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Year: 1878


BY DIR. J. G. HOLLAND.
Maiden, thank thee for thy face.
Tay sweet, shy glance of conscious eyes;
For, from thy beauty and thy grace,
My life has won glad surprise.
T met thee on the crowded street


A load of care on heart and brain
And, for moment, bright and feet,


The vision made me young again.
and then thogght, as on went,


And struggled through the thronging ways'
How every ages complement


The age that follows oyerlayS.
The youth upon the child shuts down;


Young manhood closes over youth;
And ripe old age is but the crown


That keeps them both in chanseless truth !!
So, every little child see,


With brow and spirit undefled,
And simple faith and frolic glee,


Finds still in me another child.
Toward every braye and careless boy


Whose lusty shout or call hear,
The boy within me springs with Joy


And rings an echo to bis cheer!
What was it, when thy face saw.


That moved my spirit like breeze,
Responsive to the primal law


Of youth s entsaacing harmonies?
Ah little maid-so sweet and shy
Building each day thy fair romance
Thou didst not dream youth passed by,


When ] returned the glance fQr glance!
For all my youth is still my own,


Bound in the volume of my age,
Aad breath from thee hath only blown
The leaves back to the golden page!
Year: 1878

The melancholy days are come,
The saddest of the year,
Ofwailing winds, and naked woods.
And meadows brown and sere.
Heaped in the hollows of the grove,
The withered leaves lie dead
They rustic to the eddying gust
And to the rabbits tread.
The robin and the wren are flown,
And from the shrub the jay,
= And from the wood-top calls the crow
Through all the gloomy day.
Where are the flowers, the fair young flowers
That lately sprung and stood
In brighter light and softer airs,
a beauteous sisterhood?
Alas they all are in their graves;
The gentle race of flowers
Are lying in their lowly beds
With the fair and good of ours.
The rain is falling where they lie;
But the cold November rain
Calls not from out the gloomy earth,
The lovely ones again.
The wind-hower and the violet,
They perished long ago,
And the wild-roSe and the orchis died.
Amid the summer glow;
But ON the hill the golden-rod,
And the aster in the wood,
And the yellow sun-hower by the brook
In autumn beauty stood.
Till fell the frost from the clear cold heaven,
As falls the plague on men,
And the brightness of their smile was gone
From upland glade and glen.
And now; when comes the calm, mid day,
AS still such days will come.
To call the squirrel and the bee
From out their winter home,
When the sound of dropping nuts is heard
Though all the trees are still.
And twinkle in the smoky light,
The waters of the rill,
The south wind searches for the flowers
Whose fragrance late he bore,
And sighs to find them in the wood
And by the stream no more.
And when 1 think of one who in


Her youthful beauty died,
The fair meek blossom that grew up
And faded by my side;
In the cold moist earth we laid her


When the forest cast the leaf,
And we wept that one SO lovely


Should have life so brief,
Yet not unmeet it was that one,


Like that young friend of ours,
So gentle, and so beautiful,


Should perish with the flowers.


By William Cullen Bryan
Year: 1878

A big party of excursionists from Green's
burg, Ind, will pay visit to our city next
Friday.


The annual soiree musicale of the pupils
of Mrs. Jenny M. Edwards will take place
this evening at College Hall.


The Woman's Foreign Missionary of the
Cincinnati Presbytery hold their annual
meeting at the Central Presbyterian to-mor-
row.


The Young Ladies Foreign Missionary
Society of the Vine-street Congregational
Church give an entertainment next Friday
afternoon and evening at the church.
Year: 1878

The many friends Of Police Magistrate
Cooper. will be sorry to learn OF the sudden
and unexpected illness Of that gentlemen.
He was suffering from the heat. and com
planned about the excessive warm weather,
so hot he said that he couldn't stand il in
the Office But in the afternoon he was
taken with chill, and Notwithstanding the
thermometer stood l02 in the shade, the
squire was obliged to build a big fire to
keep warm. Blankets, hot scotches, warm
fat-rons, bricks were successfully applied
by DR.. PEBBLES but of no avail ,unt!l the fire
was built,


S.-Since the above was written We
learn that Cropper is better and was in {
good healthy peIspiratien and was able IL
sit up occasionally and also had discarded
one blanket,
Year: 1878

OF the thousands who die annually OF
consumption, how many there are who
could be saved by timely care. The very
hest remedy is SLOAN's LACTO PHOSPHATE
OF LIME, IRON & COP LIVER On.


