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Year: 1877

graphed to Washington to have the
Custom House removed at once from
Sitka as is was in the possession of
diabolical spirits. Whether this
scene was gotten upby FatherWhiski
ofski to scare his visitors, or whether
it was reality, is in doubt. Capt.
Seldom however is of opinion that it
was real, and in support Of his
belief, relates that in 1868, while
stationed at Astoria, the cutter
was lying in Young's river, from
whence a short walk would enable
one to reach the settlement. This
path led by an old burying ground
where old John Day lies buried, and
whose spirit to this day, is said to
walk the earth. One night Capt. then
Lieut.. Selden had occasion to 60 to
town, and was cautioned about "Old
John Days ghost" but made light
Of his friends advice. He says that


just as he approached the gate to the
hurying ground, the moon went be-
hind cloud, and there came forth
from among the graves a most un.
earthly groan. He says he hardly
touched the ground, he rather flew,
and made the best time ever known
from John Days grave to Astoria,
where he arrived minus his hat, and
his hair standing up as stiff as shoe
brush. His Astoria friends assured
him that the noise was made by a
COW in the burying ground, but the
Capt. is strong in his assertion that it
was old John Days ghost, and that
the Sitka demonstration was quite as
certain.


The "Banner Of Light" CORES
pondent says that the Indians were
much alarmed and sent messengers
to all the neighborng tribes to come
into Sitka and join the Greek church
and that the effect produced is very
marked. We are perfectly willing
to wait till we learn little more
about this Sitka spiritual story be-
fore we place implicit confidence in
it, but if it is true, we must admit
that Capt. Ssldon's visit in the VOL
colt has been productive of good.
Year: 1877

The Board met in regular session,
all the members present and President
Bell in the chair. -


A communication from Supervisor
Lackey McHugh to the effect that Mr..
Lloyd, contractor, in setting the curb on
Pearl street and Eggleston avenue was
about two feet OF the block
pavement, and was carrying the blocks
for his own use, was received and filed.


On notion Street Railroad Route No,
Year: 1877

The other evening in Washington meet
ing of Reformers was held to agitate the
abolishment of the Presidency. The lead
ing splrit in the movement was Dr.. Mary
Walker of the bifurcated garmapts. Her
motive for advocating the movement is
found in her dislike for the President, and
thereby hangs q tale, DIR, Walker has had
o claim before every successive Congress-
since the war for nursing soldiers, and also
was accustomed to call frequently at the
White House to enlist the sympathies and
aid of President Grant She sent her card
in to him day after day, but never could
ATTAIN an audience. Finally, becoming
discouraged and disguised, she sent the
President note complaining of his treat
ment as servant Of her, q sovereign Of
this great American people, On the re-
yerse Of this note, when 1t was returned to
her, was written the following:


Whenever Mrs. Walker will appear at
the door of the Executive Chamber in ap-
parel becoming her sex she will be admit
ted q. s. GRANT.
Year: 1877

From the open window her floating hair
Sent giintings of gold through the sunlit air,
And the sailor, slow drifting ont to sea,
AS his eyes glanced up, Aaw its amber glow,
And carried sweet dreams where, with ebb and now
The trOpic ocean rolls restless and free.
From the open window her eyes looked down
On the dusty road. winding sleep and brown,
And the steel-clad warrior riding by
Caught their sunny glance, and his soul grew CAD.
And their light was the one great Joy he had
To nerve his arm when the Aght ragged high.
From the open window her little hand,
So dainty and white, meath the yellow band
OF gold on her wrist, met the glarce o one
Slowly plodding on to his daily TOLL
And its beauty made fair the burning soil,
And shone mid the rays of the burning eup
Through the open window her lover sips
The sweets of love on her fragrant lips,
When the earth grows dim in the shades of night
And there is no glory in Paradise
Can match the brightness of that which lies
In her eyes, that shine with such tender light
By the open window to fame unknown,
Yet reigning queen on loves high throne,
She sits as the gathering shadows fall;
While three souls dream of her hairs rich gold,
Her eyes SO bright, her hands dainty mold;
And the lever gathers and claims them ALL


Boston Transcript
Year: 1877

Business Prospects Tor the autumn.


The month of September opens with a
feeling of greater confidence on The part
of our trading classes and signs of, great
er activity than in any preceding year
since the panic. This is no doubt due
In great part, to the abundance of our
crops and the high prices Of grain in the
English market, but it also results, in
part, from belief that there is TO be no
no further dawdling with the question OF
specie payments, and that the govern
ment will proceed by steady steps to re-
SUMPTION at the end of the next sixteen
months. Business men feel at last that
they can count with some degree of as
surance on the future, and that the ope-
rations of trade are to partake less OF the
character of game of chance. Nobody
expects great hustle of activity or rush
|ot business, but there is sober expecta-
ton of good fall trade on basis OF
moderate profits. .. ta..l
Year: 1877

THEODOR CHRIsTLIEB, the German theo-
logian who figured so conspicuously at the
meeting of the Evangelical alliance in New
York few years since, has discovered that
the "spirit OF Christi has departed from us,
and he has great fears for the future of this
nation. As evidence of our fallen state, the
only evidence too that he presents, he de-
clares that he has seen a man come home
and find his wife sitting in the best chair in
the room, and not only did she not rise to
get his dressing gown and slippers, but she
did not rise at all. The married man had to
take the second-best chair. This is dreadful.
Unfortunately there is too much reason to
believe it is true. Indeed there are cases on
record where the wife has refused to get up
first in the morning and build the fire, an d
has even compelled her husband to split the
kindlings. Whittier are we drifting? The
question is serious one, to which there
seems to be no solution except the profound
one advanced by the accomplished German.
Certainly "reform is necessary"
Year: 1877

IT is strange that the laboring man cannot
see the injury done him by the remonetiza-
tion of the silver dollar. The effort of the
resumptionists is to make the greenback dol
lar worth one hundred cents; the effort of the
silver infationists is to reduce its value to
ninety-three cents, the worth of the silver
dollar,-for the greenback of course will be
no more valuable than the m etal in which it
isito be redeemed. To buy dollars worth Of
food the purchaser must pay in silver dol
lar and seven cents, and as wages will not
advance, he will have to work more hours
than now to earn the necessary money. 1t
will take more labor, should the silver bill be-
come law, to earn a real dollar than il does
now. 1t is easy to see why the Bonanza
men should favor silver, for they find profit
in it, but it is not easy to see why the laborer
should be eager to defraud himself or to as
sist the silver owners in swindling him.
Year: 1877

As corpse the Republican party seems to
be restless.


After all, the most sweeping Democratic
victory was won in Indiana.


The average Democrat suspects it may not
be so onesided in 1880 after all.


Mcclellan clubs should be organized i'm
mediately, for 1880 is not far OF Every dis
Greet Republican will lend a hanG.


The new party prophet thinks Sa will rest
awhile.


The Republicans:of Wisconsin have won,
as they deserved to, They stood up boldly
against financial heresies in spite of the
dreaded Western sympathy for cheap money,
and they have conquered with a greatly in
creased majority. This is strong evidence
that the West is not.nearly so wild on finan-
eiai questions as the demagogues would have
us believe.


The Legislature of Virginia elected on
Tuesday will contain majority favorable to
the so-called ''readjustment'' of the state
debt by which the creditors will be compelled
to accept terms dictated by the debtors, with
open repudiation as an alternative.


The business men of this country are in
condition to appreciate the story of Tantalus.
Often since the war gold payments have hung
near us, and have appeared as If about to
drop into the hand, but ever something has
happened to drive the blessing back. Now,
at last, when the precious metal lies, as it
were, at the end of our fingers. greed and
folly have combined to push it aside and to
replace, it with degraded metal. If they
succeed in their nefarious scheme we NAV
bid long goodbye to every chance of recu-
peratlon and every hope OF prosperity. We
are standing upon the borders Of the prom
ised land. Should we stray again into the
wilderness OF deprecated money the present
generation OF business men will never see
another chance pass out of the desert.-Bos
ton Herald.


Pennsylvania seems to think she has shak-
en- off the grip of the Cameron dynasty tor
ever. Perhaps she has, but the venerable
Simon is sly and powerful, and is not the sort
Of man who gives way before self-imposed
defeat. He will give his opponents MANY a
tough fight yet, unless he retires from politics,
and takes to literature as the only sure road
10 public prominence.


The anxious Presidential candidate, especial-
lyif he be Democrat, has to spread himself
carefully over good many issues now. He
must go very softly over the silver question, be
careful about taking sides in regard to SUBJ
sides, speak gently and sympathetically of
the wrongs Of the workingman, be against re-
sumption in the West and in favor OF it in the
East, and, in short, straddle with dscrimina-
tion and scientific accuracy upon every sub
iect of public Importance. The small army
OF Democratic aspirants are all doing very
well under this ordeal, but long practice en-
abes Mr.. Hendricks to put the most grace in
to his attitude.


What is Congress in Washington for, and
what do the able statesmen suppose the Pres
ident called them together to do? Not to in
troduce thousand or SO unimportant bills
and let loose the 1oodgates of imbece talk
about cheap money, or anything of the kind,
but to vote supplies and go home. The sooner
they do their duty and adjourn, the better it
will be for their political futures.
Year: 1877

THE discussion in Boston over the classical
education of women has given rise to some
very foolish sayings. DR.. Talbot, for example,
has made good his claim to the blue rib
bon OF idiocy by urging in reply to some ar
guments on the physical aspects of the ques-
ton that ''the wives, mothers, sisters and
daughters who feel an intense and almost
vital interest in the descision of this question
did not expect to have their ears smart and
their faces crimsoned by indecent expressions
and absurd opinions concerning the function
al disabilities of women for study or work"
1t is safe to say that no sensible woman will
blush at proper discussion of physiologi-
cal problem. If DR.. Talbot sees anything in
decent in these discussions he must be a man
of very nasty ideas.
Year: 1877

We do not read anonymous etters ;lnd communi-
cations The name and address of the writer are in
all cases indispensable, necessarily for publication
but as guaranty of good faith.


We cannot undertake to return or preserve COM
munications that are not used
Year: 1877

EVERY regular attache of the PRESS is furnished
with Card certificate couDtersgned by Stanley t.
Pullen, Editor. All railway, steamboat and hotel
managers will confer favor upon US by demanding
credentials of every person claiming to represent our
Year: 1877

A Minnesota girl was so enamored of a young man that, finding she could not otherwise awaken in him a responsive passion, she piled him with drugs to stimulate it. The result was that she made'him insane She was foolish and wicked maiden. She did not get q lover, and the object of her passion has just gone home from the insane asylum restored to his senses, and his determin- ation not to marry her is redoubled and intensified. Quacks and charlatans ad vertise love powders by the use of which girls may excite the tender passion in men with whom they are infatuated, butnot so can be inspired love in the manly breast. It feeds on the graces and virtues of lov- able women, not on the combinations of the alchemist. If you wish to charm man, girls, resort to no witch or wizard, but display before him the charms of wit, the sweetness of your disposition, and the attractive modesty of your de- pertinent. If he is worth having for a husband, he will admire these things, and the love you bear him will perhaps speedily be the cause of an answering tenderness in his own heart. Love is very catching.
Year: 1877

He turned to assist MT. Sheppard, and, with great difficulty, succeeded in getting him out. When Mir. Sheppard was fairly out Garter returned to the as- sistance of woman, who was calling for help at the front end of the car. He got her out, and, as she was quite thinly clad, gave her his overcoat. After reach ing a hotel he found himself severely bruised in several places. In the great peril of the hour man rushed down to the scene of the disaster ready to help ill rescuing. He saw woman struggling for life and went to her assistance. He carried her by main force to solid ice, and then, urged by the cries of the mother, went back to rescue her daugh- ter, sweet child of three or four years. The treacherous wood ill splintering had caught the child in its grasp and the fire completed the horrible work. The man was compelled to see the child enveloped in flames, and to hear her "help me, mother, ringing out in agony of death. In a moment she was lost, swept up by the sharp tongue of fire, while the moth CT, in helpless agony, fell to the earth ill deadly swoon.

 There was on board family named Bennett, on their way from New York State to Jefferson, Ashtabula county. The father and mother got out of the wreck and the children were only saved by being tossed from the arms of one man to another over the pile of burning wood. One of the four children was se- riously injured and all were slightly scratched. The mother, who was cnce- inte, shortly afterward gave birth to @ child, the event being hastened by the excitement she had undergone.

 MT. Sheppard, whose rescue was pre- viously described, had one leg fearfully crushed, necessitating it's dmputation, and he is now doing well.

 It seems that the train had just about covered the bridge when it fell, as frag ments lie across the ravine touching the base of the abutments on either side. When one stands at the foot of the ra- vine and looks up 1t seems an utter i'm possibility that any man could take a leap from 50 great a height and live; yet 6 number escaped comparatively un- harmed, and had 1t not been for the fire probably not one-third would have been lost. The water in the creek is only about three feet deep.
Year: 1877

The flower of the manhood of the small remnant of the Shinnecock tribe were lost off the Circassian, and with their death the tribe dies out. All that now remain of the Shinnecock people are old men and women and the forlorn widows of the unfortunate fellows who were swallowed up by the sea. These Indians were, physically, magnificent men, four of them being over six feet in height. They were notorious in all the eastern end of Long Island for their thrift, fugality and honesty; and, as sailors, they had no rivals A few weeks ago letter was received at the reserva- ton, about twelve miles west of Bridge hampton, from New Bedford, Mass, ask ing for a crew for whaling vessel: The more domestic minded of the men re- fused to. leave their families, and only two men answered the call. Poor fel- lows their hopes of homely comforts fell short of their anticipation. Their recent homes on the reservation are to- day scene of mourning. Dissolution has settled on the place, and every house. hold mourns the loss Of some relative of blood or affinity.

 Many of the families have lost their only bread winner, and tie prospects of the future are indeed dreary. The Wal ker family have lost two members. The two brothers Cufee are gone, and first cousin with them. The old folks have still one son left, and are consequently not as badly off as the Walkers. The whole male line of the Bunns is extin- guished, and only twelve young men are left of the tribe The white residents of the neighborhood express great regret at the loss of these Indians, who were re- spected and trusted by all who knew them
Year: 1877

If we can benefit the readers of this paper any by recommending Persons Purga- tire Pills to be the best ant-bilious medicine Ill the country we are willing to do so, We have had about as good chance to know as any one.
Year: 1877

One Of the State Jail Inspectors was in Paris
last week. examining the county buildings which
come under his Jurisdiction. He pronounced the
jail there to be one of the safest and most COM
Portable in the State.
Year: 1877

To-day being the annual Thanksg living, and
the hands in our office will observe the same. no
paper will be issued from this office tomorrow
The Daily will appear as usual on Saturday
morning.
Year: 1877

See Cooks advertisement. He seems hound TO
keep clean abreast of the times in goods and
prices. People like to trade with these deslers
who have ascertained that goods can be produced
at cheaper rate than . year ago.
Year: 1877

We would caution the bows. both bad and good,
about venturing too upon the ice. For the
boy who receives permission to 60 from his parent
is just likely to break through thin ice, and he
drowned, as the boy who runs away without the
permissiop of his parents
Year: 1877

An experienced horse man claims that the practice
of clipping horses is for the health and comfort o
the animals in question and not for the purpose oi
destroying them. Those horses having long hair
only should be clipped. horse used in all sorts
Of weather, the long hair often gets wet with
perspration, rain and snow to such an extent
that no amount OF rubbing will quite dry it after
work is done and remaining in such a condition
through a cold night invariably gives the horse
a cold in spite of heavy blankets. Being clipped
the horse does not perspire go much while the
snow and rain run harmlessly off his back When
brought into the stable, therefore, q little brisk
rubbing and warm blankets keep him comfort a.
Bile and in good health.


