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Year: 1877

Mr.. Editor;


Inotice in the Abingdon VirgiRidn
an article commendatOry of Fulker-
son as "A public servant. Let me say
a word through your paper. Fulker-
son and | have, on nearly every point
of any magnitude before the General
Assembly, differed, and yet, / am free
to say, that of the hundreds of mem
bers with whom, in the last twenty
years, ] have been thrown, ] have
never met with 4 more industrious,
diligent, faithful legislator than he
proved TO be-and one who had moro
the confidence and regard of his BROTH
er members. however much they diff
fered with him on the many questions
daily arising before the Legislature
Still holding contrary views TO many
entertained by him, l am frank TO say
that | would regard his return TO the
Legislature as matter of cOngratula-
tion-fOr however wrOng-headed
may consider him on tho points Of
difference between him and myself, l
regard him as too valuable = man to
be left out Of the public service.


/ do not know how he will take this
Interference in his matter, nor how
his people will regard it, but l desire
to give my opinion. s.
Year: 1877

SENATOR MoFFErT denies that he
ever intended the Register should
be the means of making good the
debt as settled by the Funding
Bill. He is now candidate for
the House Of Delegates, as stated
by one of our exchanges, though
why he comes down from the Sen
ate we are not informed.
Year: 1877

UP, iellow-citizens, and let us at
tho Funders | We have them on
the run. One more tuIn, and we
shall have the public treasury so
that the untaught children and the
lSnatics ard the deaf and dumb
can walk up first and the bond
holders take what is left. AS it is
now u.is order is reversed.
Year: 1877

GEN. SToNEMAN informs US that the suit brought by himself and the other railroad commissioners of California has been decided in their favor by Judge Mckee. The suit was brought to compel the company to answer certain ques- tions addressed to it by the com missioners respecting freights and fares. The company demurred on the ground that it was a corpora ton organized under a national and not under a state law. The railroad authorities will now have to answer or appeal the case to the Supreme Court, the latter of which they will probably do.-LL. A. Herald.
Year: 1877

It is said that one pound of green copperas, dissolved in one quart of water and poured down a water closet, will efectualIy con- centrate and destroy the foulest smells. Or, board ships and steam boats, about hotels and other put = lie places there is nothing so nice to purify the air. Simple green copperaS dissolved in anything under a bed will render hospital or other place for sick free from unpleasant smells. In fish mar kets, slaughter houses, sinks and wherever there are offensive gas es dissolve copperas and sprinkle it about and in a few days the smell will pass away. If "a cat, rat or mouse dies about the house and sends forth an offensive gas, place some dissolved cOpperas in an open vessel near the place where the nuisance is and it will purify the atmosphere.
Year: 1877

I feel under increased obligations for the patronage so liberally accorded me as the successor of the old and successful house of Wm. B. Hooper & Co.,, and while ac- knowledging this fact, allow me to add that those dealing with me will find as complete a stock as was ever offered by the old firm with all that is new and desirable in addi- tion.

 JAMES Ea. BARNEY.
Year: 1877

Gold, Silver, Copper or Lead, will be made at highest possible rates for account of owners. My long experience and con- nection with buyers in the different mar kets give me a very decided advantage over any one in the Territory in making such sales to the profit of those entrusting them to me. Correct and responsible assays obtained and submitted when desired.
Year: 1877

a new Kind OF plush, thlnner than the or
dtnary plush, with dark ground, which
closely initiates fur, but into the surface of
which white hairs are thickly introduced, is
used as q trimming for fine, soft Gamers
The material and trimming as combined in
this way makes very stylish indoor dresses,
as well as light. warm AMI graceful Co.'S
tunes. exactly adapted to later fall wear,
with felt hat and the long uudressed Kid
gloves In q lighter tint of the color Of the
cloth of which the costume is composed. Toe
new gallOOns for dress trimmings have black
or dark grounds, em brOidered in India or
Persian patterns, and are more used for nne,
all wool materials than for silk although they
trim silk very handsomely when 1t Is required
only Is . wrapper or for indoor purposes.


which the pattern Is executed In . single
color on dark ground, but these do not come
under the category of fashion"


BUTTONS.


