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Year: 1877

The carelessness of persons who would
be most likely to know the dangers to
which they are exposing themselves was
illustrated recently in San Francisco.
Some two years ago as vessel was on
the way to San Francisco from Yokoha-
ma, when in midocean the shaft broke
and the steamer was completely disabled.
1t was believed by the captain that it
would be necessary to go to the Hawaiian
islands fol repairs, but the chief engineer,
Ojeda, determined to attempt to repair
the shaft without seeking port. For
eight days and nights gang Of men
were employed in drilling the monster
shaft, the broken pieces being brought
together with screw jacks, all the tools
for the work being made on shipboard
At the expiration of the eighth day the
hole was drilled through, an iron pin was
inserted, the fracture was covered with
band, and the vessel was brought safely
to port. For his skill the engineer re-
ceived the greatest praise. A few days
ago, having occasion to shift belt in n
silver refinery in San Francisco where he
is now employed, this engineer allowed
his sleeve to be caught in the machinery,
and was whirled around the shaft, suffer-
ing serious fracture of the arm and
narrowly escaping death.
Year: 1877

A delegation headed by Nathan Apple
ton, of Boston, waited upon President
Hayes, and subsequently upon the Sec
retary of State, with regard to the repre-
sentation of this government at the Paris
exposition next year. Congress having
failed to appropriate the 100000 pro-
posed for this object, this delegation in
tend to raise sufficient amount to in
sure the recognition of the United States
at the exposition. While the President
has n> authority of law to designate any
one as commissioner, it is not improba-
BILE, in the absence of Legislation, that he
will request certain gentlemen to repre-
sent the United States unofficially. It
was proposed by the delegation to open
in Washington, Philadelphia and New
York Offices in connection with the expo
sition. The State of Connecticut has
already provided for commission, and
it is probable that other States will fol-
low its example. Should there be an
extra session of Congress, the President
will communicate with it in regard to
the exposition, and ask that official rep
resentation to it he authorized.
Year: 1877

The Harrington (Tenn.) Republican


says: Monday evening Mollie Sim


mons died very suddenly in the woods


near the depot. The evening WAS


cloudy and bitterly cold. The scene


presented to tho view of the first who


reached the spot was one that will be


long remembered On tho bank of the
creek was a group of three depraved


women, and as many dirty, half-frozcn
with bare feet and arms, hud-
died about burning log in the vain
hope Of keeping warm. Some old calico
and domestic cloths spread upon the
ground was their bed. The dead woman
lao flat upon the ground, with no cover
ing over her and only shawl under her
head. She seemed to be about twenty
years old, and would have been pretty
woman had she not led such dissolute
life; her hands and feet were small and
well shaped; mass of dark curly hair
clustered low over her brow, and her
lips slightly apart disclosed set of
pearly teeth. Some kindly hand had
crossed her hands upon her bosom, and
she looked as serenely in this last long
sleep of hers as though she was the
purest of girls. The circumstance of
her death was told by one of the women
rs follows: "Mollie had been complain
ing all day, but refused to take some
medicine the doctor left; she started to
go up town few minutes before she
lied. She hadn't gone more than two
hundred yards before she turned around,
and running back threw her arms around
my neck, saying: ooh, God! I'm going
TO die, and am willing She died in
ny arms, and laid her there. She's
better off now than I am." On the
person was found the photo
graph of young man in cadet uni
'orm. The picture was placed i'll her
land and buried with her.
Year: 1877

A Thomas county cotton planter has


tried to put the initiative traits of the


monkey to practical use in the field. He
thought that if he should put number
of monkeys into cotton field, in com
,pany with lot Of negroes who would


