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Year: 1877

A little steamboat has Just arrived
in this port from Baltimore which
was propelled the entire distance be-
tween the two cities without wheel
or screw. She now lies at the Allan
tic Basin, Brooklyn, and will proba-
bly, be exhibited in motion before she
leaves this city. She is called the
Alpha, and in appearance resembles
the tugboats which ply in the harbor.
Her length is 43 feet, beam l0la, and
depth about feet. She is supplied
with l6-horse power tubular boiler,
which drives a pump. From the
pump to the stern and bow of the
vessel are two lines Of pipe, which
strike the water about three feet be-
low the surface. The pump drives
through each pipe ~ inch stream,
which enters the water through an n
inch nozzle. With GO pounds OF
steam the pump makes $50 strokes q
minute, each stroke driving stream
into the outer body Of water. The
invention is the result of many years
of study, and it is asserted that it can
be applied to ocean steamships with
success. In moving through the wa
ter there is no ripple astern and but
slight displacement. perceptible ex-
cept at the bow. By shutting of the
discharge from the stern pipes and
forcing the water through the bow
pipes the boat is backed, aud by us
ing one bow and one stern pipe she
can be turned in her own length
The propelling power can also be
used to steer the boat, the nozzles be-
ing used alternately as levers on the
principle Of the oar. The boat con.
snmes but . quarter Of q ton of coal
per day, and is considered to be well
adapted for use on the canals. She ID
commanded by Captain Cottrell.-
Nev York Times, 18th.
Year: 1877

friend sent him the message aY.ouI
wife is grief stricken at the false po.
sition you continue to occupy, and
she bids me to beg you to come home
to your lawful wife and loving fam
lily. Your chamber is ready for you
and she is impatient to see you be-
meath your own roof. If you would
avoid compelling her to do what a
wife must do, come home, etherwise
she will prevent your remaining to-
gether tonight at the hotel. Come
home, if you ever intend to come
come now or never" "a


The appeal of his wife had NO ef-
feet but that of awakening him to Q
sense of the enormity of his crime,
and leaving his hotel after kissing
his supposed bride, he proceeded to
his office, where he ended his life by
shooting himself through the temple.
A letter left by him says:
~ have ruined myself, my wife and
my sweet little children. o, how /
have struggled to make all right, but
it was useless. Iprocured Chicago
divorce and am married to that poor,
good, sweet little girl that my inter.
fernal passions have ruined. See my
poor wife and comfort her, and do
not blame any one but me. Lulu Is
pure and good, and did she know but
half the truth her love would be
turned to hatred"


Ample provision has been made
for his wife and children, and it is
also believed for the girl, who finds
herself only one of the victims of the
fraudulent divorces for which Chica-
go Is so Administrators Ocean.
Year: 1877

Franklin Dyre, highly-respecta.
BILE and intelligent farmer of Galena
Kent county, Maryland, gives the
following as u sure cure for the bite
of mad dog. AS will be seen, he
has tested it with the most gratifying
results:


Elecampane is a plant well known
to most persons, and is to be found
in many of our gardens. Immcdi.
ately after being bitten take one and
q half ounces OF the root of the plant


the green root is perhaps prefera.
BILE, but the dried will answer, and
may be found in our drug stores, and
was used by me-slice or bruise, put
it into pint of fresh milk, boil down
to half pint, strain, and when cold
drink it, fasting at least six hours aft
erward. The next morning, fasting
repeat the dose, prepared as the last
and this will be sufficient. II il
recommended that nothing be eaten
for at least six hours.


have son who was bitten by q
mad dog eighteen years ago, and
four other children in the neighbor.
hood were also bitten; they took tho
above dose, and arc alive and well tt
this day. And have known mum
ber of others who were bitten and
applied the same remedy.


