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Year: 1877

The San Francisco Pba gives some re
suits Of recent tests of water meters made
by committee in that city. The tests, i
says, were conducted by allowing giver
quantities of water to run through tht
meter into barrels standing on two pairs o.
Fairbanks scales, and then by weighing
the water for the purpose Of ascertainine
the relation of the weight to the cubical
measurement as indicated by the meter.
Iu the first experiment constant stres m
from finch pipe at full pressure was al
lowed to pass through the meter until 16
cubic feet was registered on the dial By
measurement an increase of 36-l00 Of q
cubic foot was shown in the barrel over
what was indicated. The second expert
ment was limited to 10 cubic feet din.
charged through 4-ineh head 1t showed q
deficit sgainss the customer Of la-1o0 Of q
cubic foot Two other experiments, 10
cubic feet being measured in each
case, and the conditions as to the flow be-
ing varied, showed An excess in each case
Of So-loo Of cubic foot over that indicated.
The concluding test was made by allowing
very small stream to how through the
meter, the discharge being probably one
sixteenth Of the volume that would flow
from the outlet pipe when turned on full.
When the meter indicated one cubic foot it
Was found upon weighing the water dis
charged that there were but 81 pounds
81 pounds less than are really con.
tanned in cubic foot The time oecu.
pied in making this last test WAS IS
minutes
Year: 1877

A great deal has been sand by the
radical papers as TO the character OF
the voters constituting the large ma
ioritv for the democratic candidates
al the late Presidential election. The
New York Tribune, among other
journals Of It's party, undertook 70
prove that there Is more ignorance
among the people who support The
democratic ticket then exists in the
masses of those who oppose IL To sus-
tain this proposition it makes the
statement that The more wealthy dis
tricts Of New York are the strong
holds of the radical party, aud those
in which the poorer classes form the
bulk of the population yield the heaT-
lest democratic mAjurites.


Wealth is not always intelligent,
and poverty does not always Indicate
ignorance. The common test Of i'll
teligence adopted by sueh journals as
the paper mentioned is the ability 10
read and write, and if this be accept,
ed it will be found that among white
people the greatest amount Of ignor
ance exists in those Western States,
which give the largest radical majUri
ties


Reading and writing do not how,
ever, form SO good an indication OF
comparative intelligence as do the
measures and principles which voters
support. The man who gives his
vote for political leaders who are snb-
yerting the fundamental laws which
secure the rights and freedom Of every
citizen, must be claSsed with grossly
ignorant voters, and in their category
is found every one who has voted to
sustain the radical party, in the belief
that by so doing he was benehling
himself


When our civil war ended, every
honest man desired the restoration OF
the Union. This they knew could
only be effected by cunceding equal
rights to the people of every State.
Holding the Southern States in sub
lection by military power, and con-
peIling the people to submit to the
Inle of partisan knaves, sent South 10
control elections, was not union as
intelligent people understood the term,
1t was despotism in a most odious
form; but ignorant men desired to
crafty revengefnl feelings against
those who had resisted their party and
fought for separation. They had not
intelligence enough 10 perceive that
in exercising Illegal power III one
section, the leaders of their party
were destroying The vital principle of
free government, and rendering inse-
cure the rights and freedom of the
people Of every part OF the country.
Year: 1877

The X ant County Railroad appears to
be in most peculiar situation it seems
TO belong to some unknown person or
persons who are tearing it up for some
unknown purpose. Some time since the
road was sold to Jay Gould or his repre-
sentatives: the sale has not been ratified
yet, and until then We presume the pur-
| chaser has no title, and cannot supI,ose
that he is committing the waste. Pend
| ing the ratification of the sale the direc-
tors would hardly undertake to tear up
| the track of road which has been sold.
The lessee who is in possession from the
directors would scarcely presume to take
such unwarrantable liberties with Other
peoples property. Nevertheless, the
track, ties and rails are being taken up by
some one. Something over a year age
the same thing was practiced on a small
er scale, and the iron was spirited awav
and went into some ones pocket. The
railroad through this county was built b,
the people OF the county mostly, and witt
the understanding that though they
might sink their money they would have
the benefit of the road If the rails ar,
to be torn from the road bed AS they hav,


been for the past two weeks the Ken
County Railroad will soon be among tn,
things of the past.-Chestertolcn IND.
Transcript.
Year: 1877

From the Memphis Appeal we take
the following: "It is just as well that
the Northern Ra iicals should understand
that is they and not the people of the
South who are now required 10 bring
forth fruits meet for repentance. II is
they and not the people of the South
who have been governing the whole
country for twelve years past. 1t is they
a1d not the people of the South who in
fi,cted Boutwell, with his hideous self
Efficiency and ignorance upon our fl
Dlnces, and Grant with his laundering
ilcapacity upon our politics. 1t is they
and not the people ofthe South who have
ruined our commerce and palsied our in
dus1ries; exposed our Government to
sha ne and derision by the rascaliues oil
the men whom they put into positions OF
power, and turned our laborers into
medicants. 1t is they and not the people
Of the South who have brought the coun
try to the very verge of a general bank
rdptcy from which it will be saved if i
Is saved at all. by the products mainly O.
the very region which they have tried 81
hard to destroy. and which they are new
er weary now of misrepresenting and O
abusing.
Year: 1877

BdITstoble. Mass, Decoration Day.


