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Year: 1877

THE OFFICIAL INQUIRY AS TO HER DEATH


ABOUT TO BE REoPENED


The deep interest excited among the people OF
Staten Island by the mystery Of tho death OF Katie
RicdI, the young woman who found dead in tho
graveyard at Quarantine on Sunday, the 11th ult,
has not in any degree declined On the contrary as
the,subcct to be fully discussed in all its
aspects the feeling OF with the result Of
the inquest which declared the manner Of death
known, grows moro intense, and u reopcning OF tho
investigation called Tor all sides. Coroner Demp
sey was anxious to Keep tho inqusition open for a
much longer tmc to await whatever Information
might be developed by the inquiries OF tho polco or
the publication OF the tho newspapers; but he
impeled to close II hastily by few OF the jurors
who believed nothing more could be discovered
their business attend the sessions Those who
by their impatencc curtailcd the investigation
most anxious TO repair the fault by thorough and
searching examination ol all parties likely To throw
any light upon the subject Nothing less than this II
fet will satisfy the community, ana that must be
had resident Of Quarantine stated yesterday that
carriage arrived ut that place on the midnight boat
from this city the night preceding the finding OF tho
dead girl, that II drove rapidly up to and along the
road adjacent which tho body was found, and that
he distinctly heard It stop for moment and then
OF the island This would seem to- -ayor tho theory
that girl met her death In this city and that her
remains thon conveyed to the place who're they
found.


There Is no doubt that the official inquiry into the
matter will be resumed on Monday.
Year: 1877

We desire to call the attention of our lady
readers to the announcement of Messrs. Lewis
Hall & Co., dry goods merchants of % South
Second street, Philadelphia. This firm sue
ceeds the house of Edwin Hall L Co., one of
the oldest established houses in the city. The
new firm are determined to offer continually
the best goods the market affolds, and at such
prices as must command the attention and
liberal patronage of country buyers. To all
needing goods in their line twill pay to call
and examine both goods and prices For
particulars see advertisement.
Year: 1877

Last Sunday afternoon, while temperance
meeting was being held in the Opera House,
smoke was discovered issuing through the
floor from beneath. Instantly the cry Of
''6re" was raised by some thoughtless boys
and panic ensued. The building was
crowded to its utmost capacity, and it is es-
timated there were from $500 to 5000 people
present. This whole mass at once began a
wild scramble for the doors and windows.
Men, women and children rushed pell-mell
over benches and down the stairs, screaming
and yelling with fright. In vain the manag-
ers tried to reassure the panic stricken crowd
the din was so great they could not be heard,
Women tainted, and one lady was knocked
down and considerably hurt by being tramp
led on, but we believe, not seriously SO.
Several persons jumped from the windows
which are pretty high up, TO the pavement
below, and, strange to say, escaped unhurt
One boy, sprang, like young catamount,
from the gallery to the stage and out of the
window to the pavement and it didn't hurt
him any more than it would cat.


At last an old lady mounted q bench and
began calmly singing hymn. This quieted
the racket little and the speakers got
chance to be heard and they succeeded in
making the people believe that they were in
no immediate danger of being roasted and
order was restored. It was big time while
it lasted.
Year: 1877

We publish, this week, the advertisement OF
The Williams Fruit Eyaporator, Of which
Mr. W. R. Phillips, Of Milford, is the general
agent for The State of Delaware. This Evap-
orator has quite an extensive reputation for
the superior excellence of its work Several
of them, We understand, are in successful
operation down the State and are giving
general satisfaction Ex-Gov. Ross is re-
ported to have ordered two of them to be put
up on his extensive fruit farm near Seafordp
after having made thorough examination of
the different driers now offered on the market.
We invite the attention of growers to the ad-
vertisement
Year: 1877

