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Year: 1877

THE Titusville Herald says the attention
of the entire petroleum trade is fixed upon
the new Bullion Run district. The average
production of petroleum last year did not
exceed $4,000 barrels a day. The demand
for oil is constantly increasing, and at pres
ent Bullion Run, which yields 2,3OO barrels
day, is the only hope of the trade that the
supply will keep up with the demand. 1t ap-
pears also that the new district is the only
spot in the entire oil region where flowing
1O0-barrel wells are found, and the interest
among oil men is intense. What the re-
sources of Bullion Run are is involved in
some uncertainty. None of the old-fashioned
1,200 and 1900 barrel gushers are found, but
there is no telling what may be developed
vet,
Year: 1877

A Coop PUMP.-Mr. Joseph Flanagan
having been put to great trou BILE and
expense in having water pumped away
from the stone quarry, foot of Eleventh
street, by steam fire engines, ex-Council-
man VIM. A. Murphy constructed for
him pump which does the work as well
as any engine. The pump comprises a
canvas band running around two cylin-
ders, and having secured to it a number
of square blocks of wood, about eighteen
inches apart. Each block has surface
of about % quare inches. One cylinder
of pump is placed in the water,
and the other is turned by a crank.
when the band revolves and the blocks
or buckets force the water into trough
in cons siderable volume. With two men
at the crank this pump will do, in the
same time, nearly as much work as
steam fire engine. The pump is not an
invention of Mr.. Murphy's, but If of the
kind he used while mining in California
during the days Of 40. The miners got
the idea from the Chinese and found it
to be the only kind Of pump they
could obtain suitable for their work.
Year: 1877

To the Democratic uoters of the Tenth
Ward:
Having consented to allow my name to
he used as a candidate for the nomlna-
tion as Councilman, and having consent
ed and gone into the contest with the
act Of success, but the result having
proved a success TO my opponent, Mr'
John Gutherie, a gentleman in every
way qualified to fully represent you in
the City Council, take this opportunity
of calling OH my friends to ex end to him
that same support they would have given
me. By SO doing they will confer a ia
vor on me. and insure success to our CAN
didate. Respectfully,


THOMAS FORD,


Tenth Ward.
Year: 1877

About 2 o'clock yesterday the neigh
borhood was astonished by remarkable
hail storm. The early part of the day
was extremely hot, but at about 2 p. m.
sudden change took place. In the
space of one minute or less change of
temperature truly remarkable occurred,
but 1 had no thermometer to OBSERVE
The largest hail stones ever saw cane
down, for more than half an hour, the
Jumps were not round butirregular being
more than an inch long and broad
They were transparent blocks of ice With
nucleus in the centre resembling au
ordinary hail stone. 1t was confined TO
this locality and was not seen IN lie
from here.
Year: 1877

work bag, the first pleasant afternoon, and
90 down there and sew for her. You can
manage it all pleasantly, and you will
give more comfort than you think. When
you come away bring something home to
finish. Then, if you can interest some of
the other girls in it. If you had ever been
very tired and seen piles of sewing wait
ing to he done, you could feel what good
it would do. Look around then, and see
if there isn't some one else who needs
just such help. am very sure you can
not make so much of your life amount to
more in any way. Then Kate be all the
time looking out for little chances-not to
find fault, or find something to speak of
that would be hultful-but to do something
for everybody you see. If you go over to
the post office, don't 60 dreaming and
thinking of yourself, but watching. II
you meet Charley Clark. speak to him
pleasantly, however sulky he looks. He
is one of the kind that few like-though
he has been somewhat successful in life
so little sunshine like that is just what
he needs. If you see Martha Cricks, don't
say in your mind, All! how cross and
gossipy she looks! but give her kind
word, and try to imagine what made her
so and what she might have been in differ
ent circumstances. And so on, Kate; keep
it up, week after week, watching for little
chances in all sorts of ways TO make some-
ody-anybody- Bob Lghlfoot at
the corner, happier-better if you can.
Don't let any slip by your thought, simply
because he always has. Stop and ask
yourself, now isn't there something for
himP You will have to think in flash
sometimes but do it. Then there is
Christmas coming. There are ever so
many people here who live right on past
all these holidays, and hardly ever know,
in their lives what it is to have present.
You can make some little thing; some
cushion, or neck-tie, or collar just some
small thing, and astonish them with it. 1t
would give thrill of hearty pleasure to
persons who are not used TO thrills of any
kind"


