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Year: 1877

Especial to the Democrat


VERSAILLES, June 21.-The discussion upon
the report of the various bureaus in favor of
the dissolution of the Chamber of Deputies
was begun in the Senate to-day. Victor Hugo,
in long speech, pointed out the importance
of the Senate in crisis like the present one
where there is a serious conflict between the
Executive and Legislative departments of the
State
Year: 1877

The LECTURE ON like" THIS EvEN1SG.-Odd
Fellows Hail, on Camp street, will be thrown
open to. night for the purpose of hearing the Rev
DR.. Furman deliver his famous lecture on the
Life and Character Of Lee" The receipts are
for the benz fit of the Lee Monumental Fund oI
this city. The reputation OF the Reverend Doctor
is worldwide, and We hope for the cause, for the
uoetor and for our peoples sake, a full house
will greet him. Tickets only so cents; can be
had 1t the deer.
Year: 1877

engagement not to enter the principality, and
that for the present at least the Prince Is not
likely to resume hostilities.


Mobilization of the Austrian troops Ill
Pennsylvania and on the Servian frontier mas
been decided on.
Year: 1877

taken MS determining the annual rate now paid.
Consequently, the tables do not represent the sum
or rate actually paid within the last IL months,
where the latest dividend is of increased or decreased
rate they show the contrary, the rate nor beng
paid annually, and the amount which, If that rate
continues. will be disbursed in dividends within the
current year. Wherever road is known to have
passed its last regular sem-anDual or quarterly div
dend it is not included at all. In the following all
the dividend paying roads not under lease are gwen
with their stock. the annual rate and annual amount
of payment indicated by the latest dividend, aud the
amount actually paid during the fiscal year lSTo-O
as reported in PoOrs latest Manual:
Year: 1877

VIENNA.-The first impression of vi
emma is that it is like Paris. The streets
are lively, the buildings handsome, and
some of the people very Frenchy in their
appearance. There are indeed great
many French people there, and one hears
the language continually on the streets
and in the cafes. There is large per-
centage of the people who are Italians,
or of Italian blood, and the Vienna Ger
man is not the light blonde of the North
so much as the dark hair, complexion,
and eyes of the South and East. There
is superabundance Of Jews there as in
all German cities. In Vienna they seem
to crop out more as individuality. Since
the tearing down of the old row of jew
ish houses in Frankfort, the Jew Of that
city has become absorbed in the general
population. In Berlin he is Individual
lied only as an old clothes buyer on the
street corners, and Jew and Gentle are
commingled on the street and on the
Bourse. In Vienna, however, they form
a more prominent feature Of the land
scape.
Year: 1877

Tue young ladies of Newark, N. j.,
who belong TO Temperance organizations,


pledge themselves not to associate with
young men who use intoxicating drinks.
These young ladies belong to wealthy
families, and their influence is being felt
by the young men, some Of whom have
aligned the pledge rather than lose the
society Of the fair temperance advocates.
Year: 1877

II is the great privilege Of poverty to
be happy unenvied, TO be healthy with
out physics, secured without a guard, and
70 obtain from the DO ounty Of nature what
the great and wealthy are compelled t.
procure by the help Of art.
Year: 1877

The mission of the Republican party
ended years ago. For decade it has
rested on Fictitious foundation. Many
of the best men in the North who have
hitherto affiliated with it, arc recognize
ing the fact and joining the Democratic
ranks. This they can do without sac
rifice of principle, for the Democracy of
to-day is not what it was fifteen years
ago. Every other issue has become SUBJ
servient to that of reform, and reform
means "cling to the Constitution, MAIN
tain the liberties of the people.n With
such cry going up from the heart Of
the masses, the Radical leaders will not
have the temerity to resist, much less to
attack. To fly in the face ofputllc SEN
timent under such circumstances would
be to render their destruction but the
more complete. They are showing that
they appreciate this by every move they
have recently made on the political
chess-board and it should be the duty
of the Democracy to see that the nation
does not fail to profit by the lesson it
conveys. Our hope is in standing firm.
Our danger, and one we cannot too care
fully guard against. is in being tempted
by offers of compromise. We should
keep in view that to listen to such prop
ositions would be to surrender principle
| and show a weakness the conspirators
would not fail to take advantage Of
RichnOnd Enquirer.
Year: 1877