With the return of Spring each year comes
this perennial nuisance. Everybody who
owns an outbuilding or garden fence seems
to think that it is incumbent on him or her
to have it whitewashed, and everywhere
turn which way you may-the dazzling glare
Of the SUMS rays upon the lime washed boards
greets :ths eyes. This is ruinous to the eye
sight, and does more TO increase the business
Of the oculist than anything else. It all looks
very well, it is true, but the lime could be
easily colored to some other hue that would
look equally as we'll, preserve its appearance
a great deal longer and cost scarcely anything
more, either ia money or trouble. People do
not think, when they start out the white
washer with his lime and brush, Of the incon-
venience and annoyance they are going to
cause their neighbors, or they certainly would
try to do something TO modify it little. Now
we are not the only ones who complain of this
nuisance-we have the same complaint made
by scores of others. Merchants whose win
dows happen to be opposite to a garden fence
that has been newly whiteued up, know
something of its effects, and they have beeu
obliged to request permission Of the owner Of
the Objectionable fence and wash it all over
with some other color at their own expense.
Ladies, too, frequently complain ofthe annoy
ing effect which the white-wash on stables
and other outbuildings have upon them-they
cannot look out their windows without hav-
ing their eyes dazzled and blinded with the
glare from these whited walls. Do, friends,
change the color little. A few cents invest
ed in some material which you can get at any
store where paints are sold, will give
you much prettier and far less Objectionable
color than white, and our word for it, ii will
look well much longer than white Any color,
so it isn't white.
Year: 1877

On the BIB train from Philadelphia last
Friday evening week novel occurrence took
place; in the form of a marriage ceremony.
The parties obtained permission from the
train official, and were duly united on board
by minister as the train was approaching
Ridley Park. They were heartily congratu-
lated by those on board. The bridegroom
was a gentleman of Wilmington, and the
bride lady from the East. Both were ad-
vanced in years -Eosry EUeHing & CONNER
cidL
Year: 1877

The Odessa Dramatic Association are going
to give one of their pleasing entsrtainments
in the Town Hall, Odessa, on the evenings Of
the 2sth and sOth Of this month The play
TO be put upon the stage, on this occasion, is
said to be a very fine and interesting, as well
as amusing, one, and, having been prepared
with much care and attention, will doubtless
be performed 10 an excellent manner. The
actors have spared no pains in it's preparation
and, We are assured, are determined that it
shall excel any that have heretofore been seen
upon their stage. Let's all go and see il, and
fill their house full. That's what they want
Year: 1877

HttoH1lFE ~ III -


An attempt was made by some unknown
candidate for the hOnors and benefits Of New
Castle whipping post, on Monday night to
break into the jewelry store of Mr. R TheO.
Smith, on Broad street. Mr.. Smith found
next morning that side window had been
pried open during the night and a light
broken. The wonld-be thief, however, must
have been frightened off as he did no further
damage.
Year: 1877

A man in this town took back to
o store some very strong butter
that the store keeper had sent him,
and informed the merchant that he
did not use such butter, and that he
would not pay for 1t. The mer-
chant got mad and ordered the man
out of his store, which request was
refused, whereupon he undertook
to put the man out by force. A
scuffle ensued which ended In the
merchant getting floored. As he
lay painting on the floor, the victo'
rious customer exclaimed: "Yor
ought to know better than scuffls
with q man who has been eating
such strong butter"
Year: 1877

Nothing unnerves the average
small boy so much as to be obliged
to steal cookies out of a crock
To his strained senses the jarring
of the cover sounds like the crack
of doom.-Galaxy.
Year: 1877

Moon. STRoKE.-An Indian correspond.
cnt writes to Nature! There is q popu.
lar belief that it is dangerous to sleep
in full moonshine, as it is supposed to
produce some injurious effect called
neon. stroke. A clear sky admits of
rapid radiation, and any person exposed
to such radiation is sure to be chilled by
rapid loss of heat. There is reason to
believe that under the circumstances pa.
ralysis of one side Of the face is some
times likely to occur from chill, as one
side of the face is more likely to be ex-
poseh from rapid radiation and cUnse.
quest loss Of its heat. The chill is more
likely to occur when The sky is perfectly
clear and in a full moon. | have often
slept in the open air in India on clear
summer night when there was no moon,
and although the first part of the night
may have been hot, yet towards 2 or 3
o'clock in the morning the chill has been
so great that have often been awakened
by an ache in my forehead, which have
as often c0untcracted by wrapping II
handkerchief round my head and draw
ing the blanket over my face. As the
chill is likely to he greatest on very
clear night, and the clearest nights are
likely to be those on which there is d
bright moonshine, it is very possible that
neuralgia, paralysis, or some other SINH
lar injury caused by sleeping in the open
air, has been attributed to the moon
when the proximate cause may really
have been the chill.
Year: 1877