1t is so delicately favored that even an
infant will take it willing y.


The Philadelphia hospitals use 1t with
great success. Get bottle OF 1t. mWi
Year: 1878

The House appropriation bill provides
small sum to pay the expenses of a
survey Of the Clearwater river tor the
purpose of improving the channel for
navigation. We have before written
upon the importance of the navigation
of this stream as far east as the mouth
Of the middle fork, few miles above
kamia. For few months each year
steamers can ascend that far, after the
removal of few distractions. Of this
we are assured from our knowledge of
the stream and the experiments that
have been heretofore made. But the
principal object to be gained is to so re.
move distractions from aud repair the
channel, that barges or fiat hottom
boats carrying from 80 to 100 tons OF
wheat and other produce can be safely
brought down at most amy season Of the
year when not obstructed by ice. This
will bring Camas prairie and all that
wheat country in that region within
reach of IA market for its surplus. These
barges or fat boats need never be taken
up the river, as the lumber Of which
they will composed will always bring u
good price here, aud the construction o.
new ones will be less expensive than the
towing Of the old ones against the cur
rent of the stream. With the excep.
ton of IA small iortion of the year there
is water enough in the stream directed
in II proper channel at the different
/ rapids to float Il steamer of 100 tons
capacity, aud for two months each yeal
the largest steamers plying on the wat


ers of the Columbia above Cello car
Hud sufficient depth Of water to navigate
this stream. Ksttmcn who have beer


much on the river from the middle fork


down affirm this fact. An expenditure
OF IL few thousand dollars each year ial
ii few years would make This river SAFE


navigab!e commercial highway and en-


rich the whole country bordering alon:


on each side.
Year: 1878

The fecundity Of fish is something wcnder-
full The German naturalist, Gesner, counted
2O5.0O0 eggs in single female perch No ma
ton seems to have compreheuded tue capacity
of their waters to produce human food 30
much as the Chinese, who have cultivated their
fish as regular crop for 1900 years. Every
acre OF living water is capable of being far
mere productive and profitable, and contributes
more to the support OF mankind than an acre
OF the hest land in the world. When once
fairly stocked, the acre OF water requires no
attention whatever, except to prevent thieves
from robbing il and destroying all finny occn-
pants till IT agsn becomes barren AID worth
less. In Europe, attention Is now called 10
this matter far more than iu ever was before.
There is no reason Whatever why THIS should
not be the case in this country. In stocking
ponds with fish, duck, geese aud other aquatic
fowls should be kept out of them, and the
growth of vegetable matter in the water sbonld
be encouraged in every possible way.
Year: 1878

An infant Child of John d. Bickle, Of
Milford Neck, was burned to death Oh
Saturday last. The mother had gone out
to bring in some wood, leaving the baby
standing by chair near an open fire in
the fireplace. While she was out an
older child, only two years old, however
took the broom to sweep up the hearth,
when the broom caught fire and she threw
fant's cotton clothes which were on fire
in second and the child enveloped in
in the flames. The screams brought the
mother rushing to, the rescue, who speed
lily smothered out the fire but too late to
save the child which died the next day.
1t was only eleven months old. The
mothers hands were seriously burnt in
extinguishing the fire.
Year: 1878

A house should never be surrounded
closely with shrubs. A free circulation of
air should be maintained all about it, and
shade trees SO disposed as to leave large
openings for the light and sun to enter.
The heavy rains Of some seasons produce
great dampness in our residences, and effect
the health and well-being of the occupants.
Such facts should always be kept in mind
when locating houses, and when planting
trees and shrubs about them.
Year: 1878

The flesh of young animals is more tender
than that of old, but experience shows that
it is mere resistant to the digestive powers.
Veal and lamb, for instance, are found by
dyspeptic to tax the stomach more than
beef and mutton. The flesh of an aged
animal, as is well known, may be so tough
as to render it almost useless. The tissues
of young animals are more gelatinous, less
stimulating and of less nutritive value than
those of the adult and aged.
Year: 1878

Bulbs as hyacinths, grown in water glas-
ses, require to be placed in an airy and
light situation when coming into bloom.
The water will require to be changed every
three or four days. The flower stem may
be supported by splitting a stick at the
bottom into four portions, so that it will fit
tight round the edge of the glass at the
Year: 1878