Kate drew long breath, while certain
light slowly kindled in her eyes. " think
shall have enough to do" She laid her
head down on Mrs. Jackson's shoulder. A
silent kiss told the story of puzzle solved,
life long rest and work begun. Her
eager desre-her underlying Christian
principle of selfdenal, would develop the
little hints into rare ife,-a life, however,
possible to any girl who is at this moment
saying, "What shall l do? What can |
doP"-W. S. Roe, IN Canadian ,Independ-
ent.
Year: 1877

THE MOoN.-What does our naked eye
tell us about the moon9 1t shows us the
broad, bluff, hearty, good humored faces,
somewhat frecllled, indeed, and dapped,
but none the less handsome for that, but
whether it is made of German silver, OF
of silver, bronze, or of cheese, not quite
green, 1t does not tell us, or anything about
the man in the moon, or even about the
woman. But the telescope comes to our
aid, and being pointed to the sky transfers
us to within a very few miles of its sur
face, to all ntents and purposes, and we
are able to make up map of the moon, in
some respects better than any map that
has ever been made of the earth; and we
behold an earth-like body tossed up into a
tremendous Switzerland and filled with
gorges, ravines and walled plains; with
mountains which would be on the earth
twenty miles high, with craters, which on
earth would be four hundred and fifty
miles across, without apparent water, with
out apparent atmosphere, always present
inc the same field to our view, rotating
upon its axis once in twenty-seven days
changing its distance from us in the eye Of
the telescope, showing that it goes rount
the earth in IN eliptical and not in circu
lar orbit.
Year: 1877

| remember Harriet Martineau tells
how, when she had grown to be quite a
oirl. a little one was born into her home ;
and she would look and ponder, not know
inc what was to become of it, she got a
GREAT terror into her little heart that the
babe would never speak or walk, or do
ANYTHING that she could do, because, she
said. how can it, seeing that it is so entire
" helpless now? But she found, when
the right time came, that the feet found
their footing and the tongue its speech,
and everything came along in its own
right time; and then, instead OF the babe
she had a noble and beautiful brother, who
was able to take her part and teach things
to her, who had taught him. So the babe
became in illustration when it came 70
manhood, of n very common latent lear IN
the hearts, not OF sisters so much as oi
fathers and mothers, that the life that mas
come to them, and is their life over again,
will not scramble or grow or wrestle into
lis own place, as theirs has DONE. lhey
have no adequate belief in the hidden
manhood and womanhood that is folded
away within the small, frail nature, and
that the man will walk among men ano
will talk with men as man and so tneS
often spend the better part Of their tlmt
in irving to order afresh what our WISE
mother Nature has ordered already -
Robert COlIy0r
Year: 1877

PLEASANT BEDROOMS. There is moth
ing more indicative of refinement and q
genuine culture in family than bright.
cheerful and tastefully decorated bed
chambers. Tasteful decorations do not
necessarily mean expense, and it is posi-
bic to make chamber look very pretty at
very small outlay. Indeed, in many in
stances, no outlay at all would be required
beyond what would be incurred under any
circumstances. The women Of n family,
especially, are apt to pass IL good portion
of their time in their bedchambers, and in
some households The sleeping apartments
are used alike for sewing-rooms, sitting
rooms and nurseries 1t is worth while to
obtain all the innocent pleasure we can in
this life, and there can be no doubt that
life is pleasanter if most of its hours are
passed in cheerful looking apartments,
Year: 1877

