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Year: 1877

Unusal efforts are being put to:sh to
make the State Fair success. This
rear the A. cultural Association and
the Stock Breeders Association unite.
It will, probably. be the best that has
ever been held in the State
Year: 1877

Fruit dealers have been among the
worst sufferers by the railroad strike
The peach grower in Delaware, Mary.
land, and New Jersey were just ready
to send forward their crop when the
cars stopped running. The like was
true Of the fruit growers iu Southern
IlliQois.
Year: 1877

We have purposely refrained from
expressing any opinion on the case
brought before the commission sent
out from Washington for the pur-
pose of investigating the frauds al
legged to have been perpetrated i'm
the election of Senator Grover.


Now, however, that the commits
sion has concluded its labOrs, and
the evidence has been published, we
are freely to say that no man ever
underwent such an ordeal and
achieved greater triumph than the
distinguished gentleman against
whom the impeachment was organ
lied. Senator Grover was not only
proved guiltless of any attempt ut
bribery, but the very men upon
whose testimony it was hoped to
convict him were proved to be a
pack of worthless tools, ready to
trump up any charge i'm the hope
that they could make money out of
their perjury. Outside of Highly,
Styles, and a few other political
parasites, there were not a dozen
men in Oregon who actually believ-
ed that any illegal means were
used by Senator Grover to secure
his election.--POrtLdRd (Oregon)
Sentinel,
Year: 1877

Gen. Leduc, the Commissioner of
Agriculture, has for some time been
engaged in the consideration of inn
pOrtant matters affecting the sugar
interests of the United States, with
particular attention to the subject of
the increased growth of that staple
in this country. He believes that
there can be saving of more than
sixty millions of dollars year TO
this country by the production of
the sugar at home that is now inn
ported from abroad. The Commits
siOner is now in correspondence with
sugar planters and others i'm the
South and Southwest, and has also
received information from the grow
ers of sugar-beet in support of his
intention by endeavoring to decide
upon some manner for largely in
creased growth of sugar i'm the
United States. The general agree
ment of planters and others is that
there can be much heavier produc-
tiOns of sugar in this country than
there is at present, and all who have
communicated with the Commits
sioner on the subject avow their
earnest anxiety to give him all the
benefits of their experience on this
subject, and assist him in his efforts
wherever they can.
Year: 1877

A sEDATE old gentleman OF Fay
etteville, VINO Is rather skeptical Of
favorable Turkish war news, was
reading the dispatches Monday
evening. When he came TO the an
nouncement that the eclipse Of tho
moon at midnight stopped the fight
ing at Shiplha Pass, he threw down
the paper and pronounced the whole
thing " a blamed lie; for" said he,
everybody knows the moon rose
i'm eclipse just about dark. Those
heathen Turks may fool me on
things i don't know anything about,
but know that's Il blamed Turkish
lie" OF course nc never stopped 70
think Of the difference In the time
the eclipse would be visible here and
that far-Off country. We tried 20
explain TO him that IL would be seen
there, according to their time, at a
later hour than II was here. " NO
such thing" said he, "if there was
any difference il would have been
seen there first, for the moon comes
right by there TO get here. You
needn't talk to me; the whole things
blamed lie 20 And blamed
lie" il will be TO him until he -
convinced that the moon doesn't re-
-EdyetteriHe Express.
Year: 1877

Before the old Revolution, an old
Indian gave TO a man In Rowan
county by the name Of Beaver, on
COddle Creek, the following receipt
for curing n snake bite, or poison of
any kind. Beaver made the Indian
test the matter by permitting pois-
OnOus snake to bite his naked foot
twice. He then spread some Of his
ointment on the wound, put on his
shoes, went on with his work, and
experienced no further trouble.
Beaver kept IL n secret for long
time made money at IL. IL Is very
simple and ought to be widely
known. One pound Of fresh butter,
free from salt, melt 1t, put in yolks
Of the hen eggs, not the whites, stew
till brown; then add the same guam
tity of sugar as of the eggs, i'm iif-
teen minutes strain for use spread it
ON the skin where the poison ~, as
often as needful till q cure is effect
ed. The man who gave this 10 the
writer few months ago, was In
danger of having his leg amputated
now the surface Is healed over, and
the skin looks natural. He is
ploughing every day. Keep It ON
hand.
Year: 1877

We felt that they might be few,
For low was our fortunes level,
And heavy the winters grew.
But one who had no possessions,
Looked up to the azure dome,
And said in his simple fashion,
Dear friends we are going Home
The minds that for US made baser;
The paths so many choose,
The gifts the world had no place for,
The riches we could not use
The heart that when life was wintery,
Found summer in strain and tome;
With these to our and King, Country;
Dear friends we are going home"


Good night,


Your Afectionate


MYRoN REED.
Year: 1877

bonnie black hair hanging doom and
curling over the neck of it. An idler
ye ken, an idler that did little but read. j.


