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Year: 1877

On Friday night the supporters Of PEnn1


SMITH and his associates in their desperation


resolved to play their last, and we regret tc


say most infamous, card. At late hour or


Friday night committee with carriage
| visited the house of JAKE REus1 on tho North
| Side, and aroused that individual from bis
| bed and conveyed him to meeting place
on tho South Side, where he remained sew


eral hours in conference with Democratic
leaders The purpose and object Of that
conference are notorious and sef-evident.
When he was Superintendent of Police, the
gamblers, gambling houses, bunko-ohices,


and all the dens Of infamy and all the per-


petrntors Of infamy who had money, were


under the special protection of the police.


This man who officially was the patron of


these people, hates HEiru, hates everybody


and everything which is associated with


public decency and honest government. It


Is d last struggle with these people, and nat
urally REaM was selected to organize the
only untried scheme to elect SM1ru and de-
feat HEATH.


There will be no registry On Tuesday.
hence repeating will be possible. No man in
all Chicago is SO competent or, to. crafty
hate or avarice, SO willing to organize sys-
TEN Of repeating by paid and professional
repeaters as JAKE REHM. He knows the men
to employ; knows the men who will do tho
work, and who, from long experience, are
able to furnish whatever number of votes
may be necessary to accomplish desired
result. The junction Of REHM, TRuDE, Mo
DONALD. DAVE THORNTON, MIKE EVANS and
Ed PHILLIPS leaves no room to doubt that
any organization they may make to repeat
voting will equal many thousand votes.
They can find 500 men who will undertake
to vote from five to fifteen times on Tuesday,
and each of these men win be an experienced
operator who has done the same thing on
many previous occasions and the money to
pay them will promptly be paid.


We appeal, therefore, to the business men,
the honest workmen and taxpayers, the
householders and law-abiding citizens, who
one year ago expressed their indignant pro-
test against the whole dishonest and yi1lain-
ous means Of placing government in the
hands Of the criminal classes, to show their
determination to oppose this scheme now.
Let JAKE REHM, who owes his personal lib
erty to the gushing mercy Of reckless Gov
ernment, know that the City of Chicago has
had enough Of him and of his corrupting
agency in public affairs, and let his accom-
pices and hirelings be arrested at the polls,
and, if Justice be possible, let them be prose-
cuted to the last extremity of the law Such |
a scheme as this concocted and planned on
Friday night is Of the most infamous charac-
ter. Every man engaged in it, from JAKE
REIN down to the professional who under
takes to carry out the crime, if detected in
the act should be punished to the utmost
rigor of the law. Let every man voting in
precinct in which he is not resident, or rot
ing under an assumed name, be arrested at
once, and let his case be given to the Grand
Jury that meets next Wednesday. The in-
tense hatred Of the criminal class for
HEATH offers no apology for this desperate
attempt to corrupt the bal1ot-box.
Year: 1877

One OF the unpleasant features of Journal
ISM is to take back, on compulsion, an
apology made by one paper for the hot
headed attacks of another. And get The
tribune may feel constrained to recant its
re,ract1on Of The Journals onslaught upon
Mr. AnSR TAYLOR, unless that gentleman
6hall abandon his habit Of consorting with
FERRY SMITH, and return to the respectable
fold that gave him political birth.
Year: 1877

The Connecticut Legislature, approaching
the doubt and danger Involving life-insurance
and the companies which sell it, has appoint
ed special commission to Investigate the
condition of the companies Of that State.
The project has, in general, the hearty sup
port ofmost Of the corporations who invite,
rather than avoid, the most thorough scru-
tiny Of their management The result Of
this excitement and these inquiries will be
to place Gfe-insurance in q more healthful
condition than ever before,
Year: 1877

The New York Nation is still disposed to
give President HAYES chance.-to take him
at his best, as it were; in fret, to think well
Of him. This will crafty the President
With the big Nation and the little Nat,oz, On
his side, he will simply stuff cotton into his
cars, take sedative, and let CHAxBEn1a1y
and HAMPTON talk till doomsday, If they
want to.
Year: 1877

