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Year: 1877

LEMON CREAM PIE.-One quart OF
milk, three cupfuls sugar, yolks of four
eggs, one cupful flour mix the flour
with some of the milk, then boil the
rest and mix this with il flavor with
grated rind ofa lemon bake make a
irosting OF the whites beaten to froth
with cup of sugar and juice of the
lemon brown in a hot oven. This
makes two pies
Year: 1877

VEGETABLE SouP.-Purchase a smal
piece of shin, with some meat upon it
put into the vessel that you make the
soup in four quarts of water, with salt
boil three or four hours, then add tea.
cupful OF rice, one carrot grated, one
turnip cut in pieces, one leek, cut O
stalk of celery, little pepper just be
fore serving for the table, take out the
shin, removing the meat, which you
cut in small pieces, put the meat into
the tureon and pour the soup over it
send to table TO be eaten with catsup
or spiced sauces,
Year: 1877




Cleopatra's Needle is to be removed al
last from Alexandra to England, and
the following account of the method to
be adopted is given by the London
| Times


"The sand Is TO be cleared away and
the obelisk set square parallel with the
existing sea wall An iron cylinder
finished off to chiseled edge, with
sufficient diaphragm TO give it strength,
is to be constructed round the obelisl1,
which is to lie in the long axis of the
cylinder, and TO be wedged and calked
whcrcitpasses through the diaphragms
so as to divide into water.tight COM
partments.


"The cylinder is to be ninety-five
feet long by fifteen feet in diameter,
and will have draught of nine feet OF
water when anoat. All being water
tight, it will be rolled into the sea, and
across the sandy bed of the water till
il floats. 1t will then be turned over
and the man holes at the top opened
and about thirty tons of ballast put in
to keep the ends vertical, so as to act
like stem and stern. 1t will then have
two bilge keels u rudder, light spar
deck, mast and lug sails attached, and
be provided with an anchor and good
chain cables, and, if necessary, pump
in case of leakage The cylinder ship
will then be fit to 90 to any port of the
world with its freight and in any
weather.


"The cost OF this operation will
amount to about $4,000. The obelisk
in its case will be towed over during
the summer months and laid aside the
Thames Embankment on a platform
properly prepared and lifted high
enough to clear the parapet, and the
bilge kccls and other additions being
stripped of, the cylinder will be rolled
to the proposed sitc.and then stripped
off the obelisls, which will lie ready to
be elevated TO its pedestal, an operation
which will be simply effected by means
OF a few balks of timber and two small
hydraulic rams. The whole cost is not
TO exceed $50 1000 and that of the obe.
lislS at Paris is said 10 have been
100000
Year: 1877

An illustrated periodical, some time
ago, published an Illustration of " Com.
in Thro the Rye" and blunders into
what we presume is the popular mis-
conception of the ditty, giving laddie
and lassie meeting and kissing in u
field of grain. The lines,


Ifladdie meet lassie,


Comm thro' the rye,


and especially the other couplct,


A. the lads that smile on me


When comm thro' the rye,
seem to imply that traversing the rye
was an habitual or common thing and
the song, perhaps, suggests a harvest
scene, where both sexes, as is the Gus
tom in Great Britain, are at work reap
ing, and where they would come and
go through the rye itself so as to
meet and kiss in it.


The truth is, the rye in the case is
no more grain than Rye Beach is, it
being the name of small, shallow
stream near Ayr, in Scotland, which.
having neither bridge nor ferry, was
forded by people going to and from the
market, custom allowing a lad to steal
a kiss from a lass of his acquaintance
whom he met mid stream. Our CON
temporary will see that this is the true
explanation il he win read Burns
original ballad, in which the first verse
refers to the lass wetting her clothes
in the stream


Jennie Is a. wat, puir bodie


Jcnnie's seldom dry


She drag1t a her pctticoatie


Comm thro' the rye.
Year: 1877




WANTED AN APoLooY.-Early yes.
terday morning car on the Cass ave
nue. route encountered milk wagon
driven by a woman about forty years
Of age, and the driver shouted and
motioncd for her to turn out. She re.
fused TO leave the track, and the car
and wagon came to halt.


"Why don't you get off the track p
shouted the car driver as he put on
the brake.


