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Year: 1877

A letter from Prineville TO the Dalles
Nountofaeer gives the following items Of I'M
terest: ..The mining fever still glows with
a steady flame guess that there Is mo-
longer any doubt as TO there being plenty
of gold and silver here. The only question
is can it be found in sufficient quantities to
pay to work. There appears to be broad
belt that assays SO to S35. Almost any Of
the dirt will show traces of silver, but none
of it big. that is, over $50, but there has
been no prospecting at all done yet to-
amount to anything, but undoubtedly there
are some very rich veins somewhere


and when they are struck / think Camp
Creek will be the richest mines ever found." "
| A letter from the same place TO the Dallcs
| Tribune has this to say of the prospective
! mines 1.-The truth is that there has been
| but one shaft started, and that by Mr.. Web
dell OH the Greenhorn ledge, which has


probably been lowered to the depth or
twenty or thirty feet. while the best assay
yet made was 5000, and the best average


on any claim taking the different assays to-
gether, was $50. But you must mind tiiae
these were obtained from the surface. No
one has yet even tried to prospect their


claim; all are waiting until miners will


come and they expect to sell to them !.
There will be the liyeliest times here jump
ing claims ever heard of. There are some
persons that have from fifteen to forty
claims located. that have never worked
them and never intend to, as they took
them up to sell.
Year: 1877

HELP THOSE WHO TRY TO HELP THEM
sELyEs.-Mrs. Day is prepared to do all
kinds of plain sewing. and as she has only
her labor to depend upon for livelihood
and for the support of her children, she
asks the kind people of this city who may
have work which they wish done to give
her trial. This is a case which should
interest all our benevolent disposed citizens.
Let any who have work Of this kind which
they wish done take it to Mrs. Day.
Year: 1877

A court of Inquiry to investigate the
Huron disaster met in Washington on the 5th
and heard the testimony Of Admiral Trench
ard, Commodore Wyman and Master Conway,
OF the Huron. The testimony thus far is
merely corroborative of newspaper accounts Of
the wreck.
Year: 1877

At the regular meeting Of the board of
education of New Haven, Conn. on the even.
ing Of the 7th, it was voted, six to three, to
dispense with religious exercises in the public
schools Of that city
Year: 1877

dsbtcdness Of the bank to different parties
was million dollars, and that available assets
were only 5000. Itavers that the stockhold.
ers claimed they had paid up their stock in
full, when in truth they had not paid anything
and ask decree compelling them to pay the
above amount. The suit is brought by the
assignees
Year: 1877

Must Produce her Mother In Court.


The case of the Countess Lambertini,
claiming to inherit Us the daughter of the late
Cardinal Antinelli, came before the court In
Rome on the 9Th. The hearing was adjourn
ed until after Christmas. A correspondent
remarks that Judgment will certainly be
against the plnintiT unless she can produce
her mother in court This her counsel has
engaged to do if absolutely necessary
Year: 1877

WHAT WAS IT About a week or
ten day since a man in this city dreamed
that he saw his next door neighbor brought
home dead from the mine in which he
worked. He told his wife of the dream
next morning, and during the day they
talked a good deal about it. On the sec
ond day the man who had experienced tho
dream looked from his window and saw
the neighbor on his own doorstep about to
leave for the mine. lie said to his wife
II have geat mind TO go and beg that
man not 20 go to work my dream haunts
me So" The wife ans wered that it was a
foolish thought, which would only annoy
tho man, and was not worth mentioning,
as it was the neighbor's last day in the
mine. Within two hours from that mo-
ment the neighbor's body, crushed out of
shape and quite dead was brought home
Now, matter of-fact people say this was
but coincidence that we all often dream
that our friends are dead, and that this
happened simply because the one man, in
a nervous sleep, dreamed probably OF his
most intimate neighbor and, as the
known danger OF working in the mines is
impressed upon every one, it was only
natural that in the confusion of a broken
sleep the dreamer's thoughts took that
direction. And there are others who will
not be content with this explanation, but
will strive to look beyond, and pierce the
veil which hides the future, notwithstand-
ing that through its Opaque folds no hu-
man eye has ever yet pierced, though the
cry Of mems hearts from the FIRST has
been, "Give us n sign" This age is so
bright in scholarship, so free from re-
straints, and SO prone to demand tangible
proofs Of everything announced as fact
that the result is, a great wave Of unbe-
lief has swept over all the civilized earth.
And yet there are but few men who
would not be glad if they could believe in
their own Immortality and that their lives
are tho concern of Infnity. And so when
ever anything which looks as though it
might have come from beyond as though
hands unseen had pushed back for a mo-
ment the curtain which drops between
this world and the world to come, and
permitted whisper to steal back from
the profound-men turn it over and over
and search it through and though to lind
some alphabet which may be set 20 words
to make clear to them the mystery Of lite
and of death. And so men study and
torment themselves through the genera
tons, and there comes no sign.-Yrgtn-
ia Enterprise,
Year: 1877

