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Year: 1877

We understand tlrat the Light House
department is of the opinion that the
present appropriation of $4,000 tor range
lights is not sufficient to construct piel
and erect light thereon, at the entrance
of the harbor, as petitioned for by the
masters of various crafts entering this
port. The department, however, are
ready to build the range lights
as originally calculated upon just rs sOOr
as they can securea satisfactory title to
the two locations desired. Better range
lights are very much needed. The tenn
pOrary ones answer very well if the at
atmosphere is perfectly clear, but wher
there is the least fog or smoke they are
not powerful enough to be seen from tn.
entraHce of the channel, and considerable
difficulty has been experienced by mas
tcrs on this account. 1t is to be hoped
that the department. may be able to Sc
cure the sites for the lights so that they
may be erected this season.
Year: 1877

of Pulaski. was nominated for Lieutenant
Governor.


The financial plank illyokes the Legislature
and the Executive to adjust the public DEBT SO
that equal Justice may be done to all, without
increasing taxation.
Year: 1877

vas without warrant Of law, his imprisonment un-
Justnabc and who procured his arrest
liable In damages. This was brought 10 trial bo-
fore Judge Alker ana jury Ia Part OF the Marine
Court aud concluded yesterday. On tho trial post
tive testimony produced to show that /. Bowers
Crane the plain In the suit had takon any part
the beyond the mere act OF making tho adlda-
Wit Tho Marshal testified that Royal $ Crane, tho
first and OF the defendants In
THIS gave him order of arrest pointed Walker
AS he went down the Court hoose stairs and instructed
him 10 make the arrest, Walker about depart
Europe and In obedience to those instructions he
mado the arrest Counsellor Crane on his behalf
testified that all he had 10 do with the
send tho tho Marshal tho day previous to
the arrest, and on the day of making TO
point out walker 10 the Marshal, but without instruc-
tons arrest him then, there or anywhere else.
Upon substant italy this state oil tacts counsel for
defendants moved TO dismiss tho complaint as against
l. Bowers Crane ground that the testimony had
not in any way connected him with tho making OF tho
under the circumstances charged 70 have been
Illegal A similar motion made behalf OF
ground that the only protection from arrest which


fendant could claim under the circumstances that
derived from the common law, and that that protec-
ton did oxtond TO arrest made IN the suit
IN which the person arrested WAS III attendance
party defendant This point was overruled by the
Court, aud The case being subsequently, given 10
tho jury the question Of fact 10 whether
Royal Crane authorized and encouraged the arrest,
aud also the question OF malice, the jury found
against him and assessed Walkers damage VI $500
Year: 1877

The Fall River manufacturers gen.
orally believe that their hardest ex-
periences are over, and look for live
ly spring trade. Though the expense
of running by steam and the large
amount necessary to pay the yearly in
terest ofcOstly and extensive mile have
eaten up what little profit they have
made during the past three years, the
present business Of nearly all the cor
poratiOns Is remunerative, and the
prospect is OF a steady increase. The
drought during the past winter has
stopped many mills which are depend.
eHt entirely upon water, and the grow
ing confidence in satisfactory solu.
ton of the political situation has Gre
ated demand for cloths which the
Fall River manufacturers are prepared
to take advantage of. The present
production of all the Fall River mills
amounts to $3.50, 900 yards per week,
on which there is a net profit of S5S,,
500, and prices show signs OF improv.
ing. 1t is a noteworthy fact that,
though Fall River manufacturers made
the hrst export of goods to England
and can compete with her in foreign
countries, the home demand is at
present so great that they cannot at
present follow up the advantage, and
this branch of the trade is at present
practically monopolized, as far as New
England is concerned, by Rhode Island
makers. Every indication points to
the fact that the hard times in the dry
goods trade are over, and it is fair to
suppose that this new and encouraging
state of things will extend to other
lines of manufacture also.-Boston
Journal.
Year: 1877

A new invention, OF simple and
practical nature, has of late been sue
cessfully applied in several places in
Germany and France. The system
consists of electric candles, or sticks
of charcoal, surrounded by isOlating
matter, which gradually consumes,
leaving the charcoal fire like n wick,
which slowly melts away under the
brilliant glow of electricity. With
two such candles, light equal to that
of one hundred gas jets may be
thrown Oh a street. An electro-mag-
netic machine can keep burning twen-
ty of those electric candles. The cost
is about half that of gas, and the light
is of the brightest and purest kind.
The Erlelder Zeitung gives the follow
ing account, by an eyewitness, of the
working of this mode of lighting in
the machine factory of the brothers
Nicer, at Gladbach