1t was aye boik. He was not to
ca very bonnie man, dark and strong
but uncommon inviting in his speech. ;"
That is the way he looks in this picture
which kind of providence has hung
formost my door. Good night.
Year: 1877

A COSMETIC. If 1t were not that
the American ladies were fair enough
already, 1t might he important to
them to know that bathing in asses
milk helghtens the beauty of the
skin. In the ancient days Of Rome,
Nero's wife had five hundred asses
mllkod daily in order to yield her a
cosmetic bath. Il you doubt this,
look the matter up yourself
Year: 1877

Our borough was visited yesterday By
Q pair Of strangers whose actions were,
to say the least, very suspicious. It is
probably no injustice to call them sharp
era" Their plan OF operation was to
step into stores and oanks with m ,ney
IN hand and ask to be Accommodated with
change generally wanting larger note
Tor several smaller ones. When an
obliging clerk or teller proceeded to
grant the request and handed out a
larger. bill, the stranger Invariably
wished some other kind OF bill if given
stiff, new note he wished an older one
and vsce uersa, pretending he wished to
send it in a letter or some other way


The design evidently is to get an oppor-
tnnlty to handle several notes and by a
skilful manipulation either pocket one
or substitute a bad note for a good one
We do not find any victim from yester,
days visit. 1t is good rule not t.
change money for strangers unless ape


cial care is exercised. 1t is thought tha'
these parties have been here before


Vest Chester Local Ne,os.
Year: 1877

THE OLD FERRY RoAD.-Since the
paving, by the city, OF the Old Ferry
Road, now New Castle Avenue in South
Wilmington. dispute has arisen in re-
lation to the right of the city to force the
property owners to pay for the work


Some of them insist that the road was
not condemned when it was taken into
the city, and that its admission within
the corporate limits is unlawful. To test
the matter the Auditor levied upon one
OF the properties, that of James Bennett,
and will sell it on the End of October, To
satisfy the lien for paving. The atfall
will then 90 to the courts for settlement
Year: 1877

AS the perfection of entirety depends
upon the perfection of minuti8, so no
one can hope for robust health OF the
entire system if the blood should become
in the least impure. Its standard OF
purity is, best maintained by the use OF
DR.. Bulls Blood Mixture.
Year: 1877

The hateILi9encer, of Romney, W. Va,
has this to say about the recent floods in
that section Of the country Never in
the memory of man has there occurred
such rise in the streams of Hampshire
county, w. Va, as by the recent food,
nor SO great destruction of crops and
fencing. So extensive has been the de-
struction that it amounts to calamity.
Along the South Branch scarcely shock
of corn or stack of hay remains the
whole valley is clean sweep crops
and fencing, and the embankments are
all broken and swept away. All the fat
cattle and other stock of every kind are
left on the hands of the farmers without
food, and probably not sufficiency of
ground; consequently the cattle must
be thrown on the market, or seek more
favored country for food


A dispatch from Moorefield, Hardy
county, says that the destruction by the
food in that county alone will reach
S400, 600. There are not thousand
shocks of corn in the valley of the
south branch of the Potomac. Farms
have been washed completely away. and
land that was worth 800 an acre is now
utterly without value The suffering
among the cattle is very great, and hun
dreds of farmers are ruined. The tor
rent reached from mountain to mountain
and was twenty feet deep.
Year: 1877

Postmaster James of New York, re-
Gently received the following letter, in
closing two three cent stamps:


'' l read story in paper of boy
who found stamp on letter that was
unsullied by the usual marks, and who
thought with great delight of using it
again. Conscience said, Have you
the right to use stamp which has done
its work, although neglect has made no
mark upon itp' Again the boy said,
Who will know anything about itp I
will not tell Conscience prieked him
we'll until honest convictions made him
understand he had no right to uss the
stamp. Strange that 1, who consider
myself honest, should twice have used
stamps which had done their duty, and
that had to read this story to make me
remember that honesty (even In the
smallest things is the. best policy. You
perhaps will laugh, and laugh you may,
at my sending back two staraps, but my
conscience has done its work. and l feel
easy"


