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Year: 1877

A party of five amateur huntsmeI


left the city yesterday for the mountains


to be gone about a month, and another


party of four returned home day before


yesterday. The latter had intended tC


stay out longer, but the Indians in theil


vicinity began to grow exceedingly


saucy, and to make demands for small


things in tone which, it was thought


indicated that they might, if provoked


help themselves, AND the hunters there


fore broke camp, intending to stop
awhile at a point near home, but after
they got on the back track they came
through without much delay. Speak
ing of the Indians, the party tell a
funny story Of their main camp. One
hot day one of them went to creek not
far distant to have a bath, taking with
him his rifle. He had removed his gar
ments down to his red flannel under
clothing on the bank of the stream,
when he heard the brush cracking, and
thinking perhaps the noise was made
by deer or other large animal, he de-
plOyed himself as a skirmisher and
cautiously began investigating. He
hadhN long to wait, for a moment later
he observed figure dodging from tree
to tree, rifle i'm hand, and evidently
watching him. 1t flashed through his
mind that he was being followed by an
Indian bent on mischief, and his heart
rose to his throat so that he could al
most taste it as thoughts of home forced
themselves upon him. He determined
that he would fight to the last, however,
and, braced by this determination, adj
vanced upon the enemy. The latter
was evidently not prepared for such
tactics, for he retreated, faster and
faster. and finally threw down his gun
and ran. The Sacramentan, fearing
that this was only piece of strategy to
lead him into an ambush, returned to
the creek, dOnned his garments and
hurried to the camp. There he found
member Of the party who had just
come in from hunting relating to the
other two members how he also had
experienced some trouble with Indians,
one of whom he said followed him two
or three miles, and he had only escaped
from him by striking him over the head
with his gun. This, he went on to say
broke the stock in two, the barrel flew
into the chapparal, and he did not deem
it worth while to wait and search for it,
when the Indians might attack the camp
at any moment. The man who had
been to the creek began to feel a sus-
piciOn that two members of that hunt
ing party had been making fools of
themselves, and he quietly inquired
"What did he look like?" Look like
You've heard of them being called red
devils; well, this fellow was one of
them! He was stripped right to the
skin, and was bareheaded, and had
painted himself just as red as blood.
You needn't laugh; 'twasn't anything
to laugh at" 1t was almost too cruel
to say anything about the red flannel
and the throwing of the
gun away; but it had to be told, and
the boys have had good thing on
drinks ever since. e.-SdCrdmentO Record |
Union.
Year: 1877

WoMAN's TRAINING.-It is a sad
fact that a woman is assumed to be
able to keep her household with judg-
ment and success without the smallest
training for it. With the other sex,
in their spheres, no such rule obtains.
No man is given the command of a
boat or squad until he has proved
himself master of at least the techni-
calities Of his command. But a girl Of
eighteen passes from the school room,
where she has been in the position of a
subordinate at all times under control,
to the management of household
where she is supreme and the dispen-
ser of frowns or favors, the arranger of
tasks and times, and without previous
training in the care Of herself expects
to come to good result in the manage
ment Of men.
Year: 1877

ScANDAL.-What ''they say" is be
meath your notice. What's the use Of
lying awake Of nights with theunkind
remark of some false friend running
through your brain like forked light
ming? What's the use of getting into
worry and fret over gossip that
has been set afoat to your disadvan-
tage by some meddlesome busybody
who has more time than character
These things cant possibly injure you,
unless, indeed, you take notice of them,
and in combating them givethem char
character and standing. If what is
said about you is true, set yourself
right at once; fit is false, let it go for
what it will, until it dies of inherent
weakness.
Year: 1877

LITTLE THINes.-A pin is a very
little thing in an article Of dress, but
the way in which it is put into the
dress often reveals the character of
the wearer. A shrewd fellow was once
looking out for wife, and was on a
visit to a family of daughters with this
object. The fair one of whom he was
enamoured one day entered the room
in which he was seated with her dress
partially unpinned and her hair un-
tidy; he never went back. You may
say such fellow was mot worth a
pin;" but he was really shrewd.fel-
low, and afterwards made good fel-
low as of men-by little things and
he was right.
Year: 1877