The EMPLOYMENT OF TME.-Thc foun
dation of all economy is wise DISPOSE
tion of time. Let that be acquired and
true economy in everything else will in.
hlibIy and speedily follow and the
most difficult step toward acquiring it is
real and wise economy OF time. Econo-
my has, in fact, got very bad character
with the great majority OF the people be.
cause it is confounded with stinginess !;
though in fact they are so far from be-
ing connected that stinginess is q very
deadly enemy to real economy, while
liberality and generosity must be con-
fined to words and wishes where econo-
my is not served.


Still some persons imagine that if they
play the niggard with every cent and
every article Of which they can once OBJ
tain possession they are good econo-
roists, A more wretched and complete
mistake cannot be made. Economy is
the right employ ment of money and
means, not the boarding or burying of
them. To save is very laudable and de-
sirable, but it is not saving to lay up GER
tain pieces of coin while we shiver for
the want of fuel or faint for the want OF
the food which those pieces of coin
would purchase to do so is to save it at
the expense of that health and that du-
ration of life which no amount of money
can purchase or compensate tor.
Year: 1877

A bride on railroad car, seeing her
husband take something rolled up in
brown paper from his pocket, snatchcd it
from his hands AMI threw it out of the
window saying, that he promised to give
up chewing tobacco. The young man
told her that she had thrown away all
the money he had in the world.
Year: 1877

There is hope in extravaganza; there
is none in routine.


The blast that blows loudest is soon
overblown.


Each succeeding day is the scholar Of
that which preceded.


Assurance never failed to get admis-
sion into the houses of the great.


Envy, among other ingredients, has a
mixture of justice in it. We are more
angry at undeserved than deserved good
fortune.


A passionate and revengeful temper
renders man unfit for advice, deprives
him of his reason, and robs him of all
that is great and noble in his nature.


Affection can withstand very severe
storms of rigor, but not polar frost of
downright indifference. Love will sub
sist on wonderfully little hope, but not
altogether without it.


Nothing can be more unfounded than
the notion that love of reading, or OF
science, or of any kind of knowledge units
man for lis daily occupation, or makes
him discontented with it.


A man diseased in body can have little
Joy of his wealth, be it ever so much. A
golden crown cannot cure the headache,
nor velvet slipper give ease to the gout,
nor purple rope drive away burning
fever.


Be more prudent for your children
than perhaps you have been for yourself:
When they, too, are parents, they will
initiate you, and each of you will have
prepared happy generations, who will
transmit, together with your memory,
the worship of your wisdom.
Year: 1877

London deserves the palm for having
the most daring thieves on record. A
man went to see house to rent in q
street near Drury Lane. He left the
horse standing at the door and returned
in five minutes. The horse and buggy
were there still, but everything else was
gone. The thieves of the vicinity had
stolen the gig-lamps, the apron, the rug,
the cushion and the whip; they had
filched the very blinkers, head-stall, bel
lyband and kicking-strap off the pony ;
and however that exemplary animal had
consented to remain embarrassed be-
tween the shafts might be considered as
next door to miracle. Captious people
might object because horse and all were
not stolen, but such unfair criticism is
disarmed when it is remembered that
only five minutes time was given to
make way with the property.
Year: 1877