SPRAINS. Stalls Journal of Health gives
q chapter on sprains, which may contain
some useful hints TO sufferers from them.
Sprains or strains of the joints are very
painful, and more tedious of recovery than
IL broken bone. What we call flesh is
muscle; every muscle tapers down to Il
string, which we call cord or sinew. The
muscle is above the joint, and the sinewy
part is below it, or uice rersa, and the
action is much like that Of string over II
pulley. When the ankle, for example, is
sprained," the tendon, cord or ligament
(all mean the same thing) is torn in parts
or whole, either in its body, or from its
attachment to the bone, and Inflammation
that is, rush of blood to the spot-takes
place us instantly as in case of n cut on the
finger WhyP For two reasons. Some
blood vessels are ruptured, and naturally
pour out their contents; and, second, by an
inlAllible physiological law, an additional
supply of blood is sent to the part, to glue,
to make grow together, the torn parts.
From this double supply of blood the parts
are overilown, rs it were, and push out,
causing what we call swelling "-and
accumulation of dead blood, so to speak.
But dead blood cannot repair an injury
Two things, then, are to be done to get rid
of it and TO allow the parts TO grow to
gether. But if the finger be cut, it will
never heal rs long as the wound is pressed
apart every half hour, nor will torn ten
don grow together if it is stretched upon
bv the ceaseless movement of joint
therefore, the first and indispensable step,
in every case of spran, is perfect quietudt
Of the part; single bend of the joint will
retard what nature has been hours ir
mending. 1t is in this way that persons
with sprained ankles are many months in
getting well. In cases of sprain, then
children who cannot be kept still shoulC
be kept in bed, and SO with many grown
persons. The swelling can be rid of il
several ways; by bandages, which in al
cases of sprain should be applied by skill
full physician otherwise modification anC
loss Of limb may result. A bandage thu
applied keeps the joint still, keeps an ex
cess of blood from coming to the part ant
by its pressure causes an absorption o
extra blood and other extraneous matter
Another mode of getting rid of the swell
ling is to let cold water run on the par
injured for hours.
Year: 1877

A clergyman was annoyed by people
talking and giggling. He paused, looked
at the disturbers, and said b" am always
afraid to reprove those who misbehave,
for this reason: Some years since, as was
preaching, young man who sat before
me was constantly laughing, talking and
making uncouth grimaces. l paused and
administered q severe rebuke. After the
close of the service gentleman said TO
me. Sir, you have made a great mistake
that young man was an IDIOT Since then
1 have always been afraid to reprove those
who misbehave themselves in chapel, lest
/ should repeat that mistake and reproye
another idiot" During the rest OF the ser
vice there was good order.
Year: 1877

II Is stated, we don't know upon


what authority, that Judges Dead


rick, Mcfarland, Turney, Sneed and


Freeman will all be candidates for


reelection next August. IT Is also


suggested that Col. John w. Bur-


ton, of Rutherford county, and Jas.


j. Turner, Esq, of Sumner county,


will also be candidates. There are


five to elect, and we presume all


will agree with us that the very best


qualifications in the State ought TO


be secured for these positions with


out particular respect to locality.


A wild and improbable rtimOr has
attained circulation of c0ntempla-
ted movement to give East Tennes-
see one Supreme Judge and the can
didacy for Governor. We hope
there is not the least foundation for
this rumor. We do not think II all
important whether East Tennessee
has one or more of the Supreme
Judges. We would not support any
man for the place unless we believed
he was amply qualified, no matter
In which grand division of the State
he might happen TO have his home.
But we do most seriously object to
mingling and mixing the Judiciary
and political offices, or making the
candidacy for the one In any way
contingent upon the other, and pre-
sumo nine-tenths Of our readers will
agree with us In this respect. The
work of reforming the politics Of
the country has been wisely and au-
begun; yet while this Is
so, we want to see the judiciary
kept as far away from political alli-
ances and ENHANCEMENT as possible.
We repeat the hope, however, that
there Is no foundation for the report
alluded to, as we should re-
gard any movement of the kind as
unfortunate IL not posi-
lively hurtful. But II there should
be any political aspirant looking to
such combination, we trust that
the people will spit upon his pre-
and whistle him down the
wind without hesitation or COM
punction.-Atheas Post.
Year: 1877

A Fort Walsh letter, dated Nov.
1, says Sitting=Rull's future home
is to be on Red Deer river. He and
his band will be securely guarded
by police, but the most efficient
watch over him will be that of his
neighhors, the Blaek-feet and Plain.
creeks, Red Deer river Is much fa-
yored by buffalo and smaller game,
and Sitting-Bull will find a good
market for skins at the Hudson Bay
Company. Three days ago he
was told by Col. Mcleod hold
himself in readiness to move to
his new quarters, that the Queen
had, through her servant at Ottawa,
provided agOod home for him, where
he could live in peace,


sITTING=BULL's SPEECH.