A ROMANTIC RECOGNITIoN.-About
ten years ago two brothers left their
home in Illinois and went to Ca1ifor-
MIA. The elder was man of steady
habits, and had received good bust
ness education, but the younger was
inclined to be dissipated, and, indeed,
had figured in so many scrapes at home
that his departure was not regretted in
his native village. The two brothers
lived for short time in San Francis
co while they looked for situations.
The younger brother, however, fell
into bad company and they separated
by mutual consent. The elder brother
obtained situation in a wholesale
store as porter, and by his diligence
and steadiness so worked himself into
the confidence of his employers that he
rose from the position of porter to that
Of partner in the firm. He lately pur-
chased house in Bush street, San
Francisco, married lady Of consider
able fortune of her own, and on one
evening not long since saw three beau
tiful children around him enjoying the
delights of charming home. The
family retired at midnight, but the
gentleman had hardly closed his eyes
when he was awakened by noise down
stairs, and moving stealthily to the
parIor with a revolver in his hand, he
saw a man endeavoring to open the
buffet where he kept his silver. Level
ing his revolver at the thief's head, he
exclaimed, "Stop, or you're a dead
mani The jimmy dropped from the
hands of the burglar, who, falling on
his knees, cried out, GAS God is my
Judge, Robert, l did not know that
you lived here~ The gentleman then
discovered to his horror that the bur-
glar whom he was about to shoot was
the younger brother whom he had not
met for nearly ten years. That night
the brother slept peacefully under the
roof Of his forgiving brother.
Year: 1877

The New Haven Palladium says
Anderson, the murderer, now in the
county jail, amuses himself by playing
with two or three tiny mice. These
he has tanned so that they regard him
with no fear, and they pass much of
their time in his hands or upon his
clothing.
Year: 1877

A Few ITEMS FOR MOTHERS To
READ.--A correspondent in writing to
the NIddLetocn Press offers the follow
ing seasonable suggestions to mothers
Of afflicted children:


We hope that mothers will remem-
Der that good brandy is cure fol
summer complaint; in bad cases a tea
spoonful in milk three or four times a
day.


A flannel cloth, wet in hot brandy,
or better, camphor and brandy mixed
and heated, viii relieve the pain of the
bowels, if frequently laid over the
stomach and bowels.


Bits of scraped ice are better on the
tongue than drinks of water.


For stings and poisons, a strong So
luton of saleratus and water immedi-
ately and then frequently applied,
gives relief and sure cure.


For burns, an immediate application
of -four covering the burn and wrap
ped so as to exclude the air; then burn
lard till it is quite brown and apply,
and relief and cure will soon come.
Do not wash off the -four if it clings,
but put the lard over it.


At night, in extreme warm weather,
lemon squeezed in tepid water, to
sponge off the tired-out little body, will
give rest to both the mother and child.
saleratus is good, but the lemon is
best. Even washing off the little feet,
neck, and palms of the hands in tepid,
never very cold, water, will induce a
healthful sleep.
Year: 1877

Two young brothers may be as de-
votedly attached to each other as were
Damon and Pythias, but you will
never hear Of one snatching the scut-
tie from the hands of the other and
insisting upon going down the cellar to
bring up the coal.
Year: 1877

The Cory Telegraph says that it has
just been discovered that one of the
unsuccessful candidates for postmaster
there had a place in his house filed
with open-edged cigar boxes, at which
he practiced through the winter dis
tributing the mail. He should have
received the appointment.
Year: 1877

The following anecdote is told of
Judge Abbott. "When he was in
Charleston he asked the old darkey at
work in his room what made him so
slow about building the fire. The re-
ply was: "Fact is, judge, dar is no coal
down stairs. Use been up and down
de alley, and stole all de wood I could
find, and in de present demoralized
condition of society can't do no bet
ter"
Year: 1877

Gen. GwINNER, OF the pennsylvania
Central railroad, lately gave expression
to the opinion that all the narrow guage
railroads, as well as the numerous
branches and short lines of railroad
throughout the country, would soon be
operated by the steam motor or dummy
engine, and that this change is all that Is
necessary to make such roads profitable !;
and the experiment when fairly tested,
would encourage the construction OF such
roads wherever there is sufficient populs.
ton to give them business.