begin picking cotton industriously, it
would not be long before the monkeys
would follow suit. So he procured some
two hundred from South America, and
made the experiment. 1t worked to
charm. No sooner did the monkeys per-
ceive the negroes seize the cotton bush
and strip it of its heecy fruit, than they
did the same with greater quickness and
much more certain hand-carrying along
no trash. 1t was magnificent. The
planter saw fortune smiling upon him IT.;
he stood in the field and watched them
all day they picked twice as much as
the most experienced cotton pickers
among the negroes. He dreamed OF it
all night, and, early next morning, went
off to call in all his neighbors to see the
triumph of his IDEAS. But, alas, when
he returned he found his field abandoned.
The negroes had betaken themselves to
the shade of the neishboring forest, and
were splitting their sides laughing at tho
antics of the monkeys, and all his per.
suasion could not get them back to work,
so long as the queer movements of the
monkeys were to be watched and enjoy
ed. The experiment soon ended by each
negro adopting q monkey and marching
off in the night to parts unknown, aban-
doning, for it's sake, wife, children and
dogs, and the planter was left lamenting
with his cotton in the field.
Year: 1877

The proportions of salt and lime, of
which | make u mixture, is one bushel
of salt TO three bushels of Stacked lime.
This mixture put in cistern. hogs.
head or barrel, and keep it filled with
water placing the cistern in the ground,
on one side where ! make heap OF
manure. In former years when carried
on quite a large farming business, and
kert five horses, and other stock, built
a manure shed adjoining my horse stable,
of the same length as the stable. The
floor of the stable was slightly inclined
10 the rear, aud all of the urine would
run TO the hack part. Here ! left an
Opening into the manure shed, and made
a water tight floor, descending from both
sides to the centre. In the centre, and
under this floor l placed tight trough
emptyibg into the cistern. Upon this
floor the manure was thrown every day
from the stables. The liquid in the els.
tern was pumped over the manure two
OF three times week, and all thesurplus
which was not absorbed by the manure,
run back into the cistern. When the
water was exhausted, an additional
quantity was supplied. By this method,
all the animal excrements, both solid and
liquid, were preserved.


The effect Of this mode of procedure is
to preserve the whole of the manure
without exposure to the sun or the rains,
and thus evaporation and washing away
are both prevented, and, consequently, a
large saving of the most valuable parts
Of the manure. The direct effect OF this
salt and lime mixture upon the manure
is TO hasten decomposition, while all the
properties OF the manure are preserved
TO destroy the terminating power Of foul
seeds, which usually are such terror to
the farmer, and to reduce the whole mass,
coarse or fine, to such a condition as will
enable the workingmen to handle and
use it as they would ground gypsum, or
any other fine fertilizer. Whenever the
mass becomes warm, and likely to " fire.
fang" set the pumps to work. and qui-
etus will be placed on it at once. have
generally kept in the stable barrel OF
ground gypsum, which have sprinkled
around the stalls two or three tiIhes a
week, which prevents the rising of the
carbonate of ammonia from the decom-
posing excrements, in the stable, which
ia no destructive to the eyes and luugs OF
horses. BY this process, an almost un-
limited amount Of the very best manure
may be made on the farm in year.
And the beauty Of the operation is, that
you know of what IL is composed, and
ton for ton Is worth more than any arti.
fetal fertilizer which you can buy at
from $50 TO $40 per ton.-L v MaDes.
Year: 1877

Gen. Egbert L. Niele read paper
before the New York academy of science,
last Monday night. which is OF great
scientific interest. The subject discussed
was the relations between malaria and
vegetation, and in laying the foundation
for this the consideration of the relations
existing between the animal and vege
table Kingdoms in the lower forms OF
organic life. The solution of the causes
of disease, especially malarial diseases,
Gen. Niele believes will be found in the
parallel lines of cellular development in
plant life, where the animal and vegeta-
bic are almost Identical passing in some
Instances from the one kingdom into the
other with the facility OF a mere change
Of garment.


In the ascending scale of the great line
of demarcation which first develops IT.
sell, is the all important fact that the
refuse Of the one is the life Of the other.
This led him to infer that somewhere in
this border line between these two great
kingdoms of nature there must be Just
equilibrium of the normal elements OF
vitality, the destruction OF which may
be the true cause Of most OF the evils
which have been entailed upon our
existence. In great cities, he said, the
surroundings Of nature are removed and
the equilibrium Of the natural forces is
destroyed by the preponderance OF
animal life.