THE SULTAN's WAY.-Two hundred
years ago when the Turks made war il
was sufficient for the Sultan to command
a thing, and it was done. When Sulei-
man the Great was marching to the re-
lief of Breda, his advance came to the riv-
er Drave, and found it impossible by rea.
son of a food. The pasha in command
who was, by the way, the minister of wal
sent a staff officer to the Sultan to say
that it would be needrul to wait for the
subsidence Of the waters before the army
could cross. The Sultan heard the mes
sage, and then said to the aide-de- camp
"Tel the pasha that in four days | shall
beat Drave with this army. II the bridge
for us to cross is not then ready, / shall
strOngle him with my own hands" The
bridge was ready and the army crossed at
the appointed time, but several hundreds
of men had been drowned in the process
of bridging the food. So when artillery
was needed for the siege operations, and
no artillery could be tgought up, because
of the lack of roads, the Sultan had only
to say: "lEave artillery here or you die :"
and the artillery was always forthcoming,
although in several instances metal had
to be brought upon cames and the cast
ing of cannon had 10 be added to the or
dinary list Of siege operations. a little of
the same spirit remains with the Turks of
to-day. They have no cavalry and no
money to buy horses, and yet cavalry
must be had. Orders are sent to the dis
trict governors to send cavalry to the
front instantly, and it is forthcoming. In
every district there are any number of
Circassisns who are hRnkerng after a
fight with the Russians. The govern or
simply orders out these Circassians, and
they help themselves to horses and arti-
ticles of equipment wherever they find
them, and report for duty with smiling
countenances, and no questions are asked 4.
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SAVED FOR GREATNESS Madame dc
Manlenon, who became the wife of Louis
NV, of France, and for the last thirty
years of his life exercised n controlling in
Auence over his opinions and policy, had
narrow escape from premature burial
in childhood. Her parents migrated
from France to the Isle of Martinique
when she was ten years old. On the voy-
age she was taken i'll, and the sickness
ended in apparent death. The funeral
rites were over tho last look taken Of
the body about to be dropped into the
sea cannon was loaded to be fired over
the corpse, when the mother, ordinarily
unloving, insisted on seeing her child once
more. TO her surprise, she found the
heart still beating, and, in delirium Of
joy, declared that the child was not dead I,
but would recover. The hope, born Of
rapture, proved true prophecy, and the
little girl, so nearly given to burial in the
ocean, was spared to become one of the
most distinguished women in French his
! tory.
Year: 1877

An encouraging thing seen by any per
son going through Hancock County this
Spring is the greatly increased interest
manifested in farming. New ground is
being cleared up in many places, and we
venture to say that at least thirty per cent.


more land has been put into tillage this
wear. than ever before in the memory of
man. This is as it should be. To begin
with. our people have never realized how
much good land lies all about rs. The
broad fields and prairie lands of the West.
have dwaried our slopes. hll-sides and
meadows. and almost everybody has as
sumed that we can raise little or moth ing
of what we consume. and that our business
lies in NUMBERING fishing and shipbuilding,
and that in some one of those ways he
must get money enough to buy Western
corn. -four, aud feeds of nearly all kinds.


