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Year: 1878

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Dir. james Bryce Harper thus grace.


fully and graphically describes the Turkish


capital:


You may judge from looking at the map


what a singular city this (Consiantinople) )


must be, with the sea running through it


In all directions-not merely in canals,
like those of Venice or Rotterdam, but
forming great, broad inlets, whose water
IS intensely bright and clear as we'll as
deep to the very edge 1t is as if you
had city built on both sides of the Kyles
OF Butte, at the point where one of the
long sea locks Clock Ridden or Lock
Striven) comes down in the main channel.
Stockholm and New York are the only
other great cities that can be compared
with it in this respect; but Stockholm.
though beautiful in its way, is on a COM
paratively small scale, while in New York
man has done his utmost to spoil nature.
and nature has done infinitely less than at
Constantinople. Let me try to tell YOU
what nature has done for Constantinople.
She has given it the bluest and elearest
sea that can be imagined, and yaulted
over In the most exquisitely bright vet
tender sky, fall of delicious light that
would be dazzling if it were not SO soft.
She has drawn the contour of the shores
and hills as if with an artists hand the
sweeping reaches of the Bosphorus, the
graceful curve of the Golden horn. the
soft slope of the olive-clad heights, behind
Scutari, the sharp, bold outline of the
rocky isles that rise from the sea of Mar
mora, and far away on the southeastern
horizon she has raised into heaven the
noble summit of the Mysian Olympus,
whose SHOWS blush rose red under the
morning sun. The sea seems to pervade
everything. Turn which way YOU will it
meets you till you get confused among its
winding arms Its glittering bosom is
covered with vessels of every size and
style, from the long, dark, ugly ironclads,
which the late Sultan bought from the
Clyde and Tyne shipbuilders with bor-
rowed money, to the sprightly feluccas
and other odd little crafts, rugged in
fashion our language has no names for.
During the day its surface is seldom calm,
for there is usually breeze blowing, and
when this breeze comes up from the south
west and meets the strong current run
ming down from the Black Sea, it raises
in a moment short, sharp waves, kind of
ehopping sea, that make the small boats
vanish. The nights, however, are often
still and serene, and then under the bril-
liant moon the city seems to lie engirt by
a food of molten silver.
Year: 1878

Nov is the time to buy your Farming
~ Implements cheap. | have on hand a
large Stock of Machinery which | am deter
mined to sell. would make special mention
Of my two and three horse Furrow Plows.
My two horse Plow | am selling as low as
$500, and for strength and steady running it
cannot be surpassed, while my wrought shear
plows connot be beat. The Clipper Rake
with some important improvements is also
being offered low. The all (wroughu Iron
single and double Shovel Plows and the three
Shoveled Cultivator, which became so popular
and gave such entire satisfaction last year, are
now ready for the Spring trade at low figures,
Remember the Lion Feed Masticator Is the
best Feed Cutter in the market, see it.
Reapers and Mowers promptly repaired unless
new parts are to be ordered which must be
done from the company who manufacture the
machine as there is no one keeping repairs on
hand. So in order to have your machine
ready for moving and reaping bring them in
early so as to give time to order repairs. All
other repairing done well and cheap.


mar 3l-u +. WAGNER.
Year: 1878

A dead wOodpecker was picked up in
the streets of Relvtdere, n. J., few days
ago, with the bill iIabedded in a bit of
wood, The bird had probably struck the
wood with such force as to tear it from its
surroundings, and, unable to rid its beak
of the compress, perished of sufocation.
Year: 1878

A NNoUNCE the introduction of plan of
"A ordering Clothing and Underwear by
letter, to which they call your special attention
They will send on application their improved
and accurate
Year: 1878

With this number, begins
the third volume Of the SEM
TINEL, TO which fact we called
the attention Of our friends
and patrons in our last issue.
In pursuance of the intention
which we announced at that
time. we issue to-day an ex-
ira large edition, and send
copies to many Of our people
whose names do not appear
at present on our subscription
list, but who we have reason
to believe are heartily WITH Us
in the purpose of establishing,
upon a firm and permanent
basis, an organ of the Demo-
cratic Conservative party in
their midst. To such Of
our friends we would say,
that their failure to return the
paper to us will be an evil
dence of their desire to he
come enrolled among our sub
scribers, and we shall accord
ingly place their names upon
our subscription book.


