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Year: 1877

Smiths letters show that he is not one or
them. There are men in Georgia who would
be heard even III defence Of wrong act, be-
cause they would perceive some distinction be-
tween honesty and theft. and would discuss
the obligations of a State with some knowl-
edge of the opinion of civilized and honorable
communities. TO persons who obviously nave
no faculties for such a task, nobody cares to
listen.


Georgia has done itself great injustice. we
have merely stated the fact Georgia, Iihe
other civilized communities, Is IN the nature ol
the case held bound by the act OF Its recog-
nized officials. The world cannot know, save
bv the methods which our form of Govern
ment provides, what the people OF Georgia
want. or under what circumstances they are
creating debt, and no people can retain the
respect of other civilized communities II they
refuse To respect those guarantees or tne va
ldity of an obligation which the ciyiiized
world requires. No State could borrow dol
lar. if il were once understood that, having
borrowed and spent the money, the State could
turn out its previous officials say that they
were usurpers, declare tl.er legislation cor
rupt. and their decisions Of courts worthless



seal of the State were of no meaning, and re-
fuse to pay the money borrowed. IL this can
be done without stigma of dish0nor in any case,
it can be done in every case. Any people VINO
then want to get rid of an obligation have only
to perform q political revolution, and tell the
world that their former Government was a
mere usurpatlOn.


In some instances holders Of Georgia bonds
may have had knowledge that they were
fraudulently issued. In others, there was not
originally suspicion, and is not now belief,
that the bonds purchased were other than the
authorized obligations of The State, made with
all the guarantees Of law by the State Gov
ernment recognized by the United States. If
Georgia had made any effort to pick out the
bonds which actually were fraudulently is
sued and the holders who had knowledge of the
fact, that would be a different matter. But
Georgia has broadly repudiated bonds of the
State of Georgia, of which very many are in
the hands OF innocent holders, and of which
many were in no sense illegally or fraud
ulenty issued. Whether the proceeds after
sale were misapplied or stolen, is not q ques-
ton between the State and those who have
trusted the State. The truth, patent to all the
world, is that this act is partly one of politi-
cal yindctiveness, and partly one of dishon-
orable desire to escape payment OF money.
The people of Georgia must expect that the
world will judge them by those laws which
civilized communities have everywhere recog-
nizad as necessary to the existence of stable
government, and not by conceptions which
debtors may desire to form for themselves.
If they deem it better to retain the money
than to retain the good opinion of the world
we can only state the fact.
Year: 1877

1t is beginning to appear as if, for one reason or
another Senator COnkling is to control the APP
preaching Republican State Convention. Different
factions will have different ways of accounting for
it. but men of quite opposite views about Mr.. Conk-
ling are already agreed to tine probable conilnu-
ance of his hold upon the party organization. 1t is
unfortunate that tlgs will be generally interpreted
as an evidence of New-Yorl hostility to the Admin


istration But New-York is not hostile to the Adj
ministration We are not even certain that Mr..
Conkling is; and very certain that it is not
to the interest Of the Administration to nag
him into hostility. His control of the convention
is easily explained. He and his friends have been
intensely active, and there has been no organized
activity against them. The earnest supporters
of the Administration have had passive sort of
hope that men of Mr.. Curtis's way of thinking
might now take the lead; and it is said there have
been even some who hoped to things put in train
for Mr.. Curtis's election Mr.. Conklng's succes-
sor to the Senate. But far as can now be seen,
this is mere dreaming The friends of the Admins
tration have sat inactive, or have not known how to
do anything. Mr.. Conkling's supporters are hard at
work. and they know how to work. In explaining
the reasonable probability of their success only
desire to add that it is not necessarily to be
struod as defeat of the Administration. There has
been general impatence at the spirit of procrasti-
nation which seems to reign in Washington, and
there has been sharp dissatisfaction, at times, with
individual bunders But the people of New-York.
and we believe, the people of the entire North
well satisfied with what they understand to be
the general tendency of President HayeS's policy,
and mean that he shall have fair chance.
Year: 1877

Mississippi is maintaining its bad reputation.
1t was the originator of bulldozing IA an ele-
ment in political controversies, and that general
method of influencing elections which is known
as the Mississippi plan. 1t is one Of the strong
holds of those who do not acquesce in any
plan for conciiation, for harmony for the peace
and Justice which alone can bring back pros
perity to the Southern States. 1t contains n
great number of men who certainly hate the
Republican party, but who are equally hostile to
the Democratic party, so far as it Is willing to
be governed by tie law. These men, restless,
dissatisfied, angry and unreconciled, are obnox


ious to the better part OF the Mississippi Dem
ocrats-to those who are unwilling to be held
responsible any longer for the electioneering
system which disgraced the Presidential cleo
ton in that State. They want no party there
which is loyal. They care nothing for names
they will lynch or shoot Democrat just as
Year: 1877

The train robbery on the Union Pacific was
one of remarkable boldness and secured an
exceptionally large booty. The rewards offered
for the robbers are sufficient to arouse the
whole region about the scene of their daring
deed, and ought 10 secure their capture.
Year: 1877

General readiness is evinced abroad to sup
ply Prince Bismarck and Count Andrassy with
reasons for their interview at Salzburg. As me-
diation between Russia and Turkey is out of the
question. it is not probable that they will give
the subject serious consideration. AS the lead
ing statesmen of two great empires they will
not lack weighty subjects of discussion.
Year: 1877

There is more than at first reported of the
unfragrant mass of worthless checks and over
due notes that did duty as "cash" in the as
sets of the ClairmOnt Savings Bank. Some of
these disgraceful transactions can be traced
back for year and half. The trustees are
now said TO be trying to find out who stole
the money. 1t is rather late for them to be-
gin such an inquiry At present that question
is before the officers of the law, and will
probably be answered by few indictments.


II is one thing to try to repudiate, and
another thing TO try to borrow money. The
people of Virginia bid fair to succeed in the
first attempt, but they are already finding out
that success in this, means failure in the other.
The State Government cannot find bankers,
even In its own capital, who will advance it
money. There is time yet for the people Of
Year: 1877

An anecdote illustrative of an animal abandoning it's artificial for it's natural taste, when once it has learned what it is, may be told of tame ichneumon, which kept and fed with milk. One day I brought him small water-ser- pent alive, being desirous to know how far his instinct would carry him against a being with which he was hitherto totally unacquainted. His first emotion seemed to be astonishment mixed with anger, for his hair became erect; but, in an instant after, he slipped behind the reptile, and with remarkable agility Sleaped upon it's head, seized it, and crushed it between his teeth. This essay, and new aliment, seemed to have awakened in him his innate and destruc- tive yoracity which till then had given way to the gentleness he had acquired from his education. I had about my house several kinds of curious fowls, among which he had been brought up, and which, till then, he had suffered to go and come unmolested; but, a few days after, he strangled them every one, ate a little, and, as appeared drank the blood of two. ..
Year: 1877

About Galatz there is standing water that only dries up late in the summer, and the hot air smells like the fat ster- let they give you for dinner,-a fish which, in the Danube, tastes like mud- dy eel, only muddier and eelier. One more example of this curious compound civilization. Asking for some means of washing of the dust and slime which had risen from the road and the water through long, hot journey, I was told that the only bath could have was hot one, and, accepting joyfully, l was shown to one of a range of rooms with plunge baths in the corner. A sturdy Wallachian damsel of 25 or so was the attendant. She spoke only a few words of German, just enough to ask whether I would have soap and alles. Seeing that there was nothing to dry oneself with, consented to have alles, though with some misgiving as to the ultimate result. She told me to get into the bath and ring when was ready for somebody to come to me. I rang accordingly, when she herself ap- peared with soap and towels, bare feet, and bare, mighty arms. With some difficulty succeeded in eliciting the fact that the large piece of flannel she held in her hand was intended to be used in cleaning me thoroughly, and used by herself. The offer was made in perfect simplicity; there was not a touch of coquetry about her, and her baby outside was calling to her. In pursuit of her legitimate business, with the brawny arms which gained food for her child, perhaps for a lazy bus band, she proposed to wash me thor oughly as she would have washed a child or a groom would clean horse. To prevent oneself from laughing a little was impossible as she stood there with her broad honest face and gigantic limbs, but the laughter was at myself, not at her. There we were. the exact counterpart of drawing I remember having seen in Strutt's Antiquities, only in the sketch of old English man. ners it is lady who sits in the bath, and an armed knight who stands or sits and talks to her quietly. There is no reason to find fault with these people they are just ss good as we are, only in different stage of civilization.-C Cor respondence London Times.
Year: 1877

"In certain sense,' says a modern writer. Gall attractive females are more or less hirts." It is true there are some women about as good-looking as the rough side of horse-radish grater who read with glasses and eat with porce- lain teeth, and yet f1irt. There is an excuse for them. It is business with them. They are obliged to snap at the first chance like hungry wolves. But girls who don't have tojump at chances dirt because it's pretty business. True, it is pretty, and it is right. It is avery different thing from being heartless eoqnette. Flirting in the sense we mean is the only way a girl has to find out what her beau, possibly her future husband is like. A man always ap- brooches girl dressed in society polite ness, and it is the girls duty to pierce this thin coating of sugar and plum, and learn what is beneath. She cannot accomplish this without flirting. .~
Year: 1877

l am not surprised at David's pray ing to God in the night-warches; at his rising from his bed, and ascending to the roof of his house, and when the mighty heart of the city was still, and the mountains round about Jerusalem were sleeping in the calm brilliancy of an Eastern night, that he should gaze with rapture on the sky. and pour forth such psalm of praise as "When I consider the heavens the work of Thy fingers" etc.

 The night is more suited to prayer than the day. never wake in the mid- dle of the night, without feeling in- duced to commune with God. One feels brought more in contact with Him. The whole world round us, we think, is asleep. But the great Shepherd of Israel slumbers not, nor sleeps. He is awake, and so are we. We feel, in the solemn and silent night alone with God. And then there is everything in the circumstance to lead one to pray. The past is often wildly recalled. The voices of the dead are heard, and their forms crowd around you, No sleep can bind them. The night seems the time in which they should hold spirit ual communion with man. The future, too. throws its dark shadow over you the night of the grave, the certain death-bed, the night in which no man can work. And then everything makes such an impression on the mind al night, when the brain is nervous and susceptible. The low sough of the wind among the trees; the roaring, or eerit sohtsh of some neighboring stream; the bark, or low howl of the dog; the gen. eral impressive silence, all tend tc sober and solemnize the mind, and tc force 1t from the world and it's vani. ties, which then seem asleep to God who alone can uphold and defend it.- Mormon Aacleod.
Year: 1877

To be silent about an injury makes the doer of it more uneasy than com- plaints.

 Every one is in one thing at least original-in his manner of sneezing.

 People in love generally resolve first and reason afterwards.

 Men are made to be eternally shaken about, but women are flowers that lose their beautiful colors in the noise and tumult of life.

 Our prayers and Gods mercy are like two buckets in a well; while one ascends the other descends.

 Never reproach man with the faults of his relatives.

 The greatest truths are the simplest so are the greatest men,
Year: 1877

Mr. Monkey and Mss Puss.-A little girl at sea had two pets on board-s monkey and a cat. She gave the monkey tin plate, and made him understand il was for his own use; and, when the dinner was ready he could bring it tc the table, and hold it out to her that she might put upon it whatever she thought best. suited to his taste.

 As soon as served, he would carry his dinner to some quiet corner, pussy always following after with noiseless step. Placing his plate carefully on the floor, MT. Monkey would seat himself; and, while he was occupied in arrang- ing his tail in a agraceful position, pussy would slyly seize dainty morsel, and eat it up before he knew what he was about. ----.-.~ .-...-4-.---.--i--e-s--. On turning around he would glance at the empty plate, then dart at pussy and pressing her head tightly against his breast with his left hand, as if pre- pairing to extract tooth, with his right hand he would force her mouth open. Then bending forward he would look far down her throat as if to discover whether his lunch had gone that way.

 This happened quite often; for, Monkey seemed to forget from day to day the losses he had sustained. Yet he was not without revenge.

 Every evening he took delight in sur prising pussy in her promenades by springing at her, seizing her by the tail and holding her over the ships side, where he would swing her backwards and forward until her shrieks brought some one to her rescue.

 After all puss had the worst of it, Methodist.
Year: 1877

A GERMAN lost his wife, and the next

 week married again, and his new wife asked him to take her out riding. lie felt indignant that she should have no

 more respect than that for his deceased wife, and said: "You dink I ride out

 init another woman so soon after the death of mine frau?''
Year: 1877

Test for Sulphur in Organic Compounds. HI. Vohl recommends the following as the best method of detecting sulphur in organic compounds: The substance to be tested is heated in solution of caus- tic lime and oxide of lead in glycerin. The latter is prepared as follows: One volume of distilled water is mixed with 3 volumes of pure glycerin and heated to boiling; freshly prepared slaked lime is added, little by little, until it is satu- rated. Freshly precipitated hydrated oxide of lead, or moist litharge, is added in excess, and the liquid allowed to boil gently for a few minutes, then tightly corked and left to cool, after which the clear liquid is decanted from the sedi- ment into a glass vessel. that can be tightly corked.r
Year: 1877

MISSY, who is twenty, begins to emancipate herself a little too much, and is reasoned with by her prudent mother, who sums up the whole matter as follows:

 ''You see, do not object to your running round, but do not want you to gallop."
Year: 1877

MUCH has been written against the accordeon, but the first evening after a young man who practiced on one moved into the second floor of a house on Union street, a smile lit up the face of the aged citizen who lay in sickness on the floor above. He said that he was now reconciled to death.
Year: 1877

Cattle food should be selected with reference to the ends desired in their use, and the relative costs of the same. The Journal says food for work ,z for milk, for fattening, should be better 2 understood among farmers, and thinks the time will come when. science Will be applied to the use of cattle foods, and that it will be of immense value to the cattle industry of the country.
Year: 1877

Cows AND CALvEs.-It is we'll to ob- serve caution in changing cattle from dry feed to full pasture. The safe way

 is to feed on the usual dry fodder be-

 fore turning out, and bring up the stock early in the afternoon, and feed again on dry feed with some roots. Another safe precaution is to dose the calves and yearlings with two ounces of

 Epson salts for each one, for two days before they are turned out, and then graduate rhe feed as mentioned. A daily dose of half an ounce of sulphur and as much salt, given every week for night or two, with the observance of the above precautions, will prevent the fatal "black quarter" or carbuncula1 erysipelas. .-s. IT,. 5- --..,-I
Year: 1877

The Stream to the Mil1.-"I notice, !" said the stream to the mill, 'that you grind beans as we'll and as cheerfully as fine wheat"

 "Certainly," clacked the mill "what am l for but to grind? and so long as l work, what does it signify to me what the work is? My business is to serve my master, and I am not whit more useful when I turn out fine flour than when I make the coarsest meal. My honor is not in doing fine work, but in performing any that comes as well as l can."

 That is just what boys and girls ought to do do whatever comes in their way as we'll as possible, and those who act so are sure to get along nicely.-Chtld- ren's Friend.
Year: 1877

. 4 Little Knight and Gentlenan.-I was sitting at the window looking out one cold, slippery day last winter. I SUD- pose good many of you children have amused yourselves looking at the people who pass on slippery days, smiling a little to see hOW~q ueerly some of them walk; hope though, that none. of you laugh if you see some one fall. As l looked out of the window saw a knot of boys, all neighbors of mine, who were standing and laughing. Two or three persons had passed, and almost slipped at one particularly dangerous spot q think the boys had been sliding there, ) and now a little girl came by with a basket of buttons, tapes, shoe strings, and such things. Down she went, her basket falling on it's side and half the contents rolling out. Through the window could hear the boys laughing :! Not one of them stepped forward to help the little girl, but the door of the op- posite opened quickly and little boy, the steps, and hurry ing to the poor girl, after saying word or two to her, helped her put her things in her basket. The poor girl was so stiff and cold that half her things might have been lost, but for this kind little knight, and gentleman. call him knight, because the knights in old times helped the poor and helpless wherever they found them and gentleman, because gentleman "a true Christian gentleman-is polite to rich and poor alike. He remembers that his Saviour has said, "[nasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me. ."-Child's Paper
Year: 1877

Sanstroke.-The sudden accession of heat has already produced one fatal, and more than one severe, case of sunstroke in the metropolis Probably the affec- l ton so designated is not the malady to | which the term coup de soleil can be properly applied. The condition brought about is an exaggerated form of the disturbance occasioned by enter ing too suddenly the s'hot" room of a Turkish bath. The skin does not inn medfately perform it's function as an evaporatlng and therefore cooling sur face, and an acute febrile state of the organism is established, with dis turbed balance of circulation, and more or less cerebral irritation as promi- nent feature of the complaint. Death may suddenly occur at the outset of the complaint, as it has happened in a Turkish bath, where the subject labors under some predisposition to apoplexy, or has weak or diseased heart. It should suffice to point out the danger and to explain, by way of warning, that although the degrees of heat regis tered by the thermometer, or the power or the suns rays, do not seem to suggest especial caution, all sudden changes from a low to a high temperature are attended with danger to weak or ganisms. The avoidance of undue exercise-for example, persistent trott- ing or cantering up and down the Row -is obvious precaution on days marked by relatively, if not absolutely, high temperature. We direct attention to this matter because it is obvious the peculiar peril of overheating the body by exertion on the first burst of fine weather is not generally realized. It is forgotten that the increased tempera- tureF must be measured by the elevation which has recently taken place, not the number of degrees of heat at pres ent recorded. The registered tempera- ture may be more or less than that which occurred year ago; but it's inn mediate effects on the organism will be determined by the conditions which have preceded it and the violence of the change. .TLancet.
Year: 1877

Some thief effected an entrance into
w. S. Humphreys law office, through
the rear window, last Sunday night,
with the evident intention of robbing
the safe. The safe had carelessly been
left standing open Saturday night, and
the fellow bad doubtless seen the -con1i-
ton of things through the window dur
ing the day Sunday. and resolved on
making haul. Fortunately, however,
Mr.. Geo. Humphrey went into the office
Sunday afternoon and closed and locked
the safe. The thief was undoubtedly
disguised when he saw that he was to
get nothing, and departed without doing
any damage.
Year: 1877

amid of Gains Cestus, which stands amid
the wrecks OF two thousand years, as the
sole surviving witness of the martyrdom
OF st. Paul. 1t now marks the spot
where Papal Rome suffers her Protest.
ant sojourners to bury their dead.


Here our studies for 1877 end, with the
death of the great Apostle. But he is
not dead. He lives in the memory and
lessons OF his life. in his glowing and
eloquent words, in his mastery letters
which have instructed the people of God
Tor eighteen centuries, in the testimony
of his heroic death, and in the increasing
success of that Gospel i'm which he
gloried and which it was his highest
honor TO proclaim.
Year: 1877

Up at Vassar they have a peculiar way
of rewarding impertinence, as tor in
stance, last week two spring bed peddlers
used insulting language to lady who
refused to buy of them, whcreupon she
drew pistol and shot one of them in
the cheek. After this she had them
both arrested, and finally compromised
the matter by accepting $l5 costs of ar
rest, and an humble apology.
Year: 1877

Miss: A word in your ear. The next
fine afternoon you saunter out buy a box
of GLENN's SULPHUR SOAP. That ad-
mirable purifier will remove every one of
those plmples which detract so much
from your beauty. Sold by all druggists
There is Youth in every bottle of HILLS
HAIR DYE. 23w4