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Year: 1878

When you feel the first pain from rheu-
matism go to your druggist for bottle Of
Durangs Rheumatic Remedy, take it and
a cure will follow. If your head aches use
LodilIe's Headache Specific Cures while
thinking about it.
Year: 1878

You deserve to suffer, and you lead
miserable, unsatisfactory life in this
beautiful world, Is Is entirely your own
fault and there Is only one excuse! for
you, unreasonable prejudice and
skepticism, which has killed thousands.
Personal knowledge and common sense
reasoning will soon show you TINT
Green's August Flower will cure YOU
of Liver Complaint, or Dyspepsia, with
all its miserable effects, such as sick
headachc, palpitation of the heart, sour
stomach, habitlIal costivencss, dizziness
OF the head, nervous prostratiOn, low
spirits, &c. Its sales now reach every
town on the Western Continent and
not Druggist but will tell you of its
wonderful cures. You can buy Sam
pie Bottle for 10 cents. Three doses
will relieve you.
Year: 1878

A very absent minded member of the
French Institute was reading the news.
paper IN the Casino az Dieppr tother day.
Engrossed by what be was reading. bic
left hand unconsciously pushed the lilea
Of newspapers on the. table Each mo.
ment be pushed farther from HIM the
pile Of newspapers. Beyond them was
an inkstand Presently the inksland
went over the side Of the table. lf' fell
on the white trousers Of Parish banker
who naturally-put yourself ia his place
was furious. The guilty party offered
his best excuses without nppeasing the
bankers wrath. who shrieked that his
brand new pantaloous were ruined But
sir. Il will cheeriully pay for them b.
good enough 20 give me your card and
will send the money TO your hotel TO
my hotel SIR. ! don't know YOU / must
instantly have the thirty francs those
pantaloons cost" The guilty party drew
forth the thirty francs aud paid them .
then lac said Now that you have been
paid. hope you have too much OF the
delicacy OF q gentleman TO remain in my
pantaloons. You know those pantaloons
are my property aud ! insist upon their
immediate delivery to me. You had no
confidence in me ! have none ia you
Ny pantaloons. la vain the banker
protested against such hastes The crowd
that had gathered around the disputants
said that the member Of the institute wa
right, and the banker, after sending a
servant for another pair Of pantaloons.
surrendered the ink stained, amid the
laughter Of the bystanders
Year: 1878

DO thy little, do IL well;


DO what right and reason tell;
DO what wrong and sorrow claim
Conquer sin and cover shame.
Do thy little, though IL be
Dreariness and drudgeTy;
They whom Christ apostles made
"Gathered fragments" when He bade.
Do thy little; never mind
Though thy brethren be unkind
Though the men who ought 70 SMILE
Mock and taunt thee for while.
DO thy little never fear
While the Savior standeth near
Let the world its javelin's throw;
sOn the way undaunted go.
Do thy little; God has made
Million leaves for forest shade;
Smallest stars their glory bring
God enployeth everything.
Year: 1878

of the trees. The accused is to be tried at
the next Adare sessions, bail having been
refused for his appearance


Dreadful Murder-Ths Constabulary of
Cloughjordan and adjoining districts re-
ceived information Of dreadful murder
having been committed at Lackamore, q
place situated few miles from Nenagh.
The victim is a respectable farmer, aged
twenty-eight, named Martin German. He
was beaten to death near his own house.
Immediately ON the news of the murder be-
coming known the police proceeded to the
spot, and from inquiries they arrested all
other farmer named Thomas Casey. They
also proceeded to the house Of JAS Noonan
against whom they procured evidence, but
he had decamped, and has not yet been ar
rested. At the coroner's inquest verdict
OF willfui murder was returned against
some person or persons unknown. The
cause of the murder is not generally known,
but it is believed to be the result Of a party
quarrel, having its origin in dispute about
land The deceased Martin German, who
rented large farm, was drinking in New
port with two other men. One of the latter
had bought a new spade in the village, and,
having drank pretty freely, the three men
left for home after dark. Nothing further
was seen of German until about half-past
eleven o'clock at night, when the constabu-
larry patrol discovered his body lying ON the
roadside about half mile from the village
of Newport. The remains presented shock
ing spectacle, the upper portion of the skull
of the deceased being completely severed
from the body, evidently with some sharp
instrument. Life had been to all appear
ances, extinct for some hours. The constab-
ulary lost no time in obtaining clue as to
who had been in Gorman's company during
the day, and early in the morning they sue
ceeded in arresting one of the men who had
been in his company when he left Newport
for home. The other man who purchased
the spade has not been apprehended, but the
Ppolice are confident that they will make
him amenable, having got some important
information with regard to his where
abOutS.
Year: 1878