Buttons vary as much in size a. In the
material of which they are composed. Small
round buttons Of silk to match the costume
or It's trimming are among the best of the
unObtrusive sty les; but every variety
darkly- shaded or irrideecent pearly dark tor
'oise shell and ebony, ivory and grained
wood are pressed into the service In order to
satisfy the demands OF the modern neces sity
for matching every detail In the design and
material or the trimming OF the dress.


THE NEW HAT AND THE NEW BONNET.


When the great millinery "openings" for
the season have taken place and the newest
and prettiest styles in bonnets, hats, caps
and nondescript articles In headgear dis
played, 1t 10 not to be supposed that We are
to be confiued to one shape or one STYLE in
hats or bonnets. SO far from this the shapes
are multitudinOus almost a. the sands upOu
the seashore, and II long faces or round faces
or square faces or faces with no shape at all
do not get the frame to suit them IL must be
because they are unaware OF their own pecu-
liarities and their own requirements, aud
moi because they cannot be met. But there
Is always one APE and enc design which is
disiinctively new, or new With lut being dis
Year: 1877

SEVERAL property holders IN the city
complain that the Board of Equalization
sud Appeals do not give the owners OF
real estate the opportunity they should
have to take exceptions to chsnges made
in the assessment OF their property.
They believe, when All increase in vaIus-
tion of property is made by the assessor,
the owner thereof should be personally
notified, not only. as to what changes
/. I'd been made, but when the Board
would be prepared to consider any OBJ
iscuons that might be raised.


THIS view of the matter looks very
reasonable, and if it has not been the
custom Of the Board 10 do it heretofore
in their sittings, it nevertheless is worthy
OF consideration now. The adoption of
such rule of procedure would save much
irritation and trouble to both property
owners and Council after the TAX bills
are made out
Year: 1877

if there were fair chance that they
could get more IN the near future. Ihey
do not believe they can and hence their
action Their action will have q Wlde
and probably an immediate effect. There
are no corporations in the United
States better able to hold on till the
storm blows over than those which have
decided that 1t is not likely TO blow over
and that they will take Whist they can
get now because they are not likely 10
yet more by waiting The optimistS
ought to be encouraged bs their action.
Those who consider that 1t Is slight
thing which prevents the United States
from entering upon a new era q COM
mcrclal prosperity must admit that
lowering OF the rate Ot interest by the
meE who do much towards liking the rate
Of interest ought TO remove the obstacle.
If business is TO revive soon IN It's
old way, in the old and in new forms, with
increased activity and intensity, here Is n
chance A difference OF one per cent IN
the rate for the use of money may easily
make all the difference, with men who
calculate closely, between the success and
the failure of sn enterprise. If we are
on the verge OF such revival OF
business rs may be llkened TO
revival of religion, such a
difference ought TO determine IL.
We do not found any ssngulne expecta-
toas on this action, because we do
not see that difference OF one per cent
is of much Importance to the projectors of
such speculative ana imagin alive enter
prises rs hourished just after the war,
and rs are looked for now in some quar-
tiers. We do not believe that this differ
ence will be tor the good OF business, be-
cause in the first place 1t proceeds from
u recognition of the actual facts OF the
case, which must do good, and cannot
possibly do harm, and because III
the second place, although 1t
is of no great consequence
to the commercial ideallsts,
the difference is of mucn consequence 10
the hard working, saving and closely
calculating class OF business men. 1t Is
not possible that n general lowering OF
the rate of interest, such rs that OF which
We now see the beginning, should give
n startling impulse To business. 1t IS
uuse possible that 1t may enable many
prudent men to begin enterprises to and
through which they have not hitherto
been able to see their way, and Whatever
impulse it does give will be thoroughly
sound and healthy.