81 don't like your way of hollering
at me- she slowly replied "I'm just
as much of a lady as the Queen OF
England, and you must treat me with
just as much courtesy as you would
her.n


~ say get off the track !"


"And say / WON'T -


He left his car to lead her horse of
the track, but she had a long whip and
she kept him off. He got behind her
wagon to lift it off, but the whip
cracked about his ears again,


wv Ill you get oil the track r he de-
manded.


when you apologize, | will"


He was in fix. His car was full,
and the milk woman was stout and
full of grit, and he decided TO come
down. He said he begged her pardon.


That's all ! want, and let this be a
lesson TO you" she replied, as she
turned off the track. "When you sec
a milk woman on the track, speak to
her kindly and gently, and don't un-
dcrtake to bull.doze her, Detroit
Free Press.
Year: 1877

"Well, you must not feel so badly
about it, Tommy" said the father,
kindly "She will get well again,
without doubt" And then, stepping
aside he observed TO his wife that that
was the most sympathetic boy he ever
oau
Year: 1877

LIVERPOOL, July 2O.-A leading grain circu-
lar says tie weather unsettled ana unprcmsing for
harvest protraced beyond the average time Large
niles Of foreign wheat continue 10 arrive, preventing
sensible reduction OF the stock and checking material
advance in prices still, with large consumptive de


and the tendency continues upwards, and the interior
Prices here fully maintained and our relatively low
rates not only attract considerable demand for consunp
zion luf nduce srecuaton The arrivals of wheat the
past three days liberal and OF maize and hour mod
crate There heavy rain last night but today the
weather is ne and breezy Tie market opened dull and
In the early sales OF wheat decline OF Id per GENITAL
was accepted for White ldd2d for Red Trade however,
a the close was rather steadier though business
only moderate. Flour inactive at unchanged prices
Corn declined nearly Sd. per quarter There was "a
good business at the decline.
Year: 1877

Outside of peaches the main subject that
at present agitates Delaware is the proposed
new scheme Of the Philadelphia, Whining
ton and Baltimore railroad to run branch
of the Delaware division from Dover to
Rehoboth. The survey having been made
there is little doubt that the road will be
built as far as Milford at once, and in time
be extended on through. An opposition is
springing up based on the claim that the
ex Q II ion would destroy the business of a
road which would result in the loss of at
least 100000, If not 100000, to the state,
and, at the same time give the company a
complete monopoly Of she valuable carry,
ing trade of the state.
;. An extra session of the Legislature IL
proposed to consider the matter. The
friends of the scheme say there is a provi-
sion In the Delaware Railroad charter for
the building of branches, while Its opposers
conterd that, admitting this provision and
acknowledging its force, the charter did not
intend nor provide for the building of q new
road which this improvement eontemplates.


So It is possible court will have to decide
the question after all. .-Phils, Record. IT
Year: 1877




The part of the affair that excites most
speculation, is relative to the cause that
led to cowhiding. The marriage engage
ment between Mr.. Bennett and Miss May,
while broken off by mutual consent, was
unquestionably ordered to be nulified by
Miss Mays father, and unquestionably
one of the reasons was that Mr.. Bennett
had in addition to being continually in
in his cups for year or more said some
things concerning Miss May at which
her family took oflense. This thlk is said
to have been made to some of Benefits
club companions and it soon reached the
ears of the May brothers. With their
father they insisted that the match must
be broken


Miss May was willing to overlook
some Of Benefits ecentricities, but the
| three insisted, and she agreed to try to
arrange an aInicable settlements hence
| the Interview in which she told him
frankly that she could not live happily
with him, and in which he as frankly re-
| Piled that he was unworthy of her, and
at which the engagement was dissolved.
This was what the brothers were wait
ing for, and then they began to prepare
| to chastise Mr.. Bennett in public. 1t is
said by one who should know that one
| of Mr.. Benefits offensive remarks in a
public place was that he did not wish to
marry Miss May and that he was tired of
her society. Hesupposed he must marry
her, but would give any man a hundred
thousand dollars to take her off his hands
| Bennett's friends say that he would scorn
| to touch May in retaliation unless in a
duel. They say it is idle to represent him
as coward, and predict that he will
insist upon meeting,
Year: 1877

Special Dispatch to the Gazette.


