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Year: 1878

THE patent gold washer that takes gold out of sand and gravel without the use of water, is now doing its marvellous work opposite the postoflice, at the fruit stand of Hummer & Weaver. The incredulous can go there and sprinkle gold in the sand and MT. Blair will run 1t throgh the ma chine and return every grain of gold to the owner. It is curious but true.-L. A. Re publican.
Year: 1878

The recent discoveries of rich placer mines on the Colorado, about two hun dred miles above Yuma, are attracting a great deal of attention, At present the precious metal is obtained by the use of the dry washer, or blast, but with the use of capital large ditch can be made from the Colorado, and regular placer washing be carried on. On the Gila are very yalu- able beds of gravel, that only require a ditch to render them very prctitable.-Re publican.
Year: 1878

THE Commissioner of the Internal Reve- nue has given as official that six hundrtd d millions of dollars worth of distilled liquors are drank in year in the United States. There are in this country nearly quarter of million of liquor dealers.
Year: 1878

Massachusetts does not allow paupels
to vote, and the Genera! court recently
asked the opinion Of the Supreme Court
as to whether person. otherwise quali>
lied to vote. who has been pauper and
to be such. is entitled to exercise the
right of suffrage at oEce, or Is obliged
to await the lapse of any period of time.
The Supreme Court holds that the
person has right to vote the moment
he ceases to be pauper.


The Contemporary Reuie,o says
that Major Walter Wingfield,
who invented the game of lawn
tennis, has done more for the
women of England than any 1O,-
600 doctors have done.


The Examiner discovers that
the change of dinner to a late
hour has been a great aid to
temperance among the upper
English classes by allowing g little
time for q long carouse.


1t is calculated that if all the insects
in the world were piled in one mass
the heap would be greater than that OF
all the combined beasts and birds.
Year: 1878

The crisis 10 over and the income budget
published, Our Administrators have made
up their minds that the City treasury is
sure of receiving during the year 1879,
81 959, $50. We do not by any means share
this confidence. We thiuk the receipt OF
that sum quite probable but not sufficient
ly certain to justify the honest undertaking
of contracts to that amount and to be paid
cash. The people who make their calou
latious to receive that cash will, ae gen
eral thing, sorely need it, and failure to
disburse even the last two or three hun
dred thousand dollars would be equivalent
to destitation for many of those disap
pointed. Better keep withing the bounds
of certainty aud let people make their ar
rangements accordingly.


The estimate of recei pts for 1879 ia about
$l75,0 900 more than the receipts of this year
and we think it would have been more lust
and more prudent to limit the calculations
for 70 by that standard.


Still, taking it all and all, we are very
favorably disappointed with the perform
ance of our new Council in this matter.
NY SONAA AOS aNOAu SolCuA0L4uS LILO EobI
estate tax at the figure adopted because
the law makes the estimates for them, and
that item is over three fourths of the whole
revenue calculated on. Upon the aggre-
gate of the remaining items their estimate
is extremely moderate. This is shown by
tho fact that their total is 1877, 800 less
than that of the income budget for '79
If from this sum we deduct the cal culation
of rs for receipts from Water Works
$3.50 ,000-there is still difference in favor
of the mOdesty of the new budget to the
extent of about 1928, 600.


1t affords US pleasure to note this indi-
cation on the part Of the Council of a ton
dency to do what is right. They have
many opportunities OF laboriDg for the
relief of the people and good will in thai
direction cannot bat be fruitful of good
works. Indeed, let us hope that they and
our new Legislature will make q vast inn
provement on their Democratic predeces.
sors and come somewhat nearer the Wade
Hampton standard of Democracy. L
would seem that during his term of office
the legislative expenses of South Carolini
have been reduced from a Republican
average of nearly one million to lees than
hundred housand dollars-that is, tc
about one tenth. Why cannot Louisiana
be equally Independent of Republican pre-.
cedentf
Year: 1878

<The Church and learning in the Middle
Ages" is the title of very interesting and in.
structve article pubished on the sixth page
of to days STAR. 1t contains vast amount
of information concerning the labor of tEa
muoh-abused monks of the Middle Ages. An
article on the third page entitled reform in
Church Music" will be read with pleasure by
oil who take an interest in such matters.
Year: 1878