Sir Wilfrid Lawson, at an agricultural
dinner in Cumberland recently, told a good
story illustrating the effect of hard times
on farmers One Scotch farmer had de.
termined, in spite of the bad times, to pay
his remit if it were his last shilling, and say.
ing to the factor who received it, 1t is my
last shilling, he threw down roll of notes


The factor counted them, and said, There
is ESQ too much odds, man, said the
farmer, Il put my hand in the wrong
Year: 1878

EFFECT OF SALT on WHEAT.-In an in.
teresting series of experiments recently
made on the farm of the Royal Agricultural
Society of England, the manurial value of
salt was Enthusiastically indicated. An acre
of wheat dressed with three hundred
pounds of common salt yielded thirty-nine
bushels of grain, with a proportionate a
mount of straw, while an adjoining acre,
left unmanured, produced only twenty.nine
bushels per acre, with the straw imperfectly
developed. The entire cost of the crop is
not stated, but this experiment shows that
the additional ten bushels resulting from
the salt were produced at a cost of thirty
cents each. In another case q piece of
ground intended for wheat was ploughed
the preceding fall, and again in May,
when it was sowed with salt, and afterward
ploughed before seeding. On the lst and
ID of September wheat was sown at the
rate Of two bushels to the acre. The crop
when harvested, yielded, according to the
estimate of the owner, Mr.. John Park, mo-
less than forty bushels of grain to the acre
with a luXuriant growth of straw. From
these and many similar cases the inference
seems to be that salt is specific for tn,
wheat crop, imparting sOlidity to the grair
and firmness to the straw. But it must no
be concluded that equally good results will
always follow the application of salt.-Mon


treaL Gazette.
Year: 1878

Baron Liebig says of the agriculture
Not merely for its utility, but on account
of this very intelligent nature of its pur-
suit, it stands above all occupations, and its
practice procures to the man who under
stands the voice of nature, not only all the
advantages for which he strives, but also
those pleasures which science alone can af.
ford. There is no profession which, for its
successful practice, requires larger amount
of knowledge than agriculture, and none
in which the actual ignorance is greater
Year: 1878

Leaf manure has always been held in
high estimation by gardeners. But many
regard it as purely vegetable substance,
whereas it is also an excellent mineral
manure for applying to the soil. What are
called vegetable loans, that are not peat
soils made up principally of decomposed
roots, contain large quantities of earthly
matter. Every gardener should know that
the best manure for any plant is the de
composed leaves and substances of its own
species. This fact will suggest the proper
course with reference to the leaves, tops
vines, and haulm of the garden.
Year: 1878

The weather was over thirty degrees milder
yesterday than the day before, which all will ad-
NIT was quite a c1ange, though the mercury in
the morning fingered in the vicinity of zero.
Year: 1878

To KEEP EGGs FOR HATcHING.-There
are many theories advanced and ways
proposed, as best suited to preserve the
germ Of life in the egg till it can he
placed under the hen. Extremes of heat
and cold, and evaporation OF moisture
from the egg, are what we wish to avoid.
In this, as in many other matters, nature
is our best guide. The ground covered
with leaves constitutes the natural nest,
the tendency OF which is to retain, rather
than dispel, moisture. By putting soil
and leaves in u box, and placing it, with
the eggs, either in the cellar or celarway
1--WE mean the staircase between the cellar
and the next story, according to the de-
gree Of moisture IN the two positions,
we get perhaps the most complete imiCa-
tion of nature practicable. We should
prefer in winter room warmed arti-
icially in which to keep eggs for hatch
ing, were it not that the air in such a
room is almost always 100 dry.-P0uLtry
World.
Year: 1878

A WESTERN man has invented some
thing that beats the telephone. He pro-
poses TO station line of women so steps
apart and commit the news to the first
as q secret. No doubt very musical
instrument.
Year: 1878