We are duly mindful of,
and grateful for, the assistance
and patronage that the peo-
pie of West and East Felici>
ana have favored us with du-
ring the past two years, and
we are particularly apprecia-
tive of the earnest and active
exertions in our behalf ex-
tended by several staunch
and steadfast friends of our
enterprise, and we hope we
have proven worthy of the in
terest they have evinced; yet
we would remind them, one
and all, that upon THEIR sup
port in the future depends
the sustenance of a paper
published in the interests of
it's people. They are remind
ed that the high rates for Ju-
dicial and Official printing,
which SUSTAINED radical pa
pers. inimical to the interests
of the people, have been cut
down to such a figure as to
throw Democratic journals
that struggled, wholly upon
their individual resources
through the corrupt days of
the radical REGIME, upon the
liberality of the PEOPLE in
whose interests they labor.


The SENTINEL enters how
ever, upon another year of its
usefulness with 70 misgiyings.
Never were it's prospects
brighter,-never were its
friends more appreciative of
it's ]abors in their behalf. For
ourselves, we will add only,
that our best energies shall be
bent during the future which
is opening up to us; to the ad-
vancement Of the interests and
the vindication of the rights
of our people. WITHOUT FEAR
OR FAVOR"
Year: 1878

A bright little girl not long since
was urging her mother to 90 up stairs
and hem her say her prayers before
retiring. Her mother not finding it
convenient, told her that Jesus could
hear them just as WE'LL But, moth
er, replied the little doubter, Jesus
can t blow out the light.
Year: 1878

When you hear country church
choir singing, There will be no more
sorrow there, you conclude at once
that either the aforesaid choir will not
be there, or they viii not be permitted
10 sine
Year: 1878

What did tie prisoner first strike
YOU for causualIy asked the Judge
of the complainant with bandage
over Lis eve. lie struck me for five
dollar bill, your honor, Was the feel
ing reply.
Year: 1878

By virtue of and in obedience to
a writ of seizure and sale to me
directed, dated the 18th of May,
1873, issued out of the above en-
titled Court in the above number
ed and entitled case, I have seized
and will offer for sale to the last
and highest bidder, at the court
house in NapoleenYille. on
Year: 1878

- OF COurSe 1 DO, IneO


And he did mean it. The cure had
been effected and Theodore mentally
congratulated herself on the success of
her plan of treatment. And Uncle
Joseph never alluded to the day on
which his niece had taken him so inn
plicity at his word.
Year: 1878

The public hardly need to have
their attention called to the fact that
they are being bled heavily in the
matter of school books. There is no
reason in being charged a dollar for
book upon which fifty cents would
yield had,Ome profit both to author
and publisher. 1t is tim this school
book combination was broken
DetroH NoOs.


There is a wide opening for reform
in the way of stopping the school
book swindle. The price of the books
is not only entirely too high, but
through the operations of the school
book drummers an unnecessary num-
ber of books are required for the
pupil. The frequent changes Of text
books in the interest of the drummers
is another evil. Here, where the tax
payers are compelled to pay for the
school books of the large number of
pupils whose parents are too poor to
buy them, the burden for the pur
chase of this large requirement of
highDriced books falls pretty heavily.
- Washington Star.
Year: 1878

Montgomery county claims the
right to nominate the democratic
candidate for Congress next fall, and
in asserting that right makes a threat
that is very significant. The Rock
vile Sentinel says:


"Montgomery county deserves to
have the nomination this time for
her faithful work in the past. She
don't intend to give up her right,
either for flattery or threats. She is
entitled to it and she is going to have
it; so all Western Maryland may just
as we'll turn its mind to something
else until after the nomination is
made. Montgomery will name the
man, and we tell Western Maryland
she had then better wake up and
elect him, whoever he may be; a
word to the wise is sufficient"
Year: 1878

The Washington Sunday Herald,
an intensely democrat paper, says the
present agitation about the Presiden-
cy has a tWO-fold purpose.