 You had your attention called in the last issue of the DEMOCRAT to the importance and necessity of be- ing ready to properly carry out the law in conducting the annual school meetings, and to assist you in doing so propose doing my part in the matter. IL does seem to me that 1t should be somebody's business, or duty, to furnish the directors with q poll book for holding the annual school election, as is the case in all other elections required by law to be held. Not knowing whose duty it is I have contracted with the Treasurer to furnish each board of directors with poll book for holding the ap- preaching school meeting. Also to furnish for publication in the DEMO- GRAF q report showing the total valu- ation of. real and personal property in each district as per assessment for the year 1877. By reference to said report you will see what amount of special school funds can be raised at certain rate per cent. tax, in annu- al meeting:
Year: 1878

We have made arrangements to have Mr. Robert .JamIeson accom- pany the candidates in their canvass of the county as special reporter for the DEMOCRAT. We will thus be en- abled to give our readers an account of the conduct of the various aspi- rants and synopses of their speeches. Mir. Jamieson will also solicit new subscribers tor the DEMOCRAT and we trust the lists of names he may send in will show that the people of our county appreciate our efforts to give them a good local paper. Ev- cry democrat in the county should have his name on our subscription list, and we believe the majority are willing to support democratic pa per in the county, especially when we have put the rate so low as $1.50 per year.
Year: 1878

at the present day to excite the van ity and encourage the egotism of as plrants to office, with whom trust I will not be enumerated and to whom l claim not to belong.

 Reared and educated at period and with q class of politicians whose passports to distinction and office were to be "honest, faithful and com petent," and that the ''office should seek the man," it could not consis- tently be expected that l should too hastily respond giving my consent.

 The position l dcen 60 be good one, although siEue reconstruction (without intending any reflection upon our representative from Arkan- sas, some of whom are my warm per sonal friends, and all of whom I re- gard as clever and worthy gentle men, in some instances sadly abus- ed by neglect of duties, Incompetent cy in their performance, and, in wan ton, shameful, profigate expenditure of the moneys of the public treasury, by the transfer and control almost of the Government itself to the hands of bondbolders, railroad rings and aristocratic moneyed monopo- lists, whose power and influence are so great at the capital and being yielded in the hall of our congress, do, as conceive, much of its legis- lation.

 I should doubt exceedingly my competency and ability to battle successfully for the overthrow or correction of the enormous pecula- tious and frauds being daily perpe- trated upon the country; a position requiring very able and distinguish ed men, possessing stern integrity and fidelity, of the Jefiersonlan school, to wrest the control from the hands of corrupt and dishonest rulers and politicians.

 Feeling that my friends may have overestimated my influence and ability to serve them or my country, where so much is needed and re- quired, and that I might fall short in the consummation of any very great good in this direction at my advanced age (unless such an i'm mergency should arise, of which there is not the least probability, that no other candidate could be suc- cessfully brought before the Conven- tion, 1 must most respectfully de cline your fattering call and appeal, with a hope that some one may be found equally if not more, worthy and better qualified to reflect credit upon himself and honor upon the district and state.

 Again thanking you, gentlemen, for your friendship and confidence, you will believe me,

 Very truly yours, JOHN k. HOMER SCoTT.
Year: 1878



 Editor DEMOCRAT: suppose, ac- cording to announcement, the Pope County Political Managerie will soon be on the road, and that the canvass will open in Clark township on the 24th inst.

 I should like very much to be along, but for several reasons, be- sides others, l cannot do so, though I do hope the dear people will not forget that 1 am a candidate for the office of County Treasurer, and that you will all come out to the polls prepared to do like the old woman's hen, after she had fixed to set her on three dozen eggs: "Now old chuckey just spread yourself" which l guess you will be fully pre- pared to do after you have heard the candidates tell "what is what"

 Respectfully,

 F.C. FALLS.
Year: 1878

The County Treasurer very kindly furnishes in to-day's DEMOCRAT q tabu lar statement of the taxable property, real and personal, ill each school dis trict in the county. This will be q great aid and convenience to the people when they assemble in their annual school meetings to vote the school tax for the ensuing year, for it will enable them to sec exactly how much funds they will be able to realize from any given per cent. of tax levied.
Year: 1878