The Vicksburg HERALD, Just 10 see
how Il feels, has determined to be an
organ. The Levee Board says that the
Levee Board is an unadulterated bless.
ing, aud the HERALD has chosen itself
the organ of the people in the Levee
District 10 sing the praises OF this uu.
adulIerated blessing. With cotton at 0
cents q pound and only So a
bale tax, this journal will sup.
ply o want long felt In allowing
the people to give expression to their
pent up feelings. We want the people
to keep US fully informed Of all mat.
ters of interest In the District. There
is now wruDg out of the District NOR,
money than the total amount OF Stat
taxes, and the situation must be grow
,ing interesting. In a few weeks th
river will begin TO rise, and IL break
occur In the levees the HERALD want
to know all about 1t. In fact, we wan
to know all about matters in the Dis
trict, and we give formal notice to 81
the people on the river, that the Her
AID is open to them any time they wis
to use its columns on this importar
subject.
Year: 1878

WE have just learned that an at
tempt is being made IN Jackson to re-
move Mr.. Bent, who is Superintendent
OF the Public Schools of lhis county.
As the question has never been agita'
ted In this city, we are ats lots to
know what the grounds Of complaint
are. It is but simple Justice TO Mr..
Bent to say that he has made an excel
lent Superintendent. In the days OF
rampant Republicanism, our Public
Schools were mana Led as they are now,
in q manner that gave very general sat-
isfaclion. Our Public Schools are TO.
day q credit to the county, and unless
some very grave causes for one can be
shown, we earnestly protest against
sny change being made. Mr.. Bent ia,
we believe, Republican 10 politics,
but that does not make any difference
With us In this case, because we are
quite certain he is an energetic, com.
petent and Obliging official. If any
change 10 made we fear that the public
interest will suffer, aud we do hope
that none will be made to provide a
place for some one, in whom the public
have little or no interest. Our greatest
necessity In this county is good Public
Schools, and we cannot afford TO lose
agOOd superinieT dent merely to salts.
fy some one who has en- sx to grind,
Year: 1878

PHILADELPHIA, March 26.-The loss caused
by last nights fire, which destroyed number
of stores at 4th and Cherry streets, is this
as the extent of the cOnfagration became
known this morning, large crowd gathered
in the vicinity and a number of officers were
kept busy keeping them at a safe distance
Although the fire was under control at 2o'cl'k
this morning and was eXtinguiShed shortly
after that hour, a constant stream of water
has been kept playing on the ruins.
Year: 1878

DEATH FROM STARVATION OF WOMAN
WHO WAS ONCE RICH.-An old woman named
Ruth Ann Ross was found dead in her house
in East New York last Friday. She apparent.
ly died of starvation as there was no money
oil paintings worth 900 and a number OF
beautiful flowers. 1t is said that the dead
woman was the widow of Justice Ross of
Staten Island, and that she was once very rich
1t is thought that she was insane
Year: 1878

A BRUTAL SON.-Henry Stedwell assaulted
his father in Jersey City on Saturday night,
and in his drunken rage kicked and beat him
SO numerically that his recovery is despaired
Of. The brute is in prison.
Year: 1878

NEW POLICE COMMISSIONER APPOINTED
The President today decided to appoint Mr..
Terra Gotta Company, member of the Board
of Metropolitan Police Commissioners of the
District of COlumba
Year: 1878

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Year: 1878

Senate committee on finance today agreed to
report favOrably the nomination of D. NJ Rey-
nOlds to be First Auditor of the Treasury in
place OF Mahan, resigned. The report of the
committee was not unanimous, however.
Year: 1878

a REJECTED NOMINATIoN.-The Senate in
executive session yesterday by vote of p to
IL rejected the nomination of Lewis E. Par
sOnS 10 be district attorney for the northern
and middle district of Alabama.
Year: 1878

The DEMOCRATS in Congress could
not have been more plainly told than
they were by the results of the last cleo
tion, that the people will not be satisfied
with any half-pay measures of economy.
They demand general reduction in the
expenditures, and will not be satisfied
unless this is made. If there is not re-
dllction made by the present House, in
the appropriation bills and insisted upon
until it is shown that such bill with
such reductions cannot be passed because
of veto, we shall have little hope for a
victory in 1880. The Republicans are as
good at making platforms as the Demo-
Gratis, and their promises fr curtalment
Of expenses, may be as reliable in 1880
as ours, if the present Democratic
House fail to meet the wish of the peo-
pie. The army and navy as well as
other appropriations should be greatly
reduced. 1t is not true that officers cam
not live on a smaller salary, when a
private has to live on about one sixth o
the amount paid lieutenant.
Year: 1878