II is a good omen that our people are
waking up TO their mistake. The decline
IN the numbering aud shipbuildng indus
tries has forced men to the soil and they
naeia TO see that there is both respectable
s,v snd profit, in cultivatng the earth.
Farmers are finding out that line wheat
can be raised with good yield IN about ey-
cry town in this county. The green, we'll
set fields. which spring up to meet the eye
on every direction as We ride from Els
worth. show this, and potatoes, oats and
hsans. cover a space this year that with
rood weather promise an unprecedented
harvest. Every bushel raised, not needed
for consumption on the farm, viii bring 5
Year: 1877

WASHINGTON, April 25.-G Gcneral T..
Morris Chester and James I. Vance.
Of Louisiana, presented to the Presi-
dent memorial from the cOlored cit
liens of that state in regard to it's
political situation, and asking that
Governor Packard be sustained. The
bearers of the address said to the
President that this address would be
the last of its kind he would be likely
to receive from representative color
ed men of Louisiana. They recognize
the present condition of affairs as un-
Ialterablc and accepted the situation.
Though the policy suggested some
fears, they were hopeful of a happy
issue. They hoped also that should
any change be made in the federal
Offices of Louisiana gentlemen of en-
inence and character would be select
ed who had the respect Of the whites
and confidence Of the blacks. The
President in reply said he had NO
doubt the policy adopted would bring
ample protection to the colorcd peo-
pie and happier condition Of affairs
He had no idea Of deserting the col
orcd people.
Year: 1877

the suggestion Of :'Humanity" they could
only fix the weight, and not the quality or
price. .It-is folly to bring such proposition
before such an intelligent body OF men as
compose our Council. Humanity will
please allow the bakers to make such priced
loayes as will suit the people, and that they
can sell, let the price be two OF foiir cents,
remembering that for the poor people half
loaf is better than ITO loaf at all. We assure
you we will not compel Humanity" to
buy certain priced loaf, if he can avoid
it, and will always allow buyers, whether
rich or poor, to buy any sized loaf they
want; and in making small loaves we feel
we are contributing to the:wants ana neces-
sities OF the poor, and should !" Humanity"
hunger let him call on us, and we will sell
him a two-cent loaf, threc-cent, or ten
cent LOAF, as he may require. BAKERS.
Year: 1877

Mcssrs. Editors,-Now, at the very COM
mencement of hot weather, the Board Of
Health should require all streets and alleys
to be kept not only clear from Ioulness but
clean. As n people we put too much re-
lance upon what nature does for us-we
trust too much to the rains and to the bill
sides. / admit that nature is generous with
us, and does nearly all the work that be-
longs to the street-cleaning force, but that
is only greater reason why we can well
afford to give thorough attention to locali-
ties not so drained. There are plenty OF


filthy places about the city, especially in
the outskirts. They can be pointed out to
the health officers any time they come
around. ..I . JACKSON.
Year: 1877

OAKwo0D MEMORIAL DAY-THE DECoR4.
TON OF THE SOLDIERS GRAVES BY THE La
D!ES-Ycsterday was the first real May day
OF the season. The air was soft and balmy,
and all nature seemed alive under its int1u.
ence. The brceZes which gently stirred
the budding foliage seemed to give it fuller
vitality. 1t was one Of those days in which
il was a luxury to breathe the fresh,
pure air, and made man feel more
akin TO nature and her works. Being
such. it was q fitting day for the
annual decoration OF the sleeping heroes in
Oakwood cemetery. The eighteen thou
sand brave souls who lie beneath its sod
could have chosen, could they but speak,
no more glorious weather for the patriotic
work Of the ladies who comprise the Asso-
citation which cares for their last resting
places.


The season is backward in floral offer
ings, but still, with erergreens and =
few bright flowers, there was scarcely.
q grave OF one Of them but received some
loving token from fair hands. From an
early hour in the forenoon until night per-
sons were passing to and from the grounds.
The interest in this work seems scarcely
a5ated, for it was estimated that nearly as
many persons visited the ground yesterday
Is on any former occasion. One lady took
out with her 120 bouquets and garlands,
ana with her own hands spread them on
the mounds.


Companies d and G, First Virginia regi-
ment, Captains Taylor and Parater, with
about serenty-hvc men, the whole under
the command of the tirst-named officer,
visited the grounds in the afternoon and
rendered efficient service.


The ladies have cause OF congratulation
that the days labors were so successful, and
each visitor present seemed to regret when
The time came for them to leave the grounds.


4 squad OF policemen maintained order
and prevented much confusion among vehi-
c!es passing in and out, especially near the
gates, where there was frequently large
crowd, and but for their interference acci-
dents might have happened.


