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Year: 1878

a farmer in this country who is
supposed TO own as good common sheep
AS any body in this locality snearcd his
flock on the 23rd, and after weighing
the necccs, found that each sheep av
eraged two and hall pounds. Take
the whole nuutas Of sheep ia this
State and they probably will not aver
age more than the above. Say that
wool is worth twenty cents per pound.
the profits from each sheep will be fifty
cents. Take now an estimate Of ileeces
of the thoroughbred Merino and Cots
void, which will not average less than
eight pounds per hoad-the net profits
on each sheep. 81 50 sl.1O in favor
Of the thoroughbred will command
higher marketable value. Now it costs
the same ro rase the thoroughbred as
the common sheep; the mutton of enc
is as good as the o,her; the profits Of
wool Of the thoroughbred is three
times greater than from the common.
Every farmer owniag flock Of sheep
should make il convenient to purchase
thoroughbred ram to improve the
quality and yield of his wool; such az
investment viii pay.-Lire Stock
Journal.


At the recent meeting OF the State
Grange the following resolution, con.
cerniug the State school book law, was
adopted.


Resolved, That is vas the mani.
fes, duty Of the legislature to protect
the citizens Of the State and promote
the interests ol education by proper
legislation. regardless of the outcry
raised hy those who hare books to sell.
That while i. is evident, that the dis
oussion Of the cheap text book question
in this State and others, with the leg
islation following it, has been largely
instrumental in breaking the publishers
ring. and, and reducing the prices of
Of books; it is equally evident that the
people kavc no security against re
turn tc the old rates, if the law Of last
winter be stricken from cur statute
books That the State Grange is in
favor Of ts:r trial Of the law, and that
it is opposed 20 any adverse action or
amendments save such as may be neces,
sary to its greater efficiency.
Year: 1878

Never tell man tnaL ne IL uaF
unless you are certain that you cam
lick him; for, as q general rule, when
you say that, it means fight.
have arrived at this conclusion
through sad experience. l know
that it is not safe to give the lie to a
muscular Christian.
/ did once. am sorry for it now:


as never grieved for anything else
in the whole course Of life.


We we're standing on the sidewalk


in isont Of the club, when made the


statement. We had been talking


politics and men who talk politics,


snd get over it, are--to put 1t mildly
-lunatics or else want an office.


This man made an assertion, toach-
ing the fair fame of my ia orite cam
didate which belisvsd to be untrue.
1t is probable that if it had been as
| true it was false, should have
taken the same course, because yea
understand man has no sense who
talks politics anyhow. | think l


said that before, but itls all the same.
want to make it strong, and get you


to understand bow got my ornamen-
tai eve.


mildly suggested that a man who
! VSsaglsl WAY sl,Ip Ipsks such statement as that,
would be guilty of any base crime.
I He disagreed with ne on that
peint.


ka for himself he never made
statement except ul on the most ample
proof. Ny candidate was the mean
est man unhung.


told him he lied.


have been kicked by mule1 have
fallen out of second story window
on hard pavement eaten greenper-
simmons; heard Miss Blow read
poetry for two hours and half;
sksted; hunted rode sharp-back-
ed horse of mustang parentage,. an
adept in the ar OF 'bucking;' suffer-
ed grief of various kinds, and siiil
clung to life-but all these are feath-
ers in the balance, as compared with
that little word liar.


Immediately aftei saying il | sat
down-not in the way people usually
sis down.


L sat on tue rim OF my right ear,
about ten feet from the spot where
I had been standing when / made
use of the expression quoted above. 1
am not used to sitting in that posi-
ton and do not ek it agrees with
me.


have heard of people who ''got up
on their ear'' and walked off. wish
I knew how 10 do it, and would have
propelled myself away from that spot
Immediately if | had possessed this
happy faculty. proceeded TO bring
myself to perpendicular fully in-
tending to use the means of locomo-
tom which nature had given ME; but
when came right side mp. something
heavy ran up aginst my nose, and as
I felt rather tired, sat down on my
other car. like a change it is too
monotonous doing the came thing
over and over again.