SENATOR LAMAR, of Georgia, made an
earnest but conservative speech yester-
lay against the Matthews resolutions, in
which, while not opposing the use of
silver as currency, he indicated his op-
position to the Bland bill, which is de
signed to drive out gold and make silver
our only currency.-EUery Eceaing nd
Commercial.


We did not suppose there was a news
paper in Delaware so ignorant as not to
know that Senator Lamar was not OF
Georgia. But that does not show so
much ignorance as is in the closing of the
paragraph. Before the war, gold and sill
yer circulated together as legal tender.
for many years and there are thousands
who remember that silver did not drive
gold away. In fact there are a number
of business men in Wilmington who hay,
the little gold money scales' yet witt
which they weighed and tested gold
when it was as plenty as silver is now
and silver was more plenty than it is now
There is nothing gained by false state
ments, and it would be more creditabl,
if that paper would try to be more oh
servant of truth.
Year: 1878

HAYES has been reprieved He will
not have to make up his mind and chose
his side on the silver question until the
Bland bill is laid on his table. The SEN
ate having refused yesterday to change
the Matthews resolution from concur
rent resolution to a joint one, it does not
go to him for signature.
Year: 1878

IT is the general opinion that it is to
the seventies of our extreme and variable
climate that is due the prevalence of con-
sumption among us. But the German
anatomist, Langenback, after long inves-
tigation, declares that instead of beiug
due to cold weather pulmonary diseases
are nearly exclusively produced by the
breathing of foul air. In view of this
statement, which is borne out by the ex-
perience of our physicians, and the fact
that every person, during each minute Of
his life, destroys aquantity of air twice as
large as himself, and unless there is per-
feet ventilation the same air is breathed
over and over again, the necessity for a
constant supply of fresh air in houses and
workshops is very apparent.-P0rsIand
Transcript.
Year: 1878

THE VALUE OF .-Proba
bility, to have any value at all, must ex-
press fact. 1t is, therefore, thing to
be inferred upon evidence. Let US, then,
consider for a moment the formation of a
belief of probability. Suppose we have
a large bag of beans from which one has
been secretly taken at random and hid
den under thimble. We are now to
form probable judgment of the color OF
that bean, by drawing others singly from
the bag and looking at them, each one to
be thrown back, and the whole we'll
mixed up after each drawing. Suppose
the first drawing is white and the next
black. We conclude that there is not an
immense preponderance Of either color,
and that there is something like an even
chance that the bean under the thimb,e
is black. But this judgment may be
altered by the next few drawings. When
we have drawn ten times, if 4, s, or 9,
are white, we have more confidence that
the chance is even. When we have
drawn thousand times, if about half
have been white, we have great con-
fidence in this result. We now feel
pretty sure that, if we were to make a
large number of bets upon the color of
single beans drawn from the bag, we
could approximately insure ourselves in
the long run, by betting each time upon
the white, confidence which would be
entirely wanting if, instead of sampling
the bag by 1000 drawings, we had done
so by only two,--Prof. Psircs, 80 Popu-
lar Science Monthly.
Year: 1878

Frank W. Miller, New Hampshire
editor, IN his very able and sensible ad-
dress a, the recent assembly ol the New
Hampshire State Board of Agriculture,
says:


Farmers do not hang together as they
should; they are too jealous of one an
Others success. If one is getting good
thing in selling milk or in raising any
particular crop, they are too apt to strive
TO spoil the business by cutting under, or
by getting away customers. Who ever
heard of lawyer sneaking around to get
case away from brother OF the craft
And who ever knew rumseler to cut
doyn prices tn secure trader No, the
LAWYERS and the rumsellers hang together
the best Of any class know, and some
times am tempted to wish more OF them
could hang together. :.
preciate themselves. If they get little
money ahead and think to start a
bank, they will pay clerk for taking
care of the books ten times as much as
either one of them would dare ask for doing
the same number of hours work for the
clerk. When commenced business as
printer, | had been told that lawyers
and physicians must charge big fees Tor
their services, because it had cost them
so much to acquire their education. |
made up my mind that those men who
charged me big fees would havebig fees
CHARGED them in return. 1t has cost me
as much to be printer as it would have
cost to become lawyer. Farmers need
as good an education as a lawyer, and
better of the two, and they should value
such an education, and realize the dignity
which belongs with it."
Year: 1878

MAKE THE HORSES WoRK.-Horses
were designed as beasts of burden, to re-
leve mankind from fatiguing drudgery.
1t does not hurt them to work hard, if
they are treated kindly. 1t is not the
hard drawing and ponderous loads that
wear out horses and make them poor,
balky and worthless; but it is the hard
driving, the worry by rough and inhuman
drivers, that uses up more horse flesh, fat
aud muscle, than all the labor team per-
forms.


Consider the ponderous loads that many
teams are required to cart every day, and
yet they appear to grow fatter and strong
er every year. They are treated kindly.
On the other hand, other horses, that do
not perform half the labor, soon grow
poor, and give out, and the next we hear
of them they die with the harness on.
Hard work does not kill them; but the
worrying, fretting and abuse did the
job.


Horses will DO all the moving and
reaping on large farm, thresh the grain,
pitch the hay, turn the grindstone, saw
the wood, and perform almost all the
heavy labor that farmers have been &C
customed to do, and grow fat, if they are
not worried and jerked and kicked about
as if they were living football.-N. Y.
Times.
Year: 1878

A GIRL s COMPOSITION ON BoYs.-
Boys is strange things. Boys is Of
three kihds-the baby boy, the little
boy and the big boy. | don't like the
baby boy, because he squalls and
kicks, and l have to rock him with a
cradle. But if the big boy or little
boy squalls and kicks, | can rock him
with stones. I like the big boy best
when he's got candy and gives me
some. But like the big boy best
when it SHOWS, because he can haul
Inc Oh his sled. a boy is a little
man, if he behaves himself, and if he
doesn't he's little devil; that is
what mother said brother Bob was the
other day when he told Miss Smith
that mother said she was an old
bo'e. My papa said he was little
boy once, but mother said she WASH t,
ana she wishes papa was little boy
once more. Sister Julia says she does
mt like boys, and when | saw her and
Tom Brown setting in tie rocking
chair Sunday night, she said she
was trying to squeeze the life out of
him because she didn't like him, but
| don t think she was.
Year: 1878

\ REMEDY FOR HEART DISEASE
A middle aged man walked into one
Of the drug stores in certain village
and handing to the clerk half
drachm vial, 'ilIcd apparently with
white powder, ask ed HIM if he could
tell what 1t contained. 1t was label
led. For heart disease-take three
times day He said he took the
vial from the pocket OF young man
who, he thought, acted strangely and
wanted to know its contents. The
clerk took it to his prescription desk,
drew out the cork, when he observed
a thread following it attached to the
cork. Drawing it out, he found at
the end of the thread minute nit
ten. The vial was lined with clean
white paper, which gave it the ap-
poarance of being filled. II e clerk
replaced the mtten and cork and
handing it back to the nan, told him
that it was a well knowing but harm
less remedy for heart disease and
that in most cases one dose was sutI
cient The inquirer looked relieved
and walked away with his precious
bottle snugly tucked in his vest poe
ket. The girl that gave him that
bottle went be troubled with any
more calls from him.
Year: 1878

STRANGE ABOUT CHURCHEs.-
That they never forget to take up COL
collections.


That sho,t sermons are always
most effective.


That every one tries to be the last
one out when services are over.


That no preacher ever neglected to
tell the story Of the ProdisaI Son.


That the woman with q new bon
not and the young man with a high
collar, always occupy front seats.


That the Young man with pretty
Girl has to walk the whole length Of
the aisle befo e he can get a seat


That the smart bad boy always gets
red in the face when his father or biz
sister gets up to tell their experience.