An Oil Citizen, whose last sum- mer's suit was ruined by a clothes cleaner, says the fellow is one of the few, the immortal names that were not born to dye.-[Oil City Derrick

 True angels sometimes come in dark disguise. It is only in dense atmosphere of this earth closing around their glory.
Year: 1878

The Gazette is hard at work try ing to elect Col. k. w. Johnson to tEe U. $. Senate. Has that paper forgotten its article short time since in which it advocated sobriety as one of the first qualification for office Alma Herald.
Year: 1878

Mr.. H. G. Farell-Dear Sir; Actuated by sense
OF gratefulness, submit the following in
stance OF the utility of your great medicine. My
child, three years old, was suddenly attacked with
q terrible disease, which in less than six hours
prostrated it to total helplessness, The limbs be-
came so rigid that not jOinteould be bent; the
flesh turned black and cold and entirely deprived
OF feeling; the eyes fixed, partially closed and al
together blind, following this was deafness to all
sounds; the spine became contracted and so curved
that when lying on its back the head and heels only
touched. Indeed, the child presented every ap
pearance of being dead. Immediately the at
tack, the family physician was called in and for
three weeks he labOred to restore it to feeling but
all in vain, aLhouA h it was blstered dozen times
and various rubefacient Liniments applied. A con-
sultation of physicians was then held, but to no
purpose. the case then brought before the
Medical Society, but nothing could be suggested
which had not already been done, and the doctor
then told me he could do nothing more. We then
commenced applying your LinimeDt freely over the
entire length of the spine, and you may imagine q
parents joy, when, after few applications, re-
turning animation was apparent and it rapidly re-
covered with the exception of the sight which did
not become perfect for near month. The child is
now healthy and robust can be. Five other
cases of the same kind occurred previously in my
neighboorhood, all of which died. when there Is no
doubt if your Liniment had been used they would
have recovered. HENRY &. CLELAND,
Year: 1878

The leading drawers of sterling bills to-day made


further advance in close up to the gold ship
ping point. Continental bills Were also frmer. The
reasons for the further advance have already been
given. and there nothing new to add concerning
tO-days market. We annex latest amended quota
Year: 1878

Not here not here mot where the sparkling wa


ters


Fade into mOcking sands as we draw near;
Where, in the wilderness, each footstep falters =
1 shall be satisfied but oh not here
Not here,-where every dream of bliss deceives us
Where the worn spirit never gains its goal;
Where, haunted ever by the thoughts that grieve


us,


Across us floods of bitter memory roll
There is a land where every pulse is thrilling
With rapture earth's sOjOurners may not know,
Where Heavens repose the weary heart is stilling
And peacefully life's time-tOssed currents flow.
Far out of sight, while yet the flesh infolds US,
Lies the fair country where our hearts abide
And of its bliss is nOught more wondrous told us
Than these few words, Il shall be satisfied"
Satisfied Satisfied The spirits yearning
For sweet companionship with kindred minds,
The silent love that here meets no returning,
The inspiration which no language finds,
Shall they be satisfied The souls vague longngs
The aching void which nothing earthly fills
Oh what desires upon my soul are thronging
AS look upward to the heavenly hills.
Thither my weak and weary steps tending
Saviour and Lord with thy frail child abideI
Guide me toward home where, all my wanderings


ending,


then shall see Thee, and ''be satisfied"
Year: 1878

the rock wall, great fragment, as
large as house, had just parted in the
solid mass, and was grinding its slow
way down, held by the ragged edges of
its own fracture. The next instant l
saw above it on the flat front of the
cliff hundred zigzag lines running
here and there, out of which puffed
white smoke made by the friction of
the cracking and crashing masses. 1t
was but an instant, and then IA portion
of the top of the cliff, 200 or 300 feet in
breadth, fell perpendicularly. The first
sound had been the cracking of the
single rock, which had been a sort of
keystone holding the masses above it.
The direct perpendicular wall was
about three hundred feet. 1t came
down laundering on the rocks below
and shaking the valley like an earth
quake. The mighty masses-thousands
of tons-broke into fragments, bound
ing into the air, and rolled and plunged
five hundred feet more down the slope
of old debris, the remains of similar
catastrOphes in old days. Here they
vanished i'll the dense forest which
skirts the base-vanished, but the
sounds continued as old trees were
sheared down by flying rocks that
plunged along among the underground
with hideous sound of destruction.
1t was all over in less than thirty
seconds, perhaps in less than fifteen.


Then cloud of white smoke, dense
and thick, rose slowly in the calm even
ing air, passing gently over the very
spot the rocks had left, until it over
topped the cliff, when it took the rosy
light of the sun and sOutherly air, and
tioated slowly up over the Profile
House. Fishermen on Profile Lake
heard and felt the sound, and thought
it was an earthquake. The stiffness
that followed was that appalling sort of
silence which all know who have ex-
perienced the sensation of sudden calm
after a terrible explosion. But my
horses trembled from head to foot, and
looked into every recess of the woods
as we drove hOmeward, seeking the in
visible source of danger.


1t is not easy to measure the size of a
mass of rock falling from mountain
top. The mass was much larger than
the entire solid contents of block of
tall houses three hundred feet long. 1t
does not often happen to man to have
the chance of seeing such a weight fall
three hundred feet perpendicular, and
plunge down a slope of several hundred
more.


1t is in this way that the mountains
are decaying. Along the same cliff
can see that numerous changes have
occurred since last year. There is no
doubt that in time the Old Man will
disappear. Already lift is visible in
the cliff behind his forehead, and some
day that point of the mountain will fall
into the valley. If you have never
seen him, it would be just as well to
hurry up your visit, for am afraid ii
will not be many years before he will
exist only in pictures.
Year: 1878

FALL OF GREAT CLIFF IN FRANCONIA


NOTCH.


Mr.. w. G.. Prime, who spends the
summer months at the Profile House,
writes from his cabin on Lonesome
Lake concerning the changes in the
mountains and the fall of cliff:


The last winter has worked more
changes on the hills hereabouts than
any winter of the quarter of a century
that l have known them. One becomes
very familiar with great hills, and every
feature gets to be known, so that a
slight change is recognized. You would
hardly think it possible that they could
have so impressed their outlines on the
eye and mind that you would miss a
tall tree from lofty ridge, or see a
change in the shape of great cliff
from which few rocks have fallen.
But it is SO.


think l did not tell you of a grand
sight / saw last fall, which showed me
how these mountains crumble away.


You remember the vast range of
granite cliffs which bound the western
side of the Pemigewasset valley, rising
thousand feet out of the forest and
extending a huge wall of bare rock,
without tree or shrub, for two miles
The Old Man, the great rock face, is
the northern end of these cliffs.
l went down from the cabin to go tC
the Profile House towards evening.
My horses, with the buck board, were
waiting for me in the clearing. AS
came out of the forest path into the
sublime amphitheater, which | always
think as grand as anything ever saw
in Alp or Lebanon country, the purple
evening light was filling all the valley
like great cup with wine, and over
flowing the edges where the high noun
tain ridges glowed with deeper tints
1t was profoundly still. No sound wal
heard but the lapse of the river over it,
bed. 1t was very grand, very beauti
full, and very lonely, for my driver an,
myself were the only human bein,
within two miles.


AS took my seat in the buck boar,
and lifted the reins, sound like th
discharge of a hundred cannon roare,
through the valley. The horses spran
forward, and as threw myself back O
the reins looked up.


Near the top of the western cliff, /.
| 600 feet above me, on the sheer side
Year: 1878

The Sabbath School Association of the
Fhst Presbyterian will give musical an6
literary entertainment this evening in the
new Sunday scheol room. No admission
pric, will be demanded, but a collection
will be taken up, the proceeds of which
will 60 towards furnishing their new room
Year: 1878

A person cannot possibly attend to busi-
ne, If he has been kept awake during the
night by a troublesome cough to all such
we would recommend che timely use Of
DR.. Bulls Cough Syrup Price, 25 cents
Year: 1878

IT will cost half million dollars to
establish q new mint, but il will only
cost one.fiifth of that sum to put the
old one at New Orleans In working
order. This fact should certainly in
duce Congress 10 reopen The mint at
New Orleans.
Year: 1878

TIE Memphis papers are still agilat-
ing the terminus question. Our Con-
gressmen will please to vote against
any bill that does not give Vicksburg
as fair q show 10 be selected the east
erB terminus as any other city.
Year: 1878

BosToN, April Gin the trial of the
Rev. P. Adams for heresy before the
New England Methodist Episcopal
Conference, the charges against him
were sustained. He was suspended
from the Methodist Episcopal Church
for one year.
Year: 1878

PVa kept the sweet vlOle:s you gave me Of


blue,
30 typical Of love Ia a bosom as true.
The nTet that had gladden'd the Visage Of


Spring,
Or trembied beneath the gay buttOray'S


wing.
They we're fragrant aS OdOr which sweetens


the South,
And brought me fond thoughts of thy


F0sejeweled mouth,
whence bTeezes as faint and delicious had


come
To warm my sad soul with the cold


world grown numb.
pVe kept the n,wsrS-and dreamed OF the
Which lips quite as fragrant conceal in a
l sighed as saw them drOOp whitening


away
That no beauty on earth unchanglng


could stay;
That Life lie so short, that Youth is 81 feet,
SO vanishing all that can make earth


sweet!
These flowers will fade into ashes and air.
But pray thy features may long be as


fair.
May you never, removed from thy fair


Summer bowers
In sadness replne like this bouquet Of


flowers,
Which dying, has wasted their sweetness
on afr,
To leave but remembrance Of beauty most


rare,
Oh, long be your days, and with pleaure


replete
AS now when bow my young muse at


your ieetl
For no laurel more cherished Of earth


would crave
Than the beautiful blooms aud smiles


which you gave;
And the hope that old Time with change


ever new
viii cement our young souls with friend.


shlp 90 true
Year: 1878

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN That
IN in pursuance of an order of the Pro-
bhte Court Of Jefferson county, W. T..
made on the 2Sth day of June. 1878,
in the matter of the above entitled estate,
the undersigned administrator OF said es-
tate will sell at public auction upon the
terms and conditions hereinafter stated.
and subject to confirmation by said
said Probate Court ON
Year: 1878

Oh, for a Bethsada, a purling stream that weuld run dimpling all the way until 1t lest itself in the waters of Salt river, instead of sinking into the ground and hiding itself until t reached Wheatfeld. The bed of the whilom stream in front of this town is as dry as bone, and if 1t were 3 felony to drink buck beer those who arc opposed to sinking their wells deeper would suffer from thirst an- less 1t rains while the next moon is in it's first quarter.
Year: 1878

Gen. Doniphan is spoken of as g probable candidate for U. s. Sena- tor from Missouri. If he IS we would like to see him elected. He is a square man and in that position he would reflect honor on the State.
Year: 1878

Recent statements from Camp Thomas in reference to the killing of Montgomery at Jones' saloon gives 8 different eoloring to the cause that led to the homicide, and more favor able to the boys in blue. Tle state ment IS that Montgomery had pro- claimed himself cock of the walk: shat he was decidedly on 1t. The striking on the head and knocking down of the soldier a night or two previous to the killing was regarded as a verifeation that he really be- Heyed himself the gallinaceous fowl he represented himself to be.

 We hope n the near future to be able to record the facts of the la meatabIe occurrence. Human life should never be taken unless under circumstances that renders a killing absolutely necessary and in self de- fense.
Year: 1878

New YORK, Sept. 4-~The record of yesterday
is full of murder From Westchester We havo
the story of IL negro lehlous Of his wife. who cut
her throat. and then deliberately ordering his
three children out of sight, pulled the trigger Of
Il double barrelled shotgun aimed at his own
head.


port comes Of q cOlored girl who attempted to
poison whole family, and was only prevented
by the timely discovery Of Paris green in tho
crime. it is alleged that the village justice was
satisfied to send the wretch to the House of Re-


In addition to the foregoing there is a cata-
lOgue Of suicides. bloody assaults and personal
affairs that Is startling In its magnitude.
Year: 1878

WASHINGTON Sept. 1.-The Potter committee
is expected to convene in this city within the
ncxt two Or three weeks There is some evil
dence of nm important character which the
Democratic members Of tho committee deem
advisable to have in before he real activity of
the fall cnnpagn begins. 1t Is thought the sos
sion Of the committee vii last about q week or
ten days, and will be the only ono to be held un
til after Tho elections The Democratic NOM
bors Of tho committee ussert that by far the
most damaging evidence is still 10 come.