Sitting=Bull made an eloquent re-
ply, saying;


"I come to you, In the first place,
because / was being hard driven by
the Americans. They broke their
treaties with my people and when /
rose up and fought, not against
them, but for our rights as the
first people in this part of the
earth, they pursued me like dog,
and would have hung me to tree.
They are not just. They drive US
for fighting. This Ia not honest.
The Queen would not do that"


After thanking the Queen, he
said:


''Tell her that / will be a good
man, and that my people will be
good. will take my people to the
Red Deer country, and now ] declare
before you that l will not make any
trouble, or annoy you, or give pain
to the Queen. | will never fight on
your soil unless you ask me to help
you, Then l Will fight, Place me
where you like, l will be at peace
in Canada, but you who are brave
soldiers and not treaty breakers,
thieves and murderers-yOu would
think me q coward if / did not die
fighting the Americans. Therefore,
while / go to Red Deer now to live
at peace, (there the speaker almost
shrieked), and will come back when
my braves are strong, or If they will
not come alone with me, / will come
alone and fight the Americans until
death. You, / love and respect;
them, l hate, and you, the Queens
soldiers, would despise me if / did
not hate them. That is all. ] am
ready to go with you to the Red
Deer.
Year: 1877

from certain that his would be a
name to conjure with, even as it
regards the troops. when the choice
came to be submitted, by his own


wrong-headedness, too, between 10y
atty to him as a military chief and
obedience to the laws of the coun-
try. 1t is questionable how far the
French Army would implicitly fol-
low him. AS NJ. Thiers predicted
in his Testamentary Address, there
lection of the voice of France in the
matter of self-government would
land the Executive in Civil war.
We will not, however, contemplate
such a lamentable catastrophe. We
believe that many of the Coalition
lists would stop short of this issue.
But, whatever may be the ultimate
resolution of the De Broglie Cabi-
net in face of the defeat inflicted
upon them by the General Election,
it is to be earnestly hoped that the
Republicans will continue to stand
upon the ground of moderation and
forbearance to which they have kept
hitherto with such admirable pa
tience. The destinies of France are
in their hands. They have only "in
quietness to possess their souls" to
ensure victory for their principles.
Year: 1877

Given all the comforts and many
of the Iuxuries of life, how many
people are discontented solely from
the habit of comparing their lots
with those of more fortunate &C.
quaintances They do not specially
object to walking-they like exercise
but, whenever their next door
neighhor's carriage dashes by them,
they grow suddenly tired about the
knees and feel a weakness in the
back which with pedestrianism does
not agree. WOolen gowns would be
perfectly comfortable If silken ones
never rustled in front of them. John
Smiths brick house is better than
he ever expected to own, and he
would be content enough with it II
Tom Jones, who went to school
with him when he was a boy, had
not moved into a stone-fronted


mansion with a handsome pOrtico.
Year: 1877

The eleventh plague Of Egypt is
upon us. Trlmps are the curse and
scourge of our land and rigorous
measures should be adopted by the
authorities to defend the citizens
from their depredations. People
residing in the suburbs, when they
retire at night, have no assurance
that they will not be robbed or muir
dered in their sleep, and 10 persons
living In the centre Of the city they
have by begging and pilfering be-
come an lntOlerable nuisance. Let
our police be more on the alert 10
arrest and punish these lazy incor-
rigible savages and thus lessen the
wall of complaint that Is daily aris-
ing from our tramp-afiiicted city


West 7tHRessee Wing.
Year: 1877

Do American boys learn trades


any more? One would think not,


if the multitude of purposeless,


aimless young men out of employ


ment is any Indication. There was


a time when the master mechanic


had his house filled with hearty


young apprentices, and when his


iOurneymen went from under his


roof to set up in life for themselves.


To men in middle life the recollec-
tions of those far off times when the


master, his men and boys, formed
strong, industrial, productive group,
seem like the memory of a primi-
tive age. Sons of rich and educa-
ted men did not think it beneath
them to swing the brOad-axe in the
ship-yard, or the sledge-hammer at
the anvil. Or they went to sea be-
fore the mast, and climbed from the
quarterback to the forecastle. In
large family of boys one would be
sent to college, one might perhaps
go into mercantile pursuits, and the
other would choose their trades, af-
ter many anxious but CHEEKY family
councils. Nowadays the young
1dUS SHTIIlk lTOuI tic lEhSOIuO COLI
finement of the mechanics shop.
If they cannot get to college, and
so while away their youth, "they
must go into store"- anything but
work. We do not belittle the vO-
cation of clerk or salesman when
we say that to be in either one or
the other of these callings appears
to most young men the most COM
Portable thing. OF all the pursuits
men follow, this seems to require
the least preparation. At any rate,
the men who are willing to make
themselves generally useful more
naturally turn to the shop of the re-
tail dealer than to any other source
of employment. They have never
learned a trade. They like to wear
good clothes and keep their hands
soft and white. If they cannot
stand behind a counter, or desk, or
secure political influence sufficient
to push them into an Office of some
sort, they drift aimlessly about,
looking for employment which new
er comes.-5Sdn Francisco Wasp.
Year: 1877