The great building was enveloped
in total darkness when we entered.
Soon after one of the proprietors
lighted the small developing apparat-
us, in size not longer than thirty
inches, and in height not more than
sixteen inches. AS soon as it was set
in operation by a small steam power
with which 1t was connected by u belt,
the immense machineroom was in
simultaneously lit up as bright as day,
At the entrance of the same there was
to be seen only one lamp, at height
of fifteen or sixteen feet, which gave
out most brilliant and steady light.
1t was so clear that the finest shades
of indigo.dyed silks could be easily
distinguished. The electric light was
distributed in such a manner, through
the agency Of mirror, that long
stay in the room in nowise injuriously
affected the eyes. On going into the
garden, an electric lantern, suddenly
lighted, illuminated the whole neigh
borhood to such a degree that at a
hundred feet very fine print could be
read, and at two hundred and fifty
feet larger and ordinary characters
we're plainly legible. OF the wonder.
ful properties Of this electric light we
had the clearest proof, and we were
further pleased to learn that in this
establishment the cost is estimated at
a fourth TO a sixth of gas.light. In
large rooms, halls, public squares and
streets, the electric light before long
is sure to take the place Of gas as an
Illuminating agent. In France it is
rapidly wing in favor, and is in
operation in forty establishments, The
immense depot Of the Chpmin do Fol
Ida Nod a. Paris i NbGat also, "a hi
Year: 1877

The Honolulu Gazette of February
2Sth contains the account of re.
markable submarine volcano outbreak
in Kealakakana bay, near the en-
trance to the h1rbor. The natives
report that the eruption occurred at 3
o'clock on the morning of the 9th,
appearing like innumerable red, blue
and green lights. In the afternoon
several boats visited the place of
eruption, cruising over the most active
part, where the water was in a state
of peculiar activity, boiling and ap,
pearing as if passing over rapids, or
very much like the water at the He'll
Gate of New York. Blocks of lava
two feet square came up from below,
frequently striking and jarring the
boats. As the lava was quite soft no
harm was done. Nearly all the pieces
on reaching the surface were red hot,
emitting steam and gas strongly sulr
phurous, and rumbling noise was
heard like that of rocks in a freshet.
The cause, no doubt, was by the
eruption of lava from 8 submarine
crater, which is supposed to be a crack
or two on the line of rupture extend
ing at least a mile from the shore.
Another rupture, doubtless q contin-
uation of the submarine fssure, was
traced inland from the shore nearly
three miles, varying in width from a
few inches TO three feet in some places.
The water was seen pouring down into
an abyss below before the severe shock
of the earthquake was felt by those
living at Kaowloa and Kell. During
the night of the eruption, which must
have preceded the outbreak, it was
quite severe, but no damage was
ranOrip1
Year: 1877

The gum used is imported directly
from Africa, South America and Cen
trail America, that from Central Amer
ica being the best, while the African
gum is the poorest. The raw gum,
which is nearly white, is ground sever.
al times between immense futed iron
rollers, after which it passes through
the composition room, which process
is secret, but when it con es out the
gum has the black appearance of COM
mon rubber. The next process is that
of passing the rubber between chilled
iron cylinders Of many tons weight,
which are kept very hot and very
smooth. A part of the rubber intended
for "uppers" is here spread upon and
fastened to long sheets of cloth. The
heels and taps are stamped out of sheets
of gum of the required thickness. The
rubber cloth is now carried to the cut
ter's rooms, where it is cut out and
sent to the bootmakers. The boots are
made by men, the shoes or ordinary
rubbers by girls, while the overshoes
are made by either. One man will
make twelve or fourteen pairs of boots
a day, and receive twenty cents a pair.
An active girl will make from twenty
five to thirty pairs of rubbers. After
the bootmaker is through they are
placed in an oven, where for twelve
hours they are subjected to a tempera-
ture of three hundred degrees. They
are then ready for boxing and ship.
ping. In one factory about four
thousand pairs of boots, rubbers and
overshoes are turned out daily.
Year: 1877

Every Description Of Real Estate.
In section of country unsurpassed
for health, scenery and fertility. 1t
is remarkably free from all malarious
and pulmonary diseases. Its pure
bracing air, fine springs of fresh cool
water, short mild winters and long
seasopable summers its gentle noun
tain slopes and rich valleys, its forests
and fields, its flowers of spring and
varied hues of autumn-all combine
to place this region of country in the
front. rank Of superiority and beauty
to the colonist and home seeker.