State governments have been seized by
armed men and new governments in their
stead have been inaugurated in blood
The usupers will retain authority through
the farce of the fears already engendered
or they will perpetuate their power by
secret frauds. The nation will be com
PEELED to consider whether governments
so organized and so perpetuated are Gre
publican in FORM" and if they are not SO
republican in form the nation will be
called to decide whether it will excuse or
disregard the guarantee il has given Of
"a republican form of government 10
every state in this union" Three states
have now fallen by the same bloody pro-
cess, and while | am sensible that my
fellow-countrymen shrink from the
remedy, l may yet glory in the foresight
Of the fathers of the republic who made
ample provision for the eXigency that is
upon us. BY the force of events, over
which, at the various stages in the pro-
ceedings, the nation had but little influ-
ence, the slaveholding dynasty has con-
troll of the fifteen old slave states. In
several of those states power has been





vigorous and INSCRIPTIONS military Or
ganlzation. by the same agency power
and be retained Tor time, but in repub-
lie such nstrunentalities will disappear
ultimately. Already that organization is
stained with crimes more numerous and
more heinous than those marshaled and
massed by Russia, and rendered to the
world in justification for the war she is
now waging against Turkey. Future
generations will marvel that their ances-
tors could have tolerated the institution
of slavery for nearly century after the
establishment of the republic, and they
will be appalled, by the history of the
crimes perpetuated by the remnant of the
slaveholding oligarchy for the purpose of
regaining political power and depressing
an unoffending race of men.
Year: 1877

TINES GROWING BRIGHTER -Wher
ever we 60 we find more cheerfulnes:
among business people, and they report
to us that there is perceptible improve.
ment. Labor is not paid as we'll as IL
was during the years of imitation subse'
quent to the war; but still the pay Is
remunerative, and the reduction in the
price of very many necessaries enables
men to live as comfortably as they ever
did.


The prospect for the farmer is brighter
than for nine or ten years, and there is
more improvement going on in the rural
districts than for long time.


President Hayes is not doing as much
for economy and the reduction of taxa
tion as the President-elect, Mr.. lden.
would have done had he been inaugural
ed and not kept out of office by Grant's 4
threats and Gen. Sherman's known de-
sire to secure his heavy salary for four
years longer, and to make himself and
his brother the power behind the throne.
But nevertheless Hayes is so great an i'm
provement upon Grant that the whole
country is regaining confidence. This
confidence is stimulated by the fact that
the legislation of the General Govern
ment is mainly in the hands of a Demo.
cratic; House that the new Senate is
likely to be less Radical and to favor all
the economical measures introduced and
passed by the Democratic House; and that
1t may be that the Senate too will be Dem
ocratic. So that the hope is strong in
the Government assuming a more peace
fl attitude toward the South and entire
harmony being the result. In that case.
should the Southern crops turn out good
large amount of trade may be expected
from that section.


The higher prices caused by the Euro
pean war will also have an encouraging
effect, and substantial assistance may
fairly be looked for in this direction by
the grain growers of our whole country
When the farmers get remunerative price:
for their crops and the products of then
labor they will be able to pay mechanic
and farm hands more promptly and libe
rally, and there will then be more none,
circulated among our city trades people
Thus an improvement will be gradual,
brought about, and we are confident al
era of better times has commenced il
the development of which we are sur
our whole union will rejoice as sincerel,
and unitedly as it ever did.
Year: 1877

The number Of midnigh, cot on
dealers Ia this county have been re.
duccd by the vigilance of the planters
though they have not been altogether
suppressed. An organization against
them has been perfected in one
portion Of the county, and un-
less the traffic Is entirely abandoned,
food for worms may be looked for be-
fore long.
Year: 1877

A yoUNG lady, living below Wheel
ing a short distance, wrOte her name,
put It in bottle, corked the bottle up,
ard drew il in the Ohio river. a
young man living fifteen or twenty
miles below found the bottle, and, sec.
ing the name, opened a correspondence
with the young lady, aud the result il
that a wedding will take place in two
weeks. Now all the young ladies along
The Upper Ohio are hunting up old
bottles, and the glass works at Pitlsburg
are doing a good business.
Year: 1877