SEED WHEAT.-Farmers, in running
your wheat through the tanning mill
after threshing do not be satisfied with
merely making clean seed; aim at pro-
ducing a grade of wheat that will 'ceigh );
run it through the mill until every
shrunben and small seed and weed seed
is screened and blown out, even if you
have to run it through three times, yes
even five times aim at obtaining good,
plump heavy grain. and when you har-
vest your crop another year you will see
the benefit of giving time and care to the
selection of seed wheat. This is the way
to improve crops; do not look only to
good cultivation and manuring; select
good seed as WE'LL If farmers would take
more pains with their seeds as well as
to the fertilizing and the cultivation of
their crops, they would have a greatly
increased product per acre, and conse-
quently with less cost and more profit.
Year: 1877

There is scarcely to be found a NOR


striking picture of consecrated energ,


and jealous determination of characte


than is presented in Longfellow's beau


tiful poem Excelsior" One canno


read it without a thrilling feeling o


anxiety to be Influenced to the arousa


of such purpose of heart and life as thu
! Alpine youth illustrated. Nothing wa!


8 strong enough to stay him in the ac
! complishment Of the purpose he had il
view. Around him were blazing the


warm fires of the cottage homes; the
| friendly sire bid him not to try the pass
the fair maiden besought him to stay
and rest his weary head upon her breast
the peasant closed the door of his rude


home with warning that he should


beware of the threatening avalanche
the monks of st. Bernard beckoned him


to stay. 1t was all in vain! To him
even death itself was sweeter than a
failure to attain to the lofty height.


For us all there is mark to reach
AS to whether we shall reach it at all,
or, if we do, how we shall, be it the
province of our thoughts, our feelings,
our character, to determine. Haven it
is who speaks of the fact that in the inn
agination of every one there is an inn
age Of the being he may be and ought
to be-a conception of what he can do
and ought to do "This image,n he
says, ''is constantly fitting before u.s.
Whether we are sitting or walking,
working or idling, it is ever before u.s."
True, indeed, is it that this ideal of our
possible selves may never be reached,
but, without it, we would never be what
we are.


To-day we visited home from which
God has just taken bright boy
the idol of the parents hearts. 1t was
crushing to hear the sad wall from the
mothers heart, as, again and again, she
said: "Oh how can / bear it?" And,
as the coffin lid was raised, to hear her
sob: "Oh these dear little hands! They
are colder and colder every time feel
them" The home is lonely now. The
merry laugh and childish prattle of
thrills of joy to the hearts of his fond
parents.


Death! How Gods providences are
every day teaching US that we must die!
The majestic rocks which jut their jag
ged points from out our mountain sides
have written on their surfaces the
changes which nature has wrought up
on them; the seasons as they roll on
in their ceaseless course whisper of
change; our bodies, frail and subject to
disease, every muscle of which may
become an avenue of torturing pain, are
daily undergoing changes. We are pass
ing away. ''How prone we all are," as
said the Roman philosopher, 'to think
all men mortal save ourselves" But
for each there is to be grave, a coffin,
a shroud, concourse of weeping loved
ones, a painful struggle with death and
a final yielding to his power. If, in
deed, we think of death as connected
with ourselves we are prone to place it
at the end of a long and happy life
And yet child may be called to 60
1.-The young, the middle aged matron
and maid must all be gathered to the
last long sleep of DEATH" Step by step
we are going to our graves-each pulsa-
tion is bringing us nearer!