WASHINGTON, January 3-The repub-


hcans are very much concerned about


the situation of affairs in Florida. They


begin to realize now that the case against


the canvassing board is very strong
one, and that when the country fully un-
derstands it, public sentiment will un-
doubtedly be against them, and few
radicals are very free in their denunica-
tions of Billy Chandler, and say that he
was altogether too smart, and has over


reached himself in trying to make an ap-
parently fair decision IN the first place
The decision in regard to Baker and G lay
counties come back now to plague him
The fact that majority could only be
shown for Hayes on the second count by
determining that the returns from Baker
and Clay. which they decided in the first
count were the true ones, arc spurious,


has produced profound effect with all
fair-minded men. When Senator Conk-
ling was giventhe true inwardness of the
canvaSsing boards action to-day, he said
he was amazed thereat: he went further
and said that after reading carefully
Francis @. Barlow's repor the had looked
anxiously for further facts in regard to
that state. The democrats very generally
regard the situation as very much impro-
we'd, and feel quite sanguine of Tilden's
Inauguration on the 9th of March. The
Florida Legislature will investigate the
whole subject of the presidential election
in that state and the action of the can
wasting board and will report its findings
to Congress. If the state authorities de-
eide that the action of the canvassing
board was illegal and void, and if this
finding is backed by the decision of the
Supreme Court of the state, a conclusive
case will be made out for Tlden, which
the republicans must accept according to
their favorite theory that Congress can
not go behind the action of the state au-
thorities.
Year: 1877

THE FEMALE CLERKs.-There has been
another mournful scene in Washington
among the poor treasury girls who have
been turned out of employment without
previous notice. They are mostly meri-
torious young ladies who have faithfully
and honestly discharged their duties
The integrity which has been charac
teristic of women in the service of the
government has been a matter of special
notice. During an administration in
which dishonesty ran riot in various
branches of the public service, not one
woman has ever been accused or suspec-
ted of the prevailing ofi,cial crime. OF
the millions which have passed through
the hands of treasury clerks not the
smallest fractional part of dollar has
ever adhered to the hands of woman.
1t is not to be wondered that they sought
clerkships, for these positions have al
ways had fascinations even fer men, and
the female clerks have proved themselves
as capable and reliable IN every way as
those of the other sex. 1t is to be regret
ted for their own sake, as well as for the
public interests, that so many more
clerks were employed during the last
administration thau the requirements of
the departments really demanded. 1t is
better for both sexes to seek places in
some career of life in which they can be
Independent of the caprices of politicians
and the changes of parties. Nothing is
more unreliable than dependence upon
public employment for support.
Year: 1877

We have the utmost ,)nfidence in most
of the gentlemen composing the State
Legislature. There are gentlemen in the
Senate who have had great experience.
They have handled large amounts of
money and conducted extensive business ;
most Of them for many years. We there
fore have some hesitation in urging them
to see that the money of the people is
not wasted by being kept on hand in
large quantities for indefinite periods.


1t is said that there is now in the State
Treasury one hundred thousand dollars
lying idle. We believe that the best
thing to be done with this money is to
pay the State debt. 1t was collected for
this purpose. To keep it is to run the
risk of loss. Loss from interest to as
great an amount as the premium might
be on the bonds. We hope this matter
will not be too long delayed and that
the opportunity to buy bonds at 81 10 s.
Sremlum will not be lost.


Since the above was in type we have
seen informed by member of the Legis-
atrs that portion of the State bonds
viii be called in by July, on these, after
which time, interest will be made to
cease.
Year: 1877

1t is rather Unfair to call the bill now
N the legislature taxing dogs in New
Castle county, "AIr. Rays dog law
Senator Ray did not introduce the bill.
But he did not get up the bill, nor is he
an advocate for its passage. The bill
enanated in White Clay Greek Hundred.
and its passage is petitioned for by Mr..
Eomewood and Others.
Year: 1877

The xpp0ihtmsnt, by the Senate, ol


. strong committes to investigate ths


relations Of our government with tht


republic Of Mexico, has certainly


some considerable significance.