Somebody took my large friend
away, and was quite pleased when
he was gone. l have concluded to
look twice ut man before give tie
lie again. Ny eye 10 in mourning,
my nose swellef to the size OF d cit
ron with the color Of biush rose, ard
NV store clothes look as ii they'd been
run through q patent sausage machine.
1 would not have the mans temper
for anything in the world.
Year: 1878

One of the leaks and eXtrayagances of
Republican administration has been found.
1t is discovery worthy of Glover. 1t seems
that the Appropriations Committee of TINS
Democratic Congress, having that profound re-
gard for economy which always charactcrizcs
the party that makes appropriations for
the opposition to spend, cut down the
appropriation for the Post Office Department
TO such figure as to leave a deficiency of
$450,000, and involve the necessity for dis


continuing the postal-car service. This was
what went under the name of Reform. 1t
is specimen of the measures by which
the Democratic majority in Congress reduced
the appropriations on the score of economy.
The deficiency bill is the common and ordi-
nary supplement to these great retrenchment
measures An easy way for political party
in the position of the Democracy to make a
reputation for economy is to cut down the
estimates Of an opposition Administration for
O certain amount of service IN q department,
and whether it cripples the department or leaves
a deficiency to bs provided for, to dance
around the figures and point to them with
Year: 1878

1t is understood that Mayor Ely contempates
making some appointment about the time Of the
HOLIDAYS to fill the vacancy in the Board Of Taxes
and ApportiOnmcnt created by the resignation Of
Mr. George II. Andrews. 1t is also reported that
there Is n good deal Of doubt and speculation
around the City Hall to where this import
ant appointment is likely to fall. There
ought to be no doubt at all. The consenting
Judgment Of the press and OF the taxpayers has
already with singular uuanimty pointed out the
man best fitted for the place. II has very rarely
happened that there has been 80 clear and united an
expression of opinion. Mr. Coleman, for many
wears deputy in the office, IS recognized by all hav-
ing much 10 do with the business rs being prob.
ably the very best Judge Of real estate values, and
the hest eduippCd authority on the whole range of
the duties in this Office to he found i'll Ncw-lork


II would be a blunder little short Of crime il
tins modest and panstaking public servant should
be set aside IN order 10 confer 50 important al APP
peintment upon some political or personal fayorlte.
Mayor Ely would do himself great injustice If he
should sgnalze the close of his honorable and use
full term by any other than the very best nomina-
ton for such place, aud we prefer, therefore.
to believe that, knowing as he does both
from his own observations and from the
voluntary testimony Of the press and the taxpayers
Of New-York, Mr.. Colemans peculiar fitness, he is
about to send in his name. No interest in New.
York could fail TO be gratifed at the appointment,
unless it should be that Of some Of the large cor.
Year: 1878

With the approach of the holidays and the already
crowded state of the principal shops, the usual cases
of larceny real or alleged, recurring. At one OF
the principal establishments on Tuesday last. q
woman. with her purse full of money, was arrested
for stealing an article of very little value; and
though she loudly protested her innocence she was
committed for trial. The circumstance may be re-
pcated at any time and in any shop and it is quite
proper to caution purchasers against any careless
ness through which they may fall under suspicion
of dishonesty. Unfortunately perfect respectable
ity and rectitude not enough to protect
purchasers from the ignOminy of accuse
tion. The shcpkeepers for certain reasons.
are under the impression that they are daily robbed.
sometimes by professional shOplifers, but oftener
by female amateurs in crime. This impression is
acted upon, and sometimes occasions great hard
ship Ladies should be upon the alert. while making
their inspection and purchases, to do nothing which
may lead not Overwise shop-men and shOp-women


into what may charitably be called mistakes; while
traders themselves will 90 well to remember that
the majority of the people are honest Whether
there is any remedy for the constant exposure OF
great quantities OF goods the depredatons of pill
fcrcrS we cannot say but are sure that one
should be discovered if possible.
Year: 1878