Kanawha Falls, W. Va.
Year: 1877

HHScttOUulefy uSCTtOeQ u Z<f-~tf - CVJfNfS.
Col. Christie of North Carolina fell MORALLY
wounded at the battle of Gettysburg, while gal
breastworks. He was taken to winchester
where he was nursed tenderly Until his DEATH
He longed to see his young wife..his darling
LiZZie-but when she reached Winchester he
was dead. His last words were, kiss me for
Lizzie. .'-Ertrdctf from q Letter.
The bravest are the truest-
The loving are the daring.
am dying. Is she coming? The window


open wide.
Is she coming: Oh 1 love her more than all


the world beside.
In her young and tender beauty, must she


know and feel this loss?
Saviour, hear my poor petition-teach her


humbly how to bear this cross;
Help her to be calm and patient when mould


er in the dust;
Let her say and feel my Father, that Thy ways


are true and just.
Is she coming: Go and listen. I would see


her face once more;
would hear her speaking to me ere life's fe-


vered dream is DER;
would fold her to my bosom-look into her


soft bright eye;
would tell her how I love her-kiss her once


before die.
Is she cominge Oh. it's evening, and my dar-


ling comes not still;
Lift the curtain. it grows darker-lt is sunset


on the hill.
All the evening dews are H,lling-T am cold
the light is gone.
Is she coming? Softly, softly, comes death s


silent footsteps on,


darling WIFE 2
Take for her my parting blessing-take the last
warm kiss OF life;
Tell her will wait to greet her where the good
and lovely are
In that home untouched by sorrow; tell her
she must meet me there.
Is she coming: Lift the curtain, let me see the
falling light;
Oh, 1 went to see her; surely she will come to-
night.


Surely the daylight tlieth. I will fold her to
my breast,


With her head upon my BISON, calmly could
sink to rest.
| 1t is hard to die without her. Look, think
she is coming now,
1 can almost feel her kisses on my faded cheek
aud brow:
| I can almost hear her whisper-feel her cheek
upon MY cheek.
Hark hear the front door open. is she COM
ing? Did she speak?
No! Well, drop the curtain softly. 1 will see
her face no more,
Till see 1t smiling me Oh bright and better
shore
Tell her she must come and meet me in that
Eden land of light.
Tell her I'll be waiting for her where there is
no death, no night;
Tell her that called her darling-blessed her


with my parting breath; ,1.l
Come and kiss me for my Lizzie; tell her love
outliveth death.
Year: 1877

BROWNS MATRIMONIAL METHOD
Brown, don't see how it is that your
girls all marry eff as soon as they get old
enough, while none ofmine can marry ?"


ooh! that's simple enough. I marry
my girls off on the the buckwheat straw
principle


"But what is that principle: I never
heard of it before"


"Well, used to raise a good deal of
buckwheat, and it puzzled me to know
how to get rid of the straw. Nothing
would eat it, and it was a great bother
to me. At last thought of plan. 1
stacked my buckwbeat straw nicely and
built high rail fence around it. My
cattle, of course, concluded it was some-
thing good, and at once tore down the
fence and began to eat the straw. 1
dOgged them away and put up the fence
away the more anxious they became to
eat the straw. After this had been re-
peated a few times the cattle determined
to eat the straw, and eat it they did, ev-
cry bit OF it. As 1 said I marry my
girls off on the same principle. When
a young man 1 don't like begins calling
on my girls 1 encourage him in every
way can. I tell him to come often
and stay as late as he pleases, and I take
pains to hint to the girls that 1 think
they'd set their caps for him. 1t works
first rate. He don't make many calls,
for the girls treat him as coolly as they
can. But when q young fellow like
comes around, man that think would
suit me for son-in-law, don't let him
make many calls before l give him to
understand that he isn't wanted around
my house. tell the girls, too, that they
shall not have anything to DO with him,
and give them orders never to speak to
him again. The plan always works
first rate. The young folks begin to
pity each other and the next thing
know they are engaged to be married.
When see that they are determined to
marry 1 always give in and pretend to
make the best of it. That's the way I
manage it."-Da6uque Telegraph.
Year: 1877

REMEDY FOR TROUBLE.-Work is
your true remedy. If misfortune hits
you hard, you hit something else hard ;
pitch into something with will
There's nothing like good, solid, absorb
ing, exhausting work to cure trouble
If YOU have met with losses, you don't
want to lie awake and think about them.
You want to sleep-calm, sound sleep
and to eat your dinner with appetite.
But YOU can't unless you work. Ifyou
saw YOU don't feel like work, you go
loafing all day to tell Dick and Harry
the story of your woes, you'll lie awake
and keep your wife awake by your toss
ing, spoil your temper and your break
fast the next morning and begin tO-mOr-
row feeling ten times worse than you do
to-day.


