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Year: 1877

-Ltfe's sands are running fast away;


The buoyant step OF Youth has gonei
The falling hair is turning gray,


And Time seems now to hurry on
More feetly than in da,s of yore-


BEFORE the heart became its prey
Before twas saddeEed to the core


Before the hair was tnrning gray.
Yes, turning grayI Age comes like snow
As still-and carvts each careworn line;
Its wrinkles on the brow will grow:


The hair with silvery streaks will shine;
The eyes their bri rightness lose; the hand
Grow dry and tremulous and thin
For life, alas is quickly snapped,


And Death its gate soon closes in.
All turning gray! we fain would hide
The sign how long with time We've Leen
These deepening wrinkles side by side,
Cut by the Sorrows we have seen,
For feeble beats the heart IL years


More thickly cluster on our head


On some fair flower that's nearly dead.
Like perished petal from the flower,


Our hopes ami widest joys are lain;
Born only for day or hour,


Sweet gambols by the fancy played,
As age comes on, we long for rest,


AS saints near shrincs will long to pray
But st:n we love that time the best


Before the hair is turning gray.
Year: 1877

A man fell asleep as the clock tolled
the first stroke of twelve. He ava
kened ere the echo of the twelfth
stroke had died away, having in the
interval dreamed that he had commit
ted a crime, was detected after five
years, tried aud condemned the shock
of finding the halter around his neck
aroused him to consciousness, when
he discovered that all these events had
happened in an intinitesimal fragment
of time. Mohammed, wishing to il
lustrate tho wonders of sleep, told how
a certain man, being sheik, found
himself, tor his pride, made a poor
fisherman ; that he lived as one for six
years, bringing up family and work
ing hard, aud how, upon waking up
from his long dream, so short time
had he been asleep that the narrow
necked gourd bottle, filed with water
which he knew he overturned rs he
fell asleep, had not time 10 empty
itself. How fast the soul travels when
the body is asleep! Often when we
wake we shrink from going back into
the dull routine Of sordid existence.
regretting the pleasanter life of dream
land. How is it that sometimes when
we go to a strange place we fancy
that we have seen it before? Is it
possible that when one has been
asleep the soul has f1oated away, seen
the place, and has the memory of it
which so surprises us? In q word,
how far dual is the life of man, how
far not?
Year: 1877

OF July and general training as holi-
days. The general trainings were usu-
ally held on the farm of Mr.. Spellman,
of Rootstown. Sometimes they would
inaugurate 3 sham fight, which we
boys thought was a great and a grand
thing to behold. But oh the ginger
bread of those days, how good it
tasted !! was saying that those were
days of toll, at least with us. l then
often wished that could do as some
boys did, whom knew. They could
go fishing or hunting any of the seven
days of the week, and l was obliged
to do six full days work, and go to
meeting on the Sabbath. q, how l
then wished 1 could change places
with some of those boys, but I have
never seen the time since then when l
would change places with any of them.
1 am persuaded that industry and ap-
plication, however distasteful they
may be at the time, are nevertheless
the best things for boys.


In those days we occasionally had
big hunt. The people would arrange
themselves in lines on the four sides
of an unsettled township, on a day
agreed on. At nine o'clock in the
morning of that day tin horn would
sound On one of the corners, and be
repeated along the lines till it came
back to where it commenced, then all
marched tor the center, killing the
game as they went. The last part was
the exciting time, when deer, bears,
wolves, and all other kinds were slain
in great numbers. Edinburgh was
Que of those towns SO surrounded.
Game was plenty then. 1 have often
seen hundreds of wild turkeys in our
meadow at one time, and never shot
at one in my life. While at work on
the edge of the forest l have seen
deer brousing in the woods apparent
ly as little afraid of me as l was OF
them.


What long days aud years those
were. l now sometimes detect myself
in thinking, If not saying, l lived in
Ravenna the most of my life. But
when l count it up find it was only
from the age OF 8 to Is years. l have
been in Michigan now near so years.
and it does not seem SO long as did
those ten boyhood years. l cannot
call to mind when your father came to
Ravenna. / think it must have been
before my father came there.


O. G. THOMPSON.
Year: 1877

out being driven into the shambles of


insolvency. That is what the people


want but they are only sheep in the
hands of the shearers.