We continue this week our list of
the very attractive properties for sale
by this agency, in both the far-famed
Piedmont and Valley regions Of Vir-
ginia.
Year: 1877

A Vermont farmer says be weaned a
last spring colt in the following man
ner: IL fed grain or meal to the mare


when the colt was with her. The colt
soon learned to meal with the dam
After he has been taught to eat with the
mare he will eat as readily when he is
removed from her. put nv colt ia q
stable where he could have plenty oil
exercise in large yard; fed him with
hay and bran mixed with milk, which
soon taught him to drink without the
bran. weaned him from the mare in
this way when he was three months old
he seemed contented, and / think did 81
well as though he had'run with the mare
two months longer. II is much bettel
for the mare, and more convenient Il
one wants to use her, as most people dc
in the country, while the colt is with
her. This way of weaning colts is very
convenient, and one can feed milk a


such times as seem judicious, substitu


ting grain or shorts for the milk at any
reasonable time" JIs3 es1.D na4t h93
Year: 1877




wA Nevada journal states that "a
certain candidate has lost thirteen votes
through making rash promise to his
wife. He had promised that in the event
of his election he would buy her seal.
skin cloak and pair of navy blue stock.
ings, and she couldn't rest until she told
thirteen lady friends all about it. The
ladies expressed themselves as lawful
glad to hear it, but threatened their hus
bands with suit for divorce if they dar.
ed to vote for this particular candidate
That old cat would look nice in seal
skin coat and navy blue stockings, would
MT she ? is the way they expressed them
selves in speaking of the candidate
wife. Who says that women have no po'
ltical influence
Year: 1877

sLook here" said an excited Fourth
warder to neighbor who had a biting
dog, "you have got to kill that dog Of
yours or I'll do it He nearly hit my
mother, an old lady Of ninety i've years
and in feeble health. It's simply in
famous" The owner of the dog look
ed sorry, and said he did not wonder al
the other man for being SO anxious
about the health of the author of bis
being, to whom he owed SO much
"'Tain't that" replied the kind son, shut
she isn't long for this world, anyhow,
and If she gets dog-bit at her time oil
life she will neversplit another stick oi
wood or fetch another bucket of water;' >


and his voice actually grew husky and
he wiped tear from the end of biz
nose. f ess.sl@7a -iii Ns' Al s6f
Year: 1877

7oIf you hate any one, let him i've
Regard an old man as thy father We
can not build bridge to the clo0ds-A
The world Is just as . pefson's heart
makes it. The tongue three inches long
can hill man six feet high. II yon do


not enter the tiger's den you can not get
her cub. Send the child you love most
on q journey, to save him from being
spoiled by indulgence. 'i9'sz
Year: 1877

'Dive, thoughts, Clarence comes"
This sentiment was called very
forcibly to my mind upon reading
the last communication from your
Long Branch genius, and well may
the wit and zest of cultivation pale
before the shaft of his vulcanized
rustic mind. l well might say, in
the language of that great reader of
the human heart, ''Now is the win
ter of our discomfort made doubly
dreary because of his shrewdness in
satire and deep souled wit. Then
the only consolation ! have in all
my miseries is that others as well
as myself have "served their king
with more zeal than they We served
their God" Surely your CORES


pondent from the rustic regions of
Long Branch, while heretofore ap-
parently "pavihoned in the habili


ments of his own great glory" and
shut out from the rude world by
Alpine heights" has been engaged
in collecting all his great powers to-


gether in making a wonderful fort
TO blast the hopes of those who
seek to rise after him; and now
after having passed his brilliant
achievements in this much desired
art, under his own critical eye he
seeks to show to the world that 81,
Kully, am McGregor (healed) and
on my native heath" That's true;
and surely an impartial witness
would not be forced to draw much
upon his Imagination to conclude
that he had never been off of said
heath-at least, further than Park