THE Louisville Courier-Journal
upon the subject of "business activ-
ity" gets off the following:


"Don't sit down and say "Damn
the Dutch :" Dolike they do. Get
up and go to work. If things ain't
lively enough put your shoulder to
the wheels Of commerce and trade
and aid In getting the road wagon
of old fogyism out OF the mire.
Hitch the mule OF energy In the
shafts, take the whip Of enterprise
In your hand, and make dust fiy
along the road of progress. Get up,
dod blast your lazy hides, advertise
your business, let people throughout
the country know who you arc and
what you have got to sell, and our
word for it, you'll have something
else to do and think about this fail
than to sit around and wait for busi-
ness to come to you and cuss the
Dutch,n
Year: 1877

THE Committee on Ways and
Means will not consider any bill
looking to the revision of the tariff
until the regular session. A strong
effort Will then be made to reduce
the tax on spirits and tobacco, and
to simplify the tariff system in
general.
Year: 1877




Among the Farm Work which should
hr done if it has not already been attend
cd to is the DIGGING OF a large cisteln for
the storing of ram water for winter uSe.


Those farmers who have been prorldent
enough To secure such a cistern would
not be deprived Of it for ten times its cost.
An those who were last winter obliged to
drive their stock to the frozen brook or
pond for water in the coolest OF weather,
and SAW the animals curl up and shiyer
after drinking their fiji Of ice cold liquid,
should see to it that they are secured
against such experiences the coming win
ter We know OF instances last season of
stock being driven a mile twice Il day for
water, the wells having given out, and
the labor and time that was thus c0nsum-
ed would easily have duo and cemented
half dozen cistcrns in the preceding
i1lI An ordinary BAN and dwelling
house will save enough rain water in the
tail and winter ordinarily to meet the re-


quirements If large farm if it could be
stored and Ill that is required is the eX-
cayation and cementing Of a cstern ten
ur fifteen feet square to keep it. The
cistcrn should be dug 50 that conduct
pipes may run to it from the house and
barn, and Il pump pipe may reach it and
lead the water to Il covered shed or some
other protected place. The cementing
required for the sides Of the cistern is
only Of an inch thickness, Of hydraulic
cement of the usual strength, and the
bottom may be bricked and then covered
with cement or covered with two or three
inches of cement without bricks The
cash outlay is covered by a few dollars.
The cistern should Of course be covered
with planks and sod, and a trap door
should be provided for access to it for the
purpose of clearing it out in the spring.


The convenience and value of having
an abundant supply OF good soft water
for stock, free from the icy chill of well or
brook water in the cold weather, is to be
appreciated only after being possessed,
but in our opinion it is absolutely among
the necessities of the farm. [Ploughman.
Year: 1877

\ correspondent of the Scientific Farm
er has discovered signs of the rot among
his potatoes, which he defines to bc "a
little parasitic plant OF the Fungus order.
which lives upon the substance ot the pn-
tato. 1t is first noticed ON the under side
of the leaves, in the form Of light frost,
rapidly spreading and turning the foliage
brown as it spreads through the plant.
The threads Of the little plant are sent
stealing through the tissue Of the leaf,
afterwards passing down the stems and
finally reaching the tubers. The frosty
appearance OF the affected leaves is due
10 h multitude Of threads which pass out
the breathing pores of the leaves and
then branch and bear a multitude OF
spores. 1t is these spores which rapidly
propagate and spread the disease when it
has once made Its appearance in a potato
field He recommends chat aS soon as
the vines show this frosty appearance,
with a curling and blackening of the
foliage, the potatoes should be dug and
put in a dry, cool place, thus removing
the tubers before the rot plant has reach
ed them The tops and diseased tubers
should be burned as a precaution against
next year.