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Year: 1877

Fame ana DUTY.
What shall do, lest life in silence pass7


"And il it do,
Aud never prompt the bray Of noisy brass,


What need'st thou rue7
Remember aye the ocean deeps mute


The shadows roar.
Worth is the ocean; fame is but the bruit


Along the shore"
What shall do to be forever known?


"Thy duty ever"
This did full many yet who slept unknown.


40 never, neverl
Think'st thou, perchance that they remain unknown


Whom thou knowst not7
By sngel trumps in heaven their praise is blown


Divine their lot"
What shall do, an heir Of endless life7


discharge Alright
The simple duties with which each day is rife.


Yea, with thy might.
Ere perfect scheme Of action thou devise


win life be fed,
while he who acts as conscience cries


Shall live, though dead"


tFrom the German Of Schiller
Year: 1877

Is prepared from the true Jamaica Ginger, combined
with choice aromatics aud genuine French Brandy,
and is vastly superior to every other Extract or Es-
sence Of Ginger before the public, all of which are
prepared with alcohol by the old process 1t instantly
Year: 1877

DIR hleGAnuer COckDutn were among Tue
distinguished company.


The Prince Of Wales, referring 10 Gen
Grant In the course Of his speech, said
On the present occasion It Is matter Of
peculiar qualification TO III Englishmeu
TO receive Us our guest General Grant


Cheers. can assure him for myself
and for all loyal subjects Of the Queen,
that II has given us the greatest OF pleas.
ure to see him as guest in this country.


Cheers.


General CarVanon proposed the health
OF the visitors, and coupled with ii Gen.
Grants name, General Grant replied
that he felt more impressed than he had
possibly ever felt before on any occasion.
He came here under the impression that
this was Trinity House and that the
trinity consisted Of the army and navy
and peace. he thought It was place Of
quietude, where there would be no talk
or toasts. He had been, therefore, nat.
urally surprised at hearing both. lie
had heard some remarks from His
Royal Highness which compelled him to
say u word. In response he begged
10 thank His Highness for the remarks.
There had been other things said during
the evening that were highly gratifying
TO him. Not the least gratifying was ii
to hear that there were occasionally in
this country party iightS as well as in the
United States. He had seen before now
war between three Departments oi State
the executive, the judicial and the legis.
lative. He had not seen the political
parties Of England go 50 far as that. lie
would initiate their chaplain, who had sci
a good example Of oratory, and that was
shortness, and say no more than simply
thank His Royal Highness and company
in behalf Of the visitors,
Year: 1877

The Monroe county, ". Va, Register
comes to the rescue OF Mr.. G. W. Akin.
son, Of Charleston, Deputy Collector oI
Revenue, for his alleged report to the
Commissioner OF Revenne at Washington
concerning certain counties and persons
in that district in connection with illicit
distilIing and counterieiting. II first
proceeds to show that there has been q
great deal Of talk floating around in the
country visited by Mr., Atkinson and his
coadiutors during the raid, and that they
naturally heard and credited great deal
OF ii. His report on the subject
to the Government was in the
nature Of a privileged communication
written in confidence, not to injure any
body, but to post the proper officer 30
that he could better understand the stu
alton. The Commissioner did very
foolish thing when he permitted any por.
ton Of Mr.. Atkinson's reporIto be made
public. II he has not wisdom enough to
protect his employees when they make
such disclosures to his office he Is certain
ly not the man for the place.


From all the iacIs that have come out
we doubt not that Mr.. Atkinson'B report
did great injustice to many persons, and
particularly to the editor Of the Hinton
Herald, and we are sure that he must re-
gret his hasty judgment and iniudi'
cious communication At the same time
the real injury done by the report wa.
not done by Mr.. Atkinson, bur by the
Commissioner Of Internal Revenue when
he permitted ii to be read and published
by the Washington correspondent OF the
Cincinnati Commercial. II every subOr.
linate officer ofthe government should be
treated in this way by his superior they
would soon find themselves in u nice mess
Of trouble. The secret service would be.
come Ineffective and whisky ring5 could
be formed with imrunity. The most
careful employee can not always be cor
rect in his information. lie may at
times be on the wrong scent and do great
injustice TO persons whose goCG
names would greatly suffer by
the publication of his suspicious. W,
therefore seriously fault the head oliict
Of the Revenue department at Washing
ton for the injustice and injury that ha
been done by the publication Of Mr.. AT
kinson's report. The blunder is gros
enough to warrant proper rebuke from
the President or Secretary Of the Treas
ury,
Year: 1877

One thing that gives interest to the
battle of Bennington is the fact that it
was the first land victory under the stars
and stripes as the national flag. This
flag had been adopted by Congress on
the 14th of June of that year, primarily
for the navy, but the army had already
received it as their emblem also; and the
continental regiment of Seth Warner
carried it in their fight on the 7th of July
at Hubbardton, Vt, with the advanced
guard of Burgoyne's army-the only
battle of civilized men ever fought on
the soil of Vermont-but Warmers men
were repulsed only to appear five weeks
later, under the same flag, in the very
nick of time to help win the battle OF
Bennington, which was fought, as almost
everybody knows, not on Vermont, but
on New York soil. The flag has been
our flag for just 100 years. Long may
it wave. "-SprinQfeid Republican.
Year: 1877

The Liberal ladies of Utah will re-
member that they are called upon to
bestir themselves tomorrow equally
with their Mormon sisters, who support
this blighting theocracy with servile and
unintelligent votes. They must not let
domestic cares keep them away from the
polls. Carriages will be sent to every
precinct, and few minutes service is
no great oblation to make to the cause
of progress and reform. The Mormon
sisters are drilled into voting as the
Bishop directs them (obey counsel and
ask no questions). Our sisters who en-
JOY liberty of action will certainly not
be willing to stand still and lend no aid
to their struggling brothers. Sail Lake
Tribune.
Year: 1877

One drunk was the only case before
the Mayor this morning.


Why don't the lamp committee attend
to having the lamps lighted? No lamps
were burning in the neighborhood of
Sixth and Poplar, last night.


Sixty dodgers sought refuge at the police
station last night.


Mills & Coombs are selling coal as
cheap as any other dealers in the city.


Skating to-day at the park.


Six colored, and three white men broke
out of Dover Jail last night. AS can be
seen by our special, the Sheriff offers a
eward for their capture.
Year: 1877

BY the best physicians we have been
told,
That it cures every case of cough and
cold,
And that by druggists it is always
sold,
For but quarter to the young and


DR.. Bulls Cough Syrup.
Year: 1877

Last evening as party of young men
We're shedding on King street, from
Twelfth to the Brandywine, their sled
ran into the bridge, hurting j. Porter in
the back, and a man by the name OF
Smith had his left knee very badly hurt.


On Eighth street hill, between French
and Walnut streets. George Graham ran
into lamp post and sustained a very SER
ious cut in one of his limbs.
Year: 1877

From this date we have reduced the price
OF


HANGING WALL PAPER
as follows Unglazed or blank paper redu-
ced from 18 to 10 cents rer piece; glazed or
satin paper reduced from u to 20 cents per
piece all other qualities reduced in proper
ton.


the past twenty years, and trust that with
my practical knowledge and personal su-
pervision the busidess will be so conducted
that 1t will be mutual interest for you to
continue your patronage


We have hopes that on or before March
25th we will be able to reduce prices in the
material department, as well as at present
in the work department.


Yours very truly,


JOHN r. HOLT'
jani-tf 223 Market street.
Year: 1877

An investigation in regard to the death
of child in New York recently showed
that the tenement-bouse where it died was
occnnied by ninety. nine families. or about
FIVE hundred people. The house is small
one. and whole families were maintaining
their wretched existence in a single room.
Year: 1877

WASHINGTON, March ll.-Gov. Penn
and other prominent I,ouisianians here
expect that after the adjournment Of the
executive session Of the Senate the Presi-
dent will order the troops Withdrawn from
the State House without delay. These
Louisiana conservatives say that 80 far
as they have been able TO ascertain the
sentiment Of the several members OF the
Cabinet, there will be no dissenting voice
to such policy.


The theory Of the Conservatives is that,
upon the withdrawal OF the troops, the
adherents Of Packard will Immediately
abandon him, and that the entire Pack
ard State Government will disappear;
that the legally elected members OF both
the Packard and Nichols Legislatures
will then assemble and make new Leg.
islature, in the Senate OF which there
will be one Democratic majority,1while
in the House there will be a tie. That
this Legislature will then elect one Re-
publican and one Conservative 10 the
United States Senate, and that the diff
culties Of the Louisiana situation will
then disappear.


Assurances Of the most binding nature
have been given by the Democrats that
when the troops are taken from the
State Houses in New Orleans and Colum.
bia there shall be no violence or out.
break OF any kind. The understanding
here is that the troops will certainly be
ordered from the State House into the
barracks at very early day.
Year: 1877

There is report in circulation to.
night, that the appointment Of Public
Printer, will be given to Northern
newspaper publisher, whose name Is not
stated, but is said 10 reside in Iowa.
Year: 1877

A meeting of the city Democratic Asso-
citation was held in the Friendship Engine
House last evening. The attendance was
large and business of interest to the party
was transacted. The members of the As
sociation are determined to make good
fight In the September election.
Year: 1877

PROPERTY OWNERS md RAPID TRANSfT.


The secretary OF State, Mr. William n. Evarts, saia
yesterday had heard nothing OF a conference to be
held between him ana certain sixth avenue property
for the purpose OF taking counter.
act the effects OF the decision lately by the Court
Of Appeals In the matier OF rapid transit was pos.
plating some steps In that direction. but
had had consultation with him. IL s certain how.
ever that several impulsive residents of SIKH
striving hard to arouse public sentiment against
rapid transit ana especially the Gilbert roa but their
efforts do not appear TO DO particularly successful.
Year: 1877

A boy named Frank Hanafn, who had
been injured in a saw-mill the other day
was supplied with a new skin by taking
pieces from the arms of eight or nine
other boys A large and ugly wound
was made on his back, the surface being
one mass of red, quivering flesh, though
healthy in appearance. The wound, Of
course, was very sensitive, and the oper-
alton must have been quite painful tc
him. Drs. Picot and Maynard and an
assistant performed the operation Six
or eight Irish boys were gathered around
the bed, from eight to fifteen years OF
age, from whose arms had been taken, OF
was to be taken, the skin needed to re-
place that which was lost.


AS each boy was called on by the doc
tor, he came forward and barring his arm
a small piece of skin was skillfully cut
out with the lancet, and gently placed
upon the raw flesh. About thirty pieces
in all were so put on. Several of the
boys gave up more than one piece, and
Folger Picot, the doctors son, contribu-
ted eight pieces. A younger brother of
Hanafin gave nearly as many.


While the operation was going on, the
boys joked among themselves on helping
to make up Hanafn, and bantered each
other on the number of times they had
submitted to be cut for the benefit of
their playmate. The boys were general
ly very willing to give the skin required
but after awhile they evidently began to
think that enough was as good as a
feast, and moved out of doors, watching
operations through the window 1t is
thought, however, that enough will con
sent to give skin, so that Hanafin' S
wound will be entirely covered over,
thus Fastening his recovery, and adding
to his comfort when the wound shall
have healed.
Year: 1877

Matthew Arnold, in reply to certain
invectives against popular Christiani-
ty," employed by Prof Clifford and 9th
er free-thinkers, says: But these are
merely the cracking fireworks Of youth
full paradox One reads it all, half sigh
ing, half smiling, as the defamation of
clever and confident youth, with the
hopeless inexperience, irredeemable by
any cleverness, of his age. Only when
one is young and headstrong can one
thus prefer bravado to experience, can
one stand by the Sea of Time, and in
stead of listening to the solemn and
rhythmical beat of it's waves, choose to
fill the air with ones own whoopings to
start the echo. But the mass of plain
people hear such talk with impatient in
dignation, and flock all the more eagerly
to Messrs. Moody and Sankey. They
feel that the brilliant free-thinker and
revolutionist talks about their religion,
and yet does not know either that, or
the great facts of human life; and they
go to those who know them better And
the plain people are not wrong. Com
pared with Professor Clifford, Messrs.
Moody and Sankey are masters of the
philosophy of history. Men are not
mistaken in thinking that Christianity
has done them good, in loving it, in
wishing to listen to those who will talk
to them about what they love, and will
talk of it with admiration and gratitude,
not contempt and hatred. Christianity
is truly, as in Literature and Dogma |
have called it, the greatest and happi-
est stroke ever yet made for human per-
lection. Men do not err, they are on
firm ground of experience, when they
say that they have practically found
Christianity to be something incompara-
bly, henefcent" "
Year: 1877

"The cause Of education be hanged" +"
he muttered, as he sat down on the
curbstone, on Shelby street, yesterday.