The first is to keep the matter alive
until the next Congress meets, when
the Senate will be Democratic and
also las the Democrats hope) the
House. Then evidence will be
forthcoming connecting the President
with the Southern election frauds
and his impeachment attempted.


The second object is to keep Tilden
before the people until 1880, and
make him the Democratic nominee
for the Presidency.


Neither one Of these things is like
ly to occur. The next House will in
all probability be Republican. And
as for Tilden, we are only sorry he
will not get the nomination of his
party in 1880, as we know of no possi-
BILE candidate who could be so easily
beaten.
Year: 1878

Perhaps the most rabid of all the
Democratic newspapers in the South
is the Vicksburg, Miss, Herdd. Its
words therefore, convey double
meaning when it says of the revival
of the Presidential controversy


"Talk about unseating the ruler Of
forty millions Of people is cneap, but
the work is vast. Mr.. Hayes was
declared President by Congress, he
was duly inaugurated, and he will
stick. The South could only injure
herself by attempting crusade of
howling against him, and we are
glad to see that our people are NOT
the least moved to do So"
Year: 1878

Clear thought and vigorous action
depend upon that perfect condition
of system resulting from pure blood.
When symptoms provocative Of dull
ness and inactivity present them
selves, then use at once DIR, BULBS
Blood Mixture.
Year: 1878

A remarkable statement was made last Saturday by James Reilly, district attorney, while ar guing motion before the district judge at chambers. An affidavit of the county treasurer was pro- duced, of which Reilly said that, were it an affidavit good in law, it would expose the treasurer to prosecution for perjury. We hap pen to know that the statements made by the treasurer were strict ly and literally true. It is not in good taste to make wild charges of dishonesty and falsehood against good citizens. Americans don't do that.
Year: 1878

The new road from Phoenix to Globe is reported in an advanced state of completion.

 Aaron Mason has started up the rotary disintegrator near Hugh's Station, between Florence and Picket Post. He has only one pan but the apparatus will be added to if experiments give satisfactory results. The first lot of ore 10 be operated on is said to be from Whitlow's mine.
Year: 1878

CTocker and Colton told the s. F. Bulletin that they knew where there were some steel rails they could lay their hands on when A few of them were dis covered here this week; the sand had covered them up.
Year: 1878

There must be i system in every bust
ness if it is to succeed, and whoever ig-
nores clear foresighted way of conduct
ing farming will soon have no farming;


for if he is depending on it for living he
will become bankrupt, or if doing it for
amusement, the drain on capital will be so
heavy as to cause prudence to step in and
end such a losing transaction.


Some men are so opinionated as to imag-
inc themselves competent to manage farm
without any looking forward, and they


will make inadequate preparation for win
ter and have nothing in readiness by the
time it is wanted, and if anything goes
wrong it is laid at the door of some other
than the right person. There is not more
pitiable and contemplate man than the
one who thinks himself smarter than any
one else, and yet runs around seeking to
charge all his shortcomings to others while
he alone is to blame.


There are men who are too stingy to
make good fences or properly repair those
which are rotting or tumblihg down, and
who yet talk of being stock farmers, and
they will buy grade short-horns, grade
Jerseys, mongrels of all colors and sizes,
and expect the public to admire their ami
mails and believe them to be something su-
pelior. Now by using pure-bred bulls and
raising the calves, improvements could be
made in these grades, but those niggardly
souls will begrudge the trouble to raise the
calves, and either sell them for veal or let
them 60 with the COW to dairy-man.