After dwelling upon the experience
OF England in resumption sixty years
ago, Mr.. Ewing went ON to defend the
yreenbacks with which internal taxeR
could be paid and that were gladly re-
ceived for all labor and property.


What more was wanted of money. AS


the evils of depreciation, he said:
ask what mischief are the people sui
fering by the fact that gold is worth .
trifle more than green5acka? Gold
has never been q common currency


with US, and never will be. We have


Always had paper, and always will as
the peoples currency, except for email
change. The greenbacks are infinitely
better than the bank currency before
the war, and better than will be the
bank currency after resumption which
must necessarily tiuctuate in quantity


with the ebb and flow of the precious
metals that redeem them. Gold ia the
most unstable in price of all the COM
modities, partly because the quantity
produced is very fluctuating, but
chiefly because it is used by several
great nations as basis for expanded
paper currency, and therefore flies
back and forth with ev cry fitful change
in the finances, crops and politics of
Europe. Yet every rise or fall in gold
now is charged by the resumptionists
to the greenbacks as shallow pretext
tor their destruction. 1t is the old
case of the wolf and the lamb at the
ford. Mr.. Sherman says deprecated
currency cheats and robs every man
who receives it OF portion Of the re-
ward of his labor or production. ask
you were you cheated and robbed
from 1865 to 1868, when the volume Of
currency was full and gold at . high
psemium, or of late years, when the
paper currency was shrunk and the
premium on gold gone down. Prices
of commodities were higher when the
currency was full, but SO were wages.
Enforced idleness and half time were
unknown, for every productive energy
was in play, ministering TO the wants
Of men. Workingmen have suffered,
and are suffering in common with all
the industrial classes, chiefly from 8
dishonest management of our debt and
currency exclusively in the interest of
the money power. That wrong must
be righted, as far as possible by the
repeal of the Resumption law by the
tull reconciliation and unlimited
coinage of the old silver dollar by the
substitution of Treasury notes for
bank notes by bringing the gold dol p
lar down aud the silver dollar up
through making them equally by law,
as they are by contract, payable for
principal and interest of the whole
public debt, and, finally, by keeping
the greenbacks ut par with both coins
by making them, equally with coir.
payable for customs. TO every one
of these n .sures of reform the DEM
ocratic party of OHIO is pledged by its
platforms of 1875, 1876 and 1877, aud
the great body of the Democrats in
Congress are committed by repeated
votes, while the Republican party is
against them all.
Year: 1877

''MuM Sociahles" for the benefit of
churches are fashionable in the South.
The guests are obliged to sit "mum"
for half an hour, and any one speak
ing must forfeit nickel for each word.
AT "mum" party the other night a
wicked young man whispered some
thing in the ear of an old maid, and in
less than ten minutes she forfeited $50
worth of nickles, and was compelled
to appoint receiver before the hall
hour expired.
Year: 1877

While some men were at work down the
Potomac River day or twoago, dredging
for oysters, one of the workmen came
across what he regarded as an unusually
large and fine oyster. The man pressed
one of his fingers into the partly opened
shell, when, to his utter astonishment.
something inside took firm hold of his
finger, and when he forcibly abstracted it
he experienced considerable pain and found
it somewhat lacerated. His suspicion and
surprise were by this time excited, and he
at once opened the shell, and was astonish-
ed to find that it contained curious ami
NAL, several inches long, completely filling
the cavity Of the shell. This animal very
much resembles what is commonly called
water-dog, except that it has no feet The
head is similar to that of catfish, with q
large mouth full of fine teeth. Just back
of its head are two large lobes, which give
it little the appearance of small bull
dog. The man who had his finger bitten
suffered considerably, and it was much
infiamed. The animal, whatever it may
prove to be, must have made its access to
the shell when small, destroying the oyster
it found as the natural tenant, and grew
up to its present size within the calcareous
prison usurped by itself. The creature has
been placed in the hands of a competent
scientific man who will determine what it
is Washington Nation.
Year: 1877

