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Year: 1877

Glass slippers have been produced
by the cunning artificers Of Vienna.
The slippers are actually woven Of
fine flexible threads Of glass. The
novelty is quite as much In the effect
as in the material. Not only do lines
of colored light, in different hues and
distinctly definable, traverse the body
Of the slipper, but with the motion Of
the foot of the wearer these hues SO
blend and intermingle as to produce a
magical and beautiful effect, partic-
ularly when seen by gaslight.
Year: 1877

- We have had 80 much vet wealth
er that corn in cribs without q roof IS
spelling very fast There are a great
many such cribs IN this country. j
corn buyer in this city estimates that
seventE-five per cent. OF the corn in
the ear il the county has become 50
badly damaged as to be UumarketabIe
for any purpose.
Year: 1877

- Mike Leahy has quite force of
vorkmen engaged in riprapping the
the bank OF the river near the ware
houses and along the Ievee, hoping
TO prevent the water again washing
away the track and compelling them
to again move the depot building.
Year: 1877

The decrease in the population OF
some Of the western counties Is at
tributable, no doubt, TO the fact that
government permits the homesteader
to be absent from his homestead six
month and that many had sVailed
themselves OF this privilege and had
not yet returned when the census was
taken, thereby avoiding taxation On
their personal property.
Year: 1877

- An exchange says, Now Is the
time 10 cut the grass in your front
doOr-yard If you want 10 encourage a
good sod and keep the weeds down.
Il will also preserve the fresh green
appearance Of the grass, even through
q season Of drought.
Year: 1877

hereby announce to the
public that I have oFened a
DRUG STORE
At Sheridan. and that Il am
prepared 10 sell any article
pertaining 10 a aWell-kePf drug
store a. cheap as can be pro
cured elsewhere bHF for
cash. and aim To sell CHEAP
for CASH.


Besides this store Il have on
hand = fun SfeCk Of all kinds
OF
Year: 1877

ALL babies born in the Oneida commu-
nifty are at once taken from their mothers
and given to some other woman to nurse,
and the babies are changed around so that
no mother ever rears or even knows her
own child.
Year: 1877

A Careless Druggist.-A few days
ago young lady sent to drug store in
the western part of the city for some es>
sence of lemon. Her messe nger soon
returned with the reputed essence of
lemon, a part of which she put into q
cake and placed the cake in the oven. A
few minutes afterwards the druggist
came to the house and announced that
he had made mistake aud sent alcohol
instead of essence of lemon. Fortu-
nately no serious consequences resulted
except the spelling Of good cake.
Year: 1877

An investigation by an officer Of the
Life Saving Service develops the fact
that the bodies OF the ill-fated officers
and men of the huron were robbed u
whatever valuables they possessed by
the semi-savage inhabitants of that part
of the coast. Not single trinket was
found on any one Of the ninety one
bodies washed ashore. Such barbarity
is happily rare.
Year: 1877

law was passed by t'ae Legislature, last
Winter. originating with member Of the Senats
from the West, who seemed to make it his bobby,
that we have never been able to see the benefit
of. in any shape We look at it, while on the con,
trary, it is unjust to men who labor for their
money, and need IT. We refer to the law pro-
hibiting County Boards from allowing accounts
except at their regular quarterly meetingin JAN
nary, April, July aud October, with the exception
of jury fees and election expenses. ~ = q


What public benefit the author Of the law ex-
pected to accomplish, we cannot understand.
All just accounts against the County, when ap-
proved by the Board, must be paid, aud II VIII
not amount to a cent more If allowed In May
or June than if allowed in the following July,
By scattering them through the year. 1t will be
less trouble for the Board to examine them, than
to be burdened with the whole batch once in
three months. Taking a few at q time, more
care can be Observed as there is corowdin e
or rushing through, and illegal or improper ac-
counts can be more easily detected. Besided, by
allowing accounts at every meeting, the bills are
fresher, and in case of work ordered by the
Board, the members have it in their mind, not
confused by later similar orders, and are bett ter
prepared to make settlement Of the matter than
when allowed to run for three months.


But the law is unjust to the Counties in this
When men contract to perform work for the
County, and know they must wait two or three
months for their pay, they put their figures high
er than if they were to be paid at once, in order
to make themselves whole when payday comes /;
and this extra charge will always amount to
much more than the interest on tho money wonld
be for the time they have to wait. Then, instead
of saving, the County actually loses money by the
operation of the new law.