System woult raise all the heifer calves,
and by using good bulls each generation
would become better. Or, any man with
sufficient capital would commence with
some really good pure-bred stock, and
breed aud sell tirst-class animals, and thus
conduct the breeding on system of con-
tinually selling at double and treble the
price of common stock and gaining extra
profits. System, too, will cause any man
ofintelligence to have every department
methodically conducted, and not to have
anything delayed or capriciously changed
from the rotation or regular course. But
the miserable, shiftless farmer will have a
piece of plowing in the middle of mead
ow and field of corn or grain with no
fence between it and the pasture, and then
every neighbor will be complaining of in
jury from stock through the bad fences.
He will also be so simple as to attempt to
fatten, in the winter, cows which have been
in milk and have lost their flesh and per-
haps some coarse, thin, big-boned steers.
"A Working Farmer, IN Rural Neao Yorker. |
Year: 1878

''Every dog has his day." and so has the
bachelor. In all this weary old world there
is no creature more hopelessly forlorn than
the unmarried man who has outlived the
pleasures of his youth, and finds himself
jogging alone-with ever-increasing speed,
despite gout and rheumatism-down the
sunset slope Of life. While the bloom OF
youth was on him he was gay gallant,
whom maneuvering mammas and marri-
ageable daughters followed, flattcred,
sought and sued;" but when he enters the
sere and yellow Leaf, and people find out
that he is a confirmed old bachelor who
positively will not marry, then female flat
terers drop away, mater .tamilias become
devoted to younger and more eligible
beaux, and the girls turn up their noses at
him. So the social ties of ''lang syne" are
one by one severed and no new ones come
to take tteir place; then he flies to his
club for companionship, but even there he
must stand aside and play second fiddle to
younger rivals. In short, he finds himself
at fifty acomplete social failure, and it does
not help the matter any when he realizes
too late that it is all his own fault Having
been rendered douDly vain and selfish by
over-adultation in his halcyon days, he
still bankers restlessly after admiration,
and were he less conceited he could dis
cover with half an eye that his fancied
'.friends" do not care straw for him, that
they use him only as suits their own pleas
ures, and that behind his back they hold
up his fOibles to ridicule. And it serves
him right, too, for he has neglected his
Heaven-appointed mission in life-that Of
making some woman happy, and building
up solace for his own and her old age in
the shape OF home and family ties, and
children to rise up in his declining years
and .'call him blessed" If Longfellow's
idea is correct, that


No one is so accursed by fate


No one SO utterly desolate.


But some heart. though unknown,


Responds unto his own,


then there is somewhere desolate and
dried-up old maid, stranded upon the rug
ged sands OF time. whose life is as barren
and bleak as his own-all because he neg
lectcd to find and marry her. Oh, you
Grabbed old customer! you selfish, and sin
ful bachelor, we call upon you to repent
and turn from the error of your ways ere
it is everlastingly too late and you become
so chronically sour and snappish and Alto
gether disagreeable that no woman in the
world will have you. Besides. you are
losing all the real sweetness of life and are
purruing an ignis .fatuus of fancied pleas
ure which will inevitably leave you at last
to founder hopelessly and alone through
the morass Of regretful old age. Matri-
mony may not at all times present .'paths
of peace" but in the main sits ways ere
the ways of pleasantness," and of two
''evils it isalways wise to choose the least
is myth when
man or woman has passed the rubicon of
middle lie, and since ..misery loves CON-
pany," even occasional ''doable wretched-
ness" Is preferable to continual solitary
F. Chronicle.
Year: 1878

Br MALCOLM TAYLOR
Would Man contentment realize
And satisfied remain,
ii mat which is were otherwise
And he each wish attain,
Would he be truly happy, had


He what his heart does covet?
Could any one state keep him glad
Ii he saw one above il?
Man is being prone to find