This suggestion is new, and at first
thought may appear to carry but little
significance, yet coming from one of the
first railroad men of the country, one
whose experience, intelligence and per-
spicuity give peculiar emphasis and con-
clusiveness to any opinion he may ex-
press in this connection, its consideration
may have an important influence upon
the several railroad enterprises now be-
ing sgitsted in West Virginia.


There are at this time three or four
different projects on foot in the State Tor
building narrow gusge roads, all OF which
are depending on the solution OF the ques-
ton, will it pay?" There is the pro-
iected road from Fairchance via Morgan
town and Fairmont to Clarksburg;
and the one from Morgantown
to Klngwood; and from ParkersburS to
Charleston, for the completion OF any
one or all of which the capital could be
raised if the people were satisfied that
they could be made to pay.


General GwINNER's opinion is there
fore in point. He says if these roads
were operated by the dummy engine In
stead of the ordinary locomotive, they
could all be made to pay. He is not a
man so loose and profigste with his opln-
ions as to be caught saying what
he don't mean, or what expert
ment will not confirm. Nor Is
he without reason for his
faith in tho dummy. There 49,
ne says, difference in the original cost
OF the locomotive and dummy OF about
$4,000 in favor of the dummy; differ
ence in the expense of fuel OF about fifty
per cent. in favor of the dummy, and a
difference of fifty per cent. in the wear OF
the road in favor of the dummy. With
the light weight cars OF the narrow
susge road the dummy will do the work
of the road with ease, speed, cleanliness
and increased comfort.


We hope this suggestion will receive
due consideration in connection with
such enterprises in our State. In the
operation of railroad, those details
which appear to the inexperienced to be
of little significance, work surprising re-
suits in the matter Of economy.
Year: 1877

fore formally extended to him to visit New-Hamp-
shire as the guest of the State While no definite
arrangement for such visit was made, the COM
mittee returns believing that the President will at
least spend one day in Concord when he visits Ben
nington, VT, in August Although the Legislature
will not then be in session. it is the present purpose
of its members as body to escort President Hayes
from Remington TO Concord if he consents to 60.
Year: 1877

A Canada journal contains letter from
a correspondent who processes to have
been a stammerer from childhood almost
to manhood, and who wishes to give
other sufferers the benefit of the treat
ment by which he was cured. He says ::
Go into a room where you will be quiet
and alone, get some book that will inter
est but not excite you, and sit down and
read two hours, aloud to yourself, keep
ing your teeth together. Do the same
thing every two or three days, or once a
week, if very tiresome, always taking
care to read slowly, and distinctly, NOV
ing the lips, but not the teeth. Then
when conversing with others try to speak
as slowly and distinctly as possible
and make up your mind that you will
not stammer. I tried this remedy,
and read for two. hours aloud, with
my teeth together. The first result was
to make my tongue and jaws ache-that
is while was reading-and the next to
make me feel as if something. had
loosened my talking apparatus, for
could speak with less difficulty immedl.
ately. The change was so great that
every one who knew me remarked 1t. i
repeated the remedy every five OF slS
days for month and then at longer In
tervals until cured.
Year: 1877

The San Francisco Chronicle says


A ranch hand arrived by the San Rafael
ferry in charge of mich COW and its
young calf, which he was to deliver to a
family residing in the Western Addition.
He tied the legs of the calf, dispatched
it to it's destination on truck, and fol
lowed up Clay street, leading the COW by
a stout halter with long, flat, strong
leather shank. He had little trouble till
he got between Kearney and Dupont
streets, when the COW planted its fore
legs at a resolute angle of forty-fve de-
grees with the street railroad track. The
driver exhausted every variety of cow
doing known to the profession. He
went ahead and tried to pull her along
he went behind and argued with her by
twisting her tail into short and crack
ing spiral he tried various devices
kindly suggested by the crowd that had
gathered around, and finally fell back on
the eloquent and effective profanity
fashionable on thoroughly conducted
dairy ranch.