1t is supposed that the root contain.
a principle which, being taken up b.
the blood in its circulation, counter
acts or neutralizes the deadly effects
of the virus of hydrophobia.
/ feel SO much confidence in thi
simple remedy that am willing yol
should give my name in connection
with this statement.
Year: 1877

Right on the heels of that new Civil
Service Revelation known as the
Presidents Order, comes the tidings
of the removal of Capt. Bowling,
postmaster at Toledo Ohio, and the
appointment of one Reed in his stead.
DOwling was Union soldier, and is
one Of the most popular men in the
city, and is . capable officer in every
way. Besides, he has served only
half the term Of his commission.
Reed, on the other hand, was very
obnoXius man to the Union soldiery
during the war. This action is said
to be reward to Reed for helping to
elect Stanley Matthews to the Senate.
Between Schurz and Matthews the
President will yet be plucked clean of
his gaudy civil service plumage.-
Dubuque Times (Adm. Rep
Year: 1877

After all, there is one plank in the
Iowa platform on which the editor
of the Register and the editor of the
Chicago Tribune can meet and en-
brace. That is the silver dollar
plank.-Des Moines Register.


There are great many people who
depend for their dollars on getting
their arms around other peoples
necks.-Chicdgo Tribune.


Yes, Joseph; when you and Hor-
ace White had your arms around the
neck of the whisky ring and your
hands in its pocket, you published a
good paper. But when that income
was cut off you quit publishing a
good paper, and the Tribune has
been growing poorer in merit and
poorer in purse ever since.-Des
Moines Register.
Year: 1877


All beautiful tales, trust. are true;
But here is Q grave in the moss
And there is the sky. And the buds are blue
And butterfly blows across.
Ycs, here is the grave and the sky.
To the one or the other we go;
And between them waves the butterfly,
Like soul that does net know
Somewhere Nowhere? Too-golden lead.
And lips that miss and miss.
You would tell me the secret of the dead
Could I find you with kiss
e. Co me here. l say, little child of min
Come with your bloom and breath.
qf he should believe In the life divine,
Twill not believe in deathD
81 here is your brotherp" Iquestion low,
And wait for his wise reply.
Does he say, "Down there in the grave?" Ah!no
But he says. with laugh, elm the sky!"
Year: 1877

It is most dastardly insult to those
Republicans and their co-workers all
over the land, to now say they are
fighting the platform. The policy of
the President has arguments in its
behalf, aud good ones, but this is not
one of them.
Year: 1877

if the Russians had captured Kars
and Batoum they would have been
strongly tempted to offer easy terms
of peace; but now they have been so
far baffied that they must strike with
all their might in European Turkey,
and everything tends to show that
they intend to strike very hard in
deed.
Year: 1877

WAsHINGToN, July ga general
order from the War Department di-
rects the transfer of the Second Reg
iment of Infantry from the Depart
ment of the South to the Division of
the Pacific for the purpose of rein
forcing Gen. Howard in his opera
tions against the Indians.
Year: 1877

The Gate city has very lengthy
editorial upon the Presidents SOUTH
ern policy and the two great parties.
The Gate sums up with the finding
that the Republican party must adopt
the policy or in 1880 there will not be
enough left of it to run candidate.
Evidently our friend Clark has got it
bad. 1t is useless to argue the ques-
ton. Time will adjust all this mat
ter, and we have no doubt, cure the
Gates malady, and that of all the rest
of us.
Year: 1877

Postmaster Bowling, of Toledo,
Ohio, is in the middle of term. At
least his commission has sometime
yet to run. Bowling is an cx-soldier
of the Union, who was faithful as
such. So far as doth yet appear, he has
been an honest and capable postmas-
ter. On Monday, the I'd inst.,. one
Alexander Reed, editor of the Toledo


Commercial, presented a telegram to


Bowling, from the authorities at


Washington, asking Bowling to sur


render the postofiice to Reed, as he
had been appointed P. M. Bowling
declined to deliver up the Office on
this telegraphic authority. All this
the telegraph and the press gives us
of this matter, and much more. We
are not disposed to give full credence
to all the press has to say, as it is
often mistaken on such occasions.
Hasty reports in these matters are
liable to be full of errors. We will
content ourselves with simply saying
that if it be true that Dowling's COM
mission has sometime yet to run, then
there is no escape for the Admins
tration but to show cause for his re-
moval-that is. that the good of the
service called for it on account of the
inefiiciency or wrong doing of Mr..
Bowling. It will not do to simply
turn Bowling out; the country will
want to know, and ought to know
what for. One of the very best fea-
lures of any civil service rules that
can ever be devised is, that no Presi-
dent, no Cabinet officer, no member
of Congress or anybody else shall
ever cut short the term of any officer,
unless it be for good cause, and that
cause to consist in the failure of the
officer to perform well his duties and
maintain good and honorable name.
Year: 1877