"THE NEEDS OF FVRGTNIA"-LEcTURE OF
COLONEL JOSEPH MAYO, JR., AT ASSOCIATION
HALL LAST NIGHT.-Colonel Joseph Mayo,
Jr., delivered to n select audience ut Asso-
ciation Hall last night his lecture on "The
Needs OF Virginia." The text Of the lee
ture was taken from the speech Of Patrick
Henry in the General Assembly OF Virginia
in 1881: "People Form the Strength and
Constitute the Wealth of Nation" After
running parallel between the condition
of Virginia in respect of this prime element
of wealth at that and the present day, the
lecturer next gave comparative view OF
the relative populousness OF ancient and
modern nations, showing how among them
all the first consideration was the cultivation
OF the soil, the nursing mother OF all the arts.
He ascribed the fact OF Virginia's being
so far behind in the race Of progress to the
institution OF African slavery. That hav-
ing broken down, she was now In intimate
contact and sympathy with the rest OF the
world. Her people should be taught to value
the dignity of labor OF every description:
In times past her young men OF talents and
character wandered out, and went In search
OF employment in communities where peo-
pie were respected in proportion TO their ca
pacity for some useful, honest work. That
argument ought no longer to have weight
Every appliance Of education should be
brought to bear to inculcate in the rising
generation the lesson that here is the ap-
appointed place for their labors, andsno
other land offers more inviting prospect
of reward. That is the first step. Then
throw wide open the portals OF your hearts
and homes to the industrious and honest OF
every cline who are willing to help US.
tba,, or,,a1S onl faaCp
blowing our own trumpet, especially draw
ing silly comparisons between the Virginia
Cavalier and the New England Puritan
What is there to choose between our James
town Cid, John Smith, and the Plymouth
paladin Miles Standish; between Robert
Winthrop (tirst Governor Of the name), Of
Massachusetts, and Nathaniel Bacon, the
first great Virginia rebel; between their
James Otis and our Patrick Henry, their
Samuel Adams and our George Mason,
their Daniel Webster and our Henry Clay
Americans all-grand historic illustrations
OF all that is lovely and Of good report in
! human character. As for the differences OF
opinion about men and things growing out
of the late unpleasantness, let us hand them
over to the 1Iacaulays and Prescotts OF the
next generation. He concluded with eX-
pressing the hope that Virginia would soon
take her place in the vast system Of material
development, join the column, and keep
step with the music of progress.


Colonel Mayo's lecture was delivered in
pleasing style and with good effect, and was
declared by numerous competent judges to
be production OF very superior merit. 1t
abounded in anecdote and illustration, and
passages where the ColonePs fine command
of language was happily displayed. 1t is
of friends to repeat the lecture in this city
at no distant day.
Year: 1877

Condensed Locals The Baptist-church
infant class is arranging for = picnic at an
early day.


The Union Guard celebrated its anniver-
sary yesterday ut Spring Hill.


No news Of importance from Chesterfield
County Court.
Year: 1877

The most gigantic schemeof tunneling
ever broached is the project of a Madrid
pamphleteer to tunnel the straits OF
Gibraltar, which it is asserted is even
more practicable than the proposed
submarine tunnel across the channel
between England and France. The sub
marine portion OF the straits Of Gibraltar
tunnel would be little more than one
third the distance across the Straits OF
Dover. but as the maximum depth OF
the sea is i've hundred fathoms, and as
IL is proposed to leave three hundred feet
of rock between the sea bottom and the
tunnel, the tunnel of approach on each,
side would have to be nearly six miles
long in order 10 make the decent prac-
ticsbIe. The cost is estimated at $2O,-
600. .oOo, and it is proposed to use it in
connection with the strait of Dover tun-
mel to make an overland railway through
route to India without break of bulk.
If such an enterprise should ever be con-
summated, and it is quite within the
bounds OF probability, it would be a
stupendous manifestation of mans
ability to overcome the material Oh
stacles Of nature.
Year: 1877

Is the great blood purifier, Syphilis and re-
moves Pimples and Humors on the face


Reason should teach that a blotehy, rough or
pimpled skin depends entirely upon an internal
cause, and no outward application can cure the
defect.
Year: 1877

illustrates the Piano W ar by a DOG
story, and Gives the 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 anv
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 eide. 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 the best 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 It's 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-heve been whistling their
respective centennial awards through the
public press, with about as much success
as the claimants had with the dog.





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-
celved 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


TONE.