The efficacy of blood drinking for con-
sumptiye, nervous and dyspeptic in
valids is being freshly heralded to the
public by st. Louis paper. A visit to
the suburb of Butchertown revealed
to the reporter that during the year q
considerable number Of persons, mainly
consumptives, frequent the shambles to
partake of this remedy, and several
prominent physicians of the city certify
their belief in it's beneficial effects. At
one time five or r ,,atients were taking
this strange medicine at one of the larger
slaughter houses, and it issaid that after
the first rausea and aversion were over
come their desire for the nourishment
was intense. But the initiation is very
hard, the scent to q nervous person
being shocking one, which has to be
repeated quite often ere it becomes
familiar. The oxen are dragged in by a
windlass, knocked in the head and then
stuck AS the current of life floods
from the cash, the cups or vessels are
held to receive it, and it is drank in
stautly, with all the warmth Of healthy
vital action upon it, In this way alone
it renders good, and as may be readily
imagined it requires some exercise Of
nerves to indulge in the operation. The
taste for blood when once acquired, how
ever, does entirely away with the nausea
which attends its first use. 1t is sweet
in taste, resembling fresh milk, and the
patient desires it quite as much as a
strong, healthy person would o good
meal when hungry. 1t is far from being
unpalatable, and a moderate fondness
for it is acquired in q comparatively
short time. One physician finds that it
is not necessary to subject his patients
to the repulsive surroundings OF the
slaughter house, but places the freshly
drawn blood in q steam-warmed bottle
and then in can filled with hot water,
conveying it as quickly as possible to
the drinker. He has effected number
of cures by this means, and is of the
opinion that when consumption is treat
ed in this manner it's progress can be
arrested unless the disease has made
most serious inroads upon the lungs. 1t
has also been found most efficacious in
cases of wasting of nervous fiber, atrophy
and marasmus. Another class of patients
gain strength from inhalation and ab-
sorption of the peculiar particles which
abound in the atmosphere of the slaugh-
ter-house. This peculiar and impalpable
proces is undoubtedly the means by
which butchers acquire such exceptional
health and wonderful strength. These
patients merely sit in the apartment for
| l.
and afternoon.
Year: 1877

BY MRS. ALBERT SMITH.
A little elbow leans upon your knee,


Your tired knee, that has so much to bear ;
A childs dear eyes are looking lovingly
From underneath a thatch Of tangled hair;
Perhaps you do not heed the velvet touch
OF warm, moist fingers, folding yours sc


tight;


You do not prize this blessing over much,
You almost are too tired to pray tonight.
Bat it is blessedness. A year ago


did not see it as do to-day
We are so dull and thankless and too slow
To catch the sunshine till it slips away.
And now it seems surprising strange to me,
That, while bore the badge Of motherhood,
did not kiss more oft, and tenderly,
The little child that brought me only good.
And if, some night when you sit down to rest
You miss this elbow from your tired knee,
This restless, curling head from off your breast
This lisping tongue that chatters constantly
If from your own the dimpled hands had


slipped,


Anu ue III uebtiS III souA poiAiiS So
If the white feet into their grave had tripped
1 could not blame you for your heart ache


then


wonder so that mothers ever fret


At little children clinging to their gown;
Or that the footprints, when the days are vet
Are ever black enough to make them frown
If 1 could find little muddy boot,


Or cap or jacket, on my chamber floor;
If could kiss a rosy, restless foot,


And hear its patter in my home once more
II could mend broken cart to-day.
Tomorrow make kite, to reach the shy
There is no woman in Gods world could say
She was more bissfully content than l.
But ah the dainty pillow next my own
Is never rumpled bya shining head;
Ny singing birdling from its nest is flown;
The little boy used to kiss is dead
Year: 1877

Did it ever appear to anonymous
writer's who send scurrilous, abusive
letters TO newspapers with whose opin.
ions they chance to differ, that they
are placing themselves in an attitude
so mean as to deserve contempt?
When men have the courage to express
their sentiments either verbally or
over their own signatures their views
must command respectful considera


tion if temperately uttered. But when
they resort to the shelter of irre-
sponsible vilification and the protec-
tion of the untraceable letter, they
should not forget that he is not usual
ly considered above the grade of q
brute, who seeks to drive his knife or
strike his blow under the cover Of
darkness. The knife may sometimes
wound, the blow occasionally smart !;
but unless it be from the hand Of utter
degradation the pain cannot be 80 great
as that of him who has played the part
OF the bravado.
Year: 1877

The Board Of Engineers appointed to
investigate the sufticienoy of the foundation
OF Washington Monument. have completed
their report. There is good authority tor stat
ng that the report will condemn the founda-
ton as insufficient to warrant the completion
Of the monument on the present site.
Year: 1877

A LINE TO BUSINESS MEN.-Don't wait
for business to wake up, but wake it up.