The ladies comprising the BoaSd OF Man
ayers request us TO return their hearty
thanks to all who aided them during the
day.
Year: 1877

ANNUAL ADDRESS BEFORE TIE SOUTHERN
HISTORICAL LSoCIETY.-GeneralJ John S. Mer-
gan, OF Selma, Ala, has accepted an invita-
ton to deliver the annual address before the
Southern Historical Society at their annual
meeting the 1st Of next November. Gen
cral Morgan is ut present United States
senator from Alabama.


A gallant and distinguished soldier OF the
Western army, General Morgan can speak
from personal experience OF those stirring
times, while he is at the same time one oi
the most polished orators in the country.
lie will receive warm welcome to Rich
nond.
Year: 1877

THE MoFFETr REGIsTER.-Bids for making
from two to ten thousand registers OF the
MoAett pattern were received by the Auditor
Of Public Accounts up to and inclusive OF
yesterday. They will, be opened to-day
and after full comparison and consideration
OF the different proposals and improve
ments suggested in them the contract will
be awarded to the lowest bidder.
Year: 1877

4. While I do not question the entirepur-
pose Of Judge ;Ould to do justice, there are
many inaccuracies in his testimony. l re-
member well the answer I gave him, be-
cause saw the full drift of his question,
when he asked me IL it did not amount
to about this, "that had used that much
money" replied that in the long run, or
in the end, it would amount to about that
to the committee; my meaning being that
as / had failed to meet these obligations


they would fall on the committee, But,
however Judge Onld may have understood
me, certainly did not mean to say what he
asserts, either to him or anybody, because
in the sense intended by him 1t was untrue,
Year: 1877

On Wednesday evening last complaint was
made TO Esq. Naudain by James Smith and
his wife Kate, that an assault and outrage had
been committed BY negroes upon them. On
their description, a negro named Sam'l Cham
bers was arrested and subsequently identified
by the woman as one Of her assailants. The
evidence as elected on hearing before Justice
Naudain was in, effect as follows On the even
ing in question the negro Chambers overlook
the Smiths near Derrickson's Corner, about
half mile from town, and asked them if they
were looking for work. Being answered in
the affirmative Chambers promised to obtain
places for them on a neighboring farm, and
told them to remain at the corner until be
could put his team. which he was driving,
away and he would come back and take them
to the promised place. About dusk Chambers
returned accompanied by another negro. The
negroes then led the way through a corn field
toward the residence Of Governor Cochran.
When about half way across the field the
negroes ordered Smith to go back, which he
refused to do alleging that the woman was his
wife and he would not leave her with them
One of the negroes then knocked him down
with loaded whip leaving deep cash in his
head an inch long. They then took the woman
further into the corn and threatening her with
death if she made any outcry, they both, in
turn. brutally outraged her person. 0n being
released the woman made her way back to her
husband and both returned to town and made
complaint as aforesaid. Chief-ofPolice Roth
well being notified at once went in pursuit of
the negroes and captured Chambers at the
house Of Mr.. Robert Whittock and brought him
to town, where a hearing was given him be-
fore ESQ. Naudain, with the above result, and
he was committed to New Castle to await the
action of the Grand Jury. James Smith and
Kate Smith the complainants were also com
mitted in default Of bail as witnesses. Two
other negroes, Jim Roddel and Jim Bayard,
were also arrested but as they denied that they
were Of the party that assaulted her they were
released.


The Smiths are tramps and the negroes are
residents Of the neighhorhood. Chambers has
always hitherto born pretty good reputation
as a farm hand. The affair created quite lit
tie sensation. The trial was held in the porch
Of the National hotel in the presence Of "a large
crovvd of listeners
Year: 1877




Some of our growers seem deteanined not
to yield in their demand for cheaper trans
portation for fruit Several gentlemen ia this
vicinity who have for years been heavy ship
pers by rail are now carrying their peaches to
Odessa and shipping them to Philadelphia BY
barge, under the convoy of a steam tug,
which runs daily from that place. Some Of
these gentlemen haul their peaches from right
alongside Of the railroad, making haul of
three or four miles where less than half
would reach the cars. The inducement
for this is the difference of freight. From
Odessa to Philadelphia the freight by boat is
six cents per basket, the peaches being deliv-
cred at the wharves, and there is seldom any
carriage TO pay on them. By rail the freight
is eight centsand the carriage four-makinga
difference between boat and rail- Of six cents q
basket.