The two stamps were forwarded to the
third postmaster-general
Year: 1877

A Michigan farmer. named Harris, has
had so many adventures with burglars
that he never dares to 60 to market, in
Detroit, without having q gun behind
him in his wagon. Soon after daylight
last Tuesday he saw something on tn
highway that looked like horse blanket
and while he was getting out of the
wagon TO pick it up man confronted
him and cried out "I was waiting for
you to come along" Without delay the
cautious farmer seized his gun and fred
O charge of bird shot almost in the face
of the enemy, who. retreated in great dis
order, screaming and yelling. The
farmer drove on very complacently,
thinking that he would have good
story for the Boys at the tavern, but
discovered few yards down the road q
broken wagon loaded with poultry. The
man whom he had stuffed with bird shot
was not q robber, but o small farmer
who had lost his horse blanket and gone
back to look for it, The repentant
marksman went back and tried to
comfort his unfortunate fellow-traveler,
and found him sitting on alog and count
ing the wounds some thirty or more.
Year: 1877

It is easier to blame than to do better.


If you wish to succeed in life, govern
your temper.


We love much more warmly by cher
ishing the intention of giving pleasure
than an hour afterwards when we have
given it.


If man be gracious and courteous to
strangers, it shows he is citizen of the
world, and that his heart is no island cut
off from other hearts, but continent
that joins them.


The last, best fruit which comes to
late perfection, even in the kindliest
soul, is tenderness toward the hard, for
bearance toward the unforbearing,
warmth of heart toward the cold, and
philanthropy toward the misanthropic.


In this world man is likely to get
what he gives. Mems hearts are like a
whispering gallery to you. If you
speak softly, gentle whisper comes
back if You scold, you get scolded.
With the measure you mete it is meas
ured to you again.


Cheerfulness is an excellent wearing
quality. 1t has been called the brighter
weather of the heart 1t gives harmony
to the soul, and is q perpetual song
without words. 1t is tentamount to
repose. It enables nature to recruit
strength whereas worry and discomfort
debilitates it, involving constant wear
and tear.


The greatest man is he who chooses
right with the most invincible resolution,
who resists the sorest temptation from
within and without who bears the
heaviest burdens cheerfully who is the
calmest in the storm, and the most fear
less under menaces and frowns whose
reliance on truth, on virtue and on
heaven is most unfaltering.
Year: 1877

Miss Peale, the daughter of James
Peale, tells this story of the punctuality
Of Martha Washington My father had
an engagement to paint miniature of
Mrs. Washington in Philadelphia, the
general being then out of town. He was
obliged to go to her house, and the ap-
pointment for first sitting was ar
ranged for seven o'clock in the morning.
My father arrived at the house, and
taking out his watch he found he was
exactly on time. The thought then
struck him that possibly it might be to
early to disturb a lady, and he decided
to give ten minutes grace before knock
ing at the door. He accordingly walked
the pavement, and at the end of ten
minutes pulled out his watch and rang
the bell. He was ushered into the
parlor, and Mrs. Washington accosted
him, drew out his watch, and said she
had given her orders for the day, had
heard her daughter take her lessons on
the harpsichord, and had read all the
morning papers, and after oil this had
been waiting for him tep minutes.
Year: 1877


Ha here you come to make us wheeze;
/ see your fingers on the trees,
And heard your equinoctial sneeze


Last Monday evening
You'll soon be here to NIP my toes,
And paint my cheeks with sunset glows,
And fresco this old chin and nose


With blue and purple
l hear you've been-yOu rowing fellow =
Among the Polynesians yellow,
And soaring with your fearful below


The Australasians.
You're getting rough l fear you pass
Your time too much with Boreas
And that star-mantled Gypsy lass,


The dark-eyed Solstice.
Old friend, together many year
We've iourneyed on through foul and clear
So now, good comrade, give an ear


To my petition
Soften thy cruel northern blows;
In cold Arcturus leave thy SHOWS;
pray thee gently come to those


Who have no shelter.
Oh ! touch them kindly kindly deal
With those who most thy rigors feel;
In tattered legions here they kneel,


