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Year: 1878

full of tears, and my hand shook so.
At length | was able TO make out these
words:


"My own darling. Have courage a
little longer. | will be back immedi-
ately with help"


] knew nothing more. ! was COM
pletely overcome at last. had tainted.
When / recovered | found William
standing by me, holding my hand in
his. 1t was some time before could
remember all that happened; however,
az soon as / was able to attend to him,
he told me when he arrived at the office
and saw no sign of fire anywhere, he
thought it very strange.


81 feared all was not right" he said,
"and determined to ride home as fastas
possible. was about two miles on my
way when l met Rory. Captain knew
him at once, and stopped of his own
accord. | wondered why the dog should
be out at that hour and tried if he had
a note. Finding that he had, l lit a
match and read the message. | wrote
an answer on the back, tied it around
his neck, and sent him home. / then
galloped as fast as | could to the police
station, and brought a number of men
with me. As soon as the robbers saw
us coming up the avenue, they made off
in all directions. However, the police
are on their track, and will, hope,
succeed in catching them. am quite
sure now, that on my first return home
there was rope put across the road,
and that the robbers were watching for
me behind the trees, hoping that my
horse would stumble, and that they
would take the money from me then,
not thinking that / should have any one
with me. But on the horse getting
over it safely, and seeing Jerry with
me, they did not attack us, but planned
the story of the fire to get me away.
They did not know l had such brave
little wife, or such a swift faithful
messenger as Rory. Only that you
sent for me so quickly, Bella, really
don't know what might have happened.
Let us all thank heaven no lives are
lost"


From that time forward Rory was
considered quite hero, and wherever
he went he was petted and made much
of,
Year: 1878

Iclng to thee, Youth with nervous grasp;
In VAN my weak endeayor-
A shadow only in mine arms ] clasp
But thou art gone forever.
Delightful time, fair morning Of my life
Hast thou indeed departed
o with what airy gladness vert thou rife,
Thou leav'st me broken-hearted
And with thee gone are all my hopes 30 fair
My zeal and high ambition,
Ny dreams and lofty castles in the air
All gone with thee, magician
wonder oft if Others mourn like me
Thine early rapid feeting,
And deem this death in life far worse 20 be
Than any future meeting
Thou'rt gone I'll think Of all thy loves and


joys,


Forget each trihing sorrow,
And in the future, whatsoe'er annoys,
Some light from thee I'll borrow.
Twill not feign and keep thy dying hid,
But garb myself in sable,
Mourning as Rachel for her children did
No friend to soothe is able.
Year: 1878

10 play executioner. Now they all
enjoy 1t seemingly, especially the little
fellow, who is hanged. 1t doesn't hurt
him at all. To make dog waltz you
first make him stand on his hind legs,
then get him to follow the motions Of
the whip as you move about him, and
say waltz Some sensitive dogs
should never be struck, and punishment
should never be severe.


"GOats are dull sulky brutes to train,
with strong disposition to get away
from you, and no yearning for educa-
tiOn. They are trained to obey the
whip, as horses and dogs are, but they
never learn much.


81 have also trained elephants. One
that have trained is now with w. w.
Coles show. l had but one struggle
with him, and it took nearly four hours
of steady hammering with big hickory
clubs to bring him to reason and make
him squeal as token of submission.
But he remembered the incident. That
was in May. | performed him all
summer, and left him out in Illinois in
November. When went back the next
April, although / was dressed as he
had never seen me before, and wore my
beard differently, he recognized me
hundred yards away, and began yelling
at the top of his voice. 1t was his way
of saying what Scott's coon did: Il
know you'll Don't shoot! I'll come
down. An elephant is cunning,
cowardly, and treacherous rufiAn by
nature. You can never trust him an
inch, and he will never give up attempt
ing to trespass. For instance, suppose
you have trained an elephant to do
certain trick-st a precise spot in the
ring. One night he will move yard
or two fnrther around. If you do not
check him and make him 60 back, the
next night he will 60 little further,
and the next further yet. Before long
he will have gone clear around the ring
and will have gained confidence in him
self; you will have lost your mastery
over him, and you cannot regain it
without battle. He may only advance
toward that result one or two feet every
night, but he will certainly be trying
for it all the while. You can only con-
troll him nv fear and when he lOSaa his
fear of of you, he is bound to attack you.
The common talk about the gratitude
and dOcility of the elephant is all bosh.
When an elephant goes on the rampage
you have either to conquer him by any
punishment that will make him squeal
or else kill him; for if you don't you
may bet your life he will kill you as
soon as he gets chance.
Year: 1878