1t is rather curious TO observe, what
ever course business takes the usury laws
are dead letter. A statute that more
than seven per cent shall not be paid
for the use OF money, seems particularly
ridiculous, when no man can get Tor
his money any more than SIX. When he
can get eight he takes eight, and the
usury laws are equally ineffective, except
TO drive men into evasions ana "dOdges.
The statute OF the State oI New York
has no more influence upon the rate IN
either case than with the orbit ot The
| earth.
Year: 1877




There has been an unpleasant scandal up in
the neighborhood of Tenth Avenue and the
park. About year and a half ago young
man, a drummer for a commercial house, made
his appearance in New York, coming from
Chicago, became acquainted with a pretty
young woman, paid court to her and married
her. They lived together happily till last
May, one child being born to them; then the
husband, under the plea of business which
would occupy him all summer, set out for
Atlanta, Georgia. Some little time after the
wife received news from Chicago concerning
her absent lord which startled her. She
made inquiries, and was not long in find
ing out that he had left wife and child in
Chicago when he came on East and married
her, and that previous to that he had deserted
at least one wife in Iowa. Further search
showed that he had married fourth wife,
with whom he was living in the honeymoon.
A World reporter, hearing Of the complica-
tion, sought out the betrayed New York wife
and inquired when she proposed taking ac-
tion to unmask and punish the deceiver, and
was somewhat surprised to learn that she in
tended to take no action whatever.


"Oh,', said the reporter, in astonishment,
''the old love-with all his faults you love him
still-that is, you shrink from the publi-
city"


mot at ALL said the betrayed woman,
calmly, 'but another gentleman is paying
attentions to me, and thinks l am a widow,
and-and you will oblige me by publishing
nothing about the matter
Year: 1877

Cecilia Flaherty is Rochester girl of SO
humorous disposition that her inclination
to play jokes amounts nearly to mania
did not want it, dispatched anonymous let
ters to excite the jealousy of husbands and
wives, had coffins delivered at sick folks
houses, and had physicians to make night
searches for imaginary patients. At length
the police resolved to catch her at her pranks
begged her to give him her picture. She sent
a photograph Of the back of her head, sup
posing that it could not be recognized; but
he studied the hair closely, and then walked
the streets industriousfy until he saw a
match for it in style. Miss Flaherty then had
an experience in a jail and police court that
may be Of benefit to her.
Year: 1877


You may eulogize whist as a game WHICH re.
quires
The stolid skill of our English sires,;
You may risk your luck on draw at poker,
Or patronize euehre-but not with the ioke er;
You may find that in cribbage there's some


thing to do
When you lay out a sequence or fifteen two;
You may build at casino, or enter party
For quiet game of piquet or ecarte-
But there isn't Il game in the whole of the


pack


That can hold a candle to highlow. jack!
Blest Puritan game in the far away time.
When innocent sport was condemned as a


crime,
The boys of New England would HE them


away,
To friendly barn with its sheltering hay,
On the afternoon of the Sabbath day,
To digest the sermon and blunt its edge
With thy multitudinOus charms, Old Sledge
They shuffled and dealt with a cautious hand,
For their pasteboard friends were contra


band,
But ever and oft, as they made their scores,
They carelessly called the game all fours."
And afar on the California slope,
In the days when the Argonauts, flushed


with hope,
Were searching for "pockets ;" and stalking


Inelf clalInS,
They counted thee then the prince of all


games.
BY the blazing campfire gathered round,
What solid comfort i'll thee they found
Those bearded men, who carried their lives
Clutched in their hands, as they carried their


knives,
Dealt out the cards and brimmed their cup
Of earthly pleasure with seven-up.
With all thy changes of form and name,
At heart, Old Sledge, thou art still the same;
Thy laws are laws of life in a way,
Where all must shuttle and deal and play
Where the pack is cut by those who would


live,
Where some must beg and some must give;
Ii We hold the high it is safe, we know,
Butwe need to be cautious with only the low,
For knave will carry his point like a brick,
Where king would fail at taking "a trick !"


N. 2. Clipper.
Year: 1877

The Supreme Court has decided
that Judge Morris Marks, of the 4th
judicial District is not eligible to the
office which he was elected to fill, on
account of not having received
diploma from the State University
and not being admitted to practice
law by the Supreme Court. The
Judge has asked for new hearing,
but will be refused. Some members
of our bar are of opinion that this
decision will also make Judge Fon-
telieu ineligible as Judge of this Dis
trict.-Attakapas Register.
Year: 1877

We have heard it said that the eff
fort on the part of many politicians to
have constitutional convention at
an early date, was simply move to
get rid of the Nichols government


=((nplnnSnS journal
Year: 1877

Wages of miners in the Wilkesbarre
region have been reduced ten per
cent. The men have agreed to the
reduction upon condition that old
wages will be restored when price of
coal warrants it.
Year: 1877

Tho quotations for wheat, -four, corn
aud pork are again materially higher this
morning, owing to the fact that the last
decisive step has been taken by Russia
against Turkey. The war is now no long
er matter Of doubt but dNed fact. The
speculators are therefore disposed TO
boost thing, while they car, They are
already, we should judge, very near to the
topot the excitement, and reaction i5
not by any means impossible within n
short time.