Don't sit down to wait for business, bust
ness will sit down to wait for you.


Don't wait for, brisk times to advertise,
for then you will need the help of ad
vertising.


Don't think your last years advertising
sufficient, for your customers may conclude
you expired with the old year.


Don't become disgusted with business or
business may become disguised with you.


Don't think because you know where you
do business, aud what you keep to sell, that
all the world knows it as well.


Don't 60 out to sec what your advertising
neighbor is doing, for if you do you may
conclude to spend a little money in adver-
tising yourself.


Don't advertise, for if you do you might
have to employ another clerk, and that
would be an additiona, expense and an in
jury to tho community.
Year: 1877

man.. He invented name that will fit
two-thirds. of the boys of every genera
ton in America A grateful people
never forget the fact, and Washington,
when at the zenith Of his power, was
nominated by acclamation for the Capt.
tai of the United States. j Washington


was once discovered praying at Valley
Forge, and from the great stress laid
upon the incident by all historians, it is
judged that it was the only, time any
body ever caught him praying. He was
a braye,j good man. .lbut he dressed too


much like member of. a baseball club


to be elected presidentin these days.
Year: 1877

this degrading practice is habit
ually INDUCED in by men in the
most exalted positions in the
nation. We remember once trav-
cling in . railr9aaed aed car between
Philadelphia and Washington,
in which were two men who
made themselves conspicuously
offensive to every decent passen-
ger by their loud discussion in
terspersed in almost ever SEN
tence with the most horrible
oaths, and the unfeigned disgust
exhibited by a fellow passen-
ger when informed that they
were two distinguished Senators
of his own party, Ben. Wade, of
Ohio, and Zach. Chandler, Of
Michigan. The man who utters
obscene language in the presence
of ladies is regarded by all de-
cent people as a low-bred black
guard; he who INDUCES in pro-
family before strangers is no less
offensive, and leaves no more IA
vorablc impression of his char
acter upon the minds Of those
who hear him, though they may
themselves be guilty of the same
practices. Who in a stage coach,
railroad car or upon crowded
street, ever heard a man belching
forth ribald blasphemy, without
feeling in his heart that the man
was a ruffian, unworthy the as
sociation or respect of decent
people?


The young man who expects to
achieve honorable position, can
not afford to disregard the de-
cencies and proprieties Of social
intercourse, even in appearance.
Year: 1877

Major General Hancock has
been beaten in a suit the result
of which is Of general import
ance to hotel keepers. The ac-
ton wasbrought to recover the
value of three thousand dollars
worth Of jeweIry, stolen while
he was living at a hotel in New
York City. Having made a
contract for board it Is held that
he was not guest but board.
er, which released the hotel pro-
prietor from all responsibility.
Year: 1877

The old saying that "a mare
is a horse but a horse is not a
mare," has been put in legal
shape by a decision in the Balti-
more Criminal Court. Two
young men we're tried on an in
dictment for the larceny of a
mare valued at $780,. but the
evidence showed that the ami
NAL was a horse and not a mare,
and the defendants were acquit-
ted.
Year: 1877

ator Grover do not constrain US
to defend him against public
criticism; we but protest against
the sentiments expressed as the
cause of the assault made upon
him, which we regret to see has
the quasi endorsement of SO re-
spectacle a public journal as the
OreOninn.
Year: 1877

Joaquin Miller says of one of
his tangle-haired heroines that
she "swept the lonesome sea-. 1t
would have been more to her
credit to have been at home
sweeping the lonesome kitchen
or helping her poor old mother
wash up the supper dishes.