So much for the County, and now for the ind-
vidual. A good deal of the work for the County
is done by lsboring men, who need their pay as
soon as their work is done. Suppose that the
greater part of this work is performed upon con-
tracts made at regular meetings of the Board,
and is done at once The laborer must wait
three months before he can receive his pay and
as be cannot afford to do this, he must sell his
count to a merchant a speculator for what
they are willing to give. As an account not yet
audited is not very certain investment, the
price paid for them is, perhaps, about so cents
on the dollar-never more than IS cents. The
laborer thereby loses from one fourth to half
his wages, in order to get his pay. And the up
shot is, either the laboring men must work at a
heavy discount, all work for the County must
be given up to men who are able to wait, but
who charge the County good round sum for
waiting.


Looking at the question from either side of it,
the law is unjust. The Legislature, this Winter,
should repeal it. Or, at least, as its author is
again a member, perhaps he can give some good
and substantial reason why the law should be
retained upon the statute book.
Year: 1877

e Every now and then, the Democratic pa
pers appear with startling headline, "Another
Honest Republican, A perusal of the article
with this caption, always leads to the revelation
that the honest Republican is some sour stom-
ached or weakened fellow who is willing to al
low Tilden to usurp the Presidential office in Or
der to preserve peace. An "Honcst Republican"
is one who is not willing to stand up for the
right, regardless of threats and buster.
Year: 1877

q The Democracy have great reverence for
the Courts-where the Courts are run by their
tools, like the bulldozing Courts of South Caro-
lima and Florida, or the immortal Savage, of Ne
braska. But they will not consent to submit the
doubtful question of the election to the Supreme
Court of the United States There is no Taney
on the bench now, to play into their hands.
Year: 1877

COL INGERsoLL said in one of his speeches
that the country was full of fellows who were
invineible in peace and invisible in war They
are now brawlng for blood if Tilden be mot de-
clarcd elected. They have made bets or want
Year: 1877

The proprietor Of this celebrated medicine justly claims
for it pe riority all remedies offered to thu,


ublc for the sa esrtan speedy and cure Of


que and Fever Chills and Fever whether OF short


long Standing He refers to the entire Western and
Southern country to bear him testimony the truth of
the assertion that in whatever will fail to cure
If the directions strictly followed carried out In
grest many single dose has been sufficient for
and wh ole families have been cured BY single bot
tle with perfect restoration of the general health Il
is however prudent and in every case more certain to
cure If il ia continued in smaller for week or
two after the disease has been checked more especially
in difficult and long standing Usually this medi
cine will not require any aid keep the bowels in good
order Should the patient however require cathartic
medicine after having taken three four doses Of the
Tonic single dose Of BuEs Vegetable Family Plls will
be Sufficient.
Year: 1877

The Sun thus graphically describes n
cellar where the occupant was found
dead the result OF violence.


On a little table under the window
were a half-emptied pipe, au empty
beer bottle, an uncooked onion, frag-
ments Of bread aud meat, a knife, an
unclean plate or two. On the stove
near by were a pot filled with greasy
fluid, and a Hat iron turned upside
down. Further along was doorless
cupboard, containing more bread aud
meat, some cheese, pot OF French
mustard, pieces Of crockery. aud an un-
mistakable liquor flask. Opposite the
cupboard was an old.iashioned mahog-
any bureau, that had evidently once
seen better days, on which were a clock
that had run down and a kerosene
lamp without oil. Near the bureau
was a bed with neither sheet nor cover
let, but with two mattresses black with
age and dirt heaped together in con-
fused mass. Around the room were
scattered playing cards, and in one cor
ner was pile of rags surmounted by a
morocco belt and an old silk hat. An
other liquor flask, an edgless hatchet
and two empty pocketbooks near the
dead body, completed the contents OF
the room. There were no chairs the
walls were unornamented, Outside OF
the entry. Just beneath the stone wall
that forms the street embankments,
watched a dog. Near the outer air was
a policeman.
Year: 1877