1t must be conceded that the action


of our government in pursuing
predatory bands into the territory Of


Mexico, with our troops, il . novel
procedure. The presence of the
troops Of one nation upon the terri
tory Of another under the circum.
stances which surrounded this case
ID an exceedingly uncommon occur.
renee. Add to this the action Of
the democracy Of the Lower House
Of Congress, in tacking on to the ar
my appropriation bill, clause re-
quiring the President to station
some four thousand troops upon the
Texan frontier, together with the
constant embodiment that now exists
there, and We have sufficient to at
tract anxious attention 10 that quar-
ter, The significance therefore, that
we might draw from all this is, that
there is probability that war
with Mexico might be the result Of
all this work, and that perhaps somc-
body would rather like to see war
and to that end some of the occurren-
ces are intentionally brought about.
Grave and able Senators are not TAX
ing this action unless they believe
the subject demands investigation.


We trust 1t is not part Of the con-
ciliation policy to provide . little
Mexican bloodletting to interest
southern kuklux with.
Year: 1877

LONDON, Dec. ia Berlin dis
patch says: The impression is preva-
lent in diplomats and bureaucratic
circles that the German government
is desirous of termination of the
war, and that it will adhere fully and
freely to whatever conditions Russia
may resolve to exact and that it has
resolved neither to advance any OBJ
stacles nor so far as it can help to per-
NIT any other power to hinder the
extension of Turkey as European
power.
Year: 1877

Good Aunty Tyler was mildly dis
tressed.


30 my dear, it is dreadful to think
that you should throw yourself away in
that manner, when with your beauty
you might, in time marry half
millionl''


80 aunty dear, when l always had
such horror of the Mormonsl Just as
if one husband wasn't enough for me J"
Lillian would teasingly respond; and
poor aunty would give up in despair.


Uncle Tyler advised her not to marry
him when he found that to be of no
avail, he aroused himself to inquire into
the gentleman business prospects, re-
preaching himself for not having done
it before. He had an interview with
Lockhart, with the result of which he
declared himself perfectly satisfied,
though he preserved mysterious silence
in regard to the particulars. Lillian fan
cied that there was a peculiar twinkle in
his eye whenever he spoke of her lover.
Did he know more about him than she
herself? 1t was true that with her lie
was decidedly reticent with regard to his
family, his past life and his prospects.
She was sure that he had no dishonora-
BILE secret; her trust in him was abso-
lutte; yet she a0ould have liked to know
little more about him.


Kitty was preparing for her visit TO
New York.


Lillian, for PHYS sake don t let Flor
ence Hilton hear of your engagement, :"
said she, imploringly, a few days before
she was to leave. " 1t would be absolute
ruin to me They are very aristocratic,
you know, and shall meet her Cousin
Fred, and"


Don't be alarmed I'll keep my dis
grace to myself" said Lillian.


Just then the postmaster brought
Kitty another letter from her friend
Florence Hilton, just two months from
the date of the first. This was the way
it ran:


MY DEAR KITTY Il dom t understand
| your letter at all There's some strange
mistake somewhere. You say you have
not met my Cousin Fred, and he says he
not only visits at your house but is en-
| gagged to your cousin Lillian. have writ
ten to him for an explanation, but pray
write me at once yourself. Can it be that
he has never told you he was my cous-
in? But if he did not / should think
you must have known; Fred Lockhart
is not very common name, / should
suppose"


Kitty read as far as that aloud Then
there was tableau.


g Fred Lockhart !" she cried. " sup.
posed of course his name was Hilton
She never called him anything but Fred
It's all base plot OF o! or


She was about to accuse Lillian of com
plicity in the "base plot" when on,
glance at her bewildered face showed he
that she was as much surprised as her
self


Kitty had mild attack of Mysteries
and then resigned herself to the inevi
table.


Well, you have entertained an an
gel unawares,' +" she said.
Year: 1877

Direct from the factory of Halls Safe and Lock
COMPANY which we will sell ut liberal dis
count from regular prices. Also variety of
second hand safes of the different makes. We
are also Agents for the
Year: 1877

More rain.

 Fires comfortable.

 Lumber in demand.

 Streets very muddy.

 Cotton selling at from to 91acts. Not a single bale of cotton last Mon day.

 We had drummer from Ft. Smith last week.

 Gall and see those new goods at B. Jacks.

 Several new houses going up in the lower part of town.

 People will come to town, especial ly on rainy days.

 MT. Will Mourning was oil on flying trip to Little Rock the first of the week.