Malaris, he said, signifies bad air,
while miasma has been more sharply
defined as infection floating in air; but
no definition, however full or precise,
can give anything like an adequate con-
ceptlon of the wonderful potentiality and
universal presence of the morbifc prin-
ciplc which is known as malaria. Mias-
matte or malarial diseases include all
those specific disorders which are
contaeiously or which may become cpl
demic, and to these are due nearly three
fitths of all the deaths which take place
throughout the world. Alter referring
to the fact that the physical health OF
all human beings improves in the
atmosphere Of the country where vegeta-
tion fourishes, Gen. Viele spoke OF Prof
Tyndars sdemonstration that even minute
particles OF the air are vital organism
developed under favoring circumstances
into actual living creatures. In this one
simple experiment, he said, is the whole
secret OF contagion
Year: 1877

| have known country society which
withered away TO nothing under the dry
rot OF gossip only. Friendships, once as
firm as granite, dissolved to jelly, and
then ran away to water only because of
this; love that promised future as en-
during and a. stable as truth, evapora, ed
into n morning mist that turned to a
days long tears, only because Of this; n
father and son were set foot to foot
with the fiery breath of an anger that
would never cool again between them
and husband and young wife, each
straining at the hated lash which in the
beginning had been the promise of a
God blessed love, Eat mournfully by the
side of the grave where all their love and
all their Joy lay buriedy and all because
of this. have seen faith transformed
to mean doubt, joy give place to grim
despair, and charity take on itself the
features of black malevolence, all be-
cause of the fell words of scandal, and
the magic mutterings of gossip. Great
crimes work great wrong, and the deeper
tragedies of human life spring from the
larger passions; but woeiul and most
mournful the shipwreck often made of
noble natures and lovely lives by the
bitter winds and dead salt waters of
SANDER. SO easy to say, yet SO hard to
disprove-throwing on the innocent all
the burden and the strain of demonstra.
ting their innocence, and furnishing them
as guilty il unable to pluck out the
stings they never see, and to silence
words they never hear-gossip and
slander are the deadlest and cruelest
weapons man has ever forged for his
brothers heart.-AH ,he Year Round.
Year: 1877

A duty assigned to the police was to
watch all strangers that came into the
city, and whittle every suspicious person
out of town. This whiting process was
peculiar. Some ten or fifteen Mormons
would get around the man they wanted
to drive away, each with keen ground
butcher knife, and a piece of soft wood
in his hand. They would crowd close up
to him and commence whiting, all cut
ting toward him, but no one apparently
paying the least attention to the stranger.
Surrounded and threatened thus, the
poor man was compelled to retreat from
the town. On his retreat he was sur
rounded by whittlers whiting, whit
tling. some of them make skittish lunges
toward his breast and arms. If he took
his escort quietly, very well II he was
foolish enough to resist or threaten, he
was very likely to be put out Of the way.
From Supplemental Confession Of j hn
d. Ice.
Year: 1877

We make suggestion which We
think will efcc,ually silnace all those
who opposc the convention on tie
score Of economy, and, besides, will
give general satisfaction throughout
the State.


This suggestion is ,iat, after pass
inc a bill calling the convention that
the Legislature pass it's revenue anu
approprigiion bills and then adjourn
sine die. As we have stated Ill the
suggestion he Legislature need not
occnpv mere than ten days in The
transaction Of this business, and that
the amount Of money or so macA
thereof as might be needed would oe
saved to be applied to deiraying the
expenses of the constitutional con-
vcntion.


In so far as the legislature is con-
ccrned. it can effect but little more in
the wav of reform, than it has already
done, under the present constitution
Therefore, where would be the use o.
its remaining in session 60 days at
heavy expense to the State, wrang
ling over bills that if passed would il
all probability be wiped out by th'
new constitution


We throw out this suggestion 70
the consideration Of the people an(
the press of the State and we invite
full discussion of the point suggested
--B0ioR R0ugc Ad,'ccate
Year: 1877