1t is difficult to realize that the premium on
gold has actually disappeared. A whole gen
Grafton has grown mp while gold has been
boarded as more valuable than papcr, to whom
the equal values of the two currcnclcS VIII
come as something like a discovery. Since
the dark days early in the civil war, seven
teen years ago, gold has never been so low
as it was on Tuesday, when sales were made
on the street at par, and while slight pre-
MUM still exists III official transactions, 1t Is
well understood that it is artificial and
must soon vanish This is resumption i'll
the way originally recommended-by resum-
ing; it is resumption in fulfilment OF the
pledges of the Ncw-York bankers who told
Secretary Sherman that paper would be worth
as much as gold fifteen days before the date
fixed by law for resumption, and found their
prediction verified to the letter. Indeed II Is
now declared to be PROBABLE that the premium
will be reversed, and that lcgal-tender notes
will be worth little more than gold. On
the whole it must be admitted that the Re
sumption Act has failed miSerably as " him
drance to resumption
Year: 1878

its being necessary to organize an agitation Tor such


purpose Ito rid this city of certain manufactures
of filth that had clustered about it. poisoning ts
air and its rivers; and very uphill work ne mas
found it and will still find 1t! snch
is the impregnablhty of established NUS
ances. 1t is even more difficult to silence un-
necessary sounds, for mankind with characteristic
peryerslty, actually become attached to them.
Cy-bred people find the country too quiet to sleep
in. It was only the other day that lady wrote to
newspaper to say that she missed on Sundays the
rush of the elevated railroad trains past her win
dow, with their flashes of faces and costumes! No
doubt if cities, by scientific and official effort were
made actually quiet, there wOnld be hosts OF
grumblers to recall the good old days when there
was plenty of noise.
Year: 1878

Well drained subject overflow soil FERTILE


the ow There is road to the products by
this road by boats from the premises TERMS
offered Territory fine farm JUST THE
TON FOR COLONYl be divided
of which will yield abunan support for family Address
Year: 1878

CAUSE OF DEoAYING TEETH.-The
general prevalence of dental carries is
chiefly owing to food remaining on and
between the teeth after meals-from
breakfast time till the following morning
when, according to custom, they are
brushed; brushed, but probably not
cleaned, as the brush Is more often used
to polish the surface merely than to
assist in removing what has accumulated
between them.
Year: 1878

me, could through all my days have
lived in easy circumstances.


"Your IN temper has ruined your
husband aud blighted your life" said
the cauting old hypoerite, his voice as
suming the old monotone.


NV unwelcome guests were welcome
/ to all they could enjoy in my house after
that greeting was over. / certainly
made them as miserable as / knew how,
and my temper did not improve during
their soiourn, which was necessarily
prolonged a week TO enable them to en-
bark on the next boat.


Gerald kept his room for very shame
while they we're in the house.


Poor old Chalmers He had tried
hard TO preserve the vigor of youth, but
his once upright form had a suspicious
stoop, and his few iron-grey side-locks
had turned snowy white with the ad-
vancing years. He was mortally jeal-
Gus Of his guilty companion, who
seemed to stand in awe of him, as
though he had her bound under the
power Of a mysterious secret. really
believe he had secret power over her.
Indeed, fancy that she is a murderer
at large, and that he knows it, else do
not believe she could be ruled by him,
for she is yet young as compared to
him, and he certainly is of no advantage
to her. But it seems as though some
men were born to worry the very lives
out Of some women.


The days wore on, and the packet
came in sight that was to bear them
away, and then breathed more freely.
Did not the very presence OF that old
bypocrite blight the countenance Of my
first born? And was it not primarily
his fault thatd was now without son
to care for me in my old age?


