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Year: 1878

The ear Of charity is as deaf AZ
an adder at work on long column
of figures.


The grinders should cease he.
cause they are few, and hand-orgar
music isn't very popular just q,
present, anyhow.


Old age comes on pace, in har-
ness, and at good ronnd gait.


The hoy stood on the burning
deck that he had hauled from the
fire, where his father had thrown it,
but the old man yanked him of
and completed the cremation Of the
vile cards.


Women are generally pretty
smart, hut they cannot hold can
die to a can of kerosene with safe
ty.


Virtue is its own reward, bnt q
little beside that will buy some
thing, is generally quite handy.


The old hummer smelleth the
bottle from afar off when 1t is set
up for free treat to the crowd.


A word spoken in due season,
how good it is when it strikes the
man with the Till about right.


Remove not the ancient land
mark" pleadeth the venerable
tramp when they bid Kim peel off
and get into the bath pool at the
work house.


81 beg of yon, have yon a few cents
for a starving manp asked tramp
of pedestrian on Vine street last
evening "Oh," exclaimed the lat
ter, "you are only begging the
question:" and he passed on.


The blood of the turnip is the
seed Of the church in some stingy
instances.


When at home do as the home
inns do.


Beware of the man with one
book, if he be an agent for it.


When man slips in to get sly
nip and finds crowd of his ac-
quaiutances there, his first thought
is, "drfend me from my friends"


The old motto of the gay old
bachelor on the shady side of life
is, "Thr Guard dyes, but never sur
renders"


At many of the cheap clothing
there is a great cry and
little wool.


God helps them who help them
selves.


The lunch fiend takes heart and
goes for what there is on the table,
regardless of Providential aid in
the contract.


The fullness of a merchants
store is not indicated bv the beg
carly account of empty boxes which
ie permits to block the sidewalk.


All the worlds a stage, and mon
~ makes the mare go before it.


How doth the little busy wife i'm
prove each shining hour, and gad
Iround the shops all day ; ut night
lone out and sour.


And after the fire a still, small
'oice. 1t is that of the reporter
liding around for the amount Of
he loss and Insurance.
Year: 1878

Once old Marshal Bugeaud was
candidate for election to the
Chambers. He was not In the best
Of health mt the time, anil his doc
tor bads him beware of over-pxert-
ing himself. ordered him to bed and
hled and pnrged him to keep him
there. From time to time the doe
tor brought him the most encourag-
ing reports Of the canvass all was
going well, only let him keep him
self perfectly quiet. At last the
day came and the Marshal learned
that he had been heaten. "Bea'-
er 70 &c shoutsd, nhy whoul" s.Ry
Year: 1878

Golden Medical Discovery
Is alternative. or blood d-cleansing.
Golden Medical Discovery


Is Pectoral.
Golden Medical Discovery
Is Chqlagogue, or Liver Stimulant'
Golden Medical Discovery


Is Tonic.
Golden Medical Discovery
Year: 1878

mines are turning out some Of the
finest ore ever brought into Silver
ado. Neal took spirit lamp and a
blowpipe, and melted piece which
he took from his ledge and the
greater portion of the metal proved
to be silver.-Santa AnG Herald.
Year: 1878

Philip Goodyear, German, about thirty
eight years old, was run over at 1880 o clock
this morning in Cumminsville by Spring
Grove-avenue street car and instantly killed.


Goodyear was butcher and married
man, having wife and three children. He
lived on Alabama street, near 81 Keck' pork
and packing houses.


1t seems that the deceased was under the
influence of liquor last night and while Cn
his way to his home lay down on the street-
car track to sleep,


The car which was the last one for tlhs
night, was driven by Jack Eckels. an old re-
liable attache of the Car Company.


The driver says that it was quite dark at
the place where he run over Goodyear, E
both sides of the track were surrounded
with thickly -stunted shade trees, which al
that time exclude all light. He also says
that he was driving his horse at the us'ias
rate in passing the fatal spot.


Lieutenant Emery was at once notified OF
the fatal accident and had the body taken
to the Tenth District Station, where it slid
remains.