A party of mound-hunters in Iowa,
recently discovered buried about IA in
ches from the surface, roughly-en-
graved tablet, about ~ by l212 inches
in width and length, rather irregular,
and % inches in thickness. The re-
port thus describes it: "The principal
figure inscribed or craven is an uncouth
human figure seated upon or astride a
circle, with radial lines extending from
it, apparently intended to represent the
sun. Within this circle, which is about
23s inches in diameter, is engraved in
outline. a face about half that size, but
placed near the lower side of the outer
circle, and above and rather on the
right of this face is crescent or arc of
rather more than half a circle, which
may or may not be intended to repre-
sent the new moon. The human figure
seems to represent the sun-god seated
on his throne, the sun. He apparently
holds in his right hand some large OBJ
ject, whether a thunderbolt, or what
intended for, it is difficult to say, and
in his left hand or by the left arm a
long staff, sceptre, or whatever it may
be. On the breast of the figure is a
very imperfect face ofabout five-eighths
of an inch in diameter. Immediately
over his head is cut figure in the usual
form of the copper axes, but quite
small. Above this at each end of the
upper corners is cut a complete figure
of a bird-pipe, such as are found
carved in stone in these mounds, and
of nearly the full size. These have
each a bit of quartz crystal set in an
eye, like the eyes of the animal figure
from mound No. 3, found last year, and
like those they were held in place by
white pitch or cement of some kind,
but which had lost its adhesive quality.
Beneath these pipes and each side of
the axe and the head Of the principal
figure are a number Of inscribed fig
ures, at least five of which are identi-
cal with characters inscribed upon the
tablets from mound No. 3, found last
year. These consist of five characters
on the left and five on the right side,
and on the right side are also two groups
of lines and dots. The whole are form
ed by incised lines, which, in the small
figures, are about one-milimeter [onc-
twenty-fifth of an inch) in depth, and
quite wide across. The work has ap-
parently been done with poor and i'm
perfect tools, and in the curved lines,
which, of course, are most difficult, it
is quite rough and irregular, The prin-
cipal figure and the pipes and axe are
all colored deep bright red; the rest
of the stone is unstained. The stone
has evidently been subjected to a great
heat, sufficient very nearly to reduce
the upper edge, where the birds are,
aud especially the right hand corner, to
quick lime, so that it has crumbled
off in removing it from its bed In the
earth. 1t is considerably reddened in
ternally by the burnin, and when found
was already cracked into ten pieces,
which entirely separated on removal,
besides several cracks which are visible
where it did not break apart"


Nothing puts one nearer to the con-
,ll,la. ~ N hrpta than al WaUa tn ace
Year: 1878

Years ago, when old Elijah was a
tramp, even the birds took pity on him
and gave him a good square meal,
but up in New Hampshire if they catch
a tramp they send him TO State Prison
and if bird should feed one they
would doubtless shoot the bird for
being an accompllce. This is a hard
year for tramps.- Boston Post.
Year: 1878

A wild rose by the wayside hung,
Dew-glittering on the morning air,
A pure, scarce conscious perfume flung
looked, and found the foweret fair
So fair, l sought with sudden zest
To wear its beauty on my breast.
The trembling petals at my touch
sweeter, subtler fragrance shed;
'Tis strange loved that flower so much,


And-it was dead.
In that high mood when thought hath wings,
And finds alone its speech in song,
struck an old harp's slumbering strings,
And drew and idle hand along;
Nor deemed the careless chords had caught
The life note that my spirit sought,
Till sudden on my startled ear,
Its dream-created accents woke.
Alack bought the rapture dear


The string had broke.
heard wild bird on the shore
Singing wild song to the sea;
And bold the burden that it bore,
And sweeter than all else to me
So sweet, 1 Gagged the bird to hear
His magic minstrelsy more near,
Untamed the captives swelling throat
In one sad song his whole soul cast;
Too well know his loveliest note


Had been his last.
And yet while memory hath power
To counG the hours too vainly spent,
The fragrance of that faded flower,
That harp's last dying music, blent
With the wild birds weird death song. will
IIaun+ avarv 1va liuO uOmpnt still
Teaching my heart the bitter cost
Of all the eye of hope hath seen,
Ofall that life hath won and lost


That might have been.