They paid their bill-a round one
without protest. Indeed, believe they
would not have returned a word if it
had been ten times the amount; and as
they went their way, swapping and
snarling at each other like pair of en-
ragged cats, could not help remem-
bering Ethel Gaeme, my kinswoman,
and saying softly to myself, "Dear
cousin, you are thoroughly avenged"


l was recalled TO my cares in the
house by the horrible screams OF Ger
aid, my husband, whom l found wrlth-
ing again under the terrible malady Of
mania potU


Poor fellow


Through "a grating in his door, which
had caused 10 be made to enable
me 10 pass him food and drink
when in his paroxysms, he was glaring
like the maniac he was; and oh how
pitifully he entreated me to take his life
and end his misery.


81 have blighted your whole life,
Ethel. 1 kidnapped you in the be-
ginning. Then / married you that
might atone; but I didn't know l
didn't know didn't know % he cried,
his voice dying away in piteous wsils,
as you have sometimes heard a child's
when in the power Of an enraged parent,
who, with upraised whip, stands wait
ing to repeat again aud again the cruel
blows. But it was conscience that was
whipping Gerald with cat-o'-nine Of
scorpions.


All, me


I reached him a portion of rum, but
when he essayed to take measure from
my hand, he dropped it, as though il
were an adder that had bitten him.
/ wish that every young man in the
land who dallies on the edge of the
preeipiee OF moderate drinking could
have heard the temperance address that
my poor husband delivered, standing
there, as he believed, among writhing
school Of venomous reptiles.


Concluded uevf week
Year: 1878

The Republican minority had the satisfaction
Wednesday of witnessing great battle in the
House over the Military Academy bill-the sat-
isfaction of one looking upon battle who has
no friend, no brother there. The fierce debate
hsdits origin some days before in hasty
proposition by Mr.. Aiken of South Carolina
to put the West Point Military Academy up
at auction. This proposition was so shame
less that it even quickened the slow blood of
a Northern Democrat, and Mr.. Hewitt of
New York sharply responded, insinuating
that the Southern desire for the destruction
of West Point had its origin in sulkiness over
the failure of the rebellion. OF course the
New York member was at ouce bitterly as
sailed by the Southern Representatives and
subjected to no end Of abuse.


BY Wednesday Mr.. Hewitt had repented
himself of his brave words and after the old
manner of the Northern doughface, pro-
ceeded to make an apology. His attempts to
explain away the truth were not however,
received in conciliatory spirit by his South
ern brethren. He was taunted with the
cowardice of the Northern Democracy during
the war. (which was proper enough) and ac-
cused of selling out his party; he was told
that he lied in his heart and lied in his foul
throat, and his name was pleasantly coupled
with that of Benedict Arnold. To the spec
tators it seemed that the good old plantation
days had come back, when the chlvaric
Southerner ''whallopped his nigger'' at home
and his Northern opponent In Congress
The Southern man who used the most abu-
sive epthets is said in the associated
apparently ilr'-probably euphuism for
"evidently drunk.' Mr.. Hewitt was not
however disposed to make any allowances on
account of the intoxicaton of his opponents,
but got very mad and charged upon the
Southerners that they had sold out their party
in order to secure the withdrawal OF the
troops from South Carolina and Louisiana
Thereupon a general debate sprang up, and
many men felt called upon to deny that any
bargain had been made. Indeed there was
over-much protesting.


The debate lasted nearly two hours, and
showed that the South has not abated its
high pretensons nor reformed its insolent
manners during its long exile from Congress.
The discussion was almost wholly confined to
the Democrats, who called each other liars
and rogues with great earnestness and not a
little appearance of truth. One thing how
ever was shown: that Northern men with
Southern sympathies cannot cringe and fawn
so readily as in former days. A determined
attempt was made, but it was not entirely
successful. If this sort of thing goes on we
shall have a solid North before we know it,.
Year: 1878

AS Mr.. Hale said in the National House
Wednesday, the South is determined to Grip
pie the army. Little by little it is impairing
the efficiency of our national police. Its
object is evident. It was admitted by a DEM
ocrat on the floor of the House Wednesday
that there would have been another rebellion
had not the troops been Withdrawn from the
Southern States. Perhaps when the army is
sufficiently crippled the new war will come.
Meanwhile Northern Democrats are aiding
the South in its schemes. The necessity OF
solid North is every day becoming more
apparent.
Year: 1878