That the man "no starts the hymns
on the old fashioned plan, thinks I'll
the psalms should be sung tc the same
tune.


That the "man of the world who
helps to sing the doxoIosy thinks he
is taking an active interest IN his
souls salvation,
Year: 1878

w W
Rise for The day is passing.


While you lie dreaming ON,
The others have buddcl their hrmor
And forth to the fight have gone;
4 place in the ranks await you,


Earn man has some part to play;
The pus; and the future are nothing
In the face Of the stern to day.
Rise from yonr dreams of the future;
Of gaining some ard fought field,
Ofstorming some airy fortress.
Or bidding some giant yirid'
Your future has deeds of glory.
OF honur-G0d grant it may =
But YOU. armor i'll never he stronger
Or Tie need so great rs to day.
Rise, for the day is passing;


The low sound that can Scarcc'y near
Is the enemy marching to battle
Arise for The foe is here,
Stay not To sharpen your weapons
Or the hour will strike at last,
When from dreams of a coming battle
You HAY awake to find it past.
Year: 1878

A little fellow who has seen scarce
half a dozen summers, aud at whose
home hens have been kept for but a
few weeks visited y neighbor's day
or two since, to get company IN his
pay, where he was informed that his
oft.tme playmate was suffering from
the chicken. pox. The lady of the
house in tones of curiosity not n little
tinctured with solicitade, asked the
fellow if they had had the chicken
pox oyer to his house, and was much
amused at the reply, Nth all grav-
itv mo, we haven't had our hens.
long enough yet.
Year: 1878

when there will there a weigh,
as the pig said when it broke out of
its pen and upset the slop BARREL
When there will there's a weigh, as
the farmer said, three months after
ward, when he sold his pork.
Year: 1878

A DELEGATION OF NEW HAMPSHIRE REPUB
LICANs arrived in the city last Saturday even
ing for the purpose of raising funds, if they
can, and of securing aid from the campaign
committee in conducting the fight in that
state. They are a little afraid that unless they
take every precantion and work every dis
triet thoroughly that the result in New
Hampshire may be somewhat similar to that in
Maine.
Year: 1878

All signs of good feeling between the North
and South are worth considering We hasten
TO record tho latest. The public hospitality of
Boston is noted. UndstngIIishcd strangers
have complained that it was cold. But the
distinguished Southerner, as a rule, has always
been welcome there. Last Saturday three
Southern Senators and nine Southern Repre-
sentatiyes were received by Governor Rice at
the State House. and Immediately after taken
TO see Faneul Hall and the Old South Church.
Then there was dinner given to the visitors
at the Hotel Brunswick by the Commercial
Club At this General Hooker, of Mississippi,
"nredcted a commercial future for the cOun-
" try of almost inconcevable grandeur :" North
and South and East were " to be united" with
"hooks of steel i'll tho common bonds
"of fraternal concord and amity." Once this
would have been mere rhetorical gush. il
has been heard at intervals for thirty or forty
wears. In the old Abolition days the solid
men of Boston used to interchange the same
assurances with the leading men of the South.
"The hooks of steel" were alluded to by the
Hookers of the day. Then these phrases didn't
mean much. Now, doubtless, they mean a
great deal Then the skeleton was always at
the banquet. Now, let us hope, 1t is where all
skeletons ought to bel


1t will be said that these amenities are
merely commercial. Are they any the less
moral7 Are friends the less friends because
they assist each otherf Trade helps the traders
to discover mutual good qualites-hOnesty
fairness, truth-if they are possessed by either
party. Trade promotes social as well as busi-
ness intercourse. Even its sharp activities may
increase cordial feeling, as Colonel Dumas, in
the play, always liked a man the better for
fighting With him. Selfshness in commerce
may be inevitable But n community of inter-
ests will keep it within bounds. AT any rate
Boston is no longer compelled to disown her
Abolitonists for the sake of trade. Nor are
her Abolitionists any longer compelled to dis
own Boston. There can be no pleasant, per-
manently profitable dealings between those
who are morally at odds. However, for the
sake of trade, Boston formerly disavOwed its
dislike of slavery, that dislike was still felt,
and the Shareholders knew it. Now, all these
insincerites are happily out of the way.