The Coroner was informed this oruiIsgg.
and viewed the remains this afternoon. An
inquest will be held tomorrow.
Year: 1878

ACTUAL CONDITION OF THE LAVA FLOW FROM


THE VOLCANO. .s.


Naples Letter to the Pail Mall Gazette.l


started with friend to make the ascent. II
rained until we reached the observatory. and then.
fortunately the day became delightful 1t Is weary
climb up, though through the loose ashes and one is
tempted to halt and admire the view pretty often be-
fore reaching the top. When had reached 1t we
could nothing for the smoke and mist that filed
the big CRATER while far beneath could hear the
lava seethng and frequent explosions from the new
We advised at starting not to descend into
the crater but guide assured us we could quite
safely do it. SO down scrambled ON to the lava
The floor Of the crater has risen in the
last few weeks from considerable depth
the sde Of the crater wall looking toward Tie oId ID
left-hand Gone of vesuvus; and it il still rising As
stood the comparatively cool blocks Of lava the
fresh red-hot stream was slowly flowing out from
cracks around moving on in snakeike, fascinat-
ing way. and breaking out in fresh place
the flow stopped elsewhere. Every crack showed the
lava red-hot foot beneath US. but the guides
about on 1t, and we followed them, II were
on the level campagna At the upper end Of the old
craterthat is just underneath the highest point Of
the old coneis the cone, which has risen in the
last week or SO; baby cone. about fifty feet in
circumference at the base, but very noisy
and fiery cone. sending out continual pufs
quently rise above its summit and hurting into the air
to height of one hundred feet or SO Jumps Of red
hot stone and lava which, falling down on to its Sides
make them rise higher every day. The wind fortu-
natey blew the smoke away from u.s. or otherwise we
should have been almost not quite sufocated where
we stood-about thirty yards from the base of the
cone; and able to enjoy the wonderful sight.
which. who followed us down said, one could
stay all day to look at. Accompanying the bursts Of
flame were hollow reports not loud as had ex-
pected but smothered. stifed explosions; and as I
climbed up the side of the crater to be able to
through the smoke struggling confusion Of flames.
which found vent in the election of the burning
liquid. The crater walls brilliant with yellow and
orange colored sulphur. mixed with basalt and red
lava and white salts forming bright contrast to the
leaden colored lava which forms the floor and the
black cone with its crown Of smoke The guide told
us the floor had risen an extraordinary number OF
feet; bat judging from what we saw of lava flowing.
it would take month probably to reach the gap
through which its flow seems indicated unless It
should burst out anywhere the side Of the noun
tain At present the stories that 1t is flowing down
the outside Of Vsuvius and that Professor Palmier
is building dixie to protect the observatory and
forth, are pure inventions. 2a
Year: 1878

from the San Fran Francisco Bn.letin.l


notwithstanding the entire absence OF timber or
verdure OF any kind upon the mountains along the
Colorado River they ever changing objects OF
beauty and interest. and the longer and more stu
diousiy You gaze upon them the more completely you
lost in admiration OF them. In the evening. in tho
interval just before and Immediately after the decline
Of the great orb of day. these earth-giants point
up their ragged edges and grotcsGue columns
az ainst canopy that is marvel of celestial cooring
At this time OF the year clouds sail majesticay
over the mountain tops. From sunrise until within
hour of sunset the imperial dome seems Like
great sapphire suspended over the world Then the
eastern mountains and the horizon above assume
most exquisite tint of something between purple and
maroon, while the elevations on the west and the
horizon above color up III lilac and gold. few mo-
ncnts after sunset the whole heavens and noun
tains upon either side assume lavender
hne. SO perfect and delicate the trac-
ings OF these mountain outlines against the sky
NJ this period of the evening that the entranced
vision follows them readily if they were Just so
many artistic pencillin2s upon map or parchment.
Yet all this pales in comparison with the mirage on .
clear morning which cuts up these mountains
into CASTLES cahedrals, fortresses. espauahes. gar
dens. forests anu every other imaginable thing. or
topples them over, suspends them in the air AZ
will. One can watch the beautiful effects of mirage
in this country with more delightful avidity than
any other one thing that can be presented.
Year: 1878