And crave thy mercy.
The times are hard, and work there's none;
oh, give them oft CLEAN Of sun
Remind them Of that gentle One


Who loved the lowly.
Bluster around the rich mans door;
Make him unlock his golden store,
Each year increasing more and more


His deeds Of kinuness.
Roar round the miser till he quakes;
Nip him and strip him till he shakes;
Freeze and squeeze him till he makes


A big donation.
Let those we love, though they abide
Far from us now, come to our side
Happy and well at Christmastide,


And we will bless thee
Year: 1877

The Nation accuses the present South Carolina legislature of acting in open hos Y to the public school system. establish cd m that state. We hope future legisla- turss will show more patriotism and more sense. In state where more than half the legal voters can neither read or write, a good system of common school educa- ton is the only hope.
Year: 1877

The New York Tribune favors an in- crease of the regular army, in view of the collapse of the local militia and the inadequacy of the local police in the recent riots. Is it likely that another or- ganized insnrrection like that which has just failed will be seen, in this country, for generation, at leastf It is a most significant fact that New York. with it's immense unemployed population. had nothing to do with this affair. They have not forgotten the draft riots of '63
Year: 1877

HALsEY.-There has been great calm
In this vicinity since the lecture at the Lake
Creek sehool-housc. The corset strings be-
came relaxed so that all hands could take
in more than the usual quantity of the at
mosphere, was the cause of it; but we look
for storm soon.
Year: 1877

Judge F. NJ. Miller and wife left us the
first of the week for Lebanon, where they
will take up their residence for the future.
The Judge will take charge of the Semi
nary there and will also practice law should
occasion require.
Year: 1877

HELP THOSE VINO TRY TO HELP THEM
sELyEs.-Mrs. Day Is prepared to do all
kinds of plain sewing, and as she has only
her labor to depend upon for livelihood
and for the support of her children, she
asks the kind people of this city who may
have work which they wish done to give
her trial. This is a case which should
interest all our benevolent disposed citizens.
Let any who have work Of this kind which
they wish done take it to Mrs. Day.
Year: 1877

1t was rumored through political circles OF Brook


yn yesterday that attempt had recently been made
by several well.known republicans Of that city to
pribe one of the of the Board Of
Aldermen to secure tho Boards confirmation of the
republican Mayors nominees for the Commissi
shp II s said TINT several prominent leaders Of tho
republican party IN recent private conversation have
expressed great surpriso at democratic members Of
tho Board voting so unitedly at their meeting last
Monday The sum of $l2,0 900 Is mentioned tho
amount of money offered. IL Is also rumored that the
attention OF Grand Jury will be called TO the mat
Year: 1877

The Board of Railroad and Warehouse
Commissioners of this State have arrived at
what seems to be most unrighteous de-


cision in the barley case recently submitted


to them. The owner Of receipts for about


10000 bushels Of No. 2 barley in the Galena


Elevator finds that the grain is NO better than


the No. 3 in other houses, and asks for


redress. He is coolly referred to the ware


houseman for damages. Inasmuch as the


State law expressly forbids the warehouse


man to interfere with the inspection of


grain, it is hard to see how he can be made
responsible for the delivery Of good grain in
place of the poor stuff which has been mis-
graded by a bungling or careless State Off
cial. The absurdity of such a decision is
only equaled by the statement that the
warehouseman has remedy in an action
against the Inspector and his bondsmen.
The Board ought to know that it is prac-
tically impossible to collect damages from
the Inspector. Meanwhile the holder of
the property, who bought it in good faith
and paid full prices for it, is obliged to stand !
the fOss ~
Year: 1877

As an indication of the revival of trade and
steady increase in the volume of business,
the advertisement pages of this mornings
TRIBUNE may be introduced in evidence.
An established newspaper not only reflects
the political and social sentiment of the
community that supports it and recognizes
its influence, but also the most delicate vari-
atoms of its business interests. The paper
becomes the pulse Of its constituency,
and its columns illustrate with rigid
accuracy the extent of embarrassment
or prosperity which the various lines of
industry or mercantile endeavor reach. 4
glance at THE TRIBUNE of to-day will en-
courage the people Of Chicago to believe
that their hopes for the infusion Of new life
into all the channels Of trade are about to
be realized. Every branch is represented in
the myriad Of advertisements spread before
the reader, and The TRIBUNE congratulntes
the people upon their manifestation Of en-
terprise, aud pledges itself to assist in all
1audakle undertakings. II
Year: 1877