What do the Democrats OF the seventh Ward
mean bT running scamp for the City Counc1l
DO they deliberately desire such fellow to
represent theml Are they in sympathy With
criminalsa Is majority OF the ward composed
OF dishonest votersa Ii the honest and decent
men OF the ward constitute majority they
should unite irrespective of party lines, and
elect reputable citizen to represent them.
The running of two candidates BY the honest
and decent men will. In ali human probability,
result In the election o1 a man who will disgrace
the ward, md justly cause the finger Of sco1n
aud contempt to BE- pointed at It.
Year: 1877

A School OF COOKERY IN New York.
Down stairs, in an ordinary kitchen,
saw a group Of ladies, in street costume
sitting around common kitchen table
At one end stood a pleasant looking
young man in cap, jacket, apron and
wristbands Of the whitest linen. The
lesson for the day had already conf
mencel, and savory odors, as well as tue
saucepans and bowls, in which were a
variety Of ingredients in different stages
of combination, testified that the work
was really going on. The chet, while
using knives and spoons with marvel
Gus defines, was giving clear and eX.
plicit explanations. which the ladies'
were taking down with pencil and pa
per. A fowl was dressed, eggs were
beaten, fat WAS heated and fish was fried,
and not spot nor a spatter touched the
apron or the jacket; no, not even the
wristbands. There was no "muss" on
table or floor, and everything about the
place and the person was appetizingly
neat. 1t would be well if every house
keeper could be present at one such
kitchen meeting, to see how cooking can
be done tidiIy, and it would be worth a
great many more dollars to us than the
course Of cooking lessons costs, if send.
ing our cooks there would inspire in
them any appreciation of the positively
delightful way in which kitchen might
be managed Christian Union.
Year: 1877

A Mr. Major, who was lately hanged
at Concord for poisoning his wife, ad.
dressed very pious letter to his two
little children prior to his final appear
ance as a funambulist. He exhorted
them to be excessively pious and keep
good, so that they might have the un-
speakable advantage Of meeting him
and their mother in heaven. Reflection
convinces us that if those infants wish
to meet the author of their being in an
other world, they had better ut once
commence series Of burglaries and
matriculate in some medical college,
where they can become intimately ac-
quainted with the medical properties OF
arsenlc, strychnine and chloroform. II
is very doubtful, however, if any one
course of life can procure them the hap.
piness Of rejoining both their parents,
and it is barely possible they might pre-.
fer the companionship of their mother
in eternity.
Year: 1877







They have found II solution to the
milk question in New York in the shape
of machine called the lct0mctcr, which
when inserted into jug Of milk inAi-
Gates the amount of water beyond that
which should naturally be found in the
iluid. with uniuiling regularity. There
was no chance, therefore, for the milk
man to visit the pump or the hidr0nt he
fore serving his customers, for no mat
ter how Slyly or secretly the addition
might be made the rcmorscless mNchnc
indicated to drop the an, unit Of water
he had put in. The most earnest pro.
tcstations OF the honesty and fairness Of
his mode OF doing business its higl,
character and regard for the little help
less beings whose sole nOurshmcnt milk
is, would go for nothing when the lac.
tumrtcr failed to indicate 100, which
may be set down as the par Of genuinc
milk. In addition to the hctometcr,
there is an ordinance of the city rcquir
ing that all milk sold shall conform to
the standard required for it, under
heavy penalties.


The whole of the milk business Of the
vast city passed at once under the con-
troll of rigorous piece of mechanism
which could neither be controlled, CA
iolcd nor bought off. The most iurtlyc
visit to the faucet, mt which the Crcton
runs oil, was sure tn be detected by it
the moment it was inserted in the mix
turc. As might naturally be expected,
the milkmrn rrbelled against this me-
chancal dcspotism, winch rendered 1t
impossible TO sell water any longer Tor
milk. They got up case and tried I"
break down the lActomc'er Its char
acter for truth and yernicty was vigor-
ously u,sailcd. Testimony was intro
duccd to show that it conld not be trust
ed to render justice between the milk
men and their customers. Long Hrgn-
mcnts were presented for the purpose OF
making it appear that it was disrcpu'
table prctandrr to y scientific accuracy
which il did not possess.