Now is the day of salvation. II
Ripley can't raise thirty or forty
thousand dollars for a railroad, all
her manufacturers and workingmen
should pick up their traps and go to
some place that has a little more en-
prise. When such towns as George
town and New Richmond march to
the front to the tune of forty thou
sand each, we can not hold back
without being disgraced eternaIy
and commercially dishOnored and ru-
ined. Those who have given, nearly
all express their willingness to doub-
le their subscriptions if necessary.
Let it be impressed upon your minds
that it is necessary. Such subscript-
ions as those we now have will new
er turn q locomotive wheel. Every
man must go down into his pocket
in earnest. This is no child's play.
Georgetown has already realized in
the increase of business and advance
|. in values more than ten times what
the road has cost her, and her bene-
fits from the enterprise are light
compared to what will be those Of
Ripley. If our people will only wake
up and realize the fact that this is q
bona tied effort and means business
they may by light expenditure now
save the loss of millions in the fu.
ture. We can not hold manufact
urers, we cannot hold commerce
against the advancing tide of sur
rounding progress, unless we place


ourselves abreast of the age, anC
keep there Ripley Bee.
Year: 1877




While the reports in reference to


the growing corn crop are exceeding


favorable. it must be admitted that
the reports for the fall and winter
supply Of hogs are unusually promis-


ing in all sections. There is one
very encouraging feature regarding


the supply Of hogs-there is less
cholera than usual among them-in


fact, there is an almost entire alb
senoe of disease. With the quality
constantly Improving, as is exhibited
by the returns Of summer packing,
and the corn crop secured without
damage, there is little doubt but the
West this year VIII forward to mar
ket the best crop Of hogs ever raised
in this section-botb in number and
quality. So far the number Of pigs
is reported largely in excess of.the.
returns Of last year, especially in the
far western States. The aggregate
Of the assessors for the States Of
Ohio, Iowa, Missouri and Nebraska
compare as follows for the two years:
Year: 1877

What a truly beautiful world we live in!
Nature gives US grandeur Of mountains
pIens and oceans, and thousands Of means
for enjoyment We can desire no better
when in perfect health but how often do
the majority Of people feel ike giving 1t
up disheartened, discouraged and worried
out with disease, when there is no occasion
for this feeling, as every sufferer can easl-
ly obtain satisfactory proof that Green 8
August Flower will make them as free from
disease as when born. Dyspepsia and Liver
Complaint is the direct cause Of seventy
five per cent. Of such maladies as Bilious
ness, Indigestion, Sick Headache, Costive-
ness, Nervous ProstratiOn, Dizziness Of
the Head, PalpitatiOn Of the Heart, and
other distressing symptoms. Three doses
of August Flower will prove its wonderful
effect. Sample bottles, 10 cents. Try it.


Octlleowtc
Year: 1877

A solemn warning of the peril Of
prosecuting editors for libel has
been given in Lebanon, Pennsylva-
MIA, where the verdict was in favor
Of the editor, and the ibeled man is
in jail because he could not raise the
money to pay the costs.
Year: 1877

New York boasts of a town of
1000 inhabitants where not a glass
of liquor is sold. West Virginia
has at least one such town-Mor-
gantown, the seat of the University,
and we believe that Oberlin, in this
State, the seat of Oberlin College,
also claims to be entirely free from
the liquor traffic. Would that the
same might be said of every town in
the State. If it were so, what a
vast improvement there would be in
our social condition.
Year: 1877

It may be of interest to those who
are agitating the proposition to or
ganize a new party, to know that the
President takes no interest in it, and
does not propose to encourage the
movement in any way. His views
are that the Republican party com
prises the masses of the Reform ele-
ment in this country, and that the
element preponderates largely in
that party, and is in a perfect condi-
ton to assert itself and carry with
it, almost unimpaired, the strength
Of the party; while, on the other
hand, the old Wings and Liberals OF
the Democratic party constitute a
small minority, and they cannot ex-
pect the majority of the Republicans
to Join them. The lesser body would
more appropriately attach itself to
the larger.
Year: 1877

The London Times estimates the
loss of life from the famine in the
Madras Presidency has not been
less than three quarters OF a million,
and must be nrgely increased before
its effects have passed away.
Year: 1877

The experiment of growing silk
worms in Kansas has proved a sue
cess, and it is predicted that the
State will become one of the most
profitable silk growing countries in
the world. The silk worms are fed
on the leaves of the Usage orange,
which is thought to be superior to
the mulberry.
Year: 1877

Mems muscles move better when
their souls are making merry music.