But the COW was stubborn and wouldn'
move. and the desperate vaquero had
Just come to the conclusion that he could
only wait helplessly and witness the ter
rible telescope tragedy with the dummy
of the next up train, when an ingenious
and airily dressed young Barbary coaster
took the job off his hands. He slipped
the end of the halter shank fatwise
through the slot in the street railroad
track and dropped it on one side Of the
moving wire beneath, then he reversed
his attenuated cane and slipped it
through and past the wire on the other
side; then he twisted the hooked top of
his cane around, caught the end of the
shank, drew it up through the slot, tied
it with the slipping knot round the stand
ing part of the shank, then drew the
knot through the slot ard tight round
the wire. The halter shank stretched
out, but it was of the toughest and best
tanned leather the cows horns cracked,
but declined to come out of her head ;
the vertebra of her neck elongated, ,'but
stuck to the remainder of her body ;
there was an instant abnormal STRAIN on
the engines over the hill, and clatter OF
the great wheel in the Kearney street well
for taking up the slack, then the COW re-
luctantly raised one foot set and it down
again quick, then another and set it down
quicker, and then she surrendered to the
superior powers of steam and wire cable
and trotted rapidly off. With head down
and tail up, like an eager and well train
ed setter beating a stubble field for
birds, she went over the hills and far
away. Dexter couldn't have made as
good time up the grades. John Gilpin's
ride never attracted so many astonished
eyes. As she went over the divide and
let out link or two on the down grade
the train men at the terminus were
thrown into temporary panic at the
new and inexpicable dummy bearing
down on them, but one of them had the
presence of mind to cut her loose before
she was drawn in and cut into steaks on
the friction wheels. She was little out
of breath and a trifle astonished at her
own outcome of speed. but she was cured
of baking, and continued without fur
ther trouble on to her new residence.
Year: 1877

Contentment abides with truth. And
you viii generally suffer for wishing to
appear other than you are, whether it be
richer. or greater or more learned. The
mask soon becomes an instrument OF
torture.


If we need strong will in order to do
good, it is more necessary for us still in
order not to do evil, from which it often
results that the most modest life is that
where the force of will is most exercised.


Charity is that rational and constant
affection which makes us sacrifice our
selves to the human race as if we were
united with it 80 as to form one individ-
ual, partaking equally in its prosperity
and adversely.


If we will take the good we find, ask
ing no questions, we will have heaping
measures. The greatest gifts are not by
analysis. Everything good is on the
highway. The middle region OF our
being is the temperate zone.


It is the great privilege of poverty to
be happy unenvied, to be healthy with
out physic, secured without guard, and
to obtain from the bounty of nature what
the great and wealthy are compelled to
procure by the help of art.


Thus certain wise man replied to one
who said: "Such and such thoughts
have come into my mind" by saying
sLet them goagain. " Andanother wise or
acle said: "Thou canst not prevent birds
from flying above thy head, but thou
canst prevent their building their nests
in thy hair.


The misery of human life is made up
OF large masses, each separated from the
other by certain intervals. One year,
the death of child years after, failure
in trade after another longer or shorter
interval, daughter may have married
unhappily. In all but the singularly un-
fortunate, the integral parts that com.
pose the sum total of the unhappiness OF
q mans life are easily counted and dis
tinctly remembered
Year: 1877

Alas, poor weed The careless tide


Has left thee with his ightest foam;
And now desert drear and wide


Divides thee from thy wisfed-for home.
His flow may bear thee back once more,
But canst thou live thy life Of yore2
Alas I, too, am left awhile


By her I love, in Ightest play?
On distant loves see her smile, =.


I hear her laughter far away.
Her heart may turn to me again,
But can my heart forget the pain?
Year: 1877




FREE SCHOOLS.


But at the basis of all prosperity for that as
well as for every other part Of the country, lies
the Improvement Of the intellectual and moral
condition of the people. Universal suffrage
should rest upon universal education. To this
end liberal and permanent provision should be
made for the support of free schools by the
State governments, and, if need be, supple
mented by legitimate aid from national author
ity. =,


Let me assure my countrymen of the South
ern States that it is my earnest desire to regard
and promote their truest interests, the inter
ests of the white and colored people both and
equally. and to put forth my best efforts in be-
half of civil policy which will forever wipe
out, in our political affairs, the color line, and
the distinction between North and South, to
the end that we may have not merely united
North or united South, but united country.
CIVIL SERVICE REFORM.