One Of the most diminntive motors that
has ever come under our notice that could
be put to a practical use, says the AmerScan
Miller, was turbine on exhibition at the
Centennial. The tube is three inches long
and fye-eighths of an inch in diameter,
with an oblique inlet; designed for attach
ing it tc the faucet of water pipe. On
entering the tube by the inlet, the water
passes stationary wheel provided with
series of radial vanes, and leaving these it
strikes similar Wheel which is caused to
rotate by the spiral motion which the water
has acquired by passing through the yanes
of the stationary wheel. A spindle and
pulley connect with this wheel, and to the
pulley is attached an endless cord, through
which motion can be transmitted to ma
chimes requiring moderate amount Of
force to propel them. Tho water, having
been utilized, is conveyed away by close
fitting rubber conduit which is drawn eyer
the outlet OF the pipe. This little turbine,
for in principle it is nothing less. can be
untitled ia variety Of household opera
tions. One Of the dimensions stated above
win furnish power sufficient % propel 4
saving machine.
Year: 1877

Attorney y contract
The contract binds Territory
Territory Pteny
subject should receive careful consideration
statistics contained the the Territorial Auditor totally unreliable
Of the attempt execute the law saved
The report of the Society
your made commendabe the labor
connected with the history the Territory The first vol
published
the Society The
have report Supreme
counting for the appropriations Library years
AS Territory officers,
has the Terri



enable him carefully to preserve the
The Executive order increasing the area Of the Of the Crow Indians
made parties connected with Indian and the facts
presented to the President he very readily revoked the order
The the Auditors and Offices examined
predecessors respectfully
Of the with
The estimated yield Territory g copper
year ending June so 1876 s.23a,4ss9a





In pursuance Congress approved
requison War Montana
cartridges property belongs Territory carefully
proof building this city subject the pleasure the The freight
Territory be made for its
keep the good regularly
gzed militia making the officers
The organization of the
Territory organizations
demanded by consideration Of public safety
tribes of Indians the Territory that become hostile when
expected should under regulations the and discipline

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militia community acting
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friend popular following Report
Whole enumbe of school 4sn
Number districts
Number attending during s734
Pc cent.of children enrolled attending school .61
Number
length of school days 100
school during
school during
Superintendent of Public Instruction submitted
Iaskfo your careful favorable consideration

















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safeguards
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prohibiting
quang labor
week. called
provisions
a.
concuon Accept e for
good cooperation;
accomplished legislation
will gratitude
the people of Montana. BENZ. F. POTTS.
Year: 1877

illustrates tho Piano War by a Dog
story, and Gives tho Bottom Facts.
Last week at the Tombs court, New
York city, before Judge Duffy, two claim
ants appeared for and with handsome
Newfoundland dog. AS neither had any
corroborative evidence, the astute judge
decided that the instinct Of the dog himself
would be the surest test Of ownership. A
policeman was ordered to hold the dog in
the center of the court room, while one
claimant was placed on one side of the
room, the other on the opposite side. Both
were ordered to whistle for the dog at a
signal from the judge, the dog to be re-
leased at the same time, and choose between
the claimants.


The judge called time each claimant
whistled to thebest of his ability. Police
man let go the dog (; but the dog, after
looking at the judge and surveying the
scene, escaped through the door, and
sought elsewhere its rightful owner.


A similar scene has been enacted for the
past two weeks among the piano men. A
couple OF piano-forte manutacturers-both
honorable men-hsve been whistling their
respective centennial awards through the
public press, with about as much success
as the claimants had with the dog.


The prize belongs elsewhere.


Stripped, then, of all verbiage, subter-
fuge, elimination and recrimination, law
suits, and all side issues simply intended to
befog the public, the naked facts as to the
centennial awards are just these


Most of the leading manufacturers re-
ceived nearly the same recognition in re-
gard to workmanship. Durability the
commission could only guess at. The
only real distinction was made by the jury
as to the TONE of the pianos exhibited.


The piano, violin, and every other musi-
cal instrument is valued and purchased
for its


Thus, then, the Baltomore house is given
an award for general excellence in the
requisites Of a first-class instrument in
power Of tone," to which the commission
added singing quality.


The New York house for "largest vol
ume, purity and duration of tone"


Whereas to WEBER is awarded "sympa.
thetic, pure, and rich tone, combined with
greatest power"


Comment as to which is the highest
award would be an insult to the intelligent
musical public.