From the neighborhood Of Smyrna and
Clayton many growers are carrying their
peaches to Rothwell's Landing and Bombay
Hook, whence they are carried to Philadel-
phia by The Pierrepont, at the rate Of Eve
cents per basket, and no carriage, and from
points further down the river we understand
that peaches are being shipped across the bay
TO Bayside, on the Jersey side, whence they
are carried per the N. J. Central railroad to
Jersey City. What the freight is by this
route we are unable to state.
Year: 1877

A Temperance meeting will be held at the
hall at the usual hour Sunday p. m. The at
tendance of all that have signed the pledge
would greatly encourage those who are inter
ested in the success Of the meetings and have
its influence upon the community generally
tIet US not weary in well doing" Much
credit is due some Of the signers Of the pledge,
for their efforts to rescue their neighbors from
the terrible effects Of intemperance.


fine Carriages In MiddIetown.


Messrs. J. NJ. Cox Bro, have now in their
ware-rooms for sale, some Of the finest carri-
ages ever built in the State Of Delaware. They
are not put up merely for show, but are made
Of the very best material, and for durability
and ease Of running cannot be surpassed any
where. To see neat and elegant work, give
the Messrs. Cox call, and you will see carri-
ages that viii do your eyes good.


Accident to the aArlsI."


The steamer Arie1, on the route between
Bombay Hook, Collins and Philadelphia, met
with a serious accident last Tuesday morning
She was carrying lot Of passengers across the
river to Camden, to take the cars for Cape
May, when her walking beam gave way and
fell through to the lower deck, mashing in the
piano and doing considerable damage to the
machinery in the engine room; but fortunately
no one was hurt. The boat will have to lay

off for several weeks, but we learn that another
is to be put on the route while her repairs are
going on.
Year: 1877

No process is so fatal as that which
would cast all men in one mould.
Every human being is intended to have
a character of his own, to be what no
other is, to do what no other can do.
Our common nature is to be unfolded
in unbounded dive rsities. It is rich
enough for infinite manifestations. 1t
is to wear innumerable forms of beauty
and glory. Every human being has a
WORK to carry on within, duties to per-
form abroad, influence to exert, which
are peculiarly his, and which no con
science but his own can teach. Let
him not enslave his conscience to 9TH
ers, but act with the freedom, strength
and dignity Of one whose highest law
is in his own breast.
Year: 1877

THE general Episcopal convention at
Boston on Thursday instructed the
committees on the Book of Common
Prayer, canons and amendments to the
constitution to jointly consider the pro-
posal of shortening the form of services
in the prayer book.
Year: 1877

GOLDSMITH MAID has certainly re-
tired from the turf, and in all human
probability will never again be put be-
fore sulky. The difficulty with the
Queen of the Turf is said to be in one
of the front legs, the tension of which
has given way.
Year: 1877

THE lonely watch over the grave of
Brigham is being kept up, but no one
has offered to molest it. The fact is,
the people thereabout appear to be well
satisfied to have dead prophet in their
midst, and are willing to let him rest.
Year: 1877

There is a widespread belief,
amounting almost TO q certainty,
that when o woman sees a mouse
she will utter a piercing shrek
and either faint or mount the
nearest chair. A woman in Sa-
cramento is endeayoring to lead
public opinion in an opposite dir
ection. She sweeps out the
Mechanics Exchange Hotel. She
saw a rat. She saw him, went
him one better, and sailed after
the rodent in real earnest. Out
the door he went, with the broom
stick tapping the pavement close
behind him. Reaching the street,
he lodged into a hole under the
sidewalk on the other side of the
alley, and lockers on thought the
sport was ended. Not SO, how.
ever; the plucky woman ran her
bare arm into the hole and drew
the rat forth in triumph, and
dashed him forcibly to the ground
before he had a chance to turn
and bite. Here she deliberately
despatched him with the broom.
stick.
Year: 1877

among the upper classes before
the time of Peter the Great. The
host will probably be an intelli-
gent but totally uneducated and
decidedly taciturn man. About
the weather and the crops he
may talk fuently enough, but
will not show much inclination
to go beyond these topics.
Year: 1877

To REsroRE THE HAIR AFrER ILLNESS.
Equal parts of best brandy and strong black
tea. shaken well together, and rubbed well
into the roots of the. hair once daily, will
usually restore the hair after long illness
BE careful not to scratch or irritate the scalp
with rough combing and brushing. The mig
ture shouId be made at least once in three
days, even in cool weather. 10 jJss- sa tL