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Year: 1878

position TO plumber and oppress the State, and
tho ring may be expected not to desert Its
bantllng: but aside from this the National
party no longer remains. Il has disappeared
and will never again appear as O distinct Or
ganization In Louisiana, at least under pres
ent auspices. It's candidates will not re-
tire, but they have no support outside of
Republican ranks, and 1t is certain that they
cannot get the solid Republican vote
Year: 1878

SO Mr.. TMdcn is not to be married after all
1T was another Radical roOrback Really, II
this sort Of thing continues, the press Of the
country will succeed In making martyr of
The odd gentleman,
Year: 1878

A great deal, we notice, is said now
adays by Republican journals about
our favorable balance of trade as an
aid to resumption. 1t is evidence, we
are told, that we are economizing, that
we are buying less than we are selling,
that we are living more within our
selves, and that we are saving more
than we are spending, all of which
shows a healthy condition and sub
stantial improvement. We hope that
is 90, but it must be observed that the
so-called balance Of trade is sometimes
deceptive element to prove the grow
ing material prosperity of the country
in whose favor it appears. 1t is not
always evidence that the Nation that
can not claim balance of trade in its
favor is growing poorer, or that the
Nation in whose favor it is growing
richer. England is an example of the
former. The balance of trade has been
against that Nation for the past twen-
ty.four OF more years, aud yet it has
been growing richer all the. time.
You ask how that can be, and doubt
the truth of the statement; still the
statistics of England's trade confirm
it's verify. Look at Lewis History of
British Commerce. We take the
twenty years from 1857 to 1876, both
inclusive. The figures are given in
round numbers:
Year: 1878




Dew is a sign of fine weather, and is
never seen except under q cloudless
sky. Wind and clouds are sure pre-
ventives of dew, for the simple reason
that clouds are able to retain some of
the solar heat; and, as they can give
forth warmth, the radiation from the
earth Is checked, and the warmer tenn
perature preserved. Wind evaporates
the moisture as fast as it appears and
if the wind is westerly, there is little
dew or cloud to be seen. The con-
trary is observed with easterly wind,
but west wind blows over vast exc
panse of land, and, having lost its va
por, dries up any moisture it may
come across while an east wind cross
ing the Atlantic, is full of vapor and
sheds dew on all sides. These remarks
of course, apply chiefly to particular
localities, but the influence of west
wind may be seen in the spring. Dew
is more copiously deposited in the
spring and autumn than in summer,
as there is usually a great difference in
those seasons between tho tempera-
ture of day and night; in the spring,
however, there is small deposit Of
dew when a west wind prevails; but
in autumn, during the soft influences
of south and east winds, the earth is
covered with moisture. 1t has also
been observed that there is greater
formation of dew between sunset and
midnight.
Year: 1878

A RAILROAD company suspecting
deadheads put detective on the track.
One day he heard passenger remark
that it was very easy to 60 from B
TO D. without ticket. He watch
ed the speaker and was surprised to
see him hand the conductor ticket.
Getting into conversation with the
passenger he said: sI'd like to know
your plan for travelling without tic
ket, and don't mind giving you couple
of dollars for it. sDone,' said the man
pecketing the bill. when 1 want to
travel without ticket walk
Year: 1878

A SKUNK got into the basement of
Grace Church at Yananoque, Ont,
one evening last week while q prayer
meeting was in progress, and the con-
gregation was dismissed without wait
ing for the benediction. s5
Year: 1878




In Delhi, India, we saw the celebrated
basket trick, which is sometimes poorly imi-
tated by professional maglcians in this coun-
try. A native produced q basket and q
blanket, and. after permitting us to see that
they contained nothing, inverted the basket
on the ground and covered it with a blanket
We paid no attention to his incantations, but
kept our eyes fixed on the basket and the
space around IL, resolved that no boy should
be smuggled into il or out of il without see
ing him. What made the feat still more
wonderful was the fact that the performer
stood in clear space, and we could look
down upon him as be proceeded. He went
through the customary act of thrusting
sword through the interstices of the basket,
when the cries of a boy were heard as il in
immortal pain issuing from the basket.
Turning 1t over there was n boy within an
parently unhurt and seemingly enjoying the
fun. Restoring the basket, with the blanket
over it, to the former position. with the boy
underneath it, the juggler went through
with some ipcantati0Ds, and then, running
the sword under the basket, tossed il away
from him. Turning over the basket, no boy
was to be seen. So far as anything could be
observed, there was no possible place in
which the little fellow could be concealed.


Another feat quite as astonishing we saw
performed in the streets of Constxntinople.
An itinerant magician showed MS a cane
which bad the appearance of being wood
and very knotty. This he tossed in the air
as high as he could, and VIXEN it
struck the ground it took the form of live
serpent, with blazing eyes and rapid move
ments. 1t looked like dangerous speci-
men, and one which no man in his senses
would like to approach. Catching up this
monster, the fellow coiled it around his neck
and f9ndled 1t, while il writhed and exhib-
tied the most venomous Qualities. Throw
ing ut high up in the air, it fell to the ground
the same cane which we had handled at our
ease. 1t was this trick which Aaron per-
formed in Egypt when he turned his rod
into a serpent, and the Egyptian magician
did the same thing In imitation.
Year: 1878

Laying aside the thought of


our own rest and comfort let us


look a little higher. For the


sake Of the Children we must
make the most Of ourselves.


Many an unselfsh mother has
said, oh, cannot take all this


time, there are SO many things
to do for the Children She does
not realize that she may do more


for them in the end by cultivating
herself than if she spends all her


time on clothes and cooking. A
generosity which makes the
recipient weak or selfish is not
a blessing, but cure. Have you
not seen grown-up-son who snub-
bed their mothers opinions in the
same breath with which they
called her to bring their slippers.
The meek little woman has 'trot-
ted around to wait on them SO
long that they have come to think
that is all she is good for. Their
sisters keep ma in the back
ground because she hasn't a bit
of style and is so uncultivated,
forgetting that she has always
worn shabby clothes that they
may wear fine ones that her
hands have become hornr with
hard work that their might be
kept soft and white for the piano,
and that she has denied herself
books and leisure that they might
have both. And there are other
too noble for such base
ingratitude, who feel a keen
though secret sense of loss as they
kiss the dear, withered check and
think how much more of woman
mother might have been if she
had not shut herself away from
the culture and sweet companion
ship Of books.-Scribner.
Year: 1878

We have to record another narrow escape from death. Last year your readers may re- collect that a colored child, sliding down hill went into we'll twenty feet deep, and es capped with mere scratch. On Saturday last, as Mrs. Alonzo Bates was wheeling her infant down the street in a baby wagon, a horse hitched near the market took fright, broke loose, ran up the side walk, and meeting the mother and her child, sprang clear over them Luckily the wagon stuck fast at the hitching post or they would almost surely have beer killed. The baby wagon was literally torn in to kindling wood, but the child was throwr upon the sidewalk nnhurt
Year: 1878

There is great desire to pick flaws in the Fisheries Commission Award. No doubt the amount awarded is exorbitant, but we took our chances of such a result when we submit ted the question and cannot now honorably back out
Year: 1878

There have been the usual amount of bun- combe bills before the legislature, this year. de- signed to catch the laboring mans vote. Last week one of these was rejected which proposed, in effect, to make contracts between employer and employee binding on the former and not on the latter Such absurd propositions injure the cause they are intended to further.
Year: 1878

The New Charter Oak charter had narrow escape in the Senate, last week. It received important amendments, and has yet to pass the ordeal of the House. We are inclined to believe with Bromley of the Tribune that the whole system which allows few stockholders absolute control of interests upon which de- pend the safety of the millions due policy holders, is radically wrong. The other compa- nies organized on that plan may be solvent now, but nobody knows how soon they will fall into the hands of such men as plundered the Charter Oak. The legislature ought to provide some very thorough plan of examination and supervision for these companies. The propos- ed charter of the Charter Oak company is made the special order in the House for We'd nesday of this week.
Year: 1878

The resolution allowing the Old Nineteenth the use of their flags at the September reunion was rejected by the Senate; but, after . stir ring speech by Representative Andrews, pass ed the House unanimously. The Courant ex- plains the ground of the opposition to this use of the flags as follows:

 Most of the flags are now badly tattered and cannot be unrolled without damage, It is the intention when the new state house is done to have them safely arranged in the rotunda, be- hind glass doors, after the manner of those in the state house at Boston. It is easy to see that if the request of one regimen tai association is granted it will be more diffi- cult to refuse other applications, and the only safe way is torefuse all And every sensible old soldier will recognize the fact that the re- fusal is in theinterest of the flag which he loves.

 And yet there is much force in the argument that the old regiments are entitled to the use of their old flags; especially when, as was the case with the Nineteenth Regiment, they were the present of lady lMH. Wm. Curtis Noyes), to the Regiment and not to the state,
Year: 1878

The Judiciary Committee consider the pres- ent system of Probate Courts too popular to be attacked, even if it is poor one. Wouldn't it have been as well for that committee to have reported what they themselves think right and and not what they guess that the people think right.
Year: 1878

The State Prison Committee have reported in favor of the release of CharlesJ. Allen from State Prison. This is the man who, it will be recollected, shot his brother in New Milford about dozen years since. The Ray strongly opposes his release.
Year: 1878

AN ASTONISHING FAoT.-A large propor- tion of the American people are today dying from the effects of Dyspepsia or disordered liver. The result of these diseases upon the masses of intelligent and valuable people is most alarming, making life actually burden instead of pleasant existence of enjoyment and usefulness as it ought to be. There is no good reason for this, if you will only throw aside prejudice and skepticism, take the ad- vice of Druggists and your friends, and try one bottle of Greens August Flower. Your speedy relief is certain. Millions of bottles of this medicine have been given away to try It's virtues with satisfactory results in every case. You can buy sample bottle for ten cents to try. Three doses will relieve the worst ease. Sold by all A. s. Wright & Co.,, of Lttchfield
Year: 1878

the evening of June 10Th last, he said;


eNow you see If you are in favor ol
national banks-of the national bank
system, you are in favor of a perpetu
alton of the national debt, fastening il
upon you and your posterity forever.
There is nothing to prevent such a re-
suit as that. The party that wants IL
must go under, unless you are willing
to surrender your liberties. You are
not willing to bend your backs and re-
ceive the English system which builds
up nabob oppression and penury and
want. If you want the English sys-
tenn, a permanent national debt, and
an untaxed aristocracy, you will vote
the republican ticket; Otherwise you
will vote against it. And this is what
is now before the people that issue
is before the peOple-whether the ma
tiOn wishes legal tender money, or
national bank money; whether you
will pay off this national debt or leave
it for your pOsterity."


But how does Weaver propose to
pay the bonds? Well, he don't fol-
low Dean in a plan of issuing certifi-
Gates for the pro rata allowed the
creditor on settlement, but he says as
we have heretofore published, that
we have ever so many hundred mil
lions of bonds and he would pay them
off with greenbacks. There appears
to be a kind of kindred financial meth
cd between Dean and Weaver. Both
would arrive at the same result and
would both be reputation.
Year: 1878

1t seems to us the Davenport Gazette
would have better made out its de-
fense of Hayes against the arraign-
ment of the Iowa platform if it had
not published that Atlanta speech.
According to the Gdzette's own show
ing Hayes said this to his hearers
there: "Well, having learned how to
ride and shoot, it was a case of fight
ing between Greek and Greek
when Greek meets Greek you
know what the conflict Is. Cheers J
And more than that, you know ex-
actly how it will terminate. That
party in that fight will always con-
quer that has the most Greeks


daughter and cheers. So with no
discredit to you and no special credit
to us, the war turned out as it did. y
Gate city.


That is precisely SO. Our judgment
may be at fault; we lay no claim to
infallibility, but we want to say that
the sentiments expressed in the above
language of Mr.. Hayes are totally at
variance with patriotism or plainly
indicative of a want Ofcommon sense.
We are as fully impressed with the
correctness of this view of the case as
we are of the existence of the burning
sun at midday in this heated term.
Year: 1878

There is scarcely q ssdder sight
than young man, intelligent and
educated, reeling through the street Q
drunken idiot. People have made
many mistakes in speaking of '.the
poor drunksrd," and placing all the
responsibility Of his drunkenness up
on the salOon-keeper. When we
place the responsibility upon the
drinker himself, and let him know
that it is crime against his family
and society, for which he will be held
strictly accountable, we will begin to
check the vice. A great many young
men have come to the conclusion that
it is good thing "to SOW q few wild
OATS" and a few drunks more or less
will not initiate against their respec-
liability and their entree into the best
society. Drunkenness ia crime, and
the drunkard is criminal. Ii he
fails to murder or run through the
calendar of crime il is because the
circumstances do not favor it. and not
because he has not fitted himself for
the work. Young man, you yourself
are responsible If you become a
drunkard and an outcast. You SOW
in the saloon, and you reap in the
prison yard and upon the scafl'old the


harvest of your ruined life.--Iater-
Ocean.
Year: 1878

SENATOR OGLEsBY and General Lo-
gan will make canvass of Illinois
during the fall campaign, speaking in
every county before the day Of the
election. Their appointments will be
announced i'm due time.
Year: 1878

The sale of postage stamps, postal
cards and other postal matter by the
government for the last fiscal year
shows an aggregate increase of II per
cent?, or between one and two million
dollars, over that of theprevious year.
These sales are considered good in
dex of the condition of business, and
the large increase is therefore especial
Iy gratifying.
Year: 1878

Des Moiaes Leader: The editor of
the Blue Ribbon Gdzette announces
that that paper will be published no
more under tho present management,
the reasons given being that cOllec-
tions could not be made and that the
further expenditure Of money on it
was deemed inadvisable.
Year: 1878

JOHN r. SHAFFER, Secretary of
the State Agricultural Society says
that the prospects for a successful
State Fair were never better than
they are this season. The demand
for premium lists has been very great,
and with good weather the exhibition
will even surpass the one Of last year.
Year: 1878

General Garfield will stay where he put himself
II Il. MS speech on Tuesday, when he said that the


I, sI W VINO would attempt to get up political excite


neuI on Old sectional issues would lind himself with
~. Jul ne support of the country; but the man who
& S1el % gain the goodwill of the country must put
glle IN the line Of its leading thought and that
Na the restoration of trade sound political economy


,ia .G money and the payment of the public obiga-
SIG.s Ir.s ne may marshal the whole country behind
Year: 1878

htGOt safe to refuse TO marry a woman who hap
pens 70 take fancy to you in France. If, when you
7SI Paris, woman proposes to you. you had better
s,ceTt and have the ceremony performed at once.
ne with horrible fate BY declining to marry a
woman who had been paying attention to him. While
waking out with his cousin and another lady his dis
appointed lover met him and threw the contents of
In coffee pot full Of vitro over his face The ven
gealee Of the woman was terrible but so was the
mans Ofenss
Year: 1878

SILVER BILL DEFEATED. - Th"
silver bill which recently passed the
Senate has undergone SD many radi
cal changes since its presentation,
that it is no longer the bill intro
dued by Bland at all. From the
amendments and qualifications which
have become part oft the inference
is that money matters will not be
materially changed or interlcred with
thereby. The great question is still
pending, with the difference that the
field Of contest will perhaps be
changed from the Senate to the ros
trum, as it will be bone Of conten.
ton in the next presidential cam
paign unless fairly settled before the
election comes on.
Year: 1878

AS AN item for the benefit Of those
who are so continuously bowling
about "Ferry and the ring" it may
be we'll enough to state that our Ter,
ritorial finances are in a better con
dition than they have been since we
had Territorial existence. War.
rants are now paid at any time, upon
their presentation.
Year: 1878

The following is from recen
Washington letter;


1T is good thing Hayes is be-
yond the suspicion of being drink
ing man.


"Why" said to gentleman
who called yesterday on the Presi-
dent.


Because his face has all the
signs"


:" Don't you know the cause of
that?" spoke up a third party, a
mau who always knows what he is
talking about, for the reason that
he gets his information from first
hands.


We said we did not, and with a
prelude of Well, l will tell YOU"
he told US something which, al
though it is of the nature of gossip,
has not yet got into the papers. l
will venture into the field Of COS
sip-writing this once to tell this bit
which, want to say, is better sub
stantiated than the majority Of
Washington gossip.


Hayes is a good eater; that is
what is the matter with his face"


81 looked incredulously at him"


"It is fact, nevertheless. Why,
it is we'll known to all his friends.
They knew it before he came to
Washington, but it has grown on
him here. He eats anything and
everything. He eats five and six
times a day, and at each of these
meals he cleans every plate set be-
fore him, When he was in Boston
the other week he had five spreads,
four besides the big banquet. A
gentleman who was OH the commit
tee Of arrangements Tor the banquet
told me that at each OF the five
spreads Hayes ate everything before
him, and at the banquet, like Oliver
Twist, called for more AT the
White House his appetite is we'll
known. He does not hang around
the kitchen like q hungry boy who
wants to know what he ia going to
have for dinneri he is not an artis-
tic epicure like Sam Ward. What
! mean is, that he is always hun
cry, or at least imagines that he is.
He cares nothing about what he
eats, so long as there is q sufficient
quantity of it. He is with food
like the old whisky.soak who said
IAN whisky is good; some is better
Year: 1878

touched and played upon by his
burning eloquence, cannot describe
his power to others. Clay never
studied oratory; his eloquence was
the blaze Of an internal fire. Hence
his set speeches do not give a fair
idea of his power He needed the
stimulant Of a great occasion in
order to rise to the hight Of his
power. The lecturer closed with
an eloquent fight on the power of
the orator.
Year: 1878

than others Hayes eats something
just to stay his stomach, as it were,
when he first gets out OF bed in the
morning. Then he shifts a little
fresh air and goes to breakfast
grand meal with him. Then comes
nooI-day lunch "a misnomer.
Later in the day he eats dinner,
and in the evening he has tea. Be-
fore going to bed be eats supper.
Year: 1878

Twenty Thousand People
old and young. every week. 1t is just to say
that the patrons of the WESTERN
METHODIST belong to the best class Of
community.


We desire our business men to make note
of the above facts before completing their
advertising arrangements for the coming
season.


We use our best efforts to keep our columns
free of sill irregular and irresponsible advsr-
tiSingi for many good people seeing an ad-
vertiSsment in paper. especially their
church paper. take it as guarantee Of re-
spOnsibility. Such confidence should not 10
abused whom it can be helped. We want.
therefore.
Year: 1878

A GENTLEMAN living in Detroit hired
a boy TO walk home beside him and
carry a bundle. having first agreed to
pay the lad fifteen cents Reaching the
house, the man found that he bad no
smaller change than quarter. and he
said:


If you will call at my office at two
O'Clock I'll have the change.


But il was to be cash down, protest
ed the boy.


SO il was; but | haven't the exact
change. you see. You'll have to call at
my office


III CALL growled the boy as he
turned away; but know just how 1t
will work. When knock on the door,
a cross-eyed clerk will yank it open. ask
me what want, and when | tell him
he will yell out, ..Thst man went into
bankruptcy last September. and now
you git That's the way they allus play
it on me, sir. and I'd rather lose the
tifteen cents than to call the clerk q
thief and q fraud sir
Year: 1878

She went in the morning.
Unheeding or scornlng
Her mothers mild warning


How fair was her brow
| saw her at noon.
Bat the gathering gloom
OF her sin in her doom


Had darkened it now.
| saw her at evening
Scarce life left for breathing.
The last sigh was heaving


The poor wreck ashore.
How sad that life's ocean
Brings constant commotion
To beings whose portion


Is peace nevermore,
Year: 1878

We are interested in finding an antidote
against the mole. The blind ditchers have
not done our plants any serious Injuries yet,
but they are very numerous on our little
garden farm, and we apprehend trouble
from them if we cannot thin them out in
some way. In reading up the subject we
find that many writers speak kind word
for the mole and claim that he does more
good than harm, by eating up the grubs,
wire worms, etc., while he does no injury
to plants, except occasionally exposing the
roots and tubers that lie in his way One
writer says that it is not the moles that eat
potatoes and other roots, whose destruction
is often charged to the mole, but grub
worms and field mice. The question is
still an open one whether the mole does
the mischief or not, but in our opinion
suspicious are against him. Among the
ways of getting rid of him, one is to pour a
small quantity Of coal oil in his runs, and
cover the openings over so as to keep the
offensive order in; another method is to
place pieces of tin or glass in the burrows
sloping upward in such a way as to turn
the mole out upon the surface when he
encounters them. When he is thus brought
up some one must be ready to dispatch
him.