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Year: 1878

In every feature but the hair, which
had grown white from fever. This lady
at 80 writes 81 have used Parker's Hair
Balsam for six months and am more
than pleased with it. 1t has restored
the natural brown color of my hair and
given it a silky softness, nicer than ever
before. There is no dandruff, no falling
hair, and it leaves the scalp so clean
and nice and coGi that l am ever so
much pleased, and feel and look like
myself again. Disinfectant properties
that enter chemically into this prePara-
ton render it healing, cleansing and
healthful, and the beautiful, fresh and
vigorous hair it produces, together with
its property of restoring the hair to its
natural youthful color, leaving the head
eatirely freed from Dandruff, clean and
healthy surprises no less than it pleases.
Buy a bottle from your druggists,
Sumpter & Stanley, and test its merits.
The Aged, Feeble and COnvalescent
Find just the help they need in the
health and strength giving properties of
Parker's Ginger tonic. This comfort
ing invigorant diffuses warmth and
vigor through the system, soothes the
nerves, banIshes melancholy and gives
strength and elasticity to the worn-out
frame. 1t is incomparably superior to
wines or liquors and does not intoXicate.
Every mother will not only comfort and
strengthen herself but Will relieve and
pacify her nursing babe by the free use
of this excellent tonic Buy a 81 90
bottle from your druggists, Sumpter &
Stanley, or a sample bottle at Is cents
and test its merits. dec6-eow
Year: 1878

Whatever may be the temporary
result OF the conflict in the East,
the end will be the expulsion of the
Turk from Europe and the establish
ing of Russian domination on the
Dardanelies. A new map of Europe
andWestern Asia is being made, and
the statesmen of the European ma
tions are much perpleXed over the
matter. The Gar at Constantine
pie means the control of West


ern Asia and Eastern Europe, aud
the awakening of the Mediterranean
from its slumber of ages, to become
the center-sf commerce OF the world


This is reason for alarm at the
Court Of St. James and cause fer
unrest at Vienna. Can England
hold dominion over the East Indies,
with the great giant standing with
one foot at Constantinople and
ready to put the other down in
Rome? These are questions grow
ing out of the present war between
Russia and Turkey, not understood
by the politicians. II the entire
plans of all these wise men do not
fail, other wise men of this and
other ages have not read history to
any great advantage. 1t is firmly
believed b. many that Russia will
yet be the most powerful nation in
the Old World; that she will have a
fearful combat at some time In the
near future with the neighboring
nations, which will convince them
of her power to rule; that meantime
a new Jewish Commonwealth will
spring up in the old Abrahamic
country, about which great strife
will arise between Russia and Eng
land, and that out of which conflict
the Jews will arise as the leading
nation in Western Asia and North
ern Africa and Europe.
Year: 1878

Place a coin in an empty basin,
aad then move back from it until
you can no longer see the coin over
the top of the basin. Stand quite
still, being careful not to move the
head while some one fills the basin
with water. AS the water rises,
the coin will come again TO view,
and when the basin is full will be en-
tirely visible.


Into a goblet halt filed with wa
ter drop a silver quarter; now place
a plate over the tumbler and turn IL
over very quickly. II now you look
into it from above the water line,
you will see your quarter on the
plate. but enlarged to the size of a
half dollar, while it will also ap
pear ID its natural size Just above.
Unfortunately when the water Is
poured out you will find only the
original capital left.
Year: 1878

1t would seem that not only is
the climate of Iceland growing so
cold that grain cannot ripen there,
but that Of Scandinavia and Western
Europe is becoming more severe.
This Is due, il is supposed, TO the
steady descent OF the ice of the far
North upon the shores OF Iceland.
II has been ascertained that the
temperature OF Greenland was once
much more mild than at present
Plants have been discovered In a
fossil state there which cannot now
present sign Of life. In the Allan
tic, also, ice has been found much
further south than formerly. Is an
other ice age slowly making its
approachS
Year: 1878

Don't kick a man when he is
down. 1t is mean, contemtible.-
Don't crowd Il fainting man to the
wall, give him a chance. Life is a
see-saw, now up, and now down, at
best. The man who flies high to-
day upon the borrowed pinions of
financial success, may tomorrow lie
low in the dust of defeat, and degra
dation suppliant for the smallest ia
vor. The man who is down to-day
may ride upon high tide tomorrow,
and kind friend, you who are so lib
eral in the use of your boot now
when fate refuses to smile and he is
headed down the incline, can you
blame him if he remembers you
when he gets up. Will he be any
worse than you if he pays you back
in kind? Such would be the way
of the world.
Year: 1878