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 II to say that the Weber award
contains all that is possible in piano-forte
-"sympathy, purity, richness, and great
est power"


In short, soul In piano. A. WEBER.
MCCLURE Il HALL,


RUTLAND,
Agents for the Weber Piano.
Year: 1877

Some few mouths ago paragraph ap- peared in these columns containing a short description of an aerolite which was then and is still in the possession of the Rev. Dr. Wood, of this city. Little was known at the time about the history of this curiosity further than that it had been from time immemorial in the pos session of the Indians frequenting the Saskatchewan valley It is doubtful whether it will ever be known, the exact time this mysterious visitor reached the earth, as the event is too long past to be preserved in the memory of any one now living. The following particulars, how ever, taken from letter addressed by the Rev John Macleod, of Morley vile, to the Rev. Dr. Wood, can be re- lied on: "As to the meteoric stone, l have not met any one who saw it fall and my impression is that this occurred previous to the memory Of those now liv- ing. The locality in which it was found and from whence it was taken is about one hundred and thirty miles southeast of Victoria. Saskatchewan, and near Bat tie river. The native Indians looked upon the wah-bish, or iron as they termed it. as something supernatural, and es such reverenced it. Parents made offerings at it's shrine for the lie and prosperity Of their little ones; travellers for the success of their journey war parties to insure (if possible) the victory ever their enemies and to aid in stealing horses. They also laid their tobacco and other stuff upon it's altar. Great attrac' tive power was attributed to it for the bringing of the buffalo and the animals to it's vicinity; and as an evidence Of this the more snperstitious now say that on account of it's removal the buffalo have entirely left that part Of the country. - Toronto Globe.
Year: 1877

The centennial board of finance have paid the government all but about S50,- GOO of the million and half that the supreme court adjudged to be payable. Against this $50 GOO that yet remains to be paid, the board have entered a cross charge of S20. 900 paid by them to the custom house officers employed on the grounds and in the different buildings at time when the secretary of the treasury had no funds to pay them out of existing appropriations,
Year: 1877

A mansion now building in New York has Pompeiian room, the woodwork of which is of ebony, with ivory inlaid fig ures, and panels of amaranth wood painted by hand. The furniture is up- holstered with raw silk of reseda tints, bordered with crimson velvet,
Year: 1877

The friends Of honest National finances will
be gratifed TO lean that the Republicans OF
Ohio appear to be accepting, with a good deal
Of enthusiasm, the leadership of Gen. Garfield.
That State has long been n fruitful hot-bed
of bcfesics and iUuacies about the currency
and the public debt, and they have by no
means been confined to the Democratic party.
Every year there is an alarm lest the Republi-
can organization should be possessed by one
or more of them. No one has cOmbated these
dangerous notions with more zeal and con
stancy than Gen. Garfield. Since his first en-
trance to Congress, fourteen years ago, he has
been consistent advocate Of honest and
patriotic legislation concerning the greenbacks,
the banks and the bonded debt. A staff cor
respondent of THE TRIBUNE, who visited him
uDon his farm last week. draws pleasant
picture of his rural life, and repeats some very
sensible conversation on the position of parties
and the issues Of the day. His views upon
the silver resolution of the State Convention
are especially noticeable from the fact chat he
is supposed TO have drawn 1t. He wants no
deprecated silver dollar and 10 silver in
1atiOn, but is willing to try the experiment


of bi-metallic currency, If both metals can
be made to circulate on an equality. Only the
Year: 1877

President Hayes Is a good deal of an optimst
Ohio indorses him and ne Is happy Name does not
ndorso him. and he is still happy. Ii will all come
out right. he thinks. Wen, that much more sensi
bic than to get in n stew this hot weather about
what he cannot help.
Year: 1877

All question as to the success Of Capt Eads's
ietties AT South Pass Is removed by the favor
able report of the engineer officer inspecting
the work There are now twenty feet Of water
on the bar, with ample width Of channel, and
only one small "mud-lump" remains to be
dredged across TO make the least depth twen-
ty-two feet. The mouth Of the Mississippi is
open at last, and genius and enterprise have
accomplished in less than three years time a
work that bad balled Che methods of the army
engineers for more than half century.
Year: 1877

After ell. there will be no split this year
in the Virginia Conservative party. Gen.
Malone was beaten yesterday, but he won a
personal triumph at the cost of some sacrifice
Of his reputation principles, by accomplishing
the defeat Of Mr.. Daniel and the nomination
Of another opponent who was less Objectionable
to him. OF course he cannot bolt now. OF
T. NJ. W. Holiday, the successful candidate
we know nothing save that he is "an
"annless hero from the Valley of Nir-
ginia,r and is opposed to repudiating any
Part of the State debt There Is room for both
satisfaction and regret ut the result. The dis
honest element that wanted to throw off the
burden OF Virginia's just Indebtedness came
nowhere near having majority i'll the Con
vention. So far well; but it is pity they
take their defeat so meckiy. The independent
movement they have been threatening for
months would have been wholesome thing
for The politics of the Old Dominion.