The trial OF the suit brought by the New York Rem
derng Company against the city to $59 ut 80
claimed TO be due Tor the removal Of offa under
tract originally with the Long Island Bono
Laboratory, such contract being Tor ten years IRON
April s, 1866, and subsequently assigned TO the New
York Renuering Company. which trial was CON-
menced on Thursday last before Judge Van Brunt,
holding supreme Court. Circuit was yesterday brought
To- a close. From the facts, fully published
the beginning of the trial, It will be remembered
that In August 1873, the Board OF Health rescndcd
the contract on the ground that the ofal was not
properly disposed OF, but thrown into the Lower Bay,
thus endan goring the public health, and that tins
account the Board OF Health was made also defend
ant IN the suit Nearly all OF yesterday was occu-
pied in summing up the case, which Vas
followed by lengthy but clear and explicit
charge from Judge Van Brunt The jury was absent
q short time and then brought In verdict Tor the
plaintiffs 473 6l being the amount due for July
1873, Tor which month no payment mad been made.
This verdict will be upnods the action OF the
Board Of Health In its resembling Of the contract and
absoves the city from liability tor work performed by
The contractors subsequently. Mr. John Lawrence APP
peared tor the plaintiffs, Assistant CORPORATION Coun
sci Stetson tor the city and Mr.. +. Prentice for the
Board of Health.
Year: 1878

A few days since little child only
two years of age, daughter of Mr.. For
ry, who resides q short distance from
Hanover, York county, strayed away
from its home accompanied by large
and very intelligent Newfoundland dog,
which is its constant companion. 1t
wandered to the railroad and there sat
down on the track just few moments
before train came laundering along
In the meantime the dog seemed to un-
derstand its danger, went and sat down
beside it and between the child and the
train.


The engineer seeing the dog but not
the child, which was on the other side,
blew the whistle and tried in every way
to scare the dog. The dog refused to
stir, and thinking it strange the fireman
looked again, saw the child, and as it
was too late to stop ran out on the cow
catcher to catch the little one, when
just as the train touched the dog, the
child got off the track then, and not
until then did the dog leave his post,
and barking with delight, and showing
every manifestation of joy followed its
baby mistress. Was it not something
beyond instinct that caused this dumb
animal to interpose between the child
and harm
Year: 1878

A good story is told us of an editor in
a neighboring county, who had made a
trade with tailor by which he was to
receive pair of pantaloons.


Months passed by and the pants were
not ready when one day the tailor had a
law suit in which a lawyer friend of the
EDITORS, now upon the bench, was en-
gagged. To him the editor told his
grievance, adding:


" Now, if you can devise some way to
get those pantaloons for me, / shall be
everlastingly obliged"


The lawyer promised to think of the
matter, and they walked into the court
room. At the lawsuit, just as the tailor
was in the midst of of his testimony, he
was thunder-struck by an inquiry from
the lawyer:


Amt you making pair of pants for
Editor w. 2"
Year: 1878

THE Springville IN. W Journal says:
L Charles Thill is not lank, wild
eyed and long-haired character like the
trapper of the plains, but a muscular
Dutchman, with level head on his
Teutonic shoulders. He keeps hotel and
fills the position of constable in his
town.


On Sunday last citizen of this place
visited New Oregon and hitched his
horse in Thill's shed. The guest left a
brand new whip in the buggy, and that
whip looked very tempting to young
man who CHANGED to gaze upon it, and
the consequence was that when the
Springville man got ready to come home
the whip was gone.


Thill was mortified, as all good land
lords should be, at such an occurrence,
and began search of the premises,
thinking that the thief must have Sc
creted the article to carry away under
cover of darkness.


The shed connects the hotel with the
barn, and beneath the manger which ex-
tends the length of the shed, loose
stone was found in the wall of the sta
bic. On removing the stone the whip
was drawn from the hole. To recover
the whip would be triumph enough for
most men, but our host wasn't satisfied.
He must bring the culprit to Justice
Accordingly he resolved TO watch the





booty. This would be an arduous task
if the fellow should stay away a week.
Thill ruminated. Borrowing large
double-spring rat-trap from neighbor,
he planted it close inside the hole where
the whip had been secreted, anehoring
it firmly by heavy chain to joist, and
then awaited developments.


No one came to claim the prize Sun
day night. Monday passed away with
Year: 1878

THE late Captain John S. Young, for
i many years the head of the detec-
tive police force of New York, was one
afternoon walking up Broadway with
the writer of this article.


A fashionable young lady, in all the
glory of street toilet passed along, and
while passing, eyed keenly, in the usual
woman's way, another lady going in the
opposite direction. Young looked at the
woman minute, and then said emphat-
ically:


81 would give five years of my life if
could tell all about thief as quickly
and as truthfully as woman can tell
about another woman"


There was great deal of force about
Young's remark. Women have an in
stinct about womanly things, which is
finer, more subtitle, and generally more
sure than mans mere reason. They
know each other there is no glover
about their relations; they discount each
other; they can probe all the shams
and subterfuges to which they resort !;
and We're all criminals female, and did
Year: 1878

been employed in the custom house, but
these are rather more " searchers" than
detectives. They are not supposed to
ferret out anything for themselves, but
only to inspect the persons and toilets
of such women as may be suspected of
carrying and concealing about them
contraband goods.


Perhaps the most peculiar line in
which female detectives are to any eX-
tent employed is that of divorce detec-
tives-women who hunt up evidence in
divorce cases, for or against certain spec
ified persons. The divorce detective of
the present day is generally woman,
and very often an attractive woman to
boot.


One of the most notorious female de-
tectives of the day was one of the most
beautiful women in New York, tall,
stately, graceful blonde, without any
verbal exaggeration, "queenly crea-
ture She was the wife of lawyer who
had ain extensive practice in divorce
cases, and aided her husband very mate
rally in his peculiar line of business.


The majority of divorce detectives are
as unscrupulous as they are undoubted-
ly clever. They hesitate at nothing to
procure the necessary evidence against
or for the party. They will manufac-
ture it rather than miss it, and incite
to the very crime which they were paid
to detect.


OF course they are not faithful to their
trust. How can a woman who would
undertake such role as this be faithful
to anything or anybody save her own
| interest A smart A No. | female di-
vorce detective who recently figured in
a famous divorce case, acted both for the
man and his wife. To the husband she
reported the piccadilloes of his wife, to
the lady she narrated the iniquities of
the husband. On two separate occasions
she entrapped the husband in the inter-
est of the woman, and so to make mat
ters even she subsequently entrapped
the woman in the interests of the man !;
she even went so far in one episode of
the case to personate one of the parties
in the suit, and then to give evidence
about herself in her assumed charac-
ter.


True, these little tricks were finally
exposed through the ingenuity of a
detective employed by the husband, but
not until vast deal of unnecessary
mischief had been done, and not until
the divorce detective herself had secured
nearly $4,000 for her services from the
two equally betrayed employers.


Surely the female detective has it
in her power to become an institu-
ton.
Year: 1878

out visitant to the place of secretion.
Night came on, and young man of the
place spent the evening at the hotel
When he abade adieu to the host it was
past ten o'clock, and the landlord pre-
pared to retire for the evening, forget
ting all about the transaction of the day
before.


He had hardly disrobed himself, how
ever, when cry of help greeted his ear,
and the cry came from the shed. Others
heard the alarm, and long before the
floor could be taken up to loose the trap
quite crowd had congregated to wit
ness the young mans humiliation.


Sprawled out under the manger, with
one arm through the hole in the wall
and one finger in the merciless jaws of
the trap, he presented picture of dire
distress. Could he have got his head
through the hole and gnawed that fin
ger off it would have given him pleas
ure to have done so but he didn't hap
pen to be rat, and that thing was an
imposibility so, humiliating as it was,
he had to cry out to the landlord for de-
liverance and in calling the landlord he
called the constable also. The young
man isof good family and had hitherto
borne good name.
Year: 1878

One of the most remarkable cases of
instinct we ever heard of came under
our personal observation a few days
ago.


