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Year: 1878

By the death of Bayard Taylor, our Minister to Germany, the United States and the world loses man of class which at it's largest is far too small. While not positively great in any single particular, his nature combined many distinguished him among his fellow men. His versatility, which is universally &C., knowledged, was neither the result of ambition nor curiosity, but rather the natural outcome of a catholicity of na- ture and taste which compelled him to interest himself in whatever was ad- mirable, manly or good. He was at one and the same time fine embodiment of modern culture and living rebuEe to the generation of pigmies to whom cul- ture IS an incessant but meaningless shbboleth. Beyond the age at which literary men arc most active, and with out the whip of necessity to urge him to labor, he was almost to the last an industrious, painstaking, voluminous writer, always carrying to his work Q degree of enthusiasm which many younger men might envy. Like most other men, he die,l with his favorite work uneompleted and his principal aln- bition uDsatisGed, for to write the life of Goethe and to b. principally esteemed as a poet were the darling desires of his heart. The memory of Bayard Taylor will be afectionately treasured as that of genial gentleman, hearty friend, loyal citizen, an enjoyable writer, and, in the fullest sense of the term, an honest workman, Bayard Taylor was born in Ksnnett Square, the name of a pleasant rural village in Chester county, Pennsylvania, on the 11th of January, 1925, and had consequently nearly com pleted his fifty fourth year at the time of his death. : He was descended from a Quaker family.
Year: 1878



 A letter has just been received which gives Miss Mary Clymers account of the shipwreck of the Pommerania and of the rescue of herself and of her sister Rose. It is as follows: The Pommerania left Cherbourg on Monday afternoon,. Mo- vember 25. Mother, Richard and sat up later than usual that night, thinking with pleasure of soon being safe landed at Hamburg. We were sitting in the cabin by the dining table. Birdie and Rose had just left us to go to their berths for the night. Richard and the two young Bodiscos went up on deck, when suddenly there was a grinding sound and shock, as if the vessel had struck hard bottom. This was quarter before mid- night. Then suddenly there came loud cry of "A All men on deck. All ladies stay below" Then came the cry of |" Every one on deck" got Rose and Birdie the latter almost nndressed-and we went mp on deck, going to the port side, mother following. Birdie was very cold and had on only wrapper. Rose gave her waterproof cloak and | gave Rose a coat. When we reached the deck there was the greatest of confusion and ex- citement. The captain was at his post giving orders, and stuck to his duty to the very last. I went again down into the cabin to get little box containing some valuables, and when came back with it I found Richard bravely at work freeing ifeboat, and mother, Birdie and Rose trembling and very much agi- tated. I do not think mother had very much hope of being saved, for she put her arms around each of our necks and blessed us and then got up on the rail of the vessel. Fearing she would fall into the water below I pulled her on the deck. Next Richard put rope into my hands and told me in 8 voice of com mand, "There, sister, hold on this. !" Scarcely knowing what it meant I seized the rope. Richard swung ne off. then saw the frightful distance below me in the iwater, and the next instant was in GIl0 UObLOu O1 IuC I1lo-DOub. HhSl1 l looked up I saw a dark something flying in the air, which l thought.was mother :; it fell into the water by the side of the boat; pulled it up by the hair it was Rose. Rose was slightly stunned for the moment, but soon recovered. There was room for eight or ten more persons in the boat, but it was suddenly cut from it's fastenings. Then the sailors pulled off for fear of being swamped by the vessel, and in few moments we heard a voice in our boat cry, "Good God, they're gone. Pray for their souls." The men pulled very slow and did not reach the Glengarry for the best part of an

 hour, although she was very near, hav-

 Ing come in answer to the Pommerania' s signal. We were landed at Dover, Eng land.
Year: 1878