I ask the attention Of the public to the para
| mount necessity of reform in our civil SER
vice a reform. not merely as to certain abuses
and practices of so-called official patronage
which have come to have the sanction Of usage
| in the several departments OF our government,
but change in the system OF appointment 1t.
self reform that shall be thorough, radical
and complete return to the principles and
practices of the founders of the government.
| They neither expected nor desired from public
| officers any partisan service. They meant that
pnblic officers should owe their whole service
70 the government and to the people. They
meant that the officer should be secure IN his
tenure as long as his personal character re-
NAMED urtarnished, aad the performance oi
hi. duties satisfactory, They held that ~
Year: 1877

NEw ORLEANS, May s, 1877.


Editor Democrat-The opinion seems
to be that there is deal of crookedness
in the making up of the pay rolls Of the
Packard police and employees of the
Senate and House. In consequence,
there is general grumbling all along
the line amongst those who, by the gra-
tuity in question given by the State, are
really entitled to pay. It is supposed
the committee who made up the rolls
were not oblivious to the surroundings,
and looking to their individual interest
have made the list to suit themselves,
To circumvent this, 1t is suggested that
each claimant produce his commission
to show what service he was employed
in before he is paid. BY this means sew
eral thousand dollars may be saved to
the State that otherwise would be lost.
In this connection it may be we'll to
state that the police, as militia, re-
ceived two months pay as such, other
militia nothing, during their stay in Fort
Packard.


ONE OF THE OTHER MILITIA, ~


Or, Disbanded Volunteer.
Year: 1877

WASHINGTON, May s-The discussion
in the Cabinet on the subject OF the ex-
ira session to-day was somewhat less
important than had been anticipated.
The objections of Secretary McCrary to
the October programme were conceded
to be of weight but without giving any
particular reason, or without Offering
anything to overthrow the legal and
constitutional position taken by the Sec
retary, the President and four members
of the Cabinet, quietly put stop to the
discussion by insisting that their deter
minination to adhere to the terms OF
the published proclamation was unalter-
able.


McCrary still holds that he can have
no authority, and that the War Depart
ment can have no legal existence except
as nominal part of the administration
after the 10th Of June, which is the close
of the fiscal year. In this opinion. to-
wit: that the failure to provide for ita
maintenance is a negative abolition OF
the army, McOrary is supported by four
Justices of the Supreme Court-Miller,
Field, Clifford and Bradley, and by the
Attorney General.


One of these authorities goes 80 far
as to hold that the refusal Of Congress
to provide for the maintenance of the
army is constructively positive exhibit
tion against Its remaining In organized
existence; but the President holds that
IL the officers and men see fit to remain
in the service and trust sto the coming
session to make up the deficiency, there
is no law by which he can be restrained
from accepting their services.


The interesting part of the affair is
that the President would have yielded,
and the proclamation was about to be
reconsidered. when Blaine, who, think
ing he saw chance to catch the Presi
sident in blunder, posted down here
from Maine to take the lead In the
movement to bulldoze the President and
Congress into the calling Of the extra
session In June.


Blaine's purpose was so obvious that
the President, when advised Of 1t, un
alterably determined to stand by hi'
proclamation. The result may brinf
about considerable reorganization o
the Cabinet about the expiration Of the
fiscal year, but Hayes will undoubtedly
succeed in tiding the army over after {
fashion. BUELL..
Year: 1877

WASHINGTON. May San effort will
be made in the Cabinet to-day to have
the call for an extra session recon
sidered and changed to the original
time, June the 4th or 18th. 1t is gen.
orally understood that the Secretary Of
War declines to undertake to carry on
the department without due legislation.


He holds that our army exists upon the
same principle as the British army, and
that there is no law warranting its
existence except the annual law OF the
appropriation for its maintenance, and
hence the failure or refusal to pass the
appropriation bill is constructive
adjustment Of the army, for the time
being at least. He has intimated that
he can see no course open for him ex-