Let them be the Judges as to who is the
rightful owner of the centennial prize.


Suffice it to say that the Weber aware
contains all that Is possible in piano-fortt
--"sympathy, purity, richness, and great
est power"


In short, a soul in piano. A. WEBER


MCCLURE & HALL,


RUTLAND,


Agents for the Weber Piano.
Year: 1877

The project of colOnizing the free blacks of
the United States has had, since its beginning,
a good many ups and downs. At first, it was
forwarded with very tOerable degree of en-
thusiasm, and received the support of many of
our best public characters, of the churches, of
the wealthy benevolent. After the Abolition
excitement had reached its height, ITS
warmer promoters having seen fit to regard
the Colonization Society rs an enemy of the
cause, denounced it, with or without reason; I;
and to some purpose, for the emigration fell
to almost nothing, though the parent society
still maintained its organization The abOli-
ton of slavery alters the whole face of the
matter. Ii leaves the cOored people them
selves To Judge of the comparative desirablity,
to themselves personally, of going or of re-
manning. They are no longer tempted to sub
nit TO expatration as the condition of eman-
cipatiOn. They are exactly upon the footing of
white people, who seriously consider whether
they shall better their condition by going West
or remaining where they are. No element Of
undue influence is brought To bear. No ques-
ton of caste, OF personal liberty, or of self
respect is involved THIS being the case, there
is no reason why thousands of negroes should
not determine to cast their fortunes in the land
OF their ancestors, and to join a community
wholly of their own race-or, putting all ques-
tons of race aside, should not conclude to go
to Liberia because it offers an opportunity Of
Year: 1877

If Mr.. Woodin's friends would urge that
Tweed has now entered upon the realm OF the
grossly improbable, they must do so In lace
of the fact that for years past he has been be-
lieved guilty of this very crime by a. portion
ut least, OF his own party. Another point Is
Twceds declaration that the money was
paid for votes in the Republican eau
Gus upon the charter, and not for votes
in the Senate. The device of caucus
action by which Republican Senators could
Justify their votes and divert suspicion OF
bribery from themselves, was, if Tweed tells
the truth, his own cunning suggestion ms
statement seems to throw n strange light on
the line of defence which the accused
Senators adopted. They have almost uni
formly justified themselves IN exactly TINS
way. Tweed may have invented the whole
story afterward, but it would have been just
as easy to conceive the idea beforehand, ana
it seems far more probable. Perhaps another
point is, that this charge is just the same as
that which he made last Spring IN his "con-
"fession.n He certainly adheres to his story.


We repeat, this is all the actual information
the public, in all probability, will get about
Mr.. Woodin's case. We shall look with interest
for the verdict that must be passed upon 1t by
the Republican electors of the XXVth Scna-
toral District
Year: 1877

advancing their material condition ana gives
their children better prospect of assured pros
penty. They are not driven Off; they are
asked to submit to nothing like compulsory
exile; they control their own movements; they
are free agents, and IN some cases they may
show themselves filter for freedom, than some
have thought them, by taking this very step.


A statement is made upon the authority OF
Mr.. b. f. Porter President of the lhberan
Exodus Association, in Charleston, ,. u, that
in that State alone $4,000 persons have signi-
fed their desire to be transported to LiDeria'
In North Carolina there is a similar assocla-
ton. Fifty-one persons mostly III famines'
wish to 90 to Liberia this Autumn, offering
$1,1O5 as their own contribution to the ex-
penses of the voyage and outfit. In Selma,
Ala, it is stated that 900 wish to go, beng
"willing to pay all they have to get away.
Probably authentic reports from all parts or
the South would give similar facts.


