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Year: 1879

And now the Boston Journal


comes to the front with a fish story,


as follows:


"a small pond on a farm near


Glasgow, Ky., which has no appar-


ent outlet, and is several hundred


yards from q running stream, is,


strange to say, full of cat fish-sO
full that when the water is low the


feelers OF the fish are visible above


the surface and give the pond the


appearance of being full of grass"
We have always noticed the close


resemblance between the "feelers"


of catfish and grass. Our grand.


father once owned a piece Of land


that had just such a pond and one


day when he was moving the 'swale'


grass round the edge of the pond


and got in where it was tall and


thick he struck out towards the mid.


die of the pond, and never noticed


but what he was cutting grass till


he had moved out some fifteen rods


among the "feelers" of those catfish
and whirled around to turn double
swath back. He was terribly as.
tonished to find himself out in the
middle of the pond walking right
on the backs of those catfish and
slashing down good heavy swath
of their "feelers." But it made
pretty good hay, and he used to get
a good crop off that pond every
year, till one year a reporter for a
city newspaper came along and
went in bathing in that pond. 1t
killed every fish. The lie in him
was so strong that it impregnated
the water 50 that you could make
soap with it.


The Boston Herald says that Da.
ma inOculated the assistant editors
of the Sun with the "fraud" virus,
before he went to Europe, and it
"took" remarkably well.


1t was just after the circus, and
The Richford train was moving out,
when the bystanders were attracted
" the movements of a couple OF
passengers abroad that were left
oehind." They had been to the
circus and were little late in reach
ing the depot. But courage was
good, and they started to catch the
train, which was just getting we'll
under headway. He held her by
the hand, and they started down
the track. He kept straight ahead,
but, the coupling being a little loose,
and the female apparel trifle cum.
bersome, she '.varied" considerable le
in her course and cut a serpentine
swath through the air. The spec.
tacle was very amusing to the look
ers-on. But the race isn't always
won by those who are in a hurry
and the efforts of the belated pair
we're in vain. They we're left
[St. Albans Messenger.


Kanakakee has justice who
beats them all in the way of doing
up job of matrimonial splicing
with neatness and despatch. This
is his formula "Have'er z" eyes"
sHave'im - eyes" "Married !; |
b."


The powers Of memory of horse we're illus
rated at Rochester, N. Y, the other day,
where the driver of hosk and ladder truck
ried an experiment to test them, Three and
! half years ago the city sold team of
lorses that had been used for drawing this
ruck, aud since then they have been employ
ID in different work. The other day the
lriver took the horses into the truck house
md turned them loose, whereupon each went |
lirectly to his own stall, and when gong |
vas sounded ran out and took their accustom- |
ID position at the tongue Of the machine.
Year: 1879

The other day one of the Detroit
ferry boat captains found aboard Of
his craft cadaverous-looking chap
who had beaten his way to and fro
80 often that patience was no long
or q virtue. When it was found
that he had no ticket the captain
roared out


"What did I tell you the last
time l passed you overV
"You said you'd throw me into
the river next time 1 tried to beat
my way across" was the calm re-
ply.


"And now--w yelled the cap
tain as he started to pull off his
coat.


"And now you won't. You are a
good hearted man and I don't want
you to get into tronble on my &C.
count. VIII 60 overheard on my
own hook"


he stepped to the gangway and
made dive before anyone could
prevent. The boat was stopped,
life-preservers thrown out, and af-
ter hard work the man was hauled
aboard. The captain seized him,
braced him up against the cabin,
and shaking his fist under the beats
nose exclaimed


"Look-a-here, you miserable, sim
full man, I've been put to ten dol
lars trouble trying to collect your
five-cent fare! After this it is un.
derstood that you are always to ride
free, and if you offer to pay fare I'll
lick you!'
Year: 1879

An absent.minded man in Mon
roe, Conn.,, went to church the 9th
er morning with his overcoat, as he
supposed, on his arm; but the
laughing of the people in church
directed his attention to the fact
that he had taken his everyday
pantaloons, and that the suspend
ers attached to them were dangling
about his legs.
Year: 1879

