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Year: 1878

A colored bush meeting is being held
over Third street bridge, and is attracting
large crowds of people both white and
black. So great was the enthusiasm at
the leaders that the meeting on Saturday
was continued during the whole night,
and did not break up until Sunday morn
ing at daylight, when the singers were
obliged to discontinue their labors from
exhaustion. The singing could be heard
Sunday morning at 3 o'clock, at Fifth
and Lombard streets. 1t was so loud
that it awakened a number of persons
from their peaceful slumbers.
Year: 1878

A detachment OF the Fifth brigade OF the National
Guard shot Creedmoor yesterday In the second
and first classes. The party numbered about one
hundred and twenty men, and was composed OF mem.
bers oil the Thirteenth and Fourteenth regimen, the
Fifteenth battalion and Separate Troop OF cavalry.
A lew me mbors Of tho Seventeenth Separate Company
OF infantry, OF Flushing. were also on the range.
Year: 1878

the organization. Judge Bedford has proved his
abilities for the Bench in tho very position he
seeks and he will that account have the sup
port OF all the citizens without regard to party, who
have learned TO know and esteem him as judge OF
Integrity and impartiaity, man strictly hon.
oraUie character HIS antecedents offer guarantees
which new man In tho same position might not be
able oaer, and tor that MI Bedford deserves
support. All should combine to place Judge Bedford
again on the Bench, wher6 he was once an ornament
Year: 1878

Mysterious Night. when first our parent knew
Thee from report divine, ,and heardsthy name,
Did he not tremble for this lovely frame,
This glorious canopy of light and blue?
Yet meath a curtain of translucent dew.
Bathed in the rays of the great setting flame,
Hesperus with the host of heaven came,
And 10! creation widened in mans view.
Who could have thought such darkness lay


concealed


Behind thy beams o Sun? Or who could find.
Whilst fly. and leaf and insect stood revealed.
That to such countless orbs thou mad st us


blind!


Why do we. then. shun death with anxious


strife!


If Light can thus deceive. wherefore not


L Bldneo White, in the IndeT.
Year: 1878

NORFOLK. March 2s.-The expedition to Cur
from the. wrecked steamer Huron returned
via the Albermarie and Chesapeake canal this
morning. The dead were brought up on the
bodies. They will be transferred to the steamer
Lady OF the Lake this afternoon and convey ed
to point on the Potomac, and thence by rail to
annapolis and the government grounds at the
Naval Academy reserved for them.
Year: 1878

The part borne by the citizens OF pfttsburg
in connection with the terrible riot OF last
July is made apparent in the testimony of r.
A. Ammon, president OF the Trainmen's
Union at fhe time of the strike, given the
other day before the special committee OF the
Legislature appointed to Investigate the sub
vised the riotous strikers to resist any at
tempt at arrest, while numerous prominent
citizens supplied the mob with the arms with
which they Hred upon the Philadelphia mill
tia
Year: 1878

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Charles Thill is not lank, widowed
and long-haired character like the trapper
of the plains, but muscular Dutchman
with a level head on his Teutonic shcul-
ders. He keeps hotel and fills the posi-
tion of constable in his town. On Sun
day last a citizen of this place visited
New Oregon and hitchcd his horse in
ThilPs shed. The guest left a brand new
whip in his buggy, and that whip looked
very tempting to n young man who
chanced TO gaze upon it, and the conse-
quence was that when the Sptingyille
man got ready TO come home the whip
was gone. Thill was mortified, ms all
good landlords should be, ut such I'm oc-
currence, and began search of the
premises, thinking that the thief must
have secreted the article TO carry awav
under cover Of darkness. The shed con
meets the hotel with the barn, and be-
meath the manger which extends the
length of the shed, loose stone was
found in the wall of the stable. On re-
moving the stone the whip was drawn
from the hole. TO recover the whip
would be betriumph enough for most mon,
but our host wasn't satisfied. He must
bring the culprit 10 justice Accordingly
he resolved 20 watch the spot till the
thief came after his booty. This would
be an arduous task if the fellow sbould
stay week. Thill ruminated. Finally,
he resolved to set trap for his victim.
borrowing large dOuble-spring rat trap
from ne'ghbOr, he 'anted 70 close in
tide the hole where the whip had been
secreted, anchoring IL firmly by n heavy
chain 10 loist, and then awaited de-
velOpments. Noone came 10 claim the
prize Sunday night Monday passed
away without a yidtant 10 the place of
secretion. Night came on, and n Young
man Of the place spent the evcningat the
hotel. When he bade adieu 10 the host
IL WAS past ten O'Clock, and the landlord
prepared TO retire for the evening for
getting all about the transaction Of tho
day before. He had hardly disrobed
himself, however, when cry for helm
greeted his ear, and that cry came from
the shed. Others heard the alarm. and
long before the floor could be taken up
TO loose the trap quite n crowd had con
gregated 70 witness the young mans
humiliation. Sprawled out under the
manger, with one arm through the hole
IN the wall and one finger in the merci-
less jaws Of the trap, he presented pic
ture Of dire distress Could he have got
his head through the hole and gnawed
that finger Oft it would have given him
pleasure no doubt n have done 80 but
he didn't happen 10 be a rat, and that
thing was an imposHbility 80, humilia
ing az il was, he had 10 cry out 10 the
landlord for deliverance and in calling
the landlord he called the constable
also. The young man is OF good family
and had hitherto borne a good name.
Year: 1878

White wings where are yc nying.
The whilc lie here dyiuxp
Outside tho window pane
hear weird, sweet strain,
As some angel harp were sighing
With pleasure half and pain


white wings white wingsl
lis hut the snow that huttors;
'lts hut tho wind that utters
some tale of ghostly cheer
To the sccptcrs of the year.
Iis but old death that mutter
So close beside my ear
white wings white wings
Year: 1878

FOREIGN powers are to be made 10
understand that ours is no three cent
government; an order having been is
sued for the withdrawal Of three cent
pieces from circulation. This will be
good news for the near-sighted man
who invariably gets hornswoggled out
OF the price OF loaf Of bread every
time one Of them bObs along.
Year: 1878

IHE glad outbursts of joyous mirth
that fit the air above and around i'm
noccncc at play, softly watt 10 the way.
worn and weary soul n refreshing sense
of peace and gratitude naught elae ON
earth inspires- unless the neighborhood
Is q little too thickly peopled for the
comfort Of ordinary nerves. But tho
delightful frankness and artless candor
peculiar 20 childhood gets dreadfully
scat cred and demoralized the first time
a boy comes home from a tuant swim
ming expedition with his shirt on wrong
side out.
Year: 1878

LIBERIA is going right up in the scale
Of civilization like a by climbing for
fruit. She already has a debt of over
a million, on which she can not even
pay the interest. 1t looks as though
some Of our able fnanciers had wan.
dered thither.
Year: 1878

THE papers are alarmed, and it Is reported
that HAYES u uneasy and lac wants Congress
TO pass Il general act to enroll the militia and
to have them in readiness to aid the State nu.
th0ritCs in supprcssng the formidable hwlcSS
spirit now gaining strength in tho North.
We here at the South arc placid, and fear
nothing Of the impending danger. The time
may come, not remote in the future, when the
law.and .ordcr-abidiug South will be called
upon to save the life, the property, and the
liberties Of the loyal North from pilaGe and
ruin.-Brd'moa lliiss.l RrpuJlicm


There is vein of malicious satisfaction
running through the entire woor Of the
above paragraph. The mock sympathy but
lily conccals the real spirit of hate that turks
beneath it, It says I'VE here at the South are
"'placid and fear nothing of the mpend-
/" ing danger" No doubt; having ceased
killing Yankees and massacreing negroes, the
quiet of the grave hangs over Mississippi
and there is 10 impending danger. The
time may come when the South will al
vance again upon the North with view to
numbering its people and dcspoling its ter
ritory but never to save the lives, the prop
crty, and the liberties of the loyal people
from pillage and ruin. II will be n sad day
for the North when it shall be forced to lean
upon the South for protection Of any kind
The damp Of death would at once settle
upon all its prospects
Year: 1878

The Greascrs were discomfted yesterday
in the House in their attempt TO peril the
nation by decimating the army. BAN
NING's bill was defeated by significant
vote, which shows conclusiyely that all the
Democrats are not Greasers now any more
than all were rebels during the war to tear
down the Government. II is only those
who are ready 10 rcvolutionze the country
for party plUndcr who seek TO deprive the
nHtion of its dclcnscs and leave it exposed to
the fury of the mob, or the destructive in
llucnCcs and forces Of revolution. Thanks
10 those patriotic men in the Democratic
party who despise the crack of the
party lash and stand' by the intcg-
rity and pcrpctuity Of the Union. The
country is full of such, and as the rcvolu-
tiOnists push their schemes to development
they will step out Of the ranks Of party and
enlist under the banner of the nations well
fare as they did when the perils of 1851 be-
gan to gather around its future. Party ties
are not strong enough to hold the true pa
triOt in partisan captivity when the Republic
is in danger. The Greuser Democrats have
been destroying public confidence in their
loyalty to the public veal for months but
the last few weeks have multiplied the sig
mails OF danger in an alarming degree. Men
who do not like the Republican party are
forced by the logic of events to recognize it
as the sheet-nnchor of the nation, and, low
ing country more than party, they will en-
list with its future fortunes as in 1861.
Year: 1878

WHEN President GRANT left Washington
in the summer to spend n few days at the
seaside there was instantly fearful howl
from the virtuous Democracy; but when
Speaker RANDALL leaves his chair in the
House of Representatives,, pending most
serious times to 20 to Pttsburg to attend a
Democratic convention, there is nothing
said.
Year: 1878

WHEN the true history Of these troublous
times is written, the men who first agreed
TO submit the Title contest TO the Electoral
Commission, and then repudiatcd their
agreement when the commission decided
against them, will be recorded as rebels
sgainst a law of their own making, rcvolu-
tionists against the principles of their Gov
eminent and traitors to their country.
Year: 1878

IT Is all very easy to scout nj the idea Of
tharacterizing the POTTER investigators as
rcvolutionists but, hoot and sneer Us they
will, the Greascrs cannot dispossess the
average citizen of the conviction that their
reputation of the Electoral Commission
compromise is anything short Of revolution
against legally enacted law.
Year: 1878

design is n branch Of art and not Of trade OF not
only of trade They show a considerable number
Of cabinets. tables sofas and chairs varying III pat


tern and in merit. The best of them are very good
the worst OF them not bad hs can be seen else


WHERE among s0mo Of the manufacturers OF Tot
tenham Court Road and Bunhill Row. The forms
of their cabinets are often elegant, the treatment
simple and there is evidence in most of the objects
you that good taste presided over the first drauRh


Of them Unuckily the commercial feeling seems TOO
often TO have elbowed the artistic feeling aside.
They used TO know when they had done enough
and when a thing ought to be let alone OF late
wears some of the sobriety of decoration which DIS
tinruishcd this firm has departed. You may see
cabinets of extremely elaborate form and extremely
elaborate ornamentation; panelsflled with gaudily-
coored figures aad the touch of the chlse and KNIFE
far too frequent too much beyelled glass at the
backs of open niches and the least important mem
Der of a piece Of furniture made prominent
and obtrusive. The cabinets are overloaded with
Oriental porcelain Of all qualities, from gOodto very
bad. Originality of purpose has, at times, been
abandoned in Difference to the prevailing passion
for Japanese work and | could point out cabinet
which looks like nothing much as medley OF
japanese trays; each well enough in tSell; the
form of the cabinet well enough also, but the whole
spOilt by wrong arrangement OF gOOd HatciLio'
As n rule, however, there is more restraint and
right sentiment in their work than in much OF the
work which may be seen hard by in similar style


Whatever their merits in other respects, MessrS'
CoInson & Lock have not yet displaced the
older London firms by superior solldlty OF WORK
manship. ] could tell you long story OF the ca
lamitles which bcfel one Of their customers some
years aeo: since when, to be sure they may nave
improved. ] know Of house they decorated
and furnished, where good deal OF the
work was 80 imperfect that 1t had TO DE
done twice over: where they pulled iire-places to
pieces 10 pat in decorative CRATES which filled the
rooms with smoke; where some of the furniture be
traycd its defects and repaired or renewed De-
fore the bill was paid; aud where more defects
have revealed themselves more gradually
for which no redress obtainabe. l
could tell YOU Of a dining table which broke
down in the middle with the weight OF ITS
dinner service; and Of many accidents neither
by food nor field but the result of using cheap ma
tenal and employing workmcu who seemed to have
chiefly at heart the interests Of their comrades who
were 10 be called into repair damages But hint OF
these catastrophcs must answer instead OF chap
ter; and, as / said have no means of knowing
whether they may not since have found 1t pay bet
ter 10 do better work. c. W =
Year: 1878

THERE is said to be but one railroad in
tho United States under Government
ownership, the Western and Ntlantic
which is owned by the State Of Georgia.
Is is 1877 miles long, and cost between five
and six million dollars, or over $4,000 II
mile. As long as tho State owned the
road it was an elephant on her hands, and
in 1870 the Legislature was glad to lease
Is to private company for $4,000 n
month during II term Of twenty years
These mcts are interesting in view of the
proposition offered in the Convention for
tho purchase and public management of
nll the roads in California, and also of the
generally forgotten resolution of the last
Legislature, declaring that the Govern
ment should own one .ranscontinontal
railroad.
Year: 1878

DoN'T point your gun Mt yourself.
Don't point your gun at any enc else.
Don't carry your gun so that its range IN
cludcs all your hunting companions.
Don't try to find out whether your gun
= loaded or not by shutting ono eye and
looking down the barrel With the other.
Don't use you gun for walking stick
Don't climb over fence and pun your
eun through muzzle foremost. Don't
throw your gun into boat so that the
trigger will catch in tho seat and the
charge be deposited into your stomach.
Don't use yorr gun for sledge hammer.
Don'tcarry your gun fall cooked. Don't
carry yen gun with the hammer down.
Don't be fool. Don't you forget it,
Forest and Sbc0a.
Year: 1878

The report is circulated that the friends
of ex President Grant will bring him for
ward for the United States Senator from
Illinois as a third candidate against Ogles-
ny and Logan, in case Of a deadlock. 1t
is not believed that either will stand
against him. II is also doubted if Grant
will allow his name to be used against
either. 1t is thought by some to be a
scheme for killing his Presidential nom
nation,
Year: 1878

Pittsburg Dispateh.l


The Roman matron is equaled by
the following sentiments contained IN
a letter received by a gentleman Of this
city. The writer is the wife of an en-
'inent lawyer Of Tennessee:


And now | shall ask you and your
good wife to rejoice with me that my
only boy, just man, is safe-sate
through all the dreadful pestilcnce in
the deadly air of Memphis, although
he stood bravely at his post, just as a
son of mine should.


That mother lived beyond the line
of danger, but yet she would not urge
her son to leave his neighbors in the
hour of trial, distress and suffering.
Her charity! Listen to it:


II believe this plague has made a
Universalist of me. l have seen men
in moment rise from the depths of
degradation and wickedness to Christ
like sublimity in devotion and sacri-
fee, and the most polluted of my own
sex suddenly changed into angels Of
love and mercy. Thus God teaches
us to scorn none of His creatures.
Year: 1878

A man in Bradford, England, has
been put under bonds to keep the
peace for sending out bellman to
proclaim that he would sell his wife,
Amelia. He rated her low, and her
condition would have been Amelia
rated in the event of a sale Boston
Transcript
Year: 1878

The other day fire was discovered
still smouldering in the basement of
one of the mills at Minneapolis, nearly
six months after the great catastrophe,
and after new and more extensive
structures had taken the place of some
of those destroyed.
Year: 1878

New YoRK Tribune: "The Memphis
telcgraphers stood by one another and
died at their post like heroes during
the weeks of plague. Out Of twenty
five men employed in the service eleven
died nine recovered and five escaped
but inasmuch as there were several
newcomers, only one man has had the
good fortune 20 hold his ground from
first to last. This man was Putnam,
and many long night while the fever
was raging he was the only man in the
operating room. The manager, the
operators and the clerks went dowr
one after another until he was the onl!
man left to cope with the cnormou
press of business"
Year: 1878

CONCERNING "BooK FARMING. .
A trite subject is brought to the fore
ground again and treated in this logi-
cal style by the Western Farm Journal, !,


A reading farmer, book farmer, is
simply he who avails himself of facts
already demonstrated by men ofthought
and practice, thus giving him greater
strength and capacity in life's work,
and saving to him the chagrin Of fail
ure and the loss of valuable time in
laboring to solve problems by himself
alone. And how shall this best be
done? Plainly by reading standard
books and well-conducted agricultural
journals, as well as by meeting togeth-
er and discussing methods of culture
and practice. The accumulated
knowledge Of the world should be uti-
lized as far as possible by each indi-
vidual.


Man is superior to the lower animal,
mainly from the fact that he can avail
himself of the recorded experiences of
others who have preceded him for his
guidance, and hence does not need to
commence at the bottom round of the

ladder each time The man who does
not avail himself of such opportunities,
signifies his willingness to be a slave
Of ignorance, to spend his life and
strength in vainly battling with ma
lures forces, which wiser heads have
learned to conquer in a far easier man
ner. The onward march of thought
and progress has cheapened every 9th
er production, has improved every
other manufacture. Why not admit
the invigorating life of investigation
and advance into agriculture?
Year: 1878

The LADIES' THROUGHOUT THE


COUNTRY are largely availing them


selves Of Wanamaker's immense facil-


tiles for helping them to do their shop
ping without leaving home. This


method is becoming as popular as it


is easy. One department in the "Grand
Depot is specially devoted to the cor
respondence which belongs to this
branch of the business. Hundreds of
letters and postal cards come in every
day, asking for samples Of goods, and
for prices. The moment letters arrive,
they are put into the hands Of clerks,
who at once proceed from counter to
counter TO obtain fresh samples Of the
goods mentioned in it. A card label
is affixed to each sample, mentioning
the price per yard, and the width Of
the goods. The samples are in all
cases sent off by the next mail, SO that
not moment is lost in getting them
to their destination. Ladies, on see
ing the samples and prices, are then
ready to order what they want, and
write accordingly. The orders are
filled by mail or express, as directed,
and with similar despatch. "Univer-
sal satisfaction" is the verdict of all
who deal in this way, and is the ex-
perience Of all, that the orders are as
faithfully filled as if a visit had been
paid in person. For the thousands Of
ladies who cannot conveniently leave
home, this is q great advantage. Write
to Wanamaker, Grand Depot. Phia.
Year: 1878

his hook 1t is dollars to buttons
that ''in the near future" he
will get bite. The bullhead is
democratic in all its instincts.
II the boys shirt is sleeveless,
his hat crownless, and panta-
looms a bottomless pit, the
bullhead will bite just as well
as we'll as though the boy is
dressed in purple and fine lin
en-, with knee breechers and
plaid stockings.


Y n


We have seen u bullhead lay
on the bank and become dry,
and to all appearances dead to
all that was going on, and
when u boy sat down on him,
and got u horn in his elbow,
and yelled murder, the bull
head would grin from ear to
ear, and wag his tail ms though
applauding for an eachore.


Tho hullhead never complains.
We have seen a boy take adult
knife and proceed to follow iish
limo down II bullhoad from his
head to his subsequent anatomy.
and all the timo there would be an
expression Of sweet peace on the
countenance of tho bullhoad, as
though no enjoyed it. five were
preparing u picture representing
"Rosignation," for y chrome 10
give to subscribers, and wished to
represent scene OF suffering, in
which tho sufferer was light
hearted, and seoming to recognize
that NIL was for the best, we should
take for the subject u bullhoad,
with q boy searching with u knife
for II long lost iish hook.


The bullhead Is Il fish that
has no scales but in lieu there
Of is u fine India rubber skin,
that is as far ahead of fiddle
string material for strength and
durability as possible. The
meat Of the bullhaad is not us
choice as that OF the maekerel
but it fills up Il stomach just
as well, and the SUN insists
that the fish commissioners
shall drop the raising of aris-
tocratic fish and give the bull
heads II chance. There s
millions in it. Peck.