The editor of the Dayton (Ohio)
Journal, who accompanied the
Hayes party in its tour through the
South, says: sit is much for the
colored people that the naughty
whites call them not 'niggers,' but
'colored people," This idea pre-
walls among the negroes. 1t is a
gross error, arising from false teach
ing. They are Negroes, and no
amount of nomenclature white wash


ing will make them Caucassians.
When they insist upon being called
something else than what they are,
they virtually acknowledge that
they are ashamed of their race-an
acknowledgement which true pride
would prevent them from making
even indirectly. Besides, in trying
to escape from their race designa-
tion, that they adopted title which
is a misnomer, a solecism for which
they may be excused on account of
ignorance, but there is no excuse
for the intelligent white people who
encourage them in it, and who know
better. They are not "colored peo-
ple." They are black, and black is
not color, but the absence of all
color. They are, therefore, really
no colored people. The true ad-
vice to them would be, to stick to
their race name. 1t can be a term
of reproach only because the race is
either inferior or degraded; and it
will cease to be so, in the first case,
when they prove that the race is not
inferior, or in the second, when they
lift it from its degradation.
Year: 1878

Full grown men are often taken
by the heels and slung out OF the
second story of the Office for viola
ting the following printing Office
rules:


Enter softly.


Shut the door.


Sit down quietly.


Never beg a paper.


Don't touch the type.


Subscribe for the paper.


Keep away from the devil.
Don't talk to the compositors.
Keep hands of the manuscript.
Don't attempt to read proof slips.
Year: 1878

The pencil marks you see around This
paragraph tthus) mean that your sub
scription is out or unpaid, and that you
are requested TO pay up at once. We
would take great pleassul,in extending
credit to our friends arla patrons, but
cash alone will Yay our Expenses, and
we are forced to adhere to a strict cash
rule We hope you viii comprehend
and appreciate the necessity Of such
course, and .renew your su scription
without delay. We solicit your favor.


IB- We enter no new names on our
books without the money in advance.
Year: 1878

THE plainest crcumstantial evidence, so
plain that IL carries conviction with it,
against TILDEN in the cipher-dspatch affair,
is TO be found in the fact that the cipher
used in the attempts to bribe the Southern
electors was the same he had previously
used in other affairs of more personal
character. and the samc,he used the other day
in communicating his lawyer in regard
to the forcible seizure and suppression of ac-
count books in Michigan. The Chicago
Tribune grasps this idea very forcibly, and
appcuds thereto the following conundrums ::


Isn't It strange that TILDES should have
loaned his nephew PELToS, his intimate friend
MARBLE, and his political factotum WEED, all
his cphers and keys thereto without SO much
as asking what use was to be made Of them
Is it comprehensive that these cipher dis
patches should come into TILDES's private
door during several days, and by the hundreds,
while he had in his head the solution Of which
he was the inventor, without his ever seeking
to know what they contained, even though
he was more concerned in them than any other
man on earth?
Year: 1878

THE Democratic committee in Louisiana
that hai ACKLES's case in hand were too
high toned and persistent in their moral
sense to he influenced in their action by
the white-wasIhing etiort of Governor
HAHN, Collector SMITH, and others who at
tempted to apply the brush to his dark
case. ACKLEN had to step down and out
OF the canvass. His mistake was in not
getting u certificate OF innocence from his
associates in this city.
Year: 1878

IT is said that gas stock recently fell
from live to seven points on the London
Stock Exchange by reason Of the announce
mcut that Mr., Edison had discovered how
to make electricity a cheap and practicable
substitute for illuminating gas The best
thing for gas companies to do to protect
themselves in future is to furnish an excel.
lent quality Of gas at remunerntivc rates to
the enterprise, and in this way much in'
centive to a change will be overcome.
Year: 1878

THE nomination of AVG. SCHELL rs
mayor of the city of New York by Tam
many Hall is not strong one, and can be
beaten il a wise policy is pursued by his
opponents. If they pool their strength
Year: 1878

