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Year: 1877

The train due from St. Louis Wednesday morning failed to ar rive on time. when the wires were set to work and it was ascertained that the train had been thrown from the track and partially wrecked at 2:25 a. m. on a straight line of road two miles and half this side of Jacksonville, a town on the road about fourteen miles above this city. It was also as- certained that Morris Collins, the fireman, had been killed and that Bruce Terry, the engineer, had one of his legs broken in three places and several of his ribs were splintered. The wreck was cleared away during the day, but the St. Louis train did not arrive until about l p. m. yesterday.

 The body of Colli IS was brought to this city, and an inquest was held over the remains by Coroner Woolford. It was adduced in tes- timony that the west side of the track had been raised about foot higher than the east side, and the fish plates had been re- moved, causing the engine to ca recn over and jump the track. The jury brought in a verdict that Morris Collins came to his death by an accident on the St. Louis, Iron Mountain and South ern Railroad, caused by the rails being elevated on one side the track-said displacement being done by parties unknown to the jury, and that no blame is attach ed to the railroad company there for

 Collins was a young man, say about twenty years of age, resld- ed in Poplar Bluff, Mo-, and was the sole support of widowed mother. We are informed that a brother of Collins had a leg cut off by the same railroad few years ago.

 The tender overturned on the body of the deceased, and it was dug out by J. Holmes and J. M. Douglass.-Gazette.
Year: 1877

The relatives of the late Mrs.
Caroline Merrill are preparing
to contest that codicil of her
will which makes Cardinal Nc
Closkey the residuary legatee
and gives him 100000, on the
ground that the lady was not in
her right mind when she execu-
ted that instrument, and that she
was induced to do so by the ex-
ercise of an undue influence.
Year: 1877

There is a George Smith in jail at Cam
bridge, and George Smith Of the Chronicle
is indignant because his mail keeps being
tangled up with that party in limbo The
editor feels bad at being mistaken for a
jaiibird, and the jailbird thinks there is an
apology due to himself.


The hank reward for the capture of the
Younger brothers has been awarded in
equal sums to forty-one persons who took
up the chase the day after the CAPTURE al
Madelia The State reward is to b. dis
| tributed among 1000 persons who partici.
pated IN the chase from first to last


The dead-beats appear to be the dnmi-
nant class in Mexico, Oswego county. N. Y.
The merchants formed protective society
against persons who contracted debts anG
did not pay them. They published list o
the dead beats in the village newspaper
Thereupon the house Of the Secretary o.
the association was burned, the President.
drug store was set On fire, and the editor
was warned that he would have neither
house nor ofice if he published tho lis
again"
Year: 1877

Rev. Geo. z. Seymour and the Spring field


Diocese.


New YORK, Dee. S9.--The Evening
Post publishes the reply of Rev Geo. T..
Seymour to the Official communication
announcing his election to Episcopate of
the diocese of Springfield, ILL., Rev. Mr..
Seymour says the fact that the election
was unanimous impresses me profoundly
and | cannot, dare not, decline hastily
and without deep. searching Of heart, and
paaent waiting for divine guidance. In
response to earnest continued prayer and
help to be derived from the counsel of
friends who are qualified to advise, if ]
am not qualified to say no at once. | dc
not see any course open for me tC
pursue but to wait unit! the
church at large through her constituted
authorities has expressed her judgment, in
which event [ may be spared the anxiety
and distress of deciding between the claims
OF my present position and the solemn cal
extended to me, as | believe, under the
guidance of God the Holy Ghost from al
the clergy and all the laity present in the
primary convention of the diocese oI
Springfield to become the first Bishop of !
new jurisdiction. If the question comes
really before me to determine, be assured
shall meet it promptly in the fear o.
God. and as beneath His bar of Judgment
| shall Go my best to reach a right con
clusion and Ia mediately apprise you Of TIN
result.
Year: 1877

A farmer in this county, who is sup
posed to own as good common sheep as
anybody In this locality, sheared his flock
on the 23d, and after weighing the Aeeces,
found that each sheep averaged two and a
half ponnds. Take the whole number OF
sheep in this State, and they probably
will not average more than the above.
Say that wool is worth twenty cents per
pound, the profits from each sheep will be
nifty cents. Take now an estimate of
feeccs of the thoroughbred Merino and
Cotswold, which will not average less
than eight pounds Ier head-the net
profits on each sheep, $l.60, or $l.10 in
favor of the thoroughbred over the COM
mon stock. II is not, however, alto
gether fair TO estimate the fleeces of the
two breeds at the same price, as it is a
well known fact that the wool Of the
thoroughbred will command higher
marketable value. Now it costs the same
to raise the thoroughbred as the common
sheep; the mutton of one Is as good as
the other; the profits OF the wool of the
thoroughbred is three times greater than
from the common. Every farmer own.
ing flock OF sheep should make it con
venient 10 purchase thoroughbred ram
to improve the quality and yield of his
wool such an investment will pays
Lire Stock journal.
Year: 1877

There have been about three dozen vessels
frozen In at Marcus Hook, during the severe
weather. A number have lately succeeded
IN getting away, but the majority remain.
4 few have met with accidents. A three
mast schooner had her yawl broken, and
was cut down to the water line at the stern.
One ship had her rudder carried away, and
viii have to remain some days for repairs.
A bark was run in. and cut down to the
lumberport. The bark that went on the
rocks few days ago still remains high and
dry, and will have to be unloadsd before
she can be gotten off. The tug damaged at
the same time still lays there looking very
Chester ''Times."
Year: 1877

Many Of our streets are in = disgraceful
condition, and are more like back roads
dlled with ruts, than streets. Citizens are
constantly complaining that they pay taxes
to keep them In repair, and that they should
% always kept In such condition that they
could have no cause to complain.
Year: 1877

A lady and gentlemen came near being
up set BY running into pile of snow and
Ice, riding along Ninth street between
French and King stseets, on Saturday even
ing, why ID not something done by the city
authorities to abate such nuisance.
Year: 1877

Huntington has pretty little settle
ment scalled Dayvillc, nestled among
the mountains near the Boston and
Albany railroad, of which the principle
business is the manufacture of shoe-pegs
an Insignificant business, it would
seem, but important enough to be a dis
tinct and interesting industry. The
pegs are made of birch wood, which
comes to the mill in logs foot or two in
diameter, and these are peeled and cut
into slices of the length of the pegs to be
made.


The sections are then passed through a
machine, which points the pegs, there
being from 10000 to 10000 in each
separate piece, and they are then passed
each way through the splitter" which
separates each individual peg. After
being dried in a revolving heated drum,
and cleaned in a revolving sitter, they
are ready for the market, and the four OF
five men in the factory make from
twenty to thirty bushels a day, accord
ing to the size of the peg.-BOs'on Jour
naL
Year: 1877

The almost total cessation of immigra-


ton which is reported by those who know


can be partially explained by the stagna-


ton of business; but an important fea-
ture of it can be traced to the neglect of


states and the nation TO devise induce


ments for foreign agriculturists. At the
present time, when life and property
promise to be of uncertain value in
Europe, America should be receiving
ship loads of small farmers. The indus
tries, economy and thrift of these people
are sorely needed, as additional wealth
and income would result to the state
itself by the occupancy of lands which
at present yield only prairie and forest
fires, ague and rattlesnakes. 1t is not
enough that such desirable persons
should be offered homesteads that are too
far from markets to be available or too
poor to have been attractive to profes-
sional land-grabbers. The experience
of the general land Office is that even
native Americans are slow to avail them
selves of the homestead law. What,
then, can be expected of foreigners? 1t
would be to the interest eff every state
to make special reservations of land for
would-be settlers from abroad, decreasing
the quantity if necessary to make up for
the special value and advantages of the
land. Further inducements might with
profit be extended but this much, at
least, is practicable everywhere, and
would not be only inexpensive, but prof.
table.-N. y Herald.
Year: 1877

Verify we lords of creation are but
piguies, standing here in the shade OF
Cathedral rock, whose spire towers nearer
the skies than that OF any church in
christendom. Itisa magnificent monolith
of bright red triassic. and one of the
grandest specimens of that brilliantly
colored rock rendering the Garden OF
the Gods 50 wonderfully fascinating to
scientists and tourists alike. Whatever
may have been the agents which in time
past have wrought out all these remark
able forms, it is plain that they have
acted in former times with far more in
tensity than at present. Famous scien-
fists once believed that the great uplift
of the mountain ranges was 2 unit in its
action-that is, the change in the position
of all groups were brought about by the
same cause and at the same time. and
that in short, the elevation of all the
sedimentary strata along the base of the
mountains was a comparatively modern
event. Careful study of the formation
of the Cathedral rock, and other like
specimens of massive SandstOnes OF
Triassic origin, weathered into the fan
tastic shapes that gave to it the name of
the Garden of th' Gods, has almost, if
not quite, completely revolutionized the
theories Of the past. Now the evidence
from the texture of these red beds and
their position on the underlying granite
rocks is overwh- lmingly conclusive that
this range OF mountains once formed a
vast shore line, upon the base OF which
the sediments of the red beds were de-
posted Rocky JiountaiH Tourist.
Year: 1877

This is not dissimilar from sea sick
ness it requires long experience in a
ring to overcome the nausea consequent
upon going round and round in one di-
rection. One of the most difficult things
for a circus rider to overcome is this
sickness. Clowns and ringmasters suffer
from it greatly, at first, from merely see
ing the horses go round and round but
even after years of experience, ring
master (whose principal business in the
ring is to keep the horses up to certain
gait, and not merely to give cues to the
clown, if horse balks or gets behind
time, and he is obliged to keep close
upon him, is very likely to suffer from g
pronounced q of sickness at the stomach
after he leaves the Scientific
american. 80
Year: 1877

Many years age the government OF
Nova Scotia assumed the project of plac-
ing a number of sheep or swine on Sable
island to avert the danger of starvation
to which the seafareIs escaping from
wrecks had been exposed. But these
animals could not subsist on the only
shrub which thrives on the sands of the
otherwise barren island An old French
doctor suggested a trial of the tough and
shaggy little horse known as Canadian
ponies, and forthwith a detachment of
them was forwarded in the gov
eminent steamer to Sable island. The
unfastidious ponies took kindly to
the solitary shrub, made the island their
home and became wild in time. Recent
exports from the island show that the
ponies are becoming almost extinct,
owing to the frequent capturing of large
numbers of them for use on Anticosti
island, and for sale among settlers in the
interior of Newfoundland and distant
hamlets of Nova Scotia Toronto Globe
Year: 1877

THE combination of more than one
action in a sewing machine or agricultural
implement increases its value, and we do not
wonder al the enlarging demand for HOME
STOMACH BITTERs, with its splendid com
bination OF medicinal virtues. Prepared by
the Home Bitters Co., st. Louis, Mo.
Year: 1877

THE P. W. & B. r.. r.. 2 B Z


The Philadelphia, wilmington and
Baltimore Railroad Company have been
OF late frequently the victims of rayages
OF tramps, who seem to haunt the line of
the road, and to whose effrontery and


disregard OF law there seems to he no
limit. A little over week ago bastard
" attempt was made to wreck a passen-
ger train at Gunpowder river bridge, which
only failed in being successful by the
lucky choice on the part of the perpetra-
tors oflocality unfavorable to the designs.
as IL was, the engine collided with a
loaded car showed from side track
wednesday night of last week three
masked men, presumably tramps, entered
the Office Of the telegraph operator at
Bayview and forced him to hand over all
the money he had about him. On Fri
DAY night some tramps boarded the milk
train bound to Baltimore and took by
iorce W. from drover ON board, and
now these acts oftvlolence are supple
mented by another scarcely less daring
and certainly no less alarming, as evinc-
ing the character of the men with whom
railroad companies and others have to
deal. The freight train which leaves
Baltimore every night shortly after s
O'Clock left President Depot at the usua
hour on Sunday night and proceeded
northward. About daylight next morn
sng, or little earlier, breakman, who
was on the rear of the train, notice at
several points along the road, and near
the track, several boxes and packages
which appeared to be rolling down the
bank from the track. He rubbed his
eyes and looked again, and presently
another package came tumbliDg down,
and the mystery was cleared away-sore-
body was throwing goods off the trail
he Immediately ran over the top of the
cars, examining as well as he could the
side doors, until he came to the fourth Oh
hf:h car from the engine, the door OF
which he found open, He leaned over
the side and looked in, putting the Ian
tern down as he did so to give light on
the situation. AS he did this two men
rushed from the car and jumped from it
TO the ground, and though the train was
at a good speed they did not fall but re-
mained on their feet and m ade their es-
cape. The train arriving at Wilmington,
the car was examined and it was found
that several boxes and barrels were miss
ing, and that other packages had been
broken open. The amount stolen can
only be estimated, and as most of it was
subsequently recovered by switch en-
gine that went down the road to pick it
up, the loss is inconsiderable. 1t is now
in order to take some strenuous mea-
sures to punish swiftly and severely such
depredators.
Year: 1877

This is the common name in some
parts of the country for what is guner
all known in Delaware as apple but
ter. ga rose by any other name
would smell as sweet, and the above
mentioned article, call it what you will
if properly made is very acceptable
edible, its principal use being as a sort
of a accompaniment TO .'the staff OF
life." The supply this season owing
to scarcity of the raw material, prom
ises to be somewhat below the aver
anp
Year: 1877

A late number of the Country Gent2e-


man says: Zone of the greatest draw


backs to successful farming is the pres


enCe of the unknown quantity-ignor-


anCe of the exact condition of things,


in value, weight and measure, concern


ing our products. We often produce at


loss. An account with each crop


would decide the matter. If after few


trials we find it costs more to produce


it than the crop would sell for, its cul-


tlvation would be abandoned. Many


continue to produce from year to year


at loss, simply from the want of little


cultivation. The unknown quantity in


weight and measure subjects us to great


loss in buying and selling. A stack of


hay came to my notice recently the


seller estimated it would weigh a ton and


a half :; the buyer preferred to buy by
weight; itweighed 1850 pounds-quite
adherence in favor of the buyer. There


is no doubt a great deal of hay changes


hands every year on a basis no nearer
the truth than this. Loss enough is
soon made in this way to put up and
maintain hay scale even in a small
neighborhood. The same thing is true
in regard to live stock. Dealers can
judge much more accurately than farm
ers, and are much less liable to be cheat
ed. Farmers are much more liable to fail
in buying than in selling. If we pay
too much in buying it makes it uphill


business all the way through This is
one cause why many fail to make any,
thing in feeding and handling stock
From considerable experience in weigh
ing stock for others | have found that
the greater part fall short in weight from
the estimate of their owners-some come
very far short. Not more than per
cent. exceed the estimates. Horses es-
tlmated at I 100 pounds generally weigh
about 900. Loads of hay called ton
often weigh only I 200 to 1900 pounds.


Those who estimate the number of tons
by the number of loads are often very
much deceived, and in selling think that
they have been cheated because the scales
fail to show as much as they expected.
Weighing will remedy this. The pound
avoirdupois is known quantity. After
aScertaining the exact number we are in
a condition to go forward without max
ing mistakes in our calculations. An
other unknown quantity is in failure
to know the number of acres under cul-
tivation. A farm which was taken up
when the country was new, and since
occupied by five successive generations
of the same family, has 'twenty-acre
lot On the death of a member of the
family the 'twenty-acre4ot' was sold and
contained but fourteen acres by actual
Here were five genera
tions of heroic workers deceived in the
of work actually done all the
while supposing they were cultivating
six acres more than they really we're
If the yield cameup to what the increas-
ed acreage should produce it did not
matter so much. l once bought salt
marsh said to contain six acres thesur-
veyor made less than four acres, much
to the disgust of the seller and to the
1etriment of the reputation of a number
Of persons who had gained local noto-
riety for big days work done thereon.
Fabulous big day swork' often owe their
existence more to some errors in CalCul-
ltion than to the amount of work really
1Opa },
Year: 1877

A few writers are advocating making


barns as near air-tight as possible for
preserving hay One of them says:


"The general opinion among farmers is,
that barns with air spaces between the
boarding are better adapted to cure and
preserve hay than barns with very tight


boarding and tight bottom. But this
opinion is founded upon the supposed
fact that free access of air will assist in
carrying off surplus moisture, and prevent
heating and fermentation, which sup
posed fact is not fact at all, when ap-
piled to body of uncured hay. When
this uncured grass is spread in thin lay
erS on the field and exposed to the air,
the moisture is carried off so rapidly as
not to permit any heating or fermenta-
ton, but when placed in thick body in
NOW, the heat, with access of air, causes
rapid fermentation. The oxygen ofthe
air feeds the fermentation, and thus be-
comes the active cause of its destruction.
This principle is familiar to the good
housewife who preserves her fruit in an
air tight jar. We tried an experiment
some years ago, which applied this prin-
ciple to keeping green clover. We took
large linseed oil caSk, unheaded one
end, filled it with green clover Just in
blossom, containing all its sap, rammed
in solid, replaced the heap, drove the
hoops, and then stopped all air spaces
with white lead and paint On open
ing, ten months after, the clover bios
SONS were found almost as bright as when
put in. Modern built barns are gen
orally weather-boarded quite tight, but
with no regard to the better keeping of
hay. Windows are placed in the ga
bles to admit light, and also air when
when hay is being placed in the barns
but this new theory that hay should be
put into tight barns in an uncured state
is mere bosh; and the above story about
keeping clover green ten months in an
air tight cask is not worthy of credence.


How TO HAVE COOP SERVANTS
If you want attached servants, be YOUR
self an attached mistress. Yet your
thoughtfulneSS shows itself in little
things. Speak courteously, not curtly.
Spare them trouble, and thank them for
the courtesy they show to you. Be con-
Siderate, but not intrusive. Recognize
the fact that servants must have inter
estS OF their own, some occupation
which affords relief from the constant
strain of service and do not pry too,
closely in their concerns, or arrange too.
mlnutely the order in which they are. to-
get through their business.
Year: 1877

Custer, D. T. Oct. 6-Yesterday while
Henry Myers freighting outfit with six men
was camped twelve miles south of here they
were visited by three men who cooked din.
uer at the camp and made themselves 20
agreeable that all Of the freighters except a
son of Mayors gathered about them. Young
Myers was suspicious and went to one Of
the wagons where he got his shot-gun and
remained away from the party. During the
conversation around the campfire one of
the strangers admired q shot gun belonging
to the freighters and took 1t to examine it.
Suddenly he cooked and levelled 1t, stepped
between the freighters and their arms and
ordered them to throw up their hands, saying
they would take what money there was in
the outfits At this young Myers stepped
from behind the wagon aud fire the shot,
striking the robber in the face and breast.


The robbers wheeled and fred At him,
but missed The robber then dropped the
gun and ran, firing At the party with his re-
volver. One Of the freighters shot At him
with rifle, the ball striking him in the
arm. He fell and soon after died. The
other two road agents fled and have not yet
been captured. A party under q deputy
sheriff from here is in pursuit. The body
of the dead robber was brought here last
night and identified as that of . man known
as Texas Frank. 1t is believed that thil
was the party who robbed the Sidney coach
few nights ago. None Of Myers party
were hurt.
Year: 1877

Must convince them that it possesses great merit,
while the new and original method of its prepara.
ton when studied with the disease, satisfies the
mind of any reasonable person that its method Of
cure is the true one.
Year: 1877

MR. EDITOR: I notice in the last weeks DEMOCRAT that you offered an excuse to the Conway excursionists a 1d others, for our town not giving their party more cordial reception on the Sabbath of June 3d.

 I think you failed to give the correct reason. | have eonversed with several on the subject, both Christians and non-professors, and all express them selves that it was an imposition upon our town, for any excursion party to come here and spend the Sabbath in the way of picnic, jollification and amusement as is generally expected on such occasions. The citizens of Rus sellville are a chu-ch-going people. Let who will preach, her houses of worship are filled full. At the hour this excursion party arrived there could have been found l50 children and young people in the Sabbath School studying the word of God-that word teaches us to remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy; and how can 1t be kept holy when it is spent as holii- day in sport and amusement. The les sons we have been studying for the last quarter tell us how kiogs and Ma ton were destroyed for openly violat- ing Gods laws. And the God of those Nations, is our God to-day, and He has commanded us to keep His Sabbath days holy. Russellville is one of the auieiest towns on the Sabbath that we ever lived in, and it is to be hoped that she may be permitted to enjoy her Sab baths in quiet and rest.

 We think the true reason the excur- sionists were not received with more attention is, our people don't believe in Sunday excursions. NJ. B. RoYs.