The people were run into debt to free
the negroes and now the brokers who
made millions out Of buying govern
ment bonds at 40 to 90 cents on the dol
lar, want to force Congress to put 44O
grains of silver in a dollar, when the
dollar only contained 412a grains of sill
yer when the bonds were sold. If this
is done it will add sixteen million dollars
to every hundred million dollars that are
paid, because the bonds will be paid in
paper that is equal in purchasing value
to gold or silver. Ii the government
will coin gold on the same terms it coins
silver, the silver dollar will be at par
with the gold dollar.
Year: 1878

Indian archery is somewhat different
from that practiced BY tho young ladies'
and gentlemen Of more civilized society.
These latter take. the arrow between
their fingers, place it against the bow
string, AMI make it assist in bending the
bow. An Indian does not do this. lie
takes his arrow between the index fin
ger, and pulls the bows.ring with his
middle finger; nor does he raise his ar
row as our boys and girls do; he shoots
straight out from the sholdcr, and ap-
pears to take no aim whatever. He
hits the mark, though, too often, as the
soldiers about the garrison can tell, who
have flung their hats or caps into the
air, at some Indians suggestion, only to
have them pierced by the arrow. The
growing papoose that is as soon as these
are able to toddlc; are furnished with
bows and arrows, of which the points
have been sharpened, and may be seen
about the reservations shooting at
marks, at small birds, anything else
that may happen to attract their attcn-
ton. They generally become expert
at the age of about ten or twelve, but
are not allowed to graduate into buck
age, and all the pleasures of the chase,
until they are sixteen or eighteen.
Then is the time the real pleasure Of
the Indian is found to culminate in his
first hunt after buffalo.
Year: 1878

Ask of each ringing dollar in this
world its history-how it came into
life. Some of them will tell you they
represent the tears Of widow, the bar
tered honor of man. the jobbery Of a
ring. and the thousand Of other stories
which you would be told. [ Feed not
relate Bonjanin Franklin said the
road to wealth is as plain as the road to
market. Yes. it is the good old fash
ioned road to honest toll. We some
times say that the day of miracles is
passed. There is one miracle still ex
isiing-the miraculous result Of harl
labor that is accomplished BY the drip
ping sweat of the brow. The value of
money is not what it buys, but what it
costs. Some mems money costs them
much others too little. y man who
makes his money at the expense Of his
health aud honor pays too much; he
that gets his money by lucky hits pays
too little. Ifhe pays too much he
cheats himself; if lie pays too little he
cheats mankind. The golden mean be-
tween these two extremes was we'll ex-
expressed in the prayer OF Agar, who
said, "Give ME neither poverty nor
riches" IF man would bring Area
dia, let him abolish poverty and wealth.
Year: 1878

A New Sword has been introduced
in the English army. It's described as
a combination Of the ordinary regulation
sword Cavalry and Infantry with SIX {
chamber revolver at the hilt, the hllt OF
the sword answering for the stock OF the
revolver. the chambers Of which take
the Boxer cartridge, regulation pattern
The steel scabbard is wonderfully utll-
ICED, being cut in sections, with stop
hinges, and folding up in the form OF a
rifle stock. This is attached to the hit
of the sword by a slot and catch, the
whole forming a short repeating carblpc,
or without the scabbard attachment
a sword and revolver in one and the
same weapon. 1t is sighted up to one
hundred yards, the foresight being taken
from the point of tho sword. II inc
French cavalry at Waterloo had had
such a weapon as this. what would have
become of Wellington's squares!
Year: 1878

An American writer says 81 saw
Yesterday at the Police Court one dol
lar bill on the Bank of Montreal, which
had been taken from som" one unknown
in payment for Gnc, and upon the back
of which was written the following, in
n neat hand:


"Thc last dollar of an ill-spent for
tune, and while you ore reading these
lines the writer lies at the bottom OF tho
Detroit river Farewell. Touch not the
cup, it ruined me. IL;


What time warning does this short
postscript give to every young man.
Year: 1878

The prison which is situated north Of the
garrison. is large stone building capable
of holding from four to five hundred


prisoners. These prisoners who come
from all parts Of the country-this being
one of the principal military prisons of the
United States-are employed in various
ways. Some are engaged in making
shoes, there being large rooins inside the
Year: 1878

Expose yourself day and night; eat toe
much without exercise: work too hard
without rest; doctor all the time; takt
all the vile nostrums advertised, anC
then you will want to know.