Genius is the morning dew that keeps
the world from perishing in drouth.


To sneer and denounce is q very easy
way of assuming great deal of wisdom,
and concealing a great deal of ignorance.
Live for to-day, tomorrow is dream,


We may not see its bright fulfilling;


But now, while dutys earnest voices call,


We will, with courage strong and willing,


Live for to-day.


None are too wise to be mistaken, but
few are so wisely just as to acknowledge
and correct their mistakes and espec-
tally the mistakes of prejudice.


There never did, and there never will,
exist anything permanently noble and ex-
cellent in the character which is strang-
er to the exercise of resolute self-denial.


The truest help we can render to an
afflicted man, is not to take his burden
from him, but to call out his best
strength, that he may be able to bear
the burden.


There are two sorts of enemies insepa-
ldblO llOln dlLlObU ttll DlCu, DuU Ill
together from men of great fortunes
the fatterer and the liar One strikes
before the other behind-both in
sensibly, both dangerously.


Do little helpful things and speak
helpful words whenever you can. They
are better than pearls or diamonds to
strew along the roadside of life. They
will yield far more valuable harvest,
as you will find after many days.


Faith may sometimes exceed reason,
but not oppose it and belief may be often
above sense, though not against it, Be-
ware, then, not only of an implicit
faith, but of being too closely tied up
to reason where faith is required.


Do little helpful things and speak
helpful words whenever you can. They
are better than pearls or diamonds to
strew along the roadside of life. They
will yield far more valuable harvest,
as you will find after many days.


Poets know, and statesmen ought tc
know, it is by sentiment when vel
directed-as by sorrow when well used
great nations live. When sentiment
dies out, and mere proeaic calculation OF
loss and profit takes it's place, the1
comes Byzantine epoch, q Chinese
epoch, a deceptitude and slow decay.


Children must have love inside the
house and fresh air, and good play anG
some good companionship outside
otherwise young life runs the creates
danger in the world of whitening o.
growing stunted, or at best, prematurely
! old and turned inward on itself.
Year: 1877

A war correspondent says: Gorny
Studen is wretehed village of few
hundred inhabitants. the Turkish quar-
ter being on one hill and the Bulgarian
on the opposite height. The former is
deserted by its proprietors and the
houses have been unroofed by soldiers
to get at the wooden rafters, fuel being
scarce in northern Bulgaria. The only
building remaining in this part of the
village is occupied by the emperor Of all
the Russias. 1t is built of unburnt clay
bricks, and its low roof covered with
rough tiles. Here in this hovel the auto
crat passes his days and nights, anxiously
awaiting news from his various armies in
the field. There is no pomp surround
ing this humble imperial residence; two
Circassians on the guard with drawn sa.
bers were, when I first saw it, all that
stood between the czar and the outside
world. A short distance from the house
is II large tent, where the emperor dimes
at six with his staff and invited guests.
On the opposite side of the little street
on road ID the tent Of Gen, Ignatieffi
Year: 1877

There was private soldier named
Gardieff who won fame and death in an
heroic manner, writes war correspon-
dent in an account of recent engage
ment in the Eastern war. He was an
old soldier, but had, not long ago, fallen
into disgrace. He had received severe
punishment for disorderly conduct, and
ON being permitted to resume his place
in the ranks, the commander of his
squadron had said to him: Gsrdieff,
you had better get yourself killed, or do
something now that will make us forget
your past folGes. The brave fellow was
seen to dash wildly into the fight; slash
ing right and left, he killed with his own
hand four of the Turks within five min
utes, when he was surrounded and liter
ally hewn and hacked to pieces. 1t was
the intention of his regiment to give the
body ceremonial burial on the follow
ing day, but the battle prevented this
from being carried out, and brave Gar
def was committed to the earth among
the ordinary dead,