THE distinction between the irreconcllables
and the "stdtus quo party in the Sacred
College is one without difference, for the
present attitude of the Catholic Church is
an attitude OF determined hostility. Two
new candidates for the succession to the
Papacy seem to have arisen, Cardinals Mo-
retti and Canossa
Year: 1878

PRESIDENT Hayes is naturally very much
shocked and grieved that the Louisiana peo-
pie will act so when he has been so good to
them. He is actually growing violent. and
says ominously that if they don't behave
better he will do something 10 them which
will make them wish they had Grant back
again. He don't seem to realize that he has
sentimentally surrendered all his power for
good or i'll in the matter. His present belig-
erent attitude would be funny if the case
were not so serious.
Year: 1878

THE House betriends the porgy against
the porgy fisher, and gives him few more
chances for life. The vote seems to have
been the result Of combination between
the salmon and the porgy, hitherto not sup
posed to be on particularly friendly terms.
Year: 1878

We do not read anonymous etters ana communi
cations. The and address of the writer are in
all cases Indispensable not necessarily for publication
but as guaranty of good faith.


We cannot undertake to return or preserve CON-
munications that are not used.
Year: 1878

ENGLAND never was particular about her
allies. She will not hesitate to raise the
standard of the Prophet and call every Ma
hometan in Asia and Africa to her aid, if she
thinks that will help her
Year: 1878

- NEW YORK, May lS


The Times Washington special says:
A gentleman in the confidence of the
President and having perfect knowledge
of his views respecting the recent pro-
ceedings of the Democratic majority of
the House said this evening that the
President, while maintaining his natural
equanimity of temper, was not inclined
to look lightly on the situation. He did
not think it was q matter to treat with
indifference. Great events in history
had sprung from smaller beginnings.
Tracing the movement from its birth,
the President has been struck with its
rapid growth. He points to the signifi-
cant circumstance that such independ-
ent and influential men as Alex. ii.
Stephens are already pOwerless to stay
the caucus mandate.


Whatever the result of an investiga-
ton might be, whatever disclosures
might result therefrom, the President
entertained no fear that anything could
be brought home to him. IL any per-
son made any promises in his behalf,
or entered into any bargains, they did
so without his knowledge, and he hoped
their acts would be exposed.


The President regards the action of
Southern DemOcrats in supporting the
investigation scheme as ungrateful in
the highest degree. Irrespective of
other considerations, when he assumed
the Executive office, he found the South,
or at least a large portion of it, dis
tracted and torn asunder by political
strife almost bordering on revolution.
He gave the South peace, South Caro-
Year: 1878

ST. PETERSBURG, May 16.


Notwithstanding the secrecy observed
in regard to Count Schouvaloff's re-
ports to the Emperor, and conference
at the Foreign Office, the various points
whereby real understanding may be
obtained form the subject of discussion
in well-informed political circles.


Though in the first place the neces-
sity of securing the great object of the
neutrality-suspicious. of the Christians
insisted upon, there is on the other hand
no disposition to inscribe " A0i me td1e-
gere" on the map of New Bulgaria,
which was only set up as provisional
draft. At the same time other COM
pensations than those fixed upon in
lieu of war indemnity are not regarded
as excluded from the discussion.


While il is declared that there can
be absolutely no serious idea of the
retrocession of Kars, the same is not
true of Batoum. The advantage to
Russia of the acquisition of Batoum is
said to have its reverse side, inasmuch
as millions must be expended in the
construction of convenient lines of COM
munication and proper Notifications be-
fore the possession of the place could
be rendered of great importance.


In the peaceful current of general in
dications favorable significance is at
tached to the fact that the right of sale
in the street has been Withdrawn from
the GoloS, which had lately adopted a
warlike course, while the BourSe Ga
zette and Net0 Times which recently OBJ
served an attitude favorable to peace,
had that privilege restored to them.