Such is the formidable antago-
nism of the sexes that a chance to
give a Roland for an Oliver is never
lost. "Don't you think that good
likeness of mo p said a pretty wife
to the small fraction of herself call
ed her husband. "very good,r
was the reply, ''except that there is
a little too much repose about the
MOUTH {
Year: 1879

to the beach, and mix them with
bog and earth, After standing for
a year, this becomes a rich fertili-
zing compost, very stimulating to


crops, but leaving little subtance
in the soil beyond the materials
with which the caplin were mixed.
Year: 1879

lMAxIMs FOR HARD TIMEs.-
"Take care OF the pennies" Look
we'll to your spending. No mat
ter what comes lin, if more goes
out you will be always poor. The
art is not in making money but in
keeping it. Eittie; expenses, like
mice in barn, when there arc
many, make great waste. Hair
by hair. heads get bald, straw by
straw the thatch goes off the cot
tage and drop. by drop the rain
comes into the chamber. A barrel
is soon empty, if the tap leaks bus
a drop a minute. When you be-
gin to, save, begin with your
mouth; many thieves pass down
the red lane. The. ale jug is a
great waste. In all other things
keep within compass. Never
stretch your legs further than
your blankets will reach, or you
will soon be cold. In clothes,
choose suitable and lasting stuff
and not tawdry fneries. To be
warm is the main thing never
mind the looks. A fool may make
money, but it needs a wise man to
spend it,. Remember, it is easier
to build two chimneys than to
keep one going. If you give all
to back and board, there is moth
ing left for The savings-bauk. Fare
hard and work hard when you are
young, audyou will have a chance
to rest when you are OLD.
Year: 1879

It is secret known to few, yet
OF no small use IN the conduct Of
life, that when you fall into q
mans conversation, the first thing
you should consider is, whether
he has greater. inclination to
hear you, or that you should hear
him.
Year: 1879

THE latest story of the American
S2iritualist is as follows A skeptical
fellow obtained admission to a seance
the other day, whereat Daniel Webster
habitEally materialized walking from
a cabinet across the room and looking
as be had looked in life, but making
no sound of footsteps. This base
minded man tossed a number of tacks
on the floor; and as they had very
large heads they, of course, fell points
upwards The consequence was that
when Dan came out of the cabinet and
began to walk across the room he sud-
denly paused, and lifting one foot,
applied his hand to the sole thereof
Upon taking another step he suddenly
drew up again, and in low voice
calculated, "Ugh!" Shortly after this
he lost his balance and sat down on
the floor; Immediately he became very
profane, wiggled painfully in his seat,
jumped up with an exclamation not
found in the dictionary, and retreated
into the cabinet greatly disgusted with
the matter. Not so the skeptic, who
remarked that it was a proof of the
truthfulness of the line that Fools
rush in where angels fear to tread"
Year: 1879

The afe bestowal OF furs and winter
clothing engages the mind OF the average
housekeeper at this season. For the
benefit OF the inexperienced it may be
said that the first thing to be done is to
free from dust or grease spots any thing
designed to be packed away during the
summer months. A preparation made
as follows will be found useful in the
treatment of woolen goods. To table
spoonful each, of alcohol and hartshorn.
diluted with teacuptul of boiling water,
add half teaspoonful of powdered


borax. After the garments have been
well-aired, shaken and brushed apply
the mixture to any grease spots on them.
Rub it on with wooden rag until the
spots disapper, then rinse thoroughly with
luke-warm water, applied with sponge,
and rub the place as nearly dry as posi-
BILE with dry, clean cloth. It must be
entirely dry before packing. If of very
light color, chloroform or ether NAV be
used instead of the mixture. These will
not need 1insing, they evaporate, but
ether should be applied quickly and
lightly to the fabric, and rubbed briskly
to lessen the chances of destroying the
color or iDjuring the texture. Clothes
put away with dust or grease spots on
them will breed moths, and all the
trouble taken for their preservation
will be futile if they are not first proper
~ cleaned. Furs should be placed in the
open air, and beaten with light switch
or rattan in a brisk wind on a dry day.
By rubbing the fur with the hand ,against
the grain, it can be ascertained it there
are moths in it, as little balls of the fur
would fall out. If that happens the fur
must be carefully combed, we'll whipped
and wrapped in newspaper and put in
a case by itself with plenty Of camphor
gum around it.


Very often this treatment will save
furs attacked by moths. OF course it is
much better to employ prevention than
cure, and if only ordinary care is taken
turs can be kept safe from moths until
they are worn out. At this season, even
though still occasionally worn, they
should be exposed to the air and lightly
whipped from time to time. This frees
Year: 1879

sure. His hands were swollen to twice
their natural size, and his head and face
were sight to behold inflamed like
one great blister, and bloated so that he
could hardly see out of his eyes.


SCOT badly poisoned working in the
swamp last Saturday" was the way he
and his wife accounted for it. Twas
likely he had handled poison elder or
ivy; they always affected him SO.


The visitors showed deep interest in
the sufferers case, and one of them, re.
marking on the peculiar appearance of
his face, applied his thumb and finger
nail to pimple and pulled out bee
sting!


"That's the kind of poison you've been
handling" said Farmer Metcalf, ''and
you'll make nothing by trying to lie out
Of it,


Upon that he produced the paper and
he handkerchief, and the theft Of the
beehive was charged home to Heman
Treat then and there, without the trouble
of many words.


The culprit saw he was caught. and
confessed his crime. He begged the off,
WI 1-oL W PuC AAAA uAOOA eRAAOoA, ouO
promised to settle at any price the owner
of the bees should demand.


Farmer Metcalf did not wish to prose
cute his neighbor, and he readily allowed
him to settle the affair by paying the
value of the stolen swarm, provided that
whenever he happened to want honey
again he would take care to get it by
honest means


But for the clue afforded SO quickly by
the little winged petectives, probably
only an accident would have revealed
their spoilers traces before he had time
to obliterate them. The field OF tall corn,
left to itself, as it was theR between cul-
tivation and harvest, was fine place of
concealment.


1t was years before Heznan Treat kne "
that he owed his prom pit conviction to
the bees; but his one experience with the
Metcalf swarm was quite sufficient to
make him let bees alone for the rest OF
his life.-Voutk's Co1nponion.
Year: 1879

them from dust deposit, which is rapid
generator Of insect life in the early spring.
Everything packed away for the season
should be in air tight cases and with
camphor gum or cedar chips scattered
around them.
Year: 1879

THE Expositor thus puts it up" after the manner suggested by the Acting Governors offer of $500 for dead stage robbers:

 Now here is a fine chance for enter. prising dead brokes." Just plan a stage robbery, get some weak minded, impecunious and disheartened wretch, point out to him how easily the thing can be done and how much booty can be obtained-after the pattern of the Mantle Pierson affair-sive him a loaded gun, but, to avoid mistakes, stop the tubes or load with soap: tell him exactly when the stage leaves town; jump into the stage yourself, well armed, just before its departure, and if you cannot manage the rest and get your $500 and big name, don't ask us for any more advice, for we don't think you can be fit for much, any how.
Year: 1879

TOUCHING the late lynchings in Phenix the Expositor says:

 We never knew lynch law to he. come necessary in any country with out the people themselves were to blame by neglecting or negligently performing their duties as citizens. If the majority of people are really faithful and honest citizens, they can compel the making and enforcing of good laws by attending properly to their duties as jurors and electors.

 We commend the experience above narrated to the good citizens of Pima County at the approaching term ot court. Let us see how many of the late ardent disciples of Judge Lynch among our prominent business men will be found shirking jury duty.
Year: 1879




Accused Is about forty years tI age. His
face is not particularly bad one, Though
be can speak but little English, Is is appa-
rent that he Is not wanting in intelligence.
He Is what may be called shrpwd fellow.
He realizes his situation. as fs evideBs from
his denials and his anxiety to see Counsel.
He iyas somewhat drinky Saturday niYbt.
He has been in business here two or three
years. At the time OF the stabbing he vas
keeping two bar-rooms-one at the corEpT
Of Eighth and Byrd streets, and the other'
ai 122 Eighth street, wlIich was kept by his
wife before they were married, and over
which they have been since living.


THE LATEST.


About , O'Clock yesterday morning Mrs.
Daccigalupo was apparently quiet, though
wakeful. She did not seem to be suffering
great deal, although her physician said it
would be impossible to say what the effects
OF the wounds would be for at least twenty
four hours.


There were two reports as To the cause OF
the affair. Gne was that Baceigalupo de-
sired to secure her money while The other
was to the effect that it grew out of ieal-
Year: 1879

Considerable excitement was ere.
ated here a year or two ago by the
exhibition, at the u. S. Excha nge,
of several specimens rich in virgin
silver and in chlorides. They were
said to have come from the hills
south Of Mohawk Station, in this
county. Tom Downey and others
made several expeditions in search
Of the mino from whose float these
specimens were broken, but all
search proved fruitless until this
week, when it was reported here
that tho ledge had been found
within threo miles of the Gila
river and near the railroad, about
ffty-eight miles from this town.
Several parties have gone out to
verify the report and to gather up
such advantages as may be derived
from early presence on the ground.
Tho late discoveries in Silver dis
trict have prepared US to expect
almost anything in the way of new
and big silver mines in this county.
BY next Saturday we hope to lay
authentic details before our read
ers.- Yuma Sentinel.
Year: 1879

Ah Chouey. the Chinaman under
conviction of murder in the first
degree, has gone back on his race,
seems to eDjey life, even although
he Is in Jail and has prospect Of
swinging. The Cinnamon have
not done by him as he considers
they ought, and he has cut off his
queue and now doss his swearing
Year: 1879

Persons who have become thoroughly
chilled from any cause, may have their
circulation at once restored by taking In
to the stomach teaspoonful of Johnson's
Anodyne Liniment, mixed in little cold
water, we'll sweetened.
Year: 1879

Every farmer whoowns good stock OF
horsos, cattle and sheep, and intends to
keep them through the winter should at
once get good stock of Sherldan's Cav
airy Condition Powders. One dollars
worth will save at least half n ton OF
Year: 1879

London Expressl


No respectable manager of theater
would dream of allowing outsiders f"
behind the scenes. The business of
the evening is far too serious to admit
of the Interruptions which would nat
urally be caused by visitors" Man.
ayers and artists are accordingly bv
turns highly diverted or Justly indir,
nant when they hear and read the
monstrous fables told of what goes ON
" behind the scenes" Indeed the
very artists themselves often hardly
see each other except on the stage
itself while at the theater. The stage
lover who is leading off with such an
parent tenderness the young lady who
has just accepted his addresses. parts
with her in the wings with but scant
courtesy, for he has probably to hurry
OF to his dressing room for the change
OF costume necessary for the next act
and she has the same reason for flying
the opposite way which leads to the
dressing rooms assigned to the lady
artists, The green room, except in
cases of long waits" is deserted
place, and even then the momentary
expectation of the call boys summons
keeps the attention ever on the alert.
1t is all hard work and business !"
there is no time or opportunity for the
mischief to which a generous public
always imagines actors to be so readily
incliRed. Ghe so-called players" are
earnest men and women, working for
the support of themselves and their
families, according to the special gifts
God has given them. They NAV be
simply amusing those who sit ON the
other side Of the foot-lights, but
they themselves are working hard
sometimes with aching hearts
through the illness or loss of
those nearest and dearest To
them, sometimes struggling with nhys-
ical pain and suffering, because they
know that their bread depends upon
their taithfUlness to their duty, Thev
are as true to their trust and as dill
gent In their work as the members of
any other profession, and as deserving
Of honor. There are black sheen in
every fold, and every profession Is dis.
graced by them-even the clerical
but we are speaking of the majority,
and we tearlessly assert that the great
bulk of those to be found behind the
foot.lights are artists who pursue their
calling with a conscientious devotion
which entities them to the respect and
consideration of the public,
Year: 1879

Special to the Courier-Journal.l


WASHINGTON, July 6.-Senator
Lamar has returned from Mississippi
and reports that he was surprised al
the extent Of the exodus fever and at
the prospects for the future. In this
regard he says the colored people are
being excited to the highest pitch by
the stories of the land of milk and
honey they will find in Kansas
Recently a white man, carrying a red
flag, narched through one section OF
the State, spreading the report that
the government had taken up the
exodus question, and would from this
time on furnish all who wished to 60
to Kansas with free transportation and
supplied farm on their arrival in
that promised land. The day and
hour when the free train would pass
were announced, and at the time hun
dreds Of colored people swarmed along
the line of the road for miles, only to
be informed by the railroad officials
that there was no free train.