As the harvest is soon to be expected, and as every one would gladly be SUD- piled with this luxury or rather necessi- ty in summer, we give few simple di- rections for building cheap and ade- quate building for family supply. Take 1000 feet of rough pine boards, twelve feet long, and eight chestnut posts nine feet long, also five pieces 2x4 spruce twelve feet long. Set the posts in the ground so as to inclose square space 12 feet by 12. Gut off the tops level and square seven feet from the ground nail on four of the 2x4 pieces for plates, mailing on the boards inside the posts, leaving the space open where the ice is to be put in. Use the remain ing 2x4 piece for ridge pole, and nail on boards for roofing with battens. A ventilating hole six inches in diameter should be made in each gable. Before packing the ice, provide about five cords of sawdust or tan-bark, or if these are not conveniently obtained, | then cut-straw or bog-hay will answer if cut about an inch long. If the loca- tion is not we'll drained, drain it. Pack 8 foot of dry litter or straw we'll beaten down on the ground before storing the ice, then place the blocks of ice fifteen inches from the walls of the building, or chips of ice, and around them to the wall with the cut-straw or sawdust, GOV ering up the packing material with the ice until it is full. Then cover over the top of the whole with eighteen inches oi chaff and tread it down we'll. If this if watched every week and the packing carefully crammed down around the ice and renewed, if necessary, it will keer well all summer; but, if neglected, vii melt away very rapidly, for when the ice settles in melting it will have cracks in the packing which will admit warn air, and if not filled immediately vii

 cause waste of ice.

 If this building can be placed ill the shade of Q tree near the back door it vii

 be better, as the heat of the sun will no strike the boards, or the whole may bt covered from view by some quick grow ing climbing vine for similar reason. The ice-house described will hoIt about five hundred cubic feet of ice, O ; full two cubic feet a day for the warn ) season, after making liberal allowanc

 for waste. If there is at hand an ic

 compaSes that makes a business of cut

 ting ice, it will be found very convent

 ent to buy enough to fill the house o them while they are cutting ;eey ar

 generally willing to sell it at tE pont for about dollar per cord, witch i

 much less than the cost of cutting it b, hand. .-An1eric01a CtltiUdtor.
Year: 1878

HORACE WATERS S5 SONS, the Great Piano and Organ dealers, whose advertisement is in another column, are among the oldest and most reliable firms in the United States. Their extraordinary offer for the HOLIDAYS should be read with interest by all who may want a really tirst-class instrument at lower price than has ever before been offered. Send for their catalogue and take advantage of thoir holiday offer.
Year: 1878

There is a certain point on ridge high up on Kearsarge Mountain where can be heard the rumble of trains on the Southern Pacific Railroad as they cross the range to the west of Mohave, 40 miles distant. There is regular daily train passing at 1920 o'clock, and upon reaching the place at this hour the noises of the train are heard as statel. IL is curious thing in nature, but scarcely more wonderful than some of the mountain echoes we read of, nor no more incomprehensible than late achievements of science in telephones, photographs and megaphones, possibly involving the same principle of con- ducting sound through the air or solids.
Year: 1878

corn and have been fully satisfied with the result
Shall continue to use the said Phosphate until find
something better used Russell Goes and Walton &
WhannS alongside of yours last Fall, and find yours
fully as good at less cost. Yours with respect.


SAMUEL HARtiADINE.
Year: 1878


McSsrs Hubbard & Bro-Gentlemen: Yours of this
date is at hand. The crop of wheat upon which your
Phosphate was used has been threshcd and the yield
is entirely satisfactory Taking the state Of the land
into consideration the tca has the best crop of wheat
in the neghborhOod. have doubt of the super
Tor quality of your fertilizer and it TO be very
popular here. Yours respectfully, ...