He was lad of 13. He spat through
his front teeth, and spat often. His
pants were supported by piece of wire
clothes line, girted around his waist, his
hat was ancient and greasy, and his big
fat feet seemed TO be waiting for a
thunder shower to wash them clean.


That's what ails mel" he went on,
as he pushed his toes into the wet
sand.


81 don't believe in feller difing in
and learning all there is to learn, and
not letting other folks have a chance.
There is lots of other folks in the world
besides me, and | amt going to be hog
and try and learn all that there is to
learn"


After minute he went on:


Dont't know 'nuff now? Three times
two are six, four times five are twenty
and four and four are eight That's as
correct as | could get EN- if l went to
school for a hundred years. And don't
know how to spell? Cat is cat the
world over, and I'll bet on it every time
Hen spells 'hen,' and l know it as well
as if | weighed ton"
He rose up to throw stone at dog
across the street, and, after resumine
his seat, he went on:
Year: 1877

A tender-hearted man out on Oak
street, who had dog that was eating
him out Of house and home, gave the
animal a pint of laudanum, to kill it.
And the dog chased cows, and children,
and sucked eggs and killed chickens all
afternoon, as usual, and at eventide the
tender r-hearted man supplemented the
dose of laudanum with some 81 grains of
morphine. Then the dog lay down to
sleep, and he dreamed that he was a
ditching machine operating on the Tex
as Pacific Railroad, and had a whole
mountain range to level before October,
and when the tender-hcarted man arose
one morning, he was horrifed to see that
the Hell Gate explosion had just got as
far as his garden, and just as he counted
the nineteenth hole that was big enough
to bury a COW in, looked up and saw the
faithful dog escorting runaway horse,
part OF a grocery wagon and long
bill of damages, down the neighboring
street
Year: 1877

| hold the deepest and most unquali-
fed respect for any person who is habit
ually cheerful.


Though he be plain to uglincss and
ignorant to boorishness, or though he be
as poverty stricken as the proverbial
Jobs turkey" if he is naturally and
thoroughly and heartily cheerful, he has
more of the true principle of earthly
happiness than was ever extracted from
the mines of Ophir


Under Dickens pen the irrcpressible
Micawber becomes hero and philoso-
pher, not from any marked achievements
of talent, but purely from the mans su-
preme ability to face the most huniliat-
ing reverses with the same serene, un
ruffled exterior.


What sugar is to coffee, so is cheer
full man to the neighborhood in which
he lives. While the society of which he
is only single member is self-sustain-
ing and independent without him, it is
much the better for being generally fla
vored by his influence. And who does
not know all about the world of good "
it does us, when score of small annoy
ances set in tide against us, to hear
the hearty laugh and look into the
wholesome face of our cheerful neigh
Dor.


A talented author once said that "a
cheerful disposition was more essential
than talent" a sweeping assertion, but
who admires talent in human porcu-
pine? Soundly sensible people prefer
less talent and more geniality.


The man who entertains you for an
hour with statement of his colds and
his headaches, his losses and crosses, and
ends with an excruciating report from
the dyspeptic locality, is invariably a
sullen, grumbling misanthrope.


Beyond a doubt laughter is healthy
Whenever we are thoroughly pleased,
we are, in measure, nourished Hence
the old maxim; Laugh and grow fat. !"


All really healthy people are likely to
be good humored and good humored peo-
pie are quite as likely to be strong in
spirit.


Kind words and smiles and genial
greetings and good wishes, are seeds
that thrive and bear fruit each after it's
own kind.


Cheerfulness is like the widows mea-
sure of meal, the more spent the more
remains, and both the receiver and giver
are enriched.
Year: 1877

The Springfield Qll) Journal publish
ed an anonymous communication, saying
among other things ''And when the
Springfield Reds go off on trip to play
bal, for the sake of the reputation of
the city, the Board of Directors should
see to it chat two or more of the club
are not allowed to go off in the company
of improper characters. The Directors
of the club thereupon met and formally
demanded that the paper shall either re
tract, substantiate the charge, or give
the name of the author. The Journal
accordingly retracted by an exactly con
trary statement, 81 that the Directors
shall see to it that the boys are allowed
to go off, etc, and now the Directors
are madder than ever.
Year: 1877

The philanthropic Hamheye says
Careless, thoughtless man, you can do
ever so much good in this sorrow strlck-
en- old world if you would. You can
bring flush of pleasure to the homeli-
est woman that ever wore pimples on
her nose, by saying to your friend, in a
stage undertcne: "What lovely eyes
that girl has" She might know you to
be liar; but she would always grateful
ly remember you as Christian gentle
man.
Year: 1877

Sir" writes Cupid to the .Sm, Il
have two lady friends whom | love
about alike, and would like to keep COM
pany with one What would you advise
me in doing?" We would advise you,"
replies the matrimonial editor, to give
up all idea of keeping company with any
girl until you have sense enough to make
up your mind which one you really love-"
The matrimonial editor is little hard
upon Cupid" There are such num-
ber of lovely girls in this world that it
is often difficult for a fellow to know
which is the one. We should say that
neither of these fair ones with the gold
en- locks was "Cupid's" affinity. When
the right one comes along he will know
it by fxedness in his right eye, a feel
ing of weight just over the place where
Holeman's pads are generally worn, an
emptiness about the epigastric region, Il
tendency to signing and walking alone,
and an insane desire to spend all his
money on jewels and ice cream. Gu
pid hasn't got it. Let him hold on Il
spell Evadne Evalina de villa France
will yet appear
Year: 1877

1 and make che proverb partially true. Az
the frat be lived with his sorrow, ana
never parted from his remembraucs. 1t
followed like o shadow on his footsteps,
and chung to him, closely covering him
like garment. He thought that he
shonld never shake himself free from it;
bat absence and time wrought their bene-
fetal Influences, and he grew calmer as
the wound healed over and tho mirror OF
remembrance waxed dim. He dare not
return. Deep down 10 his heart there is
the old sore, if specifically skinned over,
ee that it is no longer active, and he is not
as of old hourly conscious of its exist
ence But let bin touch it ever so lightly
with the finger and the pain returns
let him picture to himself tho meeting, the
eyes that once looked toto his SO tenderly,
the smile wherein he found his hope aud
his joy, the voice that was his music. the
personality that was his shrine, and he
knows that to go back would be destiuc-
ton; bat he can live as be is, with the
natural forgetfuluess of Absence, and be
fairly happy aud at rest.


THE KINDLY sooTHER, TIME.


So with sorrow of all kinds-loss, death,
even of the d-arest. Time sofrens the
pain of the anguish. as well as it removes
the ever present image of the loved and iost.
It does not banish the ever dead, but 1t
draws a screen between US and them 30
that we no longer see them at every turn.-
They -iR-the- heart OF the Loving as
deeply set, as vitality real, as ever they
were only absence does it's work, and the
screen is slowly, slowly unfolded ; out of
sight, bat not substantially ont OF mind
only the sharpness of the agony subdued,
the binding clearness of remembrance and
perpetual mental presence softened and
removed.


Oot of sight out of mind no, not with
tue steadfast and true hearted. Lite is
not like a felled tree-when you lop off the
twigs and branches none others come in
their place, aud it is bare and denuded and
unable 10 restore that of which 1T has
been deprived. On the contrary, it is
living growth, and whether you lop off its
branches or not, is perpetualiy making
new wood and putting forth new leaves
But the Few 90 not dispossess the old and
10 new branch ever takes the exact
place of that which has gone. We may
have 81 ubstitutes, but not the same, and the
scar making the point of lop is now quite
concealed.