The water in the Kennebec fell off some two or
three feet yesterday, though the wharves still
submerged several feet, and the old river remains
up to the respectable dimensions of usual spring
freshets. The high water prevented operations
at the mills and machine shops at the dam. The
great rise during the night OF Tuesday, came
within few inches of carrying of large lot of
valuable lumber piled on the wharves east side of
the river. The total rise of the water during the
freshet could not been less than ten twelve feet
Numerous embankmen,s throughout the city, on
the hall Sides failed to stand the pressure conse-
quent on so thorough soaking, and csved, doing
considerable damage in some cases. AT the upper
end Of Water street. near the junction of North.
ern avenue, the timber work has given Out, and
the concrete sidewalk caved in for a distance of
some three or four rods. There washings in
other places, but no very serious ones. There is
rarely 50 large freshet with 50 littl. damage.
Year: 1877

Our city was lively yesterday beyond its
usual state, and it appeared even more so
by contrast with the appearance OF the
streets for many days past. The bright,
genial sunshine brought out all Of the pretty
girls; they in turn brought out all OF the
handsome or eligible young beauX, and the
consequence was policy OF peace and mu-
ttlaI admiration. This fact, though barren
to your reporter, gives gratifying evidence
Of the innocent manner in which the life OF
our old burg is aroused. Let the sun shine
after period Of cloudiness, and all is life,
love, and hustle (thc latter generally pinned
back), and meanwhile the reportorial cuss
meanders empty handed mid these scenes
of pleasure, and sadly sends in the report 4:
"All quiet along the 'Jeems' to-day. No
news from Manchcster.'
Year: 1877

BLACK HiLLs.-If you want TO go TO the Black
Hills and can't get there, PROBABLY the next best thing
to do Is to 20 to E. b. SPENCE SONS and lay In
your spring and summer supplies In the way OF
ready -made clothing clothing made TO oraef.
Their stock is large and prices low.
Year: 1877

In consequence Of a disagreement among the
Judges Of the General Term the construction Of the
will Of Neil Dongherty they decided yesterday In Brook


yn, tosend the to the first department. Dougherty.
who was wealthy and misery man, kept grocery a
schermerhorn and Court streets Brooklyn At his deatA
he made several benevolent bcqucst. and then provdeA


that the resduum Of the estate should be converted ns
money and given to the Roman Catholic Bishop Of Rap
hoe parish OF Rye county Of Donegal ireland, to ercce
and maintain school house 10 be known the Dough-
erty American Institute. TO be controlled by twelvs
respectable farmers Tor the benefit of the Roman Cath
oic poor children in the parish The second cousins q
DOughery contest The WILL and at Special Term the
Judge declared the will invalid IN the provision as To the
Bishop OF Raphoe dovi~ Of real estate TO an alien
void and the Bishop. having power Of succession.
cannot take legal title TO the land nor can he ndt
vdual, because he Is not named. The Bishop, who =
James McDevtt was the appellant
Year: 1877

Several years ago the following touching and tender bit of verse went the rounds of the press, over the name of Charles Dickens. The true author is a NIT. Charles Diekensou, now one of the most promising young law yers in New York, and descendant of the historical Dickenson family ot that State After graduating from College, he found himself obliged Co teach school for few terms, to obtain money necersary to enable him to complete his education for the bar: tO this necessity the world is indebted for these lines. so full of healthful sentiment and deep feeling, The perfect versifcation contains an alliterstion so graceful as to almost escape attention. The true author ship was made known by Mr R. II. Newell (0rpheus C. Kerr, who published the verses with an appreciative notice of them in a column that he edited in one of the New York Dailies. Mir. Dickenson wrote to his friend letter of thanks as beautiful aS the poem that called it forth, and we regret our inability to fusniSh our readers with a copy at 1t: