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Year: 1878

worthy of consideration. The mu-
sic increases to a tempest, and the
dancers act like maniacs; they
seize each other and fling them
selves violently around, arms and
legs of men and women fly over
the heads Of the crowd. Shreiks,
cries and bravos rend the air, and
the exhausted dancers stagger off
to the little tables in the grove to
gather new inspiration from deep
draughts of cognac or repeated
libations of champagne. It was a
holiday night and the Closerie des
Lilas was crowded as usual, and
prominent among the most reckless
dancers on the floor was Henry
NJ. :. ., from Louisiana. In person
be was tall and handsome, with
dark curling hair and dark eyes,
just the figure to shine in such a
place. His mistress, Marie 10 RENE,
as she was called, was one Of the
most beautiful lorettes in the Latin
Quarter. His father had been
wealthy planter in Louisiana be-
fore the war, whose property had
been lost in the rebellion. He fell
fighting for the lost cause in the
Confederate ranks at Shiloh, leav-
ing youthful widow and this boy
The widow gathered the scattered
wreck of her fortune, and dedicated
it to the education of her son
whatever advantage the South
afforded she gave him, living her
self in the most pinching poverty
and denying herself even the ne
cessaries of life. Some one ad-
vised her to send him. to France,
and God only knows the years OF
struggle that ensued while the son
grew drunk with the riot OF Paris
and the poor mother toiled on III
poverty. At last his letters failed,
and she heard from him no more,
and then came the bitterness worse
than death to think that, after all
of her sacrifice, she was forgotten.
At last the yearning of her heart
stung to it's uttermost tension
could endure no more and she re
solved to cross the sea. By beg
ging and pawning the last few rem
nants of her jewelry, she gathered
enough to pay her passage and ar
rived in Paris on the night Of the
Fete.Dieu. She sought her son at
his lodgings, but he had gone to
the Closerie ball. Thither she
dragged her weary frame and
sought her loved boy among the
throng. There was loud applause
from a crowd of frantic dancers
near her. A little demon, in stri.
ped stockings, shrieked and danced
with the widest gestures, flying
her arms above her head, being en-
couraged by the young man oppo-
site who seemed infatuated with
her madness. When the dance was
at it's heights, wild shrek rent
the air and a poor woman, in faded
black dress, lay dead upon the
floor.


Truly yours,


BROADBRIM.
Year: 1878

Ny DEAR" said an affectionate
husband, ''you are good at contri.
wing things | wish you would
contriye some suitable design to
paint on the sign of our new
tavern"


"l'll do no such thing. | don't
like your going to tavern keep
ing. It's a dirty business, and the
temperance men are making such
a fuss about it that it will soon
come to nothing"


There is, no use talking, for
my mind is made up. I've got a
license and paid for it, and must
use it. / want something neat
and appropriate 10 paint on the
sign"


We'll I'll tell you what. Make
a big horn, and paint yourself
crawling out Of the little end Of
it." a
Year: 1878

i A girl,who will sit with a fellow
on the stairs at a ball, with no
clothes on above her waist worth
speaking Of, would faint away
dead if the same fellow were to


meet her on the stairs mufiled
from head to footia three night
gems. IN .
Year: 1878

ADVICE TO TIE CIlOIR.-It may not be


out of place to note some of the blemish-


es and defects of choir singing, as they


have been sonnet ines painfully realized


through long and various course of ol :


servation. 1t is no easy matter to sui


due the pride and individuality of choir.


singers as to induce them to blend their


voices together. Each, in some instances,


seems inclined to make his part separate


and Independent from all the rest and so


it sounds. not like twenty voices fol-


lowing into one common result, but twen-


ty voices with twenty independent re-


suits. The tout ensemble of the choir and
congregation voices is a prime essential


for superior congregational song When
voices minge and unite in producing one
strain of sound the information is perfect.
The individual voices still give colorin.
to the whole, but the individual distinct
ness is not detrimental to the intermine-
ling. This excellent effect cannot bc
produced without study and practice
The singers should try to sing into each
others voices, so that there may be unity
and sympathy of tone. There are choir
singers who immagine that this unity
comes as Il matter of course. They do
not practice together. they are not used
to each others voices, and, when they
pass into the performances of their music
Oh the Sabbath, their rendering of it is
marked, not Ly the blending and inter-
fusion of voices, but by that multitudi-
nous and separate enunciation of sound
which makes the true musician feel that
the organ is vainly trying to blend IL
number of incohesive, self-willed and an
tagonistic notes. Very often, in country
choirs and congregations, one or two
singers appear to be determined to set
up for themselves. They are anxious
that their voice should be heard sepal-
ately from all the rest, and this they
easily accomplish if their voice IS at all
strong. They give their voice what is
called ga sort of twang" or unusual
ti'vor," to the delight of their own VAN
ity and to the disgust of all educated
musicians. This uneviablc distinction is
generally gained by purposely singing
out of tune !; either too fiat or too sharp,
as the case may be ; or perhaps both in
turn for q change. These peculiar
" twags' are out of place in worship,
and whatever qualification of individual
vanity they may bring, they ought to
be put down for the sake of art and rev.
erence.
Year: 1878




The Democratic party will ultimately
bc united Oh the two questions of silver
reconciliation and repeal the resump-
ton act. Gold and silver are the consti-
tutional coins of the country, and no
forced or arbitrary resumption of specie
on given day, whether the country b.
prepared for it or not, are propositions
cardinal principles, if they may be ST.
rermed-which the Democratic party OF
| the United States have affirmed in their
| latest authoritative declarations. Here
| and there a Democrat and Democratic
journal, misled by false teachers or mis-
directed by selfish interests behind them,
have wandered from the true faith for :,
time, but only for a time. They arc all
returning to the fold, and the Democrat
ic party will soon be in fact, what it has
all the time been in principle, IL unit on
the financial question. A few days az"
the gold organs, owned or mortga in
Wall street, were growing Justify over !,
list of journals they had made up as t"
position upon the question of fremonetiza-
tion. Now they arc changing their tune
and dropping the Democratic papers
from their side The Democratic party
will triumph in this battle for the resto-
ration of the constitutional coin Of the
people, and to it will be AWARDED all the
credit and all the glory. And 1T will ho
SO united in its triumph, armed so stroD.
in honesty, that it can afford to receive
back those of it's members who have wan
dered after the false god Of gold alone
and say no more of their heresy. After
the reconciliation of silver the Demo-
cratic party will be unit, and stronger
than ever before.
Year: 1878

A FIGHT AT SPIRITUAL MEETING
This is essentially tho age of invcstiga-
ton, and the spiritual mediums are COM
ing in for a double share. Let us have the
truth, by all means and wherever there
is an attempt to work npon the creauli-
ty of weak-minded people, let the cur
tain be raised, and the stage machinery
unveiled to tho public. Henry G. Cor
don, a pretended medium of unprecedcnt-
ell audacity, has been making Il great
display of spiritual power and material
manifestation in Philadelphia. Last
week party Of gentlemen laid plan 10
entrap and expose him. They desired
him to raise the spirit of John Brocklcy
for communication, and he promised to
do so. Now there was no such person as
John Brocklcy, and never had been.
Nevertheless, the medium went to work
to raise him, and he was brought up. A
ig-tisted fellow among the conspirators
named Walsh was deputcd to interview
John and the first thing he did upon
getting near enough to the spirit was to
throw his arms around him and grip him
with the hug of Il bear, yelling to his
companions to come on and investigate
the gentle John. The latter made fran


tic efforts to get free, pulling off a false
beard and ~ig III the encounter, and try
ing to stuff them in his pocket. The gal
lant comrades of the conspirator rushed
into the arena, and each opc collared II
spiritualists. Lamps was smashed, things
were overturned, and the spirits kicked
and danced about in Il very unspiritual
manner. Tho fracas ended by Walsh
finding that he bad hold of Henry G. Cor
don instead of .Jshn Brockloy. The fell
low had dressed himself up in black
wig and beard, in order to personate the
description of the imaginary John, and
impose Oh tho cretlnlity of his supposed
friends.
Year: 1878

HOG AND HOMINf FOR THE SOUTH
In order for the people Of the South to


become independent and prosperous, it is


absolutely essential that they should


raise on their own farms their own means
of subsist' nee. This they may easily do.
since all that is necessary is the will ar Il
small outlay Of effort and attention.
Few families require more than 5000
pounds of meat per annnn, and ten hogs,
properly attended to will, without doubt,
net 2OOO pounds. cannot every farmer
by commencing now, contrive to have
ten hogs to kill rcXt winter Set your
pegs" and persistenly work up to them,
is the sure way to succeed. But you have
no corn, and shoats instead of hogs, We
imagine we hear some of our farmers eX-
claim, in a surly. despondent tone, sadly
derogatory to their pluck and manhood.
The old prOverb that where there is a
will there is ay' is literally true, con-
sequently substitutes for corn may be
found, and shoats may be made to grow
into large hogs. Put your hogs in your
horse lot and give them the slops from
yonr kitchen and your surplus vegetables
until your corn comes on.


Raise more com, peas, oats and pota-
toes, and less cotton. Raising cotton at
8 and 10 cents will break tho best farmer
in the land. Manure your land with
stable and cOwpen manure and cotton
seed, and try to cause one acre to Weld
as much as you usually take off three.
Try it for once.


Oats are far cheaper as feed for horses
than corn, and do not materially inter-
fere with the working of the corn CROP
consequently every farmer should SOW
oat particularly if he is scant of corn.
German millet is also Il profitable and
easily grown crop, and very handy as
feed for stock.


1t is plain to every man who has a
glimering of sense that raising cotton
to the neglect of breadstuffs has dragged
the south down to poverty. Will farm
crs go on in this most runious policy {?
We know it is said that there arc somc
men too stupid to be instructed even by
school master of fools.
but we trust tie majority of farmers have
sense enough to quit system of hus-
bandry that is yearly impoverishing
them Let every farmer curtail his cot
ton crop and go in for a diversity of crops
such as corn, oats, peas, potatoes, etc.


Ue must live and practice the strict
est economy in order to become comfort-
able and independents


What we have said by way of advice
to farmers will, if faithfully followed by
them, be more beneficial to them than
all the theories and hints of tho bookish
farmers that figure in agricultural papers.
i Meridian Mercury, Feb. Q.
Year: 1878

AMBULANCE CALL.-There was al ambu-
lance call yesterday morning from the First
police-station for colored woman named
Mamie Cole, who-was taken sick while in
court and taken to the city Jail,
Year: 1878

Loarey Hull Street. The condition oil the
sidewalk on t,,e, west side OF Hull street
from Mayo's bridge to Bridge avenue Is


shocking, to use the miIdest form Of adiec-
tive. Its condition has gradually grown
from tolerable to bad, bad to worse, and
from worst to atroeious. The members OF
the Council from this ward say they have


done all in their power to remedy the evil,


and that the Council has ordered the work.


With whom is the fault and why is it not


put in passable condition Some time


since bricks were hauled there and placed
in the cutters in front Of the worst places.


There they remain, standing monuments


Of neglect and Indifference. II the Council


has no intention ofirepairing these waste


places, it would not be great expense to
have the remainder OF the bricks takenu up


and piled In the gutter by the side OF those


referred to above. In proportion to lts


population and area, more revenue is de-
rived from the First Ward than any other
in the city, and it is due it's people, the


operatives at the mills who live in other


wards, and our citizens generally, that they
should have a good thoroughiare to their


work and to Richmond. As the street is


now it is not only disagreeable, but dan
eerous after ni9htfall. ,a
Year: 1878

Just before the court adjourned the grand
Jury came into court, and the foreman gave
the Commonwealth'sA Attorney list OF per-
sons against whom presentments had been
found for gaming. The names, however,
have not yet been made matter OF record.
Year: 1878

The three collins await their final repose


In the ancient cloisters' keeping.
And q brief hour hence The lids will close


On the forms beneath them sleeping.
The first is King who hath ruled the land,


AS his fathers did before him.
A jeweied scepter is placed in mis- hand


TO show how well he bore him.
The next is chief from the battle field,


Wounded, and bronzed, and hoary;
By his side are resting his sword and shield,


The embleIns of martial glory
The third is lowly Son of Song,


With no State pomp attended,;
The lay of his Tyre hash sounded long


Through the isles-but now is ended,
Hark. what is that at the postern gate,


Like the roar of distant water?
'Tis the foe with bounding hopes elate


Returned to the work OF slaughter,
''Ho. King. awakei re-asscend thy throne,


And round thee summon thy sagesl''
From the pale mute lips there is answer meme.
While the storm without still RACES.
.'Ho. Chief, awake, to the tents repair


