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Year: 1877

When Captain Semmcs was told
by his physicians that his disease
would prove fatal in q few hours,
or at most days, he calmly thanked
them and requested that a father
Of tho Society of Jesus, his con-
fessor, q bosom friend, be sent for
to come at once. In the meantime
he arranged his worldly affairs
quietly and satisfactorily. When
the father came the Admiral re-
ceived tho last sacrament. He
then addressed q few words of
consolation and advice to his
family. Soon after he became
delirious, looked up, and ordered
every window closed that the rain
might not be blown in. Then,
after a few moments of silence, he
said "You will see the Judge
about it. The case has not been
decided properly. I ask for moth
ing but Justice; should I not have
it? Promise me to attend to the
matter, since 1 cannot do it my
self. Then he imagined that he
stood upon the deck of his ship,
preparing for battle; he conversed
with his officers on tho appearance
OF the enemy, preparing for
decisive conflict. This speedily
passed away, and a. short period of
return to consciousness followed,
during which, thoroughly conscious
that this indeed was his last battle,
he calmly babe farewell to each
member of his family. Death did
not close his eyes or stop his breath,
however, ere he pronounced his
confidence in God and his hope and
belief in salvation.
Year: 1877

: Most of the travellers who have de-
scribed this crater, agree in saying that it
is from fifteen hundred to two thousand
feet deep; and many of them speak OF


the possibility of approaching to the boz
tom. All this, to visitor of the mount


ain in its present form, would seem utterly
at variance with the truth. You 60 down
perhaps for half mile, pretty rapid de-
scent, over cliffs and yawning chasms,
and through smoke and heated gas. Here
you arrive at the inner crater; at the hole,
for such 1t seems, which has been made


through the bottom of the gigantic vase.
and into which is inserted the cylindrical
tube, that seems to extend quite down to


the lambent flames and fiery pool of Tar


tarus. OF the depth of this you have a


very imperfect means of judging; and


whenever, by q favorable action of the
wind or temporary suspension of the
smoke, you approach little nearer, and
attempt more satisfactory examination,
q heated puff Of sulphurous gas and
smoke drives you back all but sufocated


70 get Q breath ofspure air. -tsas -iiNi
Year: 1877

The Cincinnati Commercial prints a
column and third editorial on the 'perils
of ice-water," in the course of which it Is
remarked that no woman would think of
cooling a cooking stove when it is red hot
by throwing ice-water upon it. Yet whas
people know would ruin q stove, they
pour by the pint into their stomschs
when 1t is in state Of intense activity
and at the highest point OF chemical COM
bustion. The cook who pours water upon


her fire " bile she is getting dinner, knows
that the potatoes in the pot will stop boil
ing, and the meat in the oven will not be
fit for food. The same results from the
deluging the stomach with iee-water. The
process of digestion will be arrested, and
win not be resumed until the water il
raised 10 the temperature required to car
~ 1t on sgaia. sesaao t*'
Year: 1877

The following story is told of German
farmer living in the town of Calmut. He
came to this country from Germany,
twenty five years ago, and pre-empted a
piece of land in the town where he nov
lives. He was then very poor, probably
not having $25 all told, but he possessed
a wonderful energy and AL unparalleled
tact for getting along without any outside
aid. When he wanted anything he went
to work to make it, paying out nothing
for wagons, slcighs, harness or clothing


In cutting the timber for his log house,
he found a bee tree, and followed up his
discovery By others of a like sort, securing
both bees and honey. These bees he kept
and for years he had honey to eat and
SILL. He had no money to pay for getting
his land broken up, so he fought five or
six hogs, and, tying rope around the
hind legs of each, listened the other end
of the rope to stump. and all the grain
he sowcd the first year was where these
sharks had rooted up tie ground. Fol
wagon wheels he sawed off the ends of d
good sizrd log, and the rest of the prints
tive vehicle he had no trouble in making.