1t seems from the best information
we can gather that the lady, prior to
her marriage with Mr.. Scott, had be.
come infatuated with young man OF
this city who had returned her love
but for some cause unknown to your
reporter their associations suddenly
terminated. She has been a widow
for about two years past and during
that time the former affection be.
tween herself and the young man re.
ferred to has been renewed and O
marriage engagement no doubt en-
tered into, which was to be consum-
ated it was thought at no distant day,
The parents of the young man were
determined that their son should
Year: 1877

LONDON, July 6.-In the House of
Commons, this afternoon, Sir Stat.
ford Northcote, Chancellor Of Ex-
chequer, in reply to question, said
the object of sending the Mediteran-
can fleet to Besika Bay was that il is
and would be convenient station


The position was central, enablin g
the commander to communicate easi-
ly with the ambassador at CONSTANT.
nople and the home government.
As to why the fleet was not sent to
Suez Canal the Chancellor said it was
because it was not q convenient OIL
central position and besides there
was no reason why more than one
ship should be stationed at Suez
Canal. The fleet at Besika Bay num-
bers seven ironclads and one frigate.
Year: 1877

The FireWorks-a and Fire Cracker
Nuisance.
On the 4th inst. fire crackers and
fireworks caused twenty thousand
dollar fire at Decorah, Iowa; killed a
man and dangerously wounded sever
al other persons at Fairfield; came
very near causing a terrible accident
here, and has filled our exchanges
with accounts of accidents from all
parts of the country.


All day during the celebration here,
halt-grown ruffians from town and
country were throwing fire crackers
into crowds, among women and chill
dren, and at night these vagabonds
took ticndish delight in throwing and
shooting their fire-crackers into wag-
ons and carriages, and in several in
stances coming to orr attention, caus-
ed injury TO the occupants.


The fireworks business, from be.
ginning to end, is an unmixed nui-
sance, frequently causing loss of
life and property, and it should be
at once abated.


1t is long time till next March
when we elect our City Council, but
we do hope that the people will then
see to electing council which will
prohibit the buying, selling or firing
Of any species of fireworks within
the city limits; provided the present
City Council cannot be induced to
pass such an ordinance in the mean
time.


We do not wish to be understood
as rejecting on the Boulton Brothers,
OF this city, our principal dealers in
this dangerous and incendiary stun,
because ii is to them and their care.
that the accident of Fairfield was
perhaps averted here, and the success
of the celebration was largely due
to them.


Their display of ornamental pieces
was the finest ever witnessed here.


But there is so much annoyance and
danger about the whole custom that
t would be more honored in the
breach than in the observance. And
in this opinion we believe the dealers
and most of our citizens will concur.
Year: 1877

he seemed so much attached to, and
recently have been taking steps to in
ducc him to break off from his en-
gagement, and finally succeeded by
threats that they would disinherit
him and turn him out of the mercan-
tile business, in which he is now en-
gagged with his brothers, and set him
adrift upon the world without pros
pect of future recognition. The
young man, though long past the age
of majority yielded because of these
threats, and for
Year: 1877

to do what would have perhaps made
himself and the deceased happy for
life. The lady hearing of the young
mans determination to abandon her
rather than be turned out to paddle
his own canoe, became Respondent
and concluded to end her existence.
Year: 1877

may be assigned which may have ad.
ded somewhat to her already depress-
ed state of mind. Her brother-in-
law went on visit to Europe, and al
the time Of the lady's death was on
his way home, bringing with him his
ceased made efforts to obtain work
in several families in the city. because
of the increase of her sisters family
on the return of the party from Eu.
rope. The lady did not succeed in
obtaining work, and this failure nc
doubt added to her troubled mind
thinking she was burden to her sis.
ter's family who are only in moderate
circumstances. The saddest part ol
the story is that the deceased leaves 8
beautiful and
Year: 1877