Fault with the things that are
Who still keeps wishing in his mind
For something better far;
let had he what he does desire,
Soon, sated with the same,
He of his very bliss would tire,
MonotonOus and tame
How many hours of hopes and sighs
In warnings vain are spent,
Thinking if we could gain the prize,
That we would rest content;
But when We reach the wished-for end,
And see one still beyond,
We soon are anxious to extend
To that which looks more fond
Still it is best such is the case,
For, were We satisfied
With things we have, each in its place,
And had no wish denied,
Not any progress would we make,
Nor from one stage advance,
Ofbetter comforts to par;ake,
Our pleasures to enhance.
Contentment true is using right
The means we have TO bless,
While living in expectant sight
or fgreater happiness;
Anticipation is a bliss


That each one can enjoy,
Though in fulfillment they NAV miss
That which ,heir hearts would cloy.
Growth is the common law of earth,
Change is rule of life
And, being of a finite birth
Our forms with faults are rife.
Pcricctionis godly grace
Beyond the human scope,
And, running an eternal race,
We still must yearn and hope.
Year: 1878

That fascinating wax flower artist and
multipiex bigamist, Charles W. Hull, was
tried at Chester on Tuesday night before
Judge Clayton. He appeared in the dock
attired in ANEW suit of clothes, and sport
ing pair of lavender kids. His Chester
and Norristown wives gave evidence of the
circumstances under which they had been
bound to the much-married man by the
matrimonial tie, and the prospects of his
being sent to the penitentiary for an indet-
mite term were looking bright, when the
question of jurisdiction was raised by his
counsel, who contended that as neither
marriage had taken place in Delaware
county, the ofense was not within the cogn-
izance of the Court. In this view of the
law the Judge ooincided and charged the
jury accordingly


The District Attorney than made per-
sistent attempt to have the prisoner COM
mitted to the charge of the authorities Of
Montgomery county, to answer for bis big
amous marriage with Miss Alice Ortlip, at
-Norristown. This request was also re-
fused by the Ceurt. When the prothono-
tary put the question to the jury, /" Do you
find the prisoner guilty or not guilty?" the
foreman replied, "Not guilty, but he ought
to be hung"


When the verdict was announced Hull
made bee line for the door, and managed
to evade large crowd which made after
him with the intention of giving him an
Introduction to Judge Lnych.- Philadelphia
Record. rN
Year: 1878

A dispatch from Atchison says that one of
the boldest and most daring train robberes
that ever occurred in the west took place
about one o'clock Tuesday morning about
one mile below Winthrop Junction, opposite
Atchson. AS train No. on the Kansas
City, st. Jo and Council Bluffs railroad
south bound, left Winthrop Junction, Con-
ductor Brown noticed four men get on the
platform between the baggage car and the
first coach. Not thinking anything wrong,
at the usual time he left the baggage car and
started to go through the train. The first
persons he met were the four men stand
ing on the platform, As he stepped on the
platform, the acting leader pulled out two
reyolvers and holding them at him ordered
him back into the baggage car, at the same
time directing him to hold up his hands


As they entered the car from the dark end,
the first man they met was Griffith the bag
gage man, and he was ordered to hold up
his hands while pistols were held on him.
A young fellow named " alker, who was in
the baggage car, was then reached. and the
same order given. Frank Baxter, express
agent was sitting in the light end of the car
his bills in his lap and the express safe open
beside him busy with his work He had not
noticed the scene that was being enac ted in
the car, aud his first knowledge of the dan
ger was a revolver thrust in his face, and he
was ordered to hold up his hands.


The leader of the gang then stepped up to
his safe, and deliberately transferred the
money, about So, 100, to a sack they had
with lthem. Conductor Brown was then
asked if he had any money, and he replied
that he had not. With their pistols in his
face they then ordered him to stop the train
and having no other alternative, he pulled
the bell rope, and as the train slowed up the
four men backed out of the car, still cover
ing the Others with their pistols, and dsap-
peared in the darkness. No swearing was
INDUCED in, and the work was done in less
than five minutes, The train was filled with
passengers, but none knew of the robbery
until the robbers had escaped. The thieves
were cool and collected, showing no sieus of
timidity, and went at the work like old, ex-
perienced hands. None of them were
masked.