Perhaps We have been in too violent hurry
for perfect moral restoration of the Union.
We have forgotten the greatness of the war.
Year: 1878

The Mrs Rutherford b. Hayes Temperance Soci-
ety, of Washington, has discarded the name by
which it has heretofore been known. ltcalled itself
after the Presidents wife, because it was understood
that she discountenanced the use of wine at the
White House dinners. 1t threw aside her name.
because there was claret punch on Doard
the steamboat on Delaware Bay during the recent
Executive excursion. II does not appear that the
lady partook of the obnoxious beverage. The pre-
sumption is that she did not. Neither docs IL
appear that she had anything to do with
its provision, or with its consumption by Others
The presumption is that she had not.
1t therefore seems that to give perfect
satisfaction to the late Mrs. r. b. Hayes Temperance
Society, she must, upon being hidden TO FEAST
write TO those who invite her. requesting OF
commanding that no caret punch shall De
provided; and if she finds that any has
been provided, she must have it thrown overheard
The President of this precious society declares
that the proceedings were informal, though he does
not say that the action taken was not that OF the
society However this may be. Mrs. Hayes VIII be
fortunate if her name is no longer attached to an
organization composed of very silly people, who'
whatever their habits may be- are decidedly intem-
perate in their morals.
Year: 1878




Undoubtedly. President Hayes would resign
if he believed that he had not been honestly
elected. But he will give not much credit to
the statements of disappointed politicians from
Florida or Louisiana, whose Oaths to-day are
fatty contradicted by their Oaths yesterday,
and whose character is not such as to render
their oaths at any time particularly valuable.
Wnen they were discharging their duties in
making official returns they sworo that there
were maioritlcs for the Republican electors,
and any new oath made ayear aiterward, with
strong presumption that special inducements
are used to obtain it, is at least not more
valuable than that upon which the matter was
finally decided by the Electoral Commission.
In law, the decision OF that Commission cannot
he reversed, for there is no doubt that
majority OF the Supreme Court, II the question
coud be taken before that body, would decide
"A the Commission did. in equity, it will not
he reversed because there is no reason what
ever for suppOsing that witnesses who are now
dead or beyond reach would, if present, give
other testimony than that upon which decisions
were based n year ago; nor is there reason for
believing that the witness who swore to one
thing last year. and swcars to another now, is
more tluSlWOIlhl uON thii uc was dl HlSl'
If the case must rest upon evidence, the
proof which was submitted year ago was
better and stronger than any that can be pre-
scnted now and If it must rest upon law, it
was closed by the verdict OF the Electoral
Commission. and cannot now be reopcned.


1t is not pleasant, however, that the Presi-
dent has found occasion to do favOrs for pol
iticians in Louisiana and Florida, whose be-
hayior at the time Of the counting of votes
was open to suspicion. The position of Mr..
Anderson in Louisiana is very injurious to the
President. The fact that men like McLin and
Dennis of Florida have received favOrs is not
TO his advantage. These things are not proof
of conscious guilt, as some enemies presume,
but they. nevertheless, give great advantages
TO enemies of the Administration. The Prcsi-
dent is said to wonder, at times that he is
not more zealously supported by those who
heartily approve his avOwas Of purpose, but
he must remember that it is not agreeable to
them to see men selected for federal offices
who took important part i'll the counting Of
votes In disputed States. A clear conscience
is n very good thing to have, but it is also
well for a public officer to avoid all appear
ance or suspicion of evil, and the President
has not been entirely just to his supporters in
that respect He ought to cut loose altogether
from men whose only claim upon the country
or the party is based upon that part of tho
contest of 1876 which was waged after the
election was over.
Year: 1878

Memories have been prolonged in spite of peace.
Men cannot be at each others thrOats one
moment, and cordially embracing the next.
We were furiously angry with each other.
Suspension of hostilities could not bring i'm
mediate and perfect reconciliation. Those who
watch the signs of the times know that it is
coming; and if Boston helps its advance, we
are all much obliged to Boston. A better day
is at hand. All will hasten it-commerce, re-
ligion, even sentiment. Nothing which hastens
it is cOntemptible.