He made rude sleigh, bringing the run
ners high up in front. and jointing them
together. lie made harUcss of ropes or
hides. which answered every purpose,
and although the man is day rich, near.
ly all the clothing for his family is home
made He has now on hand farm for
one son, ana desires to buy for another
son, saying ne will pay $4,000 for a
piece of land that will suit him. He puts
no money in the bank, owns no bonds,


but keeps tn cash carefully hidden away.
Year: 1877

The coroner's jury investigating the
railroad disaster has returned ver-
dict to the effect that the persons de-
ceased, whose bodies were identified
and those whose bodies and parts of
bodies were unidentified, came to
their deaths by the precipitating OF
of the ears in which they were riding
into a chasm in the valley of Ashtabu-
la creek, left by the falling of the
bridge, and by the crushing and burn
ing of said cars, for all of which the
railway company is responsible.
Year: 1877

A dozen or SO of the members of the
late Legislature accompanied Sam
Wood, the Speaker of the House, on
an excursion TO Colorado. 1t was a
thin dodge of Woods for notoriety,
and an introduction 10 the leading
men of our sister State, where Wood,
il is said, contemplates moving. The
proper thing for the late House would
be an excursion into oblivion.
Year: 1877

 land borders Pope on the South Remove mo through the County, streams there s farmin gIandsa be efounda any ill he Also some sup places making

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 raising Sheep which ing need only the

 them gente
Year: 1877

There is an island in the Pacific
Ocean where the wild pigeons grow
to be as big as turkeys, and whore
there mover was such a thing as blue
glass known. A fact like this in the
hands of a Western debating society
might be used to the utter demoli-
tion of the Plcasontonian theory.
Year: 1877

Never slight nor neglect the hum
blest individual. Remember that
he as of as much Importance to him
self us you are to yourself, or as is
the greatest man in the world. You
have no right to hurt the feelings of
any person, Bear in mind that his
heavenly Father is also yours, and
that He cares as much for him as
for you. lie will also protect him
against your unkindncss or injustice,
and you will in some way have to-
suffer for it. Treat every one, even
the humblest menial, with due con-
sideration; so will you make them
happy, and receive in return their
good will, and the peace Of heaven in
YOUR mind"
Year: 1877

A little bright three-year.old was
seated in his high chair at the din
ncr table. Mamma had arranged the
little uneasy, while for the moment
his sprightliness and fun had made
him the observed of the family
She had placed him snugly up to
the table, pinned on his bib, and
succeeded in getting the little mis-
chievous hands quiet, and making
him "hush," when father proceeded
to ask the blessing. While this was
in progress our little chubby made a
discovery. 1t was that all the plates
on the table except his own little
plate, were in one pile at "papa's
place" and as it seemed to him were
put there to get the benefit of the
solemn ceremony. So, scarcely wait
ing for the "Amen," he held out his
own plate in both hands, saying
"Please, papa, pray on my plate,
too"
Year: 1877

sistency Of iron, which he is capa-
bic of developing to a remarkable
degree. For instance, he takes a
solid bar of iron, Of about three
inches in circumference and some
three or four feet in length, and,
holding it in one hand, bends it
by striking it repeatedly across his
disengaged arm, the blows being suf,
fciently vigorous to break the limb
of any ordinary nan, but which
do not seem to have the slightest
effect upon his own, the muscles of
which are as hard as the iron itself.
He then straightens the bent bar in
the same manner. He asks you to
feel the pulse in his wrist, and it
beats with the same regularity and
power of that of an ordinary NOR
tai, but, by alsudden but almost
imperceptible movement of the
muscle Of the arm, the pulsation
apparently ceases altogether, but is
in reality removed from its original
position. BY the exertion of the
same power it is then restored at
pleasure to its proper place. He can
also remove his ribs from the side
to the abdominal region, where
they can be distinctly felt, and re-
turn them to their proper place at
will, while by the exercise of the
same power the heart is changed
from the left to the right side of
the body. Two of our physicians,
we learn, examined this remarkable
specimen Of humanity and were
astonished at the extraordinary de-
velopments which resulted from a
practical test of the wonderful
powers of the man. One of the
physicians was asked to place his
ear TO the region Of the heart, and
its beatings were regular and dis
tinctly noted, but suddenly there
was an entire cessation of the
throbbing, and on the instant his
companion, who had his ear to the
right side Of the body, exclaimed
that he could then defect the beat
ing Of his heart on that side.
Year: 1877

brakeman in his employ, but now en-


gagged in agriculture, and Frank L. Hath
away. They were all young men, and
wers evidently new to the business. 1t
was most skillfully piece of
work on the part of the robbers and a no
less brilliant achievement for the officers.n
Year: 1877