There arc two or three points to be
borne in mind in the war between Russia
and Turkey. One is that the armies are
already we'll supplied for the present.
Next, Russia is not going to be invaded
and will therefore continue TO raise large
e'op'of wheat. Still further, England is
PFelIywell supplied at this time, and by
the time any pressing need is experienced
our new crop Of wheat will be in market
seeking customers.


The immediate effect, therefore, OF the
war ia to lay consumers in our country
under tribute. The city Of Wheeling, in
smonth's time, will be many thousands
of dollars poorer because Of this large nd.
vance in breadstuH4. Every family is
now compelled to pay two dollars more
per barrel for flour than they paid a
month ago, and that without CORE.
spending advance in any articles OF
manufacture or in the prices OF labor, by
means Of which the balance Of trade
could be maintained. Unless the war
lasts many months, and takes wider
range than it now promises to take, it ia
not easy to see wherein an iron msnufac-
turing; community in this country can
get Its money back,


In New York the feeling in Wall
street yesterday seemedto have been one
otconsiderable buoyancy, the idea being
that the carrying trade Of the railroads
will be largely increased, and at more
profitable rates, by reason of the war.
This is probably an evane3cept reaction,
and is more matter OF Imagination than
sound judgment. The season of Lake
navigation ia now open, and the carrying
trade has many avenues to the seaboard.
We need not therefore look for much
change inthat way.


In view Of the fact that the price of
cotton and petroleum is not likely TO be
improved by the war, nor the profits in
iron manufacture increased, We way we'll
doubt whether We shall be materially
benefited by the outbreak.
Year: 1877

We may venture to make few Sug- gestions in behalf of those who desire to acquire the art. If you are a lawyer, whenever the name of a very celebrated member of the bar is mentioned, you must immediately hint that that lawyer is overrated, and that MT. So-and-so, of whom you must be sure your audience has never heard, is really a "strong man." If yon are an artist, you can say of some other artist that he is very good fellow but what pity he can't paint; or if the other artist understands tone and you do not, then you can say that ''tone" nowadays is "tobacco' and ''lamp-black." If you are poet, you can do nothing more to the point, in the presence OfyOung persons, than to men, tion in confidence, and with depreca- tory air, that your verses on Nova Zem- bla, containing that simile of the lily and the bear, were printed six months before TennysOn's famous ode contain ing exactly the same simile. If you are a man of science, you will gain great reputation by merely shrugging your shoulders at the mention of some famous specialist. The method will work admirably in the medical, or in any of the learned professions. But if you are not a writer, or professional man of any kind, but merely person tion by many not costly devices. If an engraving or photograph is shown you, cover part of the picture with two fin gers of your right hand, and say that it is very well-all but that. If it is too large to treat in this way, stand at the proper distance, shut one eye and hold finger or two at arms length, first perpendicularly then horizontally, so as to hide now one and now another part of the painting after the manner of some artists. When you have done this you can either say that the picture is good, or that it is bad; but remember that you'll gain more credit by giving an opinion opposite to that which you suspect is held by the persons present. If you go to public entertainment, like Dickens reading, or a Beethoven sym phony, do not fail to report that you had to knock your feet against the chair to keep awake, ,-although in the case of the symphony be careful not to lay the blame upon the composer, but upon whatever orchestra that may happen to render the piece that night. But if you suspect that the music was particularly we'll rendered it will be we'll to declare that it was altogether too well played, and that for your part you prefer to hear Beethoven given by the - So- ciety; where ''everything isn't cut and dried, and something's left to the imag- ination. ."-Scribner.
Year: 1877