er's steam saw mills or Green
Steele's blacksmith shop. OF course
my communications, by his lord
ship denunciated "squibs, could not
possibly be of interest or profit to
the great brain power of this great
eater of strange meats. We would
fain be glad to have some of it our
self, but for fear of it's making US
appear and feel too like "pam-
pered minion of bloated aristocracy
underneath the ground" we pray
God to deliver us from such an un-
pleasnt situation. 1t is true, we
are green, verdant and young, and
we know it, but, partner Kully,
when a want of cultivation and
mental erudition becomes a crime
in free America, we beseech, ., per-
NIT us in friendship and the best of
feeling to advise you to either have
Your securities or your hole in the
ground ready for your reception;
otherwise, by all the authorities,
YOU will have to suffer the penalties
of the bloody enactment. If the
web foot were to pick us up we
have hope that our verdancy
would contribute to his easement
in some degree. But, o, how can
we hope to ripen, or to be ever of
nutricious use 70 anything or any
body when trampled under foot by
his lordship, Kully-a fac simile Of
that animal with stripes across his
shoulders, indicative of the fact of
his once having borne upon his
noble back the greatest of men.
Possibly Kully feels his Importance
in consequence of his imagining
himself nearly related TO that said
animal by eonsanguinity, as / verify
know he is in appearance. Posi-
bly, we would not be hurt. were we
to take another bath or two, which
we intend doing should we be per
mitted to live long enough, kully.
But don't you think it would be ad-
visable for you to be dipped IN the
"Pool Of Siloam," that those old
sores you possess in such abun-
Year: 1877

The Moulton Advertiser puts it
thus: "Rev. r. w. McKelvy is bat
tling down sin and driving 'immor-
atty from the land


Well, that is glorious news. Bob
was the wickedest rascal we ever
knew when a youth. He used to
whip us every time he got chance.
We are rejoiced that his energies
are turned in another direction. If
he fights the devil with the same
pluck that he used to fight us boys
he will do good service in "battling
down SIN" True, he was bigger
than we, and the devil is a heap
bigger than he is, but then Bob
served him so long and faithfully
that he must have learned his
tricks. He knows how to eight the
devil with fire"
Year: 1877

Not to read or study at all is to
tempt God; but to do nothing but
study is to forget the ministry; to
study only to glory in ones knowl-
edge is a shameful vanity; to study
in search of the means to fatter
sinners is a deplorable prevarica-
ton; but to store ones mind with
the knowledge proper to the saints
by study and by prayer, and to diff
fuse that knowledge in solid in
structions and practical exhorta
tions-this is to be a prudent, zeal
Gus and laborious minister
Year: 1877

Stand by your friends, let come
what may, is a good motto. If you
don't stand by them you needn't
expect them to stand by you. So
whether they be friends of high or
low degree, in affluence or poverty,
stick to them and don't stop to in
quire whether it will be popular.
Whenever you prove traitor and de
sert those who have stood up for
you and helped your battles, you
will find yourself without any one
to congratulate you upon your
achievements, or comfort you in an
evil hour when misfortunes come
thick and fast.
Year: 1877

The pencil marks you see around thi
paragraph (thus) mean that your


scriptiOn is out or unpaid, and that you
are requested TO pay up at once. We
would take great pleasure in extending
credit to our friends and patrons. but
cash alone will yay our expenses, and
we are forced to adhere 10 strict cash
rule. We hope you will comprehend
and appreciate the necessity of such
course, and renew your subscription
without delay. We solicit your favor.


tS- We enter no new names on our
books without the money in advance.
Year: 1877

One of the latest and most novel ap-
plications of compressed air is to the
regulation of clocks at distance, which
has just been introduced into Vienna.
We now get our water and our gas
through pipes laid in the streets, and it
has been disposed to distribute heat in
similar way; but it is a novel idea to
turn on" the time for our clocks by
kindred mechanism. The following is
description of the Vienna system,
from an English journal: Tubes are
laid in the streets from the central
station, in which is the ''master clock"
or rather two clocks working together;
and should one get wrong the other
keeps in motion, and an alarm-bell is
rung to indicate to the attendant that
something is wrong, and he at once rec
titles it. The air is pumped from the
the station, and just as gas or water
can be taken into houses, by means of
pipes, so can the pneumatic tubes be laid,
and people can receive their time just
as they get their water or gas, the tubes
being always kept fully charged with
air
Year: 1877