 MT. Harry Vim is expecting a large lot of Drugs and fancy goods from Louisville this weck.s

 MT. A. w. Gross returned from visit to the State Fair q few days since looking the better by the trip.

 -rhe Lewisburg State has new correspondent from this plate who sails under the name of "Chief of the Choc- taws."
Year: 1877

Come every one exhibit at our far, Prove you have a special interest

 there; Lend your glad aid to every enter

 prise That bids us in the scale of progress

 rise; Enter some worthy premium; give a

 zest To each and all to do their very best To make this our first attempted fair With other counties favorably com

 pare; Your ''best" may not be wrought in

 finest gold, Coarse metals oft the greatest tact

 unfold And just one perfect loaf more will

 display Than the full exhibit of the "class

 A" We may not all be tillers of the

 ground; Some reap their gain from soil more

 profound, Else none would to great eminence

 attain, In the defence of right, or soothing

 pain. Farmers will briug their specimens

 of gram, Merchants inspect, give full return

 again; Then come farmers, mechanics, mer-

 chants, all Gladly respond unto our county s

 call: We are all bound in one depend

 ent link, At which the stars above will nightly

 wink; The ladies too, with fair accustomed

 hand, Might have handsome ornamental

 stand, And prove that they too, take an ac-

 tive part, In the improvement of the finest art. You need not fear to risk the critics

 eyes, Or that some favored one will win

 the prize; Iris by comparison that value IS

 known, The earth itself is measured by the

 zone. RnssrLLvILLE, Oct. 27, 1877.
Year: 1877

The County Fair whichhas been has tily improvised by few of our public spirited fellow-citizens will open to- day. From what we can learn there will be a pretty fair attendance, and while we cannot, of course, expect any great display on such short notice, we may fairly anticipate very creditable success.

 If our people manifest the proper interest on this occasion we think we may safely promise something better next year.
Year: 1877

Agriculture, address by c. W. Har- key on second day.

 No entry can be made of any article or stock to be shown on the first day, after 12 o'clock m. of the first day.

 No article or stock to be shown on the second day can oe entered after 10 o'clock a. m. of the same day.

 Committee on stock will not be allow cd to award premiums to any stock they consider unsound.
Year: 1877

a CLERGYMAN was annoyed by peO-
pie talking and giggling. He paused
looking at the disturbers, and said 4" /
am always afraid to reprOve those who
misbehave, for this reason. Some years
since, as ! was preaching, a young man
who sat before me was constantly laugh
ing, talking, and making uncouth
grimaces paused and administered n
severe rcbuke After the close Of the
service q gentleman said to me, Sir, you
have made n great mistake that young
man was an idiot Since then / have
always been afraid to reprovc those who
misbchayc themselves in chapel, lest /
should repeat that mistake and reprove
another IDIOT During the rest Of the
service there was good order.
Year: 1877

Art is the microscope OF the mind
which sharpens the wit as the other
does the sight, and converts every OBJ
ject into little universe of itself. Art
may be said to draw aside the veil from
nature. To those who are perfectly un-
skilled in the practice, unimbued with
the principles of art, most objects pre-
Year: 1877

We must never undervalue any per
son. The workman loves not that his
work should be despised in his presence.
Now, God is present everywhere, and
every person is his work.-De Sales.
Year: 1877

In regard to :he appointment of a
judge for the Twenty-third Judicial cir
cult by Governor Croswell, the lansing
Republican says: Governor Croswell
construcs the law establishing the 23d
judicial circuit, in connection with the
state constitution, as not giving him any
power to appoint a judge for that circuit.
No judge will therefore occupy the
bench in that circuit unless one should
be declared elected. The next step in
this curious controversy will probably
be for Mr.. .Tuttle to ask of the Supreme
Court mandamus requiring the Board
of State Canyassers to examine and de-
clare the result of the votes cast at the
special election held July I'd. which gave
a majority of 81 in his favor. The Eas I
Saginaw Courier has an exhaustive article
showing that in 1851, when the present
constitution went into effect, there were
only eight judicial circuits; that Is have
since been added by acts of the hegis
lature. and u of them in years when a
special election had to take PLACE in order
to supply them with judges: apd that
paper asks the reason for construction
of the constitution at variance with the
one acted on for the last 26 years.