We should be sorry to believe that anything
like oppression or even of poverty and scarci-
ty of employment, were the occasion OF tins
desire to emigrate; nor is there any reason TO
suppose such to he the case This wish to try
the experiment of colonization probably arises
from spirit of enterprise perfectly honorable
to those who are possessed by it. If freed
man prefers to remain here and face manfully
all the disadvantages of his situation, for him,
too, we should have the same respect. Whetn-
er he emigrates or not, if he is sober, indus
trious and thrifty, he is serving his race IN
his day and generation. If he elects to labor
upon the African rather than the American
continent, we do not see why he should not
have liberty of choice, and such help as he
may absolutely need in his peculiar condition
Year: 1877

The opening of the Toxic Exhibition de-
notes further progress in Japan. This native
enterprise is designed to enable foreigners to
learn the resources of the Empire, as well to
excite greater interest i'll home industry.
Should it be entirely successful, the japanese
Government will doubtless persevere in its
intention to hold an international Exhibition
in 1880. The overthrow of the rebellion will
enable it to give the project greater atten-
ton.
Year: 1877

Our London letter gives us some account of
the profound concern with which the news of
the death of Theirs was heard in England
and on the Continent The just and discriml-
mating estimate, which the letter embodIes, of
the character and achievements of the great
Republican leader comes from the hand Of a
correspondent whose knowledge of European
politics is full and thorough and has been the
result of long and intelligent observation.
Year: 1877

In State where, on a vote of more than
half million, there is narrow margin be-
tween the parties of sometimes only three or
four thousand votes, eyN small blunder is a
dangerous thing The letter of a staff corre-
spondent from Toledo, printed elsewhere
seems TO reflect the opinion that the change
in the Postmastershlp in that city may cause
serious embarrassment to the Republicans OF
Ohio. If it should prove to be So there will
be;reason for the reflection that a Reform policy
should know no exceptions.
Year: 1877

THE PRESIDENT AND THE New Con
GREss.--It is stated that the President
doubts whether he has the power to
call session of the new House of Rep
resentatives in case there is no presi-
dental election by the 4th of March.
A President going out of Office on the
4th of March has no more right to call
a s ecial session of Congress on the
9th of March, when he is funtats oticio,
than he has to call upon that body to
assemble on the 4th of July following
his retirement. 1t has heretofore been
customary for the outgoing President
to simply request the Senate to assem-
BILE on the day when the incoming
President is to be inaugurated.
Year: 1877

For A CENTURY past has the Old GAZETTE .. ,f
Been a Wachnan true and tried sentinel,
Keeping ward from the time OF the National birth.
Keeping guard at the the gates 20 Of Il the proud edeli
Noting facts they passed into true History. ,'e
We have passed all the way with unfalterng steps ft
The evenul stairs of a full hundred years,
Through the old generations long since dead and gone
Come wish oar kind Patrons HArI'Y NEW YEAR
came to your grand-father with the cheer
Through the bright that filed every bosom with ioy
Through periIs that tried sorcy tried good mems souls
No: Famine war, pestilence, fire and the flood
But united our people for one common good.
Now civil dissensions are famed to flame
by the who of all men disorders should quel;
Wien people ask peace does he give them the sword
When the ballot prison ~ But , why Why should we tell
When the people themselves put him twice in his place?
Gods loving bountes are plenty and good


our harvests are full, and our seasons fair,
We have all that the most favored people could wish
Gods good, but man spos by his greed and his lust
Half the bessd things the good Father sends accurs
But there trouble that would not give way
~ To vigorous combat of. Of virtue eu5t and dr. right
So coss and It's aD o%r U UJy an %
Fight fight for we know they will win the good cause
need not despair tho corruption is rife,


Nor esteem every government placeman a knave,
In this Land of the Free and this Home of the Brave
Aye remains all unsulied in humbest homes,
And It's thence that the vengeance tho long delayd
So wait, and we trust, and we watch, and pray,
Well assured there will come, with grand jubilee


Better times, better men, and pure government.
Good old times good old rule and a nation
In the first rank of nations as ours was before.
There is life, there is strength in the old nation yet,


And our trust will not falter, faith will not fade
Where Virtue is deathess and Hope undismayedT
For good time coming before next NEW YEAR


THE CARRIERS.
Year: 1877

committee that he had satisfied himself
that the only way to put a stop to these
raids was to follow the outlaws across
the line. Texan officers and planters
gave similar evidence. 1t was shown
that these cattle stealing expeditions are
organized and fitted out by the local
political authorities, and that the busi-
ness isso Systematically followed that
the price of beef in the markets of some
Mexican towns depends upon the supply
of stolen Texan cattle.