In the van lead on thy legions,''
They listen. but all is silent there


Still and hushed as the polar regions,
From the Poets coffin a sigh is heard,


And the Tyre at his bare feet laying
Starts into life. like the thrill of u bird


Whose melody knows no staying.
'Tis an old, old theme, but it fires the blood
OF the troops, with none to lead 'em
And they fight as the valiant always should
For the love of their faith and freedom!
When the sun goes down in n radiant glow.
With molten clouds attendant,
The three nailed collins are new laid low
The Cross in the ascendenti
Year: 1878

In England a patent check till has
been brought before the mercantile
public which seems to be very ingen-
ious contrivance. The official descrip-
ton of it says that it will check every
penny taken and paid, better than
keeping cashier and using check
books. 1t occupies no more room than
the ordinary till. Ii an assistant should
take money Of s. customer and fail to
put it in the till, it can be detected at
once. Ii only part of the amount is
put in, it will show how much has
been withheld. If any cash has been
taken out, it will show tie amount.
The till cannot be opened without it
being known,and the number OF times.
1t will show how much money there
ought to be in at g time. Any amount
of change can be left in it for use, and
yet none can be taken away without
its being known. It can be left any
length O! time without being cleared,
aud will show the amount that ought
" W III "'eHooe CoootipS 'u0 CtsSii.
1t can be used as a desk, or let in level
with the coGnter-top, if required. 1t
shows the number of customers wait
ed upon by each assistant; aud, if a
line is drawn close to the glass every
hour, it tells the number of customers
st any given time. And all these ad-
vantages are wound up with the brief
statement. Interest on outlay and cost
of working, one half-penny day
Year: 1878

tThey will be put through the cere-
mony you call sealing,' will they not ?


Now, see here,' said the Elder, as a
suspicious gloom came into his eye.
who are you?


The reporter fumbled around in his
memory q moment in search of his
identity, when the Elder came to his
rescue. Are you a newspaper man p
The reporter remembered that he was.


well, don't want any foolishness
about this


sPon honor, dear sir, foolishness is
utterly extraneous to the reportorial
psstimes.'


The Elder tken subsidized into lamb
likeness. and admitted that the church
understood how to provide for unpro-
tected females, admitting that there
would be some competition as to the
younger and fairer maidens, and that
the less attractive were assigned In
defense of the beastial business Of
which he was representative Elder
Branch attempted to convince the re-
porter that the holiest of motives acta-
ated the Mormons. The reason the
deprayed and ignorant constituted
their principal following was, accord
ing to his Interpretation, because the
church sought out the poor, whose con-
dition in life it wished to ameliorate
He declared that hundreds were liv-
ing in Utah who owned their own
houses and lots, whose bones would
be rotted in English potter's helds but
for the kindly Intervention of the
Mormon Church. All these people
L haye here will be taken charge of
and supported by the church until
they become self-sustaining. There is
not beggar or pauper in our entire
dominion, and that should speak some
merit for the church,


just then several of the emigrants
sought to pass from the car in which
theys had been seated to one further
forward, passing the agent. elder in so
doing. He was equal to the emergen-
cy.


what the devil are you trying to
do now? Get right back where you
belong


The reporter was gone.
Year: 1878

must tell you of a New Orleans
ghost story which l have just heard,
writes Ozlas Midwinter in Cincinnati
Commercial. In these days ghosts
have almost lost the power to interest
US, for we have become too familiar
with their cloudy faces, ,and familiarity
begetteth contempt. An original ghost
story is luxury, and a rare luxury at
that. Now l think this one is unique
enough to excuse me for presuming to
relate it. There was an old house on
Melpomene street which nobody could
liye in. Many good folk had attempt
ed to take up their residence in it, but
none ever dwelt there more than one
night. Sometimes people would send
theiy furniture there in the morning
and have the place fitted up, only to
find everything outraged and violently
upset in the afternoon. Carpets had
been torn from the floor and stuffed up
the chimney, or flung into the center
of the room in an elfish shape, mock
ingly suga estive of corpse with its
hands crossed. Invisible footsteps
shook the house with laundering
tread, and bolted doors opened mys-
teriously at the touch of viewless
hands. AS the years fitted by the
Goblin of Decay added himself to the
number of the Hunters; the walls
crumbled, and the floors yielded, and
grass, livid and ghastly-looking grass
forced its pale way between the chinks
of the planks in the parlor. The win
dows fell int ruin, and the wind en-
tered freely to play with the ghosts,
and cried weirdly in the vacant rooms.
AT last the police authorities resolved
to solve the mystery of the house.
Stephen Leary was then chief of po-
lice. He visited the house one even
ing, accompanied by picked detach-
ment of six men, all armed with dOub-
le-barreled shot-guns double-shotted.
When the seven entered the crumbl-
ing building it was twilight. The
chief ordered the detachment to form
hollow square in the middle of the
old parlor, facing outward, and he
himself filed the center of the square,
lest the ghost might arise IN the midst
and seize eHerg-man- by the neck at
the Same time.