SHALL THE COUNTY BOARD BE REOR-


GANIZEDf


The defeat in the House Of Representa-.
hves of the so-called HICKEY bill for the
reorganization Of the Cook County Board
does not indicate, we hope. an intention to
defeat any and every measure that may come
before the House for the same purpose.
There we're objections to certain features of
the House bill which may have been suffi-
cient to kill it, in view of the fact that q
better bill on the same subject had reached
third reading in the Senate. The H1okEr
bill Ind been loaded down by an amendment
requiring the question of recognizing the
Board to be submitted to the people Of Cook
County at special election This Was a
supezduous and unnecessary condition, The
taxpayers of Cook County are almost a unit
IN desiring and demanding reorganization
OF the Board, and such provision won1d
only give the present Ring, having tue power
to appoint the election Judges, an. opportn,
nifty to defeat the taxpayers BY 1narsbalinp
the bummers and stufbng the ballot-bo1es.
The proposition for reorganization might
oe defeated in much the same WAY rs
the new City Charter was carried two veara
ago at special election which the bummers
controlled. Indeed, the date fixed bY the
bill for such special election would have been
exceedingly favorable to the Ring. It won1d
De difficult to arouse the business men of thu
caty or the woskingmen of the country dis
tr1css to an interest in special election in
me middle Of July,-the dog-days; large
proportion Of the city taxpayers most inter
ested in the reorganization of the Board
would be OF summe1ing; and the country tar.
payers would be engaged in their vegetable
gardens and hay-fe1ds. Still another obiec.
ton to the H1c6Er bill as finally voted on
was, that it would not 80 into operation till
year from next fall, instead of next fall, as
the people desire it. The bill provided that
the question of reorganization should not be
submitted to the people until July II, and it
would not be operative till after being &C.
eepted By the people. But the Constitution
provides that all new laws, unless provided |
With the emergency clause, shall not 20 into
.ftect TIL the July following their adoption.
This law, then, would probably not have
'nabled the people to eleota new Board till
November, 1878, and would have extended
no power Of the present Ring year md
lalf longer.


We prefer to believe that the failure Of tho
Year: 1877

Brother MOODY is still throwing shot at the
Boston Bohemian pachTderms Already frag-
meuts Of old-fashioned underclotbing begin to
appear and shred of. He will get where they
live after while.
Year: 1877

lace and yet Is SO flexible, so soft, aud SO charm
ingly suitable for the purpose it is designed to
serve.


have ovcrwritten my time already and have
not said one word about the lovely hats and
bonncts that have seen th1s week. Next week
l shall not prove so remfs6. MATTE S..
Year: 1877

The inauguration Of President Hayes
80 fully occupied our columns, yesterday
morning, that We did not say as much aS
we otherwise might have done, in regard
to the address which our new Governor
delivered on the assumption OF his Office.
And we are the more ready to return to
tho snbjec, because we wish to express
our great qualification with the general
tone otthe Governors speech. One would
almost imagine that ne aud President
Hayes : had been comparing notes,
SO close is the resemblance between the
spirit breathed by the utteranceS oil the
two men. Governor Mathews has dis.
tinctly proclaimed his purpose to play
thePart Of patriot and not OF parti.
IAN. We cheerfully concede to him an
honest intention 30 to do, and we earn.
estly hope that he will be able fully to
put his intention into execution. The
country is Just now anxious to have pub.
lie men who are animated by such feel.
ings; and it will be very apt to say well
done to those Of them who by their acts
sustain such a character.


We we're particularly pleased to notice
that the Governor did not join in the cry
which his party has raised against the
integrity of the majority Of the members
of the la,e Presidential Commission. OF
the words which he spoke un that sub.
iect, he will not have cause to be ashamed.
He did well to leave it to time to decide
upon the merits Of the condnrt OF the men
who composed that body.


1t will be greatly to the comfort o! our
new Governor that, as State, we are
Tree from those local disturbances which
have 20 widely prevailed at the South.
He has no hard nuts just now to crack.
We hope that when he leaves the chair Of
State, at the end Of his term, the whole
people may testify that he has been faith =,
iul to the spirit OF his inaugural.