-TiRsleys Mdgd=iR
Year: 1878

Enumerating the causes of trade dspres.
sion in England, Mr.. Ruskin emphatically
gives this as one; "That the inhabitants
of other countries have begun to perceive
that they have got hands as well as We
and possibly in some businesses, even better
hands, and that they may just as well make
their own wares as buy them of us-which
wholesome discovery of theirs will in due
time mercifully put an end to the British
ideal of life in the National shop, and make
it at last plain to the British mind that the
cliffs of Dover were not constructed by
Providence merely to be made a large
counter.n
Year: 1878

WESTERN REAL EsrATE.-Real estate deal.
ers at st. Louis think they can detect at
last u "quiclkening of the market pulse
Builders are taking advantage of the mild
weather to make contracts for new build
ings, and sales Of property that are now
making at auction show that "there is to
be no further drop in prices" Similar
reports are coming from other Western
cities. This is one of the few favorable
business signs of the times worth record
| ing.
Year: 1878

Germany is the greatest potato growing
country of Europe. Her annual crop is
more than double that of either France or
the United Kingdom; but it is not ex.
ported, unless the price to be obtained
rises above the rate which the crop yields
when made into spirits.
Year: 1878

A French engineer returned fortnight
ago to Paris from a honeymoon in Nice,
and after securing room at the hotel for
his wife went out and shot himself in the
Bois de Boulogne. His bride, after asking
several times whether he had returned,
went out to search for him and finally
drowned herself in the Seine. Two letters
were found in their room; one from the
husband to his mother-in-law, speaking of
their happiness and promising a speedy re-
turn to Epernay; the other from the wife,
declaring that she could not live without
her husband.
Year: 1878




1t is dangerous to take nap in Paris,
for before fellow wakes up he may be
hustled under ground. A fortnight ago
man who had an abundance Of leisure fell
asleep one day, and his friends supposed
that he was dead. A funeral was ordered
and cards were sent out, but while the un-
dertaker was fumbling with the screws and
one of the relatives was stopping to give
the pale face of the corpse last caress, 10
there was breath and warmth in the lips.
The coffin was removed and the corpse
tucked into warm bed; and three days
afterward the slumbrous man of leisure
opened his eyes, stretched his arms and
murmured, "What a good nap that was y
Year: 1878

From the San Francisco Bulletin.1


The Miller gives an account OF new trick
where one would think it impossible to make
point For instance, good honest wheat is
good the world over. But it is not so good
when it has gone through the hands OF
manipulation who oils it. This practice now
obtains to considerable extent on the CONT
nent 1t is stated that wheat, when in its
natural condition would weigh 1913 Dutch
pounds, by the process of oilng will gain
about sic pounds, or from ten to twelve per
cent. in weight more than there really is OF
wheat. The gain on the part of the dishon-
est seller is from 20s to 25s per ton. The ap-
parent increase in the specific gravity IS OBJ
tanned by an outlay for rape oil of about four
pence. Wheat thus treated can never be
made into good flour. The practice is not
confined to wheat alone, but it is applied to
all grain sold by weight. Of course the adul-
teration can be easily detected. But wheat
oiled in this way is really haAdsomer grain
in appearance than when so such application
has been made It has been possible to adul-
terate flour and sugar. But who ever heard
before of q process for adulterating wheat
before milling? In this country, where wheat
is SO cheap, it is not likely that the cheat will
obtain very extensively. But in times when
the price is extremely high if there could be
a gain of say SIS per ton as in Europe, there
might be great deal of oiled wheat. AS a
trick of the trade this is the latest novelty.
Year: 1878

In most of our colleges it is the custom for
one member of the faculty-usually the pres
ident-to have the supervision of all absent
and diatory students, and to him every such
one is to go to explain the cause of his alb
sence or tardiness No more kind and in
dulgent guardian of the college discipline
could have been found than Dr. A. Every
student knew we'll his old and stereotyped
way of saying, ''We]l, well, III excuse you
this time; but don't let it happen again.