j. p. COMEGYS.
Year: 1878

~ /, Charles Smith, of the town of Smyrna Kent
County and State of Delaware, do hereby give lnoticc
that | intend TO make application to the Court of
General Sessions of the Peace and Jail Delivery OF the
State of Delaware in and for Kent County at its next
session, which will commence and be held at Dover


eighth day Of October, in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and Seyenty-eight, for Il
license to keep an Inn or Tavern, and TO sell ntoX-
eating liquors i'll less quantities than quart, To be
drunk the premises, at and III the house now occu


pied by me as tenant and known as the Chester
House The location of said house wherein propose
to keep Inn Tavern is i'll United School Districts
Nos. and -, i'll Kent County aforesaid and on
County aforesaid The time when the said appica-
ton will be made by Will be on Monday, the
twenty-eighth day of October in the year Of our
Lord one thousand eight hundred and scventy-eght


being the first day of the next term of the said Court
General Sessions of the Peace and Jail Delivery of
the state Of Delaware. in and for Kent County. The
| names of the respectable citizens recommending my
Year: 1878

He HAD BEEN BoY-It is only
now and then that the public gets sight
of man who Vas once boy and acted
like boy. One Of this sort was met a!
the Central Depot the other day. Feelin.
tired, and yet desiring to see all that Was
to be seen, he made arrangements to sit
down on bench outside. Passing his
hand over it several times he said to him.
self: "Np tacks or pms put in here to
raise fcller up, and no pitch to hold a
feller down" He looked it over very
carefully, and continued: "No fresh
paint on here to spile clothes, and Nc acid
to spile the hide" He made a last ex-
aminatiyn. and felt satisfied to say: " No
place here to pour wafer down my back
no bricks to fall on my hcad-no Bogar-
dus kicker mder it-no humble bees
around now, and | think | can safely sot
down and take comfort Detroit Press.
Year: 1878

SAN Francisco, March 5.-The Board of
Supervisors last night adjourned until April l. The
affairs OF the municipality have come to deadlock for
want of funds The bill recently passed by the Legisa


ture restricts the board monthly expenditure OF one
twelfth OF the annual revenue. holding the members and
their bondsmen personally responsible for any
dra As consequence, nearly all the funds are ex-
hasted for the current month The fire department has
money enough hand buy feed for the horses No
resolution can printed, authorization can be
passed for payment owing to the exhaustion OF the ad-
yertisng fund The hospital and alms-hOuse have only
$500 10 run ON for the month Some legislation
will probably be sought TO relieve the city government
Year: 1878

shall be held at time when the appropriations for
the United States Courts and for the marshaPs
Offices are exhausted, and when bill, making ap-
preparations for those purposes, has been pending In
the House for months The effect of the enactment of
the Pine Log Bill in opinion of the Administration
would therefore be to prevent the Government
from preparing its cases for want of to secure
witnesses. Senator Stanley Matthews introduced
resolution in the Senate, the other day, calling upon
the Secretary of the Interior for information III
regard to the seizure of wood in the Territory OF
Montana. The Secretarys reply will reach the SEN
ate simultaneously with the reception of the PreS-
dents veto of the Timber Bill by the House.
Year: 1878




OF AN APPROPRIATION.


BY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBUNE


WASHINGTON March 5.-Mr. Bliss, of the Com
mittec on Public Buildings and Grounds, obtained,
this morning a unanimous report recommending
the appropriation of 800 900 for the construction
of United States building Brooklyn for the ac-
cOmmodation Of the Post Office United States Court
and the Collector Of Internal Revenue. The follow
ing is a copy of the bill:


Re IL enacted etc., Tnat the Secretary OF the Treasury
be and he hereby and directed to cause 10
erect suitable eproof building al Brooklyn, N T.,
for the accommodation OF the Post Office United states
District Court Internal Revenue officials. and for other
Government purposes and TO this end there Is hereby
appropriated the OF 800 00O 10 be expended under
the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury III the
purchase OF site and the erection OF suitable building,
for which he shall proper plans and estimates 10
be made so that no expenditure shall be made or al-
thorzed the purchase OF real estate and the full com
rleion of said building exceeding the sum OF So0OOOO;
provided that money hereby appropriated sball DC
used or applied until the State of NewIork shall duly
release and rcnqush the United States the right TO
tax in any way assess, said ste or tho propery ~
the United states that may be placed thereon curing he
that the United States shall be or REMAIN the owner
thereof.
Year: 1878

OF human happiness, or in averting the perils to
which we are now subject.