Last week, in referring to the Carpet bag
horde that have been plundering this State
for number of years, we designated them
as gentlemen from abroad. Probably not
one person in q hundred could guess how
the Republican understood the phrase. 1t
either did, or pretended to, take it as Sc
riousy used. Certainly anyone half awake
ought to see that such parties could only be
spoken of jocularly as gentlemen" and
for the Republican to proceed on the as.
sumption that it was meant in earnest must
be attributed to lingering drowsiness
following one of its half week slum-
bers. We should hate to set it down as
deliberate impudence.


" The gentlemen from abroad :" Charity
would not permit US to speak right oat of
them as thieves aud vagabonds, and so we
said "gentlemen," never supposing that we
ought to make foot note explaining that
the word was used in irony. By coolly as.
suming that we had admitted these parties
to be sure enough gentlemen, the Republi-
can makes an opportunity to class them
with others who really are gen tlemen, upon
whom a shadow of reproach docs not rest.
and whom it designates by their names,
tbosgh violating every rule of good taste
and journalistic etiquette in doing 80.


Moreover the gentlemen named by the
Republican as connected with this paper.
though from abroad" originally, are not
from abroad now, so far as identification
with their State is concerned. They are
citizens as fully and thoroughly in all their
interests and affiliations as though born
here. They have cast their lot among
us and contributed to the common veal all
the fruits of their energy and of their busi-
ness or professional capacity. It is nothing
but bad faith which, by quibbling over a word
of double meaning can put them on q foot
ing with men I" from abroad whose hearts
and fortunes and hopes and intended homes
are all in Maine or Illlnois-men who have
Year: 1877

A grave robber has just been tried in st
Louis. The legal accusation was grand lar.
ceny, and that is the crime of which he was
convicted, the coffin being the article mem
toned in the Indictment as stolen. The body
has no value in law, and in Missouri the statute
against body snatohing" inhicts only an in.
significant penalty. The defence was that q
coffin after being put in grave is abandoned.
has no owner, and therefore cannot be stolen,
but that point was oyerruled.
Year: 1877

The little town OF Wl-ca'set, with pppuls-
ton of 1913, and valuat on of $3.50, jji IN 1870
has just voted to subscribe Sj00OO to the stock of
the Wiscas,ct narrow gauge railroad, aud the
subscription has been made.


That town had loaned to the Knox X Lincoln
a large sum for its means, some $500 we think
which was secured by mortgage, but the mort
gage fails to indemnify them, and the town now
prefers to take stock aud have a voice in building
and managing the new road. Contrast this with
Augusta, with population of 1893 and a galua-
ton of 81 SSl ,l3j in 1870 and never lost dollar
in her aid TO railroads. now hesitating and becOm-
ing excited over an application to subscribe
$50, 200 to a road nineteen miles on the narrow
gauge to Somerset county, there to connect with
twenty-five mile road already constructed to be
placed on the same gauge, which new road will
not cost over 500 600, and owning three fouTths
OF the stock, augusta can control the building
and running OF the road The city will surely
lose It's prestige for enterprise and discernment if
it should lalter now.


If there is great er interest here in our midst
than the interest of the city, which is to overrule
and control all city action for its own private ends
which is TO make the interest of the public sub
servcnt to the private interest of few, it should
be known and recognized that the public may bo "
TO its high behest or by united an determined
action burst the bands with which it has attempt
ed to bind us. Let us all unite and by vigorous
effort emulate the little town of Wiscasset, and
this day by the small pittance asked of us,
the railroad enterprise SO important and necessary
to the future development Of our city.