Although not in accordance with the usual
rule, Mr.. H, married man, had been
admitted to pursue the studies of the regular
course One day he was absent; on the
next, appearing with his class in the doctors
room, he explained, with great embarrass-
ment, that the arrival of an heir had been
the cause of his detention. Without looking
up from the papers on his table, and appar..
emily without thought as to the nature OF
the excuse, so long as there was one, the
doctor graciously remarked: ''Well, we'll,
I'll excuse you this time, but don't let it hap
pen again" The announcement was greeted
by the class with the most tumuItuOus ap-
plause. DRAWER, in Ha'Ter's
Magazine for June.
Year: 1878

from the Vicksburg MISSY Herald (Dem.)


In the years of the past, when there was
slavery in the South, little or no effort was
put forward to secure the means OF advance
ment and progress. We contented ourselves
with buying slaves, and then using them to
the best advantage to enable US to buy more
slaves A person possessed of one or two
families of healthy negroes, became rich by
natural increase of his slaves, it be managed
to keep out of debt and pay his taxes. With
the end of the war we entered upon new
era While we labored under many disad-
vantages, it cannot be denied that we were
possessed of many advantages. Slavery was
u good thing for those who were fortunate
enough to own slaves, but it cannot be de-
MED that il was bad thing for the State.
Illinois and Mississippi entered the Union at
almost the same time, yet Illinois is to-day
ten times as wealthy and prosperous as Mis-
sissippi. Why is this the case? 1t is the re-
suit of the enervating influence of the insti-
tuition of slavery. This comparison could be
made between all Southern States and the
Northern States. Slavery was our Old Man
of the Sea. We are rid of him now, and the
future is in our hands. We will prosper as
we make efforts for prosperity. We can not
prosper, though, if we sit down and hug the
delussive phantom of hope, and do nothing.
Year: 1878

CLARENCE NEwCoMB, son OF Exon
gresham Newcomb, had fearful expert
ence at St. Louis the other day, being locked
in the vault of the detective agents office by
a practical joker, who thought it would be
were the only ones who knew the numerical
combination for unlocking the door, and had
not the latter, who was absent at the time,
accidentally learned the condition of things
and fastened to the rescue, Newcomb must
soon have suffocated. AS it was, he was
taken out in a faint.
Year: 1878

More than two hundred of these beds are in use in Bethel and Danhury, and so far as we know every on is giving the most perfect satisfaction. Recent important improvements now render them better than ever, and We make the following special offer. We will put up any number ot these beds for five dollars each cash. anl warrant every one to give the most entire satisfaction or refund the money. We will deliver them and fit them properly anywhere within the towns of Bethel Danbury Brookheld, Newtown, or Red ding at the shortest notice. The price has always been seven to eight dollars according to location. The above special offer s in view of the hard tiM"s. In sending orders le give the width of the bedstea.' inside measurement. Now to all who want to b, hap we say, buy the Branchyille Spring Bed. Address

 BRANCHvILLE SPRING BED co.

 BRANCHVITIE CONN.
Year: 1878

THE WHIPPING PosT.-A Virginia officer told
reporter the other day that he had never
whipped white woman though he had whipped
about as many colored girls as men. 1--WE
make them strip down to the waist" he said


Ethiop1an's back is tough and can stand it.
It's mean business, though, this thing OF whip
Year: 1878


is now very poor, and he is compelled to earn
his living at hard labor. He began life as a
river man, but one time i'm his life he was worth
SS,eoe or $4,000. He married very pretty wo-
man, who afterward ran away and went to
Texas with st. Louis drummer. She carried
good deal of Mixes property with her, and in
the d1fflcultieS between man and wife which
followed, he soon spent the balance and had to
give up his saloon. He has since returned to
the river and now boards, when he is In the
city, at the corner OF Main and Myrtle streets
CoOle has no intention of entering the ring
fSt LOujs Times
Year: 1878




This would show that the Democrats got
the majority of helocal offices; and that
the Republican State ticket was only
carried because in many Of The Congress
sional Districts the Republicans by money
were induced to trade off their local Off
ces for votes for Republican Congress
men; so that they are really worse oil
than before. While In other counties
they traded off county Offices for votes
for the State ticket. Another such a
victory will use them up entirely in Ohio.
If the Democrats can win SO much with
out the aid of the Greenbackers what
will they do when the Greenbackers %
back to the party as they are most likely
now to do? We see little to grieve ovel
in Ohio, except that we detest trading in
politics,
Year: 1878