Hart would have killed every one OF the
robbers had he been obliged to contend
with them single-handed and alone. He
hit Lsddy several stunning blows in the
head with q billy that made the blood fly
in all directions, but that desperate man
did not seem To feel il q narticlR Every
Year: 1877

The situation at Scranton remains un-
changed. The miners on strike are obsti-
nate In their refusal to 60 to work without
an advance in wages and threaten with
violence and death any who are ready to
accept the wages they have rejected. This
atrocious conduct, together with the das-
tardly attack made recently, on = passen'
ger train. ON the Lehigh and susquehanna
branch of the Central Railroad Of New
Jsrsey, BY which one lady, it is feared, fa'
tally injurse, and the lives Of many put in
Jeopardy, has not tonly alisnatsd from the
strikers the sympathy Of we'll disposed
working men and Of the public generally


but should bring down upon them sum
mary punishment At the hands Of the Ex
scutive Government. Men who act th'
part Of banditti should be punished a
such. This spirit Of insubordination mus
be stamped out if confidence is to be re
tored among business men and publ


rafic is to proceed without interruption
Year: 1877

If our New York contemporaries had noses
for news they would Investigate the Clinton
Savings Bank failure ami ascertain whether Mr..
KEur, or any other Director, told his son and
,ti his friends on the eyt OF the suspension that
the hank would close next day, and advised
them to take their money out while 1t WAS called
mi
Year: 1877




The newly elected United States
Senator from Louisiana, Judge Spot
ford, Democrat, has given utterance
to some political sentiments since
his election that cannot fail to meet
with a hearty response throughout
the country. He says "The hearts
desire and prayer to God of the
American people is now for peace
peace between sections, peace be-
tween races, aye, peace even between
parties, peace everywhere, and if it
be possible, peace forever more.
There is a wide spread belief that the
fuIness of time has come when those
bitter partisan hates that ultimatein
intestine war, the subordination of
reason to force, indifference to ques-
tions Of right and wrong, thrift =
less habits, greed of plunder, and
the reckless disregard of human life
that war leaves behind in its dismal
train, should be supplanted by no
bier aims. It is a growing public
sentiment that magnanimity cannot
longer be banished with safety from
the domain of politics. Il the Ad-
ministraton of President Hayes shall
grant to the land white winged peace,
Industrial progress and an honest
civil service-but these three things
it will be crowned with the bene-
dictions of a grateful people"
Year: 1877

PoTATOEs TO BE A PROFITABLE CRoP
FOR 1877-This escuIent has become
by habit almost indispensable. Few
families fail to have it on the table
at least once a day, however high the
price. Last summers drouth so di-
minished the yield, that there is now
a scarcity in many places. The Col
orado Beetle spread so widely, to the
very edge of the Atlantic, last sea-
son, that very many farmers are
afraid to plant largely this year, and
the present prospect is that there
will be a small crop, and consequent
ly high prices. Those, therefore,
who produce a good crop, will be
likely to find it unusually profitable.
A little extra care will enable any
one to successfully fight off the bee
tie, no matter how abundant. The
new book on Potato Pests" by
Prof. Riley, State Entomologist of
Missouri, gives full directions, and it
will pay every farmer to get it. Fiji
ty cents for this book in paper COW
ers, or IS cents bound in cloth, will
be a good Investment for every one
who grows potatoes. Sent postpaid
from this office, or by the Publish
ers, Orange Judd Company, New
York.
Year: 1877

REMEDY FOR THE EARACHE.-The
Journal of Health gives the follow
ing: Take bit of cotton batting,
put upon it pinch Of black pepper,
gather it up and tie it, dip in sweet
oil and insert in the ear. Put a
flannel bandage over the head to
keep it warm. It will give immedi-
ate relief.
Year: 1877

i u6 IOdu " II Gil.


Some, it is true, do not pass thro
all theses stages; but intemperance,
persisted in, always ends in the
drunkards grave, and we have toe
much reason to fear, in hell.


The bar room is truly


The curse of the drunkard's wife;


The curse of the drunkard's child;


The curse of the drunkard's home.
Those only who have known the
bitterness of being a drunkard's wife
or child can know the misery of a
drunkard's home.