REAL ESTATE.
Year: 1877

New YORK, September 4. A dispatch saws
Gambeta is now without rival in the republi-
can party. but his advanced views are so alarming
to the left center that the republican party as a
whole will probably seek TO counteract the evil o.
Theirs removal by putting forward the ex-pres-
dent Of the chamber of deputies as a candidate for
succession to the presidency in the event Of Nc
Mahon's retirement.
Year: 1877

The case Of Naval officer Cornell was again be
fore the cabinet to-day but without definite lac
tion. The session lasted two hours and a hall
All were present excepting the Secretary of tn
navy.
Year: 1877

When candidate for high office is S so well liked and so popular with the masses as to make his defeat difficult in a lair and hon orable fight, mean and cowardly men are not wanting who delight in manufacturing lies and slander- ing his good name. There are also those whose selfishness prompt them to prostitute their honor pervert truth, and ignore right, for the sake of iniuring a a competitor in business, whose prosperity they envy, and with whose business sagacity they have not the talent to successfully com.

 pete in an honorable way. These thoughts are suggested by the mean, cowardly attacks made upon me and my medicines, by those who imagine their pceun. ary prospects injured by the great
Year: 1877



 Over the getc of a graveyard in southeastern Tennesse is the fol- lowing inscription: "No person allowed to be buried in this en- closure except those who live in the village"

 The yicissitudcs of life suffer us not to be elated by any present good fortune, or to admire that felicity which is liable to change. Futurity carries for every man many various and uncertain events in its bosom.

 You cannot be buried in ob- scurity; you are exposed upon a grand theatre to the view of the world. If your actions are up- right and benevolent, be assured they will augment your power and happiness.

 Mans love to God is like the changing sand; His IS like the solid rock. Mans love is like the passing meteor with it's fitful gleam; His is like the fixed stars, shining for above, clear and SC, rene, from age to age in their own changeless Armament.

 How t would broaden our char ity to bear. in mind, as we reflect that our loves are far below our ideals, that it is possible, and even probable, that they find us in an equally inadequate realiza- ton of their own ideals.

 We should abandon the idea that in giving we take anything whatever from ourselves; as long as we hold that notion, we can never know how to give as the Lord would have us. What, in deed, is giving but doing-doing the Fathers will? And we all know that in doing this we never take from ourselves, butadd much.
Year: 1877

for consideration and argument. The Democrats also find some satisfaction in the fact that the rule established by the Commis- sion will lead to the ascertain ment that Watts, Republican elector in Oregon, was ineligible at the time of his election, and hence only two Republican elect ors from that state can be count ed, Cronin, a Democrat, being the third elector. On this suppOsi- tion, they think the Democrats still

 HAVE A CHANCE FOR THE PRESIDENT, and that the election may be thrown into the House, where Tiiden would be elected, and that in such event the choice of Wheel CT, as Vice President, would de volve on the Senate.
Year: 1877

The modern housekeeper would
be almost inclined to account flies
the most to be dreaded of all the
plaques of Egypt, except the last.
And this plague has remained to the
present day. We can protect our
selves from cold; we can shield our
selves from heat; we can guard
against wet and wind; we have con-
quered the savage beasts of the
woods and expelled the savage men;
but buzzing, mocking, pestiferous
insects, more invincible than bear or
wolf or wild cat or Indian remain
to destroy our peace by day and
our sleep at night.


What flies are to the outer life
cares are to the inner life. They
come in focks; they creep in through
invisible cracks and crevices; their
sting is bad enough, their buzz is
worse. And strong men and pa
tient women that stand up braVely
against greater ills, that take with
courage the great sorrows and gFiefs
Of life and hold back the choking
sob, break down under the infietion
of these petty cares, trifles too small
to be battled against, too insignifi-
cant to be conquered. You drive
such a care away on this side; bark!
there he IS at the other. You take
up your newspaper. Buzz! bnzz!
buzz! Half way down the column
you find you have not read quarter
of what your eye has seen; the ex-
PEELED blue-bOttle care is back upon
/ you again. You go to bed; He
buzzes still in your ears, and you
toss to and fro in restless unease.
You fall asleep. He obtrudes his
music on your dreams. And you
know not which is more irritating
the care itself or the consideration
that so petty and mischievous a
care should rob you of your peace.