A mechanical horse has been show
ing his PAGES at Berlin. The rider is
mounted on a hobby between two high
wheels aud moves his legs in
rising and falling in the saddle, and
the machine goes along as fast as a
trotting horse. 1t is all the same
whether the machine goes gently over
the stones or moves swiftly on the hard
high road. and the facility with which
the strange steed turns round corners
excites the admiration of all beholders.
The inventor believes that his horse
will be OF great use to porters for car
rying light loads, aud he has confident
hopes that il will be highly appreciat-
ed by the numerous classes who are
fond OF saddle exercises, but who are
too poor TO buy and maintain horses Of
flesh and blood. Ii is even suggested
that the mechanical horse will make an
excellent charger on the battlefield, as
il is an animal that can neither eat nor
die.
Year: 1877

One OF the heaviest real estate men
has been under the harrow for some
months. To-day he has abandoned the
fight. and given up everything to his
creditors. He was very successful
cotton broker. All the money he made
he put into real estate. His revenues
were very large. His income was eight
hundred thousand dollars year One
building, new Trinity church yielded
him rental OF ninety thousand dollars
per annum. Everything he touched
turned 10 gold, He was loaded down
with cotton. One day q merchant
handed him check Of three hundred
thousand dollars 10 cancel a contract.
He took it. Within ten days cotton
surged up and he made a fortune. He
owned an elegant house on Fifth ave-
nue.. He crowded il with paintings
and work OF art. Not contented with
this he was induced by a speculator to
take hold OF a railroad. He bought
bonds at sixty. soon they went down
to forty, and the gentleman bought all
he could lay his hands on. He took
the road. He proposed to run it. He
found it unfinished; he equipped it;
spent three hundred thousand dollars
IN locomotives aud rolling stock. Ruin
came TO him as il comes To every one
who dabbles in outside matters. The
panic completed his decentralization.
His fine New York property was mortg-
aged for more than il was worth. To-
day he has ceased to struggle. Few
men will be warned and few men will
be wiser for all this. Here is a man
who few months ago had a royal in
come OF eight hundred thousand
year. He wanted TO make il a million.
To-day he is hopelessly bankrupt.
Year: 1877

would not take any consideration
for the first two or three years of my
married life. | was settled on a sala-
~ Of s4OO, in the county of Dearborn.
and the town Of Lawrenceburg, Indi-
ana, aud with 500 Of IL came East and
married my wife, and got back to Law
renceburg with lsi cents IN my pocket,
lived in the second story Of a house
that was without door-yard in front.
but that fortunately had one in the
rear, which was the pigs common.
One OF the rooms was my cellar, my
kitchen and my diningroom, all to-
gether The other was my bedroom,
library and my parlor, all together. In
those two rooms ] spent the first two
or three years Of my married life; and
every day was problem; every day we
set IN battle array the question Of econ
omy; every day we studied to make
the most out of the least, and to make
expedients satisfy us when we had not
the substance. Ii was very active play
and as was young aud handsome, and
my wife was young and discreet, We 10
this day look back with pleasure TO
ia ose early years Of married life, in
our small quarters Of two rooms, when
now / am confessing j may a. well tell
the whole / wore Judge Barnett 4
clothes, and our carpet was given 10
MS, and our cookinP-stove was given TO
us, aud everything in the rooms was
given TO us. IL the articles Of furni-
ture were oddly matched, it was no
fault Of ours. for they came from diff
ferent persons. who had different ideas
If Housekeeping. And vet, little as
there would seem TO have been TO feed
the Imagination, / look back upon
those happy years, and would not part
with the memory of them for countless
gold.
Year: 1877

A young man now in Omaha has had
rather strange experience. A few years
ago he was in a room with n party Of
pugilists, among whom was O'Baldwin
the Irish giant. The young fellow re-
marked that he could stand pretty
hard blow himself, provided he was
struck full the breast. After some talk
it was arranged that O'Baldwin should
hit him, but not with full force. The
blow was struck, and the young man
fell senseless to the floor. He suffered
from the effects of Ithe blow
for about two months, and then
the soreness passed away. Four
months later small, hard lump about
the size Of pea, appeared where the
breast had been bruised, and it has
constantly grown for the past five years
so that now it is as large as an ordina-
ry size fist. He is now IN the city for
the purpose of having il removed by a
competent surgeon. Moral: eff you
have a choice between being struck by
a professional bruiser and kicked by a
mule. give the mule the preference -
Omaha Herald.
Year: 1877

Near the site of the new Catholic
college, on the hill west Of Omaha, a
well was dug twenty years ago. aud
walled with brick. The supply Of wa
ter failed. and about two weeks ago
Mr.. ii. w. Brown undertook 20 bore
in the bottom to gain better supply.
This was done and curbing was put in
but n quicksand was struck, aud this
caused falling in at the bottom. Ac-
cordingly Mr.. Enoch Collins descend
ed into the well on rope Soon, how
ever, the bricks began To cave IA around
him, aud he cried out 10 the men above
TO pull him up, and began at the same
time TO ascend the rope hand over
hand. But he was caught by the gen
eral caving ia Of the brick wall above
him, his hands still on the rope stretch.
Ell above his head. In this attitude he
was buried under column OF brick
forty five feet in depth.


The struggle 10 save him was then
begun by men who we're at work neal
by. They were able 10 converse with
him even at the great depth at which
he was buried. and the work was con-
tinued without cessation for four long
hours, until at last fifty feet Of wall
was taken OF, and az about 7 o'clock
Collins was brought out alive. and was
enabled 10 walk with firm step 10 q
coach.
Year: 1877

One day last week little girl aged
about eleven years, daughter OF Robert
boy, was out on the prairie riding q
pony, when seeing a wolf she gave
chase. She unbuckled one side Of the
bride rein, which fortunately had a
rather heavy buckle. and guiding the
horse with a single rein, she beat the
wolf over the head with the buckle
Getting mp with the beast she would
dismount and tackle him until he turn
ed To attack her, when she would remit
and renew the chase. In this way she
ran the wolf down and finally killed
him. During the conflict the wolf in
his desperation bh the pony's legs
slightly several times. This little girl
should have a special bounty on that
wolf scalp, and deserve the first prem
ium on equestrianism. This wolf has
been busy for some time with several
Others in killing lambs belonging "a
Mr.. 10y Eureka Kan Herald,
Year: 1877

From the Cleveland Plain-Dealer.


The latest novelty in the marriage
line occurred in this city recently. A
young lady and gentleman were to be
united on a certain date. Their house
was all furnished and prepared for their
reception, when at the last moment the
would-be groom was taken sick and
the ceremony necessarily postponed
The young lady, however. was installed
in the house and has lived there all
alone up 10 the present. The intend
ed has so far recovered as TO be able TO
get out aud calls on her occasionally
II is said the wedding will take place
now in few days.
Year: 1877

A REMARKABLLE PoSp.-On the top
Of Prospect Mountain. near Addison,
VT, is a remarkable pond about three
quarters OF a mile in extent Except
a small space in the center, il is cover
eel with thick moss. strong enough for
people 90 walk upon. Poles are push
ed through the moss at any point, but
none have ever touched bottom, vet
there are large trees growing and peo-
pie walk In safety. The moss forms n
thick mat or CARPET, aud is described
as being exquisitely beautiful.
Year: 1877

The world is still much like child despite
the weight of centuries it carries, and looks
forward to its birthday as eagerly as the boy
who looks forward to manhood "as island
poets gaze across the sea, believing the world
beyond. to be blest Araby of Spices" Ger
tainly the years bring no sense of decrepitude
to this old earth of ours, for she welcomes
each recurring one as carrying her forward to
maturity of strength and wisdom. Cen
turies hence perhaps when age brings its at
tendant ills and the world and its people feel
the approach of decay New Years will be kept
as day of fasting instead of feasting.


As in the mass so individually we hail the
New Year with rejoicing, and keep its OPEN
ing day as festival, though it brings US all
twelve months nearer to the grave, and car
ries many of us into the decline of life. Yet
the grandsire whose remaining days are few
rejoices as heartily as the grandson to whom
life is full of glorious possibilities. We all
welcome the footsteps of Death, for they fall
so lightly that we listen to them as to the
joyous tread of some festal guest. bringing
6OOu III LIS tldius IL uluSI Uc budb Luc
innate sense of immortality in man, the in.
born conviction that our stay upon the earth
is but preparation for higher and better
and lasting life elsewhere, dictate our vel
come to encroaching Time and swift-hasten-
ing Death. The boy looks to manhood for
the fulfllment of his aspirations, the man to
the life beyond, and both rejoice as they near
the goal With other belief the end of life
is the end Of all joyous things and the new
year to be moaned over as a step to the grave
which ends all.