Mr.. Deveaux, the County Jailer, was
presented with a small pig by friend
living about four miles from town, and
it was tied by him in the Courthouse
yard.


The pig was not over four weeks old
and was brought the whole distance in
a sack. On Friday morning last Mr..
Deveaux united it and did not notice it
particularly. In the evening he noticed
that it had strayed off. On Saturday
morning his friend informed that the
pig had returned to his farm and was
with its mother, it having succeeded in
making its way from town to the place
of its nativity. The journey was the
more remarkable, as the way to be
traversed was first across Briton's Bay,
which is half mile wide, and thence
through the enclosure of three FARMS
The pig was seen by some colored men
while crossing the bay, who tried to in
tercept il, but it eluded them and escaped
to the cornfleld in the direction of home.
st. Mary's (Md.) Beacon.
Year: 1878

During the past month we have been
clearing our stock of old goods, and are
now left with a line of new and desirable
styles for the Spring trade. Our store,
which is the most commodious in the city
or State, occupying three floors, and with
enterprise back of it. Our intention is this
season TO outdo all former efforts to make
the Boston One Price Clothing House the
place TO buy Clothing and Gents Furn-
ishing Goods. With the confidence of the
public that FIVE YEARS SQUARE
DEALING has not impaired, and our es-
tablished system of Cash and One Price
to all, we feel assured the present season
will prove successful one. Visit our store
and look at our immense stock of Ready
Made Clothing for Men, Youths, Boys
and Children.
Year: 1878

Mr.. Disraeli does not rest as well as he
hoped he would after his grand reception
II is one thing TO be loved by the people
but it is quite another to know that the love
of the people is deseryed-that it is not
founded in vain ambition and selfishness
These little matters no doubt disturb the
rest of Lord Beaconsfield and make it nat.
ter of wonder whether il would not have
been just as well for the English people
and the world at large if the San Stefanc
treaty had stood and that the Berlin Con,
gress had never met.
Year: 1878

1t is probable that we have seen the worst
OF the present heated term, but for the next
month or six weeks We must expect much
hot weather. The utmost care should still
he taken in avoiding all unnecessary exer.
tion and exposure, and all excesses in eat.
ing or drinking. For those who have rea.
son to fear that they are peculiarly liable
to prostration by the heat, dose of from
two to four grains Of quinine taken every
morning in not more than wine-glass oi
whiskey, will be found extremely beneficial


The price Of quinine varies from j to .
cents per grain. 1t is better to pay thi.
price than to resort to the cheaper prepare.
tions of Peruvian bark, such as cinchoni


dia, guinidia and cinchonia. All Of these
are good-but none are so good as quirine
Year: 1878

The facility with which the newspapers
are now nominating candidates for the
Presidency is quite remarkable. 1t is a
very difficult thing, however, to keep any
candidate for more than few hours without
spelling in this weather.
Year: 1878

Since Mr.. Halstead as secured reduc-
tion in the price of lager beer, more prop
erly speaking, an enlargement of the size OF
the giass-which is of more importance 10
the average drinker-it is singular how
easily men are converted to his theory re-
garding the bad effects of ice water Read
ing the Commercial carefully for the last
month has convinced us that water as a
beverage is the most insipid and unhealthy
drink in use.
Year: 1878

What nights were the nights on the
old plantation! The mellow light of the
harvest moon crept through the rustling
leaves of the tail oaks, fell softly upon
the open space beyond, and bathed the
brown old barn in flood of golden glory,
while the songs Of the negroes at the
corn-pile--lusty chorus and plaintive
refrain -shoOk the silence until it broke
upon the air in iar.reaching waves OF
melody.


But alas, all these are gone. The
moon pursues her pathway as sereDely as
of old, but she no longer looks down upon
the scenes that were familiar to your
youth. The old homestead and the barn
are given up to decay, and the songs OF
the negroes have been hushed into silence
by the necessities OF a new dispensation.
The old plantation itself has gone. 1t
has passed away, but the hand of time,
iuexorable and yet tender, has woven
about it the sweet suggestions of poetry
and rOmance-memOrials that neither
death nor decay can Destroy Atlanta
Herald,