There has been an unprecedented re-
vival in the wool trade within the last
few weeks, and the amount of business
done reminds the largest dealers of the
liveliest days of the war. The fact that
the sales in Boston last week amounted
to a, l09, 600 pounds, the largest weeks
business ever known to the trade in that
city, and million pounds more than
the transactions for the corresponding
week last year, is sufficient to show the
activity of the trade in this commodity.
The indications are that the wool-con-
suming centres will be the scene of un-
usual life within the next six months.
The manufacturers have been running
on the smallest possible amount of
stock for months past, but are now
forced by the revival of the trade to buy
largely, for fear that prices will be even
higher two or three months hence than
they are at the present. The tendency
in prices is constantly upward. The
wool growers in this part of the state
have nearly all sold the cut of the
present season realizing perhaps on an
average little less than forty cents
pound, or nearly ten cents more than
year ago. The rise in the price of wool
has had the effect of exciting activity
in woolen goods also, but this has been
more marked in the increase of business
and the more confident feeling among
the merchants than increasing the price
of goods. The effect of the whole
movement will be to greatly improve
business at the large number of woolen
factories in New England. In truth,
these facts indicate a brighter prospect
for business, and better times even are
predicted. Norwich Bulletin.
Year: 1877

Calamitously beaten in the open couatry,
his army cut up, great part Of it sur
rendered with his artillery, M oukhtar the
conquerer, is fugitive who has Temporal
rily taken refuge within the lines of Kars.
Apparently the battle in Armenia is the
most decisive conflict of the war. 1t puts
the whole Turkish army in that region
almt It hors de combat and leaves the Rus
SLAMS masters of the open country and al
liberty to return, almost unmolested, to the
siege Of Kars. Is it yet possible for them
to take proper advantage of this victory ?
With the season SO advanced, the roads 81
bad, the means Of transporting stores SO
inefficient, it is not possible to move an
army far into aa enemy's country and,
therefore, SO far as can be understood al,
this distance, the victory is likely to prove
barren as to strictly military results; but
in its moral aspects it is for the Ottomans
Year: 1877

GREAT BRITAIN is likely to have on it
hands another war with Afghanistan. tn,


last, which occurred rs years ago, was no


marked by uninterrupted series Of British


triumphs, and should the Ameer make uE


his mind 10 defy the power of the Empire,


as his predecessor deGed the East India
Company, it will mark the commencement
of very costly and probably very san
culinary strife. The ultimate issue would,
of course, be the extension of the British
frontier beyond the mountains-a step which
is doubtless thought to involve much less
danger now that the hollowness Of the mill
itary power of Russia has been so clearly
demonstrated. Russian influence has been
c'edited with very considerable potency at
Herat, and it is just possible that but for
recent events on the Danube, the Anglo
Indian Government would have shown a
good deal more caution in picking quar-
rel with the Ameer. The presence Of a
British force in Beloochistan is unques-
tionably a piece of aggression meant to
signify that the proper regime for Cabool
is tritish protectorate, or some form of
rule which would effectively guarantee its
strict neutrality.
Year: 1877

l was not patient in that olden time,
When my unchastened heart began to long
For bliss that lay beyond its reach; my prime
Was wild, impulsive, passionate and strong.
! could not wait for happiness and love.
Heaven to come andnestle inmy breast;
| could not realize how time might prove
That patient waiting would avail me best.
Let me be happy now. P" my heart cried out,
:" In mine own way and with my chosen lot.
The future is too dark and full Of doubt,
For me to tarry, and trust it not,
Take all my blessing, ali am and have.
But give that glimpse of heaven before the


grave


All me. God hears my wayward, selfish cry,
And taking pity on my blinded heart,
He babe the angel of strong grief draw nigh,
Who pierced my bosom in It's tenderest part.
! drank wrath's wine-cup to the bitter lees,
With strong amazement and broken will;
Then, humbled, straightway fell upon my


knees,


And God doth know my heart is kneeling


still.


| have grown patient seeking not TO choose
Mine own blind lot, but take that God shall


send,


In which, if what I long for 1 should lose,
l know the loss will work some blessed end,
Some better fate for mine and me than
Could ever COMPASS underneath the sky.