But the jury Tor all that found for
the luCtomctrr, which at once restored it
to public confidence. It is said that u
practical exhibition of the machine in
the courtroom, which when inserted in
genuine milk always indicated 100, and
when the milk was watered, lower
points according to the amount, dissi'
pated in an instant all the fine spun the
cries and sophistrics Of the lawyers.
The machine left the court rehahilitated
in character, whereat, according to the
New York papers, there is a great re-
loicing among all those who have young
children to bring up. 1t stands between
them and the modern Herods who have
been shying them in all large cities at
such fearful rates u. Bulletin.
Year: 1877

NANDERBILTs WEALTH.-It is doubt.
ful if the public shallat any early period
obtain a definite idea OF Vanderbilt's
wealth. His will may show something
of it, but it is improbable tina, it will
reveal any precise figures in regard to
the great bulk of his possessions, his
consolidated railroad stocks. The fol-
lowing summary of his railroad interest
was recently made, and is said to be
tOlerAhlY correct
Year: 1877

was built of brick, and stood back about
fifteen feet from the window, and venti-
lated only through an aperture in the wall
above the door, so that when the door was
locked the light of day never entered. A
mattress was the only article of furniture
in the cell.


The effect of the confinement was
plainly visible upon the man, for he
seemed in a partially exhausted state
when brought before the committee. 1t
appeared that he had been employed in
the tailoring department. and refusing to
obey the guard in charge, he was pun
ished.


He asked to be transferred to another
department, but his request was not ac-
ceded to, whereupon he refused to work
any longer under the guard in whose
charge he had previously been, anG was
locked up by the superintendent for
INSTRUMENTATION. In answer to a ques-
ton, the man said he would die in the
cell rather than again be placed under
the same guard, because he had abused
him


The councilmen were of the opinion
that while the discipline of the institution
should be maintained, and this was a
most remarkable case of obstinacy, the
punishment was rather severe, and that
the man should be removed to cell where
the atmosphere was more comfortable.
This was acceded Philadelphia Star.
Year: 1877

At the session of the Senate Committee,
on the 21st according to Tallahassee special 10
the New York Times, further testimony was
taken concerning Jackson County, to the effect
that at the Campbelltown Precinct Democrats and
Republicans voted alternate hours in the fore
noon, and the Republicans in the afternoon. When
the count was made at night, all the kepubli can
votes were found on top to the lumber OF seventy
seven, and all the rest 291-wefe Democratic 1t
was in proof that many more Republicans voted
in the forenoon than in the afternoon. At
Friendship Church IL sworn to that sixty
seven Republicans voted, and but fourtyt our Re-
publican votes were found in the box. There was
person who was sent to Manatee County to get
infoImatio to the character of the election in
that county for the Canvassing Board. testified
that he was turned back at Sumpferville under a
threat that his life would be taken if he went fur


ther; that they had got large Democratic major
ity, and would not have it investigated. The House
Committee had left Tallahassee. We
Year: 1877

lettering TO Stanley use or the
British flag in Africa, Moncure D. Con
way writes as follows to the Cincinnati
Commercial. sit is true that Lord Derby
has contented himself thus far with send
ing word to Stanley-which it would re-
quire another Stanley to carry-that his
raising the English flag over his massacres
or otherwise is not regarded favorably at
the Foreign Office, and sending a remon-
STRANGE to Washington on the behavior of
our countryman. But is he our country
man? If he comes here he win have to
prove it. A great deal of apparently
sound testimony exists in London going to
show that Stanley is a Welshman, and
though he may have taken out naturaliza


ton papers he viii be called upon to
show them or evidence of their existence.
I remember witnessing Stanley's wrath
when his American nationality was called
in question, but also remember that in
the course of a considerable speech about
it he did not once assert that he was an
American" EEf
Year: 1877

THE House of Correction Committee of
Councils, in officially visiting the institu-
ton yesterday afternoon, discovered
locked up in. one. of the clark cells y a
man named Barry Jones, who had been
incarcerated for nineteen days upon the
exceeding plain diet of bread and water,
excepting every fifth day, when it was
stated that he was allowed to partake of
the usual House of Correction bill of
fare.


The cell in which the man was confined
Year: 1877

Both of the investigation committees
were taking testimony, at Columbia, on the 21st
subcommittee had been sent to Charleston and
Beaufort Counties, to obtain the testimony o f wit
nesses there.


The Congressional subcommittee of
the House was at Charleston on the 22d.- taking
testimony regarding intimidation in the coast
Year: 1877

This is aterrible disease and is more
dreadful, because medical skill seems
80 entirely at sea in dealing with its
cure. We give below two recipes
given through an exchange, both as
ser ed to be infallible. Surely if such
simple remedies cure this disease
(Which is on the increase) the whole
world should know them. The first
lady said she was, threatened eighteen
years ago with a cancer. Resolufeiy
determined not to endure the use OF
the knife, and reading in a inedleal
journal that Tactic acid was beneficial
to persons of q caneeroas. diathesis,
she concluded to try an experiment.
We give her words:


g I ordered two quarts of butter
milk, per day for my, own especial
use. After drinking that anfount
daily for six weeks all traces Of can
Ger disappeared, and I had no more
symptoms of the disease until few
weeks ago, when the same old pains
returned in the same locality. I again
commenced the buttermilk treatment
and with the same result. The pain
has entirely disappeared. If butter
milk can take the place of dissecting
knife in this terrible disease, we
can weH afford to let the doctors sneer
at the simplicity of our cure


The other treatment is from gen
tleman who was placed in the Turkish
bath for two hours. each day, for seven
days, with . temperature at 10, when
it was found that the cancer was
loosening. "A poultice was then
applied, and in few days the ugly
protuberance dropped out, roots,
fangs, and all, leaving nothing but
the indention in the face where the
cancer had been. The cure was pro-
nounced complete.


Another writer gives an equally
simple remedy which cured a friend.
He was cured by the use of only four
pounds of Turkish figs. Two orr three
figs were stewed in milk each morning
and night. The milk he drained off
and drank; the figs were then mashed
into a thick paste and applied as a
poultice to the cancer. This simple
treatment, he afi1 ms, has cured sew
eral victims of this terrible disease to
whom he he has made known his own
experience.
Year: 1877

1t was clear, cool night when Ron
aid and | joined the little party of sun
wOrshipers who aspired to ascend four
thousand three hundred and seventy
three feet Of as bleak and perilous
mountain slope as the Scotch mount
aims afford. We were driven in three
coaches to the base of the mountain,
where we arrived at twelve o'clock,
with four hours left to make the ascent
before dawn. On our way | had a
glance at the dark crumbling walls of
Inverlochy Castle all that remains of a
stronghold whose antiquity no Schlie-
mann cares to ascertain; and also at
the handsomer modern structure of the
same name occupied by Lord Abinger.
At the Ben Nevis Distillery, which was
to be our starting point, and which
nestles cozily in the shadow of the
mountain, guarded by posse of gov
ernment "gaugers, we were each
handed a flask of the ''mountain dew"
as inspiration for our journey; then,
each man grasping his staff, and re-
spending to the hoarse "Are-you--
ready?" Of the guide, we marched
away in pairs.


When we had accomplished the easier
half of the ascent, most of us were suf-
fering from intense thirst, and we
halted beside tiny stream to have a
draught qualified with portion of the
now warm contents of our flask. There
was little conversation: all seemed 10
have set themselves down to piece of
hard, silent work, The peak of the
mountain was not yet visible, being far
withdrawn behind the range, and we
could only see above us a dark semi
circle drawn across the sky. AS we
slowly climbed the slope, picking our
way among masses of rock and patches
of strong, prickly heather, the preci-
pices on our right and left were apall-
ing in the dismal shadows which filled
them; but the sense of power and calm
self-possession was exceedingly sweet,
as from time to time we paused to take
breath and look around us. AT last we
emerged on a damp, barren plateau,
and sighted the peak. Up the arch of
the opposite heavens the moon, within
one day Of being fun, was sailing.
While for some minutes we leaned
against the shattered powders. which
pointed their long, weird, parallel
shadows toward the lurid northeast,
she appeared exactly touching the cone
Year: 1877

Always, if possible, fish down a
stream. There are many reasons for
this, among others the following: In
fishing up stream the bait is continually
coming home to ones feet after every
cast, and the nearer it approaches the
person the less chance of bite. The
contrary is the case in fishing down
stream; the bait is carried by the cur
rent away from the fisherman, and his
chances of capture are each moment
increased.


If the brook is large enough--and
even in very small ones-if practicable,
it is always best to wade in the bed of
the stream, as by this means one can
keep the bait in the water for long dis
tances without making cast, which in
the localities am speaking Of, almost
always, unless skilfully done, ends in
ones seeing ones tackle fast to some
overhanging bOugh or bush overlapping
the stream. Again, in fishing up stream,
it is impossible to keep the bait station
ary in any spot one may desire to cast
in, unless by standing upon the bank,
and the chances of capture are thus
greatly decreased; while in fishing
down stream one can not only hold the
bait in any one spot, but by motion of
the arm conduct it in any given direc-
tion--sink it toward the bottom, draw
it up stream, to the right or to the left
to tempt the hidden trout, the motion
of the running water upon the bait Civ
ing one complete control of 1t by the
slightest motion of the arm. TO be sue
cessful in this sport, first give up all
idea of using artificial flies; there is
usually no chance to cast them, and
very few fish will rise to them, and
then only, usually, at early morn or
sunset. Use light but very short
jointed pole, not over twelve feet in
length, with fine delicate running gear
and small compact reel; small hooks,
ganged upon silk-worm gut, of any
make that one prefers, there being great
diversity of opinion on this matter
among fishermen. The Limerick hook
has nearly gone out of date, and how it
was endured so long is mystery. The
Kirby and Aberdeen have taken Its
place. Put no lead upon your line at
any time; it kills the artistic and ma
tural motion of your bait. Use, as the
most killing bait yet discovered. angle
worms, and these may be much i'm
proved by being kept a few days upon
clean moss In an uncovered, large
mouthed bottle, that they may scour
themselves. In batting, do not pay the
slightest attention to whether the point
of your hook is covered or not; 1t is of
small consequence, or, rather, II Is more
deadly and better not to be covered
than otherwise. The trout does not
niJJle, he darts; he takes, as a rule, the
bait at once, or leaves II severely alone.
You will find no more taking bait the
Year: 1877

Among tine Huzarehs "a people o.
Asia the following is the way wed
dings are managed:-


The suitOrs Of the maiden, nine IN
number, appear in the field, all un.
armed, but mounted on the best horses
they can procure; while the bride her.
self, on a beautiful Turkoman horse
surrounded by her relations, anxiously
surveys the group of lovers.


The conditions of the bridal race are
these: The maiden has a certain star
given, which she avails herself of Il
gain sufficient distance from the crowd
to enable her to manage her steed with
freedom, so as to assist In his pursuit
the suitor whom she prefers.


On signal from the father, all the
hOrsemen gallop after the fair one, and
whichever first succeeds in encircling
her waist with his arms, no matter
whether disagreeable or to her choice,
is entitled to claim her as his wife.


After the usual delays incident upon
such interesting occasions, the maiden
quits the circle of her relations, and,
putting her steed in hard gallop, darts
into the open plain. When satisfied
with her position, she turns round to
the impatient youths, and stretches out
her arms towards them, as if to woo
their approach. This is the moment
for giving the signal to commence the
chase, and each of the impatient youths,
dashing his pointed heels into his
courser's sides, darts like the unhooded
hawk in pursuit of the fugitive dove.


The racecOurse is generally extensive
say twelve miles long and three in
width - and as the hOrsemen speed
across the plain, the favored lover be-
comes soon apparent by the efforts of
the maiden to avoid all others who
might approach her.


On a certain occasion, after two
hours racing, the number of pursuers
was reduced to four, who were all to
gether, aud gradually gaining on the
pursued; with them is the favOrite,
but, alas! his horse suddenly fails in
his speed, and as she anxiously turns
her head, she perceives with dismay the
hapless position of her lover; each of
the more fortunate leaders, eager with
anticipated triumph, bending his head
on his horses name, shouts at the top
of his voice, 81 come, my Peril l am
your lover"


But she, making sudden turn, and
lashing her horse almost to fury, darts
across their path, and makes for that
part of the plain where her lover is
vainly endeavoring to goad on his
weary steed.


The three others instantly check their
career; but, in the hurry to turn back,
two of the horses are dashed furiously
against each other, so that both steeds
and riders roll over on the plain.


The maiden laughs; for she well
knows she can easily elude the single
hOrseman, and that she will reach the
point where her lover is.