AFTER all the dispatches, it is impossible for
the Republicans to CIPHER out the innocence of
JoHS SHERMAN or to figure up the result in
any possible way. without HAYES knowledge
Of and complicity in the stupcndous frauds by
which the Presidency was stJ.cn.-Ncr York
Express


1t is in this way that the Democrats are
struggling to break the force Of their fall
with TILDEN, their standard-bcarer, whose
tumble beneath mountain of cipher evil
dcnce of fraud is being accomplished. The
attempt to pull Secretary SHERMAN and
President HAYES down TO their level by
the cry of "stupcndous frauds is only a
matter Of public rdicWlc Both these states
men are far above the reach of this cry ior
the rcason that there is not n sciutilla OF
proof Of their completely with any fraud
Year: 1878

The mother-in-law has been attacked In
the New Jersey courts, where a man has had
the courage to sue her for a thirteen hundred
dollar board bill. 1t was contracted during
one of the short visits to see how Maria was
getting along. York Telegraph.
Year: 1878

To ask an unmarried lady how
old she is.


TO ask lawyer il he ever told
he.


To ask doctor how many pef-
sons he has killed.


To ask merchant ii he ever
cheated customer.


To ask subscriber il he has
paid tho printer.


TO ask q young lady whether
she would like beau.
Year: 1878

Hayes order to interfere with
this social coerciou. The order,
even with the new interpreta-
ton. is, therefore, a piece of
weak claptrap. A President who
wants to be boosted on so small
a matter would make q very re-
spectacle member of a Dorcas
society, but what are We to think
of him as q statesman?
Year: 1878

In styles Of binding notable for peculiar richness and ee'
gsnce design and finish invited 10 our collection IN ths
department OF literature The books have been Dound e
pressy for our own retail and the styles are not to be
found elsewhere
Year: 1878

The Chanccry case was submitted ae
the same time on briefs, to be afterward
filed, and has not yet been decided. /;


Both cases are expected to he taken to
the Supreme Court.


Mr. Gordon is q poor man, but knew
before he began that the policy OF the
railway company was to make litigation
expensive TO people who dared to assert
their rights against it before the courts.
and is not cowed By the prospect of q
long and hard fight.
Year: 1878

Early last summer the chronological
Commission, consisting of Professors
C. V. Riley, A. R. Grote, and j. Il.
Comstock, began a study of the cotton
worm which is likely to result in the
easy extinction of the pest. The cotton
plant is peculiar in having a gland on
from one to three of the larger ribs OF
the more mature leaves, and q still
larger gland at the base OF each OF the
three lobes of the involucre. AS soon
as Professor Riley learned that these
glands secreted sweetened liquid ne
inferred that the plant would be found
to furnish nourishment to the moth as
well as to the larvae, and drew attention
to this belief in the AtlantG Constitution.
Subsequently, in company with Protes-
sors Comstock and Willet, ho was able
to prove his anticipation correct by
studying the normal habits Of the moth
with dark lantern at night. The moth
is attracted to the cotton plant by the
sweets which the leaf affords; and as
these sweets are first produced when the
plant begins to flower and fruit,we have
here possible explanation of the well
known fact that the worm is never no.
ticed on the young plants, but first ap-
pears shout the time of fruiting. 1t was
also discovered that the cotton moth
feeds on the honey secreted from glands
occurring on the cow pea, extensively
grown through the South as forage
plant.


By taking advantage Of the moths
love ofsweet's Professor Riley believes
that it will be no hard matter to pre-
vent the ravages of the worm. He IS
now having experiments made to test
the effects of different poisons, mixed
with sweets, to use as bait. These bats
may be applied to the trunks OF the
dead pine trees that occur IN so many
cotton plantations, or TO trunks OF any
other trees, or they may be used IN pans
upon which perforated platforms OF
wood or tin are made to float.