There are some great troubles that
only time can heal, and perhaps some
that never can be healed at all ;
but all can be helped by the great pan
acea, work. Try it, you who are afflict
ed. 1t is not patent medicine. 1t has
proved its efficiency since first Adam
and Eve left behind them, with weep
ing, their beautiful Eden. 1t is an effi-
cient remedy. All good physicians in
regular standing prescribe it in cases OF
mental and moral disease. 1t operates
kindly as well as leaving no disagreea-
BILE sequele, and we assure you that We
have taken large quantity of it with
most beneficial results. 1t will cure
more complaints than any nOstrum in
the materia medica. and comes nearer
to being "cure alp than any drug OF
compound of drugs in the market. AnC
it will not sicken you if you do not take
it sugar-coated.- Nea0 Yorker.
Year: 1877

Diaz is said to have spent more than
million dollars of his private fortune in
endeavoring to become President of
Mexico. How many millions of other
peoples fortunes ne has also spent is not
stated,
Year: 1877

A philosopher says every married man should have dog in the house. A dog will scare off robbers at night, eat up stale scraps of meat. and when you come home out of humor and find supper an hour In arrears, you can give vent to your wrath by kicking the animal clear across the room.
Year: 1877

track and abandoned. There were about seventy-hve
passengers board. All trains that arrived from the
West the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern will
until further notice, further east than Erie


DELAYED MAILS.


About ten tons Of mails are lying on the trains The
Superintendent OF the announced the trains
will be run through 10 Buffalo when the difficulty IN
that place shall have been settled as to allow the
passing OF mail trains.
Year: 1877

We clip the following from the
Brown County News. It is good, it
is true. The hardest word in the
English language to say is no.
Don't say n-no. Say NO! and stand
by it:


Young man, you have signed the
Murphy temperance pledge. Stand
firm. When any of your associates
approach you with a bland smile and
ask you to go in and take q drink
stand firm. Remember, when tempt
ed, the noble words, "Stand Firm.
Write them on your memory, keep
them in your mind at all times. Be
firm, and have the nerve to say no.
Unless you can say no, you are very
weak, and will hardly be able to
stand firm. The man who can bold
" say no, when an immoral or hurt
full proposition is presented for his
acceptance, will be honored, even by
those who present the bad thing.
Young man, stand firm in a good
cause. Stand firm to good resolu-
tions formed. Stand firm for n
time, and soon your tempters will
| cease their evil efforts to lead you
astray. Stand firm, and God viii
help and sustain you.
Year: 1877

Mr. EDIToR Il would like to say a few words
in the columns Of your paper in regard to the
School Teachers of this county. As we all know,
there is large number Of them, aud the method
that some of them pursue IN order to obtain
schools, by undertaking and trampliDg on one Of
the highest principles of the profession is one Of
the great causes of the decline of wages in our
county.


We all know that every effort las been made by
thOte who have the power, to bring the wages to
as low a standard as they possibly could. And
when one who claims to be member Of this pro-
fession, in making application for a school, will
agree to teach for less Than the established price,
for the purpose of obtaining the school, he not
only treats his brOtherteachers and the profession
with contempt, but he endorses one of the great
causes by which wages have been decreased in
our county. Such persons are doing a great in
jury to the profession.


1t is time that the teachers of our county should
stand together on the platform of universal respect
to their brOther-teachers, and when one is found
go void of respect to the profession as to resort to
this uuprofessional conduct, he should be com
PEELED to leave It.


This subject is one that should not be forgotten
by the Teachers Institute Of our county, nor by
the Board of Examiners. Something can be
done to eradicate this injurious element from our
midst, and it should be done quickly.


ACuJEp
Year: 1877

The wool excitement that was
started in Sandusky a week Ogo has
spread all over Ohio. Forty cents
for good wool is the current price in
all markets in the State. Fancy
clips 60 at 43 to As cents. Hard
lots go as low as 80 to 35 cents. IN
washed goes at % to 80 cents.
Most of the clip will be sold in the
next ten days. The wool in the mid
die and southern part of Ohio is
being bought on Eastern account,
while the wool in the northern part
of the State is bought and held for
sale by local buyers. When they
get $4,000 to 100000 pound lots
they will find buyers after it at fair
prices. While wool is much higher
than last year it is at a reasonable
price. Wool at under 40 cents cents
a pound is too low, at A cents is too
high TSandusky Register.
Year: 1877

Boston Transcriptl-T Throughout
the entire South it is not difficult to
discover a better state of feeling
than has existed at any time since
the destruction of the Rebellion.
Everywhere a perceptible softening
of the bitterness which has prevailed
for years makes itself manifest, and
the South begins to look as if enter
tanning the same fraternal sentiment
as dominates the North. The dead
level of opinion has begun to fade
away, and indications increase that
hereafter there is to be aShealthy op-
position to the plans of the leaders
who have recently had their own way
in the Southern States generally.
This gratifying change has been pro
duced as a natural effect of remov-
ing the causes of discord and hatred
by the President of the United
States. All accounts go to show
that Southern men, feeling their po-
sit:On in the Union assured, and IN
accompanied by any odious disabili-
ty, are turning their attention to
business and leaving politics alone,
as has not been the case for many
years in their history. This must
tell upon the general prosperity of
the country, and strengthen the ad-
ministration with the people of all
sections of the Union.
Year: 1877

New York HeraId.-Our special
dispatch from Cincinnati foreshad-
ows the platforms upon which the
two parties will present their candi-
dates to the people of Ohio. 1t will
be found that in the main the decla
rations will be- the same on both
sides, and but the for cbeapluxury of
denouncing the fraudulent character
of Presidents Hayes election, in
which the Democrats Will indulge,
the several candidates might change
sides without any loss of principle
We are not disposed to place reli-
.anee on the rumors of Republican
detection in Ohio. The people of
that State are thrifty, and the Re
publican portion of them will do
their best in the first election since
the Presidential contest to prove
that they deserve some considera-
tiUn at the hands of the Administra-
ton. mall probability the election
will be decided more by the person
al character of the candidates put in
nomination than by the principles
advanced on their behalf.
Year: 1877

Senator Stanley Matthews is con
fdent of a Republican victory in
Ohio this fall. He says there is not
the slightest doubt about the result
of the election, and that the Re
publicans are certain to carry net
only the gubernatorial, but the leg
islative ticket. The silver question
will absorb all other issues in the
campaign, but the Republican Con
vention will adopt as plank in
the platform a resolution declaring
in favor of the remonetization of
silver, which will be acceptable to
all Republicans disposed to be dissat-
isfed on account of the financial
outlook.
Year: 1877

We know that a disOrdered stomach or
liver produces more suffering than any
other cause. We know that very few ply
sicians are successful in their treatment Of
these disorders. We know that Da COsta's
Radical Cure will, without the shadow Of
doubt, almost Immediately relieve and
permanently cure all Of these distressing
symptoms. We know Of thousands Who
are willing to testify that what we say is
tr1e to the letter. We know that if You
will give It a fair trial, you viii let as add
vonr name to the ''cloud of witnesses.
win you give it a trial, and do it now z
Trial size, only 25e. Sold by JAMES
BROWN.


Professor Parker's Pleasant Worm Sy-
rup is perfectly safe and extremely palata-
bic. No physic required. Costs % cents
Try It. myS4eoWtc
Year: 1877

The owners of the Great Eastern
are, it is said, considering the pro
priety of converting that magnii-
cent vessel into a huge refrigerating
chamber for the conveyance of Amer
ican meat.
Year: 1877

Toledo Blade:-Stanley Matthews
is believed to be doing very efficient
work toward organizing the cam
paign in this State for a successful
issue, and to his efforts is credited
the position the Administration Is
assuming upon the silver question,
in favor of the reconciliation of the
old silver dollar, and the restoration
of silver to its legal tender quality.
This is something that should be re
membered to the Senator's credit
Year: 1877

have Just received large and fresh stock which
I will positively sell a. a SMALLER PROFIT
than any other house in town, because my cx-
penses are smaller, and / can afford to do so. Ny
motto viii be