We all enter upon the new year with high
resolves and antcipations, for in the future
we all hope to find our promised land, TO
discover our isles of the blessed, to make
into vefitable homes our Spanish castles.
Many of these anticipations will be disap-
pointed, many of these resolves broken, but
we shall be the better for having entertained
them. 1t is good to have ideals if we but
struggle to reach them. There is something
ennobling even in the failure, and the strug-
gle is helpful and Strengthening. What we
fail to attain this year we may accomplish the
next, always bearing in mind with faith that
it is always the coming year which is to be the
happy one.
Year: 1877

CHARLESTON, South Carolina, as the
stronghold Of the spirit of reform that defied
Jackson in notification times, and nourished
secession until it became a monster that
nearly destroyed the country, very appro-
priately comes to the front with taxpayers
meeting that furiously resolves ii will support
Wade Hampton as Governor and treat Cham
berlain as a usurper. The Bourbons will for
get nothing and learn nothing. The mere
hope of triumph in the field Of national
politics recalls all their old arrogance and
sharpens the edge OF all their old infaWies.
After local campaign in which their brig
ands paraded districts in which intimidation
was possible, mounted and armed, to spread
Democracy by the old Mohammedan system,
at the point of the sword and after calling in
the aid of Georgian invaders to revolutionize
Republican strongholds, they display charac-
teristc impudence in the attempt to decide
deinitely grave State and National question
by secession town-meeting.
Year: 1877

THE conduct of the striking engineers on
the Grand Trunk railroad furnishes another
illustration CT the tendency of trades un-
ions. In consequence of their pernicous
doctrines six handred men ordinarily respect
able and intelligent have suddenly developed
into the worst kind of ruffians, simply because
a railroad corporation claimed the right to


manage its own affairs. There is not in this
case single extenuating circumstance. 1t
does not appear that the Grand Trunk has
been tyrannous or unwilling to pay fair
compensation to its employees. The state of
| business compelled reduction of expenses
| and this was made by discontlnuing certain
| trains and dscharging the engineers en-
ployed in running them and by cutting down


somewhat the wages OF the engineers of other
trains. No reasonable man will deny that
the company Lad full right to do both these


things. If the engineers felt aggrieved they
had perfect right to quit the road. But
they had no right to do so in such way or
at such time as to jeopardize the life or
property of innocent third parties, or with
the intent of injuring the property of the
road even. When the engineers started out
on their engines last Friday night, they gave
to the railroad company an implied promise
to carry them through and this promise was
just as binding in law and in morals as if it
had been an express one. On the strength
OF it the company incurred heavy RESPONSE
bilities. 1t agreed to transport hundreds OF
passengers and tons of freight safely and


within a specified time. By abandoning


their trains the engineers made the fulfill
ment of this contract impossible and thus ex-


posed the company to heavy damages legal


ly, and endangered the lives and property of


innocent parties. 1t was method of pro-


cedure closely analogous to that of the high


wayman when he seizes his victim by the


throat and demands his money or his life and


if not legally so culpable was morally on


plain but a trife higher. If the engineers


were entitled to any sympathy at the begin.
ming OF the controversy their conduct on Fri


day night and subsequently has been such as
to make such feeling for them entirely out
ofpace now. The ring leaders are to be
prosecuted and they should be to the full ex-
tent OF the law.
Year: 1877

WHATEVER acts Congress may pass, the
people will retain their own opinion of the
privacy of telegraphic communication. A
despatch is as sacred as letter, and the laws
guard the sauctity of the mails with the
heaviest penalty.
Year: 1877

Proctor Knott's anxietysto get hold of some
ones kilograms is in striking contrast with
his conduct of last session. Then he was so
careless on the subject that he forgot all
about meptiCning most important dispatch
which was addressed to him, but belonged to
the whole country.
Year: 1877

EVERY regular attache of the PRESS is furnished
with Card certificate countersigned by Stanley t.
Pullen, Editor. All railway, steamboat and hotel
managers will confer favor upon us by demanding
credentials Of every person claiming to represent our
Journal
Year: 1877

We DO not read anonymous letters and communI-
cations. The name and address of the writer are in
ali cases Indispensable not necessariyto publication
but as guaranty Of good faith.


We cannot undertake to return or reserve eommu-
nications that are not used.