After the eggs are laid and the worms
Matched the most effective cure is Paris
green.-Scsentifc american.
Year: 1878




Wednesday evening last between
nine and ten o'clock, when Conn
Mcclure, the Parish Jailor was re-
turning from the Jail towards home,
he was waylaid, set upon, and done
to death in the most merciless and
| fiendish manner ever heard of. The
Jail is about fifty yards from the
Court House, and Immediately in the
lear of it. From the indications, there
were two persons watching for him,
skulking around the Court House nm
der shelter; the tracks of the assas-
sin show that he expected Mcclure
to come directly along the side he
was stationed at but not doing SO,
he is supposed to have ran and headed
him off on the other side of the Court
House, and there, masked and under
cover of darkness, waited the coming
of his victim, who was unarmed,
walking quietly along unconscious of
danger. Immediately Mcclure came
to the corner, the deadly work began;
six shots were fired in rapid success
sion, evidently from n self. cooking
pistol, of about A calibre, and of
great force. Five of, the shots were
within diameter of six inches, i'm
mediately over the region of the heart,
and SO close to the victim that each
discharge showed powder burn on
his person. Mcclure was devout
Catholic aud carried his prayer book
in his left breast pocket; three of the
conical balls lodged in his prayer
book, aud SO great was the cOncus-
sion, that the whole imprint of the
book was left on his breast. It is
supposed there were two persons at
least engaged in the butchery, one
holding the victim while the other,
with vindictive iendishness, emptied
the entire contents of his pistol into
his body.
Year: 1878

There has never been as much mis-
erable twaddle on any political sub
ject in Lonisiana as has been wit
messed in some half dozen newspa-
pefs for the last six months, on the
convention question. Those favor
ing such a convention have disguised
every one whose mind was not fully
made up on that question and will
cause many to oppose call who 9TH
erwise might have favored it.-Thibo-
daitr Sentinel.
Year: 1878

Some of onr exchanges are very
anxious to have the State Capital re-
turned to Baton Rouge. As major
ity of the Representatives are nearer
New Orleans than any other city,
owing to the heavy population OF our
commercial metropolis, it saves mile
age to allow the capital to remain
where it is. and we do not see any
serious objection to it.-SRgar- Boaol.
Year: 1878

The war between the States of this
country, and the issue of four thousand
ntttttonS Of dollars inflated the trade Of the
10 hole 'oOrld and it is from this very
cause that all European nations are now
suffering in a somewhat similar way
that we are. A great war in Europe if
continued four or five years will Just as
certainly initiate us to some extent. We
are made up of people similar in tastes
and habits. But they may not put such
immense sums of paper money afioat as
we did ifthey do they will repuIiate it,
because they will be utterly unable to
nav.
Year: 1878

THE N. Y. Herald says: In the opinion
of Mr.. Wood the new tariff is constantly
gaining strength, not only in the House,
but in the Senate, and its passage this
session is certain. IL is only natural that
Mr.. Wood should take rosy view of the
situation
Year: 1878

A sensational Journal of the
black-mall kind, says: "Public
sentiment has experienced a re-
markable change of late, occa-
stoned by a fearless and faithful
exposition of the artful and cum
ming tricksters among tho mem
bers of the ring" The only ex-
positions made by that paper
are like those made by the mon
key in climbing a pole. A great
shower of vituperation has been
thrown to the public unaccom-
panied by a single fact Of public
concernment. Beyond mere ri
bald defamation the public are
as profoundly ignorant of who
or what the "ring" is composed
of, or what it, has done, as they
ever were, and quite as uncon-
scious Of any change of senti-
ment. "See what dust we
raise!" said the fly on the coach
wheel"
Year: 1878

promise to build the road on the
south side of the Columbia,
without any other guarantee or
alternative against forfeiture,
earnestly arguing that without
a concession of all that the com
pany demands, there is no hope
of q trans-cOntinental road for
either Oregon or Washington.
We certainly do not misrepre-
sent, and cannot misunderstood,
the position to be, to concede to
the N. P. Co. to the full extent
of it's demands.


Our position is this: We be-
licve that if Congress will grant
the extension on any terms, it
will listen rather to the voice of
the people than to the demands
Of company which has once
forfeited its franchises; and be-
lleving that the surest way to
secure the renewal Of the grant,
and at the same time hold the
railroad company to the bond, is
for the people of this section to
unanimously support the main
provisions of the Mitchell bill.
In that view, we support the bill
for the sake of the railroad, ear
nestly protesting against the
injustice Of robblng Washington
to build a railroad to Oregon.
So earnestly do we desire the
success of the railroad that we
are willing to accept 1t on any
terms, over any route, to any
points that may be determined,
having no fears of an ultimate
connection with Seattle. If the
measure is defeated it will be
owing mainly to the factious
opposition to MitchelFs bill.
Year: 1878

RAILROAD SUPERINTENDENT
We are glad to learn that the
report that Col. Black had been
superseded as Superintendent of
the N. P. Railroad between Ka-
lama and Tacoma, is not true
1t would be a matter greatly to
be regretted if it was. Colonel
Black is a railroad man Of large
experience and comprehensive
views; not constrained by mere
local interests and personal spec
ulations; in addition to which he
is a gentleman of high character
for integrity and fine social quail
tiles, without any "turkey-gob
bier strut in his department.
In all of these particulars he is
so different from any one here
tofore in the management of that
road, that the contrast is very
refreshing to the public general
ly, raising the hope that the
company is about to change its
policy towards the people of this
section; using their great pow.
ers for the promotion of the pub.
lie interests as we'll as their own
instead of for purposes of extor-
tiOn and oppression.
Year: 1878

been regarded, in the main, as
belonging to the members, to be
dispensed as patronage without
regard to qualification or public
Interests, and have been allotted
by bargain and division. We
held the office Of chief clerk of
the Council during one session,
and of a full corps Of clerks un-
der our direction, there was not
moro than one capable Of per-
forming the duties severally as
signed to them; which left us
no alternative but to do all the
service for which three clerks
drew full pay, or be dishonored
as the chief of the clerical force.
There is not an Act originating
in the Council during the ses-
sion, which is not on file in the
Secretary's Office in our hand
writing, fully prepared for pub-
lication without emendation.-
Not a sheet of the Council Jour
nal for that session, was prepar-
ed by any other hand than our
own. The engrossing clerk dur
ing the same session, Transcribed
no more than two or three short
bills, not to exceed one days
work for forty days pay. 1t
was not our duty to do any of
these things, but we regarded it
as an imperative duty, as the
chief clerk, to see that they were
done, and done properly. 9th
ers may take different view as
to where the responsibility rests;
but there can be no dispute as to
the improperly of quarterlng
upon the public treasury persons
incapable of rendering public
service. 1t is bad enough to
suffer mullets in the Legislature,
without employing mullets to
make up the record.
Year: 1878

When You have had success and
prosperity and social consideration.
if your success is turned into defeat
and your prosperity departs, and
your social relations are broken of,
learn how to stand sufficient in your
self without these things. Learn
first how to be q man by sympathy,
and then learn how to be man with
out sympathy.
Year: 1878

The major and myself had just been
conversing about old times, and towards
the close Of our chat we had occasion TO
laugh at court report which our friend
Endicott had put into our hands. Among
the papers was the return of u deputy
sheriff OF Norfolk County, upon the
back of writ which he had been called
upon to serve. Thus read the truthful
deputy's return:


II further certify that said - w
did willfully and maliciously OBJ
struct me in the performance Of my duties.
He called me an ass a dolt; an idiot; q
scoundrel; and declared that | would
steal the coppers from my dead fathers
eyes, all of which do positively, though
with pain, certify to be true"


If that.return was read aloud in court,
it must have caused something more
audible than u simple smile.


Endicotts papers reminded me OF the
enterpriSing farmer and stock-raiser, who
wrote u letter of thanks to the editor OF
an agricultural paper for his efforts in
behalf of their society, and also thanks
for having introduced new and improved
varieties Of swine and sheep. The edi-
tor had been absent from an agricultural
fair of which our farmer had been man
ager, and the latter wrote 10 him, in part,
as follows:


DEAR AND RESPECTED SIR.-"I was sor-
ry not to See you at our fair. Some grand
hogs of exactly your own species were
ON exhibition. Also saw big, long
wooled buck of your kind to dot. In
short. where there was such variety OF
domestic beasts, must say, ! was sur.
prised at not seeing you present l'-C.,
in Ne,o York LedQer
Year: 1878

A CURIOUS WAGER.-Perhaps one Of
the most curious wa9ers on record is one
that was made by two sporting men in
January, 1927. One of the above bet
twenty pounds to ten that of the first
thirty men who should pass a shop in
which they were to station themselves,
twenty would have at least one hand in the
breeches or coat pocket, and that fifteen
would have both hands so placed. New
street, Covent Garden, London, was Sc
lected for the place of scrunity, as, from
its having an extremely narrow footpath,
and being very public thoroughfaro, it
would afford the best example of the in
convenience of this prevalent custom.
The result of the examination was that
of the first thirty men who passed eigh-
teen hat both hands in their pockets, and
five others had one hand 70 situated, the
proposer Of the wager thus winning it
easily.