Young man before you enter the
bar room, stop! Ponder the path
of your feet, ere it be forever too late.


Man of family! flee the bar room,
as you would in honor fulfill the
pledge of love made to her who is
the companion Of your joys and your
sorrows.
Year: 1877

THE NAKED TRUTH.-At noon yes
terday policeman found boy bath.
ing in slip, near the foot of Ran.
dolph street, and he called to the lad
to come out and be arrested like a
man for breaking the ordinance.


rs it agn the ordinance for boy
to fall into the river?' inquired the
bather.


No, sir, but you are naked.


Does the law say that boy has
got to have his clothes on when be
falls in?'


The ordinance prohibits bathing
here, and now you come out.


is it bathing when a feller cuts his
foot on piece of Of tin, knocks his
head agn beam, and swallows four
catfish and a COB Of mud 2


Il want you, called the officer.


What for asked the boy.


4 command you to come out !


I cant come, sorrowfully replied
the bather. The real truth is, |
jumped in here to rescue drowning
female but her hair pulled off and
she at the bottom. AS | have no
witness | dasnt 90 to trial !


TIL bring you out !! growled the
officer as he made for a boat but the
boy disappeared AM was seen no
more. While the officer was looking
under the wharf the half of a good
sized sand pile suddenly slid down
the back of his neck and into his boots
and a musical, familiar voice was
heard saying:


my shirts on hind side afore,
breeches turned around, and this vest
is wrong end up, but feel as clean
as new stamp from ihe post. office,
and Lor what an appetite I've got
for pop corn balls'-DctyoH Free
Press.
Year: 1877

lie spoke to her with manly word
With honest speech and slow;
She felt she loved him as she heard,
But still she answered mo"
She saw him rise, she saw him stand,
AS staggering from blow;
She could have kissed his trembling hand
But still she answered No"
And so he goes-to come no more!
But let him only go,
Her voice will call him from the door
Who trusts woman's Mo-"


-G00d W0rUs
Year: 1877

Drunk again, sure enough said
Bummerson, fixing his eyes on a light
ming bug that glinted Gtfully athwart
the horizon. Just see how that star
wobbles and l only had two glasses
either.
Year: 1877

A Brooklyn tramp left the table at
which he had been seated to partake
Of a meal, because his host offered him
brown sugar to sweeten his coffee. He
remarked that lie had fallen far, very
far, but he had not reached that point
of depredatiOn.
Year: 1877

If you are stung by wasp while
picnicing, apply the end Of a cigar
which has been chewed for few mo-
ments to the wound. Then go and
nunt up the wasp and mash him with
base ball club. You will be acquit-
tod
Year: 1877

In the spring of last year Congress
passed a Joint resolution requesting the
people Of the counties of the several
states to assemble on the centennial
anniversary Of independence at the
county seats and have there read a
succinct narrative Of their county,
and to have one copy of such narrative
deposited ut the county court house
and another sent to the congressional
library. The limited extent to which
this centennial observance was carried
out may now be judged by the fact
that although there are several thous-
and counties in the Union, yet only
some twenty-five or thirty county mar.
ratives have been received at the
library Of Congress.
Year: 1877

Washington, Sept. 26.-The Patent
Office fire was an important subject
before the Cabinet to-day. There was
a lengthy conversation upon the con-
dition of public buildings generally,
and 1t was finally decided that the Sec
retary Of War and Secretary of the
Treasury should select commission of
three competent architects and engi-
neers to examine all public buildings In
Washington and report as to whether
they are fire-proof or not, and make
such suggestion as they may deem
proper to render these buildings safe
against contlagrations. The commit
tee will be announced after the Cabinet
meeting on Friday.
Year: 1877

a REVOLUTION in Steinberger's
satrapy Of Samoa has just been sup
pressed Mt the cost of fifty lives, and we
are told that that adventurer is again
on the ascendant. We fear, however,
that steinberger is not doing much for
the civilization of his subjects. His
partisans celebrated their victory by
cutting off the heads of their slain
opponents, erecting them on poles and
holding war dance around them for
two days.
Year: 1877

IF there was any one of the Pashas
except Colonel Valentine Baker whom
we thought we knew all about it was
Admiral Hobart Pasha, and yet we are
gravely told that letters received ut st.
Paul disclose the fact that Hobart
Pasha is Captain Manthrop, formerly
OF Watonwan county, British naval
officer retired on half pay, who intends
TO return to his Minnesota homestead
as soon as the Russo Turkish war is
over,
Year: 1877

PREsIDIzNT HAYES remarked, on his
return to Washington from his southern
tour: " Nothing could be pleasanter
tnan nay trip. The country is apparent
iy recovering from its extreme business
prostration, and believe the era of
good feeling between tho north and
South is permanent and that they are
Sincere in their expression of n COM
riunity of interest"
Year: 1877

himself In the centre of the forehead.