Now quoth he, swhencesoever it
may approach we can blow it back to
HI without hurting each other ,
And the hollow square remained sta
tionary in the position of ready
Then the clocks commenced to strike
| the hours. There seemed to be at
least hundred clocks within hearing
each one a little faster or little
slower than the rest. They told the
time regularly in hundred different
keys, till it became the dead waste
and middle of the night One after
another, all the hundred clocks struck
the hour of twelve, Then vast and
awful silence fell. The seven men
brought up their guns to present, and
stared wildly in seven different direc-
tions.


Suddenly a gust of wind blew the
light out; and they heard it coming
an invisible and irresistible force
seemed to burst up the flooring under
the feet OF the poiicemen-and each
one simultaneously felt himself seized
from below and violently flung against
the ceiling.


And yet the city would not pay the
bills of the seven doctors who attend
ed the faithful men thus grievously
injured. while in the discharge of their
duties.'
Year: 1878

LINsEED oil for cracked hands is far
better than any sticking salve. Apply
the oil as often as convenient; it Will
make the hands white and soft as silk
it is good for farmers girls to use, 10
remove tan and cailouses and keeps
their hands white ana soft while help
ing Ma every day, out doors and in,
sleeves up or down.
Year: 1878

New York, July 12.-The Custom House was
very quiet this morning, considering the import
ant ch anges which have just occurred there. The
new Collector, General Merritt, did not visit the
building, and General Arthur did not arrive un-
til about noon. But few persons were waiting to
see the latter who said in reply to inquiries that
he had not yet received official notice Of his sus-
pension under the tenure of office. Further than
this he said he had no remarks to make on the
matter General Merritt can not enter on the du-
ties of the Collectorship until his bonds amount
ing to 100000, have been filed and approved at
Washington. This will require day or two
Persons who are well acquainted with General
Merritt said to-day that he would probably make
few changes at present in the Custom House
force. By law he will have to appoint all the
Deputy Collectors, but 1t is believed he will reap
point all now in Office with one marked excep-
tiOn
Year: 1878

Montreal, July lit is discovered that fraud
to large extent has been perpetrated on the city
in charging double the amount of stone work on
the new reservoir lately completed here. It is
claimed there was collusion between the party
doing the work and city officials who made
measurements. One Of the latter left for the
United States. It Il estimated that the excess Of
payment By the city "a about S20,0oo
Year: 1878

ELECTRIC LIGHT.-We have lately
seen marvellous invention in the
form of clock, which, if placed in a
city lamp post, will light the gas at
dark and put it out at morning, be.
sides placing in every lamp post a
clock that will tell passers by the
time. The cost of a machine is
$50, and it is estimated to last for at
least fifty years. We are evidently
on the eve of great improvements in
lighting cities; but all new inven-
tons have to fight their way and
overcome many prejudices before
they become established. An elec-
trio light is to be considered by the
81. Louis common council as a proper
means for lighting the public library.
The electrician guarantees it will
furnish light of about 5000 candle
power--about twice the present il
lumination-and will operate the
same for one month, the board to
furnish the steam power and to pay
him Go per cent. Of what the gas
bill for the same time would be. If
the machine gives satisfaction it will
be sold to the board for a reasonable
figure, or, if they do not choose to
buy, it will be removed at the inven.
tors cost The power necessary is to
be taken from an attachment to the
elevator engine, and it is claimed will
not in any way reduce the effective
ness of the hosting power" Bos-
ton Shipping List"