A Chinese printing office is a greater curiosity than would think. The alpha bet numbers way into the thousands, and a cap and lower-case goes all the way round the inside of a two-stOry building and half way up the roof. It takes an apprentice 30 years to learn the case, and then he has to use a step ladder to get at the higher branches. A case was pied once in Canton, and it took five days to remove the type from the form of the foreman. They pune tuate wherever they can drop a dot, without regard to the prospective. When the editor coins word the printer whittles out new character with his jack-knife. The journeymen set by the square foot, and never belong to a union. They do their press-work by hand, and use boxing gloves to ink the type. They have one paper in the Elm -pire ,000 years old, and the bound vol umes half fill pagoda. It is rumored that Bennett has started to edit that venerable paper. The editors head is responsible for all items published in the paper, and is taken off whenever an article of news is published. Not an editor has been beheaded in China for the last 500 years. The Chinese have just invented 35-cylinder press for printing tea-chests, with which they are able to print one week
Year: 1877

A traveller was crossing mountain height alone, over almost untrodden snows. Warming had been given him that if slumber pressed down upon his weary eyelids, they would inevitably be sealed in death. For time he went bravely along his path. But with the deepening shade and freezing blast of night, there fell weight upon his brain and eyes which seemed to be irresisti- ble. In vain he tried to reason with himself; in vain he strained his utmost energies to shake off that fatal heavi- ness At this crisis of his fate his foot struck against a heap that lay across his path. No stone was that, although no stone could be colder. or more life less. He stopped to touch it, and found a human body half buried beneath a fresh drift of snow. The next moment the traveller had taken brother in his arms and was chating his hands, and chest, and brow; breathing upon the stiff, cold lips the warm breath of a liv- ing soul; pressing the silent heart to the beating puleses of his own generous bosom.

 The effort to save another had brought back to himself life, and warmth, and energy. He was man again, instead of weak creature succumbing to de- spairing helplessness, dropping down in dreamless sleep to die. "'He saved a brother, and was saved himself. '- English Hedrths and English Homes.
Year: 1877

If you are ever tempted to purchase a very large pear, decline the invest ment or reckon upon disappointment. You will probably find it woolly, al most tastless, and more like turnip than pear. We know, for we have made the experiment. in the land where the gigantic pears are grown. Over grown fruits never seem to us to have the delicate sweetness which may be found in those of the usual dimensions. What is gained in quantity is more than lost in quality. In the same manner great wealth, great honor, and great rank generally turn out to be great shams. Besides the counteracting in- fuences of great care and great temp tatiOn, there is the inevitable satiety in too mnch of anything. which soon ren- ders it tasteless. For sweetness prefer competence to enormous fortune, the esteem of a few to the homage of 8 multitude, and qulet condition to 8 position of eminence and splendor. There is more flavor in enough than in too much. Solomon's proverb bids us prefer the dinner of herbs eaten in peace to the stalled OK consumed amid contentious; and his remark is the more practical when we consider how often the fat OK seems of necessity to involve contention, while the herbs are not thought to be worth fighting over. He chose wisely who said; "Give me neither poverty nor riches." He took the smaller and the sweeter pear. After all, it is better to have no choice, but leave it all with our Heavenly Father. -SpurgeOn.
Year: 1877

Gather them close to your loving heart

 Cradle them on your breast They will soon enough leave your breeding care,

 Soon enough mount youths topmost stair Little ones in the nest. Fret not that the childrens hearts are gay,

 That their restless feet will run; There may come time in the by and by When you'll sit in your lonely room and sigh,

 For 8 sound of childish fun; When you'll long for a repetition sweet That sounded through each room, Of Mother !' ''Mother!" the dear love calls, That will echo long in the silent halls,

 And add to their stately gloom. There may come time when you'll long to

 The eager, boyish tread, The tuneless whistle, the clear, shrill shout, The busy hustle in and out,

 And pattering overhead. When the boys and girls are all grown up

 And scattered far and wide, Or gone to the undiscovered shore, Where youth and age come nevermore.

 You will miss them from your side. Then gather them close to your loving heart.

 Cradle them on your breast They will soon enough leave your breeding care,

 Soon enough mount youths topmost stair Little ones in the nest