He was found lying In a manger dying.


He was aged about 20, and has been
considered a respectable and religious
man, but within the past few days dis
graceful rumors have spread through
out the neighborhood concerning him.
and this no doubt caused the rash act.
Year: 1877

GAofDETTA put out one of his own eyes
when child in fit of rage. He WIS
placed by his parents in the keeping of
some people who had ill-treated him, and
he wrote to his father that if he did not
take him back home that he would put
out one OF his eyes. No attention was
paid to the childish threat, but he kept
his word and tore out an eve.
Year: 1877

GENERAL FREMONT has been sued
by the government for three thousand
dollars drawn as pay to which he was
not entitled. The government has been
long time finding out the little error.
Year: 1877

q Republican partisan, was the presidine
judge. 1t was, of course, decided agains'
PIERCE, and appealed by PIERCE to tht
Supreme Court Of West Virginia, where
the judgment OF the Circuit Court wa
affirmed, it, the Supreme Court, being a.
that time of the same political complex
ion rs the Circuit Court of Preston
county. The case was then carried to
the Supreme Court of the United States
which decided the "Sutor's Test Oath
unconstitutional and void, which judg-
nent was, of course, entered as the
judgment of the Supreme Court OF West
Virginia, thereby reversing the circuit
court, and striking theshackels from the
hands of PIERCE and others who were
similarly prevented from contesting these
inlquitous burdens that had been heaped
upon them BY the war legislation" afore-
said.


But TO complete the demolition of these
disreputable statutes, and render nugstory
the judgments heretofore obtained under
them, the Constitutional Convention OF
West Virginia, which was called ia
1872, incorporated an article in the new
Constitution which provides that "No
citizen OF this State who aided or psrtici.
pated in the late war between the gov
ernment o: the United States and part
of the people thereof, on either side, shall
be liable in any proceeding, civil or
criminal; nor shall his propertybe seised
or sold under final process, issued upon
Judgments or decrees heretofore rendered,
or otherwise because OF any act done
according to the usages of civilized war
iare, IN the prosecution of said war, by
either Of the parties thereto"


Thus it will be seen that the people of
West Virginia. are determined to eradl-
cate from the statute books this species
of legislation, and SO far as possible TO
repair the wrongs it has already occa-
stoned. But the fight is not entirely
over. The parties who hold these iudg-
ments are not willing to give them up
without contest. We have not space
to refer to the present attitude which the
cases now assume IN the courts.
They are being contested on each
side by the best legal talent In the
State. The questions raised are novel
and peculiarly interesting to the profess
sion, while the matters involved are
equally interesting TO the people general
ly. We may take occasion to refer to
these legal questions in detail hereafter.
We content ourselves at present with
the hope and belief.thst the fruits of this
unprecedented legislation will be entire
ly stamped out, and the close Of the con-
test will estsblish b that after all, it is legis-
lation that did DOT legisiate.
Year: 1877

IL thirty years observation we have
never seen better prospect for a large
crop of wheat in the adjacent counties,
and indeed all along the James river the
area is larger than since the
war, and the of good
Weld was never better. III
our friends over the water will fight
on, our farmers will reap a rich
return for all the labor expended on
whest
Year: 1877

NEW YORK, June 4.-The New York
National Exchange bank was robbed of
a package containing $4,000 on Satur-
day afternoon. A young boy entered
the bank and made some inquiry OF the
cashier which necessitated the cashier 5
opening the gate, and while his back was
turned for moment the boy got away
with the money. The thief is still at
large.


Trial OF Peter h. Sweeney.


New YORK, June 4.-The trial OF
Peter b. Sweeney in the S6,OOO,0OO case
was formally begun in the Supreme
Court this morning.