrush.
Year: 1878

Each mother is q historian. She
writes not the history OF empires or Of
nations on paper, but she writes her
own history on the imperisbable mind
OF her child. That tablet and that
history will remain indelible when
time shall be no more. That history
each mother shall meet again, and
read with eternal Joy or unutterable
grief in the coming ages OF eternity.
The thought should weigh on the
mind OF every mother, and render her
deeply circumspect, prayerful, and
faithful in her solemn work Of train
ing up her children for heaven and
Immortality.


The minds of children ere very sus-
ceptible, and easily impressed. a
word, q look, a frOwn may eDgrave
an impression on the mind of the
child which no lapse Of time can ef-
face or wash out. You walk along
the seashore when the tide is out,
and you form characters, or write
words or names in the smooth white
sand which is spread out so clear and
beautiful at your feet, according as
your fancy may dictate but the re-
turning tide shall, in a few hours,
wash out and effsce all that you have
written. Not so the lines and char
acters OF truth and error which your
conduct imprints on the mind Of the
child. There you write impressions
for the everlasting good or i'll of your
child, which neither the floods nor
the storms OF earth can wash out, nor
deaths cold fingers erase, nor the
sIow-moving ages OF eternity oblit-
crate.


How careful, then, should each
mother be ia her treatment OF her
child How prayeriul and how seri-
| Gus, and how earnest to write the
| eternal truths which shall be bis guide
and teacher when her voice shall be
silent in death, and her lips no longer
move In prayer in his behalf, in COM
mending her dear child to her God
| PtreHOlOQicdl Journal.