HUBBELL'S BLUNDER.


The Republican campaign commit
tee is in mess of trouble over the
blunder Of its financial member, Hub
bell, Of Michigan, who, by mistake,
called. upon Turner, of Kentucky, for
money to help support the Greenback
organ. the National View, which he
said was a Radical organ in disguise
The committee prepared circular
stating that Mr.. Hubbell did this on
his own responsibility, but HubbelI
objected to being made a scape,
goat, and threatened, if the circular
was issued, he would write a card
denying its truth and make a state.
ment that the committee held Z
meeting on the subject and it was
decided to do what he was caught in
the act Of doing. The committee
want to throw Hubbell overheard, but
he has been their financial manager
for several campaigns, and will no
be snubbed. The Republicans IN
congress are displeased with the com
mittee generally. 1t is said that
nearly all of the money designated tc
be used in printing speeches was spen
to print the speeches of the member,
OF congress who are on the campaign
committee.
Year: 1879

Chalmars Is The man who stole seat in
congress by frightening 10000 Republi-
can majority from the polls.-[New York
Tribune. YIN


The Tribune is either grossly ieuo.
rant Of the facts in regard to Chal.
mers election, or is deliberately ma
licious and mendacious as usual


Chalmers carried the district the first
time by his eloquence, shrewd
alliance with the colored leaders. and
a liberal Investment in a brass band.
with which he paraded the district
from end to end in a four horse wagon.
II was as good a show as circus,
and was free 1t is also said that the
captains Of the colored hosts made
rather a liberal use of cheap whisky
and cheaper watermelOns. The colored
population outnumber the white at
least five to one. There was no dis
turbance during the canvass and none
reported. Chalmers friends were sur
prised at his success. He succeeded
by going among the colored people
and making a thorough canvass at the
head of his brass band. That was the
way he frightened the ten thou
sand Republican voters in 1876.
The way he frightened them in 1875
was by keeping out Of the district al
together. He had the yellow fever, OF
something like it, at Louisville, over
FIVE hundred miles from home, and
was not nearer home than Louisville
Tor some weeks previous to the elec-
ton. Yet these frightened Republi
cans, remembering the brass band, the
banners and the watermelons, marched
up and elected him again. The whites
took very little part in the election, il
for no other reason, because the
yellow fever still prevailed among
them with frightful malignity, whilst
the colored people were rarely liable
TO the plague, The recklessness Of
the Tribune is the more apparent
when we look at the vote cast in
those years. In 1876 the year Chal-
mers made his famous canvass, he re-
ceived 1878 votes against 1886
votes for Lynch. In 1878 he received
6663v against 1870 votes for Cos
tello, Republican, and 2l scattering
votes. This is the time when Chal-
mers, down abed with yellow fever at
Louisville, frightened the ten thous-
and Republicans away from the polls,
The paper founded by Horace Greeley
is reduced to great straits when it has
to resort to wilful misrepresentation
and exert all its influence to keep uE
sectional strife. We have stated the
facts in regard to Chalmers election
and would be glad to see so hopeful .
sign of the times as a correction il
the Tribune.
Year: 1879

NioKsBURG HERALD. The West
complains of the extremely hot wealth
er. The weather in this latitude is
very temperate. The days are not hot,
and the nights are delightful. There
is a marked difference here in the
temperature now to what it was at
this time last year. If the yellow
fever is produced bylong hot weather,
there seems little danger Of it here
this season.
Year: 1879

Married people should treat each
other like lovers all their lives
then they would be happy. Bicker-
ing aud quarrelirg would soon break


of love affairs consequently lovers


indulge in such only to n very limit,
ed extent, But some people-men
and women both when they haye
once got married think they may do


just as they please, aud it will make
no difference. They make great
mistake. 1t causes all the difference
in the world. Women should grow
more devoted and meu more fund
after marriage, if they have the
slightest idea Of being happy as
wives aud husbands. II is losing
sight Of this fundamental truth
which leads to hundreds OF divorces
Yet, many a man will scold his wife
who would never think of breathing
o harsh word to his sw eetheart and
many q wife will be glum and mo-
rose on her husband 8 return who
had only smiles aud words Of cheer
for when no was her suitor, How
can such people expect to be happy