Captain Howgate does not claim to be the orig
inatOr of the colonization plan of research: II has
been advocated by number of experienced North
navigatOrs the safest and therefore the most
promising for success which could be adopted. The
plan is that the adventures shall simply push as
far north they can with safety build themselves
hcmes, and await favorable opportunity TO go
further on and build other homes. Life in these re-
gIOns may be made safe and even enjoyable while
the dangers will be reduced to minimum.
Year: 1878

True and faithful journalists are appreciated the world over, but the vicious, those that use the columns for the purpose of venting spite and spleen, and using the slang of the ill- bred, are condemned. The mission of a newspaper is a grand one when properly conducted ,and the language and thoughts contained therein, should be penned so as to be ac- ceptable to the masses, and no arti- cle should ever be permitted to ap- pear in the columns of a jCurnali that circulates in the family circle, but what could be read without the blush of shame. Unfortunately, there are many such, and if the writer could but see the effect it pro duces, he would not let another such appear. There are newspapers, whose columns are almost constant ly filled with balderdash and trashy articles against a rival journal. It disgusts the reader, does no good and widens the breach. Far better would it be that all such would re- tire from the field of journalism. A true journalist should elevate and build up, state all things truthfully and manfully, eriticise with fairness. condemn corruption and all else that is wrong for the public good, and at the same time, treat his sub- ject in respectful language.
Year: 1878

A stranger leaving California for the Territory of Arizona is besought on every hand with misrepresenta- ton in regard to our resources, and the picture is drawn of dreary country, the home of the blood thirsty Apache, the lizard and cac- tus, but when he reaches here that prejudice is removed. It is true we have some considerable wastes, but the beautiful valley of Salt River and the numerous other agricultural sections dispen all such gloomy pie lures. These misrepresentation are an injury to us, and does not in the least benefit those that make them.
Year: 1878

Upoa the arrival of our new printing material, which will be in Phenix about three weeks. we will enlarge the HERALD to seven column paper. We are thankful for the patronage bestowed and ask q further continuance.
Year: 1878

The assassination of General Prado exPresident of
Peru is a most unfortunate occurrence for his
practice of the South American Republics to kill men
who show any aptitude for craftsmanship. In the
United States We generally make them managers of
companies-a slower form of death, and pleasanter
Year: 1878

GREAT HEARTS,


Look on me! there is an order
Ofmortals on the earth, who do become
Old in their youth, and die ere middle age,
Without the violence of warlike DEATH
Some perishing of pleasure, some of study,
Some worn with toll, some of mere WEAKNESS,
Some of disease. and some of insanity,
And some of whithered or of broken hearts:
For this last is malady which Stays
More than are numbered in the lists OF fate,
Taking all shapes and bearing many names.


Byron.
Year: 1878

The name of General Benjamin Harrison,
of Indiana, has been placed in the budget
now hanging up to dry for use in 1880, when
another Presidential candidate is to be
nominated by the Republican party.
Year: 1878

Frightening trade and industrial prospects con-
stute the salient feature of current affairs 1t may
be regarded as certain that this tendency will continue
until January l, when the return TO gold payments
must act as an additional impulse in the tide of re-
turning prosperity.
Year: 1878

WAY OF THE WEsr.-Five men robbed stage coach
near Fort Laramie about two weeks ago Two of
them have been shot dead by pursuers two of them
have been hanged by lynchers and the survivor has
fed from the Territory.
Year: 1878

The Baltimore Slm is authority for the
statement that General Sherman recently
expressed the opinion that General Grant
will be the next Republican candidate for
the Presidency, and will be elected. This
much was vouchsafed on the ground that
:" the country is rapidly settling down to
the belief that Grant is the only man who
can bring safety and confidence" Wheth-
er General Sherman is. the author of such
an opinion or not, the statement will serve
to illustrate the far too prevalent idea that
the peace and prosperity of the country de-
pends upon the elevation of some one man
to the Presidency. The feeling that gives
rise to such opinions is directly antagonistic
to the American system of Government.
Year: 1878

Mitten parties are said to be popular social affairs
in the upper part of New Jersey. An Oddity is, that
those who get the mitten subjects of cOngratu
lation, and seem to be happy over the atfiicton.
Year: 1878

Wood in Reese River is ,cood-worth SIG
to $50 cord in gold, and not much of a
cord at that. Last winter certain parties
were wont to forage on theirmore fortunate
neighbors who were provided. Near by
one of these private suffering wood piles
was mill, with large supply on hand for
mill purposes. A sufferer one night de-
tected the petit larcener in the act of
shouldering couple of back-logs, when
the former approached the latter, and
gently laying his hand upon his shoulder,
men can stand this better than | can: 90
there the next time" The theft dropped
the logs, and walking off, said, meekly :
az never thought of that-Iwillw
Year: 1878

MACAULAY ON SUNDAY.-Man! man ! this
is the great creator of wealth. The differ
ence between the soil Of Campania and
Spitzbergen is insignificant compared with
the difference presented by two countries,
the one inhabited by men full of moral and
physical vigor, the other by beings plunged
in an intellectual decrepitude. Hence it is
that we are not impoverished, but, on the
contrary enriched by this seventh day,
which we have for so many years devoted
to rest. This day is not lost. While the
machinery is stopped, while the car rests on
the road while the treasury is silent, while
the smoke ceases to rise from the chimney
of the factory, the nation enriches itself
none the less than during the working days
Of the week. Man, the machine of all ma
chimes, the one by the side of which all the
inventions of the Watts, and the Arkwrights
are as nothing, is recuperating and gaining
strength so well, that on Monday he re-
turns to his work with his mind clearer,
with more courage for his work, and with
renewed vigor. | will never believe that
that which renders people stronger, wiser
and better, can ever turn to its impoverish


ment.-T. B. Wdcaulay.
Year: 1878

The New York Times thinks that the election of
1879 will be among the most momcntous in the history
Of the country. The financial question, the solid
South, and the commune sentiment will be the cause
of agitation.
Year: 1878

The new edition of Macaulay's History Of
England Just issued by Harper Brothers, presents
perhaps the popular work possessing sterling
value OF the present century in q form admirably
adapted to the private students well the
umes OF the convenient for handling printed
on paper OF the finest quality, with type so clear and
legble be read with by persons with m
paired eyesight. The analytical tables OF contents and
the copious and accurate index which accompany the
Volumes afford effective key To the subject-mater OF
the pages aud form in themselves Instructive study
OF English history. The interest in Macaulay
has been scarcely diminished since the first
thirty years ago. His writings are as fresh
and charming as at the time when their original pubca
ton marked epoch In English literature They have
lost nothing Of the dewy brightness which made his
historical narrative perpetual delight 10 all
classes OF readers instead OF an arid description
events which 10 toilsOme 20 follow. The style
OF Macaulay affords a splendid illustration OF the
sources of the English tongue The study OF it's


is better In composition than all the rules OF
rhetoric 1t has withsOOd the hostile attacks OF the
enviOus and malicious and there few writers Of the
present day who Will not TO the hearty praises
recently bestowed upon It, as example OF the power
of English expression by Mr. Edward Freeman one OF
the most accomplished OF living historians, and himself
a consummate OF the art OF narrative The read
ers Of generation who have not yet had the Oppor
tunity TO become familiar with the sparkling ana pow
erful pages OF Macauay have rich OF pleasure
in reserve and will lind in the edition offered the
public means OF instruction and enjoyment rarely az
forded by the books OF a library.
Year: 1878

SECOND EDITION.


CASTLE BLAIR.
There quite lovely little book Just out about chill
eren Castle Blair The book Is good and lovely and
true having the best description OF noble child in IL
(Wnne) that read and nearly the best description Of
the next best noble dog John Ruskn the dis
tInxui.hed art critic Handsomely bound price ST. Pub.
ished by


ROBERTS BROTHERS,