The Deldwdredn applies the ''raw" to
the advocates of gold payments only, in
the following sensible remarks In its issue
of to-day


1--WE see in the papers good deal said
about honest money. We suppose every
body wants honest money, and about all
they can get of it. But what is meant by
honest money? All. that is another
question. Those who prate about honest
money usually mean that they want
nothing but gold coin and paper money,
but we believe that legal tender gold and
silver coin, and paper money not legal
tender, issued by proper authority and at
all times convertible into either gold or
silver coin upon presentstion, is honest
money. We should be glad TO have a
plenty of either kind of such money, and
hope to see the day when there will be
in this country large additions both to
our gold and silver coin at the will of the
holder and not before. Nothing but the
passage of the silver bill last session could
have made it possible to restore specie
payments, but with plenty of legal ten
der silver dollars return TO specie paw
ments can be secured and maintained
with the existing amount of currency in
the country.


"We wish there was to-day not less
than 0O,0O0,000 legal tender silver dol
lars in the country. We should then not
have as much silver coin as France now
has, nor not as much as this country
needs. No danger of imitation with sill
yer coin, nOI could there be imitation
with paper MONEY if there was plenty of
coin to redeem it. Many persons who
cry out for honest money don't mean it.
They want nothing but gold coin and
paper money, which would necessarily
be irredeemable, and it is generally
true that those who insist upon honest
money are advocates of the National
Bank, as well as Of gold coin alone.


1--WE distrust man: who is constantly
prating about his own honesty, especially
! if he represents everybody else as dishon-
est; and we are disposed to question the
sincerity Of those who insist that we must
haze honest money, while they oppose
every measure to secure it. We are for
gold and silver, and for such paper
money, and no other, as can be exchang-
ed for such coin, dollar for dollar, at all
times"
Year: 1878

FIAT MONEY" is now the talk Of the
opponents Of the Democrats. Democrats
don't believe in "fiat" money. There is
no such thing in any free country. AT
whose fiat will Democrat take bit of
paper for days service or a weeks hard
work. Flats" will do to give to slaves,
but we never wish to see a government
50 powerful as to require its people to re-
ceive pay in its ''fiats.n Let Mr.. HAYES
command the people to take his notes and
We think he ewould find out that they hela
a greater contempt for him than ever
We came too near fiat issues in the ten or
twelve years since 1862, when it was shown
that a million of men in arms and threats
Of incarceration in the dungeons Of forts,
could not keep greenbacks at par. THY
were the nearest TO ''fiat" issues this coun-
Try has ever had, and We hope never to
see the like again, Paper convertible
into god and silver is the only paper
money that Democrats care to take or see
anybody else receiv. in pay for labor or
produce.
Year: 1878

THOSE who fippantly talk of Mr..
Thurman being ''laid on the shelf" by
the election, in which he carried his State
against tremendous odds, remind us of the
eloquent and touching remark, "The
blood of the martyrs is the seed Of the
church." The gold gamblers and lobby
lists, for some unaccountable reason,
would cruelty Mr.. Thurman. The reason
can only be found in the fact that he
voted for the ''silver bill" and made the
Pacific Railroad pay the just claims OF
the government, in the last session OF
Congress.
Year: 1878

1t will thus be seen that Of the fifty
Congressman elected in the five States
tue Republicans lose one on the year
when the Democrats carried about every
State in the North that was worth making
fight for The Democrats held Oregon
in 1874, and still have it, while the Re-
publicans secure an additional member
by the admission of Colorado. They are
very nearly certain to lose one in Yer.
mont, however, where, in September
they lost the Third District, although the
opposition candidate did not have enough
to give him a majority, and a new elec.
ton will take place in November. Con
sidering that the whole fight thus far has
been made on Congress the outlook /,
not at all hopeful rs viewed through Re
publican spectacles. That party saved
almost nothing out of the sweep of 1874
and 1t is losing still more this year. ac
ttcording to the figures Times.
Year: 1878

THIS YEAR THE REPUBLICAN party
suffers more in the Congressional cleo
tions than it did in 1874, when the great
Democratic tidal wave swept over the
country. The following summary will
show the situation: